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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-19
GREEK STEAMER ToRPEDoED
WITHOUT WARNING
The Crew Got Away Safely in Boats
Captain Wounded.

crew of the Greek steamer El1isponyos
torpedoed yesterday by a submarine
five miles west of the North Hinder
fightship, has arrived at Flushing, ac-
cording to despatch to Reuters tel
egram company. The captain, who
was badly wounded and was taken to
hospital. said his steamer was tor
pedoed without warning. The crew
got away safely in boats, however. and
rowed to the 1ightship.
1t is reported from North Hinder
that German aviators yesterday tried
to drop bombs on two British trawl-
ers and fired On, them. but without re-
suit.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-19

Fifteen thousand dollars. collected
among German-American was dis
tr1buted to distressed German civil
prisoners in South Africa by the
American consul at Cape Town.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-19

A bill Increasing first class liquor
licenses in New York city from $1,000
to $1,6OO and corresponding increases
in cities and villages, was introduced
in the New York senate.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-19

been at the army hospital at Paignon.
South Devonshire, since September,
returned on the Cunard liner Orduna
with shattered nerves as a result of
their experiences.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-19

Details of the Riggs National bank
Injunction proceedings against treas
ury officials were laid before President
Wilson by Attorney General Louis D.
Brandeis, special counsel for the de-
fense. Postmaster General Burleson
was present at the conference
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-19

November tenth was the date Sc
lected by the Japanese cabinet for the
coronation of Emperor Yoshohito
postponed last November because Of
the death Of the Dowager Empress.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-19

Catherine Stinson, a nineteen-year-
old aviator, announced at San Anto-
MO, Tex, that she will undertake a
transcontinental flight from New York
to San Francisco
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-19

Three hundred Americans and 9th
er foreigners who desire to leave Mex
leo City are to be provided with a
special train, leaving Mexico City for
Irolo on the 23rd
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-19

The Ellisponyos, which eft Ymuidf,
Holland. Saturday, for Montevideo
ruguay, was a vessel of 1923 tons.
Her crew numbered 21 men.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-19

A bottle of water that was poured
over the spillways in the filling of
Roosevelt dam, near Globe, Ariz., was
obtained for use in christening the
new battleship Arizona.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-19

Fourteen hundred pupils of / IbIic
School No. 20, of Yonkers, went on
strike and declared they will not take
up their studies again until their prin-
cipal, William S. Maxson is reinstated.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-19

Fifteen thousand Ohio coal miners.
on strike since April 1, 1914, announc-
ed that mass meetings will be held in
eastern Ohio, April 20 to commemor-
ate the anniversary of the Ludlow
massacre.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-19

ne american Locomotive Co., clos
ed a contract for $650OO,O0O Of war
materials. 1t is understood the or
der was received from the Russian
government.
Three hundred Americans and 9TH
er foreigners who desire to leave Mex
leo City are to be provided with
special train, leaving Mexico City for
Irolo on the 23rd.
Catherine Stinson, nineteen-year-
old aviator, announced at San Anto-
nio, Tex, that she will undertake a
transcontinental flight from New York
to San Francisco.
bottle of water that was poured
over the spillways in the filling of
Roosevelt dam, near Globe, Ariz., was
obtained for use in christening the
new battleship Arizona.
bill increasing first class liquor
licenses in New York city from 81 200
to $1,000 and corresponding increases
in cities and villages, was introduced
in the New York senate.
Lieut.. William Montague Nichols,
formerly star haIfback at Annapolis,
was recently wounded near Neuve
Chapelle, where he was observation
officer of the British artillery.
Fifteen thousand dollars collected
among German-Americans was dis
trlbuted to distressed German civil
prisoners in South Africa by the
American consul at Cape Town.
November tenth was the date Sc
lected by the Japanese cabinet for the
coronation of Emperor Yoshohito,
postponed last November because of
the death of the DoWager Empress.
sohoo No po sS"ded af pupils. pupils of 4bie
strike and declared they will not take
up their studies again until their prin-
| cipal, William S. Maxson is reinstated
Fifteen thousand Ohio coal miners
| on strike since April 1, 1914, announc-
| ed that mass meetings will be held in
eastern Ohio, April 20 to commemor-
ate the anniversary of the Ludlow
massacre.
F. Three Red Cross nurses, who have
been at the army hospital at Paignon
| South Devonshire, since September
returned on the Cunard liner Orduna
| with shattered nerves as result OF
their experiences.
Flags were at half mast, schools anc
| public libraries were closed, and busi.
|
City during the hour Of the funera
of William r. Nelson, editor of the
Kansas City Star.
Under indictment charging that she
aided and abetted Ralph Lowell ir
the embezzlement of $105, 200 from the
First National bank of Edgewater, N
j., Mrs. Julian Juliana Munson was
| arrested in San Francisco.
injunction proceedings against treas.
ury officials were laid before Presiden
Wilson by Attorney General Louis D
Brandeis, special counsel for the de.
fense. Postmaster General Bur1esor
was present at the conference.
President of Brown University Teach
ers' Association.
Providence, r. l., April 1S.-Joh1
Lincoln Aleer. principal of the Rhod,
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-05-27

