Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 23, 1917, Page 1

ensed Telegrams Ships Were | Sondensed Telegrams | Aaytp Stage of Gar Sunk Yesterday== _~ "™ Shonage_Passed from Nan- tucket for Boston, ran ashore off Scontlcut Neck. % GGREGATE Ti WITH AN AGGR ONNAGE| 1\ iy of Martin Robinson was|CONVICTION EXPRESSED BY OF- OF 21,000 found on the railroad just south of ¢ on the rall Just, south of the FICIALS OF RAILROADS The grand jury at Boston began an FOUR WERE BRITISH | investigation ‘of ‘the fire at the Hotel Lenox on February 10. BY GERMANY’'S UNRESTRICTED SUBSEA WARFARE 'WAS LOST IN STORM 5 Information in Pessession of the As- sociated Press in Berlin. Feb. 22, via London, Sent to the Interstate Commerce Commission by President jOSOph P. Griffin papers are printing a re- | Only 8000,000 Bushels of Grain Ship- German merchant sub- not been lost but| Pped Feb. 1 to 14—29,000,000 Bushels e T e ften| in January, 58000000 Throughout X many’ has been in possession of The Asso- REITERATES GRAIN TRADE IS IN DESPERATE WAY |12 boss ta pomseston of The de™%a| December. i that the hm m:‘:wu’n Crelrzxt down on her first v« e Unit- - o Bistaro o e e captured By |ty oy Xork, Feb. 32._Tme éffect guf Small engagements by raiding and Guam, has been interrupted. T e A e sul n us e export trade from Boston, Phidel- | reconno! g parties and reciprocal |\ ; :|rollea west at passenger train epeed i Running Only 25 Per Cent of |a British patrol boat as was rumored | phia. Baltimore and New York of Ger. | bombardmenie Which are of consider- illiam A. Pidgin, who was asso-|folled west at passenger train epeed Food Product Factories Are in the United States, but went dOWn|many’s proclamation of unrestricted |able intemsity at various points are :‘,“::S ,f“"’;y"'fleni.‘ef mm‘.! Me., :'Inurn- e e B aumr-dmag 2 Entlopa d yards o A BIG FALLING OFF HOLIDAY WAS HELPFUL Several Americans Who Were on a Swedish Steamer Were Rescued— —_— A deficiency appropriation , in- Nothing of ‘Importance Comes from |volving $1,300,000, was introduced -in Battle #ronts. the New York legislature. dropped | Many Empty -Cars Are Going West at dead in a Boston bank. Passenger Rate Speed From Con- d Yards of the East—Outlook More Hopeful. The direct ubll—wnn.ctiny Sfl.’n- Francisco with Manila P I, via D s A ip Their Products i the rms which were pre- | cubmarine warfare is revealed in fig- | stiil going on in all the war theatres. - o D e g Capacity Because They Cannot Ship rnugi-f?’h. orth Atlantic, accord- | ures made public here today by o Nowhere has big ensagement (@ken | A fire which broke out in the bus e Tl Navives foom e el S ing informa 5 American Railway association on be- | place. A i a | and a holiday combined gave the road Out—200 Cars Per Day Are Needed to Send Shipments| The aate and the circumstances of [ hair of its service commission which 15 German Raiding Part o e eIl ok Pandmi e TRt OPpOTEIRES T e taay the departure of the submarine for the | co_operating with the Interstate Com-| The Germans in Belgium, near |2°5Fo¥ed balf a block of bulldings. | 1S S0Pt (0, RPN, 18 more The . : 3 js | United States were wel own _In|merce commission in efforts to relieve | Roodepool Roodeport, and in France,| The Madi gles to relieve the car shortage that East—Declare the High Prices of Food in the East is|5iiiy o)t ume und there waz 11 | cur Shortage. situstion. e ooy oty 00, x| oThe Madison Bessh hotal was partly | £ies o reliove the car shortage that . . . ¢ Statistics Given Government. Chapelle, made thrusts with raiding | burned and a emall part of the new | Sections of the country Caused . 