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SOUTH NORWALK, CONE“. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1914
‘ 12 m
DAILY
OFLOCAL‘
AND
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Fair tonight and Sunday; warmer. TWO cm
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SERVE SENl NEE
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Commander Hill Diiered to At:-
copt $5 a Month on Fines
Imposed on “Militiaman
SilltilHI Misrtrtu. rs
lHi llPliItlll ill MERRlll
Lieutenant Who Paid Funeral Ex-
penses oi Man’s Mother Has
Never Been Repaid
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nntusneon’r, Nov. 2S.—~That sym‘
pathy-for Albert Phillips, a member‘
of the Third Division Naval Reserves
of the Connecticut National Guard is
misplaced is the opinion of many ped-
ple of Bridgeport who are aware or
the facts iii the case that led up to
the. young man's arrest and sentence
to jail for a term of 90 days.
Lieutenant Albert J. Merritt of the
'l‘lrird Division this morning revit-wed
the facts in tire case and front these
it appears tirat Phillips has been
given every (‘llallCe to make good.
:.ieutenant Commander Eben Hill. Jr,
of Nor‘wallt gave Phillips art oppor-
tunity to pay his accumulated fines of
$92.40 at the rate of $5 a month and
Phillips ignored the offer.
Lieutenant Merritt’s Version.
Lieutenant Merritt told of ahe
chances that have been given Phillips
He told of Commander Hill‘s otter to
allow the titre to be paid at therate
of $5 a month, and of Phillips' fail?
are to attend the weekly drills of the,
division although he was not fined
for his failures to attend these drills,
According to Lieutenant Merritti
't'hillips' accumulated fine are as fol-
lows:
lines in arrears. $3; for absence
from Government inspection, 35; nbe
hence front Memorial Day parade, $5:
loss of property and equipment, $4.40;
absence. from Naval Reserves‘ annual
cruise for 15 days at $5 a day. 375.
Lieutenant Merritt said: “Prior to
the Government inspection on June
Lift. 191l. Phillips was warned to at-
tend, btrt he failed. to notice or profit
by the warning. ()n Memorial Day
l‘ltillips presented himself at my office
.tud said he wanted to parade. This
was a half hour before the parade
(Continued on ninth page.)
not oovrrnutnort
or AWARD notrnsr
DANBilIiI HATTEH
\\‘ASll[.\'GTO.\‘, Nov. firs—Counsel
for l). E. Loewe & Company. tlie‘ban»
irury, Conn, hat concern awarded
$232.0th damages under the Sherman
law against 182 members of the Unit-
“Ll llatters‘ Union for injuries from a
boycott. today asked the Supreme
a‘ourt in printed briefs to affirm the
tindgment of the lower court.
Tire brief argue that conditions sur-
rounding tlre organization of a modern
itbor union call for the application of
‘ Dr. l.
[ill E BIS ASE
llSllill I] ll
NEWHAVENHERD
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Cattle at W. ll. Rowe Attected
—Came From New York
State
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Mliltlllfllli hint ,
tannin Ill Sittll
Cows Dying From unknown
Cause—To Kill Rockwell
RUSSIAN
uunu lliitilli ‘ ‘
u. itr_r_t_t_tttt sun
Twenty-four Are Under Suspic-
ion ior Killing Barnet Ball,
in New York
the death of Bartlet Barf, who was
shot and killed in a street here Tues-
day night, and arrests within twenty-
Swine Today !
{had opposed the methods of a scroll-
‘ed poultry trust, and according to
his friends. had for some time been
marked for assassination. The mur-
der was characterized at the cor-
oner's olllce as similar to the case'ol.
Herntan Rosenthal, and District At-
Cases of foot
have been discovered in New Haven:
These are the. first reported to Cattle
Commissioner Phelps which are not‘
traceable to
llortford.
’fhursday afternoon
Phelps
Commissioner“
received a notification from
R. Vail. a veterinarian in,
New Haven. stating that there were'
suspicious cases in the herd of Wil-
liam A. Rowe of that city. The herd;
was at once quarantined. The corn.
nrissioner notified his deputy. Dr. F»
A. Ingram. Early this morning the]
deputy and Dr. P, R. Keeley of Wu-
terbury. a veterinarian who is os-i
sisting the cattle commissioner. went
to New Haven. where they (unwrittenl
the suspected herd. They found uri-
mistakable evidence of tite,dlsease;
in several of the cows. ‘ i
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Iii orvrt SERVIGE
HARTFORD, Conn, Nov. 25.»— Attor-
ne'y«GeneraI .loltn ll. Light has given
an opinion to the edect that the state
police commissioners are not obliged
to select members of the force from:
state civil service eligibles; in other
words, the state police department
does not come. under the civil service
law. Judge Light holds that if the law
contemplated the placing of the depart:
trrent uttder the law. the effect would
be the practical abolishnrent of the
state police commission. .
