Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 11, 1916, Page 1

VOL. LVilL—NO. 192 POPULATION 28,219 NORWICH, CONN., FRID AY, AUGUST 11, 1916 EIGHT PAGES—SIXTY-FOUR COLS. TROOPS ~ The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Population DVANCE OF ITALIAN CONTINUES Have Fought Their Way Through and East of the City of Gorizia CAPTURED STRONG AUSTRIAN ENTRENCHMENTS The Russians Have Fought Their Way Further Westward in Their Endeavor to Capture the Central Portion of the Railroad Running From Kolomea to Lemberg—Inclem- ent Weather in France Has Confined Military Activity Principally to Bombardments—Turks and Russians are Fighting Fiercely on the Bitlis Front—Austrian Aero- planes Have Dropped a Venice. Targe Number of Bombs on sz hampering euvers in ind the are r strong s aga Teutonic allies, respectively 1 ia and Galicia— 1 at last reports both had made o front y thre ns. On t Ital have fou and east of the v of Gorizia. In addition west of Goricia they have taken Austrian entrenchments near San Michele and Mante San Arno and also occupied the town of Boschini, iving them a freer hand for their op- erntions in egion of the Doboido plateau and southward toward the nfalcon sector. A large number of risoners were taken in the fighting, enna admitting the loss of Gorizia, s the evacuation followed the puise wcks on Doboido plat t the straight- ening of the Austrian lines made nec- ary by the operation was carried out without molestation from the Ital- ans. The Austrians also reported the 1100 prisoners have been taken in this sector. In Galicia, in the the Halich ward in their ¢ to capture the tral 1 of railroad running n Kolomea to Lemberz. Passing the Monasterzyska-Niznioff they have forded the Zolota river, southeast of Halich and south of Stanislau and have captured the town of Kryplin on the Stanlislau- Nadworna railroad The Berlin official communication s that along the front of Archduke irles Francis in Galicia, southwest of Welesniow and south of the Dnis- ter, new p ve been occupied by the ,Teutonlc allies in accordance ith previous] arranged plans. Rus- n attacks along the Strumen and tokhod rivers were repulsed with nguinary losses to the Russians. An- other big battle has started near Bro- dy, in northern Galicia. )wing to the inclement “rance military fined principally which were som weather in ctivity has been con- to ~ bopbardments, hat heavy north of the Somme and in the Thiaumont work sector near Verdun. An attempt- ‘man advance against the Brit- south of Martinpuich was put down by the fire of trench mortars and machine guns, according to Lop- don, Fierce fizhting is still going on be- tween the Turks and Russians on the Bitlis front in Turkish Armenia. A juadron of twenty-one Austrian ae- roplanes has dropped a large number of bombs on Venice, causing fires in the historic city. 65 KNOWN DEAD IN CABIN CREEK FLOOD Fully Fifty Thousand People Are Said to be Homeless—$5,000,000 Damage. Charleston, W. Va., 10.—Sixty- six persons ‘are known to have Jost their lives in the flood which swept three West Virginia mountai ms vesterday, rendering 10,000 ons homeless 'and causing a property loss estimated at $5000,000. Reports we: still mea. tonight owing to_inter rupted wire and rail communication, ¥ it the authorities f that the death expressed the be- total might reach ‘he national red cross this after- noon gffered aid to the flood sufferers, local ang state authorities re- ied that they believed the situation could be successfully handled without outside assistance. Two companies of the Second Regiment, West Virginia national guard, are already in the flood districts with tents and provi- sions. Reports tonight indicated that the greatest loss of lifc was at Ferndale, where sixteen persons are known to e_dead Many bodies are believed to have been washed down the streams to- wards the Ohio river and probably will never be recovered The excursion train carrying 300 Sunday school picnickers which was marooned between two creeks, arrived at St. Albans tonight after the passen- gers had spent twenty-four hours in the day coaches without fdod. _ On the Cabin Creek branch of the Che: apeake and Ohio railroad another pa: senger train lies on its side with no tracks near it. All the passengers es- caped. ANNOUNCEMENT MADE OF HICHBORN-WYLIE MARRIAGE Couple Whose Elopement Six Years Ago Caused a Sensation. New York, Aug. 10.