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Edison’s Chief Engineer Says It Is
In No Way Responsible For Suh-
marine Disaster in Brooklyn Navy
Yard
IOOR MEN IIIIIIO.
IIII OTHERS INJURED
Secretary Daniels to Have Full In-
vestigation blade
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NEW YORK, .lan. l'i.-—The cause
of the explosion with the hull of iht
submarine E42 in’the New York Navy
Yard, Saturday, by which four men
were killed and ten injured, was still
undetermined today. A board of in
i-cstigation appointed by Artnirul
Usher continued its inquiry and was
assisted by «Rear Admiral Grant, who
Mik- ordered here from Philadelphia 1
it is expected that this board will}
complete its inquiry today and Willi
forward its findings to the .\a\y De-A
pzirtmenl without making them public.
it is considered probable that a full
court of inquiry will be appointed by
SecretaryDnnlels to investigate the.
disaster. (This court would have pow-
er to summon and swear witnesses.
Three of the men injured by the
implosion are in a serious condition
in Brooklyn hospitals. They are
Louis 0. Miles, Chief Elect all). s of
the we: John Halsey, prone to:
(in; ll.‘ alk, Jr., machihist's mate.“ -
,‘The Edison storage battery with
which the 10-2 was equipped was ab
solved from blame in a‘ statement is-
sued lastnlght by Miller Reese Hut-
chison. Chief Engineer for Thomas A
Edison and a member of the Naval
Advisory Board. Mr. Hutchison said
he had formed a tentative opinion as
to the, Cause of the disaster, after
making an investigation, and that he
saw no reason to recommend any
changes in the Edison battery. He
declared that the battery in the E-Z
was not damaged.
V OMIOM‘ IYORIIERS
IO RIO MATTERS
Defendants in [nerve CaSe Expect
liberal Response on Jan. 21
After postponing the assignment of
the case‘s several times for various
masons Judge Thomas, in the federal -
term has finally set down the hear-
ing ‘of the foreclosure suits brought
by the attorneys for D. E. Loewe 8;
(70, against the individual defendants
in the Loewe case for next Wednes-
day morning in the federal court in
‘llartford. Foreclosure. is asked
against the homes and property of
129 batters in this county, who were
hinting the defendants in the Loewe
suit, which was lost by the defendants
in a twelve-year legal ”fight through
state; federal, United -States circuit
and finally the supreme court of the
United States, where the $252,000
judgment and costs awarded the plain-
title in the lower courts. was sustain-
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_ The "Lid Club” omposed of tile
- salesmen of the Cr Ill & Knapp Hat
Company, of this qty, Saturday ey-
; ening met in annual session and en-
‘joy’ed a right good dinner at Gristle
3 Gave Seventh Avenue, New York: All
of the salesmen of the company are
in thorn "the road." AThe dinner is an
annual event. Special invitations are
new ‘ex'tieiidbd to customers or the
“annuity who happen to be in New
York at the time of the affair-.139-
. men 40 and so were present many
local people connected with the fac-
tor-y, included. .
Miss Lillian Donovan.
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Edimes to watch them Mary Pickford
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They, With Several Dtber Aspir-I
ants, Previously Announced inj
the Evening Sentinel. Are in ihef .
Brains and Beauty Contest
Have they brains and beauty enough:
Possess they ‘
to be movie actresses?
that
name is sometimes called “movie poi—l
sonality'"’ Those are the
Misa Donovan of Si
street and Mrs.
street, would have answered,
thus have they joined the. "Brains and
Beauty“ contest
the Photoplay Magazine and the
If they do lime the qual'
questions
log on the screen), for the (outset
closes March lat, and In an early is ,
sue of Photoplay the lucky. the very
lucky, winners will be announced.
"something" which for a better}
\‘i’as‘hingten; ..
