Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 16, 1915, Page 1

VOL. LVIL—NO. 90 The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other P - & . and It Total Circulation is the Largest PRICE TWO CENTS “in Connecticut in Pro;;(;}'tion to the City’s Populatior'l? ALLIES USE BAYONET, ARTILLERY, AIRCRAFT In a Successful Offensive Move They Have Assumed On the Western Line of Battle .BOMBS DROPPED ON GERMAN HEADQUARTERS Paris Reports Capture of Officers, Men and Guns and Re- pulse of German Counter Attacks—There is a Letup in *' the Viciousness of the Fighting in the Carpathians, Both - _* Petrograd and Vienna Reporting That Attacks Were Re- pulsed—In the Argonne, According to Paris, the Main Trenches of the Germans Were Demolished by Artillery Fire—Two Steamers Added to List of German Subma- rine Victims—Total British Casualties From August to April 11 Were 139,347 Men. o | Again the allies have assumed the joffensive on the western line of bat- itle and according to Paris, have made Igains in Terrain, captured officers and gnen and guns and repulsed German ‘counter-attacks. There have been trench fighting, mbats at the point of the bayonet, E:nulery engagements and what is ermed a successful raid over the Ger- an military buildings at Ostend by 5 allied aircraft. One aeroplane also said to have dropped five bombs on e headquarters of the German im- erial staff at Mezieres and Charleville @n reprisal for the alleged throwing of ymbs by a German aviator on a hos- pital at Mourmelon. . While there has been somewhat of ® letup In the viciousness of the at- #empt to get their armies through the Carpathians and out on the plains of Hungary, hard fighting continues in some sectors. Both Petrograd and Vienna assert that all attacks against Yheir respective forces were repulsed. That scarcely any hostilities are in progress in Poland is indicated by the t that in none of the late official ports is mention made of activity this region It was on the spur-to the south of Notre Dame De Lorette, on the west- ern battle front, that fighting with he bayonet took place. Paris declares t the entire sector was taken by ‘he French troops, who mnow are in possession of all of the southeastern ope as far as Ablain-St. Nazaire. n the Argonne, still according to Par- the main trenches of the Ger- s were demolished by theartillery fire of the French while fierce Ger- man counter-attacks were repulsed in the region of Albert, at La Neuris- sons, Montmare and Les Eparges and n the forest of Le Pretre. Near Les es the Germans are sald to have Jost heavily, In the naval warfare, two steamers ave been added to a long list of hose that have gone to the bottom as g result of torpedoes or mines—the Dutch steamer Katwyk, loaded with grain for The Netherlands government Bnd the Britlsh steamer Ptarmigan. ¥our Dutch trawlers also were said to have beems seized by the Germans nd taken into Cuxhaven. They were ported to have been released later, jowever. The cause of the disaster to the Katwyk, whether a torpedo or 2 mine, has not been determined. but the Ptarmigan was sunk by a torpedo and eight men of her crew of 17 were drowned. In the eight months of fighting, from August to April 11, the total casualties among the PBritish forces were 139,347 men. ZEPPELIN VISITS EAST COAST OF ENGLAND Dropoed Bombs en Several Towns and Did Considerable Damage. London, April 16, 3.10 a. m.—Two Zeppelin airships visited the east poast of England shortly after mid- E:‘m, dropping bombs on several ywns and doing considerable damage to property. As far as has been as- pertained only one person, a woman, was injured. It is said she was only plightly hurt. ‘The airships drorped four bombs on falden, in Essex county, 30 miles northeast of London, but no damage lted. Bombs were also dropped the Heybridge Basin, two miles peross the river. They set fire to pome buildings. The airships came up the Blackwater river and over the marshes and circled around. At Lowestort, on the North sea, in Buffolk county, three bombs were drop- ,considerable damage to house perty in the center of the town re- ting. A lumber yard was set on re. The window panes in many ouses were shattered. Three horses longing to the railway company were killed. Previously the aircraft had visited uthwold, 12 miles south of Lowestoft d having missed striking that town th its missiles, went on to Hales- worth, eight miles inland. It then returned again to Southwold and fropped six bombs. BINKING OF DUTCH STEAMER KATWYK Has Aroused the Indignation of the People Holland. London, April 15, 10.30 p. m.