New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 5, 1915, Page 1

RALD BEST OF ALL “FOCAL NEWSPAPERS NEW BRITAIN HERAL PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT.ERIDAY, FEBRUARY GERMANS DELIVER - VIOLENT ATTACHS AGAINST RUSSIANS ho'¢ Companies Totaly Extermi- Dated in Extraordinar:ly Sanguinary Fighting Near Borjimow. NOLA STYSLOWIECKE 1S . CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS mans Throw 105,090 Infantrymen, ! ‘Tegether With Heavy Forces of | ‘Oavnlry Supported by Ome Hundred‘ Batteries of Artillery Against Czar’s Forces—Russians Relinquish Some | Francis’ hospital in Hartford and is a NEW SANITORIUM IS TO BE OPENED Miss Nagle and Miss Kiniry to Have Institution in Stanley Property on Washington Street. Miss Mary E. Nagle of 42 TUnion street and Miss Mary Kiniry of 195 Maple street, both well known regis- tered nurses, will open a private sani- terium within a short time in the old Stanley property on Washington street. The building is being thor- oughly renovated and the institution will be opened as soon as this work is finished. Both Miss Nogle and Miss Kiniry have a wide acquaintance and their friends believe that their venture will be a success in every respect. Miss Nagle is a graduate of the German pital in Brooklyn, York state registered is a graduate h New nurse. Miss Kiniry of & Connecticut state registered nurse. Miss Kiniry is the public school nurse and it is probable that she will resign this position. Miss Marguerite Nagle, who is studying in the German hos- pital, will be associated with sister and Miss Kiniry as soon as she ccmpletes her course in a few weeks. Miss Nagle stated today that the {Mountain Positions in Carpathian: Petrograd, Feb. 5, via London, ! 125 p. m.—Not since the battles ffound Lodz, in Russian Poland, in helearly part of December have the ! ermans delivered such violent at-| acks as those of vesterday when they | attempted to break through the Rus. | jan line near Borjimow. Prob- bly never before in the eastern arena the war have they concentrated puch a force upon a single point. In’a distance of six miles between Jiumin and Borjimow the Germans | threw 105,000 infantrymen, together ' Wwith heavy forces of cavalry, the ivhole supported by one hundred bat- | terjes of .artillery, comprising in all no | less than 600 guns. - It is estimated that in this short line there were near- 1y 30,000 men to the mile, coming in in ten or twelve lines like the waves, of the sea. Artillery Almost Useless. £The Russians, warned by the at- jcks of previous days in this vicin- , have concentrated corresponding- heavy forces to resist the German @ivance. So close were both sides cked in this narrow space that the illery became almost useless. The battlefield was a flat plain un- structed by either trees or houses, | le dwellings already having been de- plished by shell fire. The Russians gt the German advance with rifle and the bayonet, the first lines [P usgiing forward -and backward Jfom trench to trench. = At gome aces the trenches were only a few néred yards apart. The closeness | the line made the fighting extraor- | [Pnarily sanguinary. Whole com- | " lanies were totally exterminated, ik | & { ¢ { { H Fight Lasts All. Night. { ¥ The most desperate German resist- | #nce was at Wola Skvdlowiecke which | the Russians succeeded In taking at 10 @'clock in the morning after a fight ‘which had lasted all night. f German prisoners in the the Russians hands of is undertaking was dubbed ' “Division of Death.” since it ipeared to be a foregone c that none would survive. = Recealls Borodino Battle. , Russian military observers with the eagre details before them are liken- ap- here Napoleon lost his Russian cam- basen. The battle at Borjimow is continu- Ing today with virtually unabated Adolence. Russlans Rinquish Positions. i Petrograd, Teb. 5.