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. VOL. LIX. NO. 348 POPULATION 29,919 NORWICH, CONN., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1917 12 PAGES 84 COLUMNS PRICE TWO CENTS
Buy a Liberty Bond and Back Up the Boys at the: Front, Who Are Fighting for Your Honor, Your Home and Your Country
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RUSSIANS STIFFEN
' THEIR RESISTANCE
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-To the German Forces Which Now Possess the Greater
Portion of the
GERMAN WARSHIPS UNABLE TO GIVE GREAT AID
The Russian Have Sunk Two German Torpedo Boats and
Damaged Two Others Russian Warships are Reserved
to Close Pathway Through the Gulf of Finland Up to
Petrograd -The Troops
ing' to Their Trenches in Flanders Little Activity
upkeep
Reported From Other
itf&rentty three' has been no cessa
tJon in the hurried program of the
Germans to Seize In Its entirety the
Russian Island of Oesel at the head of
thn finlf of Finland. But although
f their troops have now taken . the
greater portion of the island, the adi
they had expected from their fleet in
ftuttlne down Russian opposition in
djacent waters is meeting with con-
pwarahips.
The Russians are disinclined to
rthrow their naval vessels into a gen
eral engagement with the invaders.
fearing that the superiority of the
fGermans would result in losses to them
rwhlch would leave . open the pathway
through the Gulf of Finland up to
pPetrograd. But in a small battle with
torpedo craft and possibly light cruis
ers the Russians have sunk two Ger
man torpedo boats and damaged two
others in Soela sound to the north of
Oesel Island, while the Russians them
selves lost a torpedo boat destroyer.
The Germans, who were accomoanied
Kby a battleship, put to sea after the
engagement.
The German land Torces now are
driving hard against the Svorb penin
sula, on the southwestern portion or
fthe island of Oesel, with the object of
capturing the batteries at SereL which
dominate the eastern entrance to the
Gulf of Riga. According to the Ber
lin war office, the Russians in this re
Kion are- Isolated, but are desoeratehr
trresteting. Berlin reports also that
UAbro Island, off the southern coast of
pOesel, and Runo Island, in the middle
of the Gulf of Riga, have been occu
pied by Teutonic troops. It is assert
ed that 2.4O0 prisoners, 30 guns, 21
machine guns and several airplanes
were captured by the Germans in
Oesel.
EASTERN STATES FACE
A SUGAR SHORTAGE
Hpeople Appealed To to C- Down Con
sumption of Candy.
"Washington, Oct. 16. The eastern
States face a sugar shortage, with no
prosnect cf relief before late in No
vember, when the new Hawaiian and
"western bet crops arrive. In a state
ment ton:srt fflrppsstiTis th RlinrfapA.
the fed administration again appeal
ed to the American people to cut down
Itheir cons'imntion of candy and sweet
udrinks and at the same time gave
warnine that retailers already have
received their stocks at prices recently
ktgreed upon and the public shftuld pay
jio more during the temporary scareitv
in t!?e east than it has been paying
durin? the past 30 days.
The shortage is du the adminis
tration says, to the failufe of the pub
lic outside of a few loyal homes to
reduce consumption, and the unusual
exports to France in order that the
French people may have their meager
ration of one pound of sugar per per
eon per month.
MILITANTS A "LITTLE
BAND OF WILFUL WOMEN"
White House Pickets so Classed
Mrs. Swinburne Hale.
by
St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 16. 'Mrs. Swin
burne Hale (Beatrice Forbes Robert
son) of New York, spoke in; behalf of
woman suffrage at the City club here
today. She said that if the world is
to be made safe for democracy, Amer
ica could not coisistently deny the
ballot to women.
. Mrs. Hale referred to the suffragists
who are picketing the White House as
a little band of wilful women" . who
should not be considered as repre
sentatives of the suffrage organiza
tion. I -Mrs. Ha
'Forbes Eo!;:
- niece of Sir Johnston
on, the English actor.
'CITY CONVENTIONS
HELD IN BRIDGEPORT.
' Democratic Platform Calls for Munici
pal Ownership of Trolley Lines.
Bridgeport, Conn.. Oct. 16. Republi
cans and democrats tonight at city
. conventions named full city tickets for
the election on Nav. 6. The republi
cans renominated the entire republi
1 can ticket headed by Mayor Clifford B.
