Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 12, 1916, Page 1

VOL. LVIii.—NO. POPULATION 28,219 Bulletin “The Bulletin's Circulation jn Norwich is Double That of Any TEN PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS Other Paper, and ts Total Girculation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Population GERMANS CONTINUE TRIFE FOR VERDUN Have Gained a Few Small Portions of French Trenches East of Le Mort Homme MEN IN LARGE NUMBERS HURLED AT FRENCH Teutons Directing an Intense Artillery Fire at Line Between Le Mort Homme and Cumieres, Probably Preparing for Another Attack of lnfanlry.—ln Counter-Attack in the Region of Douaumont-Vaux the French Drove the Ene- my From Advanced Section of Trenches They Had Pre- viously Captured—German Offensive in the Region of the Ikskull Bridgehead Was Stopped by the Russians— Germany and Rumania Have Entered Into a Compact for Exchange of Home Products. The armies of the German crown prince around Verdun are still vigor- the offensive been busy at various points elsewhere along the front. z Petrograd reports that the Russians are continuing to gain ground against the Turks in the region of Ezerum. Unofficial advices are to the effect that the Turks have regrouped their forces and are now resisting stubbornly the three Russian main lines of advance into their territory. The Austrians between the Adige and Sugana valley have brought into the campaign artillery which is described by Rome as new and very powerful The Italian guns, plied_effectively Having delivered at attack along the line from Le Mort Homme to Cumieres which netted them a few small portions of French trenches on the east of Le ore Homme, the German commanders rested their infantry hers region of Douaumont-Vaux, northeast of Verdun, threw their men in large numbers asainst the French trenches. met with success, but only for a short period of time, for the Frenc hin a counter-attack drove the invaders from advanced sec- tions of trenches they had captured, and in the operations took about one hundred German prisoners. ‘While the Douaumont-Vaux attack was in progress the Germans had not line between Homme and Cumieres and covered the entire region with an intense artillery fire, probably preparing for another at- Here again thi to the fire. attacks are reported theatre of the war. Germany and Rumania have eptered into a compact for the free exporta- tion from one country to the other of home products for their own is excepted from the ‘War material Greece, according to a semi-official despatch from has refused a request_of the entente allies to be per- mitted to brinz troops from Corfusto Saloniki_through Greek territory, as- serting that cholera prevails at Corfu. The German reply to the inquiry of government respecting the channel steamer in the hands of ambassador at Berlin transmission to Washington. denies all responsibility. slonz the remainder o° and Belgium there were only hombardments. se—north of the the front in Aisne—the French guns caused scrious losses to a strong German column,on the march, In the Russian th by the Germans to in the region of the Ikskull bridgehead was stopped by the Russians, The big guns of both sides have the American the disaster to tre an attempt ke the offensive CABINET DISCUSSES SUSMARINE ISSUE Outline of Future Course Has Been Agreed Upon. SENATE PASSES SUBSTITUTE FOR FREE SUGAR REPEAL Extends Duty of One Cent a Pound Until May, 1920. ‘Washington, April rine issue between Germany and the United States was discussed in all its ~hases today at a meeting of Presi- dent Wilson and his cabinet. the future course of the American government is understoed to have although a poned pending receipt of the German note regardin merchant ships which met disaster and additional in the same c: can diplom: 11—The subma-| Washington, April late today passed its substitute for the house free sugar repeal resolution ex- tending the present duty of one cent a pound on susar until May, 1920. The vate was 40 to 32. Four democrats, Senators Broussard, Newlands and Lane, joined the republicans in voting against the They favor the fiat repeal A sharp con- in conference bectween is predicted. ing that the house would insist upon 11—The senate been agreed upon, Sussex and two houses es coliected by Amer; s and due here Thursday. It is known through confidential ad- Ambassador Gerard that the note from Berlin