Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 7, 1914, Page 1

‘T Second City of Poland and Lying 75 Miles o] " the West-som,.of Warsaw DESPERATE BATTLE THAT RAGED FOR DAYS Countless Thousands Have Fallen in Hand-to-Hand Con- | Scotiana, MndFm&eMdHnn&e&ome—hiE!- o f Lonfon, Dec. f—An ordes.| the admiralty the fishing fleet in the Fivth ‘of cease operations has with consternation pected That Germans Will Make a Strong Effort to it Reach Warsaw, Using Lodz as a Base—Servians Report | Success on the Whole Front, But Vienna Asserts that the Austrians Twmww”hmé Belgrade—In Flanders and the North of France Sunday Was Comparatively Quiet—King Nicholas of Montene- gro Admits a Third of His Army Has Fallen on the Battle- field. Lodz, the second city of Poland and Iving 76 miles to the west-southwest of Warsaw, has fallen to the German arms. It was occupied Sunday. ac- ‘eording to the official announcement from Berlin. Around Bervian- success on the whols with the capture of 2,400 men ur complete batteri the south of Belgrade. Quiet in Flanders and France, In Flanders and the north of France Bnnd.g was comparatively quiet, the war office, having «nothing to standpoint 1s not yet known & Bwiss newspaper asserts that Ru- mania has decided to enter the war on the side with the allies. The time for 80, however, has not deen determined upon, British and French Warships Assemble Forty British and French warships have assembled at some place, the name of which is not given in the des- patch, ng announcement to “force their way through.” It is prob- able e correspondent intended to an effort by the allied shios to break through the Dardanelles but the name evidently came under the The Yon Der Goltz, who gpent many years n ng icish_army, Teporied o be on bis way to Constan- to ettach himseif to the en- iourage of the sultan. Turkish Cruiser Damaged. Petrograd says that the Turkish Hamidieh dnmaged has been B’lflnemhummedwcon— ple. Nicholas ot Montensgro admits thaa third of his army has fallen on the battlefleld, but declares that the Afontenegrins will continue to defend their country. That the French aviators have suc- “Baden, is acknowledged in report received in Washing- fon from the German foreign office. FRENCH DESTROY A b GERMAN FIELD FORT. fnvaders Made a Vain Attempt to Recapture Weidendreft. 6. 5 p. m—The follow- communication was given this_afternoon: December 5 mot far lasseurhouse the mptllre re- reported ye To vesterday's statement, as anal siderably damaged, accol to_the Russian official news agency’s, Con- stantinople advices. These advices also say that Russian warsrips have sunk six Were carrying war supplies. BRITISH HAD NO INTENTION OF VIOLATING NEUTRALITY. Would Never Have Sent Troops Into Belgium Had It Not Been for Inva- sion by Germans. London, Dec. 6, 9.35 p. m.—With ref- erence 3. the statements implying hat Brit plated selves into their territory.” RUSSIAN ARMY OCCUPIES TWO TOWNS IN PERSIA. Retiring Turkish Army Abandens Wounded and Prisoners. Dec. 6, 12.10 p. m—~A despatch . “as. the result. of battles occurring on the Dflman and I soners. W have taken possession of depots of provisions and war- muni- tions at Baschkal. SERVIANS EVACUATED BELGRADE VOLUNTARILY. City Was Not Taken by the Austrians After a Battl Nish Servia, Oee. 6. via London, 2:10 fiicial Servian uni. and not Austrians after a battle. ‘munication says: entry of the anything it was only between rear and patrols.” BATTLE IN POLAND FAVORABLE TO GERMANIC ALLIES, Vienna Says Russian Forces in Gali- cia Have Been Attacked. six Turkish sailing v-uel- which | Khoi | conductors, trainmen and ‘ESTABLISHMENT OF A 'i’HlRfl COLLEGE AT YALE UNIVERSITY In His Annual Report President Had- ley Says ‘There Are Grave Objec- tions, ¢ New Haven, Conn., Dec. s-—uthnm the proposition to establish thira college at Yale university, “'uund! ost attractive” there are grave ob- Jections to in the university press for some months and has created considérabie ~ Hadley. “Such men say, m tho college smaller. Instead of having two un- dergraduate departments,- acad and scientific, have