Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 2, 1916, Page 1

NORWICH, co‘mi.', M.PNDAY, OGTOBER "2, 1916 3 T + ._TEN PAGES-80 %OLUMN s PRICE . That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total tnrcgiahun is the Largest in Connectlcut in Pro‘portxcn to the City's Population BRITISH ADVANCE ON | NEARLY2 MILEF RONT Germans Have Been Cleared Out of Positions Near _the Stuff Redoubt, Which TROCPS OF GEN They Occupied Last Week._ HAIG HAVE PUSHED FORWARD st~ et THE During Saturday Night and Sunday German Trenches Near Morval and Clery Fell Into the Hands of the Frenck Dur- ing Grenade Fighting—Activity Arcund Halle Indicates the Commencement of an Entente Drive With Peronne as Its Objective—In Galicia the Russians Have Started Ancther Big Offensive With the Purpose of Driving on to Lemberg—Another Zeppelin Raid Has Been Made on London and One of the Attacking Aircraft Was Burned. wing of the British army ncre and Somme rivers in ed on nearly a two cast of Eaucourt dume road, on the town of > and throwing their about four miles In addition st been sent the Germ Brit forw: line rd to h to London. V. work was e by the new armored tractors in In the Champagne region the Ger- arls. atiompied have been cl. out held sin e ity and Sk ac the cor e Disd iattad a resistance have cap- men mile: of the Zlota-Lip: positions are. rep of | the | for good | | been taken and 112 officers and 2,268 men made prisoners Gerlin asserts that _the Russian! | forces along the Brody-Lembers rail- | way were stopped by the artiliery of But on the southern wing rlin a the Russians gained a £ 1 advancing in the fuuvka and n the Ludowa Austrians have d, accordin: captured four | officers and 532 men and et ins. The Rumanian theatre is witnes i only local engagement The nun 1o s taker Falkenh: jon ex by my o n in the He 2,000. Th | ca Leight from in the border on of the Bul- jak bridge. R iN RAID ON OF ENGLAND. COAET ped near the coast, but o d hips where is stil ar sht down > spectacle it fell in reat fiar as visible hip is T ¢ b of Lov jn f nor CHURCH FLOOR COLLAFSED DURING SUNDAY SERVICE. ons Were Inj Johnson City, N. V. Oct. jured th : floor ne First Pres- erian church of Johnson City col- ed during the s being heid n connection wi 1 of the camnerstone, Seven of this puraber are 3 believed all persons were wried into the basement 18 feet below vken the floor gave w nd it was ariy 2 half hour b all had been noved. The spealers were in their chairs and the band was playing the opening number when ident npened. The the slender {limber supporting floor tving, -way almost in an insranf. The floor was @ temporary one, con- cted merely to care for the dedica- crowad. tion TWENTY DEATHS FROM STARVATION IN TWO DAYS In Lampzascs, Mexico, Eighty Miles from Texas Berder. Laredo, Tex., Oct. 1.—-Deplorable :onditions exist mpzasas, cighiy i the he state Leon, where ‘twenty deaths rvation occurred in two days, | c to 2 Texas ranchman arriv- ing from taerc today. At least half of the: crops, which are said to have been good, have been confiscated by the government for military purposes, fhe rancher stated, adding that since his last visit to his ranch 300 head of cattle had been stolen. The poorer men in Lampzasos are unable to e themselves in a modest way ind children of both sexes are virtu- ily naked, the arrival said, w RED CROSS ASKS FOR USE OF A WARSHIP To Transmit Supplies to Syria—Con- tributions Days Oct. 21 and 22. Use of a Unit- Washington, Oct. 1. ed tates warship to transmit relief supplies to Syriana was sought yes- teflay from tho navy department by Red Cross officials and Secretary S. T. Dutton of the American commiitee on American and Syrian relief. It is expected that enough supplies will be contributed to load a gunboat or cruise- er. Generai - contributions will be i7ked Octobor 21 and 22, special dave designes for at purpose by Presi- Aant Wilson, WELL PLEASED WITH HIS CAMPAIGN n New York After Two Weeks' Tour of Middie West. oct. an 1.