New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 3, 1915, Page 1

PRICE THREE CENTS. BRITISH FORCES IMPROVEPOSITION - IN DARDANELLES " King George's Troops G'n})‘tni'e' Crest of Ridge on thie Gal- lipoli Peninsula | > NO MATERIAL CHANGE INY WARSAW SITUATION Austriang Take 2,000 Prisoners ' and | Numérous s\"-mues at Ivangorod— T \nve.vy lighthg R:porteé Ngn' | < -— Allied. Aviators = Drop. | % fiu-m Bombs on Su-uss!m;-g; Allies Repulse German Attacks. The ‘silence of several weeks on the situation jof the allies in the Dardan- elles was broken today by an official announcement in London that the .crest of the ridge of the ° Gallipoli Péninsula has peen gained by Brit- SOLDIER BOYS IN EARNEST THIS YE Companies E and I Getting Ready for Week ‘at Camp, With Shooting ' the Principal Feature, ' New Britain’s citizen soldiers are getting ready for active service, that is duch active service as is permitted by a government at peace and Roping to be with'the rest of the world. The great camp at Niantic, where the boys in blue, or rather khaki, trained for' the Spanish, war, and!where thou sands of others just as able and will- ing have dons their week in'tamp, is not the place this year. . Those who command the military destinies of the country have decreed, in view' of Aoings abroad, that soldiers:should be able to shgot dnd hit something. Of ter, but this time to shoot and shoot well is the thing. 2 So the C. N, G. ig to try . its luck at the state rifle range at East Ha- ven. The first batallion of the First regiment, which includes headquar- ters company and Companies A and B ‘of Hartford and D company of Bris- tol, “responding to . previous orders, boardéd a train yesterday and sev- eral hours later arriyed at East Hu- ven where they' detrained and marched a mile or. more gver a peo- ble-strewn road to the camp, The or- der of the day 1§ shoot, shoot for fur or practice the first three days, and course dtill is stili an important mat- ! NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTJCUT, TUESDAY, AUG I P | Slager of Priest and Housekeeper Stiows No Signs of. Collapse MALINOWSKI KNOWS MOTIVE Condemned Man Talks With Interpre- | ter and Clears wm;‘mn Be Made Public Until After Execution. Up Points Which | Court Interpreter M, R. Malinowsky spent two hours yesterday with Ber- | nard Montvid, the convicted murderer of Rev. Joseph Zebris and Eva Gil- manaitis in this city on February 8, who will pay the penalty on the hang- man’'s noose in the siaie prison at Wethersfield shortly after midnight | Thursday. ‘Dt‘u-ing the conversation ; Mr. Malinowsky secured some infor- ‘mation ‘which he. has conveyed .to §tate’s* Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn and which will probably be made public _after the state has received its toll for [ the brutal murders. . Montvid Reconciled to Fate, 981 PERSONS LOST LIVES ON EASTLAND Final Figures Given Out ‘by Western Electric Company—Steamboat Inspectors Released on Bail, 7/ Chicago, Aug. 3.—Solicitation funds for sufferers from the Enstlax:: J, ¥ H\RRM‘M Dla.m H()llse ! disaster virtually ceased today afier a statement by Mayor Thompson and the relief committee that the sun given was sufficient to care for needs of the relatives of the victims It was announced that subscriptions now are in excess of $380,000 and that benefits to be given in the next few days will considerably increase | that figure. Nine hundred and eighty-one per- sons lost their lives in the steamer Eastland disaster, according to final figures given dut today by the West- ern Electric company, which complet- ed the checking of its employes and friends who. hoarded the vessel, The identifled dead are 828, unidentified déad two and the Western Electric company verified the final list. of missing at 141. Judge Landis in the United Statcs distriet court today orded the releagze of Steamboat Inspectors Robert Reid and Charles C. Eckliff upon their own bonds of $2.5600 each., A, L. Thurs man, solicitor of the department of commerce, promised to produce thém in court Aug 11. o The arrest yesterday of Reid and Eckliff grew out of the . conflict be- ! UST, 3, 191:—TWELVE PAGES. the | DR, ELMER STYLES STRIGKEN IN AUTO HIS CAR CRASHES INTO POLE lice Ambulance is Sent to Scene But | 19 No Avall—Realized He was { Taken From Machine on Newing. | SECRETARY AND MRS, McADOO VISIT WILSO Former Says He Discuseed No Im» portant Business With the President. Secretary who o Cornish, N. H., Aug. 3. of the Treasury McAdoo, | rived at the summer capital late ye.