Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 27, 1916, Page 1

- Norwich VOL. LVii—NO. 74 INCESSANT 'NORTH OF VERDU:. POPULATION 28,219 NORWICH, CONN., MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1916 EIGHT PAGES SHELLING No Infantry Attacks Have Been Launched by Germans Except Southeast of Fort Douaumont MINE EXPLODED IN REGION OF ARGONNE FOREST Three Armed German Trawlers Were Sunk in an Engage- ment With British Warships—British Torpedo Boat Lost in Collision—Three British Aeroplanes Brought Down During Raid on Stop German Attempt at Jacobstadt—Three More Offensive in the Region of British Steamers Have Been Sent to the Bottom, Presumably by German Submarines —Storms Have Stopped Austro-Italian Operations. A British air raig on Schleswig-Hol- stein_and a resultant battle between British warships and German armed trawlers, in which three aeroplanes were brought down, three German armed trawlers were sunk and a Brit- ish torpedo boat probably was lost in a collislon, give diversity to the latest War operations. The violent bombardment northwest of Verdun in_the region of Malancourt continues, while to the north of the fortress and in the Woevre region in the east intermittent cannonading ie still in progress. No infantry attacks have been launched by the Germans except southeast of Fort Douaumont, where Berlin reports a hand-to-hand encounter with the advantage on the side of the Germans. The French in the Argonne forest are keeping up their bombardments of German positions. Considerable artil- lery activity on the part of the French also has been shown in the Vosges. Th eexplosion of a French mine in this degion inflicted heavy losses on the French, according to Berlin. The German position was not impaired by the explosion. On the’ Russian front the Germans attempted an offensive In the region of Jacobstadt, but were repulsed while the Russians captured a German trench in the Tegion of Dvinsk. Heavy fight- ing 1s still going on in the lake region southeast of Dvinsk. Here, Berlin says, the Russian attacks broke down, Storms in the mountain regions of the Austro-Itallan lines have impeded operations, but bombardments are con- tinuing on the Isonzo front. In the coastal region of the Russo- Turkish war theatre the Russians are making good progress against the Turks_and also farther south in the Leke Van region have. thrown their line still farther forward. Three more British steamers have been sent to the bottom, presumably by German submarines. They are the Minneapolls, once plying between American ports and London, the St. Cecilia, on_a voyage from Portland, Me, for London, and the Fenay Bridge, bound from Philadelphia for Hull. The crews of the St. Cecilia and Fenay Bridge were rescued. The fate of the crew of the Minneapolis is not known. onference of the allies of far- reaching importance will begin at Paris Monday. The premiers and vari- ous other high government officials, in- cluding the British foreign secretary and secretary for war and the com- manding generals of France, Great Brit® and Italy, will take part in this conference, which will give the closest consideration to the military and. polftical situntion brousht about by_the war. The Dutch ministry of marine says that an examination of a piece of bronze metal found in a lifeboat of the Dutch steamer Turbantia, recently sunk, induces the belief that it be- longed to the air chamber of a torpedo. MUNITIONS SEIZED BY POLICE AT SHANGHAI Twenty-six Cases Were Being Con- veyed Toward Kiangnan Arsenal Shanghai, China, March 26—Twen- ty-six cases containing 390 shells and 90,000 pistol cartridges which were be- ing conveyed from the international settlement toward the Kiangnan ar- senal in Shanghal, were seized by the police today. A protest against the selzure was made by two Germans who produced a document sealed by the minister of merine, but as they had no municipal permit the document was_invalid. The police arrested five coolies, who will be brought into court tomorrow. The Shanghai authorities cannot pro- ceed against foreigners implicated in illicit trading in arms without the consent of their consulate, which is not expected. NAVAL BAfiLE BETWEEN GERMAN AND BRITISH FLEETS Three Miles Off the Grady Lightship, Coast of Denmark. London, March 26, 9.15 p. m.—Des- patches from Esbjerg, Denmark, to the Berlingske Tidende says Reuter's Co- penhagen correspondent, report a great naval battle between the German and British fleet some three miles off the Grady lightship at mid-day to- day. The despatch adds that Londern, in Schleswig-Holstein, has been mombed by five aeroplanes. A despatch to the Exchange Tele- graph company from Copenhagen says the German armed trawlers sunk by the British outside Sylt harbor were named Braunschwelg and Otto Ru- dolt. BRITISH TRAMP STEAMER ORDERED BACK TO PORT While on Her Way Down New York Harbor to Gravesend Bay. New York, March 26.