A new civil service question has
arisen: Does the appointment of‘ a su-
perintendent of the Capitol come with.
‘in.tlie intent of the law? Opinions dill
'tnission, asserts that it does.
WAKEFIELD APPEAL
-ihnt only two copies od’ the draft {Or
the rule making members of an asso-‘
(‘ltll ion
cliices.
liable for the acts of their
SCHOONER JENKINS FLOATED. the“ "Owl“
'the impression that she
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ttvlrutt-ver to do with the slaying 0f;local Exchange.
NEW YORK, Nov. 28.—-The Schoon-
‘er George h. Jenkins. which
fer. Mr. Wright. secretary of the com
WILL BE chartering
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\\'.»\’l‘l'll{ltl'ft\'. .\‘..v, :8.~~(_‘ounsrl
for Mrs. Bessie \Vakot‘iult‘l, interview-
t'd today tiecittrctl that they intended I
to proceed with the appeal to the Fn~ .
promo (fourt in spite of report from
the state attorney‘s office that
local appeal has been filed. .
One of the counsel here today do-l
clarcd that in a murder case the fact .
n0 ‘
it finding were submitted instead of;
three was technical. and did not be- 1
line that it would hold. They hm'c,
appealed to .ludrze Reed to all-ow of”
the ztppenl. pointing to the promln-l
lorrcc of the case. the fact that the;
accused w ‘mtm has two aged parentsl
‘ltl‘ld two it E . children all waiting for I
from Middlebur‘y. trnderi
had nothing l
and tnoutlr disease.
Southern
.fair treatment from
ashore last Monday. nedr Shinnecocki -—-'*
ddghthouse. on the Long Island coast. Russ FARRELL SFES LODGE ROI!
while on her way from a Florida port1 “‘50” DAMAGES
do New Haven. Conn, was pulled into (“aims 5‘". Was Exmmyd Illegally
deep water by tugs yesterday, Thel front (‘ataltm “role. ill 0T ‘3-
Jcs‘sel started for this city. where shel lililDGEPORT,‘Nov. .28.-—-Clnlmlng
twill be repaired.\
ttlint she was expelled from Catalpa
rirclc. No. 425, Companions of the‘
“ Fort-st. illegally and wrongfully, Miss
PRES'DENT WILSON BACK' .ultian l-‘arrell has institute] legal
\VASHINGTON. NOV. 28.—-—l’rcsldcnt‘ ”.mpw‘inan until“?! "10 1‘0““. “343...":
{Wilson returned here early today from damage; of $4,300.
M'lllinmntown. Manta. where he spenr‘ \u attachment (or 85,000 was made
. . . . today. The paper- In the. case are re-
{Innnkagitlnx D." with M5 dmgmer'ttumal-lo before the Milena: ctr-or! In
Mrs. F. ii. Sayre. January. .
"in . M r. waketiordu , . l
four hours were promised by the po»
lice today. llat‘f, rt dealer in poultry,
the Max Case herd in
' torney Whitman's detectives are worlc
ing with the police on a theory that
gunmen were hired to kill Ball.
A ruan under suspicion us being the
tic-between who procured the murder
is being sought Irr Pennsylvania and
New Jersey. Evidence is said to be
lit police possession pointing to a
score of persons whose names llnrry
Bad. son of Barnet Buff, has given
the authorities.
TELEPHONE ooarnlt
' Til outttor tun rut
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The local Exchange Manager of The
New England Telephone
Company announced today that, be-
glnnlug on Tuesday, December the
first, the Company's operators would
be compelled to collect the Federal
War 'l‘ax from all persons passing
telephone calls or sending telegrams
front public pay-stations where, the
charge exteeded fifteen cents.
to in accordance with the law called
the, etnergt-ny revenue law passed by
Conuress‘nnd sinned by the President
of the l'niicd Siatea on October 22,
19H.
