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COAT OWNERS "
HEJESTUEMAHUS
OE THE MINENS
Milli!- ”Silt
Anthracite Employees Are Refused;
t a Twenty Per Cent. Increase
Dver Present Wages
:‘iIIIIUSIIII iii
ON A 10W hint"
Propose Arbitration by the Board
of Conciliation
It?
NEW YORK. lFeb. l.—-’l‘he anthra-
cite coal operators rejected. here yes-
tertlay. the demands of their miners
for a ‘20 per cent. increase in wages,
C(ll‘lplt‘lf‘ recognition of the tinned
Mine *Workers of America. a two year
working agreement, an eight-hour
dii'y
jfixi ig wages.
The operators propose that if the
tiltierences cannot be settled by the
“interested parties"
and changes in the methods of.
themselves, the) A
JAPANESE
llHEN SINHS
WITH TOO
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'
DnIyTvventy-Dne Persons Reported
Saved After Collision With the
Steamship Linen
SHANGHAI. Feb. l."i‘he Japanese
Liner llaijin Marti was sunk Wednes-j
day night in a collision with the;
steamship Liner, and 100 lives were
lost.
Twentyone persons were saved.‘
The Linan. badly damaged, is return-
ing to iiong Kong
0081834 OINISA i
iii iOIl PRISONER}
A
iCounty Sheriff Pease Today MaltesA
A StatementShowing Daily Costsl
|
A of Feeding Prisoners
i
t
On January 1. last, Sheriff Simeon:
l
SIX WOMEN
IOSI IIIiS
IN BROONIIN
Home of Mrs. Casimer Tag, Widow
of President of Cerman Savings
Bank, Destroyed Early Today
icii on”
ONII hilt tsciii
Two Daughters, Cousin. Nurse and
Servants Suffocated
——..
.\'li\\' l’tltliK. Feb. 4. ~~Six women
lost their lives in a fire which de-
stroyed the home of Mrs. (‘asimei‘
'l'ag, at 213 Hancock street. llrook-
iyit. early today. .\irs. Tag. widow
of the president of ilie Herman Sav-
ings think, escaped. bttt two of her
iiatislitt is were among, those w on per
ished.
The dead are: Miss (‘aroline Tag.
and Miss lleleii Tim. the daughters ol
the late batik president, ‘Tlilllllflll I'Z.
Snavley, (Is years old. a cousin oi
be submitted to the board of concilia-ll’ease installed a card system at theI .\frs. Tag. Jennie Sietliiian, a nurse.
lien provided for in the award of the
anthracite coal strike commission oi
Eiffel The niiners' demands were
{oi‘tiiulaled last September at Wilkes-
!Tlarrc, Pa, and were ratified last week
by the United Mine Workers“ convea
Ilwl at Indianapolis.
iccnflnupd on Twelfth P2180)
t
PIlIlI Oilill OIIII
i
lJner's Paseangers and Original
Ship's Company liberated by
‘0er of United States Govern-
ment
[I'Ly
pme crew remained today aboard the
tor-titer British passenger steamer
'Appain. brought into these neutral
writers last Tuesday as a prize of
war. The liner's passengers and orig-
:1qu ships company. taken prisoner
when the steamer was captured by a
mysterious ‘ierinan raider off the
Canary Island January 15, were libor-
titt-il last night by order of the United
inflates Government.
the passengers today were aboard
the Old Dominion Liner Jefferson, en-
:r'oiitc for New York. where they were
expected to arrive early tonight. The
«members of the crew. with the gun
pointers taken from other British
steamers which the. raider sank be-
fore the Appam was overhauled, were
in Norfolk awaiting the stilling of
another New York steamer tonight.
The Appam is to remain at this
ptt.‘ until the Washington Govern-
Jltt'lll decides what disposition of her
ON BOARD THE APPHMi
l . . .
ieers salaries. which are paid directly
county jail for the purpose of know-
ing just Tl'l“ much supplies were re»
eeiveJ l‘T lit" jail and how much were
used Today he made public a state
nieiit of the amount of foodstuffs
which was consumed at the jail dun
ing the last inotitli and also thej
amount of coal which was burned.