- lerday left here today with Mrs. Mc- Adoo for their summer home at | North Haven, Me,, after a stay of 15 hours with President Wilson at Har- { lakenden Housee. Before departin: had been merely social and that us | had discussed no important business i With Presideat Wilson. Dying. | Stricken with .a fatal attack of { heart failure to which he had been subject for the past few years, as he was driving his automobile alonz road in Newington at about o'clock this afternoon, Dr. Elmer L. Styles, one of New Britain's oldest and hest { Known physicians, lost control of his machine and dashed into a telegraph pole by the road side, falling back in his seat in semi-conscious condition. He'was carried into Charles F. Howe's house Wwhere he died shortly afier- | wards. Dr. John Purney and Dr. Jos- | eph Walsh, of this city, rushed (o attend the dying doctor, but could not stay the grim hand death } The secretary deelared that he was | devoting much time to studying’ ihe | shipping question and that he confi- | | dently expected that 1t would be ! pushed by the administration during . «he next secsion of congress. He said | that personally he favored the gov- | ernment ownershly pian presented | | during the last session. | “The democratic party is pledged | to providing an adequate merchant | { marine for the United States,” suid | | Mr. McAdoo, “and in my opinion ao | time should be lost in taking action. | The need for more ships under Ameri- ' can registry is being shown more and | STARVING N Doctors Rush From his City and Po- | My Mcadoo reiteratoa that his yisit Carothers, Denles Declarod That “If Docs Not_ Like My | Go to Hefl.” Washington, commnication betwe and Mexico City han i Provislors bogan ent city yvesterday and are enroute, - Aug department, | more every day.” Secretary McAdoo sald | studying the question of systematiz- | they | ing the operation of the government of | finances and, of providing a | system, and would be an important pne expected | today from that Gen. Villa h the United Sfates tions it can g “I was conference on Satu “and 1 am pozitive he was budget subject. durag the in a room | tween the state authorities and Sécre- | | tary’ Redfleld of the department . of | commerce over the investigation of the Eastland disaster ' ish troops, thus improving the Brit- ish - position. ... The situation at Warsaw shows no material change. The German <en- circling movement continues. A Russian official report says desperate | ‘A Herald man in & talk with Mr. Malinowsky this morning, learned that the condemned man is reconciled 1w his fate. The indifference and coolness that was so marked in the inurderer during the trial still prevails and he shows no ouwtward signs of breaking down or nervousness. In the coming session of congress, { . Mrs. Charles F. Rowe, into whose President Wilson did not play goif home Dr. Styles was carried, witness- | this morning but remained at Har- ed the entire iragedy. She says.that | lakenden House talking with Mr, and the aged doctor was driving along the | Mrs, McAdoo. After their departure road in his Ford car alone and at | he went to his study and worked on a slow rate of speed. Suddenly, just | official business, as he Was about in front of 1 er house | Villa had used IF have known iL" Notifics Conf} General Villa si modified his o i | Mr, aCrothers to station a Jwill be ' more jnter-} ested in' camp’ doings next week when Company K leaves with - the Second Battalion for a week with | “Krags.” Captain E. Raymond Low and the men of Company E are busy this week' preparing for eventualties, 1 Sees Doctor Stricken. ' - “and sanguinary fighting is still going jon on the banks of the-Narew, south ! city next Monday morning. and it will be a fit collection of sol- dier boys that leaves the Hardwaie| Company. hif talk with Malinowsxy, Montvid stated that he is ready to go to the TAG DAY HERE FOR { she noticéd him stiffin in his seat { and‘lase control of the steering whe=l. | ., MORE MONEY FOR FUND. | ernment in eac /ot Ostrolénka, and that there have The building fund of the Boys ‘club ./been equally heavy engagements be- _ tween the Vistula and the Bug. Rus- 7 _slan troops before lyangorod, south- east of Warsaw, have withdrawn to % “more concentrated positions,” while _on both hanks of the Vieprz they [ - ,bfive repulsed: the enemy. v tw omur mant an aonan o | BELGIUM PUBLISHES ' ficial statement says' that Austrian - tegiments have been successful at Ivangorod, capturing over 2,000 men and numerous supplies. _._The relative inactivity on the west- ern front r veé undergone e 1 . spatch ' from rAmsterdam ‘re; fighting 1, under Captain’ Harry P, Ladbugy, | 52110Ws and has made all preparations .