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

ubmagne Commander 6NE3/AMERICANS LOST THEIR LIVES ABOARD ILL-FATED SHIP e M to umfi ér being or- to be- ml!‘ufir' at ét Armenian’s {NOT LIABLE T0 SERVE UNDER FOREIGN FLAI]‘ Children Born Here, Whose Parents Are Naturalized U. S. Citizens, , Washington, July 1.—Children born on American soil, whose rarentg huve naturalized American citizeus, | . be classed as possessing‘dual Aality and are not considered lighte 'to military service under a for- eign flag, the state department made clear in a statement issued today. . “While the United States always has recognized,” the department says, “the existence of dual nationality in the case of children born in - the United States of alien parents or chil- dren born in a foreign country of American parents, it does not concede that dual nationality exists in'case of a foreign born parent- who has ac- quired | naturalization as a ' Uniteg flu | States citizen.” {of dual nationality who enter - jof an ‘over t\xlm(nhse m appeared to bv the suggestion .that ‘While the state department extends whatever protection it can to persons the; other country by which they dre claimed, it does not assure them im- munity from military service. “The extent ta which this govern- ment may go and the arguments it: may use, ‘'and the actual protection rsons: Born in the United States Jof .alien fathers and Who may . be molested ' while temporarily visiting LD 85 of origin of. the lattir g depend. on the particular d ‘eircumstances of each case,” [the statement says. In'na case in the absence of conven- tional arrangements can the state de- partment assure such peérsons in ad. vance that they will not be held liable ‘under the laws of other countries con- cernied for the performance of mili- tary or other public service attaching 4to citizenship.” e n!ted stua Tt 3 suggest- jo German, n&W may. fing them' not % nt warning. i 4 néricans Wao, shed. ‘were members’ d;thc\guw niably exgm.'é‘n storés | were added. || was, JOVER QUARTER OF A MILLION. Building Business i1 New Britain | "Brisk During Month of June. The report for June of Building Inspector A. N. Rutherford, compiled today, shows that permits for build- ing valued at. $263,666 were issued during the month. This includes new buildings, alterations, etc. The Te- "pox_—t follows: Brick buildings, 16, ... Frame builldings, 21 . Alterations, 17, ..... $213,200 39,665 10,900 . 1..$263,665 tenements and There erection 3 Seventy-two mw\ fty-four” ‘permits for CONTRIBUTORS TODAY. Boys Club Fund s Still Growing antf 81, 490.6i tg Now on Hand. The Hetall' ls pleased to record to- | day the contribution of a total = of $122 to the fiind to be used in sé- curing better quarters for the Boys' club.” There “were fi¥e ~donations made, on2 of $100,'two of $5, one of $10 and one of §2. The fund, al- though much les§ than is necessary,’ iggstill growing in a pleasing man- br. It mow totals $1,490.62. ' 'Today’s statemént is as sfoNow: 2 Walter P. Hudson’ H. P, F. W Housiy acknowledged . . si';ss 2 PAST TROLLEY C. Oflcu- Clarenge ' Lamphere, - doing traffic duty in front ot}fiuy hall today notified Clifford Fellagé, 'a chauffeur, of ‘Unionville to appedr” in . police ‘J'eourt tomorrow morning fo answer to /A chiarge of driving his automobile past a standing trolley car that was in i the policeman, Fellal chine” past. a- West that was taking on 4 engers n.rter the Russm“hm Being Swung Back By Ger_mamo Allies for Move on Warsaw SINKING OF ARMENIAN | OVERSHADOWS BATTLES Allies Making Determined Attempts tp Gain Important Ground in At- tack on Dardanelies—German .at- tacks on Western Front Repulsed By French—Italians Repel ‘trian | Aus- Along Isonzo. Interest®in ‘the operations on the battlefields if Europe is overshad- owed for f moment by the sink- ing of the British steamer Armenian by the submarine. Official ington, concerned be- cause of the of several American lives, is ¥ lding action until full | informagion: !;q”rdlng the occurrence is received mm its representatives : abroad. | ‘The sjtuation, however, was regarded a8 clarified to a great de- gree by € s telling of attempts by the A \ to evade the subma- Tine after it had ordered the British steamer to . Such an atempt, it(| was held, womld justify the sinking of the vesseél Winder the rules of in- ternational law. . ¥ Tide. h Teutons, | From the t“ of war, recent re~ ports have indiésted comparative in- activity excent i northern | Galicia and southern Poland, where, the tide | is still vmh &. Teutons; and in the Gallipoli . where the allied forces are lmfently making deter- mined attempts to gain important | ground in thg attack on-the Darda- | nelles,. = The Ruflln Mlines are still being swung back northern