Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 5, 1917, Page 1

ta — ARE SHELLING TOWNS Along the Eastern Coast of the Gulf of Riga fpr a Iiis; RUSSIANs ARE CONTINUING IN FULL RETREAT The Russians Left Riga Partly Aflame as the Result of German Shells Hurled Into the Town—German Objective Now is Believed to be Reval, Russia’s Principal Port on the Gulf of Finland—Austrians Are Said to Have Called on Ger- jmany$o Send Men to Aid in Holding Back the Italian Ad- % yrance—Field Marshal Haig is Pounding the German Po- " Jsitions i Flanders With Shells and Another Big Push 3 AN WARSHIPS tance of Eighty Miles = N From RIES9e-Lhe fhe Russians continue in full retreat before the Germans, those from the evacuated port and arsenal making their way northeastward along coast of the Gulf of Riga and those from Uxkull and vicinity endeavoring to_reach the raflway line. Behind them the Russians left Riga parly aflame as the result of the Ger- man shells hurled into the town be- fore they departed, while. the smould- ering ruins of small villages marked the path over which the other conting- ents have pasced. having been set on fire during the retreat. Along the castern coast of the Gulf of Riza for a distance of about eigh- ty miles north of the evacuated town, German warships ous towns, tion of covering a landing of- troops whose ohject would be to cut off the retreat of the Riga army or turn its flank, thereby entirely clearing the gulf * shore region and giving Prince Leopold of Bavaria a base, possibly at Pernau_whence to operate overland, in_conjunction with the naval forces, |toward Reval, Russia’s principal po on the Gulf of Finland, in an _endeavor [to seal up the Russian fieet inside the gulf. While the Germans were knocking at the gates of Riga from the west and southwest, hurling shells of all cali- ‘bres and loosed gas waves against the town, lowayv Russian troops held them hack Tong enough td blow up the forti- fications at the mouth of the Dvina and raze the bridges over the water- To the south, where the defec- tion in the ranks of the Russians ap- parertly was greatest, the Germans, to_the Berlin official com- wav. accordins munication, took some thousands e east of Uxikull| prisoners an dalso 150 guns and large material. the ‘Riga-Pskoff-Petrograd | of great violence. the front from Tolmino to the sea. appeal it is rian divisions to the are shelling vari- | that the Germans possibly with the inten- Triest. . 1 port damage. Flela. Marshal Haig continues big push against the German seems imminent. the German lines from Courtrai, t ilian population uation, other British onskaught. as begun of | tempts#to pierce the French line. GERMANS UNABLE TO In the Next Two Rain Will Render Roads Impassable London, Sept. 4—Colonel Shumsky, military critic of the Petrograd Bourse Gazette, who is on a visit to England, writing concerning the evacuation of Riga, says the German offensive there cannot be carried to a point at which it will seriously threaten Petrograd. An offensive movement of aver 400 versts, Colonel Shumsky says, would require not less than two months, and in the next two or three weeks thes| rainy season and bad roads will ren- der impossible any movement on Pe- trograd this year. The routes leading to the capital are protected not only Dby the line of the Dvina, but also by sirong positions formed by the lake system in the Pskoff region, which are well fortified. can overcome these obsta- cles before the rainy season, the writer adds, even if they do not meet with serious resistance from the Russians. Germans PLAIN SPEAKING AT Without Any Offense Being Given Belfast, Sept. kett, chairman of the Irish convention, speaking here today given by the lord mayor, never in his life had he heard such plain speaking and unreserved pression of frank opinion, without any offense being given.any member as he had heard at the convention. Every member had come to the con- added Sir Horace, vention, earnest’ desire differences, but Irish agreements, and already some of the members felt very hopeful toward their task. CANADIANS MADE A Brought Back Prisoners of Second Pruss'an Guard Regiment. London, Sept. 4- 3 at British headquarters in France sends the following: midnight again hit in upon the outer shell of Lens. In brilliant moonlight a ralding party went over from out front oppo- site Cite Saine Elizabeth. enemy was busy dealing with this in- cursion, another party moved out fur- ther to the south and, alorg a front of about 800 vards, succeeded in estab- lishing their posts 250 yards forward of their front line. of the Second Prussian Guard Reserve regiment was brought back. “To the north of Lens there is now in some places less than 300 open ground between the Canadien positions and the buildings of the cHy sponden: “About i . on etias s’ Feopened o o \e WO v - Luw OFf on Shors Bida, |3a%; The workess wers iovited to re- Hartford, Corm, Sept. 4—The law |&itions whj obtained prior to the ‘{,A;!r a;(pz;:wmm of shore m dot:g.w(!