Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 21, 1916, Page 1

Yiolent Attacks by Reinforced Russian Armios Are - Being Launched Against Austrians 'HAND-TO-HAND ENCOUNTERS IN THE TRENCHES MofC;flnow&zthekuuimC‘nilfihHuvew-n " Austrian Sector and to Have Repulsed Five Desperate Counter Attacks—Muscovites Report Tells of Destruc- tion of 163 Sailing Vessels in the Black Sea by Russian Torpedo Boats—In the Caucasus the Turks Have Been Thrown From Their Positions in the Center of a Long Front—Fighting HnBeenResumedBetweentheA\f- £\ Violent attacks by the Russians, th strongly reinforced are fensive here is of a sanguinary char indicated by the Austrian offi- Which savs that between Toporoutz and Boyan the Russians at séveral places succeeded in entering the trenches of the Teutons and en- ed the in hand-to-hand unters. e North of Czernowitz the Russians claim to have captured an ustrian sector and to have repulsed five des- n‘m official communication is of & raid on the Black sea by g‘-llan boats, 168 sailing vessels being destroyed along the An- “In the Caucasus the Turks, accord- ing to Petrosrad., were thrown from their Wflflflm m; cenu‘: of the long front, s g heavy losses. 1In addition to the usual artillery and mining operations on the western line in France and Belgium, the British have essayed an h:!antr{_ attack agains. the Germans north of Freling- hien. Berlin reports that the attack was put down. . Anneuncement is made in the Brit- ish Bouse of commons that the British MILITARY SERVICE BILL PASSED BY COMMONS COM. Vet with No Opposition—~Announced Amid Loud Cheers. London, Jan. 20, 11.58 p. m.—The litary service gill passed through E’é committee of the house of com- mons at 11 o’clock tonight amid loud s, Walter Hume Long, president of the loéal kovernment board, in 2 speech closing the discussion, said he desired to remove the impression that under this bill the government was creating a great monster in the form of mil- itary. machine which would grab at Any man coming within its scope. There was no intention that the war office should act with undue severity, but, on the contrary, it intended to maintain the present system almost identical, but giving it a statutory position it had hitherto not occupied. Philip Snowden, the socialist mem- ber for- Blackburn, speaking as an ment of the bill, pald a warm tribute to the generous way the bill had been piloted through the house by Andrew Bonar Law and Mr. Long. Mr. r Law then expressed the grateful thangs of himself and Mr. Long to all sections for the restraint shown in committee. John Dillon, Nationalist, added that never seen a bill which might easily have led to passionate, heated debate conducted through the house with greater -skill or in a more con- siliatory manner. He thought that Premier Asquith had . never shown greater skill than in leaving its con- duct to Mr. ‘and Mr. Bonar Law. e Sl s BOMB SUSPECT ARRESTED BY NEW YORK POLICE. Was Carrying Explosive in a Throng of Several Hundred Perso New York, Jan. 20.—A man carrying case containing what ‘the police ' 'was a bomb of great explosive power was arrested tonight in the midst of a throng of several hundred on the main promenade of the lyn bridge by detectives attach- »4 to the “bomb squad.” He was taken Into custody after he had been trailed tor several minutes through the arch- ways of the municipal building near R SR tiss e ik hceciiis said ‘his name was ll‘i’cha!a Grasiano, a dijand late in the column coming up the Tigris valley to the relief of Kut-el-Amara is in close touch with the Turks at Essin, seven miles from Kut-el-Amara. This region doubtless soon will be the scene of a big battle between the relief col- umn and ‘the British hemmed in be- tween Kut-el-Amara and the Ottoman forces. . Although it has been officially an- nounced that fighting had been re- sumed tween the Austrians and Montenegrins no news concerning the details of the new operations has come through. King Nicholas is declared to be at Podgoritza, with his troops. . The military service bill has passed the committee of the house of com- mons after having been amended so as to meet with the approval of some of those originally opposed to it. Emperor William has: returned to Germany after a visit to the Balkans. Colonel . M. House, President Wil- son's personal representative, after conferred with British officials, ?rlr:‘h i onm An:erir: 'm:"roe respect n - co; and malls, has departed from London for Paris to confer with the French officials. - The British house of -com- ‘mons next Wednwefiu wol;l begin dis- cussion of of a of Gmnyfil.;y-th‘i ~British fleet. EXTENSIVE USE OF COTTON FOR MILITARY PURPOSES Great ‘Britain’s Reason for Placing It on the Contraband List. ‘Washington, Jan. 20.