Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 24, 1916, Page 1

Norwich VOL. LVIIL—NO. 256 Bulletin - —_— POPULATION 28,219 NORWICH, CONN., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1916 TEN PAGES—80 COLUMNS PRICE TWO CENTS The Bulletin’s Girculation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper,‘ and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Gonnecticut in Proportion to the City’s Population. E RELIGIOUS CENSUS RUMANIA’S LARGEST SEAPORT CAPTURED Constanza Has Fallen Into the Hands of Troops of Right Wing of Von Mackensen’s Army TEUTONS OVERRUNNING THE DOBRUDJA REGION Russians and Rumanians Are in Retreat Along the Entire Front, Before Rapid Advance of the Germans, Bulgarians and Turks—A British Attack on the German Line in the Somme Region of France Has Netted Them a Thousand Yards of Trench East of Guedecourt and Lesboeufs— Rumanians and Teutonic Allies Are Contesting for Mountain Passes in Transylvania—Italians Are Bom- barding Austrian Positions Northwest of Triest—Ten Steamers and Two Sailing Vessels, All Neutrals, Are Re- ported to Have Been Sunk. The Dobrudfa region of Rumania apparently is being overrun by the forces of the Teutonic allies. Constanza, Rumania’s chief seaport and fortress on the Black Sea, already fallen into the hands of the troops of the right wing of Field Marshal Von Mackensen's army,. while the left wing is nearing the town of Toherna- voda, where the Danube is spaaned by the bridge of the railroad from Con- stanza to Bucharest. Near the center of their front, which extends across Dobrudja from the sea to the Dan- be, the invaders have cut the rail- road near Murfatlar and pushed their troops “far beyond the railway line, according to Berlin Before the rapid advance of the Ger- Bulgarians and Turks—despite rains and soggy ground—the ans and Rumanians are in re- along t.. entre front, wt uc cording to Petrograd are offering stubborn resistance. Aside from the operations in Dob- rudja, another Eritish smash at the German line in the Somme region of France, which netted them more then a thousand yards of trench east of Gueudecourt and Lesboeufs and car- ried their front a step nearer the Ba- paume-Perrone road, is the most not- able incident of the fighting on any of the front. A gain, described by Paris as “appreciable” is also recorded for the French northeast of Morval, which lies just south of the region where the British and Germans were in contact. Berlin, in touching upon the fighting against the British and French Sunday between Lesars and Rancourt, says the attacks of the entente allies were sanguinarily repulsed. The German of- |tempt to ficial communication admits that the German withdrew Sunday night from the north of Chaulnes, south of the Somme, to a prepared position lying east of the northern part of Chaulnes wood. sylvania front stubborn fighting is_still in progress between the Teutonic allies and the Rumanians for the mountain passes end the terri- tory inside Rumaria which has been captured by the Austro-Germans. The Russians having been cleared from the Narayuvka river region of Galicia, the Austro-Germans have hurled ‘a_violent attacks against other forces of Emperor Nicholas north of Brody, near the Volhynia-Galicia hord- er. The attack was repulsed, accord- ing to Petrograd. At the bend of the Cerna river in Serbia Berlin says the Germans and Bulgarians, fighting side by side, have halted the offensive of the Serbs, who are now on the defensive. Bad weath- er is still hampering full operations on the Macedonian front. The Italians have..begun a lively bombardment of Austrian positions on the Carso plateau, northwest of Triest, probably presaging shortly another at- press forwrad toward Aus- tria’s chief seaport on the Adriatic. Ten steamers and two sailing ves- sels—all of them neutral—are reported | to have been sunk, but submarines or mines whether by it not stated. Five of the steamers were Norwegian, | two Greek, two Danish and one Dutch. They aggregated 12,474 tons _gross. The sailing craft were a Danish schooner and a Swedish bark. The British steamer Catobia, of 4,309 ton: is believed to have been sunk. EVIDENCE OF ANOTHER DISASTER ON LAKE ERIE of the Crew of the Steam- Cleveland, Ohlo, Oct. 23—The find- ing of six bodies in Lake Erie today confirmed fears entertained that th steamer Merida, owned by the Valley Camp Shipping Company of Midland, Ont, was wrecked in the fierce gale which swept the lake Friday night and in which three other vessels, the steamer Marshall _F. Butters, the whaleback James B. Colgate and the schooner D. L. Filer, were lost. The Merida carried a crew of 23. Twenty-one on the Colgate and six on the Filer were lost in the storm, mak- ing the total lives lost in the wrecks fitty. Another was added to the list today when it was learned that Walter J. Tedo of Redwoods, N. Y., a seaman on the barge Isaac L. Bell, was wash- ed overboard while the ship was at anchor off Bar Point during the storm. The property loss on the four steam- ers is dstated at about $350,000. No lives were lost on the Butters. The steamer W. D. Mathews brought three bodies of the Merida crew into Toledo today and the steamer Char- Iotte Breitung took three into Windso Canada. The revenue cutter Morrell started out this afternoon late to search the lake for more victims. The Canadian steamer Glenshe is also conducting a search. INCREASE IN MEMBERSHIP OF METHODIST W. H. M. S. 26,842 New Members Were Obtained During the Past Year. Columbus, Ohlo, Oct. 23.