New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 4, 1916, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL' LOCAL NEWSPAPERS HERALD “ADS” MEAN BETTER BUSINESS PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1916 —SIXTEEN PAGES. ESTABLISHED 1876 FIVE KNOWNDEAD AND MANY MISSING IN FIRE THAT SWEPT _CANADA PARLIAMENT HOUSE Two Women and Three Men Among Victims Bomb Theory Rejected by Col. Sherwood, © Commissioner of Dominion Police BEAUTIFUL LIBRARY BUILDING OF $6,000,0600 STRUCTURE SAVED FIRE AT ATLANTIG GTY An ‘ Four Others Missing—Ove>- brook Hotel Destroyed By Flames. Act of “Deliberately Planned Incendiarism” and “an Unpardon- able Crime Against Civilization”— Gallinger Objects to Consideration. Ottawa, and three perished through Ont., Feb. 4—Two women known to hava the fire which swept the central portion of Cans gnificent Parliament last the chainbers of the men are in ad night, ¢ s Aot Adlantic City, N. J., Feb. 4.—Three e 0 eSirovin, s bor 9 sons are known to be dead and s sae Teroare - Neveral OWIGr | four are missing as the result of REoIne BouieC ng, and it | gro which early today destroyed the is feared are buried in the ruins! Ot hiesic tiotal o o f5. two - i | Overbrook Hotel in this e 16 two women who . lost theif | xnown des Hves arc Ma; Bray, wife of H. A. | Ticho! and Madam Morin, | rhe , emas Mott, Morin of Beauce, Que. e Miss Marie est. engineer of hotel. father of proprietor | or Burned in Debris. Johnson, New York, a | The men, whos bodies are still sfifled in the debris, are Alphonse | “ Search of the hotels ©Obs Jardins, a Dominion policeman; | . 1€ Alphonse his uncle an | 2¢e0 employe in the building, and. Robert | Fanning, 2 waiter. All night long firemen, police and #sldiers fought to save the $6,000,000 structure, which was considered one of the finest examples of Gothic archi- tecture on this continent. They were successful in saving the beautiful li- brary biulding and the east and west wings of the main’ edifice. Bomb Theory Rejected. Immediately after the fire started a report spread that it was caused hy thb explosion of an incendiary bomb, in the reading room of the house of commons. The bomb theory was, however; rejected foday by Col, Sher- wood, commissioner of Dominion po- | £u : has resulted ting all persons known to have in the Overbrook except four Some of these are believed to have cscaped from the burning building. The fire is believed to have started in the kitchen. When it was dis covered flames were shooting up the elevator shaft, and soon the entire building was burning. There were not many guests in the house but most of them were aroused in time 10 escape. Their exit was cut off and most of them had to jump from win- dows. One woman was seen to faint after calling for help from an upper win- dow and was burned to death while her body lay across the sill in view of hundreds of persons unable to help her. The engineer of the hotel hung out of a window until the fire a Des Jardins, in { nounces | by three aeroplanes. aeroplanes was hit in the motor twice | ERZERUMEVACUATED BY TURKISH FORGES Austrians Make Three Airship Raids on Port of Durazzo BOMBS DROPPED ON AVLONA Continued Activity by Allied Artillery Along Franco-Belgian' Front—Eng- h Destroy Mine Crater Occupied by Germans, Petrograd, Feb, 4, Via. London, 40 p. m—The Novoe Vremya as- serts it received from a trustworthy source information to the effect that the Turks have evacuated Erzerum, ore of their principal strongholds on the Caucasian front, Three Raids on Durazzo, Berlin, Feb. 4, by Wireless to Say- ville—The Austro-Hungarian ad- miralty in statement issued at Vienna today, reports that three air ships raids were made on the Al- banian port of Durazzo from Jan. 25 to Feb. 1. The statement also an- that bombs were dropped Austrian aeroplanes on the port Avlona which is occupied by an troops. The text of the admiralty state- ment follows “On Jan. 25 the port of Durazzo was attacked by five Austro-Hungar ian aeroplanes, on Jan. 27 a raid a by of February 1 another attack was made by three aeroplanes. Bombs were Gropped on the tents of the camp, which is near the city, with destruc- tive success. All the machines turned, in spite of a heavy fire from the land batteries and warships, “On February 2, Avlona was shelled One of our and forced to land on the