Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 18, 1915, Page 1

‘i 4 -4 A IN BALKAN STATES: Ytalian Government Informed of Military Activities in 3 Rumania, Bulgaria and Greece TEUTONIC ALLIES PREPARE FOR EMERGENCY Are Massing Troops in the South to be in Readiness to Cope With any Such Eventuality—Berlin Reports the Capture of Important Forts Just South of Kovno, Which Grapd Duke Nicholas Proposes to Make One of the Strong Points of His New Line of Defense—No Great Victories the Austro-Italian Front—British Transport Sunk in the Aegean Sea With Loss of Many Lives. Eleutherios Verizelos, who early in the year resigneq the premiership of Greece because his belief that the place of Greece in the war was with the entente powers did not coincide Wwith the idea of King Constantine, has, after the return to power of his party in the chamber of deputies and the Tesiznation of the cabinet of M. Gounaris, been requested by his monarch to form a new ministry, Venizelos has asked four days in which tc consider his reply. Unofi- cially the belief is expressed that the king and the former head of his gov- ernment have arrived at an under- standing as to the future policy of Greece ~ What this policy is, however, has not become known. Situation in the Balkan States. The political situation, not alone as regards Greece, but all the other Bal- kan states, still remains in a chaotic state so far as definite information of any of them is concerned, although of the capture of important forts just south of Kovno, together with a large number of prisoners and 24 cannon, Vienna asserts that the Austro-Hun- garian troops have advanced to Dob- rynka, 13 miles southwest of Brest. Litovsk, and that the Austrian Arch- duke. Joseph Ferdinand is advancing on Janow, about twenty miles north- west of the fortress. The capture of these two points seemingly would dan- gerously threaten the fortress, which, it has been sscertained, Grand Duke Nicholas purposes to make one of the strong points of his line of defence. On the Western Front. claimed. British Transport Sunk, No fresh news concerning the war- fare in the Dardanelles region has ' On the western front and in the Austro-Italian theatre artillery en- Segements continue to be chosen methods of warfare. In neither of these regions are any great victories The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other ‘Wants New Greek Cabinet. London, ARug. 17 11:15 p. m.—King of Greece has requested cision, patch to the Company. the situation before according reaching a to an Athens des- Telegraph Must Take Verdun. Geneva, Switzerland, Aug. 17. via Paris, 2:50 p. m.—The correspondent of the Jounral la Suisse of Geneva at the following phrase: take we must take, Verdun. Then the war will be finished by December at the latest.” SOLD PHOTOS OF FRANK'S BODY HANGING FROM TREE Body to Be Taken to Homc of Parents in Brooklyn. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 17—Leo M. Frank’s body was brought to Atlanta this afternoon and secreted in a barn until a crowd for it threat- ened serious trouble. It then was taken from the barn to an undertak- ing establishment, where tonight a steady stream of persons passed view it. The temper of the peopie seemed not so much to wreak ven- geance upon the lifeless form, but per- sonally to assure themselves that it really was the body of Frank. Forty policemen were on guard at the undertaker's establishment and a crowd that blocked traffic stood for hours in front of the place. The body was shown just as it had been cut down from an oak tree at Marietta this morning. Because of the insistence of the peorle to see the body it had not been definitely determined tonight whether be funeral plans first arranged coul carried out. A member of the under- taking firm stated positively late to- day that the body had been secretly placed in a private home. He said he had been charged by friends of the family here to take the body from its first resting rlace to the former home of the Franks here at an opportune time. Thc body will leave here at midnight tonight for the home of Frank’s parents in Brooklyn, according to Herbert J. Faas, who wx one of Frank's attorneys. accompanied I. Marx, H. A. Haas. Shortly after 7 o'clock tonight the undertaking establishment was closed and a cordon of police permitted no one to approach. Tt will Le Mrs. Frank, Mrs. Frank’s brother, A. E. Marcus, David Alexander and Mr. When the doors Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Populatio: k4 : Frank’s Lynching |Texas Devastated | Cordensed Teisgrams [ufligh” Finance of Carefully Planned EVERY MOVEMENT OF THE MOB SHOWED PREPARATION. by Tropical Storm ALL BUILDINGS ON GALVESTON’'S ‘WATERFRONT RUINED. BODY NOW IN ATLANTA |GALE MOVING INLAND No Member of the Band Has Yet Been Identified—Coroner’s Jury Has Adjourned for a Week Pending Col- lection of Evidence. At Galveston Boats Are Taking Peo- ple from Buildings on the Main Street to the U. S. Transport Bu- ford—Transport McClelland Ashore. Marfetta, Ga, Aug. 17.