Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 21, 1915, Page 1

Balletin VOL. LVviL—NO. 18 NORWICH, FRENCH HAVE RECAPTURED A LOST TRENCH Taken the Day Previously by the Germans North of Notre Dame de Lorette—Report Says That at the Conglusion of the Eight Days Battle for the Heights Across the River From Soissons the Dead Lay Arcund in Heaps After Thousands of Men Had Clearing Up the Field—Archduke Charles Francis of Austria, Heir Apparent, H or William at the German Headquarters. The Julses of Ger- Russians report re man sttacks north of Ratawa and on the Bsura river and assert that they defeated with heavy losses mans near Radioff, 1 They have made advances Bukowina. an- | The French official nounces the recapture 1\«'411 of one of the trenches day proviously by the Germans north of Notre Dame de Lorette. The French cusioms administration reports that France's foreign com- merce in ten months of 1914 dimin ed In value to the extent of $100,00( 000, as compared with the same period of 1913. “I not only hope but T know that we shalil be able to fight t this im- mense struggle. In the domain of financial and economic affairs we are equal to ev demand, however the war may last.” This attributed Ruholph president of and one of the foremc thorities in Germany. Archduke Charles Francis of Aus- tria, heir apparent to the Austro-Hun- garian throne, has left Vienna to vi Emperor Wiiliam at the German head- fquarters and the new Austrian foreign minister, Baron Burian, will leave for Berlin in a few davs to visit the Ger- man chancelior and the-foreign-mir- ister. * From the battle front word comes that so many men perished during the to the German financial au- eight days’ struggle for the heights across thc river from Soissons that four days after the conciusion of the battle the dead lay around in heaps elthough thousands of men had been engaged without cessation in clearing up the fleld. GRUESOME DESCRIPTION OF SOISSONS BATTLEFIELD Strewn With Dead Four Days After the Battle, Before to Berlin, Ja ssons, Jan, 18, by n. 20, via London, Ja 3.35 a. m. t the headqua: ertain German army erday even- ing, General Von Kluck and his staff celebrated the battle and their s ess at Soissons in typical German military fashion, with & simple soldier's meal, 2 bowl of punch brewed by the expert hands of Von Kluck himself a grace- ful little speech by the gzeneral and a silent toast to the dead—both French and German. Dead Strewn Field. il dropp The earth was The Bulletin's Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other GERMANS RETREAT; RUSSIANS ADVANCE North of Ratawa and on the Bzura River---Rus- sians Also Defeat Invaders Near Radloff | Eraves of the fi 8o many men IN URUMIA ENDANGERED perished during ight days of the s is il bitter eiruggle for the heights across|in Hands of Turks and Kurds—Cut { the river from Soissons that day. the O i AT Coatnmenication. fourtn day after the conclusion of the Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City's Population CONN., THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1915 FOURTEEN PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS Cabled Paran:; P @ ¥al Patrol. SFidon, Jan, 20, 9.55 a. m—T" -u naval patrol boat Toitan, 1 kearching for ‘mines off Nieuw Si.s, struck a mine and dis- appeared under the waves. One of- ficer and four men were lost and only fragments of their corpse’ were re- covered. SHORTAGE OF OFFICERS AND MEN IN NAVY Admiral Fletcher Tells House Naval Committee 1t is “Alarming.” Mine Sinks D* The Hague % Washington, Jan. 20.—An “alarm- ing” shortage of officers and _men needed to man the warships of the United States for battle is reported by Rear Admiral Fletcher. commander in-chief of the Atlantic fleet, in a let- ter to the house naval committee made public_tonight. Writing to supplement his recent testimony before the committee, the admiral announces that an inquiry just completed by epecial boards has re- vealed that ti« mavy lacks by 10,000 the men to man all the ships which ought to be commissioned upon the | outbreaik of tne war, The reports of these hoards show that battleships in commis- sion and no 1 composing the Atlantic 2 shortage of 5,219 men and ired to fill all sta- o tions ht the ships in Been Engaged Four Days in|{ i, H above figures refer to the com- | battleships alone, al, and this shortage doe: 35 include " 4,000 5,000 additional to as Left Vienna to Visit Empel'-i msn the ships which I think ought to be fully manned upon the opening of hostilities, as stated in my CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES le, the plateau and gorges are still Jan. 20.