Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 5, 1916, Page 1

fln the Stripa and Volhynian Districts of Russia _ and in East Galicia ' : (CAPTURE A LARGE NUMBER OF GERMANS i v Muscbvites Have Occupied a Line of Trenches Northeast of ; :Czernowitz and Have Repulsed Strong Counter Attacks | —Austrians Have Captured an Italian Trench Near Tol- mino—The Montenegrins Have Recaptured Bogievac From the Austrians, Inflicting on Them Heavy Losses— 110,000 Serbians in Albania Will Soon be Ready to Re- _ enter the Fray. hynian districts of Russia and in east | Galicla thé Russlans are on the of- fensive as revealed by the official com- municatigns from poth Petrograd and Czernowitz, capital of Bu- is now the position around most important fighting is | ‘. Bverywhefe in the Stripa and Vol- . Russian Successes. The Russian war office reports that jthe Russians have occupied a line of trenches northeast of Czernowitz and have repulsed strong counter-attacks. & report of the evacuation of wits and the capture of a large i including Ger- the Russians. ' has begn a strong advance by ,muam: on this front, though Vier says that the Russian attacks |have been umsuccessful and that their 10&ses have Peen appalling, in one sec- tor six milés in width 2,300 Russian dead hm? been counted.... Little Change on Othar Fronts. On nong of the other fronts has any change of importance taken place. The Austrians have captured an Italian trench pear Tolmino and the Monte- negrins have recapt: Bogievac from the A ns, inflicting on them se- Woes lofcs, Sl Affairs inAlbania. Unafficial advices. from Athens re- port 30,000 Bulgariahs as having reach- €G thé region of Tirana, northwest of Elbaskan, in -Albania, and that Al- Baniar irregulars, commanded by Bul- gariah officers, have exchanged shots With the Italian outposts near Durazzo, on ;the Adriatic. It is asserted thai there are 100,000 Serbians now in Al- Who will soon be ready to re- enfer the fray.: WOULD SUEMIT COMPLAINT TO/ U. 8. NAVY OFFICERS. * likking ‘of ‘Getran Sakmarine by & S British Auxiliary Cruiur.‘ Jan. 4, 6.40 p. m—A British official gtatement issued today says: “Sir /Edward Grey (secretary for foreign affairs) has answered the com- plaint’ by the Germans through the n embassies regarding the de- Hion” off the coast of Ireland of a “These forces,” adds the .despatch, “are almost completely reorganized and will shcrtly be amply provided with uniforms, artillery and horses. No decision has yet been reached as to how these forces will be utilized.” GERMANY'S EXPORT TRADE SUBSTANTIALLY DESTROYED According to White Paper Presented * in British tially destroyed,” says a foreign office White Paper presented in parliament today, outlining the policy adopted to enforce the blockade of Germany. The paper adds: “German . imports also have been greatly reduced, such important sta- ples as cotton, wool and rubber bein excluded and others like fats, oils an: dalry products being obtainable in Germary only at.famine prices; while advices reaching His Majesty’s gov- ernment show discontent among the population and food riots in some of the larger towns. WITH PREMONITION THAT HE 4 WILL BE KILLED IN ACTION eut. W. K, Evans, British Aviator, Leaves to Join His Squadron. Chicago, Jan. 4. —Feeling certain that he will be killed in action, Lieut. ‘W. K. Evans, of the British army fi ing squadron left for New York today, thence he will said for France to re- join his squadron. Lieutenant Evans has been in Chi- cago two months recovering from in- Jjuries suffered while flying above the battlefield in Flanders. His observer, he sald, was killed by the shell which caused his own injuries. “I do not expect to come out of the war alive,” he said. CREW OF THESSALONIKI HAVE TAKEN TO LIFEBOATS Wireless Message Indicates the Ship A Probably Sinking. New York, Jan. 4.