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e [ BT R VOL. LIV.—NO. 199 The Bulletin’s Circulation In Norwich is Doublf. That of Any Other Papgr. and Its Total Circulation is the WHERE PROGRESSIVES. CAME FROM To Rhode Island Audience Roosevelt Disclaims It ' AsOne-Man Movement and That Man Himself OUT OF THE HEART AND NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE Was Bound to Come—But He Pushed It Forward a Few Years . —Great Reception For His First Speech Since Nomina- tion—Opens Campaign in What He Calls Boss-Ridden Rhode Island—Facing Live Issues Instead of Dead Ones. Providence, R. 1, Aug. 16—With cheering and songs, and prayer, the progressive party’s national campaign was opened here tonight. Theodore Roosevet came to Rhode Island, which he described as a boss-ridden state, to open the campaign and received a wel- come, which, as he put it, would have done credit to Kansas. Spoke from Automobi When Colonel Roosevelt reached Providence at flve o'clock he found meveral thousand persons massed in the square before the railroad sta- tion and on the street leading to his hotel. The crowd blocked the way and cheered him until he stood up in his automobile and made a speech. When he started on his way he was halted a second time by a crowd in front of the city hall and made a second ad- dreas. Three hours later Colonel Roosevelt gtood on the stage at Infantry Hall, laughing and waving his hands at the crowd which was wedged into the big building. For several minutes the peo- ple cheered. The band played patriot- jc airs and the colonel beat time. Out- pide the building were hundreds who were unable to force their way in. Some Progressives There. ‘When the din finally died away, Col- .onel Roosevelt stepped to the front of the stage and looked down at his au- dience. “I was told orly six months ago,” he said, “that there was not a progressive in Rhode Island, I think it is pretty plain that that statement is erroneous.” Overflow Mestihg. To accommodate those who were unable to gain admittance’to Infantry Hall, an overflow meeting was held in the opera house. At the outset of his speech Colonel Roosevelt denied that the progressive party was a one-man movement. Right at the outset,” he began, “T wish to answer a question that has been put to me two or three times wsince 1 reached Rhode Island. Men have asked me If this movement is golng to go on, or if it is just a move- ment which is connected with me. I want to answer that right at the out- set. The movement is going on just as sure as fate, This is a real movement springing from the needs and hearts of the people of the United States. The only part that I have had in it is that perhaps I have brought it on two or three years earlier than it would have come anyhow.. The man is blind who does not see that our people are tired of having other peo- ple govern them. Our people are mak- ing up their minds that there must be a new party which should deal with live issues instead of dead ones.” A Permansnt Party. “Lincoin had been a lifelong whig,” said Colonel Roosevelt, “when it be- { came evident that the whig party was unable longer to face the live issues of that day, and he joined the new party that could face the issues. “This is a permanent movement. It is a permanent party, a new party. “Every man who does not want the boses to rule, whom we can get at, is going to be for us. The only diffi- culty is in getting at enough of them.” Roosevelt Epigrams. Colonel Roosevelt kept his audience in a happy mood with epigramatic re- marks which he intqrijected -into his prepared speech. “The boss in private life couldn't look you in the face without grinning if you called him a servant of the people,” he said. At another time he compared the re- publican and democratic parties to a pair of wolves with the voters as a “When two wolves fight for he said, “each wolf dislikes , but there is not any bene- fit to the shoa in that dislik The colonel said that he was taking a more advanced stand constantly as he went forward with the new party movement, To Grow More Radical. “As this movement developes,” he told his hearers, “instead of being less redical, I have grown more radical I am going to go further than the plat- form does. The president’s usefulness ceases when he no longer represents the people. Some time I'm going to deyelope that thought. For the pres- ent I shall go no further than the platform.” % In his prepared speech Colonel Roosevelt assailed the republican and democratic parties and discussed the tariff and the currency question. He devoted one portion of his address to eriticism of Senator Lippitt of Rhode 1sland. GUNMEN FIRST TO BE PUT ON TRIAL. Present Plans of District Attorney’s Office. New York, Aug. 16.