-—Christian strewn thickly with _dead, although A e it hna 4,000 members of the Landsturn have Tt o M S been engaged without a pause in clear- Pttt SRS ing up the battlefield. o h e e Most of German Buried. Elar o e e Most of the German dead have been | from Tifiis by the Presbyterian board | given to the earth, but French of foreizn missions, the board an-| fentrymen in their far-to-be- {nounced_tonisht. The cablegram was | and blue uniforms, swarthy-faced | signed by three Persians connected | Turcos, colonials, Alpine riflemen and | With the educational work of the Pres Dbearded territorials are etill sprawling | byterian mission at Urumia, who had in attitudes natural and unnatural|heon educated in the Unifed States| along the heights, in the deep-cut|and are naturalized Americans. It read | gorges of the platean and across theias follows | flat valley bed on the north shore of | “Urumia in the hands of Turks and | the Aisne. { Cut off from all communica- Ranks With Antietam. Situation missionaries Chris 5 5 el The battle of Soissons, so called in | CTaistians critical, help urgent t default of a better name, although it {pay, = o r =00 (AN ® s really fought across the river from | TCPIY care cor Sri ot vic that vould, In the number of men | engaged and the extent of the ] OBITUARY. rank with Bull Run or Antietam of the | American Civil war or with Woerth in i Eugeng R ostantt 3 the Franco-Prussian war; but in thisj FParis Jar . 11.36 p. m.—The noted | war it passes as an_incident in lhc{t‘:'wvmm.:“! ugene Rostand, father of | campaign worthy onl > passing | Edmond Rostand, the poet, Sied tod e Rt e {5 was born in 1848 and was a n.. day’s mention in the o X [Bor oF fe. Adnarny ot Moras S FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC jiftical Sciene RESOURCES OF GERMANY.| Rev- Chester D. Hartranft, D, B. g SRR '( Hartford, Conn.. Jan. 20 —Communi- President of Reichsbank Says They|Gations from Germany announce the Are Able to Mect Any War Burden. | 532 Decembver 10 last 1 clienhui- e Say- | Fanft, D. D 'president em S of the T s Hartford Theological ses Dr. | ville, L. 1—Rudolph Haverstein, presi- | Jartronkt ane phical (Seminary. Dr. | dent of the Reichsbank and one of the | *JIrAR(t, Was born 0 %, 1889, toremost authorities of Ger: as- |12 IS | erts t the country will be able to Prof. Lewis Lindsley Dyche. | meet any burden which may be im-| Tov Jan. 20.—Professor | by the war upon its flnancial | Lewis Duche, a_widely known | economic resources. The Over- | zoologist torer. died at a ho: ews agency quotes Herr Haver- | from pneumonia. | aying when an honorary de- i | coaferred of Bonn: hove but I know tt to fight t ¥ the ynomic afi we are nand, however long upon him by Ame; < the University s curator, collec the for of which & most * valua mammals United in Professor Dyche was one of WAr may arty t rescued Lieutenant, Over- agency also says that| now Admiral Peary in the Aretic re- of Jewish Order B'Nai| gions. sailing from Glocester, Mass., in th ha given to the man | the Golden Hope, X of that army = complete new hospital train. | vear. He also accompanied Dr. Freder- serman production of piz iron infick A. Cook on the trip to Mount Mc- December is given as 854,000 tons as| Kinley. - After they reached the foot compared w 87,000 tons the first month of the war. n of the mountain, Professor Dyche con- tinued his hunting expedition, leavins Cool to climb the mountain. MANDATE FOR THAW TO BE ISSUED TODAY For His Return to New York State to Answer Charge of Conspiracy. i H Washingion, Jan. 20.