—A wireless mes- sage which came in fragments at 8.35 submarine ‘and crew by the auxiliary Baralong by referring to us German outrages. Sir Ed- Grey offers to submit such inci- dents, including the Baralong case, to an fmpartia} tribunal composed, say, of. h.:gs of thé United States navy.” . The foreign office has presented to the Iao)ue of commons the full corre- lence befween Ambassador Page 8ir Edv‘;vd Grey concerning the ‘Bri{ he sinking of the sub- o'clock tonight from the Greek liner Thessaloniki stated that the crew had taken to.the lifeboats. The manner in which the meseage was received indicated that the dis- abled ship, concerning whose move- ments there has been mucth mystery for several days, was in serious trouble and probably sinking. A wireless message received earlier in the evening indicated hat- the steamer United States, wh! went to the Thessaloniki’s aid yesterday, prob. A x:nfon.ndum from Germany loses affidavits from six lcansy J. J. Garrett of Kiln, es G. Hightower of Crystal B Emerson Palen, De- Edward Clark of Detroit, by of Kansas City and James ‘Chicago. 've were all muleteers aboard er Nicosian and witnessed the ‘s destruction of the subma- er affidavit from Larimore \d of Chattanooga, Tenn., who lember of the crew of the Bara- A submitted. All the affidavits of the Baralong as disguised and fiying the American flag. KING CONSTANTINE RECONCILED TO PRESENCE OF ALLIES Frorec) Has Considerably Altered His View- point.in the Last Month. /Athens, Yia Rome, .‘hn.‘l, 1:15 p. m. —-‘(n‘hieg‘),—’l'he king of the Greeks month. considerably altered is viewpoint Speaking to Press in the ‘Th ndent today on the present in Greece, the king, while ¢ his determination not to d or persuaded to abandon 2 _no longer spoke of demob- and seemed to be reconciled {dea of the allies remaining in until the end of the war. authority it is last lated tance to the ; left the f for further discussion, <in the’ spring, when ; IA REORGANIZED. 100,000 4o Be Amply Provided With 2 lfif{nm, Artillery and Horses. Jan. 4, 9.40 a. m.—; ' Peter's ‘ un- "Lafayette, ably was in the vicinity of the dis- abled Greek liner. Whether the United States reached the Thessaloniki be- fore the boats were lowered could not be ascertained. The captain and 90 members of the crew were reported to be on board the Thessaloniki. Her passengers, 300 in all, had previously been transferred to the steamer Patris, a sister ship of the same line. For 10 days there has been much mystery concerning the disability of the Greek liner. She has repeatedly sent out distress signals, but vessels have reported she did, not give her exact position. PASSENGER LOST FROM WARD LINER. Daniel McLoughlin Either Jumped or Fell Overboard. Havana, Jan. 4—The Ward liner Monterey, which arrived here today, reports that Daniel McLoughlin, a first class passenger, of Boston, either jumped or fell overboard Jan. 1st off Nassau. Although the steamer stopped and the man was taken aboard eight minutes after having struck the water, ic was Impossible to revive him. GASOLINE BATH AS PREVENTIVE OF TYPHUS For Suspects of Unusual Untidiness at Laredo, Neuve Laredo, Mex., as one of the preventives for introduction of typhus infection there. It is applied only to suspects of unusual personal untidiress. The re- ciplent of this bath has his head shayed before being treated. Dr. Claude C. Pierce, special representa- tive of the United States public health and marine service, said today that with -proper precautions he believed there was no meed to fear a typhus epidemic along the border. Movements of Steamships. Bord Jan. 2.—Sailed: Steamer e, New. York, ‘New York, Jan. 4.—Sailed:” Steam- er Rochambeau, Bordeaux. East Haven—The local teléphone com; new | CONTEMPT PROCEEDINGS Vigorously Protests Because He Had to Come to New York at His Own Expense. New York, Jan. 4 —William Jennings |. Bryan vigo: in a suit for libel. + ; T am here under duress,”| declared Mr. Bryan, “because it is the,only can avoid contempt proceed- Mr. Bryan was examined in an ac- tion brought against a Greek news- paper. He was questioned concern- ing the sale by the United States to Greece of the old battleships Idaho and Mississippi, but said ‘he knew nothing of the details. He denled that he gave any secrets of gun fire con- trol to the Greek government or that ‘while secretary of state he had seen any letter written to influence him against Agamemnon Schliemann, for- mer Greek minister to: the United States. He aso said he had not heard criticisms alleged to have been made of him by Schliemann. According to Mr. Bryan, the sale of the battleships was a matter which rested entirely with the navy depart- ment. He admitted that gun fire con- trol secrets might have been divulged by the navy department without his, knowledge or that -jthe state depart- ment might have attended to some details of routine work without his personal knowledge.” The suit is the outgrowth of a statement in the Greek newspaper that the plaintiff, Petros P. Tatania, wrote or caused to be written. a letter with a view to bringing about ill-feeling be- tween Mr. Bryan and the former Greek minister, INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS DESIGNED TO PREVENT WAR. Endorsed by Overwhelming Refersn- dum Vote of Commercial Organiza- tions. ‘Washington, Jan. 4.