New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 17, 1915, Page 1

LOCAL NEWSPAPERS IW BRITAIN HERALD PRICE 'THREE CENTS. ‘BRITISH TRANSPORT CONVEYING TROOPS ‘SUNKBY SUBMARINE Probably 1,000 Lives Lost When Royal Edward Was Sent to Bottom in Aegean Sea '600 SAVED 0UT OF 1,602 PERSONS ABOARD CRAFT First Successful Attack Of German Underwater Craft Against English Ships Carrying Forces to Darda- nelies—Germans Gain New Suc- cosses Agulnst Czar's Forces Tak ing 6,900 Prisoners. The British transport Royal Ed- ward, conveying troops to the Dar- danelles, was sunk by a submarine in the Aegean Sea last Saturday. Prob- | ably 1,000 men were lost. The British statement announcing the sinking enumerates a total of | 1,602 persons on board the Royal | Edward and adds that according to the information at hand about 600 were saved. Nearly 1,400 of those the transport arried were troops while the crew numbered 220. Germans Take Fort: The Germans have won a new and | important success at Kovno, Berlin | reports today, capturing the forts that lie between the Niemen River and Cesia, two and one half miles to the south of Kovno proper. Much war material including 240 cannon and 4,500 prisoners were taken in the Kovno operations, the German statement announced. Additional inroads were made on the defenses of Novogeorgievsk, . Where three forts have been captured. 2,400 Prisoners Captured. ‘At this fortress 2,400 prisoners, 19 ~fannon and other material were taken. Further progress by the armies of ; Prince Leopold of Bavaria and Field Marshal Von Mackensen, pressing toward Brest-Litovsk, is reported. Stop German Attack. In the west, the French stopped a German attack at Haute-ChévVauches | 4n the Argonne, where the crown | prince’s troops came out of their | trenches for an assault but were | driven back by the French fire; Paris reports. Advices from Athens say King Con- stantine aceepted the resignation of | the Gounaris cabinet and that M. Venizelos, whose party elected its | candidate for the presidency of the chamber of deputies was invited to consult with the King today. Reports Are Conflicting. Activity is increasing along the | ‘Austro-Italian front, according to the | latest reports. Rome claims pro- ! gress in the Sexten region, in the Bacherbach and Bodenbach valleys, | zand in the Monte Nero zone. Vienna | declares Italian attacks at various point along the line failed. Turkish reports on the Dardanelles operations declare attacks by newly landed troops of the entente allies have been repulsed. | | R | British Transports Sunk. i London, Aug. 17, 12:32 p. m.—The “British transport Royal Edward has been torpedoed and sunk by a German | submarine. Announcement to this | effect was made officially today. Six | hundred men were saved out of 1,350 | troops and 220 other persons on board. | The text of the announcement is as follows: “The British transport Royal Ed- ward was sunk by an enemy subma- rine in the Aegean Sea last Saturday <morning. According to the informa- tion at present available, the trans- port had on board 32 military offi- cers and 1,350 troops, in addition to the ship's crew of 220 officers and men. Mainly Reinforcements. “The troops consisted mainly of re inforcements for the 29th Division .and details of the Royal Army Med- | “ical Corps. “Full information has not yet been received, but it is known that about 600 have been saved.” First British Transport Sunk, So far as has been reported offi- ‘tially, this is the first instance in which a British transport has been attacked successfully by a submarine. It had been a matter of pride with the British government that it had transported hundreds of thousands of troops across many seas without the loss of life. It is probable that the number of troops sent to France and Belgium since the beginning of the war is considerably in excess of 700,- 000. Tn addition, large numbers of men have been transported to the Dardanelles, Egypt, South Africa and Serbia. Troops have been brought in from Canada, New Zealand, Australia and India for the defense of the mother country. To guard these vast move- ments elaborate precautions have » ben taken. Transports are accom- panied by an escort of warships, chief (Continued on Eleventh Page.) | ested in mission work and when the | By returning at once she has ANTI-ANNEXATIONIST | Jowing slowly and incompletely.” NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1915 —TWELVE PAGES. MISS SILLIMAN NOT WITH MISSIONARIES Former New Britain Woman Reaches Home in New Canaan While Col- leagues Flee From Van. Escaping by a narrow margin, the plight of others in the mission field at Van, Turkey, Miss Caroline Silli- man, a New Britain girl, who