The Berkshire County Eagle from Pittsfield, Massachusetts • 23

WY MAGLE SECTION TWO. SEEHDiram PITTSFIELD. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1916. i THE BIG HEWS OF THE WORLD FOR THE PAST SEVEN DAYS RESUME OF NEWS EVENTS IN PITTSFIELD AND ITS ENVIRONS MEXICANS GAVE holdes is SUSSEX WAS SUNK NEWS CONDENSED BY A SUBMARINE! FOR BUSY READERS GET TWO LINESr OF TRENCHES WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22 Saturday morning motion picture 1 bw for children gtTen'Jor first tune Colonial and Majestic theatres. Park hotel property sold by mortgagee sale to Cambridge Trust company for 127,000.

Pittsfield high defeated Turners Falls high 2b to 21 in Turners Fall last night. "YdiSor accept offer -of B. L. Towce Washington lunch to pay 30 cents on dollar. Lotus Molitor, 53 'year old, died of aknli sustained id fall at the yesterday afternoon.

Army recruiting station opened in thia AN EASY WINNER i Willard Appears at No Time In Danger of Defeat Indicate!) In Official Reports Happenings In Various Paris Received al Washington I New England Stales Result of Fierce British Attack on German Salient HELP TO VILLA Carranza Troops Not Co-operating Actively Willi Americans BANDIT IS SAFE FOR PRESENT tl fractured Junction 1 city. Westfield high school severed athletic fetation with Pittsfield high beednse of alleged rough playing in game on Saturday night. THURSDAY, MARCH 23 Almond A. Desmond. janitor at Pitts feid high ar bnol suspended by Major bauikner on charge of intoxication.

'ratio ACompanv of Dalton awarded contract for paper for government bank notes. Pittsfield high defeated St. John' rep, school of nvers Bojs' club championship I last night In one of sta Washington, March Although the, tapping for matic relations with Germany prob- i motte productive pgrts of ablv will be broken off If the United Vermont will no begin for probably States government finds a German a ek. samples of the 1916 product submarine was responsible for the at- ar excellent quality tack on the channel steamer Sussex, Wi tner A. I.eland, 70, who died New York, March 27.

Jess Willard still retains heavyweight champion title. In a ten-round no-decision flght here, before more than persons In Madison Square Garden, Willard outboxed and outfought Frank Moran. Willard took seven of the ten rounds, Moran won the third on points and the eighth and ninth were even. Willard broke his right hand in the third round in attempting an uppercut which struck on Morans elbow, the break being just above the index finger. The hand was found badly swollen after the glove was removed.

at Montpelier, of arteriosclerosis, represented the town ot Berlin In the Vermont legislature. The Vermont public service commissioners xisited the new bridge and highway above St. Johnsbury Center. The work was accepted by the commission and the bridge and new highway was opened for serxdce. A special teini of Windsor county according to Wsb administration official.

President Wilson is awaiting the facts," it was stated at the White House. He has urged that all haste be employed by the state department In getting the official report of the attack on the Sussex to this country. Even if the latest statement that all Americans were saved are finally borne out, it will not alter the gravity of the situation, (inasmuch as the United States holds that no nation has the right in international or humane law to kill or endanger Americans through unwarned submaiihe MONDAY, if ARCH 27. The board of nealth has decided to charge undertaker 15 a year for a li-cenae hereafter. The undertakers nave not been required to have local license in the past.

Fire in the hallway of the ilernii building oa North street, believed to be incendiary, did slight 'damage and nearly caused a panic among 150 member of the Sons of St. George, who were attending a meeting in the building. Thomas Ifw of First street wa one of few Berkshire people who saw the VI iilard-Moran in New York on Saturday night. Pittsfield high defeated Wellesley "iigh 30 to 18, in game for basketball championship at Somerville on Saturda. night.

TUE.DAY. MARTI! 2 Mrs. Margaret T. Vanderbilt. wide-of Alfred Gywnn Vanderbilt, ban purchased the George Westit-ghoii'c -Vr etJte of 31 1.7 acres in Iamoi.

