New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 22, 1915, Page 1

IFRUNTS lN EAST ‘Pgtmgmd Mamtams Austro-Ger- ~-Inan Lines Are,Bemg Held ~ Stationary. TATE OF WARSAW IS STILL IN THE BALANCE S s I(um Forces Gain Ground, in Baltic | Pmrlnnrs—flvnfllwus Report' of ,Struggle on \Apm-lfllh/n mm_e Nuna—" re—French mpmre-rrench‘ b in Al aneu and Bombard hmflon at Anwy -—-buiev: in Dardanelles, Desperate fighting continues be- ',"r-en the Teutonic armies . pressing | _tipen 'Warsew and. the Russian forces. | etemlmg it, with the issue still in the | M\;u:lcel alt nlom: the fronts are | | claimed in the latest” German and .\htth.n official stateraents, but Petro- | 4 vhile not deny.ng the closer ip [ some uetoyl. mfll ‘that lrese llnu are bomg held stationery ai hurled backward at vital points, ' i Teutonic Offenses Arrested. “"On the' ‘important front south of ‘Lubin, ous ‘breach’ in * which | would mean the eutting of the Lubin- Cholm rajlorad line fo the north, and the Russian. armies (p jorth and south, © the R\p-un resistance | s to e’ strongest. | The Petrograd | vent claiuu the ’reutanle offen- ‘the | i the !'! Lro; m’r‘fu y—Gax;mAn | e e 'fi;’f‘" raids, nne, | - Feported trom ' oot Swocess n | riking the station at Autry with elve ‘bomb: clumsd } “been dmu:h-d fz‘% text will be given’ hing in the ‘morning | Z Berlin, July 22, Via. London, 5:39 p. lu.»--fl:hn‘ ‘war office arnbunced today " that the Austro-German forces are driving at Warsaw from the south ;nd had compelled the Russians to into the fortress of Ivangorod, bbout |56 _miles south of the Polish - capital. n& fortress is now, closely. 1 i in, via London, July 22, 11:87 m.—Before evacuating Windau, tha {Russians applied the torch to the i city ‘and the harbor works, accord- ing to advices received at Libau. The | greater part of the city is said to have flbm destroyed. The Russian troops "AI“O are reported to: have fired vil- es and farm houses in other pa d, in accordance with m ons of ‘2 recently published Qr my order. Paris, July 22, via London - 3:35, m.,—The ;ollowin‘ communication | ‘wals lestied today by the French War uputment,. C-lm prevailed senenlly along 3 M se and tl bor h th 13 Apremont. hynch Take Trench. ‘During the night of July day of the 21st there was ere ting on the heights’ Reich Kerkpf.' “An attack by us was 1ouowed by 20th < }tn ‘the. Mon of duh:ges FOUR ANARCHISTS ON TRIAL IN PARIS ‘Eccentric Millionaire Amo“g Accused Charged With Furnishing. Postage for Seditious Matter. day of the trial before the permanent court martial of four anarchists charged with the circulation of sedi- tious matter was devoted to an exam- ination of the accused by the judge advocate. The eccentric millionaire Prouvit is charged especially with fur. nishing postage for mailing seditious mattér and with the taking an active part in an anarchist propaganda. Mme. :Donnadier is ‘accused of bost- ing the letters. The ‘three seditious pamphlets which figure in the case are said to have been written by the defendant Hureau, who admitted intimacy with the anarchist leaders but denied the specific charge preferred against him. The sessions of the court martial will continue tomorrow. LUSITANIA SURVIVORS FAIL 0. FILE CLAINS Ignorance of Steps to ' Be Taken and German Situa- . tion I}flt Procedure. Washington, July 22.—No. . actual claim for damages on account \of tne Lusitania disaster has yet been' filed with the state department. This is due both to the fact that the question ‘is bound up in the exchanges of news with Germany on submarine warfara | generally and to lack of . knowledge on the part of prospective ehumanu as'to methods of procedure. Many inquiries, however, have reached the: .department, including one that came today from New York in’ behalf of one of the rescued from the Lusitania who wants damages ifor 1oss of property, incon- venience, ‘trouble and - danger to § \which he was subjected to the blow- ing up of the big liner. . All the prospective claimants have been adyised by the départment as to the form in which the claims must be flled The German . government has voided in all its note any reference to the _poiuted by no‘m; ‘of ‘Health; Hartford, July' ,2!.