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Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-23
NAVAL CASUALTY BOARD
 MEETS TODAY IN NEW YORK
Members Will Inspect Navy Yard and
 All Warships in Port.

New York, Dev. 22.-Members of the navy consulting board met here today for series of informal conferences in preparation for their second meeting since organization which will be held tomorrow at the New York navy yard Secretary Daniels has proposed a trip to the Sandy Hook proving grounds, but it was deferred because of the uncertain weather and it is believed the members will be kept busy in specting the navy yard, especially as division of the Atlantic fleet now are in port.
 Dr. Leo Hendrix Baekeland, chair man of the committee on food and sanitation, discussed the prime i'm pOrtance of synthetic nitric acid in modern warfare and declared that if Germany had not been able to utilize the cOurces of nitrogen in the air in the manufacture of munitions she would have been helpleSSly paralyzed since Great Britain has shut her off from the general source of supply of Saltpetre in Chile.
 The United States in case of war pr. Baekeland declared, would be whipped within a year through short age of nitrogen unless the navy could protect the Chinean saltpetre fields. It would take at least twelve months, he said, to develop the manufacture of nitric acid from the air in sufficient quantities to produce the requisite amount of smOkeless powder and eX- plosiVes, although the process was in vented in the United States. Salt petre is the OnlE important chemical or raw material which cannot IoSily be produced in this country, he asserted.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-23
COMMUNICATION FROM
 ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS
Tells of Failure of An AeropIane Raid
 by Enemy.

Rome via London. Dec. g, lO.27 D. m.-The official communication issued from general headquarters today reads as follows:
 Tn Giudicaria valley on Monday night our artillery and aircraft eff fectively bombarded Fort POr of the Ladro group. On Tuesday the bonn bardment was successfully renewed. Two enemy aeroplanes, which went up in the course of the action, were at lacked and forced to retreat.
 In the TerragnOle valley detach- ments of the enemys artilledy which attempted to approach our positions were counter attacked and repulsed, leaving some prisoners.
 Tn the Sugana valley our artillery fired on the railway station at Led icO, where movements of troops were reported. On the AsiagO plateau to- day an enemy aeroplane offered a mark for our artillery, and was forced to land by reason of damage done its engines. The pilot was captured
 On the rest of 5he front there is nothing to report except few shots from the encmy's batteries against Ca.pOrettO Basin and an attack by enc my aircraft against our positions at Podgora and opposite Penma. No damage was done
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-23
MAN RAN AMUcK IN
 ANsoNIA BOARDING HOUSE.
Place Ws Run by His Wife, With Whom He Had Not Been Living.

Ansonia. Conn. Dec 22.-John M71r- phv. a former resident. who came back to Ansonia a few days ago to see his wife, with whom he had not been living. ran amuct at her boarding house in Maple street tonight and fired three shots from a revolver. one of which struck William Martin. The lat ter is now in the Griffin hospital, at Derby. with a bullet in his right lung.
 According to police information. MurDhv went to the boarding house and the door was opened by a board CT. William Neary. Murphy, it is said Immediately started 10 punch Weary and then fired at him with the re- volver the shot going wild. Martin and his wife and Mrs. Murphy had been sitting in the parlor. Hearing the shot they went to the door and Martin was struck in the breast. An other shot was fired and it Is thought 1t was meant for Mrs. Murphy. but the bullet lodged in the wal
 Murphy theS ran away. only to be captured a few minutes later by a policeman. Murphy declined to talk os the affair at the police station.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-23
Remnants of Villa
 Army Defeated
IN BATTLE TEN MILES OUTSIDE
 CHIHUAHUA CITY.
NO QUARTER SHOWN
Nine Hundred Villa Soldiers Were Killed, Wounded or Taken Prisoners -Carranza Losses Said to Be Small Streets Strewn With Dead.

Laredo, Texas, Dec. 22.-Carranza troops under General TrevinO engaged what remained of the Villa army in battle yesterday and today at Mapula, ten miles outside Chihuahua City, in ficting a severe defeat. Nine hundred Villa soldiers were killed, wounded or taken prisoner. according to advices to Carranza officials in NuevO Laredo tonight.
 The Carranza losses were said to have been small. General Trevino, with his soldiers. who have advanced rapidly to Chihuahua during the past ten days, encountered the Villa sol diers moving sOuthward.
 No Quarter Shown.
 A fierce battle ensued in which no quarter was shown. The Villa sol diers fought desperately and the battle lasted all yesterday afternoon and was prolonged through the night until the Villa troops surrendered this morn ing.
 Streets Strewn with Dead.
 The streets of the village of Mapula were strewn with dead when the fir ing ceased.
 The leader of the Villa soldiers was not learned. Troops engaged were said to have been the remnants of a force until recently operating in Sonora.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-23
Only Report of Activity is French Success in the
 Argos Region, in France
CAPTURE OF MARINA BY RUSSIA NOT CONFIRMED
Second American Note Austria Featured the London Newspapers-Interest Now Ceners in the Proceedings of the House of Commons and the Reichstag- Bodies Confronted by Momentous Problems.

