Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 2, 1914, Page 1

w L Bulletin VOL. LVI—NO. 234 NORWICH, CONN., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1914 PRICE TWO CENTS EIGHT PAGES The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Uther Faper, and 1ts lotal Gircuiation is the Largestin Gonnecticut in Proportion to the Gity's Fopulation : OUTCOME OF BATTLE OF THE AISNE STILL IN THE BALANCE French Official Announcements Describe Conditions _ . as Satisfactory in Northern France vere losses to the French. The at- fook on Antwan) continues success- ully. °The situation in the eastern war theatre remains unchanged.” PARIS REGAINING ITS CUSTOMARY BUOYANCY. Victory is in the Air, Notwithstanding Wounded are Arriving Daily. London, Oct. 2, 2:41 a. m.—Despite the fact that thousands of Frenchmen are laying down their lives and thou- sands of wounded are arriving daily from the front, the Paris correspond- ent of the Daily Telegraph says, Pa- risians are regaining some of their customary air of buoyancy of spirit. “Victory is in the air,” he continued. “All indications point to the fact that athe German commanders and - the German troops are realizing for the first time that they are in a desperato position. Thelr attacks during the last few days, delivered as they were at no decisive ' point with overwhelming numbers, but haphazard all along the line, show that they have been driven * EAST INDIAN TROOPS REINFORCING BRITISH Colonial Troops are Also on the Way to the Battle Front— Allies Have Made Some Progress in North, but Not Enough to Strike a Decisive Blow at German Right Wing —Germans are Continuing Their Attack on the Out- er Defenses of Antwerp, and are Rushing Thousands of Troops and an Immense Amount of War Material to Russian Frontier in an Effort to Ward Off Advance of % desperatc and that their plan of cam- Hordes of Russians. palgn has been completely frustrated. ""Tll‘l. ‘Ge.fl'n'Jl .nd:"hltt 'mt‘j is com- pletely in the air. It rests on no Another day has and the|damaged. The Russians proposed to |fortress or entrenched positio: d Es:.“.w‘. the armies -M‘. amm mu-h tn m-mm battery of artil- wflnuy‘ its position b«mmuw mor:' cl::l- AT R PR O g T s A a8 S ire, 0 s ther prrwiion icng i Tae | palch, yece smirenitinenls 4nd wa- | 4RMAN TR O o worke. TO RUSSIAN FRONTIER “The flight of the Aystrians after 3 < ek gy h,n,,mfld\‘,". he says, | Bohemian and Moravian Railroad Are ‘appears to have been a most pusilan- gested imous action.” b3 en flh e ‘The town . itself presented a most Romnue, via Paris, Oct. 1, 9.56 p, m.— According to despatches reaching here, all the bohemian and Moravian rail- roads are congested withr German troops and war material which are being transported to the Russian fron- tier. Germany is making a supreme effort to face the Russian advance and #ll _civilian transport has been forbid- RU&IAN"PI!‘{ENT GERMANS CROSSING THE NIEMEN RIVER itary Critics Figure the Russians Have 'Broken German 'Center. de%“ | i e patches from Vienna say that lespatch to Reuter’; m—A the Austrian staff is entirely depend- rograd de ‘s Telegram | ent upon that of Germany, which company says: ki e | 2ined suprewis . conimiaind ity walki district, from the | campaign against Russ left flank of the the Rus- oo sians foiled two dett attacks to 'a passage of the Niemen river be- Forts Near Antwerp Violently Bom- | tween Olita on the north and Drun- barded. [ keniki on the south. Military critics | Washington, Oct. 1—The following point out that with the'capture of [despatch from the Beigian minister ot Augustowo and Koptzyewo, the Rus- |foreign affairs was made public Sians have broken (b German cen. |the Delgian logation here late. todas: Ter. > “Forts south and southbeast of * % ~German w hay U | et o B e Hince e’ 0 R ST since the 27th by VISt aruuery, ‘bravery have expelied the | Which persists energetically. Attas Germans from their entrenchments on |takes place against Forts Waelham, the lakes, which are divided only by | Woevre, St. Catherine and Lirie. On from two to five miles of dry land. the southwest, attack of German troops “According to the mewspapers the | against Willebroeck re man losses at Durskeniko amount-. ¥ ca to ,000. e rains have mired | T| i the roads 8o that many German guns| o W-L BE NO WAR TAX ON GASOLENE have been imbedded and lost.” PREPARING GERMANS Instead There May Be a Tax on Man- FOR NEWS OF DEFEAT| Ufacturers and Owners of Autos. 