Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 27, 1915, Page 1

Norwich VOL. LVI—NO. 316 : NORWICH, CONN., MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1915 EIGHT PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and lts Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Population A Cabled_Paragraphs | Djssensions in |Arras Stormed | Cordensed Teleorams [GAIE WITH SNOW AND LIGHTNIN yesterday in the business section of R apead to e Granada. ish papers that the German torpedo PROFITS OF AMERICAN RECITED BY MRS. INEZ MIL-IHUNDREDS OF SHELLS TORE |jouts whi m"s“gfi':uh";;u:'mh‘l’ HOSIERY MANUFACTURERS. HOLLAND BOISSEVAIN THE AIR OVER THE TOWN Information received regarding the Are Making Nearly 12 Per Cent. of fighting on December 21, between Capital Invested. Ypres and Armentieres indicated that Germans Are Assembling Large Forces, Probably to|, wasnnsion. e 25 —tnvestisation Wind Reached a Maximum Velocity of Ninety Miles an Hour at New York A DAMAGED SHIPPING AND CRIPPLED RAILROADS BY 2 WHY SHE WITHDREW | ORGAN STRAINS, SHOTS |tie Germans susiained a loss of over has disclosed, the department of com- 5,000. merce announced today, that American The death at Southport of Veneral oL s Wh a | Affronted Because Work of Formulat- | Echoes of Shots Had N. ied | Archdeacon T. J. Maaden, archdeacon Advance on Saloniki e e choss of Shots Had No Sooner Died [ X aeor T, T N e annonmoes. aling & profit of nearly 17 per cent,| ing Plans Was Confined to a Few | Away Than the Life of Christmas | Archdeacon was vicar of Chrisi | The Phenomenon of Thunder and Lightning in the Midst of a or capital invested and could increase | gpecially Selocted Persons. T e, S5 e v M Heavy Snow Was Experienced in the Early Morning During the storm yesterday Joseph that margin through better methods in Eve Began to Show lItself. 1853. A report on this investigation by ex- | Stockholm, via London, Dec. 26, 420 Arras, on the French Front, Dec, 26, | GATIty | of Bristol. a ~lineman of Sunday—Storm Was Indirectly the Cause of Seven perts in the bureau of foreign and do- 3 the manufacture and sale of their TILL REMAIN IN SERBIA 5 BULGARIAN TROOPS § T T [ ol I SRR shells tore th air | was 01 New B 1 mestic_commerce was transmitted to |of New York, who withdrew from the | over Arras all Fridas afteenoon. The | homere e iy heart trouble at New Deaths—Seven Barges Sunk in the East River—Other President Wilson (oday by Secretary | Ford peace cxpedition Saturday, pre- | echoes of these were the last compli- | pital T = s . | Redfield. It was the second of a series | sented at a public meeting of the dele- | ments of the ceavon ang thay TiaPLs |pital Barges Went Down 12 Miles East of Ambrose Lightship It is Said That the Teutons Will Not Attack Without the Bul jssued in connectio with the bureaws | gates today a long statement of her | sooner died away ik this Tifa" . O€ || ATthouah the. saiibes. of - mechant e Ll o . nquiry into o e ma - | 1easons for doing so an or belleving | Christmas began to show itself through | shij under the American fi: de- = garians, and That Greece is Strongly Opposed to Bul-|ing in the United States. g the project was doomed to failure. | reopened cellar doors and windows in | creased during the fscal sear last —Roof Torn Off Hospital Ward of Newark Almshouse y m;{;;gh(e‘it S‘Tfi:f“ ‘h‘;,fw;:fif:fi:é f‘;s Undemocratic Methods. preparation for the usual Christmas|June, the tonnage of the merchant garians Entering Her Territory—Christmas Passed | i, tompetition. Seamicss hosiers, | , “The undemocratic method employed | eve, festivitics. i et Do i —A Church at New Brighton Was Struck i i ool Competition. ‘Sesmiese hosiery |, “The undemocratle method employed | V8 SRS, (. 1oty regton rise | ToEi C t New Brigh by Lightning L T D oct” marsia’th | repugnant to my principles,” she said. | above their afflictions due to the war Quietly on the French Front, With the Men on Both Ja ices ' thie “Instead of ail the members formuiat- |and the spirit of Arras survives among | Shipments of foodstuffs into Bel- —New Haven Road Puts Embargo on Freight Because ¥ o ]em'l',‘(?r"l: e e n to Tave dropped | IDg plans, the work has been confined | the heaps of ruins. glum during December are declared E Sides Standing by Their Guns in Fear of Sudden Move | rrom"s5 500900 to 33000000 within the | (0, & few specially selected persons. Populace Used to It. L e i Storm Caused an Accumulation of Loaded Cars. o & B - || LTy e = 1L I took it for granted that the rather |, 1t would be really a shame if we ! unparaileled in the history of philan- Forward—An Intense Artillery Action Has Been in e vague opinion of the body of delegates | Pad N0t gotten used to it during all | thropy. ———— o T s e A e S R e fce | New York, Dec. 26.