Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 9, 1916, Page 1

Norwich Bulletin VOL. LVIII —NO 9 1 O POPULATION 28,219 NORWICH, Cog,o“f WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1916 TEN PAGES—70 COI.S PRICE TWO CENTS 6 The Bullntms Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other P cr, and dts Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proporticn to the City’s Population ADDITIONA L GAINS BY ENTENTE ALLIES Big Advanses in France, in East Galicia and on the Eastern ltalian Front FRENCH GAIN FOOTHOLD IN THIAUMONT WORKS Germans Lose the Austrians and Italians wunications ian and takan «;ormun three-quarters mil to vyards in d tack, and have agaln won & footho in the Thlaumont worke near Verdun | tre. and captured two large German trenches. The Russlans ere cont! g their drive w t Galicia. Here they a half dozen ad tional towns and villages and accor ing to Petrogrud are continuing their offe In all, says Petrograd, t ritory aggrega mile bee ncaptured b ns, y the Rus: the pursuit of the Austro-Germa still goes on. The Gorezia greathead, to advance Triest h e Austria: mar en into ti NAVAL BATTLE THE ADRIATIC SEA IN Austrian and Two Large Trenches Near Verdun—In East Calicia the Russians Have Taken Half Dozen Addition- al Towns and Villages—Garezia Greathead, Over Which Have Fought so Many Battles, Has at Last Fallen Into the Hands of the Italians—Aus- trian and Italian Y*’ar Vessels Have Battle in the Adriatic Sea. unharmed. Austrian tor- struck by maged in nouncement follow rorpedo boat military set icted other dan return these were joined by 1. developed an talian flotilla er and ians were hit, hward disappeared rian vessels re- tro turned unharmed the morning of hos “On five the same day s hombarded 1 aerc azzo without inflicting dam- ge. They were pursuea by Austro- Hun, 1 naval planes. One hostile aerop. was _brought down some miles s h of Durazzo by an Austro- Hungarian plane w pfiot was Na- val Ensign h, and _whose observer w: Bnstgn Sewern. The been oot captured, v slig " One dam! o gunboat Magnet, on I a torpedo from and damaged in ubmar Two men were killed and| ided, and seven are mirsing. | » vessel was brought to port. 1 war: vi An offleiz that STATEMENTS BY HUGHES CHARACTERIZED AS FALSE| By Administration Offl:la!s Who Had Consulted President Wilson, Was! made by <an nomi « in | ay were > facts and | racterizeq of misleading sent by adm after a long subject by President at today’s o and and the| census bureau. Secretary Redfield, in Binghamp- Mr, Haxhos, ilar telegram to Sweel, acting erce in Ar. ¥ legraphed Mr. Hug A refutation of t 2 ghes cited the retirement of a Durand of the census and ment of William J, ce and replacement My v sim- Euwxn, com- REVISED ARMY BILL ACCEPTED BY SENATE. on Appropriation Carrying $267,59 Agreed hout 7,00 Debat Without de to the ppro- 00 £ regu report Minne- st elimin rdment in- limit for on of ition of nanimous nce r om CSION OF KILLS THREE MEN at Edwardsville, ~Throe men i irned in y_at the Delaware, coal mines Two of face are :ation has the Red men are in the ex- . which other v from being ? from escape or caught in black in . wnd | | Notarial 180,000 pesos for the nu men, as well as REHABILITATION OF MEXICAN FINANCES. Acts Under the Huerta Re- gime Have Been Nullified. * provides cases in whicl | e not reached reconsid- | ion w given in cach The governor of Vera Cru circular calling for 1e proper use Compulsory ation is ing rapidly throughout the In the state of C to 5,000 per- €ons have been vacc The government agreed to the remission of a portion af the tax amounting to onec million pe on the Puebla cotton mil mills, which employ thou. cratives, will remain open General Carranaz h contriln se of eq on Indep: ment for athletic gam ence day, Sept. 16. FURTHER SPREAD OF INFANTILE PARALYSIS. New York Hea!th Officers io Use creased Vigilance. In- read lysis New York, Aug. S—Further s of the epidemic