+ | for hig execution. is slated to part fdr t 4 AR A R ";;f;;;e’,fi:; ' “I belieye that Bernara will Hold up have been made to Keep the Homie | [0 the end. He realizes wnat {s com- ing to him and is ready,” said Mr. Malinowsky today. folk well posted of the happenings ‘n) Famb, ANl SR wHesL Wil publigl 1 Bt ot v ata dedowe tnat,an sffort | was made by his brother, Anton Mont- the story from day to day: vid of Chicago, in a letter written to Governor Holcomb to have his sen- tence commuted to life imprisonment. He realizes that there is no power on | earth that can save him now. His ¥ § |. one anxiety is on the reception of an- 3 A | i ARMENIANS' RELIEF I | The next instant the car crashed into | hs been increased to mearly, $2,5600. 2 telegraph pole by the roadside. Mrs. | ‘peter Crona has recetved two dona- Dr. Mouradian Announces /Rowe rushed through the yard and | .. f 5, 8 H h- agross the road to assist the ocen- | :.‘:ym‘:d 'ie;:-?e:;o'fn 1‘1‘ lg' ex:mmped Collection to Be Taken Labor Day. | was to see lm I fifteen per Consuls of France, German; M{. Carothérs list of qu | ty of their nal | to have | before the eGneral | ported cnro More than other letter frpm his brothey which 3 they have b lie' expects. to receive ang which will | hear be the last word he will ever from him. ~« Oondmned Man Model Prisoner. i pant, whom she did not recognize at | {hat when man v y vacationists arrive the time. As she approached him he home, there will be a large increase had just opened his medicine case ! i the fund. and had a bottle: of stimulant in his . hand which he was trying to raise to his mouth. Jiven then he was took | ExPLflsmN AT U s. 5 weak to raise the bottle and signalled i ® s to the young woman to pour the con- The Armenian Red Cross is plann- | ‘tents between his lips. ¥ ARSEN AL M AN K“ I En &) ] ing to make an appeal for funds from ) Said “I Am Dying.” the generous people of this city, the That th a - . ‘ P al 2 2y % P A money to be used for the’ rélief of |y nar at droiecs Amon ::uzt;:tt:ef those made destitute in Armenia as | cause he muttersd to Mrs. Rowe “I'm a result of the war. Like the Beilgians | d¥ing.”" He then feebly begged her and Poleés, the Armenians have suf- | !0 telephone to Meriden and inforin Refutes Documents Which Three Others Injured By Ap"“ arrive cident in Experimental ““ofi the ‘British front near .3»&.; with & steady stream of wounded = men the customary .1 nt has published a | > jontaining ‘various | ne to ghe war, notably, | ori from Baror Guil- | ‘['cording’ to Mr. Malinowsky. Montvid’s appearance s somewhat | bettér‘than when he was in court, ac- He has taken on some weight and the guards state that his appetite is excellent. He has given no trouble of any nature . and has been a model prisoner. He receives the attention of Father Magnell, the prison chaplain, daily. #nd Father Ambot, who conducted fered terribly from the ravages of war. For years they have been appressed by the Turkish conquerors and massa- cres have been of frequent occur- ence. Being of Christian faith they have suffered from the fury and hate | of their Moslem rulers, who have thrown all restraint to the winds whenever the least provocation of- Doctor T. 8. Stoddard, his son-in-law. These were about the last words that | Dr. Styles spoke. After giving him stimulants Rowe stopped C. W. Aver, of Hart- ford. a passing automobilist, and he carried the unconscious man into the house where he was placed upon a | couch and given every possible at- tention until the physicians arrived Mrs spatchs i | Philadelphia, Aug. 3.-20ne man was | killed and three were seri L {.Jured in an 'explosion today in experimental bomb proor :’epnn | 5f the Uniten States ar in Frank- e H C Warrens of 292 Collins street, Hartford, passed by the scene short. ly after the doctor was stricken and he speed on to New Britain where he | picked up Officer Willlam Strolls and came to police station to report the affair Chief Rawlings at once s | dered out the ambulance and hasten- ed to Nern;!.on with all 'possibly Speed. At press time Medical Exam- services in St. Andrew’s Lithuanian ¢hiirch for several weeks ' after the erime, also calls to See him frequently. Statement Will Clear Up Motive, fered. The European war in which Tur- key became involved last wipnter was at once taken as an excuse for an attack -upn their Armenian subjesct Massacre has followed massacre and if the stories that are printed in the ! few Armenian papers which reach this country are to believed atrocities ford, this city - : The man killed wds James Harkins, | : & elvilidn. * The injured are: Prascilio + \0e @ollar & - Frasco, Arthur B. Rundlett soldiers | assigned o the ordinance department, | Here has been end George Brown, a civilian, 000 SHS S The two