was sent out from the South Congrega- tional church about seven years ago, has safely reached this country, it was learned tcday. Miss Silliman, who was under commission by the ‘American Board which has headquar- ters at Boston, is a graduate of the New Britain Normal school and for some time taught school in this city. Although her home is in New Canaan, she became affiliated with the South Congregational church through her work here. She became deeply inter- teach in the promptly opportunity offered to American schools at Van, volunteered. During her entire time abroad Miss Silliman was actively connected with educational work in Van and had just completed her term of service. e caped the dire fate which threatened the American missionaries and her fellow workers in Van which com- pelled them to seek refuge a% Tiflis. Regarding Miss E. Gertrude Rog- ers of this city, who was associated with Miss Silliman in the work at Van, no further word has been re- ceived here beyond the Associated Press dispatch vesterday that she was with other American missio\- aries had reached Tiflis. A similar dispatch reached the American Board in Boston and word from there was at once telegraphed to Miss Roger's parents who are at Watch Hill on a vacation. PETITION OF GERMANS Document Claims Germany Did Not Enter War for Conquests, Par, Aug. 17, 4:45 a. m.—Human- ite prints the text of the Anti-Ennex- ationist petition addressed to the Ger- | man Chancellor, Dr. Von Bethmann- Hollweg on July 9 and signed by 82 prominent Germans, including Bern- hard Dernberg, Professor Adolf Har- nack, Clemens Delbrueck and Prince Von Hatzfeldt. This document which was framed in answer to annexatior.- ist manifestoes begins as follows. “‘Germany did not enter the war with the intention of making con- quests but to preserve her existence against the threalened coalation of her enemies.” “We declare ourselves,” the peti- tion continues, “partisans of the prin- ciple that incorporation or annexation of peoples politically autonomous or accustomed to autonomy must be condemned. The German Empire sprang from the idea of national unity and homeogeneity. It would | only assimilate elements radically fol- The danger that territories Ger- many would have to evacuate as condition of peace, continues the doe- umert might become ramparts for | her enemies could easily be provided for in some other way. The manifes- to concludes with an affirmation of Germany’s complete final victory. WOMAN TAKES POISON THROUGH MISTAKE Mrs. Alexander of Corbin Avenuc Drinks Lysol—Is Now In Hospital In Critical Condition. Mrs. of 190 Cor- bin avenue had a narrow escape from death this morning at her home when she drank a quantity of lysol. The woman secured the paison | through mistake. When she realized her error she immediately notified friends and a physician was summoned. He ordered her remov- al to the hospital at once. At the hospital Dr. Mendel Volken- heim attended her and she is in a| slightly improved condition this aft- | ernoon, although her condition is critical. Her face and mouth are terribly burned from the poisonous fluid. Ellen Alexander i O'BRIEN ESTATE $8,414.25, Had Property on Clark Street and Cash in Several Banks. of today An appraisel of the estate Jo- hanna O'Brien filed with the court of probate by John E. Dun- was lay and John Meehan. Tt is valued at $8,444.25 and consists of the follow- ing: Real estate, street Cash, Bristol Savings bank Cash, Farmington Savings bank . Cash, Middletown bank Cash, Savings Bank of Britain 4 Savings IKAISER’S PROPOSAL | it entirely concurs with the suggestion { made | German government | shoula 782.00 | 1,047.00 | i be agreed upon for { submission to INTHE FRYE CASE IS AGCEPTED BY U. . Washington Agrees to Have Dam- ages Tor Loss of Vessel Fixed By a Mixed Commisison ALSO DISPUTED TREATY PROVISIONS ARBITRATED American Reply Calls on Germany | for Statement As to Whether She Intends to Conduct Future Navai Operations According to Her Inter- | pretation of Prussian-American Compact Or Those of Uncle Sam. Washington, Aug. 17.