—Announcement was made today of the marriage in Boston on Monday last of Mrs. Elinor Hoyt Hichborn and Horace Wylie, whose elopement six years ago caused a semsation in social circles. The marriage occurred just two weeks af- ter Mrs. Catherine V. H. Wylie, for- mer wife of the clubman, obtained a divorc: Mrs. Wylie is the daughter of the late Henry M. Hoyt of Pennsylvania, a classmate of William H. Taft, and counsellor of the state department in the Taft administration. Her former husband, Philip Hichborn, Jr., son of Rear_ Admiral Hichborn, committed suicide in Washington about two vears after his wife's elopement, and shortly after he had filed suit for divorce. THE LASSEN PEAK IN NEW NATIONAL PARK. President Wilson Signs Recent Act of Congress—82,300 Acres in New Park. Washington, Aug. 10. — President ‘Wilson has just signed the recent act of congress creating “the Lassen vol- canic park” in California. Included within its area as Lassen peak, the only active volcano in the United States, and Cinder Cone, which also ghowed volcanic activity at one time. Both were set apart as national monu- ments in 1906. The new park containg 82,800 acres. $200,000 Fire in Philadelphta. Philadelphia, Aug. 10—Fire today destroyed the bullding of the Clawson company,;epice importers here, and spread toethe Dr. Jayna building ad- er . properties were also ining. the Mm "is -estimated at e S loss New York,Aug. 10—Arrived: et it > TTamids JUMPS FROM TOWER OF THE SINGER BUILDING New York Man Leaps 600 Feet Noon-day Crowd. Into New York, Aug. 10.— of the Singer building, one of the tall- est in the world, a man plunged | death today into the midst of a way lunch-hour crowd. Tom the tower | fifica as Albert Goldman, sixty vears | o1a. He leaped from the fortieth floor, nearly six hundred feet above the street level, striking the cornice of the main building as he fell and landing directly in front of the Broadwdy en- nce. His body narrowly escaped ers-by and was crushed beyond ognition. It was identified by a will and letters found in the man’s pockets The Singer Building is 612 feet high and has forty-one stories. As it struck. the body narrowly miss- ed a limousine car in which several women were seafed. Two of the wom- en fainted and a dozen other women among pedestrians and those who could see the body from adjoining of- fice windows, also collapsed. A huse crowd quickly gatherad. through whi the police had to fight their way reach the body. to MEMBERS OF DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE To Work With an Associate Commit- tee of Progressives. New York, Aug, 10.—Vance McCor- mick, chairman of the democratic na- tional committee, announced tonight the personnel of the democratic cam- paign and the associate campaign com- mittee of progressives, which will di- rect the fight for President Wilson's re-election. The democratic campaizgn committee has a membership of twen- ty, including Vice Chairman Homer Cummings of Connecticut, and the associate campaign committee of pro- eressives is composed of seven. Fol- lowing is the membership of the lat- ter committee: Bainbridge Colby, New York: Ma- thew Hale, Massachusetts; Albert D. Nortoni, Missouri; Francis J. Heney, California; J. H. Hopkins, New Jer- sey; Ole Hanson. Washington, and Henry M. Wallace, Michigan. Mr. MeCormick ' asserted that the associate committee of progressives would actively co-operate with the democratic campaign committee. President Wilson will meet the mem- bers of the associate committee, of progressives on Friday, Aug. 17, ac- cording to Mr. McCormick. SUFFRAGISTS TO RESORT TO BILLBOARD ADVERTISING In an Effort to Defeat the Democra- tic Party This Fall. ‘Washington, Aug. 10—Billboard ad- vertising will' be used extensively in an effort to defeat the demogratic par- ty for its neglect to adopt the national woman suffrage amendment, it is_an- nounced at headquarters of the Con- gressional Union for Woman Suffrage and the Nationa] Woman's Party. The campaign will be waged particularly in western states having equal suf- frage. In the districts of representa- tives who oppose votes for women posters will advertise the legislator's attitude, it is s#id, with pleas to de- | teat him. Movements of Steamshi New York, Aug. 10.—Sailed steamer Nordea, Rouardan} Kirkwall, Aug. 9.