'If'ie puce paid was 1 At a meeting of members of lie board of trnde yevferd.i it was otei to the stores on Tuesday nights vote fb to 11. There is considerable Mfatn- Carranza troops are not only failing morfUanlYmf LoTVne 1 co-operate actively with the Amer- Walter A Brjaut has toiindetcd I i in troops, but are actually aiding years of servo-e ltli the Berksh're Street VjUa to escape. Railway company. He ba midi 1.21.- M4 miles and handled handled a tqeetins of the vc hool leeirti la-t night A. iJestnond.

lamto at the Pittsfie'd high hvi. was iisorn.ld for 21 dns pndng a hearing on of in'ovication Iltsheid high defeated St prep schtHii in the state baeket'iall at l.uwreuce last nirht by a score of 35 to If United States Troops Will Have Hard Task Searching Mountain Crags arid Canyons Three Detachments Actively Engaged, but Columns Are Necessarily Thinned San Antonio, March 28. General Funston announced that Fran- cisco Villa did not break through the lines of the American forces, but I slipped by the Carranzlstas. He wants this fact to be made as plain, as possible. Tfiere is reason to believe that the INFANTRY' QUIET AT VERDUN Awaiting Moment For Attack and Counter-Attack Which Will Follow Intense Bombardment Now In Progress Russians Report Capture of Two Lines of German Trenches LondonMarch 28.

In a great offensive movement undertaken by the British they madq a fierce assault on the German salient at St. Eloi and captured by storm, the first and second line trenches over a front of 600 yards. The storming followed the explosion of a series of mines, which blew up a large section of the, German first line trenches, and in thee explosion and the attack xhich followed the Germans are said to have suffered heavy losses. They were' driven back a mile to their third line trenches. In addition to this pronounced vie- tory at St.

Eloi, the British achieved substantial successes at other points. The drive at St. Eloi was made METHODS ARE CRITICISED games by score of 5r to 25. Mayor Faulkner granted Barnnm At circus permit to show in Pittsfield on Haturdaj, Slay 27. FRIDAY, 24? Mavor KaulUrler to give tulle city problems a fid til be at bis office ea I ridav rinimt for conferences Harr Adamson of thi- city, an am 1 ulam-e driver France, tells in lettei of hut thrilling tvpcrierwe.

fie had a i arrow escape from death when shell burst just an ad of his mat-hine and I lllt-d two soldiers fie p.arnum A Bailee circus will pat heerii-e fee of This 1 more than usual but the he was rai-ej lo ft ncr damage to stretJs arc Id I too'ei of thii nty who ha been to Europe twee ItiisVeiir says teat It- will not return again until peare fleclared there little affv Ml, crossing the ocean nt this time ri the last trip over siibinaririi chase, 1 i he boat upon which Dudley sailed I TI KDY. MARCH 25 rank I ort cs c.f Dewey nvenup sen fenced to siv months tn house of cor Motion on marge of larceny of wooien lip from pontcMtsiie and Taoome mills. DEATH OF KINSLEY Railroads Activities In New Hampshire as Viewed by Probers Concord, X. March 2S. Interference in public affairs in New' Hampshire by the Boston and Maine and Concord and Montreal railroads and violation of th federal statutes by printing paid articles as editorial matter and the making of false vouchers are charged in the report of the New Hampshire public service com- Handwriting Expert Wa? In Hospital For Surgical Operation New Y'ork, March 27.

William J. Kinsley, one of the most noted hand-wiiting experts in this country, whO' took such a prominent part in the trial of Albert T. Patrick, charged with the murder of William M. Rice, died at Roosevelt hospital. He bad gone to that institution for a surgical operation for stomach disease.

mission on the payments for legal i by the Northumberland Fusiliers and and other services made by railroads the Royal Fusiliers. brought with, a view to influencing legisla- I back two officers and 168 men as pns-tion in said state. oners. The report created something of a Again the bombardment has become EDITORIAL REVIEW OF THE WEEK sensation in Concord, where many ot the parties questioned at the investigation reside. While the thirty-eight printed pages are signed by kfessrs.

Niles, Worthen and Gunnison, public service comnyssioners the i report bears the marks of author-, ship of John E. Benton, the special counsel retained by the commission for the Investigation, which was undertaken by the commission on Us own initiative fter an abortive attempt to pass an order requiring it. The hearings were held last July, covering several days. VICE CRUSADE AT BOSTON intense to the northwest and northeast of Verdun, and considerable activity by the big guns also has been shown in the Woevre region, southeast of the fortress. The time seemingly is not ripe, however, for an infantry attack, and i the men of both sides have lain idle In their trenches awaiting the moment for attack and counter-attack.