—Member- ship in the Methodist Women's Home Missfonary society has increased 63,- 667 since the last meeting, according to a report of Mrs. I. D. Jones, head of the three year old membership cam- paign, to the soclety in convention here ‘today. The report shows that 26,842 new members were cbtained during the past year. Mrs. Jones declared the campaign would be carried on until 3,000,000 members had been enlisted in the so- clety from the Methodist church and sixty per cent. of the women of the land who belong to churches. STATE NAMES GIVEN TO ALL BATTLESHIPS. Armored Cruisers Bearing State Names Are Being Renamed. ‘Washington, Oct. 23.—Acting Secre. tary of the Navy Roosevelt aunounced late today tht armored cruisers Wash- ington, West Virginia and_Colorado had been renamed Seattle, Huntington and Pueblo, respectively. The state names will be given to the new battle- ships. New Head of Cheshire Reformatory. Boston. Oct. za-—ceo‘x:fo C. Erskine, superintendent of the prison camp and hospital at Rutland, resigne dtoday in order to accept an appointment as su- FORMER BALL PLAYER WINS FAME HURLING BOMBS. “Billy” O'Hara Recommended for the British Military Cross. Boston, Oct. 23.—"Billy” O'Hara, once a left fielder of the Toronto In- ternational league team. and a former scout for the New York Nattonal league club, has been recommended for the military cross in recognition of his bravery ard skill in hurling bombs for the British army on the Somme battle front, according to advices re- ceived here today from his home in Toronto. When O’Hara played in the Interna- tional league he was noted for his streng and accurate throwing. Base- ball men here say it was a common occurrence for him to head off a too- daring base runner at the plate by a long, quick throw from deep outfield. O'Hara, a licutenant in a Canadian regiment at the front, is now hurling deadly bombs instead of basebaiis. Ac- cording to word from Toronto, the practice he had in baseball has stood him in good stead while heading a bombing squad. COL. ROOSEVELT DENOUNCES SECRETARY OF WAR BAKER For Comparison of Washington’s Sol- diers With Mexican Rebels. Albuquerque, N. M., Oct. 23.—Theo- dore Roosevelt, speakirg here today, denounced Secretary of War Baker for the latter's reported comparison of Washington's soldiers with Mexican revolutionists and criticized the pres- ident for putting Secretary Baker in the cabinet in the first place and for keeping him there after the reported comparison. “This statement of Mr. acquiesced in by the silence of Mr. Wilson,” said Colonel Roosevelt, “shows that Mr. Wilson in his heart believes that Washington was no bet- ter than Villa or Carranza: that the men in the Revolution stoud on a level with the miscreant crew who during the last three years and a half have murdered Americans by the hundreds and Mexicans by the tens of thou- sands.” Baker’s, TO CONFER ON SALE = OF DANISH WEST INDIES. mmt of the Connecticut re- 85 Cheshire, Conn. — ___ 'for Colonial Councils of the Islands Sum- moned to Copenhagen, New York, Oct. 23—Five delegates, representing’ the colonial councils of the islands of St. Croix and St Thomas, Danish West Indies, summon- ed to Copenhagen by the Danish par- liamentary sale commission to confer with that body on the proposea sale the islands to the United States, reached here today from San Juan, Porto Rico. The delegates declined to make pub- lic just what their report to the Dan- ish " government would be, but they said that the people of the islands were almost unanimous in favoring the sale. They will leave here this week on the steamship United States ‘Copenhagen. S SRR B i b e Cabled Paragraphs Two Steamers Sunk. London, Oct. 23. 9:50 p. m.—Lloyds announces that the Norwegian steamer Ull, 1,188 tons, and the Danish steam- er Helga, 1,182 tons, have been s Their crews were saved. AUTO PLUNGED THRO' DRAW INTO C* -~ RIVER Resulted in Drowr. _c Four Settle- ment W_rkers. i Chicago, Oct. 23.