Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 3, 1917, Page 1

VOL. LIX.—NO. 3 MOLDAVIA BY GERMA OVER NIC ALLIES Additional Points of Vantage Have Been Gained by Austrians and Germans in Eastward Drive RUSSIAN AND RUMANIAN FORCES FORCED BACK Between the Buzeu River and the Danube the Russians and Rumanians Continue to Hold Their Positions—In Dob- rudja the Russians Have Town of Matchin—DBerlin Prisoners and Much War Continues on All the Other Fronts. Been Thrown Back on the Reports the Capture of Many Mnlerinl—-Comp.-nfive Quiet Agzain the Russian and Rumanian forces along the Moldavian and Do- brudja fronts have been compelled to give ground before the advance of the Teutonic allies. At several points on the Moldavian front. however, Petro- grad reports the dispersal of bands of invaders under counter-attacks. ‘The drive of the Austrians nad Ger- mans eastward from the Transylvanian Alps into Moldavia has given them additional points of vantage, while Filed Marshal von Mackensen’s army, operating northward into Moldavia, is zpproaching the- bridgeheads of Fok- shany and Fundeni. Between the Bu- zeu river and the Danube, however, the Russians and Rumanians_continue to hold their positions. In Dobrudja the Russians have been thrown back on the town of Matchin, opposite Bra- ila. In the fighting on all these fronts, according to Rerlin, more prisoners and much war material have fallen irto the hands of the Teutonic allies. Aside from the Rumanian theatre, comparative quiet continues on ail the DESPATCHES REPORT MURDER OF GREGORY RASPUTIN, Russian Monk, Who Has Exercised influence Over Emperor Nicholas. London, Jan. 3, 310 a. m.—The morning newspapers in their Petrograd despatches today feature stories of the reported death of Gregory Rasputin, the Russian monk, who, it has, been reported, exercised great influence over Emperor Nicholas. The reports of the death of Rasputin evidently are making a stir in Russia. not only on account of his personality, but owing to allegations that two persons of ex- alted rank and a well known former member of the duma were concerned in his taking off. ‘The general assumption in the stories is that Rasputin was murdered and scme of the accounts say unqualifiediy that he was. According to one story, two young aristocrats drove an automoblle the night of Friday-Saturd: to a house on Korohovaya street, where a man, assumed to have been Rasputin, enter- ed the car, which then went to Yussu- poftf Palace, which is owned by the Young Prince Yussupoff, heir to Gen- eral Yussupoff, aide to Emperor Nich- olas. 5 Afterwards the police heard shots and_cries coming from the palace garden. Hastening there to make in- quirles they saw blood on the snow i the garden and were shown the car- cass of a dog, which they were toid had been shot because it was mad. Meantime, according to another ver- sion, the body of a murdered man, wrapped in a fur coat, was placed an automobile. The aristocrats took seats in the car and drove to Petro- asky Island in the Neva. Investigation Saturday and Sunday led to the dis covery of a freshly made hole in the ice, traces of blood and many foot- prints nearby. Divers descended into the river and found the body of Ras- putin. The names of the persons suspected as being concerned in the murder are not published but it was stated that young Prince Yussupoff after the events of the week quit Petrograd for his Crimean estates but that he subse- auently returned to the capital. Young Yusspoff is related to the imperial family by his marriage in 1914 to Irene, daughter of Grand Duke Alex- ander Mikhailovitch and the Grand Duchess Xenia, sister of Emperor Nicholas. CROWLEY ACCUSED OF DESTRUCTION OF DYNAMITE By Witnesses for Defense in Trial of Franz Bopp. San Francisco, Jan. 2.