Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 28, 1916, Page 1

Norwich LViil.—NO. 208 POPULATION 28,219 NP ®3H, CONN., MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1916 Bulletin TEN PAGES—70 COLS. PRICE TWO CENTS & The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any 0’{},4@ raper, <l and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Population ITALY HAS DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY Declaration Says That From Today ltaly Regards Her- self as Enemy of Her Former Ally 'HEAVY FIGHTING IS IN PROGRESS IN MACEDCNIA iBulgarians Have Taken All Except One of the Forts at Ka- vala—Newly Captured Positions Are Said to be Under the Fire of British Warships—Paris Reports That the Serbs Have Put Down Vigorous Attacks by the Bulgars to the West of Vardar—Conflicting Statements Given of Engagements on Western Front—The Russians Have Renewed Their Offensive Against the Germans in the Riga Region—The Austrians Have Lost Several Posi- tions in the Carnic Alps. Germany and Ttaly at last are at war, jItaly having finally ended the anomal- ous sityation that has months. by declaring that from Mon- ‘day Italy regards.herself as the enemy ©f her former Teutonic ally. Heavy fighting is still In progress between the entente and Teutonic al- lies in the Macedogian the region of Lake Ochrida eastward to Kavala on.the Aegean sea. but with results beclouded ments of the Bariin and Parls war of- Saturday to the s entin-le-Pe without succe The Paris v repulse of German i the French, office records only the theatre from |in Lorraine and in the Apremont fo! s the Dvina Berlin reports that Bulga operating to the w have captured th Albania and that King Ferdinand's me the mouth of the rive that the Bulgars cept one of t 3 Aegean eca, but says the nsw!y 15 have come under stadt, but both en are a ranucmng s been n:r rted oo mummm, near the auired pos along the Sir cence of mi istrian pos: MEXICAN COMMISSIONERS START FCR NEW YORK WORKING ON DESIGNS FOR HUGE FIELD HOWITZERS They are to Have a Ra to Fifteen M Leaving the Mexican Capital They Talked With Carranza. e of Twelve French forts early i president of t Accompanied morrow for TUnited States the other members of the commis: proceeded for Saltillo, considering or Laredo route designers in t enormous wei and Mr. Rodge eral Carranza i gon and Foreign who were at th-‘ smtmn to see them 2d talks with Gen- of war Obre- | gun and ca it can be mov 73 YEAR OLD ANGLER WON BAIT CASTING CONTEST Julius M. Rannoy of Chicago Made a a Cast of Eighty Feet. whers the pe Finanent conferences will take place but it is believed here that some place NOMINEE HUGHES SPENT SUNDAY AT ESTES PARK, COL. To Rest There Until Thursday Before ; Resuming His Speaking Tour. | v of Chicago, a vetera ulations ¥ esterd the haif-ounce b competition and bail casting tournament her the championship Estes Park, arrived here ©o. remain until Thursday, fng before resuming his speaking ¢ Mr. Hughes was tired and secretary not bring him any pertained to matters !ustcx'(lfl)' over competitors, feet distant. The half-ounce accuracy test was won by C casting at a unless they manding attention, The nominee and Mrs. Hughes mo- tored here from Lyons, Col., company of Boy Scouts and most of the population ing club with 99.3 rthy also won the heavy tackle distance fly evenr with a cast of 120 1-2 feet. ceuracy balt contest at - unknown dis Chicago fly cas! Scouts gave three cheers perfect scores out of ten. nd afterward shook hands 1 at an impromptu reception. fiernoon Mr. and Mrs. Hughes went for a brief walk and later took a short automobile ride. favorite recreation is mountain climb- to take several hikes about here during ALL SUNDAY SCHOOLS IN BALTIMCRE CLOSED { To Stay So Until Fear of Epidemic of Infantile Paralysis Has Passed. The nominee's ing and he plans in the mountai his brief vacation. “TWINKLE TROT” AMONG THE NEWEST DANCES. “Chinese Procassmna| the New Novelties. Pailtimore, Md., Aug. schocls in Baltimore wer day by order of the health They will not be allowed to open a untll fear of an epidemic of infantile ed, it was stated. ourge were Dance” One of ralysis has pa Two new case reported yesterday, mak: There were the same week c two cases and no deaths. Killed by Fall Down Stairs. New Haven, Conn., . 