Galicia and | southern in_an apparent ef- i fort by | tonic allies to clear the w&y 4 ‘determined move on ‘Warsaw, - s The R \ 6t “the Bug and the \ mit a continuation nsive between the | At the junction of the la! ar. with the Vistula in Poland lies Iv, rod, which Russian observers béligve is the immediate ob- Jective of the Austro-German forces in this region. ' Ivangorod is little more than fifty miles southeast from Warsaw. Russians “ Dniester Line, Just at Pregent the chief Russian holding POWEr seems to be along the line of the Bug and the Gnila | Lipa in Gal Petrograd records a repulse of an uttempt by the Teutous | | to cross the jester near Halicz, in- | dieating that the line of the Dniester | | south of' i lace is still well held | by the Grand [Duke Nicholas' forces. | A German attack by water on Win- dau, on the Itic just south of the | Gulf of Riga,| was repulsed by the | Russians, their official statement says. Five cruisers apd many torpede boats participated in! the attack and an at- tempt is declaied to have been made to land One of the torpedo | up before the fleet Oon the{, A statement § mies of-t! occupied front the French Both arl £ | ian front are} § claim a favorable ns in the Trentino WM Peninsuln. ‘“ turned toward the tly come, and there {the side of tHe entente just reported are still more deter- carry. dominn(lngi ring news are hints frgm alliés that to be follo} | Turkish positio German sibmlarfne activity, brought &tiarply ‘to thel #rént by (the sinking | | of. the steamer lgmienian with the loss | of eleven or miore Americans, is fur- thef shown in. the sinking of thej British bark Thistlebank and the ‘N@rwegian stealmer Marna, - through torpedo attacks. The case of {he Armenian is being held in abeyande in Washington untj i‘the status of the vessel and the cir- cumstances in fvhich she was sunk | fie, progress of hos- ads as follows: “Last gyjetly in the mnorth, in of Arras, and as far as he German attack in rgonng Teported yesterday was particularly V!Dlent It is estimated that ‘the for€es ‘engaged amounted to n is attack, however, Furthermore, two n ainst our trenches j‘gnsr_vme road were }-L Thistlebank, | With Cargo of ‘Whiat, Torpedoed Off Fastnet, Ireland—- Some of Crew Innvd % | ndon, July 1, 12 noon.—The Biit- ish bark Thistléebank, which sallied from Bahia Blanca, Argentina, April 26, with a cargo of wheat for Queenis- town, was torpedoed by a Gefman submarine yesterday off Fastnet, Iro- land. z Some of the crew were landed Baltimore, forty-seven miles west of Cork. at south- The Thistlebank was a tour-masted bark Of 2,430 gross tonms; built ‘at’ Glasgow in 1891. |GOLD RAINS TODAY o LOCAL STOCKHOLDERS Dividends Aggregating $339;- 400 Distributed in This City. Investors in New Britain enterprises were enriched today when a number of manufacturing and banking cor- porations paid out their quarterly or semi-annual dividends. It is esti- mated that $339,400 was turned over to-those who pin their faith and cap- | ital in New Britain projects, The dividends distributed are as fol- lows: American Hardware Corp., 1% % Stanley Rule "and Level Co 3% ... Stanley Works, 2%% New Britain Mach Co., 2%% Union Mfg Co., 2%..... Traut & Hine, 1%%. Hart & Cooley, 2% %- New Britain National Bsnk 4% . 12,400 New Britain Trust 6,000 | The dividend of the New Britain National Bank is semi-annual. All others noted above are quarterly. $150,000 62.500 20,000 10,000 7,500 10,000 Landers, Frary & Clark's dividend ! will ‘be distributed on July:15. This will be a quarterly dividend of 2% % and will enrich the stockholders. by $80,000. GERMANS FLANKED BY AUSTRIAN FORCES | Kaiser's and Francis -Joseph’s Troops Sandwiched Together where in Galicia. London, July 1, 6:20 a. m.—A Reu- ter despatch from Petrograd says: “Field Marshal Von Mackensen's German army, on its northern adven- ture from Galicia, is flanked by Aus- trian forces under Archduke Joseph Every- Ferdinand and General Von Boehm- | Ermolli. Everywhere German and Austrian sandwiched together, within easy port. “The first objective of the Teutonic advance between the Vistula and the Bug is Ivangorod by, way of Lublin, Brest and Litovsk. A turning move- ment also is expected east of Brast and Litovsk by way of Kovel.” in Galicia troops = were the Austrians Ivangorod is at the confluence of the Vistula and the Vieprz, with Nowu Gorglewsk, Brest and Litovsk it forms an important triangle of the Russian fortresses in Poland NO TEAM FOR THIS CITY, Bannwart Wants “Reasonable Evi- dence of Enthusiastic Support.” Baseball fans who hoped that New Britain would have a club in the Coi- onial league will be disappointed to earn that prospecis for the transfer of the Taunton cub to this city are not bright. ‘W. W. Hanna, who