three or perhaps ‘more.” Ofloct“ ge on the . Had- most at- to |obtauned an bn»wt«-ndflhl‘m Have * Confessed—Have Besn Doing a Lus orative Buralary and Holdup Busi “ness, 1t Is Claimed. the gang has been dofng a lu unm-r; and holdup business on a Whoiesale scale. ' Six_of the men were charged with suspicion of extortion, and two of the_malso were diuonad ch.u‘ while ‘two: others. wers lul]rldml of haying itted hnr ai,. _shey were all held by m- trate Herbert in $10,000 bail each for exnmlnAuon ‘Wednesday. eig] 1s suspected of having hired five of muumenwphusbomblntmm a grocery s The deueflm claim thit they have, ‘admission that in the past seven months the gang has committed over 100 burglaries and many holdups on t.e kast_nide, ontaining between $15,000 and $25,000. The police have aircuay, recovered about $5,000. Pro- yrunm{ of small shoe repairing shops were_ the particu- grocery stores size mmacnom,mdmnwwe police. Fo'ljn PERISH IN FIRE STARTED BY BOMB.| Central Section of Ardsley-on-Putnam,| N. Y, Destroyed. New York, Dec. C—Fil'!. believed to] have started from a bomb explosion, ised the deaths of a family of four to | company; nn “Thelr. tivo: ohiidren; e qurmm Dbelieved. o I8 missine. enw«anmnu SAW ©° MAN SHOT AND fnu..u Looked On in Horror at New Haven— Quarrel Over a Woman the Cause. New Haven, Conn., Dec, 6—James Ottobre, 32 years old, was shot and killed at the corner of Broad they say have some knowledge ut me erime. The four men formerly gether. It is said by the quarreled over a soman paea. o~ they a No trace of the brothers could be found although the police were early on the scene and have &ince been conducting & careful search, Ottobre leaves a widow. RAILROAD EMPLOYES IN SESSION AT NEW HAVEN Preliminary Steps Toward Conselida- tion of Five Societies. 4 bundred deiegaton, Fopresenting” e u elegar ing bratherhoots of the engineers. Ak and telegras employed by the New York, New Eh ven anl ord and . Central New: England railroads, m: executive | Sotmton hoto.tomlEht and ook Tho 490 five pocieien JTt was: stated t.ut the ‘mail vote now being taki the entire membership indimu that the vote to ‘consolidate will bt; by an evorwhelming ‘majority. expected that the vote will be count in a few days. It is understood that at the meet- taken up in conslisration of contqm- plated by-laws and rules. Recrganized the Turkleh Armys London, Dec. 6, 1106, p. m.—An Am- sterdam despatch to Reuters agency Kish army, has left Beriin for Con- ple: Fleld Marshal Von. Der Goltz, ac- 0 reconstruct the Turkish army S0 remainod ot this work Tor thisteen years. New Dominican Cabinet. Yiminez, who yesterday took the oath of office as president of the republic, has Who -dfscovered - the ' fire, ife. in n futile effort to rescue o yas awakened by the explosion and rushed to the streét to find that bis own home . was burn- ing. He ran batk into the house. The entire building, a frame structure, was then a mass of flames and the collapse of the roof, soon afterward, ended the four victims’ chance of escaping. Their charred bodies wete found in the ruins; The explosion occurred either in or near the apartment of Irello, a barber. on the first ‘floor of one of the houses. The poiice are working on the theory that a bomb was placed. there by some countryman of Irello for motives of revenge. It is not known whether ot |rello was in the house at the time. The fire destroyed the postoffice, po- lice station and six dwelling -houses In the police station all the records were. lost and all the mall in the post. office was destroyed. A score of fam. ilies were driven out of their homes in their night clotaing and lost every- thing they possessed. SAVED FROM STARVATION BY AMERICAN FOOD. Statement Made By a Belgian Com- mitteeman, Rotterdam, Holland, Dec. 6, by way of London, 5.25.p. m.—“For the past fortnight we all have been lving on American food and it saved us from numuan," was_the statement made today by a Belglan committeeman, dlmlbuunx American relief shipmen & in_Liege province. “All our grain was exhausted,” he continued, “because all ‘'of It was requisitionéd for the use of the Ger- With the exception of & :m-.