—The mandate | of the supreme court of the United | tates, nder which Harry K. Thaw will be returned from New Ham to New York to answer a_charse conspiracy to escape from Matte will be issued early tomorrow. the rules of the court the nu ey be issued, If requested, v | days after the court's direction. To-| dey was the thirtieth day, and the re- | auest has been filed by Deputy = ney Franklin Kemnedy of New The document will be forwarded to | Mr. Kennedy, who has announced that ne and Willidm Travers Jerome expect | to leave New ¥ city Thursday | at for Concord, to present the man- | date to the federal district co New Hampshire, with the oh obtalning phy as a fugitive from justice. The mandate will direct the Ju the United Btates court for the district | of New Hampshire to reverss his final | grder agoinst Thaw's extradition and | i | ire an, | Under | date | vl fo take further proceedings in con- formity wit hthe supreme court’s opin- | ‘on. MOTOR CARS COMPETING WITH STREET CARS. tn Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kas, Doing Good Business, { { | Kaness City, Mo., Jan, 20.—Seven-| teen inotor cars, several of which| svere driven by their owners, entered into_competition today with str as Ciwy, Mo cet cars | and Kansas City, | sengers for a five| The cars ran from all city to a central station| a The motor| they are in the| v ss to stay. Most| of th vorted a heavy day's busi-| ness Heir to Austrian Throne Visits Ger- man Emperor. London, Jan. 20, 9.30 patch to Reuter's Telegram from Amsterdam says a des cetved from Vienna ascerts th H i i i A company aich re- t Arch- duke Charies Francis, the heir appar- ent to the Austro-Hungary throne, left Vienna tonight to empercr at the visit the German Tmag beadgusarters. Prof. And: Wheel. Phillips. NIGHT RIDERS FLOG o T e R e New Haven, Conn, Jan. 20.—Pro- 18-YEAR-OLD GIRL. |tessor Andrew Whee for- EAER mer dean of Yale Graduato school, | -1 | died at his home her 1t of heart Visited Her Home, Near Loulsville, | {iocaos 310 s s e During Absence of Family. | Professor Phillips, who was affec- jtionntely known to Yale mes Louiaville, Ky., Jan. 20.—Night rid- was born in Griswold, ers who previously have_confined their don county, March 14, 1844. operation to the westérn Kentucky coal fields, have widened. the fleld to| incinde a community in the vicinity of Loulsiville. Aeccording to a Litchfield dspatch, received here today, a band noted as mathematician and had published a number of works on scientific subjects. Trinitr college gave him the honorary degree of mas- ter of arts in 1875. of men @isguised as negroes last night | FHe was appointed.a full professor visited the home of Miles Duvall dur- |at Yale in 1881, In 1895 he was namea ing the absence of the family, seized|as dean of the graduate school, hold- his daughter Nelile, 19 years old and |ing the position untll his retirement flogged her severely. A ph a2 few years ago. He was succeeded pronounced her injuries not by Hans Oertel, who is now engaged | The men have been arrested. in Red Cross work in 3lunich, i Leithfield is 50 miles from Louis- | many vilie. Professor Phillips was for many BRANFORD MAN DROWNED WHEN ROWBOAT CAPSIZED.’ years president of the board of trus- tees of the Hotchkiss schooi at Lake- | lile. He was a member of a num of learnsd societies. His widow sur- Companion Reached Shore in an Ex- hausted Condition. Good Outlook for Shoe Manufacturers. Boston, Mass,, Jan. 20.—A return to something near the mormal in the shoe manufacturing business during the coming year was predicted by Presi- Branford, Conn., Jan. Doyle, 23 vears old, was drowned to- night when the boat in which he and William C. Chase were rowing, cap-|dent John . Kent, in his annual ad- | sized near Hubbarés Bridge. = The|dress beforo the New Brsland Shoe| | current was running swiftly and when|and Leather assoclation today. the boat turned over, Dovle was! — caught under it. Chase managed to| Negro Lynched at Vicksburg, Miss. reach shore In an exhausted condltion. Before hely arrived and the boaf| could be righted, Doyle's body had| been swept out into the sound. A number of persons grappled for the body for hours but without success. Vicksburg, Miss., Jan. 20.—Ed John- son, a young negro, was taken from a deputy sheriff by a mob within the Vicksburg city limits today and Iynch- ed. He had been arrested, charged Twith stealing cattle. LARGE SUBMARINE LAUNCHED YESTERDAY. Lifo Savers Resoue Seven Men. Norfolk. Va., Jan, 20.—Life savers took off tho seven men of the crew of the schooner Ceorge N. Reed from New York for Tampa, Fla, after she | went ashore today near Pea Island.| New Type at the Fore Rive Building Company. Ship The schooner, bound from Seaford, Quincy, Mass., Jan. 20.