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ESTALISHRD 187d
scorn Housman, can. ransom, AUGUBT 2,1917
Generally fair tonight and Friday.
llcllllllt Silllllis MANY u
PLACES IN NORWAlll AND -
Remnants DAMAGE
doseph Mueller Hit While at Rye Beach, and Thorston
,‘ Stabell Struck While in the Former Lighthouse at
L; Smith’s Island—Schooner Sinks Off The Knob—LWest.
'3" Norwalk Barn Burned
RRUSES llN EAST SIRFSERUCN,
' ANR ElRE MEN ARE KEPT BUSY
Hundreds of Telephone, Light and Fire Alarm Wires Put
, ., Out of Commission and Trees Uprooted in Every
til Section of. the Town
. .
,. __.
, Norwalk people experienced one ofl friends, went to Rye Beach. yeslela
the hardest storms in several yearsfday. to spend the day. They were
late yesterday afternoon, the delugt-lahOUl ready toreturn home when the
Raf rain coming lamid sharp flashesistorm came up, and lightning struck
the place. Mr. Mueller appeared to
-.
is;
‘SENlli l’lili
Pll0llllllll0N
UP l0 Sillis
Passes Dry Amendment
With Six Year Limit for
. the Ratification of the
Measure
SENAlllR RllRAR
' llAllRlllllEliAl
Resolution Goes to the
House, Where Its Adop-l
tion is Predicted
WASHINGTON, Aug. .—--A rcsolu~
tion for submission to the States of
'a prohibition amendment to the Fed-
eral Constitution was adopted yester-
0
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Whitman Orders Special
Term of Supreme Court
August 27
0NE-E0llRlR .
DISQIREIEIED
ALBANY, Aug. 2.—(}ov. Whitman
today ordered an extraordinary term
of the Supreme Court to be convened
in New York on August 27, with Jus-
tice John W. Golf presiding, to try
any indictments that may be found
as a. result of District Attorney
Swann's investigation into alleged
police laxity resulting from the mar-
der of Ruth Cruger. . ,
Notice of the Governor‘s action had
not reached District Attorney Swann
at a late hour yesterday. Mr. Swann
declined ,to comment on this new
phase of the case, but volunteered;
the information be rather expected‘
the Governor would take that course.
The Governor's action gave rise to
a rumor that a number of indictments.
would be made by tile present Grandf
Jury. which has been hearing the evi-;
dence in the Gruger case. The factl
also that Justice Goff. who presided;
Out of a Total of 121 Men
Examined. by Physicians,
Yesterday, 86 Were De-
clared Fit For Army
THIRTY-Till] SARI
ll] RE UNEIT
Three Cases Are Still to be
Determined, Doctors State
‘ lollllwcl
at the first Becker trial and the trialsi
llllllilillElll MAN:
Washington. Aug 2.—-Hoffman Phil’
Constantinople, was nominated today
by President Wilson to be minister to
Colombia.
George Pratt Ingersoll of Ridgefield,
Conn. was nominated for minister to
Siam. "h-
PAPER SITUATION
STRIKES SENTIN EL
Out of the 121 men who took the
MINIREERTR SIAM
ip, former secretary of the embassy at!
of the four gunmen, is designated loillhyslcal examination yesterday how ,The Sentinel, "err much against it's»
preside at the trial of any men urjfore the local board of exemption,§“'15h95v l5 printing an eight page edl.
dicted in the Cruger case lndicates.l over one-fourth proved unfit for ,nm,§llon today. This is owing to the abom.
according to the gossip around thelth-l‘l' duty. Carried out to a decimaln‘mme emphmg (“miles M lhé ralln
Criminal Courts Building. that there‘ the l’" cent. 01 unfllness is .2261m3d5' A 0‘" load of NDEI‘ is actual
day by the Senate. The vote was 65
to 29, eight more than the necessary
will be some sensational developAN-lfil. Out of the total number ofi‘f’here between South Norwalk and
meals of the case, and that the Gov- W911 examined, 86 passed. 32 were Glens Falls: a shipment from that
‘hnd terrific blasts of wind that did
‘of lightning, heavy pools of thunderl
be one most seriously affected. He
two-thirds. The vote surpassed pm-A'ernoir intends to figure in them toi‘h’dhm‘j unfit and three “'9"? unde-
poinl being necessary on account of
GERMANY BAllllNli Wllfl .