—Al- though it is not yet certain that a Berman submarine boat was respon- W] North Hinder lightship last night, the inking of the vessel has aroused the dignation of the Dutch people, as svidenced by the editorials of the newspapers in Holland, The Katwyk, which was loaded with n from Baltimore, consigned to the utch government, is reported to have been lying at anchor at the time of fhe explosion and to have been flying the Dutch flag. The Dutch newspapers s ‘ore, that no mistake could ve been made and that if a German u “actually torpedoed the steamer “we must expe that the German government will, without loss of time, be made responsible for this severe violation of the rights of neu- tral powers.” The fact that the Dutch government was directly involved in the Katwyk's cargo and that the news of the sink- ing of the steamer came immediate- ly on top of the announcement that four Dutch trawlers had been seized by the Germans and taken to Zee- brugse apparently heightened the feel- ings of the Hollanders. GERMAN ENGINEERS DECLINE INVITATION To Participate in Congress of Engi- neers at San Francisco. Berlin, April 15, via London, April 15, 10.15 p. m.—The Society of Ger- man Engineers has declined an invi- tation to participate in the congress of engineers at San Francisco by pre- paring papers to be read there. In taking this action, the society explains that German engineers at present are too busy with .the war, It adds that because of American shipments of mu- nitions to German’s enemies it would be difficult to get German engineers to contribute papers for the congress. WILL BELGIUM BE NEUTRAL SHOULD GERMANS LEAVE? Rome Correspondent Says German Em- bassy Has Asked Belgian Legation. Amsterdam, via London, April 15, .30 p. m—The Rome correspondent of the Tijd says the German embassy in Rome has asked the Belgian govern- ment, through the Belgian legation to the Quirinal, whether, in the event of the German armies evacuating Belgian territory, Belgium would remain neu- tral during the remainder of the war. The correspondent adds that Belgium's answer is unknow! CANADIAN PARLIAMENT PROROGUED YESTERDAY. Duke of Connaught Thanked Members For Provisions Made. Ottawa, Ont., April 16.—Parliament was prolonged late today after the house had reached a compromise on the soldiers bill and passed the measg| ure. The government _accepted in principle the senate amendments, ex- cept that making the consent of Lord Kitchener a preliminary to the vote of the soldiers being taken. This was altered to provide that the consent of His Majesty’s cabinet in council must be secured. The senate agreed to the compromise. In progoguing the house, the Duke of, Connaught, governor-general of Canada, thanked the members in the name of the king for the “liberal pro- visions made for meeting the necessi- ties of war.” NORWEGIAN STEAMER’S CARGO IN BRITISH PRIZE COURT. Was Detained at Scotti Seaport of - Kirkwell on April 5th. London, April 15, 6.45 p. m—The Cabled Paragr Expense of Canal © Pacama, April 1i e the opening of the Panama can:. .ne expenditures have been in excess of the revenues ap- proximately 10 per cent, due to the cost of maintenance and operation of the waterway. In the period of July 1 to Marcn 1 the canal authorities have spent $2,595,000, and the canal has earned $2,334,000. » Income. Clyde Steamer Seminole a Total Loss. ‘Santo Domingo, April 15.—The Clyde line agency here reports that the steamer Seminole, which went aground near Saona Island, off the southeast extremity of Haitl, is a total loss. Previous reports concerning the Seminole said she had run on a sand bank near Saona but was In no dan- ger. The eSminole left New York April 4th for West Indian ports. It is said she carried no passengers. MORE COMMUNITY CHRCHES AND LESS SECTARIAN Statement in Advocacy Made by Prof. William B, Bailey of Yale. New Haven, Conn., April 15—“What we need is more community churches and les ssectarlan churches,” sald Professor William B. Bailey of Yale today in addressing the annual con- vocation of alumni and_ministers of Connecticut at the Yale School of Re- ligion, on the rural church problem. He advocated a rural survey as a means of getting at the exact condi- tion and said that a close study would probably reveal that many communi- ties