Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 23, 1915, Page 1

Norwich Bulletin VOL. LVIL—NO. 313 NORWICH, CONN., THURSDAY, VDECE_!’ A 23, 1915 TWELVE PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS The Butietin’s Circuiation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total LULL IN HOSTILITIES ON VARIOUS FRONTS Only Report of Activity is a French Success in the Argos Region, in France CAPTURE OF VARNA BY RUSSIA NOT CONFIRMED Second American Note to Austria is Featured in the London Newspapers—Interest Now Centers in the Proceedings of the House of Commons and the Reichstag—Both Bodies Confronted by Momentous Problems. London, Dec. 22, 10.35 p. m. — The second American note to Austriaj shared the leading position in the late London newspapers with the reports of the Russian success at Varna, Bul- garin’s chief seaport. The note appearcd here too late for extended editorial comment, but the headlines reflected the opinions—"Note ccuched in sharper tones™ il seceded and formed a new party with arn independent organization. GERMANY’S REPLY TO LAST LUSITANIA NOTE KEPT SECRET Because of Bearing It May Have on the Ancona Case. hington, Dec. 22.—Because of its ble bearing upon the open issues Ived in the Lusitania and Ancona cussion about det swept the state department will not “No further discussion appears DOSsi . public the details of Germany’s ble.” the last American note re- Up to a late hour there was no of- the sinking of the American ficial confirmation of the report of the i William P. Frye. which, bled outline of the German re- Russian occupation of Varna, true, is, according to the London ed- til Hat it vas vot dond itors, “one of the greatest moves of the | stpriie i e Sy present war.” S de of the Geri rnment The same cri believe that the e bty nat Russian assault on Varna is the pre-|ihe i e T lude to a new effort for Constantinople | of London that “hefore the vessel is which is less than 150 miles distant. stroved ull’ persor st On the western front, the success of [ he placed in o the French at Harimanns-\Weilerkopf, [ by merely e . in the Vosges, is regarded in th aliied | escape in lif SrEr capitals as not only a brill but a| he fu - raten useful operation at a poi re the | has been the mails situation has been mos -ult for | from Amb ard, it was ad- many months. The number rison- | mitted today state department, ers is the largest on thc ont | but officials decl to say wha since the great Champagne-loos of- was made to this impor fensive. ion. take The English publ in the manner in wh taken the W much ERITISH ARMY TO BE INCREASED TO 4,000,000. This attitude s A’“nvym' e eec Bill Passed in House of Commons Af- "“We herc highl solve that these ert Fourteen Hour Sitting. dead shail not have died In vain: that this nation, under God, shall a| London, Dec 1 p. m. — The| new birth of frecdom.” b + of commons today passed a bill | The most important developments of { in ing the strength of the British| the evening in Great ritain were an | : The biil passed appeal by the leading banks to the| ¢ netion to unite in the task of meeting | d in commit- the war al requirements and a | tee ; < speech by David Lioyd | T sitting. The dc-l minister of munitions e | bate or to its final | ) the trade union officials of try, ing to them for in ing §0,000 skilled which he demanded i 1. | rin® the committee parliament a few d new ny, H. J.{ The reports of the re T(ru ant secretary of | sion have arou. war off -d to the house to- | entente apita . is the army raised | attitude is being followed, his country. Mr. Tenr ve in- | many believ ction of | te = figures on the - reserve the socialist 3 ents of -my under mod- n war condition that it was ng peace negotia e lupfl | necessary to have at home in reserve despatch de s that the soc 1 men for every soldier in the field. party in. German now completely estimate w -d on the month- divided, twenty-one members having of ent. PRESIDENT AND BRIDE MOTOR THROUGH MOUNTAINS. H. W. WOOD RESIGNS NAVAL CONSULTING BOARD Because He Disapproves Administra- tion’s Plan as Inadequate. Crossed the West Vlrgmla Line and Visited Sulphur Springs. Hot Springs, Va.,, Dec. 22 rrom| New York ——Henry Wise early this morning until after dark, | Wood, repres President Wilson and his bride mo- |ciety of A tored over winding mountain roads |announced hi s and through unbridged creeks. When ber of the naval consnlting board re- their bespattered o cturned to the | by Se of the hotel here tonight they had traversed ! 