Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 26, 1915, Page 1

Norwich Bulletin VOL. LVIL—NO. 49 The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double Tu . of 7Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the I.—argest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Population & nw“fi “.3 " NORWICH, CONN.. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1915 TEN PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS DARDANELLES FORTS HAVE BEEN REDUCED Allied British and French Fleet Has Been Pounding Them for Several Days IT MAY MEAN MENACE OF CONSTANTINOPLE Berlin Repeorts the Capture of Przasnysz, an Important Town North of Warsaw, With 10,000 Russian Prisoners—Rus- sia Declares That German Statements Have Greatly Ex- aggerated the Recent Successes in East Prussia—Fight- ing in France Seems to be of a Minor Nature—Austrian Government is Confiscating All Stocks of Grain and Four. Almost simultaneousty with the! February 24 the Germans assumed the declaration in the hou: Dbz | offensive in the region of the farm he Br h foreign secre 1t]|at Moghely. Our troops by an impet- Great Britain is in entire accord with|uous advance seized their positions Russia’s desire for ac the |and after a hand to hand struggle, ca, comes the announce: tured their first and second lines h admiralty that all trenches, making prisoners of seven entrance to the Dard officers, a surgeon and four hundred been reduced | soldiers and some machine guns. Our For several days the ed British|artiliery fire dispersed three battalions ang ¥rench fleet has beea pounding|of Germans from Bolimow. who had 1ese fort. which consti come to T orce the ene to pasa the | BLOCKADE COAST OF cfficials state ions are Effective Feb. 28th by British. period - s attacked ran: | Washington, Feb . ; i nouncement was made S CRRE B Ll | partment today of Gr The straits are guarded also by liaes| cision to declare a bl to number ag least| coast of German East at the Briti: smmand of I German East Afri armora, s troops MC | midnight February 8. llery to all the nds in thet| to extend along the whole | cluding islands, that is May March On Constantinople. | ! degrees, 41 minutes s once they force the straits, the|tude 10 dezrees, 40 minutes and French rships ich| days grace from the time re thought to number between iy tion of the blockade being .nd forty, would likely z ind.| the departure of neutral v & wit s on Cc blockaded area. e Br DARDANELLES FORTS The Bosphorus, the narrow str: about eighteen miles in 1 HAVE BEEN REDUCED. connects the Black W gz At of Marmora, also is st Allied Fleets Attacked Them at Close and it is though this stre - | o s Black Sea fleet of Russia would have| ange to come in order to reach the open. | hidonsibe \ ht) Within the boundaries of the Black| London Feb. 25 (Midnight stean which might be useq ¢ e s desirable. ore s 1 follows cessful in its present| : 1 sia._ would be enablec s of bushels of whe: Merchant Ships Being Sunk. | ardment of the outer forts of t lles was renewed at 8 o’cloc (Feb. 2 After a [ e quadron of close range reduced ed at as issued British Isles have pecial ports, requiring ar insurance fr ment bureau and the CONFISCATING GRAIN e on the continent is T e Severe Penalties for Persons Attempt- erlin reports the capture e ¥ snysz, an important town to jnd jloiSecye ol nnlice th of Warsaw. There the Ge: Tondon:. Feb 300101 1ans took 10,000 Russian prisoners ar Jatch to Reuter's Telegram 5 s believed that their intention B enice R 2 » march against the Polish capitall "0 Z ustrian government is cor Russia Claims Germans Exaggeratzd the monarchy. er an an- Success. roximate estimate is of available supply per onment will be announced and a ibution made through the 1 orit officially declares & caplca api sttaements regardi in Bast Pru I exaggerated; that many 5 i : an troops Who were said to|, ~Severe fines and o s 1 annihilataed made good | P inflicted on any per eat and that the German lincs | B8 to secrete su held in check fonc hting in the western zone, 1c-| o yer an or the latest offi I commuxui- | 5T, “(I” W D i =cteaiaf aad e e | which had been used in the cu seem to be of a m | tion of the