—A new Lype | Del, with cement, was said to be a| of submarine, the largest ever co total loss. siructed for the United States navy,| 5 s was launched from the vards of the i “Plucking” Board Recom- Fore River Ship Building company to- | 2oolition of i favom She was christened L-1 by Eliz- mendec. il { 1 Scott Daubin, wife of Lieutenant | Tashington, Jan. 20.-—Abolition of Fr . Daubin, who will command | the naval “plucking” boar dis post- tho vessel. The L-1 wili be given her trials next month and it is exp that she will be put in commission poned in the Witherspoon bill, favor- ably reported to the house today by the naval affairs committee. early in the spring. She is contracted | The Columbus, Ohio, penitentiary to make 1¢ knots on the surface and |lbrary now contains about 8,000 vol- 19 kuots submerssd. umes. Tonight the democrats held anoth er caucus to verfect the bill. It probble that no democrat will speak| on the measure in the sena many | | days. the leaders hoping thus to wear down the opposition. But republican senators are ‘ming for a protracted | ht. Senators Weeks, Lodg nd todey brought to their desks weeks of aebate. Administration| senators, however, denied that there | woula weakening and sald if i appropria’ n bills could be n o ession, the re- | would be on/ icans. H - burtow for anore than i tinuousiy on the third Ship Purchase |Preferred Death Fight Still On SCENATOR BURTON YIELDS | FLOOR AFTER THREE DAYS WEEKS RELIEVES HIM Hope to Wear Down Opposition—Republicans Arm- Democratic Leaders ing for Protracted Oppesition. Washington, Jan. frer three days of continuous assault on the sov ernment ship purchase Senator Burton of Onio late today vielded the ficor_in the senale to Senator Weeks of Massachusetts, who continued the fight. In meantime demaeratic leade: o position as an open fillibuster, dete mined to keep the measure constantly before the senate despite appropria- tion bills. Brandegee Ready to Refieve Colleagues the . who regard the repu a of bool < s and documents and re- ned on ¢ 1ard ready to take up thef debate wi Senator Burton _tired. whe pr & to talk ar rs R rd, Smoot,| Brandegee, Gallinger and Nason. Informal Republican Conference. After an informal republican con-|{ ference it was announced that when| speeches on the pending bill had been | avsted upon whi The cess itute will be to base fu ats Tered | ther arguiments. | planned to re-| djourning from d. \li h democ! stead to in_order to keep the Gebatae| in one legislative day and I e minority orators under | at no senator can speak more than) twice ox ject in the same le islative day. an senators ex- | pect to meet this by introducing from | time to time amendments or substl-| tutes to inject new subjects of dis- Abandonment of Bill Predicted Some rept ¢ ted the bill| would be abandoned for this session if no progress was aparent after two iy of speech, rink two W eggs ARMISTICE IN MEXICO FOR PEACE PARLEYS stopping only ¢ to a being furnished by a suretv compan. Garza Wants Capital to Be Declared | They were sent back to guard the Neutral Pending Negotiations. i((:r ’[”: m‘;‘&g:trfm:}»n'léfr!';;fl L;;‘un;;-é Washington, Jan. Colonel Roque | 7001 would appear Gonzales Garza, temporary head of the *°f Plead e government in lorm B the fed- in a egram dated ye - rial rela- terday - his agen ived here tonight n C. Llorente, announc S o e the toun- | convention had proposed to Gener i;;‘:j.‘ o g s > 2 hat the al of M ico b iy RS 2 gl o capiial 0 Mexito e I weana Labor leaders addressed | Skl aRl s e the str at a meeting today, urs- | oo amo L {ing not to arm them and | position, the message Said {to refrain from violence and not i Jnoymonsage | egate in the streets or near b iy by company’'s plants. he iker cwhere outside exteo e e anis oY ol is Gene; Gut: last g S PR eIl is General I last week | gestion ‘(o sppoint a commit | A = 1 ol meet representa s of the company fHcaEon i PS8 | with a view to settling the wage dls- | Tef! h him. At|oc. W their 0 | ‘ g work. taining T s first 2 of the cor sts. Today's ad- | - vices to the state department indicated { Former Bicycle Racer Held For Man- that the conven with Colonel Gar- | slaughter. as its execu and General Villa| Newton, Mass, Jan, 20.