of infantile par and the great t, which greater part, caused the health offic to regulate and adopt measures of creased vigilance on the part of those responsible for the aetection of the diseas Several persens who have recovered from infantile paralysis volunteered to zive a quantity of their blood to be used in the preparation of a serum, the use of which is said to have proved beneficia! to sufferers. New Jers state officials have no- tified officials here that beginning Aug. 15 regulations preventing children ur der 16 years of age unless they have certificates will be placed in effect. A report issued b, e healt} partment shows that of 866 whe have succumbed to the since July 1, €35 were under of age. caused the rs de- persor dise 5 yea WANTS TO TAKE UP BORDER SITUATION FIRST Carranza Willing That Other Matters Be Discussed Later. Washington, Aug. government want; to take up the border situation first by the proposed joint international commission but is willing that other matters should be discussed later. Eliseo Arredondo so outlined the Mexican attitude today to Acting Secretary Polk, who took the information to the cabinet meeting. It was indicated that state department officials were satisfied with/ the situa- tion and the appointment of American commissioners might be expected any time. 8.—The, Carranza iheld in § Hospitals Shelled by Italians. “The hospitals maintained by monks rizia were royed by Italian fire and persons were | gav Cabled Paragraphs Greek Steamship Sunk. London, Aug. 8, 440 p. m—The Greek steamship Achilus has been sunk. NORMAN PRINCE IS REPORTED MISSING. American Aviator Flying for France Has Not Reported from Flight. Philadelphia, Aug. Paris to the Philadelphia Bulletin and Chicago Daily News says that Norman Prince, the American aviator with the Franco-American flying corps, who left on_a flight, is reported missing. Norman Prince has won special e from France for his coolness and ng in the war. Flying with Hall, Cowdin and other Am cans, inciuding also Chapman, who re- cently was_killed in a fight with the Germans, Prince only a short time ago took the air again after having been wounded in an aviation enzage- ment. Prince was graduated from Harvard in 1903. He made himself known as a horseman and polo player. With the outbreak of the war he save up his law practice to join the cause of the allies. In May, 1915, he was commis- sioned an aviator at Pau. He is the son of Frederick H. Prince, head of a | big banking and brokerage house. He is now about 23 yi old. After le ing college he ‘entered the Harvard Law school and was graduated from 8—A cable from - that institution in 1912, Inquiry at the Boston office of F. H. rince & company ascertained the in- formation that only the t re- port had been received as t orman Prince. “We had a report from Ci cago and one from Philadelphia that is missing,” said F. Addison Taylor of the c ny, “but nothing fur nd I presume it the same desaf the one you ve ived. T do no now whether e TWO ADRESTS IN B"STON ON ARSON CHARGE Police Act Quietly in Connection with | Tenement House Fire That Cost| Life of Young Girl Boston, Aug. 8—Two West End men rae under arrest on arson c! in on with a fire in the four- story tenement house at t strect, West End, earsy old her w. found on a charred bed on the fourth floor, from which her father, mother and other memt of the family had|{ been rescued with difficulty by fire- mer emen foung Pe Tc Ohio st West d, in hallways, and as he could »od reason for being there, rested on suspicion. Today rre ered gned on the charg lea of mnot 000 for a and w g next Tu A man living across the street from the building told the police before the i vy From warrant to street, rest the identified the man he . He will police i He be arraigned morrow. RCOCSEVELT IN CONFERENCE ON YORK STATE POLITICS Ex-President May Support State Sen- ator Bennett for Governcr is Gossip. Aug oday New Yor It, in to yused th » politicians. ds to run in the would w senator e ion that und i ner .’