9 f? ‘Washington, Oct. Vi Gernians in Rottordam Are Aghast at | [Vashinston, Oct. 1—Work on the Tane of the Newspapers. continued today by senate finance sub- London. Oct. 2, 3.10 a, m.—A Rot- | ooiqttetes, " e consideration of ;_lrd;n nge-mtch to the Dalily Tele- measure by the full committes it - row. No general changes were con- P i i e AU H BRI e e e s L ine veq Ferman | their discussion to the detalls of the (Thuraday). Only one meaning can be attached to what they contain—they |y, are preparing the German people for defeat and the Tuin of their hopes. “Officlal - messages ask that judg- ment be suspended-if news shouid ar- rive that the German troops have been :&:mflefi to abandon certain posi- 5. “The British troops are mentioned as pushing on by the sheer weight of their masses and the French are ad- mitted to have taught a severd les- son. A week ago such statements would have meant the suppresssion of the newspaper printing theme.” DESCRIPTION OF FIGHTING AT BATTLE OF PERONNE Hidden French Battery a Complete Surprise to the Germans. London, Oct. 1, 2.45 p. m—A cor- respondent of the Daily Desmateh writing of the fighting at Peronne, says: “Then came a new and decisive fac- tor and a complete surprise for the Germans. From the slopes to the northward three batteries of heavy guns suddenly opened fire on the Ger- mans. After getting the range, these guns destroyed completely the Ger- man battery with the first five dls- charges and thereafter rendered un- tenable - position after position that the German guns had tried to hold. “Right and Jeft the slate gray guns were spitting death on the level stretch gn e Russlan emperor’s hosts. Berlin Silent on Progress of War. the Bhogrecs of ths e, e barnits progress o war, the. er Tageblatt, in s leading article, ex- presses the confidence of the German people that further news from the bat- tle tronta will be In favor of the Ger- man arms, GERMAN PEOPLE ANXIOUSLY AWAIT NEWS FROM FRANCE Have Inkling of Advance of French Trogps Against German Flank. msterdam, via London, Oct 1, 9.35 P. m.—The Berliner Tageblatt in a leading “The icle, says: ) German people await anxiously but with confidence, further news from the French war theatrs. The news of the great advance of the French mfl against the flank of our lne would not unbalance us. We know that our front line is protected by broad eschelons, which are ready to oppose such an enterprise. “Even if the French or Fnglish farces advance still further in a north- ‘west direction, they will always en- counter eschelons which our com- manders have kept back in expecta- tion of such ndvances. “The influence of the British rein- forcements makes itself more and more felt. They are effective to im- peds us, though the results will mot be lasting. Victory must be ours all the same. If it is gained after dif- fieulty i¢ will be all_tho more worth e. e proposed tax on gasolene has een eliminated, the sub-committee considering that section of the bill substituting instead a tax of 25 cents per horsepower on automobiles and a selling tax on manufacturers of $1 per_horsepower, Numerous. amendments proposing additional items of taxation or alter- ations in the rates proposed by the house are being considered. ANOTHER ILLINOIS STATE BANK IN TROUBLE $200,000 of Its Assets Rendered Vafue- less by Failure of La Salle Street Bank. Chicago, Oct. 1.—Charging that more than $200,000 of its assets are so in- volved in’ the affairs of the La Salle Street Bank and Trust company as to be valueless, James J. Brady, state auditor, today petitioned for a re- ceiver for the Ashland Twelfth Street State bank. The bank was one of those closed by the state bank exam- iner at the time the La Salle Street bank closed its doors. Movements of Steamships. Kinsale, Oct, 1.—Passed: steamer Baltic, New York for Liverpool. Barcelona, Sept. -Arrived: steam- er_Montserrat, New York. Naples, Sept. 23—Arrived: steamers San Guglielmo, New York; 30th, Bu- below them, their caissons beside th rope, New York. .n-'nao genter of the battle front is|and their horses and forges out | Sailed: 22nd, steamer Regina D' ent, Ustening breathlessly to the | signt in a deprossion of the field at | Lalia, New York; 23rd, Sen Glovanni, strug: K% ain comes rearer: we pov|the rear. Straw heaped around the | New York guns rendered them invisible from the front.” 