soldiers ars in acritical con. | °f Deans has bes Gition. Brown is not seriously hurt, | ime because of the The army officer in charge of the { (¢ merchants f ‘minister to Paris, to ¥ ; inister of foreign affairs | dated February 22, 1913, a,ppr‘nrex:jt‘l,y contradicting documents recently p 1 lished by the Germans alleged to have | -~ The Statements made, to Mr. Mali- | been found in the state archives at | howsky yesterday are of an entirely Brussels and aur'purul’zg tq have been | different hature than what was told by i written by Baron Guiliaume. | prisonet and will go a considerable | Explaining to M. .Dé Margerig, xfi, Erench frontier, agafn has i tp been raided from the air. A group f French and British aeroplanes flew er the city today.: and dro 5 "> ‘bombes, according to a news déspatch i« /i from Geneva. The damage done has ; Mot vet ‘been mude Known. British Gain Ground. of ‘:f i clearing up any doubts ".‘1 dei ;i; London, Aug. 8, 1:50 \p. m.—The crest of the ridge in “the Gallipoli Peninsula has been galnea by British tFoops - and the position of the British in the Dardanelles has been improvea, according to a statement given out to- | day by the official press bureau, iThe text of the statement follows: | “‘General Sir Ian Hamilton reporfs .“.on August 2 that on the right position | held by the Australian and New Zea- .iand corps a successfur attack wu! carried out against a network of ‘Turkish trenches which was beginning | ‘to threatén the safety of an advanced | ‘ post ‘called ‘Tasmania, Post.’ e ‘ \vaplnde Mines under Trench, ! "“The attack cohsisted of'a bombard- {ment of neighboring works and the ! osion’ of three mines under sec- | | WOMEN AND CHILDREN | tiens of a trench. These sections Y. were 'occupled at once. | [ *“Another section was rushed with ‘the bayonet. the French foreign office, the mean- ing of the Belgian military law, M. Guillaume writes that he said: “We wish to avoid, if possible, hav- ing Belgium again become as . she often has been, the battle fleld ofj Europe. * '* * President Poincare | has assured me France pever would take the initiative to violate our neus trality. * ¢ * Our aim is solely | to prevent to the fimit of our forges: the violation“of our neutrality.” G The 'second part of the gray bookK consists of protests, addgessed by the | Belgian government 'to the (Austrian and German governments against al- | leged violations of the laws of war and i The Hague convention. i TURKS SHOOT 9,000 g e Turks did not coun- | . v L 5% Joasts sevency { Twenty Members of Armenian Social | ter attack. © | were killed in | /'Tne result h erest. of the ally improyed our tion of the line.” Heavy Fighting Near Ypres. Amsterdam, Holland, Aug. 3, Via. f P m.—Heavy fighting - 'again‘is in progress on the British front near Ypres. According to tele- grams from Courtrai, Belgium, the hoom of great guns ana mine ex- . 8 ‘was audible there for hours, and it was quickly followea by a pteady stream of wounded men from the vicinity of Hooge. Most of the casualties ‘were the result of shrapnel wounds. 3 ABies Bombard Strassburg. Paris, Aug. 8, 2:00 p. m.—A flotilla of British and French aeroplanes to- i day flew over the German_ city of Turks arouna the works. been to gain the as it has materi- position in that sec- ‘ Democratic Party Publicly Hanged At Constantinople. Paris, Aug. 3, 5:50 a. m.—B. Ver- azdate, a member of the committee of | the Armenian social democratic par- ty, ‘writing to L'Humanite, says that | the committee has received word that Turks after massacreing all the males of the population in the region of | Bitlis, Turkish Armenia, assembled 9,000 women and children and drove !them to thé banks of the Tigris, Where they shot them and threw the | bodies into the river. | These advices have not been sub- stantiated from any other source. Twenty members of the Armenian social democratic party, M. Varazdate says, have been publicly hanged 'n | Constantinople after being charged | with planning to found an independ- ent Armenia. |'ferred to the death house sometime ! that ‘have existed regarding the 1notive the crime.: ViR i 1t is not d by the prison officials' that of the brothers of | the accused Wil ¢&ll on him before ihe execution. 