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scorn ”swans: A's—61th.. loanav, January 7, 1018
VENING SENTlNEL
ACSOCIATED PIE“ NEWS FROM ALL PART. OF Tl‘iE WORLD BY A SPECIAL WIRE AND OUR OWN OPERATOR
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iiiiti TESTS Pill ilN
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State Divided Into Fifteen
Districts ' to Facilitate
Work _ .
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be schedule of examinations for
automobile drivers’ licenses recently
announced by the automobile depart-
ment divides the state into fifteen
districts with special days on which
the applicants in the district towns
may go through their paces. The in-
spector will collect 32 after the ex.
aminatlon and if the applicant fails.
to pass the requirements. he must
pay an additional fee for mothers:-
aminatiou. After the applicant
passes. the inspector certifies to that
effect and with a receipt for the fee.
he will return the blank to the would
be driver. The blank Ind certifica-
tions with an additional fee of 82 Is
then sent to the' automobile depart-
ment and the license will be issued.
The fifteen inspectors are: Allyn
Fuller. North Canaan: Elmer J. Fen
wick. Hartford; David A. Viets. East
Granby; William H. Brennan. It.
ford: Frederick L Kirk. Bethel: W-
bur 1. Smith, New Haven; Charles W.
:Covert. Branford; l. L. Trowbridgs.
Nanettuck; Ralph Young Dauielson:
inertial E. Smith, Chester; John, G.
‘nghtman. Stafford; George H, Brad-
ford. Mnntville; A. H. Langley. Wa-
. tcrblry: E. L. Stebbins. New Britain;
. and Thomas J. Connor, Bridgeport.
' Examinations will be held in Win-
sted on Fridays, Torrington on Fri-
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iiiisi REGISIER $2,500,000 IN
Wifll it till llli usr YEAR
Government Will Gather‘Commissioner of Highways
’ Urges Prosecution of
I' 90:22:11? afitg‘ili‘glg-‘pfifi; Work Without_1.et-up
——Much Work to be Done ' ‘
Allllllll VEHICLE TAX
"Will PENNlNlllllN Nllll MS ”Hill?
' Til BE IN lillAllllE -
Amount For Permanent Im-l'
rmm , Will H ave provement Double That of
Charge in Cities and
Any Previous Year
, Towns of Less Than 5,000
be prosecuted without let-up and ex-
?» hat-amused Germans in‘the influx mad- maintained at the high-’
041 of Norwdk. as well as all over: “1 901'" 0' emu; that more and
1» United States will have toregister'more permanent 1’0“! Of the bish-
during the '9“ of m" 4th, ac-' est character should be the state's
cording to the plans of the Depart-l policv in road building; and that the
assent of Justice which my, dust been? increased motor traffic should lead
nuanced. the registration in this1 to a policy 0' cooperation‘ on the
our to be handled by Chief of Police Pa" 0' the Mate. railroad com
Pennington and in. autumn“), in Dur- panics and municipalities in the pro-
...“ 0‘ President Wilson's enemy greasive elimination of dangerous
die. mum. 'grade crossings. are the chief recom-‘
That highway construction would
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flAl MflVlNli
ll] iASTWARii
Tester“! mores of freiizht trains
passed through the
train carried a goodly number of cars
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city.“ and each,
ion-'will involve the gmhfnicndiitions in the report of Highway}
one; of detailed information con-, i
subbing the business relations and;
habits of every German. together with, ——————-
ills photograph and finger prints. Af- “Ecls
tor registering he must carry a certi- , I N N
(lento card and-may not change hl: .
also. i 5 without the ap-‘ ‘ , .
mval of the police. or the payment-i “ ‘ ”
or if he lives in a city of town of less) .
man 5,000...Iiolations of any of the. ‘
regulations will be‘punisbabie by lfi-‘t _ ,
.tcrm’int forth. war. THHMAS TRIAL
Prosecutor De Laney Ex-
pects to Know by Tuesday,
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BRIDGEPORT. Jan. 7.7«Alexanderl
the City court expects to get definite
«word from State's Attorney Homer 8.