—One of the most | about to drag towards their efforts they i ¢ha v actic . al ca d o by cand arry A. Barber, . 8. postoffice | 2 g st e . Progress on the Austro-ltalian Front. WERE BLOWNIOVER. | 300 b #roup Sotion st Sonatrngiive Skt on the fivst floor oF & ‘DAlAIng | meperte Sihs e ban it et | pecaliar storma.the sast & SR L T s Mail Carrier Believed to Be Buried Ruins of Unroofed House. “An organization was not formed|man continue With the Germans assembling a large sides standing by their guns in fear — until three days before the end of the | nal victors enemy against the forces in front of |of a sudden movement to sweep I sor, Conn., Dec. 26—Ten tobac- | voyage. To that fact I trace all mis-| After the usual tematic shelling — ed from the northwe arly Saloniki and large ma. of Bulgarian | ward. The artillery never ceased (o Y ds were blown over today by the | understandings, dissensions, mistakes|died down rifle shots and the occa-| Louis G. Miller, a well known New | B¢ aftermuth of a Chrisimas fox troops still remaining on Serbian soil, | boom at one point or another, but 10 | gale and one men, H. Eckman, a mail | in policy, inefficiency and inabil many years—rain, companied by thun re: s or of Peru trying to locate the buried ot to do,” the wo- | treasure of the incas, starts for Wash- - . . “is (0 hold out for fi- |inston today, having, it Is understood, | nd, % ale that reached o nd lasting peace ailed in his quest. w it s crew of four men. Late tonight the n: | vessel was tugzing at her three am- rs and was only 100 feet from the, ks. Rockport was in darkness tonight on account of the crippling of electric light er and 1 n y {indirectly caused seven deaths in this | circles by the storm. The fire alarm $ to| sional rattle of machine guns was all | Britain citizen and form S reCY. caused - o N — the ‘undetermined attitude of Grecce |general offensive was undertaken. A |carried, is belleved to be buried i nthe | get the idea of a mediating peace con- | that broke the stillness that sottied | tive. died Saddemy o6 n e Swn SisEmTE miren | riem s Wies Ghb of S was ‘uncertain as o what the nex:|Faris despateh savs thal in the heavy |uint 6f an . Uncompleted . house. | Eressin comparative Shabe pefove the | over the et Thn eainc damnged shioping, move will be in the Balkan campaign. | fighting a_few days before Christmas Neighlors Meanwhile, the Dritish and French | between Ypres and Armentieres the | ppled rol! were searc where | his home while preparing to go t g the wreck- pul caster at Revere was . The organization, when finaily | midnight ma s wislp il ol B UL caused considera lown and the steel frame top- i t a late hour tonight. The roof | formed, was abortive. The Scandi-|der the thinder of cannon, stood out | and three children. n two small houses which ware are adding to their sirength around|Germans sustained a loss of more|,f the Congresatic church VIR GBI GRIohS extacten iGsE T & e, CRIIGRE 10 e el Tovs £ With the exception of a wo- Saloniki in men, guns and defenses.|than 8000 men without gaining! quonnock was blown off and kg anii = definite proecasine | oo & soecy + Without the Bulgarians, a Dritish cor- | ground. tra, with crumbiing w of | Funeral services for Lieut.-Colonel aged in th: n arm fracture, the shenomenon of uses 2 y town. Tel- | were skepiical about the serious- | demoiishin ings all around ries Tirom who is_alles nint in the : Bouses escapod: ay respondent at Salo; says, the Ger-| an inte artiilery action tic light service ~were | mindedness of the delegates. At theling the aspect of a giguntic cemetery |ot have committed sutcide at Henluln, ened New mans will not attack, and Greece has on the Austro-Ialian front N _|meetings the discussions have been|with decaying headstones. i tly. at tho be e g T H. and Lewiston, been strongly opposed all along to h there has been no changes in| The damage in this vicinity will | purely private, with the result of ill- o of Mt have amitted sufc at Honolulu, m the AMaine, the pros. Bulgarian (roops entering her terri- there. amount to $50,000, it is estimated feeling, ions and condemnation. Rattle of Machine Guns. Scott at Doomington, e 10d wires and tele- e Leen blowir o 3 Russia comes word of com- e == For the reasons stated, I am unable to machine guns struck — proagflocintud 1 communication ki s also reported from Athens that | e ‘auiet. MILITIA SCATTERS MOB continue with the par ' a few rifle shots rang | ore than 200 statesmen Mstana also fell the effects of g anti loes o re to AR i i h the cold air. Towards eig] B e Isla; =0 felt the make s ministry until Turkish war office report BENT ON LYNCHING, | No Meetings to Discuss Peace Plans. | (BICUSD Ihe Cold s of an organ | Sclentists s torra severely, much damage belng the Teassembles the last of at Kut-el-Am ol = Gaston Plantiff, the personal repre- | (OO 00 through heaps of | South and 1<cd 1o property along the shores of January, and that therefore the present | n been sur e More Than 100 Persons Attacked Jail | sentative of Mr. ‘Ford, requested Mrs. [ 54770 NEaTC. a chapel en: Poo Ant Narrazansest bey by a high tide forced cabinet will remain in power, and it is the British commander, Gen St Meikegce OM, | Boissevain to remain with the expe- [ °NC THY FASE 10 8 RS SOL ESe aneiian . i by the heavy wind. possible that the new chamber may |eral Townshend, reports that while 9 | aition. but without avail. Since_the | it TS, B6G B REE TR o atanee | Which onvenes __ Wind 90 Miles an Hour. © to ‘elegraph lines was Le convoked before that date. forces have been under artillery e e - departure of the expedition from New [ throush the datkn e —_ The wind shift t in Vermont. A heavy rain* Christmas passed quietly on the|rifle fire, no attempt at assault ot i it mmn { York three weeks ago no meetings | WY, o AILE TR O Ky statement 'was By ihe lund Taciessed f swed by snow which resched & French front, with the men on both | been made. ated to Trsalc Inte T have been held at which peace plans | ;00 W0, U8 COTERPEMCIAC O Toom | Rritish_embassy at Washington that |30 mile intensity at § o eizht inches in that state, The % and Iynch two nesroes, charged with | Were discussed. Most of the discus- | WhiAVeT T 00 B SO EE e | Great Pritain had extended to hospital | carrving ¢ storm ling Patrolman Sam Neal early to. | 8ions have taken place about the din- ) rts of New Eng: 1 Bl et vy supplies of all kinds its prohibition | continued, however, througho By nightfall the sky “THE MURDER IN REPORT OF COMMISSIONER T e e Okldhoma Na. | KT tables at the hotels, Between meals £t continues much longer you are | MMt the shipment (o the Tewtonic |day. blowing in hundreas of D ol Sonee coveral aitaces|the delegates went sightseelns. Mr. o have vour dining room alse | countrics of such supplies made of | windows, hurling THE RUE MORGUE.” | GENERAL OF INAUGURATION | tlongl sunvd, T ok | Ford's leaving the party on account of o O e e | vatiber i atrects PARTLY CONSTRUCTED HOUSES = | —— . e o . s last week is regarded as a B i partly buitt st e - o ifficulti 4] hargin with fixed bayonets ondent to the officer | Posis Works te ‘Hf_‘.‘f Sf"; Countarpact] D‘“‘“”"”UA‘:“T“”;‘f’ :,?s:"““°" °f | The ‘mob ut it ls reported | Sefous handicap. @ ¢ san| “That is quite porsible” replica a| By royal proclamation published in| Storm Center in Massachusctts. DEMOLISSHED /AT SEW S S ife aris. ndesirable s, SRR e S he Rev. Chai ? of S ain, “bat the destination of a shell | the Friday Gazette, the ' exportatio n 5 s e i i Eront G the Jall with . steel| Francisca, Judge'Ben Linasey of Den]faPiirc, bt he STmation o s shell |0 Criony, Dot i o | ¢, Storm had it - P T Bulidigos . Dt Baria B8t aisp m ecedent- | 17/ e ver and others have explained that it| e g any control yer, have we lieu- | that might be of service to ermany is 8 b Flate Glass Windows Smashed. cers in the Rue Morgue,” as depicted federal | "3 el ¥ il was imperative that the expedition nt™ Rut the lieutenant was ab- | prohibited unless it is consigned 10 | ity ¥ = by Edgar Allan Poe, are having.their 2= foiehtl - L e eLould proceed to The Hague to carry d in an illustrated paper which | Societie Suisse de Surveillance Econ- | e - E . 