Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 9, 1915, Page 1

The, Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is D~ PRICE TWO CENTS That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City's Population TEUTONS IN SEPLA CROSS MORAVA RIVER Gen. Von Gollwitz Has Occupied Kruzvac, One of Servia's Largest Towas QULGIRIANS ARE- ADVANCIN® "ROM THE EAST In the West the Montenegrins Claim to Have Inflict~ ed Another Defeat on the Austrians—Russians Continue Their Attacks in Courland, Volhynia and Galicia—Italians Have Captured the Col di Lana—Nothing of Importance on the Western Front—Submarines are Becoming More Active. THe Austro-German have succeed- ed in crossing the Morava River, in Serbia and General Von Gallwitz has Serbia’s largest towns, about thirty miles due northwest. of Nish. The fall of Kruz- oceupied Kruzvac, one of vac means that the branch railway line to Ushitze, near the Bosnian frontier, has been broken by the in- vaders close to the point _where leaves the main Belgrade-Nish-Salon- ikl line. into Gérman hands. The Bplgariar~ nlen ave advancing ‘rom the east, but in the west the Mnotenegrins clawi o -have inflicted another defeat on the Austrians. The Austrians are said to be concentrating a ofrce of 120,000 men in Herzegovina for an invasion of Montenegro. Russians Continue Offensive. The Russians continue their at. tacks jn Courland, Volhynia and Ga- lcia and while they report some suc- cesses they are apparently not making it A large number of prisoners, fen guns and a lot of war material fell an yattempt to advance. Acording to Petrograd correspondents there is no intention of such attempt, the prestnt object of the attacks being to harass the Austro-Germans and prevent them from preparing positions for. the win- ter. The Italians captured the Col di Lana,.and after a charge . through the snow holsted the Italian flag on the summit. The Austrian office ad- mits _that the Col di Lana was taken by the Italians, but declares that counter attacks' by the Austrians re- sulted in its recapture. There has been no action of im- portance on the western front. Submarines -More Active. Submarines are becoming more ac- tive. The British have sunk in_the Baltic the German cruiser Undine. which was escorting a German ferry steamer and now all the German ships in that sea are under heavy convoy. In the Mediterranean the Germans have sunk several steamers, including the British boarding steamer Tara. CHARGE OF DISCRIMINATION BY CHICAGO SALOONKEEPERS. Seek to Prevent Mayor From Stopping Their Sale of Tobacco and Soft Drinks on Surday. Chicago, Nov. 8.—Ten saloon keep- ers tofiny soiight an_injunction in the United Stajes district court to re- strain Mayor Thompson and the city police from preventing them selling tobacco add non-intoxicating liquors 3 on Sunday and to prevent tiie revoca- tion’ of saloon licenses for such sales. Discrimination against the saloon keepers and in favor of the druggists and other storekeepers is alleged in the complaint which sets forth that under the present ruling of the city authorities saloon keepers are denied their right as retail dealers to sell clgars, . tobacco, buttermilk, miner- al waters and similar non-intoxicants. The_court is also petitioned to hold the -Mllinois anti-tippling statute which directs saloons to be closed on Sunday to be void and unconstitutfon- al. Captain George Wellington Street- er, who for vears has maintained that the city had ro jurisdiction over what he’ terms “the district of Lake Mich- igan,” a strip of land along Chicago's valuable lake front, was today put on trial in municipal court for selling liquor without a license. The court ruled that the district was under the city’s jurisdiction as well as the acts of the ‘captaid. The police allege that Streeter yesterday disposed of 9,600 bottles of heer in his lunch rooms in the district, thereby violating the Sunday cloSing law. Streeter denied and declared the federal govern- ment had Jurisdiction over the dis- trict. Selection of a jury was begun today. Streeter has been active for yearsin defense Of his district. In 1886, his vessel stranded on a sandbar off Su- perior street. Streeter has contended that thé land which gradually filled in between the boat and the old shore lne was within the jurisdiction of neither the state nor the city of Chi- 0. | The ®and formed has been the subject of much litigation. BCDY FOUND IN SWAMP AT SCITUATE IDENTIFIED As That of . Pavolo maker, of