Everson, of County;
and.
being conducted by:
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Prominent Republican Politician
And lawyer Expires Early This
Warning lll For Several Weeltsj
Alli.“ .ii'iili Democratic Party
Rs-Young Rho, Dot Cane Cut
Dpenly For Blaine
ASTAtM-F‘OR l), Conn,
and one of the most prominent men
politically died early today at the
Stamford ‘IHKIQFILRTJ’ e was one o!
counsel flIr the dates in the trial of
eleIen directors of the New York,
New Haven and iiuyuford Railroad in,
the government suit of New York,
and collapsed there recently after
making an argument in the case. lie
was brought back to this city and
taken to the hospital Some encour
ugemenf for his recovery was given
by reports the latter part of the week
that he was showing improvement,
'but late yesterday he began “to grow
worse and sank rapidly.
The funeral will be held Wednesday
morning ' from St. John’s Roman
Catholic Church at 10:30 o’clock.
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of
Warren 8. finger, formerly
Rowayton. but for several years
resident of Rochester, New .York,
spent he week-end at his home in
Rowayt Mr. Gager's trip cast was
a Combined business and pleasure
trip. It is good news to his many
friends in the Norwaiks to learn that
he has beenappoihted sales manager
for western New York for the Ross,
Weir Company, the target wholesale
tea and coffee importers in the coun-
try With offices in the island of Java
and with its main office in New York
city. The‘ offer'wa's a most flattering
one. and IMI'. Eager is to be congrat-
ulated on securing such a line posi-
tion. He returned to Rochester this
morning”
IRS. share are rat
or “TliE new cum"
Hand illuminated posters in the two
libraries and the window of Beers'
book store, are attracting much atten-
tion. The Oriental Loom In the same
window is eliciting much interesting
comment On the «Boom is to be seen
a half finished Caucasian ”rug in duh
blue, gold and brown It. is the prop-
erty and work of Louise WilliNnead
who tells the story of the Magic Car:
pet to many audiences and has her
loom at band to saplain- the process
of making the beautiful and throat:
treasured Oriental Rugs. Mfrs. Snead
will address as Norwsiik audience on
Friday, January 21,, at three o'clock
in the auditorium of the Harwell: Pubs
lic dam ”Hie people of Neruda.
and neighboring towns have s'- rare
opportunity to hear about a subject
that is fascinating to the majority of
people, and it is hoped ’thht all Twain
or the beautiful will avail themselves
oi?” the trait in store for them ~
Jan. 17.——~Mlch-.
net AKenealy, wellhnown u a have:
HYDRAULIC ()0
BOYS WISIPORI
WATER SYSTEM
Big DealCmW—Eaeilitates
Plans for Expansion of Bridge-
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A deal was.consumated yesterday
afternoon at the cities of the Bridge
port Hydraulic company whereby that
company purchased a controlling in-
terest of the stock of the Westport
Water company, which will continue
in business under its present name.
The deal was 'brought about. by tac-
expansion of the Bridgeport Hydraulic
company, which came in conflict in
a way with the water supply of the
Westport company. it was thought
best by the oillcers' of the local com-
pany to get control of the Wester
company, and by that method both
concerns would be taken care of with
out conflict.‘
Will Benefit Weltport.
This deal leaves the local company
an opportunity for further expansion
to its system, so in a way it \wilLbe a
benefit to the Westport district.
The Bridgeport Eliydraullc company
for a greater Bridgeport. That was
the reason that the company began
the building of the great Hemlock
system several years ago, which de
veloped the Aspetuek River. Event‘
the past. year. or more have shown
that the anticlpatlons of the growth oi
Bridgeport have been realized, but the
company intends to expand in antici
patios of a still further increase in
° the size of the city.
Will Build Tunnel.
in its plans for the future the
[Bridgeport Hydraulic company, wit:
whom the Naugatuclz river territory"
by building a tunnel through what is
known as Flirt Hill which will_ can
meet the diverting dam at the Aspe
tuck basin to the Saugatuck start point
near Valley Forge.
