Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 7, 1915, Page 1

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LVIL—NO. 6 NORWICH, CONN., THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1915 PRICE TWO CENTS The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in firoportion to the City’s Population RUSSIANS PRESSING | THE FLEEING TURKS In the Region Near Sar i Kamysh and Ardahan, in the Caucasus ALSO GAINING NEAR EAST PRUSSIAN FRONTIER {n Bukowina Four Additional Towns Are Reported to Have Been Taken From the Austrians—The Village of Roz- rowa Said to Have Been onet—Elsewhere in the Taken at the Point of the Bay- War Zones the Fighting Con- sists Mainly of Artillery Duels—Turkish Cruiser Goebin, Formerly of the German Navy, Has Been Badly Damag- ed by Striking Russian Mines Near Bosphorous. il For achievem the : old the center of the in the : war drama that is being enacted n Europe and on the territory that| forms the natural bot ry between Europe and Asia—the Caucasus o the latter resion the Muscovites are following up and pressing hard the f g Turks near Sari Kamysh and ile far away to the north- in Bukowina, the Austrian and abutting Rumania, and still far- ther on, near the E: Pru n fron ed for tier, fresh successes are chroni them by Petrograd In Bukowina four additional are reported to have fbeen taken ithe Austriang, two of them—Gura Huomora and Boukscher—being pst direct route to Transy towns in Poland, just off the n frontier, and near the lawa, the village of Rc rowa is said to have been taken at the voint of the bayonet £ Eisewhere in the war zone the fight ing consists mainly of artillery duel ith here and there an infantry attack, in none of thesa fights s anything approaching a decisive ry “been secured by either side. The Turkish cruiser of the German navy, has been bad- v damaged by striking Russian mines near the Bosphorus, according to Co- penhagen advices, while from Coustan- tinople it is announced that two Turk- ish cruisers emerged from an engage- ment with 17 Russian warships in th Black sea without damage. The bitter = oeben. former- suffering which follows In the wake of the war has been demonstrated finding of 10,000 French peasant valley of tue Meuse absolutely food. The American comm: relief in Belgium is now car ese famine-stricken people, but ports that many deaths from star tion have already occurred STUBBORN FIGHTING BETWEEN FRENCH AND GERMANS by For the Roads to Cermay and Muel- hausen in U-ner Aisace. London, Jan. 6, 10.40 m.—Apart rom the Russian victory over t Turks in Trans-Caucasia, which is de scrived in & despatch to the Russian mbassy from Petrograde te,” interest in the warfare iefly in the stubborn fight French and Germans are or the roads to Cernay and N in upper Alsace. The battle in that region, whic een raging for a week, The Germ ¢ regained one of the trenches which they h lost, but on the whole the ports indicate that ‘the maintain thelr adva of which they had to cases with the bayonet. Along the rest of the western & t ha tide of battle continues to ebb and ow. On either side of Rheir articularly to the east of that I ed city, the French, according to re ports, dafly ruen their lines a few vards forward, wl e in the Argonne, where more hard fighting is going on, - the Germans and the French report the capture of the other's entrenchments. Another region where the French seemingly keep nibbling away at the German Imes in in the Wo e, where hie gains revorted by them last nigl and again today must, when consoli- dated, have gone long y toward rendering the Germans’ leng occupa- ion of St. Mihie] the much less com- Zertable. GREAT BATTLE IN GALICIA A STRUGGLE FOR POSITIONS fn Which Both Sides Are Well En- trenched. Berlin, Jan. 6 (By wireless tel €raphy to London, 7.05 p. m.)—Mil- {tary officials say that the great bat- tle In western Gelicia has again re- solved itself Into a atruggle for cer- tein definite position: ch both si@es are weil intrenched. They assert that the Austro-Hungarian troops are fighting excellentiy in their prepared positions and that the atiFmpts of Russian forces north of Qorlice to push Torward in the direction of Cracow on road leading to Bochnia and on he south to Neu Sandek have falled. Tt 18 stated here that General Ger- ald Pau, commander of the French rmy in Alsace, visited Warsaw in the stier part of December. The object of his_wisit was to make arrangements with the Russlan army staff which It reported may lead to combined con- rol of further operations. SIX AEROPLANES HOVERED DUNKIRK AT ONE TIME. Cwing to Vigorous Fire of Town's Guns Few Bombs Were Dropped. London, Jan. 7, 256 2. m.