Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 29, 1914, Page 1

Has Temporarily Put a Stop to Military Operations in Belgium and France POSITIONS OF OPPOSING FORCES UNCHANGED Petrograd Reports That Germans are on Defensive Between the Pilica and the Upper ture of More Than 20,000 Prisoners—United States Has Protested British Treatment of American Commerce— British Government, Fearing Raid by German Aviators, Has Warned People to Take to Cover Should the Sound of Firing be Heard. A violent storm has temporarily put @’ stop to military operations of an t nature along the greater of the battle front in Belgiim and nce. In this territory the pésitions of the opposing forces remain virtually the eame as they have been for weeks a8 it Il:' the eastern arena the official re- ports indicate a similar condition of affairs so far as progress on ithe part of either side is concerned. Petro- grad reports however, that between the Pilica river and the upper Vis- tula the Germans are now on the defensive. The Russians also report the cap- ture. of more than 20,000 prisoners, to which reference was made in previous ennouncements. A Petrograd despatch by way of London eays that all the t passes on the Carpathians are’ agein in Russian hands. “The DUnited States government has miade strong representations to Great Dritain, insisting upon an early im- provement in the treatment of Amer- ican commerce by the British fleet. A long note has been forwarded to the British foreign secretary through Ambassador Page, covering the rela- tions between the United States and Great Britain as affected by the Brit- naval . pol ich i [ ob!ec%‘?n:l‘:" by the Ameri- The British government through the and military authorities, appar- itly fearing a raid over British towns by German airships, has issued a ‘warning to the people to take to cover _should . the sound of firing be heard. BRITISH TREATMENT OF AMERICAN COMMERCE Strong Protest Cabled to Ambassador =t Page at London. Washington, Dec. 28.—The United States government today dispatched a long note to Great Britain, insisting on an early improvement in the treat- ment of American commerce by the British fleet. It gave warning that much feeling had been aroused in this country and that public criticism was general over unwarranted interference with' the legitimate foreign trade of the United States. 55 e document, constituting the strongest represeatation on this sub- ect made by the United States to any Vistula—Alse Reports Cap- last two weeks had the personal at- tention- of President Wilson himseit, who revised the phraseology with minute care. Today's communication was couched in_general terms, covering the entire subject of the relations between the United States and Great Britain as affected by the latter’s maval pelicy, considered highly objectionable by this government, Since France has adopted practi- cally the same_ decrees on contraband as has Great Britain, today's note is virtually a statement intended for all the members of the triple entente, TWO DAY BATTLE ; IN VOSGES MOUNTAINS Along the Whole Front of the French and German Armies. Basel, Switzerland, Dec. 28 (Via Paris, 4.55 p. m.)—A battle lasting from December 24 until December 26 occurred along the whole Il‘ont‘:l the French and o the Vosges mountains. ca::on firing ‘was plainly heard in Switzerland, “e?lfh tow! Muelhause over the n sace, returned with sufficient artillery to conduct an effective fire on the German positions. CIVIL POPULATION armies es _maneuvering n, in Al- OF LONDON WARNED To Keep Under Cover Upon Hearing the Sound of Firing. Dec. 28, 7.55 London, p. m—The London official bureau. this evening made the following announcement: “The naval and military authorities using call the attention of persons the streets to the danger from frag. ments of shell and from bullets from the guns used against hostile aircraft attempting a raid on London. “The civil population are warned to keep under cover, preferably in base- ments, upon hearing the sound of fir- ing by guns or of explosives.” WITHDRAWAL OF AMERICAN CONSULS IN BELGIUM Has Been Asked for by the German The sound of the o Pasess, London, Dec. 16, 238 . m—A Pet, that -~ ciroles e eatiant peosmbe gt e OaL th t of the Car- o i 4n Russian bands Dividend - Paris, Dec. 28, of France declared a divid for the second semester of the fiseal yéar, of 90 francs ($13) net a share. During the preceding fiscal year div- idends -mouantlnr to 208 francs 23 cen- times were pald. MEXICAN POLITICAL 4 SITUATION' UNCERTAIN. Brazilian Minister Tells of Lack of Harmony Among Chiefs. ‘Waeshington, Dec. 28— Dispatches from the Brazilian minister in Mexico i et e r o0 100 ceived here tonigl litical “situation as full of uncertain- ties. He referred to the lack of har- mony between the several chiefs, some of whom wer advoct-unz ru'flcai '&’3 extreme measures of governmen indicated that nothing alarming had developed and that good order was be- ing preserved. 