—,The state board of health has olnieg James A. Mnurwn of ‘Middlétown and George AL Gomstock of ‘Ansonia on the board of lers in optometry for three years, and J. C. Tracy or Willimantic ‘hus been appointed: to fill.out the un- expired term of R. N. Johnquit of Stamford. . The appomtments are nade under the law of 1913 vesting the state board with suthority to appoint. / The board has Instructed its engin- eer, J. Krederick Jackson |of New {Hayen to' take steps to enforce the iaw passed by the last general as- sembly concemlnk pollution of streams. i . SHOOTING AT STATION. { Policemen Must Become Accustomed To Weapons Before Final Practise | Each day various members of the ’pollce force are visiting the: shooting | gallery in the siation house and try their skill with their automatic. re- volvers. Chief Rawlings wants éach {.of the men to become thoroughly fa- | miliar with the' Work of their guns before he puts (hbm through compe- titive tests of markmanship. Before long he will divide the men into. classes and they will take regu- lar turns at target shooting, using a Special target on which thé record.of slch officer will'be kept. 1 Rt OAPE TOWN HONORS BOTHA. Cape Town, Union of South Africa, July 22.—via London 12:33 p. m.— Premier ‘Botha/ arrived = here today from the campaigh which ended on July ninth with the surrender of Ger- man Southwest Africa. The Premier peared. Business was suspended and the city was decorated and the people thronged the streets, On the arrival of Premier Botha at the government house 10,000 school children sang the natignal anthem. MORE BODIES RECOVERED - ‘Washington, July 22.~~The Ameri- can consul at Queenstown cabled the state ‘department /that the bogdies. of Jlerry J. Keser, of Philadelphia and Mrs, R. T. Levrich of New York vic- tims of the Lusitania disaster have been recovered. These bodies and that of Herbert'S. Stone, probably will Le shipped from Liverpool for New York next Wednesday. CONSUL LEAVES WARSAW, Washington, July 22 —The Ameri- can consul at Warsaw cabled the stats department today that the Belgian consul had left Warsaw and that the American consulate had taken charge of the affairs there of both Belglum Aand Serbia. Paris, July 21, 8:02 p. m.—The first | passengers | received an ovation wherever he ap- | e e e—— NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, JU NEW AMERICAN NOTE ON WAY T0 BERLIN Tomght or Early Tomorrow. RENEW LUSITANIA DEMANDS. President Wilson Believes Documents Rupture Between Countries. ‘Washington, July 22.—The new { American noté to Germany is on its way to Berlin. It cleared from ‘Washington over the telegraph wires during the night and today was be- ing flashed over the cables ta Lon- don and thence to Copenhagen, whese it goes overland wires again to German foreign office. It should reach its destinauon tonight or early tomorrow. Secretary Lancing announced that the text of the note would be given out here Friday afternoon for morn- ing papers of Satuday. No Answer Called For. Concerning future conduct of Ger- man ‘submarines, Nie note does not necessarlily call for an answer, as it | {/announces the intention of the Unit- | ed, States to'régard any, further vio- ldtion of International Law resulting in the loss of Amer\can lives as un- friendly. - On the other hand, the American demands for disavowal of any inten- tion to sink the Lusitania and the request ‘for reparation are renewed in the new note and very likely those, with other points, such as the willing- ‘ness to adjust rules of maritime war- fare, prqbably will be the basis for further discussion by Germany. An’ answer i§ not expected for at least two or three weeks on DPhases. Raise Question of Action. It is generally agreed among of- ficials, here, however, that any loss of: American lives in the meantime | tion irrespective of any formal reply from Germany. The American note ig in the nature of a final statement on the principles involved, in which the United ‘States takes the unalter- able position that the accepted rules ~of International Law 'must govern he. of neutrals ot :‘““’M m}um o?t e belliger- Mmm ofte another. tion' would