Providence. Providence, R. I, Nov. 8—A body found in a swamp at Scituate last week was identified today at that of Pavolo_Scholardi, a shoemaker, of this city. He was last seen alive on Sept. 5. the day before Justice Willis S. Knowles was murdered in the same tcwn, at a.point a mile distant from the swamp: The miedical examiner has Gecided that Scholardi was murdered, but there is no clue to his assailant. Members of his family said the man ‘was lame and could not have reached the swamp alone. The authorities have been unable to establish any connec- tion between the two murders. a Shoe- DREDGING SATISFACTORY AT GAILLARD CUT. But Canal Will. Not Be in Use Before the First of the Year. Panana, Nov. 8.—The progress of the dredging operations in the new channel of the Panama canal at Gail- lard cut has been so satisfactory that it 1§ now virtually assured there will be & channel a hundred feet wide by thirty feet deep through the slide area by, the middle of December. Th e dredgers have been removing 1,000,000 cdbie yards a month—an average of debris at a rate exceeding 26,000 cubic yards dally. It is stated that while the chan- nel probably will be open by the mid- die of the year. | first of Lord Kesteven Killed in Balkan Lon Nov. 9, 2.3¢ a. m.—Lord Kebteyen has been killed in the -Bal- where he was attacher to an ar- 1! “fegiment. Lord Kesteven, who peer . to fall in the present war. ember the canal will not be in condition for use much before the sixth NEW ORGANIZATION FOR RELIEF OF WAR REFUGEES. To Embrace Three Committees Which Have Been Acting. New York, Nov. 8.—Announcement was made here fonight that the three ‘committees which have been minis- tering to the wants of war refugees in the Turkish empire had consolidat- ed their energiec and would merge in- to a sinzle organization which would continue the work of all three bodies. Armenian and Syrian relief and will have its headquarters in this city. This committee will embrace the Persian war relief cemmittee, the Syria-Palestine rellef committee and the Armenian atrocities committees, as organized at present. James L. Barton of Boston is to be chairman of the new organization; Samuel T. Dutton of this city, secretary and Charles R. Crane of Chicago. treas- urer. The Persian committee will close its books November 20. It has al- ready cabled $70,000 for the relief of refugees. The Syrian committee, which has been operating largely among the Jews in Syria and Palestine, has transmitted. it was announced more than $700,000 to Syrians for relief. These contributions have been sent through the Presbyterian board of foreign missions. MUTINY OF A GREAT LAKES FREIGHTER- He Re ved by Two of Crew. Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 8.—Mutiny on a Great Lakes freighter, the first in- cident of the kind recorded here in many years, is alleged to have occur- red tonight on the steamer J. K. Dim- ock of Detroit. As a result of the trouble Robert Hamill a wheelsman, in a hospital in a critical condition from a beating he received and two mem- bers of the crew, Albert S. Kuenk and Frank Benz, are under arrest and will be given a hearing before a fed- eral commissioner tomorrow. The steamer’s lines had just been cast off the dock when the trouble began, Captain Willilam Jagnau told the police later. He feared an out- break and had sent Wheelsman Hamill aft to see that all was well. Mamill was seized, it is alleged, and beaten into insensibility and several members of the crew, armed with re- volvers, rushed upon Captain Janau. The captain retreated to the . pilot- house, from which he kept the men back with an ¥on bar and shouted word to a dock watchman who noti- fied the police. + When the rolice boat arrived Cap- tain Jagnau picked out Shuenk and RPenz as the leaders and they were ar- rested. PACKAGES CONTAINING $40,000 IN CHECKS MISSING. Disappeared in the Mail from Clinton, Mass.,, Last Week. Boston, Nov. 8.—Postoffice authori- ties today were investigating the dis- appearance in the mail from Clinton, Mass.,, last week of packages comtain- ing $40,000 in checks, which should have been delivered to the First Na- tional bank in this city on Wednesday or Thursday. A package of checks from the First National bank of Leom- inster for another Bcston bank also has failed to arrive, although it is stated it should have reached its destination by this time. Payment on the checks has been stopped. L. F. Butler President Travelers In- suranco Company. Hartford, Conn., Nav, 8.