—Chs president the middle west.and w York. : plans to remain here un- day, when he will go to! me ne et to be determin. before start- | arby town: ined for a few day: ing 'October 9 on his third campaign tour which is expected to take him as far west as Nebraska. Tuesday night he will be the guest of honor at a re- ception hieré at the Union League club, at which : Former Presicents Roose- velt and t will be present. Upon his arrival here today : Hughes oxpressed himself as well sai isfied with the progression of his cam- paign. He is a trifile hoarse from speech-making but expects that voice will Le in good condition again when he begins hi snext tour. VALUE OF PAPER AND ‘WOOD PULP MANUFACTURES Director of Census Rogers Places it at $332,147,000 in 1914, Washington, Sept. 30.—Paper and wood pulp manufactures were valued at $332,140,000 in 1914, an increase of 241 per cent. over 1909, according to announcement today by Director Rog- ers of the census bureau in-a prelim- inary statement of the 1914 census of manufactures. The number of estab- lishments operating was 718, a de- crease of 59 from 1909. Persons en- gaged in the industry numbered 95,516, an increase of 17.2 per cent.; capital invested was $534,625,000, an increase of 30.6 per cent; salaries and wages paid $66,164,090, an increase of 315 per cent.; materials used" $213,181,000, an _increase of 28.9 per cent., and value added by manufacture $11,966,000, an increase of 16.4 per cent. INDEPENDENT VOTERS’ DAY AT SHADOW LAWN. President Wilson Has Designated Next Saturday for That Purnose. New York, Oct. 1.—President Wilson has _desiznated next Saturday as Inde- pendent Voters' day at Shadow Lawn, the national democratic committee an- nounced tonight. The pligrimage to Long Branch will be under the au- spices of the Woodrow Wilson Inde- pendent league, of which Representa- tive W. S. Kent of California is chair- man. British on the Stru- s o today after his two | his | sssinian Emperor Deposed. * dden, Oct. 1—Emperor Lidj Jeas- . of Abyssinia has been deposed at Aadis Ababa. Lidj Jeassu is 22 years o0ld and a grandson of Emperor Mene- like, whom he succeeded in 1915. British Schooner Sunk. “London, Oct. 1, 7.44 p. m.—The Brit- iskh schooners William George, 151 tons, and Pehrl of Truro, 141 tons, and the Norwegian schooner Manuel of Tonsberg have been sunk. Norwegian Steamer Torpedied. London, Oct. 1, 9.15 P m.—The Nor- wegian steamer HoIf Jarl, 1,65 tons, has been torpedoed, according to a Reuter despatch from Trondhjam. The crew was saved. British Losses 3,800 a Day. London, Sept. 30, 19.55 p. m.—Brit- ish losses in September were at the rate of more than 3,800 a day. The casualties on all fronts reported in this month were: Officers 5,439; men 114,- 110. SR Ll WS PRESIDENT WILSON RECEIVES CONGRATULATORY MESS2GES On His Spesch at Shadow Lawn Sat- urday—Aiso About His Rebuke of O’Leary. Long Branch, N. J., Oct. 1.--So many messazes congrat ting President Wiison on his speech here yesterday ¢ received by today that he decided to follow the same gen- 1 line in future addresses at Shadow Lawn. His speeches in Omaha, Indian- apolis, Chicago and New York, which will be beforc 0 organiza- tions, will be I 1 in tone. Arrangements were completed today for the president’s trip to Crmana, be- ginning Tues He will arr 1 morning and wil re- {main th e until 10 o'c! to Long ranch Saturday. Ford of De . Wwho recently came out in support of Alr. Wilson for | another ter en invited to visit the president . end will lunc him tomorrow. pects for p: | Burope are expected to be dis Patton of New e president toMOrrow ved a number bearing on his mes- age to Jercmizh O'Leary, pre ithe American Truth clety, telling ne wanted no for him. meri- of the for his ate- Mr. t ams pra i bro: en libel wer: tion ofii- for administr ment ade on the Lt that the president’ per wndled the telesram to M. and stands back of the me; A BLEND os PETROLEUM " FROL TS TO SAVE EXPENSE | To Take the Place of Straight Gasoline from which he said e per cent. was proposed Institute he Un; who is 2 on pe- cducis, was speaking before rial conicrence heid by the here in conncetion with the tie American He condemned ne savers.” he odor from ell that the full of solene is not be- | A blend of ! wsolene with some i hihalene product is bet- & aight out gasoienc. I have with various gasolene have found nome o the ma; i