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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-20
ONE LOST WHEN
 PASSENGER SHIP
 BURNS IN OCEAN
Greek Steamer Abandoned as Fire Sweeps Her From
 Stem to Stern.
WIRELESS MESSAGES
 BRING RESCUE SHIPS
Nearly 500 Are Transferred with Safety From Doomed
 Liner Athinai.

Halifax, N. S., Sept. 20.-The Greek steamer Athinai was destroyed by fire at sea with the loss of one life, acco d. rine department today. The steamer Tuscania rescued 408 passengers and crew and the steamer Roumanian Prince 61s others.
 4 The message from the Tuscania was dated at a.. m. today and was the first official word received from the liner since the wireless report last night that the AthiIai was afire and that the Tuscania had rescued passen- gers.
 The origin of the fire was not stated In the message, which read:
 Heard distress call at s: 30 a. m. yes terday- Arrived at spot at noon and sent line across the help them. Trans ferred passengers about D. m. Ath- mai was abandoned about 8:3O D. m.
 We rescued 408 passengers and crew and the Roumanian Prince rescued 61 There was only one life lost, that of a man who jumped overboard.>
 We left the wreck burning f1ercely in No. and holds at 1O 30 p. m. Po- s11on, Lat 54 north, Long. 57.4. west. ,
 The Animal sailed from New York last Thursday for Greece. She carried 61 first, AT second cabin and 213 steer age passengers The others on board were members of the crew The cargo consisted of considerable quantities of flour, coffee, cotton, rice and lubricat- ing oil.
 The Animal was 6,742 tons gross and was 4S0 feet long and -32 feet beam The vessel was built in England in 1908 and was owned by the National Steam Navigation company, of Greece.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-20

Accusing the late Col Nathan Hopkins Heft railroad pro moter, expert head of the partmen of the road, with having time divorced him, his first wife, he at a the settlement of his estate with cIaim larger alimony.
 that effecually delay the settlement the estate
  Probate today, Congressman Robert E. DeFores, counsel for the first Mrs. Hef.
 Tomorrow accounting the Mrs. Heft to have been filed with the acting leaving will and under the state law, the property would third to the widow, the remainder The Dr. George Stanley Heft, 668 Riverside Drive, New York city.
 The first that Col Heft represented the time divorced worth $IoOOoO when, as matter of fact million
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-20
SALTS TEXTILE
 STRIKE LIKELY
 TO END AT ONCE
Kip Will Meet Committee Representing Striking Elm
 ployes Tomorrow.

Settlement of the Salts Textile Go. strike tomorrowNis believed to be very probable. A conference, at which Fred E.. Kip. president of the concern and three employees from each depart ment of the factory will be present will be held tomorrow morning.
 "A meeting. of the employees was held this morning in Eagles hall. It was agreed that the same demands that have been supported for the last few weeks. will be the basis for the agree ment,- on the side of the strikers.
 The ranks of the strikers are thin ming put. While many. would prefer to return to the Salts factory under improved conditions, the need of jobs has caused them to go- elsewhere and not a few have obtained work in the Remington Arms & Ammunition Co.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-20
ROCKEFELLER INSPECTS
 COLORADO PROPERTIES

Trinidad. Colo, Sept. 2o-John D. Rockefeller, Jr., arrived here to-day for an inspection of the properties of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company MT. Rockefeller and his party prob ably will spend two or three weeks in Colorado.
 The visit of MT. Rockefeller as ac- tive representative of the principal owning interest in the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, has been planned since early in the year. It had it's inception at the New York hearings before the Federal Commission on Industrial Relations.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-20

i COL tteIC eS1zSd last winter at his home, Park and Black Rock ave nues After papers of administra- ton had been granted his widow and son, Samuel H. Wheeler, Samuel C. Shaw and John T. King were named appraisers They reported that he more than $30o,OO0, chiefly in per sonaI property, of which the bulk was in railroad stocks and bonds,
 The first Mrs. Heft was Frances Helene Cease and she married Col. Heft at Mason City, 11l., Feb. 22t 1873. The couple came to live in Bridge port in September, 1892. In Septem- Der, 1902. just 10 years later, the first Mrs. Heft began a suit for divorce against the colonel alleging inhdeltty with persons unknown.
 The action was brought in the su- perior court here, .Canfe1d & Judson representing Mrs Heft, and Stoddard, Marsh & Boardman, the colonel. Judge George W. Wheeler appointed Judge Morris B. Beardsley q commit tee to hear the case. Judge Boards ley reported Col. Heft guilty of mis- conduct with Mrs. William Adands of WiIke kesbarre Pa. The acts of nais- conduct are said to have taken place at the Union Square hotel, New York city. at various periods, between De cember, 1901, and the date when ac- tion for divorce was brought.
 