“’ lon leaders had issued an £ 3 and from now oV. | appe membe 20 it will be lawful to shoot them. The = o L unlopy — MOTORMAN HELD MENACE PETROGRAD Three Weeks or —Conductor Released. near Derby, others. released by the coroner. was C. C upon. It is incredible that the| The: two injured persons Ansonia, who was at hospital, has gone home. Mrs. will be discharged very soon. SHOCKING STATE OF IRISH CONVENTION ‘\'o Any Member. 4—Sir Horace Plun- Lack of Nutrition. at a luncheon said that | Austrian uch | state of rics, m‘nt;;u. sugar cr coffee. says one letter, is of ecarcely in Triet because of the shortag> of food and clothing. is little meat on hand. ;l;rle.t are dying from on. with the to develop, mnot Irish -— FATHER JUDGES SON’S RAID BY MCONLIGHT. at Middletown, Middletown, Conn., tor Henry H. for examination The Reuter corre- Sept. the Canadians ‘While the the 1917 legislature preceding body. SHOE FACTORIES IN A few prisoners ) Twenty of Them Have Been Down Since April 18, Lynn, Mass, Sept. shoe factories more than titles of war In the Austro-Italian theatre the in- tensive infantry fighting of previous days seemingly has given way for the. moment to reciprocal artillery duels The cessation in the fighting probably ‘is due to a rea- lignment by the Italtans of their bat- tle line after their rapid advance along Meanwhile, however, it is reported that a cry of distress has been, sent to the Germans by the’ Austrians, asking for men to aid in holding back the Italian advance. As a result of this said_that Fleld Marshal Von Hindenburg -has gent two Bava- Isonzo ront and so are hastening the men and guns for the protection of the Hermada Heights, the key to Although the infantry activity has come to a pause, the Italians have pafd thelr respects to Pol, Austria’s big naval base on the Adriatic, by _air. Nine tons of explosives have _been dropped on warships in the roadstead ana on military works, causing great to pound the German position in Fland- ors with a rain of shells and another nes JUnofficial advices say that behind in west Flanders, Thourout, the civ- evac- realizing the nearnegs’ of an- The Germans at several points along the Aisne front and in the Verdun sec- tor have again made ineffectual at- FOR DERBY ACCIDENT After a Long Inquiroy by Coroner Mix New Haven, Conn., Sept. 4—After a long inquiry today, Coroner Mix held tonight in $,3000 Motorman Earl Baton of the Connecticut company trolley car that last night crashed into a work car bringing death to three persons and injuries to about thirty Conductor John Solomon was At today’s hearing with the coroner > “Elwell of the public utilities commission, Who took e record of the testimony adduced. He said after the hearing closed that he would hold no separate inquiry, as he thought the coroner would devslop ail that the commission needed to base its Teport in New Haven hospitals were reported as near recovery and Mrs. Karl Schnuck of St. Raphael's Rex King of Naugatuck, at Grace hospital, AFFAIRS IN AUSTRIA. The People of Triest Are Dying from Rome, eSept. 4.—Letters found on prisoners depict a ehocking 2ffairs in Austria, particularly at Triest, whers it is said to be im- possible to purchase at aay price oils, Money, any use enormous There The people of lack of nutri- CLAIM FOR EXEMPTION Senator Henry H. Lyman is on Board 4—Sena- Lymnbn was today called v the exi board of this district The. senttors father is a member of this board and this is said to be the first instance in the state of a father summoning a son for such a purpose. The senator was president of the upper house of and.served in the LYNN HAVE REOPENED Shut 4—The twenty here which were shut to stay away from the factories but Cabled Paragraphs Mutinies on Portuguess Warships. SENATE KILLS HEAVY TAX ON WAR PROFITS. Three More Propesals Defeated by Overwhelming Majorities. v ‘ashirgton, Sept. 4—In raj ators ing to increase the levies cn war profits in the tax bill An_amendment by Senator Hollls to tax war profits only at higher rates, but to rtrike out the finance commit- tee's new clause levying $428,000,000 additional on ordinary excess profits, was rejected, 57 to 13. Then without debate cne by Senator La Follette to fix’a flaz rate of 60 per cent., designed to ralse not less than $1,800,000,000 on war profits, was 50 to 18. The minimum fiat rate proposal of 50 per cent. of the high tax group, presented by Senator Holils, was voted down, & ‘With these setbacks, the fight to sub- stitute a_flat rate for the