Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 2, 1916, Page 1

VOL. LVil—NO. 53 POPULATION _ NORWICH, CONN., THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1916 TEN PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is=do GERMAN 0 AT VERD uble That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the larg];st in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Population UN CEASES “Whether It Will Begin Again is Not Indicated In Official Reports CONTINUE BOMBARDMENTS WEST OF THE MEUSE Unofficial Advices From Berlin Say the Teutons Are Drawing Up Their Big Guns to Shell Points Nearer Verdun— East of Verdun the French Have Bombarded German Position Heavily—Little is Going on in Russia Except Isolated Bombardments—Italians Have Occuried and Consolidated an Austrian Position on Mount Maroda— Germany Has Sent an Ultimatum to Portugal Demand- ing Release Within 48 Seized. Hours of German Steamers The Germans in the battle-scarred region of Verdun continue their bom- bardments west of the Meuse in the region between Malancourt and Forges, ecross the river eastward about Vaux and Damtoup and against French trenches_in the Woevre region, south- east of Verdun. Their big offensive, however, so far s infantry attacks are concerned, has ceased, at least for the moment. ‘Whether it will begin again or whether the Germans will rest content with the points of vantage they have gained is not indicated in the official reports of either Berlin or Paris. Unofficial advices from Berlin have stated thatthe German plan of cam- paign has been primarily based on the bombardment of the sectors they de- sire to attain, and. it is presumed they may be now drawing up their big gu..s to captured positions with the object of shelling points nearer their ob- Jjective—Verdun. East of Verdun around Pont-a- Mousson the French have bombarded German positions heavily in Le Previre woods and near Thiacourt. Artillery duels have been in progress in Alsace. There has been no resumption of German attacks in the Champagne re- gion. While nothing of _especial _impor- tance has taken place along the British part of the line, the effect of the German offensive in the Verdun region is shown in the lengthening -of their front in order to release ~the French for the reinforcement of the army_ opposing the German advance. Unofficial advices had placed the ex- treme southern end of the British lines in the region of Lens. The latest British_official communication reports the British fighting north of the Somme, which would show that they have stretched their front between 30 and 40 miles down to the region of Amiens. TLittle is going on in Russia except isclated bombardments and infantry attacks and air raids. On the Italian front the Italians have occupied and consolidated an Austrian position on Mount Maroda. On the Aslan battlefields the Rus- slans continue their pursuit of the Turks in the Caucasus region and in Persia. Germany, according to a despatch |to Portugal, demanding the release { within 48 hours of the interned German steamers seized by Portugal. FRENCH CRUISER PROVENCE NOT SPUK BY SUBMARINE. No Signs of Undersea Boat Noticed Either Before or After the Sinking. Paris, Feb. 20, 10.30 a. m.—(Delayed) —Advices received by the admiraity thus far concerning the sinking of the French auxiliary cruiser Provence in the Mediterranean, give no evidence that she was sunk by a submarine. The latest information is contained in the following official statement: “The French auxillary cruiser Province TI (thus designated to dis- tinguish her from the French battle- ship Provence), engaged in transport- ing troops to Saloniki, was sunk in the Mediterranean on the 26th. Two hundred and ninety-six survivors have been brought to Malta and about 400 to Melos, Greece, and British patrol boats summoned by wireless. No signs of a submarine were no- ticed either before or after the sink- ing. .a_Provence was armed with five cannon of l4-centimeters, two of 57 miliimeters and four of 47-millimet- ers The French ministry of marine gave out a statement vesterday, some time after the foregoing was 1issued, in which the number of survivors was es- timkted at 70. COMPRESSED AIR EXPLOSION ON BATTLESHIP NEVADA. Three Men Were Injured, One of Them Seriously. Quincy, Mass, March 1.—An explo- sion of a compressed air tank on the new superdreadnought Nevada today injured three men, one of them seri- ously. The battleship itself, which is to_be formally delivered to the gov- ernment at the Charlestown navy yard tomorrow, was not damaged, according to representatives of her builders, the Fore River Shipbuilding corporation. Dennis McCarthy, a_tester of tanks, was the man most seriously hurt. At the Quincy hospital it was said his condition was eritical. CONFERENCES HELD ON MAIL SEIZURE. Minister Van Dyke Sees President and Secretary Lansing. Washington, March 1.