Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 8, 1917, Page 1

JOL. LIX.—NO. 7 PRICE TWO CENTS : The Bulletin’s Gircutation in } RUSSO-RUMANIAN DEFENSE STIFFENS At Several Places They Have Been Successful in Re-| pelling Tuetonic Invaders TEUTONS GO FROM WALLACHIA INTO MOLDAVIA Condensed Fire damaged the Buffals Cabled Paragraphs Austrianu Foreign - Minister Confers 5 With Kaiser. Amsterdam, Via London, Jan. 7, 9:04 p. m.—According to German news- papers received here, Count Czernin Von Chudenitz, the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, had a prolonged au- dience with Bmperor William at Head- quarters Friday, at which the German foreign minister, Dr. Alfred Zimmer- man, also was present. Peace was one of the matter discussed. Adamson Law |Dinner in Berlin ‘in Gourt Today) in Honor of Gerard GIVEN BY AMERICAN ASSOCIA- TION OF COMMERCE P; of $200,000. the cam; with $1,000,000. Exports of copper port for the week ending were 2,687 ton: Germany has requested OPENING ARGUMENTS ON ITS CONSTITUTIONALITY FIGHT FOR NEW ACT|NOTED GUESTS PRESENT Representative Adamson CLOSE OF CONFERENCE OF from -Bucharest. ENTENTE ALLIES IN ROME Annougce Complete Unity of Vi on All Questions. (Rome, via Paris, Jan. 7, 11.30 p. m.— The conference between members of the entente allied governments was brought to a close this afternoon after a second meeting. It is announced that the conference established once again the complete unity of views of the entente allies on the various ques- tions down for discussion and that the statesmen present will leave Rome With a strong resolution to introduce greater co-ordination in their efforts for_the successful issue of the war. At a luncheon given by Premier Bo- selli in honors of the ministers pres- ent, cordial speeches were®delivered in which the Italian ana French pre- miers expressed absolute confidence in the victory of the entente allied pow- ers. = On leaving the guests were the ob- jects of an enthusiastic ovation, M. Briand, the ¥French premier, and Da- vid Lloyd George, the British prime minister, being cheered again and again. Prior to the luncheon General Lyau- tey, the French. minister of war, in the name of the French government, pinned the French war cross on -the breasts of Lieutenant General Count Cadorna, the Italian chief of _staff, General ' Morrone, Italian minister of war, and Admiral Corsi, the Italian York increased its capital 000 to $6,000,000. Demostration of Good Feeling Toward the United States—Toast to Em- peror William and President Wilson Was Drunk Standing. ws elected a_member of the Cotton Exchange. Shipments of currency from Chicago were $22,52' Bill That Will Cover Every Phase of the Situation. Berlin, Jan. 7.—(By Wireless to The Associated Press via Sayville). The dinner given tonight by the American gloclnflon of Commerce and Trade of rlin in honor of James W. Gerard, the American ambassador to Ger- gmany, who has just returned to the ‘erman capital, from a visit to the United States, developed and appar- ently with intention, into a demon- Stration of the good feeling entertain- ed in the higher government circles and banking and business spheres to- ward the United States. Prominent Guests Present. The guests included three minis- ters, at least two ex-ministers, the vice president of the Reichstag, the heads of Germany’s big financial institutions ahd other leaders in German public life. David Wolf, president of the American Association, who presided, was flanked on the right by Ambas- sador Gerard and on the left by Rein- hold Sydnow, Prussian minister of commerce. Next to Mr. Gerard sat Dr. Karl Helfferich, the imperial vice chancellor, and then came Arthur Von vegsy between the rail- roads and their employes will be re- sumed tomorrow in two different parts of the capitol, where, six months_ago, the Adamson bill, designed to blaze the way to peack, was enacted into law. ‘While attorneys in the supreme court are making their opening argu- ments on the constitutionality of t Adamson act, Representative Adam- son, father of the law, will begin a fight in the house for prcmpt passage of his new blanket railroad bill, in- tended to cover every phase of the situation and will resume his efforts in behalf of continuing the life of the Newlands railway investigation com- mittee. Provisions of New Adamson The new Adamson bill would pro- vide an eight hour day, making strikes or lockouts without a 'ninety day no- tice illegal and permit the taking over of railway lines by the military on the orders of the president when con- Power Co. has increased Pstrograd Admits That the Russians and Rumanians on the Upper Reaches of the Suchitza River Retired Before. the Advancing Invaders, But Claims Successes at Other Points—Berlin Reports Repulse