—With District Attorney Whitman out of town for the week end, and the grand jury not in mession, interest in the Rosenthal mur- der and its core of police graft center- ed today in Governor Dix's appoint- ment of Supreme Court Justice John W. Goff to hear the cases in extraor- dinar session beginning Sept. 3. First to be placed on trial, according to the present plans, are the gunmen, Beck- er's trial will likely ocme last. John I Melntyre, counsel for Becker, is in Bal- timora today, Justice Goff was counsel for the now tamous Lexow committee, which un- covered 80 mueh crookedness in the police department years ago, and he has also been an assistant disteiet af torney hare, On the bench he has pre. #ided in many well known eriminal cases. He was elected 1o the suprems court fn 1906 and is about 60 years old, SAW O'WALLORAN DIVE UNDER THE TRAIN duste of Twe Universities Killed by New Yerk Elovated, New York, Ang. 16—Thomas O'Hal. loran, 30 years old, a graduate of the University of Dublin and the Univer- ity of Oxford, was killed in a down- town elevated railroad station during the rush hours today. Witnesses de- clared thai O'Halloran deliberately dived under an approaching express tratn. Several women on the crowded phtform fainted. SUSTAINS PRESIDENT. Senate QGives His Veto Support on Wool and Metal Tariff Bills. ‘Washington, Aug. 16.—The senats today voted to sustain the vetoes of the esident on the wool and metal mriff revision bills. On the metal bill the motion to override the vets dld not even obtaln a majority. meither measure did the vole approach the necessary two-thirds. Benator Simmons called up the metal bill, which was first disposed' of. Without a debate, a roll call was tak- en and 32 senators voted in favor of everriding the president, while 38 voted against passage. No republicans vol- od to pass the bill Senator La Follette made the motion to repass the woel bill. He asserted that the bill was a protective tariff measure and was framed according to the tariff board's report on the wooi industry. He analyzed the report of the tariff board and compared it with the bill. Senator La Follette asserted that the faflure of the president to ac- ecept the judgment of congress was a usurpation of power. Senator Reyburn answered Mr. Follette, and denounced democratic measure. When the veto finally was taken, 39 senators voted in favor of pussing (he b and 36 against it. The following republicans volcd with ihe democrats to override the wool Velo: Senators Bristow, Clapp, Crawford, 1. Fol- lette, Puindexter and Works Ta the bill as a Escaped Patient Recovered. Torrington. Conn.,, Aug. .16.—John | Rtapleton, an inmate of the Connecti- | cnt hospital for the insane at Middle- town, who escaped from that institu- | tion vesterday, was caught by the local | police tonight. He was committed to the asrlum from Neugatuck two vears ~ > COULD NPT AGREE ON CANAL BILL. Opposition so Strong to Amended Measure That Senate Adjourned. ‘Washington, Aug, 16.—Such unexpect- ed opposition to the amended Panama canal bill developed in the house to- {night that an adjournment was taken, as the best way out of an embarrass- ing situation. Representatives Moore |and Olmsted of Pennsylvania, repub- | lieans led the- attack. They charged that the conferees had added matter | not passed by either the house or the | senate, and that by so doing they had exceeded their authority. The senate earlier in the day had adopted the conference report by a vote of 48 to 18, after a hard fight, led by Senator Brandegee, chalrman of the senate conferees, who had refused to #ign the ngreement, Benator Brande- gea urged defeat of the conference re- port and the passage of a (emporary resolution giving the president pewer to operate the canal, WOMAN NOVELIST TAKES THE S8TUMP FOR WILSO/. Gertrude Atherten Mrs, Bpeaks n Califernia. San e, August 16.—Mrs, { Gertrude Atherton, the California nov- ! elist, “took the stump” here last night to tell California’s newly enfranchised women why, in her oplnion, they should vote for Woodrow Wilson, Beginning with the announcement “that 1 cannot see much difference In the personal platforms of Wilson and Roosevell,” Mrs, Atherton delivered a3 eplgrammatic attack upon Colonel Roosevelt and a llke defense of Gov- ernor Wilson. CAPTAIN LORD’S DEFENSE." Does Not Believe His Boat Was the One Sighted from the Titanic. Liverpovl, Aug. 16.