—A cor- respondent of the Daily Mail in France reports that a Zeppelin airship started the French seacoast near Gravelines, twelve miles southwest of Dunkirk, Wednesday morning and turned west- ward toward England and that it is rumored that two other Zepnelins pre- ceded it. “Themsafter throughout the whole 3| correspondent adds, “Dun- kirk was subjected to German aero- piane raids and attempts to drop hombs; but owing to the vigorous fire of the town's guns only a few bombs fell. At one moment six aeroplanes were hovering over the town, but wuie compelled to retreat. Apparently no damage was done. day,” the | i | | HOUSE OF LORDS IN EARLY SESSION. To Hear Lord Kitchener Review Mili- tary Operations. London, Jan. 6, 9 p. m—The house of lords met today, a month earlier than the house of commons, chiefly to hear from Lord Kitchener & review of the military operations, for the six weeks since parliament was pro- rogued. While the speech of the sec- retary of war contained nothing sen- sational and little not already known, it was listened to with apt attention by a distinguished gathering of peers and peeresses, members of the house of commons and public men. 3 The peers, as usual, were in their robes of office, but, beyond this, the scene lacked the wusual color, for of the long rows of peeresses in the zallery virtually every one was in mourning for somo relative killed at he front. AMERICAN STEAMER DETAINED AT ORKNEY ISLANDS Owners Have Asked State Department to Make Representations. Washington, Jan. 6.—The American steamer Denver, bound for Bremen, with only cotton from Nor- December has been detained kwall, Orkney Islands, north of Scotland. The owners have asked the state depagfinent to make representa- tions, The Denver was reported to have been loaded under the inspection not only of United States customs officials, also of the British consular offi- at Norfolk. She had aboard about 000 bales of cotton, Arrangements are now under way | which, it is believed, may facilitate shipments. The British bassy and the state department have had the proposition laid before them by ship- pers. It would provide that vessel have their hatches sealed before they leave Amer: at n ports. Amerlcan cus toms officfals and British consuls could ee that the seal was properly affixed e e loading had been The City of Macon, with 8,500 bales of cotton, recently left New York for Bremen and had sealed hatches un der that plan. The City of Memphis. now loading at a guif port for Lon- don and the City of Savannahb, for Rotterdam, both with cotton only, will 1 with hatch sealed. Under that plan it is belleved British authorities will allow such vessels to pass. spected. FPENNSYLVANIA FARMERS SEARCHING FOR MURDERER. Victim Was Wife of a Prominent Farmer Near Huntingdon, Pa. Huntingdon, Pa., Jan, 6.—A posse of armed farmers, headed by Sheriff H. E. Wilson, tonight scoured the hilis for Adam Snyder, 20, who, it is alleged, to- day assaulted and murdered Mrs. Re- becca Port, aged 26, wife of a prom- inent farmer who viies near Neff's Mills. Plummer Port, husband of the slain ‘woman, had gone to the village store, leaving his wife alone with Snyder, who was working on the farm as a paroled nrisoner of the Huntingdon re- formatory. During the farmer’s absence the Woman was assaulted and her throat wag cut with a raz The body was dragged to the celiar and concealed under a potato box. ARREST OR AN ARMY PAYMASTER'S CLERK. Wanted in Connection With Investi- gation of Loss of $4,300. Burlicgton, VL, Jan. 6—John_ A. Howard, paymaster’s clerk at Fort Tthan Alien, who has been missing for several days, was arrested at Winnipes, Manitoba. today, accord- ing to word received at the post to- night. He is wanted in connection with an investization of a loss of $4,- 300 of government funds, part of { which is believed to be represented in la check for $5,560 bearing the name jof Lieutenent W. D. Sumner, which tiie lieutenant says was forged. Record For Passenger Aeropiane. ‘Washington, Jan, 6.