New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 30, 1915, Page 1

puun to Make w Prove" Himself Innoeem. iala might be’ included in ral offic the lilt ‘of‘those ntdlct.d dmlte the | uestion . raised ‘congerning. uris- ction. 01 the m - over !edgtrgl of- i ¥ nd jury must ad- ight tomorrow, un- !fl(@’l attorney is hnd disaster began n-of V‘vltni:::. Vg j tion factories.” ; H ! { fofts had been made to corrupt men ‘that I had no doubt the same agen- «w' ‘ NEW BfilTAIN GONNECT]CUT FRIDAY, JULY. 30; 1915—-SIX['EEN PAGES FOBEIGN INFLUENCES WORKING FOR STRIKES Gompers Reiterates Charge and Calls " Uplon 'Laborers to Abash ‘Any Such Attempts. ‘Washington, July 30.—President Samuel Gompers of -the American Feasranon of Labor today reiterated ‘hig charge that foreign influences had been working to make strikes in the Unitéd 'States and called upon the workingmen to discountenance | any silich attempts. 'Mr. Gompers made | correspondence . with the Central Federate union of New York:which made an inquiry regarding a state- ment attributed to Mr. Gompers that “officers of International union had received money to pull off strikes -in Bridgeport and elsewhere in ammuni- “I never, mentioned International unions,” wroté Mr. Gompers, nor did I refer to ammunition tsctorieu. ‘What I did say was that authenti¢ 1n_l formation had come to. me that ef- for the purpose of havirg ‘strikes in- augurated among seamen and long- shorfmen efhgaged in handling Amer- icaniproducts and manning ships for Huropean ports; that the corrupting influence was being conducted by agents. of & foreign 'government and cles and-influences wero ‘at work else- where with the same purpose in view. “We should all enter a sympathetic protest and frown down ' ‘upon any foreign interference, no ' .matter by what motive actuated, particularly When that motiveé is ulterior and '‘to the detriment of the ‘good name, growth and permanence of our great ce.use. SUNSHINERS PRO PROVIDE Inmntes of the Klingherg Home to Be Givén Out- ing at Elizabeth Park, Under the auspices of the Incor- porated Branch ‘of the Sunshine so- “clety, and -through :'enerou- contri- butions, /the chll‘ ing will be hela m M theé Euw nd keep ipb évery one not concerned With the ““federal’ governnient untiy W time as federal officials " have ‘completed igations. ites Marshal findlw ap-: - Eidstland shortly hefore m ‘and announced that the mb ordored by, Judge Landis .:;, e-boat. He said he would i 1nterd'ore with tha work of rais- the boat. alter, C. - Steel, doretary and wer of the St. Joseph Chicago ip company, owners -~ of .the who wus arrested vesterday a dtme of criminal earelessness, sconnection With the ‘accldent was rehhled in $1,000 bonds today llld 1 “the case against himcontinued. The reason for the seizure of ‘the . Eastland under a federal writ of at- { tachments, it was explained by gov- - ernment offictals, was to prevent any tampering with the ‘ballast , théir valves or other mechan- Asmp | “until. " authorized government 3 agents have éxamined them. “Captain Protests Innocence, “Captain Henry Pederson of the “Fastland, declared at the county jail ‘sshat: he would make a fight to prove § himself innocent. 2 ‘“The responsibility is mot mine,” he gpaid. I ‘often noticed the boat list, &but it never was anything serious and 1 beliéved the engineer xnew his . 1 had certain dutles to per- £ .and my power was limited to those. I carried out orders to tha best of my ability.” City officialg today started an inves- tigation of . every excursion and pas- senger vessel plying the lakes out of icago. 'The work is being done by ‘4’ sub-committee of the city council in conjunction with the engineering, “bureau and the harbor master. Reld Recalled to Stand. When the inquiry which is being conducted by Secretary Redfield, into the causés of the Ehastland disaster was resumed Robert Reid, TUnftea States inspector of steamhoats, with headquarters at Grand H.lven. Daleh was recalled to the stand. Mr. Reid was one of the six men ordeéred heéld by the coroner’s Jury to the state grand jury and is the father in law of J. M. Eriskson, chief en- gineéer of the Eastland, wno alsc was held to: the grand jury. The witness . was examined by A, L. Thurman, so- licltor for the department of ‘com- | tan 52 the Chicags river in June, 1906." said In- spector Reid. “I was then gssistant inspector. ‘The boat was then al- « lowed to carry three thousand ' pas- sengers, I think that certificate was lll;oefbect only during the neawn of G. flm ‘Inspection in lfll!, "! mfide my first Inspection of the Eastland at Grand Haven, Michigan, o8 Eleventh Page.) sously from ten cents | berg has requesked that the older boss the tollomm‘fi 1atge trolley car has béen charts réd to take the chil- :lhm and their ts to and froin iembers ‘of the Sunshine so- .voted’to contribute $10. toward deh‘v{nfi the expenses and, they will also furnigh ice cream cones and Toot,beer for ‘the little ones. Friendly citizéns have also contributed gener- ta $5, ‘while others have ‘agreed to firnish cakes. As one special car will not carry all who will attend Rev. J. BE. Kling- and attendants go by regular car to save the added expense of hiring a second ‘car. The outing will be in.chrge of Mrs. W. H. Warner of 141" Lincoln street Mrs, Eugene J. Porter of 197 West Main street is chairman of the cake commiittee. - Mrs. 