'He I8 now in a cell in “Murderers’ . Row,” and will be trans- to morrow and fingl preparations will | be made for his end. The rope will | e tested in the afternoon and the death ‘wateh will be stationed ‘at his | side. - The reading of the death war- rant' will take place early in the even- ing. i ngl"he disposition ‘of the body of Montvid after his’executfon has not been determined upon ‘but it is ex- pected that the state will have to take charge of the remains, a8 no word has been received from . Moutvid's rela- tives asto the disposition of ahe body. | Grela Disappointed at Delay. While at the prison Malinowsky had o long talk with John Grela, who is to afe Friday, August 18, ror the murder of his wife in Hartford, two months | ago. The condemned fman had confi-| dently expected that he was B die Friday of ‘this week, ana seeméd dis- | appointed when informed by the inter. ! preter tht it was a week later. He ssked Mr. Malinowsky to have Father Zelatasz, the Greek priest formerly of this city but now of Hartford, ¢all and | attend him and the wish was com- rlied with, BRITISH STEAMER SUNK. Ranza Sent to Bottom—Twelve of » Crew Missing. Londen, Aug. 3, 11:15 a. m.—The British steamer Ranza has been sunk. The captain and eleyen members of the crew of twenty-four have been landed safely- | corpses completely filled it. ! sands are destitute and starving and of the most -horrible’ and revolting character have been the rule rather than the exception. Being a conquered people and of a faith bitterly- hated by the. Turks, the Armenians were objects of sus- picion and oppression when the 'war broke out. Men capable of bearing ‘arms were hustled away and confined ; in compounds. The womer ' were made slaves or taken as wives by the Turks and all the young children and boys were ordered killed. The bodies of young children, according to one story published recently, were thrown into the dry bed of a stream and the, Thou- no relief’ is in sight. Dr. Mary G. Mouradian of $51 Main stret is a member of the local com- mittee appointed to cooperate with the Armenian Red Cross in th:. ef- fort to raise funds for, then destitute refugees, many thousands of whom are: now at Van. She toM a Herald reported today that she had not heard from her aged parents in eight months. They live In one of the large towns in Armenia and before the war were in prosperous circumstances. The place has since been ravaged by the Turks and she has good reason for fearing that her parents have been killed together with thousands of her country people. Oceasionally Dr. Mouradianp gets a newspaper from the home land and the it brings contains little but stories of death and desolation. The whole country has been ravaged, houses, churches and stores looted and burned | an¥l *the people killed or carried away into slavery and captivity. Under the auspices of the Armenian Red Cross, the local committee of which Dr. Mouradian is a member, proposed to hold a tag day on Labor Day, September 6, the funds to be forward- ed through the Red Cross to the suf- iner Theodore G. Wright was about to view the remains. Car Slightly Dainaged The spot where Dr. Styles stricken is just at the top o}; the ';3;1 p under the bridge on Newington road. { It Is evident that the local physician Taust have been only partially con- scicus when his machine struck the bole, He was going quite slow at the time as the car was not badly dam- ©ged The radiator wag slightly bent &nd a part of the windshield was broken out The top covering of the imachine was also shoved back and the pqcl of the collision, * Priends of Dr. Styles state that he had not ‘been in good heaith for the proved fatal today He haa been at- tacked with these weak spells on many seldom that he drove his automobile Report Soon Kmnown Here. Dr, Styles’ sudden death under such tragic conditions soon became noised about the city and within a short time after he died the Herald telephone wire was kept constanty busy with cager inquiries as to whether a report that Dr. Styles had been xilled in an automobile accident was rue, Dr. Styles owned a good sized chicken farm in the town or Newing- ton to which he went frequently and | | it is thought that he was on his way to | his country place this afternoon when death overtook him Was Well Known Doctor, In (he medical world Dr. Styles | !'was very well known. He had been | | a practising physician in tais elty for i | ington, arrived her today from to make an effort | 4 past few years and had to take every | 10 bring abaout peace between the gov- | Were wounded precantion against just sucn attacks ag | SFAMent troops commanded by Gen. | With Mexican occasions, it is gald, and it was very | o :of Dr, Rosalvo Bobo. atout with no one beside him, d | Snively. department is Captain a. C. Wilhelm, who 1s about to resign his commission | in the army to take charge of a pri- vate arms manufacturing plant near thig city. % i The explosion occurred while cite | ilians ‘and soldiers | to the arsenal for examination. range, which is far removed fro mthe | main buildings of the arsenal. | SEEKING PEACE IN HAFMTL | Cape Haitien, Haitl, Aug. 3.