—8eizure of American mails by British naval au- thoritles were discussed at a confer- ence today between President Wilson and Henry Van Dyke, American minister to the Netherlands, who also conferred with Secretary Lansing and Counsellor Polk, of the state depart- ment. It is indicated that the mail question will be disposed of before the United States sends to Great Britain the note on contraband, now in course of pre- paration. A GERMAN AEROPLANE ATTACKED NORWEGIAN SHIP Dropped Bombs, but the Vessel Was Not Damaged, plane nta.afl'wm bogg-mg; 13? £ Sere. ol s U aamaged. e e ] MOSS BRINGS CHARGES OF IMPROPER CONDUCT (Against the United States District At- | torney’s Office in New York. New York, March 1.—Charges of im- proper conduct were brought against the United States district attorney’s office today by Frank Moss, former as- sistant _county prosecutor, who testi- fied before the congressional commit- tee which is investigating impeach- ment charges brought against United States District Attorney Marshall by Congressman Frank Buchanan of Illi- nos. Mr. Moss' complaint had to do with the alleged examination of witnesses for the defense by assistants of Mr. Marshall prior to the trial of a bank- ruptcy case. He declared he had never known such a practice in any other court and that he had sent a written protest to Mv. Marshall in regard to it. Other witnesses testified to alleged bullying and coercive tactics * which they said had been emploved by some of Mr. Marshall's assistants, but Ro charges against Mr. Marshall person- ally were made by any of those who appeared. GOVERNMENT MAKING EXHIBIT OF HARDWARE In Custom House in New York— Samples From All Over the Coun- try. New York, March 1—In the in- terests of forelgn commerce, espec- ially of trade with South America, the local office of the Department of Commerce opened today an _exhibit which marks a new step in Govern- ment cooperation with manufacturers and exporters. Samples of hardware have been assembled from markets in all parts of the world, purchased at a cost of something over $5,000, by the ten United States commercial at- taches in the leading trade centeres of the world. These samples have been iput on exhibition in_the exhibit room of the Bureau of Forelgn and Do- mestic Commerce, in the Custom House Building. It is planned to keep the exhibit in this city for four months, to give the manutacturers and selling agents time to famillarize themselves with the ar- ticles and to permit samples in transit to arrive. Then the collection of tools, agricultural implements, padlocks, cut- lery and other hardware will be taken on'tour, beginning with New England. CREW OF PETROLITE CONTRADICT AUSTRIANS They Assert That the Tanker Wa: Fired Upon Without Warning. ‘Washington, March 1.—Members_of the crew of the American tanker Po- trolite have made affidavits to refute the contentions of the Austrian gov- ernment in connection with the attack on the ghip by an Austrian submarine in the Mediterranean some time ago. The affdavits support the original in- formation on which the state depart- ment made representations to Vianna, tly the Austrian government as for more facts an ve its version ow the incident which was at the submarine comman ok the American ship for yessel about to attack him and thet the ml.ftar of the Petrolite voluntarily gave him o verslop. n;han'é Petrolite's crew B B o i GQ& 2 'S e ,ug\zm@ while Jro ions | from Madrid, has sent an ultimatum | Cabled Paragraphs German Emperor Leaves Verdun Front London, March 2—The German em- peror left the Verdun front and re- turned to Germany Tuesday according to a Rotterdam despatch to the Daily Mail. King Haakon Injured. Christiania, Norway, via London, Mearch 1, 6.50 p. m.—King Haakon in- jured his left hand while skiing today. An X-ray photograph shows the frac- ture of a bone in the wrist. It is ex- pected that the fracture will be healed in three weeks. M'CLENNEN CONTINUES DEFENSE OF BRANDEIS. Glves Details of United Shoe Machin- ery Co. Dealing Washington March 1—The relations of Touis D. Brandeis to the United Shoe Machinery company and his con- Quct while its counsel and afterwards were defended today by his law part- ner, Edward F. McClennen of Boston, before the senate sub-committee in- vestigating Mr. Brandels' fitness to be a supreme court justice. McClennen's testimony dealt chiefly with Brandeis' resiznation from the company’s dlrectorate in 1906, the re- tention in 1911 of the Brandeis firm as counsel for shoe manufacturers who sought to obtain machinery free from conditions imposed by the company’s leases and the publcation of an apinfon ziven in 1910 by the Brandets firm, that the leases were invaiid un- der 'the anti-trust law. The opinion. McClennen said, was not