—Sailed, steamer Finaldn New York. Steam He was iden- | Cabled Paragraphs British Steamer Sphene Sunk. London, Aug. 20, 8:50 p. m. — TF British steamer Sphene, was sunk. a German submarine on August » cording to an announcement th:” ning by Lloyds Shipping Agep &5e vessel of 411 gross tons, was ‘4# in Sydney, N. 8 W. Presented Sword -+ | or. London, Aug. 10, J0. m. —The Russian emperor has pre. ced to Gen- eral A. A. Brussiloff. a sword of honor, the order of St. George, set with dia- monds for his victory over the Aus- trians and Germans in_Galicia and Volhynia says a Reuter despatch from Petrograd. DANISH WEST INDIES DEAL “LEAKED” OUT. Senator Stone to Ask for Investigation How a Washington and New York Paper Got Copy. Washington, Aug. 10. — Senator Stone, chairman of the foreign rela- tions committee, today denounced “a_dishonorable act” the publication of the terms of the treaty for purchase of the Danish West Indies, and served notice in the scnate that he would for an investization at the next ses- sion how a printed copy sot into_the possession of a Washington and a c requests, he President Wil- that York newspaper. Spe: said, had been made by son and the Danish government detaiis of the treaty sent to the te Tuesday be heid in confidence until it promulgation should be autho: “If any senator disclesed this treaty. to the public, he did a dishonoraile act and ought to be dis iplined by the Stone. atriotic ci Every 37 INFANTILE PARALYSIS DEATHS DURING JULY According to Reports to the State Health Officer. Hartford, Conn. Au —Thirty- seven deaths from 16 tile paralysis occurred during the rep tonizht month of J rt of th At ¢ time | cases of the disease in th | 6 new cases having developed The rnumber of cases and deaths | Tuly, by counties, follows | Deaths, | 17 | 10 13 4 3 1 iddlesex 0 Since the fl 24 cases ch have been om New aven and Fair inties. The board eays no co is free from the epidemic. HUGHES TELLS OF DEMOCRATIC EXTRAVAGANCE Says Wilson Administration Has Been Recklessly Wasteful. cien partic and_h | congress. | _“T think I may say without fear, | Mr. Hughes told his audience, “t the government of the United States lis_recklessly wasteful, shamefully in efficient and extravagant, a reproach to the intellizence of people. because of its inefficiency. “I would like to havi the a to investigate this administration about six months” the nominec con- tinued. “The rivers and harbors bi known to the people as the nc rel bill” Mr. Hughes s monies’ wasted, as th : examination to determine what ex- penditures are need. “On the contrary it virtually depend- ed upon who influential men repre- senting particular districts and what appropriations are obtained in this district and that district for this man and that man. “That is a matter of log-rollins. It brings the blush of shame to tk cheeks of every American. It ougl to be stopped. If T am elected ident, to the best of my ability, T pro- pose 'to stop it Mr. Hughes declared that the pork barrel bill of 191f was Iked to death by Senator Burton. a republi- can” and that the 1915 bill was re- duced materially because of the oppo- sition of the republicans and some conscientious democrats? HARDING SUCCEEDS HAMLIN AS FEDERAL RESERVE HEAD Paul Warburg Made Vice Governor in Succession to Frederick Delano. Aug. 10.—W. P. G. designated today by President Wilson as governor of the federal reserve board to _succced Charles S. Hamlin and Paul Warburg ‘was named vice governor to succeed Frederick Delano. The designations are for one year. Mr. Hamlin has been governor and Mr. Delano vice-governor since the or- ganization of the board. Thelr terms expired today. Mr. Hamlin'’s term as a member of the board expired recent- ly_and the president reappointed him. It was officlally explained that the president changed the officers in or- der to give different members an op- portunity to serve, and not because of dissatisfaction over the past adminis- tration. TWO GIRLS DROWNED IN MERRIMAC RIVER. Dorothy Estes of Lowell Tried to Save Her Blind Girl Friend. Georgetown, Mass, Aug. 10.—Bessle Stenosky, a blind girl of Chelsea and Dorothy Estes of Lowell, who at- tempted to save her, were drowned in the Merrimac river foday. Miss Sten- osky was wading in the stream and stepped Into a hole. Miss Estes who could_swim, plunged in after her, but the blind girl grasped her around the neck and both girls went to the bot- tom. The bullet which caused the death of Weyland Philbrick, a Corinna (Me.) farmer, who was called to his door Monday night and shot by‘an uniden-. tified, man,. was probed:for’and - found. “byxthoymedical:examiger.o ‘Washington, Harding wa! ¢ Out Legislation one opinior: of a per whick, when it com. session of the confidential communica- tion from :he president of the United States. nrints it to the detriment of | the priw: Politics Crowds PARTISAN ORATORY MARKED SESSION OF SENATE SPEECH FOR HUGHES Political Debate Continued for Several Hours—Republicans Assaults Called Forth Democratic Defense. Washington, Aug. 10.