—Louis F, Butler was elected today prosident of tke Travelers Insurance company and the ‘Travelers Indomnity company to succeed Sylvester C, Dunbam, who dled recently. Mr. Dutior has been vice president of the Travelers far three years and hds beon connoctod with the company since 1880, _The German rolshstag will meet ov. 30. Wheslsinao: in: aipital Frovs Bttt Cabled Paragraphs Two British Steamers Sunk. London, Nov. 8, 7.42 p. m.—The Brit ish steamers Buresk, of 2,278 tom and Glenmore, of 1,656 tons, have been sunk. The crews were landed. $panish Budget Shows Deficit. Madrid, via Paris, Nov. 8, 9.55 p. m.— The Spanish budget for 1916, which was introduced in the chamber of dep- uties today, shows a deficit of 64,371,122 pesetas (about $12,874,224). ZAPATA ARMY IN SOUTHERN MEXICO IS DWINDLING Three Theuund_Mnmb-n Surrendered and Were Given Amnesty. ‘Washington, Nov. 8.—Zapata's army in southern Mexico is disintegrating rapidly, according to cable advices re- ceived tonight by the Carranza agency here. General Pablo Gonzales, march- ing through Morelos at the head of a large force, is expected to meet with little resistance. “Three thousand members of Za- pata’s following surrendered yesterday and were given amnesty,” said the message, “and for many days groups of soldiers lately in_arms have been bringing in their rifles. The discov- try on the part of the Zapata follow- ing that the constitutionalist govern- ment is disposed to keep its pledge to grant them the very reforms for which they hive fought against previous gov- ernments in Mexico -is helping the of racification.” er despatches to the agency told of renewed activity in the petroleum industry. Numerous applications for permits to sink- wells or lay pipe lines had been filled, 1t was said, and two new pipe lines for the Tampico re- gion were contemplated. State department advices today said relations between General Obregon, the Carranza commander, and George C. Carothers, special agent of the de- partment at Douglas, Ariz., were very friendly. It was reported recently from the border that Obregon had protested to General Funston against the presence in Mexico of Carothers, who for a long time was the Ame: ican representative with General Vil- la, but no word of such a protest has reached either the state or war de- partments. A. F. OF L. ADMITS FRATERNAL DELEGATES. Brewery Workers Are to Introduce a Resolution to Oust Them. San Francisco, Nov. 8.—The Ameri- can Federation of Labor at the close of the first session of its 35th annual convention today closed the question of barring from future conventions fraternal delegates of religious organ- izations. A sharp conflict was prom- ised for tomorrow’s session, when, it was announced Milwaukee brewery workers would introduce a resolution to oust such delegates on the ground Farm Crops Most Valuable Ever EXCEEDS BY HALF A BILLION, HARVEST OF 1914 ON PREVAILING PRICES “Wheat, With Largest Production Ever About Known in Any Country, is One-Fourth of World's Crop. ‘Washington, Nov. 8.—The nation's principal farm crops this year are worth about five and a half billion dollars, exceeding by more than than half a billion their value in 1914, the previous banner value year in the country’s crop history. There has been an unprecedented harvest ,many of the crops exceeding their best records and high prices due to the in- fluence of the European war have contributed to swell the total value. Most Valuable Corn Crop Ever. Statistics announced by the depart- ment of -agriculture in its November crop report base values on prevailing November prices. Corn, with a pro- duction of 3,090,500,000 bushels—34,000- 000 bushels below the record crop— is worth $1,913,025,071, the most val- uable corn crop ever grown. It ex- ceeds the former biggest value crop— that of 1914, by $190,000,000. More Wheat Than Last Year. ‘Wheat, with the largest production ever known in any country, 1,002,029,- 000 bushels or about one-fourth of the world’s wheat crop this year, is worth $932,888,999, or $54,000,000 more than the record made in 1914. Record Crop of Oa The oats crop also was a record one both in production and in value. The harvest was 1,517,478,000 bushels—al- most 100,000,000 bushels better than the record of 1912—and its value $532,599,822 is $33,000,000 more than the record value of the 1914 crop. Barley, Rye, Sweet Potatoes, Hay, Rice Barley, rye, sweet potatoes, hay and rice were record crops in point of production and tobacco