 cree, $20,0OO alimony and the right
 to resume her maiden maine of Cease. This latter, right in the decree she ap-
 parently never exercised as she brings her present action under the name of Heft Having obtained her decree of
 divorce, the first Mrs. Heft went to live in seclusion at East Mauch Chunk, Penn, where she has made her home ever since.
 Col tHeft's second wife was Mrs
 Mary Josephine Moore, a widow of Washington. D. C. She had a young l daughter who came to Bridgeport to live in the Heft home. She was kill ed in an automobile accident in the middle west several years ago, and [ the shock of the fatality told heavily | on the colonel, Swhose advancing years
 brought failing health.
 Col. Heft was for many years among the best known engineers of the New Haven railroads consulting staff. He
 was an electrical expert. He super vised the installation of the third rail electric road, running from Berlin to New Britain. It was one of the first
 railroads of the type in this coun- try
 He was one of the first chief own CTS of the Bridgeport Traction Co.,, consolidating two rival horse car lines and electrifying the system, but sold out his holdings at a substantial fig ure, when the New Haven road took 1 over this line, and lately his interest 1 had been chiefly in railroad develop ments in the middle west,
 The colonel continued his lresi- dence in Bridgeport in the stately stone mansion which he had built at Park and Black Rock avenues. An iron fence ten feet high surrounds the mansion and there are many big elm trees and rare shrubs and bushes about the garden and grounds. The I colonel was a connoisseur and collect or of paintings and are treasures and his home was filed with many beau I tifu1 trunks of art when he died.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-20
Ansonia s Bank to Lose
 $15,OOO By Embezzler

Hartford, Sept. 2O-Bank Commis- sioner E. J .Sturges declared at his office in the capitol today that the Arlsonia Savings Bank was perfectly solvent and able to pay every dollar of deposits. He said that when the bond of $2o.ooo of Franklin Burton defaulting treasurer, was paid and his real estate sold the loss to the bank through Burton would be from SIP, 900, to $15,00O. The surplus will then be a bout $5O.OOO.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-20

Machinists on picket duty at the American Chain Co.,. plant said this morning that they counted. 22 Yale students leaving the factory last Fri day They say they worked in the shipping room and that no mecha mics have been employed in the places of the strikers.
 The freight handlers strike, which has been dormant as far as activities are concerned. is expected to be of importance in few days, when freight handlers. all over the New Ha- ven road may be on strike.
 The Siemon Hard Rubber Go. em- ployes are holding out for the eight hour day. The offer of the company
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-20
Youngster Battles
 With Rat; His Hand
 Poisoned From Bite

Twe1ve-year-o1d Armond Petit of 98 Oak street endeavored to fight a large rat in his back yard last We'd nesday.> Armond grabbed the rodent by the throat and was choking him when the rat inflicted pa infu1 bite on the right wrist of Armond. He neg lected the wound with the result that it became infected and he received treatment at the Emergency hospital to-day.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-20
CARRANzA ARMY,
 UNDER 0BREGON
 NOW IN TORREON

sEl Paso, Sept 2o.---The occupation of Toreon by the Cafranza forces un- der General Obregon was under way today, according to unofficial reports It was said aeroplanes flew over the city in advance of the troop trains. General Villa retired from the city yesterday owing, it was said, to lack of provisions.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-20
Bonding Go. Seeking
 Missing NY. Banker

Hartford, Sept 2o-Daniel N. Gage, secretary of the Aetna Accident & Lia- bility Company, said today he had au- thorized the office in New York of a detective agency to join in the search for Henry s. Bradley, the missing New York bank teller It is understood that company is on .Bradley's bond for S1o,ooO.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-20
JUDGE FINES JITNEUR
 FOR OVERCROWDING CAR