sugar beet, are made - . {able for grain production. It o sen! axaticy L dSimat e at Austria will receive only maize ic rts that the Austri [EtomitnEaxy n confis ing all stocks of in and flour in the monarchy whish| -1 ERS FOR AUSTRO- apportioned per capita when an HUNGARIAN SOLDIERS. mate estimate of is mad the availa Bureau Established in Vienna to For- ward Mail ‘Washington, Feb The Austr Hungarian embassy announced today PETROGRAD TELLS OF REPULSE OF GERMANS i thet a central bureau had been estab- Russian Troops Are Driving Them led in Vienna by means of which Back All Along the Line. money and letters may be forwarded e to Austro-Hungarian soldiers taken Petrograd, Feb. 25, via London, Feb. | Priconer and held in enemy countries , 12 a. m.—An official communica. | This bureau, it was stated, will unde: tion issued this evening say take to locate and forward commun On the Niemen sector from Kovno | cations to all persons addressed care of to Olita our vanguards have progress- | (h® “Gemeinsames Zentral nachweise ed a long distance from the river. Tn|Bureau Auskunftsstille Fuer Kreiz e region of Sventvianski-Goja, on |gefangene, Jasomirgott, Str. No. 6, Vi- the left bank of the river was occupied | e°Fa, Austria-Hungary.” the Germans, who passed a sma Fias detachment. of infantre 1o the hall| German Submarines for Adriatic Sea. London, Feb, 26, 3.23 a. m.—A despatch to the Daily Expre ys: “The three new German sub- marines sent to Pola will begin oper- ations immediately in the Adriatic ang the Mediterranean. Their activity is to be directed chiefly against tran port ships. A dozen more submarines will be sent to the same base later. “The Austrian admiral Von Beck says nk near Sventvianski. ceeding in_this region. )n the left bank of the Niemen, north of Grodno and the upper Bobr, fighting continues in the Stabine re- The battle is ev The artillery of the fortress of Os- sowetz has withstood the fire of the German Dbatteries in the approaches to the fortress. On the right bank of the Narew |that Germany and Austria now hz actions have occurred along the whole | fifty submarines available for s front. The enemy is concentrating |vice. there his principal efforts in the di- ection of Novogrodsk and Przasn r troops have repuised the German Increased Passenger Fares Deferred. ‘Washington, Feb. 25.—Increased pa. in many sectors with heavy |senger fares which railroads in west- or the enemy and have coun- |ern and southwestern passenger asso- r-attacked vigorou German at- | ciation territory propose to put in ef- Leripts to cross the river Orzits fect March 1, were suspended today “The Germans defended flercely a furm near the village of Krasnoselitz, which we captured after a great strug- by the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion until June 2 A hearing will be held in Chicago May 17 before Com- bie at 6 o'clocl the évening of the | missioner Daniels. The roads inter- th. Only 150 Germans of the gar- |esteq propose increases amounting in rison of this point of support sur-|most cases to about one-half cent per vived. They surrendered. mile and also to raise the price of “Om the left bank of the Vistula on 2,000 mile books from $40 to $45. GERMAN EAST AFRICA. Announcement Made at Washington— Cabled Paragraphs French Pugilist a German Prisoner. Berlin, 18 Feb. 25, via London, Feb. 26, a. m.—Georges Carpentier, the npion heavyweight pugilist of Eu- rope, has been wounded and is now a German prisoner of war, according to the Tageblatt German Paymaster Suicides. ght. The fact that he was unable tc »in mily or the colors is be- | liéved to have preved on his mind. CARRANZA'S GRIEVANCE Claims They “Sniped” Men of Obre- gon’s Army in Mexico City. | g | Los Ar celes, C: Feb. 25.—R. P. { { Denegri, former Mexican consular rep-| Washington, Feb. 25.