'J A. Traut is chair- man of the outing finance committee and the contributions thus far re- | ceived are as follows: Incorporated Branch Sunshine society, Mrs. Crales S. Landers . Mrs Fred Smith, Ashley St.. Hartford, N Mrs. Michael Hlebowicz Agnes Bergert .. PR Miss Florence Johnson . Mrs, J. A, Traut . Charles Spring ... of the ] ) RERRRG k . $22.00 Mrs. Traut will thankfully receive all additional contributions. It is planned to have the car in readiness at the Children’s Home on, Black Rock avenue at 10 o’clock on the morning of the picnic. The chil- dren from the South Burritt street home will also bé ‘gathered in there as well as those from Rackliffe Heights, while girls'from Hart street home will meet the car at Washing- ton street. Returning, the car will leave Elizabeth park at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. | TWO ELECTRUCUTED IN KENTUCKY PRISON White Man Pays| Death Penalty for Murder of Sheriff—Negro Exe- cuted for Killing Wife. Eddyville, Ky., July 30.—For the third time in the history of Kentucky, a double electrocution took place this morning, at the Eddyville penitentiary. The first to be executed was Turner Graham, Jr., ‘twenty-four, a white man, convicted for the killing of R. J. McMurtry, sheriff of Hardin coun- ty. The second ‘was Will Lane, twen- ty-five, a negro, convicted at Pine- vile, on a charge of killing his wife. Lane was the first negro to be exe- cuted in Kentuc¢ky since the adoption of electrocution as a means of inflicl- ln]’ the delth penalty. PICNIG-FOR CHILDREN JAPANESE CABINET MEMBERS RESIGN Action Follows Withdrawal ot' Minister of Interior 3OS S CRISIS DUE T0 TWO CASES Emperor Summons the Flder States- men for a Conferenco—Change in Official Family Unpopular Public Because of War. Tokio, July 30} 2:15 p m.—The Japanese cabinet, headed by Count ! Okuma Premier, has tendered its resighation to, Emperor Yoshihito. This action followed the resignation yesterday of Viscount Kanetuke Oura, minister of the interior, fcllowing an investigation by the Ministry of Jus- tice ‘into bribery ' charges resulting from the parliamentary elections last ! March, * Viscount Oura's resignation was sanctioned by the emperor after a report on the,situatioh had been made to him by Count Okuma. After receiving Count Okuma, the emperor summoned the elder states- | men for a conference. A cabinet change at this time is unpopular with the ‘public because ot the war. Reqxondble ‘for Crisls. Two .cases have been mentioned as responsible for the erisis. - The first was the charge tnat 10,000 yen ($6,000) had been: offeréd" Viscount Oura by a candidate for. the house as the price for keeping ‘a rival candi- | date out of ‘the field The minister of lnteuor denied ha ¢epted this “hiibe¥ bt/ %, chief ‘With ‘Beel quoted as ldmlmng ho,vlnt ‘'recefvéd the money and expended it for campaign purposes. The second ¢ase involves two rep- resentatives charged with accepting bribes fo desert the’ Selyukal, or conseryative party and support the government in in its campaign for an increase in the army. Just Escaped COrisis, (Correspondence of the Assoctated Press. ) Tokio, Japan, July 30.—Japan early this month. just escaped a ministerjal crisis which grew out of tt zl m'm 4n .China. mbled . at ‘and considered the advisability | ‘ofieertain changes in the cabinet, in- cluding the post of foreign minister, believing that the retirement of | jtaron Kato, the occupant, which might ease the situation in China and pucity those who blamed Baron Kato tor the untavouble situation in that country, The fact that ex-Pkemler Saionji came out of his retreatment and was in frequent consultation caused a great stir ang spread the belier that he was returning to power, . Averted' by Measures. The elder statesmen, however, evi- | dently, did not desire to shoulder the responsibility of conducting Japanese further foregoing pollc!?e and the danger ‘of a ‘crisis. was temporarily avérted by framing a series of meas- ures for appeasing the