RENEWED VIRRR 10 ROAD
HER [IRES IR ElARllERS ‘
~——_
Entente Forces Have Made
Good Their Most Import-
ant Gains and Await Clear
Weather to Further Pene-
trate Teutonic Lines
l
l. s. mills“
NEEDED llAllll
Allies Cannot Count on
Much More Assistance
From Russia
\
Germany is battling with a des—
‘peration probably unparalleled in.
the war to hold her lines ill Flanr
ders against the combined Anglo»
‘ l
a considerable amount of danlagel was rendered unconscious, and was dlctlons 0f the opponents 0‘ the 1‘93“
. . . . , lution.
.over the entire city. It was one atomic badly burned. and one are an- 0
‘those brief “air clearers" which some-‘ peared to be strangely hurt. He was‘ A“ adopted lhocresolullon CONRAhS’
a large extent. ltermlned. Such was the result of a
The additional Grand Jury .whlchgmeeling of the local Board of Emma-
has been hearing the evidence in lheonn held yesterday afternoon at
the shut-down at the St. George paper
, . . ‘, .' ‘ .
mill. The papers throughout the lirench attach. hotwltllstandlng
acountry are having their own lrlbula- the heavy handicap EVhiCh the
:lions in zcillu; paper, hm this is ou\..atroclous weather has imposed on.
_ . ‘ ‘ .- - . . . . . .‘ hich those qualified for military
times follow a period of torrid and given first aid treatment. and as a provision that the States must betCrugel “59 did not 3" ”51‘7"”! and, w .
unbearably hot weather. "quickly as possible was removed to asked to ratify the amendment wilhln‘wlll not convene again until Friday“ duty “91‘0 chosen.
I first real ir'ouble. Sentinel readers ap- them, the Eutente forces have
Hundreds of wires were broken, the Stamford hospital. It was deenl- 31x years. The House 3““ must aCtl ‘ A
PM?” ”9"“ pages “h." and thallmade good their most important;
15 “ m ”"3“ a" 50mg“ 59‘ ba"“"Ef‘fgtlills and apparently are only
lust such a condition as exists a th . . . . . .
pregenp “me, ~~ t e awnltlng clearing conditions to
trees uprooted. houses and people} ed best to keep him there for a time. on the ”50mm“ (Continued on Page Five.)
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struck by the lightning. railroad and and his mother and other relatives C Senators voting to" ”‘9 resolution PANTAERAPHS [in A
trolley cars were stalled everywhere‘ in Norwalk were notified of the heel. _ FLAMES DESTROY blast their “.a‘. further into the
along the lines. and there was "en-idem. Mrs. Mueller went to Stamford Dem°°ra,m”’A“h“r5h lihmhhi‘h‘l- s - "‘—"' . ’ ' '
ml confusion for several hours. 3 {today to see the injured man. Moeller 8219:1135“ Lflflgflgnfiewi‘fizfig' TWICE 0N TRAIN KENNEL FOOD CO. gg$¥EE%I¥§L%g%L§E Region: fight». f f l , f.
Deep rolls of thunder in the ills. was one of those drawn in the recent - - - » I ‘ . 1 to one s p success 11 resus ->
lance heralded the approach of thefdlzft for the army. . Kendrick, King. Kirby, MCKEHM- ., ~FAIRI‘EIELD PLANT: . 8‘
glance to the Entente thrusts that.