4,000 GERMANS SURROUNDED BY FRENCH TROOPS Cut Off from All Hope of Rejoining Liverpool, Sept. 30—Arrived: steam- | ers St. Poul, New York; Oct. 1, Haver- ford, Philadelphia. New York, Oct. 1.—Steamer Cedric, Liverpool for New York 174 miles east of Sandy Hook at noon. Dock $:30 a m. Friday. forced our way through ihe forest of Argonne, but found on the helghts on the west of the Meuse a strong po- sition_which the enemy had prepared. The French are experts at building Positions in their rear. We know that such positions were, as far as possible, M .y . e Sonstructed, long before the outbreak Their Division, e e O o war.” . ‘apoll, " ng the opinion that TLiondon, Oct, 1—A Paris a o, York, signalled 436 miles east of Sandy Hook at noon. Dock 8:30 a. m. Saturday. the German armipe between Verdun e Argonne con e a greah menace to the French, the article con- tinues: “But the obstinacy of the French at- tack, which always returns, and the DEVASTATED COUNTRY AND VILLAGES IN GALICIA Russian Trophies of War Kept in Iimprovised Barns. Petrograd, Oct. 1, via London, 9.55 9. m—The special correspondent of Reuter's Telegram company who has just returned from a tour of the Gal- iclan battleflelds, reports that from Lublin southward he found the coun- devastated and deserted and the iliages burned or rasod to the Eround, At Tomaszow, depots for Russian jrophles of war had been improvised In barns. Among the prizes were rows 3 howitzers, quick-fivers and mortars, nany of which had not even been fired and the majority of which were un- the Daily Telegraph says: “A fight is_proceeding on one part of the al- lies' left, resembling that at Paarde- berg, In the South African war. Near- Iy 4,000 Germans are in the same plight as General Cronje was. They are completely surrounded by French troops in_some quarries, where they are cut off from all hope of rejoining their division and are being shelled.” BERLIN REPORTS THAT FRENCH WERE REPULSED. Announces That the Heights of Roye Were Taken Sept. 30. London, Oct. 1, 81 a. m—A Berlin despatch to the Reuter Telegram com- pany by way of Amsterdam rays: “Official headquarters this evening announced that the heights of Roye and Fresnoy-le-Grand, northwest of |nations to participate in inter- Noyon, were taken Sept. 30. South- | national congress on education to be west of St. Mihiel, the announcement | held at Oaikland, Calif. Aug. 16 to 27, continues, French attacks from Tou-| 1915, in connection with the Panama- lon were repulsed Thursday, with se- ' Pacific exposition. Mellen to Testify Today. New York, Oct. 1—Charles S. Mel- len, former president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company, ald not conclude his testi- mony today before the special grand Jury which is investigating, at the sug- Eestion of President Wilson, the man- aFement of the New Haven road to learn if the criminal lews were violat- ed. Court adjourned late today fo rthe third time witn Mr. Mellen still on the stand. He will resume his testimony tomorrow afternoon. International Congress on Education. ‘Washington, Oct, 1.—The senate to- day passed a joint resolution author- izing the president to invite foreign committees ‘and _preparations _were | ! rfia'ah""si“i‘igraphs swsamers Sunk by German War- ships During September. London, Oct. 1, 10.55 p. m.—Eighteen steamers ‘of an aggregate tonnage of 29,581 have been sunk by German war- ships during September, aecording to & board of trade report, while nine steamers were destroyed by mines in the North Sea in the same period, 76 fMives being lo: English Baroness’ Son Killed in Action London, Oct. 1, 10,15 p. m.—Captain the Honorable Willlam Amherst Cecil, of the Grenadier Guards, son and heir of Baroness Amherst of Hackney, has been killed in action. His name is the only one eppearing in the list of casualties issued tonight, under the heading of killed, Otherwise the report records one officer dled of wounds and that other officers previously reported as miss- ing are now known to be prisoners of war, 3 ROYAL COMMISSION’S FINDING. IN DUBLIN RIOT KILLINGS Employment of Police and Military Was Not in Acocordance with Law, London, Oct. 1, 1050 p. m.