—AMaking of a new American record for passenger carrying aeroplanes was reported to the war department today by _ the army avlation school at San Diego, Calif. The message announced that Lieutenant Carburry, with Lieutenant Christie as a passenger, flew to an al- titnde of 11,690 feet in one of tha new | tractor miiitary machines. Carrying | Cabled Parao~ ° Two Turkish Crui- S fisatan . Constant’ wondon, Jan. 6, 6.13 p. m-~ <1al communication issued tods says: “Two Turkish cruisers were in action yesterday in the Black sea against a Russian fleet of 17 units. Despite the Russian’ numerical superfority, our ships were not dam- aged.” : U. 8. Troops Arrive at Panama, Panama, Jan. 6—Brigadier General Clarence R. Edwards, with the 30th United Siates Infautry, arrived here today aboard the transport Buford from San Francisco. General Edwards, |who wreviously commanded the First Hawaiian brigade, will take eommand {in the canal zone. The American min- ister to Panama, William J. Rice, re- turned here today from New Yorl He has been on a leave of absence. SWEDISH LEGATION STATEMENT CONCERNING COPPER IMPORTS Large increase from U. S. Because None is Obtainable from Germany. 6, 829 p. m.—The n today issued a state- ment concerning <copper imports to Sweden which purports to show an in- crease of 2,179,374 gkilograms (4,794,623 pounds) over 1918. It points out, how- ever, that of this increase 354,334 kilo- grame (1,879,534 pounds) were import- ed since started. This was the war entirely due to growing domestic con- sumption, to which the electrification of the state railways and the needs of the army largely contributed. The statement says the much-talked- of increase in immortations of copper from the United States can be attrib- uted to the fact that no copper is now obtainable from Germany, from which country considerabie gquantitles were imported before the war. With the export of copper from Great Britain ally prohibited. only the United s left to supply Sweden with metal. he etatement also says that in re- years Sweden's importation of as been steadily increasing at the rate of about 20 per cent. yearly. PRESIDENT STANS PAT ON SUFFRAGE QUESTION. Again Tells Delegation the Fight Should be Made in the States. Washington, Jan. 6.—President Wil- son declined today for the sixth time since he entered the White House to upport a federal <o itutional amendment for woman suffrage, When delegation of democratic women, red they had helped to elect him, presented the sixth formal pe- tition, the president repeated his pre- vious declaration that he <consilered suffrage a state issue. Mrs, George B Armes, preside the District of Columbia branch of the Wilson and Marshall league; Miss Al- bert A. Hill of New Yeork and Dr. Frances MeGaskin, spokesmen for the delegation which called at the White House, reminded the president that the house would vote on the firage amendment January 12 and as he 1 his moral support to t ment. of BATTLESHIP LI;\‘.‘VARE FIRES SALUTE TO VERA CRUZ. Was Deferred Pencling Instructions from Washington. Vera Cruz Jan. 6.—The American battleship Delaware, which relieved the battleship Rhode Isiand when that el sailed with Rear Admiral Wal- ter McLean for New Orleans, did not deliver the customary salute to the port unti] today. It was explained that firing of salutes was suspended 1 instructions were received from ‘Washington that they should be given, on account of the friendly feeling of the American administration for the M can people. A naval regulation prohibits the fir- ing of salutes to ports whose govern- ments have not been recognized. Since the overthrow of President Madero, how all ships visiting Alexican ports have given salutes except dur- ing the occupation of Vera Cruz and his is the first instance of a delay. FICTITIOUS CAPITALIZATION Fact Brought Out st Yesterday’s Ses- session of Board of Arbitration. Chicago, —Seventy-two per- cent. of fictitiol capitalization and some rich fees warked the reorganiza- tion of the Chicago Great Western railroad, according to testimony ad-| duced at today’'s session of the board f arbitration. which ig seeking to ad- just wage @ifferences between west- ern railroads and their enginemen. The testimony came from W. J. Lauck, a statistician who completed his second day as a witness. He intro- duced extensive comparisons purport- ing to show to what extent the engine- men participated in increasing the carnings of therailroads, making due allowances for the profits of reduced curves and the installation of heavier locomotives and larger cars. 10,000 APPLICATIONS FROM WOMEN FOR EMPLOYMENT At Panama-Pacific Exposition—Only Only 1,000 Positions Open, San Francisco, Jan. 6.