Chinese who resorted ' to boycott as an answer as to what they termed Japan’'s aggres- give political policy in tneir country. Premier Count Okuma - made a speech to encourage the business men of Japan, some of whom are to losing heavily by’ the Chinese boycott. He declared that the existins war really cffered Japen rare opportunity to strengthen her situation. -/ Premier Not Fearful, The end of the war, ‘which he con- siderea still” very distant, would find ! the European belligerents cxnhausted. Japan’s foreign trade would benefit even if Germany should be successful, which he said, was not probable. The premier said he was not fearful of the Gutcome. Germany cvuld not send troops to the far east and, he added, it would net be impossible to' make some arrangement. with Germany to place the peace of the Orient on a iasting footing. FOUR MEXICANS ARE SAVED BY JUDGE T Supreme Court Magistrate = Vacates Own Order Denying Writ of Habeas Corpus! Phoenix, Ariz., July 30.—By vacat- ing his own order, denying a writ of | habeas corpus in the case of four Mexicans condemned to hang today in the state penitentiary at Florence, Judge McAllies of the supreme court opened the way for an appeal to the state supreme court, which will serve as a stay of execution at least until September, when the tribunal con- venes, Action was taken by the court after it was shown that his earlier order denying the writ of habeas corpus yesterday prévented an appeal that would act as a stay of execution. The ‘Mexicans were charged with the murder of four white prisoners at Ray, Ariz. A reprieve was granted last May only a short time before the date set for the hanging. w. . J. Bryan was at that time secretary of state. - 3 An appeal previously had taken in the case of the fifth demned Mexican. been con- i any year at' the | otherwise maltreated and murdered. ANDREW TO LEAVE Y. M. C. A. TOMORROW FALL OF WARSAW# enp r st e | EAVEOLED HOURLY Position in Public Schools of Newark, N. J. Kenneth E. Andrew, physical in- structor, at the Y. M. C. A, will sever hig connections with the association tomorrow evening. Mr. Andrew ten- dered ‘his resignation to the board of directors about a month ago to take eftect on September 1. As'he was to receive a month’s vacation Mr. An- drew chose the month of August and will thereby bring/ his career as physical director of the local Y, M. | C. A. to a close tomorrow. ‘While connected with the local as- sociation during the past two years Mr. Andrew has raised the physical instruction to its highest degree. The ! physical training system now in vogue [ at the association is considered to be the best in the country. During the months between September and April | of the past year statistics indicate that the physical attendance records for association were broken. While in this city Mr. An- | drew has been especially successful with the ‘business men’s olasses. At the last swimming campaign he]d in this city under the direction of 'Mr. Andréw no less than seventy-five boys were taught how to swim. Mr. Andrew graduated from the Rindge Training ‘school; Cambridge, Mass., in 1907. Heé then ‘entered the Springfield Training coll’ge, grad- uating in 1912. He spent a year as physical diféctor of Stratford, On- tario, Canada, Y. M. C. 'A. before coming to this city: He: has -also had considerable experience in play- ground . work, having been in charge of the pls.yzrol!nds in- Fitchburs, Mass., for two years. Mr. Andrew has accepmd ; poqmoa as physical instructor of the public | schools in Newark, N. J. He re- ceived the pasition after a competi-, tion With thirty-five candidates. = W, S: Slater has been chosen' to sue- ceed Mr. Andrew. He will find ‘the physical _department on a solid and good basis when he steps intd it. 'LOCAL PERSIANS HEAR FIRST WORD FROM HOME Mmu:re and Dept,datiom ity | Umfifia T)epicted' At a crowded meeiing of the Per- siansian-Assyrian Mission at the South chiirch last evening the Rev. Elisha Adams of 862 Arch street, read a letter from their native town of Uru- mia, Persia, the first message that hig heen Teceived from there In over '‘five months. The letter depictpd in a vivid manner the awful atpocities of the “bloodthirsty Turks an#l - Kurds, who . have, harassed the Pérsians and Assyrians, compelling many of thm to flee to Russia and others to-take: refuge in the American Mission Of the 30,000 natives who m;de their home at Urumia 15,000 fled to Tifles, Russia, after the Tald by ‘the Turks and Kurds, states t Tetter, which was written by the ed tbr of the local paper at Urumia. All the towns and villages in the vicinity were pii- laged and- destroyed by the vandals and all wealthy business men