For overerowding his iitney to the extent of carrying 10 passengers in five passenger car, at Bapfum ave- nue and East Main streek yesterday, Earl H. Woods, 8 local jitneur living at 751 Beechwood avenue; was fined $2 by Judge Bartlett to-day in the city court.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-20

-of a 50 hour week has not been ac- cepted. Immediate wage increases are wanted also. whereas the only encouragement given them along that line so far is the proposition to in- crease the wages after they return
 The 12 1-2 per cerft. increase of fered by the H. O. Garfield Go. has not been considered faVorably by the strikers. They are stil holding out for the increase of 25 per cent which they say, was promised.
 A mass meeting of the Bryant Elec- tric Go. employees will be held this evening in Eagles hall to consider the discharge of one of the grievance committee members.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-20
DR.. DUMBA
 WILL SAIL
 NEXT WEEK

NewlYo ork, Sept 2o-It waS learned today that Constantin T. Dunba, the Austro-Hung garian ambassador whose recall was asked by President Wilson, has reserved passage on the steamer Rotterdam, which sails from this bort, Tuesday, Sept. 2S.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-20
HUBER CANDY STORE
 AND CASH REGISTER ROBBED

Thieves entered the candy shop of Jacob Huber at Ill Wall street some time Sunday night and rif1ed the cash register to the extent of s176e. En- trance was gained through the tram som over the front door.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-20
FIRST GAME IN WORLDS SSERIES
 ON OCTOBER g

Cincinnati, Sept. 2OrAugust Herr mann, chairman of the National Base ball Commission, in a statement pub lished today, said that the worlds series probably would start8on Satur- day, Oct. g.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-20
JOHNSTON TO MAKE THIS CITY HIS HEADQUARTERS FOR 8-HOUR MOVEMENT

H. Johnston, President of the International Machnsts decided make Bridgeport ciny headquarters for few weeks He is Cleveland before the end of the The tvity machns in this neighborhood makes his pres imperative and it today has selected for offices.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-20

The Epworth League of the Trinity M. E. church began a series of lee lures on Child Welfare yesterday. $ R. Gordon, superintendent<o of charities spoke on Poverty As a Cause ot juvenile Delinquency"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-20
WEATHER FORECAST

Increasing cIouci1ness tonight: Tues day showers, moderate, variable winds, becoming south.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-20
FIRST WIFE OF COL, HEFT SUES HIS ESTATE ALLEGING
 FRAUD IH HER DIVORCE SUIT
Pennsylvania Woman Enters Courts on Eve of What Promised to Be Final Settlement of Late Railroad Financier's Estate and Alleges He Defrauded Her.
CLAIMS HE CONCEALED HALF MILLION
 IN PROPERTY FROM HER AT DIVORCE

Now Wants Court to Review the Proceeding and Make Allowance in Addition to the S2O,OOO r Which Was Given Her In Connection With
 Her Divorce Decree.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-05-15

For me, | have learned new thing in
the theater.. Tomorrow, quick, will
spend one roubIe. 1t will buy book.
Our children must learn to read"
Behind the scenes some one was
drumming marching air. To the
staccato rhythm brigades, of horse,
foot and artillery passed to a battle
line. The children watched in puz-
zled silence.
TOO bad, too bad" whispered
Pekka's grave little mother. But
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-05-15

perhaps the children will not UNI
derstand. We want our little ones to
learn only the good things of this
new world"
That was the end.
The smiling mother spread her
arms in a gesture that embraced the
western world
Never, never did any child in
Karnngi have such a name-day party.
Pekka and the other children never
will forget. 1t is so ordained"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-21
LOSS OF AMERICAN LIVES ON THE ARABIC BRINGS NATIONAL CRISIS
American Papers Vie7u
 Sinking of the Arabic As
 An Affront to the U. s.
Incident Has Precptated National Crisis Think Majority American Editors-German Papers Advise Pa
 tience-A Summary of Opinion