are over-churched and was of the opinion that the weeding out process as applied to struggling parishes with a view to instilling the community idea and working it out would be a g00d solution of the church problem. which he said Is generally admitted to be a serious one. A good ball team and a place to play in if it were formed, a hall where dances and plays could be ziven under proper super- vision, old home weeks and other things were sugeested by the speaker to keep up the interest of the young people of the rural districts and to dis- courage their looking toward the cities as_a center of recreation. Rev. George W. Pepper of Philadel- rhia, in the fifth Lyman Beecher lec- ture delivered before the convocation, declared: “There is no doubt in my mind that the Roman Catholics have the . finest system of teaching possible, and I am positive that the tlme is coming when a move will be promoted to have each religion care for the education of the children of its creed, just as the Ro- man Catholics are doing at the pres- ent time. I believe that these various religlons will receive a small com- pensation from the state for the edu- cation of each pupil. In this way the children of each creed will be freed from rival claims of other creeds and the time is not far distant when to know God will be considered the great- est of all the uses of the human mind. And when this move is started yon may be sure that it will have strong political backing.” TWO MEN SHOT IN GREEK BOARDING HOUSE While They Were in Bed, at Peabody, Mass.—Robberv the Motive. Peabody. Mass., April 15.—Two men were shot to death as they lay in bed in a Greek boarding house on Central street early today. The murderer es- caped. The victims were Peter Ka- Norwegian steamer Albis, from New York to Copenhagen with a cargo of foodstuffs, which was detained at the Scottish seaport of iKrkwall on April 5th, arrived at Middlesbrough, on the Tees, April 12, where a majority of her cargo was thrown into the prize court. The Danish steamship Annam, from San Francisco for Aarhus, detained at Kirkwall -April 7, was taken on April 12 to Hull, where the vessel is being held pending an investigation regard- ing her consignees. Liberty Bell to Be Sent to Exposition. Philadelphia, April 15—A resolution providing for sending the old Liberty Bell to the San Francisco exposition, to be exhibited in the Pennsylvania building there, passed select and com- mon councils this afternoon. It now goes to the mayor for approval. It is known that Mayor Blankenburg favors sending the Liberty Bell to California. The bell cannot go until after July 4th, as it is to be made the feature of a t Independence day celebration i Phliadeipnia. Pardoned After 33 Years. Augusta, Me., April 15.—Eugene C. Hurd, sentenced to prison for life 38 years ago for the murder of his brother Edward at Harmony, was pardoned to- day. He is 63 years of age. In his petition he claimed that he should have been convicted of manslaughter instead of murder, as his crime was commit- ted on the impulse of the moment. e e e Movementé of Steamships. London, April 16.—Arrived, steamer Corinthian, St. John, N. B, - New York, April 15.—Sailed, steam- er_Arabic, Liverpool. New York, April 15.—Sailed, steam- er Niagara, Havre. rampelas, 26 years old, and Arthur Cleroulethes, 27 According to other lodgers who heard the shots, a man was seen run- ning away from the house immediate- ly afterward. He jumped over a fence and disappeared. ~Apparently he had entered by the front door, which had been left unlocked. The two men oc- cupied the same room, on the ground floor. Both were shot in the breast. The police believe robbery was the motive for the crime. One of the vic- tims is said to have displayed last night what looked like a large sum of money, but which consfted only of a small bill wrapped around a bun- dle of tobacco coupons, Ten or twelve men were detained for examination during the foremoon, ‘but were released after they had ex- plained satisfactorily their where- abouts at the time of the murder. “LUCKY STONES” THAT BROUGHT NO LUCK Purchasers Testify in Trial of Captain W, L. Rand, Boston Jeweler. Boston, April 15—“Lucky stones,” that brought no luck were described in testimony in the federal court to- day at the trial of Captain Walter I. Rand, a jeweler of this city, who is charged with having used the malls in a scheme to defraud by the sale of the stones