—Issues of the national campaign crowded legislation into the background today in the sen- ate, and virtvally the only progress made with the pending shipping bill was the reading of the amended meas- dwiched between republican the democratic adminis- nd democratic defense of par- ements. Speech in Support of Hughes. The flood of partisan oratory was started by Senator Townsend (repub- lican), who made a speech supporting the charge of Charles E. Hughes that Dana Durand was retired as di- rector of the census at the beginning of the present administration for polit- ical reasons. Senator Townsend as- rted that Secretary Redfield of the co nerce department was mistaken in stating that Mr. Durand voluntarily resigned. Congratulated by Democrats. Several democrats, including Sena- tors Stone, Hardwick and Hoke Smith, extended their congratulations to the republicans for “having at last found an issue” in the Durand incident. Sen- ator Smith added that his only critic- ism for the president and secretary of commerce was that they d not open- y remove Durand, because he was a man utterly withou executive ca- pacity.” Civil Service Violations. Senator Penrose (republican) joined tin the aisc ion with an attack on | civil service of the administration and the hypocrisy” of the administration eads in the Durand case. Ignoring itirely the shipping bill, Senators Oliver and Jones (republicans) and other senators both sides c i the politi debate for seve! Senator Jones said democratic in first determining to D ion on the child labor bill had tage for President Wilson to a sensational visit to the capitol “in a theatrical appeal to senators t go out to the couniry t n | | | | insistence brought about pa the bill i eplies to Hughes’ Utterances. Senator Lewls, the > wh replying to Mr. Hug refer. {ence to President Wils “too proud | | to fight” speech, said that those who admired the independent intelligence of the republican nominee deplored | that he had “surrendered to the velp |and bark of Elanche, Sweetheart and 1y in the refrain of “Too Proud to t’ charging use of the expressior confession of weakness or cow- IE on the part of the president.” | “Too Proud to Fight” T had hoped, id the Tllinois sen- ator, at Judge Hughes might be saved from the exhibition of ignorance by so many lesser but anx- ssailants of that which they did ot understand. The expression ‘too | proud to fight! used at Philadelphia | Dy the president tosan audience of courageous, Christian people, was_ the wdaptation of an old quotation from the classics—ancient as the scriptures, Tts meaning is known to be that a brave | people, filled with the consciousness of | their right and consclous of their su- perior sirength, were too proud to ht where a concession of what was would bring justice to all. The ent presumed on the intelligence of his audience to understand that. ‘I often resret that President W son cannot find it compatible with his sense of the dignity of his position to somet enter into explanations that 1t he mi demonstrate to the great mass nis fellow mankind how prompted by malevolence in some in- stances, and by ignorance in others, are the series of assaults upon him.” Shipping Bill Finally Taken Up. The shipping bill finally was taken up again just before adjournment, when Senator Jones began a speech on it with the announcement that he would not be offended at senators wh business drew them from the chamber. Most of the members took him at his word and left. Senator Jones charged that the bill, with its $50,000,000 appropriation, was a violation of the economic promise of the democratic platform of 1912. He estimated $750,000,000 in all would needed to create the tonnage neces: to care for American shippine that more_than be ADRIFT THREE DAYS IN SMALL BOATS and Crew of Schooner R.| Bowers Picked Up. Captain Boston, Aug. 10.—After being adrift threo days in small boats, Captain Thomas Kyffin and the seven members of the crew of the schooner R. Bow- ers, abanded last week in a gale off the Grand Banks, were brought here today by the British steamer Finis- terre. The men were picked up by the British steamer Homer City in great distress and transferred yester- day to the Cape Finisteere, inward bound from Glasgow. Captain Kyffin reported that the Bowers, bound from Halifax for a British port with a- cargo of pulp, sprung a leak during a storm and was battered about by heavy seas for some hours before he and his crew took to the boats. They had drifted far toward mid-ocean, he said, when the Homer City rescyed them. The Bowers, a vessel of 373 tons, probably went to the bottom, Captain Kyffin said. LOST IN DENSE WOODS WHILE PICKING BERRIES Miss Cora Bull of Hartland Found in an Exhausted Condition, Hartland, Conn., Aug. 10.—Lost in the dense woods while on a berry- picking trip since yesterday morning, a posse of fifty farmers today found Miss Cora Bull, aged 35, in an ex- haustea_condition. She had spent all |w |er | REPORT THAT BREMEN Do Insects Garry Infantile Paralysis? PROMINENT ENTOMOLOGISTS ARE STUDYING THE QUESTION MOSQUITOES, BEDBUGS Ruling Made That in Future No In- feted Person Will be Allowed Travel From One State to Another. to New York, August 10.