graduated Eystem of the excess war Drofits seo- tion ended and the contest entered a new stage. Before the final vote on the war profits section, set by wnanimous agreement for late to- morrow, the high tax faction plans an effort to-raise the graduated rates now in_the bill Today's eesston, shortened by a re- cess to permit senators to join in the parade in honor of the Ristrict of Co- lumbia’s drafted men. was maired by irited tiits in the last stand of the h tax advocates to tmpose a flat, general rate on war profits. The group still hopes to increase the tax levy by raising the graduated rates, but finance commiittee leaders are confident that the bill will stand eubstantially now written—providing for a levy about one-third on war profits, or an incrcase of $1,060.000,000 over the present revemue of $226,000,000. OPENING SESSION STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR. L. R. Shufelt of This City a Member of Rules Committee. Danbury, Conn, Sept. 4—Most of the session today at the opening of the state session of the Federation of Labor was given up to hearing of re- ports from the central unions of the wvarious cities of the state. Most of the reports showed the unions to be pros- pering and gaining in membership. President Julius Stremlau named convention committees as follows: On resolutions, Frank C. Scollir, Danbury, James F. Plunkett, New Haven, Kari A. Lange, Bridgeport, Mrs. Grace Can- non, Bridgeport, John J Sheehan, Thompsonville: ~canstitution, John O'Hara, Danbury, William. Wedlal Meriden, George 'W. Chandler, Green- wich, Mre. Anna Cavanaugh, New Ha- ven:' rules, John Recof, Hartford, L. R. Shuielt, Norwich, Harry C. 'Stan- ley, Meriden: press. James A. Coates, Bridgeport, L. E. Roy Bowles, Water~ bury, Walter H. Johnson, New Haven: cgedentials, John H. Riley, Danbury, Charles O. Lathrop, Bethél, Thomas Maloney, New Haven: officers, John J. Case, Hartford, William Barton, Wa- terbury, John A. Murphy, New Ha- ven; gri:vances, B. E. Hoicomb, Meri- den, William J. Sullivan. New Haven, W. R. Graham, Bridgeport; distribu- Edwin Scott. Stamford, Albert Ferrans, Derby, Elmer Waterhouse, Bristol: auditing, James T. Manes, Hartford, James Melvin, Danbury, John J. Egan, Bridgeport. ROOT NOT CONVERTED TO WOMAN SUFFRAGE. Report That He Has Changed His Opinion on the Matter. Washington, Sept. 4. eports that Elihu Rcot was converted to woman suffrage by seelng women fight in Rusgla are denied by him in a_ letter to Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, Jr., presidert ‘of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, and. to- day make public by her: “I have not at anv time since my re- turn from Russia exsressed to anyone any opinion @bout women voting or fighting in Russta, where.it Is none of my busimess” Mr. Poot wrote, “or about women voting or fighting here, as to which I have not changed my opinion a«t all”™ TWO MORE EMBEZZLEMENT ARRESTS AT HARTFORD tions, Den In Connection With the Dillon & Douglass Case. Hartford, Conn., Sept. 4—Two more citizens were arrested in connection with the embezzlements at the Dillon & Douglass store tonight. They were Gaetano Stavola, a saloon keeper, and Tony Bonamo, a Imborer. Bach was held under bonds of $650¢ for trial Thursday, when nine others already arrested will also e tried. During the day “Charles F. Daley and John R. Murphy, policemen, were taken in cus- tody following an investigation by the board o police commissioners. OBITUARY Corneliws J. Driscoll. Hartford, Conn., Sept. 4 J. Driscoll, secretary treasurer of the G. F. Heublein pany, here, died tonight after a stroke of apoplexy sustained at the office of the company earlier in the day. He was one of the voungest, of Hartford Civil War Vol unteers, ' He was born in this city on March 26, 1846, and enlisted when but 17 years old. He leaves a widow and one sister. P, Henry Woodward. Hartford, Conn., Sept. 4.—P. Henry Woodward, long identified with bank- ing and insurance affairs here, died today at the age of 8¢. Mr. Wood- ward was president of the Dime Sav- ings Bank, vice president of the Con- necticut Mutual Life Insurance com- pany, secretary of the board of trus- tees of Trinity College and a director of_the Retreat for the Insane. Mr. Woodward was born In Frank- lin, Conn, and was graduated from Yale in 1855. He was a member of the Hi ford Courant editorial staff froh 1862 to 1865 and after the Civil, war ended he was sent to Georgla to reconstruct the postal service there. He stayed in Georgia eleven years and later was called I by Fresidont Giant to assist in the “Star Route” frauds. He was the author of works on' bank- ing and post office work and wrote a history of the secret service of the t, He deavessone -eon i BY A CONSIDERABLE NUMBER OF ENEMY AIRPLANES COAST WAS SHELLED Tuesday Night Bombs Were Dropped at a Number of Places—No Reports of Damage Have Yet Been Re- oeived. London, Sept. 5.