Wilson. The democrats nominated
William T. Kirk over George E.
Crawford for mayor on the first ballot,
the vote being S8 to 22. The demo
cratic platform declares for municipal
ownership of the trolley lines in order
to defeat a continuance of the six
cent far.
HARD COAL OPERATORS
PLEDGE THEIR SUPPORT
To the Government in Solving the
Coa! Problsm.
Washington. Oct. 16. Anthracite
coal operators, representing most of
the country's hard coal output, at a
conference with he fuel administration
today, pledged full support to the gov
ernment in solving the coal problem.
They agreed to name a representative
t oact r.a an assistant to the adminis
tration and a committee to represent
the industry in all government del-
Island of Oesel
of the Entente Allies Are Still
Fronts.
The troops of the entente allies arw
still keeping to their trenches in
Flanders, probably awaiting a better
ment of soil conditions, which the re
cent rains and flooded .streams ren
dered almost impracticable for attacks.
Probably, however. Field Marshal Haig
and the French commander on his left
have not yet sufficiently pounded the
German lines with their big guns to
warrant the turning loose of the in
fantry for other gains. Day and night
the British and French guns are
showering the German positions with
the usual . mass of steel wHich is
thrown upon them prior to an attack,
while the Germans at various points,
especially in the important salient of
the Ypres-Staaen railway, are reply
inr vigorously. '
To .the south along the Aisne front
the Germans, following a lively bom
bardment, have again attacked the
French and succeeded in penetrating
their entrenchments. As has been
customary, however, the French im
mediately counter-attacked and re
gained the lost ground.
Little fighting of great intensity, ex
cept by the artillery wings of the op
Dosing forces, is taking place in any
of the war theatres, but there is every
indication that shortly along the Isonzo
front in - the Austro-Itallan zone an
other big battle will begin. From the
head of the Adriatic northward to the
Eainaizza - plateau- intense araMW?
duels are in progress along the front
lines and against tire Austrian lines of
communication In the rear. Consider
able activity is in progress along the
Carso front.
Aerial raids in force have been re
sumed by British naval aviators on
German positions in Belgium.
The iBruges docks and several alr-
irnmen Vi a vc hppn fiiiccefisfiillTr nrm-
I barded.
STATE CONVENTION OF
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
Nehemiah Candee of South Norwalk
Elected Grand Chancellor.
New Haven, Conn., Oct. 16. It was
announced tonight that the $2,340
needed to equip a motor ambulance for
service in France had all been pledged
at the state convention of the Knights
c Pythias here. The fund was started
last night and was quickly completed
today.
The convention was adjourned after
the election of the following officers:
Grand chancellor, Nehemiah Candee,
South Norwalk; grand vice chancellor,
Maniius H. .Norton, New Britain;
grand prelate, James Kelley, Jr., Win
sted; grand keeper of records, George
E. Wright, Hartford; grand master of
exchequer, William N. Potter, Willi
mantic; grand master at arms, Eman
uel Cave, Bridgeport; grand inner
guard, Frederick C. Margraff, Water
bury; grand outer guard, William
Cowlishaw, New Britain; grand trus
tee, John F. Osborn, Ansonia (for
three years); supreme representative,
Charles A. Gates, Willimantic: alter
nate, Past Grand Chancellor Deming,
Sevmour.
QUESTION OF SUPPLIES
FOR SWITZERLAND
Being Discussed by the . War Board
and the Swiss Minister.
Washington, Oct. 16. Negotiations
between the war trade board and Hans
Sulzer, the SwiS3 minister, have reach
ed the stage where propositions made
by the United States government re
garding the question of supplies for
Switzerland have bel-n forwarded by
Minister Sulzer to his government for
its consideration.
It has not been disclosed what con
ditions are attached to the nronositinn
nor what supplies it is contemplated to
send.
Mr. 'Sulzer bas been in consultation
with tho trade board almost daily and
It is understood has been able to fer
nish the statistics the board asked re
garding 'Swiss exports and imports,
production and consumption.
STRIKING PUPILS STONE
SCHOOL BUILDING.
Police Reserves Call Out to Quell Riot
in New York.
New York, Oct. 16. One thousand
striking pupils of public school No.
171, on the upper East Side of the
city, who told the police they were
striking against the so-calTed Gary
system of school admlnistriASbn, stoned
the institution today until it was
necessary to call out the police, re
serves to quell the riot. Fourteen ar
rests were made.