—Desire to see the Panama-Pacifls international expo- sition bas flooded the offices of the exposition with 10,000 avolications for employment, while only 1,000 positions are open to women. Many applicants aiready have come here without wait- ing replies and are swelling the num- ber of the unemployed. Women’s unions are sending letters to all branches urging that members be discouraged from coming to San Francisco. Between fifteen and twen- ty thousand unemployed women stenographers and office assistants are reported in need. ARMS PROHIBITED AT MEXICAN CONVENTION. Expecting Scene When Soldiers Ware Compelled to Leave Gallery. Mexico City, Jan. 4. via El Paso, Texas, Jan. 6.—When the national convention was called for the purpose of naming a provisional president and adopting a reform programme met to- day in the chamber of deputies, a number of armed soldiers entered the gallery and after somewhat exciting scenes were compelled to leave the chamber. It was decided that in the future neither delegates or spectators might bear arms at the meetings. A majority of the delegates present today belonged to the Zapata army. — OF CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN.|: (former preeident, died 700 in Panic in New York Subway INJURED, ONE FATALLY, STRUGGLE TO ESCAPE. 200 IN TWO TRAINS STALLED Smoke and Acid Fumes from a Short Circuited Cable Caused Trouble— Tie-Up of Transportation and Con- gestion of Traffic Ensue. New York, Jan. 6.—The worst acci- dent in the ten years' history of New York's subway occurred during the morning rush hours today. when 700 passengers in two stalled trains were stricken with panic in the darkened tubes by the invasion of dense smoke and acid fumes from a short circuited cable. In the ensuing struggle to es- cape 200 persons were injured—one, a ‘woman, fatal Othe were overcome and police and fire men, while scores of others struggled to the street, unnerved or hysterical, with torn clothes and faces blackened by smoke- Tie-Up of Transportation. As the result of the accident, the city was tonight in the throes of an un- precedented tie-up of transvortation. It was not until late today that a wheel again turned in the subway, and at that time only a limited local service was in operat The hundreds of thousands of passengers usually car- the subway were diverted to ated and surface systems, and when the home-bound rush began t night neither system had adequate f: -ilitles to accommodate the tremen- dous crowds. No subway trains were running to Brooklyn, and a dense mass of humanity, concentrating at the Brooklyn bridge, prolonged the rush hour period for two hours in a struggle to board trains and cars, Congestion Feared Today. The management of the Interbor- ough Rapid Transit company could not guarantee tonight that norma] condi- tions would be restored tomorrow and a repetition of today’s congested con- ditions was feared. ‘The accident, which tween the Fiftieth and Fifty-ninth street stations called out virtually the entire fire and ambulance service on Manhattan Island. Feed Cable Blew Out. The two trains, an express and a 1d- cal, both packed with business-bound bumanity, stopped midway hetween the stations and the lights went out. A large f-2d cable bad hiewn out in its conduit, some 50 yards distant, and soon tlie cars became fllled with the stench of burning rubber. This grew unbearable and it took little in the darkness to start a pani The de- mands of some of the passengers that oceurred the doors be opened were ref the guards, it was said. Fi sued, followed by a desperate in both trains to get out. Windows were smashed and terrified men and women trampled each other. Police and Firemen Called. Meantime smoke poured up through the station entrances, manholes and ventilators in dense volume: Little attention seems to have been paid to this warning until the first of the panic-stricken hed the street. Then flew that there had been a trophe, that many had been killed. olice