\l nnply of meat and a meagre quanity of fleld crops, we had nothing. ~“Our people knew food was expect- ed from America and its. arrival was the sale topic of conversation through- out the province. Because it did not arriv the first. day they heard of its despatch, the poorer classes began to become anxious and their anxitey in- creased ly. When they . became aware that food from America actual. ly was in Liegs they were almost fran- tic_with joy. ~“The “Americans have saved us from staryation, was the cry on. every lip. Every American seén in_Liege was hailed as a benefactor. When Pehw' N. 7., l)o':-t ‘él_Rw Calhrudlth Ty, & pmmxnan lergyman ang descendant a Nor- e A e O Soin {1ast Winter, left an estate of $6,67T.01% _BEACH, MD. Savers Are Unable to Get in Com- munication With Her—Not an Amer- ican- Warship. gaie provent ass.st- ance being has Becn asked from the navy yard ac Nor- folk. near the vessel say she four funnels and that they can 86 her fghting tope Owing: 15, thick the life saving service is un ;u. to get in communication with the agro clty. My m mtnt either be the! destroyers Terry or Perkins, bound from Newport, R. I, to Charleston, S- C., were dissipated tonighi folk reporting the safe arrival of those vessels at that port. REVENUE CUTTER IS SENT TO HER ASSISTANCE. Will Not Reach Distressed Ship Until ' i Morning. Norfolk, Va., Dec. 6.—The revenue cutter Itasca was speeding touight ! from Hampton Roads Beach, Md. to assist an unidentified yesel. said to' be & man-of-war, in, istress. The Notrtolk navy toward ‘North received a lorth - Beach life saying a vessel, apparently a warship, was in distress six miles off shore. There was a dense fog and high seas. The Itasca is not expected to reach North Beach before tomorrow morn- ing. C‘ONBTELLATION 'EARLY DRIVEN ASHORE. Broke ‘Away From Tug Off Thimble “Light Shoals. - FRIGAT] Constellation, W] driven .ashore off! Ocean View by yes- terday’s severe: northeast gale was toweu to tie Norfolk navy yeard to- day by naval tugs. There were twenty men on The frigate broke away from the navy tug Ontario, towing her from, ‘Washington to Newport, R. L, early yesterday while off Thimble Shoals light. The wind was blowing rirty! miles an hour and the seas were high ; The tow line, parted by the force of gale, became entangled in the Ontario's propelior and the tug was forced to call ‘for assistance. The Constellation also fouled the line. The Cape Charles lightship, which | broke away from her moorings last night in the storm, anchored within haif a mile of Virginia Beach early today and was later taken in tow by the lighthouse tender Orchid. A man was cast on the beach near Lynnhaven today from ~a scow that broke away from the tug Tormentor yesterday. He was injured. The man had spent thirty hours on the scow, which drifted helplessly over lower Chesapeake Bay in a seventy mile wind. . An unidentified schooner is reported ashore on the North Carolina coast. VILLA AND SALPATA CHIEFS WORKING IN HARMONY. Zapata to Form Alliances is Causing Uneasiness. ‘Washington, 6.—Secretary had been received since yesterday on the government had not been advised Paso in which Generals Salazar and new revolutidhary movement indepeni- ent of the Carranza, Villa or Zapata factions. So far as is known by the Washington™ government ths Vil- la and Zapata chlefs are working in harmony, thought a tendency on the part of some of the latter to form alitnces with ex-federal and former Huerta adherents is causing some un- easiness. Conditions in Mexico City havs been quiet for the last several day: Qutierrez soon was to be replace: Dr. Misuel Silva, former governor of Michoacan, were received with Inter- est here. Dr. Silva -was frequently mentioned as a compromise candidaie between Villa and Carranza elements when the econstitutionalist moven:ent was still ph- fHeally undividel. The report that the Zapata adher- ents would insist on BEmilio Vasqi Gomez, now at San Antonio, Texas, has not been confirmed in official dis- patches, although his name