of Russian Attacks on the Northern End of the Russian Line in Courland— Only Insignificant Activity is Reported on Other Fronts. A charter was g Peter D. Helms, deputy shal from 1899 to 1915, quarters at Philadelphia, The Mallory steamer November, = arrived at es of the Suchitza river retired before Fla. the advancing invaders, while Berlin says that between the Oituz and Put- na valleys the defenders were pushed back farther toward the plains. Mount Adobest! was stormed by a German detachment and captured. On_the northern end of the Russian line in Courland the Russians launch- Although the Teutonic allies have made further advances in Rumania, both in their operation driving east- ward from the mountain region and northward from Wallachia into Mol- davia, the Russians and Rumaniany at various points are giving them battle and at several places have met with Three children in the at Hastings, N. caught fire. Y., when success. 3 : i demands such action. Gwynner, direct £t Joseph P. Tumulty. secre- " u. but|minister of marine. The decoration of | Venience = Duers tor aCipehe Deutsche | pels insurance companies doing bus- | (nated. - Josep i 4 B e . b e e e I nON ek RN FUB e dence’ that it will be enacted into law. | Hermann Paasche, vice president of |Mexican gold. Company of New York; Bernard Ba- e Gorman war office, but elsewhere | siderable fighting s stll in pro- W P b T gl:nff,g’gn'-‘;s while beyond Sydnow | Exports of general merchandise trom | ruch, Otto Kuhn, of Kihn, Losb and were repulsed with heavy casualties. | gress. SCHOOLS IN MEXICO | Fision. the measure : :‘rfl m“‘“’dm Ef Smecican . fabateor I S the | the port of New York for the five[Company; Judge P W Ol The Petrograd official communication, | In the other war theatres bombard- 3 The elght fi'.”mu s P et | oo P i Solf, | gays from Dec. 30 to Jan. 4 were val- |cott of New York, special couniRl { however, says the Russians re-estab- |ments and small enterprises by re-|Recommended by Committee of Ed-|The elght hour provision was written |Secietary for the colonies: John E.|ueq at §34,640,506. Representative Gardner of assa- lished their former position near Ka- |connoitering and raiding parties have ucators at Cincinnati. WIthout conuifiu % presidant. o e e snetlonn | ambaten- e chusetts, engaged to show the fluctua- patuno, morthwest of Fokshani, made |featured the fighting. Rome reports = Stone in Washington. Werctnmes: lord ma;};‘r‘;fi;‘gh’;‘:d ffld"‘lf Coroner Timothy Healy applied for |tions of the stock mi\r‘lgel on the asy an advance in the vicinity of Raspitza |an advance of about 500 yards by the ncinnati, Ohio, Jan. 7.—Inter-| Coincident with the renewed activi- 3 - ed all |3 Dermit for the St. Patrick’s Day |before the note officially was 175 guests, about equally divided be- tween Americans and Germans, were present. Toast to Kaiser and President Wilson The guests' usual oast to Emperor Willlam and President Wilson were drunk standing. Wolf introduced the speakers of the evening, who were Vice Chancellor Helfferich, Director Von Gwynner and Mr. Gerard. The ambassador’s speech was infor- mal and avoided touching contentions 'toplcs, but he mentioned the large con- tributions now being received from America for the relief of German ‘widows and orphans and for other non- partisan works of mercy. Dr. Biifferich, speaking as the rep- resentative of Chancellor Van Beth- mann-Hollweg, delivered a set address which was followed with the closest attention by the guests. Ttalians near Hill 208 during a surprise attack. In Macedonia the British en- deavored again to push forward their line near Lake Doiran but failed, ac- cording to Berlin. vefftion in ico, not with arms, but by free public non-sectarian schools, was recommended in a report issued today by a self-constructed commit- tee of Americans of national reputa- tion as educators or publicists. ‘This committee began studying Mexican conditions about a year and.a half ago. Its conclusions were summarized as follows: “The chaos existing in Mexico is due to variety of racial elements; woe- ful lack of general education; stiH greater lack of political experience and rapacity and cupidity of the educated leaders and in a few . instances of in- telligennt uneducated H ‘To make educational intervention ef- fective, the committes recommended establishment of a non-sectarian col- lege modeled after the Roberts col- lege in Constantinople. ‘The resolu- tion does not say ‘when agencies should establish such a college, except that it should have the backing of the American people. Lack of intelligence and true leader- shi says the report, have thworted attainment of liberty in Mexican rev- olutions. ty in the railroad controversy, Warren S. Stone, heid ofy the engineers’ brotherhood. spent " today here going over the situation. He declined to- night to make any comment on the new Adamson bill or any phase of the problem. Arguments in the supreme court will begin tomorrow afternoon. riefs have been prepared by both the rtment of justice which will_defend the law, and the railroads for filing preliminary to the arguments, which will probably be concfuded late Tuesday. VICE IN NEW YORK IS GREATLY REDUCED Annual Report of the Bureau of Social % Hygiene so Discloses. Jake and in a surprise aitack captur- ed trenches northwest in the Oituz valley. Petrograd admits that the Russians and Rumanians on the upper reach- bernianzs in New York. Alphonso Paguall in Fordham Hospital, burns received when caught fire from a lamp. SOCIALIST PARTIES FAIL TO ADJUST DIFFERENCES. Deadlock Arose Over the Question of Industrial Unionism, New York, Jan. 7.—Leaders of the socialist party and the socialist labor party failed tonight for the third time “o_restore unity between tho:two par- ties. The conference was adjourned with a_threat by Arthur Reimer, dele- gate of the soclaiist labor party, of a bitter fitght against the socialist party- He was not supported by his fellow CGelegates, however. A deadlock arcse over the question f industrial unionism and how it enould be treated by the united party. "he socialist labor party delegates were strongly in favor of having the united rarty support industrial unionism, but t.ey desired condemnation of craft un- ianism. The soctalist delegates, while not opposed to industrial unionism, contended that the socialist party cught not to interfere with labor un- ions, classing the two as separate po- litical and_economic organizations. The split beiween the two parties occurred about 16 years ago, when the socialist labor party tried to form a sccialist trade and labor alliance as a rival to the American Federation of I.bor. MEASURES TO CONTROL TUBERCULOSIS IN FRANCE Study For Relief to Be Made by the Rockefeller Foundation. placed a contract for 2,001 delivered during this yea New York, Jan. 7.—Study of meas- Republic of San Marino, ures for the relief and control of tu- berculosis in France and to ascertain long what lines American sympathy ind generosity can be made most ef- fective in combatting the disease, is to »e undertaken by the Rockefeller Foundation, it became known here to- night through a letter made -public by Governor Whitman, in which he was urged to grant a leave of absence for Dr. Herrman M. Biges, state commis- ner of health, that he might go to France to mage an investigation for the foundation. The governor announced that he had granted Dr. Bigzs the desired leave because in wiew of the urgent nature of the reguest it could not wejl be de- sied. The letter written to the gov- srnor by Jerome D. Greeme, secretay of the foundation, was in part as fol- lows: “For some time past our representa~ ives in France have been much im- pressed by the need of effective meas- ares on the relief and control of tu- berculosis. A number of voluntary American agencies in France have ex- irted themselves with great zeal and anselfishness to arguse sympathy of the American public and to do what sould be done to provide hospital care lor the most urgent cases that have some under observation. A commit- iee of French citizens has also been organized in close co-operation With the government and appeals have been made to us on behalf of the work un- dertaken by this country.” THREE MEN CHARGED WITH HOLDUP EXPRESS MESSENGER Got Away With a Payroll of $10,000 Near Pittsburgh Saturday. Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 7.—Three men who are alléged to have participated in the holdup of an express messen- - ger and escaped with $10,000, the pay- roll of the Flaccus Glass company at Tarentum near there yesterday, have been arrested and two others said to have been implicated will be taken into custody soon, it was announced tonight by R. H. Jackson, district at- torney. One of the men under arrest, he said, was Daniel E. King, driver of e automobile belonging to the Glass fompany in which the money was be- ing_carried. King, according to the authorities, confessed and_implicated four other men, two of them, John Hummel, propriétor of a moving pic- ture theatre, and Carl Schwartz, a butcher, both of Breckinridge, near here, were arrested tonight. District Attorney Jackson said that part of the missing ‘money had already been lo- rated. . SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF MAN WITH $10,000 ACCIDENT POLICY Police Believe He Caused Explosion Which Killed Self and Two Others. John King, 87, and his ew York, Jan. 7.