—The Toyal commission appointed to inquire into the events of July 26 last, when four people were killed and many were ‘wounded in Dublin during a. fight with the police and soldiers, following_the landing of guns by Nationalist Vol- unteers at Howth, nine miles from Dublin, today réported that the em- ployment of the police and military Wwas not in accordance with the law. The report further says that Assist- ant Commissioner of Police Harrell ‘was responsible for the calling out of the military and for the order issued to_the police. ‘The Nationalist v the arms at Howth at moon on July 26. The police were warned of the landing and reinforced by a detach- ment of the King’s Own Scottish Bor- derers, intercepted the gun runners at Clontarf, with a view of taking the rifles from them. There was a clash between the Volunteers and the authorities at that town. When the troops- returned to the city of Dublin they were met by an infusiated mob ‘which included many women. Brickbats were huried at. the soldiers and the order was given to fire, with the result that four persons were killed and many were ‘Wwounded, TANNER SUCCEEDS BARNES AS HEAD OF NEW YORK COMMITTEE. Withdrew From Race at Per- sonal Request of Whitman. New York, Oct. 1—At the personal request .of District Attorney Charles S. Whitman today, Ogden L. Millfs, avowed “anti-organization” candidate for the chairmanship of the republi- state. committee withdrew from S st a0 , cam- . Whitman, in-his gubernatorial campalgn, was unani- mously elected to succeed William Barnes, Jr. Mr. Barnes' term as chair- man expired automatically at noon to: day. He was not a candidate for re. lelel:tlon and did not attend the meet- ng. In a brief address to the committee, Mr. Mills declared he was withdrawing solely because Mr. Whitman requested him to quit the race “in the interest of harmony.” He added that he would support whomever was chosen as chafrman. No official acceptance of the elec- tion of Mr. Tanner was received by the committee, but the general opinion that he will not decline, inasmuch as he {s Mr. Whitman's choice for the place. ASSURANCE OF PERMANENT PEACE IN MEXICO Expected Through Designation of Calderon as Provisional President. ‘Washington, Oct. 1—Unofficlal re- ports reaching the administration to- night from constitutionalist sources here conveyed further assurances that permanent peace soon will be resto: in Mexico, through the designation’ of Fernando Iglesias Calderon as provi- sigusl gresident,” pending an election. o official word from Mexico City concluding the convention which was called to meet today to promulgate plans for & general election, or from the . péace conference between Car- ranza and Villa representatives at Za- catecas and Aguascalientes, was re- ceived by the state department to- Both President Wilson and Secre- tary Bryan said, however, the outlook for a peaceful settlement of the dif- ference between the factions in Mex- ico_was “very hopeful.” Other_officials said they confidentiy expected the peace conference to be successful. CERAVOLO GUILTY SECOND DEGREE MURDER Foreman of Jury by Mistake An- nounced First Degree. Hartford, Conn., Oct. 1—Vincenzo Cerevolo of Hartford, who on July 30 shot Gaetano Santo during a quarrel, was found guilty of murder in the secund degree by a jury in the superior court late today. Judge Burpee sen- tenced him to life imprisonment. There was an embarrassing scene in connection with the announcement of the verdict by the jury. The fore- man announced first degree as the verdict. One of the jurors interrupt- ed saying that that was not correct. Judge Burpee then questioned the juryien and it was found that the foreman had said first degree, when he meant to say second degree. Beliboy Pleaded Guilty. New Haven, Conn., Oct. 1—Walter Sherman, aged 19, a bellboy, pleaded guilty in the superior court late today, of assault with intent to kill James F. Toole, proprietor of the Morris Cove hotel several weeks ago. Sentence was deferred until tommorrow. Sher- man shot Mr. Toole in the neck several times with a revolver, following a quarrel. Mr. Toole was in the hospital for some time but has now resained his health. Status of Mutinous Turkish Soldiers. New York, Oct. 1—The federal gov- ernment may be called upon to decide the status of the three Turkish sailors charged with being the ringleaders in the alleged mutiny aboard the British tank steamer Isle of Mull, which ar- rived here. from South American wa- ters on Tuesday with the three Turks in chains and under guard of a di tective of the Charleston, S..C., poli force. Narrow Escape for Zinc Miners IMPRISONED BY CAVE-.IN AT WEBB CITY, MO. FOLLOWED BLIND