—Witnesses called today by the defense in the trial oif Franz Bopp, German consul general, and his six associates, charged with violating neutrality by conspiring to destroy property of Great Britain and her allies, testified that C. C. Crowley, a detective for the consulate, was at a Lotel in Tacoma, Wash., on the night of May 29, 1515, when a barge load of dynamite for the Russian government cxploded in the harbor at Seattle. The tovernment alleges_that Crowley and Louis J. Smith, a defendant. who has hecome a government witness, were directly concerned in the destruction 5f the dynamite. Other witnesses will be introduced tomorrow, according to the defense, in a further effort to prove Crowley's in- nocence of complicity in the alleged plots. TWO YOUTHS CHARGED WITH PROVIDENCE MURDER Identified by a Customer Who Was Wounded When John Magnall Was Killed. Providence., R. I, Jan, 2—The mur- der of John Magnall, a grocer, who was shot down in his store by one of three men last night, was charged to- day against James Turbeitt and George ; 2. 'Smith, 18 and 17 years of age, re- sbeetively. assailants by John. Broadbent a-cus- They were identified as the | Among the employes ordered dismissed ‘was Colonel Francis A. fronts, although there have been some- bat spirited engagements on th® French line and in Galicia. Along the ertire front of the Austro-Italian the- atre there have been vigorous artillery duels. The situation in Macedonia re- mains unchanged. The operations on the front in France continue to be carried out mainly by patrol parties and by the artillery _wings of the belligerent ar- mies. Near Vermelles and north of Ypres, German patrol parties succeed- ed in reaching the PEritish trenches, but later were driven out with heavy cr.sualties, according to the Londgn war office. Over the entire Belgian® front th- artillery duels were violent, while in the Verdun sector near Hardaumont and Dezonvaux there has been consid- crable shelling by both sides. In Ga- licia, in the«Brody sector, the Austro- Cermans launched attacks against the Russians, but were repulsed. The Rus- ns attempted enterprise: ruth of Riga and near Dvinsk and Stanislau, but did not succeeed in making gains. WITHDRAWAL OF PUNITIVE FCRCE IS BEING CONSIDERED Conferences of the Mexican-American Dilegates to be Abandoned. 2 Washington, Jan. When the American members of the , Mexican- American joint commission had finish- =d consideration today of General Car- ranza’s reply failfig to comply their demand that the protocol provid- g for withdrawal of the American troops from Mexico be ratified, there were indications that efioris to enter into an agreement with the de facto government through the commission would be abandoned. For the first time an official admission wus made that Carranza had refused to sign the protocol. The commissioners said they expected to draft their response to_Carranza tomorrow. The failure of the commission to give to Mexican-American relations a righter aspect was ofiset somewhat by official intimations that Henry P. Fletcher, confirmed as ambasad: to Mexico almost a year ago, was about to start for his post where American interests are now represented by a clerk. The report that General Per- 1g’s expedition soon wouid be with- awn regardless of Carranza’s atti tude also gained fresh impetus and it: derstood the administration move under very serfous consider: Mr. Fletcher conferred with dent Wilson after today’s cabinet meeting and later referred inquiries as to whether he would go to Mexico to President Wilson and Secretary Lans- i No_statement was forthcoming from the White House or the state de- partment. WESTERN UNION FIGHTING FOR ITS ARKANSAS CHARTER. A Temporary Order Restraining Sec- retary of State Made Permanent. Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 2.—Judge Ja- cob Treiber, in United States district court here today,, made permanent a temporary order restraining the secre- tary of state from revoking the Arkan- sas chiarter of the Western Union Tele- graph company. The secretary had an- nounced that he would hold a hearing cn a complaint of William Overman of Hot Springs, who alleged that he had filed a suit azainst the corporation and that it had caused the suit to be trans- ferred from the state to the federal courts. If Overman proved this asser- tion, the secretary of state would be compelled under a state law to revoke the Arkansas charter of the corpora- tion. More than 1,500 pages of testimony taken out of court were read by at- torneys. The case will be continued. DISASTROUS FIRE IN FAMOUS ALASKAN MINING CAMP. Business District of Valdez Nearly Wiped Out by Flames. Wash., Jan. 2—Fire that started early today in the business strict of Valdez, Prince William sound, Alaska, destroyed nearly all the business district of the famous old mining town. It is reported the fire Lroke out simultaneously half a dozen different buildings and that inendiar- ism is alleged. The intense cold made fire fighting impossible. A steamer has, left Cor- Gova for Valdez with supplies and the steamship Spokane, which sailed from Seattle tonight, took groceries and other supplies for the 650 inhabinants cf the town. EFFORT TO EFFECT ECONOMIES IN CHICAGO —_— Names of. 174 Persons. Stricken From the City’s Payroll. Seattle, Chicago, Jan. 2.