were ieft paupers while hundreds of the native women were taken .away as captives. About 15,000 othér natives who did not flee to Russia tqok refuge | in the American Missions, where con- ditions were deplorable, owing to the jarge number of refugees. Every building connected with the! mission was converted into & place of zbode for the homeless vietims and they were compelled to sleep on the bare floors and even on the ground, so destitute were they. These conditions have enlisted for the past five months, during which time lack of prioper food, lack of sleep, fear and the «climate and poor water supply caused typ old tever to break out with the mflult over 4,000 of the 15,000 died, the de th rate having been forty per day. Ewven the American missionaries weére taken with this dread- disease, leaying prac- tically no experienced people to care for the sufferers. The Turks and Kurds did not let their barbarism stop even there for { they refused to permit the burial of the_dead without the payment of a fee for each one. It was Niutly necessary to dig’'trenches twenty feet long and half as wide in which the corpses were | heaped and covered with earth. ‘When the Turks and Kurds first at- tacked the place they killed over 1,000 ratives and many more were burned alive, crucified, dismembered = and Ot the 15,000 who succeeded in es- caping into Russia, 1,500 died enroute, The recital of the terrible afflictions under which their countrymen are suffering made a deep impression upon the local Persians ana sssyrians last night and already a fund has been started for their relief and the Rev. Mr. Adams will gladly accept all do- nations. R G WEATHER. Hartford, July 30.—Unsoct- tled, probably _ occasional showers tonight and Satyrday. e~ | 8oal for which the German armies in jare at the gates of the Polish capital i capturing great quantities of muni- Germans in-Overwhelming llum— ‘ bers at Gates of Polish cnpml MAY BLOCK RUSSIAN RETREAT Czar’s Forces Stripping Oity of Every- | thing of Military . Value—German Aviator Bombards Nancy—Turks Claim Gain in Dardanelles. London, July 30, 12:02 a. m.—War- saw, the third city of Russia and the, the east have been striving since Octo- ber, is at last in the throes of aban- donment. Germans in overwhelming numbers and despatches both from the city it- self and from Petrograd say that fur- ther resistance would be, unwise. Fall of City Expected. Discounted. not only throughout France and Great Britain, but in Rus- sia itself, the fall-of the city is expect- ed hourly, and the probiem now is that the Russian.armies now intact, threatened as they are from the south by the Austro-Germans and more seri- ously from the north, where the Ger- Poland are aiming at the railway from | Warsaw to Petrograd. = This . latter menace the British press admits is im- minent and. the. hope in the allied | ‘saw’ but for the continued cohesion | of the Russian army. 1 ‘ The Warsaw, post office already has | ‘been shifted to some point to the east- ward, the populace have been warned | to remain calm and presumably for days Russian troops have been strip- ping the city of everything of military value. ‘German Aviators Over City. | | German aviators are hovering over. i the city-and according to German ad- vices plans have been completed for the trilumphant entrance of the Ger- man Emperor accompanied by his ‘consor! 3 ‘With ‘Warsaw captured, whether or :‘ot it ‘proves a conquest of lasting | tofom!'l period of trench wnmre in the east, mean- | while throwing a great welght of men | | ana guns to the west with the idea of | | resuming the battering toward Calais | and perhaps Paris. 1 Quict on Westerin Front. In the west there hag.been little in recent days to break the monotony of mining. The British public is 50 little im- pressed with the events in the east that David Lloyd. George, ‘the minister of munitions, in a speech yesterday ap- parently thought it necessary to drive home the gravity of the situation in the minds of those inclined to over optimism, reminding them that re- verses in Russia would increase pres- sure on the western allies, and sum- ming up his opinion with the admoni- tion that “the situation is serious, if not perilous.” French Official Eeport. Paris, July 30, 2:00 P. M.—The French war office gave out a state- ! ment on the passing hostilities reads as follows: “In the Artoise district, near Sou- chez and at ‘The Labrynth’ there was all last night, fighting from trench to | trench with hand grenades and | bombs. Between the Oise and the Aisne on the plateau of Quenniveres, | these was continued activity yester- day with artillery and bomb throwers. | Between Boureauilles and Vaugquois in the forest of Milan court, the edition of mjnes by the enemy did no damage. .. German Attack Repulsed. 