and fire- men v reached ti ene, and was at leng ablished were gerated, more than three passengers res reports a although that the ue worl Women Half Asphyxiated. They found abandoned in the two trains many passengers, mostly women, half aspxyiated by sm Otkers had collapsed on the the tube. Some were I means of ladders throug! some through ventilating apertures in the ordinarily covered with steel Nearby theatres, stores and rages were commandeer- - hospitals for the less red, while dozens of carried _away to hosp Te: skilled attention. « were reported in a condition tonight. Jiss Ella e only victim to lose her life, died in ambulance. Several undoubtedl ved by the use of pulmoto; ns said. Investigation Started. igations to fix the blame sident were at on arted b} and the pub- on, and word came i for service commis from Albany that the dent bad started legislative activity looking to an investigation of the state’s super- vision of public utilities. The fact that the smoke and stifling fumes caused the trouble led to sug- gestions that steps be taken for the more adequate ventilation of the tube. General Manager Hedley of the Inte borough said tonight that ne invention had yet been developed to prevent short circulting and that a similar ac- ciGent could oceur at any time, TWO MEN KILLED AS FIRE ENGINE SKIDDED Over a Curbstone at Trenton, N. J.— Three Men and a Woman Injured. Tremton, N. were killed and three men and a an were seriously injured tonight when an automobile fire engine skidded over the curbstone on South Broad street while responding to a. fire alarm. The accident was due to the slippery con- dition of the streets, caused by a heavy rainfall. Frank McGurk and Louis Miles were the men killed. $29,000,000 Bond Issue Road. New York, Jan. 6—Directors of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company today authorized the issue of about 29,000,000 five per- cent convertible debenture bonds, to be offered to stockholders at par to the extent of 12% per cent of their present holdings. The bonds have al- ready been underwritten. Jan. for St. Paul Cousin of Former President Taft Dead. Rockford, IIL, Jan. 6.—Horatio Taft, cousin of William Howard Taft, who bore a remarkable resemblance to the suddenly of pnoumonia here today, Lodge Attacks Our Mexican Policy SAYS IT WAS FOUNDED ON ANI- MOSITY TO HUERTA. HE REVIEWED HISTORY Says It Is Too Late Now to Adopt Any Policy Other Than Military Oc- cupation—Senator Stone Makes Able Defense. Washington, Jan, 6.—Mexican trou- bles were the subject of another sharp debate today in the senate. Senator Lodge, ranking republican.member of the foreign relations committee, made a speech criticising the administr tion's attitude and declaring it Ww: all but too late for the American gov- ernment to adopt any policy toward Jexico other than military occupa- tion. This drew a vigorous reply from Senator Stone, chairman of the com- mitted, who branded the Massachu- setts senator’s attacks as a purely partisan outburst. \ Senator Borah joined in the discus- sion and it was indicated that there would soon be a general airing of views on the Mexican situation, Says Anarchy Now Exists. Senator Lodge reviewed the whole story of the disturbance in Mexico om the inception of the Madero rev- f olution to the present strife between the Villa and Carranza factions and declared anarchy existed now. He in- ed that the anlmosity of President Wilson ainst General Huerta had directed the course of the administra- tion toward the southern republic and that the failure of the president to mention Mexico in his last annual message to congress had left it to be presumed that he had no policy to advance now that Huerta was ousted and revolt and tumult reigned across the border, Stone Replies to Lodge. Senator Stone took exception to Mr. Lodge's statement that it was impos sible to expect the organization of an orderly ~overnment in Mexico and that anything looking to that end was an impossible dream. He sharply ar- raigned the Massachusetts senator for ecipitating the discussion of —.the foreign relations of the United States at this time, when every possible ef- fort was being made to leep the na- tion at peace while war raged in many parts of the world. Senator Lodge had incorporated ‘in his remarks a recent article by Former President Roosevelt attacking the administration’s Mex can policy and making mention of the religious persecution alleged to be in progress in Mexico. Senator Stone heatedly referred to the article as “a remarkable screed,” in which the for- mer president ught to inject re- ligious passions into our international relations, Slap at Roosevelt. “It is detestable,” he declared, “that a former president of the United States and- his coadjutor on the floor, the senator from Massachusett should attempt to incite religious pas- ons in consideration of our foreign affairs. There is too much that going_on now, belween Protestants and Catholics. 