The heavy wind storm, accompani8d=llave come from the Berlin War
by rain. yesterday afternoon seriously ()er “rem; b88611, 0.8 “final, on the
"1pm“ ”‘8 memo“ ”we" in the'umvalrantcd assum tion that an
southwestern part of the state, esp’e-l ' p '
lattempt had been made to break
l
storm about 3 o'clock, but as tho skyl Captain Thurston Stabcll. of Smith's gartin.Phfi'ers, lewlandls. Overman.
was bright little attention was paldglsland, was hit by lightning, and Sawenh 11311:: h.ltgii‘del, Robinson. . c, _ Flames of unknown origin razed
to it Not until ancrgxinmtclv lissclnewhr-t ininred. according to: re- Slflgoggy'smgf‘of' Ariz'gm’d'sgfi‘fgfii The train due at Darlen from the the factory or the Kennel Food Sup.
' " - ,'.t-' t .. el‘t‘in uth ." _ - . . .. . .
1-Ergoshlflind:léigougvirnlllnéhgf“ 2;“ §%TY“}:IE‘AV;’:‘ “13;”: (1?: heiwasoslb Georgia, Snnlb of South CarolinaJ‘ms‘ Tuesday afternoon at 3.37 met Di) compan) on Mill rlumn Failfield
, w . . ,3 with a double mishap belWeen South'last night. with a. total damage of it ~ "i“"l' in Bridgeport, 5‘1““de 811d
tlunuét timih wfi: {,0 ffllgmhflio, ”an on {an qiroinhbedlsllgtrildlnligmfim: lbnttgrl‘eh’TftE‘atEl’llzfoln'RN'Eggn‘{R§lrEElhm:m'.NorWfllk and the local station, which; proximately $15,000. lncendlarlsm wefsA hot-walk. 1" ”‘9 Bridgeport dlBll‘lCtpllll‘OUgll, and “Wm the fact that;
Crow 5 a. e ale‘S I ..(1: cy U] l\“ 0 ml“ 8 S . I ' ‘ ' ’ ) A
, , . , , . Wolcott. Total 36. ,delayed it almost an hour before that first suspected but late last nlghliyhifih ilncl'udcs m" cities and mwmiflt one 01‘ two points the German.
Effigmjlilhgvgafnk amhglatllgi thd-hth‘vof‘aig Elitellidhgldtfmtll‘li £3521ng indognl‘gzg Republic:lnls—:~B0l‘ah, Brady. Colt."puued "“0 Stamford. Just after 19“.?“ was ofilclally stated that it was n m 0“”. section Of the Statedmaflion resulted in 5mm? 0f the
~ ‘ . 1 3‘ 1m Rowa 'ton. one of the amagmphl sort of a unnnmtyn choice mmeeniabout 1.800 telephones were put outi ._ ~. I .. .
,reach their homes before the arrival. the window, the bed proving an at- C“““‘““*- Curtis, Fennld, [Ming 3 h p . 3 it!“ hd‘hhced fOHt‘S 0f the Allles
of the rain. llraclion. Mr. Stabell was badly
lof commission.
At " o'clock the. clouds had llllcllv'lmrncd and shocked and the room 5"" Of California, ““9“ 0f Washing-
huysen, Gronna. Hale. Hal-dine. Johnw ”0‘1“" ”memo“ ”0k“- ‘md as “3mm“ and ”outflows “mum’s" A large part or me telephone trolpfbcing pushed back.
i,
. r5 , 9 k . ,
’ . ' (there w. danger that the wr c ago lion. 1b]? was caused bi' trees being blown! French and British military
"cited and the thunder D0315 Wi‘l‘oi was set on fire. but the flames were ‘0“. he"0&8. lwilyoll. Knox, La Fol-
lwould tear down the overhead wires, Communication Broken .