—Vice of all kinds in New York has been greatly reduc- ed the past few years, accordifg to the annual report today of the bureau of social hygiene, of which John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is the head. Probably’ at no time in the history of the city, the report asserts, have the conditions 'in saloons shown such im- provement as in recent months. The So-called “vice-ring” which flourfshed several years ago, no longer exists and the owners of vice resorts either have Zone into hiding or_have left the city, the report adds. _Credit for this, it is said, is due to the mayor. the police and’ various civic organizations, as well as the district attorney and the criminal court: Fire destroyed dollars’ worth of apparatu: BUFFALO BILL CONTINUES IN SERIOUS CONDITION Late Developments Do Not Add to Hopes for His Recovery. Mount Sinai Hospital, The Massachus Springfield, as chairman, Denver, Colo., Jan. 7.—The condition Edward A. Thurston of ¥ of Willlam F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) was nounced by his physician tonight as ‘continuing serious.” The aged scout stood the journey from Gienwood Springs last night, whither he had gone in hope of physical #improvement, betier than those In attendance had expected, it was said. Late develop- ments, however, have siven rise to no additional hopes for his recovery. The colonel’s wife and daughter are hast- ening here from the family home in Cody, Wyo. MICHIGAN BRANCH OF AUTHORS LEAGUE IN ARREARS Charter Was Withdrawn at a Special Meeting of the Council. AN AMERICAN FISCAL SUPERVISOR FOR PANAMA Assembly Authorized by President Valdez to Appoint One. custodian of the United Point, died Falls. suddenly af Henry Ford, president Panama, Jan -The assembly has authorized President Valdez to appoint an American fiscal supervisor in com- pliance with the wishes of the state department at Washington. This will enable Panama to obtain a loan in the United States. ceed with the constructio SPIRITED DEBATE AT MEXICAN CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION Over Whether Other Than Native Born Citizens May Act Legislators. ARMY BASE AT COLUMBUS READY FOR PERSHING’S TROOPS Corrals Have Been Prepared for the Cavalry and, Pack Animals near Detroit. The Naval Academy aut A despatch from Panama last May said Secretary of the Treasury Me- Adoo, during a Visit to Panama, had conferred at lensth with the secretary of finance concerning Panama’s finan- cial condition. The despatch added that the belief prevailed in Panama that a financial advisor for the repub- lic might be appointed. THIN ICE ACCIDENTS IN BOSTON BACK BAY DISTRICT One Boy Drowned, and a Gilr Be- eved to Have Lost Her Life—Three Rescues. conducting a series of indi prove satisfatory. Queretaro, Jan. 7.—An article which sought to provide for the serving in congress of other than native-born citizens was voted down vesterday by the constitutional convention. There was a spirited debate over the article. It was stated that the serv- ing as deputies by Latin-Americans would sertngthen the bonds of race and blood and some day result ir a Breat federation which would be able to withstand any threat of invasion from Anglo-Saxons or Ttutons. Articles to the new constitution mak- ing the state of Nayarit out of a por- tion of the territory of Tepic and e'im- inating the boundaries of other states were approved by the convention. There probably will be debates dur- ing the present week on whether priests of nationality other than Mex- ican shall be allowed to exercise their offices in the country. Columhbus, N. M., Jan. 7.—The army base at Columbus has been put in readiness to receive the troops of Gen- eral Pershing’s punitive _expedition should it be recalled from Mexican soil. Corrals have been prepared for the cavalry and pack animals. Quar- termaster storehouses have been erect- ed and much other preparatory work done in anticipation of orders from the war department withdrawing the expedition. Some military men believe that lit- tle difficulty will be had in obtaining permission to move the troops and their equipment over the Mexicar Northwestern railroad from Colonia Dublan, Mexico. Others believe that Generai Pershing will make the march with his troops rather than to avail himself of the railway facilities. GROCER, MISTAKEN FOR HOLD-UP MAN, SHOT DEAD In Mutual Mistake, City Marshal and Grocer Engaged in Pistol Duel. Watseka, Tlls, Jan. 7.—Francis La- bounty, a grocer, was shot to death early today by Assistant City Marshal A. J. Bailey, who mistaook him and was mistaken by him for a robber who had held up a grocer a short time before. Labounty was held up by two men who robbed him of $400 while going _home from his grocery with his wife.~ He took his wife home and reported the theft to the city hall. He then obtained a revolver and began a search for the robbers at the same time that Marshal Bailey left the city hall on the same mission. Each man saw the other creeping cau- New York, Jan. 7.