,‘Cummlngs by Tuesday as to whether:
ipr not William “Baby Doll" Thom-
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=as and Jake llankins. better known,
men. membe s of the _as "Texas" will be tried at tlils term;
Ssglotnalrybeta‘wtohment locateli at Fort: 0' ”‘9 Criminal :Suilerior .court on
{Terry aided fa'tbe' work of rerun-"he charlie 0' murder. Attorney Cum,
relishing a fire which partly destroy-immgs ‘5 in Washington on business:
ed the post hospital at the. fort Fri-‘ and '0' "”5 reason Prosecutor no:
' .fiayrafternoon. SeVeral patients in: Lime” has been unable to set a deci-:
the building at the time of the swim“ "0m him. 2 f f
was dlscovered were removed in safe The “599 0i 1 " requcnters who.
1 and no 039' '“ hurt. Several 'of‘wcre arrested in the battle at The;
. “y” Connect“ Inen telephoned “'3‘ Doll's establishment on Water street:
7' or the fire to‘ttielr relatives unior' “ ‘e" '"kUKO- "'1 film are Min:
'R. In English. of Danbury: is “r, held as material witnesses..came up
soon in charge of the hospital.
~ in the City court this morning and;
'I'Iselcallse of the use is not known
rust Hospital, Where Con-
necticut Men Are Located
Burns—No One Hurt
Jwere continued to Tuesday morning:
w it. was first seen in the building at! l
mas-and in fight minutes fire calll ;
bud been sounded and the ofilcers’ I
and men were. fighting the flames ln‘HOLD M AN FOUND A
125.1“: d.“l.‘.'.i"..§‘ii.‘“"‘”°““°’ WITH MAPS UPON
HIM, as SUSPECT
The hospital was of brick. twoj
stories in height and divided into, ,
two ham. The front Portion '35: new BRITAIN. Jan. 7.—Detectives
burned and rear “Yeti COMM" today said that David Andersonf'age‘d
"at”? of the furniture and equipmellt 23, arrested here late yesterday, had.
”was saved by the soldiers. {in his possession maps of New Brit-L
'aln and New York and blueprints of
'(Contfnued en‘s-until his; .
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PETER FOLEY WILL . i machinery in the factories of the Colt
‘, Patent Firearms (‘0. of Hartford and
RETURN TO NORWALK' the New Britain Machine Co] Antler;
- - son is a native of Sweden and has
» Peter [Foleln for ‘the past 018“ been in, this country since January
wars southwestern sales manager of 1917, The police-say he told them
“10 Blickensderfer Typewriter Com- he had been sent to America to ob-
l-any. is spending a few days in Nory taln trade secrets and that his ability
wk, and will shortly mOVe from 8!. as a draughtsman facilitated his er-A
fouls to this city. to become a mem- rand. l
lu-r of the executive TOTCQ.‘ of the Clo Antitrson'a explanation is not antis-1
,ful. k Knapp Hat Company. factory to the authorities and be has:
Mr. Foley graduated from the Stu been given Into custody of federal of-i‘
Louis University in 19“. wilh the de- ncors,‘ who have taken him to Hart-
gree of bachelor of commercial sci- ford on the ground that he might
""09. having specialized in tho com- be a German spv. He received 3200
lllf'fce and finance branches. He has from Sweden 8 short time ago but
tilt-en a member of the faculty of 31- Insists that it was sent by the per-
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1mg, Univenfly for the past llll'fO son who employed hint to come to
years as instructor. He is also chair- this country in quest, of American
Iran of the membership committee in manufacturing methods.