—A new phase to of the investigation determine whether infantile paralysis is carried by insects, chiefly flics, mosquitoes and bedbugs was agreed upon today at a conference here of prominent entomo- logists from the states of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, with fed eral and city health experts. to the epidemiological now beins done, en- al studies also will be taken up at once and any insect suspected of being reported as carrying the germ will receive attention from the ex- perts. Immediately after the _conference Dr. Charles Banks, senior surgeon of the federal public health s and Dr. C. H. Lavender, in cl federal research work here, started for ington to consult h Surgeon General Rupert Blue on the various features of the investigation they have conducted here. Regulations to be Enforced. Dr. innounced before leav- ing that certail tions of the public health quarantine regula- tions dealing with interstate travel of persons afllicted with the d e, will be strictly enforced son will be he asserte ted per- future, state the another, e though the person liv in this city and wishes to return. Patients Must Remain Where They Are. Health Commissioner Emerson to- night recounted instances in which which the New York children in a critical condition had been ordered away from other places and used the railroads t Dr. Banks notified railr steamboat com- panies and c \ls, and parents of children v prosecuted if they violate the regulations. KUROPTAKIN GOVERNOR GENERAL OF TURKESTAN Had Been in Charge on the Northern Russian Front. TLondon, August Alexei Kuroptal pointed governor gene stan, central news Perograd today stated Tur from of patch a who w Gen. Kuroptaki in chief command of the s in Manchuria at the of the Russo-Japanese war s appointed general of the Russian armies on the northern front on February 26, 1 ng General blas Ru The front under his command included tiga-Dvinsk line, along which severe fighting has been rey requent intervals since the begit of the European offensive under General Brussiloff in the south, but no strained {offensive of either the German or Rus- sian side developed. Before command on_the northern fr eral Kur acting as chief of the Rus dier corps. IS OFF VIRGINIA CAPES. Will Pass Into Hamptor Roads Within Next 24 Hours. Norfolk, Va., Au —Reports that the German submarine merchantman Bremen, r ship to the Deutsch- land, is off the ca nd will pass into Hampton Roads within the next 24 hours were current here tonight and believed in German circles in close touch with the Eastern Forwarding company, agents for the submarine line. One rumor that gained wide circula- tion was that the Bremen would come in early tomorrow morning. The weather is cloudy and threatening and offers excellent opportunity, it = was pointed out, for the mersible to elude allied cruisers stationed off the capes. TWO CASES OF YELLOW FEVER ON WARD LINER Removed to Quarantine Station at the Mouth of the Mississippi. w Orleans, Aug. 10.—Two cases of cllow fever wers covered today among the crew of the Ward line steamer Berglum, which arrived at the federal quarantine station near the mouth of the Mississippl river vester- day from Progreso, Mex. The sick men, the second mate and the second engineer, have heen placed in isolation wards at the station. The passengers on the steamer, and the crew of 23 will be held at quarantine until the period of incubation has p: ed. MAN'S BODY FOUND HANGING TO A TREE Diccovery Made by Twe Children In Woeods Near Mt. Carmel. New Haven, Conn, Aug. 10.—The body of Joseph Murton of Wallingford, who_disappeared from his home there on Monday, was found hanging to a tree in the woods near Mt. Carmel late today. The discovery was made by two children. Identification was made by a Wallingford undertaker and permission was given for the removal of the body to that town. Murton, who was 20 vears old, was said to have been depressed over the illness of a sister. DIED WHEN INFORMED HUSBAND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE Shock Was Too Much for Mrs. Nathan Carpenter of Greenwich. Greenwich, Conn., August 10.—When informed that her husband had _at- tempted to end his lifee today, Mrs, Nathan Carpenter, 74 years old, died of heart disease. Carpenter, who is 76 years old, is dying in the Greenwich hospital of a bullet wound in the head. last night under a tree. She was|The revolver he used is said to have ‘brought to her home near here.and it|been the weapon with which his * is_Dbelieved. :she: willysuffer ".