sea. commander of the aerial squadron, +Naval Lieutenant Konyovic, went down on the water to assist the avia- tors in the damaged machine. Al- though the sea was rough on account of a bora, the lieutenant succeeded in taking both officers from the stricken aeroplanes. This was done in the face of a vialent fire from the bat- teries at Saseno, and while two de- strovers were approaching at full speed. “The aeroplane then rose from the The 1eached his hands and caused him to drop to the street. He was killed aimost instantly. Another Woman who managed to crawl out of a Win- dow fell and also lost her life. The bodies of the dead still in the ruins are those of the parents of Richard Mott, proprietor of the hotel and Paul Hendricks, of Chambers- burg, Pa. lice, who insisted that the conflagra- ton was accidental. It was announced tpday that until other arrangements afe made parliament would sit in the Vietoria Memorial Museum, which has a spacious ground floor. The first sit- ting of the commons was called for 8 o'clock this afternoon. The senate will reassemble at the museum on Tuesday next. by the premier TO WIDEN ELM STREET. Notices to interested property owners were sent out by the board of public works today of a hearing Wed- | nesday evening on the widening of ¥Ilm street from Park to East. Main streets. It is proposed to have a I uniform width of thirty feet and the part affected is from the railroad crossing to Park street. The board expects to lay permanent pavement on the street mext year at a cost of about $19,000. A hearing will also be held Wednesday night on a build- ing line on Columbia street from Arch street to the line of the In- graham property. 15,000 Volumes Destroyed. While conditions have permitted only a hurried survey of the damage to books in the Parliamentary library the indications are that 000 vol- umes, including an immense and in- valuable collection of ecclesiastical literature, have been destroyed. A large collection of beautiful polyglot Bibles, some of them printed in the seventeenth century, and said to form one of the most valuable collections Qf the kind in the world, has also been. Host. M. P. is William §. Loggie, Parliament for North Umberland, N. B., is reported missing. It was stated last night that Frederick F. Pardee the chief liberal whip in the housé‘t &f commons, also was missing but it was subsequently learned that he ssing. £ member of SENT TO MATTEAWAN. Albany, N. Y., Feb, 4.—Harold L. Severy, the Boston youth who last Friday shot four persons, one mortal- ly, in this city, was today committed water with the rescued officers and Teturned safely after a flight of 136 miles to the Gulf of Cattaro.” German Berlin, Official Report. feb. 4, Via London, 4 p. m ntinued and increasing ac- tivity by the allied artillery along the Franco-Belgian front is reported in today’s statement by German army headquarters. Explosion of a British mine which destroyed one of mine craters near Hulluch which the Germans were occupying is an- nounced, as well as apparently incon- clusive hand grenade operations along the front nearby. 18 French Official Report. Paris, Feb. 4, via London, 3:25 p. m. —The war office this afternoon gave out the following statement. “There were no important events last night except in the Vosges. where the artillery on both sides was rather active near Draunkopf, in the Valley of the Fecht, and at Altmatt, north- west of Metzerol.” FOURTEE S CASES Epidemic Strikes Polish Orphanage on North Burritt Street. Fourteen cases of measles at the Polish orphanage on North Burritt went to Sarania, Ont, yesterday morning and that he could not have réturned before the fire. to Matteawan State hospital for Crim- inal Insane. This action by the coun- ty court followed the report of a spe- cial commission of alienists that Sev- ery was insane. Ministers Are Injured. Several persons who were burned or otherwise hurt in fleeing through street were reported to the health de- partment today. The number of cases in the city re- ported to the department in the past fcur days is twenty-s the corridors before the swift rush of the flames or in escaping from the windows are in hospitals today. @ne of those most severely injured is Martin Burrell, minister of agri- culture, who was burned about the h Dr. Michael Clark, member for Red Deer, suffered