—The Amer- ican reply to Germany’s last note on the sinking of the American sailing ship William P. Frye;, made pubfc here today by the state department, accepts the proposal that damages be fixed by a mixed commission and that the dispu‘ed treaty provisions be submitted to arbitration at The Hague but calls on Germany for a statement, meanwhile, as to whether she intends to conduct her future naval operations in accordance with her interpretation of the Prussian- American treaty or those of the United States. Opens Way for Settlement. The note is regarded as putting the noted case well on the way to settlement. It is addressed by Secre- tary Lansing tc Ambassador Gerard at Berlin, and follows: You are instructed to present the following note to the German minis- ter for foreign affairs: Under instructions from my gov- ernment, I have the honor to inform your excellency, in reply to vour note of July 30 in regard to the claim | for reparation for the sinking of the | William ¥’. Frye, that the government | of the United States learns with re- gret that the objections urged by it against the submission of this e to the prize court for decision have not commended themselves to the 1 perial German government and i cqually regrets that the reasons pre- sented by the imperial German gov- ernment for submitting ths case to the prize court have failed to re- move_the objections of the govern- ment” of the United States to the adoption of that course. @ Welcomes Germany‘s Proposal. As this disagreement has been reached after the full presentation of the views of both governments in our previous correspondence a further exchange of views on the question in dispute would doubtless be unprofitable, and the government of the United States therefore wel- comes your excellency’'s suggestion that some other way should be found for settling this case. The two methods of settlement pro- posed as alternative sugestions in your excellency’s note have been given careful comsideration, and it is be- | lieved that if they can be combined so that they may bhoth be adop'ed, hey will furnish a satisfactosy hasis for the solution of the questions at issue. Settled by Negotiations, Te government of the United States has already expressed its desire that the question of the amount of indem- nity to be paid by the imperial Ger- man government under its admitted ; liability for the losses of the owners and captain on account of the de- struction of the Frye, should be set- tled by diplomatic negotiations, and of the imperial Gerran government that the simplest way would e t. agree as proposed in your note, “that each of the two governments desig- nate an expert and that the two ex- perts jointly fix the amount of indem- nity for the vessel and any American property which may have been sunk with her” to be paid by the imperial German government when ascertained as stated in your note. It s as- sumed that the arrangement will in- clude some provision for calling in an umpire in case the experts fail to agree. The government States notes that your suggestion is with the express reservation that a payment under this arrange- ment would not constitute an admin- istration admission that American treaty rights had been violated hut would be regarded by the imperial merely as ful- filling a duty or polic founded on existing treaty stipulations. A ment of this would be acceptable the government of the United State providea acceptance of such piimern likewise be understood to be | without prejudice to the contention of the government of the United States that the sinking of the Frye was without iegal justification, and pro- vided also that an arrangement can the immediate | arbitration of the | question of legal justification, in so of the United to lTotal creecisacsssassiaass $8,444.2 (Continued on Tenth Page.) | cable | ing the injured boy, | that VIOLENT CYCLONE DEVASTATES HAITI Numrous Victims Claimed in Towns | Along Coast—Heavy Interior Floods Reported, Port Au Prince, Haili, Sunday, | Aug. 15. (Delayed in Transmission) A violent cyclone has devastated the | cntire southera side of the Haitien | Republic. There have been numer- | ous victims in the towns along the | coast. The town of Aux Caves, 92 miles | southwest of Port Au Prince, anda with a population of 25,000 suffered particularly. The towns of Grade Ville and Petiterville were destroy- | cd. In the interior heavy floods are | reported. The coffee crop has been | in part destroved. All communication by telegraph or with the devastated districts interrupted. has heen BOY STRUCK BY AUTO IN CRITICAL CONDITION Fourteen Year Old Harcld | Schroedel in the Hospital in Precarious Condition What may result in a serious acci dent occurred on Arch street, near Hart street, about 8:30 o’clock this morning, when an automobile driven 'GALVESTON READY 70 REPAIR DAMAGE TONE BY HURRICAR Texas Town Passes Through One of Worst Storms in Past Fiteen Years \FIVE FEET OF WATER STANDS IN THE CITY Several Communities of Southeast Texas Isolated From itest of the World—Crops and Farm Housc Along Coastal Plains Ruined— Velocity of Wind Attains Miles an Hour, Dallas, Tex., Aug. 17.