—Commercial organizations throughout the country composing the Chamber of Commerce of the United States have voted over- whelmingly at a referendum just com- pleted in favor of international agree- ments designed to prevent war. The vote, which was on six recommenda- tions of a special committee of the chamber, was announced tonight as F aors .Favoring conferences among. .neus M"ca--'nnncuu Tules guaranteeing safety, of life and property at sea 762; oposed 29. Favoring an international court to interprete international law. 753; op- posed 21. Favoring a council of concilation to determine disputes not covered by es- tablished rules 744; opposed 28. Favoring an agreement to bring economic pressure to bear on a na- tion resorting to war 556; opposed 157. Favoring an ement to bring concerted milit pressure to bear to prevent war 452; opposed 249. This is sixteen votes short of th This sixteen votes short of the two- thirds necessary to approve. Favofing - frequent international conferences 769; opposed 13. WORLD-WIDE URITY OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES Object of Conference of Ciergymen Opened at Garden City. New York, Jan. 4—A conference of clergymen which has for its object the uniting of all Christian _churches throughout the world opened at Gar- den City this evening. The delegates represent many de- nominations, including Protestant Episcopal, Baptist, Lutheran and Pres- byterian. ' The assemblage is known as the North American preparatory conference and has a total member- ship of 203. The meeting this evening was given over to devotional exercises and read- ing of a report by the secretary and an address by the Right Rev. Bishop C. P. Anderson of Chicago; also the reading of a letter from Cardinal Ple- tro Gasparri, papal secretary of state, written, it was said, at the direction of Pope Benedict. Robert H. Gardner, secretary of the conference, read the letter from Car- dinal -Gasparri, .in which he said that Pope Benedict was pleased with the project “in the sincerest spirit and without prejudice.” GOAT MILK FOR POOR CHILDREN OF BERLIN Latest Plan of Prussian Ministry of Agriculture. Berlin, Jan. 4, via London, Jan. 5., 4.05 a. m.—The poor children of Ber- lin will suffer less from a shortage of milk if the latest plan of the Prussian ministry of agriculture proves a suc- cess. It was announded today that a large number of milch goats will be purchased in the near future and farme dout among the herders.in the province of Brandenberg and that the milk from them will be distributed free to Berlin children. The goats’ milk will be reserved exAl clusively for the children of families in poor circumstances, who will not need in future to suffer from the fluc- tuations in the supply of cows' milk, The chamber of agriculture in the province of Brandenberg is to be charged with the buying of the goats. The distribution of the milk will be entrusted to the National Assoctation. —— ] NEW MEASURES INTRODUCED IN CONGRESS YESTERDAY. Include a Resolution of Thanks to Henry Ford For His Peace Mission. ‘Washington, Jan. 4—Hundreds of measures - in luced when con- gress' reconvened today included bills or resolutions to extend the t of congress to Henry Ford for his peace mission, to precent clearance from American ports of ships car- rying both p: and munitions of war, to establish a United States commission for enduring®peace might act as interms between ‘Woman's PRESIDENT PROMISES IMMEDI- ATE ACTION i : ) WILL WAIT FOR FACTS Two Facts to be Established Are Whether Persia Was Actually Tor- pedoed, and, if so, the Nationality of the Submarine. . ‘Washington, Jan. 4—There was ng lessening today of the tension in the new submarine crisis with President ‘Wilson’s return to the Wb.