—The United| esentative at San Francisco, who ha government has suggested in- come fr Vera Cruz, said today| formally to Great Britain and German the spec charge on which Gen-| that-in the interests of humanity and | eral Carranza intends to deport fifty of| the safeguarding of legitimate co. | lic priesis held at the Mexi-| merce, all mines be removed from th | can temp tha they|high seas except those directly nec- | “sniped” me n's army when| essary for the protection of coast de- | it entereq v and attempt-| fcnces and harbors | ed to kill Ot E A This suggestion, along with propos- | Thbe proposed expulsion, according to| als designed to obtain Great Britain's | previous reports, was based upon theacquiescence in a plan to permit the| | allezed failure of the priests to pay| distribution of imported foodstuffs to W issessment” of half a mil-| the civilian population of Germany 'n Pesos and bring about abandonment by the | Denegri several thousand| Jatter of its submarine warfare on | riles_were found in the churches of| merchani ships, has been submitted by t g capital and that the| England to her allies, France and Rus. | sed the church towers as| sia, for consideration. nts from which to fire at| Intimations have come to the Wash- ‘ The priests alleged| ington government that until tha y of “snipi were alll British cabinet acts and the attitude| i who had supported Huerta,| of Irance and Russia learned, no to Denegri. | reply can be given to the American - — | propesals. This may require several SENATE AGREES ON TWO days. BATTL HIP PROGRAMME se Appropriation for Up Today. Proposal to Incre. Submarines Com I | The tlesh bill senz com- ase th went ines morrow ry committe power Clubbed of Huntington, N. Y. ATED Ceremenies. at x eceived building in t 1 rmerly of Newa | raised the 1e building. Put- s a andson of General 1anded 3 n of April American BANK ROBBER KILLS ASSISTANT CASHIER. Honolulu, ¥eb. —Walter Brandt, | paymaster > German gunboat Geir | interned , committed suicide last AGAINST CATHOLIC PRIESTS U. S. Seeks the Removal of Mines FROM THE HIGH SEAS, EXCEPT FOR COAST DEFENSE. SAFEGUARD COMMERCE Suggestion Made Informally to Great Britain and Germany—No Mention Made of Action in Case of Rejection, c EXPOSITION Principal Ad- | Captured After a Brief Chase by a ! Posse at Haxton, Col. hier of the Farmers State xton, Col., was shot and led by a rob ite today. Brinke| attempted to s ver from a | shelf in the va had been ordered to open er escaped { from the bank with what cash he could cather up, but was & nded and captured after a brief chase by a posse. He ve the name of Jay OBITUARY. | Sister M. Paul Iils., Feb. s vears a sister at the Ur- { suline convent in this city and for the | last three years mother superior, died today at the age of 66 years. John Chipman Gray, on. Fet John C Gray, a leading authority on of real prope: died today after a of illness, at the age of 75 years. | Both Harvard and Yale had conferred upon him_the degree LL. D. He was president of the Harvard Alumni jon and Rovall professor at rvard Law school. He was a veteran of the Civil war. Colonel Nathan H. Heft. Bridgeport, Conn., Feb. 25.—Colonel athan H. Heft, former chief of the electrical department of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad and at one time prominent in traction af- fairs, died at his home here today of a complication of diseases, aged 68. He was at one time engaged in coal mining in Pennsylvania. He organized B pman the law the Bridgeport Traction company, now part of the Connecticut compar and later became connected with similar ventur Australia to Permit Export of Merino Wool to the U. S. London, Feb. 25, 9.35 p. m—A Reu- ter despatch from Melbourne says the Australian commonwealth will permit the export of merino wool to the United States provided it is consigned to the chairman of the Textile Alli- 5 —Sister M. | Germany Willing to Make Concessions, In the meantime, Germany alreal as mar sted willingne to 3 « essio which gives officials Te will be adopted by Great Britain It can be stated authoritat th in the American communication, made identical to Germany and Great Britain, no mention was made by the United 'States of what course it would pursue in vent of rejection of its proposal: United States as- sumed rather role of mediator, an effort for agreeme rassments of beiligerent were thought the reach out the e passi defeat stimulate in ences at would imperial consideration of puestions involved Hig als of vernment have s tude over what mig the ext « retaliatc