on his own initiative and as a result
of the expressions of public opinion
in this country. g
In all official quarters it was declar-
ed most emphatically that the admin
istration has taken no step whatever
in forcing the departure of DR.. Dern-
burg.
One of the most interesting facts
in connection with the case of Or.
Dernburg is that his relations with
the German embassy here have never
been of the character which might
naturally be expected.
Just where DR.. Dernburg would go
If he should leave the United States
has been a matter Of speculation
here. 1t is expected he will go south
to one of the Latin-American coun-
tries.
He cannot easily get to Germany,
though 1t is suggested that the Brit
ism government might be willing to
afford him a safe conduct 50 far as
1t was concerned, IL the United States
should request it 10 HIS behalf.
1t is doubted that Or. Dernburg
would ask the good office of the Unit
ed States in this respect, however,
owing to the fact that he does not
admit having any official connection
with the German government.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-05-27
Bigness in Building
Is Growing Bigger

Farther back than twenty years
ago modern prophets had settled it
to their own satisfaction that steel
framedr terracotta lined, skeletoned
office-building architecture had prac-
tically reached the limit Of its devel-
opment. This was about the time
that the "Rookery," the Tacoma"
the Insurance Exchange" and the
Owens" buildings were making Chi
cago famous as the home of the sky
scraper." New York had not yet TAX
en- kindly to the new style of con-
struction, but it began to think SER
iously about it after the Worlds
Columbian exposition, and within five
years the skyline of lower Manhat-
tan reminded visitors from Chicago
of the pinnacles and peaks within
their own beloved loop" Many of
the "skyscrapers" erected in Chicago
and in New York in the period refer
red to have since been pronounced
Anticipated and some have been re-
moved. Only those structures that
tower a dozen stories or so above the
original steel-frame buildings, or
those with capacity to accommodate
the population of a small city, are
now deemed worthy of particular no.
tice. The modern prophets wee
silenced when Chicago erected build
ings of a 5000-population capacity.
New York will soon have ready for
tenants a building that will accommo-
date in business quarters 10000 per-
song.
This, for the present at least, is the
last word in big business architecture
II will h oJva on orn Of I oGn nnn fA.t
of floor space, and area twice as
great as the combined floor space of
the two mammoth Hudson Terminal
buildings; the boilers that are to OPP
crate the dynamos and supply steam
for heating will be seven in number
and Will have altogether a capacity
Of 1920 horse power, and the fur,
1,aces under these boilers will con
sumo annually $4,000 tons Of coal
In the days when the modern proph
cts we're placing limitations on the
height and size of steel frame con-
reached an altitude of from twelve
to sixteen, possibly twenty, stories
with, say 100 feet of frontage: the
building of which we are speaking IS
forty stories in height and covers an
entire city block. 1t Will be scarcely
any safer to indulge in predictions
touching upon this line of develop
r,ent now than it was twenty Years.
ago Ncbcdy knows what the fu:lre
has in store for US in the way Of big
ress Of buildings. The most that
can te said is hat the congestion in
the business districts of cities, for
which these great structures are 1e-
sponsinle, cannot long continue to in
crease. Either there wi. be a clog
hi::k OF human activities in the sky
l;re" zones, Or business will or2ak
away fem them and fiLd freedom in
less overbuilt localities.--Boston Daily
Monitor.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-05-27
OKLAHOMA PUPILS
BUILD BIRD HOUSES