London, Dec. g, 1885 p. m. - The second American note to Austria shared the leading position in the late London newspapers with the reports Of the Russian success at Varna, Bull garia's chief seaport.
 The note appeared here too late for extended editorial comment, but the headlines reflected the opinions-"Note cCuched in sharper tones,H All dis cussion about details swept aside CT ''No further discussion appears possI- ble"
 Up to a late hour there was no of fiCial confirmation of the report Of the Russian occupation of Narna, which, if true, is according to the London ed itors, "one of the greatest moves of the present war"
 The same critics believe that the Russian assault on Narna is the pre- Jude to a new effort for COnstantlnOpIe which is less than 150 miles distant
 On the western front, the success Of the French at Hartmanns- WeIlerkopf, in the Vosges, is regarded in th allied capitals as not only brilliant put useful operation at point where the situation has been most difficult for many months The number Of prison CTS is the largest on the west front since the great Champagnc-LOOs of fensiVe.
 The English public takes much pride ill the manner in which Aucstralia has taken the withdrawal from GalEpOI. This attitude is summed up by an Australian newspaper in the words Of Lincoln's Gettysburg speech:
 We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in Vain that this nation, under God, shall have new birth of freedom.
 The most important developments ot the evening in Great Britain were an appeal by the leading banks to the nation to unite in the task of meeting the wars financial requirements and speech by David Lloyd George, the minister of munitions, at New Castle t. the trade union officials of the COun- try, appealing to them for assistance in obtaining S0,0O0 skilled workers, which he demanded in his speech in parliament a few days ago.
 The reports of the Te!chstag discus sion have aroused some interest in the entente capitals. where the socialist attitude is being closely followed, many believing that some section of the socialist group in Germany may prove to be the ultimate channel of peace negotiations. A Copenhagen despatch declares that the socialist party in Germany is now completely divided, twenty-one members having
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-23
Fire Causes Panic
 Among Prisoners
IN SHOP CONNECTED WITH THE
 FAIRFIELD COUNTY JAIL,
HYSTERICAL SHOUTS
JaiIer Closed the Huge Steel Doors Connecting the Shop and Jail and Gained the Prisoners-Two Alarms Were Rung In.

Bridgeport, Conn, Dec. 22-Ffre in the workshop of the Fairfield county Jail on North avenue caused a small panic among the 23O prisoners tonight and did considerable damage to the shop, three-story brick structure, connected with the jail. Jailer Henry Scott was at supper when he smeIled smoke.
 HysterioaI Shouts of "FireID
 Almost at the same time there came hysJe-lcaI shouts of "FlreI" from the prisoners, who had been locked in their cells for the night. The taller immediately closed the huge steel doors connecting the shop and jail and calmed the prisoners.
 Fire Spread Rapidly.
 in the meantime the fire. which had started in an electrically operated ma chine m room where concrete Is compressed, spread rapidly to all three floors of the shop.
 Two Alarms Runs In.
 Two alarms brought out all the fire lighting apparatus in the center of the city The firemen chopped holes in the roof of the shop and flooded the building with water. The blaze was UnoeI control !n a short time.
 Jailer Scott said that after the first excitement the prisoners behaved cool ly.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-23
GERMANY'S REPLY TO LAST
 LUSITANIA NOTE KEPT SECRET
Because of Bearing It May Have on
 the Ancona Case.

Washington, Dec. 22.-Because of its possible bearing upon the open issues involved in the LUsitania and AncOna caSes the state department will not make public the details of Germany's reply to the last American note re- garding the sinking of the American ship William P. Frye.
 A cabIed outline of the German re- ply indicated that it was not com pletely responsive and left in doubt the attitude of the German government toward the American suggestion that the requirements of the Declaration of London that before the vessel is destroyed all persons on board must be placed in safety" was not satisfied by merely giving an opportunity for escape in ifebOats on the open sea.
 he full text of the German note now has been received through the mails from Ambassador Gerard. it was ad- mitted today at the state department, but officials declined to say what re- sponse was made to this important suggestion.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-23
CANADA T oSRRINK
 FROM NO SACRIFICE.
Declaration Made By Sir Robert Laird
 Borden, Canadian Premier.