—The British tramp steamer Cheviot Range, while on the way down the harbor to Gravesend bay to load a cargo of ex- plostves for shipment abroad was or- dered back to her Brooklyn pler by a patrol boat in the United States cus- toms service. The Cheviot Range, it was explained, had failed to obtain her clearance papérs, in violation of a reg- ulation forbidding ships to take on car- in this manner until clearance has een COSTA RICA BRINGS SUIT AGAINST NICARAGUA On the Ground That Her Rights Have Been Violated in Canal Treaty. gan Jose, Costa Rica, March 26— Costa éfl has begun suit before the Cebtral American court of Jjustice against Ni 2 on the ground that Costa. Rica's rights have been vidlated by Nicaragua in negotiating the canal route treaty with the United States. Costa Rica contends that under the terms of her agreement with N she must bi.nwmm ‘befare Nlm-; enters into any treaty disposing £ie cenal wighte. Armed Italian Steamship Arrives. % York, March 26—The Itailan New York, > e still armed with two o the guns PROBATION SYSTEM IN UNITED STATES COURTS Advocated by Officials of Probation Organizations. ‘Washington, March 26.—Officials of national and state probation organiza- tions yesterday asked a sub-commit- tee of the senate judiciary committee to recommend passage of Senator Owen’s bill for a probation system in the United States courts. Frank E. Wade of Buffalo, president of the National Probation association, and member of the New York state probation comniission; C. L. Chute, secretary of the National Association, and James P. Ramsey, chief probation officer of Middlesex county, Mass., urged social and economic advantages of the bill. It would authorize appointment federal judges of probation officers and would permit probation of all offend- ers except those convicted of treason, murder, rape or kidnapping. ENORMOUS ORE DEPOSITS IN MOUNTAINS OF MEXICO Causing Trouble With Wireless Ap- paratus—Deflects Radio Waves. Columbus, N. M., March 26.—Enor- mous ore deposits in the mountains of northern Mexico have been responsi- ble for much of the trouble experi- enced with the army wireless appar- atus, according to the belief of army operators expressed here yesterday. It is claimed that the ore, acting as a magnet, deflects the radio waves, thus weakening the capacity of both the sending and receiving stations. It is said also that the receiving instru- ments at the Casas Grandes station are not as powerful as those here and that this has interfered with the effi- ciency of the service. FOUR MEN BURNED TO DEATH IN HALIFAX. Many Others Were Saved by Jumping from Windows, Halifax, N. S., March 26—Four men were burned to death today when fire swept through a lodging house on Pleasant street in which 50 construc- tion laborers were slceping. Many of the lodgers who found their escape by the stairways cut off by flames jumped from windows and several were in- jured. All” the occupants of the building were employed by a contractor on a new steamship terminal. SAN ANTONIO COUNTRY CLUB HOUSE BURNED. ‘Five Persons Are Missing and Are Be- lieved to Have Been Burned, San_Antonio, Tex., March 26.—Five persons are missing and belleved fo have been burned to death in th de- struction by fire early today of the San Antonio Country club. All of the guests In the club had been accounted for tonight except Judge J. E. Webb, Mr. and_Mrs. James D. Waltham and Homer Jefes of San Antonio and Mrs. Maco Stewart of Galveston. President Wilson Has Another Grand- Daughter. Philadelphia( March 26.—A daught- er was born to Mr. and Mrs. Francis ‘Bowes Sayre here today. She is the second grand-daughter of President aragraphs Briti- aship Fenay Bridge Sunk. * &% March 25, 2 p. m—Lloyds 4 that the British steamship Bridge has been sunk. The -« was landed. Holland to Use Mine Sweepers. The Hague, March 26—The Dutch government has notified shipping com- panies of its intention to station a vessel equipped with wireless near the North Hinder lightship and organize a service of mine sweepers to precede ships between North Hinder and Eng- lish territorial waters. THREE BRITISH AEROPLANES BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN LOST Took Part in an Air Rid on German Airship Sheds. London, March 26, 8 p. m.