—In anticipa- tion of the expected attack by the United States on the legality of the action of the allied governments in placing cotton on the contraband list, the British embassy here issued 2 statement today on behalf of the British military authorities designed to show the extensive use of cotton for military purposes. The statement points out that in the form of guncotton a quarter of a pound of the staple is required to produce one pound of ballistate; cor- dite requires four-tenths of a pound of cotton for a pound and the nitro- cellulose powders in military use con- sist almost entirely of guncotton. Other military uses of cotton mention- ed are in the making of clothing, sheeting, tents, ammunition bags and mining explosivfes. In econclusion it is declared that even if substitutes for cotton were possible, the fact that it can be used for military purposes Jjustifies its classification as contra- ‘ban d. From semi-official German sources recently has come the report that cot- ton no longer is used by the Teutonic powers in the manufacture of explo- sives, a_cheaper and more desirable substitufe having been developed from ‘wood pulp. - VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN MINE WORKERS’ PRESIDENT Passed at Convention Now in Se: at Indianapol Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 20. — The forces in the United Mine Workers of America who t to have an inves- tigation made of the financial affairs of that on were routed today when by a vive voce vote, in which few dissenting voices were heard, the miners’ convention defeated the reso- lution pro for ‘a committee of three to look into the affairs of the association. The vote of confidence in the ‘administration of John P. White came after eight hours of oratory in which® cl and counter-charges were hurled back and forth, :After the fight was over the conven- tion settled down to the consideration of mi: us ot .of resolutions day President White taken | made a report on the wage scale situa- HANGED HER DAUGHTER, ©. HER SON AND HERSELF Husband and_Father Found Bodies When He Returned from Work. T !cau‘ N. Y., Jan, 20—Mrs, Edwin mfl ml old, hanged her four- , her two-year-old ' ‘herselt Jrih thige = tion. He announced that a joint con- ference of anthracite operators and miners will be held in New York Feb. hs situation o the canteat Dlommiics e situation in the tuminou: fleld and officially nmed the conven? tion that a wage conference for this i ‘will be hteld llluoblla, Ala., . , as was formal annd last Monday. ” it PLEA OF ABATEMENT FOR BANKERS INDICTED room |In Connection With Falure of the Grafton, W. Va, Bank. Grafton, W. Va., Jan. 3 . 20.—A nnunumtvu" in_court Lersgind ot | HAD BEEN HEMMED IN TRIANGLE | FOR: SLAYING OF HER HUSBAND ‘CONTROL OF WATER POWER _IN THE More Than One-Quarter of It is Con- trolled by Six Companies. ‘Washington, Jan. 20.—Control of the Service oparations bas mlgn&' the ice operat 3 hands of a comparatively small group maze of muq—mwfi?;w to a special report se congress today by the department of agricul- ture. ~ Eighteen corporations are shown to be in control of more than half of the water power employed in operation of public utilities, while more than one- quarter of it is controlled by these six | companies: Stone and Webster Man- agement assocl: Montana Power company, Utah Securities corporation, E. W. Clark & company management tion, Southern Power company. flnfiaflydnunc company of Niagara Of these, the Stone and Web- ster company is the largest single holder of water power control, and after the Water and Power company and the Pacific Light and Power com- pany are mext in extent of control, PROGRAM PROPOSED TO PREVENT WARS At Annual Convention of Chamber of * Commerce of United States. New York, Jan. 20.—Delegates to the annual convention of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, mem- bers of which in a referendum recent- ly endorsed the fundamental proposals of the League to Enforce Peace, will be asked to present a plan of co-opera- tion between the two organizations, according to announcement made after a meeting of the executive committee of the league here today. The pro- gramme proposed to prevent wars in future calls for the establishment of a world court of conciliation whose.man- dates would be enforced by the joint military strength of the nations which united in the league. Present at the meeting here today were Willlam Howard Taft, president of the league: A. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard university; for- mer Judge Alton B. Parker, General Frank S. Streeter, Hamilton Holt and Dr. Frederick Lynch, RESTORATION OF PROTECTIVE TARIFF ASKED FOR In Resolution Adopted by the American Protective Tariff League. AR 7y TR k. . the- “prompt réstoration of an ‘adequately protective tariff” should be the jssue.of the presidential and con- gressio campaigns of 1916 was unanimously = adopted at the - annual meeting here today of the American Protective Tariff league. The organ- ization decided questions new methods of tariff legislation should be left for subsequent consideration by congress. Francis L. Leland of this city was elected president and Mr. Wakeman was again named treasurer and gen- eral secretary. E. H., SOTHERN TO RETIRE FROM STAGE Will Make Hi Warwic! Permanent Home at England. New York, Jan. 20.—E. H. Sothern will retire from the stage at the end of the present season, he announced tonight. With Mrs. Sothern, who was Julia Marlowe, he will go to War- wickshire, England, where he will make his permanent home. Mrs. Sothern retired from the stage sev. eral years ago on account of ill health. Mr. Sothern was born in New Orleans in 1859 and made his first appearance on the stage In New York in 1879. COLONEL HOUSE TO . SPEND WEEK IN BERLIN Secretary of American Legation There s to Meet and Escort Him. Berlin, via London, Jan. 21, 12.30 a. m.—Lanier L. Winslow, secretary of the American -legation at Berlin, leaves on Friday evening for Switzer- land to meet Colonel Edward M. House, President Wilson's emissary, and escort him to Berlin. Colonel House, it is expected, will remain here about a week. According to Mr. Winslow, Colonel House is coming to Berlin mq¢ to transmit verbally President Wilson's views and receive verbal replies from Ambassador Ger- NO ADMISSION THAT STEAMER EASTLAND WAS UNSEAWORTHY Federal Attorneys Fail in Their Ef- .forts in That Line. Grand Rapids, Mich,, Jan. 20.—Fed- eral attorneys failed to obtain from witnesses admissions that the steamer Eastland, which capsized with great loss of life in Chicago harbor last July, was unseaworthy. Efforts in this direction were made in United States district court here, where the question of jurisdiction will be de- termined in the cases against the six Michigan men under indiotment .in connection with_the disaster. Captain Nels B. Nelson, supervising inspector® for the district of Cleve- ANDS OF A FEW. "IN THE MOUNTAINS WITH SMALL FORCE Message Filed to Have Him Juarez to be Executed at the Race Track—Being Taken to Chihuahua. El Paso, Texas, Jan. w.m Villa has been captured at San Geronimo by Carranza forces and General Cavazos according to a i- vate tel from Chihuahua City received here. Being Brought to Chihuahua. Messages from Chihuahua City con- firming reports of the capture of Vil- la_ stated that a number of bandits who participated in the Santa Ysabel massacre were also captured and were being brought to Chihuahua City for ution. 5 arranza Consul Garcia explained that his confirmation of the report of the capture of Villa was based on unofficial but reliable information. He telegraphed at once to Chihuahua City asking immediate (official information from = General Ja¢into Trevino, the military chief of the northern states. Want Execution at Race Track. At the same time a message was prepared to be filed in the event of formal confirmation, requesting that Villa be sent to Juarez to be executed at the race track. This message was who'said he had received nothing of ficial concerning the capture of the outlaw chieftain. Hacfenda San Geronimo, where Vil- la is reported to have been taken, is on the boundary of the Hearst prop- erty named the Babricora ranch, near the railroad 'station of San Tomas, southeast of Madera. Hemmed in a Triangle. Reports,received here indicated that Villa had been hemmed in a triangle formed in_the mountains. Colonel Maximiano Marquez was on the south- west point marching from Madera. Colonel Jose Alexondo was closing in from the northwest, while General Cavazos advanced from the southeast, Confirmed by Mexican Consul. Mexican Consul Andreas Garcia confirmed the capture of General Villa. His advices state that his capture was effected by Maximiano Marquez, who recently also captured General Jose N Tabasase announoing Sies. ‘message announcing ’s_cap- " has .been received at GRIP OF BRITISH SEA POWER ON GERMANY TO BE TIGHTENED Whatever Change is Made in the Orders-in-Council. London, Jan. 20, $.16 p. h—What- ever change is made in the British orders-in-council, it is absolutely cer- tain that the grip of British-sea power on Germany will be tightened rather than loosened. This is the opinion expressed in a high quarter of the British government which is not yet convinced that the orders-in-council are not #he best methods for bringing economic pres- sure