!ARSPALL TYREE AS BODYGUARD rOR HUGHES; West Virg nia Man Detailed to Jomi Candidate at Once. New Yorl, Aug. 8.—Based on re- ports reccwsd from Detroit today at Republican i 1 headquarters here | regarding t tern campaign tour | of Cha Hughe was_ decid- e, according to an announcement, that the party idential nominee ought more Dbodily protection ippearing publicly. Frank A. Tyree, who served as body guard for Theodore Roosevelt in the White House and who later was United |3 1tes marshall in West V s iled to join the Hughes p at once and to t in guarding the ndidate. OBITUARV Herbert Barnes. New Haven, Conn., Aus. Barnes, one of the founders 3. —Herber of th & company, of thi and who w prominent in the packing industry for vears, died at his home here tod aged 33 years. He retired from bu ness a number of years ago and been an invalid for several years. was at] one time a member of the ‘king firm of Swift & company of Chicago, and was for years one of the directors of that com DYy, James Withee. Farmington, Me., Aug. S.—James Withee, known throughout the state as a hotel man and a horseman, died here this morning, aged a native of 'Winslow. conducted hotels in Farmington, Rumford, Waterville and Lewiston. He is survived by a wife and two children. Mills Closed Because of Heat. Woonsocket, R. I, Aug. 8—Eight mills in this city were forced to shut down today because of the intense heat. The mercury hovered between 90 and 95 degrees all day. years. He He former- | 204 Cases of Paralysis in State. Hartford, Conn,, Aug. 8.—The state beard of health announced tonight that there are 204 cases of infantile paralysis in the state. Kl | Weytand Terrific Haii Storm Struck Tolland HUNDREDS OF WINDOW PANES WERE KNOCKED OUT DAMAGE BY LIGHTNING Houses and Barns Struck in Various Sections of the State—Many Per- sons Were Shocked by Lightning Bolts—A Number of Cows Killed. Tolland, Conn., Aug. 8-—A terrific hail storm passed over this town to- day. Hundreds of window panes were knocked out and over three miles = of the town was white with hailstones. Steeple of Catholic Church Struck. Woodbury, Conn., Aug. 8.—Lightning ruck the steeple of the Catholic church tonight and considerable dam- age was done. Man Killed at Torrington. Torrington, Conn., Aug. 8.—Frank Jo n, 3 Oyears of Bridgeport, was almost instantly killed during the electric storm here this 3 when the motor truck on w riding ran over a high ten the The wire had been blown down by the storm. His death is due to electroc on. | orOP OF 11 DEGREES IN FIFTEEN MINUTES But New Yorkers Got the Relief Be- cause of Passing of Humidity. Aug New York 8.—A brief but ter- rific thunder storm near the end of hot dropped the tempe: ature 11 degrees in virtua s many minutes, but instead ol i r relief added to the ng the humidity. The enough the kill four persons, prostrate others and lead | s | two to suicid At 4 p. m. when the thunder shower was nearly bureau’s thermome gainst 92 fifteen CAUSED CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE AT SUFFIELD Sixteen Girls and Twc Men Shocked | When Lightning Struck Building. struc 1o: were The tning struck ain street owned and 16 girls and strip e buildi elec of comm nd that leveled be a = two m were bad v ice was time o sion for £ a ccompanied I hower but it heavy. the s, be in Walli o in the loss will not gford. 8—Dur Barn Burned owned by North Co ony and structure. s is $1 Five Cows Killed. Walli: 1, Conn. Aug. 1lea ring owne W TO DOOR AND SHOT BY A STRANGER J. Philbrook of Corinn Seriously Wounded. CALLED a, Me., of Cor- wounded he. ut ten After nded out ing str: utomod fa : for the says he does who shot _him removed to New- where his condition is 11 YEAR OLD BOSTON GIRL BURNED TO BEATH. Other Members of Family Taken Out of Burning Tenement. 