recommend. They are not only vaiueless, but frequently make matters wor THREE MYSTERIOUS DEATHS AT LANCASTER, OHIO. Women Feund Dead Sitting Upright in Rocking Chairs: hbors of iden sis- (e agba 15 ana spective- ly, seeing no activity about the home 19F the two women loday, entered the {house toright and found the en and i s 2, 30, a vis- | itor, sitting erect in rocking chuirs |and all three dead. There was no sisn of violence or poisoning and an exam- i the gas pipes revealed no i1 Iledical attention revealed no jeause for the deaths, and the bodies been tolten charge of by the cor- That death had come quietly was [evidenced by the fact that ono of the sters Jiad her zlasses on-ard was newspaDe There was no | fo0d in’ the house except haif of an ap- ple pie, and this showed no sign of Ppoison. OBITUARY. Loyal Farragut. Ashfield, Mass, Oct. 1—Loyal Far- ragut, son of the late Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, died at his sum- mer home here today of chronic heart trouble, aged 73. Mr. Farragut had spent his summers here for thirty years and during the winter had lived at 112 East 36th street, New York, in the house wh was presented to his father by the people of New York city. Ho was appointed to a eadetship at West Point by President Lincoln. Aft- er serving for a time in the army, he accepted a position with the New York Central railroad, retiring _after the death of his wife in 1896. He was his father’s biographer. George E. Hill. Bridgeport, Conn., Sept. 30.—Gcorge E. Hill, a leader of the Fairfield coun- ty bar, former president of the State Bar Association and many times hon- ored by selection by election to vari- ous offices, died Saturday in his 52d year. He had served for two years as a trustee of the Connecticut company which took over the trolley hoidings of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company. Alexander Angus. Hartford, Conn, Oct. 1.—Alexander Angus, a well known carpenter and builder, died tonight at the age of 70. Hc was the first man to work on the staging when the dome of the_ capitol was built. For eight years he was president of the Hartford Central La- bor union. He was chairman of the Washington school district. His wife anA two ohildran survive. sck that night, | Death of Senator James P. Clarke OCCURRED AT HIS HOME IN LIT- TLE ROCK, ARK. STROKE OF APOPLEXY Was Stricken Last Friday Evening— Was President Pro Tempore of the Senate—Was Elected Governor of Arkansas in 18%4. Little Rock, Ark, Oct. 1.—United States Senator James P. Clarke, pres- ident protempore of the United. Stites senate, died at his home here foday. Senator Clarke suffered a stroke of apoplexy Friday and never regained sensibility. Physicians and members of his family, however, minimized the seriousness of his condition so that the news of his death came as a shock. His physician said the senator first complained of feeling ill when ne re- | truned home from his law office on ‘Wednesday afternoon. His Indisposi- tion continued Thursday and Friday |and the stroke of apoplexy occurred about six o'clock Friday evening. Began Practice of Law in 1879. Senator Clarke was born in Yazoo City, Miss,, Aug. 18, 1554. He was ed- ucated in’ the schoois of his native state and in 1878 was graduated from | the law department of the University of Virginia. He began the practice of law in Helena, Ark., in 1879, Advancement Was Rapid. Entering politics Mr. Clarke was ad- vanced rapidly from legislator in 1886 to state senator in 1838 to the presi-| dency of the state senate in 1891 and | to attorney-general in 1892, He was clected governor in 1894, declining re- | nomina‘ion after one term to take up the practice of law in Little Rock. In | 1903 he was eiected United States sen- ator and was re-elected in 190y and in 1915. He was elected president pro| tempore of the senate in 1913 and re- | {eclected in 1915. His present term & United States senator would not have | ired until March 4, 1921. | Senator Clar s married in Hel- cna_on No 1883, to Miss Allie A gore. 1 She and a son and two daugh- ters survive, PRESIDED OVER CLOSING ’ SESSIONS OF THE SENATE | Left Washington a Few Weeks Ago Apparently in Good Health. ngton, Oct. 1.