throughout the country. “The man who started the investi- gation, Felix Francis Daniels, of West Hoboken, N. J., testifled that he had worn one of the stones attached to his undershirt for flve months. He wanted work, he sald, but when he untied the knot in his shirt which held the stone last June he was still ‘without a job. “I was always more or less unlucky,” the witness added, Tests of the luck-bringing qualities of the stones in poker games were re- lated by Albert E. Smith, of Plymouth, N. H, and George H, Cobb, of Erie, Pa. Cobb complained that he “did not even break even.” Smith said he lost $2. TO PREVENT SOLDIERS USING . HABIT-FORMING DRUGS. Which is Prevalent Among Natives of the Isthmus, Panama. April 15.—Brigadier Gen- eyal Clarence R. Edwards, commander of the American forces in the canal zones, hs determined to prevent the use by the soldiers on the isthmus of habit-forming drugs, which is preva- lent among the native minister to Panama, who is endeavor- ing to secure the aid of the Panama Habit-formi: drugs are not permitted to be sold in the gone but find their way in through Panama territory. Grandson of Gladstone Killed In ‘Action London, April 15, 407 p. m—Wil- llam G. C. Gladstone, grandson of the late Willlam B. Gladstone, has: been dl! in action in France. P lars of his death are lacking. Gladstone was 29 years old. He was a Liberal member of the house of com- mong. In 1910 and 1911 he served as an to the British embassy in ‘Washingto: Great Britain Sends Apology o Chile FOR SINKING THE DRESDEN CHILIAN WATERS IN A MISUNDERSTANDING British Believed Dresden Was Not In- terned Because She Had Her Colors and Her Guns Trained— Apology is Unqualified. Flying London, April 15, 8.55 p. m.—The British government has offered ‘a full and ample apology” to the Chilean gov- ernment for the sinking on March 14, in Chilean territorial waters, of the German cruiser Dresden, the intern- ment of which had already been order- ed by the maritime governor of Cum- berland Bay when the British squadron attacked and sank her. This fact was made public tonight in a White Paper giving the texts of the Chilean notes protesting agatnst the sinking of the Dresden and the British government’s reply. Chile Regarded Dresden as Interned. The note delivered by the Chilean minister to Great Britain says that the Dresden anchored in Cumberland Bay (Juan Fernandez Island) March 9th and asked permission to remain ecight days for the.purpose of repairing her engines, which were said to be ouf of order. The governor refused the request, as he considered it unfounded, and ordered the captain to leave the bay within 24 hours. As the order was not complied with, the captain of the Dresden was in- formed that his ship was interned. When the British squadron appeared on March 14 the governor was proceed- ing to the cruiser Glasgow to inform the British officers of the steps he had taken, but he had to turn back, as the British ships opened fire on the Dres- den, on which a flag of truce had al- ready been hoisted, and called on her captain to surrender. The captaln then gave orders to blow up the mag- azine of the Dresden. Act of Hostility. “This act of hostility committed in Chilean territorial waters by a British naval squadron,” says the Chilean min- ister, “has painfully surprised my gov- ernment.” Continuing, the minister says that had the officer in command of the British squadron received the gover- nor and been informed that the Dres- den was interned, he was convinced the British commander would not have opened fire on her and brought about a situation vhich constrains the Chilean government in defense of its sovereign rights to formulate a most energetic protest. A Painful Surprise. After referring to the hospitality shown British ships in Chilean waters and to the long friendships between th tvi(o 'peol)lea, the minister says: ‘Nothing could be a more painful surprise to us than to see our extreme- ly cordial attitude repaid by an act which bears unfortunately all the evi- dences of contempt for our sovereign rights, although it is probable that nothing was further from the minds of those by whom it was committed.” Great Britain Regrets. The British government in its reply expresses regret that a misunderstand- ing arose and adds: “On the facts as stated in the com- munication of the Chilean minister, the British government {s prepared to offer a full and ample apology to the Chilean