27, Mrs Frank Schlosser of Hartford, who was zughter here, ‘fell Trot” a dance similar to the fox trot, will be among the newes become popular this wint convention of National Association of The “Chine the American Dancing Masters, it e stairs last also will be among W novelties. Cable Steamer Badly Damaged Hyemon S., Aug. 27.— The West- Company’s ca- Somnambulist Walked to Death. New Haver, Conn., At walking in his sl rick McQueeny, az of a second injuries which resulted in’ doath' toc ern Union Telegraph ble steamer Mina was badly damaged and one of her crew suffocated in burned flercely The blaze started be- The Mina \fire_which hours today. \tween deck: tumbled out Cable? . .ragraphs Approval of Fortugal’s Intervention. Paris, Aug. 27—The national con- vention of the Spanish Reformist Party, says a Havas despatch from Oviedo has decided to send a com- mission headed by Melquiades Alvarez the reformist leader, to Lisbon to ex- press the party’s approval of Portu- gal's intervention In the war. British Aeroplanes Over Belgium. London, Aug. 27.—Britisn aer planes have made another dash ov Belgium, on this occasion penetrat- ing to the vicinity of Namur, 36 miles southeast of Brussels and bombard- ing German airship sheds. One aero- plane is missing. SUBMARINE BREMEN IS BRINGING DYES Overseas News Agency So Quotes the Cologne Gazette. Berlin, Aug. 27 by Wireless to S ville—According to the Cologne Gaz- ette, as quoted by the Overscus News Agency, the German merchunt sub- marine Bremen is now on her way to the United States with a cargo of dyes. There have been many reports con- cerning the men, whose arrival at an American port has been expected for some tim. st week p arriving from land gave that sne had n | British. a_ report captured by the SAYS BREMEN IS ON HER WAY TO BALTIMORE Berliner Tageulutt Also Asserts Fleet Will Scon be Increased. Berlin, Ausg. 27, 12:30 p. m. cia London, 11 p. m.—The Berliner Tage- blatt today prints an interview had at Cologne with Director Lohmann of the company owning “the submarine Bremen, in which he says the Bre- men is already on her way to Balti- more and that trade by means of a submarine ficet will soon be increased materially. KING OF RUMANIA TO CONSULT POLITICAL LEADERS To Ascertain Trend of Public Opin- ion on the Present Situation. Londoxn, cord: { politic former chambe former of th nd the Premiers, legislative government tatives, with | MALE STENOGRAPHERS ARE URGENTLY NEEDED.| Service Commissicn Special Civil to Examinations. Have coun and are than CITY BAKERY BURNS TO GROUND $3,000 Fire at O O'clock This Morn- ing in Thickiy Settled Part of the Viilage. re is an i s owned by bakery is in a the and the no preven wind | CROWN PRINCE ALEXANDER OF SERVIA Crown Prince Ale son heir King >ter portant command 1in ihe ¢ v ope (83 agzainst the Ib ans, and friends of the young man say. he.shows.zreat military ability. nder rvt S(x'vl& 1d be held | Severe Electrical Storm at Bristol STREETS IN ALL PARTS OF THE CITY WERE FLOODED A $12,000 BARN BURNED Damage to Streets Alone is Estimated at $10,000—Railroad Traffic Delayed and Telepohen Service Storm Was Widespread. Bristol, Conn., Aug. 27—Onse the most severe electrical storms Bristol ever experienced did consid- erable damage late today. The rain- fall was so heavy that within a few moments after the storm broke, the streets in all parts of the city were flooded. It is estimated that the dam- age done to the streets alone is $10,000. One Cow Killed. Lightning struck the large dairy barn of James L. Wilcox, destroying the structure, which was valued at Tho Fox, who was mili- s shocked by lizhtning, otten out of the bullding One cow was killed. Many Cellars Flooded. the lower section of the city s were flooded tonight. street cro of the of the New York, New Haven tford Railroad . foot or covered with more of cobble stones and sand. Rallroad traffic was cor ably delayed and telephone badly crippled. Traffic betw and Bristol was at for several hours. DELUGE OF RAIN FOR AN HOUR IN WATERBURY. Many Streets Were Flooded and Trol- ley Cars Stalled. Waterbury, lent eleci/ic city between Conn., Aug. 27—A storm sed over and 6 lock t] vio- this ening, followed by a deluge of which lasted f an hour. The of the U - ter Com powe volt any the and wdas damaged. The full the damage will not be know the stores open today. The : flooded in many parts of the city talled and delayed. on the Thomaston line