almost equall- ed its best production. The rye and hay crops were records in point of value. ‘The approximate value of the barley crop is $118,577,682; the rye crop, $37,861,403; buckwheat, $12,854,750; potatoes $218,425,824; sweet potatoes, $42,456,050; hay $877,654,890; cotton, $609,000,000; tobacco, $105,002,500; flax | seed, $30,050,534; rice, $22,313,350; ap- Dles, $164,380,480; peaches, $60,613,736; and pears $9,275,634. of their professed alliance with. the |ASKED TO CO-OPERATE prohibition moyement. Fraternal delegates of several re- FOR RELIEF'IN BELGIUM. ligious organizations, including the < X 4 e A of the ehurches ot | A Number of Prominent Americans In Christ in America, were seated at the opening . session today by unanimous approval of the report of the commit- tee on credentials, which failed to recommend at the time the seating of iwo labor delegates from Japan. The Japanese delegates, representa- tives of the Labcrers' Friendly Society of Japan, sat alone in the gallery of the convention hall until they had been extended the “courtesies of the convention.” Today’s session was adjourned to permit the delegates to celebrate American Federation of Labor day at the Panama-Pacific exposition. Sam- nel Gompers, president, received a bronze plaqu SIXTY-ONE AMATEUR POETS TO BE CALLED AS WITNESSES Of 1,500 Who Paid $10 Each to Enter a Song Poem Contest. New York, Nov. 8§.—Sixty-six of the 1,500 amateur poets scattered through- out the nation, who claim to have each put up $10 to enter a song poem con- test, will be called as witnesses against John T. Newcomber, alias John T. Hall, who was placed on trial here today on charges of using the mails in_a scheme to defraud. The song contest was _conducted about a_year ago by the John T. Hall Music Publishing company of New York, and the government attorneys allege that after 1,500 men and women had contributed poems they were in- duced to pay $10 each to have their poems set to music. Assistant Federal Attorney Hart- ridge told the jury today that the al- leged scheme Wwas a continuation of the one that resulted in Robert B. Kellogg being sent to Atlanta peni- tentiary in December. 1903. TOBACCO MERCHAN oF UNITED STATES CRGANIZE To Bring About More Profitable Method of Doing Business. New York, Nov. 8.—Organization of the Tobacco Merchants' association of the United States was perfected at a meeting of representatives of the various branches of the tobacco trade held here today. Jacob Werthgim, formerly president of the United Ci- gar Manufacturers' company, was elected president of the new organiza- tion, which is said to represent through its membersship a billion and a half dollars of capital actively engaged in business. One of the main objects of the association, it is said, “will be to bring about the employment of health- ier and more profitable methods of do- ing business.” WOMAN WHO'SHOT HUSBAND ESCAPED FROM HOSPITAL. Murdered Man Was Once a Famous Dartmouth Football Player. Concord, N. H. Nov. 8—Mrs. Mary Hardy Folsom, who shot and killed her husband, Henry H. Folsom, while ériving on a country road outside of Exeter on June 20, 1914, escaped from the New Hampshire state hospital Sunday night and has not been recap- vited to Assist Chairman Hoover. New York, Nov. S.—At the request of Herbert C. Hoover, chairman of the commission for relief in Belgium, President Wilson has asked a number of prominent Americans to co-operate in the work of the commission in the United States. Those asked by the president are Otto T. Bannard, S. R. Berton, Herbert S. Eldridge, A. J. Hemphill, Melville E. Stone, Oscar S. Straus and John Beaver White. In his letters of invitation the president says: “Mr. Hoover, the chairman of the commission for relief in Belgium, has approached me with regard to diffi- culties which have arisen in the con- duct of that great humanitarian work, in which he feels he needs the sup- port of an enlarged committee of gen- tlemen of large experienceto co- operate with him in settling and con- ducting the administration of the branch of the commission in the United States. “I am so mueh impressed with the importance of this institution, on which the lives of so many people are de- pendent, that I venture to say to you that I would personally be very much gratified if you could see your way to join such a committee.” The committee have been informed that the reserves of clothing among the poorer classes in Belgium will be exhausted ' by Christmas. They