, , , , , ,’ , ,down and striking the telephone!
nearer and the wind grew Simmmmqumdv extinguished with verv muelmte' McCumbcr, McNary, Nelson! the train was hailed for about a hall'¥ The fire was discoveled by Russellvnnes' breaking them. or at least m..obscrvcrs at the front apparently
(until at 5:15 a real gale was in pro-E damage to the contents. '—“"
hour While the damaged pant‘agraph Jennings, a carpenter. who Was pass-l since in entire avl‘eclnent "ls to th
. A was removed. The thermometer was,ing the factory about 7,30 o,cl00k'lterrupllng the “WAGE Repair gang . “_ ~ _ a. . l , | e ‘
” ' “MAW“ °" fifth 9‘ ° pent out after the storm and worked slllousncss ol llllsll‘lndl‘fi ibad «
Ellis: and “will, 1pli‘légtl:Elli:gillmtchebiihn A Il‘lrs. StRE’txlls‘tw:ll'omESN-abrii :3: 9 trying ‘0 Whi‘h the 100 mark at “19: He endeavored to turn in an alarml ‘ ‘ ‘ .. . - l t p0 > .7
1'3 0089 was 3‘1 .‘. ncl,an .l'..ae selewls :.- > —
.. Mats were Dh‘hi‘d Off (1001‘ Hells and lyzod for some time. Luckily they
who
. Inll ni ht with the result that a maior-' .
'tim'fi and the shined Cm were “mm the system had been damaged by; fly ofglhe damaged lines were restoredl‘maflm‘
‘Wirled for some distance. Ham; were able to get in touch with Dr. L.
mocks were blown down, and (‘hhh'fi M. Allen, who was on Wood island.
forced 011 verandas. - and he made his patients as comfort-
Storm Bé'eaks at 5:30- labia as possible. Dr. Allen reported
"3
ning interpersed with loud thunder.; ing nicely.
the storm broke about 5:30 and thené Taylor Avenue Fares Badly.
real pandemonium reigned.
Pedestrians clad in thin summer ning got in it's damaging work. Trees
mimenl were soon drenched lo the in from of the residences of Charlcs
Announced by a vivid Play of light. this morning that they were recovc -
On Taylor avenue the severe light-E
{ovens while. the passengers
ljunlped down on the rock-ballasted
lroadbed ,to watch the operation of re-
'moving the wreckage found it no
RAPE. MRSSMAN
THANKS PEflPlEI other end of the car Was then con-
. . ‘nected, and the. train started toward
. Darlen. but Just as it reached a. spot
Mayor Carl Axel Harsfrom has re-iopposlte the freighthouse, the second
celved a letter from Captain Alberti photograph went the same way that
N- “0551th thanking ill8 people Of. the first had broken, and another de-
icoolel- there. The pnnlagraph on the.
the storm and he found it impossible.
He next tried‘ to telephone and dis-
covered that the same conditions pre-
jvailed. Then in desperation he ran
to the fire‘hou‘se ,almost three miles
away. and summoned the firemen.
When they arrived on the scene the
cntlrol building, which is about '15
fret long- and 30 feet wide. was en.
veloped in, flames. Tile blaze had
gained such headway that it was im-
- .However, it is expected that the storm.
skin. and women who had taken their
children to the beaches in an effort
,Renl'don. LeRoy Adams and John A.
JVl'alkins were uprooted or otherwise
Norwalk for the company flilld.?lay was occasioned while that was re. possible to make any progress in thef
filo service early this morning. in the}
,largcr cities where the number of;
telephones thrown out of service was
great. the repair work had not been,
wholly finished at press time today}
damage will be completely repaired by’
‘tonight.
In Bridgeport. about 400 telephones:
were put out of commission: in Fair-
?fleld 137; Norwalk. 271: Stamford,
about 500; New Canaan, 128. and'Dan-
’l‘hc Allies had established git
superiority and the storm has pre-
A vented observation allogetltr, en-
tailing inactivity upon the big"
guns that are relied upon to blast
a path for the advancing infantry.
To the. low viability .also has
been attributed such success as the
Germans were able to gain ill their"
counter attacks, the poor sighting.