It was crplalned to a representa-
tive of this paper that the law re-
quires that the Company collect a tax
of one certifin addition to the regular
charge for the message where that
charge amounts to fifteen cents or
over. The Company their reports,
monthly. to the collector of Internal
Revenue itt cuth district and pays
over the Donny per call tax that has
been collected in this manner.
The Telephone Company. expecting
its patrons in
this matter. will instruct its opera-
tors to advise public telephone users,
when the charge of the message or
' telegram is fifteen cents or over. what
the. rate is. adding the request that
the calling party have ready the addi-
tional one cent for the Federal Tax.
\‘l‘lren the connection has been estatr.
; lished the customer will be requested
: to drop in the regular charga'for the
message and then the penny for the
tax. The operator will advise that
. this be dropped in the twenty-live cent
slot. The collection of the one cent
tax on all messages and telegrams
costing fifteen cents or over from sub-
scribers‘ stations will be included on
the regular hills sent out by the Corri-
pany. it was stated that, at this
timefit was impossible to compute
what this tax would amount to in the
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IBRIDGE “UHHITTEE
l witt ms term
‘ Tire bridge construction committee.
tat an important business session. last
evening. voted to take an appeal from
the decisionoi Judge Lucien Burpee.
.in his recent decision concerning the
luew Washington street bridge and.
line Connecticut Company.
NEW YORK. Nov. 28.~i\:ith twen-»
. ty-tive poultry dealers under suspicion '
of having conspired to bring about1
This '
lltli lll Ellllil
hint-ritual
Bepreeentativo_ Pardon Says]
Next House Will'be oi Ama- l
tears, Controlled by a Few ’
Experts i
I
NEW HAVEN, Nov. 28.—-—An analy-'
sis of the membership or the next Gen-j
eral Assembly has been made by “it?
liam S. Pardee. a member of the lower
branch in the last House from New .
Haven, and author ol brils‘to createt.
new towns within the limits of rnecny SASHUAHHL [ll]. BUYS l;
of New Haveri.,One such trill was pass.
ed by the lust. Senate and killed by the?
House. The dhjoct or Mr. Purdue's:
bill was to give‘, New Haven additional?
representation in the House. At the'
last session bills to accomplish the
same end were” introduced for liar-t9
ford. Bridgeport, Waterbury and Merl 1'
tit-n, but each toiled oi passage.
In his analysis of the incoming Len
isinturc Mr. l'al'dee says. in part: “Out
of 258 members in the liotrec only (fine of the most important rcal es»
thirlyune were reelected, namely, late deals transacted in Ncrwnlk tot
twelve per cent. only, or one in eight. some tune wa: completed this morn-
3100000 Corporation Takes?
Cavansgh, Taylor and ‘
thetwuod Land
'lhe habit of the State Itr not sending trip: when the amount! liill company, -
buck reprcrtt-intativea makes it over Inc, a Stillbirth) corporation, of .‘sov‘
and over again an amateur House. con walk. purchased a tits-acre. tract of land.
trolled by ntcw experts." - between lieysor. street and Winfield
"As to1he Senate. Mr. I’nrdee points street, on the 1‘9"! Std}, from s. bred-
ottt that aevenbrmenntatives were erlck 'l‘aylomoltti’W. and THC. (‘ava-'
elected to the upper body. Of the 35 naugh, and t‘btrriea t". Sherwood. ‘,
senators sitting in the last body, only The. Susana Hill Company plan to.
four were reelected, about the. same develop the property and cut it tip ln-g
percentage us the representatives. to desirable. building lots. Workmcn
namely. Ii.-t per cent.
Mr. l’ardee sums up his analysis by ting roads, and otherwise developlngt
saying: “In the old days the habit of the tract. Attorney William F. Tum-
IllB towns was to rc—elect men lllltll many, of this city, represented "If"
they became trained and influential." Sasquu Hill Company in the trunsuc-l
I ' tion.
The company which purchased the
‘Iand is composed of John .I. Cava-
uaugh. T. C. (‘avanattglr. S. F. Taylor. '
Mrs. S. F. Taylor, of' Nortvalk. and‘
- .\v alter Bangle. of New York city.
The pretty story 0! the "Miracle or. This purchase means considerable
the Roses" was enicrtainingly told, to till Norwallt as well as the linst
last evening, in St. .Ioseph's School Side. ‘-
Itllll. on nenry till‘t‘t'l. under the flu-i
spit-es of the ltrrnutcurntc Conception
Sodality. The play was In two acts.
with splendid music and charming
singing.