8 —Esther Barron, 11 burned to death in ed a brick tenemen Erighton str fire which dam: house on End dis bers of her family, which lived on the fourth were taken down ladders. The of the fire, which started in the sement, is not known. Peter Olesk: ose explanation of his presence in the. building’ did not sat fy the police, was arrested as a su picious character. ISLAND MILLS CLOSE OWING TO HEAT The Temperature in Providence Reached 90 Degrees rn the Shade. RHODE Providence, R. I, Aug. 8.—Owing to the intense heat this arternoon many of the mils in Olneyville, Pawtucket, Woonsocket and the Pawtuxet Valley and other mill sections of this state :d some of the machine shops in the center of this city, were closed and their employes given the afternoon off. The temperature reached 90 in the shade in this city. WORCESTER THERMOMETERS REGISTERED 103 DEGREES Many Factories Shut Down Because the Heat. Worcester, Mass., Aug. mometers exposed to the sun in Wor- cester's business district today regis- tored 103 degrees, the highest of the vear. Many of the big manufactur- ing concerns shut down because of the heat and twoO persons were over- come. Extra deliveries of mail were cut out to save the letter carriers. of fternoon | Senate Passes Child Labor Law BROUGHT TO VOTE ON INSIST- ENCE OF PRESIDENT VOTE WAS 52 TO 12 Democratic Caucus Had Decided to Defer Next December—Has Already Passed the Its Consideration Until House—Affects Interstate Commerce. Washington, Aug. S—The senate late today passed the bill to p: ent inter- state commerce in products of child labor. The vote was 52 to 12. The measure, already passed by the house, was brcught to a vote in the senate upon the insistence of President Wil- son after the democratic caucus once had decided to defer its consideration until next December, Senators Who Voted Against Bill. Senators who voted a nst the bill are Bryan and Fletcher, Florida, Hard- wick and Smith, Georgia, Overman and Simmons, North Carolina, Smith and llman, South Carolina, Williams, ssippi ‘democrats) and Oliver and Pennsylvani (republicans). on cam mostly from the cotton manufacturers and y maintained their opposition dur- the se debate on the ground that the relations proposed is uncon- stitutional and wouwld wit interfere rom the south nd Martin, Virgi Vardaman, eckam, I Robir , and voted Iberson ar for it, GETTING IN TOUCH WITH RAILROAD SITUATION. Members of the »Jm(ed States Board of Mediation and Conciliation. —Judge William L, G. W. W. Hanger members of the United States board of mediation and conciliation, arranged to go Yo tou ith the t strike situation here DD, of the hoard. i > board vet received ai nvitation from either side to mediate | the controversy, and under the law | cannot of es until a tie-up | want represents | their employes Wilson of fon wi ilroads and resident 1ke no other FIVE CENT LOAF OF BREAD AN ECONOMIC WASTE.| | Same Amount of Flour Used Cheaper| { in Ten Cent Loaves. City of e opinion Col., who Lake an economic of C Power toda: He di and Wh; Power, de- cent loave He es | | | bread, of pro- use bility ding and muke with a five SAYS CONGRESS FEELS PRESIDENT’S HEAVY HAND; to Wilson’s Assumption Functions a Senator Cum of Legislative Great Menace, Says Aug. Washington, 8.—Senator Cum- mins today charged President Wilson with forcing Democrats in the House Senate to dlopt legislation inst their judgment and told op- ponents of the child labor bill who contend it is unconstrtutional that the presidential mption of legis- lative func ions w to the constity of any measure. “There has not been a single im- portant measure passed since 1913 in which Democratic congressmen have not felt the t tive,” avy hand of the execu- said the senator FARM LOAN BOARD TO HOLD HEARINGS On Division of United States Into 12 Land Bank Districts. Washington. Tentative plans of the farm !0'\!1 board for hold- ing hearings throughout the country to secure information on which to di vide the United States into 12 land bank districts and