Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 7, 1916, Page 1

—prm o T Bualletin VOL. LVIIL—NO. 182 POPULATION 28,219 The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double The GERMANS VIOLENTLY ATTACKING FRENCH | On Almost the Entire Line b of the French Advance in the Somme River Region {GERMAN COMMANDERS STRENGTHEN DEFENSES ! Both Ends of the French Line Have Been Under Heavy At- N tacks—Both French and British Are Consolidating Their Positions, Making Preparations for a Repetition of the Great Bombardment—West of Kolomea the Austrians Have Been Driven Back vances Are Recorded by the Verdun Region. Nearly Five Miles—No Ad- Either Germans or French in Violent counter-attacks by the Ger- mans on almost the entire line of the French advance in the Somme region show a change in the situation from the earlier of the Anglo-French offensive. beginning the G mans concentrated their forces against the British apparently considering the operations of the French to the south a sof small significence. But the rapld movement of the French troops together with the importance of the objectlve for which they are aiming, |has had the effect of changing the German view and causing the Ger- man commanders to sirengthen their defences and forces along the line pro- tecting Perrone and other important strategic points. Both ends of the Frenc been under heavy attacks, French, according to the official ac- counts, have been at to put them down, without the Germans making any gains whatever. Meanwhile both French and British are consolidating their positions are btedly for ition of the great bombardment which pre- ceded the first impetuous rush. While the situation in the Verdun s comparatively ~quiet, v bombardments on both No ad line have but the “rench or German cial statement gives few details, merely remarking that result of violent bomb fighting we made further progress at certain points the main The immensity of the Russian drive against the Austrians and Germans during the last month is indicated by unofficial reports from Petrograd, which say that the Austro-German losses in the endeavor to stay the ad- vance of General Brussiloff's armies, total nearly half a miilion men, about half of whom are prisoners. Not less than 250 guns of various sizes and 70 machine guns and an immense quantity of other booty have been taken. The Austrians admit a serious defeat west of Kolomea, where they were driven back nearly five miles. The latest official statement from the Russian war office announces the cap- ure of approximately 10,000 addition- al prisoners, 5,000 of whom are said to be Germans, taken in a recent bat- tle on the Dniester. About 5,000 other prisoners were captured on other sec- tions of the Russian front. The Germans admit the withdrawal of General Bothmer's army in the Tar- nopol sector before the powerful at- tacks of the Russians. They concede so_an advance by the British south of Thiepval, in the western zone. David Lloyd George, whose untiring efforts have been responsible for the immense quantities of shells the allies are now hurling at their opponents, taken has over the duties of secre- r in the British cabinet. d Grey, the foreign secretary, ha been made an earl, while Lord Der- by, director of recruiting, who helped to create the British armies, is the new under-secretary of war . HALF MILLION TEUTONS PUT OUT OF COMMISSION Since the Russians Began Their Ad- vance a Month Ago. Ju commission began his gre General Brus: advance a mont today. nd total of pri to dat d numbers 2: of h 4,500 are officers. Without the actual f ing the dead and wounded, careful es mates by military experts, based on e best information, place the latter at 200,000 to 220,000 The Austrians predominate overwhelmingly among the prisoners, but among the dead and wounded it is said that a fairly large percentage are eGrmans. The Ger- man losses in stopping the Ru: advance at Kovel and in counte: cks made In solid ranks were en- ormous. The booty captured reach- es incalculable gflures. It is figured that 250 guns of various sizes and up- wards of 700 machine guns Is a c servative estimate, addition va: quantities of mur upplies and transports have fallen into the hands of the Russians. GOVERNOR FOUND CAMP QUIET AND PEACEFUL So Much So That He Decided to Spend Another ight There. ires regard- Camp Holcomb, Niantic, Conn., July —It was so quiet and iceful in camp last night, and the air was so cool d invigorating and the com- pany of officers so c nial that Gov- ernor Holcomb decided today to stay over another night. The forty rejected recruits in Re- 1 cruit Company were permitted to return to their homes today. The examination of recruits in Com 0. 