will any German submarine torpedoed the Sussex and disclaim biame in connec- other attacks the ambassador has Lodec were named as the senate confereces. Unless a conference agreement is reached and approved before May sugar will go on the free list until such time as the repeal or extension of the duty can be made effective. Most of the tariff discussion today did not touch upon the sugar issu which had been talked out yesterday, but was devoted to an amendment by Senator Works of California, crease the tariff on lemous and other citrus fruits to one cent a pound. This was defeated by a vote of 44 to 2 Senator Phelan of California_being the only democrat to support it. vices . from about which evidence in the hands of the state de- partment any reply that may be sent probably will not deal exclusively with any one case or group of cases. communication templated is sent to Germany, it w. be designed to preciude the possibil- of further drawn-out diplomatic exchanges and to make it plain that reiterated assurances that international law will be r ed cannot protect the friendly tions between illezal attacks upon chantmen carrying Americans are con- 1t probably will include a re- sume of all the many is now con- AMERICAN GRAPHOPHONE PRESSMEN ON STRIKE Allege That Several Have Been D charged Because of Union Activi two countries the Lusitania down to the present. Bridgepert, Conn. April five hundred pressmen at the Ameri- can Graphaphone company struck at one o’clock this morning. lege that several of thei: number had recently been discharged because of They also present a demand for more money and shorter MERIDEN TROLLEY CAR ALMOST ENTERED SALOON Mounted Sidewalk When Motorman Temporarily Lost Contror. The men al- union activities. 11.—Bernard M. Wetzel, a West Main streer atoon keeper, had a novel birthday surprise this afternoon when a trolley car was lerailed and mounted the sidewalk in tront of his saloon and came within 2 few inches of smashing his plate The seven passengers and crew escaped without injury but Frank Albert of New York city, a motoreycle demonstrator, down and had to be taken to the hos- pital suffering with various bruises. The motorman had temporarily lost nold of the controller handle when ‘he car was proceeding on high power. At present the men say, they receive 36 cents an hour and work ten hours on the day shift and 11 1-2 hours at They will dermand forty cents an hour and an eight hour day for all. glass window. PHILIPPINES ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY WAR Through Shortage of Vessels and Re- sultant High Rates. San Francisco, April conditions in the Philippine Islands have been adversely affected by the European war, principally thro shortage of vessels on the Pacific and the resultant high freight tariffs, ac- cording to W. Morgan Shuster, of New York, who is in San Francisco today after a visit to the islands. was struck 11.—Business N. H. ROAD SIGNAL MEN GET WAGE INCREASE About 400 Men Will Get Five Per Cent. New Haven, Conn., Brotherhood of Rallway Signal Men on e New York, New Haven & Hartford .allroad announced tonight that the -ompany had agreed to grant an in- _rease of five per cent. in wages. The pany also agreed to a gen vision of the working agreems secome effective on April 14. 100 men are Movements of Steamships. 1 9.—Sailed: steamer April 11—The|EIRE IN HARTFORD PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. Shop Damaged About $15,000. Hartford, Conn., ril 11. Lockwood” som Frbinasd C % printing shop-in Pearl street was dam- aged by fire and water tonight to the of about $15,000. the fire started when sparks from a short circuit in the lighting apparatus some benzine. The —The Case, It is belleved . iteamer Rame. communicated ~office_recoxds Gabled_ Paragrar*s O Portuguese Minist - Lisbon, via Paris. 11 p. m.— The Portuguese - as a result question of political - FAILEL _ KILL HIS WIFE, FATALLY WOUNDED HIMSELF Tragic Act of Louis H. Wolter of Bridgeport, a Cigarmake Bridgeport, Conn, April 11.