has the lease of Electric fleld and who was interested in securing a club for New Britain, telegraphed today to Alexander Bann- wart, secretary of the Colonial league, at Providence. This reply was re- ceived: ‘“No change in circuit with- out reasonable evidence of enthusias- tie support.” Hanna beiieved that the time was ripe for a good ball club in this city and while Taunton is prostrate with the rest of ‘the league resting on its chest the team is nevertheless a tfast proposition and can make the best of them hustle. The attendance at Taunton is like unto a cipher with the rim knocked off while it is be- lieved heve that the team would get “reasonable support.” HEAVY RAINFALL TODAY. New Britain experienced one of the heaviest rains in recent years today, the gauge at Shuttle Meadow reser- voir showing that 2.40 inches fell this morning. The rain came down in sheets and hundreds of .employes going to the shops were drenched through. S e WEATHER. Hartford, July 1.--Gener- ally fair tonight and Friday, ——— 60,000 | reach of German sup- Ry lNfiflNE MAN TAKES * OWN LIFE IN BARN William K. Schmidt of Hartford Found Dead at W. N. Dunham’s |SUICIDE BY STRANGULATION Dead Man Was Released From Mid- dletown Insane A’y-lnm Only Two Days Ago—Mrs. Dunham Is Half Sister of Victim. Sitting upright at the top of the barn stairs with a heavy rope around | his neck which had produced strangu- jation, the dead body of William K. Sehmidt (Smith) of Lenox street, | Hartford, was found in Willlam N, Dunham’s barn in the rear of his 'holuc house on Shuttle Meadow ave- | nue early this morning. Mr. Dun- Bam's wife is the dead man’s half sis- ter mnd he committed suicide while in a fit of insanity to which he was sub- Ject. having been released from the Middletown insane asylum only two ye Q; Vell Known in Hartford. - Mr, Schmidt was fifty-seven vears of d was well known in Hartford, Be had been a successtul busi- and real estate dealer. A of years ago he conductéd a grocery business on North et in Hartford, but for the or eight years he had been the real estate business in city. From Middletown. began to exhibit signs of d although he was never | violet, ' his family thought it best to | send- him away. About four or five | weeks ago he was sent to the Middle- town asylum, where he was under | careful observation for a month. The | } doctors there failed to find any alarm- ing symptoms about him and did not think his case was serious enough to warant his further detention. Accord- 8lauthorities at . the asylum m on Tuesday and he re- 3 his home, where his wife ing. He seemed to.be in 1 condition and she did not l‘ larmed about him. Home at 8 o’clock. idt stated this . morning ning her huysband - was in his smoking jacket. ppear unusually excited e said. At 8 o’clock last put on Hix Hat, d strolled out of doors. change his smoking t she ald not think he As the hours passed, e did not reéturn she énsive and tried in vain Finally, this morning she telephoned to Mr. is city, asking if her chance come out heré . halt sister. ifounda Mr. Schmidt's dead ling Mr. Dunham had ih a number of weeks ‘teérrible shock to him to “his body, especially g conditions. It was k this morning that Mr. Dunham went into his barn and dis- covered the suicide. The barn is a two story affair with a flight of stairs leading to the second floor. At the top of this stairway is a trap door which, when closed down, completely c! o prevents anything from fulling down the stairway from above Oor any one entering from below. This trap door is opened and closed by a | heavy rope and pulley. When Mr. Dunham closed his barn last night the trup woor was open. Body Sitting on Stairs. TVlien the dead body of Mr. Schmidt V. .~ .vund this morning it was sitting v ht at the top of the stairs with the heavy rope attached to the trap door twisted tightly around his neck. Medical Examiner T. G. Wright gave the cause of death as strangulation and capressed the opinion that the | man had not committed suicide until some time after midnight. Rigor 1..0r... had not set in and the clothes on the body were drenched with water, showing that he had been out ‘in last night's heavy downpour of w.. Schmidt’s’ body showed no other signs of violence and his hat was resting on his head in a natural manner, indicating that he had met hin - vl an insane calmness and hac ... thrashed about in paroxysms of pain as would be the natural case if a sane man should be strangled to death. While it is possible that the insane man walked all the way from his home in Hartford, arriving: at the Shuttle Meadow farm about midnight, the supposition is that he may have taken a train or trolley and upon ar- riving in this city late last night walked to his half-sister’s place and entered the barn where he calmly took his own life. Leaves Several Relatives. The desd man is survived by his wife and one sister, Mrs, Willard Thompson, widow of the Willard A. ‘Thompson of 586 Corbin avenue, who died oniy a few weeks ago, Another half sister is Mrs. Amelia Burton of Shelton. Although Schmidt is, the correct name iof the deceased Re was known by the name of Smith 4nd he was registered in the Hnrt;?rd directory | | under that name. *'D “h~ opening in the floor and | GERMAN AEROPLANE IS DEs'rlimrED BY RUSE Priueh Aviator. \y Strategem Scts Teuton llll'hlfi on Fire; Killing Pllot .nd Obcsver Paris, July 1, by"' 535 & m.