—Senator Clarke cu president pro tempore of th the democratic party 1913. He was chosen acus to succeed the Frye of Maine, after enate sinee trol in c ot cen; place 1h tHE sixty-fourts consress ensational revolt aguinst the ad- tration ship purchase bill in the previous campaizn. Senator Clarke left Washington a few weeks apparently in good | health. in the closing days of the last sessicn he presided over the senate owing to the 'absence of Vice Presi dent Marshall. The railroad hour bill which prevented the nation- wide sty was passed with Senator Clarke in the chair but he was one of two senators to vote against the measure and he refused to sign it. He appointed Senator Hughes us acting president pro tempore when the b s presented at the presid- |ing officer’s chair for siznature. | An Independent Career. | Senator Clarke'e revolt against the eight hour bill was a typical manifes- tation of a independence which characteried his_attitude througho! the thirteen vears of his senatorial ca- reer. He was many times the lead-r in opposition to measures proposed by s party. The climax of his inde- | pendence was reached when he led the democraiic revolt against the ship purchase bill which rave new life to the republican filibuster against the measure and made its passage impos sible. When the bill was re-intro- | duced durinz the last session, howeve with the government owncrship and tion features to which Scnator e objected revised and modified, he supported it. Proposed Independence for P! The Arkansas senator during the session again surprised his col- ues when he proposed the amend- the Philippine bill which would give absolute independence to the islands in four years. The administration endorsed the amendment and it was adopted by the senate. The house, however, refused o accept it Senator Clarke acted for several s chairman of the importa ommittee on commerce. He also was the ranking democratic member of the {foreizn relations committee and the committee on military affairs. BATTERIES ARE EREAKING CAMP AT TOBYHANNA ilippines. Connecticut Artillerymen Probably Will Start Today For El Paso. Tobyhanna, Pa., Oct. 30.—All is ac- tivity at the United States artillery | camp of instruction here, where the| remaining batteries are arranging to The men have spent the entire summer in camp and . health is fine but the weather on tho| mountain tops is cold. Battery C, of New Jersey expeets to | entrain Sunday evening for Douglas, Ariz, while E and F of Connecticut probably will start today for Ey Paso. The members of these batteries have passed every examination and have had the hardest kind of training dur- ing the summer. A battery of Mary- land troops is to be mustered out of the service probably on Monday. These activities concluded the Toby- hanna camp will be closed for the win- ter after one of the busiest summers in its history. FREIGHT CARS CRASHED INTO CROWDED STREET CAR. Thirteen Persons Were Killed and 23 Injured Detroit. Detroit, Aich., Oct. 1.—Thirteen per- sons were killed and more than 23 in- jured, several probably fartally, late tonight when a switch engine pushing two freight cars crashed into a crowd- ed street car at Forest avenue ani Dequender - street on the east side. There were more than 90 persons in the street car, many of them remrnln‘ #rom the theatres. Havins entered into a larse number of contracts with farmers for their | of mill, the Dairymen’s Mr. Horton declared, had ed ‘over the contracts to John J. ! Dillon, st commissioner of foods and marke! Dilion, it is charzed | by Mr. I alends, that, i consy | he 15 d agent of 1 state and in capacity he is| +¥s0d. fas re-diua © MH spite determined opposition bassd on | | Wants Dalrymen’s - Leagus Probed APPEAL SENT TO ATTORNEY GENERAL OF NEW YORK STATE INTIMIDATION CLAIMED A Milk Famine is Threatened in New York City as a Result of Differences Between the Distributors and the Farmers. New Yorly Oct. 1.