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SOUTH NORWALK. GONN.. TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1915
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WANT All.
To get what you '
want, when you
want it.
Fair and continued cold tonight.
nut llill ’
ill illsilii-
iiiiiWWAiE
Joseph llossnteid, Pawnbroker, in
South hermit, oasis Near living
as itesldt of Accident
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,jPostmaster Andrew Leary. as the 10- .
cation of Sub Station. No. 2, in placevilarney WOIIC of Van Zimt streeL'and‘
f the station which at present is in Joseph b Moeiler. 0f Winfield street;
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Word Received FmVisstiingtoil By
l By Postmaster Andrew tony,
Walk Still in
.. No One
Thishloming. 'i
The store of Julius Budovszky. corg
ner of Ely and Lexington avenues!
has been selected by the Post Office;
Department, on recommendation '
oi!l Ten years in state prison is the
sentence which will be imposed on
the Gorllam store, East Norwaik. The should the judle and jury 0f the
new station is to be a part of the_Sui)erior Criminai‘Court. of Bridge'
dclivery of the South Nut-walk post ' port. find them guilty of the crime of
Friends Have Not Yet Crime-lo Rescueroi
Man Held For Arson—Mueller Gains
liberty Under Bail of $2,000.:
Willi!) HAVE i
Ciii 6ROWING;
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Cell: - ‘
Gives Bonds
twenty-two witnesses, the majority oft
whom had long stories to tell. and in;
rebuttal Attorney Joseph J.- Lina-1
weiler, counsel for Mueller, not on]
eight witnesses. Judge John Keoghl
presided, Prosecuting Attorney Wli-l
item A. orlmn. Jr.. represented thel'
sedation islets Hose lion
Atusctivetoostsiders
fifth" ill kill N0i
TURKISH Afiiiii’liil .
sensual-szmniuoilnfls- Not Known How Much Dama’ge
office. where a large number of poo arson. for which they are charged.
BECAME MIXED' [He will bi.- accommodated and the es- and for which Judge John Keogh. yes-
itapllslimeni oi the station in Spring- terdai' afternoon. found them guilty
iwood will be greatly appreciated. Thelof probable cause. and bound them
:change will take effect on April 1st. ‘ 0V6! under bonds of 34.000 and 52.000.
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state. Judge Joseph R. Taylor repreg 5
sented Barney Wolk. Attorney Joseph AURACIWE Io OUISIDERS‘
J. Linxweiler was. Joseph Moelier's' I
counsel, and Mrs. William O. McLean __ i
was the court stenographer. .
At the Hospital, and Still in Serious
Condition
Join-pit liosenfeld, proprietor of
pawn broker's shop on Water stl'ect,.
dpu’luu'r'ili, and residing on 77 Cedar
Street, yesterday afternoon. while atl
work iii his shop, drank. apparently
by mistake a quantity of deadly nitric.
acid. which. fortunately, was diluted
Quin SUBMARINE
} News to this effect was received from'
: \\'ushiug[0u this nlorning, . has been the longest and one in which
.. .more interest has been shown than
any case Norwalk lawyers have seen
for a good many years. The trial was
‘ under way for two weeks. five days of
' I which have been taken up in hearing
f-4 300 fEEI'the testimony. On each occasion the
.(Zouncil Chamber of the City Hall was
packed to its capacity with an inter-
ested throng of spectators.
Rescue Parties Appear to he Mailing
just
This arson case, which just closed“
Up to press time this afternoon
Barney Wolk had not received secur-
ity tor his $4,000 bond. and still re-‘
molded in the City. Hall station. Bonds:
for Mr. Mueller. for $2,000 were furn-
ishcd by Frank i’arker and Henry
Moeiler. ,
it is understood that Woik has a
“record" on the books of tile New,
York police department. having been
arrested on three or four dliferent
Lent organizations
local roople Should Take lnterosti
ill Drilling Their Homes f
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individual movements in the First,l
Second and Third districts with the
’view toward forming protective asso-i
ciations for property holders have met1
with eager response and sufficient sup-i
port as in make certain that perman-i
will result. Tile
with water to the extent that the mis-
tllke did not prove fatal.
