Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 9, 1915, Page 1

' NORWICH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1915 " SIXTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Pap@r, and Its Total Circulation is thehlérw'_g—)est in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Population AUSTRIA HAS SENT PROTEST TO ITALY. Against ltalian Occupation of Avlona, Albania--- Fortifying Line on ltalian Frontier RUMANIA IS MOBILIZING AN ARMY OF 750,000 Rumored That She Will Enter War Even Should Italy Decide Not to Do So—Except for Attacks and Counter Attacks on Widely Separated Section of Battle Lines There is an Almost Cessation of Hostilities Everywhere—In Poland Bad Weather is Holding the Men in the Trenches Prison- ers—Turks in the Caucasus Have Taken a Vigorous Of- | parde ept for attacks and counter-at- |his palace s tacks on widely separated sections u{, :;n]‘_uml he st he battle lines, there is an almost [ Malines. e $ éompl;:te suspension of hostilities ev- | The cardinal declined, says res spondent, to go to Brussels on rel rywhere, so far can red | respon P t frg-:htelxe official reports. e there | roquest of ‘the Germans, and when he is fightihg, however, it is deseribed as |learned that some priests who read violent in’ character. | his letter in public had been treated ! Actions in France. full responsibilit Near Soissons. the Frenc done enior cur that they have talen receiving a _mes; ing, despite counter-att man redoubt and two and in the Argenne that they ha occupied positions previously tak from them by vicious onslaugh Germans. In Alsace the fighting continues has been the case several sage from M with the sreatest emph was received from Berlin. TURKS TAKE OFFENSIVE IN ith nei & attained ;é:}ot"::;‘ther V"‘lN'TY (JF KARAAOURGAN. Bad Weather in Poland. To Relieve Predicament of the Tenth In the east and west bad weather ey Carre, and mud are bac ihe army, virtually holding in th Patrograd T e trenches prisoners. The movement of | . e MR ot Hea heavy gups in the quagmires f ke e ave resulted from the heavy rainfalls | § next to impo Germany reports and the capture of eve the predi -attack and the ners and 1to the , again ourgan. “The sit other fron p2 i i | i | } AUSTRIA HAS SENT ! ! 1 i Trans-Caucasia agai vigorous offensive, endeavor to relieve the predi the Tenth Army corps feated several days ago at mysh. Rumania Mobilizing 750,000 Men. Albania—Gets Firm Reply. A newspaper despatch rum \ilan, via London, Jan. 9. 3.07 2. m. Rumania is mobilizing 750,000 Secolo asserts that Count Leo- that she will enter the war even sh Id_Von Ee Italy decide not to do so. Aust r of for declared in 2 despatch from Innsbruck | to Italy pro to have startal to fortify her line fac- !vm ister of r ing the lalian frontier, and an Italian {a firm reply, the paper add newspaper asserts t senT @ note to Italy, pr pa Italy’s occupation of Aviona, 3 stantinople. Germany Denies Arrest of Cardinal Rome, Jan. 8.1 Mercier. nale D'Italla’ has hed an inter- informed the Vatican |View with the persian minist that there is absolutely no truth in the {Rome in the course of which the dip- report that Cardinal Mercier, primate |lomat said Persia desired to remain of Belglum, had been ¥ even {invaded by Kurds and Turks. Persia d_been confined in sent an ultimatum to Constanti- the minsiter said, the result of vet. The tele- Germany has A Rome newspaper prints an view with the Per i in which the min s3ying that Pe Ing invaded by Kur that Persia had se; weeks for a letter to travel from Te~ heran to Rome, is reported as tory was and | Rumania Mobolizing 750,000 Men. Constantinople. London, Jan. 9, a. mj— — | Morning Post’s arest corre bondent says: “Rumania is mo NUNS AND CHILDREN pondent say umania is m { izing 750,000 mer strike, even should Ita} In Belgium—Suonlies of Convent Were | not U' enter the wark” Exhausted \Afiwn Relief Came. WINS SUIT AGAINST ondon, Jan. §, 9.10 p. m 1 Clark Hoover, chalrman of the lcar commission for relief in received today from the commi representative in the Belgian provinco f Brabant a pathetic account of the| - E S B S llef from the imminent starvation of | o, STand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 8.