Following are the amounts of food-
stuffs used: 0,071 pounds of bread:
l35 bushels of potatoes; JG barrels off
cabbage: six bushels of carrots; 100
pounds of corn meal; Hit pounds of
oatmeal: 2,501 pounds of fresh meat;
2,248 pounds of corned beef; 112
pounds of coffee; 20 pounds of tea;
fat; pounds of rice. Eighty-one tons
of coal were burned.
It cost iii and a fraction cents At
day to feed 210 prisoners. ciotliei
them. provide fuel for the jail and to
pay all expenses outside of the offl-
by the ('ouiitycommissioners. This
has been the average for the seven'
months in which Sheriff I’ease has
been in charge of the jail.
I During the month of December. lti
l W.
.Christian Church
lobtained any deficit that may develop
__..__ Icost a fraction under 14 cents it day
.\It1\\'l"()lt’l‘ NEWS, \‘n.. Feb. 4.», . .
Lieutenant Berg and his smallll’nsnm‘rs "“"i' 9
to feed each prisoner at the jail. Thei
xcelleni foodstuffs in'
Aliberui quantities.
. I
AAONENT TITHINO UlASS A
» ~ as thin OI ttti‘
i
A balance of $119 was reported asl
being in the treasury of the Tithing
Class of the East Norwalk Advent
at the bi-montlily.
meeting of the class held last cvcning'
in the church on Van Zant street. A
The Tithing Class is composed of
20 members. Each person contributes
one-tenth of tits or her income into
the treasury. Out of the fund thus
in the church finances is taken care
of. After deficits are covered. one
tenth of the balance is devote“ E'uai
ly between mission work carried on.
by the China Mission. the Indian fills-
und Anita (‘ain and Lizzie I‘ain, sci“
Vitillfi.
The fire. which began in a partition
on the lower door of the four story
house, is attributed to defective in
.llllltllOTl of wires. Miss Caroline Tug
was awakened by smoke and discov
ered the fire about three o'clock this
morning. Hustening to the telephone.
she notified her brother who lived in
an adjoining house, and theft tele-
phoned to the fire department. A~
she gave the address of her home to
the operator at the the headquarters
‘nlie said: “i am being overcome by
smoke."
Miss Tag awakened her mother.
who is on years old, and aided her to
escape through It third story window
to the roof of an extension in the
rear of the house. Apparently bliss
'I‘ag then went to the rooms of her
sister anti the other occupants to
awaken them. and she with the others
was trapped by the flames and smoke
which filled the trails and Stairways,
cutting off their means of exit. There
were no tire-escapes on the building
and the firemen were delayed in
reaching the house by heavy snow.
When the firemen reached there the
building was blazing furiously. Mrs.
Casinier Tag was taken down from
the roof of the extension to safety.
btit it was not until after the fire
was extinguished that tiic bodies of
the six victims were discovered ly-
ing iii the rooms and hallways of the
third and fourth floors. Miss Caroline
'i‘ng was engaged to be married on
February 15. Her father was promi-
nent in the tobacco industry as well
as in banking. and left an estate esti-
mated at $1,500,000.
lOOHINO EUNWANO TO
COMMUNITY HAll
Eastllornalltlmprovement Associa-
IAHUANY DEATHS
GREATEST IN
CITY’S HISTORY
last Month There Were 62 Deaths
in City of Kornalh—A Year Ago
There Were But 17 and Ten
Years Ago in l-uary There
Were 41
W__-_
PHEUMONIA AND ONIPPE
CAUSES 25 DEATHS
if Ages of Those Who Died last
Month Were Added leather the
Total Would llun Into the
Thousands
__.__———
The first month of the new year
of lttlt; lllt It' were exactly 02 deaths
in the City iii Xorwalk, a record which
Town t‘let'k Herbert ll. Smith con-
fidently lll'llt\l‘S has never before
in the liistniy of The Norwalks been
exceeded
In Januaiy of last year, 1915. there
were only if deaths. or if: less than
there wen iasi month. There were'
it deaths in this city during the
month of January in the your 1914,
two years ago, or 21 deaths less than
I
TIl'JT month.