—The official feport of the Russian general staff, given out in this city today, relates that the forces of Emperor Nicholas pave relinquished some of their ountain positions in the Car patpians. The troops opposed to the jussians in taese pos humerically and they ith energy. Near Borjimow, in Russian Poland, e desperate and stubborn fighting hich has been going on for y& is not yet at an end. T ans claim progress, but ecisive outcome, o Germans, gording to the Russian report, brought seven divisions (84,000 men) to a front six miles wide. 1 Text of Communication. The text of the communication fol- ws: - “In East Prussia ogress by fighting fboth banks of the rthe vicinity of pest of Tilsii, fl. <On the lef{ bank of the river Vis- 1a the fighting between RBoriimow nd Wola Szydlowiecka has continued with extraordinary ferccity, The enemy has brought into the engage- ment compact masses of men. In the endeavor to penetrate our front th¢/ ‘Germans Tave here introduced mto a sector of ten versts (about six les) no fewer than seven divis pported by one hundred batteries i artillery. Certain afvisions ced on front only one de, Beveral Bayonet “Ouy counter atiack g Fevruary 3, and Jowed by a & point of the eeded in compelll t are fighting we are making way ‘hesenuppe. Ladehnen, to tt along ver § a nzagements. segan the nigh immedic We cnem vonet 1 "(Continued on Fifteenth Page.) 2 relate that in the Ger- |V fman camp the division chosen to lead | casier the |aerial torpedoes. | ¢ g this fight to the battle of Borodino ! | sisting of grandmother, ions are strong | institution would be thoroughly modern patients. She and Miss Kiniry believe there is the demand for another sani- torium in this city and their view on this matter is shared by many of their | friendss 'ENGLAND BUILDING FIVE TEPPELIN DESTROYERS Preparing for Threatened | Air Raids Along British New York, Feb. 5.—Five Zeppelin destroyers—airships constructed along new lines—are now being built near London for protection against threat- ened air raids along the British coast, | according to announcement today by Thomas Rutherford MacMechen, president of the Aeronautical society of America, who arrived here last night from Liverpool. “My investigation leads me to be- i lieve that recent air raids on Brit- ish cities were in the nature of try- outs for the large Zeppelins,”” Mr. Mac- Mechen said. ‘“The dropping of small bombs and projectiles in an appar- ently promiscuous manner was not done with the idea of taking lives or of producing damaging results; I am | convinced that it was a preliminary move to & more serious raid, when heavier projectiles will be used. “Announcement by Germany of an impending blockade of British and French ports also bears out the be- lief that air craft will be used in conjunction with submarine attacks on discuss | shipping.” * Mr. MacMechen de(‘llne(\& the Zeppelin destroyers but swid the; 1d be faster than Zeppelin smaller to navigate and would fire | . onclusion “ BRUTAL TRIPLE MURDER. srandmother, Mother and Daughter | Have Heads Crushed in. Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 5.—A triple | i murder in which an entire family, con- mother and | was wiped out, was discov- iered at The vic lamanca today. | tims w in their beds with | heads crushed in. A heavy machin- |ist’s hammer smeared with blood and ir was found on the floor in one | of the rooms. The victims are Mrs. | Lizzic Drake, 65; Mrs. Irene Spen- | cer, 35 and Gertrude Spencer, 12. | | daughter, found the rear door open, entered | and made the ghastly discovery. The | bodies were in separate rooms and there was no evidence of a strugzle. They had been slain as they slept. Physicians who examined the bodies | said that the murders had been com- | mitted three or four days ago, The | police have sent out an alarm for a | former hoarder at the Drake house | who is reported to be missing. IN MAYOR’S MAIL BAG, City Wants Information About Water and Another About Jags, One Mayor Quigley opened a letter thls {morning and found it contained a | request from Dubuque, Towa, for in- | formation regarding the ‘in in this city, It was signed | by a Dubuque alderman und was writ- iten on the stationery of a brewery, The next letier Mavor Quigley | opened was from Lculsville, Kentucky, and requested Informatlon regarding | the number of pcople arrested for lintoxication in this city in 1915, use HEAD BADLY INJURED, Hadden of Stanley Street, Hurt While on Sleigh Ride. | George Hadden of Stanley stret was badly injured while on a sleigh ride last night when, in passing under the railrond bridge in Kensington | unseen person hurled a railroad spike him, hitting him on the head. The young mun knocked down was tuken to Dr. G P. Dun- where it w found ne take several stitches in the wound. | George | some Was and e ham's office to scalp had N. Y., and is al her | | the Russian line: and will accommodate sr‘venz | Zouaves and of our light African their | | yards Bovs passing the Drake homestead | | eral | cept for an isolated water rates | GERMAN BATTERIES SILENCED BY ALLIES Argonne Region. 