'f‘lfi‘wm its own agents also the state department was advised that friction existed between the Zapata and Gut- ferrez-Villa factions, based chiefly on the desfre of the formrer to cxocu: Y Gutis suspending all executions fo r what- ever cause pending a fair trial is im effect. ‘The Gutirrez-Villa element holds that the officers should be given stood to be in favor of summary ex- termination of those who served the Huerta or Carbajal regimes, ‘The American goverpument is en- deavoring to secure a general amnesty, and while no-promises have been made that recognition will follow, the Mex- ican factions understood that unlees a umantarian course toward their op- nents is pursued the recognition of the United States will be withheld. ‘The United States government has indicated clearly that it will look dis- favor on continued executions and its remonstrance is believed to have been largely responsible for the Gutierrez decree, STATE TROOPS CALLED TO PREVENT LYNCHING ©Of a Negro in Jail at Hartwell, Ga— Race Feeling Intense, — Hartwell, Ga., Dec, 28. Freight Wreck Frank's Appeal at Sound Beach TRAFFIC HELD UP FOR SEVERAL HOURS FROM FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT ' . FOR GEORGIA OF EXECUTION |SMALL BOY STARTS FIRE Ny Touched a Matoh to Gaseline—A Car Filled With Cotton Destroyed— Stamford Fire ~Department Called Out. 4 GCase-May se Remanded to District ‘Clurt for Taking of Evidence—En- tire Supreme Court Will Now Pass - Upen Right to Seek Release. ‘Washington, Dec. 28 —Justice Lamar of the supreme court today granted an appeal from the refusal of the federai disirict court for Northern Georgia to|terrupted for several hours late today on beas corpus proceedingas, | by a freight wreck and fire near Sound Leo Frank, under death sentence for|Beach. A westbound freight jumped the murder of Mary Phagan, a 15 vear|the tracks, when the air brake hose olg factory girl of Atlanta, Ga. burst. Nine of the cars left the rails, is sentenced to die oun Janu-|including a large tank car filled with gasoline. The tank was punctured and the gasoline scattered about. Fire Spread Rapidly. Railroad officials say that a small boy started the blaze by touching a match to the gasoline. e "_fire spread rapidly and the local fire de- partment was called upon. A car fill- ed with cotton was destroyed, but the other. cars were simply scorched. It was two hours before the blaze was controlled. Tralms in the electrified zone were delaved for several hours. Tracks Completely Blocked. The train was made up of 85 cars and was bound east, the first stop being scheduled for Bridgeport. One of the cars in the middle of the train was flung across two tracks, and com- pletely blocked the track upon which the fast Boston express was approach- ing. Flagman Raymond,Simmons, of New York, knew that the express was following the freight and he ran down the tracks with a red flag. He succeeded in bringing the train to a stop none too soon, the engine being less than two car lengths away from the wrecked freight car, Police Search for Small Boy. The local police made & thorough search for the small boy who the railroad officlals say started the fire by touching a match to the gasoline, but without success. The fireman on the freight George Tattan, who says he saw the incident, was unable to Stamford, Conn., Dec, 28.