11is action was taken, many miles and had ed the W, he disapproves Virginia line to v te 8 the country’s def d by the how- me propo He will contin Springs. ‘At White Sulphur the wdministration ple cr a stir by waiking into the dining | ever, to serve a consultant to mem- room of the principal hot lunch- | bers of the b i Mr Wood s letier of res Tomorrow the pres: ion to that h spend several hours = ret C{: Hrhii . all lm‘ p anda to his s ec to attack the therouzhly inade- aht meaoran daig S quate and dangerously weak naval and 1 policy of the president, as e WORCESTER PRESSED STEEL CO. RS G ) ChriEo: TO EMPLOYES. | wn recommendations and to urge GIMESHBONYS /10 that the recommendations of .z 7 THeml v board of the navy and Distributes $10,600 Among m i i or el pavy g Appreciation of Services. ports be substituted <. | therefor. Worcester, | Mast Dee f our homes, our people, our in- :E;‘h P;;g‘ii(‘ Safie‘fli o A s and our rights are worthy ribui ,600 s tion at all, they s = a dividend or bonus in appr Tost imbregrabie. sater their services in working on W . 1 trained men can devise ders and not in the nature of a Chr! our enormous wealth create.” mas present. The Royal Worceste Corset company announces that it w n present its operating forces with $8,000 as a Christmas present, each of the 1,500 to 1,600 employes to receive a $5 DBill in their pay envelope Friday night. EXTENDING SESSION OF BRITISH PARLIAMENT COUSIN OF SERBI!A’S KING DEAD IN NEW YCRK Result of an Altercatlan with an Aus- trian and the Latter’s Son. Dec. 22.—Herman Merch- New York, i owitz, second cousin to King Peter of s Serbia, who had been employed for Bill Passed Without Division in the | (o, ™ s"a forter in a furrier's estab- House of Commons. ment. died tod in a hospital from a fractured skull received in an alter- London, Dec. 22, 6.02 p. m-—The | qtjon yesterday with an Austrian and house of commons today possed the|ihe jatter's son. The younger man, bill prolonging the life of the present|ynder arrest on a charge of homicide, parliament. 3 7 is accused of knockinz down the Ser- An attempt was made to intr bian, whose head struck the pavement. an amendment, the effect of Merchowitz, who was 40 vears old, was the son og Prince John of Ser- bia, wdho came to this country in 1862 and became a naturalized citizen. THE MILLS TEA AND BUTTER CO. BANKRUPT. | i would be to bury the plural voting but on the plea of A. ilonar Law. retary for the colonies, the motion w withdrawn. The bill was passed with- out division. DECISION ADVERSE TO ALLE D DYNAMITER Ran a Chain of Thirty Small Stores in Various New England Cities. Court Refuses to Eliminate Testimony in Los Angeles Times Case. Los Angeles. Calif. motion of Mathew A. Boston, Mass, Dec. 22—The Mills Tea and Butter company, which op- erates a chain of thirty small stores neys to have elimiated in various New England cities and| ora all testimens not direc towns. filed a voluntary petition in fng on the blowinz up of the los An- | bankduptey in the United States Dis- geles Times building. which resulted | trict court here today. The liabilities are placed at $120,000 and assets at §50.000. There are about one hun- dred unsecured creditors. in the murder indictment against the ‘prisoner, was denied by the court to- \dasr - | Villa, brother of the revolutlonary | aleo are ahoard the Prairie. leader, Francisco Villa. was taken| = ¢ cooard the B from a Southern Pactfic train here to- : : L night by federal authoritles and lock- | Nominated for Mayor of Middletown. e Middletown, Conn., Dec. 22.—Alder- Cabled Paragraphs Denial That Bernhardt Is Il London, Dec. 22, 6.20 p. m.