TO PERMIT EXPORTATION
OF CORN TO MEXICO.
Negotiations to Be Taken Up for a
Million Bushels.
Mexico City, Oct. 16. Secretary of
State Lansing at Washington has no
tified the committee on foodstuffs of
the national chamber of commerce
that the United States will permit the
exportation of a. million bushels of
corn to Mexico and that negotiations
to this end should be taken up with
Herbert C. Hoover, thei American food
administratac
Cabled Paragraphs
Germany to Expand War Zones.
London, Oct. 16. According' to news
from Berlin in an undated despatch
received by the admiralty by the
Wireless Press, Germany im expected
shortly to declare the coasts of tike
United States. Canada and Cuba war
ones.
GOVERNOR ISSUES LIBERTY
LOAN PROCLAMATION
Urges Every Man and Woman In the
State to Subscribe.
Hartford. Conn.. Oct. . 16. fftolleat
co-operation by all the people of Con
necticut In an effort to make the seo
oad liberty loan a complete success Is
urged by Governor Marcus BL Hoi
comb In a proclamation Issued today.
in consequence or .rresident Wilson
namlngrs naming: of Wednesday, Oo
toDer js, as j-iioerty uay. The procla
mauon:
, State of Connecticut.
By His Excellency, .
Marcus h. x-iolcomb. Governor.
A Proclamation:
wnereas tne president has pro
claimed Wednesday, October 24th, as
Liberty Loan Day and has made the
afternoon a legal holiday for all fed
eral employes whose service can be
spared to enable them to participate in
maKing the day a success:
I, therefore, urge the fullest co-op
eration by all our people, and suggest
tnat so zar as is practicable, the aft
ernoon of that day be devoted to a
united effort to make the second lib
erty loan a complete success. Every
one in the state, man and woman,
should welcome and embrace this op
portunity to subscribe to this loan,
thereby demonstrating their loyalty to
their country and their interest In our
soldiers who are fighting our battles.
Our state" has evr responded to any
demands made upon it to support our
country, and will adequately respond
to the present call. This is an op
portunity for every person to do his
bit. Let us not rely upon the large
subscriptions of a few but let every
one subscribe for some part of the
loan, thereby Identifying themselves
with this twentieth century war for
the liberty of the peoples of the world
Given under my hand and the seal
of the state at the capitol, in Hart
ford, this sixteenth day of October, In
the year of our Lord, one thousand.
nine hundred and seventeen, ' ' and
of the independence of the United
States, the one hundred and forty-
secona.
MARCUS H. HOLCOMB,
Governor,
By Hi" Excellency's command:
FREDERICK L. PERRY,
Secretary.
LIBERTY BOND SALES
NOW EXCEED $1,000,000,000
Encouraging Reports Wired From All
.,,, .ParU,of-tfae Country.--:-
Washington, Oct. 16. With Tour-
teen working days gone and only ten
more to come. Liberty bond sales were
neneved by treasury officials tonight
ia nave just toucnea tne 71,000,000,000
mark, a result which has le them to
wonder if the $5,000,000,000 hoped for
could be attained in the final days of
the campaign.
Committees In almost everv nart nf
me country still wire encouragingly
"ai mev can maKe tneir maximum to
tais, says a treasury department
tatement. "Possibly they can, but
uner mey are concealing their actnni
sales which is not believed to be the
case or mere must be; a most unex
pected spurt In the offlnsr.
Certainly there is little shout fho
saies tnus rar to warrant great con
fidence that the $5,000,000,000 mark
will be reached.
Official figures, rem-esentine- not HQ 1
sales, reported tonight to the trpssnrv
department as of the clbse of business
yi-sieraay, place tne total of Jn28,230 -850
or little more than half the si -
000,000,000 believed to have been sub
scribed. These figures do not include
the result of the two-day canvass
made by 60,000 workers in the Min
neapolis district, and place the
amounts in other districts far below
the sums reported unofficially. The
ol.iis roiiow:
Boston $68,300,000: New Tort an7
07,000; Philadelnhia J19 44,1 nn.
Cleveland $2,090,000: Richmond $24,-
oa,ouu; Auanta. s .405.70O: fhicas-r.