—Traffic on the main line of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad was in- stay of exec' Thirty -days are given for filinz the record of the proceedings in the lower court. Immediately after that has beer done, the'state of Georgia may ask that the case be advanced . for hearing and such suggestions are generally grant- ed; although in the regular course the case would come up for a year and a Writ of Habeas Corpus. The' entiré court will pass upon Frank'y right to seek release from cus- tody,~on a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that the thial court ia Fui ton. county, Georgia, lost jurisdiction over him by its failure to have him present. when -the jury returned ils verdict ‘of guflty. *Should the court decide that he was entitled to ask for the writ thus reversing Judge Newman of ‘the lower court, the case may be remanded to the district court for the taking of evidence in support ot the petition. Should i* evetaually be Leld that Frank must be released from cus- tody, it is said a mooted question may arise ag to the power of the stato to indict and try him a second time. Sevond Time Fate Rested With Lamar. This was the second time ¥rank’s fate had rested in Justice Lem.u’s hands. After the Georgla sunreme court had declined to set aside the ver- dict of conviction, Justice Lamar was asked to issue a writ of error for the supreme court to review the case. He boy, the police say. questlons of procedure’ were for the|an: estimate of the loss® tonight. to .decide. -Judge Holmes' and —Report: night that a mob was . form Oconee counyt, th Carolina, Thorn! Lask Governor Sla. ton for state troops. The rrested on a charge & white man in Oconee county, died of t the au- thorities féared that the mob would take vengeance on other prieoners. Race feeling 'has been intense recent- ly in Oconee county. In clashes a few days ago near Fairplay three negroes were killed and several white en wounded. The body of a negro who had been killed with an axe was found mear here today. PHILIPPINE DISTURBANCE : REGARDED AS INCIPIENT. Trouble Was Fathered by the Exile Ricarte. ‘Wasliington, Dec. 28—With no addi- tional advices from the Philippines re- ceived at the war department tonight, officials expressed the opinion that the recent disturbance there, which they declined to call an uprising,. was a closed incident, amply explained in “negro, who | of stabbing eventually the other members of ihe| MORTGAGE FOR $100,000,000 petitioned, took the of 1908 and 1806. Toledo, O., Dec. 28. $160,000,000 to secure two :;- Newman held. that .the < man was not entitled to the writ and .réfused to grant an appeal 1o the supreme court from his decision because he was unwilling to ix a certificate of “probable cause” .s re- quired by 'o» federal statute of 1308 in such appeals. of Justice Lamar’s Dec .Justice Lamar then was asked to grant the appeal and issue the celtifi- caté. In announcing his decision to- day-the justice said that he had found that, several questions of federal law, unsettled by the supreme court, axist- ed in the case, giving rise to “prohable cause” for the appeal. These questions were whether the federal constitufion requires am ac cused to be present when a verdi-t i returned against him in a state court, the. effect of the accused not rai g the point of his abscence on = motion for a new tri and the effect «f the supreme court’s own.action in re to grant the writ of error in a and 1906, respectively, was recorded this county today. is secured. in the sum of $50,000,000. Property mortgaged ~includes n. Toledo Railway company’s lines. company, of New York and Frank L. Littleton, trustees, BANDIT KILLED BY ed Him in Store. give a .very good description of the officials declined to make _ ONLAKE SHORE ROAD To Secure Twe lssues of Gold Bonds -A mortgage for wo issues of Lake Shore and:- Michigan Southern Railway company gold bonds of 1903 n Each of the issues the main line and four branch.roads, also leasehold rights to five others, among which are_the branch from Toledo to Palmyra, Mich. belonging to the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad company, and also part of the Detroit, Monroe and The mortgagees are Central Trust CIVIL WAR VETERAN. Wounded Another When They Attack- Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Population Condensod Tolegrams |Boy’t 19 |ssug a Daily Paper city in the United States. Charles Blanchette, of A Mich., TO BE DEVOTED TO COMMERCIAL NEWS urora, shot & black fox whose skin is valued at $300. Ta wn, N. Y., went dry when the mnl'.ic check valve at the res- ervolr froze. The Belgian Relief Fund being col- lected in New York has reached the total of $727,853. William Thaw and Weston Hall, Americans, were appointed to the French Aviation Corps. ABSTRACTS OF FINDINGS . Branch Offices Located at New Yiwk, Boston, Chicago, St. Louis, San Fran- cisco, Atlanta and New Orleans—To Ask Business Men. The fifth detachment of Newfound- Jand naval reservists, comprising 160 men, arrived in England. Th-p:]ncr‘;ell; R.dl: c‘rvuuhu issued an ap] or fun or aid of the . ; ‘Washington, Dec. 28.