—Hugo J. Warner, wealthy advertising man, and three others, ali social settlement workers, were drowned tonight when Warner's automobile plunged through an open draw into the Chicago river. They were returning from spending the e ening giving instructions in the Max- well settlement house. Warner, who was 31 years old, was advertising manager and director of the firm of Lord and Thomas. He was master of the Boy Scouts of the set- tlement. The others who were drown- ed were Sylvan Kusel, 20 years, law student and teacher of English to the foreign class at the settlement: Miss Lillian H. Klausner, social wirker in Maxwell settlement and Hull House, and Miss Jennie Klausner, her cousin, teacher iff the Jewish manual training school. Mrs. Henrletta J. Warner and Miss Sarah Bernstein, beth settlement workers and sociologists, were res- cued. They escaped from the closed car and were thrown against piling to which they clung. The bodies of the drowned have not vet been recovered. The bridge had been opened to per- mit the passage of a boat. VILLA LEADS CARRANZA VANGUARD INTO AMBUSH. Poured Heavy Fire Into De Fasto Troops from Behind Rocks. El Paso, Tex, Oct. 23.—Francisco Villa led the Carranza vanguard under General Carlos Ozuna into an _ambush between Sanita Ycabel and San An- dres, on_the western division of the Mexico Northwestern railroad, Friday, a report received by one of the federal department’s agents here today stated. According to this report, which was obtained by secret service agents for the federal department, Villa retreat- ed from a position outside San Andres, 40 miles on the railroad west of Chi- huahua City, toward San Andres. This led the Car vanguard into the trap which Villa is said for them, the government ed. The bandits, who were hidden in the rocky dcfiles along the railroad, poured a heavy fire into the Carranza troops from behind rocks, according to the report. to have set report stat- NEW YORK DEMOCRATS TO GO TO SHADOW LAWN. Five Trainloads to Leave Metropolis Saturday Afternoon. New York, Oct. Five trainloads of democrats from this city will go to President Wilson's summer home _at Long Branch, N. J., next Saturday afterncon, the executive committee of Tammany Hall announced tonight. Plans were completed today for the windup of the campaign in this city on Saturday, Nov. 4, when President Wilson will make his first and only campaign speech here in Madison Square Garden. The parade to pre- | cede the meeting, Tammany Hail offi- cials declared tonight, will be one of the most impressive political demon- strations the city has ever witnessed. | Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Ilgbor, an- nounced herc tonight that he would take the stump for President Wilson tomorrow A MAN LITERALLY FRIGHTENED TO DEATH. Assistant at Brenton’s Reef Lightship Terrified by Gale. Newport, R. L, Oct. 23—A case of a man literally frightened to death was reported here today. Gustav Ljunvall slip as an assistant keeper last Wednesday, but before he had time to become accus- tymed to his surroundings the wind became a gale, accompanied by great , and the ship pitched at disturb- ngles. Ljunvall complained of | went to Brenton's Reef ligt ing fears that the ship would go down, In a frenzy he tried to jump overboard, but was restrained. His violence in- creased and the crew, after a struggle while the sorm raged about them, put him in an improvised straiht jacket A report of his death on Saturday was brought here today with the man’s body. DEMOCRATS REITERATE CHARGE OF HUGHES-O'LEARY PACT. Say Statement is Based on Records of the O’Leary Organization. New York, Oct. 23.—The democratic national committee tonight issued what it termed the “second install- ment” of charges that a secret agree- ment exists between Charles E. ‘Hughes, republican presidential nomi- nee, and the American independence conference, of which Jeremiah A. O'Leary is one of the heads. “Tonight's statement,” the demo- cratic national committee announced, “is based upon the official records of the O'Leary organization,” and at- tempts to show by excerpts from Mr. Hughes' speeches what is alleged to have been a compliance with the “de- mands” eaid to have been made upon the republican nominee by O'Leary and his associates. VICE PRESIDENT MARSHALL AT RALLY IN MERIDEN In Address Declared He Was Not Aware of Any Political Issues. Meriden, Conn., Oct. 28—Before an audience that packed the city nall au- ditorium to its capacity, Vice Presi- dent Thomas Riley Marshall delivered an address at a democratic rally here P {period the world had Chicago’s Chief of . Police Indicted FOR CONSPIRING TO NULLIFY ANTI-GAMBLING LAWS HELD IN $20,000 BOND Charged With Permitting Operation of Gambling Rooms, icit, Sale of Liquor ¥nd Failure to In- terfere With Prdstitution. Allowing Chicago, Oct. 23.