, the chamber of commerce sales manii
ager'a bureau. and vice-president o
u". snegmmmpclub the largest club OLD CRATER
- ... 8t. layout, with 3.509 members. He NOW ACTIVE
.3. grand knight of Laclede Council,
lialshfa of Columbus. with 1.000 mem- SAN JUAN DEL SUR. Nicer us
here Mr. Foley'- Vlf! 1"" WWW"? Jan. 7.-frazu, a volcano llzooaleet
Miss Theresa Conway. 0' South N0" high near the city of Cartago, Costa
out: ~ M in” '0‘" children. 0' Rica. is manifesting signs of eruption.
whom "I" “'0 "I” proud. W'- Fol. The old crater ls vomiting immense
on: than install; 1' a helm“: 31:me volumes of smoke.
‘ o e "fifty ty :lu an w on I The p tion of n Jose, the
has makes a success of life the best q.“ .w tfi‘aE‘m‘o'imd
ttho neighboring t . are growing
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Will’s lAWlfli;
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A Doaen Masked Vigilantes
Take Attorney Maximilian
von Boegan From Home
and Ill Treat Him
lulu Will
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Tar and , rs Threat
glib fialfl’perCiti-
m' , Conn. nan. 7,—No
will be made of
the attack upon-flutter lutmilian
vonBooganoflhfacttybyamaskd
vigilantes' conullttee.
Von Hoegan wrote "Deutschland
eber Alles" at the top of his draft
questionnaire last week and boasted
of it. A group of twelve armed men
broke into his house Saturday night
and pulled him into the street. After
' making him kiss the American flag
and retract his disloyal utterances,
'they gave him a sound thrashing.
Peeling had run high ever since
A
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. :the publication of the German attor-
ney's answer to the questionnaire.
Before that be had written in one
instance: “it is a! doe fill honor to
be a cltlsan of the States."
and in another. fthav an overwhelm-
, lng desire to see Germany victorious
do this war."
The young lawyer
.worse things. but was tolerated. This
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said a lot of .
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9John C. Sherman Sustains
l a Loss and Oil Stove in
‘ Home of E. J. O’Connell
Explodes
The Central fireatat‘lon was called
out at 10:20 o'clock yesterday morn-
ing to go to the house of John C.
Sherman. at 50 Putnam avenue, where
an overheated furnace had caused the
tire to break out between the floors
and along the sidewalks as far as the
second story. it seems that Mr. Sher-
man, who is yardmaster for the N. Y.
N. H. 6‘: 11. R. R. company here piled
his furnace full of food, yesterday
morning. left the drafts open and and
went to the freight yard to look after
some business. He had placed a
basket of corn that he was attempt—
ing to dry out on the top of the heat-
er and when the furnace became over-
heated this caught fire and set fire
’to the rest of the house. How long
the five had been burning when it
was noticed and word sent to the fire-
'men is unknown. but when the fire
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‘SliiAl BULLETS
CAUSE VlliAflE
ll] BE VAEATEII
Community Near Camp Dev-
ens Obligcd Move by
Feb“!!! 71‘. use 0
-Danger “ on of State
Roa May Be Closed
Rain Or Show Tonight‘
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liMPflRARIlll SUSPENDS
All Pilot Sillllii
MAYllll llllNliVAN
fills Mflilii [AAA
40 Tons of Pea Coal Ready
Tomorrow and More Cars
on the Way
Frederick L. Lsmsou has Just re
turned from a visit to Washington.
where he conferred with Dr. H. A.
Garfield. National Fuel Administrator.
shout the coal situation here. Dr.
Garfield informed Mr. lomson that
500 cars had been diverted to New
England to carry coal and auggeated
that Mr.: unison wire Mr. Sparrow
New England Coal Administrator in
Boston, to send porne‘ coal here to
the local fuel committee.
Mr. Lamson did so and part of his
wire reads:
“Five cars of domestic size coal a
day for five days necessary here to
avert suffering."