The startling merely in the alum-i,
ber of deaths here in‘ due directly to
tilt' epidemic of grippe and pneumonia
which swept the country and hit Nor-
walk especially hard. last month
there were lit people who died of
pneumonia. many of them only after
it few days illness. tirippe was the
tilrt‘t'l cause of 7 deaths last month.
it is noted that the majority of the
people who died last month were quite
old. or well past middle age. For this
(Continued on Twolftb Page.)
OUN UNOTHEHS’ -
lOUUE HAS SHONE
Members and friends of Our Bro‘
thers' Lodge. No. 10, I. 0. 0. F.. en-
joyed a very pleasant evening last
night. at the smoker and entertain-
ment given by the lodge for their
benefit. ’
Card playing. vocal and instrument
at selections furnished entertainment.
and excellent refreshments which
were served completed the good time.
Frank Bruihtwait. a profsional pen
former from Bridgeport. was present,
and entertained the crowd in fine
style. Vocal selections were render-
ed by the Red ttlens' quartette, and
wre enthusiastically received by the
audience. Solos were
Harold Hall and Herbert Pollard. two
local men whose talents in the vocal
line are well-known and appreciated
in Norwulk. Instrumental music was
furnished by to New Cabaret Orches-
tra of Norwalk. tRefrcshment-s were
CANADIAN
PARIIAMINI
OISIROYIO
Six Persons, Two of Them Women
Guests of the Speaker’s Wife,
Are Known to Have Been Killed
HOUSE WAS IN SESSION
WHEN TIHE STARTED
Members Were in Mad Scamble to
Escape With lives
(l’l"I‘A\\‘A. Feb. l; -(‘anada’s
iiiiiceut Parliament building. which
cost more than $0,000,000, lay in
ruins today, swept by a fire attribut~
ed by some to a bomb or infernal
machine. At least six lives were lost
and many persons were injured. The
mag-
] Mohr.
3 .lohn J. FitzGcrnld, of counsel for
j that
it‘lient to an injustice." in its refusal
lto permit her to be tried alone. Thei
rendered byl
AMUHOENER OE
,iii‘e was under control at :: a. in. to-
.l-ty, nJer ‘iffllllfi furiously for six
hours.
The known dead are:
Mine. llray. wife of Ti. .\. “ray. of
Quebec. and daughter of the Tuit’
George 'l‘anguny, of the lA‘fllsliilH't‘
, Councd.
. .\fme. Morin. wife of Louis Morin.
of St. Joseph de 'Tittuee, Quebec.
Robert Fanning. a waiter etiiployel
iii the building.
Alph den .lardiui. ti lioininiou pos
liceuian.
A. den Jardins. a plumber.
I
. “——
‘ (Continued on Eighth Page.)
'ttiit littIIIitlliS
a trunnion CASE
t
; PROVIDENCE. It. 1., Feb. -f.—-1-‘inal
arguments were made today in the
trial of Mrs. Elisabeth F. MOTIF. C.
Victor Brown and Henry ‘11. Spellinan
lfor the murder of Dr. C. Franklin
will go to the jury tomorrow.
It is expected that the case
‘ lrs. Mohr. declared in his argument
the state had “subjected his
iprosccution, he said. had attempted to
ishow four motives behind its charge
ltthnt she had hired three negroes to
‘kill her husband. none of which he
contended. had been established.
j'I‘herc was jealousy, revenge. a desire
‘to get possession of the doctor's
money. and fear of divorce suit possi-
' bliltics.