—Another air raid on England has taken place. The En- glish coast was shelled, as well as the London district. The official report of the raid says: - “A " considerable number of enemy airplanes crossed the southeast coast at 11 o'clock last (Tuesday) night and droppedbombs at a number of places. Some of the machines reached _the London district, where bomhs were daropped. . “No_reports of damage have been, received. CAMP DEVANS DECLARED ; OFFISIALLY READY To Shelter 50,000 Sdidiers of the National Army. Ayer, Mass., Sept. 4—Camp Devans, the cantonment which is to shelter 50,000 soldiers of the new national army from New Engiand and northern New York, was tonight declared offi- clally ready for the first contingent that will reach here tomorrow. The first arrivals are expected at 7 a. m. and other detachments wiil come in by train and automobile until sun- o Nai eral H: F. Hodges, ajor Gen arry F. commander of the 76tR division, and his staff today worked out a skeleton organization. It was practically de- cided to nssign the rec from Maine and part of New Hampkhire to the artillery sections. Height and strength are factors in the selection of men for light and heavy artiliery, and it is ex- pected that men from the northern states will measure up to these re- quirements. The rest of tbe recruits will make up the infantry companies. Two iroops of regular cavalry, a field hospital company, a samitary unit, a field” bakery, officers from the Plagtsburg training camp and the Har- vard reserve officers’ corps band will be at the camp when the recruits ar- rive. The new soldiers will assemble at a buuding near the main gate for their final physical examination and ‘when m...f‘ will ‘be assigned to the company - barracks. After' teceiving requisitin cards, they w.ll:go to_the company stores for clothing and bed- ding. en they have aonned. their sew unifcrms and have put their sleep- ing quarcters in order. the first day for the eoldiers of the new national army will be’ over. AMERICAN ALLIANCE FCR LABOR AND DEMOCRACY. Members Gathering at Minneapolis for Big Loyalty Conference. | Minneapolis, Minn., Sep‘. 4.—Labor representatives from all parts of the country and former leadins members of the cocialist party tonight had set the stage for the big loyalt.- conference under thé auspices of the - American Alliance for Labor-and Democracy, an organization born two weeks ago for the pursose of stamping out disloyalty and solidifying. labor behind the gov- ernment. Preliminary conferences relative to the establishment of local ranches of the alllance throughout the country held the attention of delegatés during the day. Samue: Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, _and chairman of the alliance, arrived to- night. r. Gompers probably will be elected rermanent chairman and de- liver his keynote speech lote tomor- row, it was stated. BOSTON & MAINE HAVE REFUSED TO ARBITRATE Annoyncement Made by C, G. Wood of Board of Conciliation. Boston, Sept. 4—Charles G. Wood of_the state board of conciliation and arbitration = left v for yet New unexpectedly Washington tonight after announcing that both sides in the controversy be- tween the Boston and Maine rafiroad and 3,000 roundhouse and shop em- ployes on strike for a wage advance of eight cents an hour had declined to arbitrate their differences immedi- ately. Mr. Wood's hurried trip was understood to be in commection with the strike situation. Officfals of the road and representatives of the. strik- ers in refusg mediatton pointed out that the road operated iIn four New Bngland states and that any action taken by the Massachusetts arbitra- tion board would be binding only in this state. Effort# of a federal media- tor have thus far proved unavailing. THIRTEEN MILITANTS OF WOMEN’S PARTY ARRESTED When They Attempted to “Picket” the White House Yesterday. Washinston, Sepf. 4—Thirteen mil- itants of the Women's Party were ar- oday when they attempted to icket” the White House just before President Wilson marchel at the head of the parade iri honor of the District of Columbia’s quota for the national army.. The women announced in advance that they had enough- volunteers to last all afternoon, but after the police had escorted away several groups of banner bearers, the determination was abandoned. The prisoners were released on bond to appear tomorrow. THREE MEN FINED FOR STEALING AN AUTO Lawrence Darling, Joseph Moore and Raymond Miller of Saybrcok. Dmbrwk. Conn., Sept. 4—Lawrence g Joseph Moore and Raymond Miller,, arrested on the charge of stealing an_automobile from Alden