intended for publication, but was ziven to Charles H. Jones, a shoe man- afacturer who came to the Brandels firm and wanted to know if, in view of the company’s leases, he could safe- I¥ acquire some machines recently de- veloped. He was told that he could, as the firm belleved the leases were In- a1l That opinion. McClennen said, was based on the supreme court’s decision in the Wall paper case. Jones showed the opinion fo the manufac- turer of the new machines and the manufacturer published it as an ad- vertisement. Brandeis resiened from the panv's board of directors. the witness declared because he could mot bring about the correction of certain fea- tures of the leases which he regarded as ohjectionable and for which he felt he was in a measure responsible so long as he remained a director. The employvment of tl Brandeis firm by shoe manufocturers fighting the machinery company, five years after Rrandeis had resigned, was ex- plained by McClennen. He said the manufacturers patd the firm $2,500 and com- that Prandels paid back that amount from his own personal funds. Stephen S. Gregory of Chicago, former president of the American Bar assceiation. testified that Brandefs' reputation throughout the country was excellent as to both ability and char- acter. The hearing will be continu- ed tomerrow. SEAPLANE BOMBARDED SOUTHERN ENGLAND A Nine Months' Old Child Killed—No Military Damage. Tondon, March 1, 10 p. m.—A Ger- man seapla®r hombarded a portion of the southeast portion of England to- night, according to an official state- ment. A nine months old child was killed. There was no military dam- age. A correspondent in coast town sends the followink “Shortly after six o'clock in the ev- ening a German aeroplane fiying west passed over the southeast coast. Sev eral bombs were dropped, killing one child and breaking some windows. The houses in this district are very scat- tered and the damacge done was slight. “It was already dark when the raid- ers arrived and his previous and sub- sequent movements are unknown.” an unnamed CAMBRIDGE GAS LIGHT CO. DAMAGED BY FIRE Blaze Started a Coal Shed—Loss Over $100,000. Cambridge, Mass., March 1.—The property of the Cambridge Gas Light company was damaged tonight by fire which started in a coal shed. The loss was cstimated in excess of $100,- From the gas plant the fire leaped across the broad canal which runs at right angles to the river and attacked the buildings of the Bay State Fuel company and the pattern shop of the Mead, Morrison company. Both of these plants were damaged slightly. Members of the newly organized Har- vard regiment, in uniform, formekl bucket brigades and fought small fires on the roofs of houses in a nearby tenement district. DIAZ HAS UNDERSTANDING WITH ZAPATA AND VILLA. Friends of Villa Tell of a Conference Held Last Week. El Paso, Texas, March 1—Felix Diaz, nephew of the former Mexican president, Porforio Diaz, who is said to have landed on the east coast of Mexico to launch a new revolt, has flected an understanding with Zapata and the followers of Villa, according to friends of the latter here. They de- clared today that a conference, held here last week with emissaries of Diaz had resulted in an agrement between the leaders. WATERBURY MAN CHOS—E DEATH RATHER THAN WORK Fabian Steln, Aged 30, Swallowed an Ounce of Poison. Waterbury, March 1—After partak- ing of a hearty meal tonight, Fablan Stein, aged 30 years, went to his room, swallowed the contents of a one-ounce botle of poison, and was found dead. Stein_was unmarried. Although a powertully built man, he had a de- oldea aversion to work and it is be- lieved the fear that he might eventual. ly be obliged to labor for his daily sustenance drove him to his act, The medical examiner's verdict was sulclde, GOLD IMPORTED INTO THE UNITED STATES January 1 to February 18 Amounted to §22,682,000. ‘Washington, March 1—Gold import. £d into B Bt Balten foom Jonr 3 b J8_emounted “to 322,683,000, while during the same period exports of gold amounted to $14,939,000, ac- gording ta figures made public today by the federal reserve board, From Strike of 4,000 Granite Workers AT QUARRIES IN MASSACHUSETTS AND NEW HAMPSHIRE WANT NEW WAGE SCALE Manufacturers of Westerly, R. 1., Have Signed Agreement Whereby the Minimum of $4 a Day is Granted. Quincy, Mass., March 1.—Nearly 4,- 000 granite workers employed at quar- ries here and at other centers of the Industry in this state and New Hamp- shire struck today because of failure to reach an agreement with manufac- turers regarding wages. 