56,145,000; St. Louis S4.3al.804l-
sas City $2,025,000; Dallas $4,550,300;
San Francisco $31,554,950: Minneanolia
no report.
MORE LIBERTY BONDS TO
BE TAKEN BY 8TATE
Treasurer Chamberlain Will Invest
$750,000 in Second Loan.
Hartford, Conn., Oct. 16. State
Treasurer Frederick S. Chamberlain
will purchase for the state liberty
bonds to the amount of $750,000.
Mr. Chamberlain said today that the
state held a little over $1,500,000 of
the previous issue of the bonds and
that he would exchange these for four
per cent, bonds. The state will thus
own government bonds to the amount
of over $2,250,000.
Under the law passed at the recent
sessions of the general assembly the
state treasurer has power to invest
money In bonds of municipalities and
United States bonds and apply the In
terest to the building up of the state
sinking fund to take, care of state
bonds on their maturity.
FURTHER LOANS TO
.THE ALLIED NATIONS
Brings Total Credits of the United
States Up to $2,711,400,000.
Washington, Oct. 16. oans of $50,
000,000 to Russia, $25,000,000 to Great
Britain, $20,000,000 to France and $3,
000,000 to Belgium made today,
brought the total credits of the United
States to allied nations up to $2,711 -400,000.
OBITUARY.
Linus Birdsey.
Meriden, Conn., Oct. 16. Linus
Birdsey, at one time a prominent dem
ocratic politician, died here this even
ing at the age of over 92 years. Up
to his 80th year, when he lost the use
of his lower limbs through paralysis,
he had never missed a Sunday in at
tending service and Sabbath school at
the First Baptist church. He served
terms as sheriff and postmaster and in
his younger days was quite active in
business cfrclos here.
Wesley M. Owen.
Bloomington, HI., Oct. 16. Wesley
M. Owen, aged 48, who was an 'as
sociate Justice in the Panama Canal
zone during the second administration
of President Roosevelt died suddenly,
at hia home brrs."rtanv .
World of Trade
After the War
PICTURED TO SOUTHERN COM
MERCIAL CONGRESS
BY SECRETARY REDFIELD
Saya ' Germany Is No Longer the
World's Source of Potash, Dyestuffs,
Optical Glass or Chemical Porcelain.
New York. Oct. 16. What a differ
ent world of trade this will be after
the war was pictured to the Southern
Commercial Congress here tonight by
Secretary Redfleld. In an address tell'
ing of the cutting of the threads of
Germany's foreign commerce by her
own act. and of the awakening of
America and her allies to the danger
of having their Industries dependent
upon foreign and possibly upon un
friendly sources of supply. ,.
Will be a Strans World.
"When peace shall come . and her
merchants take up the task of restor
ing Germany's ruined commerce they
will find that It Is a strange world
which they seek to re-enter," said the
secretary. "There will be difficulties
in the path of future peaceful pene
tration of which they seem not to
dream. Commercial frightfulness, like
its military namesake, will have pass
ed away.
Tt will hardly be said again to any
secretary of commerce of the .United
States that the Germanvdyestuff verein
will not 'permit' the establishment of
an American dyestuff Industry. The
monopolies on which German foreign
commerce in large part seemed to rest
secure have passed away. Our friends
beyond the sea and we ourselves have
learned the danger of having our in
dustries wholly dependent on foreign
sources of supply which may become
unfriendly.
A German Delusion.
'Tt is pitiful to read ' extracts from
the German press which seem to show
that they expect to take up the task
of building their commerce - from
where they laid it down. They reckon
the world's demand for potash as a
purely German asset. It was so but
it is so no longer. They were the
world's source for dyestuffs. That op
portunity has gone. It was they to
whom the world looked . for optical
glass. We do not look there now.
They were the source of supply of
chemical porcelain. We make it to
day as well as they.'
I need not tell you of the commer
cial value of what we call 'good will
Dusiness as a going concern. xne
great markets of the world have been
and are to be found among the nations
who have parted company with Ger
many in the present struggle. Her
past msrkets have been found among
them. The peoples of those lands are
not likely by one common impulse to
turn quickly to Germany for a re
newal of the commercial intercourse
which was broken by her act.
Will See Things Differently.
"It must be renewed under circum
stances of peculiar hardship. As it
will be a strange world upon which
the German merchant will look out
when war will close, so let me add, it
will be in a large measure a strange
world upon which the American mer- j
chant will look out at the seme time.