.‘iir. ltoseui’cld always has on hand
a supply of the acid. which he uses ill‘
testing gold in articles brought to iiis‘
place of business. There is no running
water in his store. it seems. and often
he has a glass of fresh water in the
place for drinking purposes.
Progress in'Ssivaging Vessel in
Honolulu Harbor
WASHINGTON. March flit—Submit»
rinc ii‘~4 which sank at the entrance
of 99 Harbor. had been moved 300
ifeei toward shore by vessels with ca-
1blcs at 3 o‘clock this morning. ac-
Ecordlng to a message received today
l'by Secretary Daniels front the com
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i mander of the First Submarine divis~
AN ‘ ion. The message gave no details. .
- . This brief message was the first
BE INVESIIGAIED positive word that the rescue parties
‘ilave made any progress in bringing
lthe lost. submarine to the surface.
»\\'llile it gave hope of salvaging the
. bout. it revied no hopes that any one
NEW YORK. March 30.——An inves-
tigation of Miss Rae Tnnzer‘s state- ,
ment that in bringing a breach of}may be found alive inside.
promise suit against James W. 05-“ Replying to urgent “‘0‘“er by
borne she had named the wrong man . Rear Admiral Blue yesterday Lieuten-
iwas begun today under the direction ’ ant Smith, commanding the “3"th
or United States District Attorney H. ”ml" ””0"“ "“le “’3‘“ “m“
B. Marshall. Miss 'l‘auzer had been her varied in depth from 43 to 60
directed to return to the Federal Dis~ F fathoms. The distance to the “‘12:?
trict Attorney's office. to continue her “Rh" presumably the nearest
btory lwns reported at 2.800 yards.
Mr. Marshall. who had characterlz~:
Nothing has occurred. he said. to al-‘
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ililli fill Nil SIGNING I M '
pd some of Miss Tanzer's statementsi
no “unbelievable." made it clear that .‘BIRIHDAY RECEPW
the activity of the Federal authorities . .
In the case would not cease because, l
Mr. Osborne had been exoneratedj R lKNAPP
her his conviction that there was a M
conspiracy involving Miss Tanzer and . . .
Others, and prosecution might re- 1mm” May ”“8 Yesterday
3"" on the Occasiosof ilis Ninetieih
. Theodore Knapp. of this citly. yes-
- _ :terday afternoon and last evening,
MOIORcvcl-E ”BENSE. entertained scores of friends from all
iparts of Norwalk. who called at the
gnome of his daughter, Mrs. Annie M.
Following a slight accident betweenlx' Minion. on Golden Hm street, to
in automobile and motorcycle this - partake in the festivities of a. birthday
morning on West avenue. Lester Tuie' :cepti'on, ight’imfh :1 mt‘ilonor Of Mr.
don. of Hallett' street. Bridgeport: raspfpsln no te Ir Med d i
rider of the small machine. was piac- e res men s were 39f“, ' an n
‘ed under arrest for violating the many respects the affair, yesterday.
hi i laws. He had
:3: getvtflritzehi: :ignature on the was most delightful and entertaining.
back of his operator‘s license. Bonds 30th 3:} iflnapp 01:“: his tdi-ugmifir'
of :25 were furnished. and a hearing ‘ rs, ‘ n 0 ’ n 8 mos spa o
hosts.
.- orrow morn~
M'" be held “.1 court tom i Mr. Knapp is one of the oldest and
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The story which the police have of, est nouniresidents in this city. He
the accident is that LeRox Elwood. of‘
New Canaan, was proceeding up West:
avenue. with Tuiedon following him. UNION SEHViCE MUSICAL PRO.
Elwood started to .turn into [mnard GRAN.
street, and the motorcyclist attempt-f
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'rlro mull was a collision in trlricirioning. the following will be the music-
llu- lillil cap of the automobile VII pl pm:
torn off. and the two wheeled vehicle Prelude lat 7:50! a. Allegretto in ii
sins put out of commission. minor ................ A. national
Holding to the opinion that Elwood o. Violin solo. Meditation on rim
' "in to blame and Hobie for the a... Prelude of J. 8. hell . (3. Gounod
.H"?l to his machine. Tum lfllgl'.0ltflmt Violin Mole A"!!!
ed that Elwmd no l9 the police eta-t ............. . .......... G. Thom
tion mirror the tum circuit-cs ten-guitars or mm m- mum
surmiirlliiy lot "Ir strident. after to Cattery.“
hearing tha- utorleo of the two on. Minds. nut. st Nth Hula. op.