—The re- port that' Sarah Dernhardt is danger- ously ill is characterized in a Havas despatch from Paris this evening as.| unfounded. Shot and Killed a Close Friend DEED OF ROBERT L. KNOX AT BATON ROUGE DEPOT. Count Zeppelin Elected. London, Dec. 22, 5.34 p. m—A Cen- tral News despatch from Amsterdam says that Count Zeppelin, builder of dirigibles, has been elected a_ mem ber of the First Chamber of Wuert- temberg. KILLED ANOTHER MAN NAVAL CASUALTY BOARD MEETS TODAY IN NEW YORK Members Will Inspect Navy Yard and All One of the Victims Was a Prominent Louisiana Lawyer, the Other a Pau- Warships in Port. per—Slayer is Surveyor of the Port Members of the consulting board met here today for a series of.informal conferences in preparation for their second meeting since organization which will be held of New Orleans—Probably Demented Baton Rouge, La., Dec. 22.—Robert tomorrow at the New York navy yard. [T, Knox, surveyor of cust r the Secretary Daniels has proposed a trip |port of New Orleans ande prominent to the Sandy Hcok proving grounds, | Louisiana attorney, shot and but it was deferred because of the uncertain_weather the members will specting the navy vard, especially as all the warships of the New York division of the Atlantic fieet now are in port. Dr. Leo Hendrik Baekeland, chair- man of the committee on food and sanitation, discussed the prime im- portance of synthetic nitric_acid in modern warfare and declared that if Germany had not been able to utilize the cources of nitrogen in the : the manufacture of munitions been helplessly paralyzed Britain has shut her off > general source of supply of in Chiic and it is believed a close friend and former bu be kept busy in- sociate, and Alexander Fraenklin, lieved to be from Natchitoches La., in the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railfoad depot here tod Fired Without Uttering a Word. According to witn Knox walk- ed into the crowded waiting room and without uttering a word drew a re- volver and fired three times. Foster, who was purchasinz a ticket. in- stantly killed. Fraenklin wr by the second or third bullet and di 20 minutes later. After the shooting Knox left the waiting rocm and sur- rendered to the police. “He Ruined My Life.” would hav The United in case of war, District Attorney IHolcombe, who at- Di. Baekeland declared, would be | tempted to ob ement from whipped within a year throush short- | Knox, declared the prisoner age of nitrogen unle: the navy could | would % was “He ruined my life protect the Chinean s it d Knox z 2 did not would take ¢ aenklin had been to develop the of Knox declare that he nitric_acid from the air in from men aberration quan to produce the requisite ster had been friends for amount of smokeless powder and ex- ind no cause % known plosives, althouzh the proce L grievance ted in the United State ctre is the onlv important chemical or Had Developed Mantalf et raw material which cannot iusily be Local author produced in this couniry, he asserted. [had learned th ntal_trouble COMMUNICAT]ON FROM ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS placed He eral in a arrived he days az nklin uper. to the depot by Tells of Failure of An Aeroplane Raid by Cnemy. He Rome, via London, Dec. charitable orzanization which had ar- | m.—The official communica ranged to send him to relatives in from general headquarters tods Donaldsonville, La a8 Lol caria valley on Monday| 3¢ Been in Private Sanitarium. | night our artillery & ircraft ef- | j Dec et fectively bombarded Fort Por of the [ S70% Who S Ladro group. On Tuesday the bom- | Laton Rouge, RIVERS R Saae bardment was successfully renewed. | [L0m a private sanitarium here Dec. Two enemy acroplanes, which went ugi | 16 after undergoing = treatment =for in the course of the action, were at- | Rearly twe mon o Aftec tacked and forced to vetreat. o e e (And for Tl detach. | Toved that the attending phys ments of the enemy’s artilledy i et 1S uts SO0 Bl iy S0/ %0 attempted to approach our positions | CETIStmas with his family. were counter-attacked and repulsed, - EN . M St FATE OF ENTOMBED i “In the Sugana valley our artillery MINER IN UNKNOWN. fired