—Leo M.| Dallas, Texas, Aug. 16—Wireless Frank, convicted of the murder of |despatches from Galvesicn fionight Mary P} was taken from the|gave the only direct mews from that state prison farm at Milledgeville last | storm-stricken city. No definit news night by a small band of determined |of loss of life has been reported, but men, was brought to within a few | the desperate situation in which the miles_of the Phagan home in this |citizens of Galveston found themselves city at daylight today and hanged to|was indicated- vaguely by the state- a tree near the Marietta-Milledgeville |ment in a late afternoon radiogram highway. that hoats were taking people frcm Body Dangled From Tree. buildings on the main streets {o the The body, which was found at §|United States transport Buford. o'clock this morning, dangled from jthe Buildings Unroofed. tree for several hours while a throng| The tropical hurricane which swept from the surrcunding countryside |down upon the island city yesterday gathered about the scene. By a vote |extended its devastation irland today of the crowd the body was cut down |and tonight wire communication was without multilation and taken by au- |impossible beyond, Waco, the town be- tomobile to Atlanta, where another|ing absolutely cut off from tne coast throng congregated to view it. gountry. Beaumont, Houston. Taylor, 8 . Temple and other cities of southeast Collecting Evidence. Texas were thought to have been hard Officials of Cobb county in which|hit by the storm, last reports from the lynching occurred immediately in- | those places telling of unrcofed build- stitufed an investigation. Coroner | ings, uprooted trees and other damage. Booth empanelled a jury and an- | Because of the lack of wires railroad nounced that the county commission- | traffic was all at’a stanastill to the = had empo"eredThxm to employ ad- | storm-swept district. tiona! counsel. Two witnesses ap- i B peared before the jury which adjourn- Subsiding &t Galveston, ed its session for a week while officials | Although latest reports indicated collect evidence. Although the identi- |that the storm was subsiding in Gal- ty of no member of the band was|veston and that the water had started known to officials tonight it was sug- |t0 drain slowly from the sireets, there gested that the fact that Frank was|Was no prospect that wire communi- taken nearly 100 miles in an automo- |cation might be restored for several bile from the state prison almost to|days. Hundreds of miles of wires are the outskirts of Marietta indicated that | broken and thousands of poles blown most of Iynchers came this | down. i Toom Transport High and Dry. Feet and Legs Firmly Bound. The wireless equipment on board The body was discovered by search- |the army transport Buford was the ers from several cities in this section, | Sole means of communication betwecn who started out in automobiles after|Galveston and the outside world to- news spread that Frank had been kid- | night. The McClellan. companion ship napped from the state prison farm. |to the Buford, was reported high and The body, hanging from an oak tree, |dry, half a mile inland. was found clothed only in a silk shirt| Giant Waves Damaged S| which Frank wore when he was torn ping. ‘rance a new loan. I is in market shrapnel taly the for Factional » fighting in Mexico has al A new Italian naval credit of 31 236,675 was authorized. » France is in the rket for 200,000 Imulhfllldhfl"l':l‘. The Cunard liner Orduna ar-ived at New York from Liverpool. German ita avthorities - tioned the enfll‘:,l’li oats crflp.m-u Standard Oil of New J, declared :be.nr:smnr quarterly d!vlmdend of 35 e. Contracts for 150,000,000 burlap saga. bags were placed by Great B:ruln in Calcutta. Many inquiries for lead from Europe have given the market a better appearance. Wages of all the em es of the Atlantic Refining Co,, u":‘:ly its plants will be advanced. King Ludwig of Bavaria left Mu- nich to pay another visit to Bavarian troops at the front. President Wilson will not visit the business men’s military training camp at Plattsburgh, N. Y. The New York State training ship Newport, will leave San Francisco on August 18 for San Diego. Negoti ns opened by the Peruvian government for a loan in New York city have been abandoned. The Maryland Steel Co-, plant at Sparrows Point, Md., went on double time in the rail department. Several former cadets at West Point are serving as officers in Canadian battalions sent to the continent. Twenty-five per cent. of the wheat in the territory covered by the Soo lines in North Dakota has been cut. _John E. Gunckel, founder of the ational Newsboys’ association, died at Toledo, Ohio. He was 69 years old. William W. Russell, former minister to the Dominican Republic was reap- pointed to that post in place 14 M. Sulitvan. e There will be no revision of the cif charter under New Haven's home n.ldg the Rock Island REPORT OF INTERSTATE COM- MERCE COMMISSION. $17,700,000 IN DISCOUNTS Stockholders Kept in Ignorance Whils _ Officials Profited by Transactions— In Exchange of Stock the Road Lost $20,000,000. ‘Washington, Aug. 17.