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Arizona republican., 1916-03-26
Artillery Has Been Notably Active, However, and Der lin Report Says German Shells Have Started Fires in Verdun
GERMAN RAIDER
 IS HEADED OFF
In Engagement Following Attempt of German Boat to Run Blockade Three Craft Are Sunk, Including the German Boat Itself
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The British naval guard Tn the a German raider which was trying to run the blockade, it is announced of- ficially in London. In the resulting engagement both the raider and the auxiliary cruiser Grief and the Brit ish armored Alcantara that stopped her. were sunk the fight being de- scribed as a hot one, recalling the naval duels of the days before the iron clads
 The German and British statements are at variance regarding the en- gagement. Only one British vessel is mentioned in the London admiralty account, while Berlin declares that three British cruisers and a destroyer were in the action. The Grief was struck by torpedo from a 15,000 ton cruiser and finally blew herself up, the German admiralty asserts. Lon don says torpedo from the Grief sent the Alcantara to the bottom. The British captured some 12O Ger mans from the raider
 There has been no renewal of the German attacks on Verdun fortress, but the artillery has been notably ac- tive Paris reports. According to the German war office. Verdun was set on fire by Gernan shells during the artillery exchanges.
 On the Russian front the German lines have been subjected to further heavy attacks. both to the northwest and to the south of Dvinak Berlin, however declares that all the Russian attempts to advance were complete failures.
 The Russian Statement
 PETROGRAD, March 25. (Via Lon- don)-The official statement issued to- day is as follows.
 "On the Riga front there have been exchanges of artillery and rifle fire In the Jacobsta6t sector OUT troops continued to follow up their success southeast of Augustinhof and. after fierce conflict reached the fortified ground around the village of Lepuyn They were subjected to furious Ger man counter attacks
 "On the left wing in the JScobstadi region south of Livenhof, there als( was fighting. On the front of ths  Dvinsk region our forces at some points consolidated the ground wor and are continuing to advance.
 Tn the region Of Widzy our troop: attacked an enemy position in tn, sector northwest of Lake Sekly. Not withstanding heavy fire from tn enemy, our troops successfully brok through several obstacles placed il their way by the Germans. The Ger mans employed explosive bullets Northwest of the position we stopped by the well timed fire of our batterie enemy attempts to repair, under cove of a snowstorm, damage done to hi works by our bombardments.
 Farther to the south as far q the Rokitno Marshes. and the regiol
Arizona republican., 1916-03-26
STEAMER REPORTS
 ENGINES IN TROUBLE

LONDON, March 25-The Nor wegian steamer Pacific which left Havre March 13 for Philadel- phia, passed Flores, an island of the Azores group, yesterday and reported that her engines had broken down and urged that as- quest was telegraphed to Fayal from which place vessel has put out to aid the distressed ship.
Arizona republican., 1916-03-26
Says Steamer Torpedoed

PARIS, March 25.-The ministry of marine, in an official statement issued tonight declared that the Sussex was torpedoed, and estimates the number of victims at about fifty.
 One hundred and forty-three sur vivors of the Sussex have arrived in Paris and more aN expected tomorrow
 The text of the communication reads:
 "The British steamer Sussex, which carried about 3SO passengers, was tor pedoed in the channel on the 24th by m enemy submarine. "The captain observed torpedo about 100 meters from the side and inn mediately unanswered to avoid it. but the vessel was struck in the forward part, which was destroyed The vessel, however remained afloa.. The fall of the mast destroyed part of the antennae of the wireless; moreover, when an aerial wire was im- provised. the operator by an error, re- ported an incorrect position which mis- led the torpedo boats and patrol boats and as result retarded the arrival of help.
 The patrol boat Marie Therese nev- i ertheless managed to find the distress | ed vessel, and brought back to Bou- , logne a majority of the passengers Others were taken to England bN tor pedo boat destroyers which had ar rived at the scene of the disaster at about the same time as the Marie The rese.
 The Sussex was lowed to Boulogns i by a steamer from that port, and now 1 is there in security
 'Unhappily the explosion was tho
 beginning of panic among the pas ! sengers. resulting in some victims The exact number is not known but it i:
 estimated to be about fifty" Survivors Reach Dover DOVER, March 25-Four Americar
 survivors of the Sussex mishap hay. arrived here. They are G. H. Crocker
Arizona republican., 1916-03-26
TWENTY-FIVE U. s.
 CITIZENS ON SUSSEX;
 SOME PROBABLY LOST
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 The cross channel steamer Sus- sex, damaged by an exterior expIo- sion on Friday afternoon, while 25 Americans were on board, was tor pedoed, according to a report from the American consul at Dieppe re- eeived by the state department in Washington through Ambassador Sharp at Paris. The report givAs from sixty to eighty persons wounded or killed by the expIo- sion.
 Or the Americans on the steamer only two had been reported up to a late hour Saturday to the Amer ican emrassy in London as among the saved. UnoffieialIy, however, several others have been accounted for as rescued.
 At least two Americans on board are known to have been injured and ore of the survivors said that Miss Elizabeth Baldwin, an Ameri- can lost her life, while another American passenger is reported missing.
 Cable dispatches say that the loss of life on the Sussex may reach a total of forty.
 A definite statement that the Sussex was torpedoed comes in a Paris dispatch quoting Samuel E.. Benis as declaring that he saw plainly and unmistakabIy the wake of the torpedo as it came toward and struck the steamer.
Arizona republican., 1916-03-26
(RepubIican A. P. Leased wirel