—Louis H. Wolter, 10 vears old, a cigarmaker, tried to kill his wife and_himself in nas resigned “ences on the ssed amnesty for their rooming house at 80 Cannon | Interstate Commerce Commi strete this afternoon. He shot his wife in the right thigh and the right | Clark Advi shoulder, then fired a bullet into his pitagl. She is in the same hospital but will recover. In a note found in Wolter's apart- ments he says that he intended kill- ing himself, as Mrs. Wolters first husband, Frank Ames, had done. Ames two vears ago. Wolter also rerc a Embargoes ToEnd Friday Midnight ON NEW HAVEN ROAD, EXCEPT AS TO EXPORT FREIGHT IN MODERATE SHIPMENTS of East Haven, accusing Tuttle of | tonight. Embargoes on breaking up his home. ~ Mrs. Wolter said she had brcught suit for di- vorce a few weeks ago. “T'll get you,” Wolter said when she day. She ran down the stairs and he followed, firing. Two shots took ef- flight to the street. Wolter was found unconscious in a room a few minutes_later. Mrs, Wolter had not seen him be- | (heY, must arr fore, in about two weeks. She con- ducts a rooming house in New FMa- ven. DENIAL FROM FORMER , Bristol, STATE SENATOR TUTTLE| Britain and Hartford, as against cotton consigned to Fall River Mass., and a few indi- vidual concerns which have accumu- lation of freight on hand beyond their New Haven, Conn.. April 11.—Form- | pre Had Done Some Business For the Wo- man Who Was Shot. er State Senmator Dwight W. Tuttle of East Haven, when informed tonight of the contents of a note left for him by Louis H. Wolter of Bridgeport, made this statement: statement. 1 have done some busi- ness for this lady but there is _no truth in the statement made by Wol- | INDICTED FOR IMPORTING ter. it is only a matter of jealousy on_his part. Mr._Tuttle added that he had met Mrs. Wolter only ence or twice. BELATED RECOGNITION OF AM ARTIST'S MERIT.|Jients aguinst est carrying capacity. including Waterbur; and Watuppa, nt ability to unload. 1916., Canadian. Syracuse, N. Y. April Yorkers and one ( Returns from Insane Asylum to Meet|{hem With conspiring to Acclaims of Experts. New .York, April 11.—Ralph Albert Blakelock, who as a strugsgling artist became broken in body and mind 17 years ago and was sent to the Mid- dletown state hospital for the insane, was freed today at the age of 70 vears. He returned here to view the paintings he was forced to sell for a pittance but which had since been ac- claimed by experts the country over|jspac C. V. Ulnan, manager of the Du as representative of the finest in|plex Film Company; Harry Fisgbeck, expert cinnematograph operator; V. Brymer, James J. Johnstone, man- ager of Madison Square Garden: Law- rence M. D. McGuire, president of the New York Real Estate Dealers change and J. J. Orknay, of Canada. The accused are charged with hav- ing set up machines on the Canadian border at Rouse’s Point fcr the purpose of transferring from the Canadian side films of the fight pictures onto Ameri- can films for exhibition in the United American art. Blakelo scarcely (Ohio) an admiring throng of art lovers. *Plans have been made by a number who went away with belonging, came back an honored member of the National Academy of Design. Accompanied by Dr. Maurice C. Ashley, medical super- intendent of the asylum, he was re- ccived by a committee of artists at a gallery in Fifth avenue, where many of his celebrated pictures, such as “Moonlight,” owned by the Toledo useum of Art, and “The Old Ogk,” were exhibited before him to row. States. of prominent artists, it was s to MANY DYING OF take care of Blakelock, his wife, daugh- ter and son, who was born on the night the painter was taken to the asylum. (150,000 Deaths in Last 18 Months— He is to be provided with a cottage near this city, where he may devote the remainder of his life eo art. APPOINTMENTS MADE BY GOVERNOR HOLCOMB L. H. Healy Delegats to National Diary Convention at Washington. Hartford, April 11.—Governor M. H. | country were resumed. Holcomb today appointed Former| Famine due to the failure of the Attorney General J. H. Light of South Norwalk ,delegate to the annual meet- ing of the American Academy of Po- litical and Social Science at Philadel- phia, April secretar; convention at Washington and Mrs. T. of the state board of agri- culture was appointed by the govern- |lyzed. The secretary said or delegate to the national dairy | Christian work relief ship carrying the fourth shipment of relief | T. W. Gerard of South Norwalk was |supplies, still remained in appointed a delegate to the national | iterranean. conservation congress at Washington| Mr. Howard is returning United States for the purpose of fit- ting out another relief expedition. says the Albanians arc not taking any part in the war of the Balkans. in May. LABORERS AT REMINGTON ARMS PLANT STRIKE Want a Flat Wage Scale of 25 Cents an Hour. Bridgeport, Conn., April 11.