't[p the forest of Leprete a Ger- man movement of attack at La Croix- DegiCarmes was easily repulsed. “A German aviator Yesterday threw downion the town of Nancy a total of four bombs but no casualties re- sultgd. “In’the Vosges at B-rrenkopr the fighting continued ' until midnight with great fury. A fresh German counter attack was repulsed. A cur- tain of fire maintained by our troops inflicted heavy losses on the enemy.” Turks Claim Victories. Constantirople, July 29, Via Lan- don, July 30, 4:45—An officlal state- ment issued today at the Turkish War Office was as follows: “On the Caucasian front, we per- sued remnants of the enemy who had been defeated on the Berbado height tions. and food supplies and a nuni- ber of Russian prisoners. “In the Dardanelles Wednesday night a reconnoitering column from our right wing surprised part of the | trenches, capturing many guns and much material.” KICI\ED BY HORSE. Antonio, the five years old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Marino of Chris- tian "Lane, Berlin, was kicked by a horse this afternoon. The child was knocked unconscious. Dr. M. H. Griswold of Kensington was called and it was necessary to take two man forces which have swept through | - | railroad station. s, countries now is not the saféty of War- | | WDONALL'S ARREST CAUSED BY OSBORNE GOES TO DEATH WITH WIFI'S! hour before ecution and W, E. C Father administer the man enthal's n on his ha floor. The ing Sing Warden . Claims | ;% Ossining, N. n?' McDonald, con perintendent of, Pruouw rested here tfl‘ly ferred by Warden . Sing prison. The arrest' just as M a train for Albany. The alleged as- sault occurred at the railroad station about three hours after the execution. McDonald appeared in Sing- 8in prison this morning with a 4 trom Superintendent of the Prison Reilly on Warden Osborne asking for all his written orders assigning con- victs to various parts of the prison. It has been recently charged that con- victs were permitted, against the law to enter the death house and sing songs for the amiusement of the con- demned. The prison clerk gave the orders to McDonald who then went to the ‘Warden = Osborne learned that the papers had been taken away and made the claim that they had been removed in an illegal manner, inasmuch as no copies’ had been made and that the proceedure left the prison without records. War- den Osborne hurried to the railroad station with a lawyer and took' the papers away from McDonald. The Warden claimed that McDonald, dur- ing an altercation about the papers, assaulted him, whereupon MeDonald made a counter charge. Warden Os- borne went up town and obtained a j warrant and McDonald - was taken to i court and paroled upen his own rec ognizance until August sixth. = Wars STRIKE IN MILFORD. Workers Want Automobile to Carry Them To Factory. Milford, Conn., July 30.—Because | the factory management declined to provide an automobile for their car- riage to and from Miiford center thir- ty labarers of the Asham Rubber company went on strike today. Their places were filled. The demand was that the men be carried from the center to the factory which is three quarters of a mile away on the Wee- pawaug river . Most of the men be- long in Milford, but some live in New Haven, and Bridgeport. Cou- pled with the demand was one that the factory grant an eight hour day. The present time schedule Is two shifts of ten hours each. The factory reclaims rubber SCOTTISH MONARCH SUNK, New York, July 30.—Officers of the steamer St. Cecilia, which arrived to day after having delivered a cargo of supplies for the Beigian relief com- mission at Rotterdam, reported being in sight of the steame: Scottish Mon- arch after leaving New York on June 16 until shortly after entering war zone,” when the Scoctish onari ppeared and in arriving at Rotbs the officers learned the steamer stitches over the left eye, had been torpedoed and sunk. 14 was about to take, ) saw JoR u.ei-uul‘, .........‘”“"C; head of Iho marched to to my o/ 1 the world i The on entered to tie wit that the d at hand. double the floor, whitened suddenly, walked b and sea chair.” i den Osborne took the papers back | prison | with him to Sing Sing prison. death which - demned man. “Jesus, an my soul,” as Deputy Wards and adjusted the & a minute d | was adj to th had been J er leg from the After, the the back of the head, the at Deputy Warde veyed the figure bling the death Johnson half executioner jammed the The first shoek lasted and the exescutioner: 1,860 volts and strength. 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