When embargoes are over and trading
with the enemy acts shall have ceased
to trouble? we also shall see things
differently. The novelty on our part
will not arise from- separation but the
reverse. we have gained and are
gaining a better understanding of the
world we live in. Scales of provin
cialism have fallen from our eyes.
Things Cannot Be as They Were.
"When our sons have fought, and
died together with those of Great
Britain. France, Italy. Russia and our
other honored friends, things cannot
be as they were before that happened.
Each knows the other better than he
did. Old lines of separation have
gone. Our vision is enlarged. Applied
to "commerce, this means that we un
derstand other peoples and their needs
better and know better what we may
c(p to supply them. Our men with
vision are reaching out into all the
lands. We are in the family whether
we will or no, and in mv earnest be
lief, we shall draw richly from the
family intercourse.
If we were those who look upon
the peaceful contests of commerce as
economic war, we should hardiy feel
we could speak with freedom in this
presence of the coming days when
normal commercial intercourse
throughout the world shall replace
present restricted conditions, for we
recognize as a matter of course, as
an opportunity and a duty they are
not slow to see and upon which they
ightly act. that the nations associated
with us in this war are preparing for
their proper share of the world's bus
iness when the war shall close.
"Believing as we do, however, that
commerce Is not war but mutual in
tercourse to mutual gain. we look
without fear and with strong approval
upon every effort of our friends to
renew commercial and industrial ac
tivities in the happier days that are
coming."
JAPANESE PARLIAMENTARY
PARTY IN WASHINGTON
To Make a Study of United States
Congress Methods.
Washington. Oct. 16. The Japanese
parliamentary party of five delegates
from the Japanese aiet. neaea oy Dr.
T. Masao. arrived in Washington to
day to make a special study of United
States congress metnoas ana aiso to
ascertain the state of public feeling in
America concerning questions In which
Japan is deeply interested.
President Wilson win receive tne
mission ' tomorrow and they win call
on. Secretary Lansing.
Another special mission, represent
ing the Imperial Japanese railways,
which has come to study American
transportation ad Industrial conditions,
will arrive in New York Oct. 21.
Secretary Redneld or tne department
of commerce is arranging for the en
tertainment or tne , railway mission
which will be received formally by the
state department. "
Mexican Bandits Driven Off.
Mission. Tex., Oct. 16. Five Mexi
can bandits cany mis morning at
tacked the Mexican village -of Gran
geno, six" miles southeast of Mission.
Armed citizens drove them' away.
Congressmen to
Visit War Fronts
TEN MEMBERS GOING IN AN UN-
. . OFFICIAL CAPACITY
OTHERS ARE TO FOLLOW
Will Visit England, Belgium, France,
Italy and Switzerland Carry Letters
of Introduction to Gen. Pershing.
Washington, Oct. 16. Ten members
of congress, traveling in an unofficial
capacity, but carrying special pass
ports arranged for by the state depart
ment, are on the way to Europe to
visit the war fronts and fraternize
with the parliamentary representatives
of the allies. In the party are Repre
sentatives Dale, Vermont; ay lor and
Timberlake, Colorado; Hicks, New
York; Johnson, Dill and Miller of
Washington; Goodwin, Arkansas;
Stephens, Nebraska, and Parker, New
Jersey; former Representative Stout
of 'Montana and Ross L. Hammond, a
Fremont, Neb., editor, s,nd others.
Arranged Trip Informally.
The visit is a development of the
recent cabled and personal invitations
o frepresentative members of the
British and French parliaments for
closer affiliation of the parliamentary
bodies of the allied governments
through personal conferences at the
British, French and Italian capitals.
President Wilson did not favor con
gress officially accepting the invita
tion at this time and neither house
took action, but the ten members ar
ranged their trip informally. Other
representatives are expected to follow
soon.
"While this Is not an official com
mission," Representative Dale wrote
his constituents in explanation of the
trip, "it is certified by the secretary
of war and the speaker of the house as
on that goes in the interest of our
country and the relations between its
government and the governments of
the allied nations.
Have Letters of Introduction.
Members of the party are armed with
letters of introduction to Ambassador
Sharp at Paris, to General Pershing
and to others. They will visit Eng
land, Belgium, France, Italy and
Switzerland, and hope to be back in
Washington in time for the opening
of congress in December.