government.” It is, however, pointed out that ac- cording t? the British information the Dresden “had not accepted internment and still had her colors flyis guns trained.” Lo R e Feared Dresden Might Escape. The British reply continues: If this is S0, and if there were no means available for enforcing the de- cision of the Chilean authorities to in- tern the Dresden, she might obviously, had not the British ships taken action, have escaped, again to a HAYe. Sacan ttack British It is addea: “Tke captain of the Glasgow proba- bly assumed, especially in view of the past action of the Dresden, that she was defying the Chilean authorities and abusing Chilean neutrality, and was only waiting for a favorable op- portunity to sally out and attack Bx:msh commerce again, “In view of the time it would take to clear up the circumstances, and be. cause of the Chilean communication, the British government does not wish to qualify the apology that they mow Dresent to the Chilean government’ . e WEST VIRGINIA STATE OFFICIALS ARE UNPAID Because Legislature Failed to Pass Necessary Appropriations, needed $730,000 to carry on its gov- ernment, and that he could not legally borrow this amount as suggested by Attorney General Lilly, because he ‘would be unable to repay it within 18 months, the statutory time, Because of the fallure of the late legislature to pass the necessary appropriations, state salarles and many other bills for April are not being paid. The governor conferred with five senators with a view to calling an- other speclal session of the ] ure to provide the necessary revenue. No announcement was made after the conference, FARMER THRASHED WITH WHITE THORN SWITCHES Leader of Mob Told Him It Was Be- cause He Did Not Provide for His Family. Somerset, Pa, April 1 Berndt, a well to do farmer of Lin- coln township, was last night taken from the residence of his father, near here, by a party of men, into a dense forest, and shed with white thorn switches. The leader of the party, which numbered about 40, told. Berndt that the punishment was administered because it was charged that he did not provide for his wife and five children, Berndt today visited a justice of the peace in an effort to sécure warrants for the arrest of the men, many of whom were said to be leading resi- dents of Lincoln township. oy Huerta Issues Signed Statement SETTING FORTH HIS SIDE OF THE MEXICAN QUESTION DID NOT KILL MADERO/ But Says He Knows Who Was Re- His Death—Declares 16,000,000 Men, Women and Children Would Resist Invasion sponsible for New York, April 15.—Vehemently asserting that he had nothing to do with the death of Francisco Madero- General Victoriano Huerta, former provisional president of Mexico, issu- ed a lengthy signed statement tonight setting forth what he termed his side of - the Mexican question. Generag Huerta declared that he knew responsible for Madero's death, that he was keeping it as a “pro- fessional secret.” Reviewed Madero Revolution. General Huerta's statement re- viewed the history of the Madero rev- oluticn and his accession to the pro-| visional presidency and concluded with the assertion that “my country cannot be corquered.” Sixteen mil- nons of men, women and children would have to be killed before Mex- ico would submit to an intader, h asserted. Says Washington Was Not Fair. The heads of the Washington ad- ministration, he declared, had not been fair to Mexico, had been misled! by false statements and if they had| been in Mexico for thirty days “they would have changed their theoretical erroneous ideas.” Had it not been for the embargo on the exportation of arms from this country, General Hu-| erta indicated that his army would have preveiled over those opposed to it. The former provisional president re- iterated the assertion which he made when he left Mexico last year—that he had resigned from his position only because he hoped to bring peace to his country. He pointed out that in the eight months since that date the situation in Mexico had become “too sad for me to analyze deeply.” “Anarchy is too soft a word to call it,” he said. Mexico would eventual- ly Be saved but by a Mexican. Who that would be he did not know. Not Going to Mexican Border. General Huerta declined tin re- sponse to guestions to glve any ink- ling as to bis future movements. He denied the report ‘that he would go to San Antonio, Texas, or any other point near the Mexican border. Di cussing