H. Reynolds, pleaded gulity. today snd Darling and Moore were fined $100 apiece and Miller 375. They wern iried by Justice E. L, Bramn, of- Deep River. > i 3 Bulletin PRICE TWO CENTS Chicago Council Gensures Mayor BY COMMENDING ACTION OF GOV- ERNOR LOWDEN AGAINST PEACE MEET Also Passed a Resolution Requesting the State Chief Exeoutive to Pro- hibit Public Mestings of a Disloyal or Treasonable Character. Chicago, Sept. 4—Chicago’s city councl, sitting as a committee of the whole, at the end of a turbulent four- hour special session today. adopted by 2 vote cf 42 to 6 a reeolut'on praising Governor Frank O. Lowden for his action In overriding Mayor William Halé Thompson by Tefusing permission to the People’s Counell of America for Demorracy and Terms of Peace to meéet in Tlinois, and urging the state's chief executive to prevent any meeting in the future which may be inimical to public safety or disloyal or_treason- able to the United States. The reso- lution, which was presented by Alder- man Toman, was strengthened by sev- eral amendments before final adoption. The clty council will meet Oct. 1 to adopt the resolution recommended by the aldermanic committee of the whole. This course was made necessarTy by the fact that there were not enough aldermey present to suspend the rules for immediate passage of the resolu- tion. The session was held, under a heavy police guard with Mayor Thompson presiding. Mayor’s Friends Made Fight. Mayor Thompson and his friends in the council made a stubborn parlia- ‘mentary fight to prevent the adoption of the resolution. They msde an un- successful attempt to have the subject referred to the committes on schools for consideration. Mayor Thompson at one time ursed the aldermen to take @ recess until evening, but the ma- Jority insisted upon remaining in ses- sion until the resolution had been adopted. Alderman . Michaelson led the opposition to the resolution and resorted to every possible technicality to delay proceedings. Alderman To- man and half a dozen others spoke for the majority and scored the action of the mayor in encouraging pacifist agi- tation in Chicago. The supporters of the mayor Included two socialist alder- men. NEW YORK PAID HOMAGE TO HER DRAFTED MEN As They Marched, Singing, Through Centers of Three Boroughs. New York, Sept. 4—New York paid homage to her drafted men today ae. 30,80 s*10ng, they marched singing, in three parades through the centers of three of the city’s five boroughs. In Manhattan, Brooklyr ané the Bronx hundreds of thousands of citizens thronged the line oi marches and checred them on_their way into the national army as’ enthusiaszically and affectionntely as last week they gave former national guardsmen Godspeed into federal service at their Spartan- burg, S. C., camp. - Today’s uniformed regiments swung through the . streets apparently with the same enthusiasm and eagerness to serve as Phe men who voluntarily an- swered the natlon’s call to arms. At the head of the Manhaftun parade, which moved up Fifth avenue, march- ed Mayor Mitchel. A selccted 320 of 2,000 drafted men who have be:n drilling at Governor's Tsland for several weeks, and who have won the soubriquet of “Boyce'’s Tigers” after Captain A. L. Bryce, who has been training them and was marshal of the parade,” demonstrated what a few weeks would do ir maicing soldiers out of citizens They wore khaki and were conspicuous for their uison. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF IOWA HAS BEEN INDICTED. H. M. Havn Charged With Oppres- ion in Office. Red Oak, Ia., Sept. 4—Within a few hours after Rev. L. G. J. Kelly had been placed on trial today for murder in connection with the Vilisca, Ia., axe slayings of 1912, H. M. Havner, at- torney general of Iowa, was indicted on = Condense_d Telegrams ontensed Toleorams | NEW HAVEN R.R.STOCKFALLST028 -4 watches. - . In Qne of the Widest Declines in Prices of Any Session of the Stock Exchange of the Year Typhoid A western Germany. is epidemic Up to April this year Great Britain has employed 4,000 women with the army In Fran The members of the new Austrian cabinet have taken oath of office be- tore the emperor. [INEW YORK CENTRAL DROPPED 5 5-8 POINTS The Turkish reply to the pope will be delivered within a few days. It will be receptive. The Slump Embraced Many Other Railroad Issues at Reces- sions of Two to Five Points—There Was a General Un * loading of Speculative Holdings—Calling of Outstand- ing Loans by a Few Banks Was One of the Causes of the Break in.Prices, Which Also Included Industrials—Wall Street Buzzed With Gossip While the Decline Was in Progress. The pope is cutting down his au- diences owing to sickness and fatigue over his peace efforts. The newly organized fleet of fire boats in New York harbor has proved a pronounced success. - _Six hundred troops from Texas ar- rived at Camp Mills from Fort Worth, where they were training. The British food controller sorders that the cattle be killed and the land used for the growing of grain. nThe Union of Railroad Engincers in = P ) ussia_decided to stop work except on| ; military and R New York, Sept. 4.