—Charles C. Healey, chief of police, was indicted on two charges in returns made in the crim- inal court here today. The first in- dictment accuses him of malfeasance and the second names the chief, Will- fan Luthardt, his secretary, and Charleg T. Essig secrctarsy of the Stortsmen’s Club, as conspirators in 2 plot to mullify the anti-gambling laws. Held in $20,000 Bond. Chief Healey's bonds was fixed at $20,000 and Luthardt's and Essig’s bonds at $10,000 each. After the return of the indictments the state asked for the dismissal of the hearing of an application for war- rants for Healey and others before Judge Olson. Judge Olson will give his decisio on the application ntomor- row, he announced. Corrupt Omission of Duties Charged In the first count Chief flealey wa accused of wilfull and corrupt omiis ion of his duties as chief of police in |permitting the operation of gambling rooms, allowing the sale of liquor without licenses, failure *o _interfere ith prostitution and in making false statements to Mayor Thompson in order to restore saloon licenses which had heen revoked. The second count was similar to the first and charged Healy, Luthardt and Essix with con- spiracy to violate the laws. Francls D. Hanna former morals |inspector. who had been demoted by Chicl Healey, testified during the aft- errocn at the hearing beforo Judze - son. He said he had received 1o en- couragement from the head of the po- live departmeat in the sup vice. RAILROADS NOT OPPOSED TO STATE COMMISSIONS Their Attitude Defined by the Presi- dent of the C., B. & Q. Chicago, Oct. 23—The attitude of the railroad interests toward _state railroad commissions was defined here today in a statement ny Fale Holden, president of the Chicago, Rurlington and Quincy road and chairman of the railroad presidents’ committee in the recent trainmen's controversy. He denied that the roads were seek- ing the destruction of the state hoards hut said the roads would like to place exclusive control of all questions un- der the Tnterstate Commerce Commis- sion_or some other federal body. “First in importance,” he said, “is the rate-makinz power. Forty-nine state commissions making rates and rules for the zovernment of interstate carriers is rapidly leading to confu- sion and much unnecessary expense to the carrlers. Forty-nine states re. quiring many_different standards of operation would bank-upt an average railrond and mean nothing to the pub- lic except the bad results coming from Jack of uniformity. “State railroad commisioners have their lesislative field, but all matters that have an interstate effect should, in our opinion, be the subject of fed- eral contro! PROHIBITION PRESIDENTIAL CANDIATE ATTACKS WILSON Brands His “Stand Pattism” on Liquor Question as Reactionary. Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 23.—J. Hanly, the prohibition pres candidate, tonight here turned his guns on President Wilson, declaring his “stand-pattism” on the liquor ques- tion outstripped the “Aldriches and Cannons and Penroses n their blind- est and most reactionary hours. Hanly based his attack on letters re- ceived by the prohibitionists from Secretary Tumulty, declaring th#t the president’s aftitude on the liquor is- sue had stood unchanged for almost vears. ‘He has not changed his mind on the {ssue in six years, though the whole world bas!” Hanly shouted. Then Hanly declared that n that learned from science, students of economics and sociology, the European war, the Bm- peror of Russia, most of the Canadian provinces and twelve of the dry Unit- ed States that prohibition was right. SKIRMISHES BETWEEN CARRANZA AND VILLA TROOPS In Progress a Short Distance West of Chihuahua City. El Paso, Tex., Oct, 2 —A report was south and northwest of the capital and an attack is expected soon. PRIEST FOUND DEAD IN ATTITUDE OF PRAYER Father Bezain, Vicar General of cese of Savannah. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 25.—Father Be- zain, vicar general of the diocese of Savannah, who had been a Roman Catholie priest for 49 years, was found dead early today at Sharon, Ga., tonight. He did not talk on political issues, declaring that as yet he was aware of none, but corfined his speech to the general flaying of the repub- lican leaders and the achievements of the democrats during the past three and a half years. Movements of Steamships London, Oct. 20.—Arrived: steamer Sicilian, Montreal. Kirkwall, Oct. 21—Arrived: steam- er Hellig Olav, New York for Chris- tiansand. Liverpool, Oct. 21.—Arrived: steam- er Scandinavian, Montreal; sailed: 20th, steamer Dominion, Philadelphia. New York, Oct. 33.—Arrived: steam- er Ioannina, Piraeus. where he was stationed. The body was kneeling in an attitude # prayer when found, Father Bezain was born in Grance. 19 Men ms of Mine Explosion. Birmingham, Ala,, Oct. 23 —Nineteen men are dead as the result of the ex- plosion in the mine of the Roden Coal company at Marvel, Ala. on Sunday afternoon, the last 'two bodies being taken out today. Eighteen were di- rect victims of the explosion and one was killed by a fall from a ladder while doing rescue work. There are 28,169 enlisted men of the New York National Guard not yet called into Federal service. Another Arrest For Blackmailing CONDUCTED IN CONNECTION WITH WHITE SLAVE LAW HE CLEANED UP $21,000 Brookiyn Restaurateur Worked at- lantic City—Chief Offley of the Naw York Office of the Department of Justice Has Full Information. New York, Oct. 23.