—In an effort to ef- fect economies in the city government, the Chicago council finance ommittee. tonight ‘ordered the names of 174 per- sons stricken from the city payroll Eastman, - 80 tcmer, who was wounded dt the tlmelygars old, who 48 yvears ago was post- Magnall was killed. ‘master at ~varaptarlly Britain Requisitions Unwrought Copper London, Jan. 2, 6.10 p. m.—Supplies of unwrought copper have been requi- sitioned by the government. PROBLEM OF RAISING ADDITIONAL REVENUE Administration Leaders Are Reviewing the Entire Free List. 'Washington, Jan. 2—The problem of raising additional revenue for the gov- ernment to avoid the threatened deficit at the end of the next fiscal year has assumed such proportions that ad- ministration leaders in congress are reviewing the entire free list to con- sider the advisability of placing tariff duties on other commodities than cof- fee, Tubber and wool and increasing the present tariff on sugar. Revenues to be derived from these four sources will fall far below the sum needed, unless there is a radical revi- sion upward of the tariff duties orig- inally proposed on them. Estimates placed before the ways and means committee by the treasury department experts are said to show that under a maximum tariff of 5 per cent. these four commodities would yield not more than $30,000,000 annually and probably not more than $45,000,000. Secretary McAdoo estimates that approximately $195,000,600 will have to be raised by taxation in addition to sums to be de- rived from proposed bond issues. The chief remaining articles on the free list, not eliminated by the policy of non-disturbance of such big indu tries as the iron and steel trade, in- clude cocoa, drugs, undressed furs and skins, meats, oils, potatoes, silk and tea. = Other articles on the free list understood to have been virtually eliminated from consideration are cop- per and iron ore, leather and steel pro- ducts such as rails. A host of minor articles also are on the free list and on these estimates have been furnish- b ences Lawson Failed to Make Good INFORMATION PROVED VAGUE “LEAK” NOT A NAME MENTIONED Representative Henry, Chairman of the House Rules Committee, States That the Boston Financi Definite Statement. ‘Washington, today lleged “leak’ in ad e dropped. “Certainly no_sensible person, Mr. Henry’'s statement, “wot to trouble the ing to chase a mirago. And I must say that as far as this matter between Mr. Lawson and myself is concerned, it is ended.” Thorough Cenference. “In a thorough ed the committee, showing the amount | & vaat. | tIo ennnot of revenue which small {ariff duties| ne1oc'~ He cannor nam Additional sources of revenue under consideration by the committee in- clude articles on which the internal revenue bureau collects an excise tax, notably tobacco. Indications now are that President Wilson will leave the problem to the ways and means commitice and wi not find it necessary to malke recom- mendations to cover the situation. CLOTHING WORKERS VOTE . TO RETURN TO WORK New Agreement Ratified at Meeting in New York. c Mass c d New York, Jan. 2—Thirty-five thousand clothing workers who hav been on strike in this city, agree b: unanimous vote at mass meeting to- night to accept the agreement reached Saturday between officials of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and the American Clothing Manufacturers’ Association and to re said Jan. between Lawson and Representative Henry, chairman of the house rules commit- tee, resulted in an announcement by Mr. Henry that the Boston financier had been unable to furnish any names or definite announcement azbout the OF ALLEGED r Could Give No 2—Two confer- Thomas W. vance of President Wilson’s peace note, and that so far as he was concerned the matter would said ask me ittee a meet- conference the al- leged