’ Mr. Fitzgerald was particularly sc-
ion! in his discussion of the testi-
‘mony of George W. Rooks and Miss
"Florence 'Ormsby. Referring to Mrs.
:Mohr, who was in tears. .\ir. Fitzger-
Aald said that several of the witnesses
ftor the prosecution “have been shout-
iing ‘crucit‘y tier!”
A TWO EXECUTED
(Continued On F‘tmi Page.)
TOMATO SOUP IS
~ UESIOEUTT SUAROE
.\dvices are received by local groc-
erymen that by spring the stock of
canned tomatoe soup, held by the
bit: wholesale houses of the country.
will be exhausted. This is because of
the recent poo: crop of tomatoes, it
being impossible to make the soup
with canned tomatoes.
A representative of the. Campbell
ston and the Connecticut State Mis-
sion.
ury is what is left after the defleits
and mission work has been covered,
and this sum may be used tor any
worthy purpose. For a class of 20
it scents the members of the Timing
Class are doing their share.
POIIOEIIAII this
Of ORDINANOI itiittiis
'Tnis $119 which is now in the treas- .
a Company, traveling in this city yes-
terday. reported that his company has
wertising of tomatoe soup. and are
instead “playing
soup. which is more plentiful.
i
This morning one of the members
lof the street department, accompan-l
“taken in" all of their extensive ad-i
led by a. policeman. systematically}
went over the streets of the city andi
tip" the vegetable. took the names of those property own- .
_ One ; ere whose walks were not cleaned A
ilownt'dhi dealer states that tomatoe i of snow. This list is now in the hands
soup at year ago could be bought tor’: of the police. and will be Immediately!
l
tion Enters llpon Another Year
. of Active Work
The East Norwnlk Improvement
Association having entered upon an-
other successful yenz' of active work.
iand with a largely increased member-
ship list. it is still looking forward
hopefully towards the accomplishment
of the purpose for which it is always
persistently strivinghviz; the Com-
munity Hall. It’s treasury shows an
ever increasing fund, thanks to
friends. outside as wellvas in the asso-
ciation. and each subscriber's name
is recorded in the treasurer's books
so that we can point with accuracy to
.every dollar that has been given us
for towards thatobject. ’
If we are regarded by a few as
’ltlctnrv in carrying out our purpose,
it is not because there is any diminu-
tion of often on our part.’ The fact
in, our aim is an ambitious one; the
cost of a building such as we have In
mind «being greatly In excess of the
served during the evening. and about;
one hundred and fifty guests departed.
at a late hour, having spent a very
enjoyable evening.
OSSIXING, N. Y., Feb. 4.——Giuseppe
vMarendi was executed today. at Sing
33' Sing, for the murder in Brooklyn, two
lv ars ago, of a policeman named Mur-
HAMES 0f IOOAI films A are. this.
AT STATE HUHMAl SCHOOL
Warden Kirchwcy was not present,
as he is 9pposed to capital punish
The Norwalk young ladies who
were in the 1916 graduating class of
meat.
liNI SONINS' IISN
the state normal. school at Danbury, l ,
were as follows: A
Gladys Stevens Brush, Marlon: fAIRlv SCARCE
Theresa DeWitt. Ethel Franklin
Downes, Mabel lFrances Gehrmann.‘
Gertrude K. Groeschner.‘ Edna M.
Morgan. Adelle Hyatt Palmer, Kath-
arine :Rose Prendergast, Sara CTEX-
ton Ryder and Margaret Lillie Smith.
The seniors at the school are: Irene
C. Donnelly, Mabel L. Jarvis, Bertha
A. Meehan. Katherine A. Tierney and
Iva V. Tilly.