on the railway station at Led- —_— ico, where Soovements of troops were | Buricd Behind a Fall of Coal Near| orted. On the Asiaxo plateau to-| ~ Shamokin, Pa, Last Monday. and was forced | g,moky —The fate | lamaze done 3 L i a miner who was | engines pilot was e e . .The Bliot was, captured. entombed Monday morning behird al On ihe rest of ahe front the Rl e st B 3 i g e e o8 g liery of the Susquehanna Coal com- | o v. was still unknown late tonight + - ite 200 experienc st our positions g 5 A men wh work of rescu A g shortly accident Renoclk | was d hundreds of VILLA WOULD DIE SOONER THAN COME TO UNITED STATES before he could of other miners narrowest mar- nierher by Last Words He Said to His Wife as He Bade Her Goodbye. CHRISTMAS SHIP WITH GIFTS FOR LEPER COLONY. Left New Bedford For the Bleak sland in Buzzard's Bay. weezs Is- in Chih ) to the l'nnml New Mass., Dec. . e it Christmas ship laden with spend the remainder of my life every patient he leper | home mountains with my faithful | Peniwese left here this where my enemies cannot | the Dleak island in Puzz | ship was the motor boat | Mrs. made this statement I Willis D. Raymor:d who volunteered night when she passe dthrough San services, and the presents aboard | Antonio accompanied by Mrs. Rip - donated by two of the churches | ito v’ nd ten othe enroute to|of New Fedford The packages con- | New From there the party | ! candy, and cake, mittens or may go to Havana, Cub stockings or caps, Christmas cards or ke : books and other articles desizned to | FIRING SIGHT HAS bring something of cheer from the out- | world to the little colony on| DISAPPEARED FROM GUN ristmas morning The pa 5 re consigned to Dr. Frank H i In Armory of Second Field Artillery |7nd his wife and will be distributed | S Y ot by them on Christmas morning. | New Yorlk. Dec. roversible | ARRESTED ON CHARGE ! telescopic indirect i the OF THEFT OF SONDS. ! property of the Uni s army, i the design of which has been careful- Picture Thought to Be a Murillo Found | | Iy a by vernment, ree-inch fie econd Field in Adolphe Cramer's Baggage. Sriitiory ot ‘the National rd, it w. : 5 p. m—AS he was | G stated tonight. Its intrinsic value was | fTarkin e adolohe small. The supposed t has been | .0 “heft bod e veported to the police. b preferred by - & broker. baggage was found a GEN. VILLA'S WIFE to be a_Murillo. The s the Virgin Mary IN NEW ORLEANS. = the Infant Jesus A T on ner % 1 ¥ s Arrived There Last Night From Jua- |1 The ey s 1n rez, Mexico. insured for 75,000 francs, was, accord- 2 Cramer, received from an New Orleans, La., Dec. 2 n_monk who claimed to have de Villa, wife of General ~ Francisco | caken it from a monastery YViila, accompanieq by General Villa's — er-in-law, Mrs. xml‘ll; Vili ar;‘d MARINES AND BLUEJACKETS ten other persons, arrived here tonight from Juarez, Mexico. Reports that IN HAITI WILL MISS TURKEY | members of the party would go to Havana, Cuba, from here could not be | T Fansport Prairie With 100,000 Pounds | contirmed. Has Erc—‘n Topmast. —Thé transport to have sailed from with 100,000 pounds of 3,000 sailors and ma- nes stationed in Haiti, will not get away untfl Thursday or late#, be- cause of a broken topmast. and conse- quently not_reach Haiti until aft- er Chrisimas. Presents for the naval force from friends an drelatives in this count as well_as 500 buckets of cranberries and 5,000 pounds of candy Bernhardt in Good Health. Paris, Dec. 2 %P/ 41 p. m.—Inquiries made at Sarah Bernhardt's theatre to- day concerning the report that the famous actress was seriously il brought forth the statement that she was in good health. here yesterday turkey for the Villa’s Brother Locked Up. San Antonio, Tex., Dec. 22.—Hipolite man Harold M. M ness man and Ya ch, a young busi- graduate, was to- Movements of Steamships, night unanimously nominated for Piracus, Des, 8.—Sclied, steamer | mayor at the republican caucus. The Patris, New York. democrats will hold their caucus next New York, Dec. 22.-—Sailed, steamer Noordam. Rotierdem via Faimouth. Falmouth, Dec. 22.