New York. Dec. 22-"Canada while hoping that events of the next twelve months will lead to an abiding peace. is fully determined to spare no effort and sEriHg from no sacrifice to make triumphant the cause of the allies the freedom of the world" declared Sir Robert Laird Borden the Candi- an premier, in an address tonight at the 10th dinner of the New Eng land Society in New York. Accounting what sacrifices Canada has already made, Premier Borden said it stood ready to make still more, firm in the conviction that humanity's struggle against the enthrOnement of force above right will not be in vain"
 Premier Borden was cheered en- thusiastiCally throughout his address which was the first delivered by him in the United States since the out break of the war. The banquet hall was decorated with American and British flags and the emblems of the states of the Union. Besides the na- tiOnal airs of America and Englard. The orchestra played songs of New England origin, which, coupled with the genuine New England dinner. car ried the diners back in spirit to the days of their childhood.
 After a toast to President Wilson was drunk amid cheering. President Francis Lynde StetsOn introduced Former Senator Theodore E. Burton of Ohio, who spoke on Our Fathers Day and Ours-' Senator Burton reviewed the history of New England from the days of the Pilgrims.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-23
Shot and Killed
 a Close Friend
DEED OF ROBERT L. KNOX AT
 BATON ROUGE DEPOT.
KILLED ANOTHER MAN
One of the Victims Was Prominent Louisiana Lawyer, the Other Pau
 per-SIayer is Surveyor of the Port of New OrIeans-Probably Demented

Baton Rouge, La, Dec. 22.-Robert L. Knox, surveyor of customs for the port of New Orleans ands prominent Louisiana attorney. shot and killed Benjamin Foster of Hattiesburg, Miss, a close friend and former business as- sociate, and Alexander F'raenkiin, be- lieVed to be from NatChitOches La, in the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroad depot here today.
 Fired Without Uttering a Word.
 According to witnesses Knox walk ed into the crowded waiting room and without uttering a word drew a re- volver and fired three times. Foster, who was purchasing a ticket, was in stantiy killed. Fraenklin was struck by the second or third bullet and died 20 minutes later. After the shooting Knox left the waiting room and sur rendered to the police.
 "He Ruined My Life"
 District Attorney HolcOmbe, who at tempted to obtain a statement from Knox, declared that all the prisoner would say was He ruined my life" It was said Knox apparently did not know F'raenkIin had been killed.
 Relatives of Knox declare that he was suffering from mental alteration as he and Foster had been friends for many years and no cause was known for a grievance.
 EldO OSNetOpSO "SFIat iIOuDiSH
 Local authorities said tonight they had learned that Knox recently devel- Cped mental trouble and last Septem- Der was taken to Washington and placed in sanitarium for treatment. He arrived here from Washington sev- eral days ago.
 FraenBlin was 74 years old and was a pauper. He had been accompanied to the depot by an atJaChe of a local charitable organization which had ar ranged to send him 10 relatives in DonaldsOnville, Ia.
 Had Been in Private Sanitariurn.
 Washington. Dec. 22-Robert L. Knox, who shot and killed two men at Baton Rouge, La. today. was released from a private SanitaTium here Dec l6. after undergoing treatment fol nearly two months for a mental affec- ton. His condition was so much inn proved that the attending physicians deemed it safe for him to go to spend Christmas with his family.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-23
BRITISH ARMY TO BE
 INCREASED TO 4,oo0,ooo.
Bill Passed in House of Commons Af-
 ert Fourteen Hour Sitting.