—Alleging that the Dairymen’s League, an organiza- tion of farmers of four states who nave refused to renew contracts with the large milk distributing companies in this city, is “a combination in re- straint of trade,” Loton Horton, presi- dent of the Sheffield Farms-Slawson- Decker company, tonight appealed io Attorney General Woodbury of New York state for an official investiga- tion, Milk Famine Threatened. A milk famine is threatencd here as @ result of the differences between the | distributors, amons_them Horton's company, and the farmer: they cannot produce milk profitably at the price paid them under contracts which e: illegal Plan is lieged. In a letter 1o Attorney Woodbury, Mr. Horton that the Duirymen's leagie was in- corporated in New Jersey, but “has never procured a certificate entitling it to do hu=u|e«s in this state.” He charged that s “in no sense a co- ©operative ol zation, but a stock ‘¢corporation usual type,” com- bining an “illesal plan of monovol ing tie sale of milk to the consumers s of New York with a s.ock selling S(anl(\" Fake Pretences Claimed. General pointed out secking to inc! nec- essaries of umers of New Yorg Intimidation is Charged. r. Horton further pets nf this state “organ { | | | | ~prevent them | them to pu o all mik _Dillon st increased price. 2l would in- > the entire milk sitvation and the dairymen have a t to ateter the agent or milk in ¢ to scll thelr the law,” deajers of this city nz laws for the last attorney general will stigation the public 1. I am o finding a mar HUNDREDS GF QUARTS OF MILK THROWN INTO HIGHWAYS | ;¢ | By Pickets of Dairymen’s League the Vicinity of Brewster. Brewster, Hundreds of quarts of milk, the way to the lo- | cal plants of distributors in this vicin- | ity, were thrown into h day by picke! of igue. of farme: stop I in the league, and who wer < 1o the big deal- e W n was halted, | the car 1 °d_from the wagons | and the contents spilled over the ground, with the result that virtually no milkk was received at any of the! local plan CARMEN IN ALBANY TO STRIKE THIS MORNING Because Company Refused to Rein- state a Discharged Motorman. Albany, N. Y., Oct. 1.—A strike of 800 emploves of the United Traction company, operating cars in Albany, | Reanselaer and Watervliet, was called ‘clock tomorrow morning. ny local of thef Amalgamated Association of S ana k Ra mployes took the action after the officials of the traction company refuzed state a motorman who had been disciplined on a charge of running past a “dead” stop. The employes insisted that tie man’s accusers be made to nppear at a public hearing, and the company re- fused the demand. The men then offered to arbitrate the question of whether an employe could be disciplined only on written com- plaints of citizens. While the com-= vany offered to do this in the present case, the officials refused to arbitrate he (uestion as having any bearing on future action. nion official today said union em- ployes of action com- pany in Troy and nearby cities prob- ably would be asked to strike in sym- e Albany union. pathy with MOTHER AND DAUGHTER ASPHYXIATED AT QUINCY Woman Left Note Saying She Wished No Sympathy. Quiney, Mass, Sept. 30.—The death by gas asphyxiation of Mrs. Mary Pearson and her dauchter Edith, a girl of 12 years, was discovered yesterday. A note written by Mrs. Pearson sa she “wished no- sympathy from the community.” She nad met with fi- nancial reverses recently in connection with a restaurant which she conduct- ed here. Movements of Steamships. New York, Oct. 1.—Arrived: Steam- ers Themistocles, Piraeus; _Philadels phia, Liverpool; Finland, Liverpool Condensed Telegrams Charles D. McGuffey, Chattanoga, is dead. ir William Henry Dunn was elect- ed Lord Mayor of London. historian of Dr. A. Magman, one of the fore- most alienists in France, is dead. Daylight in Groat Britain will be put back one hour from § a. m. Oct. 1. General von Wandel, deputy minister for Germany, has been missed. X war | dis- | Palmer Basworth, 14, of Tampa, Fla. died of injuries received during a foot- ball game. The tug Eugene F. Moran st for Halifax and from there will the -Atlantic. None Seriously—A Score lan Hay Baith, British_ soldier ard writer, arrived at New York on the ‘White Star liner Baltic. Sergt. Y. Santee, Company K 2rd Infantry, of Hornell, shot himself dead in Camp Whithman, N. Y. in Mount Vernon, Where Made to Run Cars. United States submarine L-17 was launched at:Long Beach, Cal, by the California Shipbuilding Co. New York, Oct. 1.