—8Salled, stecamer Ryndam, New York, week and it i{s reported that former Mayor Willard C. Fieher wiil get the noemination, the town committee have- ing endorsed him. | of forged documents Remnants of Villa Army Defeated IN BATTLE TEN MILES OUTSIDE CHIHUAHUA CITY. NO QUARTER SHOWN Nine Hundred Villa Sol Killed, Wounded or Taken Prisoners —Carranza Losses Said to Be Small —Streets Strewn With Dead. ers Were Laredo, troops under e what remained of the army in battle yesterday and tod lapula, en miles outside Chihuahua City, in- sed flicting a severe defeat. Nine hundred Villa soldiers were kilied, wounded or taken prisoner, according to advices to Carranza officials in Nuevo Laredo tonight. The Carranza losses were said to have been small. General Trevino, with_his sold who have advanced rapidly to Chihmahua during the past ten day ncountered the Villa diers moving southward. No Quarter Shown. A fierce battle ensued in which no quarter was The Villa diers fought de 1 1e bat lasted all vesterda 1d W prolonged thro until t Villa troops surrendered this morn- ing. Streets Strewn with Dead. The streets of the were strewn with dead e of Mapu hen the f the Villa soldiers was ed were said nnl‘l- 1rne . aneit VILLA ELIMINATED i AS A REAL MENACE.} Commander of Villa Garrison at Juarez | Has Accepted a Carranza Commis- | sion. sen th mnant in S ate depart- on was mov- > in the cam- ' the west PROGRESS OF DE FACTO GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO. Assuming Civil and Military Authori- ty in Erstwhile Villa Territory. —The del Mexico made pro- sumption of civil ¢ » territory llowers of Fr to reports according here from variou whereabouts w s General Ja of a military def ecato have succe nants of Chihuahuva was said S to Juarea | y Orchs, former Vil- Juarez, today re- ca and ol the yment. Temporarily he had been placed in control of the | territo: by the Carran- surrendered za_consul here. Hipoloto Villa, a brother of the de-| sed chief. was said to have left| rez for San Antonio, Texas. | General Jose Rordi il recent- I one of Villa's cipal leaders, pr! is attitud government was force H toward the de unknown here. ! SIX MEXICAN ROBBERS PUBLICLY EXECUTED At Mexico City—Four Others Given Respite at Last Moment. Galveston, Te: bers of the robt tured in Mexico publicly this mornins message received by , Mexican consul here. Four others condemned to death were given a respite at the last moment. Five wom- er arre d with the band have been given long prison terms, the message says. The robbers had been able to avold capture for some time by means which made the were army office ge fays an officia arding the govern- the redemption >tes by banks will be 3 e , according to a Juen. T. Bu police believe the: Today’s mess announcement ment's policy to of outstanding ¥ published shortly. INCREASED TAXATION BY GERMAN STATES. Begun in Baden—20 Per Cent. on In- comes Above 2400 Marks. Borlln, Dee. 22, via London, 8 p. m.— The movement for an increase of tax- ation by the German states has begun with Iaden, where the dist has just ed a bill increasing the income ax 20 per cent. on incomes above 2,- 400 marks, It was pointed out in the reichstag is distributing Christmas bonuses to the employes of 50 per cent. of their | yvearly sa y. Officials of the lllinois Traction sys- jtem at Bl T ton, 1ll, granted an | crease in wages of about 10 per to ail employ i order for 9,000 tons of steel rails | u 2,500,000, was re- | th renc! rnment |anad s Condensed Telegrams Charleston, S. C., had its first - fall in two vears. . o~ The Bank of England shipped 70,000 pounds in sovereigns to America. King Peter of Servia is on his way to Rome as the guest of the talian government. President Rea of the Pennsylvania Railroad Teturned to active duty at his office in Philadelphia The National Bank of Cuba, in New York, has received $1,000,000 in French gold from Cuba. William Stewart and Samuel Bland, two negroes, accused of murder, were lynched at L«lalnl.l Ga. Spain is in the market for §20,000,- 000 worth of war munitions, and mu- nition making machinery. The Hungarian Parliament voted to extend the limit for obligatory mil- itary service from 45 to,55 years. A bill imposing a tax on war pro- fits in Germany passed second and third reading in the German Reichstag. suffering from throat trouble and has been advised by | from using his | Henry Ford’s departure from Chris- tiania with his peace party for Stock- holm, was postponed, owing to Ford's iliness. Settlement of the threatened strike of 4,090 switchmen railroads entering anno Brigadier-General . who served throu died at Newark, N. J. [ ars oid. The Central Trust Co., of New York David they davs. Col in man, of Philadelphia. 