—Jud the inmates of the convent of the Zeurs Pl oo Oblates near Louvain, comprising 65 nuns and 400 homeless children. For weeks the sisters had shelte end fed the children and it was until the supplies of the convent were Patent—Accounting Ordered. tomobile company, wh ed not dollars was involved in the suit. appeal to the commission for help. Upon receipt of the request for aid, food was immediately despatche his patented ds hother sunerior in tattered habit. The | PY the local master in chancery. nuns t > A 5 flag wi = £ e R et Movements of Steamships. hildren In rags and with bare legs | South Wellflett, Mass., Jan. 8. crowded abont, askin “Many of the larger children, with pale { urday it and prematurelv aged faces, showed Paawl Point, Jan, 8, plainly the terrible experience through which they had passed.” terdam. As the delegate was leaving, the arsailles, Jan. nother superior eaid: ew York —Passed: After providing an adeonate supply | Anncona. New York food for the convent, the comr New York, Jan. 8.—Steamer Nienw ion despatched clothing for the nun: msterdam, Rotterdam for a dren from the central depot at Hook at noon. Dock 8.30 Monday. | { INSISTS THAT CARDINAL | Battle Raging at Saltiilo. | | San Antonio, Tex., Jan. §.—The bat- MERCIER IS DETAINED. tle of Saltillo, w % - — clock this morning, W Correspondent of Amsterdam News- |a: sunset, according ro ¢ paper Tijd. { Piedras Negras, Me “"R said that hoth the \ arranza forces 1 the Villa arm: cquipped h heavy artill ich started at 3 still raging despatch from Amsterdam, via London, Jan. 8§ correspondent of t ends a_despatc which he insists that Cardir archbishop of Maline Charge(l Wa h N'urder of Stepmother. -Jesse d_imprisol ged with even now his is er, Mrs. The correspondent dinal soon will dec i E n his own ce ne was dep his personal freedom, that he st 4 to a kind of interrogatio:, which the latier re- publi~. in_an unseemly manner, he accepted for what he had of Antwerp, ted the Tijd correspondent this the despatch to the newspaper, | that the cardinal would not be a.... cd s of the [to leave Malines until a final decision apparently in_order, to ament of the Tenth parts of which reformed er the battle of Sari 3 ave taken the offen- > vigorously in the vicinity of Kar- ation is unchanged on the PROTEST TO ITALY. Against Italian Occupation of Aviona, |testing _res i [Persia Has Sent Ultimatum to Con- | . m.—The Glor- | by his entir to} i kes seven | 3 ” i of which half ‘a NEAR TO STARVATION | million form the field army. Rumania v decide CADILLAC CAR COMPANY. For an Infringement on an Axle|averted if ( this afternoon filed a decree in favor of Walter A. Austin, head of a local au- had charged t)m Cadillac Motor Car company of Dettroit, with infringement of an axle almost exhausted that thoy sent am |Btent It is said that half a million Austin claimed the infringement on : s used on 14,- P 000 Cadillac automobiles if 1914 model the convent. The delerate who accom- £ et isad s panied the food was received by the| Ihe court has ordered an accounting it were true [ Steamer Megantic, Loverpool for New that food was coming,” says the report. | York, signalled. Dock 9.30 a. m. Sat- Steamer Rindam, New York for Rot- —Arrived: Steam- “Thank God. one country at least 30.—Safled. Steamer s peace and can so nobly show her . New York. pathy for those at war.” Jan. 8—Sailed: Steamer ew York, ignalled 1,080 miles east of Sandy xico, tomight. It| Cabled Parao~ ohs 0 o 4 Denies Arrest &% .. Mercier. Amsterda' oY Lon, Jan. 8§, 7.08 m_ 3 .per Tija has re- @ _n from its correspond- \ Len-Op-Zoom reporting an int. . With _a German officer at Bru. sels who declared that Cardinal ‘Mercier, the archbishop of Malines, had not been arrested, was not impris- oned in his palace and that the prelate | is free to gé where he pleases. i i House of Lords Adjourns. London, Jan, 8, 9.07 p. m.—After a two days’ session, during which its members heard sta‘ements from Earl Kitchener, secretary for war: Viscount Haldane, lord higk chancellor; - the Marquis of Crewe, government leader in the house, and Baron Lmcas, on be- half of the government, on the pr gress of the war and Great Britair preparations to carry it on, the house of lords this evening adjourned until February 2, when parliament will Te- assemble ORGANIZING A POSTAL SERVICE IN ANTWERP Belgian Postmen Have Agreed to Work for the Germans, Berlin, Jan. § (by wireless to Say- ville, L. 1L)—Among items given out today by the official press bureau are the followin: 2 Antwerp newspaper Tiidi ’:«amns that the German officials ng a postal service in werp. The Belgian _postmen have agreed to do service for approximate- 1y the seg'e pay as formerly “German cc ioned and non- commissioned officers, who