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CARNEGIE-8 SISTER-lN-LAW DEAD
BOSTON. Jan. lie-airs. Lucy Cole»
Inan Carnegie,;widow of Thomas M.
Carnegie and sister in law of Andrew
Carnegie. died of pneumonia yester-
day, at the home of her» daughter-.1
tura. nlivex‘ G iiickstson, in Waverley.
She was 09 yeari oi.
Luigi“. Cunegle's 3a or was a pion-
la the steel industry in Pitts».
“burgh: inns many years she was an.
enthusiastic follower-pf yachting, and
she was the first woman to join. the
flaw. York Yacht Club-
will be taken, to her estate on Cam-
bar-land 1W{'OE the Georgia coast;
- on burial.
‘Ollilliftlllt
has been preparing . fora long time .
Her body '
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llas treasures sitcom and
Will Tell of Iohr's larder
'l’lli‘lViiiiBNC l. R. l., Jan. t'i.~-!Wit-
passes through whose testimony the
state hoped to establish the presence
of Cecil V. Brown and Illenry H. Spell»
man near the scene of the shooting
of Dr (‘ Franklin sliohr. were called
to the stand today in. the trial of the
Iron amt-0&1: d tire. lilteabeth if
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The opening Alfie?“ s ' .v‘reek oi
the trial found the preliminary evi-
dence. of tho prosecution out of the
wayl Georgoiw. Heulis, negro ch’nuf-
four of. Dr. Mohr, who is awhftln sen
tones for manslaughter in coon ion
with the shooting. and who bu turned
state's evidence, was in readiness to-
day to tell on the stand his story of
the alleged events leading up to the
crime.
PROVIDENCE, R. l., Jan. 17.-—Wal-
ter L. Anthony. a civil engineer. the
first witness today. presented a map
.hehnd. prepared of the locality in
which Dr. Molar was killed. Attorney-
General Rice questioned him at length
in order to bring out the exact posi.
tion of all the landmarks that
important in making clear the alleged
{light of the negroes after the sham
ng.
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I. A. IOIIES. OIIS
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Franklin A. Tolies, a well-known
resident of South Not-walk? died last
eyening, at his residence, No. 25 Fair-
iield avenue. file has been ill for the
past few weeks, and a few days ago
his illness developed seriously Mr.
Times was eighty six years of age.
He was born in Wutertown, Connecti-
cut. but had been a resident of South
Norwalk for the past fifty-live years.
During that time he had been active
in civil affairs. and bad for many
yeatuwheid the allies stats:-
at, the South NorwaikAUnlon chooi
District, and had been a tax assessor
.of the town and city, positionswhich
lie‘filied“wi_th credit to himself and
the citizens of the territory he repre-
ranted. He was elected year after
year as selectman of the town bf
Nor-walk, and served. faithfully in this
positioni Duringsrthessarly days of
South Nor-walk he was a member of
the police force. and Aestsbllshed a
record for settling disputes and all
sorts of fatality troubles without mak
ing arrests.
He was a consistent member of the
Ismail: morwslklcongregstional church
and {ergonomic sexton there, tak-
heated with this church work. -
Ho lsAsurvlvetltlfy one son. wailing
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and
oral rvlcea will be bid own
home Ian. dem
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log a deep interest in all matters cow f ‘
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TROOPS OWE
PROMOTION
Aniaieens Being Concentrated at
Toraeon, Where it is Expected
They Will lie Ties Care of
OOOY OI OIROII OMIII
lie is Said to llave led in Mass-
acre of Eighteen Mining Men
WASHINGTON, Jan. l7.~w(‘oncen
tratlon of Americans ' at 'l‘orreon,
Monterey and other points where tiar-
ranzu troops can afford them greater
protection was reported tot the. Slate
Department by Consul-General Hanna
at Monterey. He said sixty Americans
and others, employed at the Pericles
oi Torreon, had arrived safely at
Ahltmterey. With them were a few
from Asarco.