2 is going on. Commandant S tleworth wishes to get rid of who ecannot mustered as soon possible. Capt. B. F. Andrews, U. S. A. Q. C., who in civilian life is managing edi tor of the Hartford Times, got his wish for line service gratified tem- porarily ¢ when he was assigned to Recruit Company No. 4 to take the place of »t. Bdgar Thomas, reserve, who has returned to New Haven. Capt. Frederick C. Crabbe, of No. 3 company o left for New Haven and hils place was taken by Lieut. Hagg of Company 1, Meriden, INQUIRY ON INHERITANCE TAX OF HETTY GREEN ESTATE. Collectible in New York It Will Amount to More Than $4,000,000. If Timany, N. Y, July 6.—Officials of the state comptroller’s office began an informal inquiry today to ascertain whether New York state is entitled to an Inheritance tax on the estate of Mrs. Hetty Green. If such a tax is collectible ‘it will amount to more than $4,000,000, it was estimated. The largest inheritance tax heretofore col- lccted by the comptroller's office was §3,150,000 on the cstate of John Jacob Astor, The next largest was $2,350,000 cn_the estate of Anthony N. Brady. The inquiry was begun with a view to learnnig how long Mrs. Green had resided with her son in New York city, at whose home she died. The officlals pointed out that under a law passed this year @ person is deemed to be a resident of this state, &8 as such amen- able to its tax law, if he lived or lodged in the state fo: e _mgajor part of the Seos. s el proceding bis, apach 81 ADDITIONAL CASES OF INFANTILE PARALYSIS In New York Yesterday — Federal Health Officers Take Matter Up. New York, July 6.—After a confer- | ence between William G. McAdoo, sec- retary of the treasury of the United States, Mayor Mitchell, Health Com- missioner Emerson and others, it was nnounced tonight that the United es Public Health service would cooperate with the New York authori- ties in their efforts to stamp out the epidemic of infantile paralyhsis which already has cost the lives of more |than 150 children in Greater New York. at once be directed to tracing the origin of the disease. This will con- sist largely in field epidemiological and laborato tudies, the latter being chiefly experiments with animal in oculations. In this connection it was d a telegram had been sen to Wash- ngton asking that 100 monkeys, pro- cured in the Philippines for the Rock- efelier Institute of Medical Research here, be not subject to a recent em- bargo order which has delayed their arrival into the country. According to Commissioner Emerson, monkeys are regarded as the best possible animal mediums thus far discovered for prov- ing the transmission of the disease. Commissioner Emerson asserted that the healith department is anxious to find. if possible, the so-called carriers of the disease, since this seems to be the information necessary to enable the authorities to control it. Additional cases reported since 10 o'clock this morning were eighty-one. Of these, fifty are in Brooklyn. STRIKING GARMENT WORKERS PARADED NEW YORK STREETS Demonstration Meeting on Madison Square in Favor of Their Cause. New York, July 6—Striking gar- ment workers = paraded New York streets and held a meeting in Madison Square today as a demonstration in favor of their cause. Their leaders sald they mustered more than 30,000, Twenty-two bands, volunteers from the musicians’ union were in the pa- rade and about 2,500 of the marchers were women and girls who receive a $2 weekly allowance from the union, Most of the women were shabbily clad and showed the privations they have undergone since the strike started ten weeks ago. A squad of mounted policemen ac- companfed the parade and scores of plain_clothes men mingled with the crowds, but there was no disorder. Benjamin Schlessinger, leader of the strike, declared after the meeting that, if necessary, the strike would continue indefinitely as various unions had given assurances that they would pro- vide $150,000 a_week for the strikers and that the Citizens Committes, or- ganized for rellef work, would supply an_equal amount. Offictals_of the International Ladies’ Garmens Workers Unlon today issued a statement offering to meet represen- tatives of their employers in confer- ence. OBITUARY. Henry W. Atwood. ‘Waterburg, Conn., July 6.—Henry W. Atwood, who was recontly reelect- ed secretary of the Connectlout Ma- sonic Veterans assoclation, at the an- nWu meeting in Hartford, dled here today, of Bright's disease. He was formerly city supert: i i NORWICH, CONN. FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1916 PP i — The federal aid, it was said, would | Cabled Parag}'aphs Turks Drive Russians Back. London, July 7, 2.55 a. m.