1 been without food for three The Wisconsin republican state cen- tral committee met at Milwaukee and selected 26 tentative delegates to the national convention in Chicago mext June. the Pennsylvania ates Pennsylva- Pittsburg, 1 directors of which ope 1 west a semi-annual nes of dividend of per cent. Mrs. Asquith, wife of the nrmshl Premier, granted an_ injunction to prevent the London from further publication of li- inst her . Department made other inst the presence of cruisers off New York and American por The State gton has at Wash- protest British other i | | Wiliiam M. Cole, of Hackensack, N was awarded $3,000 in his suit st the Penr nia Railroad for » loss of his eye in an accident in| Twenty delegates from Costa Rica, | ia, Peru and Chile arrived in| n the steamer Metapan to | «cond Pan-American Con- | hington. A manifesto to the people of the country was sued over the signature | of a score of leading English bankers anciers on the subject of the | financial position. country” Gen. Christian De Wet, one of the leaders of the South African uprising against Great Britain in 1914, convict- ed of treason, was released from pris- on, with 118 other prisonerS. Nazim Bey, a leader of the s, announced on his arriv- al at Berlin that Turkey has plen: of food supplies and cotton that can | be sent to Germany, nec ary. Secretary Huston of the Depart- ment of Agriculture has asked Con- gress for an additional $64,400 to ex- tend the campaign against the boil weevil in southern cotton flelds Eighteen million francs, constituting the Serbian treasury, have arrived at Marseilles on the way to Paris. The money will be eposited in the Franco- Serblan bank at the French capital. Cardin: Gibbone stated at Balti- more that he is much saddened by the Vexican situation, as he has been in- formed that en. Carranza’s persecu- tion of the Catholics is growing worse. American busine: houees which send agents in Europe are advised, in a statement issued by the state de- partment, to send separate agents to cach group of the belligerent nations. More than 100 leading Serbian ar- tists, lterary men and members of Parllament, arrived at Barl, Italy, on \io"da\' that Pr..su]n and Saxony also intend to increase thelr income tax rates. having fled on foot through he Al- banian mountains before the advanc- ing Bulgarians. culation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Population Fire Causes Panic Among Prisoners IN SHOP CONNECTED WITH THE FAIRFIELD COUNTY JAIL. HYSTERICAL SHOUTS Jailer Closed the Huge Steel Doors Connecting the Shop and Jail and Calmed the Prisoners—Two Alarms Were Rung In. Bridzeport, Conn., Dec. 22.—Fire in the workshop of the Fairfield county jail on North avenue caused a smail pan, mong the 239 r\"suner.! tonight and gid considerable damage to the shop, a three-stor brick structure, connected with the jail. Jaller Henry | Scott was at supper when he smeiled smoke. Hy.fi.cn_al Shouts of “Firel” e there came by ire!™ from the prisoners, who d bieen locked in their ceiis for the night. The jailer immediately closeq the huge steel doc ting thy hop and jail and med the prisc Fire Spread Rapidly. ., ich had operated ma- enter of the 1opped holes in - h and flooded the The blaze was WORK OF COAST SURVEY SER!OUSLY HANDICAPPED Government Does Not Offe~ Induce- ments to Seamen That Industries shington, Dec. The British treasury advancel 200, Do. of whether General ms to enal will cross the border hingi De ations ngton, Dec of the lost much { and geodetic gion today when it became | known choa, command-| The steamer Kroonland, of the inz the Juars not| panama-Pacific Line from San Fran- only had ced to the surrender of n. arrived at Rio de his men, but had accepted a commis- being refloated T | sion from the de facto ment «-t ‘, ,\’lu\. 