—Threo British aeroplanes which took part in a raid on_German airship sheds in Schieswig-Holstein yesterday _are missing. Two German patrol vessels were sunk and a British destroyer is Delieved to have been lost. The following official statement was issued tonight: “An attack by British seaplanes was delivered yesterday morning upon German airship sheds in Schleswig- Holstein, eastward of the island of Sylt. The seaplanes were conveyed to their rendezvous close to the German coast by an escorting force of light cruisers and_destroyers under Com- modore Tyrwhitt. “Three of the seaplanes which took part in the attack are missing. The destroyer Medusa was in collision with | the destroyer Laverock and it is feared that in the stormy weather which pre- vailed last night the Medusa may have been lost, but no misgivings are felt as to the safety of the crew. Two German armed patrol vessels were sunk by our destroyers. ‘No detailed report has yet been re- ceived. From Danish press reports it would appear that this operation, which was carried out within the en- emy's waters, achieved its object. The Laverock, 250 feet long, built in 191 fand displaced 985 tons. She was armed with four-inch guns and two torpedoes. Her normal com- plement was 100 men. The latest avail able British navy records give no de- stroyer Medusa. was OFFER OF FREE ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN ACCEPTED By the Committee on Industrial Pre- paredness. New York, March 26.—With the au- thority of President Wilson and Sec- refary of the Navy Danlels, the com- mittee on industrial preparedness of the naval consulting board has ac- cepted an offer of the Associated Ad- vertising Clubs of the World to con- duct a free advertising campaign, n: tion wide, in support of the commit- tee’s plan to prepare the industries of the country for the manufacture of munitions of war. This announcement was made tonight by Howari E. Cof- fin, chairman of the committee, to- gether with details of the plan, which embrace arrangements for making, for the first time in national history, & thorough Inventory of American indus- try by an organization of 30.000 en- gineers. With “national defense and interna- tional peace” as the slogan, the adver- tising campaign will be conducted in all classes of publications, on billboards and by electric’ signs, under the lead- ership of Herbert S. Houston, presi- ent of the associated bodies, and of a committee of leading publishers and advertising experts. Mr. Houston said tonight that already “without cost to the government, newspaper, magazine and trade publishers, poster men and electric sign men had offered space to carry the advertising.” “This is not a war measure,” he said, “but a peace measure. The militarist will support it and so will the pacifict.” MRS. DOROTHY PALMENBERG QUESTIONED ABOUT WAITE Friend of Woman With Whom Dentist is Said to Have Lived. New York, March 26—For more than four hours today attaches of the district attorney’s office interrogated Mrs. Dorothy Palmenberg concerning her knowledge of Dr. Arthur Warren Waite, the young dentist under arrest in connection with the death by poi- son of his wealthy father-in-law, John E. Peck, of Grand Rapids, Mich. Mrs. Palmenbers is a friend of Mrs. Mar- garet Horton, with whom Waite is al- lezed to have shared a “studio” in a New York hotel. “Mrs. Palmenberg is a rather im portant witness,” sald Assistant Dis. trict Attorney Dooling at the conclu- sion of the examination, “and we got some information from her which will help us in checking up the documen- tary and other evidence which the dis- trict attorney’s office and the police have gathered. The story she told in some particulars concerned the main theme of the poisoning and that is all ‘Wwe are after.” SPECTACULAR TWO ALARM FIRE IN NEW HAVEN Firemen Had Hard Fight to Prevent Flames Spreading. New Haven, Conn, March 26—A spectacular two-alarm fire in the heart of the business section of the city did $30,000 damage to the paint shop of the Bowditch Furniture company in Orange street early today. The blaze started in the drying room on the sixth floor, from an unknown cause, The building had no direct entrance from the street and its inaccessibility gave the firemen a hard fight to pre- vent the flames from spreading to ad- joining business houses. Lines of hose Wwere carried up over buildings from Orange, Center and Chapel streets. The blaze lighted up the city for a considerable distance and brought out a great throng of spectators, ARBITRATION AGRREMENT IN TREATY WITH MEXICO ion of Mexican Military Com- mandant Called to the Fact. Atte Mexico City, March 25.—A telegram from Secretary of War Obregon was received tonight by General Mariscal, thme military commandant, calling at- tention to Article 21 of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed February 23, 1848, in which the United States and Mexico agree to settle all disputes by arbitration. Secretary Obregon's message said that, acting upon special orders of General Carranza, he was again giving wide publicity to this clause of the treaty and that Ambas- sador Arredondo at Washington had been sent a copy with similar tnstruc- Steamship Sussex Was Torpedoed AFFIDAVITS MADE BY AMERICAN SURVIVORS —— WITHOUT ANY WARNING Theee Americans at Least Saw the Passage OF the Torpedo—One of Six Lifeboats Launched Capsized. Paris, March 25.