—A Petro- grad despatch to the Daily Telegraph says htat the Russians have fallen back almost elghty miles in the Bag- dad region. ADMINISTRATION REVENUE BILL DEBATE IN HOUSE. Kitchen Makes Plea for It as a Non- Partisan Preparedness Measure. Washington, July 6.—The house to- day began a four days' debate on the administration revenue bill, designed to raise $197,000,000 next year by a sur- tax on incomes and by taxes on i heritances and on war munitions profits. Under a special rule a final vote will be taken before adjournment Monday. Majority Leader Kitchin opened the debate with a plea that the Dill be passed as a non-partisan preparedness measure, since so large a part of the revenue to be derived from it would g0 to pay for army and navy in creases. Republican leaders replied by charging the administration with gross extravagance and by attacking as ill- advised the means now proposed to meet the treasury situation. Mr, Kitchin outlined in detail the federal government’s financial condi- tion and the expenses that will have to be met during the coming year. A total of $266,000,000, he said, would be needed to carry out the enormous ap- propriation programme cbnzress had drawn up and the $197,000,600 to be raised by the revenue bill would leave but $69,000,000 to be made out of the general fund. “We propose,” he continued, “to take from the general balance fund, which on June 30 was the largest by many millions of for the ny y t cight years, the sum of $69,000,000 and then leave in the disbursing office to their credit, $60,000,000 to operate the government’s current expenses. After takinz out that $59,000,000 to make good the $266,000,000 v then have over $100,000,000 in the eral balance fund. “We propose to finance any poss trouble with Me: y other i as this n, ich e ond need 16 nce of added, however, that con! probably would not be called upc authorize the bond issue until ju fore adjournment of the session Representative Hill republican, declared the puts a heavier burden of the American people th: one measure in the history public. Representative Longworth of republican, announced that he support it, “in view of its temporary character, neces: high tance of the app ons it signed to pay and the fact that arge measure is based on republic principles.” impor- is VERMONT GETS SMALL HETTY GREEN TAX. No Inheritance Tax on Property Willed from Parents to Children. Bellows Falls, Vt.,, July 6.—A tax of 0 is the extent of the fee whic ermont may expect from the est of millions disposed of in the will Mrs, Hetty Gre long known America’s wealthiest woman, opinion of state and local .offi d the provisions of her w which was after her in the tained that the old fam village constituted her gave practically he € her son, Col. E. H. R. Green, daughter, Mrs. Matthew Astor This fact made the bulk of the heritance excmpt, as there i this state on property wi parents to c Afrs. que other a 5 per cent the e will n Although the will stipu- lated that no inventor: > the estate should be ¢ that the extent Green had devel order from the probate jud TALK OF SUCCESSCR TO tle Likelihood of His Own Nomina- tion. Washington, July 6.—After les the White House after a conf | with the president today, Attorney General Gregory said he thought there was little likelihood that he would be nominated to succeed Charles ¥ Hughes on the supreme court. qualified from hearing on accot it of my connection with them,” he B “and Justice McReynolds would be disqualified in sitting in cases. Hence that one of veral good reasons why I think my appoint- ment would be a A Mr. Gregory dec to ma comment on the report that Walsh might be appointed. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE NOW SECRET/M®Y OF WAR Earl of Derby Has Beon Appointed Under-Secretary of War. London, July 6, 6 p. m. David Lloyd George has been appointed sec- retary for war, Sir Edward Grey, the secretary for foreign affairs, has had an earldom conferred upon him. The Earl of Der- by, director for recruiting, has been appointed under-secretary for war. Movements of Steamships. Christiansand, July 4.—Arrived: Steamer United States, New York. Bergen, July b.—Arrived: Steamer Bergensfjord, New York. Liverpool, July 6.—Salled: Steamer Finland, New York. New York, July 6.—Signalléd: Steamer Philadelphia, Liverpool for New York, 1040 miles east of Sandy Hook at 10 a. m. Dock 8§ a, m. Sun- day. New York, July 6.—Salled: Steam- er Lapland, Liverpool. Gibraltar, July 5.