locate in each a federal bank were made today at a two hour session of the board. They pro- vide for a first hearing in New Eng- land, probably at Portland, Me., Aug. 21. From New England the board will g0 west over a northern route and down the Paclfic coast through Cali- fornia. The trip east will be made through the central section of the country. IN CHARGE OF DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN PUBLICITY WORK. William J. Cochrane, a Washington Newspaper Writer, Selected. New York, Aug. 8—Vance DMcCor- mick, chairman of the democratic na- tivnal committee, announced today that William J. Cochrane, a Washington newsparer writer, would have charge | the the Condensed Telegrams The Cunard steamship Orduma ar- rived at New York from Liverpool. Burglars stole the safe in the office of the Tidewater Inn at Sayville, L. L Three persons were drowned in Ce- dar River, Iowa, when their canoe up- set. Jonathan K. Taylor, one of the pi- oneer insurance men of Baltimore, is dead. The British steamship Georpe Py- man went aground off Ailsa Craig, Scotland. Shipments of fresh and cured meats from Chicago last week totaled 42,813, 000 pounds. John Miller of Lancaster, Pa, was killed as a result of the wrecking of his automobile. The Heseltine Notor Cor Del., has_incorporated wi stock of $10,000,000. , at Dover a capitol The Russian government has order- ed nine small engines from the Amer- can Locomotive Co. Abe and Lasser Levin of Rochester, were drowned whkile bathing at Sea Breeze, Lake Ontario. The Gilpin-Eureka Mines Co., Dover has been incorporated with capital stock of $3,000,000. at a The annual eral Grant have been_ from August 8 to August 13 exercises in memory of ned W. B. Foxall, president of the W Rolling Mill Co., has announced plant will resume operations. The men of the Third Regiment, New J left S Girt fc the home stations in Camd N, J The Dominion Copper Products Co Ltd. of Toronto, has increased its cap- ital from $100,000 to $1,000,000. Edwin Natusheck, a sailor on the battleship Kentucky three months in the A complete color sheme of th entire Pennsylvan i Femwfion of what is said to be the i ter in_ the| : way in Chica- go. ed States is under More than 1,590 po Cleveland for the American ltrymen arr nnnal Poultry at tion of t t John F. Webster, Fr Tize iten: Five poreon rine 18" By a vote of not 1o re | man The Glen Ridge elected Charles I public m a 10-cent hread eenth annual conve The the Ke lighter became The Pope, the complair habitar ed to make a protes Point Comfort, which ws two after a careful the de st Patrick O'Donnell, a lineman of the d Railroad, w killed by at the top of ot tow- at Hunt Point, L. Senator Hardwick instroduced a bill authoriz suits t the States to ionality the cotton ta 1861 and 1 Warden Thomas Mott Oshorne temporarily clc the evening m ing picture shows at Sing Sing owlng to a riotons demonstration by dissat- isfied prisoners. Representative William B. Stephens, of California, Progressive-Republic: member of the House, 3 He has been appointed governor of Californ: lieutenant- Five men were injured when the au- tomobile in which they were riding crashed through a fence and plunged over a 60 foot embankment on the Shore Road, Broo! eral search was An order for a g sent out to the military police of McAllen, for Private Raymond E. Allen of Company D, Tth Regiment, who disappeared Satu ay. An appraisal of the estate of Mrs. Marie Pechar, former keeper of the Abbey Inn, shows net value of $20,8 Pechar was found dead M a revolver by her body. Infantile paralysis claimed its first tim at East Hampton yester Isador Barmore, aged 29 years, dying after an iliness of a da Two new cases developed during the day. PRIMARY ELECTIONS IN OHIO YESTERDAY Not Much Interest in Nominations for Senator and Governor. Columbus, O., Aug. 8.