has been attached to the plan of Ayala as the future provisional executive ever since the plan was put forward as ths plat- form of the Zapatista movement. EW LONDON WOMAN DIES OF BURNS Sustained When an Oil Lamp Exploded as She Tried to Light It New London, Conn., Dec. 6—OMrs. Nora Fleming Beebe of this city died in Lawrence hospital - | lisht it lh. fell to the floor 'Was summon- Mo ed at once, but t by adyices ' ich came near being Throvgh a Tendency in the Part of Dec. Bryan said tonight that no advices the Mexican situation. He isaid that of the proelamation reported from Fl Campa announced the beginning of a SR, TR wunmu»f.-—.fihnm\- :&dm- The H. P. Nelsoh Plano st e vmwvm " lit‘PEl_isou;AT I0INT SESSION ‘tion for an Investigation Into the Preparedness of the United States for War—President and Administration lAlhlmUModbbeOmoedtot}uhnfiiyu—: Secretary Daniels Will Appear Before the Naval Coms _mittee to Discuss the Building Program and Naval Re- The boyhood home of . Stonewall Jackson near Weston, W. Va. was de- stroyed by fire. The. n.m-mu Stock Exchange re- Boturdey for vestrictetred= ing in stocks and taxes on mining and oil property be paid to him in Vera Cruz. A municipal dancing school, teach- iIng all the modern dances, will be op- ened in Chlcngo this week. A contract has beer been ned for the erection of a Guatemalan bullding at the San Francisco exposition. The United Profit-Sharing Corpora- [tion of New York, will increase its jcapital from $350,000 to. $2,000,000. Former Governor Eben 8. Draper, of {Massachusetts, who died in the South ‘. Ex-President Taft, in Detroit, said there is less need for our army right Bk than there has been for a long ime. J. Foster Wilkin, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, dropped dead of heart failure at New Phila delphia. Five persons were hurt, three fatal. ly, when ‘a suburban trolley car col- jlided with an automobile near Kep- ymore, N. ¥. IKThem Lareeh a oa of carney, N. 3, whs. fatally injured | ‘hen he fell on his hatchet which cut | into his lungs. i Two men were burned to death and four others were injured in a fire; which destroyed a small hotel at Paris, Tenn. Dr. Alexander ~ Campbell Fraser, professor emeritus of logic and meta~- physics at Edinburgh University, died in Edinburgh. Rabies has lpmfld in ceyotes-in Umatilla County, Ore, ‘man and a dozen dogs have been bitten by by tire infected animals. The expport of zinc from the Unit- {ed States in the last three months {reached the . unprecedented total of 65,504,574 pounds. ° Signor Perugini, a well known sing- [thi, er, and former husband of Lillian Russell, died in the Forrest Home, near Philadelphia. o The Petroleum Iron Works and Pennsylvania Tank Car plant at Shar- ion, Pa., are operating on double time |to keep up with orders. A man who held up Mrs. Hattie Russell, Friday at East Concord. Vt., shot and killed himself when officers ¢ | attempted to arrest him. A British ship has been assigned for duty as a floating hospital in the harbor of Calais for Belgian soldiers suffering with typhoid fever. Eleven battleships of the Atlantic fleet, which have been hclding ma- neuvers off the Virginia Capes, left Norfolk for various navy yards. A voluntary petition in Bankrupte, was filed by the Westfield Brick C?):n! pany, Mass. Liabilities were placed at §107,000 and assets at $39, 700. Paintings by old masters valued at $1,000,000 were destroyed by fire in the hold of the steamer Mississippl, a freight steamer of the French line. Ernest N. Dittenhoefer of New. York was appointed an ancillary receiver for Liebler- Company of New York, les- :ees of the Plymouth Theater in Bos- on. | Fiety New York sity smploves. have set out to kill or capture the giant hawk, which has been killing pigeons isl'o\‘mfl the top of the Municipal build- ng. While drlvmg a motor do"v'ry truck near Manville, N. J., - Norman _Force was struek and killed by a Lehig] : ‘alley express running at 60 miles an our, Joseph Joyce, of New York, an ex- convict, was arrested after he had participated in a gun fight with three members of the “Hudson . Dusters” gang. Henry Siegel has agreed thnt dt~ ¢ positors in his failed bank in ¥ [shall share equally with New York in any payments depositors to made. The police of Hoboken, are search- ing for Otto Van Wagner of Chicago, who has maf-ied, robbed and deserted twenty women in’ different parts of the country. Governor MacDonald of New Mexl- co signed a rigld guarantine proela- mation barring shipmelts of catbe jate New Mexico from every state, Mexico and Canada. a plece of iron pipe. \ The Peerless Automobile Company, nl Cleveland, will employ 1,500 extra Targo number. of Totor Teacka o Toe mot British Gflv e convicted of the murder of Alfred lm-ldhh. :rhfll not take plice S s executive council. Miomee nt. e sdeantiedt ot D.md i a.-.-{ quirements. ‘Washington Dec. 6.—At noon tomor- row will be convened the third session of the 63rd Congress, for which mem- Tecess lowing e e Jong and ord s igisiative session which closed late in October, Democratic leaders, in informal con- ferences bfeore the opening of the ses- :fi:uy which is dmm;: be devoted to measures, {5 hape: tnat the. Iogisiative progrars e hope ive program £ neceasities could pe concluded. by Sdarch 4 next, when the present con Tess automatically will end. Many republican leaders, however, have stat- ed that there were many important measures wh.lch they would urge for passage and some indicated that sup- ply bills might be delayed to such an extent that an extra session next spring and summer would be neces- sary. The democrats are certain to exert every possible effort to prevent 'deh’ and think an extra n un- likely, l Messages Awaited Eagerly. Administration leaders await eager- ly the annual message of President {%or" Puilioptas. badepe passed: the. house last session is pend- iug. Members of the committee, how- ever, have intimated there might be trouble ‘in getting the bill reported at this session. Oher important measures pending in the senate are the Immigration bill with the literary test for alens, which passed he house at the last session. Some. of the majority leaders have declared while champions of the bill may urge it at this time, it it not be included in the accepted legis- lative programme and will be permitted to die with the expiring congress, to be considered i nthe sixty-fourth con- |g&ress, when conditions resuiting from the European war have assumed more definite shape. Rural Credits. Rural - credits legislation also is pending and the government commis- sion which investigated the subject last year already is urging bills that have been In sub-committee . of th house and senate. This legislation, however, is also on the list of meas- ures which administration leaders are understood not to want to have pressed at this time. Some word on the subject from deparment heads and the president may be forthcoming when the official reports are made to congress. Annual Supply Measures. At least seven of the great annual supply measures of congress are to be rushed as to report them to the house before the Christmas holidays. These are. the legislative, executive and ju- dicial, the District’ of Columbla, forti- fications, pensions, military, postoffice and rivers and harbors appropriation bills. Others are to be hastened through to head off the necessity if possible, of an extra session. Speaker Clark, Majority Leader Underwood and other leaders in both houses declared emphaticall. tonight that an extra ses. sion of congress after the present se: sion closes March 4 next was very When the house convenes, the bus- iness, before it will be the financial rellef for the cotton states, under an agreement reached at the last session. Cotton Currency Bill. Representative Henry, chairman of lhenlhuoommee says that he is repared to remew his fight- for the 2250,000.000. cattan currency biil as a substitute for a currency measure for enlfiflh‘ the amount of currency that can bo pressed this commer- ot paper ‘s the abandoned his - | $bop entered the bank and struck. her. with 7 dor at Wa:hhann_’lllu! formal. com- e, further open debate on the military