wil the Uniteq States for clothing #T the destitute in Belgium and rorthern France, who now number 3,000,000 and 4,000,000. Mr. Hoover returns to Europe to- morrow on the Nieuw Amsterdam after @ two weeks' visit to New York. between MILITARY INSTRUCTION IN WABASH COLLEGE Committee Reports Favor of Mak- ing It Compulsory. Crawfordsville, Ind., Nov. 8—Stu- dents in-Wabash college may be re- quired to take a course in military instruction. A committee to which the question was referred some time ago, today reported to the president and board of trustees of the college that it had been found advisable to make military training compulsory in the institution. “We do not want to arouse a spirit of militarism in.the republic,” says the report, “but we do believe that every child born under the Stars and Stripes owes a certain duty to the country of its birth. We do not want by force of arms to interfere with the govern- ment of any other people, but we do insist that it is our duty to be ready to prevent any nation from setting an unfriendly foot upon our soil” The committee recommends that the president of the university call on the secretary of war for the assign- ment to the college of “‘a military pro- fessor.” The committee urges that congress be memorialized “to supple- ment existing law with such amend- ments as may be necessary to enable this college and any other institutions of learning which may desire to do so, to_properly fit its students as citizen soldiers.” Steamer Birget S8unk By Submarine. soon meke an appeal to the people o : German Reply on Misuse Passports DOUBTS TRUTH OF TESTIMONY .lN BRITISH COURTS DURING TRIAL OF SPIES Denies That German Government Of- ficials Had Prepared Fake Am: can Passports to Agents. Washington, Nov. 8—Germany, in a note which reached the state depart- ment today, in reply to . Secretary Lansing’s representations on the mis- use of American passports expresses doubt as to the truth of testimony be- fore British court8 during trials of spies and empbatically’ denies that “German government officials had ‘pre- pared false American passports and handed them to agents.” Text of the Note. The text of the note, signed by Herr Zimmerman under secretary of state for foreign affairs and transmitted through Ambassador Gerard, follows: “The undersigned has the honor to state the following to His Excellency, the > n. James W. Gerard, in reply to the letter of July 31, last, concern- ing the alleged issuing of false Ameri- fln“ passports by the German authori- es: False Testimony Charged. . “The assertions made by _Robert Rosenthal, who was shot in England as a spy, that a false passport had been offered to him in the offices of the German admiralty staff; that Corvetionkaptain Prieger held ‘a stock of falsified American passport blanks in the admiralty staff offices; and that the latter has shown him the water- marks in them as well as rubber stamps for the legalization of false passports, one and all are not true. Individuals Issue Fake Passports. “With reference to the fact that one George T. Breckow, who was arrested ‘n England as a spy, had been sup- plied with a false passport, the in- vestigations started have borne no re- sult. It is an established fact, how- ever, that during the present situa- tionof the war, certain individuals in the occupied enémy territory and also in neutral countries endeavored to make a trade of issuing false papers of legitimation and of selling them for a good price. In this way a passport falsifiers den was raided in Antwerp, which was already in existence when Antwerp was occupied by German troops. It may well be assumed that the passport found on Breckow orig- inated from such a plant.- Accused Intimidated by Threats. “As far as the alleged testimon) given by Rosenthal and Breckow be- fore the English law is concerned, ac- cording to which German officers pre- pared false passports and handed them to agents—if such testimony should actually have, been given—it must be assumed that the accused were induc- ed by threats, promises or other means of pressure during the examination to invent these statements in the belief that they might be of interest for the enemy state. Doubt Such Testimony Was Given. “There may have hoped to obtain a mitieation of the impending severe punishment by placing the responsi- bility for the false passports on the avthorities and not on themselves. Strong doubts exist here, however, as to whether the alleged testimony was actually given. In any case. the as- sumption that German government of- ficials. with the knowledge of German zovernment authorities, had prepared false American passports and handed the mtoagents, must be energetically refuted. b “The undersigned avails himself of the oppodtunity to renew to the am- bassador the assurances of his high- est esteem.” HOUSE OF LORDS DEBATES ON WAR AND CENSORSHIP. Administration Was Severely Cri by Earl Loreburn. ed London, Nov. 8, 8.35 p. m.