—Prices on the 75 1-4, folowed by New Haven, that ey Oy Crossrnain stock exchange broke sharply today, |stock falling 2 7-8 to 28 1-4, anc St. Paul, in which the extreme b, extended to 3 3-8 at 62 5-8 From these stocks, liquidatior to the Pacifics and other rails financial status has remained ur ed, Union Pacific breaking 4 1 127, industrials Began to Fade Awa Next industrials began to United States Steel react the decline attaining almost the widest dimensions of any session this vear. The slump embraced many raiiroad issues at recessions of 2 to 5 points. Record Slump in Railroads. Some of the rails were carried down to lowest quotations sirce the memor- able decline of last December and a few .others, such as New York Cen- tral, St. Paul and New Haven, fell to Earl Lounsbury, a chemist, was se- verely burned about the face in an gxperiment In the laboratory at Stam- ord. § Allied sox London declared a ‘meeting at sts at their countries are not for conquest, only for democracy for the world. ade a The Serbs Want the United States|jowest quotations recorded in many |3-4, a gain of 3 1-4 from last w to dismiss the ~Bulgarian minister. | years, if mot in. their histors. final ‘price, to 104 1-2 just before They déclare Bulgaria to be the Prus-|” At no time was support more than |close, a gross decline of 5 points sia of the Balkans. feeble, the bears experiencing no trou- |only the slightest fractional rally. O ble in’ forcing_prices lower after every | er industrials, equipments, cop, and many miscellaneous shares f feited -as much or more, the ending in feverish weakness Quite apart from the many primary causes which. have their origir Washington, today’s collapse was ren dered more easy by local cond Last week’s heavy contraction of ba reserves to the smallest total r since the present method of b: turns became operative, had its effe in tighter money. A few bank deemed it necessary to call outsta ing loans and others were chary of Mrs. Fannie D. Remington, aged 93, dieds at New Britain yesierday. She Fad beea a resident of that city for more thun 50 years. The 27th -division of the U, S. A, will be at Camp Wadsworth within eight days and will be on its way to. France jn & few weeks. slight rally. Selling began with a re- newal of the recent pressure from pro- fessional interests, but as the move- ment gathered greater momentum many, investment holdings were added. Unloaded Speculative Holdings. There was a general unloading of specuiative holdings and many ac- counts were closed when traders found themselves unable to respond to calls for additional margin. Today’s decline was the more sur- Prising because the session began with indication of betterm War Rabbi Wise, occupying the Metho- dist_pulpit at Lake Placid, renounced his former extreme pacifist views and praised President Wilson. every Former Mayor McClellan of New |shares and affiliated stocks zained one [ dustrial collateral York 15 now on duty at Frankford ar. | (o four points :n the course of the| Wall Street Buzzed With Gossip. senal as @ reserve officer of (he Ord- |morning. ‘Their Improvement was at- | wnile the decline was at ite ne nance department of the U. S. A. |tributed to the defeat 6f the excess | yuii Sirone miommd with rossin —_— profits tax In the senate ranged from Fovernmental resila A complete remodelling of _the New Haven Fell to 28 1-4. of ‘the raiiroads to rumors that it French cabinet appears probable. Pre- | Aj; this advantage was suddenly | might become necessary fo curtal mier Ribot will not present resizna-|,yapt away towards noon when rails |operations of the exchanze itself tions until his combinations are ready. | Saeny to whver The movement start. |tal sales approximated 1,100,000 shar States Steel supplie of which United about 370,000, Several persons were reported kill- ed and many injured in a head-on collision between two trolldys on the Pottsville & Shenandoah trolley road. Fairfax Harrison, presidept of the Southern Railway, announced that the railroads are ready for the biggest ¢raffic movement, that railroading has ever seen. 5 ed with New York Central which made an extreme decline of 5 5-8 to PERSISTENCE OF LEAGUE WAR BOND BILL TO ENFORCE PEACE BEFORE THE HOUSE President Wilson is Opnosed to Any Congressional War Committee. Accepts Invitation to Take Part in s Meeting at Minneapolis. = i o Washingtdn, Sept. 4—Passage of | New York, Sept. 4—The League % The American schooner Carl ,G.