Oklahoma City, Okla.-Bird houses
to the number of thousands were re-
Gently erected in the trees and other
convenient places in this city by the
boys and girls, especially of the
schools. This is a result of a work
that has been done by the civic
societies and teachers in inducing
protection for the birds, says the
Dallas News.
Boys of the mechanical department
Of The high school have taken the
lead in the house building for birds.
They have prepared several hundred
houses to be placed in proper loca-
tons. By this mean it is expected
that songsters will be induced to rest
within the city and increase in num-
bers.
Boys of the manual training depart
ment have not only taken interest in
building bird houses, but they have
taken up the study of birds with a
view to making the houses conform
to the needs of the families they seek
to invite. The wren houses are SO
constructed that they are not avail
able to the predatory English spar
row. Other bird peculiarities are
considered in the house building and
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-05-27
Cost of u. S. Navy
Exceeds Germany's

Our neighbor, the Sun, has joined
the World in expressing a healthy
curiosity to know what has become
of all the immense sums of money
that the American people have spent
on the navy during the past sixteen
years.
The World has repeatedly direct
ed attention to the disconcerting fact
that our naval expenditures exceed
those of Germany and Austria com
bined, yet Admiral Fiske has testl-
fed that it would take five years to
get the American navy into a state
of efficiency equal to that of the Ger,
mar navy.
The Sun has taken the trouble to
compile the naval appropriations OF
the United States and Germany for
the last sixteen years. 1t finds that
the total appropriations for the Amer
lean navy during that time aggregate
S1,645, 0O0, 1856. The total approprl'
atoms for the German navy during
these sixteen years are only Sl,23f,
915, $50. Since the Spanish-American
war the American people have spent
$4OO, 900 900 more on their navy than
the Germans have spent, and now we
are told by naval experts that oul
navy is inferior in all respects to the
German navy.
The appropriations, year by year,
as compiled by the Sun, are as fol
lnWc.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-05-27
WHEN EARTH is FULL r.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN?

What will happen when the earth
is populated, jammed full of people?
The time that is to come when all
the faxtile areas Will be carrying
their greatest number of inhabitants,
all the waste places bearing their
burden, every habitable land support
ing all the people it can, furnishes
interesting conjecture.
The question re-appears at a time
when thousands are dying in war,
when thousands more may perish be-
fore peace again rests over the
worlds highways and byways. 1t
cannot be that war is a part of the
creative plan to limit the increase
of population. ~
William Ridgeway, a Cambridge
professor, learned in archaeology,
said recently before the London eu-
genics society that "the earth's waste
places are getting filled up. and these
wars are a part Of evolutionary racial
struggles for existence, and not the
result Of mere kingly ambitions"
He finds that the hard facts from
a scientific viewpoint indicate that
the present war is only the first Of
a long series and that each new
struggle will be more serious
We sometimes get anxious to
know about these things, yet consid-
Grafton of the problem reminds that
1t is better not to borrow tomorrow's
troubles.
Withal the times are perilous,
Therefore fishing trips, and long
rambles into the open places where
war clouds are not, and quiet even
lngs on the porch are timely. And
don't neglect putting up the screens.
The pesky mosquitoes will be here
this year, and next year, and through
all the coming years, while nations
fall and rise to fight them again,
st. Paul Dispatch.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-05-27
indictment of Lawyers

