Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 2, 1916, Page 1

VOL. LVIIL.—NO. 184 POPULATION 28,219 NORWICH, CONN., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1916 TEN PAGES—70 COLS. PRICE TWD CENTS The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proporticn to the City’s Population BATTLES SEETHING ON RUSSIAN FRONT From the Pripet River Marshes in Russia to Buczacz, in Galicia, 200 Miles Distant TEUTONS MAKING STAND AT THE STOKHOD RIVER Berlin Asserts That the Russians are Exhausting Themselves in Futile Attacks in Efforts to Cross the Stokhod River— In the Caucasus Region the Russians Are Making Pro- gress in the Direction of Mosul—Situation in the Somme Sector Has Undergone No Change Since Last Sunday— Repulsed Ausirian Attacks ocn Monte Ci- lialians Have mone. £ fousht | Austro-Hun vi ually on German forcoes the R fan ai tre front fr 10 Pripet rive es in the of B dis- of about 200 mile tance Meanwhile comparat pro- vuils on the front in cept near Verdun. We: th aumont work a Germ down_ by the Irench n attack was guns, and he French Germans on the Vaux-( enois line In a fight took wo. French first line trenches, but later were driven o The situs has since ¥ n in the Somme region undergone virtually no change the concerted advance by ritish and French last_Sunday racapt om the Bri v front they had mans west of Four fighting, HEWSPAPERS TO DECREASE NUMBER OF PAGE w York Papers So Agree to Relicve the News Print Paper Situation. York. Aug. 1 — Publ v York, Aug. 1.—WIith all previ- —_— ynewspapers in « ous mortality records in tho epidemic | Alee Officizls ef Third Avenus Line Yor t a meeting of intantile paralysis here broken to-| With Publio Bervice Commiesion, action which will i reported that &7 = = I CresnG) pf Aha’ s “during the 24 hour | . NeW e R s iReieenenn 10 a. m, Health | Serigine RriE e - aah : issues of en Emerison found | 0T the At e to The reduction of for additional beds [ DTN B A e step to : o feave forkthe dmisten | SRl S Y e n o aeY sitnation the | He safa tonight that 1400 beds ha Bt b ldeht Mahon of the publishe Action |been offered and would be added to oAt g AR BT T S was also returns of j the number avallable today. by i D ioiae v unsold copiet The number of new cases reported in | Aray e he at the price of news print [ the greater city was 159 and It wns | fapeser, " but | predis A sl er s been forced D e bitant- | sai 3 5 L paper n\ et hI' '1:1 1] l.; d) of the 2,438 be | be a failure unlegs the company modi~ _combination of s I o fied its announced detominatlon not ere made by publisher 50 remained unoccupled tonight. The | to negotirate with {ha men on {he by represent e m tnm number of cases of the disease |basis of recognition of the wunton, ers at a hear lay v since the epidemic began has bcen| Mayor Mitohol's offorts today to cluded an exhaustive inquiry more than 4,000. While the health|pring about an arbitration agreemont subject by the fede'ral trade commis- | authorities assert that they have the |between the strikors nnd the Third sion. Ll & tuation well in hand, they admit that | Avenue company woro frultless pand Frank P. & vie nless cooler weather sets in the num- | union leaders sald attempts to bring | Ameriean. Newsp of new cases will be increased by |into the union men on linea not ‘r;r‘"l\v‘y;]mvlh)'; the commis several thousand before the epidemic|affected would continue, Confidenco | ) rn\mr'[“: n‘ ufi"!( o stage passes. was expressed that o the wurface | fon amons the manufactur _The authorities continue to exercise | lines in Manhattan soon would be tled D ed to be able by Oc vigorous precautionary measures | up and possibly the eclevated and sub- gal proof of it. against the spread of the epidemic. |way lines, prres !rrv;]!l e e onal | Circulars containing additional {nfor- e —— per company. declared present h mation on how t < prices were due to an enormocus in- R e A= s AUTOSKCOLLIDESNEAR 57 PARLYSIS DEATHS IN NEW YORK YESTERDAY Additional Beds In Hospitals to Care for the Afflicted. weredistributed to the city's 11,000 po- Cabled Paragraphs n of Peruvian Cabinet Not Accepted. Lima, Peru, Aug. 1.