burns about = the hands. Sir Robert Borden, the Can- pdian premier, escaped without in- jury. Mwme Bray and Mme Morin ts of Mme Sevigny, wife of the gpeaker and were trapped in the gppaker's rooms. Mme Sevigny dropped her two children into a firemen’s safety met and then leaped Into it herself, as did one of her guests, Mme. Dussault, of Quebec Ihey escaped unhurt. When the fire- men reached the speaker's chamber they found' Mme Bray and Mme Movin unconscious. Vain attempts were wade to revive thema with pulmotors. Tower Falls. The tall central tower of the Par- jiament building fell at 1:30 a. m. to- day and about the same time three or four men were crushed beneath the falling roof of one of the wings. By 8 o’clock the flames. were rolling through the senate building, but the figemen believed the library would bR saved. The parliament building included A central building with two wings, in nli 470 feet in length with a tower of 228 feet high and library building in the rear. Many valuable sculptures, paintings and decorations adorned its yooms and corridors. It was erected jn 1865 of cream colored sandstone were Providence, R. I, Feb. 4-—Mrs. Elizabeth I". Mohr sat within fuil view of the jury today and wept while her attorney, John J. Fitzgerald, de- clared his closing argument that the state had failed to show she had hired two negroes Cecil V. Brown and Henry H. Spellman, to murder her husband, Dr. C. Franklin Mohr. Mr. Fitzgerald’s address was the last word in behalf of the woman around whom the state had attempted to establish a murder plot charge. in Counsel for Brown and Spellman concluded their arguments yesterday. Attorney General Rice for the state though it was was to close in the afternoon, that until al- not expected the reach the jury case would to- after MRS. MOHR’S COUNSEL CLAIMS STATE HAS FAILED TO SHOW WOMAN HIRED TWO NEGROES TO KILL HUSBAND Attorney Fitzgerald’s Addres s to Jury Last Word in Be- half of Widow Whom Prosecution Charges With Murde r Plot. Stearr sented This, probably, will be pre- t the opening of the session. Subjected to Injust John J. Fitzgerald, of counsel Mrs. Mohr, declared in his argument that the state had “subjected his cli- ent to an injustice,” in its refusal to permit her to be tried alone. The pros- ecution, he said, had attempted to show four motives behind its charge that she had hired three negroes to kill her husband, none of which, he contended, had Dbeen established. These were jealousy, revenge, a de sire to get possession of the docto: money, and fear of divorce suit poss bilitie: Mr. Fitzgerald vere in his discus of Geroge W. Rook was particularly sc- on of the testimony s and Miss Florence ving to Mrs. Mohr, who was in tears, Mr. Fitzgerald said that several of the witnesses for the prosecution 4 (Continucd en Fiftcenth page.) morrow, the charge by Judge “have been shouting ‘crucify her!’ " s made by two machines, and on | re- | | taken down from the roof to the ex-| the | for | ) SIX WOMEN HILLED IN BRODKLYN FIRE Home of Widow of President of German Savings Bank Destroyed DEFECTIVE WIRES CAUSE Mrs. Tag Escapes But Two of [ Daughters Were among \'ip\ims‘r—-, Conflagrations Occur in Hull, Mass., | ‘Waynesburg, Pa., and Windsor. York, Feb. 4.—! women in a fire which des- Mrs. Casim New lost their lives iroyed the home of Tag at 243 Hancock St., Brooklyn cearly today. Mr. Tag, widow of the president of the German Savings Rank, esscaped, but two of her daughters were among those who perished. The dead are: Miss Caroline Tag, and Miss Helen Tag, the daughter of the late bank president: Hannah . | Snavley, 68 vears old, a cousin of | Mrs. Tag; Jennie Stedman, a nurse, and Anna Cain, and Lizzie Cain, ser- van Defective Insulation Cause. The fire, which began in a parti- tion on the lower floor of the four story house, is attributed to defective insulation of wires. Miss Caroline Tag, was awakened by smoke and discovered the fire about three o’clock this morning. Hastening to the telephone she notified her brother who lived in adjoining house and then telephoned to the fire depart- ment. As she gave the address of r home to the operator at fire headquarters she said: “T am being cvercome by smoke.” Snow Hinders Firemen. Miss Tag awakened her mother who is 50 vears old and aided her | 1o escape through a thira story