The Leo Frank case in Georgia is
attracting worldwide attention. At
tention has been called by the press
to the concluding portion of Franks
p~rotestatiOn to the court upon the
occasion of his resentence, which was
as follows:
The legal arena IS closed to me.
The bar is placed forever against fur
Their legal process. Yet the issue of
guilt or innocence has been before but
n court, that in which the jury sat.
AIl subsequent appeals were made
upon alleged legal and judicial err
rors. not pom the facts or the evil
denCe, Since the jury heard the case
no court of inquiry or review has
sifted the evidence. No decision of
any appeals court undertook to pre-
dictate an opinion on the record of the
testimony and evidence. The doubt
Of the trial gudge as to guilt still re-
mains"
The Sioux City Tribune, comment
Ing upon the Georgia case, proceeds
as follows:
upon the same day Leo Frank
vas bringing this Indictment against
the courts and the lawyers Of the
state Of Georgia and the United
States, testimony was being given be-
fore the federal industrial relations
commission that most Of the indus
trial unrest in this country is due
directly TO the courts and lawyers
of the country. The men who offered
this opinion were Chief Justice Clark
of the North Carolina supreme court
and former Chief Justice Cullen, of
the New York court of appeals.
"BOth COntended that court Of to-
day are following the legal preced-
ents and decisions made generations
before any Of the modern econ
omic and industrial conditions were
dreamed of, before labor had any
at all and before mechanical
and modern financing and
prGN niZation had wen commenced
revolution of the industrial
world. Consequently decisions Of to-
day are unjust, reactionary, wholly
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-05-27

out of harmony with the spirit of the
age and totally ignorant of modern
conditions.
Asked if these judicial insists and
anar' hrOnisms could not be cured
and eliminated by legislation, Chief
Justice Clark replied that al! legisla-
tive bodies are controlled by lawyers.
ami it is to the pecuniary interest Of
lawyers to nave the legal procedure
of the courts all cluttered up with
technicalities, as such conditions eX-
tend the laws delays and thereby
proIong litigation and increase legal
fees. The chief justice frankly said
every effort made in legislative bod
les TO simplify the legal code making
it more just and humane and consis-
tent with modern conditions was Wig
orou5ly and successfully opposed by
lawyers who occupy seats as legisla-
tors.
an view of all these things, one is
tempted to wonder at the moderation
of those who urge the abolition of
our modern judicial machinery and
tn, subsection of all judicial decis-
ions to a popular vote of the people"
THE Saturday News has repeated
ly expressed the opin on that Il
courts are at least n hundred years
behind the times, but it did lot eX-
poet to have its views so publicly
confirmed by such eminent julists as
mentioned in the foregoing article
from the Sioux City paper. But the
Saturday News does not agree with
these gentlemen in their holding of
the lawyers altogether responsible
for the preventing of the acceptance
of adequate remedies. Lawyers as a
class rank among the most intelligent
of the earth's populatiUn; nor do they
lack in either patriotism or civic
pride. The trouble has been, as the
Saturday News views it, that neither
the lawyers nor the other classes of
people have determinedly sought to
revise our court practices and decis-
ions 10 meet the altered conditions in
industrial and economic affairs
EditOr.)
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-05-27
Total for IS years 81, 6a5,6G0d86
f~Sarnnany

Total for 16 years. .s1y2s7.Si5ssG0
Ii Is plain that congress has not
starved the navy. No otner navy, ext
cept the British, has received such
generous appropriations. 1t is equal
IL plain that the American people
have not had a dollars worth OF navy
for a dollars worth OF expenditure,
{ The present controversy gets US
nowhere-the clamor for four battle
ships in place of two. the unstinted
abuse Of Secretary Daniels and the
attempt to play party politics with
the national defense. The secret Of
n NAYS inferiority is obviously in
its organization. and until that is
remedied there will be no
For many years the army organic
lation was notoriously antiquateds-
New York World.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-05-27

in location of the houses about the
premises and in the parks. @
In addition to protecting the birds
in the building of the houses. the boys
are planning to invite them in other
ways, even to the extent of making
cause against the sparrows in case
the latter attempt to GUST the favor
ed inmates. It is the belief of the
school authorities that a result ct
the encouragement of birds in the
city will be Eel in a lessening of
bugs and worms that make war upon
the trees and shrubbery of the homes
and parks.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-05-27
BELGIAN FUNDS NOT LOST.

philadelphia, Pa.-Published re-
ports that 500, 000, belonging to the
Melis-Depage Belgian Red Cross field
hospital fund, vas lost with Madame
Depage in the sinking of the Lusitan-
ia, were declared to be to-
day by DR.. Richard H. Harte of this
city, treasurer of the fund.
About $4,000 additional in supplies
have been sent from time to time by
the American Red Gross to Belgium,
Dr.. Harte said.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-05-27
FOR A r p LIVER.