Mr.’ Lamsou'a telegram also said
that the coal was to be sent here at
once and would be distributed to the
local dealers. and that the National
Bank of Norwalk would guarantee the
payment. He illso asked that Mr.
Sparrow wire him today.
Further than this be wired to Thom-
! as Russell. fuel. administrator of the
State of Connecticut. scoualntins him
with the wire that he had sent to Mr.
Sparrow at Dr. Garfield's suggestion
AYER. Mass. Jan. 7r-Govcmment
officials have ordered virtually the en-f
of coal. One train of lot) empty coal , time people demanded that he be pun- tire community of Wood's village. a
care returning to the mines wen;,ished. Hts questionnaire was submit-isectlon of East Shirley to vacate “11°" “10“” be he” within a very‘Limvgk ill a vain attempt A” W'
The ted to AltorncyGeneral GNSOTJ‘.'bu1ltheir houses by February 1 because
thrce South Norwalk coal dealers that official held that unless Corigresrilof the danger of flying bullcts from
several cur‘passed some additional ruling Yon‘the rifle range at Camp Devens, it‘
of State’s Attorney’s De.‘ loads of cool on the way. All this,HOegan could not be penalized for
'_ is visible evidence that coal has start- what he said. being protected by his
ted moving. While the weather is not lcitizenship.
through yesterday afternoon.
have four cargoes and
real propitious today, the tempera-
ture is 40 degrees higher than last
ll). DcLaney. prosecuting attorney of: Monday. lf everybody keeps shilling ‘ c;tizen."
and helps by keeping one fire. instead
of two or three. by sitting the ashes
and saving all burnable clnders and
by burning wood when possible, it
will help to ease the. situation and
will assist in "going over the top"
of the present fuel problem. The sit-
nation in Norwalk is not near as bad
as it was during the, log coal strike
in the year 1900.
NEVER RECOVERED
FROM OPERATION
After months of suffering following.
an operation in the Norw'alk hospital.
Mrs. Anna Maria Cnstellano.'nee Al‘
berm. died at her home, 17 Hamil-
ton avenue last evening. about 11:30
o'clock. Deceased was the wife of
Selectman Philip Castellauo. She was
born in ltaly, and has restatdln
South NorWnlk about fifteen years.
During her stay here she has sur-
rounded herself with a hostof friends.
in August it became apparent that
an operation was noceasnrv to alle-
viate her suffering. but the hoped for
improvement did not follow. and up
to the tlmo of her death she has
been an intense sufferer. Mr. Cast-
riinno has the sympathy of a large
circle of political and personal
friends in his bereavement. The fun-
eral, Will be held from St. Joseph's
church, Wednesday morning at 8
o'clock.
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WAS MADE A
MASON BEFORE
LEAVING FOR WAR
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James W, Storey. Jr.. who is‘ liable
at a moment's notice to leave his rel-
gatlves and kinds m Norwalk for
army service somewhere in France.
or elsewhere, had the. distinction of
being made ‘ master mason at n
special communication of St. John's
lodge. No. 8. F. and A. M. in the
Masonic Temple. Saturday afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock. The new member of
tho fraternity Is the son of James W.
Storey. the most prominent mason in
the city. and it was his desire to be-
loome a member of the order before
leaving for the front. . The conferring
of the degree was [witnessed by a
large delegation of St. John's Lodge
members. A very pleasing coincb
deuce was the presence at the com-
munication of three of ithrl olfiist
members of St. John's Maire, namely.
George :W. Ramona laud son.
Charles 1'. Tristan and son, and
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People Demanded Punishment.
He termed Von iloegan a “paper
A movement to take away
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MISS murmur
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250 Relatives and Friends
Witness-the Ceremony in
the South Norwalk Con-
gregational Church
in the presence of about 250 friends
and relatives of both the bride and
bridegroom. Miss Florence it Storm
only daughter of Mr. and Ira. Frank
R. Starr. of it Westport avenue, Nor-
walk. and Harold R. Nash, son of Mr.
and 'Mrs. Lewis 1!. Nash, of 198 Flax
Hill Road. South Norwalk were unit.
ed in the bonds of matrimony at the
South Norwalk Congregational church
on’Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. by
Rev. Ernest l". bchregor. pastor of
the First Congregational church in
Norwalk.