—The Inter- state Commerce Commission’s report on Rock Island Raliroall financial af- fairs, made public here late today, says the commission’s investigation has demonstrated the needsof legal limita- tion of railroad security issues and has emphasized the need a law to fix responsibility for dissfdation of cor- porate funds. The report declares that “the pro- perty of the railroad company will be called upon for many years to make up the drain upon its resources re- sulting from transactions outside the proper sphere in which stockholders had a right to suppose their moneys were invested.” Too Many Passive Directors. “This record,” it adds, “emphasizes the need of railway directors who act- ually direct. There are too many pas- sive directors who acquiesce in what is being done without knowledge and without investigation.” The report says is appeared to be the idea of those in cantrol of the Rock Island, that it was no concern of the public what became of the cor- porate funds so long as rates were rea- sonable. 7" Losses by Exchange. The ageregate losses found to have been *.lullled by the railway com: pany™fa connection with the tronsac- tions respecting exchanges of stocks in connection with the St. Lcuis and San Francisco. Chicago, Northern, Consoli- dated Indiana Coal Company and Rock Island ' Improvement Company and others were $20,000,000 besides pay- ments by the railroad prior to June 30, 1914, to financial institutions in connection with the issuance of bonds, commissions aggregating more $1.600,000 and suffering discounts of more than $17,700,000. Officials Profited. there are unofficial reports that the|come except the announcement of the fwere closed a crowd was awaiting a[from a bed in the prison dormitory. | 'T:uei:f“::t have occ\}:eg ‘ilx‘;“d‘{ = ::c'mu ME{ T VR Y {o?mh:r w«;‘tflolmt;: R.wn. f'ua.b"‘ Teutonic allies are massing troops in (sinking by a German submarine in the | chance to enter. The police immedi- [A white hardkerchief covered ‘his (i3, PelEVed 1o have occurred in dis- S = Tecdived MiCRItil werlh SISA00 o the south in preparation for eventual- i}egoanzs:. Y;i,?"j ;‘he loss (;: ;mn:; a(elly dis'persed :lhere:lhrongh :ind soon gcl;dhl:n;e;tnd:x:_dh;gs; ;,:"5. 'flr:lz on the waterfront were ruined. this General Carranza denied that any|Which he paid $200,000: that H. A. i % Ve o o sh transpo: oyal lonly a few scattes Zatherings re- i =a presit ef ;:rl:s! bfindfi";’:’xs;fi’nfi?;{‘uflfi‘ ot | Eaward: o S B i walked past | the knot of the hangman's noose ex. | Circumstance being almost a repetition | of his troops had Darticipated ia thy|Parker, first vice president. receivad garia and Greece are actively carrying[ The United States government has|the establishment, but were not al-|Pertly tied to produce quick death. |Of the city's experience in previous|raids over the Mexican border into|327.900 worth of securities for $15.000 on military preparations, Events in Poland. Meanwhile the hostilities on the va- rious battle fronts are in progress, ‘with Poland the theatre in which the greatest interest is centered. Fol- lowing the smnouncement by Berlin consented to Gérmany’'s proposal that two experts, one from each country fix the valué of the American shi William P. Erve, which was sunk by German commerce-raider. The amount agreed on is to be paid promptly by the German government to the owners of the ship. _—mm SPLIT IN COMMISSION ON INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Blajority Decline to Sign Report Sub- mitted by Director Manley. New York, Aug. 17.