26—One of counterpart in the real life at Cler- T in Europe are |SERB | out the original plan as far as possi- | 1021 o arrived and made no epm. | omque. avi ars, bring- mont-Ferrand during the untaveiing acnual roport of Com- OF WAR IN ATHENS. |ble. This will result in the formation | e 1 : i o ety % vich § w in, swept vy surrounding the dea al Anthony Caminet el ol of ‘2 permanent committee to sit at| ™ML R 2 i i » o v Haven today, delaving train an by violence last Auzust of Mile. 2 the secretary of Was Received by the Premier and the | The Hague to adopt ways and means. Christmas Spirit in Evidence. s Ak ol Shek vaned & S ¥1- : service: crippling telegraph and Christophile, a_young womin belon ool Miistor o6 W, The committee is to consist of a smali| Santa Claus and the Christmas <p Ll N AT ety mmunicath demolish- ing to one of the wealthiest families tention is ater 5 number of persons from each of the|lt in spite of the war were in evidence | WiTo0fed th el Wear ot ¢ ond wrroofing houses and causing the place. ~The poiice have been uniered in e Parts Daalse 15y Lt comntric everywrore along the Art attle | Faiiroad » 2 barn at | conriderable . vestigating a report that the girl was of undesirabie s e A D e front where the correspondent passed | pidfielold. wrecked a ereenhouse. a | 1 to| The s telezraph companies slain by a monkey. { cz of the prospect, in many cases, | {21008 CSrrespondent of b . Christmas eve. They were in the [[armhouse v 0 shed at}, ana | ot me when wires were just begin- During the night on which Marie | o cing them in extreme “The Serbian ministor of war arriv- | BRIDGEPORT FIREMEN trenches and shelters with the sl i R | wev hor | i o reccver rr_rm the effects of the Christophile met her death a fire oc- | on the high seas or al Fhe Scbian M e Slgwas accine le soldicrs; in the temporary bar- ~fve ard he highest velocits eurrad in her home Neiwnbors rusied | faniod 11 & foreien ore Sl jesicaiay iy s coel e ook s OVERCOME BY SMOKE.| Py Wicre the traditional Christmas | Henry Van Landusky, 20ed 50, aiptin canet bo 4 was an hour, an in and found her dead with wounds|ihe m the policy of protecting alien: aer g Sotiechal Star o i f was occupled an impro- j farmhand, was found dead in the hay | griven ashore off Sandy Hook, were » the weather bureau. on her head. Various theories were | proved to he correct and was succes : S umiver af Sexpian eputies | Duclng; $100,000 (Biaze i & W holesale ] STRL £ ST TS (8 ) attrilla that mis | DIOW fof & hakn st Darhy. It 1s Be- | o o rd crew at| Three partly constructed houses were put forward as to the cause of death, | ful, the commissioner general says, one | 2150 artived and held a meeting _ at Grocery House. valled the best Paris could do in time | lieved that he was accidentally smoth- § (not" Tor the crew of a dozen buildings end the Christophile family offered a|of its resuits has been to leave in the | Vhich it was decided to e Ser- : % of peace; in the quarters where the of- |ered to death by the hay, which he |ina const reca. Those glass windows fin large reward for the capture of the | {nited o Close of the vear | Pi2 REovernment where the rbian| Bridgeport, Cenn., Dec. 26.—Damage | o /e calerated with no less simplicity pparently used to cover himself | s\ e included wives and_chil- and many win- person or persons who killed her. Last | 1325 foreizners with no right to be ment could reop to the extent of §100,00) was done early | gnq qignity and in the first little | While sleeping. dren of the o O Neil s broken. October the inquiries by the police led | nere and .destined ultimately to dec = = today by a fire that started from an | opo GSTiY @ Rl fie that cng o . . Now Haven to the arrest of the irls brother, | GUILFORD WITHOUT TROLLEY _ junknown cause in the wholesale groc- | inas benind the battle front midnight | Twenty tobacco barns were blown | knocked ints a by a fiying board flrcad reported that its Jean, and her mother, Mme. Marguerite | Lo impossible.” the report ' ery house of the Comstock-Willef was celebrated. From the road (over at Suffield by the gale and one |and drowned. ce between this city and Christophile, who were alleged to have | e to Gescribe the| AND ELECTRIC LIGHT SERVICE.