The best man was Henry James. of
Monticello, N. Y.. a college class mate
of the bridegroom. and the ushers
were Herbert Morse. ’of Hartford:
Arthur Collins, of Philadelphia; both
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HARTFORD. Jan. 7.-clt is expected
that the Boy Scouts will play an ex-
ceedingly active part in the thrift
movement which is now under way in
Colin-fictlcul under the direction of
Howell Cheney. state director for the
national war savings committee.
Heads of the Boy Scouts in this state.
have offered their services to Mr.
Cheney. and it is expected that the
boys will be able to render exceed-
inglv valuable service.
If is planned to use the Scouts ex-
tensively in the house to house can-t I
vasoes which will soon be undertaken] A CANADIAN ATLANTIC pony. The novel arrangement in Attorney
in every city and town in the stale-Jan. 1.-A Canadian glgwglflp of Davis' private ofilce is the can“ of
Mass meetings for boys will be held 2m tons wont ashore today. duringmuch favorable comment. About one
' adouebogontheOapoBretou consul
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was learned here tonight, Announce
meat was also made by Major J. M.
Wainwright, chief of stafi at the can-
tonment. that the state highway com-
'mlsslon would be asked to close a
isectlon of the state road from Bos-
ton to Fitchburg. for the same rea-
lzon. This road is the main automo
bile thoroughfare between Boston and
Troy. N‘. Y. '
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HVE illE lililli HAS
Low Pressure Menace Due to
Demand For Fuel
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PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 7.—-Pive per-
sons were asphyxiated and fourteen
others were overcome )yesterday by
;gas used as a substitute for fuel to
isave the dwindling coal supply.
in some instances the low pressure
[in the gas pipes. caused by an unpre-
tcedented demand on the supply dur-
ilng the last week. caused lights or
t
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’VlEWilllElllilNS V
; iN ilAillEN SUNDAY
Quite a number of people took ad-
; vantage of the fine weather yesterday
.to go to Barton and view the ruins
;of what was left of the Columbia Ho-
tel and the Stewart Store. together
with the rest of the Schlichting block.
Bates' teams were busy on Saturday
carting rubbish awav and in general
cleaning up the street. The cause of
the fire has been ascdrtainod. it
started from a plumber"! torch. the
flame going to some cobWebs. There
was also a kerosene oil storage tank
nearby that bud Just been filled and
the floor all around it was saturated
with oil for a distance of about ten
tinned on Pase Five.)
CAltlADIAN—STEAMER
ASHORE IN FOG
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Assistauu has been sent.
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and asking him to get in touch with
Mr. Sparrow urging him 40 do all in
his ”Wt-Watt) take care of Norwalk.
Political Situation in G.-
many Appears Disturb‘
Over the Attitude of b
Liberal Parties ’
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Lively Infantry Skirmish.
But. No Operations b_., '
Strength, on West“
Front ~
Russian eflorts to have Germ
acquiesce in the transfereneed
1the peace negotiations from B“,
:lritovsk, in German control, to t“
,ncutral city of Stockholm, app'h
{eutly failed; An official statem‘
tissucd at Berlin says that a 9..
‘lmlll (‘rown Council meeting di-
Ecussed the Russian demand, after
which it was announced the do
tings had been “temporarily an. .
pended.”
5 The report from Cerium snub
,ces that fear of intrigue in Stofir
'hoim on the part of Entente int.»
Eests would endfill "f the work ‘
tile plciiipotentln 05, lb notoono‘ . ’
itirmed from Petrograd. Foreign
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IN PHILADELPHIA
Thus with the aid of this [mini Minister TFIIley went to Brest}
Ishort time if the wires are heeded.