—Harris Wein- stock, a member of the United States commission of industrial relations, ar- rived here today and declared the ma- jority of the commission had de- clined to sign the report submitted by Basl M. Manley, director, bechuse they felt it was “only a pariial report of the findings and unfair.” “We had hoped to sign and sub- mit one report to congress,” said Mr. Weinstock. “But when we read the Manley report, which was signed by Chairman Waish and the three labor members of the commission, we found another report was necessary. This was signed by five of the hine mem- In addition to the majority re- BRIDGEPORT'S BUDGET OF LABOR DISCORD The 3,800 Strikers at the Warner Cor- set Shop Accept a Compromise. Bridgeport, Conn., Aug. 17 —With the 3,800 strikers of the Warner Brothers company last night accepting a com- promise offer by the company, with the walkout of 52 women employes of the Crawford Layndry company, the ‘walkout of 38 girls at the Bridgeport Screw company, the strike of 150 girls at the plant of the Star Shirt company and the beginning of a campaizn to organize the women workers in all of the local laundries, the labor leaders here were kept busy today and the strike situation took a new turn, wo- men as well as men being affected, Every laundry in Bridgeport— seven of them—will be asked for the eight hour day without any reduction lowed to halt Men and boy's did & thriviug business selling photographs of Frark's bod; it syung from a tree Dear Marietta. pu Mr. "Haas stated tonight that Mrs, Frank is not in a serious condition. PRISON OFFICIALS BLAMELESS FOR KIDNAPPING OF FRANK Band Worked So Quickly That They Secured Control at Once. Milledgeville, Ga., Aug. 17.—Prison officials are held to be blameless in connection with the kidnapping of Leo AL Frank from the state prison farm, in" a statement given out tonight by R. E. Davidson, chairman of the state prison commission. _ Mr. Davidson, with Commissioners Rainey and Pat- terson, was here to inspect the peni- tentiary when Frank was seized. The commission has full power, not excepting that invested in the gov ernor, to conduct tigation. Mr. Davidson’s or order any inves- statement said that as the band worked so quickly and was so well organized, and immediate- ly upon its arrival at the prison so completely controlled the situation, that “no responsibility rested upon either the commission or anybody at the farm.” y as storms. Vessels caught in the harbor Great Crowd Gathered. also suffered heavily. The giant waves News of the discovery of the body |thrown up by the storm ca arge spread quickly and a great crowd had |and small craft alike far beyond the gathered before the arrival of Coron- [uSual beach boundaries and the ma- er Booth. The latter's announcement |Fine salvage work probably will be that it would be cut down immediate- | cOmplicated by the necessity of et Iy ‘arotsed some objection: ting many boats back to their own There were cries of: element. “Don’t move the Jew's body until we Farms Severely Dan.aged. shoot it full of holes” but an appeal T by Former Superior Judge N. A. Mor- | sno il entent. of he Doceasty arone ris of Cobb county quieted the crowd. age can be given accurately. Farms Calmed the Crowd. “Let there be no further violence,” he said. “The work of the mobce‘l! lages in the path of the storm have done. Leo M. Frank has given his|not been heard from since carly yes- life for the crime he is alleged to |terday. have, Comumitted. Do not mutilate the| No Abatement in Gale at Waco. I appeal to your better judgement and | . At Waco, 200 miles northwest of I ask all who agree with the course I |Salveston. the barometer was falling suggost to raise their right hand. early tonight and a gale was blowinx There was a moments hesitation, | With unabating force. This indicated, then uplifted’ hands appeared above |2ccording to the weather bureau, that the crowd and the body was cut down, | the Storm center was approaching that At first it was placed in an under- |Part of the state and the experience taker's wagon which headed toward [0f Taylor and Temple bore out Marietta, but officials who feared that | cOnjecture. At both these towns buil the crowd might become unruly stop- | i8S Were “'“'“:f,d v comme ped the wagon on the outskirts of the | Rication hampered. ‘Temple and ay- town and transferred the body to an [(OF T 'n Fre Path of the automobile which hurried to_ Atlanta. | Galveston to Waco. Excitement in Marietta rapidly sub- . sided after the body was cut down.| A\RMY TRANSPORT BUFORD port the three employers on the com- mission drew up addenda and attached It to the general report. 