30,000 GERMANS IN HUNGARY Serbla—British Cdsualties in Battle With Turks Were Fifteen Killed and Ninety-two Wounded. is at its height along the Russo-German front west of War- saw. Large bodies of German troops now shal Von Hindenburg's third desper- ate effort to batter a way The attack is cen- tered near the Polish village of Bor- jimow, around which for the last few days has been raging a battle that for intensity compares with the strug- gle in Flanders earlier in the war. Official statements make no mention of thé¢ extent of the losses, which, judging from the nature of the fight- ing, must be enormous. A communication from the Rus- sian war office today says that along a section of front about six miles long the Germans brought up no less than 84,000 men, supported by one hun- dred batteries of artillery. In com- pact masses these troops were hurled against the Russian positions. The Petrograd statement asserts fensive in turn, captured German trenches and occupied two villages. In the Carpathians the fighting is hardly less severe. The Petrograd war office admits that the Russians retreated in one direction of this front after fighting ten successive en- gagements with bayonets. Elsewhere Russian successes are claimed. The German official announcement of today does not support the claims of the Russians of successes on the Warsaw front, stating that their at- tacks were repulsed. There were no engagements of im- portance along the western front yes- terday. i French Official Statement. Paris, Feb. 5, French war office ga on the progress of the fighting read- “In Belgium, Gerhan aviators yes- terday showed great activity. “The announcement given out last night reported the occupation of a trench of the enemy to the west of the road from Arras to Lille. This trench was a cause of annoyance to the troops occupying the positions won by us several east of this road. Consequently we blew it up with a mine, and imme- miately afterwards a detachment of in- fantry installed itself securely in the canquered positions. All the Ger. ma#s in the trenches thus occupfed were either killed or taken prisoners. German Batteries Silenced. “Our artillery silenced the batteries of the enemy at a point near Adinfer (to the south of Arras); near Pozieres (northeast of Albert) near Ham (northwest of Peronne), as well as in the sector of Pailly (south of Noyon). “There is nothing new in the re- gion of Perthes. In the Argonne there was yesterday Bagatelle. beginning took from us about of trenches, provoked counter attacks on our part, resulted in our not only getting back this 100 yards, but in gaining ground beyond where our lines had been pre- viously. “In the Vosges yesterday saw tillery exchanges. Along the rest 100 twa ar- of German Official Statement, Berlin, raphy to Sayville, army headquarters staff gave out the following statement: “On the whole western front, ex- French attack against the German positions to the northwest of Perthes, which was un- successful, only place. N. Y.)—The gen- Russian Attacks Repulsed. “On the east Prussian frontfer newed Russfan attacks to the of the Memel river were repulsed. “Strong Russian attacks against the re- mans to the east of Bolimow (east of Lowicz) weer equally unsucce: ful. We have taken prisoners in that vicinity since Feh. 1, twenty-six officers and about 6,000 men.” To Bleck England’s Move, Berlin, Feb. 5, By Wirel Teleg- raphy to Sayville, N, Y.—The chlef admiral of the staff of the navy has issued the folowing communication: “Iingland is on the eve of shipping numerous troops and large quantities of war material to France. Agalnst these Knglish transports we will pro- with all the means of warfare s disposal ral shipping tioned against approaching the north-" 58 officlal ceed | at o is earnestly cau- (Continued on Fifteenth Page.) French Regain Lost Trenches in’ Austrians Resume Hostilities \gainst | One of the.most furious battles of ! ! the war have been brought up for Field Mar- | through | that these attacks were broken up and | that the Russians, assuming the of- | ing as follow: | days ago to the | one attack at | This attack, which in the | which | the front there is nothing to report.” | Feb. 5 (By Wireless Teleg- | today | artillery duels took | south | positions recently taken by the Ger- | | German | RESCUE MEASURES CLOAKED IN SECRECY Information of Movements of \meri- can Warships Going to Aid of Japanese Cruiser Refused. Feb. 5. the Japanese and breaking Californis