—W. Stanley Lord, who was captain of the Leyland mer Californian, at the time disaster to the Titan statement today defending his con- duct. He declares that if the Califor- nlan had been the steamer sighted from the Titanic she would also have been sighted from the Cunard liner Carpathia. Captain Lord states that the stigma cast on his character and seamanship is undeserved and unjust. The evi- dence, he says, iIs conclusiv of the responsible officers of the Cal- ifornian was aware that there had been a serious calamity. The second officer was the only one who saw sig- nals, so Captain Lord declares himself justified in relying on that officer's judgment that the vessel sighted steamed eight’ miles between one and two o'clock in the marning, whereas the Titanic did not move after mid- night That any seaman Should, wilfully neglect distress signals is preposter. ous and unthinkable, in the opinion of | Captain Lord, who says the lac a reply to the Morse signals fro Californtan convinced oftfcers that vessel of the unimportance the previous rockets the f that the vessel repo away was a further justif the Danbury School Superintendent, Danbury, Conn., Aug. 16.—The board of educatfon at {ts meetin gtoday by | On | which 1,617 lives were lost, issued a | that none | elected F. J. Brownscomhe of Mont- | pelier, Vt, superintendent of the city schools, at as lary of $2,000 vearly, He | will succeed George H. Tracy, recently resigned o o > P g Cabled Paragraphs Governor of Bahams London, Aug. 16.—George Basil Had. 1 don-Smith has been appointed govern- or of the Bahamas in succession to Sir William Grey-Wilson. President of Peru. Lima, Peru, Aug. 16.—Guillermo Bil- linghurst, m r of Lima, was today elected president of Peru in succes- sion to Augusto Leguia, whose term expires ptember 24, 1912. The two vice-presidents of the republic will be elected tomorrow. Chinese Plotter Summarily Executed. Peking, China, Aug. 16.—Chang Chen Wu, who was alleged to be the orig- inator of a conspiracy in Hankow and also the instigator of the attempts to shoot several members of the Ho-Nan assembly, was arrested at midnight and summarily executde by the po- lice, Fear for Yacht Party. Dover, Eng., Aug. 16—Considerable anxiety on account of the bad weather is felt here in regard to the non-ar- rival of the yacht Silver Crescent, which has on board four of the five Englishmen who were arrested on August 4 at Eckernfoerde in Schles- wig-Holsteln by the German police and charged with espionage. Havana Carters on Strike. Havana, Aug. 16.—A general strike of carters which was suddenly put in- to operation this morning, completely stopped traffic in a part of the city. The men demand ten cents additional pay per cart load between the wharves and the railroad stations and they also insist that the merchants hear part of the expense of loading and unloading. Cut Mooris Troops to Pieces. Fez, Morooco, Aug. 16.—A severe fight occurred today at Mouley Bouch- ta between the French troops under General Gouraud and the Mocrish folfowers of the pretender at Sichtala, in which the French lost eight killed and 40 wounded. Three thousand Moors were engaged and their ranks were decimated by several bayonet charges which were gallantly carried out by the French troops who, after a four hours' battle, routed the Moors with great loss. ARGUMENTS CONCLUDED IN DARROW CASE. Judge Will Make His Charge Today. Los Angeles, Cal, Aug. 16—In the case of Clarence S. Darrow, charged with jury bribery, District Attorney Fredericks did not conclude the ar- gument for the prosecution until late today and Judge Hutton announced he would not deliver his instructions to the jury until tomorrow. District Attorney Fredericks closed his argument. which had extended through a day and a half, by urging aside their sympathy for him_ and, by finding him guilty, put an end for- ever to the corruption of juries. “If by reason of his age,” he said, “or for any other reason, you think he fs entitled to consideration or clem- Gen- ency, let the court extend it. tlemen, I leave it with you and God. You can’'t make any mistake if vou find Clarence S. Darrow guil DISHONEST ELECTORS. Taft Hits Out from the Shoulder— Bolters Cannot Also Be Republicans. Washington, Aug. 16—President Taft today made his first political speech since that he made when notified of his renomination. Addressing mem- bers of the Maryland Republican Edi- torial association in the east room of the White house, he declared bluntly that presidential electors were “dis- honest men” if they let their names appear on the republican ballot and intended to vote for the candidate of another party, He asserted that those who were not for the republican party were agalnst it and should get out of the wi Only