%‘ House to take personal charge of L situa- tion, but there were marked indica- tions of the president's intention to proceed carefully -and deliberately be- fore committing the United States to the next tep in its -already strained relations with the Teutonic powers. Hopeful of Amicable Settlement. At the state department the hope ‘was expressed that there would be op- portunity to settle the crisis amica- bly and it was stated that the Amer- (Continuea on Page Six) NO TIDINGS OF MISSING WALTHAM MAN: Search of Police and Boy Scouts Proves Fruitless. ‘Waltham, Mass,, Jan. 4—DMore than one hundred men and boys today an- swered the call for volunteers to aid in the search for Thomas F. Kearns, until yesterday mayor of the city, who has been missing since last Thursday. Led by the police and Boy Scouts, the party planned to search the woods and fields on all sides of the city. Yes- terday members of the .Boy Scouts hunted along both banks of the Charles river for several miles without finding any trace of the missing man, A printed circular bearing a picture and des tion of Mr. Kearns was prepared by the police today to be mailed to police departments through- out this section of the country in the hope that if he wandered away while ill, which is the general theory, he may be recognized and returned to his home. q Mr. Kearns was last seen in this city last Thursday afternoon, at which time he appeared to be very ilL NEGROES FOR JURORS s I THERN. STATES. Supreme Court Asked to Pass Justice . of Their Exciusion. ‘Washington, Jan. 4.—The supreme court was asked today to pass on the Qquestion of whether the failure in southern states to select negroes for jury duty is denial to negroes ac- cused of crime of the equal protec- tion of the law. Counsel for Robert Kitchen, a negro, tenced to be hanged in Wash! on County, Gr., for the murder of Henry Brantley, a white man, flled a brief declaring that the federal district court in south- ern Georgia erred in refusing to re- leas® Kitchen, after conviction on a writ of habeas corpus. The brief contended that the failure to have ne- groes on the grand and petit juries which passed on Kitchen’s case de- proved the trial court of jurisdiction. WORCESTER ACADEMY STUDENT ACCIDENTALLY SHOT HIMSELF. Revolver Was Discharged WiI He Was Cranking Auto. Wellesley, Mass., Jan. 4.—Josep Spring, a Worcester academy student of this town, accidentally shot and killed himself in a local garage early today. Spring, with two_ friends, Charles Welsbach of New York and Archie Connelly of Wellesley, had been riding in an automobile which broke down. . Later theéy went to the garage for a car to tow it home. According to ConneHy, he and Wels- bach were sitting in the machine and Spring was cranking it when the ac- cident happened. Spring, he said, car- ried the revolver in his hip pocket. He was shot in the back. CONDITIONS IN HAITI ARE MUCH IMPROVED. Rear Admiral Caperton Says Culti- vation of Lands is Being Resumed. ‘Washington, Jan. 4—Rear Admiral Caperton, commanding the American forces in_ Halti, notified the navy de- partmen# today .that conditions throughout the island republic were much improved. In the northern por- tion, he sald, the outlook was better than for many years, cultivation of lands being resumed and much of the country abandoned during the revol- ationary disturbances being reoccu- pied. BANKRUPT PROCEEDINGS AGAINST OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN. Application Has Been Made For the Appointment of a Receiver. New York, Jan. 4—An involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed today. in the federal district court against Oscar Hammerstein, the grand opera impresario, by three creditors whose claims amount to about $6,500. The petition alleges unsecured debts about $60,000 and assets of about $40,- 000. Mr. Hammerstein is charged with having made preferential pay- ments to various creditors while in a state of insolvency. Application has been made for the appointment of a receiver. 2 OBITUARY. S Nathan F. Grisweold. - Meriden, . Conn,, Jan. 4.