Bust-ant Hui} taken for “Men‘s it- Ms .f. , _ ,. 7 Moms
"use uid than the visit!!! on It. Elliot lulu belch. violi-
lalrlod and he talked ht. Qt 'll. ‘
‘iin‘ honor of so important an event...
The state put on the stand
continuous !
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sroond Hearing of Action loam
. union Officials Begun iirSuperiori
Guttéiisilh‘l‘sy liar Asks 35,-?
000 For less of Enplonlent ?
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‘ Tile $5,000 damage suit of Domin-
. ick Conners,,of Dnnbury. against l’at-
.rick Connoliey and, Emil Nass. of the
isame place. in which the plaintiff
iclaims that. the defendants conspired
Qto prevent him from obtaining work‘
ias a journeyman batter and had him
.discharged from his. place of employ-.
intent on September 21. 1909. began
iyesterday before Judge Curtis and a:
iiury in the Civil Superior Court. thei
iverdict being for the defendants. All
lappenl was taken to the Supreme:
3 Court of Errors and that body ordered .
i“ new trial. ‘ _
i it took but a short time to select‘
‘a jury. only a few candidates for the
jury box being excused. Connors
was the first witness. He testified]
illiat he came to this country fl‘omi
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,1 it is an interesting fact to note at!
;this time that within the borders of:
iNorwalk there is property valued at?
i $1,870,769 that is exempt from all tax-l
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\ These interesting flguresare quoted.
'in Tax Collector William H. Corbin'si
Iquadrennial statement. copies of?
.‘which cover information, submitted l
the commissioners office by the local3
Board of Asssessors concerning their?
work 011914, 3
The property free from taxation of
:all kinds is divided into the following:
[classes: 17 public schools. value—j
”444.000; 27 ecclesiastical societies—.
'value 8709.000; 7 cemeteries. value—1
£359,000: 3 benevolent and charitable
At the union service at the First ‘ Mien“. hOIDllat. etc..~nluo. 06hr Entertainment Committee— Elbert
ed to pass the machine on lts rilht. Church. Norwalk. on Wednesday ev- 000: 2 public libraries, nine—860.000; W. Pitch and Arthur Russell.
' 17) personal exemptions, to the value
got 817L000: apparatus and buildings
or fire departments and hose compan-
ies 871.000: 3 public buildings not in-‘
1eluded elsewhere. value-497.700: 2
:parh or phymds. 07.000. Grand
intuit-of named prop-flywsi.slo.-'
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Nor-sits deified property valua-
tion at «in Inc in m with
other this W the state or
she-I the has “is; tolls for
est-pk w I“ “.171,“ and
than! with “,0“. i
/ -» rprovilment. everyone being of the
‘ 0|: $1,810 76* (Continued on eighth DIR) lupinion that it is very "much needed.
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occasions. “ . ‘ idea has been informally discussed for
sometime and within a week or lwoi
it is expected that meetings will be“
called in each of the districts to off
feet organisation. The tax problem is?
the incentive for this action and the
property holders appear unanimous in;
claiming that the present rate is \an
satisfactory from an investment point
of view. and also that growth and ex-
pansion of the ciay is greatly hamp-
ered. I
According to one of the prominentj
men interested. the purpose will be to;
quake recommendations to the city 01-!
‘ _ _ :ficiais. wherever it can be done.
'llle lce 5““th ln NOTWIlk, during 138”“ me exmn'e' of running the.