—At a special meeting of the Council of the Authors e of America here today, the charter of the Michigan branch of the league at Detroit was withdrawn by unanimous vote for alleged non-pay- ment of dues. Another offense com- mitted, it was charged, was the sub- stitution of soclal and educational ac- tivities for the chief purpose for which the league was founded—that of safe- guarding the business interests of writers. BRIDGEPORT GIRL KILLED BY STRAY REVOLVER BULLET While, Seated on the Rear Porch of House of Relatives at Fairfield. Fuairfleld, Conn.,, Jan. 7.—Harriet Williams, '10 years old, danughter of A. J. Williams of Bridgeport, was shot in the abdomen by a stray revolver bullet. while on the rear porch of the home of relatives here this afternoon and died tonight in a hospital in Bridgeport. She was carrving an in- fant at the time and the authorities have been unable to guess at the di- rection from which the bullet came. It is believed that it was fired by someone shooting at a_target but no trace of him has been found. COUNTESS OF MONTIGNOSI WAS NOT INTERNED Denies Rumors Published in European and American Papers. Switzerland, N. Y., celebrated her 107 today. enjoy conversation! business firms to ject of a hearing before ‘commerce committee. Ten applicants for Boston, Jan. 8.—One boy was drown- ed, a girl is believed to hawe lost her life, and three persons were rescued in a series of thin ice accidents which oc- curred within a few hundred yards of each other in the Muddy river in the Back Bay district today. The drowned boy is believed to be Joseph Finn, age 15 vears. One boy was pulled out of the water by B. J. McLeon an engineer who plunged into the riyer from his switebing engine. passed the required exam the school at Memphis. marine and fisheries will ening the existing laws control of radio stations. SMALL CASE WILL GO TO JURY TODAY Been Investigation was Navy into circumstances The Evidence in the Cace Ha Purely aboard the Ajax, an auxi of the Asiatic fleet, Decem] OBITUARY. Thomas S. Birdseye. Derby, Conn, Jan. 7.—Thomas S. Birdseye, who was connected with the Derby Savings Bank continuously for over half a century, died today fol- lowing a brief illnes: For many years he had been sccretary-treasurer, a position which his father had held before him. He was 76 vears old and leaves his son and three daughters. Ralph H. Wi Boston, Jan. 7.—Ralph proprietor of the R. Ossipee, N. H., Jan. 7.—The fate of Frederick L. Small, the former Boston broken charged with the murder of his wife, may be in the hands of the jury tomorrow afternoon, according to in- dications tonight. Counsel for both state and defense worked during the day preparing final arguments, which will be made by William S. Mathews, senior counsel for the accused man and. Attorney General James P. Tut- tle for the prosecution. The evidence in the case has been purely circumstantial. Ugless the jury to become director of the was assigned to (active Supreme Court Justice her husband’s affections. H. White, H. White Com- Atlanta, Ga, Jan. 7—An accident policy for $10,000 payable to his wife Berne, Jan. 7.—The| Three new coast guard pany, one of the largest department |disagrees, it has the choice of three|Countess of Montignosi, formerly the he-y ea; t, Yieves road and killed a number of was taken out here Tuesday by Louis |tiously along a darkened street and |PEDY. 9ne of the largest dep verdicts. ' It may find the defendant| o — Y aa | o _be station: Deaumont, Nmo- | Villa's rear guard, the report added. Walton, who 1s belleved by the Bir- |each mistook the other for one of the | hare today of heart distase. e g |not guilty, guilty or guilty with a pro- | & e Totiar 36 o St wons joue in Datrolt and the ather in_Eeno- | AR 080 SIS, L0 TRCRE S dressed a letter to a Swedish woman friend living in Berne, saying the ru- mors published in the European and American newspapers that she had been interned in a Bavarian lunatic asylum . were _absolutely unfounded. The countess wrote that she neither was interned nor in an asylum, but was residing privately in Brussels and enjoying the best of health. MARQUIS OF HARTINGTON TO WED LADY MARY CECIL s Was robbers. Labounty opened fire and Marshal Bailey replied. Labounty was aided in the fusillade that follow- ed by a brother of the sheriff but Bailey’s aim was the only true one. Labounty, wounded mortally, ran to the city hall, pursued by Bailey, who did not_discover his mistake until he saw Labounty drop dead in the mar- shal's office. was arrested. CARDINAL GIBBONS HELD NEW YEAR'S RECEPTION Many Protestants Attended Church Service and Reception. Baltimore, Jan. 7.