‘1:“-3 brother-in-law committed = suicide Condensed Telegrams Germany will issue its fifth war loan on September 30. Secreaary Robert Lansing has left ‘Watertown, N. Y., for Washington. A. B. Stickney, founder of the Crica- g0 Great Western Railway, is dead. Eighty thousand Carranza troops are now patrolling the northern Mesican border. Major-General Goethals, governor of the Canal Zonme, left Washington for Panama. About 200 employes of the Hartford Suspension Co., at Jersey City, went on strike. The battleship Oklahoma arrived at Newport, R. L, to take on board her torpedo outfit. Vice-Admiral Koltschak was ap- pointed commander of the Russian Black Sea fleet. Vice-President Marshall will open the democratic campaign in Kentucky on September 9. The Stock Yards Savings Bank of Chicago increased its capital from $250,000 to $300,000. Mrs. William Feigenbaum, of Brook- lyn, was drowned while bathing In Lake Winola at Scranton. Great supplies of war material have been destroyed by fire in German mag- azines at Aesbot, Belgium. A special train for wives of National Guard officers will leave New York for McAllen, Tex September 1. The Japanese steamer Seiko Maru, which sailed from Tacoma, Wash., on March 22, has not been heard from. Miss Sevear Cariston was instantly killed by a West Shore express train at the Bogota crossing at Hackensack, Noogs The National Association of Master Balers, in session at Salt Lake City, are in favor of the 10 cent loaf of bread. The State nau training ship Newport, left the Navy Yard for her annual cruise, which will last several weeks. Herbert Spy, of Queens borough,, was instantly killed by lightning while batling in Baisley’s pond at South Ja- maica, L. I Property loss exceeding $1,000,960 was caused by a cloudburst that swept down Cabin Creek Valley at Hunting- ton, W. Va. Charles Riclly, a Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. trackman, was _instantly killed by stepping on a third rail at Ayrtle Avenue. | A vein of oxide iron ore ranging in thickness from six to eight feet has been discovered in Venango Couaty, near Oil City, Pa. A rescue train was sent out from rne, British Columbia, to Michel, B. where there was a serious explo- sion in mine No. 3. ¥ While attempting to close a window in her home, Mrs. Ann D. Riley of Gloucester, Mass, was struck by a lightning bolt and killed. Commander Leigh C. Palmer has been nominated by President Wilson to be chief of the Bureau of Nav {tion, with rank of rear admiral. a- Rockefeller The Foundation ha announced that an appropriation o $16 78 has been made to assist in rying on the China Medical Board. Miss Adelaide Lockwood, of Pater- J., and Miss Isabelle Ludlum of York, were drowned while bath- ing at Hawthorne Lake, Ogdensburg, N. 3. Nathan Carpenter, suicide by shootin Greenwich. We acute illness is the cau 76, committed at his_home in over his wife’s believed to have been One hundred members of the first New Jersey Infantry, discharged re- cently because of physical disability left Douglas, Ariz., on a special train for their home: Two brothers, Alton and Edward Hollub, of New York, met for the first time in five years when they greeted each other in the Tombs, where they are prisoners. The public utilities commission up- held the highway commissioner's ac- tion in allowing double tracks to be installed by the Connecticut company on East Broadway, in Stratford. William Ferguson and Lemuel Daw- san, members of the. Conesus. Lake; colony in New York, were saved from | drowning by a Seneca Indian girl, Miss Myrtle Sutton, of Cottonwood FPoint. Douglas MacMonale of San Franci co, a member of the American Am- bulance Field Service, been deco- rated with the “Croix, de Guerre,” the highly prized military decoration in France. Thomas O’Mara, chauffeur, was held, under bonds of $7,500 on a’charse of manslaughter. Karl's car with O'- Mara driving and the owner a passen- | ger, struck and killed David Bridge at | | Gréenwich. The Merritt-Chapman Wrecking Co. of New York raised the hulk of the barge Isabel which was owned by the Johnson Lighterage Co. and destroved as a result of the Black Tom e on July 2. John Wesley Dokay of New York, was again araigned in the Bow street Police Court of London for a hearing on the demand of the French Gov- ernment for his extradition on a charge of fraud. A thousand delegates, representing 80,000 members of the National Rural Carriers' Association, at their annual convention at Chicago, advocated de- Jivery of mail by automobiles furnish- ed by the government. Struck by lightning while he was malking fast a_boat at Clark's Landing, N. J, Henry Kuhn was hurled to the ground. When he recovered ho walk- ed ten miles to the home of Thomas Faber and there fell unconscious. The House Judiciary committee ord- ered a favorable report on a bill intro- duced by Representative Webb, chair- New York, Aug. 10.