The Germans, after a period or comparative quiet, have again begun shelling Bethincourt, Le Mort Homme and Commieres, west of the Meuse, j-" and are keeping up. with increasing volume, their bombardment of the French posions in the region of Vaux getting readv for a vigorous offensive early as the first week in Max ano i hi earlier There are said to be H.n I'reijeli and 120.000 British triop there, liesnlen It .000 Servians. -More 1 1 oops are on their way from Frame, and si, ties of supplies are arriving daily. Sofia will be the objective of the moment: and. with tne armies of the allies in moM in across Greece, if will ttot be easy for Ring Constantine to hold the Greek mini in heck and to prevent it from joining a movement which will stronglf appeal to Greek patriotism.

From Sill linin' Khglf COOPERATING WITH CARRANZA The luliiiiuiHti nlin in arting wisely in fin cpllng I he nggetion of the. f'ar-lunri gwAirument fur Hie negotiation of a prtt eol for ooperation in the pur-tun of ill.i.' The (It niHiitl Hint the I mted agree not to oeeiip an'- town, tillage or ininp. not to peuetiale Mlf van lerrttnf' farther than may he-non sarv toi re at tun I pm suit of Vjlla: and to letire at once from Mexican oil a at oii an tly exieiliintu in admitted auettenn or fnilure in netfiectly reasonable. At the bent there will be only loo many ti-enings for iniMintlemtandiug anti Hi ieatim of hostile sentiment, and ordiu api prudence dictates that everything penmhle sho.uhl he dine lo make it clear to the sensitive Mexicans that what in rite.iifiliitvd by the Untied states is not invasion, but a punitive expedition x'liieh will be recalled just as anon a it work is done. Theie precedent tor nueh a protoeol in the agreement ol arargnetl during1 the Arthur ad-liilnislrntlon.

which regulnted the niove-inetitaNof expeditionary forces. BAOB RUMORS i CHINA AGAIN A RUIUBI.IC President Yuan Shi lvai has concluded hut a reasonablv secure presidential chair is preferable to a tottering throne: and he has accordingly rejected the cm perorship and resumed the piesidemv The immediate cause of fhp neion is th and Douaumont, which have been Harvard Students Assist In Rounding stumbling blocks for several weeks Up Erring Young Women their attempts to gain ground east Boston, March 27. Accompanied by of Verdun. A WA A A 1 1 i ir A 9 r.1 Harvard students who umor minors are serving as agents of the Watch and Ward society, police officers went through the cafes and cabaret resorts In the central sections of the city Saturday night, serving warrants on young women who are known to frequent those places for the purpose of soliciting men. When the rounds were completed, eight wornn had been taken into custody.

Seven were arrested the night before, but, according to Secretary French shells are falling on the German positions in the Argonne and northeast of the St. Mihlel salient. The Germans are obstinately resisting the Russian attacks between Dvlnsk and Vllna, but the Russians have captured two lines of their trenches to the northwest of Postavy. Twenty bombs have been dropped, by German airmen on the town or Dvinpk. In the Black sea littoral the Russians are stllj, making progress against court.

will be held at YVoodstock, to hear the cases against Charles S. Leighton and Ijis sops; Newell ansf" Walter, in jail on a charge of murdering Albert C. Gibson. At a session of naturalization court held at New poit, Vt. thirteeh men were admitted to Citizenship.

Randolph Vt ill have a cqm- munity Chautauqu this summer. The total los-caused by the burn- ing of buildings at the! New Haven railroad yards of the New Haven road will fee $221,000. Joseph J. Garvby of Boston, the inmate of the Rutland, hospital who inaugurated a food strike at the institution in protest against the diet there, was ordered to leave the institution. Fire in a Boston freight house of the Boston and Maine railroad did iwoperty damage of $200,000.