—The renomi- nation of Frank B. Willis, one of the republican candidates for governor, and the nomination of James M. Cox, of the democratic campaign publicity work at the committee’s western head- quarters in Chicago. ex-governor, as candidate for the chief executive office on the deme- cratic ticket, are indicated at the Ohio primaries today. A light vote probably will be polled. enced to | United | Falling off in Crop Prospects MILLIONS OF DOLLARS LOST TO FARMERS OF COUNTRY ALMOST EVERY CROP Wheat Shows a Loss of 105,000,000 Bushels—Declines in Corn, Oats Rye, White and Sweet Potatces, Flax, Apples and Peaches. Washington, Aug. 8—Falling off in crop prospects amounting to many millions of dollars’ loss to farmers of the country were indicated today in the department of agriculture’s August report, which forecasts declines in in- icated production in almost every erop from the forecasts reported in July. Loss in Wkheat, Corn and Oats. cat showed a loss of 105,000,000 rn, £9,000,000 bushels: oats, ‘bushels; barley, 11,000,0 and there were decr te and sweet potatoes, nd peaches. A heavy reduc dicated production of cot- viously had been reported. Sericus Condition from Drouth. Corn, the nation’s greatest c in a serious condition from drouth, f rain does not come n the will be smailer than the fore day, which was 2,277,000,000 b 50 ton pr 18 nd crop t to- shels, MEN OF 225 ROADS VOTE TO STRIKE “Up to You” Railway Managers are Told—“Big Four” Brotherhoods Firm New York, Aug. S.—The referendum vote of the 400,000 railway worker: of the country made pul 0 a preponderance of vor of the strike. The ex- was le public by the the Railw ineering So- West 39th Street. an_ of the c committee he offi of ial Iway reply for man: the was as follows: £ Locomotive r of strik: §mnh per cent. astern of Locomotive Fi -Tn favor of st " of Rail 3 xfi!(‘\ ca s favor of strike per cent. ern, 84.8 per cent; 93.4 per cent. effices, 85 per cent. in favor to vou" were the words B. Garretson, spokesman men ana head of the rilway Conductor: 1d been announc r time until to-morrow ten o'clock to make a meantime the m rike vote s in the PENT QUIET DAY IN CHICAGO. in Seclusion for Two Hours His Hotel. Was at Au second here ¢ ntinent day from vesterday i hour: devoted the sub: deliver t Detroit and prep he Coliseum here went int ours irman_ Wil committee. Mayor jompson_and other political leaders, to the western he .ld_a public reception thousana rsons shook h 1e hand. After luncheon he we omobile ride thro evard system peech on the red with six day. The nominee’s him a’ little trouble last ppeared rested and in v one s re, as comr | BOSTON GETS A TASTE OF THE HOT WAVE Thermomaster Registered 90, With Humidity of 82 Aug. 8.—Boston, which en- balmy weather while the mid- t suffered inter was to- etting a taste of a hot ve. At o’clock morning the mercury haq climbed to 92, eleven degrees higher than the mark =2t the same hour yesterday when the maximum for the day was 90, and was still go- ing It day up. The humidity was 82. the thirteenth consecutive without rain. Thousands sought the beaches, and tens of thousands, denled this ave- nue of relief, clung to the hope for the promised snowers, or better still, a shift of the winds from west to east. The heat reached its limit at 2 o'clock, when the officlal record was 95. Then came a heavy shower and within the next half hour the mer- cury dropped to 76, and the humidity veturned to normal at 38. MAY USE FUNDS TO PROSECUTE DELINQUENTS American Refugees Who Were Ad. vaned Money at Beginning of War Washington, Aug. 8—Comptrolle; Warwick, of the treasury, Has rule that the government may use the un< spent portifon of the $2 750,000 ap« propriated by Congress at the begin« ning of w32 European war to bring American refugees home In paying fees in connection with suits againsi those who have failed to return tht money loaned by the government fop this purpose. Between $300,000 and $400,000 of the fund remains unspenf About 70 per cent of those who se{ cured loans have paid them.