Want a Fair Fight. “Al lwe ask 15 a falr fight, A man eannot be in the republican party and In & third party at the same time and sheuld be compelled to meake his se- lection,” seid the presldent, “Regu- larity, er feeling of regularity and re- speet for the republiean party, for what it has dene, what it is eapable af deing, are geing te bring ever into the republiean party many a man who has been deubtful, and it is going to inerease that number, in my judg- menl, as we appreach the eleetion. Belters Should Get Out. It is therefore essential that we | make the cleavage as clear as it can be made; so that those who are re- publicans shall be republicans and those who are with the bolters shall bear their name and title, and not be republicans and bolters, because they cannot be—at least they ought to be in all fairness. We ought to have electors in each state bearing the em- blem of the republican party, bearing the names of the candidate of that party for president or vice president | at the head of the ticket, covering the | electors who are going to vote for those names. If there are any men on | that list who are not going to- vote | for the men at the head of that ticket, I do not hesitate o say that they are dishonest men, In that they are hold- | Ing to the people who are to vote for them an implied promise that they will vote for the names on the ticket when they in fact intend to vote for | somebody* else. 1 think that is just following the plainest kind of princi- ples of ordinary morals.” Some of the editors told the presi- dent that either the electors chosen for the republican ticket in Maryland would declare their intention to sup- port him or a new state convention would be held to make new selections. He said he felt sure Maryland would take long steps in the right direction, MOHAMMEDAN MASSACRES. Reports That Albanian Christians Were Ruthlessly Slaughtered, Turkish Troops Assisting. Cettinje, Montenegro, Aug. 16.—Ter- rible reports were gaining circulation in the capital tonight of another mas- sucre of Christians by Mohammedans In Albania. A band of Mohammedan arnauts, supported by a number of Turkish {roops, today attacked a Sec- tion of the Christian population in the Berana district of Albania, which les cloge to the Montenegrin frontier, A fierce fight ensued, and women and | ¢hildren are reported to have boen mur- dered by the wholesale. Many girls were made captives and taken off by the Mohammedans, A large number of | Christians and their families have fled and taken refuge In Montenegro, The government has ordered the min- Ikter of war, General Viketics, to pro- ceod (o Lhe frontler and to personally tuke charge of the situation in an ef- forl to malntain order. % the jurors to convict Darrew, to set | Make Republican Party Progressive LA FOLLETTE VOWS HE WILL FIGHT TO THAT END SWEARS ALLEGIANCE Trusts Multiplied Alarmingly Under Man to Show The Way Out. Washington, Aug. 16.—In a sponta- neous outburst during debate of the president’s wool tariff veto in the sen- ate, Senator La Follette today attack- ed the new progressive party and swore new allegiance to progressive repub- licanism. “The original insurgent,” quivering with emotion, with clenched hands dnd strained face, poured a floofi of im- passioned oratory that kept his floor and galleries of the senate rapt and ellent. Senator La Follette assured his associates that he intended to “keep up the fight In the republican party, to make that party really progres- sice” and to “keep on until the last bell rings and the curtain falls.” He declared that when the republ!- can party, through its progressive as- sociates, had reached a point where it would “respond to the purposes for which it was born, an attempt is made at Chicago to divert it.” Senator Btone asked Mr. La Fol- | Roosevelt—Head Bull Moose Not the | ‘Raid Made ~ On Rose’s Tip NEW EVIDENCE SECURED ON NEW YORK POLICE GRAFT | | | { | | | | TRACED TO INSPECTORS So Declares Whitman's Assistant— “The Big Five” Were Tdken Raiders’ Net—Big Profits in Vice. New York, Aug. 16.