PARIS, March 25.-Scarcely any doubt existed at the American em- bassy tonight that some American lives had been lost in the disaster to the steamer Sussex.
 The American ambassador, W. c. Sharp, sent Naval Lieutenant Bernard l.. Smith by automobile to Boulogne this afternoon to investigate the cause of the disaster and assist any Amer jeans who may need help.
Arizona republican., 1916-03-26
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PARIS, March 25.-Norman Meikle, engineer on the steamer Northern, who was on his way to France to join his ship La Peillace, expressed the opin-
Arizona republican., 1916-03-26
Bandits Menace Refugees

MONTEREY, Mexico, March 25.- A special train from Torreon, bring ing women and children of the Amer ican colony, passed through here to- night The women were seated on the floor of box car, protected by a barrier of trunks. The guards on the train engaged in 9 running fight with a large number of bandits. who rode
Arizona republican., 1916-03-26

Survivors Reach Dover DOVER, March 25-Four America n survivors of the Sussex mishap have arrived here They are G. H. Crocker.
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-25

1873, and because at that time it
had incurred the maximum indebted
ness allowed it by law. After Mem
phis had recovered from these diff
culties, it was reincorporated with it's
original form of government. The
commission plan was, however
adopted later by vote of the people
and became operative January L,
1910.
The real beginning of the move
ment toward commission government
in American cities took place in Gal
weston, Tex, in 1901. A destructive
storm having overwhelmed that city
in September, 1900, and having left
it PROSTATE financially, as Memphis
had been in 1873, its government was
placed in the hands of a commission
in the following year. The exper-
fence of Galveston under the com
mission plan was such that in 1905 it
was adopted by Houston. Tex. Three
more cities of over 10000 inhabitants
(the census statistics relate only to
cities of this class) adopted the com
mission form in the calendar year
1907, in 1903, 8 in 1909, Z in 1910,
IA in 1911, IA in 1912, 20 in 1918, in
1914. and 3 in the early part of
1915.
In all, 81 cities of over 10000, out
of q total of 2O4, were operating I'M
der the commission form of govern
the bureaus forthcoming report. Ac-
cording to the latest information
available, six more such cities have
recently adopted the plan by popular
vote, and in four of them it has al
ready gone into effect. Thus there
are So cities of over 10000 which are
governed by commissions at the pres
ent time. These cities vary in size
from $4,000 inhabitants in Boise,
Idaho, to 100000 in Buffalo, N. Y,
and are scattered throughout 27
states, in addition to the District of
Columbia, ranging from Massachu-
sets to Washington and from South
Carolina to California. Five of them
are in New England, 80 in other
northern states east of the Mississipz
pi river and the Pacific coast states,
in the Pacific coast states. and rs
in the south.
The total population of the IS com
mission cities on February 1, 1916,
is estimated at 7,677,0OO, or Al per
cent. of the aggregate population of
the 1875 cities of 10000 to 100000 to
which the census statistics relate. Con-
filming the figures to cities of 10000
to 100000: There are now operat-
ing under the commission form 81
such cities, with a total population of
$3.50, 600, or 45 per cent. of the ag-
gregate population of the 1S4 cities
within these size limits. -
X During the past I o years the com
mission plan has also been adopted by
many cities of. fewer than $4,000. in
habitants,s but sthe bureau has not Sc
cured data for such cities
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-25