|(he $11,535,945.460 war hond and cer- | Enforce Peace announced today it Cressy, of Bath, Me, was sunk b¥ aliifcate bill by the house in virtually |accepted the invitation of the conf submaine. - The schooner wax sneiled [ (1e5(S I, WY, She Doz, 1 XGALY | a0eepied e b emaeracs (s | night in stormy weather. The crew | mittee seemed assured tonight, after |part in the meeting that hegins at i four hours of general debate on®the [ Minneapolis tomorrow and will be rer ) car 2.540 | measure. Al parties are united in|resented og the platform hy Rabhi enmince, the beginning of the war 2540 | Supporting the general features of the | Stephen SO Wige Tonaeast ot Bittabursn have joined [Pl and a fght by Representative | the ev. Gharicy ea vy i Moore ennsylyania for his pro- |of Des Moines, | ; e Y on the army, and have been | ;07" amendment to create a war ex- [157th Indiana Volunteers, during the * uELE penditures committee probably will [Spanish war. In a statement Representative Doolittle of Kansas|not delay the vote beyond late tomor- ieague say % 4 R n 7 row. “The Minneapolis conference has ¢ 3 sa class. It was referred to the |the White House today that he still|world, and especially to the wor Ay oo opposed any congressional war com- [of the ceniral powers, that the ic S ey mittee and congressional leaders led | of labor and democracy can be aiis = plans to strike out the Moore proposal |ed in no other way except throuzh fomrs. Henry Morgenthau, wife of the | 0'%° point of order. AMr. Moore then [ternational arbitration. backed by the e g or o Turkey, on'28 |introduced it as & separate bill, 50 if [joint economic and military fc ’ When t league of nations. e time is rine for the adoption the league believes that bor throughout the worl most effective advpcate,” such a covenanted peace made safe and effective destruction of Prussian decorated with the French Legion of Honor for work done in Constantino- ple, in the Red Cross Between 200 and 300 emplovees of the Valley Falls, R. I. branch of the River Spinning company went on a strike. They want an advance in pay from 28 cents an hour to 30 cents. it is defeated as an amendment he|a still will have another chance to bring it up. i Mr. Moore devoted much of a long speech on the bond measure to his amendment, declaring that _congress was in the dark on much of the ad- ministration’s financial transactions. He also drew from Representative Fordney of Michigan, ranking repub- lican member of the ways and means committee, a statement that he fa- vored a war expenditures committee. ori but “tt without militarism.” WESTERN FLANDERS IS BEING EVACUATED Walter Thiernan and his wife were arrested at Ottawa and were sent back to Chicago on suspicion of participa~ tion in the hold-up of the two payroll Kitchin and | Many of the R’fuo Ao Balia ki he E 5 Both Democratic Leader Kitchin and y e Refugees Are g SRR of: tiac WinislgwlLon, Works il Representative Fordney urged that it Cavédifor ot Ghent. the United States is to remain in the for, verhe owners of the Argentine safling |the Uniied Sates je 0 Ytl Bn'as] paris, sept. 4ZA aespatch to fhe amounting to $385,000, which will be | the necessary money cannot be raised [ Havas Agency from Huzebrouck, says stated to the foreign minister, and |PYy taxation “Western Flanders is heing evacuated 3 as far as the line of Courtrai-The forwarded to the German government. a charge of oppression in office for al- 7 o inning to the eass r leged astions: during a grand Jury in- S 81X CHILDREN SAW THEIR e e Ry o vestigation of the murders. - Albert Thomas, the French minister ER SHOOT THEIR FATHER [was learned todas that. - Indictment of the attorney general |(f Munitions. made an appeal to the| MQTHER are, belng cared for at Ghent. I shadowed interest 1 < jworkmen of the Renaud establishment S 8 o u gt GEAeR . Relly, who 18 chorsed tn anhogttal of |t Billancourt o keep up their ef- | Result of Quarrel at Breakfast Table of them arriving from F with ‘the murder of 11 yerr oy ment | forts during the remainder of the war. at Rutherford, N. J. e i oilon Sorin ODe Ofthe elght wersons| 11, Swiss sanitary authorities along | Rutherford, N. 7. Sept. f.—Christian | “The Population of * Courtr 9, 1912, in the home of Joe B. Moore | (N German frontier are takin: dras- | Hartwiz was shot and killed by his | been authorized by the German 1 in Villisca. - Moore | tic measures to prevent dvsent: wife here today across che bred ulnul.-L tary anm‘;_;‘n:u:r” ):N:}\‘vmrf’uxm v a phus arA scarlatina, which prev table in the presence of then six chil- |and of therh have depart o‘g:c‘:"w::":“l:::“&’;,;““:gi’? 