5 by the Holding Up of Grain and Grain Products. |owners of the. underwater: merchan : : R e aatilbe ifio entacte lnesbur | oo Acute Stage Passed. . raft became increasingly overdue at|ed before the government for its in- v Lo -Comn When & publish- | formation show that from February ;""Y it '?"l!e‘i W}:h loflts,el B:;- An appropriation of $31,500,000 is|commission expressed conviction to ed report of the arrival of the Brem-|1 to 14 the grain delivered to vessels| [N Teports that near Armentieres the lasked for the development 'of the|day that the acute stage of the short- Chicago, Feb. 22—A second tele-[to eastern lines. Yesterday they for-|., jn Long Island sound proved with-[at the four ports amounted approxi-|British entere ot Teaving 200 doad |Merrimack river from Hunts Falls in{age had passed and that steady im vhich t e usc to use these cars. What we h 3 00,000 bushels. This |later were driven out, leaving 200 dead | Lowell to the sea. 2 i ould con- Togy for the belligerent tons of the | want is those 200 eastern cars and the |3t foundation DIector FUUR HE T | S0 Tl od With 29,999,999 i A fifat ome sent yesterday, was put on | free use of western cars, which would |ieh OF IAF, SRPRY CWEGRE L o0 (TCUe Gyt Yanuary | ana 58,000,000 | were made prisoner. Spirited artillery | George W. Luther, postmaster at| conditions reached’ the acuteness of {ie wires ‘to. the Intersiite Commerce | give us fve or six hundred cars a day. | HiN"Ne" {hurded her as jost and said | throughout December. ' The deliver- | 9Ctivity continues on the Verdun sec- | Myricks, Mass. was killed by & New | (00 tieup o sear ager A¢ ine sarms Commission today by President Joseph | The holding up of grain and grain pro- |4, "crdee probably had foundered in |ies have been regulated, the associa- | tor at the Cote du Poivre. York New Haven & Hartford train|time, the number of cars involved in T recognize fully,” reads today's|ing demonstrations such as that made ai}a"..i’f&'.‘n’ni’: ey be co-operating | caused by the U-boat campaign. i M T Wks Nirocs, reston. of ;‘v::si: Senate Foreign relations committee | {1 '{he country. increased by more |han telegram, “the respect due your hon- [ by women in New York city.” in the submarine blockade and that| The statistics show further that per-|successful raids by the Germans in dotermined, that the Oolombian treaty | ope-third in the two weeks betwebn orable body and if I have been em- Situation Worst Ever. the Deutschland and six sister ships|mits were issued between February 1|Galicia, near Selochoff, where 250 Rus- v-rls;;ded (e w‘?flldent could not belyan, 27 and Feb. 10 and on the latter phatic in my statements you will un- representatives of eastérn|which were being built are being|and 14 for transportation of 7,000,000 | sians were made prisoner, and small | T2! i BeSRIOn. date reached the grand total of 165,274 derstand it is because of the desperate | rajjroads admitted that the situation |adapted to this work. bushels to seaboard to fill future cargo | attacks in the wooded Cappatina Car- — Sitintion . Not ‘Regardsd ss. D #rf plight in which we find ourselves at|was the worst in the country’s history space promised. This compared with | pathians, with the advantage resting Lishe _stea mer Sagona, of the Baea | umtion Mot B gar <-h‘:;,g:!p::.:« this time. but declined to concur in Mr. Grif-| ., 08 GF GERMANY'S 25,000,000 moved on the permit basis|with the Austro-Germans, are told of Relo At at Ghe PARt. sttack & | catatng. RO poRrbin 10 Foobritent Mr. Griffin explains that he noW|fin’s prediction of yesterday that if throughout January and 45,500,000} in the German official communication. = Mo ' e finds that the car supply order which |, remedy is not found there will be coffoNIAL POSSESSIONS | thoughout December. In the latter region, however, Petro- |Mudbank off Loulsburg. z‘rladh:_gn;;d é’:*sis;'rla ’)“M;”r‘\;:jmg:zg""; he was led t(t:) believe erganutedu‘tg":g rioting and anarchy within txirty _ = =% Stored at Terminals. grad claims a repulse by ihe Russians The Illinois supreme court declared | similar conditions prevaaled to gre N S e IO el poaid ther|ls Being Arranged by Ministers of En-| sioreq at the terminals in the four | Of the Teutonic allies” near Dorna (. 