—Nathan F. 9 - - cut, died at his home vhere this eve- ning after a illness incidental to FROM SAFE DEPOSIT BOX IN NEW MILFORD BANK When Benjamin W. Seeley of Wash- ington, Ct, Went to Get Them He Found Only-a Frw Scraps of Waste Paper. Danbury, Jan. 4—n an effort to locate $17,000 worth of securities which Benjamin W. Seeley, of 'Washington, this state, entrusted to the care of the late Seymour S. Green, the New Mil- ford bank president and hat manufac- turer and which were supposed to be in a safe deposit box in the New Mil- ford National bank, Attormey Samuel A. Davis of this city, counsel for Mr. | Seeley, has flled against the estate of Mr. Green a claim for the -.mount/e! the missing securities. Only Scraps of Paper Remain. Mr. Seeley is prominent in the af- fairs of Litchfield county. Mr. Green was his financial adviser and through him Mr. Seeley rented a safe deposit box in the new Milford bank and kept thousands of dollars in stocks, bonds and other securities there at differ- ent times. Last spring Mr. Seeley had $17,000 worth of securities in the box and it is stated had every reason to believe that they were still there until a short time ago, when he had occasion to opengthe box. When the box was opened the securities were missing, only a few scraps of paper remaining therein, whereas Mr. Seeley expected to find the $17,000. Unable to Account for Loss. Mr. Seeley is at a loss to account for the missing securities and bonds, but asserts the bellef that Mr. Green did not take them. In order, however, to investigate the matter through proper channels. Mr. Seeley allowed Judge Davis to flle a claim for the lost securities against Mr. Green's es- tate. About $200,000 in claims have been filed against the Green estate to date. The estate is insolvent and has bgen appraised at only $40,000. HUERTA DECLARED OUT OF IMMEDIATE DANGER Relieved of Fluid in Intestinal Tract Due to Jaundice. E].Paso, . Texas, Jan' c.—a-x:x Victoriano Huerta was declared It of immediate danger late today by physician, following a tapping o) tion to relieve him of fluid in testinal tract due to jaundice. * The operation today, the third since Saturday, was performed without anaesthetics, because of General Huerta’s wesakened condition. ‘That the patient is in a serious condition was _conceded by his physiclan, Dr. M. P. Schuster, although, when his at- torney, Thomas Lea, mayor of ¥l Paso, called previous to the operation, General - Huerta was said to be as cheerful as usual. ‘The diagnosis upon which the oper- ations have been performed have not been revealed by Dr. Schuster, al- though an opinion by a. consulting physician representing Mayor Lea, in- dicated the patient was suffering from cancer of the gall bladder and possi bly hardening of the liver. This opin: jon was rendered prior to any opera- tion. General Huerta refuses the services of a trained nurse, insisting upon the attendance of his wife. OPENING BESSIéN OF RHODE ISLAND LEGISLATURE. Leaders of Republican Majority to Provide for a Budget Clerk. Providence, R. 1, Jan. 4—No organ- ization proceedings were required at the opening of the legislature today, as officers of both branches were chosen last winter to serve through the two sessions for which members were elected in 1914. It is expected that a large part of the session will be occu- pied with consideration of financial tters. T eaders of the republican majority have announced their intention to in- troduce bills providing for a budget clerk, entrusted with the duty of pre- paring for tho finance committee of the house of representatives at the be- ginning of each legislative session a report as to the needs of each state department; for an Inheritance tax, a tax on savings deposits in 1 nationa banks and a corporation tax and for an increase in the state tax for the purpose of constructing and maintain- ing state roads. CONCORD, N. H,, GETS TAXES ON ONE-SIXTH OF EDDY ESTATE Had Claimed That Entire Trust Fund of $2,500,000 Was Taxable in State. Concord, N. H., Jan. 4—The New Hu.mpqmg'e supreme court today decid- ed that the city of Concord is entitled to taxes upon but one-sixth of ' the trust fund of $2,600,000 created by the late Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science church.. Con- cord had claimed that the entire fund was taxable in