2the | Rhine towns, from ‘entering Switzer- |aren. The wife said thot during a[ed. Refugees from northern ©rancy SRE coened. sy decandinion <o S | land. quarrel Martwig seized their youngest |and Flanders are goins to Limbour pective Hurors i expectel to e child, two. years old. and started _to — s . Thousands of passengers in the |throw him across the table at her. She | TWO_MEN ARRESTED s Sixth Avenne “L” and surface cars In)got a revolver out of tho sidebogrd bl LRl S 80,000 SAW DRAFT ew York were held up for more than |drawer, she said, and shot ber hushahd . 3 an hour when a 20-inch main of the |in the head, fearing that he would at- |, pooipL =g + PARADE AT HARTFORD. | Ashokan aqueduct at Central Park |tack her. & epublicar Mayoraity Cobnvention e . ; broke. e AR N e in Norwalk. resses Were Made by Gov. Hol = i S el e oA Wealics The German raider St. Thendore, | TREASURY CERTIFICATES Norwalk, Conm, Sept. 4—An incl . 2 2 once an English ship hefore being cap. OF INDEBTEDNESS [dent in e republicar caiicise: Hartf. ks _|turea by the Moewe, is no mere. The el L today for- deldalies to the mayoralty mated i ceore then 59000, tareot; [Siniing swas revealed by the erew of |To the Amount of $300,000,000 Offered | convention wis the arrest of (44 i the parade of 800 Armfieq|an’ allled cruiser which just arrived for Bubscription at! Par: for illezal voting In the second men here this evening, who hag e |2t an Atlantic port. N trict. The arrests were hrought about g g a : ington, Sept. 4—Preliminary | When backers of Mavor Carl A. Ha o fari e TRy a0 dlvillan || ey Lys,Gasroe d Kelly wes placed |, Tiasoimston, Sept d—preliminary | fo50, in that ‘aistrict chatienzed (0. Tiodies P e I ncine lom frial in the district court at Red | tGpire, fomcom e oo A toany | Vote of all the colored men " present b X park. and addvesses woes | Oak. Towa. on an Incictment charging | itered tnroush the federal reserve |AS a result of the checking up the men 'made by Governor Marcus H. Hologmp | Pim With the murder of -one of the [panie for subscription at par 300.. |#rrested acknowledged that they were and former Governor Thomas M. Wal. | {IEht pereons: slain with an axe at|000,000 of treasury certificates of in- |'eElstered elsewhere. X o Tor of New Tondor. Villisca, Towa, In June, 191 oo b tiane. il e Tor n the face of the returns Mayor pontr 3 e o St Peeniny, Hent. 11, | Harstrom has been ilefeated for ro- nterest | N"omination. his opponents ciaiming HEIRS OF FORMER MRS. FLAGLER MAY CG™TEST WILL Because She Beoueathed $5,000,000 to Her Second Husband. Louisville, Ky., Sept. 4—That the principal hefrs to the estate of Mrs. Robert Worth Bingham, formerly Mrs. When Haki Muharen started Into the [and the certificates will pay of the 2§ delegates chosen at the cau €leveland worsted mills at Jamestown, [at 3 1-2 per cent. to December N. Y. to wovk vesterday morning he [1917, when they are to be redeemed. |cCUses. was held by several men while Seek- 2 SN man Tslam stabbed him to death. The men ar: Albanians. Islam fs under arrest. - Aeroplane. flighh betwedn Italy and the United States with the use of the latest Ttalian Caproni aeroplane ' are DANBURY'S SENDOFF X TO DRAFTED MEMN. 10,000 Persons Last Night Witnessed the Parade in Their Honor. 32 AUTOMOBILISTS FINED $800 AT HADDAM For Violations of Traffic Laws—Fif- reen More to Be Tried. Danbuy, Cotn., Sept. 4.—More than Henry M. Flagler, are contemplating contesting a codicil to her will be- queathing $5,600,000 to Robert Worth Bingham was indicated by the course to witnesses before the county court here today Pro- ‘bate. ¥ Italiane Have Captured San Gabriels London, -Sept. 4—The Italians have Sent. 4—Of 47 au- tomobiliets arested recently for vio- lations of traffic laws, vere tried here today. Fines aggregating more than $800 were imposed. The other 15" will .s00a be tried. possible, according to Major R. Per- fetti, head of the specfal Italtan Ae- ronautic' Commission in the United States. ~ Warden Howard B. Tutfle last night presented to the borough of Naugatuck the deed for 18 1-2 acres of farm land adjoining the town farm. One-thisd of ‘the land now bears a crop of corn. Haddam, Conn., ; 10,006 lined the streets of this city night to witness the parade {h honor of the men from here who are to leave for Ayer, Mass., to be tramed in the new national army. .The Home guard of this district acted as escort te the draft, wrich nuribered 164 After the parade the soldiérs were given a din. ner by’ the town. Talcott Williams ' A baby, judged to be about four days old .was found .n St. John's church, The tract is the only one avallable for > expansion of the town farm. Mg, |Middletown, THere is no clue to theldirector of the New York School at Tuttle recently bought he land. parents. - Journalism, was the principal speakes,