Mayor Harslronl reports that he has‘
to escape the sweltering: heal, couldldamnged, George m, Way's house
be seen everywhere half carrying": was struck on the side by the light
half dragging their ofispring along-Aning and set on fire. Timely work
Power on most of the Slihurhhhinvoided a serious confiagration. Fred
lines gave. out almost immediately Bellger's house was also struck, set-
and the. trolleys were held hi) FEW-nine file to the building. Frederick
oral minutes, while their passengers 3_ Hambupg‘s house shared a similar
frantically “pulled down the shrules"i fate but fortunately the damage in
and perched on top of the seats to, eachjnstanoe was alight,
avoid lhe flood of rain which swept; West Normalk Barn Bit-n3,
across the floors‘ The barn on the residence of Mich-
Many telephone» “DPS about the I ael Pntera. on West Norwalk avenue,
city and along the beaches were Dht] near Peck's Corner. was struck by
out of order by the storm but power, lightning, and burned to the ground
was restored today, and all damage,-beg0,e anything could be done. It
CO'I‘TPCihd. ' zwas a part stone and part wood‘struc-
The 9‘90”“: 59W“? 0“ the Newiture. and contained some hay. which
Haven road was temporarily destroy-l was burned also. Some wagons and
ed, by the storm and it “'35 neces'lllal‘n'?SF, etc., were removed by the
sary to place steam locomotives (my neighbors. Mr. Putera was in the
all trains. Thh? caused ’3 (1918." Ofldoorway of his home watchhlng the
from 30 minutes to three hours inlstorm and he lWflS knocked down;
many instances. , {but managed to get outside and found
Damage on East Side- til. impossible to do anything.
Several places in East Norwalk, The large shade trees on- the prop.
were damaged. A house owned by erty of William C. Beck. now..occu-
4 Miss Margaret Discher, in Van Zandt1 pied by Harry Bracken. on West Nor-
street, was, struck. and the lightning walk avenue, were blown down. The
LEASBE are.” the peak 0f the building.‘ maple thee went over the telephone
An alarm was sent in and the Third '
‘Diatrict apparatus Quickly ”950011de!
”The. damage was slight, it appeared‘
V after the firemen had been summoned
back to quarters, relieving been out-l, The maple trees on the residence
the ground. A setee and two chairs
on the porch were blown against a
tree and-knocked to pieces.
and electric wires, knocking them to.
nearly $140 more which will be sent
to the Sixth Company as soon as the
mayor can get at it. ‘
Fort Terry, N. Y.,
‘ July 31. .1917.
My Dear Dr. Hal'strom: ,
Your letter of July 30 received and‘
would any that. I received $534.25 for
{the Mess Fund. in the hurry and
'excitemcnl i wonder you could re-
member what was given you. I know
unless I had the actual amounts be
fore men, I couldn‘t tell whether it
was 50 or $500. It was so worked-up
by the generosity of the people that
I couldn‘t tell if i were afoot or horse-
back. "
We all wish to thank You for the
magnificent gift from the people of
Norwalk and for your work in our
behalf.
The officers have been mustered
into Federal service and the company
was mustered in today. The weather
has Been very warm, but a stiff
breeze has tempered the heat. The
boys are all doing well and I think
we will have a fine camp. .
. Thanking you again I remain,
ALBERT N. MOSSMAN.
Capt. Conn. _C. A. N. G.
STRIKES CLOSE SIX .
moved. Another car of the train was
fight against it. With the exception
also equipped with the pantographsq
of the storehouse. the factory was
'bury 117. The service in other townsmonditions preventing the Entente
in this section also suffered to somel
extant. The damage done put a large
number of important loll lines out of;
business, thus affecting toll service
,hetween all Connecticut points and
New York.
“DARE DEVIL”
DIVES TO DEATH
‘ ATNEW HAVEN
NEW HAVEN. Aug. 2.—-—“Dare Dev-
il" Whitaker, a diver and slack wire,
walker. while preparing to make a:
and this was connected with the
wires, and the train started once
more on its trip.
burned to the ground.
All Right at 7 O’clock. \
The Kennel Food Supply company
is composed of Simond'. Bradley,
former postmaster of the town; Theo.
dare Slurgls and Thomas Pierson.
