New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 1, 1915, Page 1

# pected that should Rumania enter, the | - mits . communication ) ALLIES LAUNCH NEW - tnder w: French Jthrust allies *Petrograd deals with the - wihe Argonne we captured mine-throw- HERALD BEST OF ALL '{ LOBAL NEWSPAPERS NEW BRITAIN HEF "PRICE THREE CENTS. 'NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1915 —~TWEi,VE P/\C.[S | SJERMAN AMBASSADOR NOT TO BE RECALLED Dr. Dernberg Denies Report That " ASSHULT ON CERMANS .. .. INCHAMPACHE REGION Berlm Maitans aisrs Fores R Dulsed Frenc After Fieres Fight- ing at Glose Quarters. ALLIES MAKE SLIGHT PROGRESS IN VOSGES | { he had reported to Berlin the state of feeling here and rn | course pursued by Count Von Bern- | storff in the discharge of his official s | | | utler Is to Replace Count Von Bernstorfi. March 1.—Dr. Dern- hard Dernberg. former colonial minister, characterized as ! untrue today a report that Count Von Sernstorff, German ambassador to | ‘the United States, would he recalled | and Baron Treutler, said to be with | Emperor William at the battle front | at the present time, would be sent to New York, ‘“The report i Iattempt of Englis part of a deliberate h agents to discredit | prominent Germans in America,” Dr. Dernberg said. As far as 1 am concerned the whole story is untrue.’ The report stated that Dr. was Dbelieved to be the German per personal representative in concerning Ieported R ans Are Steadily Push. ing Germans Back in Southern roiand—Premier Asquith dutles. : THREE SONS. DYING AS DEATR CLAIMS FATHER Great Britain at No Time Was More Confident Than Today That Allics Would Finally Win War, new attempt to force back the! IS ia the A line in uce apparently is y, although German Champagne region, no definte results have a battle able importunce tacks of the @ and John Foreman, Succumbs to Cooney, Bnckyard of consider- | developing. At- along this section of the front have been proceeding | tentatively for several da but the | .communication from the German war | ,office today indicates that an assault | *in force has now been launched. It| is said that at least two army corps} of TFrench were engaged and that | they were repulsed after fierce fight- ing at close quarters. French Thurst Back. In the Argonne, Berlin reports, the made five efforts to breal | through the German positions, being | back in each instance. The French statement asserts that the made slight progress in the Vosges. In the British house Premier Asquith announced that at no time previously had the British | government been more confident zhgt‘ the allies would achieve victory. ¥ Rumania Reserves Called Out, The Rumanian minister of the in- | terior is credited with the statement ! that a representative of his country has made a formal agreement with | Great Britain,, France and Russia for entering the war with them. Bucha- | marked improvement. He rest advices say .that ten classes of | thought to be well on the road to re- Rumanian reserves have been called | COvery when he suffered a out for March 13. It has been ex- | from which he never rallied. The funeral will be held Wednes- war she would do so in the hor\e of ; day morning from the Sacred HMeart ‘enlarging her territory at the expense | church in East Berlin, Rev. J. C. of Austria and with the particular | Brennan officiating. Burial will be object of obtaining Transylvania, | in Wilcox cem 8 which is populated largely It was only short time after manians. father fell ill that the oldest Cooney boy became afflicted with the same disease and was subsequently re- moved to the local hospital. The other kgt ; Russian of- | son was brought to the institution fensive movement in northern Poland | something over a week ago. Almost fear the Prussian border, where, it iS | gimyltaneously, tHe third son wa said, the Germans are being pushed | nttackea with appendicitis, waid‘f‘ back steadily The fighting in this | his gix children, the deceased leavo: region is severe, and appreciable Prog- | » vife, ) ress each day claimed for the Rus- 'PLEAD NOT GUILTY TO been achieved is es Pneumonia in Berlin. The head of a family of dren, three of whom are critically ill, was removed when John Cooney, foreman at R. O. Clark’s brickyard at East Berlin, died at 11:45 o'clock last night. Death was due-td pneu- | monia, from which disease two of | his sons, Peter and John, a uffer- ing at the New Britain hospital. An- other son Dominick, is séfifusly ill with appendicitis at the hopie of a brother of the deceased man at Beckley Quarter. Mr. Cooney. who was \)uxm in Ital forty-five vears ago, came ‘to this country twenty-two years ago. Eleven vears after he