—To promote MErvns Seumaiy n Mexca. the foreign commerce of the United States, the government will go into the newspaper business Jan. 2 next, when the first issue of The Daily Commer- cial Report ie to be turned out hy the department of commerce. In it will be carried all important commercial ca- blegrams received from the attaches at the varlous embassies abroad and from consuls throughout the world. It also will contain brief abstracts of the findings of Investigators of the depart- ment in many lines of American enter- prise and will present to the business world each day the gist of the business of the department of commerce for the preceding day. & 8upplants Consular Reports. The plan for a live, up-to-the-hour commercial daily was worked out by Dr. E. E. Pratt, chief of the bureau of foreign and wlomestic commerce. The new publication will take the place of the daily consular report now issued, and hereafter the long mail reports from American consuls reviewing bue- ‘ness conditions and opportunities in their respective sections will be pub- lished as supnlements to the commer- clal report. E. A. Brand. assistant chief of the bureau, who returned today from an extended tour of inspection of the elght new branch offices of the bureau, re- ported that the branches were meeting with a cordial reception from business houses and were working to full ca- pacity in co-operation with merchants and manufacturers. Of Value to the Business World. “These offices have become a factor In American business life,” he said. “They have proven themselves of great value to the business world in furnlshing closer relations with the agencies of the federal government whose busines- it is to ald American enterprises seeking foothold sabroad. Through them information of great value to merchants and manufacturers ie quickly obtainable, and they aid the bureau here also_ in keeping in closest touch with American business needs.” \_Th!’_mh lflelcuhm located at New Yo oston, Chicago. St. Lo Seatele, San o Assemblyman-slect Charles W. Os- trom of Hoboken announces he will introduce a Bill taxing all bachelors. A large fat opossum was sent to Colonel Roosevelt for a New Year's {m by Frank Niemak, of Sayville, L. California’s Relief Ship Camino, car- rying a cargo of food for the Belgians, s now passing through the Panama Canal. The number of marriage licenses is- sued in Chicago so far in 1914 shows a decrease of 91° below the total of last year. Two negroes were beaten to death and several white men were shot and wounded during race rioting at Fair- play, S. C. Miss Enid Bliss of New York, a nurse serving with the American Red Cross in Germany died of appendicitis in Munich. Nicholas Bawlf, owner of two ele- vator companies and known as the oat king of Canada, was found dead in his bed at Winnipeg. The American consul-general at Berlin hus arranged for American ships to carry cotton to Germany in return for German drugs. Two prisoiers in the United States States Penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., escaped from the tuberculosis camp, where they were confined. The First National Bank of Isiip, L. L, closed its doors after a run brought about by the disappearance of H. C. Haff, cashier, who later returned. The federal court has ordered pay- ment of the semi-annual bond interest of the Clover Leaf Railroad. which re- ca:my went into the hands of a re- celver. The next state ship for Belglan re- lief which will sail from New York will be the Hannah, now taking aboard a Kansas cargo.and expected to clear Friday. ceuntry, and no extension is eontem- plated during the present fiscal year. e Reiade e CHANGE IN THE WESTINGHOUSE COMPANIES Executors of Estate to Sell Machine Co. to the Electric Co, Pittsburgh, Pa.. Dec. 28.