0. - l‘lhf'»ms A report from Archangel, Russia, is difficult to zet even moderate- { large might continue states that the French packet Bre- il. 0od crews, when recruiting In the that without an army he was eliminat- was wrecked when she struck | SPring,” the report says. “The indus- ed as a real menace. i n iceberg in the White Sea. ies take the pick of the seamen The arrival of General Trevino at z e the survey must take what is Chit 2 inza force had| Gov. Whitman granted a two-weeks' r ich men are inefficient and the not rted to the state depart- ) rospite to Anton Fonton, a Porto Ri- | worl irvey is handicapped ac- ment, Il!l( announcement of the t inleoan, sente ed to be electrocuted at|cordingly press despatches added to official op- | Sing Sing this week for murder. Additional appropriations are asked i i b to permit hiring better crews as well Agents of the department | John Dale, aged 64, a New \'ork; s to provide new vessels, particular- ported lack | vanke red when he fell while for work on the Pacific coast. An ereabouts |descending the stairway at the en-|apD ion also is souzht for main- | trance to the street subway sta- [tenance of an international latitude | tion. observatory at Ukiah, if., and for i - urchase of Dutch Har Alaska, as it D] The Bank of Cuba in New York de- >vernment supply ba hua. There rem: clared a bonus of 10 per cent. of the During the past year the survey possibility of hi: arly ts employes and $20,- | discovered and charted 3404 shoals, operating und: | 000 was put je for the pension |ledges and rocks. fund CANADA T OSHRINK FROM NO SACRIFICE. Declaration Made By Sir Robert Laird Borden, Canadian Premier. 22 —“Canada. while of the next twelve d to an abiding peace, ¢ determined to spare no effort crifice to make e of the allies— world,” declared freedom Sir Robert rd Borden, the Candi- an premier, address tonight at the 110 er of the New Eng- lan > w York. Recounting wha sacrifices Canada has already Prem sa it stood to make still more, “firm in the conviction that humani struggle in: the enthronement of force ¢ ht will not be in vain.” remier Borden was cheered en- thusiastically throuzhout his address which s the first delivered by him in the United States since the out- break of the war. The banquet hall was deccrated with American and British fi and the emblems of the of the Union. Desides the na- airs of Am d England, !the orchestra played songs of New England origin, which, coupled with the genuine New England dinn ried the diners i davs of their childhood. At to President Wilson t i . President introduced eodore E. Burton of " Day urton reviewed gland from the ho the histery 2 days of the Pilg MAN RAN AMUCK IN ANSONIA BOARDING HOUSE. Plaze Ws Run by His Wife, With Whom He Had Not Been Living- Ansonia, Conn., Dec. 22.—John Mur- phy. a former resident, came Ansonia a few day to see . with m he had not been her boarding onight and fired from a revolver. one of k William Martin. The lat- the Griffin hospital, at h a bullet in his right lung, to police information. to the boarding house the door was opened by a board- illiam Neary. Murphy, it is said, Iy star‘ed to puneh Neary then fir at him with the re- the shot going wild. Martin had been sitting in the parior. Hearing the shot. they went to the door and Martin was struck in the breast. An- other shot wan fired and it is thought Maurphy, but the wal. and volver, and his wife and Mrs. Murphy the builet lodged in Murphy the® ran_ . only to be captured a few mi =" later by a policeman. Mu \'v'l\' doclined to talk ©of ‘he affair at the police station. King of Serbia Not in Italy. Rome, Dec. 21.—The report from Caserte, Italy, {ing Peter of Ser- bia had arrived In Italy, accompanied by his prime minister, M. Pachitch, is without foundation, _according to a news agency despatch. - e 1 S N i SN