3 “In this addenda it is made clear that the hearings of the commissicn showed that neither capital nor labor can come into court wih clean hands; that both are guilty of sins of com- mission and omissioh and that each Is responsible for a full share of the existing industrial strife and unrest.” Mr. Weinstock said that while ail of the commissioners were agreed that there should be permanent commission on indutrial relations, the magjority and minority members differed widely as to the organization and adminis- tration of the prpposed commission. The present commission Wwill go' out bf existence on August 23. “The majority held that the perman- ent commission should be a_tri-party body,” said Mr. Weinstock. “Mr. Walsh held it should be under the firection of the department of labor. o my mind that would give it a fac- lional apearance, thereby causing em- ployers to mistrust it.” AMERICAN STEAMERS HELD BY BELLIGERENTS Cargo of Sotton Ship Being Unloaded and Sent to Prize Court at Ham- burg. ‘Washington, Aug. 17—The American janker Petrolite, seized by the British d taken to Kirkwall, has been re- with her cargo, the state de- t today was advised. The dilla, another oil ship, bound for ). Sweden, from®Baton Rouge, is btill held at Karkwall. The American cotton ship Pass of captured by arGerman sub- ‘with a British prize crew on has been unloaded and.sent to k the intentions of the Ger- government in regard to this ship. imilar inquiry in regard to the Amer- jcan ship Dunsyre, still held at Swin- imunde, but also condemned to the| prige court, has brought no response io far. Wilitary Preparations In Rumania, Budgaria and Groec n with intense activity. In some quar- “here that in pay and unless the demands are to walkouts will follow. Harry L. Morrison, of Troy, N. Y., general secretary-treasurer of the Laundry Workers’ International union, w:ll ar- rive in this city today to assist W. F. Cattell organize the laundry wcrkers. The 52 women employes at the Crawford laundry, who went on strike today, will do picket duty at the plant beginning at 7 o'clock tomorrow morn- ing. At 10 o'clock they will meet in Socialists’ hall and orgamize and at noon they will go to the Loewe laundry and call out the girls there. After this is done the organizers will call out the girls at the Ideal laundry, the O. F. laundry, the New System laun- dry, the Reliable laundfy. the Pem- broke laundry and the Model laundry. About 700 women wiil be involved in strikes before the end of the week un- less their demands are granted. ATLANTIC SEABOARD WOULD BE EASY FOR INVADERS Col. Glenn Says a Million Men Could Be Landed in Case of War. * Plattsburgh, N. Y., Aug. 17—An army of a Kuropean nation at war with the United States could iand a million men on the Atlantic seaboard, north of Virginia, capture New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and New England and hold those states for years against any army this country could raise, Colonel Edwin F. Glenn, chief of staff of the department of .the east, tonight told the amateur soldiers attending the military camp of instruction heve. Colonel Glenn was talking of the unpreparedness of the United States for war and pointed out that an enemy after capturing the eastern states could entrench themselves along a 300 mile it extending from Erie, Pa., to the Chesapeake Bay. In this territory, ‘he said, they would-have the:majority of the wealth and factories of the country. If it became necessary, Colonel Glenn said, for the United States to defend itself, the country’s.only hope was in a trained and well- organized citizen soldiery. Bomb for Mexican Governor. Nogales, Ariz., Aug., 17.—Discovery ate t&dayl;of_a. bomb atiached to a e fuse a room next to ‘head- quarters of Governor Jose m;toma. Villa commander defending Nogales, Sonora, across the border, resulted in the execution of Clpm‘l:’d Rojas of Maytorena’s personal guard and two other officers of the villa garrison. The execution orders were issued by Governor -Maytorena, it was said. . Some comment was heard here today as to why the lynchers had to deal with only five men—the warden, the superintendent, two guards and a “trusty” in charge at the gate. That Warden J. T. Smith and Su- perintendent J. M. Burke were pew- erless wit hthe facilities they had at hand when the band arrived is not questioned here. Burke says the mob completed its work in five minutes; Smith says five or six minutes, First all wires wer&cut at the prison. Then ‘Warden Smi ‘was made prisoner ‘while another squad handcuffed Burke and led him to the gate they wished to enter. A command to the “trusty” to open the gate was demurred to, but a threat to kill him quickly gave the gang easy access to the inside. As the gate was opened a guard came up, but he was overpowered, as was the second one encountered. Frank was seized by five men, according to most reports, hurried outside and thrust into an au- tomobile along with a long rope that dangled before his eves. He did not utter a word and what he said, if anything, during the long ride from Milledgeville to the outskirts of Marietta, probably never will be generally known. PLANS FOR FLOATING A HUGE BRITISH LOAN To Check the Downward Trend of tion. Rates and Stop Further Deprecia- New York, Aug. 17.