MULE Which Made Its Way Over a Path It Had Trod Unseeingly for Many Years—Many Injured. Webb City, Mo, Oct. 1—After more than two score men, many of them battered and bruised, had climbed 350 up ladders to the surface, it was ounced late tonight that the last of the men imprisoped by the cave-in of the American Davey Zinc mines b Deen rescued and that no lives had been lost. Early reports said a number of min- £rs, estimated at from twelve to twenty, were imprisoned in the mine and it was believed all had perished, but rescuers succeeded in finding all Who were in the mine. Fifty men working in the mines were temporarily imprisoned when the tim- bering, supporting the roofs of three of the seven connected mines, gave way. ~ Most of them escaped by find- ing theit way to air shafts. Roofs of Mines Collapsed. The ore bodies in the three mines where the roofs collapsed were not being worked, but when the tons of earth and rock fell,” a rush of air through the drifts of the other mines picked up men and buffeted them against rocks and the jagged edges of mine timbers. Followed Blind Track Mule. The electric lighting and hoisting system throughout the miner were par- alyzed. Through mine No. 7 fifteen miners climbed to the surface after finding_their way through darkened drifts, by liberating a blind track mule and following him as he mado his way over a path he had trod unseeinz- ly for years. All of these men were injured, but none dangerously, A call for help was sent out over the mining district and nurses, physi- clans and ambulances were sent from Carthage and Joplin. The escaping miners could give no report of their companions still under- ground. ST ¥ Mine Rescue Car in Readiness, ‘Washington, Oct' 1.—Orders to dis- patch a mine rescue car and crew to ‘Webb City with all possible haste were sent tonuight to the Pittsburgh sta- tion of the bureau of mines by G. S. Pope, chairman of the coal inspection bureau. No official weport on the dis- aster had reached the bureau. Tolliery Shaken by Explosion. Duquoin, I, Oct. 1.—A violent ex- plosion shook the Majestic colliery here tonight, and is believed to have cost the lives of several workmen. A rescue party was sent below to Inves- tigate. Only a few men were employed about the min at the time of the ex- josion, the cause of which is not own. FOREIGN EXCHANGE HAS SFFERED ANOTHER SETBACK Apart from Renewals the Money Mar- ket Extremely Dull. New York, Oct. 1.—With the actual inauguration of the $100,000,000 gold pool for which account a considerable sum of gold was shipped to Canada, foreign exchange suffered another set- back today, cables declining to 4.97 and demand to 4.96. Subsequently these rates hardened a trifle, but most Lon- don hills were negotiated at the lower rates. Apart from rencwals the local money market was extremely dull. Canadian banks placed small sums of money atl' seven per cent for thirty days, and some out of town institutions resumed their purchases of mercantile paper at an average rate of seven per cent. The true state of one market was shown, however, in the price paid by the Erie Rafiroad for a flve months’ extension of its six percent nofes, which matured today.. The cost to the railroad was said to be 8§1-8 per cent. Contrary to expectation very few defaults of Oc- tober interests payments were reported, among the notabie instances being the The International Mercantife Marine Company on its 41-2 per cént bonds. Further improvement in general bonds. was noted with a continuance of the demand for the new city notes. CARRANZA PRESIDES AT GENERAL CONFERENCE. Reiterates His Wil Its De: Mexico City, Oct. 1—The general conference calied for by the plan of Gaudelupe met in the chamber of dep- uties~ this_afternoon at 4 o'clock with General Venustiano Carranza presid- ing. Twenty-six generals and twenty- four state governors or their repre- sentatives were in attendance. After the report of the credentials committee had been heard General Carranza read a message reviewing his acts since he assumed power as supreme chief of the constitutionalists and reiterated his willingness to abide absolutely by the decision of the pr ent conference regarding the prov. ional president, the calling out of gen- eral elections and the scope of the re- form laws. OBJECTED TO NOISE OF COLORED REVIVAL. to Abide by New Haevn Negrc Opened Window and Fired Four Shots. . 1.