2500 Men Quit Work at Quincy. About 2,500 men quit work here, up- ward of one thousand at Rockport and over 200 at Milford, N. H. Operations were suspended at all the plants and 4,000 other employes not immediately concerned in the strike were thrown out of work. Decline to Continue Old Schedule. The old agreement under which the cutters, polishers and tool sharpeners at these plants have been working ex- pired yesterday. ‘Their demand pre- sented recently for a new schedule at an advance. in wages for a term of years has not been granted by the manufacturers and the men declined to continue under the old schedule. Westerly Manufacturers Sign Agree- ment. Manufacturers at Westerly, R. I, signed the agreement with the cutters, polishers and tool sharpeners after a long conference which ended today under the 250 employes of those trades wil receive the mimimum of $4 a day demanded. This is said to be an in- crease of 25 cents for the stone cut- ters and $1.28 for the polishers and sharpeners. AMERICAN CONSULAR SERVICE RECEIVED NOTABLE TRIBUTE During Session of British Chamber of Commerce. London, March 1, 6.20 p. m. — The American consular system received a notable tribute today during the dis- cussion by the British Chamber of merce of the improvement of the h consular service. President Sterling of the Belfast delegation, who is one of the largest linen producers in Great Britain, said that whenever be required.exact technicle details con- cerning linen, Belfast’s chief industry, he was obliged to seek in in the American consular reports, which con- tained better information concerning linen than the British government or the Belfast trade possessed. A Sheffield delegate, representing one of the great steel Industries, said this factory was compelled to use a rare mineral alloy in the production of essential war supplles and that it was unable to learn about the alloy until it obtained complete detalls from American consular reports. The pres- ent extensive branch of this large war industry, he added, was entirely the result of American reports. A reso- lution introduced at the meeting for the reorganization of the British consular service with Eritish-born consuls. One of the delegates assert- ed that during the competition for trade between Great Britain and Ger- many preceding the war, 44 British consuls were Germans. BRITISH NOT INVOLVED IN RECRUITING AT HAWAII According to Horace Vaughan, U. S. District Attorney. Honolulu, March has been obtained that the government is implicated in the al- leged recruiting plot in which three arrests were made Sunday, according to Horace Vaughan, United States dis- trict attorney. “There has been no breach of neu- trality by the United States or its citi- zens and no evidence that Great Brit- ain is implicated in the plot,” he said. “The only eviden¢e is documentary and_involves Guy D. Randall and W. R. Seligsen in recrulting soldiers for the allies. The third man was a for- mer service man employved by the gov- ernment to uncover the alleged plot.” It was asserted 156 recruits were obtained, of which all but two went lto the front. 1.—No evidence British GREEK CABINET IN LATE NIGHT SESSION Discussing War Situation—Neo Change in Greek Policy. London, March 2, 1241 a. m.—An Athens despatch to Reuter's Telegram company says that the Greek cabinet sat until late at night discussing the situation. Members of the government were authority for the statement that so far no even had occurred o jusify a change in Greek policy. The non-intervention press is deal- ing extensively with the attack on Verdun and giving high prominence to the German official communications. OBITUARY. Captain Benjamin H. Chadwiok. Cottonwood Falls, Kas.,, March Captain Benjamin H. Chadwick, for- mer naval officer and ploneer of Kan- sas, dled today at his home at Cle- ments, Kas. He was born in Maine, In 1831. A sailor in the merchant ma- rine, he became an officer in the Wnit- ed States navy during the CIvil war, He was with the fleet that ran the blockade at New Orleans and almo was with Admiral Farragut at Mobile. He was on the monitor Weehawken when she went to the bottom off. Charles- ton, 8. C,, but was rescued after fioaf Ing’ in the waters of the Atlantic for four hours. Captain Chadwick re- mained in the navy after the close of the war. $100,000 Fire at Brockton, Brockton, Mass., March 1—Fire damaged the four-story building oc- gupled by the Brockign Publio. Mar- ket to the amount of $100,000 tonight. ve the rst flogr there are of- fices and several olub rogms, all of the eccupants of which escaped with dimeulty, Broker Lyman Back i_n New York CLAIMS FIRM OF J. H. PUTNAM & CO IS SOLVENT WIFE ACCOMPANIED HIM Declares Persons Who Sent Money to Him Were of More Than Average Intelligence — Would Have Made More by Dealing Straight. New York, March 1—John Grant Lyman, who was arrested several days ago at St. Petersburg, Fla, where he fled from this city Feb. 8, after the discovery of an alleged ofl stock swin- dle said to have netted him more than $300,000, was returned here tonight in the ‘custody of government