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N0i stillinion
Rented that Insists tiers lisrves-
ted s Sills! Crop for heat Slim-i
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we comingsunimer ‘3 ‘0'“! ‘0 ”9 tar: municipal affairs. Economy is to be
front satisfactory. Discussing the mat-y the cry of the members and. it is?
ter this morning. E. T. Dates, of Dar-l understood. a! "watchful eyeing" poll-I
ion. one of the most prominent ice.” will poimsintsined over the linen.
dealers in this vicinity said that alltho" cos of the city. The associations are.
ice companies. in this city. togcthernm be non-political. it is understood“:
' the past winter harvested 5‘“ 2-000‘ and the aim will be to make real es-I
tons of ice. where ordinarily, when the; into her an attractive proposition to;
; winters are normally cold. 8-000 ‘0“st the outsiders. who are looking for fac-j
ands over. are: stored away for the:
summer following. l
Although the local ice companies. asi
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yet. have not definitely used their I -
price scale for this summer, Mr. Batesi ' i
predicted that Namath consumers this; ‘
hundred pounds. and. family-ice. 50c n! mm" fAvoRED
hundred pounds. This is very muchf
in excess of last summer's prices. they }
wholesale and 40c a hundred-retail. 3street department commences to show
Mr. Bates, the last low do” of last . “cum“ “9““ ”my ml” .
t rm evening. in the my engineer‘s
tion of the Connecticut lot Dealers'i°m°°' a special meeting 0' the com-
association. which was held in tire no. mm” °' me ”mm °’ me ”Med
tel Taft. New Haven. J. H. White. of Franklin street extension was held.
year would pay. wholesale. 30¢ a'
being but 20c a hundred pounds am With the approach of spring the
weeks, attended an important conven-z
'South Main street. and n. J. Stewart.‘Thew wds no opposition ‘0 the im-
l'l‘he work of tile distributing of ben-
Jeflts has already been started. At last
inight‘s meeting property owners at.
lfected werv‘well represented. .
COMMiiiiiiii 0’Biiiiii
‘ .. i Flax Hill Road, formerly West
’ r ' NAMES com street. hasbeen rebuilt, from the old
city line, at Roton Hill. to Brookside.
{Rowayton avenue. from Brookside
Commodore James M. O’Brien. of. to the center 0: it: tvhmfgef has big"
the Norwaik Yacht Club. has announcw rebuilt 3130‘ n 0 n5 ances _.e
ed the following officers and commit-3, roads are of two-course crushed grav-
The improvement is noticeable
tee spointmsnts: ‘ el. 1 ted
Fleet Captain—Thomas r. McMahonl “d ”we" a ‘
Fleet Surgeon—Lauren M. Allen. M.I
:23: 3.....ng Milli 8i0iii ii iii cross
' ' not fRiDii iiilillc
House Committee—William Lee
Ward, Frank Nash and Dr. George ‘13.:
, On Good Friday evening. at 8
‘o'clock. the cantata by Dudley Buck.
Cram. i
Dales-to to Yacht men. Anode: 11.. Story or the Cross. will lie suns‘
tion of Mel tel-mi MM—Rnluui by the choir at Trinity Church. under!
3. M“ the direction of Edwald .i. Sims. or-
lfl-tm IPNlcltioos for the inn? sum and chohrmuter of the church.
tor membership were acted upon. and no cantata was can; last year on
I'm"! 00*” m Mint. ill! "I“ ll» evening of (load Friday. and it ll
Italic-i Il- law. The new du- t- lroiu mos or the moon oi the
talus humbly filth the "no" GIG- mor. In. a. .l. Mensa. Those who
Wilma“ muutmwillnoglsdoldnoy
It wumwopoalhsdnhbm man [9 pear It attain. sad that
as hr tun-unummdoomsm should so Iliad with our poo-i
nines lasts.” Cut. this. pied-litmus.- whowtobto?
wilti- observed as M Day as “magnum-svvluofponty‘
tin shoes. .fi'fli‘l character. 1 -
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regiments with a large body of cavalry.
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DROPS BOMBS 0N 0Ni' " ’
it until . wnsmn
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Was Inillcted, But the Allied
Fleet Makes No Further General
Attack on the Fortifications Ger;
man Military Commander Says: .