—Becaus; he did colored hovae, to his . Quillia, coiored, to- night o window in the second story of his bouze znd fired a revolvi four tima ots_enterc a window it store where the meeting held and_struck i colored, on the top He was taken to a hos- pital, where the buile extracted. He will recover. Qu arrested on a technical cha firearms. A Gift of $100,000 for the es ment of a maternity hospilal nounced by Dean 38pn Suthe the Boston university school of medi- cine vesterday. The identity of the domor was not alsclosed. | Condensed Telegrams he Peruvian Congress has defi Iy sanctioned the issuance of notes to the amount of $12,500,000. nite- bank PHILIPPINE BILL Vigorous Speech in House by Republican Leader ADMINISTRATION'S There was withdrawn from the Sub’ Treasury $25,000 in gold for London and $27,800 for shipment to Canada. Secretary Bryan promised Senator Pomerene to speak in the Democratic campaign in Obio, between Oct. 10 and 1. A report from Copenhagen states that the heaviest gale ever known is sweeping over Denmark and the North Sea. The Scandinavian-American fliner United States, which arrived in New York, reported sighting several large icebergs. é Judge Joel Branhan, of Rome, Ga., ruled that the tango Wwas Dropek, and announced his intention of I the new steps. The president yesterday nominated George W. Anderson of Boston, to be United States attorney for the district of Massachusetts. casts a War Between the FlrEutlndFlrwm.;" Es) g Had Just Concluded a Plea for Independence Previous to Mr. Mann’s Remarks. 5 Clarence D. Baxter of Paterson, N. J. was appointed by President Wilson as Collector of Customs of the Do- minican- Republic. ‘Washington, Oct. 1.—Warning that| Far East have forgotten the principles OIMISE ol o SR Senth | Pl independence mesat aur-| wHich suett o Sl el T ing Fred Enos of Bridgeport, assum- | Tender of American strategic com- B &5 Cortiin (ACTCHSNE A ed office yesterday. mana of the . Pacific, “the o e e AShting| come between the Far Fast and the The Niagara River & Eastern Rail. | ST0URd Of the fature” and that a con-| Fur West across the Pacific z road, with a length of twenty miles, flict: between the United States and|All which has taken place in the world * . and capital stock of $1,500,000, was in- | the Orient, “commercial or otherwise”,| JWriD€ the history of the A - corporated in. Albany. race C. C. idlebrook, sheriff of Litch- former o Savage Landor, the explorer, is miss- ing from the piace in Antwerp where he had been stopping for the Jast two | false pretenses. weeks, Mall Gazette from Antwerp. The cor- respondent adds that it is feared that | selling of public offices. Mr, Landor ventured bevond the outer | general was called on to bring pi iine of fortifications and has been un- able to_resurs to the city. up to teaches. ‘that ‘was inevitable, was given the house| avoidan pu ofn&:mmn" s today by Republican Leader Mann in|I hope war may not come; that field county was renominated for that |2 Vigorous speech opposing the pend- J office at the democratic county com-|ing administration Philippine bill. will be no conflict of arms. nmel mu:i that in this 'vention at Torrington. Representative Mann declared that if| P€ODI and races are o the Philippines . became independent | Competition for a I Professor Stanislaus Le Roy, o Co- | they would, in time, either be acquired | ¥ithout an armed lumbia University, was arrested - | by Japan or some other nation, ulti- ';::ammm supremacy ed with violating the Sullivan Law, by | Mately to be used against the United| {898 to a fifight with keeping a pistol in his home. States. that is the .final tions. . No_ Half W . s g \oAviator Lincoln Beachey looped-te- | . .;; % ":_ ‘:’b:"‘l’:::;::"““ ] . We Command the Pacific l00p seven times in_ succession at the ere. 1o & dence, “We comman ‘Pacific Ocean State Fair, in Brockto; the Philippines”, said Mr. Mann, “let| day with the h:d'{‘;.z-.h“v‘n act creates a new world's record. ¥ world able - The Peace Commission trea tween the United States: and will be signed today by Secretary Bry- known what we have to fight. the Russian Ambassador. the Philippines go today “Close to Japan, like a sleeping child of the world, is China, with her vast | Jons, ted to them, they territoty, with her immense popula- me_other ‘comntry - will distribute bonuses to emploves in | October, amounting to three cent | few years ago is goi o the total of the yearly wages. | | Onina