agents. Deputy United States Marshall W. D. Vinzant of Florida, who accompanied the party, declared Lyman confided in him on the way here that if he could have operated six weeks later as “John H. Putnam & Co.” he would have “cleaned up a million dollars.” Dupes of More Than Average Intelli- gence. Lyman, who it is believed, was about to leave for Spanish Honduras on a motor boat when he was apprehended, boasted that persons throughout the country who sent their money to him for investment were above the average in intelligence and that “it was a pleasure to him to know that he got the best of them,” according to Vin- zant. Lyman was locked up in the Tombs on his arrival here. Will be Arraigned Today. He will be arralgned tomorrow in the federal court on an indictment charging him with illegally using the Condensed Telegrams Three successive earthquake shocks ‘were felt at Quebec. Board of Chal the dition. s commission found Field Marshal van Mackensen will visit King Constantine of Greece at Athens. Fire in the plant of the Ryan Leath- er Co., Newark, N. J., caused $25,000 damage. Strike poll of New Haven road me- chanics wil be made public within a few days. The war department asked congress to appropriate $40,000 for land de- fenses in Hawii. British casualties in all the war Zones during February toalled 739 of- ficers and 17847 men. Edward Harris, American hotel keeper of Smobrette, Zacatecas, Mexi- co, was hanged by bandits. England has discontinued the pur- chase of horses and mules for war pu: poses in the United States. British married men between the ages of 25 and 32 will be called to the colors the first week in April State fire marshals arrested A. O. Kern, a well-to-do business man of Newark, N. J, on a charge of arson. The high cost of funerals has been added to in New Jersey suburbs. Coaches now cost $6, an increase of §1. Williah J. Wel past Department Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, died at Norristown, Pa., aged The Southern Pacific will spend nearly $5,500,000 in improvements on ts lines in Texas and Louisinana this vear. Sixty thousand tons of canned pine- apples will be shipped to the main- land by the growers of Hawail mails. His_wife accompanied him here from Philadelphia, _where she went earlier in the day. She was per- mitted to sit with him during the two hour journey. Lyman is quoted as stating that his disappearance from New York was not due to postoffice inspectors Inves- tigation of Putnam & Co., but to the fact that Gorham Tufts of Los An- geles, who was on his hond of $20,000 when he fled from the Callfornia_ city two years ago after being convicted there in @ land fraud, was on his track and secret service men were trailing a chauffeur formerly in his employ in hope of learning his whereabouts. Protests Company is Solvent. Postoffice inspectors who went to Florida to get the fugitive say he protested to them that Putnam & Co. was “solvent” and that he would make a fight to oust the receiver. He also told them, they said, that once “when He was an honest broker” he was cleaned out of a fortune of $300,- 000. He then became “a sort of get- rich-quick operator” they said he boasted of having reaped a “soft graft” last vear promoting premium bonds in Switzerand. Would Have Made More by Being Vinzant asserted tonight that Ly- man told him if Putnam & Co., had invested the money entrusted to the firm during “the boom" which it cre- ated in oil stocks, Lyman would have realized a great deal more money. $20,000 in Bills Taken From Him. ‘The prisoner complained that $26,000 in bills of $1,000 each was taken rrom him by the arresting officers in Flori- da and has not since been accounted for. Fifteen thousand dollars in cur- rency and one hundred shares of Steel stock, which captors say they found on his person have been forwarded here from Florida, it was announced. $10,000 in Philadelphia for Wife. Lyman, who journeyed most of the way to Florida by automobile after his disappearance from New York, says he deposited $10,000 in a Philadel. phia bank to his wife's credit. She fajled to get it, he said, because she did not correctly interpret a code mes- sage he sent to her. OPPOSITION TO NEW HAVEN CONTROL OF SOUND LINES Made by Whitfield Tuck on Behalf of the People’s Service League. Boston, March 1.—Opposition to the petition of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad for permission to continue control of its Sound lines was voiced at the Interstate Com- merce Commission’s hearing today by ‘Whitfield Tuck of Winchester, a for- mer representative in the legislature. He appeared in behalf of the People’s Servihe League, of which he s sec- retary and advocated separation of the railroad from its steamship lines on the ground that it would tend to do_away with monopoly. The witness questioned the proprie- ty of the appearance yesterday, of Chairman Frederick MacLeod of 'the public service commission in favor of railroad control of the properties. Such an attitude, he said, was not to be ex- pected from a man who a few years ago was state chairman of the demo- cratic party which, at its last na- tional convention had declared mo nopoly “indenfensible and intolerable.” DENIAL THAT ALL BRITISH MERCHANT SHIPS ARE ARMED Made by Sir Edward Grey, Secretary for Fo n Affairs. London, March 1, $.14 p. m.