Damage estimated at more thanj $200,000 was done, when fire broke out in the cargo of the British steamship City of Naples, from Calcutta1, at Boston A vicious yrild hoar was shot and killd at Hill. N. H. The animat had terrorized residents of the vicinity of Tucker mountain1 for more than tw years By a single Vote the Massachusetts senate hided the proposed constitutional amendment which provided for the elimination of the word proportional 'from the taxation provisions in the state constitution. Fred Greenough, 23, a lineman, received a shock while working at the -top of a pole at Haverhill, -and was knocked off and killed.

The germ of scarlet fever, long one of the great puzzles of medicat set- ence and hunted by bacteriologists for many years', has been found by -two Boston doctors. The central fire station and several pieces of apparatus were destroyed at Gardner, and three valuable horses bprned to death In a fire that did $10,000 damage. Carl Marshall, 18, died xat Manchester, N. Injuries sustained when ho fell through acoal hole in freight yards. Mrs.

Louis was rescued from fire which destroyed the Russian baths conducted by her at Brockton, Mass. and in which her husband was burned to death three years There were 234 deaths in Boston last week, a decrease of thirty-nine over the corresponding week flast year. LexingKon, Is now minus a place to bury the dead, as the Old Burying Ground and the Lexington cemetery are filled. Jere Garafano, 59, of Revere, was found dead on fiats that city. A basketful of clams was found at his side.

The ice in the lakes of, the Range-ley, (Me. region is thirty inches thick and still freezing too thick to cut for domestic use. Falling backward into a hfjt bath which her mother was preparing, 4-year-old Flora La vinsky was scalded to death at Woburn, Mass. George B. Schoomackef, 65,, a brakeman, was fatally injured at Canaan, in a rear-end collision between two freight trains.

William Ilonney, actor, 65, found dead in hrs bed atxNew Haven, A campaign to add to the endowment fund of Colby college waa announced at the thirty-fifth qnuaJ reunion and banquet of the Boston Colby Aiumnl association at BostotK. Edward E. Kestermaii, 32, abnlld-x-. er, collapsed in court at Boston when a suspended sentence of six months in prison for larceny by mean ef worthless check waa reYoked and he Peace -are again alloat, and eofnc of the most significant of them come, from Berhu. It would be easy tw attach too much Importance to them, but there are not wanting indication that Germany herself bas had about enough of the war.

The long struggle to break down the defences ol Verdun ha cost prodigiously and the results are l.iglilv unsatisfactory. German commerce has been swept from the sea; German industries have been 'paralysed: the German colonic have all lieen lost, except tluil in Fast Africa, winch is nearly as good as gone, German finance is in serious straps ami the meagre allowances (food pci nutted to purchasers under the government svstem of apportionment pont lo a sei ions sluut.ige tn the near lullin. Nothing more is henid.i in (fiimlcis, of Ihd huge indemnities ninth Gotm.mi means to demand from her exhausted and beaten enemies. apiead of the revolutionary movement in the south, nhich has grown in strength and violence ever suite the oun-cil of state last December decided in fa voi of the re-establishmenT of the mon-arxhy. Several of southern provinces have declared their independence of the government at Pekin; Yunan province has declared itself a republic; and considerable bodies of government troops have joaied the rebels.

Yuau's wise decision will probably promote internal ranguili-ty and it will relieve th apprehensions of Great Britain, Russia and Japan, which have been bringing pressure to bear at Pekin to prevent any governmental change at Shis time. COMMERCE ON THE PACIFIC. It is reassuring to find thRt. in spi of atlverse legislation, the American Hag is not to disappear altogether from, the Pacific. It appear that the 'Pacific Mail companv has bought three of the largest linei hitherto run by the Royal Dutch H'est India Mail company, nud is to build two sister ship.

Thd line is to be operated from anFrancisco. and will compete for the West CoAst and Carri-bean trade. It is reported that most of the IS vessels of the Gaston. Williams and Wignipre company, organised in New Y'ork, will be used in the trans Pa-oihe aervice. The Oriental Alliance tSteamslup company, organized in Port land, Oregon will run II -or more vessel between That port and the Orient.