’tne first act was carried through
by the members of the Immaculate
Conception Sodallty, and was entitled uttuus in it tentntite way today for
“Through the Woods.“ Those taking the must time since July :50 last. when
part in this were Mary Cullen. Grace the foreign sittinti-Dmcuust-tt the us:—
U’Llrien, Madetln Campbell, who was nation of business of all the lca‘diurz‘
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E19“) Williams, Who made it "my me“ in all instances, minimum prices were
ty Queen; llelen Leatherland. Mar- established.
gnerlle Phillips. Laura Sweeney, Hot. All transactions were for cash, nntl
cu Boise. Helen Drtrm,. Alice Singer cycry effort was made to exclude for!
ergn selling. The. attendance on the
“310' Helen Mairer. Helen Smith, ME' floor of the Exchange when the now;
be‘ 1481110”. Mary Reilly 311d FNUCDS sounded at 10 o't‘lock“ was unusually
apron. r‘ohowiug this. Miss Grace large. '
Leary in a very interesting manner r9 Thcra was little business at the out-
.. set of the session. The first transac-
luu'u the Loutitersrgtt. ' 'tion recorded was the sale of dive
“‘9 second Vim. "T0 ”98"“ We lands of the mend mam )Siccl
Pleat." was enacted by members of Corporation. at 99 3;}. a. decline of i
the‘ Holy Angels' Sodality. Those in 1-4 from the closing price of .ruly
- .. , , . 30. The next transaction was t to san-
this ‘pretty scene “em m? Mlsses He]. of five. bonds of Distillern‘ Securities
cn (ticket. Hannah hlcbrath. Julia 1mm, m 56. an “ammo m. 3 1-2. The"
O'Neil, M3” Maloney, Mary Creamer, followed the suit» of a sinu'le t7hesa~
nuthertne Sculley. Elsie Leatherland, puxrke and Ohio bond at a decline of
Mary McMahon. Alice Lynch. hllzil- l 1-3-34"; lutfl‘ im'fvrinbs: 3:13:22:
- x - amounts 0 SllC] SSUC‘S . v. 3
both Ernto. Nollie hruro, Mary Spen- “me (,Onvemhlm Ray Ransom”,
oer. Mildred Smith. Gladys Smith. M‘ ted Sixes, St. Paul General Mortgage
ice McNerney, Florence Skidd. Flor- 4 1-2‘5‘ and Northern Pacific 4 1-2‘s.
eitce Collins. Rose Robichaud and They showed declines ranging from it
~. ~ listantiul fraction in Southern Pa.-
Eleanor Williams. 3“ . , ,
' cific. to 3. 7-8 points in ItayC-onsoli-
The music for the entertainment was dated. There “we other PM“ “of
:brovided by Miss Madeline Curran. Steel and Distillers and the issue
proof: or lIIE ROSES
ABTISTIGALLI arvnt
ll. V.8TO0K EXCHANGE .
UNDER WAY AGAIN
NEW YORK. Nu". LES ~»'l'hc New
York Stock Exchnttuc resumed oper-
MMANDER Dons Nor—’7
CLAIM OVERWHELMING VICTORY.
Official Despatch From Grand Duke Nicholas Notes
Several Isolated Operations, But Does Not Mention;
. Annihilation of 60,000 Germans----Austrians nave
Evacuated Czenstochowa, and on the Right Bank,
of the Vistula River the Invaders Are in Disordé
; . erly Retreat, and Being Pursued by the Russians...
British Collier Khartoum Reported Sunk. 0
Eli] llllllWAlll Plilll’Elll '
have been busy tor some time past we ‘ '
{who accompanied the children with
already named at declines from the
first recorded prices. The. total am-
gagcmcnt with the Russian Black Sea fleet. the Turkish
lthelr songs. Following the excellent ount of business for the first fifteen
entertainment. dancing wasenjoyed. minutes of the. session was —1‘.’3.titlt),‘
‘Colliua‘ orchestra furnishing the mu- par “we »
sic. The cake booth was in urge. ot ‘
Mrs.~l\i. J. O'Brien; the candy booth
‘ln charge of Miss Margaret Hayes: . ,
the punch bond was presided over by James Cunningham. who wins knock.
Mrs. J. J. Newman. and the ice cream, ed, down by Charles Schumann’s unit
which was In constant demand, was on Main street, Thanksgiving hay
served by hire. Daniel Hogan and Mrs. has accepted $35.00 in '
E. Browne“. damse- tor Injuries received. The
:eettloniat we made this mot-um
”$25.00 rnou AUTO INJURIES.