—Sir Ed- ward Grey, secretary. for forelgn af- fairs, authorizes for publication the following statement: “The assumption apparently made by the German goyernment that all British merchant ships are armed is entirely !ncorrect. Practically all British merchant ships employed in trade between the United Statesh of America and the United Kingdom have hitherto been unarmed. “The ‘claim, therefore, made by the German government to_sink all their merchant ships at sight because of thelr avmament is one which cannot possibly be justified. This is clearly proved o statement issued last night @ list of British and neu- tral unarmed merchant ships which have been torpedoed by German sub- marines without warning.” King Fordinand Has Bronchitis. Amste: Vie London, March 1, 744 p. m—A Vienna dispatch saye thet King Ferdinand of Bulgaria who Is visiting the Austrian capital, is suffering from an attack of bronchitls and is confined to bed. vear. | The lowa anti-tipping law was held to be unconstitutional by Judge Jepson, in the district court at Sioux City. The Norwegian _steamship Voss, Glasgow for New York, is putting back to Glasgow in tow, badly dam- aged. Nuri Bey, brother of Enver Pasha, Turkish war minister, has been killod in the recent fighting in western Egypt. Forty-three vessels are under con- struction in Japanese shipyards. The shipping plants are working day and nights. Rear Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair has been appointed to assist Lord Robert Cecil as British minister of war trade. Exports from Spain to the United States and _possession in 1915 were valued at $20,964,713, against $21,251,- 636 in 1914. The Westinghouse Air Brake is re- ported to be turning out 5,000 shells daily for the Allies at its plant at Wilmerding, Pa. Denial was made by the Belgian gov- gian government that James J. Hill is to rebuild the Belgian railroads de- stroyed by the war. The steamship Fifieid, San Francisco for Bandon, ran onto the rocks at Marshfield, Ore. Coast guards rescued passengers and crew. The proposal that the body of Hen- ry James be interred in Westminster Abbey has been taken up by several newspapers in London. Forty employes in the cartridge de- partment of the General Ordnance company of Derby, Conn, went on strike for higher wages. Charged with complicity in the murder of two Ansonia men on Jan- uary 8, last, Paolo Vonone was arrest- ed in New York at his home. Seven hundred men and fifty girls went on strike at the plant of the American Linoleum Co., at Lionleum- ville, Richmond, for higher pay. Announcement was made in_the British House of Commons that Italy has requisitioned 34 of the 37 German steamers interned in Italian ports.| Reports received at the Stats De- partment state that Drover C. Varn, an American, was killed by Villa forces at his farm near Durango on Feb. 27. Sweden will grant special permis- sion for the export of chemical wood pulp in cases where the pulp is to be used exclusively in the United States. Bishop Francis J. McConnell, of Denver, was elected president of the Religious Education association, which closed its annual convention at Chi- cago. Major Louis J. Herrmann, of Staf- ford, Conn., coast artillery corps, has been relieved from active service at his own request and transferred to the reserve. Reginald McKenna, British Chancel- lor of the Exchequer, estimated that British expenses for the current year will_reach the total of £1,509,000,000 sterling. Bulgaria is reported to have inform- ed Austria that the restoration of Prince Willlam of Wied to the Al- banian throne will be considered an unfriendly act. Police Commi ner Woods of New York re-instated Inspector Cornelius G. Hayes, dismissed from the force in 1912 by Commissioner Waldo for mak- ing a false statement. The bodies of six dead were found in the ruins of a farmhouse owned by M. Creed near Taloga, Okla., which was burned to the ground, while Creed and his family slept. William H. Elllott, former fuel agent of the New York, New Haven & Hartford rallroad and president of the New Fngland coal agency died at his home in New Haven, aged 63 years. Dr. James Angell, president emeritus of the University of Michi- gan, who has been critically 1ll, ral- Iled yesterday and his physicians were more hopeful than they had been in many