the death of Madero- he said “That is a professional secret. Law- vers have secrets, doctors have se- crets—I am a scldier—why should not a solgier have secrets? It is not throngh friendship for anyone that I am withholding the information. It is a .professional duty. The time wil soon come when my name will be vindicated and, as General Lee said of General Jackson, the world will say of me. I stood like a stone wall submitting to the ignominy and in- sults that have been heaped upon me.” Never Betrayed Madero. “It has been said that you betrayed the confidence of President Madero. Is it 0™ he was asked. General Hu- erta straightened up proudly, his eyes flashed and bring his clenched fist against his breast, he replied: No, ¥ swear it, I was in no way re- sponsible for his death. It has been one of the big tortures of my life. I am sorry I have to keep the secret. Although I am of a different race than you, gentlemen, I am a man.” MASKED MEN HELD UP N. Y. CENTRAL FREIGHT. Ten Men Flled Ten Autos With Stol- en Goods, Buffalo, N. Y., April 15.—Ten mask- ed and armed '‘men held up a New York Central fast freight train near Sanborn, fifteen miles from this city early this morning. They uncoupled the engine and ran it a quarter of a mile down the tracks and kept the train crew covered while the cars were looted. Ten big automobile trucks were in waiting and were fill- ed with stolen goods. Engineer Cross of Syracuse- who was running the train escaped from his guard and ran down the tracks with the robbers fir- ing at him. He reached the engine and started it, running to Suspension Bridge, 8 miles away, and secured a posse of detectives and was back to the scene within half an hour. Hundreds of armed men began scour- ing the country for the robbers but none of them had been arrested. Sev- eral shots were fired at the train crew. The stolen goods were worth thousands of dollars. The automobiles came in the di- rection of Buffalo, Indé. call for help was sent to this city. Every highway leading into the city was guarded but no trace of the machines was found. The bandits who held up a fast freight train on the New York Cen- tral railroad between here and Nia- gara Falls today had escaped cap- ture up to a late hour tonight. The motor trucks used by the thieves to carry away their loot were turned toward Buffalo, but the information gleaned was meagre. Estimates of the value of the goods secured from the train vary from $10,- 000 announced by railroad officials, up to unofficial estimates of $50,000. The cars broken open were put on a siding who ¢, { her condition as Condensed Telegrams Edwin Bliss a magazine writer, drop- ped dead in the Hotel Vanderbilt Miss Belton one time a well known midget actress, died at Woonsocket, R I The British Government decided against placing cotton on the contra- band list. Steel Ohio are producing practically per cent. capacity. mills In western and eastern at 100 A seat on the New York Stock Ex- change was sold for $50,000, the same price a sthe last previous sale. The Eastman Kodak Co., of Roches- er, N. Y., declared an extra dividend of per cent on the common stock. Fifteen persons were killed by an explosion in an illicit vodka distillery at Volkhova, a suburb of Petrograd. The New Hampshire House killed the Boston & Maine Railroad re-or- ganization bill by a vote of 161 to 128. I an election to decide the post- mastership nomination of Whittier, Joseph H. Todd won by one The bill requiring all vehicles to stop before crossing a steam or elec- tric rallway track was rejected by s house. Mrs. Cynthia Buffom, charged with killing her husband with poison at Little Valley, N. Y., will have a second trial in Buffalo May 3. Pope Benedict sent $5,000 to Cardi- nal Mercier for Belgian war sufferer and $5,000 to the Bishop of Craco for the Polish war sufferers. A bill was introduced in York State Senate apropriating $10,- 000 for a financial survey of the New to the constitutional convention The Lower Chamber of the Alsace- Lorraine Parliament voted to support the 1915 budget. The measure was opposed by all the Soialist members. attending seriously Luke's hi Doctors. Atherton, in St. Mrs. Gertrude ill of pneumonia spital, pronounced ‘very comfortable.” About 400 men will get employment by the immediate reopening of the Mountain Consolidated mine one of the larger of the Anaconda Copper producers. John Dilley, a farmer of Ringoes, N. J., was seriously