win- dow of the roof of an extension in the rear of the house. Apparently Miss Tag then went to the rooms of | her sister and the other occupants| to awaken them and she with the| others was trapped by the flames and smoke which filled the halls and stairways, cutting off their means of | exit. There were no fire escapes on the building and the firemen were delayed in reaching the house by | heavy snow. When the firemen reached there the building was blaz- a ONE MAN KILLED AND | be R. Sammi, died a little later ing furiously, Mrs. Casimir Tag was until that but it was not extinguished victims were | rooms and \na fourth | Tag en- | Feb. 15, Her | the tobacco | banking and | at $\,5nm.-] | | tension to safety after the fire was the bhodies of the six aiscovered lying in the hallway of the third floor. Miss Caroline ed to be married on father was prominent in industry as well as in left an estate estimated 000. wa $150,000 Hotel Fire. Hull, Mass,, Feb. 4—The Rock- | land House, one of the largest hotels st Nantasket Beach, was burned early foday. The loss is estimated at | $150,000. The only person in the huilding was the caretaker, the hotel | having been closed since the end of | the summer season. The cause of the | fire is unknown. | $135,000 Fire in Pennsylvania, | ‘Waynesburg, Pa., Feb. 4.—Build- ings occupying half a square in the | business section were destroyed by | fire today with a loss of $135,000. $2,000 Windsor Fire. Windsor, Feb, 4—A one family | frame house owned and occupied by . Twaukings was busned here early today. Owing to th prevalance of diphtheria in the neighborhood three <mall children of the family after a hurried exit from their burning home had to walk a quarter of a mile be- fore they could be taken into a house, The loss is estimated at about $2,000. WINKLE LOCATES BROTHER. Is War Prisoner in Serbian Detention Camp, Local Man Learns. Jacob Winkle, proprietor of the New Britain Window Cleaning com- pany, received information last night that his younger brother, who was | serving in the Austrian army, is safe. In reading a detailed report prepared ; by a New York Jewish paper, Mr. Winkle found the name of his brother among the Austrian prisoners now in a Serbian detention camp as enforced guests of the Russian Czar. The younger Winkle’s name is Mor- ris and he is but twenty-three years of age. Constable Fred Winkle of Cherry street is an uncle of the young war prisoner. IN FATHER ZEBRIS' MEMORY Next Tuesday will mark the annive sary of the brutal murders of Rev. Joseph Zebris and Eva Gilmanaitis in St. And 's rectory on Church street. An anniversary high mass will be cel- ebrated in their memory at 10 o'clock, and the pastor, Rev. Edw d V. Grikas will extend an invitatien to the mem- bers of the municipal government to attend the services. The officiating clergymen have not as yvet been se- lected. | e WEATHER. Hartford and Vi Hartiord eb. continued cold tonight. day faiv and warmer. e e T S S S GERMAN Y WILL NOT ADMIT THAT SINKING OF LUSITANIA CONSTITUTES ILLEGAL AC New Instructions Forwarded by Berlin to Bernstor Represent Extreme Limits of Kaiser’s Concessions in Case--Eight Words in Suggested Sentence Lansing Refuses to TWO HURT BY ENGINE s Discuss Any Whatever of Negotiatiof JAPANESE LINER SUN Members of Section Gang on New Haven Road Hit By Locomotive. Westbrook, Feb. 4.—One man was killed and two others seriously if not fatally injured here today by being hit by a light engine running west over the New York, New Haven and Hart- ford railroad. All three men probably were members of the section gang of this district or extra men hired since the snowstorm. The accident happened at East Bridge. A freight train was running cast and the light engine west, and ap- parently the taree men who were walking east stepped off one track just in time to be struck by the light en- gine. One man who had ticket 387 in his clothing was struck and rolled about twelve vards under'the engine pilot. The engine was stopped and the firemen held the injured man while the engine backed so that he could be extricated. But this man, supposed to The other men who had cards 385 and 388 were very badly hurt and after being attended by Dr. Grannis of Saybroolk and Dr. Reynolds of Clinton they were placel on Express No. 8 and taken to New London. The difficulty er Linan. 4.