to bear on the central powers. It is clear now that the foreign office will not come to any decision until it lays a complete defense of the present op- eration of the orders-in-council before the house of ermon-, and this will not be done until the compuision de- bate is ended. At that time the recently published figures showing to neutral countries having to Germany il ban‘visoro\llly attacked. Most of these figures, according to statements made in official circles here, apply to months preceding the actual adoption and enforcement of the orders-in- council and also ignore the fact that millions of bushels of wheat which formerly found their way to these countries from Russia now must be replaced from the United States and Argentina. Signs exist that the orders-in-coun- eil are being more rigidly enforced than ever before. While the ayerdge selzure of ships probably has not greatly increased, it is claimed that more portions of their eargoes than] usual are being ordered into the prize courts. The Swedish-American liner Stock- holm, which was sent from Kirkwall to Liverpool to discharge certain parts of her cargo in the steamer, is unable ‘been ordered into tae prize court include beef and pork from all the big Chicago "packers and a shipment of cocoa beans. PHYSICIAN THE ViCTIM OF SLEEPING SICKNESS. Five Years Ago He Was Bitten by In- sect in the Jungles of the Congo. Nm eg«y:’k. J‘-.n. 20.—A yictim o‘; the so0-c: leeping sickness, engendered by the blteco( the African tsetse fly, land, was the principal witness today. |, He was closely questioned by District Attorney Cline as to the stability of the Eastland. Captain Nelson said he had taken several trips on the steamer in his officcial capacity and never discovered anything wrong with it aside from a slight list. INDUSTRIAL TRAINING FOR BOYS AND YOUNG MEN Seorstary Redfield Says It Is -Essen- tial for U, 8. to Hold Its Standing. Minneapolis, Minn, Jan. 20—Wil- liam G. Rmfleld‘.! umu‘rli‘ :‘t - mercs eaki: a ban 4 mem- 5t tho MK“L::‘! Soo went to Paris and was under treat- mene at the Pasteur institute, with the | Fred Checked. result that the malady was He then returned to the remained two a 'AND MISS EMILY BURGER —— {Asour siteasor . rhvabeE Sent to|Negro Chauffeur Steadfastly Adheres to Story That Mrs. Mohr Hired Him and Two Other Negroes for the Job. { — acetone . plant of the United The States Industria] -Alcohol Co., was in- the Ottawa. . him and the two_negro de- fendants to slay Dr. Mohr and Miss Emily G. Burger, the doctor'’s compan- fon, for $5,000. Questioned for Four Hours. Healis was questioned for nearly four hours in cross and was still undergoing the ordeal at the hands of John J. Fitzgerald, of counsel for Mrs, Mohr, when court adfor for the day. Aill the afternoon Mr. Fitzgerald fired questions rapidly af the witness, but Healis ned ap- parently cool and self-possessed. many questions the witness replied don't remember,” and once after say- ing that he would not teil a lie to get out of a murder, he admitted in re- sponse to further questions that he would tell a lie if someone asked him Compared It to Becker Case. Mr. Fitzgerald attempted to compare the situation with that of the Becker case in New York, asking.Healis if he did not know that certain persons got out of the Becker case by putting it on to some one else. The court, however, quickly halted this line of inguiry, on the ground that it was not pertinent. Denied He W Promised Immunity. Healis admitted he told his story to the attorney general six times. He denied that he was told he was to get oft with two years if Mrs. Mohr was convicted, and also denied that the at- torney general had told him he wanted to convict the woman. “Telling the Truth, Now.” ‘The.witness admitted that he was doing all he could to help himself by “tellis the truth, now,” while admit- ting that he told several na‘gvflwr men who interviewed him at arren that Mrs. Mohr had nothing to do with the murder. +b% | BANEFUL SPIRIT PERVADES SURITY LEAGUE MEMBERS. Direful Predictions and Indiscreet Criticisms Greeted With Enthusi- astic Applause. ‘Washington, Jan. 20.