—The de- bate on the conduct of the war and the censorship was resumed in the house of lords this afternoon. Earl Loreburn, focrmer high chancellor, brought up the subject, declaring that he took this ac- tion owing to his belief that the Mar- quis of Lansdowne, the minister with- out portfolio, had not made adequate reply to the arguments of Viscount Morley. Earl Loreburn spoke of what he termed “the misadventures” of _the Artwerp expedition, the loss of Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock’'s squadron, the Dardanelles operations and tne Balkan expedition. The speaker said he had been told two months ago that fifteen million men had been killed or disabled for life and that multitudes had been added to this number since, and that if the conflict continued indefinitely “revolution or anarchy” might follow in_Europe. Ear] Loreburn, who was one of the radical stalwarts who criticized the South African war, today, oddly enough, found himself supported by Viscount Milner, former high commis- sioner for South Africa, who was one of those largely responsible for the South African war. Viscount Milner, however, largely confined himself to criticism of the censorship. He d clared that the news had been “doctor- ed in an optimistic sense” and also denounced the government for not go- ing soomer to the assistance of Serbla. Movements of Steamships. Copenhagen, _ Nov. 6. — Arrived, steamer Oscar II, New York. New York, Nov. 8.—Arrived, steamer Amerika, New York. Liverpool, Nov. 7.—Arrived, steam- ers Tuscania, Livorpool; Lapland, Live erpool via Halifax. tured. Searching partles today were| Coponhagen, via London, Nov. 8§, shon, Nov. B.—Arrivi steamer carefully exumln{n: the bank Yo! the | 5.51 pp. m.—Tho steamor Birgit has Romu,b%uw York and Providenco for Merrimack river in the bellef that she | been sunk by a German submarine | Marsolll may have committed sulcide. Mrs, | which landed her crow noar Gefll, | Sailed: steamer Patria (from Mar- Folasom, who was at the mgnu for | Bweden. Tho captain of the ' Birgit | selllea( New York. the determination of her sanity, was|says the submbarine carried o crew of | Montreal, Nov. ved, st or allowed to attenda chapel service Sun. |32 men. Bhipping records slve thros | Missanible, Liverpool: Bicilian, - day night and after the sorvice broke | steamers of the name of lr,lt, all | don. away from her attendant and fled |of them 1 One of them | Palermo, Nov. 6—Bail steamer Henry H, Folsom wan chalrman of t] thers Swedish, | Guiseppe Verdl, New Yo !:llln "‘g}xla' ::ng;n -ch:;l cfimm 2| Go tonlists - epos h‘fi‘:«r c:mmi" \3'.‘33" x’afi“md' o end whlle af mouth college won i ) < 2 3 tamo as a football er, armamonts “unjess the United Siates| New_York, Nov. §,—Arrived, steams b——*’w is i, srave pm;.’" ‘When, of eeurse, Latayeti nited ' Iadine stains the skin brown and stains starch hlue, B it wi | nai, il be teo late~=Wall trest Jours Biates, Conenhugen oraied, tenmmor Gameronia, dincgow: ; Condensed Telegrams American marines ocoupied Fort E"“"- Hayti, near the northern bor- er. creast 3 3 3 $16,835,000. ” One hundred marines are being sent from Charleston to. reinforce Ameri- can forces in Hayti. 4 General Obregon has taken command of the Carranza army in Sonora in an effort to crush General Villa. Peter A. B. Widener, Philadelphia's wealthiest citizen, who died on Sat- urday, was buried yesterday. About 200 Irishmen of military age sailed from Glasgow on the Anchor liner California for New York. The seventh contingent of 250 men recruited in St. John's, N. F., for the British army has arrived in England. King George’s condition 1s so im- proved that no further bulletins will be issued by his attending physicians. Fifteen of the 18 provinces of China are said by the government to have voted for a monarchial form of gov- ernment. Oregon’s Sunday closing law, which has never been enforced, was declared valid by the Oregon district court at Portland. The war department named a board of officers to consider