Mr. Bradley, who is manager of the
company, closed it at 9:30 yesterday
3because of the intense heat. He de:
clares after the fire that he had pass-
ll,lllili REWARD
ERR LYNBHERS antacids“
' believed that either spontane-
Butlc. Mont, Aug. 239-1118 citizens . It 13 ‘ ,
of Butte spent a restless night owing 0‘13 combustion 01' hghthihg 93‘159‘1
- 'the fire. While the blaze was not dls- ., death lea p," about 9 oclock last
gigggflgfil iiggfgiiafy'ffflggiil covered [or more than an hour after} night slipped from the White City
radcs of‘ Frank Little a leader of ln-“lhe storm, 1‘ ‘5 “Wight that thefiN‘ tower at Savln Rock and was smash-
dustrlal. Workers of ihe World. whoimisht have smoldered for that “ms-led on me stone pavement many feet
-—-——---—-'-'- . . lighted some
was dragged from his hotel by, a party: lbelow. He bad Just , _
of seven and banged to a railroadiDISTRICT APPELLATE , {butlll‘lfi substtarnlgie oélpec‘tlsiliulffyadg
brid e earl' esterda . . ma 'e is ac . , »_ ,
Thge cily’cguncil a: the request of EXEMPTION BOARDAthe sight of the man hurling to 1113
Mayor W. H. Maloney, voted to offer a ldoom with fire bursting from all parts
Organization of the district aD-‘of his body, horrifieleflOO SDECtam‘E
pellate exemption board for this 'secn'Many ,qulnen lt'ainled. Whitaker.»
reward of $1,000 for the arrest and.
conviction of an one of the slayers of l , .
y " tion of the state was completed yes-i body was reducedto pull) when Dick-
terday with the selection of“ Judsefed up.
Little.. . . ~ [
quested Sheriff John K. O'lRonrlre lOAJohn J, Walsh, of Nesrwalk as chair
The metal mine workers' union re-
appoint 1,000 members of the unloniman and Seth L. Pierrepont of Ridge- GIRL SHOT BY .
special deputies to aidin preservinzy‘deld as secretary'- The Other me“? ' CONSTABLE HAS
peace. This the sheriff declined to numbers are E.‘W. Barrel and D. George ,
saying he felt it would be unwise. to* B. Cowell of Bridgeport and Hugh 0- LEG AMPUTATED
gunners from massing their fire
effectively to break up the enemy
concentrations.
Some important movement ap- ~
parellily is under way on the Rus-
sian northern front, which has
been holding entirely firm, while
the southern end of the line was
falling back. Now, however, the
Russians are reported to have
evacuated, tile Uskull bridgehead, ,
15 miles southeast of Riga, the
.Germans mocking into‘tlle evacuat—
ed-positions. The exact signifi—
cance of this development is yet;
to be revealed. .
Despite the .' hard fighting in
Flanders, the Germans are ‘con-
tinuing their pronounced activities
on the French front. Paris‘reports' ;
two attacks on‘» the French - lines .-
east and southeast of Rheims and
also in the Avecourt Wood sector f
in the Verdun region and in the
Aprcmont forest, southeast'of St.‘
Millie]. All these were fruitlesa
for the Germans.
“Looking from-the broadest as-
about twenty mihmav lof James, Holland. on West Norwalk
A barn OWEN by Thomas Ma“”“:,hvrnue, were blown ’dowu and missed
in Winfield street. was also struck, his big barn by a few- inches.
and the chimney on the residence of; Com fields were knocked .33 flat as
. Peter O‘Hara, 28 Howard street, was a “pancake" a resident told a Sen-
, also damaged. , Aline] representative this morning.
‘ 39mm“ Sinks. ' 1, Potaloe vines were uprooted as
A schooner owned by the Radel, though a cyclone had struck the sec-
‘ Oyster Company, and bad“! With tlon where some of the finest crops
rave] for distribution on the oyster, were.
eds. sank off The Knob club. the. Broad River Suffers. .