—Cardinal Gibbons neld a New Years reception today at his residence after the solemn high mass at which he delivered a sermon. As he sat on his throne in the cathe- dral, as he stood in the pulpit and as he shook hands with many visitors in his own parior, the cardinal showed hat his 83 years. rested I upon mingham, Ala., police, to have set off Tulu, coting together the explosive which wrecked the Pull- man car in a train near Birmingham last night, killing Walton and other two passengers. The policy pays dou- ble indemnity for accident on a public carrier. QUANTITY OF CHEMICALS FOUND IN WALTON’S ROOMS Was Under indictment Charged With vision of capital punishment. In this state the infliction of a death sentence lies solely at the discretion or the Jury. If the verdict returned is guilty without sentence, the penalty is life Imprisonment. SAILING OF FRENCH LINER FROM BORDEAUX POSTPONED Mails Will be Sent to the United States England. Paris, Jan. 7, 415 a. m.—It was offi- clally announced here today tHat the sailing of the French Trans-atlantic 76 years old. Louis A. Mansfield. New Haven, Conn., Jan. 7.—Louis A. Mansfield, president of the Connec- ticut Lumber Dealers ation, dled at his home here today after a brief iliness of pneumonia, aged 54. Imme- diately after his graduation from-Yale in 1885, Mr. Mansfleld entered the Ilumber business here and was head of the concern bearing his name. He was a nephew of Burton Mansfield, state insurance commissioner. His wife survives. Gilbert Rogers. Meriden, Conn., Jan. 8—Gilbert Rogers, aged 79 years, one of _the founders of C. Rogers and Brothers, a silve concern, died this morn- company’s steamer which was to Have erware, ing at 130 after a short illness of pneumonia. He was with the Rogers left Bordeaux rday for New York, The mails_wili concern from the time of its formation in 1866 by him and two of his broth- | York ers until it was sold to the Interna- tional Silver com) in 1902, Ho was to the Senate by the Com mittee. investigate the motion pict to determine whether it subject for taxation. Roads Committee voted to wage increases for 150,000 ployes, ten per cent, for il Announcement of Engagement Made in Ottawa Saturday. Ottawa, ont, Jan. 7.—The engage- t was announced yesterday of the Birmingham, Ala, Jan. 7.—A quan- tty of chpmicals found today In the rooms of Louis Walton is held by the police as evidence to support their theory that Walton planped suicide by blowing himself to pieces. Walton was in_the lavatory of a Pullman car in the Southern Railway’s Birmingham Special last night when an explosion occurred which killed him and two other passengers. He was under in- dictment charged with killing his bus- ‘.—x: partner, M. O. Barton, in April, more than $1,800. New York, Jan. 7.—Albs a broken of Hartford, y Co. building at Buffalo, at a loss J. P. Morgan contributed $150,000 to ign to endow Trinity College from Atlantic States_to remove Minister The Port Limon Trust Corn. of New Armitt Brown of Philadelphia was $18,286,619 in_November, 1915. The Kings County Electric Light & from $16,500,000 to $19,000,000. Del, to the State Savings Co.,” with a capital of $1,000,000. Gold coin to the amount of $15,000 ‘was withdrawn from the Sub Treasu- ry for shipment to South America. which groupded on Rebecca Reef last Jacksonville, Leonard Alsever were burned to death A decree issued at Mexico City com- parade of the Ancient Order of The Bronx, is suffering from his The Baltimore & Ohio R per cars of the composite type to be Olinto Amati, twice Regent of the ed on a charge of embezzling $409, 000 of the republic’s funds. bara, 86, were found dead from gas poisoning in_their apartment, at 116 East Third Street, New. York. several mens in_the pathological laboratory of New York. s Republican state committee elected George A. Bacon of Wm. Grunow, who for 36 years was tary Academy Observatory Motor Company, was allowed to pro- 000,000 smelter on the Detroit lights and propose placing such lights in the rooms of midshipmen if they Samantha Stanton Nelis of Naples, Despite her remarkableage age she is able to read, do the sewing and The Webb bill to permit American operate selling_agencies abroad was the sub- admi: the United States Aviation School have will be sent to the winter quarters of The House committee on merchant ing next Thursday on a bill strength- ordered the death of three Filipino Col. Joseph E. Kuhn, recalled from his post as military attache at Berlin duty at the border with the First Engineers. at Richmond, S. L, dismissed the $25,- 000 suit of Mrs. Wilhelmina de Jonge against her father-in-law, De Jonge, who, she charged, aleniated $1,350,000, proposed in a bill favorably reported Senator John Knight of Wyoming County will head the Senate delega- tion on the legislative committee to The House Post Office and Post ing less than $1,200 and five per cent. for those receiving $1,200 and not Hartford Broker Found Dead. found dead today in his room at a Rotel here. Fie had complained of not fesiing well when he retired on o Mill Sup- January 4 the_United Vopicka from $700,- New York Day Before the Note Was December ,268 against hibit the Manufaiture and of Columbia. its capital -anted at Dover, & Trust ‘Washington, Jan. 7.