—The resigna- tion_of the Peruvian cabinet, headed by Enrique de la Riva Agucro, ten- dered to President Pardo yesterday has not been accepted. Dr. Luis J. Menandez, the minister of interior, in- sists on withdrawing from the cabinet. HEARING OF CONTROL OF SOUND STEAMSHIP LINES. Denial That New Haven Road Had Ever Attempted to Coerce Starin Line. Resignat New York, Aug. 1.—Testimony and exhibits presented to the interstate commerce c8mmission by its counsel, Adrian C. Boole, in connection with the application of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rallroad company for permission to retain ownership and control of its sound steamship lines was vigorously atiacked today by of- fictals of the rallroad at the closing of the hearing befors John H. Powell, examiner for the commlssion. L, H. Kentfleld, general freight agent for the New Haven, alieged during his exar Ination by Attorney Robert Elder for the commission that somo of the c hibits placed on record by Mr, Bools were not complete. Benjamin Spock, counsel for he rallroad, declared that Mr, FEoole's exhiblts were unfair and unwarranted by the facts. “If wa had to refute each g in hig testimony, we would toment hore & ho aane: 3 Kontfleld denled that the New Huven ever atiempted to coorca iho Starin lino as to s rates, The rim- vatog wera the result of a “simple nees agreemont,” he eaid. o wso dee nnvd untrue the charge that (he times dominated the Central ot oad “with respoct io e il youter, The wit= S Sen oyl nesy lkewisa donied My, Toole's amor e yisung hetliion that (ho rate adjustment en tha s v conmad Bobelens, | New Londen water youte wan such as e o eciis auutatn. |to make froight shipment hy' water L unprofitable in order to keep cut coms 47 peiiticn : to, Petrogradi| “Tne New Haven has ¢ and- Ve ing with ita boat lines, Mr, Kentfield e tostified, whereby the beats receive R AL certaln ameunt of freight. The | L e of division of frelght with the New J ekl d Blenreship company was mads the ateamehip line aE a iciona reponted, | 41 by Dol of the New England Bte | pany from the New Hasen 5 ,.“" " lbe no e n the dixis Tho Turlks, | 0% 1O i le, hava res | 2ReC ot 3 Tho vepiled that a ting posiion B L T Heht sw((""l'v n was “teq specuiative to a P ‘I.",‘;,! Denamin Campbell, vica pre: Tty ore @ Ain. | e New Haven, in eharge of & ,M"“"hv Staps whip lines, gave fgures ta 4 e oreases in business he alian heatro Aus- | (USRS 5 PRAMGRS On ¢ on_ Monte and 191 o o i om®| Counsel for the ‘New Haven Ml DI | kiven untll Oet, 16 to file n brief, Nome, and n’ he pom:eil. ,‘l{\ “”:‘,“‘:]“‘.kj:-'; r.'nJ’ ¢ the Ital- 3 g men . Eth Nev, brief, afier aral Frument in Washington will be e of testimeny in the STRIKING TPF:T CAP MEN INVITED TO A CONFERENCE e in demand and insisted that the | licemen today. The Woman Suftrage CONN THIVER IBRIDGE manufacturers were not making & fair | Party and - National Plant, Flower | = : eturn on_their c and Fruit Guild both are acfively en | Cause of 2 “"”‘;’ s h‘?‘“"b“"’d to CONVENTION PATRIOTIC ORDER |fns ity C canup” work throughout ays of Sunshine. OF SONS OF AMERICA In Session in Meriden—Favor M Training in Schools. tary Meriden, Conn., Aug. 1.—At the an- nua. cor n of the Patriotic Order Sons held here today, a appointed to present v of the s question mil £ n the public schools, order pledged itself in favor of the in the schools and will en- to have a bill favoring it pass- ed by the legislature. About fourteen camps from various he state were pr on. ent at the The nfflr‘h s elected ident, W. L. Hartford; vice president, C. J. Crocker, New Ha B treasure blonel A. L. Thomp- |day, secretary, Harold ALL 1S READY FOR EXECU TION OF CASEMENT To be Hanged in the Pentonville Prison Tomorrow Morning. London, Aug. 2, 2:62 a. m.