—A ‘ruse ar German lane, pres, is describod ark Nel “Juurnal. "A.‘l'n. butile took place nearly 6,500 feet in the air. me it immediately took to flight,” sail Nelson. “I dashed off in pursuit. After about ten minutes rapid flight 1 came up with him and flew above him. - The duel began at once. “After fighting for some time with. out result T adopted a strategem I have always found successtul, and let my aeroplane dive almost perpen- dicular. The German aviator, be- lieving 1 had fallen also descended in a gliding flight. 1 then, righted my machine suddenly and shot above hi at a distance of about only fiftesn Then we resumed the duel. my shots hit the gasoline the aeroplane, and the machine hufl into flames, crashing to the earth. The pilot and abserver both wm killed.” REPULSE ATTEMPT T0 ] Warships—Teuton Tor- pedo Boat Sunk. Petrograd, Via, London, July 1, 5:56 a. m.—An attempt by Germas ‘ warships to bombard the port of Win- dGau, Cortland, and land troops was repulsed by the Russians, according to an official statement issued last | night at headquarters of the general | staff. The communication follop “A squadron of German ships con- | sisting of one patrolling cruiser, four ‘light cruisers and many torpedo boats i tombarded Windau and attempted to make a landing on the coast, but was i repulsed. One of the hostile’tc boats was blown up by a mine. torpedo boats engaged the icrmrl. Other ' ‘Russian e these operations fi | :[1:. nons‘ eanulld the wu “Thore has been a lull i’ Shavlf region, on the Niemen Narew fronts and on: the left bank the Vistula “The enemy 's offensive bn-em,m Vieprz and the Bug on the Zemo- [, stieka-Sokolka front continues. “On the western Bug and - on tho Gnila Lipa on the 28th and 29th we successfuily repelled enemy attacks, “Noticing the enemy crossing the Dneister near Halicz, we took the offensive and drove him back, Lundreds of prisoners.” GOV, WHITMAN GRANTS | * . REPRIEVE TO BECKER Y Execution of Ex-Police Licutenant Stayed Until July 26 by New York’'s Chief Exccutive, Albany, N. Y., July 1.--Governor Whitman today granted Becker the former New York police licutenant, ‘under sentence of death, a reprieve until July 26 The governor said that he ."mlld take no further action in the than the granting of the This means that if the United Supreme court does not inter Becker will have to die. The conference lasted more than | an hour and both Mr. Manton, counsel tor Becker, and the governor left the capital soon after they parted. Tt was said the governor would make a statement later. Becker's | execution originally was set for the v,eek beginnisg Tuly 12. | WILLIS BUYS THE GRAND. Popular Wine Clerk and Sporting Man { to Take Over Howel. John F. Willis, one of the known bartenders in the eity, today closed a deal with. Isadore Simons for the purchase of the Hotel Grand on the place immediately. The price was not mentioned for publication. The new proprietor will file a peti- | tion with the county commissioners tomorrow, for a liquor license. The licity, on account of the taking away of the license from Mr, Simons. M-, Willis stated this affernoon that it | class place and that the cabaret would not be conducted by him. Mr. Willis is one of the best known and popular wine clerks in this city. He has had twenty years’ experience in the hotel and cafe business and is considered a thoroughly competeat man to conduct a first class place. It is thought that the commissioners will, in view of his excellent record, He is at present emploxed at* the Keevers company cafe on Main streef. d ; N BOMBARD WINDAU PORT . Russians Drive Off German| best | Myrtle street and will take charge of | place recently came into much puh- | British ayiator, in | “When the enemy machine vl‘me‘ 3 ' the l relief | Oross f mnkln‘r vt B is reported A despa Charles |' a1 Latest r which ¢ | Cruz and - partment ditions boy | vailea X rioting and | vices { cigners’ The siti The U, B, was his Intention to conduct a first | here. Counsel the govern n ‘explained the st whao quiatly agreement was the hour set ¥oi grant him a new license for the place. |