—Pending the ar- rival here of Sam Schepps, the mate- rial witness whom hhe grand jury | wishes to hear before handing down indictments in the Rosenthal case, the district attorn attention on police graft from disorder- 1y _houses. Tt developed today that the raid last night upon eighteen of these resorts was the result of a tip furnished by Jack Rose, the gambler, whose confes- slon resulted in the Indictment of Po- Hce Lieutenant Charles Becker on the charge of instigating the Rosenthal murder, Jack Sullivan, one of the Rosenthal prisoners, was, according to the infor- mation given by Rose, a collector of graft from these houses, which were eighteen of thirty-two houses declared to be operated by the ‘“vice trust.” Although the surface result of the raids was the holding of only four al- leged proprietresses on $1,000 ball each, should be expended annually for say: vertise enough.” man has to settle this problem card and to buy his year's space NOV‘V is the timg to subscribe your door for 12 cents a week. ing the past week: L SR e What Should Advertising Cost There are a great variety of opinions as to how “A man who spent less for advertising than for rent did not ad- There are advertisers who spend twice as much for newspaper space as their rents costs them; there are too many who do not expend in a year the amount of a quarter's rent. he settles It right and The Bulletin has no disposition to disagree with him, but it would advise him when he has decided what he intends to Invest in exploiting his business, to call on The Bulletin for a rate- economical way of employing the press in his service. mailed promptly upon application. Following is a summary of the matter printed in The Bulletin dur- | Bulietin Telegraph Loca/ Gensral Total Saturday Aug. 10.. 136 185 1019 1340 Monday, Aug. 12.. 154 199 199 552 Tuesday, Aug. 13.. 106 160 238 498 Wednesday, Aug. 14.. 166 141 169 476 {1 Thursday, Aug.15.. 130 190 260 580 || Friday, Aug. 16.. 137 152 170 439 829 much money adver Horace Greely used to ng. Every business for himself and he usually thinks in the lump since this is the most Rate-cardsiare for The Bulletin. It will be left at 2049 1027 3905 lette whetrer he meant the nomination of President Taft or the nomination of ex-president Roosevelt. “I am surprised,” began Senator La Follette, “that I left the senator from Missour! in doubt. I hope I did not leave doubt in the mind of any one else.” Roosevelt's Trust Record. Then moving down the center alele, until his outstretched hands almost touched the stenographers’ tables he continued: “On the day that Theo- dore Roosevelt was madep resident of the Unlted States there were 149 trusts and comblnations in the United States. When he turned this govern- ment over to Willlam Howard Ta thera wers 10,200 plants in combin: tien, When he beeame president these trusts had an aggregate capitalization of three billion dollars, and when he left the presidency they had an ag- gregate capitalization of thirty-one billion, and more than seventy per cent of it was water. Time to Apply Sherman Law. “Their power has gone on growing and spreading. There has been no diminution in thep resent administra- tion. The present administration has sought to apply the Sherman anti- trust law more vigorously than its predecessor, but the time to have ap- plied the Sherman anti-trust law ef- fectively was in the infancy of these trusts, when they were only 149. “I don't belleve that. the man who was president seven vears while the greatest trust growth occurred, at the very time of all times In the history of the Sherman anti-trust law it could have been made potential in deterring trust organization—I do not think that the man who was president then fs the man to find the way out now.” Then turning to Senator Stone, Sen- ato Satisfied Senator Stone. “That does fairly well,” enator Stone dryly he senate. Senator Pomerene or aL Follet responded amid laughter of ] [t | of | and how many 1 ed if Sena- how many inqt ould tell “I have no ren returned te, cause none of the trusts are my friends. If any of them were sup- vorting my propaganda with large contributions 1 suppose I would be hu- man enough to call them ‘good trusts. They know about the Wisconsin sys- tme and they know it is the real dope for their business. “So I have no George W. Perkins and no Munsey supporting me. It is a lone, practically single handed fight that I have been waging for 23 vears, and, Mr. President, I am going to keep on until the bell rings and the curtain falls.” Northfield's Varied Speakers. East Northfield, Mass, Aug A varled list of speakers addressed the Northfleld Conference of Chris- tan Workers today. It inciuded two Southern ministers, a theological sem- Inary professor, a reformed drunkard, a former army officer, two English- men and a Scotch preacher, Another feature of the day wae the attendance of the conference delegates at the Class Day exercises at the Meody School for Boys at Mt. Hermon. ones | Assistant District Attorney Smith says |he 1s the possession of evidence how- ing where the graft collected from the | “trust” went. He has traced it, he says, to police inspectors. The payments amounted, Mr. Smith said, to about $2,600 & monh or on the basis of $100 i‘] month for 25 houses, running stead- y. According to information by agents of the Soclety for the Prevention of Crime, the “trust” raided last night, known as the “Big Five nets annual ments and controls about 1,200 women. CHICAGO PRESSMEN CENSURED. International Types Convention Over After a Hot Fight. Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 5 —The con- vention of the International Typo- graphical Union today unanimously endorsed its officers and executive council, and the officers and executive council of the stereotvpers and elec- trotypers union, for their attitude to- ward the Chicago pressmen's strike. The vote ended one of fights the hottest that has marked the conven- striking pressmen were con- demned by the investigating commit- tee for having refused to accept prof- fered arbitration and for having sought to embroil the International Typographical Union and allied trades unjon; The stereotypers in (‘hicago were found guilty by the committee of having violated contracts and the strike order itsell was denounced as “& blunder worse than a crime.” SCHEPPS KEEPS SILENT. Has Reached Buffalo on Trip East—In New York Today. Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 16.—Sam Schepps, one of the central figures in the Ros- ien(h’\l murder inquiry, whose arrival in {New York District Attornev Whitman rd grand jury are awalting, arrived ere tonight on the Lake Shore shortly |after 9 o'clock. Whateyer cy had ed & to th ements r to their arrival in ! apparently had been | for immediately after leav- ing the train, Assistant District Attor- ney Rubin and the two detectives who are taking Schepps back to New York, took a taxicab to a hotel. At the ho- te]l Schepps stepped up to the register and wrote his own name under those of the other members of the party. He strolled about the lobby for a few min- utes before going up to his room. “Nothing to say tonight,” was the only reply Schepps would make to que tions from reponter: Prominent in Middlesex County. Haddam Rock, Aug. 16—Cy- prian Brafnard, one of the best known men in lower Middlesex county, died at his home here thls afternoon after a short fllness, aged $. He was en- gaged In business in New York for many vears and since retiring had lived here. He gave to the town of Haddam several years ago a hand- some memorial library, He is sur- vived bw a widow. Bulgaria Has One World's record, of a having 4,000 centenarians out population of 4,000,000 office is centering its | profits of $50,000 over its graft pay- | Condensed Telegrams Rudolf De Waters, 10 years oid, of Nortolk, Va., shot and killed two men who were attacking his father and Wwounded a third. The Usual Period of Mourning has been declared in the Italian court, ow- ing to the death of the Dowager Duchess of Genoa. The United States Senate passed the house bill making Fort Covington, N. Y., a sub-port of entry in the cus- toms district of Champlain. Warrants Have Been lssued for the arrest of 75 saloon and cafe keepers in Atlantic City in the renewal of the fight for Sunday closing. Grasshoppers Crawled into the horns and broke up a band concert in At- chison, Kan. The insects are more numerous than in 10 years. Virginia Christians, a Negress, and the first woman to be put to death in the electric chair in Virginia, was ex- ecuted Friday at Richmond. Colonel John T. McGraw, demo- cratic npational committeeman from ‘West Virginia, has announced his can- didacy for United States senator, Joseph Brown, Colored, dropped dead in Baltimore when policemen ap- proached him to ask information about a woman accused of larceny. More than 10,000 Farmers, with their familles of Essex, Morris and Union countie New Jersey, held their annual shore dinner at Veronz lake. The Colombian Government has or- dered its mint at Medelin reopened for the coinage of gold, which will materially affect the export of gold bullion. “Votes for Women” printed across the face of her personal checks is Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont's latest move in the Interest of the suffrage movement. A Stone W. d at Southamp- ton, England, to mark the spot whence the Pilgrim Fathers left 300 vears ago at the second annual observance of Pilgrims' day. - Charles D. Rooney editorial writer for the Traveler-Herald, died in the Boston City hospital. Mr. Rooney was one of the best known newspaper men in New Engiand. Charles E. Keith, Superintendent of the Bridgeport parks for the past fourteen years, and who is responsi- ble largely for the excellent parks in the Park city, died Thursday, Mrs. Margaret Van Rennselaer of