1 protest against it. T can think of nothing more danger- ous to our political and eivil 1 It is time for patriotic senators to arcuse and do something to check the onward movement of this great religious con- flict. This is not ti and this i not the country where propagand that kind should be enCouraged.’ As to the charge that President Wil- son’s against Huerta brought the present condition in exico, Senator Stone asked wh President Wilson should feel such hos- . The question wered itself. adding that the p the president entertained was a “bald fabrication. Senator Borah's Views, Senator Borah read extracts speeches by Senater Stone during last _republican adr tration, marking that the Mi completely changed h change in party power, a: had harged Senator Lodge had done. The Mexican situation had come to a point, he insisted, where it must be debated fully in the light of the dut yof the United States to protect the lives and property of its citizens wherever tk of that fecling re ouri senator had views with the he might be found. “T should like to see the pol es- tablistied, whether democratic or re- publican,” Senator Borah added, “that that he was an it would be known that his life and his rights would be fully protected by this government; they would not be molested then.” American_citizen, BLAND NOMINATION REJECTED BY SENATE. Fourth of President'’s Appointments Turned Yown in a Few Weeks. Washington, Jan. 6.—The nomination of Ewing C. Bland of Kansas City to be United States marshal for the western district of Missouri was rejected by the ate Jate today by unanimous vote. Bland’s is the fourth nomination re- cted by the senate in the last few eeks in the avwoointment dispute that has developed between the president and the senate over recess appoint- ments. Bland was appointed by the president after the fall recess, aithough the vacancy in the marshal’s office oc- curred before the senate adjourned in October, TO GET SHIP PURCHASE BILL BEFORE THE SENATE Determined Efforts Are to Be Made Today by Administration Leaders. ‘Washington, Jan, 6.—Dstermined ef- forts will be made tomorrow by ad- ministration leaders of the senate to get the government ship purchase biil actually before the senate for general debate. That every parliamentary ex- pedient to delay consideration of the measure will be used was demonstrated to by republican opponents of the sure. Artist Shurtleff Dead. New York, Jan. 6.—Roswell Morse Shurtieff, widely known American ar- ust, died suddenly while out walking i in an uptown street near his heme. He was 76 years old, a graduate of had | from | Condensed Telegrams The Bank pounds bar of England bought §,000 gold. Argentina takes 60 per cent of South American imports. C. H. Canby, president of the Chica- go Board of Trade, was re-elected. Fire destroyed the Normal Training School at Rochester, N. Y., at a loss of §50,000. Prof. Anton von Werner, Germany’s famous historical painter, died in Ber- lin, aged 75. The Century Bank of Albany, has increased 000 to $600.000. . Y., its capital from $500,- A seat on the New York Produce Exchange was sold for $600, the last previous sale being at The Germans are employing thous- ands of men at eight cents an hour to dig trenches before Antwerp. Myrtle Becker, 5, of Irvington, N. I.. was burned to death in her home there when left alone by her mother. A well dressed stranger stole two diamond rin: valued at $500 from a jewelry store in Middletown, N. Y. The United States Supreme Court in ‘Washington held the Ohio workmen's compensation act to be constitutional. Archbishop Ireland, of St. Paul, will be created cardinal at the next Con- sistory, the date of which has not been fixed. The first