|company at 498 Water street. R et Tatalich 1o e trenrhe N6l acraE ) OF BALSIGE. obetos S Daross usk. S put out of et bad a hand in her deat 4 s which have confronted ihe|Feed Wires Knocked Down by the|DUilding was completely gutted and|.,ciets shooting up into the air from |damaged. Plate glass windows were | g wire Forty poles near Recently reports became current in as the result of the unique sit- % % the stock was practically destroyed | potKe(s SHoolng BP 1o the @t 17 and trolley, telephone and |, A Parge in tow of tus S were blown down. A num- Clermont-Ferrand that a monkey had | uation produced by the existence of the Falling of a Tree. The stock loss is estimated at 350,000 | a2 & W 0SS, KL O0 e D officer ex. lizht service ‘temporarily put | NOrfolk for New England ports, spranz gained entrance to Marie Christophile’s | Isuropean conflict. There has hard- — and the loss on the building at about 2 = 5 chamber and kilied her. As a result 7 Py ford, Conm.. Dec. 26 —Guilfor 5 eak an nl re also blown over near t re s e £ e a4 sank twelve m was partly due to|out of commissio o e of the enforcement of | & C 6.—Guilfora | $20,000. cd that this v par se to n. Trains on the Hartford \ ot o o The rest of the damage was of .\mtl'r.h = el i 'S’r pii "ho““ = the police seardried the town. They|ihe regulations which it has not been | Was Without trclley and electric light | done to the stock and building of the | = i astoal ra d barges I found five of the animals, but an alibi v to \dify, suspend, or re- | SCrvice for a long time today, as a feed | Hubbell and Wade company, paints and Fuses Set Off Every Night. Four hundred thousand dollars in i Tta Tor § o s . el > stock were stolen from a registered S s — has been established for each. its applications. Such propo- | Service for a time today, feed wires , next doo: Two firemen ‘were “Fuses are set off eveny night,” the |5t -3 - r Three Desths Resulted. urch in Hamd v S o and bousgas |1t FRir and Broad streets wore | overcome by smoke from thousands of ven when the moon (il pouch late iast night at Wil- fare tcee in Sront of STREET RIOTS IN THE an borde: knocked down by the falling of a tree . 3 ington, De e s The deaths In the city resulting from gars in the srocery fire. Both were itly ‘as tonight and besides | Mington, Del. while in transit in a taken to a hospital but will recover. |the Germans may, as last year, have . Wilming 3 ve a a em be- & an idea that we are going at them be- | o FHREIAR FOSOCe hetaht ed. A large tree in front of iing W ersaiist club was blown down, owstorm was at its | carrying with it trolley and electric A fireman was fatally Injured | 1i {during the height of the storm. The mage done was later repaired. Tele- phone’ service was badly crippled, 26 SUBURBS OF MOSCOW. Two Thousand People Gathered and the war) Uandling of alien seamen, especial- 1y those employed on vessels of bellig- horse covered wagon from the|the gale occurred this mo on postofiice to the Pennsyl- | the blinding ; fore morning: —_— vhile responding to an alarm. A wom- nber of tugs sought shelter in Looted Bread St erent nations interned in United States | (0041 lines and some toll wires being | $5,000 DAMAGE TO The fuses multiplied at the approach : an was run over by a street car. (1 3 ooted: Dre pres. ports, and the handling of aliens of an | Plown down. BRIDGE AT WATERBURY. |of midnight and on the stroke of twelve | Pope Benedict in replying to the |7 WE8 T OO0 (W, 0 TRREC D90 0 Berlin, via Savville, Dec. 26.—The|€xtremely undesirable type impelled o] ~=——— TR 1 *| the line as far a the horlzon was iI- e :“{:;»G:fi;:dg‘ OB el | the tracks. Another weoman collapsed | WIND-LASHED SEAS Z ML Sayyille, e 2 come to the United States from bellig- | Plenty of Coal in Paris. No Danger of | y, — | luminated as a long line of bril- | half of e Sacred C Ca 2 nd died in the street while batiling Overseas Newa axency today save out | SO0 (0 LS, e B e S e " very g “;"'f S 20"" Dflé’: SWGP[; Awear— | ant stare. | Vannatelli feclingly alluded to the Lt he aalo o Dy to Chareh IN NARRAGANSETT BAY. ®Reports shout Russian law court |Situation arising from the status of| paris Dec. 26 Paris is in 70 dinges Coomr L jous Blown \Dowm: Flashes of different colors could be | “terrible war in Europe” and spoke = procedings now give a vivid ploture | Their native land, are but a few of the cores of persons were more or less of a coal famine, seen far away to the north, although |of the immens ecarnage and cruelties In Many Places the Surf Broke Over T d, ar 2 ! arcel Sembat, min- | Waterbury, Conn., Dec. 26.—Over i precedented i seriously injured i of the street riots during 1915, ~Thus | iaf8er problems with which the bu-|ister of public works, announcal in the | $6,000 damage was done by todays e arora e e Church Struck by Lightning. S B it ls now proved that in the Moscow | (% 2%nis situation has beon no basy | CHalber of deputies today ~ while |storm fo the bridge being constructed | gouincy, 258, ring up there = The Greek government has taken| The Reformed church w Brich- 25.