days. Syracuse, N. note speech and platform, democrats of New York state assembled in in- formal convention, tonight ratified the administration of President Wilson and took steps to bring about his re-elec- tion. Harmony marked the conven- tion’s deliberations, every proposal being adopted unanimusly. The follownig delegates at large to the national democratic convention at St. Louls wers recommended for the suppor of the party voters at the spring primaries: United States Senator James O'Gorman, William Church Osbo chairman of the democratic state com- mittee; George J. Myer of Buffalo, a German-American supporter of the president and Samuel Untermyer, a New York attorney. The convention also adopted a res- olution recommending the re-election of Norman E. Mack of Buffalo as dem- ocratic national committee. The delegates to the national con vention who comprise New York's “Big Four” were unpledged but were nominated with the understanding that they are to work for a second term for Mr. Wilson. The keynote speech, delivered by Former Governor Martin H. Glynn a: permanent chairman, aroused much en thusiasm. In addition to commend- ing the actions of Mr. Wilson during his occupancy of the national execu- Delegates Are Unpledged, But Nominated With the Understanding They Are to Work for Wilson FORMER GOV. M. H. GLYNN REPLIES TO ROOT A Million Copies of Glynn’s Speech Are to be Distributed Throughout the Country—Platform Expresses the Faith of New York’s Democracy in the President and Urges His Renomination and Re-election—Dealt Solely With National and International Issues—Futile Attempt Was Made to Get Syracuse Convention to Insert in Platform a Plank Pledging the Party to Equal Suffrage. Y., March 1.—In key-tive chair, he replied directly to the criticiems of the president and _his foreign policies made by Former Sea- ator Elihu Root at the recent republi- can state convention in New York. At the conclusion of its delivery the convention adopted a resolution pro- viding for the distribution by the dem= ocratic state committee of one million copies throughout the country. The platform expressed the faith of New York’s democracy in the president and urged his re-nomination and re- election. It was adopted enthusiastic- ally amid prolonged cheering. It dealt solely with national and international issues. A futile attempt was made by advo- cates of equal suffrage to insert in the platform pledging the party to the af- firmative side of the woman suffrage question. Mrs. Inez Mitholland Bols- sevant and Mrs. Mary Baird of New York headed a delegation thdt peti- tioned the resolutions to go on record in favor of the federal suffrage move- ment. Miss Harriet May Mills, repre- senting Mrs. Norman De Whitehouse of the state woman's suffrage party, asked the committee to support the bill now pending in the legisiature which is designed to provide for another suffrage referendum tin 19 Both requests were refused on ground that the platform was not in- tended to define the party’s position on any matters of state policy. PRESIDENT WILSON DEMANDS RECORD VOTE IN CONGRESS On Resolutions to Warn Americans Off Armed Ships. Washington, March 1. — President Wilson served notice on congress to- night that he will consent to nothing less than a record vote on the anti- administration resolutions to warn Americans off armed ships of Eufopean belligerents before he goes on Wwith the German submarine negotiations. No compromise proposition, such as a vote of confidence in the president’s foreign policy, will be acceptable. Such an action, it is held, might be con- strued in Berlin as justifying the opin- fon that the president lacks the sup- port of congr-ess and his own party in his demands for a full observance of international law, while its only pur- pose would be to afford members of congress in a way to avoid recording their positions before the country on the straight, out-and-out question. President Wilson made his position clear to congressional leaders tonight in unequivocal terms as the climax to a day of confusion, uncertainty and po- litical manoeuvering that marked the opening of his first real ght with con- gress. As if to emphasize that the presi- dent absolutely refuses to continue the negotiations with Germany until the attitude of congress is settled, it was made known that the United States does not consider the latest assur- ances from Count Von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, as broad or as satisfactory as those originally given. EXCESSIVE WATERING OF OYSTERS DISCLOSED By Inspectors of State D and Food Hartford, Conn., March 1.