—Rioting occurred today when an attempt was made by the Yonkers Railroad company, whose , to run surface cars Cortlandt us of New York's sub- One of two cars which left the barns in Yonkers succeeded in reaching the subway, but not until the Christopher Price, one of the crew of the Monitor in Her fight with the Me rimack in the Civil War, dead. The War Department has no dis- patches relating to the alleged killing | of three American troopers ncar Indio. A bomb was hurled in a book at Valparaiso University, Ind, 4 ing a wi v atler motorman and conductor had been se- 1hS wany, ndow and shattering part of| U530 ised #na all windows of the — car Droken by flying bricks and other General Funston reported to the|missiles. The other car was forced to War Department that Mexicans are| return to the barns, after strikers and crossing the Rio Gaande in small| their sympath s had stormed it for several minutes. The ent detachments. force of Yonkers, called out to quell arrests were made. e poli A machine which records every mo- /STZIKERS RRE RIOTOUS YUNKE Broke All the Windows of a Car and Severely Brmsefi the Motorman and Conductor EFFORT TO RUN SURFACE CARS WAS GIVEN UP The Entire Polic-e Force of Yonkers, 200 Men, Was Called Out to Quell the Riot—Several Persons Were Hurt, But. Further Effort Will be Made to Resume the Service Un- til Tuesday or Wednesday—Rioting Also Has Occurred of Arrests Were Made—No Unsuccessful Attempts Were S subway and elevated railway lines in the city is again nearly normal, and officials of the companies declare that the strike which began September 6 has failed, no attempts were made un. til today to operate care in Yonkers. After the rioting, officers of the Yon- kers Railroad company announced that further effort would be made to re= ervice until Tuesday or Wed- Fiioting also occurred today in Mount Vernon, where unsuccessful attempts were made to operate cars. Mayor Fiske of that city, who personally aid- ed the police in quieting the disturb- ances, announced tonight that unless the situation changes he wiil ask that the militia be called out. Mayor Lennon of Yonkers said he Dr. Lewis Cole of New York chosen pr of the Ame Beske) On Wi ile e e T e, A About 800 Miles from New York. convention at Chicazo. ork, Oct. 1.—Fire which broke Fifty guests had narrow escapes the. enn when_ the e n iTotel s o il the at Hdrrisburg, Pa., was by s R 500 mies from this port: stil fire at a loss of $10,060. emou dering undir a blanket of ste . WoE . ved here tod: So suc President Wilson arra the officers and crew conferences with nev m the 646, pa which were a feature of the first two were aware of the bt n in ontil after the administration. 2 Tiner do Peter Peterson was crushed to death; 'my PEF QOSHCEn L 0 000 was when under a four-ton machine in the fac- was scen pouring from a hateh {tory of the Automatic Machine Pro- serage dusts. Co, -of -Souths Eropition |itinin DRe:officars, 1t wis said, removed the 343 steerage pas- . Joseph N. Tockett, Jr., of Baltimore, ers at once and took precautions i uctor in . the department of ceomn S e s s at Dartmouth Co shot 1 second cabin pssengers. himself dead in the college pavi. the blaze was - \ no time was Two Chinese were arrested at the jost in steaminz to port. The officers West Shore ferry, Fort ond St, were uncommunicative today and few 1d North River, New York, by de- of the details could be learned. How | ectives, charged With possessing opi- | (he fira star t was said, has not| um. i cter ding of the hdld Sept. from infantile | THREE MORE ARRESTS OF | MANN ACT BLACKMAILERS Members of the proh coast Two Men and a Woman Taken in Raid west of of Apartment in Chicago. Chicago, Oct. 1.