were ng and had to be ndred and fifty tel- > put out of business. Sev. ople went to t o and those who c ot a ducking. The ture at noor 88, and at 4 was 84 and 6, 78 degrees. THREE HORSES KILLED BY LIGHTNING AT SOUTHINGTON Trolley and Elect Light Wires Blown Down by High Wind. “compa. down and heart of downpour d electric li lown many town. blev trees in the SCORES OF TREES BLOWN DONN IN Church Servlces Were Abandoned Be- cause of Severity of Storm. Conn., Au One of in > Connecticut uth Meriden out of commissio electrical The fire in trolleys withou blown Church ial TERRRYVILLE MOTOMAN ELECTROCUTED LAST NIGHT| Came in Contact With Broken Feed ! Wire Blown Down by Storm. Terryville, O'Keefe of r had been broug epping to the he stumbled onto the wire. Conn,, rm’ of Robert Bo htning and a msbury, ns on the were stru: ed by fire d storm late today. in the structures were loss is $6,000, covered b DARING ESCAPE FROM MISSOURI STATE PRISON. Four Convicts Sawed Their Way Out of Their Cells. Jefferson City, Mo., Aug. 27.—The most daring escape in vears from the state penitentiary here became known today when prison officials learned that four’ cc ts, one of them serving a life ter murder, sawed their way out ot cells Friday night and, during a scvere thurnder storm, scaled the prison walls. The escaped convicts are William Webber, life term for murder, and Thoma Thomas McCall and Harry , each serving ten years for robber Hope the Railroads Do, Maybe the Pre t feels that there is such th ng too proud to strike.—Houston Post. Could Have Rubber Soles. Iu Colonel House's repu- he had to wear wooden The power development of the gov- ernment irrigation projects amounts 1o §5.000. hersepower. Crippled— of Two Msn Killed in Automabile Race ELEVEN CARS PILED UP AT FIRST TURN OF TRACK EIGHT OTHERS INJURED Five Machines Were Completely De- molished During 100 Miie Race at| Recreation Park, Kalamazoo, Mich., Sunday. Two | ht others i one . bably fa when eleven of fourteen automobile d up at the first turn during the at Rec: a tion park here d, Marion who was Arn dec: driver, Leading Car Skidded. accident 5 the trac dants could n of the m clip, plowed into the overturned c of them were completely hed. T driven by hose mechanician was & the worst ation par! oocurred as 1, when Lee ©O plowed throu eight persons FOUR LIVES LOST WHEN AUTO WENT OVER EMBANKMENT Four Other Persons Were Injured Near Covington, Pa. icott ment ing m cot da into |, Pa MERIDEN | INFANTILE DARALYSIS EF’lD:MIC IS WANING Decrease in Mumbef or Deaths and New Cases in New York. 1 ending a0 repor Ith. the epidem PROMOTION OF OFFICER N the f Condensed Telegrams Italy is paying $46 a ton for coal. Copper exports for the week ended Aug. 25 were 7,287 tons. Retail price of soft coal advanced in Boston 23c to $5.50 a ton. A public health department has been organized in the. Kiangsu. Province, China. An increase in postal rates to take |effect Sept. 1 was announced at Mex- ico City. Members of the French ets met at Calais to and British discuss war e Dr. three iPa., is dead. John A. Fritchy, times as Mayor of who served Harrisburg, Asa G. Chandler, was nominated for Mayor of Atlanta, Ga., in the Demo- ! eratic primary. ' Cotton sold for 16 cents a pound on N k Cotton Ioxchange for the ince 1911. George W. Willard, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., proprietor of the Collingwood |Opera House, is dead. Vice President Marshall will be no- {tified formally of his renomination !:.em 14, at Indianapolis. Land worth about $300,000 at Mt |Kisco, owned by New York city, is |to be sold by the comptroller. The Board of Education of Bayonne, N. announced that th schools would not open until Sept. Charles George Heberman, profes- or emeritus of Latin in the College of he City of New York, dead. The amount raised by German mu- nicipalities for the relief of milies of soldie has reached $10, 00. Five bandits captured by government troops after holding up ranches in the La Guma district have heen executed. The New York Stock Exchange au- | thorities decided to close the 1 t three Saturdays of September. e harles E. Cotton, of Minneapolis, was elected presi : Vetrinary Medical troit. An automobile cwned and driven by 7. Schmidt was smashed I train at 1ampton, I >4].1ni|7( was not | e L | The three sstory building of the Century Fireproo Company Co,, l{was destroyed