—A seventy- suburbs of Bolsnaya Presnva two | {0 me a a n SY | speaking on a bill resarding the sale|over the Naugatuck river at Bank | CUchez” a lieutena ptatoed. CORTIRCS’ Of Ths Tt Lo ot | foex. Ataten squalls of even greater thousand people gathered and looted | 125K and distribution of coal. M. Sem- |street. Most of the coffer dam was Soldiers Entertained Each Other. i frme rrosd . the bread stores. The Moscow judges bat 1 the stock of coal in the cap- | swept away and the temporary bridge Italian troops near Alvona (Albania) | l#htnin ital actuall vexceeds 200,000 tons and | was weakened until it was safe only stated that the people acted under the | SUSPICIOUS FIRE ABOARD Several miles up the deep wide ditch |and in a fHendly spirit direeted the | tore the lashed Na influence of famine. There were simi- agansett bay today, ti h damage along the water- e s n | with twelve inches of chalky mud at its | Greek minister at Rome to request | the Newark, N. J. ise and | front »r part of the time the storm THE STEAMER INCHMOOR |that ail dancer of a crisis regarding the | for foot traffic. A tall hemlock tree | bottom. fust far enoush from the Gers | ook minister < Vet | two etde i slew from the southwest, backing uj lar riots at Kostroma. According to SLEQMER supply was ended. There has been | placed on the Green for the Christmas | man Huc to permit teom il lerp, sl Infotmahoe s et 204 Pur- | red by falling beams, The patients | the" hishest Boildings the court records it is Proved that the | Fire Seemed to Be Burning in a Dozen s G ine explained, & tos | celebration was blown down, and trees, | diers entertained each other with ‘sim.. = 3 re tran: voded in many o ] - tal of 1,800,000 tons of which 200,000 | billbogrds, poles and stzns were blown | o of thei; i and | 3 P Part of tb s broke over the highways, caus- men arrested by the D\:rlxleuepeab;‘ewt:a)s Places at Once. tons belongs to the government. down*in all parts of the clty, Tele | e ooy o e e s o cand | L e hien Coown | momen an & Dol washouts S0 Rolte ) i ago. During the riots e threw = = - — pione connection with points north ¥ cictory. One or re: t- s "~ o — portant fland was a . i New York, Dec. 26.—TFire, said by ed of victory. One soldier read a lit- | gocuments have beon feung Toriant stones at the police and _the police |, oW, Hork Dee B e reaiions | PLATE GLASS WINDOWS and northwest was broken for several | tle note from home which said ek L apdons | tenement hou: Later the wind whirled suddenly into killed one and wounded sixteen per- Orlgls iwas discavaroAtties aftcraoos BLOWN IN AT BR hours and 100 local wires were out of “This year it is I who played father. - ;‘ it Wi rom correspdon- | nroofed as was a church - lthe northwest," blowing with even dunar; THe rioters jate’ mow. before a | OHEIL, Was diecovered ihis afternoon IDGEPORT. | service. Trolley connection with New | This sear I broke open my savings | C®,With rulers. W ,')”"5*‘ letters Iyn just before the mor © | greater force and driving the tide out e il e e [ - Taven, both by way of Cheshire and | pamk And am Seatine prasenls o wmes |an interesting light upon & began. [of the bay, causing one of the lowest ERMA castle. England, while she was loadmg | oot caiy No Other Damage Was|by way of Derby, was stopped during i . | rule before the beginning of the war. bR BERLIN DENIES GERMANS T ; 3 at the front.” i o i oites loaging Done By the Storm. the afternoon because of snow drifts, | “ipre SO = Embargo on Freight. tides ever seen here. People fllocked CAUSED MISERY IN POLAND. |street, Brooklyn. The loss has not lack of power and trees blown acre The soldier did not,_explain who the 3 i to the shore to see the unusual sight. e S e R ; PO writer was, but Lis thick beard failed | HOSTILITIES ON o Because of the storm ana th The ferryboat Sagamore, running be- been ‘determined, but it will be con- |}, 2 EROTl Conn s, 26— Several | the tracks. All rallroad trains were | (o hide a touching smile with which he THE FRENCH FRONT. | {8000 B e and Ha tween this city and Portsmouth, Did Everything to Furnish Food for | Siderable An apprentice boy on the |;iccs oo e o o e HreE late accepted the reversal of Christmas ior: b el R e i B grounded at her wharf and was on the i istri vessel saw smoke issuing from Hold = s Ry A roles. 