—Arrlved: Steamer Calabria, New York. Bread Riota In Interlor Mexico. Guaymas, Mexico, July 5 (Delayed) = YM‘ to ,8.:1'».Dlego. Calif,, July 8). ‘omen are leading bread riots In interfor towns of the west coast can,. >i" according - to “reports harn. X TR A s all other na- | HUGHES ON THE BENCH | Attorney General Gregory Thinks Lit- | “There are a number of cases now pending for re-argument before the supreme court that I would be dis- | Lhex-al ta SeventeenNegroes Killed by a Storm BELOIT, TWELVE MILES NORTH OF SELMA, ALA. i | AT 18 PERSONS ARE INJURED A Number of Houses Blown Down— No Communication With Stricken Town—Mobile Hard Hit by Tropical Storm. a Selma, Ala, July 6—Seventeen ne- groes werg killed by a storm today north of Beloit, twelve miles from here, according to information reach- ing here tonight. Eight persons were injured and a number of houses were blown dowr There is no wire com- munication tonight with Bel MOBILE HIT HAhD BY A TROPICAL STORM Heavy Property Damage Reported, But No One Killed. e first of since the was hit by a tropical storm ear erday reaching here tonig no one there property damage was heav word out the | RESPONSIBLE FOR “LEAK” OF WAR MUNITIONS SECRETS S. K. Paul, Formerly a Clerk in Of- ces of J. P. Morgan & Co., Admits | Guilt. Y | New | who de ribed the Import Export Corp formerly a P. Morgan : tted Attorney had been inf four men are d the Import tion a hey perfec 2 S th copic mo; d other documen > disclosures tel d rmation respc 1 m off | mou conduc for i | was Mor VORE CONNECTICUT TROOPS ARE GOING TO THE BORDER. } All in Niantic Except Those Who Have | ¢ Been Definitely Rejected. ation base, 10 expected | border weel: lin camp except thos de e wihet mong w on the borde be retained in | mar | they nations m Company lly rejec the 40 T No. 2 .25 and the om Compan 1 of 65 lea heir hom > still remain to be it was also stated t} e Yale Fiel pected to lc 2 aven tomor- and tha leave or a camp I OSBORNE REAPPOINTED WARDEN OF SING SING | | | After George W. Kirchwey Had Ten- Resignation. dered His New W. | Kirchwe: nation a warden n to James M perintendent of D \d Thomas M. reappointed r. Osborne, who retired as warden | after he had been indicted on sev- | eral counts by a Westchester county | grand jury 1 resume his duties on | July 16, Mr. Carter announced. | Superintendent Carter said that he ed Mr. Kirchwey to become ted with him in_the general ad- tion of the prison department |and that Mr. Kirch d accepted. | The announcement made after a conference between Superintendent | Carter, Warden Kirchwey and Mr. Os- borne. B OBITUARY Col. Charies L. F. Robinson. Newport, R, I, July 6.—The sudden dcath of Col. Charles L. F. Robinson of Hartford, Conn., prosident of the Colt Patent re Arms Manufacturing com- pany of that city, was announced in a wircless message recelved here today. It said only that Colonel Robinson, who wos widely known in yachting circles, had died aboard his yacht while bound from Woods Hole, Mass., for this city. The message added that the vessel was proceeding here with the hody. 5 The ~body of Colonal Robinson rcachod here tonight on board his vacht Savarona and was taken to _the summer home of the family, Olembers of the yachting party sald that the death was very sudden and that Col- onel Robinson was seated in the cabin chatting when he was stricken. ‘There will be a funeral service held TIow, safter which the “body| 12 PAGES — 84 COLUMNS PRICE TWO CENTS Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Population Hughes Shows Won_de_rful Tact WINS APPROVAL OF BOTH SUF- FRAGISTS AND THE ANTIS. THE MAN OF THE HOUR Statement of Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge, President of the Antis—Satisfactory tory to Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, President of Suffrage Association. New TYork, woman suff visited 6.—Delegations of and anti-suffragists Hughes today and July each declared the conference was en- tirely factory. The republican presiden returned late in afternoon to his summer home at idsehampton aft ving_conferred with several prominent republican and = leade or Satisfactor Mr. Hugh } committee A | Anna Hiov ormer president Norman of the aniza rances m were “mc other we have th Any ad given ory than heretofor Mr. Hughe £ six received NEW HAVEN ROCAD ANNOUNCES AN EMBARGO nouncemer » offices of nd I midni ver Fivve tin LLA FLAGG YOUNG DS TEACHERS' UNIONS | of the Board | on of Chicago. rchers’ un ring class Mrs. Young if they ser I publi schools. become privat hav d do they ar ey join unions, she 1 they realize that ation unwilling them. , president of the s mominated the association. , will be taken un- DIED WITHOUT KNOWING HIS SON HAD BEEN KILLED. Samuel Adair, Father of Lieutenant Henry Rodney Adair. Portland, ( July 6.