'so called Dunne Decp Waterway | extent ac othos. citis thoeoghout cot McChord reaily came from the car ser- | with improved weather, preference in i : 5 i Watra. yice commission of the American Rail- | the shipment of foodsiuffs, as in the BaCRuied At B e e Simte Sanine ] " i Susspli; beavy snowstorins hem: way association. f Minneapolis flour and other ; er operations. In his telegram of yesterday, acting | measures . adopted by the railroads, | ,London. Feb. 10. (Correspondence of |ity, as compared with accumulation of | per operations. : 2 on this misconception, Mr. Griffin ac- | the situation should clear up rapidly. (D¢ ~Associated Press)—The death)16500,000 in January and 47,400,000 in Artillery Active in Macedonia. Richard Cleveland, son of former cused the Interstate Commerce Com- Among the officials who spoke in knell to Gcmumyexf p(‘sse!s:mnsl}::i December. é Considerable artillery activity con- | President Grover Cleveland, has set mission of utter failure in the emer- { this strain were‘H. Q. Dunkle, assist- | P¢én sounded, so far as e e = A decrease in carload movements|tinues on the Macedonian front, where | forth his opposition to the present gency and of having done more harm [unt to the president of tthe Erie rail. |2llies can effoct that result, by the |of all other export freight in about[also trench raiding operations are be- | club system at Princeton university. than good. He and his traffic commit- | roaq; General Superintendent Clark of | 3MOst simultancous announcement of | the same proportions is alson shown. |ing carried out. tee conferred on the question of go- |the Grand Trunk; C. S. Jones, assist- | {2€ Br'tm_,h e e el | _ The railroads maintain thev Fave Sl Vasesls . Sunic ing Into the courts, or of appealing to |ant to the general manager of (he|Long:theJapancee minister of foreien | succeeded in resulating the movement( . &ig e R T b ik o s T mpt, dictatorial action i | affairs, Mr. Motono, and the prime |to the seaBoard through embargoes and st reports from Londo: W. Marquardt general passenger P =iyt B ke Pennsylvania lines, and F. C. Batchel- | ;55000 of New Zealand, Mr. Massey, | tn 3 bot e that the | Paris ehow that vessels of an aggre- ot the e R sy L s der, president of the Baltimore and | 0,/0° i cq ‘the view .of Australia as | ameuiciienon o Booronsen Som g | Eate tonnage of more than 21,000 nave |-5ct Of the Copper Range 2d- | ducing prices, the transportation of the Misunderstanding Cleared Up Roastafts more belne civan erctoronsy | Well as New Zealand. ' Tosether these | ST TCi THon (%0 o oo taion. been sent to the bottom by submarines| A resolution providing for a refer- | COUNtTY of Ereat quantities of whea: With the misunderstanding cleared statements declare there will be no : or mines. The vessels sunk were four in Septemb th 01 ended to raise the price, officials sald, up. today’s conference was based on DUt they did not consider grain, inli.iurn to Germany of her colonies in Cause of the Congestion. British steamers and a'trawler, one | of woman solrene o Deced i tun | and the movement of export wheat cas the assumption that relief might still Lon LOL el e ermapory class. 18 | Atrica, Asta or the Pacific. et B purpose of s Uity 5t Russian steamer and one Swedisk, one | lower branch of the Maine legislature, | c0uld bring no relief. to sufferers from be expected from the Interstate Com- g i g 2 This attitude is not only held by Ja- | understood, ta show that the utch and one Norweglan steamer. The > soaring prices in eastern cities merce Commission and the second tel- Higher P Predicted. pan and the Britisn coleniel chiefiy | number of sailings from eastern DOTtS | Swedish stoeror. Loy aoieamer. The 118 to 36 No. Acfiiat’ Shotags of Feod: or Fuel giram was said to be a final plea on| Meanwhile, food prices in' Chicago | concerned. but it has the backing of | was responsible as well as the severe | jcans on board. All of them and the| Anmouncement was made at Hartford | o far as renoirs celure te eror behalf of the board of trade, and in a|showed no sign of decline. Whole- | the British and French governments, [ western weather, for international and | remainder of the crew were rescued. of the engagement of Miss Mary L.