—About 200 laborers, not organized, in vari- | sibi ous departments of the Remington Arms plant, struck today for a flat| dates: wage scale of 25 cents an hour. They had been getting 20, 22 and 23 cents an hour. “After they had been out about half a day representatives of the company had a conference with them and agreed to the 25 cent rate for all of them and the men will will £0 back to work in the morning. All are among the unskilled class. WATERBURY MEN FACE WHITE SLAVE CHARGE Said to Have Been Living There With Two Married Women. Bristol, Conn, April 11.—Edward Lancaster, Pa, pril acy v individual. Daley, aged 25 and - Charles Munso, | 1194CY, of any Individual aned 28, both of Wateruey, will 1|, It may be stated with accuracy. he added, “that there are no candi- arraigned tomorrow in the city court|gates at the present time for the re. publican nomination in the usual ac- the two have been living here since | C*Ptance of the term. on a charge of white slavery.it was announced tonight. It is alleged shat April 1_with Mrs. Calla Camp, aged 23, of Waterbury, and iIrs. Iilda|COMBINED ARMY AND Johnson <f New Britain. BOYS ESCAPE FROM CHESHIRE REFORMATORY. Henry Kenyon of New London One of Two. ‘Cheshire, Conn., April i1. — Henry Kenyon of New London and John Mey- ers of New Jersey, inmates of the state reformatory, escaped from the institu- tion late today. They were working in the woods when they decided to run away. It is said they went to a nearby house and changed their clothes. Ac- cording to current reports, the boys - are armed with revolve tuture. Republicans Win In New Btitain MAYOR QUIGLEY RE-ELECTED BY VOTE OF 3,660 TO 2,086 CARRIED 5 OF 6 WARDS One of the Largest Political Swaeps s Shippers and Re- temple. ~_He is dying in a local hos-| ceivers of Fright to Ut in the History of the City—Vote on 191 to 127 Mileage Amendment wa: to the Fullest Carrying Capacity. New York, April 11.—Embargoes, ex- cept as 1o export fréight, will be vir- committed suicide by gas poisoning | tually lifted on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad at mid- note for Attorney Dwight W. Tuttle |night Friday, it was announced here Britain, Conn April 11.—The republicans swept New Britain at the ve- [ rere e fof it incinas (e fun- Hopkins Clark of Hartford and Francis Maxwell of clected mavor over Ernest W. Pelton. | yoat Wheeling left Vera Cruz for a . by a vote of 3,660 to Gain Two Members The republi lines will be modified as nearly as possible to conform with the action. Shipments in Moderation. Interstate Commerce Commissioner saw him as she entered the place t0-|Ciark, who has been participating in ;he eastern freight accumulation con- ‘erence, is: 2 ent feet. but she staggered down a second | fGciared that it Shippers And rer ceivers of freight desire to escape fur- ther embargoes on the New Haven line nge shipments in mods eration and utilize all cars to the full- in Council. mem- The New York branch of the which | tional Bank of Cuba h: republicans | Cuba $1,600,000 in new Cuban gold. ans galned and five democ) or Quigley It was one al sweeps in the hi five of the| A distinct earth shock probably sev- the largest | eral thousand miles directly south was R S S L T TR i Spoken of for Permanent Chairman—A Short Session amendment question was ves 19 Remaining in Force. The New Haven embargoes remain- ing in force are against several cities, SPEEDY CONCLUSION OF PURSUIT OF VILLA | New Haven for an increase in wag: | Predicted by an American Mining Con-| An order for 10 locomotives was cern With Interests in Parral. Tex.. April 11.—The pursuit a conclusion information re- an American min- i i interests at |, Mich: Bituminous and Anthracite Coal. Bituminous and anthracite lumber and cement will be limited to one-third the average daily from g i “There is no truth whatever in the st gl T d here today by Parral and Torreon. Villa Currently Reported Dead. The message stated that s far from|en from iail by o s PRIZE FIGHT PICTURES Sached tent Suiiion | N, 4l Mnetes Six Prominent New Yorkers and One the Either Dead or Far South. possibilities | won which are 3 present situation. d his pursuit i cepted here . vmine ‘anadian, law prohibiting the importation motion pictures of the Wil son fight and with bringing into the United States pictorial representations of the fight in violation of the law, turned by the federal grand fury here hav beep sgnt to the United States dis- trict attornes.s-New York and the ars rest of the five men is expected tomor- — | - Pershing must| Secretary of War Baker told Repre- Leagus of United States. reorganized or abandoned alto- | sentative Olney t One officer, who has had an summed up the situation in this way: “If Villa is dead, there is no more | committee in Herlin, it to be said, except to issue an order for | that 700,000 Jews in the occupled dis- The men are Harold T. Edwards of the | tricts of Poland require assistance. the law frm of Olney and Co to come back speedily as possible. 