were cut off and made war prison.rs while or atrol, have been nced by a | French courtmar to prison. Ger- military | many has asked a neutral government dden to leave 1e setting aside ch is contrary to to protest and reque: of th igment the cor- | international law. “Reports concerning the German tex- { tile industry state that the unempioy- ment is less than it was before the war and that the mills are better occupied than ever before. “Denmark Teports o dearth of rye ead because of #teamers from Amer- ica arr k late, as a consequence of ! difficulties made by England. “The Norwegian Shipping Gazette in a_protest against the British seizure | of Norwegian train‘oil steamers, says it expe that the Norwegian govern- | ment will make a compensation claim. “The Russky Slovkoe (a Moscow newspaper) reports fhat the Rus: lost a considerable number of t aeroplanes in the last tights at Liodz and Lowicz “Four French notables in the French territory occupied by the Germans took ence from the inhabitants, de- posed that no case of or wahton destruction had happened in the district abitants ac- knowledged that the German military provided distressed French peo: victuals. GENERALS SCOTT AND To Reach a Solution of Probiem of Protecting American Border Towns. . Jun. S—PBrigadier General Hugh L. Scott, General Fran- eisco Villa and Governor Maytorena of nora met in a conference tonight, the t of a series ~'~mned in an effort to reach a solution of the problem of pro- idents of American border towns from the bullets of beiligerents on the Mexican side. The United States army cl staff and the the United Stz at the American end of one of the in- ational bridwes spanning the Rio ande between ! Paso and Juarez. official statement was given out, that the first meeting was *“cor- and that it would be con was acco 1 to 31 - Paso, of staff, enant Colonel chie, and George C. Carothers, rep- reter Generals Villa and Scott called for but an hour. The meeting was ac- complished as secretly as possible. d Viila troops are now eir way to the Sonora border and has announced his intention of hem to ¢ the remaining anza border g in the Mex- ican towns opposi co and Dougl Ariz. ! SAYS COLORADO STRIKE couLp HAVE BEEN AVERTED | If Governor Ammons Had Received Co- operation of State Officers. Yo 1,Jan. The Colorado sirike could have beer ov. E. M. Ammons had re- ceived fTthe proper and hearty peration of other executive officers of the state government,” says the report of the special committee appointed at the extra session of the legislature last May to investigate the strike. For this reason, the report continues, “it is not out of place to recommend to the pres- ent legislature the consideration of a constitutional amendment for the elec- tion of a governor and lieutenant gov- ernor and providing that the balance of the executive officers of the state be appointed by the governor.” The committee's report was submit- ted to the general assembly today. NEW BEDFORD TO HAVE Denver, *0al mine i A WHALING MUSEUM. Miss Emily H. Bourne to Present Building for That Purpose. New Bedford, Mass, Jan. 8. Tiss Emily H. Bourne announced today her intention of constructing and present- ig to the city a building to be used exclusively as a whaling museum. The gift was prompted by the donor's af- fection for her birthplace and a desire to erect a memorial to her father, the late Jonothan Bourne, who was the largest importer of whalebone in the port’s history and long identified with the city’s commercial and public af- fairs. The museum will be erected nearly opposite the marienr’s home and sea- men’s Bethel on Bethel street, where the whaling interests of the city were centered half a century ago. Conferees Agree on Immigration Bill. ashington, Jar Senate and house conferees on the immigration bili, .containing the literacy test for | aliens, reached an agreement tonight disagreement. The 1 was said h n 1 ; grain. A national agi- |to the American communication ngress to place an |Dec. 26 respecting xport of wheat undllnr‘r‘o inent dealer flour, as well as on arms and ammuni- Corn Bread May |Bryan Receives Replace Wheat IF THE PRICE OF FLOUR CONTIN- UES TO JUMP EMBARGé ON EXPORTlMAKE PUBLIC SUNDAY Of Wheat and Flour by Congress io‘fiy Mutual Agreement Be Petitioned For by Chicago Retail State Department and the British Association—Rumors of Foreign Office—Officials Raise in Price of Bread. Comment, dollar wheat | Washington, Jan. S e today by prom- |the note from