—Without knowing his son had met death on the Samuel Adair, fa- | ry Rodney Adair, | (fter a lingering illness. His were for his o s now a_captain,” he said. “Henry has received his promotion.” Lieutenant Adair was to have been made a captain July 1. Morris Adair, another son, tele~ graphed to El Paso today asking that his brother’s body be sent here. Fa- ther and son probably will be buried at the same time. Samuel Adair was in his 69th year. He came with his father to Oregon in 1848 from Louisville, Ky. RESIGNATION OF DEAN OF HARVARD COLLEGE, Byron S, Hurlbut to Retire Because of 11 Health, Cambridge, Mass., July 6.—The res- igmation of Byron S. Hurlbut as dean of Harvard collegs was announced to- day. He said that {ll health compelled him to glve up the position, but that he would retain the professorship of English In the college. He had been .degn 1 Y eomans, | wind | sicians to Condensed - Telegrams- The labor shortage in Great Britain is acute. 2 Exports to Bulgaria from Rumanla have been :suspended. Per capita circulation in:the United States on July 1 was $89.23. Washington reported the capture of a Mexican spy on the border. Exports of copper for the month of June amounted to 38,375 tons June output of the Shannon -Copper Co. totalled 1,000,000 pounds. Grain receipts at Chicago last week reached a total of 3,785,000 bushels. " The 74th Infantry of Buffalo, 210 strong, entrained for the Mexican border. President Wilson will address tbe the World’s Salesmanship Congress in Detroit next Monday. Great Britain’s tax on matches has revived the use, on a great scale, of flint and steel lighters. Carrying 10 lions for private dealers, the B h steamer Roath arrived at New York from Havre. Dr. Henry Carter, of Manchester, Ct., hero of the Volturno disaster in 1913, died in the Hartford hospital. The General American Tank Car Corporation was chartered at Albany, N. Y., with $3,750,000 capital. Gold coin to the amount of $50,000 was withdrawn from the New York Sub Trea hipment to Spain. The body of an out 60 old de nidentified man was found last Park, Bridzgeport. June production of the Anaconda Copper Co. mounted to 28,100,000 tons compared with 30,0000,000 tons in N Controiler of the Currency Williams issued a call to national banks for re- ports of their condition as of June 30 Articles of incorporation were filed at Dover, Del, by the International Airship Corproation, capital $10,000,- 1 000. Carrying $330,598,000, the army ap- propriation bill w reported to the S by the milit; affairs commit- isolated by a with the wind of 80 miles an Penascola and T ching a { hour. Premier Hughes of Australia nounced that he means to take a hand an- in peace when opened. negotiations they are railroad will be built into Tulsa. C; nd Payne by the Mountain anch iron Railroad. Von Papen, recalled act t Wa. v front. the As a precaution against infantile pa- ralysis, all children have been barred 3 landing on Govern New York harbor. ican steamer Jacob Luc san Francisco for I Dover after a collis mer Ed¢ The Am net sunk the Between 30 and 60 per cent. of the mc Nati Guardsmen are r service, War son of Andrew for the Colonie wounded at the fi ously Batteries D, F, and = York Field Artillery 1st Cavalry m Long Island men re: A blanket bulletin, urging keep a lookout for sizns of (fantile paralysis was issued by the d of Public Health at Philadel- of New and the ade up of Brooklyn and ched McAlleén, Tex 1 phy- The Holland-America Line steame ed at Rotterdam with a hole in he hitting a rock Four persons were shot, one probab- Iy . by robbers who stole $2,400 from the St. Mary’s Kansas Bank. The bandits were aided by a woman. Total receipts for automobile drivers licenses in New Jersey for the first half of 1916 amounted to $1,125,000 compared with $1,062,000 for the entire year 1915, A report received at the ate De- partment says that practically every American who desired to leave has been started from Mexico City for the United States. The Presidential compaign will be opened hoth by the Republicans and Democrats in Maine within a week. That, at least, was the forecast at the s Hughes and Wilson national head- quarters. Speaker Champ_Clark and other members of the Missouri delegation asked President Wilson to pardon two [1abor Teaders Paul J. Moran and John Barry, convicted in connection with the Indfanapolis dynamiting cases. New Haven physleians last night ex- pressed the belief that Joseph Wright, a young high school student who has been under observatfon at the New Haven hospital, is suffering from in- fantile padalysls. Frank