|ages, it was- smid Both at the thems general way, on behalf of the farmers | salers generally predicted still higher | which have the largest interest in co- | congestion of shipments. Hamiin of Hartford to Willlam M. | stats commmoros bo s 2 o 1d_country grain elevators of the | prices before new crops are harvested. [lanjal Africa and Asia. 1t develops| It was claiimed on behalf of thel ... o 2o S orno oy Maltbie, executive secretary to GOVer- | oar servioe commiselon that oo ieme Misstssippi and Missouri valleys. They exhibited government reports as |the-faet, also, that the late Asquith |roads that the general situation as re- 2 wor Helcotb. g et o e sl Mr. Criffin reiterated that the grain |to conditions. These showed that al- | government was opposed to any ex-|gards food movement was _ brighter AMERICAN POTASH INDUSTRY. 3 1‘ T r!; :flsa ”l;r; ";W an actu- trade of this section is in a desperate | though the 1916 crop of potatoes was)tension of British colonial possessions|today than during recent weeks, owics S i nan P. T. Dugan; for forty years 3 mer=| domrie et e e oveded for way. Forty million-bushels of grain | 45,000,000 bushels short, 3,500,000 bush- [ in Africa, whereas the new Lioyd | partiy to more favorable weather, mzt’p,-aduefi." is Now Ten Times Greater [chant in Bangor, Me. and regarded | o caac Sonsumption. Every city in are held up in local elevators: seven |els of white variety were exported, and | George covernment approves this ex-|due also to new car service rules Than Two Y. A 6T it sithoriiyron: Tiocees: Bna Eaok I 5oL L aald; go. Tar. ap 1% million bushels additional are in cars, | the price jumped from S4 cents in De- | tension as in line with the aspirations | which went into effect on Wednesday. e e events, died at his home there after| iy reriirincniy, Of food for imme. some of which should have been ship- | cember, 1915, to $1.57 twelve months the British colonies in Africa. This. |tI was announced that virtually alll oo o000 po—p0 0 Kable |a brief illness. s 1a "’“';;‘5!“"'; & and. tiaing . pricey ped three months aso. He also said|later. This was the wholesalc price |if turn, has established that there will | the large roads in the country had “‘ 3 ";h i Bha AR "-‘m‘“‘hai . 3 could not be justly attributed to short that many f00d product factories infon jmmense guantities. Since these|be a general re-shifting of African col- [signed an agreement to return cars|Sxbansion in the American potash in-| o 0 SCECon were advis- | 250, Feserves had been almost wiped Chicago are runuing only 25 per cent | figures were comipiled the price has|onies, so that the possessions of Eng- |at once direct to the orads owning f SUStTy, has resulied from efforts to| CArge Agents At toston were 24vie- |out in the case of flour in New Eng of capacity because they cannot ship|jumped more than a dollar. The sta- |land, Frange, Portugal and Belgium |them, over the shortest route. This|2ake the United States independent of Y e e e e orin_ | land, but the situation' there was re their produets out, and that one of the |tistics do not include an immense | will be made more homogeneous, in- [was regarded as a most radical move|foTelEn sources for the potash used in|auen, from Faval fof Hoston. vwas|ported to have improved measureably, biggest corn products factories in the amount of potatoes uscd in canned |stead of being, as at present, scattered |and which would send strings of :;’{‘r:“ 0:5"3,"",,5“ 0;*;;" Dl;rFOSlES. &g!d TIoteh stacmier HUONGAREAR s world may have to close down if con- stews used by the ailied armies. In|and irregular in outline. “empties® to congested districts. R T not AL umder 3 EMIER itions are not remedied. ts est contracts the sh gov- -_— T effort t. expediate c: . = i = Today’s telegram aguin directs the |ernment specifications omitted DOta- | cUBANS EXPECTANTLY movements atatictics ave to he made |InE the calendar year reached s value| The British prize jSourt dissllowed DEFENDS GERMAN POLICY. commission’s attention to the fact that | toes because of the price but the Bel- | CU & A BATTLE |Rublic simultaneously here and in| ‘7 liMes as ereat as that of 1915 | S, ORP marine I-14 - for | prize | Declares War Was Forced on Central while cars a week are being pro- | gian relief commission is said to have AWAITIN Washi Monday s < 0 is i . vided to Minneapolis, Chicago “is vir- | purchased millions of pounds of these #OE e What embargecs have heen imposed |2 preliminary report published today o R A Shs Turkish atean- Rovetwsoy: Franes Sod Ryssls