—A call to the American people to arm . themselves against a day fast coming when they may need to fight was sounded today and tonight in stirring speeches before the first congress of the National Se- curity league. It was greeted with continued and enthusiastic applause by the several hundred man! turers, publicists, merchants, lawyers and others gathered for the congress. Robert Bacon, former secretary of state, brought the audience at the evening session to its feet when he declared: “The nation is astir feeling, there is an awakening throughout the land. The call for America to save the Americans is sounding from house to house and from city to city, like that call which on the 18th day of April, '75, went through every Middlesex village and’ farm, and I believe the answer will be as strong and clear as it was then.” Theodore Rocsevelt's name was loud- ly cheered. His sister, Mrs. Theodore Douglas Robinson, read to the gather- ing a letter in which he said he re- garded the proposed continental army as a sham which would be merely an Inefficient rival to the national guard; that the navy programme was “a paper programme, entirely inadequate to our needs,” and the military preparedness should be required “as a matter of right, not as a matter of favor,” of all American citizens. Colonel Roosevelt likened the United States’ failure to take other action than diplomatic negotiations over the loss of American lives by submarine warfare to a man whose wife's face was slapped on the street and who took no other actiom than to tell her to stay home. SAID TO HAVE WRITTEN PRESIDENT DEMANDING MONEY John Paul Winn of San Francisco to Be Examined as to Sanity. San Francisco, Cal, Jan. 20.—John Paul Winn, who is said by the police to have written President Wi with a new to be examined by a eanity sion. Winn co , ac police, and declared it was the righi of every American to write to the president for money. ‘Winn told the detectives that he was 9. son of a minister of Petersburg, a. ELECTROCUTED WHILE TAKING FOOTBATH IN METALLIC TUB When His Head Came in Contact With an Electric Light Fixture, 2 Port Jefferson, N. Y, Jan. 20—C. lerick Purick, 47 years - old, promi- corporated at Mrs. Frances E. Peters, W of Chief Justice Jobn A. Peters, died at her home at Bangor, Me. Seven buildings in the business sec- tion of Famaqua, Pa., were destroyed by fire at a loss of $200,000. Fire swept through the business district of Passaic, N. J., causing prop- erty damage estimated at $250,000. Union laborers in Mexico threaten a general strike if they are not paid ten per cent. of their wages in gold. A bill fixing the price of gas at 80 cents a_thousand cubic feet was in troduced in the New Jersey Assembly. Allen Bradford, negro, was con- victed in New York for the murder of l;; wife. He will be sentenced Jan. former mayor of New York Tity, was reelected in Washing: ton as président of the Civic Federa- on. Denial was made at the White House that President Wilson has decided on the selection of a postmaster for New York city. - Serbia’s new army, which was not expected to take the field for three months is being prepared for immedi- ate service. J. & P. Coats, Limited, thread man- unfacturers, announced a wage increase of 10 per cent. About 2,600 employes are affected. Field Marshal Count von Hasseler, veteran of the 1864, 1866 and 1870 campaigns ,celebrated his eightieth birthiday in Berlin. Secretary Daniels announced an in- crease of five per cent. in the pay of master throughout United States Navy Ys 3 o wife, was t at hard labor. Superintendent of Forest Protection in the Province of Quebec announced that aeroplanes would used in the fiture to locate forest The world’s la gas well, situat- ed near Elnmn.m.. is lfl'ra. t flames forming a large crater. is no hope of saving the well. Senator Ashurst of Arizona was in formed that President Wilson has no intention of withdrawing the trops from the Mexican border at present. Eight Japanese fisherman drifted across the ific in a small fishing boat and landed on the Britih Colum- bian shore after 24 days’' of hardships. A meeting of the Democratic Na- tional Committee will be held in St. Louis in Fi to formulate plans fir the convention in that city June A woman known only as Mrs. Feth- er, was burned to death when her clothing caught fire at her home in ;‘II:-' York. She was about 75 years Governmedt troops sent to crush the Chinese revolt in Yun-nan Province bhave been completely defeated by the "Yg.ll with losses of 9,500 killed and ‘wounded. . Otis F. Clapp of Providence, city engineer for 18 years, sent in his res- ignation to Commissioner of Public Works Slade, who accepted it, to take effect February 1. . A four-story building in the Chicago market section occu by. George Rasmussan & Co., wholesale grocers, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $200,000. concrete building of the East A small Bquitable Powder company at own cause. No one was in the building at the time. Charles Coggswell a hatter, commit- ted suicide in a saloon at Danbury last night by drinking poison. He is sald to have been despondent. He was 65 years old and married. Eduardo Suarez-Mujica, Chilian Am- bassador, presented to the State De- partment Chili’s ratification of the Peace Commission treaty