—Congressional S mar- | interest centers chiefly this week in is dead. the hearing to be resumed tomorrow by the house rules committee on the Wood_resolution for an investigation into the alleged “leak” to the stock market on President Wilson's peace note. The hearing already has assum- ed the proportions of a preliminary inquiry into a series of rumors that bave been circulated for weeks. Men to Appear. Thomas W. Lawson of Boston, who has been making charges ever since the agitation first begar. is to ap- vear before the committee tomorrow, as are Secretary of State Lansing, in whose department the peace note orig- Santiago, fa of their house public; and Washington representa- tives of the Wall Street Journal, Fi- nancial America, and the Central News Association. Managers of the West- ern Union and Postal Telegraph com- panies’ local branches ajso have been askeq to produce despatches filed by these news organizations bearing on the subject of the peace note. Mass of Legislative Work. While this inquiry attracts wide- spread attention, congressional lead- ers are not losing sight of’the mass of legislative work that remains to be done and’ the limited time left — in which to do it hefére March 4 it an extra session is to be avoided. Rail- road legislation earnestly desired by President Wilson is in _embryonoc shape, hearings on the subject still be- ing held by the senatescommittee on interstate commerce and new bills hav- ing been submitted independently by Representative Adamson, chairman of of Hi- clothing Iroad has 0 steel hop- r. Was_arrest- wife, Bar- thousand s and speci- LANSING AND TUMULTY ALSO TO TESTI s Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion tothe City's Populatioh. Tolograms |INTEREST CENTERS IN ALLEGED LE/! Thomas W. Lawson to Ai)pear Before House Rul : Committee Today Representative Gardner of Massachusetts Has Engaged Cou sel to Show the Fluctuations of the Stock Market on Officially Made Public—Se ate Will on Tuesday Dispose of the Sheppard Bill to I Sale of Liquor in the Distr the house interstate ana foreign merce committee. Appropriations have made sc gress in the house in th: days but none in the senate e in the appropriations committee the coming week will be devote the senate exclusively to general ures and executive business. Senate to Vote on District Prohi Tuesday. Tuesday the senate will disy the Sheppard bill to prohibit tk ufacture and sale of liquor ir trict of Columbia. Prohibition izations of the whole watching this measure with interest and opposing an ame by Senator Underwood of A which would submit the questio: referendum of the voters of t trict of Columbia. The referendum in the senate to be very close, but whatev sult the whole matter ls passed upon by the house. Revised Corrupt Practices Bi Awaiting senate action also revised corrupt practices bill, a servation’ legislation, partici minercl lands ieasing bill nesday the senate will vote om nomination of Winthrop M. I to succeed himself on the I Commerce Commission. Desy orous o#position by progressi ators, administration leader that Daniels will be conferred Immigration Bill. Another Interesting * developm the week will be the conference a ment on the immigration bill literacy test, . which the preside posite, the Asiatic exclusion which has given the senate and department considerable concern conference committee expects port Tuesday. Pending the return Kitchin from his North Carolina, where he by illness, the house programme remain indefinite. Demo: hor of Leader ABOLITION OF CASTE FEELING IN GERMAN ARMY to_succeed = all River. May Result from War, Says Prof. Kuno Francke of Harvard. States Mili- at West Highland New York, Jar. 7.