tually a closed market to the farmers |steps, incliding the tubers. Between Government Troops and Reb- | lifteq and the accumulation of freight | 0¥, the geological survey at 10,000 tons, | ship Gulgal o Tiondon: Feb 307 0 s e st anscussing the telesram, | Other Vegetables Soar With Potatoes. els in Camaguey Province. at_seaboard. R e e e Atine. Pie. Campiny - a0 i o oD A RaL s Revlying Mr. Griffin admitted that the Minnea- | © 00 "S85 20 BORY N ed it | Farlier in the day the association js-| Mate is based on incomplete returns 2 apest cks 1i: we) i used to shi - : > which to date have accounted for 8,830 |nounced an extra dividend of 3 per|by a member of the Karolyl party on B ey ey Ceng nsed to ship | iatces. Onions Which sold at and| Havana, Feb. 22 sued a formal statement on the car|jnoh (9 dase have accounted for 8830 0 PCS ® the common stock, <to-|the German policy f colonial expan- plan constitutional in a decision re-|country. versing the lower court. No Relief from Wheat Prices. Statements that Chicago had bee getting only four or five cars a ¢ for the shipment east of wheat for domestic use were met at the commis- sion with the assertion that the rec- Word was received at Chicago of | 948 show that Chicago has been re celving approximately 200 cars a ¢ Ane, deatis of Bt Enughiton, Mich., 0F(C: |00 5\ naeiabont half of Fhem. ywere. ues for export of wheat. , Instead of re- ‘With the troops = pring- der Generals Consuegra, Iglesias and | situation as related to the Chicago A th Sehii £hie relrtlur | quaretiy. e s < Tissa. the. Hone > Touching on the statement made to- | 3 Cents a pound a year ago are bring- | und n n 12 50| the boom in fuil swing, a much greater | 8ether wi e regular quaretrly dis- | sion, Count Tisza, the Hungarian pre- - by the car service commission that |in8 12 to 15 cents. The government él;izlazl;e!l;e;el_%‘vggcebe'hceorg:;\;;at:gmlig grain trade. total “will -be Shown. bursement of 2 per cent. mier, warmly defended the German He declared, says a despatch po! e report, according to wholesalers, show- | C £ S 5 icago had asked for only 200 cars.f CoPo Ao e O s woove | 1s expectantly awalting the announce- | MAINE TO VOTE Of the 83830 tons reported, 5.750 Was | ., norti German Lioyd Steamship | borc ey ey & deapatch for grain, M < - g a E o = ’ produced from mineral and 3,080 from - " 3 exported last year, as were 1,943,470 ment that a battle between the Sov- ON wom UFFR. 17 % 2 Co. filed in the United States District | that since 1871 Germany had pursued Wiiss Uos bF Care t b 2943, * h el a OMAN S AGE | organic sources. Natural salts and = . b ny LN “That was the ot on whic | POSHSIS of Peas and beans. ‘Beans |crnment Ao aan o :lscggnfi e T ; brines ylelded 3,850 tona. alunite and |COurt at Boston a surety bond for(a policy of peaceful economic expan- we haven't been getting them. Four |terday sold at $12.95, the highest price | The strength of the opposing forces Nearly Forty Years. tons; pearlash 200 tons, and miscella- (N8 the vessel seaworthy. ShrTed it coiTal Payens Ly Wranoy or five a day was all. However, the |in the history of the country, includ- | is not known. i 3 = HEOUN ISNED L waites 1750 tons. German crews who damaged their| "W intend to’ wage the war,” situation was not quite so desperate as | ing Civil war days. The top price was| Several small encolinters were re- . e Ten. e an vessels in Honolulu harbor when re-|the premicr, “as long as is neces ies that Ex-President ose Miguel Go- |for submission of the suffrage question STRIKERS IN PHILADELPHIA | Germany were broken mre . 