leak has been discussed by Mr. Lawson and myself. for the names of those ttwught to be responsible for the so-called leak be- tween the state department and Wall I have asked him give me a single even give me the of those charged by him with cleaning up sixty millions of dollars | in connection witir the jeak and is not able to furnish me the name of even ione of the suspects.” Lawson Says Washington Does -Not Want an Investigation. Mr. Lawson issued night not want Chairman Henry would not act uniess’ the asserting th: an inve “leak maker: onfessed to him ause there * oing.” was HER M a_statement to- t Washington did beneficiaries He and in_advance. e had been in Washington until he was tired and was going home be- ‘absolutely nothing JAPAN IS TO ARM ERCHANT SHIPS Has So Notified the State Department at Washington. ‘Washington, Jan. 2.—-Japan, through turn to work immediately. The ne agreement becomes cffective Jan 22 and provides for a working week o 48 hours with a wage increzse -of $1 [the same which the jindividual manufacturers during | strikers had been a flat 152 a weelk. | "It was intimatea that a inearly 4,000 members of the Waist and Dress Makers' U been averted by an agreemen led with the w: and dress associa- tion. FOREIGN TRADE PASSING strike o Previous Year. Philadelphia, Jan. ng through th 2,000,00° 005,000 nnd imp increase of §41 se of $19 $111,000,090. an | 000. Munition shipments alone lga $120.660,000, or tl the total expec OBITUARY. Dennis A. Hayes. ia, Jan 2.—Dennis - twenty-one vea Bottle Blower: Hayes was one of the first men in t country to urge legislation restrict child labor. James J. Dougtas Louisville, Kk., Jan. 2.—James J ing harness race tracks a decade ago. doy after a Dougla: 77 years old. He was one of the 1 ing spiMits In bringing Douglas Par short illness. “Colonel” twenty vears ago. Rev. Dr. Jonathan M. Meeker. tenary Collegiate Institute at a brief fllness’ with pneumonia. odist Episcopal church for 37 yea: of absence from his to devote his energies to ters to Centenary. at the institute, Dr. a year in his salary as president. Stanislau Stange. New York, Jan. 2.—Stanislau Stange, author of the Lere in his 55th year. stroke of duction of The Chocolate health. Born in Liverpool. Mr. Stange came He be- came an actor, but finally devoted his In the '9¢"s hé produced The Wedding e Jolly Musketeer, in which Lillian Rudsell, Miss to the United States in 1880. entire time to writing librettos. Day and appeared Miss Della Fox and Jefferson De Algelis. Mr. Stange also wrote the libretto Mme. Shumann-Heink sang the leading role. of Love’s Lottery, in which Other comic operas and plays written by Mr. Stange were Piff Paff Pouff, Dolly Varden, Brian Boru, The Girl ia the Taxi, The Goddess of Truth, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, The Sing- King Rent ing Girl. i ’'s Daughter, and v a“week for tailors and $2 for cutters. These terms are said to be virtually mion made with the {strike although the first demand of the increase of Ladies’ >n had THROUGH PHILADELFHIA | Shows an Increase of $239,000,030 Over —Foreign trada union Douglas, a picturesque figure on lcad- died at his countr~ home near here to- as he was widely known, was a- a Louisville race course, into existence New York, Jan. 2—Rev. Dr. Jona- than M. Meeker, president of the Cen- Hack- ettstown, N. J., died here today after He had been In the ministry of the Meth- Dr. Meeker recently obiained a leave scholastic duties 0 inducing | Methodist parents to send their daugh- When it became necessary in 1915 to effect economies Meeker volun- tarily accepted a reduction of $1,500 librettos of numerous comic operas, died today at his home He suffered a paralysis in London five years ago while arranging for the pro- 2 Soldier. Since that time he had been in failing the embassy here, notified the state department today of her intention to arm her merciant ships defensively and requested information as to whetlyr any special rules had been made by this government for pass- agze of ships so armed throush the Panama canal. A This was the first official informéation that Japan intended such action and was interpreted in some quarters as dicative of fear of German -subma- rine operations on a wider scale than so far attempted. Japan has a large tonnaze passing through the canal and has suffered seriously from German un- derzea activities, particu in the While no submarines in the Pacific so far, naval experts have said that in the hends of the ad- nd the exp! its raid off the New e that it is guite possible they will operate there later. There are no canal regulations im- posing spectal restrictions upon ves- sels armed purely for defensive pur- peoses, as the United States holds that Mediterranean. have appeared British that of her character as a peaceful mer- chantman. MADISON SQUARE GARDEN PURCHASED BY SYNDICATE May be Torn Down to Make Way for Commercial Structures. New York, Jan. 2.