—Two more men and a woman, were arrested by agents of the department of justice in a raid on a private apartment here early today and held in_connection with the oper- ations of the sveat Mann act black- ailers’ syndicate recently brousht to light by federal officer: Pursuing their investigation of the | | - Lane, | commission r problem, yiph Secretary of chairman of he to settle the ailed on th New York. the _Interior American Mexican b naval yacht r | A further war credit of $50 000,000 has been established at Ottaws purpose of Anancing purchase case of a wealthy merchant of Cedar Imperial Government of mu Rapids, Towa, who -is allezed to have supplies in Canada been done out of $15,000 by the syndi- == cate, federal officials today took pos- Orders were received from Ottawa |session of a packet of letters said to to release the Boston smack E. Mc- | have been written by the merchant to Michol which was seized a few days | two Chicazo girls whom he charges ago on the charge of fishing within | with having lured him to their apart- he three-mile limit. the blackmail for the girls man_wronged ment in Clicago where was exacted. Attorn contenda that the Iow The Department of Labor has given Sergeant Major Robert Middlem: a his clients and paid them $15,000 as soldier who had been bliuded ' recompense. on to remain six | e months longer in this countr | PRICE OF MILK IS Damage estimated at $10,000 was | RAISED IN EOSTON. done when a huge sranite monument | L 2 T Contest on Bztween Producers Eoston Contractors, t being set in place in and the Miriam Osborne at Harrison, N. H., the cemetery o em Home | toppled over. Dr. George B. Wilson, commandant Oc Boston, e close of t in which milk Enzland are trying 5 of the naval ho: died yesterday at Chelsea, o brief afte illne cents more for an 1s aged 53. Beforo coming here in 1913 | t can than Losion contractor: he was surgeon of the Asiatic fieet. |have offered, both sides claimed vie- E - |tory tonight. The contractors said Eliseo Arredondo, Mexican ambassa- | that 90 per cent. of the farmers had dor-designate to the ited States, | delivered their milk. Representatives who arrived at Mexico City from ! of the producers asserted that at least United States, had en inte General Carrinza. view one-half of the normal sales to con- The su « 1 ject u tractors had dropped off. The price discussion was not annpunced. of milk to the consumer was advanced < — from nine cents to-ten cents a quart William J. Carr, director of the Con- | toduy. sular service, will leave for Enzland i< on board the American GREEK CROWN COUNCIL MAY REACH DECISION TODAY Regarding Entry lnto War—l on the Island of Zante. ting Post_office officials and officers of the Michigan Centra} Railroad an- nounced that rewards totaling $4,000 | will be paid for the capture of the bandts who held up the' New York- Chicago express ten miles from De. troit. Athens, Saturday, Sept. 30, via Lon- don, Oct. 1, 442 a. m—It is expected | that she Dostponed session of the érown council at which a decision re- zarding the entry of Greece into the 2 war may be reached, will be held to- The Interstate Commerce Commis- | day. sion suspended until Jan. 29 a pro- | Rioting is reported on the Greek is- Posed advance of 50 per cent. in rail- |land of Zante between Reservists and road rates on iron and steel articles |followers of Former Premier Venize- Trom the Pittshurgh district to At- | losis. lantic and Gulf ports when designed = o rern R | MRS. SMALL WAS SHOT AND THEN STRANGLED Fifty workmen emploved at Sharcs' | brickyards in North Haven were driven ! from_their by a fire carly Seyeral had _ narro building was destroyed. the biaze is not known. Fire Was Set to House to Conceal Evidence of the Crime. ‘The | igin of escapes, S Mountainview, N. H., Sept. 30—The The of | person who killed Mrs. Florence A. Small andeset fire to het home to con- 2 ceal ovidence of toe crime, first shot Villa Moving Southeast. ser, strangled her and beat ser over F1 Paso, Tex, Oci. 1—Reports re-|thc head, Medical Referec B. Frank Nieuw Amsterdam, Rotterdam. Saile Steamer Czaritza, Archangel. India vearly devotes 75,000,000 acres to rice growing. ceived today from Chihuahua throush | Horne said yesterday. His statomen private sources stated that Villa and | was made after discovery of a bulle his bandits were: moving southeast|in the woman's head and the finding from Cusihuiriachic toward Satevo, 30 |in the rulns of a revolver of calib-e mi‘es south of Chihuahua Clty. * similar to that of the bullet. tion of the heart was exhibited be- | - = Z He 6k 2 o % . ddney <ons: were hurt in the|had not decided whether to ask the SR R R AT ey SR it governor for the militia to deal with Sl b Although se on ail surface car, | the situation in that city. Branches of Deutscho Asiatiche | k of Yokohama and Xob ha heen closed and are now under suard | FIRE IN HOLD OF THE XOLAPFEAR BESOREE € of apanese soldieas. STEAMSHIP PHILADELPHIA AMERICAN-MEXICAN COM. | Representatives of American Mining Interests in Mexico. Atlantic City, N. J, Oct. 1.