—“There is no doubt whatever that the channel steamship Sussex was torpedoed without -varn- ing” says an official statement Issued here tonight based upon _affidavits mado by American survivors. Three Americans Saw Torpedo Wires. John Hearley, of Albany, N, Y., a press association ~correspondent, de- poses, the statement says, “that on v about taree o'clock in the aft- ernoon whidle a dozen Americans were watching from the bridge a great ex- plosion occurred in the fore part o1 the vessel without warning and that three Americans at least saw the pessage of the torpedo. Professor Baldwin, wife and daughter have dis- appeared. Hearley thinks they are dead. “Tingle W. Culberson declares that he saw Miss Baldwin stretched on the deck wounded in the head. Many Persons Thrown Into the Sea. “Samuel S. Bemis, of Harvard uni- versity, deposes that the explosion oc- curred ' without the slightest warning and that many persons were thrown into the sea, that some were killed ana some wounded, that he saw bodies on the bridge of the Sussex and that while being rescued he saw two per- sons drown. Depasition by Americans. “These depositions are confirmed by the American men and American wo- men who took passage aboard Sussex and whose names follow: John Hearley, Albany, N. Y., Mrs. Lillian_Harda, New York: Mrs. Clar- eAce Handyside, New York; Mrs. Gertrnde Warren, St. Louis: Miss Ger- trude Barnes, New York; Mr. and Miss Beer, New York; Mrs. Dorothy Hilton and daughter, Edna, New York; Sem- uel Bemis, Bedford, Mass.; Tingle W. Culberson, Lewisburg, Pa.; Daniels Sargent, Wellesley, Mass.; Chagles T. and George H. Crocker, Jf., Fitchburg, Mass.; Wilder C. Penfield, Hudson, isconsin and Miss Alice Rulz.Lyon, Colorado. These last five were eproll- ed in the Amerlcan Red Cross ambu- lance. A certain number of saved have been taken to Dover.” NAMES OF AMERICANS NOT ON LIST OF SURVIVORS Some of Them Are Known to Have Landed in England. Paris, March 26, 2.10 p. m.—An offi- cial list of survivors of the Sussex, prepared at Boulogue, does not contain the names of a number of Americans who were on board. Some of these are known to have been landed in Enz- land. It is said all the Americans who “were brought to Boulogne are included, but the list apparently is in- complete as it does not contain the names of some Americgns who slgned the deposition indicatiig the Sussex was torpedoed. The official list of American surviv- ors follows: Edna S. Harde, Lillian D. S. Harde, Miss Gertrude Barnes, Dorothy Hilton, Miss Edna Hilton, Henry Beer and Ida Beer, of New York; Mrs. Gertrude W. Warren, St. Louls; Danlel Sargeant, Wellesley, Mass.; John H. Hearley Albany, N. Y.; Samuel S. Bemis, Bed- ford, Mass.: Tingle W. Culbertson, Lewisburg, Pa.; Alice Ruiz, Lyon, Colo* In adition to the Americans the list gives the names of a large number of French, English, Belgian and Italian survivors, as well as some Russians and Spaniards. LIST OF TWENTY-FIVE AMERICANS ON ESSEX Compiled by the American Embassy at London—Six Unaccounted For. London, March 26, 7.19 p. m—The American embassy compiled today a list of twenty-five Americans on the, Sussex, which is identical with the list_cabled on Saturday night. It in- cludes the names of the six Ameri- cans who were lapded at Dover: Fran- cls E. Drake, Edward H. Huxley and Edward _Marshall of New York: Charles Thomas Crocker and George H, Crocker of Fitchburg, Mass, and Wilder G. Penfield, Hudson, Wis. Mr. Penfield and _George Crocker are in a hospital at Dover, seriously wounded. The statement from the embassy adds that of the remaining 19 Ameri- cans Mr. Culbertson and Mrs. Hearley are known to be safe in France and that ft is hoped others have been landed there. A telegram from Boulogne to_the owners of the Sussex says that Miss Elizabeth Baldwin was among the Americans who arrived there, but thero is believed to be some doubt of the accuracy of this report, The records of the American em- bassy up to 8 o'clock tonjght show, in addition to Miss Baldwin, only Pro- fessor and Mrs. J. Mark Baldwin, Joshua D. Armitage, Calliope Fennell and Pdna Hale as still unaccount for, the other Americans having ar- rived in France or England. George Crocker has not recovered eonsclousness, but _shows some sizns of improvement. Vfilder Penfleld, in the same hospital at Dover, has re- gained consclousness and is much better. He is suffering from a frac- tured leg and injurles of the head. M’LEAN SCHEDULED FOR TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN Of Republican State Convention Hartford Next Month. Hartford, Conn., March 26.—TUnited States Senator George P. McLean will be temporary chalrman of the republi- can convention at Hartford next month, according to an apnouncement tonight by J. Henry Roraback, chair- man of the republican state central committee. at Movements of Steamships. New York, March 26.