5 not dead, there is ver reason to doubt that he is by this time well into the state of Durango. simply ridiculous to suppose that our | York for Wigsins, S. C on going south with no railroads either have to halt or arrange for the despatch of another expedition from border which in behind Vil the most casual It is|C., the schooner John R. Penrose, New | ¢ troops can in- some point on th |a term of five years from June 1, 191 see that the existing conditions are im- possible of continuance. Carranza Commander Cre : a of Villa’s death was ac- o by General| A teaspoonful of coffes will buy commander at now in Juarez. Report. cepted as hi STARVATION IN ALBANIA. Grandes, who is Only One Doctor in 500,000 Likely to Di aris, April 11, 11.10 a. m.—Willlam Willard Howard of New York, secre- tary of the Albanian relief committee, who left Paris today on his way to the United States from Albania, said that 150,000 human beings had died of | starvation in Albania during the last 18 months, and that 500,000 were likely to die before normal conditions in that country where Villa now is, s wounded leg, information has it nothing, even if he has a chance.” EXECUTION OF THREE DIAZ PLOTTERS REPORTED.|William H. Orpet, Wisconsin Uni- PR Leaders in Plan to Overthrow Juarez|of Marian Lambert. crops as a result of the excessive rains, Were Shot There Early Yesterday. Mr. Howard said, has reduced the poj s ulation to a pitiful condition, and t: phus fever threatens to become epi 28 and 29. L. H. Healy, | demic. Owing to the car, end industry in the country are para- El Paso, Tex. leaders of the D and overthi esecated by |crease of 2 1-2 cen today. holas Chavazarria, Jose | oo jrackenaack, N. I dived Florenzio Hernandez. - vor this = At Hackensack River there and rescued land cases, heard testimony by th: The condemned men confirmed the Plot | Tony Hajnack, an Insane Drisoner, as Inez Bornel and Mexicans were implicated, today tho St Taoet <- | set aside the patents. that four Villa bandits had been cap- | SteeTyT, Bermudian, reported the re be executed. . g " |his court across the continent inst Gavira said he thought the Vilia ban- | W1© Jumped overboard last Saturday. dits had been captured o Gen. PENROSE ON APPROACHING NATIONAL CAMPAIGN in a recent Says Republicans Face Great Respon- il Principles and Candi- A PARDONED COUNTERFEITER AGAIN UNDER ARREST.|Archbishop Edrokin at the Russian |officials who will testify here wo Charged With P ng Spurious Silver Pihladelphia. Philadelphia, April 11.—Bartholomew | & Fmm 11—United States Senator Penrose In an address tonight at the annual banquet of the Republican club of this city said that not since the Civil war has the re- publicar. party faced such great re- sponsibilities as will confront it in the appraaching national campaign. the enunciation of principles and the selection of candidates, the said, the party must subordinate ev- ery personal interest or petty conflict of opinion that stands as an obsta- cle to the performance of its duties. The fecling prevails among republi- can leads, Senator Penrose said, “that this is not the vear to force the can- 5 waters, reported that the Minister of [ ®Tal land could o to railroads. Some terce for counterfelting In Kentuciey. et Bt o Sl e s ~ tonight, en bitten by a m: charged with passing counterfeit silver | 1oy Deeh bitten by a mad dog and | 89, € ases are pending William Engle, who, the au-|, for counterfeiting, was arrested ) with his room, according to the police, re- pardon, which was found in his pocket. FORCEZD TO VOLPLANE Lioyd Thompson Had Reached Altitude| MmNt and paid $1.000.000. The loan | Hartford, Con: of 13,950 Feet. New York, April 11.