—Further details of the operations of the alicged coun- try-wide “blackmail syndicate” which the authorities was conducted in connection with the Mann white slave act werc disclosed here tonight when the charges against James A. Brown, a restaurant owner of Brook Iyn, arrested Saturday night, were made public. Fugitive from Justice. A formal complaint accusing Erown of being a fugitive from justice from New Jersey alieged that he, Edward Donotive and William Butler imperson ated government omicers at Atlantic City on S 30, 1915, “so as to de- fraud a certain person whose name at the present time Is withheld for public poliey.” Cleaned Up $21,500 in Atlantic City. Chiet Offley of the New York office of the department of justice said to- night that he had information that several _ alleged _ blackmailers « had “cleaned’ up” $21,500 in Atlantic City- Brown will be arraigned tomorrow before United States Commissioner Houghton, Donohue and Butler are | confined ombs prison _awaiting trial on char, Homer T. French, member of the al- leged syndicate, pleaded guilty today of extorting §15,000 from Alfred R. West, a tea and coffee merchant, and was sentenced to 18 months in the federal prison at Atlanta. GERMAN AVIATOR HAS SHOT DOWN 33 AIRCRAFT. Twenty-two Allied Aeroplanes Were Destroyed Sunday. Berlin, Oct. 23, via London, 4.10 p. m. —Captain Boelke, the famous German aviator, shot down two more aero- planes yesterday, bringing up the to- ial to 88, the war office announced to- day. Twenty-two allied aeroplanes were destroyed during the day. The anrouncement follows: “In the neighborhood of the coast, in the Somme and in the Meuse re- glons, there was &reat aerial activity. Twenty-two enemy aviators were shot down by aerial attacks and anti-air- craft fire. Kieven aeroplanes are Iv- ing behind our lines. Captain Boelke conquered his 87th and 3Sth foes, and Lieutenant Frankl his 14th enemy, “Enemy aviaters dropped bombs on Metz and on villages in Lorraine. No mBlitary damage was caused. Five civilians died and seven were made ill_through in emitted from b ling poisonous sases >mbs.” AMBASSADOR GERARD TO VISIT PRESIDENT TODAY. Expected German Attitude Town Sub- marines Will Be Discussed. Long Branch, N, J., Oct | W." Gerard, American | Germany, ‘will see Pre {here tomorrow for the fi return from Berlin. It is exp t Mr. Gerard will report to the president on_the oflicial and popular attitude in Germany toward the sub- ine question. Peace and other sub- s also may be discussed. The ambassador will take lunch with tie president and probably will spend most of the afterncon with him. Alton B. Parker of New York had lunch with President Wilson today and later discussed the political situa- tion with him. GERMANY IS MAKING A SPECIALTY OF SUBMARINES. IHas Constructed 225 Since the Be- ginning of the War. Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 23, via Paris, 3.20 p. m—Prince Von Buelow, former German imperial chancelior, recently informed a neutral newspaper man that since the beginning of the war Germany had consiructed 225 5 submarines, says a despatch from Con- stance. The G horities, ierman naval au the pfince is reported to have added, are paying more attention to sub- marines than to battleships, and Aus- tria-Hungary is doing likewise. WHEAT HARVEST 1S 7 . PER CENT. BELOW AVERAGE. As Estimated by the International Agricultural Institute. Rome, via London, Oct. 23.—The to- tal wheat harvest of the world is esti- 1 5 < mated by the International Agricui- o todeg by fedoval offcllS| ral fnstitute =s T per cent below tween the, forces of Villa and those of | the a¥erase and 25 per cent. Delbng S . anort istance west 9| “The institute’s report includes for ST Wila rocimiave Tl out | the first time the crop of European 7 ! e Russia, which it cstimates to be 20 per cent. less than that of last year. OBITUARY. Col. Horace Newton Fisher, PBrookline, Mass.,, Oct. 23.—Colonel Horace Newton Iisher, for 40 years Chilean consul at Bosten and a writer of note on Latin-American subjects, died at his home here today. He was 70 vears old. Dr. D. Braden Kyle. Philadelphia, Oct. 23-—Dr. D. Braden Kyle, a widely known nose and throat specialist, died at his home here today of pneumonia. He was 63 years old and had been 1l less than a week Dr. Kyle was a former president of the American Laryngological associa- tion and was_the author of several textbooks on diseases of the nose and throat. Thomas L. Cheney. South Manchester, Conn., Oct. 28.