—Accord- ing to the morning newspapers all is ready for the execution of Sir Roger Casement, who is to be hanged in the Pentonville prison at 9 o’clock Thurs- day morning. The executioner ap- pointed is a_man named Ellis, who is a barber of Rachdale. He will receive a fee of five pounds sterling. Only the officials of the prison will be present at the execution. ory OBITUA RY. Harry Monroe. Chicago, Aug. —Harry Monroe, who !s credited with having convert- ed W. A. Sunday, the evangelist, According to Commi: it is impossible at this time to form definite opinion of treatment of patients with a serum taken from the blood of convasiecents. must he treated, he added, before it can he es- tablished whether Isr‘e('lfi!‘_ any Many New Haven, Conn., death from Infantile curred here tonight in a hopital—Josie Posnatski, additional cases were reported today. infantile paral of Mr. and Mr Nogales, Ariz, is|slon of a carload of dynamite killed oner Emerson, as to the results hundreds of cases fir: this serum s a Death at New Haven. paralysis _oc- aged 17, of Ansonia. Case in Woodmont. Woodmont, Conn., Aug. 1.—A case of rsis developed here to- the victim being the voung son . Frank J. Beach. DEARTH OF ENLISTMENT AT STATE ARMORY Only Three Applicants, Two of Whom Were Rejected. Hartford, Conn., Aug. 1.—Officers at the enlistment office at the state arm- reported a dearth of enlistments tonight. days and there have been only three applications, jected. In order to complete the quota ordered recently by the war depart- ment 1,309 men are needed. The office has been open two two of which were re- DYNAMITE EXPLOSION kILLE‘D SIXTY CARRANZA SOLDIERS Belief Prevails That a Shot Was Fired Into a Carload of the Explosive. Aug. 1.—The explo- dead at his_home here at the age of |sixty and wounded forty Carranza sol- £8 years. Death came accident last November. Mr. Monroe had served as superin- vesterday as |diers at Empalme, near Guaymas, So- the result of an injury in a street car [nora, here’ today. Megyican authorities are proceeding in according to reports It recetved ‘was stated that the tendent of the Pacific garden mission | their investigation on the theory that here for 24 years and was samblers whom former convicts and & he had reformed. known |the explosion was due to a shot de- throughout the oountry by hundreds of | liberately fired into the car. Buildings in Empalme are said to have been ‘badly injured, Aug 1.—Another Two New London, Conn., Aug. 1.—While Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Pryor of Scranton, Pa., and Mrs. Pryor's mother, Mrs. Tillie George, were bound from this city to New Haven late this afternoon in an automobile, their car and a de- livery automobile, owned by J. AL Brown of Old Lyme, collided east of the Connecticut river toll bridgze near Hall’s Corner. All escaped injury wi the exception of Mrs. George, who was attended by Dr. E. K. Devitt of Ola Lyme and the ntaken to the Memorial hospital in this city. Her injuries con- sist of two severe scalp wounds on cither side of the head, right ear lac- erated and badly shaken up. An e amination showed that she has no in- ternal injuries. The cause of the ac- cident is attributed to rays of sunlight playing on the windshield of both cars and partially obstructing the views of both drivers. SUFFRAGISTS CALL ON [ PRESIDENT WILSON Mrs. Catt and Mrs. Roessing Urge Anthony Amendment. Washington, Aug. 1.—An appeal to President Wilson to support a suf- frage amendment to the federal con- stitution was made today by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the Nationa] American Woman Suffrage Association, and Mrs. Frank M. Roe ing, vice president of the orzanization and chairman of the congressional committee. They said before their call at the White House that at present the democratic and republican candi- dates for president apparently occu- pled the same position on the suffrage question. “The National Suffrage Organization 1s non-partisan,” Mrs. Roessing added, “and, therefore, we are neither fight- ing zor alding éfther candidate or par- Y Ontario Fire Deaths 36. Cobalt, Ont., Aug. 1l—Frederick Dane, loan commissioner, representing the Ontario government in relief of the Northern Ontario Fire Sufferers, sald tonight that from reports receiv- ed from the various fire-swept sections the number of delfl now is estimated Lat 38, Hughes Favors Federal Suffrage SAYS PROPOSED AMENDMENT SHOULD BE SUBMITTED FOR STATES TO RATIFY In Addressing 800 Women of the Wo- men’s Roosevelt League, for Hughes, Nominee Said He Believed in Taking the Shortest Cut to the Solution. New York, Aug, 1.