GOULD RELINQUISHES
CONTROL OF D. & R. G.
The Miawa1! TTpttfTL rscteos- Now-in
Control.
Denver, Col., Oct. 16. The Missouri
Pacific faction, so-called, replaced the
Gould interests as the controlling
power of the Denver and Rio Grande
Railway company at the annual meet
ing of stockholders of the road today,
when only three directors of fae
Gould wing were given places, while
four new Missouri Pacific faction di
rectors were chosen. Besides the three
Gould directors, four others were re
elected. The Gould representatives now on
the board are Arthur Coppell, Edward
T. Jeffery and George 4. Gould. The
new "Missouri Pacific" directors are
Harry ' Bronney. E.. L. Brown (presi
dent of the Rio Grande), J. Horace
Harding and John W. Flatten, who
heads the stockholders' protective com
mittee. The other directors re-elected were
B. F. Bush, president of the Missouri
Pacific, George Haven. FInley Shepard
and R. T. Williams. The directors are
to meet . in New York Nov. 1, when
Mr. Brown. . it is expected, will be
elected to the presidency for the regu
lar term.
STRIKE OF COAL MINERS
HAS BEEN AVERTED
In Mines Operated by Southwestern
Interstate Operators' Association.
Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 16. The
strike of coal miners called for Friday
morning in all mines operated by the
Southwestern Interstate Operators'
association in Missouri, Kansas, Okla
homa and Arkansas was called off
early tonight, according to Alexander
Howat, president of District 14 of the
United Mine Workers of America.
The operators came here at the in
stance of Administrator Garfield to
plan effective team work between the
coal industry and the government.
It was brought out that the mines
have produced 8,000,000 tons more of
anthracite than had been mined at the
same time last year. All of the op
erators declared the most difficult
problem is that of distrTBution. but
they promised to coroperate with the
government and the railroads in the
program to furnish every consumer
coal actually needed at government
prices.
THEFT OF METAL FROM
A UNITED STATES VESSEL.
Four Men on Trial at Bostor
$2,500 Bail Each.
-Held in
Boston, Oct. 16. The theft of metal
valued at more than $5,000 from a
United States steamship here was re
vealed for the first time today with
the arraignment of three men before
United States Commissioner Hayes on
charges ' of larceny. The prisoners.
John Quirk, Roy L. Betts and James
J. Dalton of East 'Boston, and- Nicholas
Powers, a junk dealer, who ws
charged with receiving stolen goods,
pleaded not guilty and were held in
$2,'5O0 ball each for hearing later.
The government alleged that the
men took 4,000 pounds of brass, cop
per and iron while employed by con
tractors on the steamship in Septem
ber. A GERMAN ARRESTED
FOR FALSELY REGISTERING
With the United States Shipping Com
missioner as an American Citizen.
New Orleans. Oct. 16. Harry H.
Clifford, who admits he is a native of
Dantzic, Germany, - was arrested here
today by department of justice agents
on a charge of falsely registering with
the United States shipping commissioner-
as an American citizen. The
agents said they were investigating
Clifford's suspected activities in fliis
country. The prisoner told "the au
thorities that he was a member of the
crew of the German cruiser Gneisenau,
sunk in December, 1915, in the battle
I
Condensed Telegrams
Marshal J off re inspected the Ameri
can troops in France. -
Mexico is expected to raise the em
bargo on coal shortly.
Fifty women began training in Brook
lyn to replace men as subway guards.
American Smeltinq & Refining Co
reduced the price of lead from 8 to 7
cents a pound.
Delivery of the second issue of Lib
erty bonds to purchasers who have
paid in full was begun.
The navy department simians sta
tlon and aviation school at Cape May,
J. J., was formally opened.
An order said to total $7,000,000 was
received by the central Leather Co,
rrom the Russian government.
The sixth annual convention of the
International Association of Dairy and
.Mint inspectors opened in Washing
ton. .
Nine emergency courses in war re
lief work will be offered during the
present college year by Wellesley col
lege.
American Ambassador Paae to Lon
don, who has been suffering from an
attack or ptomaine poisoning, has re
covered.
Hundreds of young men are still
wanted for the Second Naval Reserve
district, with headquarters at New-
PUI L, XV. X.
Dr. Henry von Dyke, former minis
ter to the Netherlands, addressed the
Princeton students on Christianity and
world peace.