Trade with Australia Is four time as great a it vvas a jepr amKa halt ago, and that with China, Japan and Siberia is ffiree time a great, and this furnishes a stimulus to trans-Iacific shipping. Chase of the Watch and Ward so- the -Turks. ciety, the crusade has just begun. In the operations between the Ital-Nearly fifty warrants have been ob- ians and Austrians, in the Gorizia tained. These will be served as soon I region, the Austrians have captured as the young women aie found.

an Italian position on Podgora Heights. 1 WANT ANSWER IN A MONTH Kinsley was 60 years old. He is survived by his wife and two dren. Kinsley took a leading part in several Other famous trials in "this city. House Passes Army Bill March Hay or fo1-immediate as Jewish Congress at Washington Philadelphia, March 28.

The first congress of the Jew ish people of the United States will be held in Jngton some time before Jan.l 1,917. Demand of 360,000 Railroad Employes About to Be Submitted New York, March 28. The new demand of 360,000 engine drivers, firemen, conductors and trainmen will be submitted to the railroads of the country next Thursday. The railroads are to be informed that a reply will be expected by April 29. The railroad etrfploves asked for an eight-hour day and time and a halt thousand dollars a year, in the opin army bill, providing for a regular army peace strength of 140,000 fighting men instead of the present passed the house by a vote 402 to 2.

It goes to the senate consideration virtualliy drafted by the house committee. Boy Allowed $25,000 a Year New York, March 28. Twenty-five I The road between the border and tflsas Gtandes has become wel! nigh impassable, Funston declared. Tom up by hundreds of I trucks, motorcycles and horses, the sand has become so deep as to make this means of supply transmission too slow to be of -much value. Funston reported that members of the expeditionary force were suffering from the Clad lightly for desert heat, he said, our troops are now actually suffering from the extreme cold of the mountain country.

Funston has received no w-ord ot sniping by Mexicans as reported from El Paso. He says General Pershing would report to him if it were true. Long messages have been received from Pershtrgj but little Is made public, except the fact that Villa has escaped and that three American columns are seeking to locate him. Returning to Casas Grandes on Sunday, Pershing announced that he had established an advanced base at El Valle. 120 miles south of the present field base.

Casas Grandes being 110 miles rrom the border, the American troops are now 230 miles In tfie interior of Mexico, with the distance daily i'ncreasing. Villa having slipped through the bands of thPMexican troops at Nami-quipa, the chase wilt be a long one, in the opinion of army men. The Fox of the Sierras, as the outlaw has been called, has all the advantages ascribed to the needle in the bay stack. He wil be caught, but American troops may have to remain In Mexico until summer, searching the crags and canyons of the Sierra Madres. Three detachments arp within forty miles of the neighborhood where the bandit was last reportqj.

They are Major Evans' men, proceeding along trail south from San Jose; Major Llndley's "troqps at Chico, on the Mexican Northwestern, and 500 soldiers under Colonel Brown, on thel, way from Babricora to Namiquipa. Colonel Dodd is in command ot tjiese three columns, which have had to be thinned on account of the cessity of guarding the conmmnica- tions. Pershing'has sent out columns of minor strength. I Wireless reports from correspond- i tending the preliminary conference for a national Jewish congress. tor overtime.

The railroads already have said informally that the demands would not be granted. Ion of a referee appointed by the state supreme court her, is not an extravagant amount to expend for the support and education of Laurence C. Thaw', 17-year-old son of the late Edward Thaw. Till-i PASSING OF VON TIRriTZ It Is not stiange that the resignation tf Vdinual vou Tirpitg should have f.tven rise to manv speculations. Thx i ca son asigned is ill health, but that a reason so oiten put lorward to cotieesi iSomet hutg else that it is not genera II accepted.

on Tirplt has been a lead-ling exponent of the Geimtin policy ot Jrlhttulncss," it is he who has direct-id the submarine wart are. It does npt stem irrational to nsume that a sharp difterenee of opinion may have arisen between him and those higher in cuthori-tv a to the lengths to which' it was wie csrrv this warfare, under present condition, and that his retirement may point to some modification of the laihcy lor which he is sponsor. But, whatever the teason for his it is some' thing that he bas passed. GF.RMAN COMMENT ON VON T1U It i interesting to notice that the tlermsu newspapers, which are not per-ynitted much freedom of comment nowaday, make no effort to conceal the sig-ntficancu of the retirement of Vou'tr-pit. Thus, the Berlin Tageszoitun.which as been one of the strongest supporters of Von Tirpit say that it 1 shaken by the 'news of the admiral's resignation and does not at present feel ltsclt in a condition to make a.eomnient And the Morgen-Post ajs: "Hieie will lie utuver; rex let that circumstances made the retiieuieut of the adnirai The' reasons Rvr this and the inner lelaumt of aHair.s.w ith one another cannot now be discussed, but it wil be.