—Democratization, abolition of ‘canté feeling in the army and a better understanding between people and officials will be among the important changes which the great war will bring to Germany, in_the ofinion of Prof. Kuno Francke of Har- vard university, who spoke here to- right Professor Francke said he expected a limitation of class privileges, broader sufrage for the legislation of the aver- ege German states, redistribution of the electoral dis:ticts for the reichstag in conformity with the growth of cities, admission of socialists to a_seat in the government, a movement for a disestablishment - of the church, popu- larization of the secondary schools, in- creased activities in social welfare I-gislation, enlargement of the public responsibilities #nd public rights of women and a heightening of the ideal- istic tendency in literature and art. “Speakinz of the future of the so- clalist party,” he said, “it simply will not do to exclude from a seat in the ruinistry a party which In the moment of supreme naticnal need has demon- strated beyond the shadow of a doubt its unswerving jovalty to the country. “The assumption by a sociallst party leader of a seat in the government by the side of representatives of the con- servative, libersl and centrist parties will_be the crowning symbol of the c.mplete unity cf Germany won by the var. It will be a tacit acknowleds- ment that the sccialists have accepted the monarchy. 1t will rob German parliamentary life of the unprofitable purty passion which has so often em- bittered it in the past.” t of the Ford n of a $12,- river thoriti are irect electric th birthday collective the Senate on to inations and give a hear- for Federal by the surrounding firemen iliary vessel ber 31. VILLA GOING TOWARD HACIENDA LAS NIEVES. Command Pursued for Nine M Chihuahua, Mex., Jan. 6, via El Paso Junction, Jan. rancisco Villa was geing toward Hacienda Las Nieves, southwest of Parral, when last seen by Carranza scouting parties, accord- ing to private sources here. General Cavazos of the command of General Murguia pursued Villa and his com- rand for nine miles along the Las General Murgu War College Flocing Ban L. _W. Clark Augustus cutters, one ted | huahua City while the major portion of the Carranza garrison are in the flela, General Murguia has stationed Ceneral Hernanez at Hatevo, south- west of the capital, with an cfficient force. merce Com- ure industry CENTRAL POWERS TO APPOINT is a proper TEMPORARY POLISH COUNCIL First Work to Be the Enlistment of a Polish Army. recommedn postal em- hose receiv- Amsterdam, via London, Jan. 7, 9.40 p. m—The Frankfurter 'Zeitung, a copy which has been received here, says it learns that the temporary Polish council will consist of fifteen members appointed by Germany an ten by Austria. The German members al- ready have been appointed and the council has been summoned to meet January 9. The mewspaper adds that the first week of the council will be to organize for the enlistment of a Polish army. ert Costello, Conn., was Friday GREEK ROYAL ARMY READY TO ATTACK ALL Former Greek Minist Asserts. Paris, Jan. 7, 5.01 p. m. royal army is only awalting from Germany to attack the said M. Diomede, former Gre ter of finance, to the Temps tod is now in Paris on a special for Elipthereios Venizelos, t premier and head of the Pro Gre.k governmert. “The Greek gsieral staff,’ ad Diomede, “was from the war constantly direéted by Ma the military at ation, and it is hi durs the royal army has been ca out since he himself was expelle the country. It was he who esta the plan for tho distribution of lery munitions, #0 as to conceal riore easily from the.allies. It Who assured communications Athens and Berlin and furnishe German general staff with infors concerning the movements of ( Surrail's army, supplied to him & Creek staff. It was he who org the telephone 1 between ond Berat by which th in dally communication wi man government. It was ganized the plan for the ©o? the reservists No more fhan f troops thus far bhave Pcloponnesuus, while the king in hand forty-five thousand me tho reservists as og kenhausen, he can'raise seventy-five thousand TEXTILE WORKERS ARE TO DEMAND EIGHT HOUR © President of United Textile Wor So Asserts. Boston, Jan. 7.—A eight hour day for throughout the country made, according to John Gold ternational president of the Textile Workers of America, wi night made an appeal to the & Central Labor_Union for suppor the strike of 700 operatives mills at Andersonville, S. ¢ day would be asked for, Golden said, notwithstanding crease in wages during the pe amounting in some cases in the no: ern mills to 28 1-2 per cent Referring to conditions in th Mr. Golden asserted that 90 per ¢ of a_quarter million mill hands section were only 24 hours away starvation. He sifd that the in Anderson had cost his un $50,000 thus far but t the zation was able to spend as much m to carry on the fight, if necessary trike began five months ago, & ing to Mr. Golden, when the Well ton-Sears company of Boston, ow of the mills, refused to grant 3 cent. increase in pay. demand textile w 1 Pre Movements of Steams! New York, Jan. 7—Arrived er Alfonso XIII, Santanders steamer Roma, Marseilles via Pr idence. New York, Jan. St. Louis, Liverpoo ips. —Salled: ste Three Steamers Sunk. London, Jan._ 7, 6.07 p. m.—Li ©1 nounces that the British steame iie, 1,244 tons, and the Danish st Ebro, 102 fitons, and Viking, been sunk. am ha