this state, while the town of Brookline, Mass., presented a claim for the taxation of the larger portion of it in Massachusetts. of | gT. PAUL GETS NATIONAL PROHIBITION CONVENTION Change Made Because of Unsatisfac- tory Hall at Minneapolis. St. Paul, Minn, Jan. 4—The na- tional pohibition convention will be held at the Auditorium here June 19 next instead of at Minneapolis, the place originally set by 'the national executive committee’at Chicago. This ‘was announced tonight by W. G. Cal- derwood, member ‘of- the commiittee, who said the change was made be- cause of lack of a satisfactory con- vention hall at eapolis. o Directors of the Miami Co Sz declared a qu::b Mm Der share. The United States' recessed until after Justice Lamar. ‘The funeral of Tom#sso Salvini, the famous Italian actor, was held at . Supreme Court the funeral of Mrs. Emily Crawford, British news- paper womau and historical writer, died in London. - Total | recei| and pled; of the Aoy, =i ez ot 2 unt to $995,086. Officers of Chicago automobile clubs have demanded a searching investiga- tion of gasoline prices. The French Government has decid- ed on'a general uisitioning of crude leather beginning January 5. About 33,000 persons heard Billy Sunday open his “fight the devil” campaign ‘at Trenten, N. J. Railroads running to Galveston is- sued an embargo against all domestic and export grain shipments. Striking toolmakers of the New Eng- land Westinghouse Co., called off their strike and returned to work. Francis M, Webster, scientist of the government bureau of entomology died of pneumonia at Columbus, Ohio. Gold production in the United States during 1915 amounted to $98,891,100, an increase of $4,359,300 over 1914. Minneapolis received 233,000 bush- els of grain in 1915, breaking the fvi)rmer high record by 42,000,000 bush- els. Colonel Robert Thompson Van Horn, founder of the Kansas City Jounral, d}? at Kansas City. He was 91 years i ;s A liarge oleomargarine factory at Aarhu Denmark, the only one of its :um in Scandanavia, was destroyed by re. 3 Patrick Hayes, warden of the Black- well's Island tentiary for 26 years, has applied for retirement on a pen- sion. Wage increases 10 per cent. were eratives in eight Mass. 5 During two years, the Pennsylvania Blflrm(! system carried 361,672,114 passengers, without a fatal accident to a passenger. ranging from & to grantea to 13, mills n°wm The plant of the South Berkshire Marble company at Ashley Mass.,, was destroyed by fire ml:;m,‘ IKoss of $100,000. to of " Emperor William sent a message rdinal Hartmann, PN jew g‘ll thanking him fo b i ‘ologne, or his Year’s god wishes. A heavy storm struck the Pacific coast. The coast guard cutter Sno- homish went ashore on Bainl Island, ten miles from Seattle. ~Theodore A. Edlnla son of the in- ventor, was fined $1.50 and costs for operating his automobile at South Orange, N. J., with & 1915 license. A decree issued by the Italian gov- ernment places under military con- trol all port gnd dock laborers. The action was taken to prevent strikes. Philadelphi; hirt waist makers have asked for a 15 per cent. increase in wages, a maximum of 50 hours a week and recognition of their organi- zations. Many Germ: officers wounded or disabled while serving with the army are being .trained to become mayors in the smaller cities, and general bus- ligious manta. Joseph Thomas and Fred Wilson, both long term prisoners, escaped from the New Jersey state prison at Tren- ton by scaling the high wall with a rope ladder. Ed G. H. Bucheneau of Syracuse; N. Y. a Billy Sunday convert, murder- ed his wife with a hammer at their home while suffering from a fit of re- ligiousmania. A number of mills were flooded and many people driven from their homes by the rise of the Ohio river at Alle- gheny, Pa. The cold s intervened to prevent a flood. Two men were killed at Lackawan- na City, N. Y, when a ladle contain. ing three tons of moilten metal tipped over while running on a trestle above 25 workmen. Ae lanes were used for ambulance work for the first time during the French retreat from Serbia , when French wounded were removed to Scutari by aeroplane. A contract for the construction of at Oakland, ding Cal, by Hind, Rolph & Sons Co., of San Francisco. i subsidiary rai 3 panies