Great Condensed Telegrams The Bank of England bought $27,- 000 pounds bar gold. Chicago “L” passenger traffic creased one per cent during 1914. British Reply TO AMENICAN NOTE CONCERNING COMMERCE Japan has agreed to send a diplo- matic representative to the Vatican. Two bids of $4,000 have been m: for Philadelphia Stoc change seat The Bank of England minimum rate of discount remains unchanged Between the Seven hundred employes of the Lake Shore Railroad are working creased schedules. Har rrison Johnson of Columbia, Mis oldest ik “hundredth lebrated will eat |an late today announced mn relmp( n[ celebrated Bri Agents of a British concern are ne- gotiating with th , for 1,000 tr The note, which is of about the same B Jnenzines no have given Advertising r wh udicious treatment. looking for, are gof in this section of the state can columns of The Bulletin, It insures a over 8,000. It goes into the homes and it is read because it Use The Builetin if you consider business worth the news. Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, VILLA IN CONFERENCE. | e aiuasig { Yofals ..~ Business Seekers Should Advertise Those who To many iness builder which could have been obtained in no other solely upon the important principle of gublicity, about the value of advertising. know that it pays sec reasonable tria d and persistently set forth. isn’'t something to be tried once and then dropped. v and effectively at worl ness it can be conducted but the best returns, and those are what everyone is irough the attraction of trade and what results from the use of the advertising columns ich should be kept g to be gained The merchant who seeks the trade of the many thousands of buy- find no more effective means than circulation . following mews matter was published in its columns the past week Telegraph Local General Jan. 2... 145 1070 Jandao, S 133 242 Jan.:5 5.0 88 150 243 Jany 16222486 120 233 7899 140 247 & A no2 120 208 AT ST §08 224 The United States public debt on % s e and cheered until tk increase of $14,635,389 during Decemb- | self rais w.n- cotton low and money scarce!:h" B s belief th chickens instead of { fit to stay where he was if he did nc Charles S. Mellen former president New Haven Railroad Co., | T siness to conserve large lumber The Standard Oil Cloth | Jersey corporation Vi surrendered voluntarily. gistered at Jersey | been put ts Jersey charter | held up ,.The Cuban tobacco crop was almost | d iously injured by Another revolution, headed by 1 £ nment recently over- s | the r started in Senator Kinney of St. Louis, has in- in the State Sen: troduced a_bill s to repeal a two- ! |from the elections last X cent passenger Cash wheat to the amout of 150,- qual amount Nate bas bushels, an soinan Chicago for export. Fifty barrels of cxder ‘were u:ed to help fight mill(unairc | cotony at Green The Canadian Pacific Raiiways will | 1ot know how to do an resume transPau i steamer Monteagle, which ha th British Adniiral tion, will be and Butchers' planned to begin in thi fight against tt incidentaily of home-baked | ranted. | s Bakers' Complaints Are Unwar- | X ‘change predicte ! rning to corn in both in th Other de complaints W barrel of 1d in ‘Europe. |resenting the state department, wio | | acted as’inte A Questicn of Supnly. enough to feed Soes to n ¢ bos hat farmers’ at rn would soon sel we i IN PRICE OF BREAD. Department of Justice Offizials Keep- ing Close Watch, justice officials r night in the reports that the g loaf of bread was about to jump from |by the i i in New York, Chicago | wer complaints have reached the depart- |j ment, however, and no action is in Im- | Lauci declared that tive railroads couid deduct v has kept & {profit on their investment in s and cars, reduced curves : nd the like, and s )0 each year to nay are they heaping up earnings emergency reserve fund. hold Zood for ail been forced to face|the railreads involved. Attorney General Gregol close watch up the cost of li\‘in of producers in any that a rise in into at once. > department that, wheat far above normal figures, bake undoubtedi~ the prospect of hicher flour. however, 7 e Lowest Discount Rate Yet. country to effect a| Washington, J price of their commodity. | cisco reserve ban Concerted action that involved bakers in different states would allow prose- {to the lowest re-discount cution under the anti-trust act. named by any of the twelve banks— tment |four per cent on maturities apparently any efforts to raise |en rough combi interested, whether there is a: Several vears ago the depa begzan an investigation to v for believing that {plenty all lover the count j there was a bakers’ trust. At that time | board is inclined to approve low rates hat at least forty {in order that the banks may to do some re-discounting understood cities were involved in ti of the reported combina er was taken as zations then <d by Auto in Hartford. , Jan, 8.