Dardanelies Forts Will Resist
Any Assault from the Sea----Ital-
ian Troops Concentrate Along .
the Austrian Frontier ‘ 7 V
.\n official ziiintlllllt‘cillciit from ('tillstllntilloplc says
that it 'i'lirkish acroplau‘c tlroppctl bombs on a British war-
ship cruising outsidc thc Dardancllcs. No information is
given of the (lailiagc inflictcd. Thc. allictl fit-ct has matic
no furthcr gcncral attack on the Turkish fortifications. al-
though they wcrc honiharllctl' intermittently ycstcrday.
Field Marshal von llcr ('roltz, German lllilitary comman-
way to icrliii. is
the llartianciics'
forts \vill l)t‘ :llllc to resist any assault which may l)C lli~ ‘
ticr of t'oustzllltinoplc. who is on his
(illhlt‘tl as cxprcssilii: collfiticilcc that
l‘t‘t‘lt'il against tilt-iii from tlic sen.
’l'lic 'i‘iirkisli govcrllliicnt has taken ilicasui‘cs it) [in-—
\'cnt tltc landingr of thc illiicd .‘cmlvcycd to
of Turkish
troops
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troops arc l)t‘llig asscnihlcd at this point.
A conccutratioil of itaiian troops along the Austrian
fronticr is said in (‘icncva to have been begun. According
to this iilforlilhtion. Italian regiments which "have been .
stationed along thc Swiss border have been scutto the! .‘
Tyroicsc 'fronlicr, wiicrc Austrian troops havc been as— ._ '
sciiililt‘tl during the last fortnight. , '
The Russian govcruilictf‘l announces that the German
offensive ill Northern Poland has failed. having bccn stopu
pcd at all points alongr the line west of the Nicnlcn river.
The (iermnn bombardment of Osaowetz Which has resist-7'
ed a siege of several wceks. is said by the Russian War
Office to have been virtually abandoned. ‘
Smyrna tin tlit- transports.
CONSTANTINOPLE. via London, March '30, 10:25 ,
a. ni.——:\n official stattfincnt issued today by the War
()ffice says: _ . ‘
"One of our sea—planes has dropped bombs on a Brit—w ‘ “
ish warship cruising outside the Dardanclles." '
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.PETRORAD. via London. March 29. 4:5 a. lit—A re-‘
view of the German offensive movement in, the. Niemen
district to which it is said‘ great importance was attached
is contained in an official statement issued" by the War .
Office last night. The conununichtion follows: ‘ =
“From official documents which we have captured it
seems that the Germans attached enormous itilportancé
to their offensive movement in the trdns—Nicmen district.
which failed on the 27t‘it.’/ The principal task was-assign—'
ed to thc Thirtyrfirst Division, supported by three reserve
Those troops"
advanced from Kalwarya. on Kraucs. with orders to
pli\5li forward at,all costs to Lozdzicpc, and to, cut off ,
Russian forces which were engaging a German army ,
west of that point. _ . "
"During an engagement in which we took German _
trenches on the 27th near the village of‘Vakh. in the di-"-
rcction of Sctrolcnki. Captain Sltvaroii' leapcd ~ into all '
cncmy trench and captured a machine gun, the fire 'of
which he turned against a German rcscrvc.
”The Germans in the expectation of this plan made
prodigiious cfl'orts and even ziitcmptcd to cnvciopc, on the" ~
ice of Lake Dusja. our right wing, which was operating W
north of Loztizicjc. Moving,r over the ice of Lake Dttsja, .
the Germans also attempted to turn our position in the
passage between the lake and Simno. In two instances, -,
howcvcr. near tlic villages of Sicmicniszka and Mct-clica, -
wc dcvclopcd counter atta'cks against Gcrliiah troops 5.-
wliich had pcnctratcd our rear and annihilated them com- ,
pletcly. During the last two days on the left bank“ or
tile Vistuln. the Germans have been vcry economical in ,
their artillery fire. it would anncar that ‘ tlic Gcrmn‘n
forces in that region have Bet-n considerably wcakcilcdfi’»
PARIS. March 30. 2:20 a. m.~—-Tlilc operations in the ‘
Dardancllcs Monday consisted only of an intermittent.
lioillliartimcnt of scvcrnl Turkish positionaiujth the co;
opt-ration of aeroplanes. says a llama dispatch from
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