—A officer of the American eruiser Wash- | Haitien capital , is at famine tramways ‘and I-hut down b Uncorditonal San Antoalo, were unpacking | Rosalio Hei 100-grain detonators which had been | Villa forces condemned and whi¢h had been sent | has opened The | za leaders for scene of the accident was on the firing =~ render, it in the Crug, and until & frai] steering wheel was partially col. | delegation composed of five members, | Gen- Trevino iapsed where the physician’s body had | including the French Archbishop of | i been farced against it from the im- | Port au Prince and escorted by an | H Four. Br&wnfim Mex. the | lor. a customs iers of Troop A, Bourand, minister of the interior in | HAnch, ‘ the cabinet of the late President Vil- brun Guillaume, and the followers | Both leaders | afe aspirants for the presidency of | Haiti. The authorities of Cape Hai- tien refused to entertain any media- tory proposals. Fighting continues in the Morin quarters. MUST SALUTE FLAG. | here. i'ed and teint from Fort American soldiers. Brownsvil to fitteen Mexican ported . | United States «; | can posse men ! brush north of. The ba Mexican ] ¢ lle, Tex., Au killed Los Angeles Chief of Police Issues OF- | curtis possibly: der to Patrolmen. Los Angles, Aug. 3.—Orders for all patrolmen to salute the American street went into effect here today by | direction of Chief of Police C. E.| “A military salute takes but a sec- | ond,” the order reads, “and does not | deter from duty. It is a sign of re- 1 spect appreciated by every one At | ! Taylor, a custom | shoulder and D | Monohan of Bre flag every time it passes them on the | les. Y Villa © Galveston, | column under which recently, pe territory as far as was anothilated | who | Queretaro and 1rap x, - Strassburg and dropped . twenty-five ¢ bombs, according to a aespatch from \_# Geneva to;the Havas News ~ Agenc. N, The extent of the damage: caused b #* Jhe explosion of the missles Has not | wet béen dieertained. : many years a sician of the was also for clan called d was (he famlily phy- | Witnesses the evidene of loyaity. e Philip Corbin, 1le | the Same time it will set an uplifting vears the regular physi. | example to ‘Young America.’ 3 to attend all accident | cases at the P. & ¥. Corbin factor: a repart reaching (he o4 consulate here today: = Genern) Obregon @l capture of three ferers wha have escaped by flight from the hands of the Turks. At present little or nothing can be done for those who remain in the hands of their conquerors as no promise can be.given that relief funds would not be seized by the Turks, SCHOONER Cruiser Takes Lfiura C. dersou Into Gibraltar, | AMERICA EIZED. The Ranza, of 2,320 tons gross, probably sunk by a German subma- rine, but a statement to this effect is withheld. by the British admiralty which has announced that it will no longer make public information show- ing the waters in which the German underwater boats are operating. The ' TRAIN RUNS INDO LaANDSIanE, | 00000 e and had also had a large private Parker's Landing, Pa., Aug. 3 south of Torr practice. . A number of years ago his | Running at high _speed the Bulfalo 2 gl practice warranted the opening of | Express on the Buffalo and Alle- | HARTFORD private sanitarfum at 17 Court street | gheney division of the Peninsyivania | eston NS which s still mainiained. | railroad ran into a landslide near here ; e Dr. Styles is survived Aoy o gt | British An- | Strassburg, the capitar of Alsace- Lorraine, liés eighty miles southeast | of the German fortress of Metz. French Official Keport. Piladelpaia, Aug. 3.—A cablegram received here today announces the seizure of the '~ American schooner | Laura C. Anderson by a British erul.- into engin- . Paris, Aug. 3, 2:30 p. m.—The French war office thig afternoon gave _ out "an official report, reading as fol- | er, which took her Gibraltar. The schooner cleared from Newport News, Va., July 29 for Melilla, Moroc- co, with a cargo of bituminous coal. The coal was shipped by a firm | g;‘ Pin Eleven.) Lwlth offices in New York. | Ranza, which was bullt at West Har- tlepool, in 1902 and was owned by W, Christle & C., of London, was last | reported as having arrived at Liver- pool on July 4. WEATHER. Hartford, Auz. 3.—Show- crs tonight and probably Wed- nesday. N by his wifc, | two daughters, Mrs, Jo'n E. Stoddard | of Meriden, wife ot the prominent | | physiclan of that name, Miss Gertrude | (Continued on Eleventa Page.) l early today. Jesse Willlame, eer of Pittsburgh, was killed and R. Gelfrich, fireman, of Pittsburgh was reriously scalded. Three day es and a sleeper left the track’ but remained upright. few hours later.