Mobile Register: Torpedoing of the Arabic repeats an action of which our government said the repetition would be regarded as deliberately unfriendly Rup- ture of friendly relations would .. she natural consequence.
 Chattanooga Times: Unley .&<y and more complete details shar . the af- fair in different light tSOyo that now shed upon it, the rely. esS Jetween our government and thu lermany have reached a climax ne consequences of which there is Stability of retreat
 It remains for Pl sident Wilson to act in accordance with the policies he has laid down as covering any such incident as is now reported
 Tampa (F'la) Tribun: The Arabic in- cident puts another very serious problem up to President Wilson and his advisers. Will this government consider the sink ing of the ship deliberately un- friendly? If it does not, our diplomatic representations must be construed as meaningless and worthless.
 Macon (Ga.) Daily Telegraph: The tor pedoing of the. Arabic appears to have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-21
THE WAR SITUATION

Paris ao1o:2o  the banks the plateau Champagne Of region of auour and the vosses the region Hsenf artillery the night August succeeded aans footing  to Angrcs The Gcrmans sustained Mine fighting still smelling to torpedoes" Paris August 2o2so mA French statement today
  artillery n plain Anafanta." Berlin August sosy Wireless to Tuckerton JThe statement headquarters
 
 of
  quantity impossible 
  10 officers guns. "The Russians
  oudckc Lozdzele sudxoncxna"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-21
HOUSE REJECTS CHARGES AGAINST
 JUDGE PUR|FOY
Minority Report of Com mittee Adopted Follow ing a Heated
 Debate
By HUGH w. ROBERTS

Montgomery. August 20.--tSpecinI.) That the fiery battle flag of the Con- fcdcracy still retains It's irresistibIc characteristics was demonstrated to- night when, aftcr mn entire dny of bit- ter dcbntc, the house rejected the charges preferred sometime ago by Bradley G. Brown of Birminx ham. against Judge John Purifoy. secretary of state.
 As is remembered. the charges were referred to the Judiciary committee of the house, which unable to agree, re- turned two reports. the one, a majority report urging impeachment proceed ings and the other, minority report recommending that the allegations be tabled and be forgotten. By a vote of Al to 3i the house adopted the minority report as a substitute for the majority and then by standing vote, sustained the report of the minority.
 The running debate was featured b; addresses by MT. Rogers of Sumter, who referred to his opponents as Designing and demagagues of small degree and Mir. Davis of Walker, whc that Impeachment proceed Ings should be instituted. or declara- tlon made that Confederate soldiers were to be excepted from the opera. tion of criminal law" and by charge preferred by MT. Merritt of Macon to tho effect that. an alleged shortage in the treasury department had been rem edied by J. l.. Purifoy at the expense of the funds of the insurance department.
 Charges Practically Admitted
 It was as significant and charactcria- ing feature of the debate that no de- nial was made by the Purifoy partisans of ascharge that he paid J. H. Nunneloe s1000 to retire from the race for sccre- tary of state. and thus, in effect pur- chased the office; that he in swearing to his expense account, failed to in- clude that item of 5000. thus giving reason for the charge of perjury. and
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-21
GALVESTONSLOWLY RECOVERING FROM
 EFFECTS 0F STORM
City Shows Distressing Eff fleets of Inrushing Sea, But Is Regaining Its
 Normal Appearance

Galveston, Tex, August 20.-lThc fourth day after the cessation of one of the most severe storms Galveston has ever experi- enced, found this city gradually recover ing from the terrific onslaught of the clements and conditions slowly, but stead fly approaching normal. Tonight the city still showed plainly the distressing effects of the battering received from the wind and rain and inrushing of the sea. Much inconvenience was experienced by residents because virtually ali the public utilities were placed out of commission excepting probably in scattered sections. But the worst of the damage had been more or less remedied and putting of the city in order was progressing as rapidly as possible.
 According to latest information from official and other sources the storm death toll on the island and in the inn mediate vicinity will exceed 100.
 As revised tonight the list of dead was:
 Eight persons killed or drowned insids Galveston city proper
 rive DOd1eS IOunu on the Deacn inside of the city limits which possibly had drifted there from some other point.
 Eight bodies six of them white and two negroes. found on Pelican Island. where possibly they drifted from the shore of Galveston Island.
 Bodies Found
 Bodies found by United States soldiers on the west end of the island and outside the city, 40 (estmated).
 Nineteen men of the crew of the dredge San Bernardo, sunk near the mouth of the intercoastal canal.
 Twenty bodies of the crew of the sunken. .dredge Houston found on the dikc near Texas City.
 Damage to property and shipping in Galveston and vicinity was estimated to- night by city officials at from $4,O0O,00o to $S.000000. Among the steamers partly sunk or aground are the Ribton, Harles- den. Eaton Hall. Wellsee Utomend More witz, Hawkhead and Fl Sigla
 Fear of a food shortage or any calamity
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-21