Saratoga, N. Y. believed tq be the oldest woman in New York, celebrated her 104th birthday. She has lived alone more than half a century. The Railroad Has Concentrated about 76 trains in the section be- tween Danbury and Derby in prepara- tion for the departure of troops from the “war” area. The Vaudeville Team of Amann and Hartley was awarded $60,000 damages against the United Booking Offices for discriminating. They allege it is a combination in restraint of trade. One Man is Dead, Two men will die and six are seriously injured as the result of the fall of a derrick car through a bridge 50 feet to the stream below at Ringwood Junction, N. J. C. F. Daly, vice-president of the New York Central railroad, who is back from a European tour, declares the roads over there cannot compare with American lines in efficiency. Two Polish Brickworkers were found dead beside the New York, New Ha- railroad It |ven & Hartford | Berlin Junction | they were struck tracks, at is believed ihat ¢ a night train. Gabriele d’Annunzio, the Italian novelist, js motoring through Tou- raine with a view of writing a book that will have the theft of the “Moia Lisa” from the Louvre as it1 sub- ject. | Martin Stewart, a Miner, fell into {a mine at Joplin, Mo., but grasped a small pole, to which he hung suspend- ed 250 feet from the bottom for fi hours until he was rescued hy com- panlons. William Craig, a Pitcher ' for the Bteubenville, Ohio, haseball team, died from injuries received while pitching a curved ball. The swing of his hody snapped his leg and caused internal injuries, Grover C. Bergdool, 19 vears old, a law student, and a member of a wealthy Philadelphia family, om- | plished an aeroplane flight with a passenger from Philadelphia to At- lantic City. M. Witte, a Carpenter of Sava Ga., Jaid aside his tools and declare he was through working when he re- ceived a letter informing him that he had won a lottery prize of $366,800 in & French lottery The Case of “Kid” McCoy, the Am- n prize fighter, who is In fail In on' accused of stealing jewels in Belglum, was postponed again as Bel- gium has insufficlent evidence to jus- tify extradition Heck Thomas, Veteran federal dep- uty marshal, who was a terror to out- laws throughout the middle west, died in Lawton, Okla. He was a nephew | of General E. Thomas of “Stonewall” Jackson Another Effort Is to Be obtain the release of ol former valet of Mortime of New York, who i vear term in (' committ ser nton | in the lary Search for the Bandit who held up the express messenger on a train at Asheville, being followed by the railroad’s secret service men. The robber, who worked alone, got away with nearly $3,000~ The King of Belgium's Speech in the Antwerp chamber of commerce, | was interrupted by a girl who fell | through the roof d lunded among | the women in the gallery, a score of whom were cuf with glass, huf mone serfously “Fingy” Cannors, the New York pul- e and publisher of the Buffalo er, was. fined $200 because he. re fused to keep lhis Mary vachi, Allee, out of the motor boat course at the water carnival at Chicago. Nat C. Goodwin, the Actor, was painfully Injured in Californla by, be- ing thrown from a skiff on the rocks by the hreakers, at Rocky beach, 12 miles south of Huenee, and then heing struck by the boat Iteelf as It was dashed ashore. ——————— PRICE TWO CENTS Largest in Connecticut in Proportiun to the City's Population Flanking Tactics Push Blues Back DEFENDING ARMY MUST FIGHT TO PROTECT ITS DEPOT BIG BATTLE COMING P Reds Must Dislodge The Blue Artiltery From the Taunmton Hills—Blues Hopeful of Saving New York, The battle between the Reds and the Blues today to be fougrt on ridges of Newtown and Bethel will probably be the greatest mil- itary event of its nature held in peace times in this country. About 14,000 infantrymen, 3,000 cavalrymen and 2,000 artillerymen with 40 field pieces will take part. Reds Must Attack. Before the battle ends all will be engaged. The Blues are intrenched on the hills and the Reds will attack. The outcome will depend both on the handling of the units by General Smith, the Red commander, and Gen- eral Mills, the Blue general, and the ability of subordinate officers to earry out orders. The enthusiasm of the enlisted men is unquestioned Battle Over Before Dark. The battle will end before dark when the Pirst Vermont will be eg- tained. Orders issued Friday night provide for entraining most of ‘the vol- unteers on Sunday, The Blues are in position tonight, the Reds will be in theirs by morning. Motor trucks breaking down several small bridges delayed moving field trains of Red units and accounts for e delae wheySsge $300,000 To Pay Off. It will take nearly $300,000 to pay off the enlisted volunteers before they go home, Face to Face Again. Manoeuvre Headquarters, Newtown, Conn., Aug. 16—The Blue army is face to face with thd Red army of invasion tonight, and the pitched battle which will decide the fate of New York can be delayed but a few hours. Twenty thousand soldiers will surely begin burning gunpowder tomorrow early and may keep it up most of the day Blues Cannot Retreat. ‘The two armies must fight because the Blues cannot retreat. It must de- fend its depot at Danbury. The Reds cannot get New York unless they can take the ridges on which General Mills has placed his infautry covered by two regiments of artillery. Moreover, the men in both armies are eager for the clash. The Blues have not liked the idea of getting ready for a battle and then having to withdraw, and the Reds are enthusiastic over thelr pre- vious victory at Great Ring Hill and Huntington. Flanking Tactics Spoiled Exhibition. The flanking tactics of the Red army proved a heartbreaking experience for thousands of automobilists, summer guests in the hotels nd the residents hereabouts. They sat or stood around in the burning sun for hours waiting for a big battle. The non-combatants did not know and could hardly be ex- pected to appreciate the finer points of military strategy which enables one army to outflank an opposing force if it has men enough. This is just what had happened to the Blue army today. Clash of Outposts. The automobilists and townspenple were sure of excitement when a lot of troopers of the Red, who had been screening the Red army's main column advance, ran into a Bule outpost in the valley just east of Newtown and open- ed fire. The popping of rifies sent the crowds of spectators to the priv lawns overlooking this valley but Colonel Parker and his staff took to their saddles and in ten minutes were scurrying west towards Taunton HAll on the way to Hawleyville. Colonel Parker and his staff had been in New- town Inn receiving congratulations on their splendid work of the cavalry from the guests, and officers were giv- ing words of assurance that the Reds ‘were to be beaten back, and then came the changes. Ducked Into the Trench When the people who were watching the outpost skirmish over towards Sandy Hook turned their faces to- wards the main street every man with a Blue bar§l on his hat had dis- appeared. Up the hill behind the inn were long lines of entrenchments.Tha automobilists were a disappointed lot, as they had figured it out that both armies would fight hereabouts. The military explanation is that the Reds’ unexpected march up the bank of the Housatonic to Newtown as far | as Sandy Hook, had made Newtown Center worthless as a defes sition. The whole Blue army afternoon had been withdrawn to the hills northwest of Taunton Moumtain and were In defensive positions. The Blue army is in good shape. The men think they should have had a chanece to win one vietory at least, but they are still hopeful of saving New York city and its water shed Many Prisoners Taken. The actual fighting all day was by cavalry screens with here and there a clash by the Red advance guard when it ran against the Blue flanking column and the rear guard. Prison- ers were freely taken on both sides. The report by Brigadler General Bliss, the chief umpire, throwing light on to- day's movements, is as follows: Chief Umpire's Report. “The operations today involved a flank mareh to the north by both di- | visions which has been executed with. out noteworthy incident and to all re- ports has been well executed by both divisions. The Blue cavalry which was made independent by the com- mander of the Blue division seized Newtown early today. Both forces now fairly well concentrated are fac- ing each other in the vicinity of New- town. Outposts have been established and all active operations terminated for the day. “The manoeuvres commander has directed that no officers or men of the opposing forces cross the outpost line except the regularly constituted pa- trols. The energles of both divisions are now directed toward getting up their respeetive fleld trains whicl ac- tually coustituted the most difficult part of the problem today. The health and spirite of poth commands are ex cellent. No deflnite reports have been recetved by the chief umplre from the aeroplane squadron.” The day was one of hard work for the soldiers and plenty of excitement (and dust) for the thousands who rode over the roads of Fairfield county. Burglare Who Looted a residenes in Morristown, N, J., tested the sflver- with acid and left the bemind ware e b