plantation in the Laguna districu an
at Torreon and Lerdo, a suburb ‘
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~II’MOIII OIRIIIS III
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Nineteen bunched and fifteen when
r
good ear. There was: 17 more births
during last 2?“ ohm l loll had
there wereh more mar lages For
tunstely, however, there re 32 less
deaths in 1915 than there were durins
1914 According to figures procured
by Town (‘lerlt Herbert R. Smith. the
following comparisons are shown:
‘ 19H 1915
Births \ 611 558
Marriages 214 240
Deaths 378 846
OLD WELL ElREllAI
MARRIED REDDIIIG ClRl
A pretty wedding was quietly sol-
emnlred at 3 o‘clock yesterday after
noon when Florence May, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. George Burr. of Red-
ding, Conn, was united in marriage
to Howard D Finch, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John’K. Finch, of Madison street.
this city. The ceremony was perform
Ed at the home of the bride‘ s Aparents.
in Bedding, by the Rev C. .Mohr,
Congregational minister. : .
. Mr. Finch is a popular local fire-
man.
the Old Well Hook & Ladder Com-
OISTI’TCT, ITIITITCIIIMDIU'W Inns, in the. Central Fire Station.
. . m mend: extend to the happy
0T INST INT “OTTOI' couple best wishes Tor the» future Ar
ter a honeymoon trip, 'Ailir. and 'Mrs
Finch will take up their residence in
46 Spring street.
BEST SKATIIIG Ill . .
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good skating is being enjoyed in this
city All paths seem to lead to the
popular Mill Pond, on the East Side,
all‘ other eponds being more or less
sport on the Mill Pond. in the eve
ing the long strings of brilliant elec-
tric lights add much to the sport.
Scores of elderly folks who hereof.
been skating “for years" tire in prom-
inenoe lMuch credit is due Council-
man Irving D. Robertson, A. Canaveri
and Wilfred Asmhvant‘, who hustled
for subscriptions soinb thiie ago that
the dam of the pond might be re
paired. A,
trite our immune
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" aving in m‘lnd the ancient and
no blosferninine rights during lean
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Mining (onipany. near Maptmi north intention “I frustrating it.
Americans who have;
been on the property of the Tlnhualllo father and mother more than a year mee
He is a driver connected with ’
Mdeserted Yesterday afternoon. it was .~»
estimated that. any l,fiDD».enjoyed the -
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.lan. 17.~~lrvlng and
32 and 19 years of
age, respectively, taken into custody,
last night, after the police had ob-
tained evidence of an alleged plot to
murder their father, Furman D. Up-
dike, millionaire commission man. and
their mother, are still held in jail
today at Oak ‘Park, a suburb.
(thief of Al’olice Lee, of Oak Park,
said Herbert the younger son, is be-
ing held meleiy as a corroborative
witness, but he refused to tell what
charge, if anv, had been lodged
against Irving, the elder son. Accord
ing to a statement by the police, a
stenographic report of a conversation
between the two young men in the
Updike grunge gnw details of an al-
leged plot to killtlilr. and Mrs. Updike
because the police say the son feared
his father would change his will and
leave the greater portiunmt his as-
tate to other members of the family.
Herbert, according to the police,
entered into the alleged plot with the
It was
Herbert who reported the matter to|
the po.lice
“lrving told me he was going to kill
t‘llltTA‘G-O,
Herbert i'pdike,
ago " the younger son told the polite}
“We used to go down in the basement
nights and talk about it." When ar-
rested, according to the police, Irving
first tried to implicate his brother,",
and' then made a complete confessionl
The officers were hidden in the gar
age, where they took a stenographic,
report of the conversation between-3
the brothers and later, they say, they
.found a shotgun and two automatic
pistols equipped with silencers.