by a loss of $10,000. The Pennsylvania Rubber Co, Inc., rporated ofd New York, has been red at Albany, with a capital of The Senate Finance Committee de- {cided to eliminate the stamp on in- 1 nce in the nue bill now be- e ‘ With the view of enabling w r mut- ilated for the opened S: The historic bronze chandelier o Reny, an early Twelfth ntury m of the destroyed palace at Rheims, s found in a heap of debris, professor of political economy Tniversity of Per v1- vania, a the position of {tary to t Mexican comm Leo S. Rowe, The Oklahoma National Gas Co. has IN THE G K ARMY. |k and his ds rhter seriously in | vhen a freight train struck New Acting Chief of Staff is Favorable | utomobile at Rochester, N. Y., to the Entente Allies. | 1 | Athens on, A to the Greek forces FAMINE AND DISEASE CENTRAL MEXIC Typhus Fever Has Broken Out in the State of Aguas Calientes. El that an v[-u broken nic of the more th rs died of undertak te, they said, : -ve been unable to car Another rep of Guanajuato rec»ntl y @ in the state persons died rmed famine in pr the central VENICE IS FACING A SERIOUS ECONOMIC PROBLEM. ional Government for Spe- Measure of Assistance. cial Rome, Aug. 27.—Venice is facing a serious economic crisis as a result of the war. The «ity government yester- day sent a delegation to ask the tional government for special meas ures of assistance. The people com- plain that they have been deprived of the usual business of the port, of their fncome from sts and _prevented from fishing in the Adriatic, cutting off their customary sources of revenue. Premier Boselll received the delega- tion and will endeavor to aid the Ven: tians. Movement of Steamships. 27.—Arrived: , Rotterdam. Aug. 27. — Arrive New s Steamer: New:: York, Tdyernool. Yorl, 1struction of a the natural City, a dista h pipe iclds to 50 miles. The steam yacht on which Andrew Carnegie in east- ern Maine and Car ters, ar- rived at Eastport, | Bar Harbor. To avoid cases of open ch|ld murder, wn cou rk and rouck have he ancient 1l bure y mothers ¢ indred boilermakers and help- ¢ the Chi , Milwau- ilroad from Mo- D, to the Pa oast, have ted a wage increase of 2 1- hour. cents per Capt. E. J. Spratling, Company F, Fifth infantry, National guard of Geor- | ia, w shot and killed in front of hi tent the s n camp near Macon, G: William F. Weir was found dead sit- ting before the organ in St. Stephen’s Episccpal church, Tottenville, Staten Island. The musician was stricken | with heart discase. James Linn Rogers, American repre- sentative to the Carranza governmént, informed the Mexican government that the preliminary conference over internaticnal difficulties will be held in New York on Sept. 4. The navy department awarded con- tracts for the raising of the naval col- lier Hector, which was broken in two off the South Carolina coast several weeks ago in a ncan FIVE DOLLARS LEFT OF $14,000,000 INHERITANCE. Financial Reverses of Patrick Calhoun of New York. New York, Aug. 27.—Patrick Cal- houn, grandson of the famoue states- man_and_prominently identified with the San Francisco street car strike of 1300, testificd In a recelvership pro- ceed ere that five dollars was the only tangible asset remaining of a for- tune o f314,000,000 possessed by him five years azo. The proceedings be- came known yesterday. Financlal reverses following the earthquake and fire in San Franeisco were responsible for his losses, he as- serted. Receivership proceedings were brought against Calhoun in a suit for s allezed -unoaidoffice srent: - Railroad Employes Will Not Arbitrate THEIR REPRESENTATIVES IN WASHINGTON SO INSTRUCTED CONFER AGAIN TODAY Plans Have Been Made for a Joint Ses- sion of Senate and House to Hear President Wilson Ask for Legislation. Special Washington, Aug. 27.