' The, Lenten season. during which
fish as a food is used extensively. in
not very far off. One downtown deal-
er stated this morning therewas a
small scarcity in fish. and that as a.
result the price was fairly high. He
'satd that the kinds of fish most dif-
85 cents a dozen cans, but now thefturned over to the uptown and down
price is $1.25. Canned corn, peas. town prosecutors.
etc. are said to be plentiful enough. Warrants will be worn out for
but. grocers have been advised to lay those who have time and again no-
in a stock of the tomatoe soup to glected to observe. warnings of the
this them over spring. It is said ilils‘rnlea of the snow-cleaning ordinance.
soup is among the. most popular otland they 'wlll be halted Into court and
canned goods. ' fined.
amount of funds’ in hand. It would
,not be good business policy for up. as
in corporation, to assume liabilities,
that could not with any degree of
certainty, be met satisfactorily at the
l
(Continued on Page Four.)
.Goodwin. Kathleen D. Haugh,
The “juniors are: Frances H. Bail-‘ ficult to secure were blue fish and
witz. Mildred DeWitt. Lillian Dick- weak fish. Locally there is always
man,t1~1e1en Louise Fitch. Catharine a big demand for fish for Friday
Mary consumption. but during Lem vast
Elizabeth Holland, Jennie Joseiovnky, quantities of fish are sold in this city.
Alice IMnry Kane, Ruth B. Nichols. especially on Wednesdays and Fri-
Lulu Josephine Preusser. Marian L.
Thompson, and Jeanne H. Wilcox. *by Catholics.
\
days. which are observed as last days,
ENTER UPON
lOSAl HARBOR WORK 3
OETENNTO EON PRESENT:
Congressman lliIl States That Ap-I
propriation For That Purpose,
Will Not Be Made This Session ‘I
From the communication which the
Norwaik Chamber of Commerce has.
received from Congressman E. J. llill.‘
in regard to the talked-01' Norwatk
harbor improvement matter, it ap-
pears as if the local harbor would
stand without attention for some time,
owing to the more important work
of iteiense. which is n-rw before Con-
gress, and to: wliicii a considerable
amount of" money will probably be apg
propriated.
Congressman Hill states, however,
that later in \he session, the new
projects such as Norwalk, Bridgeport,
Siuiiiford and Greenwich will be tak
en tip, and ii is probable that Norwalk
will receive attention at that little.
tlwing to a slight misunderstand-
ing. botti by the committee on the
l‘vlllllt'l', and The Sentinil. L‘ was stat-
ed on January Lilith, that $206,000 had
been appropriated for the work. This
statement was a mistake however, as
t‘ongiessniau llill informs us in his
{continued on 5th page)
_ .___..,._.—
itiiisisittitijhttti .
AGAINST SAPT.~.HIISSIIONA
t1
Defendant Put on Stand tiling
Hearing in $15,000 Slander Suit .
-llational Cuard Officers to.
Testify
Horace M. Gray of Norwalk, who
had military ambitions, but who'ab:
leges that his aspirations were side-
tracked by Captain Albert M. Mosu-
.man of the Sixth Company of that
city. who wrote to the military om»,
clubs "that Gray was a bright young
man but possessed of an unfortunate
personality." is the plaintiff in a suit
against Captain Mossman for which
he asks $15,000. The suit for dam;
ages is based on the endorsement.
and Mr. Gray alleges that it killed'
his chances for getting a commission,
Verdict Set Aside. l
The case was heard two years ago.I
'Tllt’. plaintiff was given a verdict,
l\\'lll(‘l1 was set aside by the presiding
ijtldgf‘. The new trial began 'I‘hurs‘l
day. The plaintiff was on the stand:
51 day yesterday and the opening
day. and gave testimony that he sup-1
iposed that there was a prejudicot
‘manifest. he said that Captain Moss.-
nian gave him the “stony stare.
't‘aptain Mossman also removed himl
_ ias a gun commander. and placed him
Ant the left of the line when he rc-I
enlisted.
Hit PERSONS iii If » t
A itiiittc ctti ttiij
A I
Dverbroolt Ilotel Destroyed. in a
A fire Belived t’o Ilave Started in
the Kitchen ' A
ATLANTIC CITY, J., Feb. 4.—
iFive persons lost their lives and
Aeight others were seriously injured
Iearly today in a fire which destroyed
the Overbrook Hotel. at Pacific and
Mount. Vernon avenues, in this city.