The awakening first i 35 yea TR et penpiear n oxhoe” rizg \ta For the ime in announced that the civilization of our modern days Stratford oyster beds, the in menufactures and in Connecticut waters, have failed to set. | Produs of all which man produces, —_— ‘we: will- enter into a series of com- The Up-State Public Service Com- mission has begun an in ot} the rates charged i 5 ¢ ork by ork Telephone’ €. “We having troul s AT ow i York by the New ‘Lassen Peak, the northern California. volcano whese activities have been rock. Miss Kathe Col., athlets and tennis player, Hawaii where she will be prof Pprofessor of F.n;mn in the high school at Hon- olulu. long ran without the force it. “When China is a golng out into the world, we When Representative — 3 a conflict on our hands which will last | floor, Manuel Quezon, - Thirty thousand ' ca pigeons, for | for many vears, possibly for many cen- | missioner from the use in the national mail service have | turies. just concluded & plea been placed at the disposal of the Brit- | “We who are now lesislating, W-‘.bg‘ (Ne| ence soa for prompt as action ‘-!g ish Government by homing- n so- | do_not_bear e es | Jones r cleties. . Plgeon £o- | 00 undred of years from now and the | purpose of the United States to Snevitable confiict, commercial or|as soon as the Filipinos are capal otherwise, which we will meet in the! seif-government. The annual rifle and pistel competi ns of the Connecticut National| Guard began on the state rifie range at Bast Haven yesterday and will con- clude today. NEW YORK CHAMBER TO CONDITIONS OF SHIPMENT & FOREGO ANNUAL BANQUET. OF AMERICAN GOODS.; Suggested That the Money Be Sent to | Conferences for Understanding Bes: the American Red Cross. tween United States and ~Great) e Britain. New York, Oct. 1—In consequence i of the war, the New York chamber of | wosnington, Oct _1—Conferences commerce today decided, for the first| o 5y e fime mince the commercial depression |Foraly "m'?”:‘m to result in of 1873, to abandon its annual ban-|few days in @ complete understanding Quet. In explanation of the chamber's | patween the gove ‘ot the United atic for Liverpool. action, President Seth Low issued a| States and Great Britain as to the com — :m::n:hm in m‘:rt :aml;?;'; b ditions nnde’r w;ncn A""fi“ products . The New York Credit Men's Associa- | , At the regul eeti may be shipped to neutral European tion will held its nlneml.hknnnu.u the chamber held today, in view of the | countries and the products of M! Brit- | Signor Cellere, the new Italian Min. ister at Washington, called at the State Department to ‘present his cre- dentials and pay his respects to ‘Sec- retary Bryan. The special Belgian commissioners, who came to this country to lay be- fore President Wilson stories of alleged German atrocities, safled on the Adri- banquet and meeting at fact that so many nations of the world | Countries as well as of Aator New York October 16 nfi“y‘-# are now at war, their people suffering | countries transported to the U: Mitchell will be a speaker. intensely from the loss of relatives|sStates without interference from and bearing heavy burdens entailed bY | jah or French cruisers. the' loss of life, the destruction of| " There are many phases of this property and the interruption of busi- | jeot requiring separate , nat Dess; and in view of the fact that our|ana treatment and the State depart= membership embraces men related by | ment regards each one disposed of family ties or business interests with |2 Gtep foward a final and compreh one or another of the mations at War, | sive understanding that will p While many of our citizens and mem- | 2n sriction arising during the bers are already bearing great burdens | uance of the European War. and suffering great privations througu | Germany and Austria have not so the suspension or interruption of their | heen taken into the Dbusiness affairs, the members in meet- | gwing to the fact that so far no ing assembled unanimously voted that, | hag arisen from the of any notwithstanding the fact that the an-| their cruisers to detain vese nual banquets had been held in an un- | sels or cargoes. broken line for 41 years, this year the Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British usual banquet should be abandoned.