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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-28
WOMAN WRISTS VALUABLE BOOTY
 FROM PR0WLER
Seizes Foot of Intruder and Then Seizes From Him
 Package of Jewelry.

In a struggle with a burglar whom she found in her room about 2:3O o'clock this morning, Mrs Michael J.. Grant. 241 Lewis street, succeeded in wrestling the booty from the intruder and when he escaped he had only a bracelet Mrs Grant after the strug- gle, collapsed and today was said by other persons at her home, to be in a highly excited and nervous state.
 Mrs. Grant awolle to find someone prowling about her room, on the first floor of the h"use. Jumping from her bed she grasped the man who had taken most of the jewery from the bureau and made a package of it, ready to escape. He fought her eff but she got the jewelry with the ex- ception of the bracelet. He made an attempt to jump through a window and Mrs. Grant grabbed one of his feet but he soon succeeded in freeing himself and escaped.
 Information of the burglary was sent to the third precinct police sta tion and Sergeant George Benedetti investigated the robbery. Search of the neighborhood failed to reveal any clues of the thief.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-28
DEL0SS HEAD OF CORPORATION FOR HOUSING WORKERS Million Dollar Concern For mally Organized Today at
 Big Meeting. FINANCIAL EXPERTS AMONG ITS OFFICERS Manufacturers, Bankers, and Merchants on Directors
 Board.

The Bridgeport Housing Co. took its first radical step forward since it's in corporation for one million dollars when subscribing stockholders and the incorporators met today formally to organize the company.
 As the result of the meeting which was we'll attended in the offices of David s. Day this morning H. H. DeLoss was elected president with George M. Flames vice president, Charles G. Sanford, treasurer and George Cove, secretary.
 An executive committee composed of the officers and these additional members was named:
 DeVer H. Warner, Walter B. Lash ar, John T. King, H. H. Pinney, Geo. B. Crawford. and David s. Day
 The directorate established at this mornings meeting includes the names of Bridgeport's foremost civic, indus trial and financial heads, as follows:
 Edgar W. Bassick, Waldo c. Bryast, George Crawford, Charles D. Davis, H. H. DeLoss, George M. Flames, George c. Edwards, Samuel M. Haw- ley, Max Henkel, George E. Hill, Rob- ert S. Hincks, A. M. Cooper, Frederick J. kngsbury, John T. King, Walter B. Lashar, James G. Ludlum, Angus Mackenzie, Frank Miller, Frank W. Bolande, William J. Nichols, B. D. Pierce, Charles G. Sanford, Frank P. Staples, DeVer H. Warner, A. F. Ben nett. N. w. Bishop, David s. Day, Ii. Ii. Hamilton and H. H. Pinney.
 Immediately after the election of officers and directors bylaws for the regulation of the company were pass ed in an executive session at which 1t is understood many details of the huge building propositionwere discuss ed but are not yet definitely formulat- ed for public announcement.
 The executive committee will meet again on Wednesday morning.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-28

Resigned to remaining in Washing ton to undertake. any legislation in the railroad crisis. members of Con- ,gress today were studying the prob dem and waiting word from President Wilson.
 No one except Senators who have been in conference with the President has any definite idea of what he may ask Congress to do. Many members of both houses, however, have ideas of their own.
 Some Progressive Republican Sena- tors declared that in their opinion, in the event of a strike, the President would ask Congress to direct federal receiverships to operate the railroads during the conflict Probability Of legislation for government ownership was too remote to be considered in this crisis, they declared.
 House leaders have no program. Senator Kern, the majority leader, said all hope of adjournment next Friday had been abandoned.
 The four brotherhood heads issued a statement replyingto President Req, of the Pennsylvania. who last night made an announcement that rather than give up arbitration the roads preferred to face a strike. The state ment charged the Pennsylvania with inconsistency in that two years ago it fought the efforts of its shopmen to organize and arbitrate. It also de- clared that as the controlling interest in five smaller roads it has refused them representation on the managers conference committee and that if ar bitration were agreed upon it would not apply to these roads.
 The course of the brotherhoods was in the hands of a committee of 24,' whom the entire committee of 640 be- fore leaving for their homes yester- day, instructed to listen to no pro- posal involving arbitration of the eight-hour base today. Strike orders were being circulated, to await tele- graphic release.
 The counter-proposal for arbitration was to be made to the President to- day by the railway executives as their first defirite answer to his suggestion of a week ago for concession of the eight-hour day with ten hours pay and arbitration of other issues. As soon as the employees committee has reflected the- executives counter-pro- posal the President is expected to set ,in motion the congressional wheels through the leaders in both houses.
 It was reported President Wilson was considering asking both sides to postpone action for certain period.
 Meanwhile. it might be possible to enact legislation similar to the Cam adian law, providing for investigation of labor disputes by commission and forbidding strikes or lockouts pending Inquiry. This course vas being dis cussed seriously with the possibility that it would be put into immediate effect, thus preventing a strike with e--< sAA0uate public investigation.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-28
DUNN MARSHAL FOR BRIDGEPORT
 MEN IN PARADE
c. l.. U. President Will Lead Delegation at State Fed
 eration Convention.