—Tentative plans for a joint session of the sen- ate and house to hear President Wil- son asik for legislation to yrevent the threatened nation-wide railroad strike were discussed by the president with Senator Kern, the democratic leader, tonight, when it seemed virtually cer- tain that a break between the ra roads and their employes must fol- low final conferences at the White House tomorrow. Possibilitles of legislation were talked over Dby the president, Senator Newlands, chair- man of the Interstate Commerce Committee, and Secretary Lane dur- ing the day and tonight he made a quiet trip to the senate office build- ing to find Senator Kern attending a meeting of the finance committee. Brotherhood Men Leave Washington. Since last night the belief that ne. gotiations between the railroad execu- tives and_representatives of tne men would end without an agreement has been growing. This feeling wa strengthened today when the mem- bers of the hrotherhood committee of 640, tired of their long wait, departed for home after delegating their pow- ers to effect a settlement or call a strike to a committee of 24, instruct- ed under no circumstences to agree to arbitration of the demand for an ht hour day at the present rate of for ten hours. pa; Congress May Deal With Situation. the Whether plans considered by sers at rence will be carried out de- upon tomorrow's dx.\u‘rn)n]‘ ts, but it is understood tI fail to brir na_their men toget. will go before c S| at it deal with the n if that neces- sitates prolon: the v nt ‘ Strike Within Next Ten Days. Unless the railroad heads recede demand for arbitration of e eig hour day proposal, one brotherhood head said tonight, a strike affecting about 400,000 men will be led within the next ten day Both Sides to Confer With President Today. s of both and _the brotherhoods the president tomorrow. The cxecutives of the lines will present the plan to which they agreed finally vesterday. Its outstanding feature 2 demand for arbitration of under the eight nour day or any d When they have departed, the broth- erhood heads, acting under instruc- received from the committee of ay, will g0 to the White House and apprise President Wilson tr ey cannot accept arbitration of t ure of their demands and that eral they stand on propos: a week ago, to concede the eight r principle and arbitrate the other res. President May Aask for Delay. ‘What will follow no one attempts to forecast accurately. There was a re- port tonight, however, that the pres- ent migh k the men to postpone Representativ way for w the rail- will con- is wages in tion for a period in order that he ht se ation which would o e for a settlement ithout tieing up the country’s trans- portation systems. Railroad Managers Take Precautions. Among the presidents and mana- gers here, the opinion prevailed that the proposal of the men would not be acceptable to them and thers was no concealment of the feeling that i President Wilson has no other sug- gestion to make, a strike is comine. The proposal may be ken under consideration if the president asks it, but little hope is entertained that the view tonight will be changed. The railroad executives already have for mulated the most careful plans to care of the situation should a ke ensue. They declare that a strike cannot last long and that their precautions will insure the running of all necessary train EASY TO LAND TROOPS NEAR NEW YORY CITY Naval War Game Just Completed Demonstrated the Fact. Jewport, R. I, Aug. 27.—“The re- its of the war game just completed the United States navy proves that en fairly favorable weather condi- tions, an attacking fleet has an excel- lent chance of being able to land troops within twenty miles of New York,” Rear Admiral Austin M. Knight declared tonight. “Nothing of this sort would have been possible™ he said, “if the defetding ‘blue’ army han an effcient scouting force, which was lacking in thls particular prob- lem. Rear Admiral Knight, who was um- pire in the navy's most important war zame, which ended yesterday in the virtual azaihilation. of the “blue” or defendine flcet, arrived tonight on the bhattleship Pennsylvania at the head of the victorious ‘red’ fleet which repre- sented the invading enemy. Throughout the week’s manoeuvres, he said, the weather was misty with a visibility rarely exceeding three or four miles. Conditions of this sort ore characteristic of the Atlantic coast at. this time of the year and should be reckoned with _in future plans of naval strategy. he said. The “Red” fleet will be joined here tomorrow by the “Blue” fleet, which was believed to have anchored off Block Island. Mrs. M~Adoo Resting Comfortably. Spring Lake, N. J, Aug. 37. —The condition cf Mrs. William G. McAdoo daughter of President Wilson, who Is/ suffering_ from a mild attack of typhoid fever at her summer home, here, indicates no complications and she Is resting_comfortably, it was an- nounced by Surgeon-general William Gray Schauffler, the attending physi-