London. Dec. 22, 9.21 p. m. - The house of commons today passed bill increasing the strength of the British army to 4.OOO, 000 men. The bill passed without division.
 The army bill was passed in commit tee of the whole at last nights session after a fourteen hour sitting. The de- bate on this bill today prior to it's final Fassage was brief and without feature, it's opponents all having sufficiently aired their views during the committee stage.
 The newly authorized army, H. J. Tenant. parliamentary secretary Of tho war office, stated to the house to- night. is the largest army ever raised in this country. MT. Tenant gave in terestine, figures on the large reserve requirements of the army under mod ern war conditions, saying that it was necessary to have at home in reserve IS men for every soldier in the field This estimate was based on the month Iy wastage of 15 per cent.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-23
PROGRESS OF DE FACTO
 GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO.
Assuming Civil and Military Authori-
 ty in ErstvhiIe Villa Territory.

ty in ErstwhiIe Villa Territory.
 Fl Paso, Texas. Dec. 22.-The de faCtO government of Mexico made pro- Eress today in assumption of civil and military authority iu the territory sur rendered recently by followers of Fran cisco Villa, according 10 reports reach ing here from various sources. Villas whereabouts was still unknown here.
 General Jacinto Trevino at the head of a military force representing the def cato government. was reported to have successfully engaged the rem nants of Villas forces and occupied Chihuahua City. General Alvaro Obregon, whose forces recently drove General Villa from Sonora. was said to be cn route from NoEales to Juarez to assume military control.
 General NanUelO OrChS, former Vil- Ia military chief at JUlreZ. today re- nOunced the Villa cause and joined :he dc faCto government. Temporarily he had been placed in control of the surrendered territory by the Carran- Za consul here.
 HipOlotO Villa. brother of the de- posed chief. was said to have left JUarez for San Antonio, Texas.
 General Jose ROrdiEucz, until recent lv one of Villas principal leaders. was reported with Q small force at Casas GrHndes. His attitude toward the de faCto government was unknown here,
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-23
PRESIDENT AND BRIDE
 MOTOR THROUGH MOUNTAINS. Crossed the West Virginia Line and
 Visited Sulphur Springs.

Hot Springs, Va. Dec. P. - From early this morning until after dark, President Wilson and his bride mo- tored over winding mountain roads and through unabridged creeks. When their bespattered car returned to the hotel here tonight they had traVersed many miles and had crossed the West Virginia line to visit White Sulphur Springs.
 At White Sulphur the couple created a stir by walking into the public dining room of the principal hotel for lunch con.
 Tomorrow the president expects to spend several hours dictatng letters and memoranda to his stenOgrapher.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-23
MARINES AND RLUEJACKETS
 IN HAITI WILL MISS TURKEY
Transport Prairie With 100000 Pounds
 Has Ero~%n Topmast.

Philadelphia, Dec. 22-The transport Prairie which was to have sailed from here yesterday with 100 900 pounds of turkey for the 5000 sailors and ma rines stationed in Haiti. will not get away until Thursday or latet, be- cause of a broken topmast. and Conse- quently will not reach Haiti until aft CT Christmas. Presents for the naval force from friends an drelatives in this country as we'll as 800 buckets of cranbeTries and 5000 pounds of candy also are aboard the Prairie.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-23
SIX MEXICAN ROBBERS
 PUBLICLY EXECUTED
At Mexico City-Four Others Given
 Respite at Last Moment.

Galveston, Tex, Dec. 22.-Six mem bers of the robber band recently cap tUred in Mexico City were executed publicly this morning, according to message received by Juen T. Burns, Mexican consul here. Four others condemned to death were given a respite at the last moment. Five wom- CT arrested with the band have been given long prison terms, the message says. The robbers had been able to avoid capture for some time by means oc forged documents which made the police believe they were army officers.
 Today's message says an official announcement regarding the govern ment's policy toward the redemption of outstanding notes by banks will be published shortly.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-23
COUSIN OF sERRlA's KING
 DEAD IN NEW YORK
Result of an AItercation with an Aus
 trian and the Latter's Son.

New York. Dec. 22-Ierman Merch- owitz, second cousin to King Peter of Serbia, who had been employed for years as a porter in furrier's estab- ment. died today in a hospital from a fractured skull received in an alter cation yesterday with an Austrian and the latter's son. The younger man, under arrest on a charge of homicide is accused of knocking down the Ser bian whose head struck the pavement
 MerchowitZ, who was 40 years old was the son og Prince John of Ser bia, wdho came to this country in 1862 and became a naturaliZed citizen.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-23
FIRING SIGHT HAS
 DISAPPEARED FROM GUN.
In Armory of Second Field Artillery
 Co.,, New York.

New York Dec. PA reversible telescopic indirect firing sight. the property of the United States army, the design of which has been careful ly guarded by the government, had disappeared from a three-inch field gun in the armory of the Second Field artillery of the National Guard. it was stated tonight. It's intrinsic value was small. The supposed theft has been reported to the police.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-23
ARRESTED ON CHARGE
 OF THEFT OF BONDS,
Picture Thought to Be MurIlo Found
 in Adolphe Cramer's Baggage.