—President Wil- sor will be called upon to take a hand In the settlement of the differences between the four raiiroad brother- hoods and their employers unless an apparent deadlock in the negotiations which developed today can be broken, it was indicated here tonight by rep- resentatives of both factions. i After it had heard the contentions of the workers, and later those of the roilroad managers, the United States bonrd of mediation and ' conciliation was undecided toright as to when it would again meet the Tepresentatives of either side. Martin A. Knapp, one of the federal mediators, when asked whether there had been any chanse in the situation since the board began its work, replied: i, is a_deadlock on the face of it. Whether we can change it lies in the bosom of the future! Mr. Knapp said the board had not been in communication with President Wilson since it arrived here. When ked. however, if “conditions already a come to the point where an ap- ha DEADLOCK IS RAILROAD SITUATION United States Board of Mediation and Conciliation Has Heard Stories of Both Parties, but Were Unable to Effect an' Adjustment of the Trouble—What Concessions, if Any, the Railroad Managers Offered to Make to the Men Could Not be Ascertained—A Meeting of the Brother- hoods’ Representatives Will Take Place This Morning. g President Wilson to be Called Upon to Take a Hand in Settlement of the Diiferences { i i | BOTH MANAGERS AND EMPLOYES REMAIN FIRM! peal would be made to the-president,” Sir. Knapp said ne could not discuss the matter. He added that the board would continue its efforts to adjust the. diyerences. i "We are going to consider tonight, what the next step will be” he as- serted. i What concesslons, if any, the zail-| road managers offered to make to_the men could not be ascertained. ‘The: mediators met the managers secretly this afternoon, remaining in CODfENnCQ‘ with them more than three hours. Two, Fuards were stationed outside _the Fooms where the meeting was held. | The mediators earlie rin the day heard | the side of the brotherhoods, whnflfl; Chicf demand is for an elght hour| Working day and time and a half for Svertime. It was said the brother-| hoods would remain firm in this posi- | tion. A meeting of those representing m‘ brotherhoods will be held tomorrow morning, but the mediators have noti-| fied them, it was learned tonight, that) “if 1s uncertain whether the mediators will afttend.” THIS YEAR'S WHEAT CROP WILL BE SUFFICIENT For Home Consumption and to Meet Normal Export Requirements. Washington, August 10.—This year's wheat crops will be sufficient for the needs of home consumption and there will be enough left to meet normal ex- port requirements. That is the view of government officials, who said to- day the sensational rise in wheat prices and a correspdonoing _increase In the price of flour, following the government’s last report indicating a grop about two-thirds the size of last 3 market ar's, was the result of the usting itself from a crop of ab- normal proportions to one of much smaller si Experts of the deportment of agri- culture calculate 620,000,000 bushels of wheat will be required for home con- sumption this year. A crop of 654,- 000,000 bushels, as forecast from Au- gust 1, conditions, would leave 34,000, 000 bushels of this year's crop avail- able for export. In addition there was an unusually large carry-over of old wheat from last year's crop, amount- ing to approximately 160,000,000 bush- els. With the carry: over of old wheat and the surplus of this year's esti- mated crop, officials believe the Unit- ed States will have at least 150,000,000 bushe! able for export purposes. NINE VILLA BANDITS KILLED IN A SKIRMISH With Constitutionalist Soldiers Be- tween Sadenas and Tamasope. Laredo, Texas, August 10.—Nine Villa bnadits and four constitutional- ists soldiers were killed in a skirmish last Thursday between Cardeans and ‘amasope, Mexico, according to in- formation brought here today by T. D. Hornbeck, a rancher from San Luis Potosi. Hornbeck said trains in the interior were frequently held up by bandits and robbed. Nine other American re- fugees arrived here today. All told of hardship and loss of property. MAN KILLED AND AUTO DEMOLISHED When Car was Struck by a Train at Crossing Near Bellingham, Mass. Pellingham, Mass, August. 10.