—Only meagre information was available at noon to- cay concerning the terrific tropical storm that vesterday struck the Texas | cvast, flooding Galvesion, and which then swept inland, doing heavy dam- 4ge to crops and farm property. So far as known nc lives were lost. | Galveston, Houston and | three of the principal cities of south Texas, still were cut off from wire Ly Eugene Kieffer of Stanley street, | 1an into Harold Schroedel, aged 14 years of 20 Division street. is now in the hospital in a semi-conscious condition. According to the story told by Mr. Kieffer, he was driving on Hart street at a rate of about ten miles an hour when he noticed a milk wagon belonging to J. E. Avery of Shuttle Meadow avenue. Just as he neared the wagon the Schroedel voy darted directly in front of his machine and Vi knocked down. Stopping has car a few feet away, | aid and HT rushed to the boy's imimediately summoned Dr. Bray, who, on noticing his serious cendition, ordered him removed to the hospital at once. The hospital zuthorities stated that his condition s serious. Witnesses to the accident cxonerate Mr. Kieffer from any blame for the Kieffer unfortunate affair. He has driven an | vall had come from tae city itself. { al McClean are everal years and has been | Railroad and other reports from vari- | tomorrow. auto for considered times. Dr. a careful driver at all Clitton¥ Cooley Banol I8 nttenas tated thi fte noon that he was suffering from lacerated brain and probably a ture at the base of the skull. His condition at press time ebout the same as wnen he wa brought in this morning. He had not regained consciousness. WILLIAM HOULIHAN DIES SUDDENLY wa Well Known Resident Passes Away This Morning—Had Not Been Il —Found Unconscious in Bed. William Houlihan of 259 Washing- ton street, died suddenly at his home this morning. The death came ax a shock to his relatives as he has not been ill of late and was around yes- terday as ugual. - When his sister went to his room this morning she found him in an un-, conscious condition and immediately called a physician, but Houlihan had expired before his arrival. Medical Examiner Wright wa: and he gave the cause of death as ‘“‘unknown.” The deceased was the son of Mr. and Mrs, Daniel Houlihan, who were among the first Irish settlers in this city. He was employed as for various contractors at times and also worked for the board of public works on the street department. was 47 years of age and is survived by a brother, John Houlihan, and a sister, Miss Mary Houlihan. . The funeral will be neld Thursday morning from St. Mary’s church and burial will be in the new Catholic cemetery. DEAL FOR SALE OF CALUMET BUILDING ! Occupants Said to Have Been Told That New Owner May Take frac- called | teamster | He | communication. A brief wireless despatch stating that Gaiveston, after | water, brought the only definite infor | mation in several hour: the coast city, concerning v 1mors had been afioat | tew hours. No Loss of Life, A Galveston despatch | mention of loss of life. | five feet of water in the sireets v | slowly draining off and that fire started probably as a result of the | lightning, were yet t- be placed undet | centrol. in the | made had broken from her muorings drifted half a mile seaward. stations at Port Arthur =and For! | Crockett were also said to be out o | commission. No direct | | i i word concerning the ses cus sources | large scctions of the connect the city with had been blown o1 One report was that a 1 iheen blown through the the offices of the san &t Temple, Tex., it was stated | two werk trains had been ordered tc 1he coast to assist in repairing damaged causeway. Safe ¥rom High While wire ated way however, tha the Wate communication Nincty | Beaumont, | no It said the s | against prospective The despatch said also that the United States transport McClellan | remain on the walls.” and Wircless | tion has which mainland with 1 FORMER COMPTROLLER | BRADSTREET BURIED | | | One of Best Known Men in Politi Life of Connccticut Laid at Rest in Thomaston. funeral former Thoms: f Thor tate cor known men | Connecticut, ton, Aug. 17.—The s D Bradstreet, stroller, and one of the best in the political life of wns held from his laic home this aftcrnoon The Rev. C D. Owen, of Congreg:u | tional church of which Mr, Bradstrec had been a member, read the ser- o e the rge mour. Roberts, | | ! { ers were William A, Ar- | L B i Augusia Thomaston, | friends. The side Cemetery The attendance of friends of | Bradstrect was large, ana many izens of prominence throughout state were among them. The Thomas factory, of which the ‘('Cus(wl was general manager, | closed during the day. The number | of floral pieces from individuals and organizations was large. and 8 who had interment close Hill- | been was in Mr. cit- the Seth Ade was 1 W. W ATTEMPT T0 - AROUSE VERA CRUZ | ER Circulate Highly Inflamma- | tory Placards Against Ac- | | tion By A. B. C. Powers. The boy | Weathering one of the worst storms in | ew Britain General | fifteen vears, was under five feet of | i de- Cruz 17.