—Charles E. Hughes twice today declared himself in favor of an umendment to the fed- eral constitution granting the vote to women throughout the United States. Tn o letter to Scnator Sutherland of h, sent in response to a telegram, My, Hughes stated his personal view that the proposed amendment should be pubmitied by congress to the states and ratified, In a speech late today before 500 women of tho Women's Reosovelt Loague, for Hughes, the nomines declarod the question was one affcoting the wholo country and that ho favor elng the shortest cut to ita » n Should Es Premptly Settled, “I belleve this guestion ghould be i (Comlr\.ed on Page Elghi) EBEN D, JORDAN. PRY GOCOS MERCHANT, DEAD He Was Widely Known as a Patron of Fine Arts, . Masa., Aug, 1.—Eben D, sdan, geniop member of the frm of Jordan, Mash Cempany, died tonight &t his summer heme here as the pesult of a paralytic stroke suffered ten days ago, Mr, Jordan was wideiy patron of fine arts, He knewn as A a8 presic of the Opera pompany, which as lavgely supported ihreugh his enerosity and he owned {he epera Juee Wwhich he built especially for the company and whieh served as ilg i the abandenment of the ise {wa years ago, He wagz al= ‘tor of the Metrapolitan Opera of New York, an honcrable ctor of the Royal Opera, London f the New fand As head of riment atore bus iness established by his father, . the late Hben Jjordan, he was ene of the leading merchants of New Inala ile wap alsa a divector of the B hw goads Company and of the € apaper o . publisiiers af the Noston Glebe, Tis wife, 6f JERSEY CITY BARS CARS LADEN WITH EXPLOSIVES To Make Impsseibis a Recurrence of the Black Tom Island Explosion, New York, was taken Dy | ot Aum, 1—Di the eity e lata toda SHED O such a d nd explonions on Black Bunday mornine to one tho een n resolution orde oxclusion from the elty cavy laden with high e plosiv Thig sten was iaken afte it had beep found federnl nnd atate authoritles were powerlesn fo aet uns der exleting laws, The rallreads wero lven 48 hours' Tom Tal a vote of fou ern adopted removal and of frelght imsion= ing the & natice ta ohey the requiremsnts of the resolution, if they fall to comply within that tima Directer of Publia Safety Trank Hague, whe 1a ehief of | the pollce dspartment, is direeted “to |use all the means within hia power | and at his eemmand” to enforce the order, Chief TInspector of Combustiblen James M, Connolly, wha atated that more than fifty freight earm laden with high explesives remalned with= In the elty limits after Sunday's ais aster, while a total eof 2,827 such had been tranaported ta raflroad ter- minals in the eity for shipment abroad during the monihs of June and July, TRIES SUICIDE IN A BOSTON DRUG STORE Reading Man Swallowed Poison Tab- let in His Place of Employment. 7| Boston, Aug. 1. —Arthur G. Bald- win, a clerk in Woodward's drug store at 100 Tremont street, attempted sui- cide this morning by swallowing three tablets of bichloride of mercury. He told another clerk of his deed and was sent to the Relief hospital. where a stomach pump was used with good effect. Baldwin did not make known ;‘lf; reason for attempting to take his ife. He lives at 43 Locust street, Read- ing, is twenty-four years old, and un- married. SENSAT[ONAL ADVANCE IN PRICE OF COTTON Followed Publication of Government’s Crop Report. New York, Aug. rapid advance of bale fol lowed the publication of the govern- ment's crop report in the cotton mar- ket here today. Just beforc the