plans to enlarge the capacity of the military academy at West Point. Governor Whitman and Highway Commissioner Duffey will leave Albany today for a few days' hunting trip in the Adirondacks. Grand Duchess Marie of Luxemburg charged Dr. Leutsch, a lawyer, to form a new ministry, following the resigna- tion of the cabinet. The London Evening News publishes a despatch from The Hague saying that the Berlin Voswaerts has been suppressed temporarily Mrs. Lavina Scranton, aged 73, of Burham, was struck and killed by a freight train on the New Haven road at Middlefield crossing. The White Star liner Cymric ar- rived at New Yoirk from Liverpool with 351 passengers and $1,350,000 in gold for New York banks. Hundreds of young men of militaty age have applied to the British foreign office for passports, with which they hope to escape the conscription they anticipate. One hundred thousand school chil- dren of Cleveland and East Cleveland have been invited to be the guests of John D. Rockefeller at the Cleveland flower show this week. Because of his serious illness, Gen- eral Huerta was removed from Fort Bliss, Texas, to has home at El Paso, where he will receive the attention of his wife and family. At the Argentine embassy at Wash- ington it was denied that the man ar- rested at Chicago Saturday was, as he claimed, a son of Vice President Villanauva of Argentina. Gov.-elect Samuel McCall left Bos- ton for his son’s ranch in Prineville, Ore. He expects to return shortly after December 1 in order to begin work on his inaugural address. Lieutenant Voneplon of the German gunboat Cormoran, interned at Guam and three sailors of the gunboat are on their way to the Norfolk navy yard where they have been transferred. Giuseppe Creatore, leader of Crea- tore’s band, and Miss Rosina Ida Maria De Marinis, daughter of Carlo De Marinis, an architect of New York city, took out a marriage license at Provi- dence, R. L. While his accuser and a constable waited for him to change his clothes that they might arrest him on a charge of forgery, Monroe Boyce, a farmer living near Matawan, N. J. shot and killed himself. A lion that escaped from his cage at Hempstead, L. I, as he was about to be sold at auction, caused g panic among the spectators. It was®caught by the owner of the kennels where the lion was kept. The United States is suffering from a dollar bill shortage, accecrding to Treasurer John Burke, who says that the demand for the one dollar bill is S0 great that the treasury has not been able to meet it. Judgments aggregating $150,000 have been filed at Charlestown, W. Va, against Col. John T. McGraw, demo- cratic national committeeman from West Virginia, and a number of his business associates. The thirty-five brewery workers, who went on strike at the Hubert Fischer brewery, Hartford, Wednes- because one of their number was harged for taking an afternoon off, have returned to work. The large plant of the General Rail- way Signal Co. at Rochester, N. Y., will be converted into a war munitions plant, following the receipt of a war order said to amount to $7,000,000 from J. P. Morgan & Co. James Patterson, aged 76, a clerk in the navy department for nearly 5§ years, died at Washington. He was a Civil war veteran and a member of the Greely Arctic Relief expedition fon;;n‘naed by Capt. Schley, I. S. N, n 2 Rear Admiral Winslow, commander ed to the the passengers sship Fort Bragg, which went ashore near Point Palmfila, Cal. Coal oporators In castern Pennaylva- nla pattiloned the interstate commerce commission to reopen the hard coal scribe lower rates. on r wo,! ummzm Lehigh on oming rogl tidewator for transshipment. e e Wales Minerc Threaton Strike. diff, Nov: % m. Seadds Olateiat ‘:i'no”'nufi.& Fi8 u(:“gf:uunl:i. have desided te ten on B S Bunker Fire on French Steamshil ROCHAMBEAU SENDS REPORT g WIRELESS MAKING FOR HALIFAl Was Two Days Out of New York- Approximately 650 Persons Aboar —Message Said “No Danger at All New York, Nov. 8.—The French Lis steamship Rochambeau, two days ou of New York for Bordeaux, reported b wireless today to have fire in her cc bunkers, was presumably steaming tc night for Halifax, the nearest poy Her exact position was not given in tl single wireless message that broug’ news of her plight to land, but it wa estimated that she would make Hall fax some time late tonight or earl tomorrow. 