handicap.
The rest of the champions under
Marquis of Queensberry rules all
scaled under the 200 pound notch
when trained to perfection. John L.
Sullivan often went over 200, but
when he made that historic tour of
thisc ountry stopping all corners he
seldom scaled over 1876.
Jim Corbett's best weight was 187.
Corbett was a nervous, high strung
fellow and never ran to fat. Heal
ways tried. to build up instead of to
reduce. But he was a conscientious
worker, an das he always trained for
speed he had a hard time putting on
flesh.
Fitzsimmons was the lightest of the
champions. The freckled wonder
was really a midd1eweight- When he
defeated Corbett at Carson City In
fourteen rounds he weighed only 1876
pounds. After winning the title Fifz
sought to add to his poundage in
every way possible. He drank large
quantities of ale with his meals in
his efforts to put on flesh and there
is little doubt that this had a great
deal to do with his defeat by Jeffrtes
For the few pounds he gained, he
paid dearly for when he entered the
ring he was loggy and slow.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-25
AIARLETON ELK COMING
FOR BIG CIRCUS NIGHT

George, d. Schwarz. the genial tick
et-seller for the E1ks' big circus, at
his offices Post-office arcade, is
sponsor for the statement made today
that the advance sale of seats in the
Armory for the affair is exceeding
all predictions of the order here.
The atmosphere seems to have per-
meated not only Bridgeport but to
have spread to the far lying regions
of Connecticut and New York
tsWhere is MarIeton. Conn. %
Schwarz yesterday asked the press
agent OF the circus Il have had ap-
piication from an Elk, George Duffis.
asking that I reserve ebox-seat for
him.. continued the affable box-of-
flee chief.
Mare1ton proved to be up IN Suf-
field county, and from the map of
Connecticut, if the loyal member
GENES to Bridgeport on March as
he promises, he is likely to receive
"a warm reception from the commit
tee for it would appear that he will
have to make some journey over the
snowclaid hills to the nearest railroad
depot and, then travel some to get to
Bridgeport
made In great numbers Mr.. Schwarz
also stases,--aHd.- delegations from
many lodges. in the state have sent
Ia applications for their aIlotInents
AL Czou1deu colIatpr Of the side
shows and assembled freaks promises
to spring a surprise tomorrow if an
oddly that. has not been seen.in cir
cusdom in ten years is finally landed
On Contract Al. says that next to
the Siamese twins this is the greatest
land Al knows.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-25
RID STOMACH OF
GASES, S0URNESS,
AND INDIGESTION
'Pape's Diapepsin" ends all
stomach distress In five
minutes.

You don't want a slow remedy when
your stomach is bad-or an uncertain
one-or a harmful one"your stomach
is too valuable; you mustn't injure it
nth drastic drugs.
Fape's Diapepsin is noted for its
speed in giving relief; it's harmless
ness; it's certain unfailing action in
regulating sick, sour, gassy stonachs.
Its millions of cures In indigestion,
dyspepsia, gastritis and other stomach
trouble has made it famous the world
over.
Keep this perfect stomach doctor in
your home-keep it handy-get a large
dfty-cent case from any drug store and
then if anyone should eat something
which doesn't agree with them; If
what they eat lays like lead, ferments
and sours and form gas; causes head
ache, dizziness and nausea; eructa-
lions of acid and undigested food
) remember as soon as Pape's Diapepsin
comes in contact with the stomach all
R1ch distress vanishes. It's pronaptness,
certainty and ease in overcoming the
worst stomach disorders is revelation
80 fhosa who try it.-AdE-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-25
AMERICANS BUY
DUTCH VESSELS
FOR CAOST TRADE
Will Ply Between San Francis
co and Panama and Central
American POrts-TO Be Plac-
ed Under United States Req
iStry.

San Francisco. Feb. 25-Purchase
from the Royal Dutch West India
Mail of three large passenger and
freight steamships by the Pacific
Mail Steamship COMPANY, under the
joint control of the American Interna-
tiona1 Corporation of New York and
w. R. Grace & Co., of San Francisco,
was announced here yesterday.
The vessels will operate out of this
ports. It was announced that two
more vessels, the plans for which are
already drawn will be added to the
fleet.
The three vessels purchased are the
Venezuela, Columbia and Ecuador,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-25