re retted that there was no Othei wav out." The Nevada Sets Sail Boston, March 24. The new superdreadnought Nevada, called the pride of the American navy, steamed from her dock in the Charleston navy yard yesterday ar ternoon on her maiden tri Fined For-Attacking Girl Boston, March 26. Charles' Alexander, clubman and leather merchant, was fined $50 in the police court fr an alleged attack on Miss Gertrude Allen, chorus girl. He appealed and furnished $300 bail for his appear 1 ance in the superior court. Floating Hangar For the Navy Pittsburg, March 24.

The first floating hangaw)uilt for the navy was launched at the marine ways of a steel construction company here. The hangar is built of steel, 60 by 140 feet, and draws 18 inches of water. Liners Condemned as Prizes London, March 24. The'Hamburg-Amerioan liners Pririz Adalbert and Kronprincessin Gecelie, which were seized at Falmoutn at the outbreak of i the war, were condemned in prize court as prizes. NAVAL RECRUITING OFFICE KEPT BUSY From NIonda.vs Eagle.

Two applicant were examined at the local naval recruiting station on ftaturday. One5 was accepted and the other. rejected because of being over -age No one is taken into the service who is over 3A years old Officer JaspeVson accepted ona applicant in' North Adams on Saturday. Tomorrow, officer from the Albany station will be here to further exanutie the two applicants who passed on Saturdaj. George L.

Mono of I.ee wiio completed hi service a oiler on the Alabama on February applied for re-euiistment at the local station recently, provided he eould enter the machinist school, and word has been received trom Washington that a post ha been assigned him at the machinists' school C. and he has beeu notified to leport at ouce. Death of Oldest Odd Fellow Lynn, March After an Illness that lasted only a few davs, Samuel Breed, 95, said to be the oldest Odd Fellow In the United States, died in this city. He had been an Odd Fellow for seventy-two years. Death was due to hardening of the arteries.

He was born in Lynn. School Janitor Resigns Under Fire Franklin, N. March 28. Charles M. Sanborn, janitor of the high school here and accused or hugging high school girls, failed to put in an appearance at the hearing on those charges, ke sent a letter of resignation, which was accepted.

Maine Delegates Unpledged Few Enlistments In New England Portland, March 24. The Boston. March 28. New England Republicans of Maine selected an-un-is losing interest in the Mexican sit- i Instructed delegation to the national uation. If reports from the various 1 convention.

No effort was made to pledge them for any candidate for the presidential; nomination. Striking Freight Handlers Return Fall -River, March 26. A big majority or the freight handlers who have been on strike at the Fair River line pier returned to work. The conditions under which the strikers went to work are unknown. recruiting stations are a criterion.

Applicants for enlistment in the army rather cryptic, iwit Fill 'health Peraonal Estate of Mohr. Providence, March 27. The appraisers of the personal property of va to jail. Dr. C.

F. Mohr, murdered physician, i Mayor 'Cooiidge of Fitchburg has filed their appraisal of his personal been drawn as a juror for the United property, setting its total value at i Elates district court in Boston, $30,745.36. I Attacked in his sleep by rats.John Kenworthy of Middlebury, yt. was a national movement is on foot fnt at Csa say Villa's trail is marked wounded men and NATIONAL DRESS UP WEEK OBSERVANCE HERE From Monday's Eagle. Now that spring is really aopearm overhead, to get to recognize the merry sea son of birds and fiotver and housed can ing by dressing up.

"National dress-up week, it is calkd, and it will be observed the country- over for two week, beginning todav and ending on April s. l'li board of trade in this city has taken up the matter and with the aid of tne department Store, haberdasheries. rUo-torei(, is to push the thing along. and navy are few and display lit-hprses. He has abandoned eighteen tie enthusiasm.