650 Persons and War Supplies. Aboard the burning steamer are ap proximately 650 persons—421 passen gers and a crew of about 230—and large cargo of war supplies, includin 541 cases of cartridges and 136 bale ol cotton. Making for Halifax; The fire which turned the vesse from her course toward the norther port of Halifax is deep in the hold, i No. 5 _reserve coal bunker, which 1 located amidships. This message sai that the vessel was in no danger an from its tone officials here of th French Line inferred that the situatioi was not serious. Agents Not Alarmed. “We are not alarmed,” said Pau Faguct, general agent «.of the line “Bunker fires are not uncommon, no are they generally very serious, as the; are away from the cargo space.” Only One Message. Only one wireless message had bee: received from the steamer when th French Line offices closed at the usua hour tonight. This was from Captali Juham_ and reached the offices her about 2.30 p. m. It read as follows: “Fire in No. 5 reserve coal bunker Fighting fire and have turned to Hali fax. Hope to put it out. No dange at all” Had Sailed 600 Miles. The Rochambeau left New York Sat urday afternoon. It was estimates that she had sailed 600 miles when thi wireless message was received today This’ would still keep her within th( ocean lane traveled by the big trans- Atlantic liners and despite the silenct over the sea; by British ad. miralty censors, there is reason to be. lieve that at least three ships art within close steaming distance, avail- able for and in emersency. Lifeboats and Rafts Sufficient. Lifeboats and liferafts sufficient foi 1,500 persons, more than twice the number on board, were on the Rochambeau when she sailed, accord- ing to the line's officials. In additior the steamer is equipped with the usual fire-fighting apparatus required in ths case of ocean liners. Cartridges the Only Explosive: The big cargo, which weighted the steamer low in the water as she saile¢ away, consisted chiefly of iron anc steel, machinery, copper and steel wire brass rods, empty shells and guns. Sc far as could be learned tonight, cartridges were the only explosives aboard. Chief of the inflammable ma- terial was the relatively small amount of cotton. There seemed to be some doubt as to whether Captain Juham would take his vessel into Halifax, although his message said that he was making for that port. Mr Faguet thought that if the fire were extinguished and the damage slight, the Rochambeau might resume her trip to Bordeaux without touching at Halifax. In this event, he expected another message from Cap- tain Juham. In the absence of information de- fining the cause of the fire, maritime circles wondered today if the acci- dent was another of the long list at- tributed to the activity of bomb car- riers and placers. Ship after ship, laden with supplies from the allies, ha. sailed out of New York within the past eight months with bombs secreted in her hold, and in many cases these bombs have exploded. Rio Lages Fire. Within the past few days the steam- er. Rio Lages, from New York to Queenstown with sugar, caught fire at sea and put into Halifax with fire in her hold. Her captain attributed the fire to a bomb hidden in a sugar bag. Sugar seems to have been selected fre- quently- for hiding bombs on ship. The Rochambeau, it was said, carried nc sugar. List of Steamers on Which Bombs Were Found. Tho list of steamers sailing from New York to Europe upon which bombs were found, and in some cases explosions occurred, and their sailing dates, include the following: Touraine, March 6; Devon City, April 27; Lord Erne, April 29; Crossington Court, April 29; Samland, May 1; Lord Downshire, May 1; Kirkoswald, May 2; Strathtay, May Bankdale, May 8; Minnehaha, July 9; Craigside, July 24; Athinia, Sept. 8; Sant’ Anna, Sept. 13. FORMAL NOTIFICATION OF RECALL OF DUMBA. Delivered to Secretary Lansing—Will Be Made Public Today. ‘Washington, Nov. 8.—Baron Zweid- enek, charde of the Austro-Hungarian embassy, delivered to Secretary Lans- ing today_ formal notification of the recall of Dr. Constagtin T. Dumba, whose withdrawal as Austro-Hun- garian ambaseador, was requested by the Uniteq States on account of his lans for formenting strikes in Amer- can munition plants. The notification was in writing and it will be ted and made public tomorrow. Maiden Trip of Steamer L.::-m:mm . 8—The_s! p Siyetie ol tra Trench line which MQ‘H eaux Det‘ober 31 gln n.‘ nul:‘-‘ rrived juarantine tonig! Tho Latayotte, 000 feet lon, with & passenger ‘oapacity of 8,000, is _a uadruple megew veasel of 23,060 fons. = due to sall on its return trip next Baturday.