— ‘Word was received here today of the death at Colorado Springs of Thomas L. Cheney, formerly of this town and more recently manager of the New York office of Cheney Brothers, silk manufacturers. He was thirty-seven years old and graduated from Yale in 1901. He was married in June. | the died in the Monmouth Memorial Hos- | Condensed Telegrams Raphael Collin: died in Paris. prominent artist, Colonel Roosevelt will speak in New York on October 28. Kaiser Wilhelm visited his troops on the western front. William B. Bowring, prominent in shipping circles, died in Liverpool. The American steamer Seward was reported in distress on a reef off Cape Haitien. g Switzerland his begun taking a cen- sus of motor vehicles available for army use. Five workmen were killed when an ammunition magazine blew up near Lucerne, Switzerland. Subscriptions totalling $250,000 were reccived toward the $1,000,00) -ndow- ment fund of Rutgers College. J. A Spencer, a passenger on the disabled steamer Araphoe, died Thursday and was buried at sea. For the first time in the history of Yonkers, a Chinese-American will cast a ballot at the coming election. Mashall F. Davis, aged 31, sub- master at the New Britain high school, died there of infantile paralysis. Brig.-Gen. Marchand, of Fashoda fame, and General Sainte-Claire De- ville have been wounded in action. Col. Roosevelt will deliver two ad- di_.._s qor riughes when he closes his western speaking campaign in Chicago. Arthur Ponsby, member of the Bri ish Parliament, signed his seat be- cause of the unpopularity of his peace advocacy. Six cabinet officers have approved of the idea of a year-round half-hol- iday on Saturdays for U. S Govern- ment employes. The British authorities confiscated all the mail on the Norwegian steamer Kristianianfjord, bound from New York to Bergen. Henry R. Jones, founder and pres- ident emeritus of the Brooklyn Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, is dead. A Republican former officerholder has appeared in Washington with $10,- 000 Hughes' money to bet on the elec- tion. He asks 2 to 1 odds. Gold coin to the amount of $5,000,- 000 was recelved Saturday at the As- say Office from Canada for the ac- count of J. P. Morgan & Co. President Pierre S. Du Pont of the du Pont Powder Co., denied that em- ployes of the company had been for- bidden to wear Wilson buttons. Jdehn P.. Whita. president of thie United Mine Workers of America ,is- sued an appeal to 6,000,000 working- men and farmers to vote for Wilson. Defective electric wiring was re- nsible for a fire that did from ,000 to $40,000 damage to the As- bury Methodist Church in Rochester. A _report was received by officor: at El Paso, Texas, that four American soldiers were under arrest on the Mex- ican side of the border, near Juarez. Acting Battalion Chief Mauser, of the New York Fire Department, was seriously injured in an automobile ac- cident at Park Avenue and 167th St. Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia decorated Mrs. Charles Farman of New York, with the order of St. Sava for her services in Serbian relief work. Three stewards of the steamer Ryn- dnm» were prevented from sailing . to Rotterdam because they attempted to smuggle 28 vials of a costly German drug. John J. Burns, of Harrison, N. J., whose neck was broken by a dive into Shrewsbury River at Water Witcn, pital. Five steamships, two neutral three of belligerent nationaliti parted for ports in Kurope carrying 1771 passengers, including 226 Amer- icans. and Frederick Mark, alias Fred Lemoyne, who obtained thousands from the Red Hook National Bank on forged checks, was sentenced to serve nine yeads in Sing Sing. Eliseo Arredondo, Mexican Ambas- sador Designate, denied the report that he had been ordered to return to his country to take a post in the Car- ranza Cabinet Five men were seriously injured as a result of a collisicn pefween a mnotor car and a jitney bus carrying ten men employed in a munition factory at Hastings, N. Y., John Pirone, 22 years old, of Bridge- port, died in a hospital at lizabeth, N. J,, from injuries he suffered when his motoreycle collided th an auto- mobile in Linden township. The body of Oscar Beckert, aged 13, was found in a pond near Plantsville, The boy was reprimanded in school on Friday and it is believed {hat this caused him to end nis life. Walter Switzer, a conductor, was shot and killed by a bandit who at- tempted to hold up an interurban car on the Southwest Missouri Railraod, between Webb City and Carthage. James Walton, alias Gorden, sus- pected of being one of the robbers who stole the $30,000 payroll of the Burroughs Adding Machine Co. at De- troit, August 4, was arrested at Dalla: Tex. INAUGURATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GHENT. Been Transformed Flemish Academy. It Has Into a Berlin, Oct. 28 (By Wireless to Say- ville).