—Historic Madi- son Square Garden which was bid in by the New York Life Insurance Com- | pas it foreclosure sale a short time of the United States and dn. and {ago to protect a mortgage, was pur- third vice president of the Ame: chased today by a syndicate headed by Federation of Labor, died in thi W. Carman Roberts. No formal state- teday. He was years old ment was made as to the plans for the future of the building but it was said that if alterations which are to be made result in a satisfactory financial re- turn the arena will be continued but if not it will be torn down at the end of a Vear to make way for commercial structures. "|SUICIDE FOLLOWS DISPUTE OVER A TRIVIAL MATTER Mrs. Henry A. Ferdinandus Found Dead by Her 7 Year Oid Son. New Haven, Conn. Jan. 2.—A dis- pute over a trivial matter is believed to be the reason for the suicide of Mrs. Henry A. Ferdinandus at her home {here today. When her seven years old son John came home from school this afternoon he found his mother dead in a bedroom with the gas pouring from an open Jet. She was 37 years old _and leives her husband and two sons SUIT OVER LEASE OF STEAMERS HARVARD AND YALE Was Argued at Newark Yesterday— Brought by Miss Jennie R. Morse. Newark, N- the lease of the steamships Harvard and Yale to the Pacific Navigation company, fleld more than four years ago against the Metropolitan Steam- siip company of New Jersey by Miss Jennie R. Morse, sister of Charles W. Meorse, was argued here today. The chief issue in the suit is based on the allegation that directors of the Metropolitan Steamship company, act- ing under pressure of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, leased the two coastw. steamers, hen plying between New York and oston, to the Pacific Navigation com- pany, with the alleged purpose of re- movinz water competition between those two cities. Movements of Steamships. Kirkwall, Jan. 1--Arrived, steamer sx;;khou-. Gothenburg for New York. - Noordam, it of the U-53 in| neland coast, in- such armament does not reprive a ship | Senate and House Helwucuses FOR PRELIMINARY ORGANIZA- TION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY HEALEY AS SPEAKER Henry N. Lyman of Mddlefield Selected as President Pro Tempo of the Sen- ate—George H. Stanton of This City a Doorkeeper. Hartford, Conn., Jan. 2—Prelimin- ary organization of the general assem- bly for the session of 1917, which opens tomorrow, was effected through senate and house caucuses of tonight | Condensed Tzlegrams Tristan Souther, athlete, is dead. former Harvard Fifty-four persons were lynched in the United States in 1916. The American liner St. Louis arriv- ed at New York from Liverpool. Albert F. Siceper, of Badaxe, Re- publican, was inaugurated Governor of Michigan. Hamilton Wright Mabie, author, lecturer, critic, and for 15 years as- sociate editor of the Outlook, is dead. Postmaster Horace C. Phaneuf of Nashua, N. H., died at his home after a brief illness. He was 67 years of age. The appointment of W. C. Kendall as superintendent of transportation of the Boston and Maine railroad was an- nounced. ‘The Hampton Terrace Hotel, a wint- er- tourist resort near Augusta, Ga., iwas destroyed by fire at a loss of $600,000. republican members-elect who control both branches. . Senator Henry M. Lyman of Mid- dlefield was chosen president pro tem- (Continued on Page 865 WAR REFUGEES ARRIVE IN NEW YORK. Come from Belgium and Russian Poland—Mine Sweeper Struck Mine. New York, Jan. Nine hundred and sixty-five refugees from Belgium and Russian Poland arrived here to- night from Rotterdam on the steam- £hip Nieuw Amsterdam of the Holland- American line. The Belgians, number- ing 