—Arrived, steamer Bergen: Bergen. steamer Rogina d'italia, Genoa. the U. S. Cavalrymen Pursuing Villa BANDIT ELUDED MEXICAN TROOPS NEAR NAMIQUIPA. 250 MILES TO THE SOUTH Colonel Dodd Commanding the Ad- vanced Columnt After the Fleeing Outlaw. San Antonio, Taxas, March 26— Francisco Villa has escaped from the Mexcan troops that had checked him near Namiquipa and three columns of American cavalrymen are pursuing him. 250 Miles South of Border. Already they are almost 250 miles south of the border and unless Mexi- can forces bring the elusive bandit to a stand, this distance will be greatly increased by the close of the week. Villa's success in extricating himnelt from the dangerous _position into which he had been driven by the American punitive force was related in a detailed report by General Pe that reached General Funston here to- day. General Funston forwarded the re- port to shington without ma public any but the essential features. U. 8. Troops Riding Hard. Colonel Dodd is commanding _the advanced columns that are riding hard after Villa and his men and Genaral Pershing has divided his forces so as to provide supporting columns along the thinly stretched lines of communi- catton from kis most advanced base at El Valle. 1 Valle another line is being maintained back to Casas Grandes from where communi- cation with the border is maintained. General Pe: ' himself is somewhere couth of Casas Grandes directing ths work of holding together his forces and directing so far as possible the operations of Colonel Dodd. Cavalry is belng used along the lines commu- nicating with El Valle, where a de- tachment of infantry is sationed. Wind Prevents Use of Aeroplanes. “Three aeroplanes are at El Vallee and will be used in scouting as soon as the high winds that have been sweeping that part of Mexig for al- mos; o weck subside. _These winds, according to General Pershing. have made effective assistance by the aero- planes impossible. Of the cight ma- chines that went into Mexico, two_ still are out from Columbus to Casas Grandes. Details of the operations _about Namiquipa_that concluded with = the escape of Villa were not revealed but there is little season to believe that he was badly whipped or even weaken- ed by the fighting directed against him by the de facto government troops. THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF CARRANZA'S PROCLAMATION Celebrated in Many Parts of Mexican Republic Yesterday. Mexico City, March 26.—The war department reports that further de- feats have been inflicted on the re- actonary forces in the state of Oaxa- ca, where rumor has located Felix Diaz and his eupporters. General Jesus Castro, the military governor, tele graphed today he had cleared up the Parian and Cuicatlan districts and that his troops were pursuing the reb- cls in the Slerras. He also reported the surrender of numerous small re- actlonary bands In the neighborhood of the isthmus of Tehauntepec, where the situation is sald to be improving rapidly. The third anniversary of General Carranza's proclamation of the tenets of the revolutionary movement was celebrated in many parts of the re- public today with band concerts, pa- triotic speeches and displays of fire- works. GERMANS WRECK THREE BRITISH HYDRO-AEROPLANES Brought Them Down During Raid on Northern Schieswig. Berlin, March 26 (By Wireless to Sayville).—Not less than three British Lydro-aeroplanes, among them a fight- ing aeroplane, were brought down to- day by German guns on and about the island of Sylt during a rain on north- ern Schleswig, according to an official German communication issued tonight. ‘The crews were made prisoners. Bombs dropped in the district of the Hoyer watergate did no damage. says the statement, which follows: “From two ships, which were accom- panied by a cruiser squadron and a flotilla of destroyers, five English hy- dro-acroplanes started yesterday morning for an attack against the German aeronautic establishments in northern Schleswig. “Not less than three of them, among which was a fighting aeroplane, were forced down by the defensive service on and about the island of Sylt. The inmates of the machines, who were made prisoner, are four English offi- cers and one non-commissioner officer. “Bombs_were thrown only in the district of the Hoyer watergate. No damage was done. FOREIGN RELATIONS MAY BE TAKEN UP IN CONGRESS But Ad: tration Leaders Will Try to Prevent Agitation. ‘Washington, arch 26.