Paris. Dec. 9. 6.25 D. m.-As he was embaTlIing for America. Adolphe Eramer was arrested on a charge of the theft of bends, preferred by a Belgian broker
 In Cramer's baggage was found a picture thought to be a MurillO. The canvas represents the Virgin Mary seated and holding the Infant Jesus on ner knee. It is unsigned. but is dated 1882 The canvas which was insured for 75,OOO francs, was, accord ing to Cramer received from an Italian monk who claimed to have taken t from a monastery.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-23
Had Been in Private Sanitariul
FATE OF ENTOMBED
 MINER IN UNKNOWN.
Buried Behind a Fall of Coal Near
 Shamokin. Pa, Last Monday.

Shamokin. Pa, Dec. 22.-The fate of Joseph RenoCk, a miner who was entOmhed Monday morning behind large fall of cCal at the Richards col fiery of the Susquehanna Coal com panY. was still unknown late tonight despite the efforts of 200 experienced men who started the work of rescue shortly after the accident. Renocl1 was imprisoned behind hundreds of tons of coal and debris before he could escape with a nUslber of other miners who got out by the narrOwest mar gins.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-23
GEN. VILLAS WIFE
 IN NEW ORLEANS.
Arrived There Last Night From Jua-
 reg, Mexico.

New Orleans. La. Dec. 22.-Mrs. Luz de Villa, wife of General Francisco Villa, accompanied by General Villas sister Jaw, Mrs. Hipolito Villa, and ten other persons, arrived here tonight from Juarez, Mexico. Reports that members of the party would go to Havana, Cuba, from here could not be confirmed.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-23
EXTENDING SESSION OF
 BRITISH PARLIAMENT
Bill Passed Without Division in the
 House of Commons.

London, Dec. p, 6.O2 p. m.-The house of commons today paSsed the bill prolonging the life of the present parliament.
 An attempt was made to introduce an amendment the effect of which would be to bury the plural voting bill but on the plea of A. Bonar Law. sec retary for the colonies. the motion was withdrawn The bill was passed with out division.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-23
THE MILLS TEA AND
 BUTTER co. BANKRUPT
Ran a Chain of Thirty Small Stores in
 Various New England Cities.

Boston, Mass, Dec. 22.-The Mills Tea and Butter company, which op- crates chain of thirty small stores in various New England cities and towns. filed a voluntary petition in bankduptcy in the United States Dis trict court here today. The liabilities are placed at $120,OOO and assets at $50, GOO. There are about one hun- dred unsecured creditors.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-23
VILLA WOULD DIE SOONER
 THAN COME TO UNITED STATES
Last Words He Said to His Wife as
 He Bade Her Goodbye.

San Antonio, Texas. Dec. 22-Gen- eral Francisco Villas last words to his wife aver two weegs ago. as he bade. her goodbye in Chihuahua City, Were:
 T shall never go to the United States, where they hate me I shall spend the remainder Of my life in my home mountains with my faithful friends where my enemies cannot reach me-
 Mrs. Villa made this statement last night when she passe dthrough San Antonio accompanied by Mrs Ripol- ito Villa and ten others. enrOute to New Orleans. From there the party may 90 to Havana, Cuba.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-23
INCREASED TAXATION
 BY GERMAN STATES.
6egun in Baden-2o Per Cent. on In-
 comes Above 2,4oo Marks.

Berlin. Dec. 22. via London, 2 ?. m.- The movement for an increase of tax ation by the German states has begun with Baden, where the dist has just passed a bill increasing the income ta-. 20 per cent. on Incomes above D. 800 marks.
 It vns pointed out In the reichstag on Monday that Prussia and Saxony also intend to increase their Income tax rates.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-23
CHRISTMAS SHIP WITH
 GIFTS FOR LEPER COLONY.
Left New Bedford For the Bleak Is-
 sIand in Euzzard's Bay.

New Bedford. Mass, Dec %. - A Christmas ship laden with gifts for every patient at the leper colony at Peniwese left here this morning for the bleak island in EuzZard's bay The ship was the motor boat of Captain Willis D. Raymond who volunteered his services. and the presents aboard were donated by two of the churches of New Bedford. The packages con tained candy, and cake, mittens or stockings or caps, Christmas cards or books and other articles designed to bring something of cheer from the out side world to the little colony on Christmas morning. The packages were consigned to Dr. Frank H. Parker and his wife and will he distributed by them on Christmas morning