Wind apparently 331151118, the 79559“ Residents of Broad River bad to get
IUD tum partly overend the cargo out sass and axes to cut their way
to Shift. No one mainland and the,,through the masses of trees and
I, threw melted shore FafeIY- lbranches that lined the highway.
. . TWO. then “he » . Ernest Schede, foreman for. Stephen
~Joseph l.loeli‘er,,¢tho weihknown , ‘ ,
- electrician, with a“ par-incl three};
. (continued on Page Five.) .
SHIPBUILDING PLANTS
SEATTLE, Aug. 2.—Six wooden
shipbuilding plants in this state have
been closed by strikes, and Dr.
’Cartelon Parker, representative of
the war department, and Capt. J. F.
Blaine, representative of the U. S.
shipping board, said. today that the
government might intervene to pre-
vent spread of strikes to other. yards.
Four plants at the Gary’s harbor dis-
trict and two at_01ympla are closed.
Approximately 600 Workers . are out
in the yards ,at Aberdeen and Ho
qulam. on Grayfsl harbor, while an
loam number quit work. this ‘mprnin,
at Olympia. 5 " ‘ 3 ' '
arm 5° “mm" - ‘ ‘Shalvoy, of Danbury. Appeals from
LEADVILLE, Colo, Aug. 2.—Tbeithe local boards and claims for 'in-
strike of, metal workers in the Lead-ldust.rlal .or agricultural exemption
ville district. which began ten days .will be considered by “1i“ . body.
ago. was called off early today at o. whose work follows that of the local
mass meeting of the striking miners. divisional boards. ,
bothd union and non-union. The men s M
vote to accept the ofier of the‘op~
erators of a wage increase of approxi-l I NR ENTY'FOUR
hmhmlykflfty cents aday. ‘The 1strikers» ' AMERICANS LOSE
a asedfbrnnincreaseo” aday.'- ‘_‘ ". . ,
moan, Am, Aug. 3.—-Lleut.-Col-‘ , ' THEIR LIVES
m
onel George R White, commanding thel ]
,Unltedfilates cavalry in the Globe;
Miami district, hasissneda proclama- at'the American Consulate here ,to-
lion stating that all miners and othersfday that twenty-four members of the
‘thefiproteotlon oral-medicine ethic ‘tano, which we slink-i day. afoot-man
‘ ' submarine
on
wishing toreturnto work;;would haveicrew cube. Americanfitopmshlp Mo-
peets at the events of the past. 7
' tal.
'LONDCN. Aug. 2.-—n wns‘rjeportcd .
at to their lives;
NORWICH, Aug. 2.—-in an effort to
save the life~of Miss May Richmond.
who was shot in the leg by Special
Constable Joseph Matrl on Monday
evening at the Fairvlew reservoir,
amputation of the leg was performed
last night. Miss Richmond “is in a
critical condition at the local hospi-
Sho was shot while riding with
othersln an automobile. which failed
to stop when demanded by the con-
a
stable ‘ at the reservoir. ,
Daniel ‘.J. Farrell, of Tlerneystreel,
has enlisted in theNnval Militia. He
is- on,,'th'é.‘rcservo llat,yand’expects to
,be‘ctllled‘ soon to report for dutz with
some hhttleship. ‘ , , ' .
i
, greatestpo
fortnight in Russia,” said Major"
Maurice” .
Chief Director of Military Operas” f»?
tions of the British War Office, at; 2»
General Frederick B.
his weekly talk today to’ The As»,
socialed Press, “ ‘it will necessarily”;
mean a prolongation of. theW‘ar;
,We cannot longercount on altyr"
great material asistahce firo’mb,
Rusia. Thisrm‘eans a greatel’lbur—e ,,
. dens on _ the: other; Entente Allies;
and for the United States it; means
that sheflmustmomeinto the tie!
asrsoon .as possible ‘ and with th
ssible force.“
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