—Out of the dis- order of the foreign exchange mar- kets today plans form for floating began to assume a huge’ British loan in New York to check the downward trend of rates and protect the money of Great Britain and her allies against further depreciation. late today. When the meeting adjourned, the situation, it ‘was said, was still indefinite and plans in embryo. It was reported, toward the end of‘the business day, that a syndicate of bankers might be formed Joan and that the issue bonds. one, five and ten they had not been concluded today— there will be no official announcment understood. concerning -them, .it is ‘The price.of tin-fluctuates very rap- Several automobiles, however, fol- lowed the machine that bore the dead SENDS WIRELESS MESSAGE victim of the harging to Atlanta, — M B Gang Worked Quistly. Waterfront Ruined and Many Boats The gang that took Frank from the Greatly Damaged or Destroyed. prison dormitory apparently worked T o gav0 fnile automobile ride from | ceived at the Fort Sam Houston wire- i e e less station from the army transport ards ot two Tarmmousenoomumared | Buford in Galveston harbor at 5:2 3 . o'clock this afternoon: of which said they noticed nothing X unusual during the early morning Water in buildings about three feet. Al buildings and_structures of every ?:n“’:' oo ‘i'dh"h"“" h‘;‘f“‘r “:"“ nature along waterfront are ruined. e e e e U- | Many boats have been greatly dam- tomobiles passing his house but they did nct attract unusual aitention. e l‘};’:';,“’{::;‘,wn McClellan is Thorough Preparation. high and dry, a half mile inland. The Thero seemed to be every indica- | number of lives lost is unknown. There tion that the hanging had been care- | has been great pecuniary damage.” fully pianned. The ease with which| This message indicates the water Frank was removed from the state|has receded two feet in about three prison farm, difficulties lert in the [ hours as a message received about two way of pursuers, and the sudden dis- | 0’clock stated that the water stood appearance of the band after the | five feet in mu¥ streets and build- Iynching all pointed to thorough pre- | ings. paration. e By : Attehr the cmi’i‘:: of reports :a» WIRELESS MESSAGE ay that several powered auto- mobiles had left Marietta early Mon- REACHES WACO SCHOOL O lsht, Mayor Dobbs fasued this|.p . of Ruined Dock, But No Big “I desire in the interests of justice Boats Lost. and truth to say that the Marietta and 3 Cobb County officlals had no knmowl- | Waco, Texas, ‘Aug. 17.—The follow- edge of any automoblles leaving Ma- | ing message was received by the Waco rietta well loaded last night nor were | high school wireless station tonight: they apprised of the return of any D. A. R. (anybody and everybody)) machines today. None of the officials | wind nearly gone. Water three feet had any intimation of the lynching|deep in Tremont Hotel. Government until the ‘was found.” station working tomorrow night. No 7 o = big boats lost as we kmow of. Dock ruined. Warmer here now. Rain stop- GOVERNOR HARRIS TO a win pemeg vty AID THE INVESTIGATION (Signed) “Cug.” Evidently the message was sent out Proposes to See That the Public Shall | to all the stations. . & Sibed Il the Facts. The signature “Cug” is mno e and probably is newly licensed. NP‘ltzgumia. Gfi,hAng. 11.;Gwernt;’r at E. Harris, who came here ear] ~ today to attend the annual reunion | DOPUtY:F: ““."“ "f.'.""':' e e of Confederate Weterans, announced Civi rvi that he would return tonight to Atlan- | Hartford, Conn., Aug. 17.—The state ta for the purpose of aiding the prison | civil service commission at a special commission in an investigation of the | meeting today voted to exempt from lynching of Leo M. Frank. the provisions of the law the position “The people are entitled to all the |of deputy factory inspector to which facts in the case”, said the governor, | William E. “and~I propose to see that they shall have them. Affairs of Greek Parliament Bonus for Smith & Wesson Employcs. Rome, via Paris, Aug. 17, 4 p. m.—| Springfield, Mass. Aug. 17.—Notices namflmewhlmthmrfidhfi.m and Weseson, man: th newspapers s ‘commif ting Greece to cause of the enten- te allies the United States. Readi R: d tug, - 'm na roa g, Lacka Naticoke, in tow. Six prisoners serving 30-day sen- | tences "escaped from. the city work- house at Camden. N. J., by sawing the bars of their cells. accompanied by detachments of regu- lar trocps, left West Point, N. Y., for a week’s practice hike. Asiatic cholera appeared Cann- statt, Wurtemburg. It was brought there by a wounded German soldier from the Galician front. While “playing war” with h er brother, August, Albert Norwart, aged 17, was shot and killed at his home at Westfield, Mass. E. R. Brable, 45, a leper who es- caped from the detention hospital at Washington. is being held in the Pitts- burgh Municipal hospital. Welsh miners