—Lloyd Thomp- fiving with his mechanic - helr, quartes military biplane oniLong Island today, this city today by Dr. Ingraham, dep- reached a height of 13,950 feet and GROCER A SUICIDE z established a new American record for mals. ‘The information came from New York, Apri 11.—A special His fuel became exhausted|Brookiyn Man Had Delusions His|Dr. John A. Keenan, connected with |committee of the bozrd of education In the descent and he was forced to Business Was Failing. volplane several thousand feet. The gaged in this state in stamping out | Mitchell to invastizate an alleged in- previous record for altitude with 3 New York, April 11L—William B. passenger was 11,630 feet, i & wholesale grocer, reputed to Governor Holcomb attended the |Maurer, president of the Pennsylvagia: Lieut. J. E. Carberry, U. S] A, at San |be @ millionaire, committed suicide Diego, Cal., Jan. 5, 1915 NAVY AERODROME. Plans Formulated for Its Establish- ment at San Diego, C: in a|MILLIONAIRE WHOLESALE culture at their quarterly meeting in | At Meeting Held in a High School in San Diego, Cal, April 11.—Plans for the establishment of a combined army and navy aerodrome here, at which military aviators ef both services will be trained, hav ebeen formulated by officials of the United States signal corps aviation school at North Island. These plans, it was said autnoritative- Iy today, have received the endorse- ment of ‘Secretary of War Baker and Secretary of the Navy Daniels and will be placed 'before comgress in the near! made_by Elderdown is Gondensod Telegrams 'REPUBLIGANS IN STATE GONVENTION Unparalleled freight congestion reported from the Great Lakes. Canada encing a Five Chinese warships stationed Edwin W. Higgins Mentioned as Delegate to National e ey Convention From This Congressional District A meeting of the Federal Reserve % Agents will be held in Washington on May 29. Shipments _of fresn _ana_cured| ISPARAGEMENT OF DEMOCRACY IS CHEERED meats from Chicago last week amount- ed to 46,012,000. reported to be experi- jous labor shortage. Vice Admiral Lindor Perez-Gacitna, greciener L, IEI"AT: | Senator McLean Attacks President Wilson's Handling of With her cargo badly damaged by Revenue Measure, His Mexican and Foreign Policy and < Fad'at L ochene, France. - | Tells of Fundamental Weakness of Democratic Party— Yeggs blew the safe of the post office at Savannah, N. Y., and escaped with J. H. Roraback, John T. King of Bridgeport, Charles ': $12 in cash and $70 in stamps. o cruise along the coast of Yucatan. Rockville Are Forecast as the Delezllu-al-hrte to Na- €, the Na- tional Convention at Chicago—A. E. Shedd Represents i 19th District on Resolutions Comittee—Senator McLean Three more chmnn;'hfl ved to have is Anticipated Today, as There Are Few Contests Over been smyszgled into this country. w arrested In a laundry at Scher District Delegates to the Chicago Convention. About 35 members of the Journey- men failors’ Union are on strike at 5. Hartford, April 11.—The republ convention, which opencd promises to be a harme It was opened by _ United Senator P. McLean, se and In acknowledging this said that he was glad to look “into faces of the men who will help the next president of the United tes.” received by the American Locomotive | Co. from the Pekin-Hankow Railroad. | \ Operation of the Elsworth Col eri a stirrin; 2 Co. mines at Chirlerol, Pa., have been | Roraback Introduced Moleam. Preparation and Protection. closed in definitely because of a strike. | qu. roo Guara Armory was fairly [ Declaring that the republican y : I Mislai, 40, was killed when | 1 filled when hairman J. Henry |in the fail campaign will bear a ban- he was struck by a train while cross- back duced Senator McLe the promise on it of “Prep- ing the tracks of the New Haven road | nventions held in the arn and Protection”—"peace and 5% Siiniog more effort been expended unquzlifiedly attacking the report — |" . ey t democratic administration for its was current through-| Carl Dudley, a negro accused of kill- | (3™ M138% being used for i banking and trade policies and and northern | Ing policeman James Hayes. was tak- | p7oct nd, palms and potted plants izing the Mexican and foreisn |en from jail by a mob at Lawton, & banked on ench ‘w of the |policies of President Wilson, United tates Senator George P. McLean of Senator Mclcan Greeted With Ap.