offi- cial condition of 72.3 per cent. against 811 last month, and the ten-year av erage of 78.5, was published, a canvass of local exchange members indicated an average sectation of 76.5 per cent., and the government report was also far below the most bullish of re- cent private figures. RAPID GROWTH OF KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Membership of 386,135—Gain of 141,- 846 in Seven Years. Davenport, Iow Aug. 1—The growth of the Knights of Columbus was revelaed today in the annual re- ports of James _Flaherty, supreme knight, of Philadelphia, and W. J. McGinley, supreme secretary, New Haven, Conn. The total membership is placed at 386,135, a gain of 141,846 in seven years. The organization has By | Deutschland is on Return Voyage LEFT HER PIER AT LOCUST POINT AT 5:40 P. M. CARRIES RUBBER, NICKEL Crew of the Lioyd Liner Shouted Farewells to Their Country- men—Weather Clear, Not Much Sea. Interned North German Neckar Cheered and ‘Baltimore, Md., Aug. 1.—On the sec- ond anniversary of Germany's declara- tion of war against Russia the Ger- man submarine merchantman Deutsch- land set out from Baltimore on a re- turn voyage to Germany with a decla- ration of confidence from her com- mander, Captain Paul Koenig, that he would take her home in spite of the heavy odds she would face when tlie three-mile limit in ithe Atlantic is roached. Towed Out of Slip. The submersible was towed out of the siip where she was berthed 23 days ugo at 540 o'clock this afternoon hnd it 18 expected that sho will put into Ne -m,n News, Va, between 6 and 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, After getting into mid-stream the tow line of the tug Thomas F. Tim- mins was cast off and the Deutschland proceeded down the Patapsco river under her own power. The Timmins wont to one side, the coast guard cut- ter Wissahickon to the other and the harbor polive bont Lannon brought up the rear to prevent undue crowding by the small fieet of launches that fal- lowed, An: volla, 30 miles south of here, reported thut the Deutschland passed there at 8.45 o’clock, steaming about 12 miles an hour, Went Out Smiling. Captain Koenig and his erew of 27 wmen put ta sea with the knowledge that & man hurried to a telephone with i message 10 asonts for the entente Rlijes that the Detuschland had atarted, They know how long he had watched at tho 6na of & nearby pler, day and pizht, But the little f"ll“lllu went out of ing Baltimere harber smiling and wav= hiz eap, His last worda in the bor were of praise fer Amerien and his treatment here by DBaltimore for customs autherities, Knrews Eight Warships Are Walting, Captain Koenig knows that eight W ips_of the entente allies ave waiting fer him ai the ende of the ihree=miie iimic, spread out in & radiua of five miles, “"We shall have te paas Ungeen within that paditie iy phdes tol escupe,” he i, “We apall lhve tu Mmake ihat pascage under condiciens not entirely advantageous to us, Were the water at that point 150 feet deep 1t would be easier, We ceuld submerge deeply enouuh (o paea underneath the warsn Put_the water there is not 160 feet aeep, We shall therefore have ta na between the warahips.” Hut there waa a determined leok en the captain's face as he expressed cenfidence (hut he would get threugh, Reeea en Conning Tewer. There were not mere than a hun= dred persons in the vicinity ef the pier when the Deutschland eame out from behind the eureen of barges and heside tWwo newspaper despateh heats there were anly four iaunehes in the stream. But the speetaters eheered and waved handkerchief¥ in unison with the ¢heering and waving froem the mallors on heard the interned German North Llayd steam Neckar, On the eon= ning tower of the submeraihle, at the feet of her little commander, there was a huge basket of roses and white flowers, the laat gift of a DaltimeTe admirer, whose name Captain Koenig may never know, River Was Dragged as Preeautlon, In the moralng the river leading eut inte the channel for a mile from the