important auction sale of prize steamers will be held in London today. Five captured German vessels will be sold. The Netherlands Oversea Trust Co., formed at The Hague to handle all New State Officers Take Their Oaths INAUGURATION OF GOV. HOL- COMB SHORT AND SIMPLE. BIG BRILLIANT CROWD Chief Justice Prentice Administered Oath monwealth—Applauded During De- to Chief Executive of Com- livery of Message. Hartford, Conn., Jan. 8. ministration, republican in its poli- tical allegiances, but pledged by Gov- ernor Marcus H. Holcomb to give the state its best endeavor, took up the reins of office at the capitol today. Lieutenant Governor Clifford B. Wil- son and the state officers elected in November took their oaths of offica and assumed their constitutional duti Governor Simeon E. Bald- win, chief executive for four years and officers who had served under him for the last two vears, turned over their departments and returned to private life. Large Gathering—Short Ceremonies. The inauguration, which was as e as in previous years, drew a A new ad- (Continued on Page Six) OHIO MINES TO CPEN IN SPITE OF STRIKE. imports into Holland, is ready to be- gin operations. Mme. Gerville-Reache, a singer of international reputation, died in Roosevelt Hospital, New York, of blood poisoning. Mme. Poincare, wife of the French President, announced that on account of the war she will not hold recep- tions this winter. The conning tower of the battle- ship Louisiana was damaged by fire, at Norfolk, Va. The cause of the fire is beign investigated. The will of George C. Tilyou, the Cone Island, (N. Y, the entire 0,000 to hi ,) amusement man, tate of more than widow. Controller of the Currency Williams, at Washington, issued a call for the condition of national banks at the close of busine: December 31. The St. Louis Union Bank wiih cap- ital and surplus of $5,00,000, has been organized by persons identified with the St. Louis Union Truist Co. Immigration authorities at Washing- ton were notified of the capture of a gang of five alleged smugglers in the mountains of southern California. Theodore Armstrong, president of the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co., and veteran of the Civil War, died at his home in Philadelphia. All Roumanians resident in Switzer- land '‘who are liable to military service have been ordered to return to Rou- mania, by their Consuls in Switzer- land. A “neutral” party has made its ap- pearance in Scuthern Mexico, accord- received here by rep- the tionalist With less than sixty miles of rails to lay, officiais of the Canadian Nort! ern Railroad believe that the line to the Pacific Coast will be finished in a month. Four young Austrian women, of Ce- menton, Pa., were killed by a Lehigh Valley Expres train, while walking on the track between Cementon and Copla | Dragged 250 yards by his foot after stealing a ride on a trolley car and his hold, William Mathews of 3 escaped with a few The year 1914 was a record breaker in the number of marriage licenses is- sued in New York city. There were 60,981 licenses issued, an increase of 1,988 in 1913. To aid paroled prisoners to keep out of crime, Judge William T. Boyle of the Camden, J.. court has ordered that saloon men shall not sell intoxi- cants to them. Edward C. Ott, an ordinary seaman on the battleship Florida, was killed on the ship during a boxing match with Pat Walsh, another sailor. Ott hit his head on the deck. The steamship Hannah left New York for Rotterdam with a $500,0000 cargo of food and clothing contributed by the people of Kansas for relief of the destitute Belgians. The engine of limited train No. 9, south bound from St. Louis, on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, overturned near Bells. Tex., injuring the engineer and fireman. A woman who said she was Miss Julia Ryan, of New York, was arrested in Springfield, Mass for acting strangely In her purse was more than $300 in nickles, dimes and quart- ers. The Great Northern Liner Minnesota the largest cargo carrier on the Pa- cific and the largest vessel flving the American flag on any ocean, will im- mediately return to the Oriental ser- vice. John Sausman, a Chicago policeman, was shot and killed by one of two holdup men he discovered robbing a pedestrian. James O’Neil, one of the hold-up men, was captured when shot by another