|Connecticut, as temporary chairman, g opened the republican state convenme Chick Evans, former Chicago, and stole four silver " wan grestad w (Continued on Page Two) > in golf tournaments. Burglars broke into the home as_true in the | Either Villa is'dead | Bringing 33 racing il M.lESSENYIALS FOR NAVAL WASHINGTON NEWS OF : neded | the late H. B. Duryea, the Atiantic AND MILITARY POLICY 3 central | Transport liner Mongolia arrived at ssioemn AFFAIRS IN MEXICO r is true, army | New York from Liverpool. Discussed at Annual Meeting of Navy the entire plan of Disposition to Discredit Rumors of | vill Death. Washington, April 11.—Marked prog- 1t he expects to ask| Congress for money to maintain citi- hington, April 11—Thres fun- damental steps which he declared |ress toward solving & the direction of the |zen soldier training campe. were essential to an adequate Ameri- | supplying Genersi Berahings ooiomar Y : 3 . can naval and milterr U ey | saviiag Genss = At a meeting of the Jewish relfef | outiined here today to the annual con- | b e tien S evdyEE Carranza soidiers in the pursuft was reported | vention of the Nav of Villa were recorded in today’s offic clal reports from Mexico and the bor- . Teague of the | United States by its chairman, Perry Eelmont They were: Cr fon of der. £ ouncil of ational defence. abolition Ve litte | The Coast Guard cutter Seminol Oluntecr system. and Issaance | Ville peg dr ot pioral sources that brought into port at Wilmington, N. had died of blood poisoning and press despatches from Queretaro tell- ing of an announcement by the de facto Fovernment's war department that it had reason to believe the ban- mont contended it was un-|dit chief had been killed in action fair to congress to thrust on it the |wers the cccasion of much discussion m of defense Without a com- |here. In some quarters onal defense bonds. er speakers made pleas for naval preparedness and for private manu f war munitions. in distress. of| Gov. Holcomb appointed J. W.| air arsiand, of New Pritain a member the state pharmacy commission for ere was a o 'on to gather information neces- |disposition to credit th, T am not a prophet, Lieut. Berg, German prize master of | The present volupteer system, he said, | tion and both army officers and state observer should | the steamer Appam, now lying at New- | would interfere in time of war with |department officials suggested tha ews, reported his vessel leaking | industry A v ~ =ued that defense bonds sh d so extended that n > they probably had been put out by Vilia’s friends as a ruse. At the state and war departments it was admitted that Villa' genera more than a gold _coin with the | whole burden. e R American army in Mexico. Grounds| “Compliance with the democratic | General Pershing haa been n: are used as many as 11 times by some | platform of 1912 providing measures | for several daye: Tho b steerios the Cwnw-h of the s ldiers. for national defense in its broades: | partment report regarding wilics the sense, including the establishme { | whereabou t said Gen.| Joseph Danduno was_ sentenced In|a council of motienel dofonn ey R nd if blood poison has|the superior court at New Haven to |chairman added, “would have remc i * S my | from four to eight years in s the question from polities and v v this doctor can dopson on his plea of guilty to have resu FUNSTON HAS NOT ASKED slavery” charges, and S Amimoadt pian FOR ADDITIONAL TROOPS y program to carry the program into efect.” Judge Donnelly at Waukegan, Il continued until May the case of But More Trocps May Be Sent Withe out His Asking for Them. versity student, accused of the murder | SOUTHERN PACIFiC San_Antonic, Texas, April 11.—Gene OIL LAND CASES |eral Funston said today. that General! The 22 striking employes of the R - Pershing had made no request for ad- g Being Heard in Washington by Dis- |4 April 11—The three | TOTTington street department returned . - 1 troops, but his silence on that T X to work after the borough had agreed | trict Court of Southern California. |point was regarded by staff officers Diaz plot to seize Juarez| o [ %o 5 cents an hour, an in- here as due to his reluctance to pre- sw the Carranza garrison g Washington, April 11—The federal |sent a phase of the situation that district court of southern California, |mizht be considered embarrassing ra-| s Konstance Kopp, under-sheriff [moved here bodily to take testimony | ther than to any confidence he has in nto the |in the famous Southern Pac oil | his ability to conduct the campaign ainst Villa much longer with