situation, Both the military and naval com- mittees of the house have been &t work on the supply bills and will con- &2 | tinue dasly sessions begiining tomor- row morning. General Crozier, chisf of ordnance of the army, Is to appear before the military affairs committee Wednesday to discuss appropriations for national defense. Naval Requirements. In the naval committee the battle- ship eonstruction programme is- the chief subject of interest. S Daniels will appear before the com~ mittee to discuss the building pro- gramme and naval requirements. Champions of i naval con- struction are certain to_urge a three or four battleship programme, the building of more torpedo boats and submarines and Increased outlays for aviation work. The aviation corps, which was created at-the last session, has been established under the signal service of the army and an increased appropriation for the work will be asked in the derartment estimates: which are to be submitted to congress tomorrow. ivers and Harbors Appropriations. Rivers and harbors appropriations, which were greatly outlined at the 1 session, are to be pressed again, it is not likely according to party lufl- ers, that any new projects will be urged. ~Senator Burton of Ohlo, who from committee. If it passes the houses, he probably will remew his flnt against some of the items in measure, Ship Purchass Bill. Another measure which will occupy much attention of the session will bo the ship purchase bill which it is un- derstood will be included in the ad- ministration programme, A conference on the subject will be held this weel Constitutional amendments for suf- fras~ and national prohibition also are pending. “President Wilson is for my cotton warehouse bill and it will pass the house,” declared Representative Lever of South Carolina, tonight. He added that Chalrman Henry of the rules committee already having agreed to it. The bill is a substitute for a sim- ilar measure that already has passed the senate and is designed to make the purpose of the legislation more clear. PRESIDENT I8 TO ATTEND JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS Will Deliver His Annual Message To- morrow i at 12.30. Washington, Dec. 6.—President Wil- fon will *tart the opening week of the new session of congress tomorrow with discussions of the militar; and naval needs of the country with Rep- rentative Gardner, author of a reso- jution for an investiation Of thia sub~ ject and Senator Tillman, chiirman of the senate naval affairs comm:‘tse. The president is understood to bave ~o e un his mind regarUng the neod for the kind of investigation proposed ty Mr. Gardier, but desires to give the Massachusetts representative his reasons for his position. Senator Till- man will. report on his investigation into the advisability of bullding @ government armor plant. But few engagements have been made for the week, in the expectation that it will be necessary to hold cone fercnces with: congressional leaders o the legislative programme for the com- ing session. ator Kern, majority leader in the senate, has already dis- cussed the matter with the president. A cabinet meeting is to be held on Tuesday but it will be cut short if not can in_order to allow Mr. Wilson to appear before a_Jjoint session of congress at 12.30 o'clock to deliver his annual mesuge BUCKET BRIGADE CONQUERB FIRE IN HIGGANUM. Greater Part of Factory of the Cutas way Harrow Co., Destroyed. Higsanum, Conn., Dec. 6.—One hun- dred men will be temporarily out of work as the result of a fire that des- troyed the greater part of the factory of the Cutaway Harrow company here loyMto;hy The loss is $50,000, with ce. e+ e origin of the blazo is & mys: tery Offelals of the company. saz that no_one had been at the factry, except ‘he night watchman> since Fri- day nogp.. Tho fro made rapid Seadt wav and_desfroyed the office, and blacksmith shop. Fire wallx e O ounary. Ax the villa no fire departmen of eopimzm“lm the blaze brigades. While it was im~ por-lhl. ‘to save the factory, effective werk wna done In saving many near~ by buildings. o T-uu: Annual of National Red