Norwalk may emerge from some of
the suffering that she has gone
through during the past week and a‘
‘Slltltlt‘ the Germans to go to St“
llolrli.
in Germany the. political situno
tion is much disturbed over tit
attitude of the Liberal parties our
'cerliillg the government’s stand 3
itlie proposed transference. The 80-
cialists appear to be the stumbli'
gblock. and there is danger M
,tiicy must desert the Reichstag II.
'jority, making it necessary for it. .
government to re-form the part
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LONDON, Jan. 7.--”There.w.
occasional artillery activity M .V _
of Messines (Flanders),” “yob- '
day‘s ofiicial report. .
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in Saturday's Sentinel there appear. Berlin has issued an 0 ma h‘ '
der the heading: “Coal Situatioanirst Quartermaster-Occurs], has
About The Same." The last para- resigned. The general. With I“
John H. Light, chairman of the locaihur t t th C
, g, was presen {a e roIl
fuel committee said that orders hMICouncil, which decided to I.
but it‘ Was stated authentically at the _ .
There has been more lively up
Light hid hld Chit orders hid beeuifamry activities on the Wm
given out that they had not received.
h In Flanders near Arr.
they couldn’t get the coal when they lstrengt ' l , -. ..
went for their share yesterday morn-gand southeast of Verdun. the to
The local fuel committee did not re- little change in position i. D“
icelve the order from State Fuel Ad- ported. In France and on lb
i . t t at 12 _
gm: Th. we! comm" ee me lery firing has been about nor-Ii.
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l tors have dropped large quantities
IQuarters in the Town Hall’ofliomlls oil the Ramegmes—Clnll ’
' cinity of Mctz, Lorraine, Bomb
Attractive Appearance \vcre dropped on the railroad I.-
;ney Leo Davis in the Gazette Build- "WWW?” 0! illetz and on “I
ing at 34 Wall street were closed and (‘ourcclles Station, southeast d
°' “‘9 “Ham“ '0’ "‘9 first “m“ “intuit-merit on aviation activiti'.
0"" forty yew" Graduating from‘lsfillt‘fl last night. Many hits won
[at once entered the ofilce of J. Bel- ‘
den flurlbutt and later became assoc- caused at ( onflans.
lthe death of Attorney Hurlbutt in
1912, Attorney Davis has continued to —'l'he Entrilte Am” “in! {’3'
The new omoes in the Town Hall ed to take advent eoLtlie period
building directly across the street . .
f I h d ‘ h d t d t silence reJected thi pirogralndb,
‘urnse ‘wt new all up 0 ae~ ,w' outann “a.” ‘
{furnishings which present a plehsing peace “h 01
ed a news item on the front page uu-Inial that Gen. '0“ lindend'orl,
Graph 0' "“5 Wm "“13: "J“dEegchief, Field Marshal von Hind.-
' ll th I l d i re. , . .
been giyen to a e m ea 8 the Russian negotiations.
once of Harris I: Gana after Judge
ion. 1
any order. and that was the reasonlfmm’ but no operat 9 h'
" ifantry fighting was liveliest, b‘
fministrator Russell until Friday morn- Italian north cm front the. alt.-
LONDON, Jan. 7.—British Mb
I Building Present a Very airdr‘ome in Belgium and in the Vi-
Saturdav night the iofiices of Attor- “(m at f'ontianrt, on the “dim
the keys handed over to the owneriMotzv according to the ofieid
Yale In June' 1895' Attorney my“ made. An explosion and elite were
lated with him in partnership. Since ‘ ' ,
AMSTERDAM, Q. Jan. 3. "
‘occupy the offices.
of ten days of irraalgt have by thfl'
have been renovated and entirely
“warm” dcmnities, the blatt ‘ ~
Vienna declares. 0 Could
Powers-no longer ale, to they.
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principles they setup or P W
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