Il have used Chamberlaifs Tab
let's off and on for the past six years
my liver shows signs Of
being in a disordered condition. They
have always acted quickly and given
me the desired relief" writes Mrs.
F. H. Trubus, Springyille, N. Y, For
sale by all dealers. Adv. ALSO
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-05-27
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ALLIES TO USE GASES.

London, May 2S.-Secretary of
War Kitchener announced in the
House of Lords this afternoon
that the British and French gov
ernments feel that the allied
troops must be protected ade-
quately against poisonous gases
by the employment Of similar
methods. These will remove the
enormous and unjustifiable ad-
vantage which must otherwise
exist.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-05-27
+ y 4 y 4 = q 4 :
CHANCE TO FIGHT GERMANS
AIM OF MRS. BELMONT

New York.-Mrs. Oliver H. P.
Belmont wants to head a COM
pany Of women to fight the Ger
mans if President Wilson'S note
to Germany brings on the war,
which she earnestly hopes will
come.
Mrs. Belmont's criticism of the.
note is that it should have been
sent months ago. The United
X States she declared today, had
been playing a cowardly part.
X u n r II Il 4 y +
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1915-03-11
Mrs. Geo. Hamilton
OfEasley Died Tues.

rs.~Annie M i. Hamilton, wife
of George B. Hamilton, Of Eas-
ley, died at. the G1eenville City
Hospital Tuesday night, where
she was carried Monday for
surgical treatment. Mrs. Ham
ilton was q native of Scottsboro,
Ala, and eight years ago she
was married to Mr.. Hamilton,
living since that time at Easiey.
She was 81 years Of age.
She was possessed of many
lovable traits of character and
she was endeared to all with
whom she came in contact.
Besides her husband she leaves
a daughter seven years old and
two sons, three years and nine
months of age. OF her family
in Scottsboro surviving are her
mother, two sisters and three
brothers.
The remains were carried to
Easley Wednesday and from
there carried to her former home
in Alabama where the funeral
services were held at the Epis-
coDal church at that place, of
which she was a member.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1915-03-11
Half Your Living
Without M0nov Cost

right or wrong start in 1915 will
make or break most farmers in the
Cotton States. We are all facing a
crisis on cotton. Cotton credit Is ND.
set. The supply merchant cannot ad-
vance supplies on 1915 cotton. You
must do your best to produce on your
own acres the food and grain supplies
that have made up most Of your store
debt in the past.
A good piece Of garden ground,
rightly planted, rightly tended and
kept planted the year round, can be
made to pay half your living. 1t will
save you more money than you made
on the best five acres Of cotton you
ever grew! But 1t must be a real
garden, and not the mere one-plant.
Ing patch in the spring and fan.
Hastings 1915 Seed Book tells all
about the right kind Of O money-sav.
ing garden and the vegetables to put
In 1T. 1t tells about the field crops
as well and, shows you the clear road
to real. farm prosperity, comfort and
independence. IT'S FREE. Send for
it today to, II. G. HASTINGS G. CO.,
Atlanta, aa.-Advt.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1915-03-11

The postolice department, which was
organized and perfected for the benefit
of the whole people Of this country, and
which was never intended to be a money
making proposition, has just paid into
the national treasury So, 500, 900, repre-
sentng the surplus in the revenues of
that department for the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1914. For the fiscal year of
1913 the postal surplus was $4,000, 900.
Secretary Of the Treasury McAdoo says
these payments were the first repre-
senting actual surplusses made by the
postoflicc department since 1886. From
these facts it would seem best to leave
the mail service alone, especially the
rural delivery end Of it, insteado going
back to the antiquatcd contract system,
as Postmaster General Burleson has
been agitating. Does he want to pay
larger dividends, or less? If the latter,
the contract system is the way to do it.
but if he wants the department to be al
least self sustaining and at the same
time give the people the best mail ser
vice they have ever had, he will aban
don the contract plan.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1915-03-11
The Split Log Drag

The split log drag has contri-
buted more toward the economic
maintenance of public high
ways than any implement of
modern usage. Tt does not re-
quire special acts of the legis-
lature, bond issues nor expen-
sive educational campaigns to
make it available as usually pre-
cedes construction work. a
drag can be built or purchased
for twenty dollars and is easily
operated by any one who can
drive a team. We need more
drags in this state.