OIIOIR POIIOE OOIIRO
IIIOIORY RIOI’IMSI
wnsxrrtuin), Mesa, Jan. 17. I
Guarded by more titan one hundred
state, Metropolitan, Springfield and
local police, the two plants of the
H. B. Smith Company's Foundry,
which has been tied up for several
days by a strike of three hundred
laborers and sixty machinists, resurn
ed operations this morning. It was
estimated that five hundred of the
company's eleven hundred employee
returned to work. There was no vio
lence of any kind“ reported. The strlk
era plcketed the company's plants.
but made no attempts to interfere
with the men returning to work.
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Joseph Raymond, a former down
town boy. was a member of the crew
that inanned the illfated U. S. sub
marine Isa, on which a mysterious ex-
plosion killed four men and seriously
injured ten others. Saturday. The 1°.ng
out boy was unhurt. Yesterday morn»
int he sent a telegram to his father,
Charles G. anymond, of {Railroad ave
nue. informing him he had escaped
injury. ‘
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CHEROKEE, . Iowa. Jan. 1?.——A
Sioux Falls passenger train of the
Rock Island northibound train,was
wrecked near Primghsr, Iowa, this
morning, four coaches and a sleeper
going into a ditch. many passengers
are reported injured. A relief train
had been sent $.0th scene \ier’
mm streams? «some
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The semiofficial 0v r ,
News Agency of Berlin discr
. the announcement that}
.- agency, “the Foucault must
RIlISH ""
General Aylmer Forces
line-y to Retire Alon;
the Tigris, and Solo ill: _
South of lini-el-Arnaraié? ,
Pelrogratl Claims Gain”.
and Says Germans Ah
lighting With Turks h
Persia
The ,Turks are now being ‘35
tacked by both Russians and»
British. In the Caucasus till“
Russians, greatly reinforced. a“
on the offensive along a front Ii
almost a hundred miles, while u
Mesopotamia the British haw
forced the retirement of the OM
man troops along both banks
the Tigris river to the south.
Kut-el- Amara and still“: do
TV pressing them on the cast a“
the north. '
Constantinople reports tbfl‘
near Karadach the Russians wee!
ting with mmy difficultifi
while Petrograd asserts that ‘
some unnamed place a large nulls
'ber of Turkish officers and may...
war materia‘ s and provisions
eight guns and eight ,.machiue
guns were captured by the Run»
slams. Successes for the Rusai
in the fighting in Persia also all
reported by Petrograd. In its. 0%
his! report Petrograd makes
first announcement that the _
mans are fighting with the N,
in this region) .
The Turks in rctreatlfigh‘ slow
the Tigris are those w
held back Gen. Aylmcrs Calm
proceeding up the river to the i‘
lief of Kat-el- Amara. 0n the
er fronts except in Montreal
fighting is in progress. Th,
fensive of the Russians in. ,3,
Galicia aanalong the Bearers ,
front has again died down.
the line in France and
the operations have canals
mainlymi artillery duels' and:
log and counter “finlitng wozlhn .
bi British guns ave~ ro
shills' into Lille, but Berlin am
only slight damge was done
A trench taken by the AW
Hungarians from the Ital!
near the Tolmino bridgehead
an increase in' the Italian
bardment of this region and ‘
or Gor‘Izia, Mrzlinh and In
San Michele form the chifl ”cw
0n the Austro-Italian Inn; . , .
Montenegro the Austro-H ‘ ‘
dens continue their pursmt
Montenegrins capturing. f; j
them positions and men
groditz to the east of Cal
and Nisie are thedat‘est places
ported evacuated. ‘
The Montenegrin govemm
is now at Scutari, Alba
cording to an unofficial ,.
from Berlin. Advices from R 9
say that the Italian cabinet '
begun plans for giving adequ ‘
assistance to Montenegro
Serbia but the nature at tin
and the manner in which 1
be rendered is not stated. '
French subInariric Foucault '
emitter of the ovate type in 2.
Adriatic. L. » ‘
- “Sine: no AusmHung
ship is missing,” alive the
sunk a ship of the Enténte
non MEET a tuna arrears
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.CU8T6M S qu VIOUfiTDfi
hrs. by mistake.” .
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