Deutachland’s pler waa dragged, It was about 6,30 o'clock when the log booms were removed and a net was threwn overboard between the fco and the Timmins and they started away abreast, The search-for mome- thing which might have injured the Deuttachland was without result. A Driush freighted had been at an- chor several hundred yurds from the submerslble and it probably was fear- ¢d somo steps had been taken to block the sufe travel of the undersea boat. None of the officlals of the Kastern Forwarding company, her local agents, would make any comment about this, however. Manifest of Cargo Not Made Public. The manifest of the Deutschland's raturn cargo has not been made pub- lic, but in additior to large quantities of crude rubber and nickel, it is be- lieved she carries several hundred thousand dollars in gold. NEUTRALITY WARSHIPS CHANGE THEIR POSITIONS. Moved Into Hampton Roads as the Deutschland Cleared from Baltimore. Norfolk, Va, Aug. 1.—The armored cruiser North Carolina and two de- royers which have been doing neu- v duty along the three-mile limit Cape Henry moved into Hampton Roods tonight about the time the Deutschland cleared_from Baltimore. No reason for the change in_ position of the warships was_obtainable -here. While only one ship of the allied patrol was in sight at sundown tonight, it was believed others were near. If the Deutschland remains with the tug Timmivs, it is doubtful if she could reach here before tomorrow noon But putting on full speed, however, and racing away from the tug, it is believed here she would be able to arrive by davlight. The consensus of opinion among sea- faring men here is that the Deutsch- land will not attempt to escape from American waters in the daytime. They expect her to put Into some seclud point and await the coming of darkn to make her dash. Passed Annapolis at 8.45 p. m. Annapolis, Aug. 1.—The Deutschland passed Amnapolis at 845 o'clock, steaming about twelve miles an hour. The tug Timmins alone was convoyins. The yacht Valiant with photographers aboard put into this port and report- ed the trip thus far uneventful. The coast guard cutter Wissahickon left the Deutschland at Fort Carroll. The 128,862,842 insurance in foree, a gain of $40,810,842 in the same period. weather is clear, the wind fitful and there is mot mwuch sea. Condensed Telegrams Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria is reported ill. The barbers at Passaic, N. J., have threatened to strike. Enemy ships seized in the harbors of the Entente Allies number 319. Carl Schioss, of The drowned while bathing at Beach. Bronx, was Rockaway Shipments of fresh and cured meats from Chicago last weelk totaled 38,483,- 000 pounds. Charles Legido and Robert Walters of New York, were arrested charged with burglary. Railroads in the United States last years used 24 per cent. of the coun- try’s coal production. John Kenney, of Central Falls, R. I, was drowned while swimming in Scott Pond, Saylesville. The hydro-transforming station at Dungas, Ont., was destroyed by fire caused by a short circuit. Clyde Stratton, a noted convict, and two other prisoners escaped from the Tilinois Penitentiary at Joliet. All persons entering of Ieaving Ger- many after today must obtain special permission from the government. | John Scott of Brooklyn, escaped from the Raymond Street jail, where he was serving a ten-day sentence. The first case of infantile paraly: in Thompsoriville was reported—an 18 months’ old child in an Itallan family, Four miners were kiiled and two |others serfously injured by a gas ex- plosion in Springside mine at Pana, 1. 