policeman. . Michael Demann, of Manchester is in St. Francis’ hospital, Hartford in a critical condition from a scalding re- ceived while at work in the Hilliard mill in Buckland Wednesday. Legs and body are affected. Ferne Roger, the American actress who played the leading part in Drury Lane production of the “Sleeping Beauty,” resigned from the company, Dartmouth, a Civil War veteran and a|having been forced out because of her national acedemician. pro-German sympathies. Mine Bosses and Sunerintendents Or- dered to Get Ready. Cleveland, O., Jan. 6—Operators of eastern Ohio coal properties this after- noon concluded a three-day conference here with the understanding that the mines will be opened despite the stri of the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica. Ordere were sent by many of the op- erators to mine bosses and superin- teadents to start cleaning up the mines for reopening after the mine-month shutdown. All the operators in the eastern Ohlo coal fleld are in agreement on the gen- eral polic of opening the minbes again, including the Lorain Coal and Dock company, concerning whose stand there was some doubt prior to today’s conference. Representatives of _that concern attended the meeting of the operators this morning and informe the other operators t he company intended to reopen valuable Oh properties. t s YOUTH SEEKS DIVORCE FROM A FORMER CHORUS GIRL. Robert J. Goldman, 19, Son of = Prominent New York Banker, New York, Jan. 6.—Robert J. Gold- man, 19 years old, son of Henry Gold- man, a prominent New York banker, began suit in the supreme art today, through his father as guardian, for s divorce from Edith Ostend Goldman a former cohrus girl. It had not been generally known before that the young man was married. The complaint.sets forth that on account of his marriage he had been obliged to leave Williams Coliege in obedience to a rule of the institution against married students and that he is now on his fathers ranch in Montana. Simuletneously with the divorce suif, Mrs. Goldman filed suit against her father-in-law for $100,000, alleging that he has alienated her husband's af- fections. FRANCHISE TO WOMEN IS RECOMMENDED IN TENNESSEE In Governor Hooper’s Message to the Legisiature. 2 vile, Tenn., Jan. 6. Hooper's message to the legislature to- day recommended a constitutional amendment to extend the franchise to Tennessee women. The governor said “as an original academic proposition,” he never had been advocate of suf- frage. “I stiil feel,” he said, “that if things in the worid were as I believe they ought to be, woman’s suffrage would not be desirable. king condi- tions as they are, there are strong reasons in ctendi the franchise to women that did not exist one hundred Governor ago.” CHANGE OF LOCATION OF MASSACHUSETTS STATE PRISON. From = Charlestown to Concord— —Equipment of Former Antiquated. Boston, Jan. 6.—The son commissioners islature to board of pri- requested the leg- uthorize the transfer of the state now located at Charlestown, to the e occupied by the state reforamtory at Concord and to obiain a new location for the re- formatory. The request, which was contained in the board’s annual re- port, was based on the ground that the Charlestown situation was not advan- tageous and that the physical equip- ment of the prison was antiquated. OBITUARY. Rev. Revere Franklin Weidner. Milwaukee, W Jan. 6.—Rev. Re- vere Franklin Weidner, founder and president of the Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary died today at Tangerine, Fla., according to word re- cefved here. Dr. Weidner was a grad- uate of Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa., and the Philadelphia Theological Seminary. He held a pastorate in Philadelphia, but later devoted his whole life to education. He was 63 years old Hospital Ship for Deep Sea men. Boston, Jan. 6.—The revenue cutter Androscoggin, recently fittde as a hos- pital ship for deep sea fishermen, sail- ed today on her first trip to the fish~ ing grounds. While in port, the cut- ter took on supplies sufficient to last two months. Fisher Movements of Steamships. Liverpool, Jan. 6—Arrived: steam- er Lusitania, New York. Genoa, Jan. 5.—Arrived, steamer Re D’Italai, New York. New York, Jan. 6.—Arrived, steam- er_ Arabic, Liverpool New Yorik, Jan. 6. er Niagara, Havre -Arrived: Steam-