1 Flre Railroad Shops wounded men and is fii.ing his ranks I 1 ew Haven, March 27. Fire of by impressing vouttis into his service, Epidemics at Norwood unknown origin last night burned His horses are reported to be In had 'rwod, March 28. Ten several large shops at the local yards 1 barber shops', five bowling alleys and of the New York, New Haven and condition. New i wounded severely about theHiead and Hartford railroad, mated at $700,000. The loss is esti- Epidemic of Measles Brockton, March nearly lost one thumb.

Thirty-eight new cases of measle Captain Commandant were reported to the health board, Ross, 61. of thet United States coaat bringing the total number of cases up i guard service, retired, died at "his to over 500jince the first of March, home at New Bedford. Mass. Suit Will Cost Hillis $15,000 I Th body of Galvin, 68, Chicago, March 24. Dr.

Neweil Gran1 Army veteran, was found In two moving picture theatres were closed, here because of the epidemic of scarlet fever and diphtheria, which under way. at as the re cause of the admiral retirement Ak ISSUE InTjKRAIAN IN RATIOS the lea-t surprising result of the ret itcrueut of on Tirpitz is that it has -re tile.) an at tte issue i German pohtK. Fur the firs time since the war began. Hie i.xm hum! of the govern went ha been so far rejawsl us to allow af real discussion of governmental measure in the reichstag and tn the prev. iTtie socialist in the ha agreea i.

poo a expressing the expectation that lu the negoiawott coocerninS the use of siibumnne eterjthuig will be avokicvl which could damage tne just interest of neutral state, ami lead to the exten-pua of the war. tn the other hand, o' her iohtic.l croups arc clamoring for a still mure ruthlesa use of the submarine; amt four of the leading paper of iripi have published simuitaneouslv a manifesto sfonsb endorses fjHvuvj. and condemn the criticism of it p'ny official's inspired u-h tag implies rather a sharp division. The President's Warning Washington, March 27. President Wiiaon has a written statement from tie White House on the Mexican situation in wblch he repeats charge-t prevtcrslv made by administration officials that certain elements are contriving to force intervention Held For Killing Hts Child Pawtucket, R.

March 24. John Nusbaum. who killed his 3-year-old son find then attempted suicide, was 1 afifnafoent was only for defensive pur- Toarmina and Stampalia, jith guns, aboard, were ordered cleared fromtD. New York on assurances that their by spreading false and alarming re- he, fr t1 grand jury in the district I poses. Armed Liners Cleared Washington, March 28.

The liners Hillis of Plymouth church. Brook- fa F081011 trjet. It Is thought prob Jyn, will ray 115.000 to his nephew, able, that he was killed by an automo Percy D. Hillis, in settlement of the Ue. latter's $50,600 libel suit.

1-'lTe horses and href cows were burned in a fire that destroyed the Shackleton Ship Nearing Port barn of Carlo Bianchl at Natick, Wellington, N. March 28. A doing about $8000 wireless dispatch from the steamer damage. Aurora of Shackletons Antarctic ex- pedttion states that th vessel wiu rsach port, early in April. Harrington Convicted of Murder South Paris, March 27.

Patrick J. Harrington of Needham, was convicted here of the murder of Thomas E. Preece of Boston on Not. 7, 1914. props rty court.

He pleaded not guilty. ports. TWO FREIGHTERS ARE DERAILED AT WESTFIELD From Monday While freight car were being switched, on the Boston A Albany Ra dread company's traAs jut west of th West-field station yeterd noon, there was colSis'ou which threw a couple it them off he iron and two main fine 'ivniiimrlVTUFRiinw. Moeket The blockade happened i ANEW MOV IN THE, BALKAN- point where it did not luter I ere with Salionlea doe 'not bulk erj large ip traffic, for the irkin', bvnh-eavt ai.d west the war new nowaday. are Jtoij vre en; around the wreckel intrmaMon.

probably well-founded, lha I car on ame trfeka. Nobody wa tala arnne concentrated there are jured. Orpet Pleads Not Guity Tom faS9rt Becomes Senator Waukegan. March 26. Wit I 'Vashington, March 28.

Tom Tagil am H. Orpet charged with poison- art 8WOrn in 88 United States SngUMarian F. Lambert, entered a I natr Indiana, succeeding tfie piea of cot guiiry in thb circuit court. Senator Shively-. I I.