0 Interests, but not 2 moment longer SUNDAY, FEB. 25, DAY PEACE DELEGATES FAVOR | mes, leader ot the rebels, and his next | o' popular vcte, The senate, acting ol e g L in ‘command, Ex-Colonel Quinones, [in concurrence with the house, passed | Police Established “Dead Line” Sev-| A i 5 basy s coulc s 3 4 ents of the conservation com e i OF REPENTANCE AND PRAYER NATIONAL REFERENDUM |have quarreled because, according to |unznimously a resolution providing torl eral Blocks From Franklin Refinery |mission have in their custody 450 live | "o5,P0 durable. @ can only be ome these stories, Gomez wished to aban- |a special election on September 10 to wild ducks captured in a raid on the | ywhich does not rouse ideas of revenge Call Issu=d by Association of German- Equally Divided on Question of Arm-|don his followers as soon as he could |act on the adoption of a constitutional | pp; f 2 § i >’ A E i s adelphia, Feb. 22—Minor dis- reserve of Henry Carnegle anyo i con- American Pastors. ing ‘American Ships. reach the coast, and flee the country. |amendment granting suffrage o Wo- | urbamces oy Stiikers and thels symn: | oo B oratagy, 1ot In_anyons. I entertain the firm con- TR 2 Honoring the memory of _George|men. Governor Milliken announced he athizers with numerous arrests, oc- are now, employing is also efficient and Chicago, Feb. A .call on all{ New York, Feb. 22.—Discussion of | Washington on this, his birthday an-|would sign the measure tomorrow. curred today”in the neighborhood of [ Rudolph Kraus, a Nebraska farmer, | will bring that sucoess which s the churches of all denominations to make |a national referendum on war by del- | niversary, the American supply ship Maine is the second state in New |the Franklin Sugar Refinery, after a |today shot and killed his wife and two sole pre-condition of a quick mt{ \“3 Sunday, Feb. 25, a day of repentance |egates attending a_conference called | Dixie, in port here, fired a 21 zun sa- | England to adopt a referendum on the | jarge force of Bolic hod & | obi & and 2 years, and then and prayer, to supplicate God to avert by the American Peace Society in |Iute, which was followed by a salute |question.- Massachusetts defeated the | iy fee Cserons® pioaoished 4 St ey thees’ times, inflicting war by the United States, was issued |this city developed late today info|from the zuns of Fort Cabanas. All|proposal in 1915, and suffrage leaders|from the plant. The most serious clash | wounds which probably will be fatal. 8 today by the executive committee of (a debate in which all shades of opin- [ Cuban war vessels and American ships | here announced tonight their belief |regulted when a motor truck loaded —_— CONDITIONS ARE NORMAL the Association of German-American [ion on the subject were expressed. A |in the harbog were decorated. that this would be the first equal suf- | with colored strikebreakers was| Dr. William C. Alpers, 66, dean of AT NEW BRITAIN isfactory peace.” Pastors. vote was finaily taken in which forty frage state in the east. speeding away from the refinery. |the Cleveland school of Pharmacy of The call sets forth that the United [favored a referendum 15 opposed it| NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS The first positive move for equalStrikers- attacked the truck and its|Western Reserve University and a|g. . m At By Fact States is responsible for the prolonga- (and seven declined to vote. suffrage was made in the legislature in | police guard. A volley of bricks was |former president of the American | BY i Are Guarding Factories tion. of the war through having fur-| The idea of a referendum was oOp- CALLED TO WASHINGTON | 1851 and the question has been up|hurlea by the strikers. The police | Pharmaceutical Association is dead. and Patrolling Factory Districts. nished weapons to belligerents. posed by Dr George W Kircirvey, Sl at nearly every session since that time. |retaliated with several shots, two of g The prayer program suggested by [Dresident of the American Peace So- | For Conferences With the Federal| Two vears ago the resolution passed|which wounded Roman = Wachah-| Captain Bradbury of the Newfound-| New Britain, Conn., Feb. 22.