the Rovernment today ned to prov forces at his command. B ol 0 Sk M that the railroa ted throuzh | Additional troops may be sent to < gty fraud its title to California lands | him without him asking for them, but a. commanding the Juarez| pageengers arriving at New York | Worth more than half a billion dol- |if not General Funston will make rep- : from Hamilton, Bermuda, on the|lars. The government is secking to|resentations to the war department from the military governor at Madera aining the ni ¥ for strength- the punitive expedition at the first call from General Pershing. cue of Peter J. McKenna, a passenger | Judge Benjamin F. Bledsoe brou = of having an examiner take the tes-| Headquarters officia Sixteen field motor ambulances, the | timony because he wanted to hear it |their expressions of ai gift of the American Red Cross|Personally. The proceeding is un- |General Pershing had through private benefactors to the |USual in the annals of American juris- |he has with the forces at hand and % Russian Red Cross, were blessed by | Prudence. Numbers of governmen® |almost hourly have expected word d | from him that he dare not send fur- er into Mexico the cavalry columns now out Parral, 400 miies south of were introduced | the order, unless more men for the' oday to support | extension of the line of communica- F. Angell, which she sunk |its allesations that the raflroad in - | tion are provided. Consulate in New York. have been unable to go to Calif: for the trial. Bringing Capt. O. M. Gray and seven | land office record members of the crew of the schoon- |P¥ the government according to_government |12 & Sollislon off the Virginia Capes. |SF o hove than 100,609 acres swore P agenis, has served more than 3 years | g, Britiah steamer Chenstow Castie | fo 5ty that land from which the il |ViLLA IN HIDING: for counterfeiting in various sections o — # contained no oil. The land was ob- ALMOST UNATTENDED 7 of the country, and was pardoned Feb.| poa. Admiral Caperton, command- |tained by the railroad under grar 16 by President Wilson after he had |, {he cruiser squadron in Haytian |Of 1866, which provided that no min- |Said to Be in the Sierra Mountains served two years of a six years' sen- izen | Of it was set aside by the government e 1 dog, and |3s_fuel oil lands for the Mexico City, April 11—Francisco he | villa has left the main body of his i railroad but under an agreement ap- | .. = 2 . thorities allege, has served a sentence|"™®'™et___ proved by the court, the Case now be- | Sommen i the” BleinE: jimost unats - INDUSTRIAL LOAN FOR Ing tried will serve as a record of ihuahua, according to information Several bogus dollars were found dence for all. . e T g CHINESE GOVERNMENT fl‘z’n’-‘ out at the war department to- vealed a complete outfit. for their man- | Lee Higginson & Co. of Boston Sign|FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE e owtay g identified by his Contract for $20,000,000. 1S ENTIRELY ERADICATED |rachic Chihual in their o — flight toward They 4 Pddnsé China, .\m;(: 1%-‘;'“ ‘HUP Announcement Made at Meeting of | were closely pursued by forces of the ginson ey & e sea s ea State Board of Agriculture. de facto government who hope to cap: ) SEVERAL THOUSAND FEET. |3 contract today for & 800 o000 i- dustrial loan to the Chinese gpvern- —— ture the band and locate their leader, . April 11 ‘The — was piaced at 97, at six per cent. The |00t and mouth disease in the United | FAILED TO VERIFY industries to be developed furnished |States is now entirely eradicated,” was the Information imparted to the FLAG WAS INSULTED . —— members of the state board of agri- New York. uty commissioner on domestic ani- - the government who was actively en- appointed at the request pof Mayor, the discase. sult to the American flag by James H. t | meeting. Clifford Stoddard of New |state federation of labor, In a speech’ has home in Brooklyn today by cut- | Haven rcported relative to the Gil. |delivered at a meeting held in ting his throat with a razor. Mr. | bert farm matter at Georgetown and school building bere, reported oue of the poorest|Jurgens was in his 78th yedr and was | urged that a house for boys be erect- that it had been unable (g lind mnductorrlflo! heat, hence its use as!suffering from a delusion that his bus. led there. He advocated the erec- a bed covering. quate corroboration of the iness was falling. =~ tion of a dommitory, story,