boys are to be led upward. Force
will not do it. Laws VIII not do It.
Each is an individual, needing sindiv-
iduaI loving care and guidance
Definite systematic, cooperation
of home. school, church. business
men and the Court, if conducted on
the basis of insight into boy nature
and tendencies, will help these boys
over a critical period and make good
men of them. The Parent Teacher
Association, or any association sou-
nected with school or church. can
help savet he boys by having a csE1r-
rnittee of fathers and mothers who
will have confidential relations with
the teachers and give quiet, unosten-
tatious help"
MRS schoff urged the. Organization
of such committee in every school.
w S. Fogerty. county superintendent
O.: schools, Easton. Ohio. described
to the National Association Of State
Supervisors and inspectors OF Rural
schools the workings of sOhio's new
school law. Great Improvement had
been brought about he said. By con
soltdation of schools in the rural dis
tricts.E F. sr ss.is-5os
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-25
BAD BOYS MORE
NUMEROUS THAN
GIRLS, SHE SAYS

Detroit, Feb. 25-''Ninety per cent
of the truants are boys and ninety per
cent of Juvenile Court children are
boys" said Mrs. Frederic Schoff, of
Philadelphia, yesterday, speaking at
the National Congress of Mothers and
Parent Teacher Associations.
''Worse even than infant mortal
ity,'' continued Mrs. Schoff,&'i the
entrance into a. life of crime Of SO
many boys. Individual, sympathetic
treatment and study beyond what is
possible for any busy teacher without
home cooperation is essential if these
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-25
LrTcMFIELD COUNTY NEWS.
Coas9Ing AeeIaent :

=
At Torrington. Tuesday Night, a
heavily loaded ripper struck Jysa
Meraviglia. the 10 years old daughter
be Massino Mera1 iglia, as she was
crossing the street near her home
One leg was broken and she is also
suffering from shock Edward Nier-
int. who was steering the sled, was
cut about the head
In Superior Court
John Brazee of Salisbury. charged
with arson, was tried before Judge
Curtis and jury at Winsted, We'd
nesday. He was employed by John
Topping, who was awakened by Bra
zee, who had come home drunk from
Canaan. and who thought the barn
was on fire. The hre proved to be the
moon. Later Topping went to Bra
kee's room and the red was on fire.
The room was injured but the fire was
put out. The jury returned a. verdict
Of not guilty on the ground OF insan-
aty, and the prisoner was committed
to the state hospital at Afiddletown.
Albert Thayer of New Milford pleaded
guilty to a charge of granddaughter
and was sentenced to state prison for
from one to three years He shot ana
killed Henry Streidt during a quarrel
last October. Thayer afterwards fed
and was captured in New York state.
Arthur Lowell of Northeast, N. z,
pleaded guilty to stealing three fowls
and was sent to jail for eight months.
Joseph Game pleaded guilty to steal
ing IS from hts mother. He jumped
into river when chased by officers.
He was sent to the reformatory. Will
liam Ferris and Harry Casey, who
were found in an abandoned creamery
IN Canaan, were sent to Jail for thirty
days each for vagrancy. Wallace Dean
Of Canaan, charged with nor-support
of his wife and three children, pleaded
not guilty.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-25
sister ships.

sister ships.
When the Panama Canal is reopen
ed the run of the vessels will be ex-
tended to Caribbean points and when
the two additional liners are built
to South America.
The purchased ships now fly the
Dutch flag, but it is announced by
their owners that if laws permit they
will be placed under, American reg
istry.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-25

The body of the Armenian killed
IN the New Haven wreck at Milford,
Conn, has been identified as that Of
Mousheth Shahinia, the most famous
lecturer and literary man of Arme-
MIA
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
Won PAPEN BRAINS OF PLOT,
Former German Attache Indicted For
Conspiracy.

New York. - Captain Franz Won
Papen, recalled military attache to the
German Embassy, at Washington, was
indicted by the Federal Grand Jury
here as the organizer and financier of
an alleged conspiracy to blow up the
Welland Canal in Canada. With him
also were indicted Capt. Hans Tausch-
er, alleged agent of the Krupps in the
United States and husband of Nine.
Johanna Gadski, the prima donna;
Constantine Govani, Alfred J. Fritzen.
and another man whose name has not
been revealed. 1t was learned from
reliable source that the last-named is
a prominent German, whose name has
been mentioned frequently in connec-
tion with German propaganda.
Federal officials do not expect to
bring Won Papen to trial While he is
no longer immune from prosecution by
the United States civil authorities.
since he ceased to be a member of the
German Embassy staff, the offense
with which he is charged is not
extraditable under any treaty with a
foreign government.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES

A farm in England is devoted exclu-
sively to raising butterflies, of which
upward of 10000 are sold each year.
The total value of fish caught in
Canadian waters in 1914 was s32.-
207,748.
The bottling trade Of the British
isles requires 10000 tons of cork an
nually.
China has established a double
standard of weights and measures that
includes the metric system and a ma
tive one.
Most Of the worlds sources Of tin
ore are either stationary or receding
In output. Bolivia, of all countries,
alone gives promise Of permanence
and future growth.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
DEATH REPORT IS
OLD VILLA TRICK
Belief on Border That Pablo
Lopez is Real Dead Man.
LETCHER HEARS NOTHING
Mexican officials Continue To Pro-
fess Confidence That Body Ex-
humed Is That Of Chief
Bandit.