—While pia: near his the street imaugurated at tlie next|length as the American meeting of the Chicago Retail Grocers' | tion, would be made publi association, it was an-|afternoon by mutual terfeld, chairman of |[tween the comm: o tish foreign offic: of the retailers,| Officials of tk manner a de- [read the note high cost of the | B; cretary Bryan will President Wi tomorrow clusive in man; hat if the price of [to a further gher there would | le: ers deciar war- flour costing ation, will nece: ent between t! 1 the British f te understan ne estion of price on of nefore. ade made day indi- to corn Jan. i(h('v en and hos roads is nearing its el for the men, it is expected, REPORTS OF RAISE | tion of the ratiroad begin. im Jortant pieces of e month_ago, was S—Department of | W, J. Lauck, a s interest to-| Ty ce of & men. larze cities. No |his s ne grades - | ¥50,000, | for the increased s i ati line, and it is co: that the ratio would Officials learning see if there |thirty days. Money expenses. re ttoday of reformatory at home ted probatio £ the inst es are believed to have bee‘n re at Newport, R. I deur.wd _three small frame hmldmg and _tenements. communica- on Sunday agreement tate department { declared that any such men w The Mobile and Ohlc Railroad shops at Murphysboro, Iil, employing operations, = November 6 state department but agreed to » no comment on it whatsoever in the publication of the text fully ey having bee The harbor of Genoa, Italy, is & tish communication is their cargoes. respects and will lead | <change of notes, from authoritat ¥ concessions have been made by England re-exportation vith Italy s the question o t the time of detention of s th of time req £ tate he state ien office Schumann-Heink, to neutral through embarzoes on i AR Wiie of University - teeth pulled. The kings_ of Bulgarva a umanian ter- v days in the near fu- |HEARING ON DEMANDS OF WESTERN RAIL=0ADS. Princl- | giret Stace of the Arbitrati ina lis Close. Elizabeth Sack, critical condition y an automobile being run over Representative Smith of New Va-l state department with —The first arbitration, under ct, of the wage deman of 98 western rai Testimony Americans militiamen, lana at Montreal will furnish a battalion of and a regiment ed next week, and the present side of the c of mounted for service in Eu anized imme: What, from the standpoint en, is regarded as one of the 1 dence presented to be org- Food clothing and medicine : from San Vladivestok, nce the hearings beg: introduced today stician, he testimony bore on the a 1e railroads to pav the increase as Lauck stated abundantly able to do atement on railroad reports to the terstate commerce commission. Francsico today direct distribution among German prison- of war in Seventeen members of the bark Pil- grim which sank during a gale about 100 miles out of N ork, were land- Scotland, by steamer Strongnoald representa- 2 Jerry Daly, supposedly a bookmaker i1l have left | S, Charleston, Hotel Plaza, Havana, by a Cuban named De Barrio, who was later Umlcd States Senator J. who was taken suddenly ill at with acute pronounced danger lasi n. 8—The San Fran- | secured the reserve board today approval of the federal Plerce. of. the.ifirm', of and machinery dealers of Hollis, N. H., committed su- st ngiht by hanging. in the barn. was found » Govrnor-Elect Ohjo made his farewell speech ed from congress and left last night for Columbus, where he will be inaugurated next Monday. ‘Three persons dead, and many otk violent windstorm which swept nort and southern thousands of dollars worth Drillmaster at Cheshire Reformatory. Hartford, Conn,, Jan. $.