—State Vera ashington, Aug. ent dispalches from “Highly inilammatory placards nave been circulated throughout | the town by the I. W. W.. The placards called for a mass meeting on Aug. 15 directed principally intervention or . | interference in Mexicc by the A. > | B. C.. Authoritics profess ignorance | of the document | the mass meeting Carranza forbade but the posters No active anti-foreign demonstra- been reported but officials t | here are uneasy cver the situation f | it affects Americans and other for- | cigners. The Battleships New Hamp- hire and Louisiana with Rear Admir- due in Vera Cruz t' Woundrd are beginning to arrive at Chih. # hua ‘rom the vicinity of Torreon. which is taken to indicate fighting between Obregon and Villa The report adds Gen, Villa has or- dered many executions for pillaging. Responses ‘o the Pan-American that | appeal calling upon the main faction » | al leaders to end their civil strife still the | were being wuaiied by administratic | officials today. No replies had reacl | ed the state department early today, ! although both Generals Carranza and | Beaumont and Houston remained cut | Villa have received the communica- | off little anxiety was felt for | distance from the coast and were be- ! leved practically safe from high gulf | waters. Streets Filled With Water, | The streets of Galveston were re- | ported fiMed with rain water but the | level of the sea water several feet be- low that of the city last night. The greatest damage is that to crop and farm houses along the coastal plains, Velocity of Wind Increases. Reports from Galveston last night indicated that the velocity of the wind | there had increased irom thirty-si | miles an hour in the forenoon to be- | | tween sixty-five and seventy miles sional gusts even attained | miles. | ning in streets on the bay front but | that the damage had been compara- | tively smail. 5,000 People Leave Galveston, About 5.000 persons are estimated to have left Galvesion for Houston | ana other interior points during the | last thirty-six hours, fleeing from the | storm. The interruption with Beau | mont and Houston, was said by tele- graph and telephone officials to have | been caused by heavy rain and winds, ! but not so severe as to cause anxiety | for the safety of the citizens in those localities: Hundreds of residents of Port Aransas, Sabine, cities, were reported also to have left | their homes and hurried to places | away from the gulf coast but there | | B U ot g that the storm | aid damage to any of these those | cities because they are situated some late In the afternoon and that occa- | ninety | It was stated water was run- | Sabine Pass, | Port O'Connor and other small coast | places. | tion. That Carranza will make an unfavorable response to the appeal on the ground that foreign interven- | tion would be nnwelcome to the Mex- | ican people is the belief of his rep- | resentatives here. His friends claim he will say he already has brough | peace in a large part of Mexico; that j he is in full control of that terr tory; that he restoring order and that after removal of the capital from Vera Cruz to Mexico City he will | consent to confer with the revolting fdctions. In oiher quarters, however. it was =aid that he might agree on | conference based on proportional re- | presentation. MILITIA K NAVAL 3ARKS, Connecticut Saflors Leave on Ken- tncky Practic —The embarked Kentucky, off this afternoon for Gu Haven, 1 | militia_of Connecticut { the battleship i Haven i the | for Chesapeatce Large | New Aug. n on New harbor, and left in Tan- large gun Kentucky arrived d having on board of Maine and veszel weighed Bay where | gier sound there will be practice. The | from the eastwar: | the Naval Militia | Rhode Island. The complement from ! this state was about 285 while that | of the other stutec numbered less than | 200 from each. The Kentucky has a skeleton crew of regulars but the volunteer jackies will work the ship { while at sea and will drill in every | part of warship routine. The Ken- | tucky will sail from Tangier sound later for Portland to drop the Maine | detachment, thence to Newport to leave the Rhode Islanders, and hence | anchor and Yy | Port Arthur reported last night that | to this port, arriving about August Charge in Near Future. | important real estate transac- id to be in the works in the sale of the Calumet block on Church The block by the | Building company Occupants of stores in the building | d to have received information | the block is on the market and that a deal ma shortly whereby it is to change hands. Philip, Corbin owns the controlling interest in the Calumet Building com- pany and is said to be anxious to dis- | An owned | pose of all his real estate holdings. e ; WEATHER. Hartford, Auz. 17.