injured when a bull he was leading to a railroad station to be weighed became unruly and at- tacked him. The national committee of the Pro- hibition party selected the Twin Cities, St. Paul and Minneapolis as the meet- ing place of the 1915 convention, to be held July 19. Champlin Burrage, at present 1li- brarian of Manchested College Oxford, has been elected librarian of the John Carter Brown library of Brown Uni- versity. which will a guides to v approaching the Buzzard’s Ba entrance to the Cape Cod canal, will go into operation on May 1. Twelve lights, t as The coast guard cutter sailed from Wood’s Hole, Mass., to as- sist two unknown schooners reported in distress on Hawes Shoal, Nantuck- et Sound. A general strike of all laborers in Milan as a protest against the killing | of a Socialist by a policeman anti-war demonstration launched at Milan. Lo Rothstein aged 17 of Brook- lyn, was seriously injured when three fulminating caps he found in a junk shop exploded after he had pounded them with a hammer. in Sunday, an was| It was announced in the House of Commons that there had been 1,546 . ; | .promotions to commissions from the ranks in the British army since the beginning of the war. Tha six-masted schooner Edward B. Winslow, was towed into New York harbor in a damaged condition as a result of her collision with a British warship off Sandy Hook. A force of convicts from the West Virginia State Penitentiary began at Moundsville the task of restoring the historic mound, one of the largest works of the Ohio Valley mound build- ers. The New York Assembly passed the bill authorizing the public service commission to order the issuance of transfers between subway, surface and elevated lines anywhere in New York city. Special police bodyguards will be furnished Colonel Roosevelt and Will- iam Barnes, at the trial of the lat- ter's $50,000 libel suit against Col. Roosevelt, to be held at Syracuse Monday. The proposal for a subsidized mail service between Sydney, Australia, and San Francisco was turned down by the Australian government on the grounds that circumstances do not warrant it. Governor J. F. A. Strong signed the bill passed by the Alaska Terri- torial Legislature submitting the question of prohibition throughout Alaska to the voters at the election November 4, 1916. The ibill putting an annual tax on motorcycles was amended in the New York Assembly to reduce the proposed tax from $3 to $2. The bill is ex- pected to pass. Thirty-two thousand at Suspension Bridge and their con- tents. were checked against waybills. It was found that the carried away consisted principally of silks and other expensive fabrics. The es- cmfi:dsxo,m Dby the railroad men was upon this investigation. Woonsooket Woman a War Prisoner. ‘Woonsocket, R. L, April 15.—Miss Victoria Verhulst, who left here at the outbreak of the European war to join the French Red Cross, is being held a prisoner at the Lille military hospital, according to a letter received from her today by her father, Francois Verhuist, of this city. Miss Verhulst's letter does not tell under what conditions she was taken a prisoner or why she is being held. * The estimated population of New éz‘c’&lgnd, ‘excluding Maories, is 1,084,- motorcyclists are affected. \ Mrs. Abbie Davis, of Harmony, Me., aged 83, was fatally burned by over- other occupants of)the house who re- turning = a lighted lamp. She had been left alone a few minutes by turned in time to save the building. Cholera baceill, and other infec- tious disease germs were discovered in the waters of the River Pruth, which flowes along the -boundary be- tween Russia and Roumania by the chief of the Roumanian sanitary corps. The Japanese cruiser ldzuno, on leaving Honlulu, steamed in a semi- circle about the point where the lost submarine F-4 is supposed to be. The crew was drawn up in salute and the flag was dipped in honor of the 21 men who died with the F-4. the New Acushnet | 'New York’s Latest Murder Mystery' VICTIM MISS CLAUDIA HANS- BURY, LANSINGBURG, N. Y. CONTRACTOR ACCUSED His Fountain Pen Was Found Near Guilt but Says Body Resembles a Girl Whom Body—Stoutly Denies He Knew. New York, April 1 latest murder proportions today after the police had established, to their apparent satis- faction, the identity of the victim as Miss Claudia Hansbury of Lansing- , N. Y., arrested Raffael Viullo, a »-do contractor, nd charged n with homicide. The new element the