McKiernan, a New Haven drug clerk, died last night of Injuries following collision with an automo- bile. McKiernan lost control of a bicycle he was riding and crashed in- to the aufomobile, which was standing stil] 8triking longshoramen and - deteo- tives engnged in a pistol fight along the Delaware river nt at Philadel- phia with the resuit that two men wera shot and slightly wounded and a third was beaten, Soeveral arrests were made. Jullus Wandry, aged 83, who .came to Bridgeport slx:weeks ago from Jer- sey Clty, was found dead in his board- ing house there yesterday morning, his room filled with gns fumes, and a plstol, with one empty chamber, be- side<him.in his bed. It is belleved De- | Bonar Law, | 1 of the 1st Carranza’s Offer Welcomed by U. S. INFORMAL NOTIFICATION SENT TO THE DE FACTO GOV'T. DIPLOMATIC EXCHANGES Mobilization of the National Guar( Pet Schedule—No Prediction is Ventured of the Duration of Stay of Militia. Continues to Go Forward as Washington, July 6.—The de factc government of Mexico was informally notified through Eliseo Arredondo, am- bassador-designate, tonight that the United States welcomed General Car- ranza's proposal to adjust all pending differences between the two gove: ments by direct diplomatic nego tions. Mr. Arredondo was informed of the American government’'s attitude in a conver on today with Secre- tary Lansing after the latter had con- ferred with President Wilson. Later a formal note will confirm the ambas- sador’s report. Mr. Lansing virtually had completed a draft of the communi- catiion tonig] but it may be read to the cabinet tomorrow before it is de- livered v after the cabinet meet- y Lansing plans to leave ’ Counsellor e affairs of the for . his nd r. " in the informal ons at which a solution of the can problems will be sought. Pressure Brought on Carranza. It was ev tate depart- ment today Is believe an opportunity been presented out of whi come a means of | (Continued on Page Nine) | RESULTS OF THE STAFF CONFERENCES OF ALLIES Are the Coordinated Attacks on the Teutonic Forces. London, July 45 p. m.—The re- sults of the staff conferences of the al~ in London in May and June are becoming continually more apparent in the co-ordination of the allied at- tacks or Teuton s and in- easing evidence of initiative to the from the all 1 s and French armies in reorganizing and » second phase o7 tho the Somme, there is a ~om- Inll on the western front and the center of tha | ter front of th irs to leave little doubt » of the Austrian forces d _ Stanislau t the of imer, compelling him to retire northward, while the advance i 1tyn and the seizure of the rail- from his e to make an e elioved here to ha e the Germans denuding e western front and °t ible for Austria of her own nt. further !REGUL.’AR ARMY RESERVES ARE TO BE CALLED OUT. Call Will Affect Between 4,000 and 5,000 Men. July 6.—The war de- partment unced tonight that it ilar army of the new provided for would soon call the I reserves to fll organization: by the arm on act. The reserve con principally of men who have been honorably discharged service. rd call will affect between 4,000 s , being applicable only ta discharged from t service on f ince Nov. 1, 1915. It is un- derstood the purpose 1s not only to provide new regiments at once but to h a working test of the reserve provision of the law. 500 CLOTHING STRIKERS FIGHT BALTIMORE POLICE Pistols, Clubs and Stones Used— Eleven Men Were Arrested. Baltimore, July 6.—About 500 cloth- ing strikers today fought with the po- lice on Entaw street. Pistols, clubs and stones were used by the rioters. No one was shot but a policeman was battered with a club and had to be taken to a hospital. Half a dozen other persons were hurt by missiles. The battle with the police was pre- ceded by a fight between strikers and workers at the clothing fact of Strouse and_Brothers, whe! the strikers had been employed. The po- lice dispersed the mob and arrested eleven men. ory COLLEGE STUDENTS IN CAMP AT PLATTSBURG Get Into Full Swing With Ten Hours of Drill Under Arms. Plattsburgh, N. Y., July 6.—The col- lege students comprising the season’s second camp of military of instruction here got intg full swing today with ten hours of drill under arms. ‘The day was hot and the manoeuvres were one too light, but the camp was en- thusiastic and there were no cases of lagging. The regular army officers in charge commended the spirit of the students. Hardtack for Border Troops. St. Louis, July 6—A contract for one million pounds of hardtack for troops on the border was let here to- day. The hardtack will be shipped at the rate of four or five carloads a anw. &