8ix men were killed, when an auto In which they were riding was struck by a traln at a crossing near Miller, Ind. The Sinclair Oil & Refining Corp. will shortly begln the laying of a pipe line from the Oklahoma flelds to éhl- cago, -Judge John M. Murphy of Rochester, N, Y, for twenty-one years on the bench of the Rochester Munieipal Court !s dead, Misa Julla Mary Cress, of Douslaa, Wyo, wasa nominated by Preaident Wilson as receiver of publie moneya at Deuglas, @en, R B, Brown ef Zaneaviils, O, past eommander-in-ehief of the Grand ublic Army of the Re | veteran 13 dead. and a Civil War Bylveater \vv==d and_Bdward Clark were killed in a cailisien between twe engines on the Delaware & Hud= #on, at Trey, N, The Bauthern Railway anneuneced that threugh passenger service on its main lines between- New York and At= lanta. has been resumed, Permisaion haq heen granted by the Wederal Reserve Hoard te the Nation- al Cily Bank of New Yerk to open a branch at Petrograd, Russia, J, Dougherty of Croiena, Lake, N. Y, is in a hospital at Plattsburg, N, Y, with a fraetured skuill, as a result Cool winels frem the great lakes yes. terday had dissipated almest complete- 1y the Wave of heat under which most of the eountry had sweltered for a week, Willlam Karlin, attorney for the Paper Hox Makers' Union of New York, sald (hat 0,000 girls employed in paper box facteries will go en strike this weolk, Frank Weber of Keanaburg, N. J, a condueter on a trolley ear, was shot and killed by an ltalian whom he re- fured to allow to board the car on the wrong slde. Merchants and planters of Kingston, Jamalca, have deelded to ask the im- DPerial government to place an embargo on bananas importer into Britaln from Costa Rica. The Board of Health at Ridgefleld Park, N. J, has offered twenty-five cents for each full sized cat and ten icents for each kitten found at large in the borough. The Pennsylvania_ Railroad will be- gin the work of distributing funds among families and dependents of its employes who have been called to mil- commending at Columbus at the time of the Villa raid, was exonerated from 200 Zoct o the ground. The state branch of the steamfitters’ and plumbers’ unions of the United Association at Boston. has voted to raise a fund of $20,000 to opbose of- forts to place the two trades on an “open shop™ bas Women of Montclair, N. J., members of the National Aid society have start- Lowell, Mass,, to enforce a demand for a wage increase of five cents an hour. PBrick constrvetion work in the city was practically at a sgtandstill because o fthe strike. Railroad Employes Voie to Sirike IF NECESSARY TO ENFORCE DE- MANDS FOR SHORTER HOURS 25,000 IN NEW ENGLAND Includes Engineers, Firemen, Trainmen and Conductors on the New Haven and Central Vermont Systems—300,- 000 Throughout the Country. QEStion dfaeH -no wis the time tim Boston, Aug. New England members of the “Big Four” brother- hoods of raifroad employes have voted by a considerable mapority in favor of authorizing a strike, if such a measure is necessary to enforce their demands for shorter hours, according to an an- thoritative statement made today wnen General Chairman of the Brotherhood lodges of this section, left for New York to assist in tabulating the vote cast throughout the country. Leaders expect that the official announcement of the result of the entire vote of 300.- 000 men will be made within a few days. The poll in New: England includes 25,000 men, employed & engineers, firemen, trainmen and £nductor§. on the Boston and Maine, #e New York, New Haven and Hartford, Boston and Albany, Maine Central and Central Vermont system. Only Eastern Votes Are Counted. The ballots counted here today were received from the eastern and south- castern ferritorles and it is expected the chairmen of the general adjust- ment committees Tepresenting work= ers of rallroads west of Chicago and the Mississippl Tiver will report. here, It was said, not later than next Satur- Timothy Shea, assistant president of the Hrotherhood of ILocomotive Frimen and Englnemen, who is in charge of the staff of fifty men count- ing the ballots, sald tonlght it will take fully five days to count the votes from all territories., About 650 chair- s : men will report here, he said. Ar;\fci:a °1f t?uorra{?