—P. Harry Clark, manager of the Union Power Company’s plant at Franklin, was killed and Ernest Brown of Bos- ton was seriously injured, when the automobile in which they were riding from Franklin to Uxbridge was struck by & train at a crossing near here to- v , an engineer of the Gen- Company, _sustained a tracture of the left lez. The automo- bile was demolished. MEXICAN FUGITIVES TO BE GIVEN AMNESTY Law to be Enacted After the Presi- dential Election. Mexico Ci August 10.—General Carranza is quoted in a newspaper of this city to the effect that after the presidential election a law will be en- acted, glving amnesty to Mexicans who are fugitives in foreign countries. OBITUARY Dr. J. B. Webster. Philadelphia, August 10.—Dr. J. B. Webster, aged $0, widely known in medical and geographical circles throughout the country, died here last night from heat exhaustion. Dr. Webster took a prominent par: in the relief of Lucknow during the Indfa revolution in 1837. He came to America in 1875 from England. Dr. Webster is survived by a widow and two sons, one of whom was re- cently decorated by the French go ernment for his courage while serving with the Amerfein ambulance corps i France. Craig S. Mitchell. Philadelphia, August 10.—Cralg S. Mitchell, a noted cricketer, and form- erly of Pennsylvania University foot- bail team, died at his home at Chest- rut Hill.Mitchell was operaicd on three weeks agoc ior orzzmic trouble Delieved to have been causad by an in- man of.the Judiciary Committee, pe; aimit ican _manufacturers to 'ugo. He was a member maint ragencles abroad. , bail team in 1 jury In an automobile about five years of the foot- TITTMAN DID NOT RETIRE FOR POLITICAL REASONS' Former Head of Coast and Geodetic Survey Asked for Retirement. Washington, Aug. 10.—Acting See= retary Sweet of the commerce depart= ment, who telegraphed Charles B. Hughes several days ago denying, charges that Dr. O. H. Tittman was retired as head of the Coast and Geo-| ldetic survey for political reasons to- nizht made public a letter written to! Secretary Redfield by Dr. Tittman in March, 1915, asking that he be relieved, Ot the post. Secretary Redfield's res ply accepting the resignation and ex=: pressing his Tegret was given out as) follows: After my illness a year 2go” Dr. Tittman wrote, “I suggested my re-! tirement, you_ encouraged me to per- I now feel at liberty for coig- SEPT. 1 LATEST DATE FOR ADJOURNMENT CONGRESS. To Eliminate Corrupt Practices and: Interstate Commerce Bills. Washington, Aug. 10.—Sept. 1 is the latest date now susgested by Senate leaders for adjournment of congress. The plan, as formulated in confer- ences yesterday, provides that mo im- portant legislation be considered at the present ‘session except the shippins, revenue, employers’ liability and sup- ply bills and conference reports, with a view to adjournment by the end of the month. It would eliminate the cor- rupt practices bill and the bill to en- large the interstate commerce com- mission. Senate republicans, in conference to- day, were to act on the proposal, which had been submitted in writing by the democratic steering committee. It al- ready has been favorably received by the republican steering committee and prospects were that it would be agreed to b ythe party conference. WARNING ISSUED OF A THREATENED CAR SHORTAGE Carriers, Shippers and Consumers Notified by the 1. C. C. ‘Washington, Aug. 10.—Carriers, ship- pers and_consigners were warned to- day Dby the interstate commerce com- mission _of a threatened car shortage and their attention called to the need for close supervision of loading and unloading. The commission urged that cars be not used for storage pur- poses and susgested that the carriers Teturn cars to their home lines as quickly as possible. Heavy movements of grain are sald to be partly responsible for the threat- ened shortage. CONNECTICUT DAIRYMEN ARE LOSING MONEY. Prof. J. G. Davis So Tells Members of Dairymen’s Association. Storrs, Conn., Aug. 10.—Thirty per cent. of the dairymen in Connecticut are losing money, according to Prof. J. G. Davis, who addressed the midsum- mer meeting of the Connecticut Dairy- men's association today. He said he had seen during the last year 116 dairy farms whose milk eold at wholesale for four cents a rt. Ornly two of the farms are earning over $4,000 & vear, he said. , LOWELL POSTOFFICE CLERK HELD FOR THEFT Had Been Employed in Posteffice fol 25 Years. Poston, Aug. 10.—Jesse Chapman, charged with the theft of a letter from the Lowell postoffice in which he had Dbeen employed for 25 years as a clerk, was held today for the grand jury aft- er a hearing before Federal Commis- stoner Hayes. Chapman’s bail bond ' of $500, obtaineq after his arrest, was. continued. Hartford Italians Celobrate Victory Harttord, Conn, Aug. 10.—More. than a thousand Hartford Itallans thered in a local hall tonight ta. brate the recent victories over Austrians in-the Osonzo region,