measures adopted b v belligerents if t continue to disre- ernation underst used is tl many effect people Neutral Governments Working in H mony. There is every evidence that ne governme are working in c! harmo: th the Washington g - ment and have manifested more thar A ness to Jper: e ere t ic in s n warf 1 tod: 1€ ar Representa 1. republ emerg Proposal Not Revealed. fficials vealing just what has The ministers from Norway den and other neutral have inquired, some of instructions from t ave not been given tate department regarded as in official stage as from prope n them e »vs who n- vet, more ture of an interchange of vie in formal negotiation, From the of view of th Wash ngton gover Britain, while conceding th ipment of food stufe nder a system that would guarantee their distribution tc the civil population, and not the by ligerent forces of Germany, would hayv much to gain from an acceptance « American proposs The aboli the 1 ion of the war zones around Great Britain and Ireland, and the removal of all mines, it is argued, would render t commerce of the allies safe, the usual exercise of the right of vis- itation, search and capture. No Question of Culpabilit Originally, wh n mines were laid in the North sea, Germany and Grea Britain accused each other of being the aggressor in this respect. The re- sponsibility for the initiative never was fixed by the United States gov- ernment and no protest wa made. The new move by the United States would brush aside all questions of culpability and appeal to the belliger- ents to sweep up their mines and pre- vent further accidents such as already have befallen nearly three score neu- tral vessels, including the American steamers Evelyn and Carib, It is understood that while the adoption of a definite agreement on all the points involved in the American communication may require some time, the United States also has suggested that if the principles of the plan are acceptable some tentative arrange- ments may be secured by which neu- tral commerce for the present will not be menaced. Movements of Steamships, Naples, Feb. 19.—Arrived, steamer Napoli, New York. Havre, Fel 24.—Arrived, steamer Niagara, New York. Salled, 20th, Chi- cago, New oYrk. New York, Feb. 25.—Arrived, steam- er Dante Aleghira. Genoa. Sailed, steamer Frederik VIII, Copenhagen. ubject 1”1 Government Loans io Farm Owners PROVISO ATTACHED TO AGRI- TURAL APPROPRIATION BILL.- |PASSED BY THE SENATE Loans to Run for Ten Years at 5 Per Cent. Interest—Not Less Than $300 Nor More Than $10,000 to Individuals Washington, Feb. 25.—A farm credits bill, providing for government loans to | farm owners, was attached to the ag- cult appropriation bill today, in hurried passage Presented by an amendment, incorporated in the out a record vote, only a few senators chamber The Dbill rt time later. Bureau of Farm Credits. MecCumber amendment bureau of farm credits through the sen Senator McCumber provision was bill with- at a time when were in the i®elf was passed | ate. he supply would n | create a the treast Zovernme t loans through national The: at five not be an $10,000 ‘nited States to est 400,000 author- $36,000,000 For Agriculture. This and other the bills from $23,000,( | 000,000, for and more e of n st nor Is t bond fund of s would be ased ine to about tor Hollis poir New der agal Hampshire the wonld be ted in confer- ence hetween the house and senate An effc will mad it to a rural credits p: | $3000,000 For Forest Service. ncorporated in | amendmer for the use of in the Appalachian res: INTERSTATE COMMISSION REPCRTS ON RAILROADS E | L. & N. Absorbed Other Roads to Pre- | vent Competition, STABBED TO DEATH IN HOME AT PROVIDENCE Have No Clue Motive. Authorities surroundin ha | r the motive for the n, who was the p H « the wealthiest Armenians ! , was found dead by his w slept barely six feet away fr m. She told the police that wi ! awalkes t two or three an_adjc d the roc ing ro i sav at 2 to be shadows |on the tain. Thinking she had | bene dreaming she returned to her | husband’s room and discovered his body covered with blood Fifteen stab wounds, apparently made with a butcher knife, were found |in Rustigian's body. The police have w0t found the weapon. Allied Aeroplanes Create Excitement. Genev ia Paris, Fe | —A despatch received her nce says that as the allied aeroplanes having Tuesday night from southward, there w Friedrichshafer The Zeppelins it is said, were covered with metal matting, the lights in the town were extinguished and the people to t> the cellars. The aeroplanes flew over Meersburg and later reached Bel- n Constan great exc! Hoboken Votes For Commission Gov- ernment. Jersey City, N. J., Feb. 25.