\lain were filed | Completa Vote Saturday or Menday. at Albany by Fred Mandejson 20, s of Now Yerk, The capital 8ock 13| sonriol ‘Meobemnr on \mtnctay op $800,000, Monday, Shea. sald there will be a meeting here of the National Confer- ence Commitiee of Rallways and the result will be submitted by the Broth- erhood efftelals, Negotiations will then be eenducted in the hope that a nz{;t!sfflc!bvy settlement may be reach= ed, A wirike would be called enly If the negotiations failed. SERAVICY BY MEXICAN TRQOPS. Major General Bell Galls Attention to Ald Given by Carranzistas Agairst Bandite, Washingten, Aug, 1- Afajor Qeneral Bell directs speclal attention to the eo-operation of Carransa treeps in the, fisht with bandits on the American pide of the barder yesterday near Fort Hanceck, Tex., in his offictal repert to 1’\9 war department made public to= . The Mexicans sent a detachment “elght men under Captain MMarcella uvo te the Amerjcan side, where joined six men from the Righth QREAL €CO-8 of being struck hy mobile, of BEG PUNOR By G catemal cavaly, who Were engaged with the A peraenal appeal In hehalf af Roger | andits, =General Bell's report tells a CHsoment pas hean ade by Hemator |Mlory substantlally the eame as un- Lodge, yanking Hepublican member ;*f)“‘!fllz‘<;(;3;'.§\‘tl*:";’0uL:!l;:l"fgsiiwlnj\d;n ;»Erafne Benate foreign relations commit- | [0 GO8 Rl 0n L 00 ops. Three bandits helonging to this band were captured yesterddy by the Mexlcans and are now en route to Juarez TO CONSIDER PLAN TO CAPTURE VILLA General Mayeotte’s Chief of Staff Are rives in Mexico City For Canference. Moxico City, Aug. 1—Lleutenant Calonel Jacobo Villalobs, chief of staff of General Maycotte, governor of Dur- f ved here to confer with r Obregon as to the to capture Francisco Villa, |m~ bandit, alive. Reports from the north say that Villa is in bad shape physically, suffering from a wound in hi: General Maycotte has sworn that he will capture Villa alive if he is in the state of Durango or else take the general's eagle from his own collar. $83.000 BEQUEATHED TO CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS By the Will of Mrs. Frances Collins Palmer of Hartford. Hartford, Conn., terms of a will by admitted to probate today, Aug. Mrs. 1.—By the Frances Col- oy Eepices bequeathed to various chari- x institutions. The Connecticut Col. Herbert J. Siocum, 13th Cavalry, | 1l for the Blind in this city will receive $22,000 and the local Union 211 blame in a report glven out by the | for Fome Workers and Hartford Oro PWex Bepautment; bequest Ven to individuals to Leon Canady of New York was se- o aeedy peoa e S TNe verely injured at Overland , Kan- B ottt dui ke when an aeroplane he was 2 alr Bociot ana fen| FUNGTON IS 50 BE BAR NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS. Five hundred Woodmen of the World | Who Send Out False Accounts of from New York, Pennsylvania, Con- Gonditiona in | Congroas: necticut and Rhode Island are at Binz- hamton, N. Y., for the annual encamp- | gan Antonio. T Ang 1 Clan= ment of the order at Ideal Park. eral Funston tonight sent to the war 3 department hington a_tele- Sir Samuel Thos. Evans, president lm announ s intention to rid of the Prize Court at London, con- a1 Tonal guard (camps OF demned 3,000 bags of coffee shipped T 6 ehondeninteenoni ond from America to Gothenburg on the false accounts of conditions in the Swedish steamers Indianic and Syd- e revRL o cPrres: land. pondents as “pests” and said he had endured them as long as he purposed to. HEALTH OF MILITIA ON BORDER GOOD. It Varies from That to Excellent, Major Genera! Bliss Reports. ed a campaign to raise funds with| Washigton, Aug. 1—Major General which to construct floors for the tents | Bliss v. complcted his work of used by the Montclair soldiers in|inspecting national guard troops on camp at Douglas, Ari the border, with an cxamination of the camps of Californ Tda- About 100 bricklayers struck at|ho and Utah conti n the region of Nog:ules, Ariz. He reported today that he found the health of the commands varving from very good to excellent, an unusually small number appearing on the sick report.