—At a meet- 1 he directors of the injured by the Henry B. Carter OBITUARY. Retert Ives Gammell. nufacturer, taers & Bown President Hints at Second Term IN JACKSON DAY SPEECH AT IN- DIANAPOLIS. DEFINES MEXICAN STAND iam Elery Bright ha Deen ,\lm_!crnic;zes Republican Senators and Warns Rebellious Democratic Solons That He Will Be “Captain of the Team” for Two More Years “at Least.” Indisnapo , Jan >resident Wilson lrdu» ed whe a crowd of people, mbled here to hear him make a spee inter- preted a that he might be a candidate for the presidency again in itors arose to their feet > president him- his hand and calied for quiet. questio t he kns# ament and principles of people, adding that he wou understand them. “There may come a time.” he wen on, “when the American people will have to judge whether I know what I am talking about or not.” Crowd Shouts and Cheers, There was a slight pause and the crowd, which included the me bers of the Indiana legislature, jumped D and began shouting and cnee ealizing the construction wh on his words, the pr s hands for silence ar ) ha h 2 not mean to stir up any- thing. ~That was merely preparators to staying that, for at least two mor ivears T am free to 1 that I know the American people. Attacked Republican Party. Previously, the president had ate tacked the reput n party, defended ord of the administration on the Mexican policy and the tariff and cur rency questions and declared that careful examination of the returns ember showed that if it had been presi- dential year, a democrat would have had a majority of about eighty in the electoral college Criticized Republican Senators. The president crit the republi- can senators opposir Zovernmern shi purchase b whom he A terized as “seif-styled friends s iness.” He said that the republicaz party has not had a new idea in thirty Vears and_that “the republic thing but sit the |on the lid.” He added that the coun- try wants the ship purchase bill enact- ed into la and “wiil have it. Warns Democrats. A warning to democrats not 20 breale up the solidity of the poken of gravel Mr. Wilson. 1o 1 gair an unenviable position for themselv and mentioned Senators Kern and Shively as men whom he “did not to lie awike nights think sout He continued t if a play on a team, he must um,” and later spoke he captain of the democratic team the present.” Defends Mexican Polioy. The -president spoke briefly of Mex- ico. He said that the peopie are en- titled l\v liberty “no »r how loi they > in determ it” Spea 10 slowly and care . he declared that “so far as my influence goes, while I am pre: terfere with them til the reve cent. of look-in, govern »body shall in- said that, un- t against Diaz, eighty per icans never had a to who sho: >e their >pean nations taken r v wanted, and spilled as much blood as they d to set- tle their own affairs continued. ‘And shall we deny same right to Mexico? No, I say.’ IDemccrats More Progressive Than Re- ubllcans ilse in u< pendent a. that one-third n party is progressive hirds of the defnocrat ve. “Therefore,” I of the republ sut two- party is progre added, “the democratic party is more progressive than the republican.”” He declared that most of the voters of the country are independent, but that it was his ambition to have them vote with the demo He spok him- self as an “animated conservative.” Reference to European War. Referring to the European war, president said that the people of the United States should not pay too muc attention to it, but should get their own affairs in such order that th be of the greatest assistance t countifes fighting. He closed his ad- dress with prayer that the tin come when the United States could be instrumental in restoring peace. Views on Business Conditions, Business conditions briefiv. Hhecharacte iness depression as “a state and said that the democrati had already done much to free iness and that its programme was mot yet complete. Whenever the country really wants something beside talk, he added, it turns to the democratic par- ty. Advocates Federal Employment Bureau The president advocated the estab- iishment of a great federal employment bureau: said some means found for quickening and the processes of the court of the necessity of cc the administration conservation bills Cheering and handclapping _inter- rupted the president at intervals and he had trouble in making his voick reach to the people in the ck of the hall. He was iniroduced by Governor Ralston of Indiana as one of the gr: figures of the world and then an actress sang, We Take Our Hats Off to_You, Mr. Wilson. Immediately after his speceh, the president went to the home of Mavor Jegeph E. Bell of Indlanapolis. who was confined to his bed by sickne: s, and later attended a reception given by the Indiana Democratic club, which sted for an hous and a half. Later he took an automobile ride about In- anapolis in the automobile of Thom- art and at 6.45 p, m. departad I for Wolhinmaa