—Executors of the estate of the late George West. inghouse late today announced that they had contracted to =ell their stock in the Westinghouse Machine ecom- pany to the Westing Electric and Manufacturing company on the basis of three shares of machine stock for one share of electric stock. Mr. West- inghouse conmtrolled the machine com- pany, a $10,000,000 corporation but the other stockholders will be allowed to share in the sale agreement if they exercise the right before Jan. 26 next, — An_investigation was begun vester- day by Coroner Mix of the fire on Christmas Eve in New Haven in which Miss Carrie Pollard of Waterbury lost er life. 3 shops on ew Haven system resumed yes- e one week in advance of the time to which the recent shutdown was fixed. Mrs. N. E. Chuck of New Brighton, Pa., was shot and seriously injured by her husband, when she visited him in a hospital there, where he is dying of tuberculosis. Mrs. Frank W. Miller, wife of the Bridgeport banker, who was injured in an automobile accident, Saturday af- of the belligerents since the outbreak of the wu-,u:u cabled to Ambassador Page to be presented formally to Sir ‘Edward Grey. the Btrll“!h tcre_:’gn sec- retary. Its preparation was begun a month ago bl;rsol‘k:itor Cone Johnson, the report cabled yesterday by Gov- ernor-General Harrison. It was said that no additionai in- formation had been sought from Gov- ernor Harrison, and the view was ex- pressed that police vigilance was all that was: necessary to prevent the re- currence of such incidents. One offi- cial said that the report did not dis- close more .serious. disorders than might be found in any ecity in 'this country of the size of Manila and its environs. Emphasis also was laid on the fact that the propaganda leading to the trouble was fathered by the exiled ternoon, s resting comfortably at the Norwalk hospital. where an alleged jurisdictional gquss. tion was presented on a motion filed at a time not authorized by the pra=- tice of the state where he -rial tock place. PRICES OF WHEAT CONTINUE TO SOAR Blue Stem for February Delivery Sold at $1.32 a Bushel. Portland, Oregon, Dec. 28. saw the previous record prices which have prevailed on the Portland wheat exchange in the last few weeks sur- passed when 5000 bushels of blue stem wheat for February delivery sold at $1.32 a bushel, three cents above the last previous sales. Bids for other grades of futures were from one-half to a cent higher than Saturday. Ex- portation of wheat and flour to Europe continues on a large scal Government, St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 28.—One bandit was killed and another shot and seri- ously wounded here today by Leonard C. Humphrey, a 70 year old Civil war veteran, The pair aroused Humphrey’s { suspicions by Joitering in his store while he was otherwise alone and he took up his revolver. Fosd The men attacked him, one with a hatchet, while the other tried to choke the old man. Humphrey worked his arm free and fired. Both men ran from the store. A few feet away' one fell dead. The other was found in a phy- sician’s office. MUTUALIZATION OF THE METROPOLITAN LIFE Endorsed by Policyholders at a Mest- in~ Held in New York. Washington, Dec. 28.—The German government has formally notified the state department that American con- Counsellor Robert Lansing and Sec- | suls be withdrawn for the present at retary Bryan and finally during the least - CAUSE OF FIRE AT HONDURAS CONSUL GENERAL EAST CAMBRIDGE UNKNOWN. CHARGED WITH ARSON. Homeless Men and Women Sleeping on Had Been Under Surveillance of San Francisco Police. Ward Room Floors. 3 10 | Picarte and some equally irresponsible 28~ San Francisco, Dec. 28.—Fernando lers In the is , oS ra which swaffed ont the| Somoza Vivas, consul general here of = Hives of four aged women inmates of |the republic of Honduras, was arres!- | PREPARING FOR EVENTUAL e | a; Z the oty almshouse and Imperilled Uic| 10q"Sean inder survelllance by the EVACUATION OF NAGO. lives of T today, probably will ney-|poilce since last night, when firemen S tunates ey O, D ihe substance|found that his burning house had been | General - Benjamin Hill to Take Car- gr!gm:n i tonlett By Magor Sont lilberally sprinkled with ofl and turpén- ranza Forces Out. after Teading a report of officials who|t T dah it vere Tt Bam Rom Were Moo Aot Dec, 25—Pre; o33 3 3 . —Preparation bad tuvestigated the tragedy. o have|found filled with paper saturated in |for the eventual evacuation of Naco, flunfiflm’h & match, cigar or clg- |Oll; carpets had been sprinkled with |Sonora, was begun today by General N Fri o4 vt ashes were made, inflammables; holes had been cut|Benjamin Hill, who plans to take his e D, st oy Dosstble oyi- | through the ceilings of closets for flues | Carranza forces out of the Mexican iyl e 5% the fire was|and streamers tled from the rafters to | town, where it had been besieged three b i monthe, to Agua Prieta, opposite Douglas, Ariz. This {s in accordance with the bor- guide the flames. swept away by the flames. | ado home- |, Vivas was found partially clad on der peace plan proposed by Brigadier General Hugh L. Six persons were hurt when a coach on a Kalamazoo, Lake Shore & Chicago passenger train left the tracks after a collission with a freight train near Hartford, Mich. William G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasary, left Washington to act as the representative of President Wilson at the opening of the exposition at San Diego, January 1 SE AL s CREATION - OF A TARIFF BOARD PROPOSED to Be Introduced by Rep- resentative Mann. ‘Washington, Dec. 28.