—Samples of oysters recently taken at 13 dif- ferent points in the state by inspectors of the state dairy and food department disclosed excessive additlon of water in 30 per cent. of the cases, according to an announcement today. A state- ment from the dairy and food com- missioner’s office dealing with the dis- closure says: “At hearings held regarding this sit- uation it developed that in some in- stances as much as 25 per cent. of water had been added to the oysters. Inasmuch as the drinking by oysters has been a trade practice extending over an_indefinite period, and of a varying time for drinking, it was de- clded not to prosecute any of the cases involved from this preliminary survey. Hereafter, however, all cases of un- necessary or excessive watering of oysters will be brought to the attention of the courts.” A DONATION OF $1,000 FROM PRESIDENT WILSON To the Ellen Wilson Memorial Fund for Scholarship: Atlanta, Ga., March 1.—A donation of $1,000 from President Wilson to the Ellen Wilson memorial fund being raised here for awarding scholarships to children in mountain regions of the south was received today by officers of the ‘memorial. The donation will be announced in tomorrow morning's At- lanta Constitution. The president's personal check for that amount was enclosed in a letter for Mrs. Edith Bolling Wilson, requesting that it be addressed to.the fund. ITALIAN LINER SAILS WITH GUNS MOUNTED Assurance Given That They Would be Used Only in Defense. Washington, March 1.—The Italian lner Napoli, which reached New ork several days ago with guns mounted aboard, was ordered cleared today un- der assurances similar to those in the case of the liners San Guglielmo and Gluseppe Verdi that her guns would be ysed only for defensive purposes. DISCONTENT OF NATIVES OF INDIA EXAGGERATED. According to Dr. William L. Abbott et Recently There. Philadelphi New York, March 1.—Reports of ais- content and threatened uprisings of natives in India have been much ex- aggerated in news despatches from outside sources, according to Dr. WiH- iam L. Abbot of Philadelphia, who arrived here today on the steamship California from Liverpool . Dr. Ab- bott said, “the disorders being fom- he has been for the last year on & scientific mission. “There has been some discontent re- ported in certain quarters”, Dr. Ab- bott said, “the disorders being form- enteq by German propaganda. It has not_spread, however, and the British authoritles have been able to promptly check all demonstrations. ‘The na- tives of India, I found were seemingly well content under British rule and be- sides, their lack of effective arms would prevent any serious outbreal. The various native rulers are loyal to Great Britain and many of them have at their own expense furnished and_equipped full regiments for duty in France or to take the place of reg- ulars that have been called home.” SHIELDS WATER POWER BILL AGAIN BLOCKED. Senator Sheppard of Texas Refused to Consent to Limit Debate. Washington, March 1. — Senater Sheppard of Texas today biocked an-| other effort to bring to an early vote ' the Shields water power bill, permit- ting construction of dams on naviga- ble rivers, by refusing unanimous agreement to limit debate on the bill to five minutes after four o'clock on Friday afternoon and to keep the measure the exclusive subject of dis- cussion before the senate in the mean- time. { On the vote of 39 to 16 by which an amendment of Senator Norris was de- ! feated today supporters of the bill saw evidence of strength and predicted the ze of the measure before the end of the week. The Norris amendment provided that the United States should give two years' warning before taking possession of any power plant after the expiration of its fifty years of 1i- -ense period. STAMFORD MAN, UNHEARD OF FOR 23 YEARS, RETURNS. Says He Was Thrown from Horse and Suffered Loss of Memory. Stamford, Conn., March 1—Frederick C. Prange, who left Stamford 23 years ago to settle in the west, and from whom nothing has eince:been heard, has returned to his family here, it was learned today. Long ago, he had been , given up for dead. In explaining his | absence today, Mr. Prange said he was | thrown from a horse while riding in & western mountain pass and suffered concussion of the b: and the re- sultant loss of memory. He was ill for a long time and finally went to Los Angeles. engaging in the mining busi- ness. Recently his memory returned and he went to New York, where he found a brother-in-law, who told him his family was still living in Stamford.® Mr. Prange is 69 years old. Before leaving here he was a leading barber and prominent Odd Fellow. “MYSTERIOUS AEROPLANE” WAS A TOY BALLOON A Practical Joker Has Been Causing Alarm at Duluth. ) Duluth, Minn. terious acroplane” which for seves nights has been sent soaring over grain elevators and ore docks here, causing authorities to investigate, was a big toy balloon, it developed to- day. The balloon burst into flames last night and fell on the \!ocw tical joker, it is believed, the, balloon. P