—Governor General Von Bissing today inaugurated the University of Ghent, which has been transformed into a Flemish academy. In his ad- dress the governor general said the inauguration would be appreciated wherever Flemish people live. The president of the university in reply said the university had,now been given back to its original ation and that one of the highest ideals of the Flemish people was realized. For this ideal, he added, the people had suf- fored and_strugsled for 85 years. Itor ef DEMOCRATS TAK Republican National Committee Has Evidence of Its Use for Political Purposes “SUITABLE LITERATURE” FOR VARIOUS SECTS Branded as a Scheme to Make Political Capital Out of Strong Religious Prejudices—Follows in Wake of a Special Ap- peal to Jews to Support President Wilson Because He Had Appointed a Jew to the Supreme Bench and Done Other Things Favorable to Jews—Letters Marked “Con- fidential” Are on Stationary of the Democratic National Committee. New York, Oct. —The rcpublican national committce has reccived ev dence that the democratic campal managers are undertaking to eficct a religious census for pulitical use at the very time that for public consump- tion they are vociferously decrying the injection of the “religious issue” into the campaign. It was only a short time ago that FHenry Morgenthau, chairman of the democratic finance committee, sent out a special appeal to Jews to support President Wilson on the direct purchase and sale argu- ment that Mr. Wiison had appointed a Jew to the United States supreme court and done other things epecially favorable to Jews. Now comes this religious census, avowedly laying the groundwork for a new appeal that will be diffcrentiated according to th results of thie census. The democratic managers want to know the religious affiliations of the voters so that “suit- able literature” may be sent to them. The echeme is not even thinly veiled. It is a bald attempt to make political capital out of any strong religious pre judices which the proposed census may reveal to the democratic national com- mittee. Some time ago the democratic national committee sent out to post- mesters everywhere copies of a docu= ment entitlec the “Wilson workers" manual.” Now this is followed, nat- urally, by a flood of letters to demo- cratic’ “workers” asking their help in taking this religious census. These letters are marked “Confidential” and are on stationery of the democratic national committee, dated at New York, and sent fro mthe office of “Daniel C. Roper, chairman of organ- ization.” Thig is ‘the man who was first. assistant postmaster gencral ¥n- til this campaign opened, and Who re- signed that post 1o take the job as part of which he sends out tais appeal for a religious census. Mr. Roper writes that he wants, for the demo- cratlc national committee, “the names and addresses of any persons wWwho should have persoanl letters or to wrom appropriate literature should be mailed.” Mr. Roper adds that he is sending certain “special lists” omn which the worker is to transmit to the national committez “the names of any doubtful voters (in accordance with the headings cn the sheet) to whom letters should be written or literature be sent” The special list is a blank divided into two parts, each contain- ing seven columns. One is headed “republicans, progressives and inde- pendents favorable to Wilson.” The other is headed ‘“other republicans, progressives and independents Who through appropriate literature may bo persuaded to vote for Wilson” At the top of each of the seven columns Is a caption _describing the information de- sired. These headings are: 1, politics 2, name; 3, postoffice; 4, occupation 5, nationality; 6, relizion; 7, disturbe ing issue, if any. The covering letter from Mr. Roper makes it clear to the worker Who re- ceives it that the demoratic national committee will regard him _suitably for his efforts. The democratic ma- tional committee has waited until the last weeks of the campalgn to attempt this spectal injection of religious is- sues, with the obvious purpose of avolding detection if | possible. Mr. Roper is not as open in his. appeal to religious prejudice as his colleague, Mr. Morgentheu, but their purpose is Jjuet the same. NEW HAVEN REPUBLICANS HOLD FfRST BIG RALLY. Taft, McLean, Bannard and Holcomb Make Addresses. New Haven, Conn. Oct. 23.—Local republicans held their first big rally of the campaign in @ theatre tonight and a packed house listened to ad- dresses by former President William H. Taft, Senator George P. MciLean, Otto T. Bannard of New York and Governor Marcus H. Holcomb. The air was under the auspices of the republican town committee and the Yale Republican club. Preceding the speaking there was an old- fashioned torchlight parade through the center of the city. Scveral hundred Yale students and a Hartford marching club were in line. Mr. Taft presided and was given a great ovation. He spoke briefly on the nation's prosperity, which he at- tributed to the European war, and said ‘We are living in a fool's paradise” created by the sufferings of the Euro- pean people. He quoted statistics showing the effects of the Underwood tariff bill and contrasted these results with what the Payme bill of the pre- ous administration had achieved. Mr. Taft also referred to the Adamson bill, which he characterized as a measure of iezislation by intimidation. Senator MclLean delivered the prin: cipal address, criticizing the adminis- tration’s