—For Hartford and vicinity: Fair, | cooler tonight and Wednesday. l SN NS the storm had attained only forty miles an hour at that piace, as stated to have reacned miles at Sabine. Numerous hith ngs blown and fowns extent of the last reports, sixty ve houses at nowever, and small these small the nage, according to down wis Ready to Repair Damage, Galveston, Te Aug. 17, Wireless to Fort Sam Houston lephone to San Antonio, 10;10 a. m. Galveston today has passed through one of the worst storms within the past fifteen years, and now is ready to tepair the damage done by Iast night's hurricane, Five feet of water stands in the city and is slowly draining off. Two Via, and (Continued on Eleventh Page.) The delay in embarkation was due to the late arrival of the Kentucky. | A battleship, (the Montana) dropped { anchor three miles off Branford Pea }v.m yesterday and the supposition | was that the Kentucky v | here The nuval militia w | assembled at ihe state armory upon arrival of (he out of town division and marched to Wharf. Il:-:v i the men sat out the forenoon, and | | Commander Eben 11l got no word | from the Dbattleship which to | take his commund. No provision had | } been made for rationing the men . i the wharf and some of them | inclined (o fume ahout | fence. Shortly after noon word came | | that the Kentucky was steaming | down the sound and at 1:15 the ves. | sel was abreast of Momauguin. The { naval militia an hour later w: | put aboard, .Y 1 ! | ! Toie w were inconven FRANK LYNG NEAR BIRTHE OF MARY. P Alleged Murd?réi)? i tory Girl Hanged (08 Armed Mob in G8 TAKEN FROM MILLEDK PENTTENTIARY LA \ Superintendent of Shackled and Trusty With Death Before Secured Their Vietim Hustled Into An Autg Drove to Scene of Exec Marietta, Ga., Aug. 17 Frank, life tel murder of Mary Phagan, girl and who was the prison farm .at Mill night, was lynched two, here today by the armed took him He was hange Frank was brought 100 the prison farm to & P within sight of the form Mary Phagan. No shots Lynched About Day Frank's body, barefoof only in prison trousers ani found at 8:30 o'clock thi It is believed e was lynel daylight Several automobiles, left here in the direction o ville last' night. , After of some of the machines ficers started out on the they believed the automol traveled. They had gone miles when they saw the Frank not more than 150 the roadside Hundreds Visit News that the body had { spread rapidly and wit time hundreds of persons !ing to’the scene. No & fore was made to cut the as Sheriff Hicks was not the coromer took no actl It is believed that the | | bridge over Little River," | ton, when the armed P loudly and fired shots wi delay pursuers. THe vi¢ bridge was thoroughly at the time the search made, it is probable Fral had met death Body Cut Down, Frank's body was cut 10:15 o’clock, but not the orowd .had spoken tol advocating mutilation of | Many women and child the throng. \ Newton A. Morris plead crowd to allow an inqu proper course. A vote Wi and taken. It was overs in favor of allowing thel take charge of the body then cut down and taken The inqiiest was set for 18§ Body Placed In A At the suggestion of Morris former superior here the body was takem undertaker’s wagon in whi placed at, the lynching into an automobile on of the town. The autm" toward Atlanta. W Judge Morris telep! Smyrna to an Atlanta W) meet the automobile and of the body Draw Crowd to serving a factory Reports that the armed tended to lynch Frank hody on the zrave of My drew a crowd to the littlel here early today. Efforts if several large antomobil there last night broL®at from one citizen that MW several of the best automol in town not around ing.” are Reeived Telephone Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 17 persons in several towns | cdgeville were informed that Leo M Frank hai from the state prison farm and requested to watch for mobiles in which the mob the route taken was not kn at 4:30 o'clock this bert Haae, one of received telephone con at about four o'cloek ing from o man who gave “Jones saying that’ ™ sn hanged:abont five mik Milledgeville ‘Jonex™ Haas that he trying friend in Atlantt and tell the hanging. but had get dence telephone by mista [ Reports Latonton, Gau, Aug. 17, biles bearing the mob that Frank from { ‘the peniten Milledgeville Tist night we to a point near this city e A party of mewspaper men K. Jackson, a white farmi near the Putnam-Baldwin was armer S (Continued on Tenth B4