The Meriden High school has raised
the sum of $6a0 wit hwhich to pur.
chase a Red Cross ambulance for ser
vice in France.
At a meeting in Moscow the Ortho
dox council prohibited the clergy from
participating in the provisional Rus
slan government.
Alfred Halymar of New York was
drowned when an American steamer
was sunk by a submarine. He was a
member of the crew. y
Mayor Curley of Boston, will present
to the city council an ordinance for
bidding the employment of girls un
der 21 as bootblacks.
Twenty Villa followers were hanged
to telegraph poles near Torreon. They
attacked a military train, mistaking it
for a passenger train.
Mediators of the department of la
bor settled the strike of railway
clerks and station agents on the
Northern Pacific railway.
'-The Memphis Merchants' ' Exchange
adopted rules forbidding speculation
in cottonseed meal, but permitting
hedege selling for protection.
German trade union leaders visited
German headquarters in the field to
protest against the military suppres
sion 01 trade unionist activities.
Cooperating with the Serbian gov.
eminent, the American Red Cross ship
ped 5,000 bags' of flour to Serbians
held prisoners by the Austrians.
Students of Phillips Exeter academy,
Exeter, N. H., pledged themselves to
refrain from many luxuries to raise
4,000 toward Y; M. C. A. war work.
Another American cardinal will be
chosen at a consistory expected to be
held late in November. Archbishop
Ireland is mentioned for the honor.
One hundred and fifty young men
between the ages of 16 and 19 will be
accepted by the Marine Corps as ap
prentices to be trained as bandsmen.
Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice,, the
explorer, was commissioned senior
lieutenant in the Naval Reserve, and
assigned to the naval school at New
port. A committee of four was appointed
by the Council of National Defense to
make an immediate investigation of
the housing situation at munition
plants.
'
Roman S. Malinowski, said to be a
former officer in the German army,
wa3 arrested at Ansonia, on the
charge of violating alien enemy re
strictions. Naval recruits laid the foundation
for a building to serve as winter quar
ters at the Wakefield, Mass., rifle
range. The sailors will do all the con
struction work.
Automobile accidents in Massachu
chusetts have decreased 14 per cent so
far this year, although the number of
cars registered is 32 per cent, more
than last year.
Dr. Harry A. Garfield, fuel adminis
trator, ordered the shipment of coal to
Michigan to tide over consumers In
that state until shipments to the north
west are going steadily.
The French government authorized
subscriptions to the American Libetry
loan by American soldiers in France.
There is a law in France against sub
scriptions to foreign loans.
. Shots were exchanged at a station
on the Southern railway in Argentina
between marine and strikers who tried
to detain a supply train. One man was
killed and eight wounded.
0
Controlling interest In the Argentine
Navigation Co.. with $10,000,000 cap
ital and more than 300 vessels, was ac
quired by the Lamport 9 Holt Line,
and the Royal Mall Steam Uacket Co.
Officials of state organizations of the
United Mien Workers of America vot
ed to call a strike affecting all mines
in Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Kansas
and Arkansas beginning Friday morn
ing.
Seattle, Wash., Is being terrorized by
the presence of a "woman-slugger."
Six attacks on women were reported
within 36 hours and women are afraid
to venture on the streets after dark
unescorted.
Leo S. Rogers was appointed speoial
assistant attorney general with head
quarters in Boston to aid In the prose
cution of the government's anti-trust
suit against the United States Shoe
Machinery Co.
Lieut. John Frost, U. S. R and
Lieut. McLaughlin of an artillery fegi
ment fell 100 feet in an airplane near
San Antonio, Tex. McLaughlin is not
expected to recover, while Frost was
Government
Expenditures
SINCE JULY 1 ARE NEARING THE
$3,000,000,000 MARK
$1,571,200,000 TO ALLIES
Receipts and Expenditures Are About
Ten Times Greater Than They Were
for Corresponding Period Last Year.
Washington. Oct. 16. Government
expenditures since the beginning of
the fiscal year July 1 are nearing the '
$3,000,000,000 mark. The total, re
ported on the daily treasury statement
of yestreday, was $2,291,075,341. This
is nearly $800,000,000 more than re
ceipts during this period, including the
portion of the first Liberty loan paid '
since the fiscal year began.
$1,571,200,000 Advanced to Allies.