will give all their employes a salary bonus of 10 per cent. of their earnings each month until July 1: A ‘wage increase approximating five per cent. will go into efféct in the Lockwood cotton mills at Waterviile, Maine, on' January 17, to notices posted ‘today. employes are affected. —— e R. I. LEGISLATURE HONORS MRS. WILSON HAS TAKEN UP HER NEW DUTIES AS MISTRESS il Is to Open Frli‘ly Night With the Pan-American Reception in the Blue Room—War Calls for Tact in -lssu- ance of Invitations. ‘Washington, Jan. 4—Mrs. Woodrow ‘Wilson took up her duties today as mistress of the White House. Soon after her arrival, with the president from their honeymoon at Hot Springs, she was busy with arrangements for the brilliant social season that opens Friday night with the Pan-American reception in the Blue room. War Calls For Exercise of Tact. The state department’s list divid- ing forelgn diplomats between the two diplomatic ‘dinners that will be given this yesr because of the Europ- ean war was sent to;the White House during the day. - It will be gone over carefully by the president and Mrs. Wilscn before it is made public or in- vitations issued. Neutrais to Be Divided. The task of determining to which of the dinners the representatives here of neutral governments. should be in- vited, which for a ‘time presented a difficult problem was solved by desig- nating them alternately from the of- ficial diplomatic list. The neutrals under this plan will be divided equal- ly between the dinners at which rep- resentatives of the Teutonic and those of the entente. powers will be present. One of the diplomatic dinners will be held January 11 and the other on January 21. CARRANZA TROOPS ARE IN PURSUIT OF VILLA. Moving Westward Along the Edge of the Guerrero District. El Pasq, Tex, Jan. 4—Despite state- ments of Carranza military chieftains that no atf t _wouM be made to pursue Gen Villa and the troops still in arms against the de facto government in the Guerrero dis. trict of southwesterh Chthuahua, it became known today, tbhrough advices at the Mexican northwestern railroad offices, that troops are again moving out of Chihuahua City and Juarez westward along the edge of the Guerrero district. According to theése advices Carranza troops are to _occupy every station| along the line as a garrison to preserve | railrcad comniunication. . Daylight service of daily trains be- tween Juarez and Mexico City via Chihuahua City has been established. OVERCOME BY GAS EUMES IN GARAGE. Ronald McDonald of Quincy, Mass., Found Dead in Rear of Home._ Quincy, Mass,, Jan. 4—Ronald Mc- Donald, eastern representative of a Chicago mail order house, was over- come by gas fumes in a small garage in the rear of his home during the nlg:t and was dead when found early to . McDonald retired as usual, but when the temperature began to fall he went to the garage to put a blanket on his automobile. About 2.30 o'clock his wife missed him and hearing the en- gine of the automobile running called . a neighbor to investigate. All efforts to revive McDonald were unavailing. EARL D. LINNELL SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS IN JAM. Former Bookkeeper of Palmer National Bank Pleaded Guilty. Boston, Jan. 4—Earl D. Linnell, for- mer bookkeeper in the Palmer National | bank at Palmer, Mass., pleaded guilty ' in the federal court today to a charge ; of stealing $1,100 of the bank funds and making false entries in the books | and was sentenced to five years in the | Greenfleld jail. United Stdtes District Attorney An- derson, who prosecuted the case, ex- pressed the opinion that the sentence | was too severe, but explained that it | was the minimum permitted under the statutes. OBITUARY. Theophilus Parsons. Boston, Jan. 4.—Theophilus Parsons, president of the Amoskeag Manufac- turing company end treasurer of the Lyman mills of Holyoke, Mass., died' at his home in this city today, aged :8 n European came agent of the Pocasset turing company of Fall' River in 1880 and four years later was made treas- ' urer of the Lyman mills. He also was a director in several other corpora- . tions. STRIKE OF LABORERS AT YOUNGSTOWN, PA. .| Began in a Small Way a Week Ago— 2,800 Men Now Out. Youngstown, Ohio, Jan. 4. — The strike of laborers at the Republic Tron