2 " o - rmag i bottom for © hours. jilose i im thefOcouplediDIstrict: No. 3 and reported to Captain Thomas | 15 (L, ra0d cany today, but aside| bAMAGE CAUSED BY iThey're singing over there,” said a | Germans Are Sai B el Ak | i ie. The hatches were removed and 5 i i soldier just back from the first line iating Gas. 0 0¢ . per i e Londor Timer o> S2Y- | the fire seemed to be burning in a|lone It Brideeport or vicinity. The WIND IN MERIDEN. | trench. ““They've got an orchestra and stock and coal for STEEPLE BLOWN DOWN 25 and 26 pubMshed an articis abent |doZen places at once. Firemen fousht Y nen Iaintaned: thair scoaules | London and Willimant the misery coused by the German au. | the. flames an hour before they were | NFOUSh the storm. Wires were dowa | Trolley Service they're shouting to beat all, but it| Paris, Dec. 26, § 3 5.15 p. m—"“The hos o in vari i sty | ed Up Owing to|doesn't sound very gay.” ties on the French front, which thus | the Boston and Al IN THE HEAVY GALS, thoritles in the occupied parts of Rue. | SXpnsuished. he ocos directions, DUt by mightfall Fallen Wires. ar have consisted only of cannonades, | [reisht will be accep SO - Lol sian Poland,” says an item given out |, Lh¢ Inchmoor was to have sailed me:!:;fig l\a‘;i blnm virtually restored il Impromptu Concert. may take on a more serious form. ’I\!.rl_v;:kc. W esx.ml:lvi =l ;.r oriioen el A nday by the Overseas News agency today. | Luesday for British ports and 3,400 20T s Meriden, Conn., Dec. 26.—One of the| Meanwhile the impromptu concert in | says the Tempts, in a military review. | Northampton, Mas: chool Usually d—At Barre, "{n reality the German authorities m}:i tons of sugar had been taken aboard S DR T worst storms that has hit Meriden in ! the trenches went on in tones that were: “The wind is biowing from the e: | — everything in order to restore economic | W1¢n the fire was discovered. There |$100,000 Damage in Hartford County. Mass. vears struck the city early Sunday |light, gay and confident. The same | whic = will permit the enemy to use etioity and furnish fo0d to the sema. | Were 800 tons in number 3 hold. The | Hartford, Con " n numbe o | Hare Dec. 25The gale| morning and lasted until late in the | phrate was heard In all the toasts|asphyxiating gas. It is then the most | BUILDINGS UNROOFED AND [, Barre. Mass steamer, a vessel of 2,214 tons, arrived | that howled over Hartford today afternoon. While it was accompanied | &iven here. t Wi eace through | clementary prudence for us to be ready 3 0’ jof a P e erain harvested there was useq |IeTe December 18 from Gibraitar and | the rate of 54 miles an hour 13 con | By smow In the morniag. the Aoy | Victory . With masks and man the batterion. | TREES UPROOTED IN BOSTON.| il ® (¢ ety the pos At Rt | Bermuds siderable damage to property. It was|Wrought was oy the wind. The roof| A little farther from the trenches,| "It is not known where the enemy | pan. Small Boats Torn From Moor. | church Was {mpossible to bring raw material = estimated tonight that the loss would |9f a block owned by E. F. Bassett at | n a bombarded barn covered by an im- | will attempt the supreme effc b S s et the top, for the reopening of factories, the Ger- | REPORT THAT PERSIAN amount to $100,000 in Hartford county, | the corner of East Main and Broad | Provised roof, the night watch was | whez# will the French be surprised by | ings and Cast Ashore. struct man authorities began road building in CABINET HAS FALLEN, | D8lf of it in the city. Small houses | Streets was completely torn off, while | Preceded by a concer: in which the sol- | k, so we are on guard along | ts point order to give work to the population. s *| were blown over and buildings un- |the roofs of adjoining buildings were | diers who jok the milis on the! entire front™ )l usually is dis- Now 26,000 Poles are occupied in this | Considered a Great Diplomatic Vi roofed in various sections. " In one|badly damaged. stage in peace times reversed the order | i the storm there way. Besides, the authorities institut. | 0 = oo oo 2 Great Diplomatic Victory | case, the front of a brick block was| The telephone and telegraph sys-|Of things and with the greatest zest | was Do session today and the church 24 employment offices for those willing For the Entente Allies ripped off. 2 tems suffercd to a great extent and|caricatureq the civilian behind the | ihe army. all of whom have been cited to work outside their home districts.” Trolley and train service were de- |the troliey service was tied up for a|zone occupied by th was empty armies In one or i i | two instances trees were torn up by Sung S OMS liane Sburch. London, Dec. 26.