became foreman of Mr. Clark’s brickyard, in which ca- pacity he proved very capable. made many friends in East who lament his untimely end, and are doing what they can to assist Kis fam- ily in its pathetic predicament. of commons Berlin weeks ago. His condition serious but soon after he became showed by Ru- Germans Being Pushed Back. statement from A semi-official #lans In eastern Galicia at the other extreme of the Russian front, the Austrians are reported to have suf- ! fered reverses, These claims, how- ever, have not been borne out from | either Berlin or Vienna. { The great Anglo-French fleet is still smashing at the Dardanelles fortifica- tions, Although Constantinople ad- that some of the forts have felt | the effects of the bambardment, it has not confirmed the statements ot lhe British admiralty concerning the reduction of the outer defenses, A large force of Turkish troops is said lo have been assembled on tae isthmus to oppose attempts of | landing parties to advance on Con- stantinople. Nine of Twenty-one Defendants New Haven Road Case File Answers to New Charges. York, March 1.—Tentative of not guilty were entered in the i federal district court today to super- | seding indictments, handed Friday, charging twentyv-one director and former directors of the New Yo New Haven and Hartford company with criminal under the anti-trust law. | Several pleas were entered at the Borile! Mar) by wistlces telogra) | semetimein behals ofiiasmanyide phy to London, 2:55 p. m.—The offi- l fendants, by their counsesl. They cial announcement on the progres : i were given until March 22 to demur the war given out in Berlin tc the indictments or take any to contains a statement that the French | ©ther action preliminary to closing the fore: s have begun the use of a special | P1€as. L ste | De Lancey a ous any German Official Report. Nicoll, counsel for shell which spreads a poison- | e Ly B defendants, asked for thirty de : on exploding. The text of fhe | Slonjeet & withdraw the pleas, on the follows: g = { that the superseding indictment con- “In the western arena of the war: | 5 £ 8 n Near Wervico, north of Lille, an Eng- | {4ins new charges. ~ Mr. Nicoll told the court that the trial would occupy lish flying machine has been forced 2 B dedocnalby oux #ire Atlal certain | the attentiontotithellconrt for three months as the indictment sart of our front the French have : fade use of, as they have done om | COVETS the affairs of more than a hun- dred corporations alleged to he or to previous oc ons, a particular kind 4 S 3 ,f shell, which, on exploding, threw | have been parties to the combination. i Assistant United States District at- ut evil-smelling and poisonous gases. . J torney Swacker said that the super- Allies’ Attack Repulsed. seding indictment contained little new “Our positions in the Champagne | matter. zountry were repeatedly attacked yes- The nine defendants who erday by at least two army corps. | {hix morning are Lewis ¢ These forces were Trepulsed after | gobert W. Taft, FEdward D. 3 fYerce fighting at close quarters. 1In| Charles M. Pratt, Thomas DeWitt | cuyler, Theeodore N. Vail, Francis T. sre. Between the eastern border of | well, Edward Milligan and George the Argonne and Vauquois the French Baker. ) made five attempts yesterday to break The remaining twelve defendants through our lines. All these attacks | dre to enter pleas this afternoon. were broken down with heavy losses Pleas of not guilty were entered "o the enemy. the afternoon by Charles IF. Brooker “The position which we have occu-| jonn 1. Billard, A. Heaton el »ed to the southwest of Badonvillers |won and James S. Hemingway. were retained vesterday, in spite of ‘he attempts of the enmemy to recap- (ire them. v “in the eastern arena of the war: We repulsed Russian attac north of Consha and northwest of rolenka peaded Ledyard, Ttobbins, B DEER SEEN IN CITY. Special Officer Sharpe reports that a handsome deer was seen vesterday near his home on Steele strect. animal was first discovered = by | children and they chased it away | Young's woods Os his into (Continued on Ninth Page.) German | Washington in Von Bernstorff's place, ! | Dernberg | em- America and that it was thought that | the | He | The deceased became ill about three | was | relapse | | rounding his | ! whistle and when he saw that ithe | fortunate NEW INDICTMENTS ! i heart-broken down last | e Railroad conspiracy | ground | at least 'LITTLE CHILD KILLED ~ BY EXPRESS TRAIN ) | Aita Aifieri, Seven Years 0ld, Struck - at 1 o'Clock This Afteraoon. 