—Lewis A. its military commander-in-chief. | Callahan, known to followers of bi- was preparing to evacuate the capital | cyele racings a decade ago as “Lady” before the advance of Carranza force: from >uth, planning to set up a tempo: capitatl, prob: at Tor- reon i FEDERAL COMMISSION HEARING ON INDUSTRIAL RELATIONSI Jacob H. Schiff and August Belmont | Testified Yesterday. w York, Jan. acob H. Schiff, < ang representative coun- t of the Baron De Hi anda- tion, and_Ausust Belmont, director in | many public service corporations. uding the Interborough sit in- | Rap'd Tran- | company, which operates the sub- way and elevated railroads of York, botn testified today before inquiry being conducted by the eral commission on industrial tions into the administration great philauthropic foundatio: the cause of industrial unrest, Both witnesses asserted that boards directors with which were associated paid no labor conditions until imminer New the fed- rela- of the s and i | { the the; attention to | trouble seemed | SUPERINTENDENT SHOT | EY DISCHARGED SWITCHMAN. In His Office at Forth Worth—Died an Hour Later. i Fort Worth, Taxas, Jan. 20—A Mon- tague, superintendent of terminals from the Gold lines here, was shot in his office today by a discharze sW ian and died an hour later.| His predecessor was shot two years 2€o In exactly the same way and died. . Myers is under arrest. ers refused to make any state- ment. - He was discharged from Mon- tague's employment last April. Mon- tague was shot twice in the depot sheds. | Two years ago, P. E. Boswell, Mon- | tague’s predecessor, was shot and| killed and a discharged switchman, | afier two trials, was acquitted of the charge of shooting him. | State of Washington “Dry” Till 1916.! Olympia, Washn., Jen. 20.—The state! legislature rushed through houses today a resolution declaring against holding a special election in 1915 on the liquor or any other ques- tion. This means that Washington will go “dry” in January, 1918, under the initiative bill passed last November Ly - the voters. Ledowsky confessed his forgeries to his attorney ten days ago, according to Benjamin F, a note broke: who' testified today in a hearing be- fore a reforee in bankruptey. Straus fied that ho had discounted the ller's notes and receipts for ten ears. He denfed knowing that they had been forgeries until January 1 | when Ledowsky took him to Willia both |land county republican caucus of les- io Penitentiary CHARLES LADCWSKY OF CHI- CAGO SHOT HIMSELF. FORGERIES OF $250,000| Was President of a Distillery Com- pany Had Forged Whiskey Warehcuse Receipts. and | Chicago, Jan. 20.—Ratiter than go to| the penitentiary as a confessed forger whiskey warehouse receipts to! Charles Lodows vears dent of { scompany, for which a receiver was appointed this week, shot and killed himself on a sleepinz car as it reached this city today. The ontinental and bank of Chicago was loser of t handled Le said. The mercial bank L the Fox River Dis- Commercial the heaviest dozen banks which have jowsky's paper, attorneys Continental and Com-| holds paper on which it{ nced $50,000. Most of the re-| ceipts are on the R. B. Wathen Dis- tilling company and the Poynts Broth- ers, both Kentucky concerne. Confessed His Forgeries. Bowes, an alttorney and confessed 1 falsified warehouse receipts, didn’t know whether to or go to the peniten- Strous. “Bowes advised himse said { 22 DEPUTY SHERIFFS Charging Manslaughter for Shooting Laborers at Roosevelt, N. J. Roosevelt, g twenty-two deputy Refendants in a charging manslaug were under way tonight by the fed- eral commission on industrial rela- i s and the prosecutor of Middlesex < v into the shooting here yester- day of 19 striking employes of the American Azricultural Chemical com- Jan. 20—With sheriffs named as blan| ‘warrant ter investigations pan Desidori Alesandro died from shot wounds received during lash with deputies guarding one of the compan: fertilizer plants and several others of the strikers were in a serious condition tonight. Twenty-one of the acciused depu- ies pleaded not guilty when arraigned ‘ounty Judge Peter F. Daley in Brunsyick late today and were i in bail of $2,000 each, bond ew releas tions reir inquiry ck and pace slaughter The charg ult of an inquest finding n Wwas responsible for the death of Patrick J. Cummings, who was killed while riding with Cal- laban in an automobile which figured in an accident on December The Pennsylvania Steel