—Foreign re- lations of the United States, as affect- ed by the difficult Mexican situation and the latest destruction of a bellig- erent ship bearing American citizens are again disturbing the minds of leaders in congress. What appears to have been the tor- pedoing of the channel steamer Sus- sex, coming soon after the president’ victory in congress over the armed ship issue, is regarded by champions of the proposal that Americans should be warned not to travel on belliger- ent ships, as likely to provoke revival of aiscussion in congress. Administration leaders In congress insisted tonight, however, that fthe president should be left with a free hand to deal with the case after a full investigation and a_ determination of the facts. Every effort will be made to_prevent agitation In congress. The senate republicans who confer- red Saturday regarding Mexican. af- tairs, will confer again tomorrow with a view to action tomorrow in the en- largement of American military forces on, the border. P oo condm_oi ‘l'_olegrams Swiss bankers declares the last Ger- man war loan a total fallure. British grain im, rs are reported to be reseliing thelr wheat At losses. Subscriptions to the fourth German Tar loan totaled more than $2000,000,- Walter Cook, noted consulting ar- chitect, dled at New York, aged 70 years. Rumania has sold 400,000 tons of corn, wheat and peas for .consumption in Germany. Fire destroyed 6,300 pounds of sug- ar on the lighter Senator at Pier No. 5, Brooklyn. Directors of the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia re-clected re- tiring officers. The schooner Helen Montaque, Perth Amboyfs roe St. John's, N. S, w as picked up In distress Exports of copper from Atlantic ports during the week ended March 23 totaled 1,491 tons. irectors of the National Bank of La Crosse, Wis, approved a stock dividend of 100 per cent. Col. Felix Rosenberg, veteran of the Civil and Spanish-American wars ard newspaper writer, died in Cleveland. Gold to the amount of $150,000 was withdrawn from the New York sub-treasury for shipment to Mexico. ight years' idleness the Mid- dlesboro, Ky., furnace of the Virginia Iron, Coal & Coke Co. was blown in. President Wilson issued the executive order for recruiting the additional troop recently authorized by Congress. Elias Micrs, tho Villa lisutenant shot through the head in the raid on Co lumbus, March 9, died at Demin: A One battalion of the 21fst Infantry was ordered from the Vanouver bar- racks to El Centro, Ca., for border duty. Maj.-Gen. George W. Goethal ernor of the Panama Canal railed for Panama on the Pastoras. gov- Zore, steamship it. Ormond C. Pailthorne, was found shot to death in aboard the cruiser Saratoga at Seattle. Kaiser Wilhelm has written a let- ter of thanks to Lieutenant Boelke of the air corps, who shot down 12 e emy aeroplanes. A subscription list for relief of suf- ferers from the Augusta, Ga., fire was ciroulated on the floor of the New Cotton Exchan The United Fruit Co. has placed an embargo on all shipments to points on the west coast of South America, south of Callao, Perun. Announcement was made in London that Lord Harding will be appointed a Knight of the Garter on his retire- ment as Viceroy of India. Governor Whitman commuted to life imprisonment the death sentenca of William Flack, convicted in New York of killing Gluseppe Marino. A resolution denouncing as treason the furnishing of supplies or other ald to Villa was introduced in the Senate by Senator Lewis of Hlinois. The German Reichstag is expected to recess until some time in April, to give its committees opportunity to dis- cuss the budget and tax bill e. Six persons were injured when a New Haven passenger train ran into an open switch near Easthampton, Mass., striking two freight cars. The Missouri Bupreme Court issued a peremptory writ ordering the secre- tary of state to issue a license to the Wubash Rallroad to do business in Mizsouri. William G. McAdoo, secretary of the treasury, will be the officlal guest of Chili during his visit there with other members of the International High Commission. The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion ordered an investigation of bi- tuminous coal rates from points in Pennsylvania ando several other states to Lake points. The engineer and firmen of “ Chica- go Flyer” of the Grand Trunk Line were killed when a collision with a freight traln occurred near Port Credit, near Teronto. Reports received by the Internation- al Institute of Agriculture at Rome indicate that Austro-Germany by Sep- tember woll have a reserve of 400,000 tons of wheat and rye. Four thousand pounds of dynamite exploded at the Indiana & Ohlo Stone Quarry near Greencastle, Ind, One hundred men were workinz about the quarry but none were killad. The senate military committee has decided not to attempt to reconcl'e its army bill with the House bill which already ha spassed the House but will report the Senate bill as a substitute. Five men were killed and twelve others injured, several seriously, when a bofled exnloded at the Manuai Grid- Ale Grist Mill on Peter Creek near Pi- kersville, Ky. according to word re- ceived yesterday. Consular reports to the State de- partment say the Dominion line