—"“The Persian cab- |layed and telepbgne communications |time owing to fallen wires. inet has fallen” says the Teheran cor- | crippled. ALARMMG RUMORS respondens of Reuter’s Telegraph com- of the day and who himself 1 twice cited for heroic con- EIGHT INCHES OF SNOW 1 preached “Peacs h 3 Vie- 1 » S St Ze - —— their roots and fell across the road| Al along the roads. in thix resion. |; PR S amail boats in ha: FELL AT ALBANY F KAISER"S iLLNESS. | pany. “Prince Firman Firma has been | ==~ Poles falling across the railroad tracks | (WO lines passed in different directions. e mo. c o et premier b,\-i the shah. This OBITOARYE at_the north end of the city caused a »\f-‘mn with e el and lrum W ore \Straa('cl;‘.r Bbolur 5!’1‘;" Anlho;n. ‘T_-,‘,. |1,_..:,\|. schoor Telegraph -:: ';:‘::’:e:: Wires Down is Condi is considered a great diplomatic victo: i delay of trains on the New Haven |EOIDE to take their turn in the trench-| A stretcher bearer, with a military |abled by the & i a i e mfi:: As,,,:“".:'s c[: 0 of | o~ ¢he entente alllea. 2 (i3} 86y e s Edwarcla: Toan AVET | ee, while others were going back to the | medal and a_grenaditr with a war | post r akers off Cape e arin. et A N e 28w Y old village church to swell the congrat- | cross on his breast sang a Christmas | Ann to and s feared tha Dec A gale ac- Prince Firman Firma was appointed m Seymour Edwards, aged §9, for- ulations. Officers, includ general: n em to the accompaniment of the | would pound to s. er crew we ght inches of snow m‘b‘@m’:{fl;?’ l;nn:;:gl:;::: a member o fthe Persian cabiner i Ne. | mer republican national committéeman New York Peace Society. colonels, captain 0 nat and lientenants. with { modest old organ played by a simpie | rescued by t I8 rature. are being clrouiiod "ia |vember. A news despatch at that time | ffOm West Virginia, died today at a| New York. Dec. 26.—The New York |a sprinkling of civilians and many wo- | soldler with ~sich a hospital in Baltimore, according to a|Peace o vhi Car- ane the 5w a oo v 2 . 3 eace society, of which Andrew Car-|men were in attendanct. As in the | the strains were quite as inspiring as Bwitzerlana today concerning Emperor | $31d the prince was considered Russop- | mesgage received here. e was' pot | negis in president, hos united for “close | quarters of the soldiers near the | the best cathedral music. The last | for St Wiliam’s _{llness, according to the only active in politics, but was also | cooperative effort” with the American | trenches, everything in the attitude of | notes, “Peace on Earth, Good Will To- | boy, N gurich correspondent of the Exchange o = . brominent as a_coal and oil operator. | branch of the Leazue to Enforce Peace, | the service brought out the same note: | ward Men.” died away as the congrega- Telegraph company. These rumors lovements teamships. He was deposed as national commit-|which is headed by former President | “Peace through state, says the correspondent, that the| New York, Dec. 26.—Arrived, steam- % ivers Neck and ously hampere@ tele- clegraph communication uncertain the time of the arrival of trains. Telephone companies a | report that their lines were down ! cast and south of here. Telegraph aster hand that en. bound outh Am- attempting to mal harbor her' main hoom apd gaff Victory.” A chaplain | tlon was filing out of the little church, | carrie’ away. The schoomer's sig = ; el o companies sald that many of their = ceman last spring by the election of | Willlam H. Taft, according to an- | with the Red Ribbon of the Legion of | while in the distance the booming of | of distress were answered by the Ii » had been broken by the | jmperors condiion i3 causing pro-|er Stockholm, Gothenberg. ' Salled,|Virgil L. Highland of Clarksburs to|nouncement made todoy by William H. | Honor on his surplice, who had lost ' canmon recalled “No truce for Christ- | guard men who {ried-to tow her to & storm. Traing peached. Albany. from 3 lound anxiety in Berlin. steamer Califorr that nlice. Short, secretary of both organizations. 'several brgthers and has four more in mass” 3 safe anchorage, but as she seemed 3¢ minutes to four hours late.