The greatest sincle item of. expend!- ;
tlire Was 41,571 200 Ofln aAranA .
allies. Ordinary disbursements in-
eluding military and naval expendl- '.
tures and the cost thus far of the
shipbuilding and aircraft production
total nf S9SR-711 799 ho J kaan
in the retireme'nt of short time cer
tificates of indebtedness.
Receipts From Ordinary 8oureee
Receipts from ordinary sources, In
cluding the income tax (paid for the '
most part Just before the end of the 1
fiscal year) customs receipts and taxes ,
on liquors, bejBr, tobacco and other dl- !
rect taxes, totalled $269,642,595. A to
tal of $512,674,906 on the first Liberty !'
loan was paid in this fiscal year, while
$1,350,000,000 was realized through the
issuance of short time certificates of
indebtedness which will have to be
retired out of second Liberty bond re
ceipts. '
Receipts and expenditures for the
corresponding period last year were !
$220,529,360 and $302,502,285, respect- :
ively, or about one-tenth of this year's
figures.
FIRE IN STOCKYARDS
AT KANSAS CITY 1
About 11,000 Head of Cattle and 3,300 !
Hogs Were Destroyed.
Kansas City, Oct. 16. Reports that
the fire which today destroyed a large 1
portion of the Kansas City stockyards
and resulted In the death of approxl- !
mately 11,000 cattle and 3,800 hogs !
was of loeendlaraK. otnslnr --persist
though discredited by officials of the '
corporation owning the yards.
While no definite estimates have
been made, insurance adjusters and
officials of the stock yards corporation
place the loss at approximately $750,
000. Lieutenant F. J. Bishoff of the first
fire company to arrive at the yards
after the alarm had been received,
said that three fires were burning
fully 2,000 yards apart, in different
portions of the yards.
George E. Collett. general manager
of the stock yards, declared he be
lieved the Are resulted from natural
causes and the wind had blown sparks
from the first fire, starting the other
two blazes. Private detectives, how
ever were said to be Investigating the
incendiary rumors.
ANOTHER JEWELRY
ROBBERY AT GREENWICH.
Several Thousand Dollars' Worth
Taken from Home of T. L. Pomeroy.
Greenwich. Conn., Oct. 16. Jewelry-
to the amount of several thousands of
dollars was taken by burglars from
the' home of Theodore L. Pomeroy
some time last night or early today.
according to a statement made by the
police here. The family was out of
town when tho burglary took place.
and are still away, so that the exaot
value of the property cannot be ascer
tained as yet. Entry to the house,
which is In Maple avenue, was gained
through a second story window, and
the loot was taken from family bed
rooms. There is no clue to the thieves.
Two weeks ago the home of Theodore
Pomeroy, a nephew of the man robbed
ast night, was looted In the same
manner and a quantity of silverware
taken.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE PAPERS
MUST FILE TRANSLATIONS
Of AH Artloles Referring to the Gov
ernment of Natlone at War.
Washington. Oct. 18. Foreign lan
guage newspapers. Issued after mid
night tonight and not licensed by the
postofflce department under the trad
ing with the enemy act must file with
their local postmasters English trans
lations of all articles referring to the
government of any nation at way.
Otherwise the publications may not be
mailed or distributed in any other way
under heavy penalty.
Postmaster Burleson announced to
night that more than a thousand pa
pers had been licensed.
SUIT OF INTERNATIONAL
HARVESTER COMPANY.
Reargument Postponed Until After the
Steel Suit Has Been Argued.
Washington, Oct. 16. Rreargument
of the government's dissolution suit
against the International Harvester
company was today temporarily post
poned when the case was called In the
supreme court, under an agreement 1
between the department of Justice and J
attorneys for the company the case !
will not be held until after the steel i
suit has been argude, which is expect
ed to be some time in January,
FIREMAN ON . DESTROYER
COMMENDED FOR GALLANTRY
Harold H. Duke Rescued a Shipmate
From Drowning.
Washington. Oct. 16. Harold H.
Duke, a fireman aboard a United .
States destroyer, has been commended ;
by Secretary Daniels for gallantry, in
Jumping overboard from his vessel on '
the night of September 14 and res- ;
oulng a shipmate from drowning. An
other destroyer was moored alongside '
and Duke Jumped in between the two j
ships despite the danger of being (
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