-a»... —_..
aqtlement of . .
little tlantgc.
Advertilc‘in The Sentinel; int-ouch want: a nabbed.
LONDON. Nov. 28, rz Noon._\\'lrilc newspaper rel
ports from l’ctrograd continue to claim a victory in
Northern l’olanti comparable at lcast to Sedan and even
worthy to rank with the (ll aster which Russia inflicted _
upon Nrrtr-z‘rleon, ol't'n‘irtl comruunicrttions shed but little
light on the situation in Poland. .
An official dispatch from Grand Duke Nicholas,
conutr:tutlcr—in—cblei of the Russian forces in the field,
while of considerable lcrrg‘ih. itself largely
with ll‘..l"t‘ or lee» isolrrtctl opt-rations and docs not claim
(‘Ulle’rrfl
ilrc infliction of an mcrtvhclurlug tlcfcat upon the in-
\’:t(lt'l.~'. .
’l‘lrc l)lll\k‘ with
the tlcclnr’ntion that on tlrc . ntirc front between the Vis-
tlrnutl sums up the situation
tuln ntrtl tlrc Warm rivers the littlllt’ is progressing in {11— .
vov of Russian ili'llh. lltllll lyriin arnl Vienna still claim
that no decisive result has followed the recent otter?“
tions in Russian l’olantl. . “v, y
(in the western battle front the lull still prevails, the . ‘
only him (if activity being iourtcl in the report from L
l'bvlltintl that the llritish flcct again is operating against
tlrc tlcrnran positions on the liclgizin coast. “
The visit of Sir Roger Casement, who became ia—
tnous as the investigator of the I’nturnayo rnbh‘cr atroci-
ties, to the llcrliu Foreign Office is being prominently
features. by the London papers. The comment, however,
is rntbcr reserved. (hr the whole the press scents frank—
n? pttzrlctl by the episode, which indicates that direct ne‘-
g‘rrtintit'ms between Germany and the extreme section of
Hit lrislr Nationalists have been gents); on.
'l'he llritisb public have bceu greatly reassured by
the statement of Mr. Churchill, First Lord of thc Admir—
alty. concerning.r the naval position “l. the empire. This
has been supplcmculctl by the official I’rcnclt report that
the combined ilcet not only have corrrrnnntl of the Mctli—
tcrrnucau, but are maintaining; a sncccssful blockage of
the Adriatic and thc Dhrtlzruellcs.
l’rout Pctrogrntl court's it llillt‘ll-(lt‘lit)t'tl account of a
surprise attack by n Rttssian Elcct. which. it is claimed, rc- ~
stiltcd in serious disaster to the (Scrnrzrn litrlttc squadron
in the mouth of Scptcmbcr. ‘
LONDON. Nov. ell—The Ilritish Admiralty has an-
nounced that thc collicr Khartoum has been blown up by
a uriucoil't‘rromsby. The crew of the Khartoum was
landed at (lrintsby. ' ’
tlrirnsby hunt the south bank of the llurnbcr. 15 miles
southeast of ”till. I ‘-
” 'l‘hc lx'lurrtonin'was of “130 tons' net. 3t5 feet long,‘
built at.
40 feet beam and .2 3 feet deep, The vesscl was
Stockton. in April. [893.
SllI‘EliRNESS. Eng. via London, Nov. 2%.—»'l‘hirty
bodies from the l‘ritlsli batt'eship llulwark have been re—
Tlrc lulu-ark was blown
up ofi’ Sheerness, presumably the result of an internal
explosion. '
covered from the river 'l‘ltrru es.
Most-of the bodies so far recovered are mutilated al-
most beyond identification. Up to the prcScnt time the
authorities bavc_not given out a list of the losil
MERLIN. Nov. 28, via London—«In her recent en-
cruiser (iocben lostclcven men killed. It is said that. only
on shot. and thatabove the waterline. struck the Gut.
bcn. ‘ l ' ‘
‘ “RUGES, lclgltun. via Sluis. Holland. Nov 28.——.-\ ’
l ‘ Anal visit to Zechrugge. on the Belgian coast. ebont f
1 miles east of (lateral. shows that. contrary to previous ,
reports, the English Inuitbartlnrcnt ot' ,Cm. 23 «lid wry
a
The nhclln from the liritiuh ~lilps destroy-
(t'fontinncd on third Page.)
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