'FATHER AND MOTHER PROSTRATED | | Victim Is Oldest Children of Four i | and Lived at 315 | Attended Myrtle Street— o St. Mar Parochial | School, Aita ke | Carmeno Alfieri Alfieri, aged oldest daughter of Mr. and of No. 345 Myrtle | street, was struck and instantly killed by the 1 o'clock inbound Waterbury this afternoon tempted to cross the railroad tracks | directly opposite Grove street and in | full view of the workmen t the : Malleable Tron Works. The child’s | parents are prostrated with grief and their suffering pitiful to behold. seven years Rushes in Front oi Train. The little girl and a younger sister | were walking along the tracks when | Aita crossed to the south side and | went down to the edge of the Lock | Shop vond. The other child was safely trudging along ¢n the north | de of thetracks. As the heavy ex- | | press train rounded the curve at the | anley Works Aita, fearing for her | little ter’s safety, scrambled up the | embankment and essaved to cross the | i rails in front of the onrushing loco- | motive. The pilot of ‘the huge engine | smashed her cruelly on the head and tecssed her down the bank where she lay inert, dead. At so great a rate of | «peed was the express train going that although the engineer applied the | cmergency brakes, four cars passed | the spot before it could be brought to a standstill, Death W s Instantaneous. Almost immediately a big crowd athered and Officers Richardson, | English and Nealon, as well as Chief Rawlings, were kept busy holding them in check. = Medical Examiner Dr. T. G. Wright view the remains and | said that death must have been in- stantaneous as the girl's skull 1w completely crushed in where the train ! hit her. The rest of her body was not ! mangled. The train is known as the Water- | bury express and is duc at the local | station at 1 o'clock. It was in charge | of Conductor Brigham, of Hartford, and Engincer Phillips, of Danbury. Engineer Phillips saw the little girl | try to cross in front of his train but ! could not stop in tine to save her lif He is much wrought up over the trag ic accident. Enginecr Phillip’s Story. a | es that he was the Stanley Works at a good raic of speed when he saw the girl ahead of him along | side the track. He sounded nritl | lit- | ss in front of | the emergenc neer Phillips s the curve ¥r at his tle tot was about to ¢ him he threw over brakes hard. 3ut it was too late. The oi the heavy train was too great and it carried the locomotive four car length beyond the spot where the un- little girl was struck. Mother Is Heart Broken. minutes afte frantic mother tushing down momentumn It the was about {wenty accident that the arrived on the scene. the tracks., screaming as though he: heart would break, the distracted parent raced for the group that stood sadly around the body of her littie girl. Screaming wildly, tearing Ther hair, and beating Ther breast woman lifted the Cr that had been placed over the i mangled face of the victim and then went from one fit of hysterics into an- ; She had to be forcibly re- strained by three men and’ when she was later takén to her Fome in Chi. Dame’s automobile. it requiréd thy men to hiold Ier ihithe car. / Her cries could be heard for blocks. Father Iaints Beside Body. The girl's father is employed at th2 Stanley Works and a few minutes ai | ter the mother had arrived he was notified of the accident and hurried to the scenc. Bending over th prypstrate form he fearfully lifted the coker and then, with a wild shriek {of gri he clasped the litile body in his arms and buried his face against the mangled blocdy head of his little daughter, raining ses upon | {her gaping wounds His grief was more than that of the mother’'s and to be taken from by force. When sorrow had spent {in a dead faint i was finally revived home in the auta. As both the mother and father such a condition they could directicns and Medical Kxaminey Dr. T. G. Wright turned the hody | over to B. (. Porter Sons until the | parents make known their wishes. 5 Attended St. Mary’s ~chool. ‘} the oldest of four chil- | was a pupil at St. Mary ~hool. It is supposed that, liftle sister, she was on the | school when she met her | death. The supposition is that with | plenty of time to reach school the ltwo children walked down My reet and the older crossed the ttracks to look into the i was while recr ng them she | | Was Killed. She was a bright. | fu1 ditte girl and favorite | her plavmates and teachers. coy- | ey f, even terrible he had | his daughter’s hody | the first spasm elf the father ide the body. and taken to of fell | He his | he were {in give no Aita W dren and Parochial with her way to s one pond. that cheer- was a with { less on last Thursday gitude 45: i records here f: i Receives Official Notification | | recommendea : statement | ing. | sure to i ai I to me. | ples in™ery ing directl | Representatives of t «had | share. STEAMER LOSES HER PROPELLOR BLADES | Wiusmpm SHIPPING . T0 AND FROM GERMANY | | l Vessel Aleged to Be * ported (o Be Drift Near Middle of the Atlantic, New Yorl fied steams with all propeller blades ncar the middle of the At cording to the log of the n | Line steamer New Yor hich reached here today from Liverpool The New York was spoken by wi by the British | bound from ports for Liverpool. The | advisea the New York drifting eamer's plight and | her location as latitude 42, lon-| 20. The name of the steam- | en as the Tritonian in the | me but Maritime to disclose An unid last v horn intic Ame March 1.— was drifting cek | ip Natice on tnited States. AWAE OF STEP ROT DISCLOSED steamer Canadian Milwaukee the fixed Milwaakee, Premier Asquith Announces That a of | Virtnal Blockade of Hostile Coun- s is Grear sritins Reply (o Germany's Submarine Attacks. Marel serve Washington B iled ar = in such name. ' According to the “Tritonian™ #aded that, except propeller blades all 'DELANEY REMARKS ON POSTMASTERSH MATTER . | bassadors at the | that purpe Mess today tow and | j41q of her | aboar tes th libcrn the wircless Cnited woulc requested a for the loss was well themselves a to stop all hipping hereafter to from Ger ny A sire: lies f hant was outlining the part of ymari warfare on nducted | meu- the reprisal the ships co Ger retary ritish personally together deilvered French here, who te department in by the an - called for Wilson. promptiy the ang the amb Bryan Apprises Bryan Wilson to Seeretary \pprised of his Recommendaticn Late Today. Pr new statement was ssudors, Who department ouncements on th esident mov | but declir | What th of disclosed by the ¥ the of a make step is not | intimated would 1 subject. the stat as w. town for today gave this “News of my master at New a very pleasant surprise this While 1 realize that the me must be accompanied ppointment to thcse who did secure it, nevertheless I am frank say that each candidate displayed up- right, gentlemanly conduct in seeking | the appointment. Harmony and good will prevailed among all the candid- | % dates and this is particularly nl(- ng | 1|"”\‘ dent i 1de e of who w 125 15] ney cemmittee, the local post by Congressman out the foilowing afternoon: appointment Britain came Chairman democratic all Al ake the first Lon- the allic pping t report from had decided to hold and m Germany tion along this line h hee expected here, but oificials have re. | frained from expressing any opinion s to the course of the American gov- crnment in recognizing the validity the proposed measures until the text of the declaration made had becn carefully examined It was pointed here that there might be no precedent wide range action se there v likew the German suby British Te ays recognized ity blockades, and many contests have cn where belligerents h | attempted to conii ships and « seized block werc in ac- interna- mastership Since Lonergan, | ton that ) all as post- to me as morn- plea- by | not to to he out while for the no arin prece- k- Neutrals valid- for of, for the | not earnest thank “h of those who have isted in my canvass for the of- fice. For the future, I can affirm that there swill be a faithful performanc of my duties, which, 1 venture to sa will be satisfactory to all people and patrons of the post-office irrespectiv of party and it intention duct the office upon b romote t inter: “T extend my support of e the of ve r- ar! ‘ate running ades be iles es for that cord tior alleged to with nol nee HE of o Blockade N is my 1sine nei- | of Hosti way inad socin industrial our community Fiii ostmaster | micasure show Cong my deep and hear his efforts and jud nating me At this me 1 d icly to thank him and ure him of my gratitude. Cong man Loncr- ah has al s taken a sympathetic | nterest in New /Britain affairs and I trust that I will be able to reflect cre upon him in the faithful forma of my duties ine Bri ship el od oflic gquith in o house of the allied tion of hostile the rey very kind re ports. withont, n man Loner monentous fo nomi- re pub- apreci ment in common g0 ernments and m commoditie the from for re ports o nations conte Plates ition of of aching or leaving nee ews their per " from tined tion, Irom Loncrgan. foliow- | in Lon- Telegram Mr. Del telegram fr ergan this afte “You have bee me to the postm position of postm ain. 1 congratulate that you will have successful term Mr. Delanes congratulation fr n 1. Reilly. Mrs. Philip the New ven others. MAY ASK WILSON TO INTERVENE IN STRIKE% reived the fo Congressmzi hoon: recommended by |’ 1 for tha Brit- hope ney re 10w reoe they ar normal co ster gener! at New you nd Ples stor ant and | the arliament premi aled o of repr 3 naticn 3 fourth me of office.” ures telegram of | t} n wife of and and third meet arc 2 (3185 receive 16 the ressme o Troup, expe postmaster respeciive §000,000) of the ¢ wce the expendit fiscal tot eight monihs of 2,000,000 pounds (£1.810,000,000) 250.000,000 first nothor ($1 vote of 0,000,000 Iment for thc opening Representa wis Consider Porced By Germany. ny has d he retaliator nensy Appealing to President to Re- : pre- from ito o Lind in 1dopt vent reaching h 1.