221, were brought here by the Bel- gian Relief society of Chicago through the efforts of Father John Deville of Chicago, who has been engaged in refugee work abroad. They will make their homes with relatives in the mid- dle west. / With_the Belgfans were 744 Russian Poles in_ charge of Henry C. Zaro. They had been sent over by the aid of various Polish societies. Many of the children among the refugees were iradequately clothed, but the Ameri- stigation and that|can Red Cross despatched to the liner in quarantine a supply of 230 chil- {dren’s outfits, including underwear, {caps, mittens and stockings, to keep the youngsters warm on their journey to the west. The ship’s officers reported that as the liner was entering the harbor of Falmouth, England, on Dec. 21, a mine sweeper sent ahead of the steamship to clear the main channel of possible mines struck a mine and was blown up. seven of the crew of eleven were knlled. John E. Biro, a first cabin passen- ger, claiming to be a naturalized citi- zen of the United States, was taken Nieuw Amsterdam at Fal { mouth. He was suspected by the Brit ish authorities of carrying messagi out of Germany. He is a native of Hungary. MANY PROTEST FURTHER 4 from the | Resolutions Adopted at a Meeting in- | Chicago Attended by 1,000 Persons. Jan. 2—The president's | mail todayv is expected to include res- olutions adopted at a mass meeting here calling upon him to use all pos- sible means to stop further deportation of Belgians and (o obtain the return of those already deported. A copy of |the resolutions, which were presented Professor William Gardper Hale. the University of Chicago, also was {sent to the German ambassador. The I resolutions refer to the deportation as nd anvthing the world centuries.” Dr. Fr Billings presiced at the meeting which attended by 1,000 persons. Chicago, RUSSIANS HAVE CAFTURED 400,000 AUSTRIANS AND GERMANS During the Course of the Last Year— Statement from French Front, On nch Front, in France, Jan. the course of the last yea to authoritative source: 0 Germans were captured front by the French and British, while in Serbia 0 by the th eentente allies ar- cedon more than 400,000 Germans and Aus- trians. PEACE JUBILEE FOR VETERANS OF CIVIL WAR To be Held at Vicksburg, Miss. Oc- tober 16-19—Plans Formulating. Chicago, Jan. Plans were an- nounced today by the council of ad- ministration of Vicksburg veterans for a national memorial reunion and peace jubilee for ve! s of the Civl War to be held i ~ksburg, Miss., October 16-19, 1917. A movement was launch- ed at a meeting of the council here looking toward the procuring of indi- vidual state appropriations and publlc subscriptions to augment the $150,000 alreadp appropriated by congress to finance the reunion ARREDONDO SUMMONED FOR CONFERENCE WITH CARRANZA Mexican Envoy Expects to Return to the United States in About Three Weeks. ‘Washington, Jan. 2.—Eliseo Arre- dondo, Mexican ambassador-designate, announced late today that he had been requested by his government to come to Mexico City and confer with Gen- eral Carranza and_his advisers over relations with the United States. He said he expected to return here in about hree weeks and to resume his duties as diplomatic representative of the de facto government. JUAREZ GARRISON IN FIGHT WITH BANDIT OUTPOSTS Skirmish is Said to Have Been for Possession of a Coal Train. 2. El Paso, Texas., Jan. 2.—Reports were received here tonight of fighting between outposts of ViHa forces and a detachment from the Juarez l DEPORTATION OF BELGIANS took 11,173 Bulgarians and Turks | ner. During the same period the ian de prisoner of 52,250 Aus- ns, while the Russians captured Automobiles killed 729 persons last year on the streets and highways of New York State, as compared ~with 663 In 1915. Mr. and Mrs, William O'Neil, who were found dead in bed at their home in the South BEoston district, had been frozen to death. % The bankruptcies in Germany for the year 1916 numbered 2,227, as com- pared with 4,580 and 7,738 in 1915 and 1914, respectively. Charles Wilson, 70 years old, and his wife, 80, were asphyxiated in their home at No. 1361 Greene Avenue, Avenue, Brookly: 5 John Wilkes Booth, last of the famous family of actors, was buried at Leadville, Col. He was a nephew of Lincoln’s assassin, Henry