|ambassador, made several calls at the The chamber has borne, and will bear | state department today, and later indi- to the utmost, its share of the world's | cated that eubstantial progress had heavy burden, but it cannot make mer- | heen reached as a resulf. ry_when so many are sad. sl 2 “The usual charge for a ticket to the dinner of the chamber is $20. It|All Men on V,!g::‘u:""'" Cutter has been suggested that many of our members may be glad to send to the| Seattle, Wash, Oct. 1.—Eighty-eight men in all who were on the revenue secretary of the chamber a check for this amount, to be sent to the Ameri- | cutter Tahoma when she was wrecked east of Aguttu Island have been pick- can Red Cross, so that the banquet money of the chamber may bring help | ed up by the steamer Cordova and the coast survey steamer Patterson. and succor to the wounded, the sick and the needy of our sister nations|Among the castaways are law officers engaged in this war.” and witnesses who nad been attend- — ing criminal trials in the Aleutian ’ Isiands. The Cordova. is taking 59 men WINDSOKR' MAT misarNG to Cordova and the Patterson 29 meas ! SINCE SEPTEMBER 24 |to Unalaska. Dwight W. Hake: a Mystic There is water famine in New Brunswick, N. J. The supply in the,| neighboring ponds is sufficient for but five days. Automobilists have been forbidden to wash their cars. Julian Carlton,* the negro who in August slew eight persons and_burned the bungalow of Frank Lloyd Wright, in Dogeville, Wis, was put on trial, charged with only one murder. More than 250 girls and teachers e caped in their night clothes when fire destroyed the main dormitory of the Alabama Normal College at Living- ston, Ala. The damage is $60,000 The public utilities commission de- nied the petition of the Waterbury & Milldale Tramway company for the taking of the land of Michael Mattee and Charles Selleck in Southington. The Fabre Line steamer Sant’ Anna, which arrived in New York with Ca: dinal Farley and otheps after an ex- citing voyage was danfaged by fire to the extent of $100,000 at her pier in Brooklyn. Mrs. Charles C. Cook, a wealthy ne- gro woman of Washington, has pro- tested to the president of Cornell Un- iversity that her daughter, a student, is being discriminated against because of her color. Insurance Man and hrines Roosevelt Attacks Penrose. Philadelphia, Oct. 1.—Former Presl- dent Theodore Roosevelt addressed an / audience which completely filled the First Regiment armery here tomight and urged_the election of Gifford Pin- chot, the Washington party candidate for United States senator in Opposi- tion to Senator Bois Penrose, whom he , attacked as “embodying the evils of machine politics.” Colonel Roosevelt j alsso asked support for Vance Mc- Cormick, the demvcratic candidate for governor, who was placed on the Washington party ticket after the | withdrawal of William Draper Lewis. — i Convicted of Mansiaughter. Belfast, Maine, Oct, 1—Lewls Bur- | gess, of Burnham. was convicted of | manslaughter today for the fatal shooting of -John Ronce, his son-in- law, several woeks ago. He was tried on ihe charge of murder. The defense’s was that the gun was dur-, The attorney | ing a scuffle for its possession and that Burgess acted in self defense when Ronce forced his way into the de- fenfant's_farmhouse. Joseph Belletier, a grocer of Broomé Street New York,' was shot and killed at Spring and Clark streets. The po- lice are = for Pasquale Mello, r of the store. Hartford, Conn., Oct. L—Dwight W. Hakes, 50 years of age, is missing from his_home in Windsor, and his father- in-law, John Hamilton, of that town, today asked the Hartford police to start a countrs-wide search for him. Hakes is 'well known in Detroit and Philadelphia_insurance circles. He is a Mystic Shriner. He has not been heard from eince Sept. 24, when'he ac- companied a relative to New York. He is eaid to be subject to nmervous dis- order. Ic A Havas Docpatch from Nancy says t Captain Brugere, 160th infantry, lled in the recent ensagement, was nephcw of General Brugere, former mmander-in-chief of the French who himself, despite his great n_service in the present Brugere has three sons sons-in-law under the colors, Kentucky’s Secretary of State Indicted Frankfort, Ky., Oct. 1—Secretary of State C. F. Crecelius was indicted to- day by the Franklin county grand jury on charges of obtaining money under The three counts in the indictment alleged violation of a statute prohibiting the farming out or says & despatch to the Pall ceedings to vacate the secretary’s o fice,