coast, secrecy here today of the Washingtcn, nieasures for | Asama, ashore the Lower clecaked in tect the neutrality States. On the theory that information { the disabled Japanese ship might b ceme of value to Germen men of war | in the Pacific, the navy department kept secret its latest despatch from Rear Admiral Howard, commander | of the Pacific fleet, sent from his flag- ship, the cruiser San Diego, in the neighborhood of Ensenada and re- fused informatioin of the of American men or war going to the Asama’s aid. believed here, however, aid would be given by iser Raleigh. The San Diego, ypled by a recent hoiler explosion would be unable to make fast time to the wreck near Turtle B: 'FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE DIES IN NEW ORLEANS Rescue cruiser up were on United of that the Philadelphia Lawyer Charged With Misappropriating Nearly a Million Dollars —Worad the Philadelphia, | | received here last night of “eb. in New Orleans of George M. Wag- ner, a fugitive from justice since May, 1913, charged with misappropriating | nearly a million the trust funds of clients and from estates | of which he was trustee or executor. | The report stated that the body hid been identified and would be brought to this city. dollars from rea] estate dealer and clubman. lle disappeared from Philadelphia after charges by counsel for the benefi- ciaries of a trust fund for which he was trustee that he had misappro- priated $56.000 of the estate’s funds. Shortages*in other funds in which he had acted as trustee also were brought to light, and when a receiv- | er was appointed by the court, claims | against him aggregating half a mil- Jion dollars. were presented. The tutul amount of his shortage was estimated | at twice that amount. It was believed by his associates that Wagner had lost heavily in un- | profitable investments. New Orleans, Feb. 5.—J Barton | Rettow and Joseph Carson, two Phil- adelphia attorneys, who knew George M. Wagner, will arrive to identify the body of a man known as Charles Smith, who died in a hospital Monday. The man had lived in New Orleans for nearly a year. PLAN TO RECOMMIT Majority Leaders Expect to Bring Measure Up Again on Motion to Discharge Committee, Washington, TFeb. —Democratic leaders in the senate a further effort to save the administration ship purchase bill were today conslidering new lines of action. Outnumber; by the opposition the majority leaders esterday failed to carry out their plan to recommit the bill with instruc- ticns for amendment. The new plan under consideration is to recommit the bill with instruc- tions 8o as to bring it up again on a in motion to discharge the committee if | it failed to return the measure with amendments recommended by the caucus. Some of ‘the leaders favor this plan if assured of enough votes to carry it. Meantime, the democratic leaders are waiting for the return here nex veek of two democratic Newlands and Smith of South Caro- lina. Then with the vote 48 ta 4%, on a motion to recommit the bill with iretructions to amend, they would | count Vice President Marshall to | I'reak a tie In their favor. KIRKHAM IN—M/ N OUT. Former Assistant Judge Gets Commis- slon Mail. Judge John H. Kirkhuam, sistant judge of the police who was deposed by the last demo- cratic administration and was suc- | ceeded by Judge William F. Mangun | teday received his offiefal commission from the secretary of state, dated yes- terday. The signing of this commission the govérnor and its presentation Judge Kirkham automatically Judge Mangan and Judge Kirkham will occupy the bench in police court on the first day that Judge Meskill 1s absent. in Morning’s court by to e WEATI Harttord, “eb. and warmer tonight urday. e 5.—Rain nd Sat- here | SHIP PURCHASE BILL | senators— | to pro- | movements | death | Wagner was prominent as a lawyer, | | marines 1015 —SIXTEEN PAGES. CONSDER WAR 10NE DECREE A BLOCKADE i | | %Gcrman Newspapers Laud Acnoni Against Graat Brilain RECIRDING MERCHANT VESSELS Westminster Gazette ys Kaiser's Threat Adds Nothing to What Ger- mans Have Done or Aticmpted (o Do Since Outbreak of War. Serlin, via a. m.