Co., has tak en 1,000 idle men back to work. The export of cotton for the week ended January 16 totaled 218,234 bales. Good middling cotton at Hambure and Bremen, is quoted at 18 c a pound. The flood waters of the Lys amd Ypres rivers cover all the lowlands of Flanders. The New Haven Railroad has order- ed 20,000 tons of rails from epend- ent mills. Practically all of the Canadian troops are now on the Continent or on their way to France. President Wilson declared to call- ers that he saw no prospect of peace this spring in Europe. fation will convene i 113 and 1 Flour mills bought considerable May wheat in Minneapolis. All the mills there are grinding in fuil. The treasurer of the Yale Coipora- tion reported tie present total of pe: manent funds at $1 600, The new building of the American Academy in Rome survived the earth- quake practically unscathed The United Hardware Co. has corporated under Massa tts la with $600,000 authorized capital. China has paid an indemnity of $91 000 for mages sustained by Japan- ese in the first Chinese rebellion. The Ber! “Yageblatt” states that Roumaniz purchased in the United tates $9,650,000 of war supplies. lin h Operations at the Pennsylvania Sug ar Co.'s plant at Philadelphia pected to be resumed are ex- a few days. Since the outbreak of the war the Bank of England has added 64,000,000 pounds in bars and coin to its stock of gold. The United States Mortgage & Re- alty Co. with an authorized capital of 10,600,000 has been formed in Bal- imorve. Mrs. Frances Munds county, the only woman to the Arizona senate, that body. of Yavapai ever elected presided over Hermann Hamburg, attorne r-gene- ral of South Australia, has resigned because of the anti rman sentiment in his district Lieuteant General Freiherr von Omp- has been a teda of the German killed in the w ot his brigade. army, stern area at the he George Frothingham, the origin Friar Tuck of the old Bostonians, died in Burlington, Vt., of heart faflure. He was 75 vears old. Four firemen were overcome by moke while fight of the White Star ng a fire in the I ner Georgic pier in Manhattan. About 65,000 bales of American cot- ton are being loaded on t vessels at various ports, for shipment to men and Rotterdam. schooner in whose identity by The four-masted tres Quogue, it dis- was hidden yeste was towed anoth: vessel. b- deiphia, feil from a third- in his home there. He the arrival of a physician. window before The Russian Minister of Finance has The Canadian Railways have applied Railway Commission f a crease of 5 per cent In freight retween Canadian and United in- rate States J. T. Monohan, manager of the New Yo zency of the National Bank s was elected a member of of directors of the Cuban Tel- Co. Anti-Lobby Bill Passed by Oregon| House. Salem, Oregon, Jan. 20.—The Gre- | Zon house of representatives passed | today an anti-lobby bill by a vote « 43 12. Patterned after laws now n the statute books of several mid- | le western states, it requires that alll corporations and persons employing obbylsts to work for or against leg- latin shall register with the secre- ary of state. ! i t France’s Foreign Commerce Has Fall- en Off $400,000,000 in Ten Months. Paris, Jan. 20. 5:30 p. m.—France's oreign commerce diminished in value 090,000,000 francs ($400,000,000) in ten months of 1914 compared with the total of a similar period in 1913, ac- cording to figures compiled by the cu. toms administration. Movements of Steamships. London, Jan. 15.—Arrived: steamer Minneapols, New York. Liverpool, Jan. 19.—Arrived: steam- r Cymric, New York. Christiansand, Jan. steamer United States New York, Jan. Lapland, Liverpool. 19.~Arrived: New York. —Sailed: steamer New York, Jan. 20.—Arrived, steam- er Napoli, Naples; sailed, steamer Rochambeaun, Havre, i | | Boston Restaurant Manager Killed. Boston, Jan. 20.—During a quarrei over money affairs in a restaurant.on Norway street, the manager, Emanu el Papadakis, was shot and killed. His former partner, Manuel G. Psadakis. was arrested, after a brief chase, on a charge of murder. Tolland County Republican Caucus. Hartford, Conn., Jan. 20.