be takén by the United States in the event of further viola- tlon of American rights is not dis- closed in the new note, nor was it officially commented on otherwise | here ‘today, but on understanding prevails generally that such andther disaster as befell the Lusitania, would mean the immediate assembling of congress, President Wilson has given careful consideration, %o :eventualities to which the new American note may . commit: the United States and he be- lieves it places squarely on Germany responsibility for ‘any act that may cause rupture, No, Rupture Over Lusitania. There'is now no indication Lusitania case itself will cause a rupture, but, the president has de- termined to keep that subject in the forefront as a -diplomatic issue of first importance ~ between the two countries. Pressure for setilement will be renewed from time to time, and if not adjusted by the emnd ‘of the European war will continue to impend in the relations between the United States and = Germany very much a§' did ‘the Alabama case in the relatio between. Great Britain and the United States after the civil war. Among the outstanding features of /the note, are a relteration that th» American ' government will leave nothing undone to stand by its posi- tlon as previously declared; renewed insistence that Gérmany disavow the sinking of the Lusitania and a ve- quest for reparation; expression of a willingness to act as' an interme- diary Dbetween the. belligerents to arrange a modus ' .vivendi' or othcr temporary arrangements to the con- duct of mariiime warfaré which wiil not involve a surrender .by the United States ‘of its rights and: rejection or Germany’s proposal to give immunity to' American ships not carrying com- trabtand and to four belligerent ships | under the American flag. 5 the | VICE-.CONSUL GASSETT DEAD, ‘Washington, July 22.-—~Walter Gas- sett of Boston, American vice-consul at Kobe, Japan for the last ten years, and formerly a member of the Boston stock exchange died Sunday at the naval hospital at Yokohoma. A state department dispatch frem Yokohoma the pulmonary artery. be cremated at Kobe. Mr. Gassett was 60 years old. His brother, Per- cival Gassett, is consul at Malaga. His body will SESSION ON FOREIGN TRADE. Cincinnati, 0., July 22.—The FKed- eral Trade Commission arrived here today to hold two sessions in its in= vestigation of sentiment the country on tne subject of foreign trade. The program for the called for short addresses by President. T. C. Powell, of the Cincinnati Chara- ber of Commerce and by Chairman Joseph E, Davis of the commission, and statements Ly local exporters Should Reach German Capital | Places Squarely on Kaiser Respon- | sibility for Any Act that May Causc | the | those | |/ would itseif raise the question of ac- | What ac- | | which not with the distance and. rail trans- | pounds, | ;| chest. Vesterday said he died of embolism of | throughour | day | BOYS HIDE STOLEN WATCHES IN GROUND , Mystery Surrounding Theft at Lavin- ski’s Store Last Month is Cleared Up. All mystery surrounding the theft of five watches from John Lavin- | ski’s second hand store at 27 Lafay- ette street on June 21 was cleared {up today by -the arrest of Joseph Brown, mentined in another column of this issue. s Brown had in his possession a watch which was one. of those stolen from Lavinski. .~ ‘He told the ‘police the watch weis ziven to him. by a 'sma.l | boy named . “Micky” Dunba: and when question! the later ad.nitted !that he nad benn with another tnamed Joseph Mulo | ter robbed Lavinski's place. Dunbar boy said he remained outside [to watch while his companion did the trick. After tAking the five watches the two beys hid them in the ground near Malowski's, house but when that boy’s family moved to East Hampton : and took it with him. “Micky” will be in chambers morrow morning to explain his tions to Judge Meskill as he is ready on probation. He 3lso ad- mits_that he stcle a wateh from his grandfather but returned it and con- fesses to having stolen another: watch from 'his grandmother for which he was arrested ard is now on probation. EXPRESS CONPANEES' to- ac- al- mission Grants Pefifion for Additional Income. Waghington, July 22.