steam- er Englishman, sunk near the British Isles, was torpedoed and that fonr Americans are missing. The English- man was a horse ship. Victor King, a well known resident of New Haven, and at one time su- perintendent of the Winchester Re- peatine Arms company, dled a‘ his home late last night, aged 89. tired from the arms compady In 18! EIGHT PERSONS KILLED BY TORNADO IN OKLAHOMA The Path of the Wind Storm Wa: Eight Miles Long. Oklahoma City, Okla., Pight persons were killed in a house two miles east of Davis, " The Bulletin’s Girculation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City's Population NEW HAVEN RAILROAD SHOPS BURNE Blaze Was Spectacular, Lighting Up the City for Mi , Around and Attracting Thousands of People TRAINS ON MAIN LINE HELD UP SEVERAL H For Nearly an Hour There Was a Steady Series of the Firemen—Loss is New Haven, Conn, March 26— Three large shops and several smaller buildings at the yards of the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- road, in Spring street, were destroyed by fire tonight, causing an estimated loss of $700,000. The fire started in a house where iron was stored: spread to the paint shop where hundreds of barrels of varnishes and paints caught fire and then jumped to The signal equipment storehouse, the boiler shop, tank shop and storehouse office. The firemen were handicapped by a low water pressure and it was not un- $il after midnight that the blaze was contrblled. For nearly an hour there was a serles of mteady explosions of tmck topedoes, stored in one of the buildings and the work of fighting the Blaze was made perflous. A number of frelght cars were part- ly burned. All trains on the main line were held up for several hours but after midnight traffle was again re- suroed. The blaze was spectacular lighting up the city for miles arona and thousands of people flocked to the scene. Many Yale students assisted the firemen in running the lincs ot hose and otherwise. It was necessary to shut off the cur- PRICE TWO CENTS °fT"d‘Tflpedo~.thn¢&ekalhmhv§:3 rent of the high tension wires of the electric system to avold danger to the firemen. A statement issued by the sald that it would be melm Uimate the loss tonight. One of the officlals of the company, however, whno is well irformed as to the contents of tae destroyed buildings, said that the loss would approximated $700,000. . Three box cars and a_wooden bag gage car gere destroyed. Two steel cars and several bex cars were badly damaged. The blaze was discovered by Michael Early. one of the railroad watcnmen. A stiil alarm was turned in at omes and Early andtwo others _ turned stream of water on the fire. It was seen however, that the biaze had got- ten a_good start and an alarm for the city department was turned in, to e followed a few moments later bip & second alarm. Within a few moments the flames had shot through the roof and sprend rapidiy to other bulldings. One of the buildings saver after & hard fight was used for the storage of heavy maintenance and way material. A house in which patterns were stored was also saved. It is said that in one ef the burned bulldings was $10,000 worth of insulat- ed wire. OFFICIAL STATEMENT BY FRENCH WAR OFFICE Tells of Artillery Activity at Various Sections. Paris, March 26, 1035 p. m—The »Mcial communication issued by the war office tontght follows: “In the Argomme we concentrated our fire on the lines of communicagion Behind the enemy’s front. We bom- barded revictualling convoys north of Apremont, “West of the Meuse there was a violent bombardment between the vil- lage and wood of Malancourt and gainst our second line positions. No infantry action oceurred. “Fast of the Meuse Woevre the cannonading was inter- mittent. Our artlllery was very ac- tive along the whole front. particular- ly in region of Grimacourt. where the fire of our batteries caused several ex- plosions and in the region of Harville, where we dispersed a large convi Mousson the fire of our trench guns directed against German shelters caused the explosion of a grenade depot. Our long range #uns bombarded the railway station at_Vigneulles-le-Hattonchatel. n the Vosges our artillery was ac tive.against the German organizations in_the valley of the Fecht. “This morning a German aeroplane was brought down: it fell near our lines in the neighborhood of Douau- mont.” and in the LR ROOSEVELT DELEGATE DECLINES TO RETIRE Charles A. Bird Will Not Give Way to Governor M'Call. Boston. March 26—Charles A. Bird, ome of the presidential primary can- didates In this state on the Roosevelt ticket for delegates-at-large to the republican national convention, sent a letter to Governor McCall tonight. de- clining an offer of the governor to re- tire in his favor from the unpledged ticket for delegates in the interest of the party harmony. The letter said that Mr. Bird would be unwilling to go to Chicago as an unpledged delegate. as he believed that the voters at the primaries should indicate their cholce for a presidential nominee and that victory could come only through the nomination of Colonel Rooseveit. The ticket of unpledged candidates includes, besides Governor McCall, Senators Lodge and Weeks and For- mer Senator W. M. Crane. SEVEN PERSONS FORCED TO FLEE IN NIGHTCLOTHES When Two Family Dwelling Burned in Middlebury. Was ‘Waterbury, Conn., March 26.