Holtgrew, of Cincinnati, who several years ago, was reputed to be the champion heavyweight lift- er in the world is dead. Mayor Mitchel has appointed a com- mittee of several hundred citizens to arrange a celebration to mark the completica of the Catskill Aqueduct. Victor Brown, master of the Amer- ican schooner George W. Truitt, J: was washed overboard and drowned in a gale off Cape Hatteras, December 15. Frank H. Allen of Worcester, Mass., purchasing agent of the Holyoke Ma- chine Co., was drowned when he skat- into an air hole on Lake Quinsiga- mond. State Senator Sterling R. Catiin, was rescued from his home in_ Wilkes- Barre, after the flames had almost enveloped the room in which the Sen- ator siept. ht persons were injyred, one seriously, in a headfon crash between two seven nger touring cars on {Ocean Parkway, near Avenue F. -oklyn Richard Wiitiam Silvestef, for 20 dent of the Man nd Ag- ege, until his retirement ars_azo, on account of ill health, is dead. Mrs. Annie Stolimack of Brooklyn, and her three daughters are in th jumped the track as it left the s at Exchange Place, Jersey City. Germany has decided to release for in Sw land, one hun- ners, fathers of three inmates of Ger- jor more childre {man prison camps for eighteen months, Co! Roosevelt sent a New Year's greeting to the persons who assembl- ed in Madison Square for the held under the aus- Years celebration New Year's pices of the Citizens' Committee. Twenty-one survivors of the crew of |the Liverpool stcamer Alondra arriv- !ed at Queenstown. They report that | thier vessel was wrecked on the rocks off Baltimore on the southwest coast of County Cork. -. Eldridge D. Attwood, who killed Dr. Wilfred E. Harris, president of the M chusetts College of Osteopathy on July 10, entered a plea of guilty to urder in the second degree and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Increased freight rates, averaging 13 cent a ton on bituminous and cannel coal from western Pennsylvania to Rochester and New York and New England, were found justfied by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Henry Lamm, republican nominee for governor of Wisconsin, at the re- cent election has signed a petition for a contest of the gubernational elec- tion. Frederick D. Gardner, demo- crat, holds the certificate of election. A long list of naval and military honors conferred on the occasion of the New Year includes the promotion of General Sir Douglas Haig, com mander-in-chief of the British forces in France and Belgium, to be field marshal. For a us attack on Arthur Ferguson, a keeper, in the prison storeroom, “Joe” Palmer, an inmate of Sing Sing, has been locked up in solitary _confinement for an indefinite period. following a trial before Ward- en William Moyer. v Two young women and a man were killed and another mortally injured when the automobile in which they were returnng from a New Year's dance was struck by a New York Central freight train at a’ grade cross- ing at Elyria, Ohio. After spending a quarter of a cen- tury in a cloister, Paula Schillinger has laid aside the garb of the Ssters of St. Francis in Utica, to become the bride of George C. essler, tailor of Syracuse, to whom she had been en- gaged twenty-six years ago. Charles Duvent, commissioned by son at Los Medanos, 35 miles south 2,: Juarez. - G The skirmish is said to have been for | possession of a coal train. Carranza officials Juarez deny reports of the French Government to paint pic- tures of the present war, to add to paintings of earlier battles already in [the GaMery of Victory at Versailes, has brought 150 studies of scenes on Fid Jewish Hc ital in Flatb = a se- rious ' condition from bichloride of mercury poisonin; Ten personstwere injured in the| Hudson & Manhattan tube when a train from New York to New Says Trains Are Purposely Deiayed STATEMENT BY W. G. LEE, CHAIR- MAN B. OF R. T. TO INCREASE EXPENSE Declares Railroads Are Permitting Un- necessary Overtime to Prove Enorm- ous Expense That Would be Causec by Enforcement of the Adamson Law Cleveland, 0., Jan. 2—W. crairman of the Brotherhood of Rail- road Trainmen, issued a atement here today charging that the railroads of the country permitting de! 1c G. Lee, trains and overtime whick would not ordinarily be permitted, in order to prove the emormous expense