—The Inter- State Commerce Commission; decided cipal express companies of the United States are tional income. The fabric of the present express rates is domposed of three factors: An allowance of 20 cents for col- lection and delivery ' of each ship- ment wii /not vary with welgh oi‘ distance: rail- of 16 cents per varies Tounds, weight but huhdred with " the | portation rate which varies with the distance and the zone. In accordance with the petition of per hundred weight, the fled its order {o permit transporta- tion of ‘he first and second: factors. tion and delivery allowance five cents for each vhiprhent and to reduce the rail terminal allowance at the rate of one: twentieth of a cent a. pounyl. As the weight increases the five cent increase is gradually reduced, so that ; on shipmeénts of more than* 109 pounds’ the, readjustment will not make 4ny change. Substantially np commodity, rates will be affected. In all events any changed rates, will, with few exceptions, be subgtantially commission established the zone sys- tem in February 1914. By that meéns the express com- panies ure expected to increase their ' | sross revenues about 3.86 per cent. TRIES TO KILL HIS' Hartford Man and Spmue in Hosplpl ' 'As/Result of Affair qu Main Street. 1 Hartford, July 22.—Alex Kurio- wich, a restaurant cook, and his wife, Mary, are in the ledorfi holplul in a critical condition as'a resqylt of the husband’s attempt today; to ' kill woman by shooting and then to { his own life. The affair took place 'on Main street in front of the 'Morgan | Memorial and atracted a great crowd. Kurlowich's wife had not been liv- | ing ‘with him of late and he met her | in company with anotner woman, say- | ing. “For God’s sake, come back to me.” ‘When she refused he drew a pistol and fired, the bullet passing complete- | Iy through her body, entering at" the | He then turned the ‘weapon on himself, putting a bullet into his neck. The pair were hustled to the | Hartford hospital in a Jitney, The woman says her husband has not been supporting her and baby. — FRANK ' IMPROVING, Milledgeville, Ga., July = 22.—Pno condition of Leo M. Frank, whose throat was cut last Saturday night by another convict at the state prison farm, js improving, prison officials state today v WEATHER, Hartford, July 22.—Fair and cool tonight and Friday. o e it b e, sometime -ago Joseph dug up his Joot | REVENUES INADEQUATE ,\ Inter-State Commerce: Com- | today that the revenues of the prin- inadequate and modified’ its former orders to provide addi- i the companies, the commission modi- : The effect is to increase the collec- ! lower than those prevailing when the ! WIFE AND, HIMSELF? e their 1 i 23, ¥915.«“TWELVE PAGES, I WRITTEN COMPAGT 'TOSETTLE STRIKE, Union Returns from New York With Document. ORIGINAL PROPOSITION MADE BY JENNINGS ‘Will Be Back at Work on Monday | ~and That an Eight Hour Day For | Machinists of Bridgeport 1s Nearly a @ertainty—Gompers Coming to Park City. Bridgeport; s Conn., Juiy 2:.—J. J. ¢/ president of the Inter- on of Machinists, re- z gepnrt this afternoon Gofk /with what was de- /4{wrxitten - agreement” to the settlement »f s ‘and ‘served sub-con- ({nal proposition thar @ setlement was | Erank Jenhings an- ot wne sfachinists. hc' had: good rea- cvery striker t an eight hour day for the mw ©0f Bridgeport was nearly nty. 'Mr. Keppler at first .declined .10 answer ‘any questions in regard to the result of his mission to New York. Later, howsver, hé said that an ex- ecutive meeting would be held here tonight aad the entire proposition would be considered by the leaders. ther. he added. the propostion would | bmitied to the members of the unhp and then to the Remington Arms and Ammunition' company. * Respousible for Strike. ! The welief prevailed in labor cir- cles: ‘that the proposition said . to have been made by Mr. Jenning had 1 i of the anillwrights. This status, dis- the mes ers, for pfl!