El Paso, Texas.-General Gabriel
Gavira, Carranza commander at
Juarez, announced that the Mexican
telegraph wires between Juarez and
Chihuahua had been blown down near
Pearson about noon and that for that
reason he was unable to learn any fur
ther details Of the reported discovery
of the body Of Francisco Villa. At the
same time telegram filed at Chihua-
hua City, presumably before the inter
ruption to the wire service, was re-
ceived from Consul Letcher saying
that nothing was known in the state
capital regarding the finding of the
bandits remains.
These two circumstances combined
to reinforce the growing skepticism
here as to the truth of the story that
death has ended the career of the fugi-
tive brigand. The story that the man
who is really dead is Pablo Lopez, the
notorious butcher of Santa Ysabel, and
that Villa has used his death as the
basis Of a false report Of his own de-
cease, was revived. This story was
told by an American owner of large
ranch in the Guerrero district, who
said he had received it from his ranch
foreman and believed it to be true.
The confidence of Mexican officials
here and in Juarez that Villa is dead
has not diminished, however, outward
ly, at least. 1t was pointed out that if
the body had been brought to Cusi-
huirischic it might take the better part
OF a day to transport it from there to
Chihuahua City. The rOadbed between
these two points is in a deplorable con-
dition like that of all other railroads in
Northern Mexico.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
April 81, 1915.

German attacks on Hill so ane
Hartmannsweilerkopf repulsed.
French lost ground at FIirey
and in Forest Of lie Pretre.
Russian advance in Carpathlans
stopped.
Twenty thousand French and
British landed near Enos, on Gulf
Of Saros.
Germans In the kameruns and
Central Africa forced back.
British aViators bombarded Ger.
man aviation harbor at Ghent.
Bulgarian Irreeulars invaded
Serbia.
American government Informed
Germany It would not prohibit
shipment Of arms.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
April 1e. 1915.

British took Hill 60 and pushed
their line south of Ypres forward
three miles.
French made gains along Fecht
river and took summit of surekorp-
field.
Germans repuIsed French at
Combres.
British and French forces landed
on Lemnos.
Won der Goltz made commander
Of Turks.
Russian squadron shelIed Turk
ish coast and sank many vessels.
French airmen raided Rhine
towns and Germans bombed Bel
fort.
Garros, famous French aviator,
captured by Germans.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
COURT sUsTAlNs MULE.
Would Be Untrue To Tradition If It
Failed To Kick.

Frankfort, Ky.-"The kicking pro.
pensity Of mule as a matter of com
mon knowledge" held the Court of
Appeals here in reversing verdict of
$500 damages awarded ]. NJ. Pratt
against the Consolidation Coal Com
pany.
From the testimony it appears that
Pratt, an employ of the company, was
kicked by mule when he struck the
@05r'al with whip as he stopped be-
Kind it.
The mule would have been untrue
to itself and false to every tradition
OF its breed if it had kept its heels on
the ground" said the court, land an
employe cannot court danger by invit-
ing a mule to kick him and then re-
cover for consequent injuries" 1t was
brought out that Pratt had never be-
fore driven anything but oxen.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
KILLED WHEN TRAINING COLT.
Aged Man Thrown Against Tree
When Animal Bolts.

Luray, Va.-John F. Austin. sr., IS
years old, was killed near his home in
Shenandoah when riding a colt. He
was trying to control the animal by
means of a halter. The colt be-
came unmanageable, throwing Austin
against tree. He lived only a few
minutes. He is survived by widow
and five children.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

All Baltimore and Ohio clerks on
the Cumberland division have received
increases running from 81 to SIS a
month from April l. The increase will
affect approximately 200 clerks in the
various Offices of the company here.
The raise is part of the movement to
standardize salaries on all divisions.
The local men were receiving less
than clerks on some divisions, but all
will now receive the same.