that would follow obedience to the Adamson law The statement asked wheth if the supreme court declares the law either constitutional or invalid, the brother hoods, should continue to await the cight hour day. The statement says Statement by W. G. Lee “The railways enjoined the govern- ment from enforcing the Adamson law ‘“‘Additional litigation will thereafter very likely be ted by the railways or the plea of determining ‘to whom does the law apply, or how does it ap- pIy? “Already the railroads are permitting delays to trains, overtime made, etc that would not be permitted under normal conditions. “Recall if you can an instance where labor organizations have attempted to enjoin the government from enforcing a federal statute. Such organizations are law-abiding instead of law-brea: ers. Remember, the railways are not dining the brotherhoods, but are er joining the government. The Question at Issue. “The question is, after the supreme court has d the law ‘is’ or ‘is not' constitutional, shall the emplo , who President Wilson and congress de- clared should have the eight hour tasic work day—forget their request and continue to wait?” Mr. Lee denied a report published to- day that a sealed statement putting the Adamson law situation up to the men had been sent out by the chiefs of the four brotherhoods. It was learned from an authoritative soyrce that the general chairmen of thé four brotherhoods will hold a meet- ing in Chicago Jan. 11 to consider tha situation. PHILADELPHIA POLICE RUNNING DOWN CLUES Connected With the Mysterious Death of Ma Colbert. Philadelphia, Jan. 2—New fact: bearing on the life of Maisie Col- bert, the artist’s model found mur- dered here Saturday night under my terious circumstances, were revealed to the police today by a eity employe, who said he knew the girl and her family. Running ont many clues which hav not vet resulted in an st. the detectives worked on the mvstery from new angle in the light of this inform- ation The son of an upstate brewer, ques- tioned for on Monday by detectives, again sought day but he had left the hotel wher and could not be loc was a guest Miss Colbert was infatuated with a University of Pennsyl graduate and former" foothal player but they had been estranged for se months, the authorities say tf ploye told them Seve the man who lives at Cynwyd, nrb, sought a reconciliation and ranzed for a dinner party with younz woman on New Ye cording to the detectiv f mant One theory of the pol that an other of Miss Colbert’s admirers learn ed of the reconc tion and began a the jealous quarrel that ended with the girl's death. The authorities are now conv that a wealthy clubman from ano who had been under 1e slayer. suspicion, AUSTRIAN DIVISIONS ENGAGED ALONG THE ITALIAN FRONT e Number From 30 to 43—Italy Has Taken 1,200 Square Miles. 5.10 p. Austri Paris, y-th divisions are kept engaged « Italian front, s an official commu- nication issued today. The stateme adds_that since Italy entered the war she has conquered square miles of territory, shortening her war fro from 500 to 375 miles, with an aggr: gate of 1,875 miles of entrenched lane War material is being manufactured by 2,179 factories, employing 469,000 workers, including nearly 73,000 wom- en. The Austrian prisoners now number $3,700, the statement asserts. m. WOMAN GRANTED PRIVILEGES L OF FLOOR OF SENATE Miss Jessie Simpson of St. Louis First Woman to be Thus Honored. ‘Washington, Jan. for the first time, 2 woman, Miss Jessie Simpson. of St. Louls, has been ranted the privileges of the floor of the senate. She was apopinted secretary to the senate foreign relations committee to- ni#ht by Senator Stone and is the first woman to serve as secretary of a senate committee, a position carrying with it.the privilege of the floor. Miss Smpsoh has been the senator's sec- retary for a number of yea WORLD'S CHAMPION BUTTER PRODUCING COW Produced Two and a Half Pounds of Butter Daily For Entire Year. Portlarid, Oregon, Jan. 2—Goldie's Nehalem Beauty, a three years old cow, owned by C. F. Reid of Port- land, was anncunced today world champion butter producing cow, a cording to the American Jersey Cat- tle club. Goldie’s record has been two and a half pounds of butter a day for an entire year. The test was con- ;iuct.ed by the Oregon Agricultural col- ege.