foreizn policies and the lack of military preparedness. e men- tioned the recent visit of the German submarine U-53 and pictured what he Dbelieved would happen in the event of sudden hostilities were a fleet of un- dersea boats to visit our coast. He criticised the democratic party iming the distinction of having devised certain reforms, particularly those with reference to the banking laws, which he said originated in the minds of republican congressmen. Many of the state’s most prominent republicans were present at the rally. Senater Frank B. Brandegee was to have spoken, but his address was omit- ted owing to the lateness of the hour. ew Haven members of the Lincoln Wideawakes of 1830 occupied promi- nent seats in the theatre. ai 16 MINE WORKERS CAUGHT BEHIND WALL OF FIRE Gangway of Colliery at Miners- ville, Pa.—All Were Rescued. Pottsville, Pa, Oct. 23.—Sixteen mine workers were caught behind a wall of fire in a gangway of the Sus- quehanna_Coal Company’s Lyttle col- liery at Minersville today and rescue corps worked until late tonight before v were released. _ All the men were taken out alive. ~Fight had inhaled gases by company physicians say they will recover. The cause of the fire, which was in the timbers of the gangway, is un- known. STOLEN SILVERWARE FOUND IN THE WOODS, Was Taken from the Home of Miss Mary Cheney of South Manchester. South Manchester, Conn., Oct. 23— About $300 worth of silverware, a part of the loot taken by thieves from the home of Miss Mary Cheney here about two weeks ago, was found yesterday in some woods not far from the house, wrapped in a. tablecloth which had also been stolen from the house. This iscovery has ied the police to believe that the break was by local persons rather than by utsiders About $600 worth of silver was taken in the rob- bery. Only the larger pleces of sil- verware, which could not be carried away easily_in pockeis, were found, MEXICAN POLITICAL PARTY TO UNIFY ALL ELEMENTS. Meeting in Mexico City Attended by Prominent Generals and Leaders. Mexico City, Oct. 23.—More than a hundred of the most prominent gener- als and other leaders who have beem actively association in the revolution, many of whom came from long dis- tances, met today at the home of General Pablo Gonzales and formed & political parly the objects of which, it is stated, are to unify all elements! of the constitutionalist party and sup- port the candidacy of General Cars ranza for the presidency. Among the who attended were Generals Ob: Gonzales, Benjamin Hill, Agullar, Cesario Castro and Francisco Coss. The project of the party, which was made known by General Gonzales, was enthusiastically accepted by all those present. The meeting was originally called to select a successor to General Gonzales as commander of the division of the east, but opposition to his giv- ing up the command caused this plan to_be abandoned, at least temporarily. Late tonight the organization was still_ being carried out. General Bd- uardo Hay is head of the organizatfom committee, RESOLUTION CALLING UPON SEC’Y BAKER TO RESIGN Endorsed by Loyal Legion of Women at Washington. Washington, Oct. 23.—The Legicn of Loyal Women, a lggal patriotic organ- ization, held a special meeting tonight and endorsed the action of its presi- dent in signing a resolution calling upon_Secretary of War Baker to re- sign because of his allesed comparison of Mexican revolutionists to Wash= ington’s Continental army in a recent speech. Officers of several women's societies, including some of those of the Daughters of the American Revo- lution, signed the resolution when #t was circulated here yesterday. Today Mrs. William Cumming Storey, presi- dent general of the D. A. R., authorized the statement that the society had taken no action in regard to the ru- mors attributed to Mr. Baker and that she had never heard of the resolution until she read it in a newspaper. WIFE OF A WEALTHY JAPANESE IMPORTER SUICIDES Her Body Found at Her Brookline, Mass. Home in Boston, Oct. 23—Mrs. Martha Mat- suki, wife of Burkio Matsuki, & wealthy Japanese imparter, committed suicide by hanging at her home in Brookline yesterday according to .am announcement made tonight by Medi= cal Examiner /Harry M. Cutts. Her. body was found in her room _this morning by her mother. Mrs. Mat- suki was an American and her mar- riage to the Jhpanese merchant took place in Salem twenty-two years ago No reason for the suicide was given. JUDGE BEARDSLEY TO CURTAIL SPEAKING TOUR Has Been Troubled For Some Time With His Eyes. New Haven, Conn., Oct. the advice of his physicigns, Judge Morris B. Beardsley of Bridgeport, demecratic candidate for goyernor, has abandoned some of his speaking en- fq‘emenu in_the state. He has been 23.—Upen and a few days ago iritis set in as & complication. g Judge Beardsley expects to fulfill et i paten e and plans to here_on Wednesday. roubled for Some time with his eyes. 1 ] 4 ERPRPREEEWORS DIRER . 5 St o