—Creation of a tariff board. to be composed of one member appointed by the president, and four named respectively by the maority and minority of the senate finance and house ways and means committees is proposed in a bill which will be introduced tomorrow by Rep- resentative Mann, the republican house leader. The board will be empowered to" investigate both in the Unitea States and abroad. NEW YORK’S EXHIBIT AT LYONS EXPOSITION To Be Sent to the Panama-Pacific Exposition. For injuries inflicted on wife by shooting, Robert J. Coe, was sentenced in the superior court at New Haven, to not less than eight nor more than 15 years in state prison. PASSENGER RATES ON BOSTON AND MAINE Increase Will Not Become '.Dpzrlfl'va Before Feb. 1. Boston, g. 28—Proposed increases in passenger'rates on the Boston and Maine rallroad wiil not become oper- ative before February 1 as the result of an order issued by the public ser- vice commission today. The railroad had requested that the new rates should go into effect anuary 1. but the commission decided that another public hearing should be held and set January 6 as the date for fit. Representative Kahn, of California, said that Congressmen will shun the “dry’ warships chartered to take the Congressmen through the Panama Ca- nal to the San Francisco Exposition. New York, Dec. . —Mutuaii: on of the Metropoli Life Insurf¥nce company was endorsed by the policy- holders at a meeting held here todas Only about 1,600 voted against the olan, while 65,000 gave their approval. Most of the votes were by proxy. Mu tualization already has been approved by the stoekholders and directors. The proposal mow goes before the state superintendent of insurance. and if he gives his approval control of the company will pass into the hands of the policyholders, who will elect a board of directors. CORPS OF ENGINEERS, N. Y. N. G, DISBANDED., In Accard With Instructions Issued by War Department. Albany, N. Y, Dec. 28.—Brigadier General H D. Hamilton, adjutant general of the state national guard, tonight issued a statement in which he declares that the, disbandment of the 224 regiment, coris of engineers, was ordered ot comply with instructions issued by the war department. djut- ant General Hamliton savs no criticism of the regiment as infantry is Two persons were seriously injured and seven others slightly hurt when a runaway engine left a roundhouse at Atchison, Ka: and collided with a Misouri-Pacific p#ssenger Arain. The ashes of W. W. Rockhill, form- erly minister to China and later fin- ancial adviser to the Chinese govern- ment, who died recently at Honolulu, H. L, are expected to reach Litchfield within a day or tw The Rev. John C. Dean, thirty-one, rector of St. Mark’s Episcopal church of Dunmore, Pa.. was asphyxiated, and Conrad Schweitzer, a machinist, nar- rowly escaped a similar fate yesterda; in the church rectory. New York, Dec. 28.—After escaping destruction by fire at Lyons, France, New York city’s exhibit at the Lyons exposition has been returned safely to this city on the French .steamship Cacqui and is now being prepared for shipment to San Franci will form a part of the New York ex- hibit at the Panama-Pacific exposition_ At the Lvons .exposition the exhibif was given the highest award. Through the co-operation of Am- bassador Herrick, Hayor Herriott of Lyons and the exposition authorities, it was released early and sent back through war-stricken ce. The day after its removal the PBritish and pavilions were swept by the sidewalk shortly after the firemen Dby the firo slepl tonishi on mal-|arrived. At police headquarters he as- trasees Iaid on wasid room fioors. serted that his consular position made PAIWN OF TWO LEADERS him immune from oprosecution. OF LAWRENCE TEXTILE STRIKE Approved State COL. ROOSEVELT VISITS MUNICIPAL LODGING HOUSE. Sheok Hands With Many of the Men in Line.” - of his troops at Agua Prieta, but Gov- ernor Maytorena has thrown outposts along the border east of here to pre- vent Hill’s movement until the peace pl:{n- are fully accomplished. Movements of Steamships, Kinsale, Dec. 28.