been as deliberate and murderous an at tempt as that upon the Lusitania.
 Seventy-eight per cent of us will be with him tthe President prior to the an nouncement of his decision. whatever that decision may be.
 Columbia IS. CD State: Americans will stand confident that the honor and secur- ity of the American nation are safe in the hands of Woodrow Wilson: That he will omit no word or act needed to maintain the rights and dignity of this nation.
 Savannah (Ga.) Morning News: Ger many has committed an act which our government said it would regard as de liberately unfriendly. It is diffi- cult to see how our government can avoid severing friendly relations with her.
 Louisville Times The sinking of the Arabic was at best an attempt at mur- der. If lives were lost 1t was murder without excuse. The period for further indecision must be cut drastically short if the United States is not to be perpetuallv shamed.
 Detroit Evening Post: As President Wilson flatly refused to issue an embargo newspapers who without waiting to hear the facts and circumstances of the case
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-21
- ss7s717sH7s VI -. - If Vessel Did Not Attempt to Ram Submarine Ameri- can Note Has Been COm- pletely Ignored
GERMANY WILL BE GIVEN OPPORTUNITY
 TO AVOID RUPTURE
If Kaiser Did Not Mean to Violate American Stand Matter Probably Will Be Dropped, Is Belief

Washington, August 20.-A dispatch to the state depart ment from the American con sul at Liverpool, given out late today, gave the names of the following four Americans not in the list of the Arabic's sur vivors: Mrs. Josephine L.. Bruguiere, James Houlihan, E d m und K. w oods and Thomas Elmore.
 Washington, August 20.-Tension in creased in official quarters tonight when consular messages forwarding affidavits of American survivors of the British liner Arabic brought def ' mite information that the vessel was torpsdoed without warning and that : American lives had been lost
 Itsseemed but one point remained to be cleared up-whether the Arabic attempted to ram the submarine or whether change of the liners course to assist the British steamer Dunsley, sinking nearby, was in terpreted by the German submarine com mander as a hostile approach.
 The attitude of the American govern ment for the moment is receptive anxious ly awaiting accurate details and reserving Judgment as to whether the action was deliberately unfriendly'' The final de- cision rests with President Wilson.
 Confers With Lansing
 The President motored to Philadelphia today to see an oculist. He, had consulted Secretary Lansing before leaving and conferred with him again tonight No statement was forthcoming, as details from abroad were lacking. but every where in official quarters the grave as- pect of the case was discussed. The gen. eral trend of comment was that the Amer ican government had reached the point where it must decide whether it would sever diplomatic relations with Germany.
 officials expect Ambassador Gerard at Berlin to help ascertain whether the at- tack had the sanction of the German gov- errment. Should Germany offer an ex- .planation asserting there were qualifying circumstances such as an attempt by the Arabic to escape or ram the submarine, the disposition on Germany's part to dis .cuss the case probably would be construed {. here as a disavowal of any intention ldeliberately to violate the principles for which the United States has contended.
 Great Britain's censorship of press dis- patches on the disaster created the inn precision that perhaps facts were being withheld which might affect the same vitally. Officially messages, however, are not subject to censorship, and confidence prevailed that within another 24 hours the circumstances of the torpedoing would be definitely learned.
 Was Conveyed
 report today that the Arabic was con- voyed for time after leaving Liverpool led some officials to belieev that it might have caused the German submarine to omit visit and search and the giving of warnings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-21
TODAY'S AGE-HERALD

 .1-Loss of Americans brings national crisis. Naval engagement on coast of Riga. Exemptionists win first battle in the senate. House rejects charges against Puri- ~~foy z-Harris says Georgia can handle Frank problem. s-Montana coming to front as pro- ducer. 4Editorial comment. 5-school funds distribution unfair to Jefferson.
 Funeral services for R. P. McDavid. Douglas replies to Tribune editorial. Cattle auction here yesterday 6-Society. 8-Sports. s-Football leaders prepare for campaign.  la-Arablc survivors tell of rescue.