—A re- count of the recent vote in Hoboken on the question of the adoption of the commission form of city sovernment, ended Jate today at the county court- house in Jersey City, showed a majori- |ty of sixteen for commission govern- | ment. The original figures gave com- mission government a majority of three. Western Railroad Wage Arbitration. Chicago, Feb. 25.—Cross examination of A. W. Trenholm, general manager of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha railroad, reached the 16th and last article of the demands of the enginemen in the western railroad wage arbitration today. Mr. Trenholm reiterated his opposition to the rule requesting that two firemen be placed on the heaviest engines. department to make loans! to Assail- | Condensed Telegrams Samuel P. Keefer of Torrey, died at the age of 105 "s Four Men Killed - in Rush of Water e will oston Billy Sunday announced that conduct a revival campaign in in October. The Holland-America liner son- + derayk went ashore mear the mouth|'N THE AMMONOOSUC RIVER, of the Maas. | NEW HAMPSHIRE. - —— | The Government of Austria i over all stocks of rye, barley, corn flour product |10 OTHERS BADLY HURT The Bank of England Yold 201,000 | | pounds sterling bar gold, and pur- chased 72,000 pounds | Men Were Trying to Remove ice from Mrs. Mary S. Allen Webb, first| Track of the B. & M.—Flood Caused president and organizer of the W. C.| T. U, died in Savannah | by the Blowing Up of a Dam. | The rates of import duty on nenc‘\ — {print paper entering France ~were | o i | temporarily reduced 60 per cent. | ien are Feb. 25—Four men | L | fured in a rush of ice ang caresy, in- | Two bills to prevent treating in any | Ammonoasis b C2 2nd water in the hotel, saloon, club or cafe were in-| gent suc Tiver today. The acel- troduced in the New Jersey House. | wae B _‘;;“‘3 “!efkfmg crew | B flooded "t B ove ice from the the White Mountain )ston and Maine rail- WS a mile above this Capt. E. A. Harding of the United States Marine Corps, killed himself at the Racquet Club, in P adelphi. division of the road in the meado town. The stick of dynamite found in the Rush of Water Sudden. | | Japanese exhibit at the San Francisco | . Henry I. Witcher, the foreman of the | Exposition proved to be a Japanese | oW Was one of those killed. The oy. - oL the others are not known, £os 22 | So sudden was the rush of water thaj " A { none Automobles will be used in trans-|{70e, Of the tw five men in the porting mail in Boston, instead of the | JUSCNE Tew had any chance te electric cars of the Boston evated | focting. Some near - o o “‘S‘k‘ eir | sohsy o e eq an embankment now n us | managed to scramble to points . of | ag safety and give help to eir less = The British Government took over|gu,of 200 Eive help to their iess for for use as troopships the Atlantic | i"g ) Comrades. Others escape Transport Line steamers Minnewaska | ~ "¢ bl i Seuees hd Minnetonka. _Struck by Jagged Cakes of Ice. . oo ; Several were struck by jagged ice Every branch of the lumber industry | Cakes a k and severely injured. t a meeting of lum- Tl four men who were ki | | | parts of the nation | €d Were caught where the current was | which Chicago strongest and were probably shed = to death by the ice before their bodies The Du Pont Powder Co. declared| Wer wept down the river. All th the rezular quarterly dividend cover, per cent. and an extra dividend of od was re- per cent. on common stock fa dam _relieve condition ailroad traffic was blocked for > | The Senate foreign relations com- | mitte last meeting of e flood session acting on the C e S lomban caraguan treat | HOUSEMAIDS' BRANCH | A convention was concluded OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS en the, Un idicsiates A B sh|Fifteen Young Women Employed as T s teiee Dt n| Servants Enrclled at Kenosha, Wis. . Wis. women re 3 most as nationaliti all employed of citizens Kimber of Lynn, Mass., was to 18 months in the house spiracy to anufacture counter pening { coins e pub- | _G. W. Quintard’s wire-haired terrier, breadmak- | Champion Matford Vie, w keeping and | st e of o teachers are in | at ass, entire ex- VGarder borne by the hoard of ed = >Ar), '\P-.")