—The ik Jape Wecd with Shanghai, Feb. liner Daijin Maru w4 a collision 160 day night in steamship Linan, and lives iost. 5 Tywenty-one persons The Linan, badly damaged, turning to Hong Kong. The collision, ogcurred at a point 80 mi west from were is nigh Daijin Maru, of 15,756 gross, and 243 feet long, was at Kobe in 1900. She was ownec Osaka. The Linan The is owned by the ( Navigation company of London. is 300 feet long, of 211 tons and was built at Grennock in 190 “BUCKET SHOPS” in identifyving the men is due to the fact that vesterday the section foreman, named Maloney, whose home is in Passaic, N. J., sot permission to go there to move his houschold effects to Westbrook. He knows the regular members of his ang, six in number, but it is not | cities were raided simultaneous known how many he engaged to help [ 11 o'clock today by inspectors o in snow removal. banking department, and the Fwo members of the gang, agers taken into custody on chi and son named Wallick live at of violating the blue sky law brook Junction. Some of the extra | Operating fraudulent securities men came from Mount Vernon and | Ping agencies, according to anno Now Soanelie Y. It is thought | ment made shortly before noo that possibly two of the men who were injured had left the train at Guilford a short time before and were walking up the track. The opinion was expressed here that the two men taken to New London are likely to die of Banking Eleven Ohio Cities. ' Tuspecto v Columbus, 0., Feb. 4.—Twelv called “bucket shops” in Eleven father banks. The raids were made on two e lishments in Youngstown, and each in Dayton, Akron, Canton ledo, Marion, Steubenville, Bast I poul, Fremont, Norwhlk and Pig 60 PERSONS DROWNED Daijin Maru Sent to Bottom in Collision With Steam- Swatow. | RAIDED. Department Harry T. Hall, state superintendent of rman Capital Holds View That O K, of the Most Serious Crises of W Has Arisen in Connection With cident and That It Ts Tmpossible! Foresee Outcome From Any Fnd cations—Bourse Reflects Tensio Berlin, Feb. 4, via London, 12:28 m.—Information reaching the ciated Press today indicates that um cumstances will Germany ad that the sinking of the Lusitania an illegal act. The new instruetig forwarded to Ambassador Von Be torff, according tc this informa contains simply one phrase of the'n formulation of the proposed noté regret for the sinking of the ¥ tania. The suggested sentence short, consisting of only eight wol and does not contain the word gal.” It represents the extreme I of Germany’s concessions in the L | tania case Most Se The view entertained here that serious crisis of the | has arisen in connection with Lusitania case and that it is possible to forsee the .outcome 1 eny indications here. The resull the negotiations appears to il sclely on the one word “illegal.” i In the way of ement tween the United States and Germd stand only these seven letters, pressing the conception which PH Cent Wilson and ,Secretary Lans | insist must be embodied in the e $0- | man formula expressing Tegret Ohio | (he loss of American lives aboard 1y at | cunarder. £ the | m:m—4 no ci inese ines- the were aved. re- 1, A ous Crisis. tors built | 1 in | of the most “hina she gross an Germany Stands Firm, Associated Press inforn] that Germany cal designate as illegal a liner by any submal no other difficulties i remain, and forwarded to on Tuesd The is authoritatively and will not sinking of Virtually of settlement instructions Von Bernstorff merely the new formula is hoped to satisfy Washil humiliating this coun! | Although the suggested sentencess cording to a reliable version, arges nd job- unce- n by way new | bassador | contain which it }lt,n without ab- one ;. Aver- ua. A LANSING INDICATES U. S. HAS DECIDED THAT PRUSSIAN-AMERICAN TREATY GOVERNS CASE OF APPAM Sole Question Yet to Be Det ermined Is How Long Cap- tured British Liner Should Be Permitted to Re- main in American Waters. Washington, Feb. 4.