—Seven persons had’ a narrow escape from death and were forced to flee bare- footed and in their night clothes when fire destroyed the two-family wood- en dwelling about a mile on the old turnpike road off the state road in Middlebury about 10 o'clock this ev- ening. Mr. and_ Mrs. Milo Dwyer and thelr children, Marion and William, who lived on the first floor, got out with little dificul*y, but Mr. and Mrs. Jo- seph Schaef:r( who resided on _ the second floor with thelr little son, John, aged 6, came near being burned _to death. ' Schaeffer was obliged to throw his wife out of a window and then make his way down the statrs cn his hands and knees with the boy. The house was burned to the ground A MEXICAN LIEUTENANT SENTENCED TO DEATH On Change of Rebellion—Farms For Mexican War Widows. Mexico City, March 26.—A military court martial tonight sentepeed Lieu- tenant Colonel Luis Eecao Cabrera to death on a charge of rebellion. He Dresided at the court martial in the city of Chihuahua which passed the &eath sentence of Abraham Gonzales, governor ot Chihuahua during the Ma- dero regime. The officers and soldiers of the di- visions under General Coss, in _the state of Puebla. have subscribed 270, 000 pesos to buy small farms to be di- vided amopg the widows and orphans of the revolution. BRITISH LINER SUNK IN THE MEDITERRANEAN Minneapolis the Victim of a Subma- rine—Fate of the Crew Unknown. Marseilles, March 26, 11 p. m.—The ritish liner Minneapolis was sunk fn the Mediterranean last Wednesday by a submarine, according to Bidby, of the British !'nm"c‘ml“ tershire, which has arrived here from Rangoon. Captain Bibby reports that while fa the Mediterranean last Wednesday he, received a wireless call for help from' the Minneapolis which sald that the' steamer had just been torpedoed and was sinking. The Leicestershire went at full speed to the assistance of the Minneapolis, but arrived too late, the vessel having sunk. The fate. Tha fate of the erew was not known to Captain Bibby. The Minneapolis was © steamer of 13543 tons gross. She was buiit in 1500 at Belfast and was owned by the Atlantic Transport company. Late shipping records do not give the movemonts of the vessel, which prob- ably was in the British government service. Prior to the ‘war, the Min- neapolis plied between American ports and London. MARITAL ENTANGLEMENTS OF LIEUT. COMMANDER CRONAN. His First Wife Has Petitioned to Have Divorce Annulled. San Francisco, March _26—Marle Cronan of Larchmont, N. Y., who ob- tained a divorce in 1910 from Lieuten- ant_Commanded William P. Cronan, U. 8. N. dvmmanding the U. S. §. Sup- ply, now in San Francisco bay, petl: tioned the courts here Saturday to et aside the decree. Mrs. Cronan her attorney cited as grounds aoe setting aside the decree, which granted here by Judge Thomas Grakam a declaration made by an in testimony before a Washington, D. C., that the divorce \vas oblained through “fraud and col- usion. Cronan has remarried, his presemt wife being the former Miss Nellle Grant. a’ grand-daughter of the late President U. S. Grant. In the event of the setting aside of the first Mrs. Cronan's decree of divorce the second marriage would be annulled automati- cally. Cronan and Miss Grant wers married in San Francisco in -191% They have a daughter ten months 6l e VILLA GENERAL AND 22 OF A VILLA BAND KiLLED In Battle Yesterday in the Neighbers hood of Laguna. ¢ Queretaro, March 26.—General Pe- dro Gozman and twenty-two others, all members of a Villa band, were killed in battle today in the neighborhood of Laguna and Diamita. In this ao- tion between government forces amd bandits ten prisoners were also takem and summarily executsd. is information came in a message to the minister of war, General Obre- £on, who was informed that the cam- paign against ths Villistas was being waged with the utmost vigor. UNEASINESS FELT BY RESIDENTS OF DEL RIO, TEX. A Thousand Mexican Soldiers Within Thirty Miles of Border. * Del Rio, Texas, March 26.—iIncreas— ed uneasiness was felt in this section today when it was learned that neariy one thousand Mexican soldiers have congregnted at a dozen places withim thirty miles of the border. In Vscas. opposite here, it was the troops are Carranzistas. Three hundred soldiers of the ty-Fourth infantry arrived here for a permanent patrol. Hostelry Burned at Woodbury. ‘Woodbury, Conn., March 2