—Repre- sentatives of the more important an mining interests in Mexico expected to appear before the American members of the Mexican- American joint commission here to~ morrow in support of a'memorandim already submitted rtesarding condi- tions in Mexico. Before they are re- ceived the commissioners will hold | their first joint session in continua- tion of the conference begun at New London four. weeks ago. | ~Consideration of plans for the main- tenance of peace alonz the American- Mexican border will be resumed but Tts which continue fo arrive of { checkea flames, according to the | Pennsylva! Srew o The Philadelphia left Liverpool on state Saturday, 2 Villa’s activity in Chihuahua may tserve as a further delay to agreement. The commissioners make no secret, of |the fact that failure of General Car- |rana’s forces to run down Villa has proved embarrassing to them in con- sidering means for improving border conditions. It wa consid that General red probable tonizht Carranza’s latest elec- | toral ‘dccree would be discussed” to- |morrow. A copy of the decrce has | reached the American commissioners | from Washington and while details of the document have not been revealed, it is said to stipulate that none of those connected even remotely with the Fluerta administration shall have the right to vote at the coming.presi- dential_election. Another subject that will be dis- cussed more fully this week will be the closing of the National Bank and the Bank of London and Mexico. MANUFACTURERS OF AUTOS AND AUTOMOBILE PARTS Increase of 153.9 Per Cent. in Past Five Years. Sows Washington, Oct. 1.—Manufacturers of automobiles and automobile parts showed an increase of 153.9 per cent. in the five years from 1909 to = 1914. Preliminary statistics of the 1914 man_ ufacturers census announced yesterday by Samuel L. Rogers, director of the census show the value of those pro- ducts in 1914 was $632,831,000, an in- crease og $383,629,000 over 1809. Persons engaged in the industry numbered 145,591, an increase of 71 per cent over 1309. Capital invested amecunted to $467,730,000, an increase of 1345 per cent, and salaries and wages paid aczzregated $139,453,000, an increase of 139.7 per cent. Materials cost $356,208,000, an fn- crease of 170.6 per cent, and value added by manufacture was $276,625,000, TRAIN DERAILED WHEN PISTON ROD BROKE Enginesr and Fireman Killed on the Pennsylvania Line. Cincinnati, 0., Oct. 1.—When a pis- ton rod on the first engine of train 1281 on the Pennsylvania line, New York to Cincinnati, broke yesterday, the train left the track and partlally over- turned. The engineer and fireman on the first train were killed, whils# the crew of the second engine were in- jured. Five pasengers were bruised but none was seriously hurt. The wrecked train was of steel coaches, drawn by two engines. About 1,500 feet of track was torn up. SHOT HIS WIFE AND THEN KILLED HIMSELF Joseph Talis of Pittsfield, Mass., Com- mitted the Crime in the Street. Pittsfeld, Mass., Oct. 1.—Joseph Ta- lis shot and probably fatally wounded his wife while she was on her way to work early yesterday and then Kkilled himself. The shooting, according to the police, was due to the woman's refusal to adjust differences which had caused a separation of the couple for several years. Four bullets e tered. her head and chest and phys cians said there was little hope of her recovery. f Hartford Barbers Call Strike Off. : Hartford, Conn., Oct. 1.——The threate ened strike of 200 local barbers, which was called, for 8 . o'lock tomorrem norning, whs declared off tonighi Jarbers said the employers had ac- ceded to- their demands of a minim _weekly wage of $13, with a rising: _for length of service,