—The call is: ciety, who said it was impracticable. Trade Commission. the senate and came within eight|wiczky a striker, in the shoulder and |land schooner Rose Dorothea reported | militia companies called out last night Firstly, to repent for America's|He declared that if some overt act in the house. les. The attackers were dispersed |to the owners at St. John’s that the|to assist in preserving order in the ex- share in the blood guiltiness of war, (Should be committed by a German| Washington, Feb. 22—More than one e e R when the police leaped from the truck. |vessel had been sunk by a German |citement incident to the series of fires and, secondly, to call upon God in ear- [Submarine just before the referendum | hundred representative newspaper | TO DEFER ENFORCEMENT The injured man was arrested and |submarine and the crew landed at Lis~ [ about the center of the city were still votes of enactment nest supplication to hinder and de-|was voted on, it was his belief that|publishers were asked by the federal “ ” was removed to a hospital. ‘bon. , on duty fonight, guarding the factories stroy ali evil counsel and base machi- |the people would declare war. trade commission tonight to come here O N I R SNNINION, More than one hundred stevedores s and patrolling the factory districts, in nations which are at work to plunge| “If I were president and the people|early next week for conferences Te- | p . .iution Introduced in House engaged to load sugar on five vessels| Miss Alice M. Bock, aged 29, daugh- | co-operation with the regular police our nation into the European world Ilu a referendum favored war,” he said | garding the proposal of the paper man- tied up here joined the longshore- | ter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bock, and | and the entire force of supernumera- ar; and that He graciously endow |“I would defer negotiations until the |ufacturers that the commission fix Date Oct. 1, 1917. > men’s strike today. A police guard |a teacher in the Meriden High school, | ries. r gsovernment and our presidlent with |mood of the people had changed and |prices for newsprint paper. Until the 7S was placed about the wharves. was killed Wednksday night while re-| The situation .tonight remained wisdom and a firm determination to|l would seek the permanent wili of | publishers are heard the commission| Washington, Feb. 22.—Postponement turning from a shopping trip at How- | practically unchanged, it was said, %0 lead our nation through these perilous | the people and not that which might | probably will not decide whether to|of the effective date of the “bone dry” FREAGHT CONGESTION AT arth, N. J. far as developing responsibility for the days and to preserve to our people the |follow a German submarine outrage.” | accept the manufacturers’ suggestion. | Prohibition amendment to the postoffice d o e AR O A Rt Dol hars blessings of peace.” Placing of American merchant ves-|In the meantime, Francis J. Heney, |bill adopted yesterday until Oct. 1, BALTIMORE IS ACUTE| g, oeqntative London, socialist, of | been tnable to fix the blame yet, it iy & 2 sels under convoy of American-. wariconducting the ' commission’s news | 1917, is proposed in a concurrent reso- S e oy Sots, SiroAnoed < BT A " the | OXaBratopd A Hoberr Suvtey ot by ships was favored and opposed with |Print raper investigation, is conferring | lution introduced late today by Repre- |B. & O. to Promptly Move Flour From i to. appropriate $5000 for the |state police left the city tonight after STREET RAILWAY TRAFBIC equal vigor. with manufacturers who did not slen |sentative Moon of Tennessee, chairman West to East. urchase and sale of food by govern- |an ail-day investigation which brought o the proposal, and it generally is be- | of the postoffice committee. ¥Ir. Moon :l.unt commission. It was referred to | practically no result, it was said. Thers DISRUPTED IN BOSTON AGREEMENT REACHED ON lieved many more of them will join | announced he would press it through Baltimore, Feb. 22. — Congested |3 committee without debate. were no untoward incidents and con- 7 s : the move and that the commission will {as soon as the postoffice bill itself is|freight conditions were still critical — ditions were normal tonight. Main Artery Was in Danger of Col- PORTO RICAN CITIZENSHIP. :hgbum-wmm ik finally dzxgo:ett! of. - . ¢ in | tonight although it is said there has| Following the finding of the body of — i 1 i "h & 5 ers onight to come During debate on amendment been no actual suffering. B 1 BEd ds, 14 years old, mur- . fapes of Walls of Columbia Theatrs |y eure Retaine the Prohibition Ref. | hore sepresent sveey class ot the Sus: | th Ronss thess were wegons abpesis on | Poeh 02 actual suffering. @oad an.