declaration of persons in v, that they d found Mi: New York's assumed new Body Found in Vacant Lot. The spot where the slain girl's body « :d, in a vacant lot of the As- in the Bronx- was her e, according to John F. h c the estate, nna told detectives that he had seen a girl and a man near the spot on several occasions, The girl's identified as the one whose body in the morgue: the man as Viullo. Fountain Pen Found Near Body. Viullo, e fountain pen the po- found near th indignatly of crooss examination, the aceu that he had caused the girl's death. She looked like a girl whom_he knew not long ago as “Claudia” he said, though he could not be sure it was she. Three times he was led by detectives from his cell to the little room where the slain wo- man lay and peered down into her face. Looks Like the Girl “Isn’'t she the girl was asked. Viullo looked <losely woinan's face who: nd many He Knew. you knew?” he dead then at the minute, red: No,”* t looks like her, he said calml but I'm not positive. Hadn’t Seen Her For Five Months. He could not tell the last name of the woman whom he knew as Claudia, he said. He hadn’'t seen her for five | months, but he heard she lived in a furnished room house in ¥ ast 114th: street. He- thought “he -could point out the house. The coroner took him, with two detectives. in an auto- mobile to Fast 114th street, to give him a ckance to do so. Two sales who sold the wo- man a coat which looked like the one found over the body, were taken to headquarters but failed to identify Viullo as ne of the two men who had been with her when she made the purchase. Brother to Look at Body. Oaptain Wines of the BEronx de- tective bureau telephoned twice to- day to Troy in an effort to reach the chief of police. The first call, Cap- taln Wines said, was answered by a newspaper man who said he had seen and talked with Claudia. Hansbury to- day. The second call was answered by Detective Schultz, Captain Wines said. Mr. Schultz id he had been to the Hansbuay home and William told him that Claudia had left for New York three weeks ago, Captain Wines asserted. The detective was told that the family was positive she was in New York and that her brother was on the way here to look at the body. NINE FUNERALS TO BE MERGED INTO ONE. Victims of Street Car Accident at De- troit—15 Were Killed. Deiroit, Mich., April ins fu- nerals will be merged into one next Monday for nine of the 15 victoms of last night's accident, when a crowded street car was run down by a Detroit, Toledo and Ironton freight train on a railroad crossing here. All the nine were parishoners of St. John Cantlus Roman Catholic church, where the funeral will be held. The state railroad commissioner, prosecuting attorney, coroner and po- lice officials were busy all today in- vestigating the collision preliminary to brong charges against those re- ie for the accident. The cor- inquest will be held Monday morning and in_the meantime J. C. Westover, the student motorman om the wrecked car and Richard Vile lade, the regular motorman who was instructing Westover, are held at police headquarters. Westover was operating the car when the collision occurred. “Some one ought to go to jail for this,” said Coroner James E. Burgess today while discussing the accident. “The crossing was one of the safest in the city and there was a clear view of both tracks, coming and going.” The victims number 12 women and three men. VERA CRUZ CELEBRATES CARRANA VICTORY . Church Bells Were Rung and Soldiers Paraded the Streets. Vera Cruz, April 15—“Five thou- sand of the enemy dead were counted during the movement northward from Celaya. Six thousand prisoners and 40 fleld pieces were captured.” This is General Obregon’s summary of the result of the fighting about Celaya, where he reported today he had gained a decisive victory over the forces of General Villa. The ringing of church bells and the parading of soldiers and citizens conveyed the news of the reported Carranza vic- tory to the public. OBITUARY. ¥ Rev. Charles Albert Wight. Chicopee, Mass., April 15—Rev. Charles Albert Wight, 58 years old, pastor of the Second Congregational church, Chicopee Falls for seven years, died this morning after an illness of ten days of pneumonia. Mr. Wight was a graduate of Yale Divinity school. While in college he was a member of the crew and editor of one of the college publications. He was ordained in 1885 and his first pastorate was in .Detroit.