-e\\( lflmr Bridgeport. ‘:‘1’: Kappler e\me,ssed bitterness against Samuc! Gompers, President of the Americun Federation of Labor for his remark “German influence” had been | sponsible for the labor trouble l','.dgepv He insisted that Mr. i Gompers would have to prove his ! sdatements upon his arrival here to- troubles re- in : morrow from Washington. Johnston Anmounces News, John A, Johnston, vice president of Structural Iron Workers, today an- nounced that he had been advised by !ternatlunal Assodiation of Machinists, would that ‘a “written agreement” settle the strike of the machinists in | the plants of the Remington Arms i'and Ammunitior: Company and sub- | contractors, had I-een secured. ! 'According t- Mr. Johnston the | Vice President ol the Machinists tele- phoned him from New York and re- { quested that Thomas J. Savage, men ber of the General Executive Board ef | , Machinists be asked not to contradict i any more statements regarding the | settlement. Mr. Savage denied lasi ! night_he knew anything of a settle- ment. Mr. Johnston sald that the girls who walked at the Union Metallic | 1 | Cdrtrilge plant of the Remington company had voted to return to work | o ‘about 90 cents a day in their wages. ! {"naving been promised an increase No Idea of Terms. Mr. Johnston, Mr. Savage snd the other’ lghor leaders, said they had ne iGaa Of the nature cf the terms in- {cidded in the writtea azrcement Mr Hz'nw\or \\u said v by bringing to i Bflmnor’ Originaliv tle unions de- | I 1nnded & récogniiion ¢! the union, re- ins{atemenitof all m=: v'ho went ¢n strike, an eight hour day with a writ- | ten egreement tha: it would continue | fer spme definite periodl. double time for avertime,. a minimum wage for | rumt of the status of the millwrights. The Remington company early last week promised to give the workers in Bridgeport an eight hour day The labor leaders he “‘until® further é\e promise left a Rt hour day promise tice that ten; hours #/orkers are not re= /Continued. In other orkers’ riovl receiving 40 cents i an hour, would feceive 50 cents an hogr, under: thie Mew scale. Reports Other workers had ! Jn wages ranging | to a dollar a day tely confirmed. ll(el‘pm Silent, Mr. Keppler arrived here from New | York tnis afternoon. In reply to questions he declined to say had conferred with or what plans hed been made at the conference. He alsa ! ‘declinel to divulge the nature of the (Continued on Eleventh Page.) ] DEGLARES KEPPLER Vice President of Machinists’ | Labor Leader Believes Every Striker | | ‘something to o with the statements | w@lm" ”p about believing that | J. Keppler, vice president of the Ia- i.cerisin classes of workers, and settie- | “until | who he | I WOMEN AND CHILDREN KILLED BY TURKS Many Christian Residents of Vurla, Smyrnn’Mnao to Obey Order to Go Into Interior. | Paris, July 22,11:30 a. m.—A Havas | | despatch from Athens says: “Turkish military authorities, | cording to advices received from Vui- | la. (a port {n Smyrna, on the Guif of | Symrna), have ordered all Christian [ women and children to leave the town, and go into the interior. Many of the | residents refused to obey the order | jand a fierce struggle followed, in i ac- | which many were victims. ‘The Greek government has received | from the port no reply to representa- tions regarding the persecution of | Greeks in Turkish territory. The de- | lay is attributed to the difficulties of ! communication by telegraph, “‘Some of the newspapers are urging the governmeént to assume an ener- getic policy in dealing with Turkey.” | | i | 'WILL NOT CALL HILL . | - TO WITNESS STAND | Donovan’s Counsel Decide Not to Ask Congressman to. Testify Stamford, July 2.-—~Congressman | L J. Hill will not be asi ed by counsel | for the contestant to wive testimony in the contested election casc brought by Ex-Congressman Jerem:ah Dono- van against Mr. Hill.. Donovan fis | contesting Hill's election to the Na- | | tonal House of Representatives from | i | { the Fourth Connecticut Congression- | { al district. | The decision fiot to call on Mr, Hill | | to testify was announced today when | | the hearings where resumed by Homer | § Cummings, counsel for Mr. Dono- an, Counsel for Hill héa not yet de- termined whether or not they will! | put him under examination. ! i Judge Willlam ¥, Henney of Hill's | | counsel, today introduced letters in- | tended to offset those put in evidenc | previously 'by Mr. .Cummings relativ, [/t the disposal ! The lettérs acknowledged the receip | of money from the congressional com- mnt.e by various town fonis H. Greenw v 4 ‘and M E L a‘&fi i New York vep: tion Hat manufact | wim Association of New | contributed $100 to Hilf's campaign were examined following amination by Judge Hen senden. | _Mr. Cummings read into the recot | the names of all republican candida for office in the fourth congressl | distriet, There were sixty-six letters in th. | correspondence which Judge Henney | handed to Fessenden, wnu read a few as samples of the general te-nrv of them. One from Herbert 8. Blrnu] of the republican town committee of | ledding and dated Nevember 9, 1914, said: “I preached a stiaight republican } one in the Standu . frll,int | fighting were | hentt by of campaign funds. | York, wio } AND SIX | IN BAYON Strikers Attack G dard 0il and m Dy S 1GOY. FIELDER 10 CALL € | Two Fires Break Touse n-u‘v den Heavy D Much to w Austrian Agalnst Deputies, l»; New York, July 22 six seriously inj mortally, was th rioters at the Htan Water plants tod two attacks on th the property. Twa wnchlnua m stiroyed; the otlig, Tide Water Of and lumber were stoy started by means wuiie thrown over 1t was speedily Iosses. u fi 0l {8 he years old and both of whom Winch | pare atly foea by were kiiled au barrel woirks of which began at & od for half an hour, ! downpour «f Taln | with stogpping of this uttack the strikere ot kead, who mon to keep or¢ sricvances He ru » | the trouble " comumud # eh oy o the first a today o probably Ad B 2 ticket in season and out of season all | through the campaign, Not a dollar | was used for anything but legitimate | expenses. Our.opponers cannot uy‘ much.” | Other letters read were intended fo! show that the funde were used for | th success of the cntire republican | ticket, f A letter from Fessenden, who was | chairman of the congressional commll- { tec to Hugh L. Cooper of Stamford, referred to a check of $100 ag lome- ihing to be used “for the républican | fund in thig country.” PIE POISONING CASES, State Chemist Strickland Submits Re- port to R. I Authorities. Westerly, R. L. . July 2.~ State | Chemist Franklin N. Strickland to- day presented his report in the pto- maine poison investigation to assist- i ‘ant Attorney General Philip of Provi- | dence and Medical Examiner Dr. M.' H. Scanlon of Westerly. Samples of Ilnmdlqnu used in the supposedly fatal custard pies eaten at the Gavitt Restaurant tugether with a quantity of bug poison in use there, was eun-l ined by Mr. Strickland. In them ne | | finds no trace of arsenic, antomy, mer- i cury or other poisonous matter. His | report substanties at Hall of Prof. Underhill of Yale laboratory. In the opinion of State Chemist | Strickland, the opidemi¢ was due to i ptomaines produced by some form of | bacteria as yet unknown. He be- | lleves that the investigation now be- ! | ing conducted by State Bacterologist, | | Dr. H, F. Bernstein will in all prob- ability determine § what * condi- | | tions brought about the epidemic. WOOD CHOPPER FOUND DEAD. | Deep Gash in Head of Aged Willlman- I tic Man. Willimantic, Conn, - July - 22.~The ! body of Louis Payette, a wood chop- | per 67 years old, was found today in I'a wooded 1ot here. | There was a long deep gash in the head running from the forehead (o the | { back of the head on the right | The body lay near a_tree stump and b ‘v‘!nse baside a part of &' tree WHISHENES ie belisved he was splitting ‘at the | time of his death. i shot through | Federal Until the men day Sherift Kh ? that he would ment of the L dard Ol ‘HM last week and 1 demand for n: 16 p shut down b 2 g~ ot <. Surg ARQ several | by the strikers withdrew, Fire Quf Bcores of strik ered at the wo company this ward a fire man’s house, tinguished. ' The strikers ed when Torty while wal works, The ¢ gen, a former tack to attack who were tanks. Surgen fell ut fire and his body bank. R Steve M The crowd next exchange of sl a sixteen year old Then the crowd wit neighborhood. Shortly before hour- of comp ot 500 assembied Works of the Ti gan an attack, z Sticks, st used an Win 2 @;;‘ \ side, | (Continued on