negotiations negotiated by Secretary Bryan. A trunkful of simple nts sent to President and Mrs. Wilson by Bel- children was taken to the White P. H. Chadbourne, repre- Belgian Relief Commis- The bodies of the victims of the Santa Ysabel massacre, h took terribly before death put an end their tortures. Ezekiel R. Stndley, who sidered himself the oldest New Englan: ARTERLY INSTALLMENTS SOLD ASLOW 4S 8 : o 2SS Just Prior to the War Its Low Price Was 28i4—In Oct, 1815 It Had “umpi‘h 600. New York, Jan. 20—The Bethiehem Steel Corpordation, which is said to have received orders frgm the supplies aggregating than $200.000,000, declared the first dividend. in its" history ‘today on the common stock.. The distribution amaunted to 26’33&‘.'2‘,{‘ or a total of about $4,- 500, is payable in quarterly in- staliments. ¥ it Bethlehem Steel common has been for more than six months the spectac- ular- leader of the “war brides” in the stock market and the demand for the stock, created by neral knowle of theimmense wnrnorden OMJ.I.n' e ed by Charles M. Schwarb, chairman of corporation, advanced the price more than- twelve times its . quoted value a year ago. Prior to War Almost Unknown. Prior to the outbreak of the ‘war, Bethlehem Steel was almost unknown as a stock. In 1907, the year after the corporation’s organization, the com- mon sold as low as eight. In 1914, before the war, its low price was 29 1-2 ad its high 46 5-8. In January, 1915, it was selling at 46 1-4; in Oec- tober it had jumped to 600. The next month it fell to 400 and since that time has ranged between 450 and 485. Had to Expand Plants. To carry out its war con the company had to:expand {ts\ various Dlants by almost double and for more than a year a large part of its earn- ings went toward new and more efficient fact, it had been the announced in- tention of Chairman Schwab and his tes to apply virtually all the profits, other than those applicable to the regular preferred dividena of 7 per cent. towards a further extension of the company’s property. According to recent unofficial re- ports, the company earned not less than 100 per cent. on the $15,000,000 of common stock during 1915. Employes -of the corporation will al- hare” in its prosperity, as a 10 - increase in the wages of its unskilled labor was simuitaneously e e fas m‘.fifi‘m to life imprison- m:vgi;-flmnvmd continue their con- se: and make istri- bution at this time. ey fraction of the traders change belleved to the contrary, how- ever, and some of this element hoping for an extra “stock dividend, as well as a large cash dividend. Stock Flucuated. The stock, which opened at decline of 14 points, rose to 41‘;’"1:0- fore the dividend had been generally known. went back to 460 and just be- fore the close recovered to 479, an qv;:-rnl::zrte loss of six points. Deal- b small, aggregating scarcely more than 1,000 asid from some small odd loh.m = s o e COLOMBIA CATTLE RAISERS LOOKING FOR MARKET HERE. Efforts Are Being Made For Shipment of Livestock. New York, Jan. 20.—Efforts are be- ing made by cattle raisers of Colombia to ship livestock to the American mar kets, acc to passengers who ar- rived here today from Colombia on the steamship Almirante. Scarcity of beef ard high prices occasioned by the war has caysed. considerable attention to be turned to the Colombia herds, the passengers said and prior to the closing of the Panama canal, consid erable numbers were exported, pre- sumably for Italy. Quarantine reguiations of the United States prevent the shipmest of the iivestock to American ports ang Cs lombia cattlemen( working in con- junction with commercial es of American gulf ports, are endeavoring, it was said to have these regulations revised so that Colombia cattle may be shipped. NEW JERSEY REVOKES CHARTERS 1420 CORPORATIONS. For Failure to P#% Corporation Taxes For Two Years. very small on the ex- or Fielder, charters of 1,490 corpora- tions were revoked for failure to pay corporation taxes for two years. Most of ‘the companies were small and in several instances, already have ceased business through bankruptcy or other causes. In the list is- the Delaware River Transportation company, which operates a freight and a passenger service between here nd Philadelphia. Under the state corporation law a corporation which has had its chart- er appulled may be reinstateq by Bling a petition and paying back taxes. ha, NEW BRITAIN JEWELER LOSES HIS CASH BOX. Three Strangers Talked to Him, a Fourth New Britain, Conn., Jan. 20.—Four strangers entered the jewelry store of C. M. Hultgren on Arch street this afternoon, and while three engaged the proprietor over the price of a watch the fourth went behfnd another count- er and took a Wh