The bodies of three of the. dead are
istill in the ruins. Several of the in-
jured are expected to die.
The fire is believed to have started
in the kitchen. When it‘was discov-
ered, flames were shooting up the
elevator shaft, and soon the entire
building was burning. There were not.
many guests in the house. but most
of them were aroused in time to es-
cape. Their exit was cut of! and most
of them had to jump from windows.
One woman was seen to faint. after
calling for help from an upper win-
dow and was burned to‘ death while
un—I—b
(Continued on Twelfth Page.)
A sociated Press today
,according to this information.
ion the Port. of Aviona,
Aoccupied by Italian troops.
TOSIIANIA NEGOTIATION
A NEW PHASE '1
President Wilson Returns
to Capital to Discuss Sit-
uation With Members of
tits Cabinet - -Cerniany
Will Not Admit the Shift
ing Was an Illegal Act
In the absence of official in.
formation. Secretary Lansing to-
day refused to discuss any phase
whatever of the Lusitania nego-
tiations. It appeared at the State
Department, however. that if of-
ficials regarded the situatiOn as
seriously as it ir reflected in Ber-
lin dispatches. it was not permit-
ted to appear on the surface.
Something definite may take
form after President Wilson re~
turns to the capital this after-
noon.
Secretary Lansing said that no
word had reached him of Ger-
many‘s later answer to the Lusi- '
tania negotiations as reported
in dispatches from Berlin. .
Early today the instructions
had not reached Count von Bern» «
storfi, the German Ambassador.
Information reaching The A8-
indicates
that under no circumstances will
Germany, admit that the sinking .
of the Lusitania was an illegal
act. .
The new instructions forward-
ed to Ambassador von Bemstorfl'.
contains simply one phrase ofthn 3
new formulation ol the proposed
note of regret, for thel sinking of'
the Lusitania. The suggested
sentence is short, consisting of
only eight words. and does not
contain the word “illegal." It
represents the extreme limit of
Germany’s concessions in the
Lusitania case. _
German-American tension . in :.
Berlin was again reflected on the
Bourse. prices declining modes-q
atly, in general. but war stock:
more sharply. The afternoon
newspapers for the most part ab-
stain from discussion, of the case.
The Novoe Vremva of Petro-
grad asserts it has received from
a trustworthy source information. . .
to the effect that the Turks have
evacuated Erzerum. one of their
principal strangbolds on the Can-
casian front. .
The Austrol—Iungarian Admir-
alty in a statement issued at
Vienna today. reports that three,
airship raids were made on the
Albanian port of Durazzo from
Tan. 27 to Feb. 3. The statement A‘
also announces that bombs live:
Austrian aeron an
dropped by . which in
it}
The official statement giveny' (j:
out yesterdav_ by the Austrggp *'-._
War Office is es followsr: ,
“A Rusian raid against our
vanced oositions northeast
von faile. .
Be‘ln East Galicia and Volhvma
there. was pronounced activrtv on
both sides bv aeroplanes. A Rus-
sian squadron threw six booths
on Buczacz. killing two inhabto .
terms and wounding several oth- ~11 .
ad-
of
Iers. Another Russian aeroplane 1
dropped a bomb northeast of '
Luckdrei. which wounded Rust-r.
sian prisoners. _
“An Austro-Hungarian air -
squadron successfully bombard? .
ed the districts west of Courthov, _
north of Zharaz. . .
"At several places on the Itale if
ian coast there was livelv artiI-f
lery fire. At the Tolmino Bridwea
head the Austro‘Hungarians by
sapping operations enlargedtheir
positions. In the trenches left by
the enemy many dead and a large
quantiy of war material were?
found. 3
“Austria-Hungarian vnnmrerdn
reached the district wedt of Krin-
‘voa. Albania.” . 2' '
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