—President | Pr A to intervene | f Ohio IFrancis might late restore very rm store Peace in Coal Region. commoditie or lea quith to what Mr. A talk W son shington, M may be asked in the eastern strike. Represcntative the president today he him to ke steps (o {rial peace in the regic Secretary Wilson of the department of labor had an engagement today to | discuss the situation with John . White, president of the United Mine Workers: Frs Hayes, liam Greene and John Moor leaders of the miners he termed whi ith said it that hen are W wa thi the conl | eace, rive “oaly of the allie omplishment.” told | n me to world pur of Will Consider proposed srmany would enfor vance the dictate the allies not their e work of judicial niceties.” no intentio cate indus- posie Humanity. The 1inst G he 1easure the premier with strict “or- of hity, but allow of reprizal said, od obs dic hume did pur “to strangled in a net There wa to confis unl undci efforts to coal opera » are cxpected here. Seerctary Wilson said hope of a settlement direct intervention the was not yet necessary. he explained, today he still and th president Nips detaine thes Hablc the ordinary Referrin campai premnier violated or oe: tion 0 of conditic of w to the German inst British shipping, that Germany vstematically all the ntended for the migratic She had taken premicr said, by or ampaien of pir ny, he decla could ne naval the had conver PLUM FOR STOCKHOLDER According to reports, of the American Hosiery to be divided on a ba This division s been decided on by the hoard of directors was reported in the Herald a short time declared the rplus company of $125 per tions warfare. steps, the ing “an und and pillage, Gern not blockadin blockade Fnglish as was r and shores. Free to Capiure Goods. that the hold themselves free to ¢ there sucl of from The would premier deslared lies ipture rouls March « mll whereever ned for haa the »ods were dos their ho use enemic been tile countries, fraree and Great Britam Serve LONERGAN NAMES! FOR POSTMASTER - ACTION BY SENAT Chairman of Democratic T 0wn'¢ Congressman’s Selection fg Plum in This Cit hag has huy Lavh flicial Hicks lay n Unle New Brit tersrip mplication zhit \ergan over the posti ) P the el torney 1 relial beyo doubt Delaney 1= cha S town committec M Del vith and Unic moc ancy Delar s da atd b PUrpos of a derog 1gainst him didatc Town Com With the land meetir the committee wa aid ded frof being assuran it has been mittee we camps, those f] Halloran, and the facts of laney and H4 anl had a chol kno votes each x-Mayor prised many DELANEY. o strong Halloran this Vot Ged WiILLIAM 1. but thi act public by some r o has been kept fror the lLonergan Action on the d sident ind States and the yugh is Congressman ason unknown recommendation when, it believed will appoint Mr., his name to the confirmation News of the like wild fire Congrossman ecret to leak the new for of who hi outg the cntire ing broke up Mayor Hallors ballot, but onl is ex 1 Pre Delaney United pect to Wilson i subr ball adjoun N the fo one ng e ht Within he general €o he 1 had « i tes My recomnend Men allow few bt the to tion spr closc today, Lonergan In a a out minut all phone w sking if ble deg s ht Delaney's t 5 alls of ornin hat he name had Politic rot inner ecirc Delancy Seoed Delaney throt lallor chair nimitt Mr, D4 1 trot amps h into thou rti their thei ithout eng ¢ them cipals in the same mimo yown displaying others 0 fight 1. M term Nov their lines on speaking Long before defeat la had laid December th he N Brit Cmonthi s rence in her of citizens Tic the official re 1 Lonergan of . It wasin t in had a cading « he for W Not until 1 WH, W public ov Wi w in co the ford o foun Hart regt indids nd laid down latior the ards n of game yetitions the candidates M1 is ha the hed at O’ Neill rdl citiz Ther ing in o rh name who w many humoron is 1 names them Loi v tho. } Cong th by the pol coipte § phai the . te for T 3 « ¥ ved by the bes tms now postmaster nnu the the pe wdorsing All the werc ic en ter letters writt the the and fifty Ma 1t the re; on part o thors, who i s appy ontinued