—The Tol- islative members today nominated R H. Leonard of Rockville, Representa- tive J. G. Wightman of Stafford and Holcomb R. Howard of Union as cou i- iy commissioners. Resolutions for their appointment will probably be in- trednced tomerrow. i freight rates on lumber from The | sions suspended proposed increases in Interstate Commerce Commis- outhern River pro- oducing points to cing points. Ohio John Paul Jones, aged 28, an actor said to be a descendant of the first American _Admiral, pleaded guilty in court in New York to the charsze of selling heroin. Fred Wolf, a boarding housa keep- cr, at Bast Haddam, Conn.. commit- ted sulcide by shooting - himself through the mouth. A No reason Is own for the act. Three inches of snow, the heaviest all in many years, covered the at Shreveport, La. Snow also outhwestern Texas for the firs many yes The cruiser Washington was ordered I Hampton Roads for Hayti h extra marines to land for the otection of foreign property there ould it become necessary. Edward P. McCord, former tax col- lector of Pepperell, Mass., pleaded not ilty to an indictment charging the rceny from the town of $4,691. He §2,000 for his appearance for month, Miss Marion B. Towne, representa- tive from Jackson county in the Ore- furnished trial nex son house, succeeded vesterday in ob- | first | talning passage of one of the bilis to be acted upon at the present ion of the legislature. Estimated state receipts and ex- | penditures for 1915 were submitted to he Rhode Island. general ireasurer. coipts amount to $2,945,322 and the es- timated expenditures to $2,715,145. legislature oy the The steamer Varese has been sunk by a mine near Pola, the Austrian naval station in the Adriatic, with her crew of twenty men, Great excite- ment has been caused at Leghorn as both sicamer and crew halled from Condensed Telegrams 3 Frederic Schulz was acquitted at}If the Plains, N. Y., for shooting Chas. | mean t Wilson during the Horse St e on September 17. mantle of fog, | sented a bill proposing tax on exempted from military service | he expects will raise $7.000,000. The estimated re- | 0 pposition to Civil Service Change DEVEJOPED AT A HEARING HELD BY JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. QFARNAM QUIZZES ISBELL 1 lFor'rner Comptroller Dunn Would Have Thus | Commission Abolished and Save $10,000 for the State. { { Hartrora, « | to amenanier ‘*1('9 law | uced in the “fary com- { mittee at the 1 - Taft Sends Upholding Civi Service. ,‘ F William 1. T as to be present, but a let nt {to President W. H. Farnam of sociation. in which he i the principle of civil se and expressed his hon that republicans would not make a- mistake and destroy the 1a was read. Mr. Taft dat the Ption of a civil service merit sys- 1 in gov- the natlonal gove Gunshanan in Approval. roponent amendme: first formeriy cla ube be rge 1 employ wer the pos ond bre be who, dapied to the ions ava ak »ositions. He ces where s t unfit for merous in: tion had to and he argu. compel th wait he commission around to tioning actior examinaticns to fill vacancies. Advecates Application to State Police. H P immary ac- employes, ng tion 1 was of inst head wr to to get John senator law and As e commi er members: empte rary to tr commission, ney gene: his the law, an held t He claimed 1ge of the bill in the the session nall could have which gave to the om had facilitate bus Professor Farnam’s Views. Professor Farnam s might to be him it a_tren: refors and was drawr o f the law amendment nd the opr e ng ed they nurr Experience of C. L. Beach of Storrs. Amon speakers w Pres ege. wh mar that th personality, ess in selecting mem- iming f Former Comptroller Dunn Wants Law Repealed. me other speaker 23 (Continued on I CHARGED WITH LARCENY OF DIAMOND RING. s in a Jeweiry Store Three Arrests Mad { at Boston, | _ Boston | woman Smith, { brother {law cf the two men, were arr a ummer Street jewelry s day charged with the larcenr: | diamond ring and a stick pin | altogether at "$175 The s is alleged to have been found conceu led between the fingers of John Smith, the projecting price tage giving clue to its whereab: The could not he found. 3 vere in bonds of $2,600 each a hea Miniature Engine Exploded. Stamferd, Conn., Jan. 20.—Dickinson Cummings, aged 135, son of State's At- torns Homer 8. Cummings, will lose the sight of one eve and possibly of the other as a result of an explosion of a miniature engine with which he was playing yesterda: This was stated tonight at the Stamford hos- pital, where he is being treated for induriea