are demanding the completion of a new wage agreement, threatening, in some cases to renew their stril if not satisfied. About 125 laborers employed by the Pennsylvania and Long Island rail- roads at Hunter's Point, L. I, went on strike for a wage increase. Advices received at Amsterdam from Berlin report that it is rumored that the resignation of Dr. von Beth- mann-Hollweg is imminent. ve persons were killed by an ex- plosion in the plant of the Aetna Ex- plosives Co. near Emporium, N. Y. The damage is about $15,000. Mrs. Gorton Galloway and four small children came to Hartford from Saco, Maine. in _seazch of the woman's husband, missing three weeks. out of their courst and explode them, will be tried out by the allied fleets. Ten thousand American mac s have left the United States for Eng- land within the last 10 weeks. They are well paid by the British govern- ment. A war tax of 20 per cent. on the surplus shipping profits was ordered by the government of Danmark. This tax enables the country to dispense with a loan. A committee of Spokane bankers is planning to entertain the bankers en route to the American Bankers' as- sociation convertion at Seattle, Sept. 4, and 5, who stop over at Spo- A seven-day week was introduced at the Pittsburgh plant of the West- inghouse plant of the Westinghouse Afr Brake Co. Orders on hand will run the plant for two years at ca- pacity. The Remington Arms Co. plant at Eddystone, Pa, contracted with the Beacon Light Co., of Chester for 12, 000 horsepower for the plant. The Beacon power plant will be enlarged to handle the contrect. v President Wilson signed an execu- tive order granting all veterans of the Civil war in the government service leave with pay to attend the Grand Army encampment at Washington, on September 27 to October 2. Two bushels of silk hosiery stolen from wash lines in Pitman, N. J., dur- h‘: o Mkag ”’o an_ aged negro, when us Jones, ) was arrested when a detective saw bim wearing white silk stockings. ‘Wwas ramm: and sunk near Vineyard Haven, Mass., by the barge More than 500 West Point cadets, A device invented by the Italian engineer Quarini to drive torpedoes that Robert Mather got $145,912 in securities above what he paid and that cash contributions to officials in ex- cess of their salaries aggregated a mil- lion dollars. 5 What Was Lost on Deals. “Ou the "Frisco deal, the report says the Rock Island lost $6,500,000; on the Alton deal it lost $6,370,000; on the Trinity and Brazos valley Railroad deal it lost more than $4,500,000; on the Consolidated Indiana and Dering Coal Companies it lost at least $1,300,- 000 and on miscellaneous transactions $500,000. “The amount of gains accruing to W. B. Leeds, D.-G. Reid, W. H. Moore, d J. H. Moore”, says the report, hrough their control and manipula- tion of the railway company are prob- ably not ascertainable.” Published Misleading Reports. “Misrepresentation of assets in re. ports to stockholders,” continues the report, “appears to have been a prac- tice of the directors. The publication of misleading reports to stockholders cannot be too severely condemmed and the individuals guilty of such acts should be subjected to adequate penal- ti . Kept Stockholders in Ignorance. “It is forceful commentary on the methods by which a great railway may be manipulated into a receivership when it is noted that the general coun- sel after drawing the bill for & re- ceivership sold his stock, and the lo- cal counsel, who represented the rail- road company in the receivership pro- ceedings, owned no stock in the rail way company and that none of those directly participating in the receiver- ship proceedings had any financial in- terest in the railway company. The real owners of the railway, the etock- holders, the security holders and the directors, except those composing the syndicate and in its confidence, were in ignorance of the receivership appli- cation.” LAWSON MAY GET ANOTHER TRIAL Writ of Supersedeas Issued for a Re- view of the Case. Denver Colo., Aug. 17.—The fight of the United Mine Workers of America to obtain a new trial for John R. Lawson, member of the international executive committee of the miners’ union, who was convicted on a charge of murder growing out of the strike riots at Ludlow Colo., met a vietory today when the state supreme court granted a writ of supersedesas, preliminary to a review of the Law- son case on its merits. The mine workers won a second victory when the supreme court bar- red Judge Granby Hillyer, who sen- tenced Lawson from presiding at fut- of strike dis- The supersedeas writ stays the ex- er by Judge Hillyer last May. REPUBLICAN TOWN CLERK FOR STAMFORD Stamford, Conn., Aug. 17. R. Close, republican, was today elect- ed town clerk of Stamford at a spe-