“d with a IN FRESHET STAGE, Northern Stretches is Break- ing Up. With a Jose Francisco Silva, e ety ncisco Silva, a and rising stead oy, attempted to kill e ister Tecats Costa, leader of the I fcerin the nortl. n Portu He fired t Wais breal- of whicl a + some- L or ° Saturday After a business dispute, J : e rimgfield, Mass L : reservoirs less than 50,000 nded he vear, when the and then killed | £ 2mine, are now Plans for combined army i of manscwa il ainlsticis com i Strike Cost Colorado Fuel and Iron e s : Company $1,250,000, ti )y Sec y Dar 3 " —Th recent Abolition of the st Cont fe v D! t iy Y, approxi- nt Jesse F. statement is- with _the ors which Den- are told of & into effect, a number also went ecretary Bryan announced commission, he d by former ( Fort, of New Jersey, 11 le Y Saturday for tions there. : e Admiral Baron Shigeta Dewa, co 3:{ 4;:: - of the Emperor of Japan on n: Gt o 1 affairs, Commander Kasbayashi R A2 and Lieut. Y. Uveda, of the Japanese & Governor were Wagstaff, yard ¥ Richard J. Hartman was sentenced ng to for | MeKen, rom five o nine years in Sing S Mrs a Singer indling aged e, Charlot widow of Sewin Machine company offical, of hér entire | |zortune ‘o to40.000 | . - emma { ¥ which sentenced | Admiral Howard recommended to 1n'¢n:”rr;ce;o:5 |the Navy Department the court-mar- irisdiction over the |tial of five officers of the battleship mob violence tol- |San Diego. aboard which there was , and the conse- |an explosion recently in which sev- - prisoner from eral lives were lost. when the verdict was rendered, vs for Fr gued b Raided by customs inspectors the e supreme eir client British steamer Orland, in New York uld be freed from custody harbe cans of opium, several | T pounds of crude opium and a complete | Prohibition For Idaho, y found. The Orland car-| Rgise. Idaho, Feb —The senate {ries a Chinese crew. of the Idaho legi passed today | = | the state-wide prohibition bill which | Capt. Uerpetti, Lieuts. Pettazini and | makes the manufacture and trans- Orfinio Razazza. and eight non-com- | portation for sa of intoxicating missioned officers of the Italian army | liquors unlawful after January 1, 1918, {arriv in New York on the liner|The vote in the senate was 23 to 6 in | Stampalia to joint the commission in |faver of the bill. Governor Alexander this countr ng horses has announced that bs will sign the measure. Whether a special session of the | senate s be called by President |Submarines to Work Out Defense Prob- i\‘. on after March 4 to consider the lems. {C i and Nicaraguan _treaties o : probably will be decided by the pres-| Panama, Feb. 25 —The American ident today at a cabinet meeting. submarines C-3 and C-56 have been g ordered from Cristobal to Balbea to Maitin, J.-Wads|iaf t lowai/ City, thas | 2T OnE difemca problems in connec- been selected by President Wilson for i N oy, arlaung | e A to mine laying and target practice. The federeal judge in the southern district | o0, 0 0% SVITS ANC target practice. The Jowa, 'to succeed the late Judge|peptiatiies Wil be the frst o h McPherson. The nomination | "8RtNE craft to use u 3 W be sel na V. {20 D S re, e g Bill to Prahibit Campaign Contribu- Harry Chandler, son-in-law of Gen. tions in Rhode lsland, Harrison Gray Otis, was arraigned in| Providerce, R. L, Feb. the United States district court at |prohibiting rolitical campaign con- Los Angeles on an indictment charg- |tributions from corporations was in- ing him with participation in an al- | troduced in the legislature today. Vio- leged conspiracy to send an armed |lations of the provisions of the meas- force into the Mexican territory of ure are punishable by fine or impris- Lower California. onment,