—Passed, steamer Tfilmsyh'lnh. New York for Liver- Ppool. Havre, Dec. 22.—Arrived, steamer Rochambeau, New York. Sailed, 26th, steamer Niagara, New York Cadiz, Dec. 23.—Arrived, steamer Antonio Lopez, New York. Genoa, Dec. 23.—Arrived, steamers Buropa, New York: 2¢th, America, New Yorik, New .York, Dec. 28 —Steamer Duea D’Acosta, Naples for New York, sig- nalled. Dock 8.30 a. m. Tuesday. by Massachusstts Board of Parole. :Boston Dec. 28.—J’stitions for the of two the leadess in riots at e during tae great textile ‘three years ago have been ap- . by the state board of paroie by the execu- | New York, Dec. 28.—Colonel Theo- dore Roosevelt visited the municipal lodging house tonight. About 250 men were in line waiting to get supper tickets when he arrived in a large au- tomobile. He shoow hands with many of them, addressing some by name, ‘He did not explain how he happened to know them. When he entered the din- ing room to sample the food being served, Colonel Roosevelt found 200 The private banking concern of J. B. Greenhut & Co., of New York, has notified its 57,000 depositors to with- draw their money, as the Greenhut store has decided to withdraw from the banking business. Protest Placina Resinous Products on 4 Contraband List. - Savannah, Ga.. Dec. 28.—Governors fire. > at a policeman, and- Orlando o, convicted of firing upon loyal ~omployes of the Pscific mills. Bach is g 2 five to seven Year semtence. -Warden of Charlestown Prison. Boston, Mass., Dec. 28—Natran D, Allen, who has been acting warden of the Charlestown state prison for tne Seven thousand employes in :the mills of the Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Co., at Yonkers are out of work Peru to Be Represented in Naval % —— more of the city's homeless at supper. past two months, was appeinted war tmplied. Bl during the holidays on account of the Cehlia: Schooner Blown 2,000 Miles Out of i en’ o s OBITUARY. closing of the plant for the annual in- 3 ¥ iy entory. The mills will pen 'Jan- | Washington, Dec. 28.—Peru will be Tl Coursa, Chief Examiner of I, C: C, ro- ~ o s e 4 Dec. 28.—The four masted ooner Lewiston which left.this port weeks ago. for Bridgewater, N. ‘arrived ' today at Mayaguez, Porto >, accordit.g to a cal reseiv- by the schooners’ agents here. Cap- tain. Ginn that his vessel had ‘een blown. 2,000 miles off her course signed. connected with the institution for the past twenty years, recently attra:red public attention by the innovvatioa of distributing night shirts to every in- mate of the institution. . uary 4. the ceremonies ‘Washington, Dec. 28—James W. Car- malt today was appointed chief ex- aminer of the Interstate Commerce represented in inel- dent to the opening of the Panama canal and in the international naval cruise by the armored cruiser Al- mirante Grao. So far six foreign ves- sele have been listed to participate in the celebration. zabeth, N. J., Dec. 28—Leonard E. W& New York broker and former tennis champlon, dled of pneumonia at his home here today after an illness While an in 1898, Mr. Wi doubles Prisoner- Must - Like Jafl.". Providence, R, I, Dec, 2 gire to .be.an end man ‘in Large quantities of heroin and other drugs were found by detectives who searched the rooms of Alfred Biorni at No. 220 North Sixth Street, Williams- burg. Bloronl and ‘Bernard Webber are said to have sold drugs extensive- ly among schdol children in the neigh- ‘borhood. won the natio: o with G. Pd Bg;l- dof, Jr., loubles ‘hampion, with M. D. Whitman and E!u' -singles champion- i chmplo:nm;orm‘!:r coll doubles years before that date and one of the ot i, Rosbacy. Mast, | He was. . In 1876. A widow and three children sur- but.was. undamaged. e e e “~Terre ‘Haute’'s Mayor Gets Bail. i /Indianapols, Ind., Dec. 28—Donn M. b . Haute, who 28.—Henry J. Horn £ “here un- elected president of the conspiracy | Massachusetts Institute of Technology .3, 1914, | Alumni association in the recent bal- 6 | loting by mall, it was announced to- | J night. John L. Mauran of St. Louls | was' cliosen s vics president. gurq tly. confldentlal examiner attached to the staff of Chairman Harlan, real property value of $75.000 is left to his “ree sisters and his son, William K. “ayne. Property in Auburn and the um of $20,000 are left to the sisters an) the residue to the gon. d rrupt the election of Nov, 3, . corru : !fl?:od lata under $10,00 %ond. The iaond was. offercd by &