—The greets with ty's declar London, entire satisfaction tion that the |Sur- rounding England, Scotland and Ire- land have been included the wag zone. The head lines eral papers characterize the announcement as a blockade The Post and must Feb. 5, German the wate 10:57 press admiral in of se declares it is a blockade be so con- sidered | “Neutral is given harbors. seriod do and from ! danger. | freight not under a sink.” | The We conditions play its role, and all its rights and | him guard himself | coming between safe shipping time to Only all the Then only s the refuge in me take ifter sured merchantmen British be sure, Brjtish flag going to run men Isles into ind but to to or ships, neutral are doomed Tagelische Rundschan have accepted tle land with England’s We En assume our obligation who feels was | H High Historical Mission. | The land’'s own against destroys declar Eng- are being turncd when Germar voke Anzeiger weapons herself, and the “English | Which the warld has turies,” it will have high historical world from enemies | The Tageblatt | duct, to which | answer, has ‘\'uulll not Lokal s under for cen- accomplished a and freed the most danger- suffered mission one of its ous England’s new decree an admission with con- an it wea- | not | expresses re will the been is defeat German pons which | inconsiderabic the opinion that ! suffer losses from | tion, but be small ! England Germany The ne rea paper itral the these vith upor are declara- | will which new declares losses thos them. campared imposes Adds Now New. Landon, Feb. 12 p. m.—“The | pompous decree threatening sudden | death to all who venture to approach | the British adds nothing to what our enemy or has at- ! tempted to do since the beginning of | the war,” the \Westminster | ot commenting Germ: pub Gr Westminster the coasts has done Ga- in the admiralty's declaration made vesterday that the seas around Britain are a military area. The Gazette generally re- views of British says teday on | flécts the cabi- net ame effort the paper been made continuously warships and transpo W that have been almos the military point of vie mans turn from legitimate threat of piracy it in legitimate wa had no The months for the past contint ith K] nii i if th 1o the merely hec hitherto h he of sub- ritish merchantmen | the for and 1defe is 1us the success. against will no more to scatter the curity against did German the raiders towns.” Suffering use B induce fleet these mines government supposed se- th ider ppeli nded on Not Westminster fram this German “That the German are suffer Reakized., The Gazette inf announcemse people | war price. ing more from the ire of our sea power than we hitherto have re lized.” pre NEW HIGH RECORD. Selling Stampede on Wheat Market— | Price at $1.67. | Chicago, Feb. Wheat advanced swiftly today to a new high record it took only a brief time option to reach $1.66 1-2 3-8 cents compared with The previons top notch for the M a jump of last night. { upturn | ensied former | ousts | | been destroyed as a resuli | the quotation was on Feb. 3—$1.66. Most | of the trading today, however, was in the July delivery, in which the | was not quite so radical | Something like a selling stampede after the had climbed | $1.67 for May. offers to re-sell wheat in Chicago surprised the a market 10 yoard and there was also an element | in the that large extent may wheat, with bulls of which to a stituted for upward cereal, The result was a sudden drop 01 more than three from top figures attained wheat depression fact corn keeping priced suh- was not pace the higher cents by the OPENS $60.000,000 CREDIT. Parls, Feb. A. M. —President Poincare has signed a decree opening | & a credit of 300,000,000 ($60,- 000,000) to meet the urgent needs of persons whose francs most property has of the war HOPE TO RAISE hig Ialians, Social $500. With th twent subseriptic headed are workin donate to the carthquake in intil a | out by Savoy club, to raise $500 from The from hard sufferers Ttaly. week the hig will be next Sunday. lisis open | republicans on | amendea | fered SUCCESSOT until the same TITCHELL WILL BE 85 TOMORROW High Street Old Lady Has Six Child- ven, Eighteen Grandehildren and | Ten Great Grandcehildren Tomorrow Mrs Mitchell, Iivitein’s venerable ladie the passing of the eighty- | milestone of her life at the laughter, Mrs. J, A f street she makes h Whil Mitchell does not | to make big celebration | pleased to greet many friends to call on and three the ‘ Jane one | will o ol corve nome | High Biake her« Murs expect e will her are her ! as fhree daughters | living ong a teclining | 1if Tue Pasaden to mak of Mrs Mrs. Jos California happy Mitchell ph Caunt Mrs 1ynn, ? G Mrs, B vears arc of aunt n .S, N0 GERMA (Littie or No {ion from CRPECT BRITSH Oflicials Manifest M Probable Effect Movement of Ay ing Munitions (o cit hen Mitchell. « I Mitchell, of f : W Mitch Josenh i ome eighteen wrand n gre Despite he Mrs. Mitche woll 'prenerved ing the best of interest in th hildren 1 vom: ealth s ears day and stres sewing RECGMMENDS INVESTIGATION OF SENATORIAL CAMPAIGNS Committee pend conid Urges Probe Where Corruption Charges Have Been Made. W mou mittee hington vote the today tion of sen senate By unan com- investigas n Penn other elections recommended torial campa Ilinois, charges states wh have The Norris Nebraska campaigns wh re-elected from Roger Sullivan v ator Sherman was adopted, re been made original resolution by S progressive-republican inquiry into the Penroge Pennsylvania and defeated by Ben- republican, in Tllinois, but the insistence of committee it authorize investi- into any such charges from states, Chairman Kern sald committee’s recommendations be put at once the sen- nat from proposing re Senator was as the was to similar gation other the would ate Senator Suth an amendment spe ing Alabama, Indiana South Dakota, hut it the amendment w inquiry In brought rland, republican ifica California as 1 15 m for into ture de may justify Should the the conducted durit campa othey before any st senate adopt th tion inquiry possgibly FOUR BATTLESHIP URGED BY HC” Representative Oisims Ay Ailinnee ese Affects Vital Inierests of S. and Monroe Doctrine Washing 1o the nay the d in all the standing on. Feb. §5.—Ar construction program i with p tion dc en e house with the cmnmit destroyer Proi acked by gome democrats a much the ttleship. enteen s six cre werc licans and lines were in other years | Declaring the Anglo-japanese aili- | ance affected the vital intereets of the | United States and the Monroe Doc- trine, Representative Hobson urged an amendment for four battleships “The war in Europe,” said he, “has brought out that if a belligerent has undigputed control of the sea it will curtail the rights of neutrals. Ameri- ca Is the chief, chronic neutral. We canot expand our comerce When some other nation has control of the sea England is now attempting to pre- vent development of ‘Americar over- seas commeroce.’ Ny ame TERM K PITRES TOMORROW. But Postmaster Hicks Will Wait For Successor. Hicks as w Britain expires to- successor had not been to time today Congressman Loner- known his choice to- Although Ir term postmaster of morrow, his ed uj think that make nomi press Rome gan may In accordance of the office department, Postmaster will remain in office until his | qualifies | Hicks was appointed in Febru- 1899 but did not take office | April | | with the poliey 1 post Hicks Mr. ary of first of FAXED AS tford, Feb. s filed today | Hinmay State Charles es having ction AUTOMOBILES According Attorney upon request D side car H pinfor 1al George I8 reta to Gen- Burnes a and machines ehicles power, 1t engines 1 drilling gis 1 nccording automgbiles, elling 1d be re & motor ind taxed to horse as el n in} ol Brit nglish by that 4 begun ries fof itral o ¢ lossd | t nintg | No Ground fop re re ¢ o ut i 3 nig e t thers And ate department king for o in their many lieve « and the 1 G expected of all the protect themselves neutrals fon [ | | | Counsellor Lansing o Secretat) [at the cabinet meeting | 1atter | | | partment, took absence Copies to Dig Neither the the German embassy ha Berlin admiralty: it was sioted that Beri copt e sufficient] state @ latest day, and embassy the fice would delivey representatives that proclamation fc deliverea Applying 1o ol coasts of France: There is precedaent h the question, bec ymar played ar arel od practice ng with priz Jlished in notice as an mer no nes have arfare 1al ana n law eference to ar 1e 1 intme na in 1 ients | g considerat] depa mariners probably W Lced the W German precisely n the onths Ago: Ger to the regard British tt it and at, owing would be ar Tae zone from ernment it is taliation against though not formalisy department today much speculation of ficlalg as to what ¢ mind. Although it that any official deo| supplies are contra it believed notice forecasts th such declarati] thus tryin d supply believed be possi ish may make thes by prohibiting the cotton to Germany, of some forms of as well as the high ton used in the pedoes and subma from depriving Gej article, the of h an o blow to the ( which are m to receive almost from the United partment officials German proclamatig minds to the North notice that sued is some to fe dition many's ment " heav) tortes k. in their mines in (Continued on