—Secretary y German prize crew. A new diplox Lansing indicated today that the controvers! with Great Britain United States had decided to hold that ;"r'i“"““‘j"“fl;’ s“i““?:gw‘] "l'(f"‘;oms the Prussian-American treaty prize as German the case of the Appam ,as Germany contends, and that all that remained to be decided was the interprecation of the appli governs Only Prize Crew Aboard. Newport News, Va., Feb. Lieut. Berge and his small p remained today aboard the British passenger steamer brought into these neutral wa ay as a prize of war The li wgers and original ship’s pany, taken prisoner when the st er wi captured by a mysterious me oft January 15, were ‘libe by order of the United ment. The e fo Ap ation of the treaty’s terms. o The secretary disclosed further that the sole question to be decided by the interpretation was how long the Appam should be permitted to remain in American waters. The treaty guar- antees to a German prize the right to come and go freely. If the Ap- pam was forced to depart she would doubtless become the prey of Brit- ish cruisers assembling outside t} Virginia capes. If forced to depart, German officials have stated the ship would be sunk to prevent her recap- ture by the British. Germany's Expected Contention. Germany is expected to contend that the treaty guarantees the Appam ;) F80000 L R the right tolremain safe in Hlampton,| srs ool o it bt s e an RS el e el bofore ey | Sorfolis amalnR IS E e prize court for adjudication. Techni- SciNew VorksteamentioniEn cally the ship does not become Ger No Guard Over Vessel. s prize until such a court es- The Appam is to remain at this hes the validity of her capture. | until the Washington government Conferences over the status of the British liner were contmued today be- tween Secretary Lansing and other of- ficials of the state department and the neutrality board. Final decision proh- ably will not be reached before tomor- row. sir amba demand ment for crs of the st o1 g0V today ab the Old Dominion liner Jeff route for New ‘York, where they expected to arrive early tonight members of the crew. with the pointers taken from other Br steamers which the raider sank be passengers n, was hel¢ \ptors treut u made—whether she shall be prize of her German the Prussian-Amer rveturned to her British owners The Hague convention. No guard been placed over the United States, reliance being place the word of lieut. Berge that steamer will not moved uvntil qaestions fair vessel by Cecil Spring-Rice, the dor today presented a for on behalf of his zovern- the return to British own- linet Appam, taken by a Brit Ie diplomati involved have been decided. I | | | i 4.—Only Islands wers cides what disposition of her shall be sists of only eight words and doel contain the word “ille; cham terize the sinking of the Lusitanisy such, it goes otherwise to the thest extent possible toward meel American desires. Possible Basis of Settlement, Dr. Alfred Zimmerman, undes | retary for foreign affairs, in an in | view with the Associated Pressi [ or yressed the hope that the new fo la forwarded to Ambassador orff would offer a possible of settlement. ‘However, he made! cffort to conceal the gravity of situation and was most explicit in statement that Germany had reach the ‘extreme limit of concessions vnder no circumstances would @ cede the illegality of her submar campaign in the war area “The government willing to everything in its power, and has dd everything in its power, to American wishes,” he said, there are limits bevond which rriendship snaps. Berns natic is tates oy the | e crew rmer pe 1 last | course. ner’s com- Push Demands. understand Amerig had thought the and the Lusi on the way arrapgemi agreed to pay indemuity 11l that—when the United States denly made its new demands, W it is impossible for us to accept “You push your dems {too far. You must not att mpth humiliate Germany Dr. Zimmerman declined to @il trese new demands or the Ins® tions to Count Von Bernstonft mif precisely, but left no doubt thats whole crisis centered on Secrd 1sin demand that Germi sinking of the Lusiia act contrary to internatio The under-secretary decl that Germany eould admit this sprocedure make concessions Wh would take the submas her hands He asse and again that if the Unif desired to drive matters Germany could g0 no furt it, and that the brea its lamentable consequend Not not We sue settled ao to eam- | ——had Ger- | ight | ern- | must not oard en- | The gun itish fore e in oth- a as avow the an law. repeated ibly illegal or virtually weapon out of port de- ' 2 u \gain breach ndor to aveid has a¢ith all the mMust come, v oot the Most most Regrettable Phase. regrettable The phase of Hf 1all Ly . 1 (Continued on Fifteenth paged