|BOPRCl Bdwards, i4 years old, mur- |TEXAS SENATOR CALLED Boston,. Feb. 22—Street railwa; erendum Pro n. Tatan. S Thie COMRITY. behalf of liquor dealrs who ship Into|nounced that the arrangement be- | afitchell, Ind., Eugene Lynn, 40, step- BRYAN A “HERETIC” > s & dry_ territory that they be given time|tween the railroads by which flour | fathér of the boy, was arrested and is traffic was disrupted today to a de- il Srel neyee m‘m’,’u.,, known ‘in this| Washington, Feb. 22— House and|15000 MORE CARS IN NEW to dispose of stock and readjust their | js to be moved promptly from the west |in jail here pending an investigation.|Opposed Resolution Asking Him to city by the stopping of al! through |senate conferees on the Porto Rican| ENGLAND THAN BELONG HERE | business. Prohibition leaders turned|¢ the east was in force and the con- — Address the Senate. trains on the Washington Street ele- | citizenship bill reached an agreement deaf ears then, fearing that any|gignments would begin to move at| Shippers who had hoped to send vated structurg the main ut‘cry of the | today neel;pung in the main 1! ieas- | Due to Inability of Connecting Lines fxl::m‘: al& g:i:hgr:l::nl:d&:m once. . 5:?‘1; u‘: fi:-:vpe czy the 1:’:‘5 :l:flir:; A‘u‘.u,.l,, 1-,,_;, Feb. 22. — Senator upid t system. The ) was . S e sen: of American 1] 1 1] tat t today, = e g e Sant Prae O s B to Handle Them. many of them are disposed to vote for [ 500 CARLOADS OF FOODSTUFFS |from New York received definito as- | demined te voin for o reaminiion woi: du?l T rmhe g }uml:f -ni” “':gl?m?ltdime .dm - h:?jo :ztor b s a postponement once the bill has been valls of the Col eal ng, | and n rend! pro- Fel — Vi - which was burned last might With a | vieion contained in the semate bill. B v T weath- |sent to the president for his signature. DUE IN NEW YORK TODAY loss of approximately $200,000. The inabiltiy of connecting lines to handle OBITUARY. Said to Consist Mainly of Meat, Poul- | Vessels. surance that the company had no im- | jne Willams J. Bryan, former secre- mediate intention of sending out its|iary of state, to address “a democratic vals held through the day and to- E the cars, congestion Ry mot a Aemocrat,’ declared the night’ were bilng, ahortd’ to. prevent STEAMER IN ICE FLOES S St '.rgnmehme“lirn;s: o ok try and Potatoes. Senator Fletcher’s l|»ll to an:ena :l:? e tin e is & heretic.” thej; toppling into the street during IN. VINEYARD SOUND Mrs. Emily A. Spencer. > irrigation act so as to prevent gra The tion inviting Mr. Br: zons assigned for the tieup by report- = New York, Feb. 22.—About 500 car- ights of way through the public demniition It was announced that 5 = ing roads. A report on car shortage| Hariford, Conn, Feb. 22.—Mrs. Em- a o) 2 ing of righi Iy Hen e P to spesl before the logislature normal conditions would be restored |Gay Head, in a Damaged Condition,|mide public by the Interstate Coms |ily A. Spencer, Widow of I Luther|loads of focastufts consistine mainly |jands and reservations of the United | 5,080 "S™Vote of 18 to 9. f Suffield, died at the home of ——————— tomorrow morning Put Into Woods Hole. D e o P on hare (Ol Of heast Tattive to be due here tonisht. An |ing projects was passed last night by Hacr = o mmer ooy . Woods Hole, Feb. + 22—The | Maine had more thas 10,000 eate over | She was 59 vears old, vice president u;fi,g: f;‘;cz‘z‘:“‘:jd"&‘; Jor_|the senate without debate. Fadtil Wali A% AOT DA, DDA Ward Liner Montersy Sails. steamer Gal He ‘with passengers|and above the 24,000 owned by the|of the National Baptist Foreign Mis- a ecn delaved in. transit by em- Cuban Special Held Up. ber of Sinn Feiners, who had recently " New York, Feb. 22.—The Ward Line|from New Bedford for Vinevard road on its tracks Feb. 8. The New |sionary society, widely known in D. A. 2nd railroad congestion. Memphis, Tenn,, Feb, 25,—A south- |returned from interment in England, Tonalt, e R SR e P R e pound its Catn et ot [ e SR " T, O 000. All New England roads combined | Her husband, who died in 1397, was ‘Fast unction, ' Dublin. _ The arrests were mads un- held about 15,000 more ‘cavs. than they Tegilior of Shi e i wut midatght, " der the Defence of the Realm act.