Jaspe9 McLevy will represent the Bridgeport Central Labor union at the meeting of the State Federation of Labor in Hartford next week. James J. Dunn, president of the c. l.. U., has been appointed grand marshal of the Bridgeport division of the Labor Day parade.
 A short parade will be held here prior to boarding the special train, wh1ch will leave at 8 o'clock. The procession will form at 7:15 o'clock in Cannon street and march to the rail- road station. There will be one dele gate for every 100 hundred union members in Bridgeport.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-28

claring that Rumania from o'clock Sunday evening considered herself in a state of war with Austria-Hungary was presented to the Austro-Hun- garian foreign minister last night by the Rumanian minister at Vienna.
 A Bucharest despatch received yes- terday stated that King Ferdinand, of Rumania, had convened conference of representatives of all the political parties with the idea of ascertaining the views of all sections of public opinion.
 The Wolff Bureau, which makes the announcement that Rumania has cast her fortunes with the entente allies is a semi-official German news agency which frequently is used as an avenue for making public official announce ments.
 Rumanis is the fourteenth nation to join .n the war. Her intervention either on the side of the entente all lies or the central powers has been awaited with concern by both since the beginning of the great conflict. Ti;;s is due not entirely to Runiania's military strength hut also to the stral tegic advantage, of her geographical position and the fact that her entry into the struSelr opens to the Russi1n army gateway through Rumanii to attack the 3ul-arians from the north. while the allied army, having it's case at Salonikl attacks them and their German allies from the south.
 Rumania, with a population of 6,S0O,OO0 and an army estimated at 5S0,0O0, often has been described as one of the most thoroughly equipped and disciplined in Europe. Lately. however, it has been stated that Ru- manian officers are ill-trained and undisciplined, that Rumania has no heavy artillery and that its flying ser vice is inferior. Some advocates of Rumallia's participation in the war ha NU sserted that she could mobilize aHmany as 100000 men. The mob- ilization of her army has been in pro- gress for months and few days ago it was reported to be complete.
 The motive which prompts Ru- mania to enter the war is the satisfac- tion of her national aspirations described by Take Jonescu, the Ru- manian liberal leader, as the policy of national insistence." Concisely, this means national expansion. In the southern half of Bukowina, the Aus trian crownland, the Rumanians are the dominant race. It is said 4,000,- coo Rumanians live in Pennsylvania.
 Rumania has been credited with @ long-cherished ambition to annex these provinces and at the same time "liberate' the Ruma nians now under Austrian domination.
 Rumania also covets Besserabia, the extreme southwestern province of Russia, on the Black Sea, which was taken from her by the Berlin treaty of 1878. Reports have stated that Russia also has consented to restore Bessarabia as war prize, with its population of 2,000,00O, mostly Ru- manians, and an area of 10000 square miles.
 Rumania has border line as long as the whole Russian western war front on which to choose her point of military attack. In what direc-
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-28
New Britain City
 Official a Suicide

New Britain, Aug. 2S.-Superinten- dent of Streets Edward Wiegand com- mitted suicide by hanging in the cellar of his home some time during the night. The body was discovered at 4 o'clock this morning by his wife who with the assistance of a daughter, cut it down and summoned a physician. Life had been extinct for several hours.
 Wiegand was 45 years of age and was prominent in political and fra ternal circles. This was his second term as superintendent of streets, he having held this office several years ago. No motive is known for the sui eide. Wiegand had been a very busy man of late and friends say he was disspirited because of his work.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-28
''BACK TO FARM'' DISASTROUS FOR
 FRED R. GRAVES

The Back to the Farm" idea has wrecked another fortune, according to schedules in bankruptcy filed today in the United States district court by Pauline Graves and Fred R. Graves, her husband, former club and society man of New York.
 The schedules referred to Referee John w. Banks for hearing show Mrs. Graves liabilities to be S3,250 with no assets. That of her husband discloses $3,072.51 with no available assets.
 In each schedule a quantity of cap-
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-28
Germany and Her Allies to Act

London, Aug Germany probably will declare on Rumania within 2 hour after which Turkey and Bulgaria expected do likewise according to despatch from The Hague to the Exchange Telegraph Company.
 The despatch from The Hague says the German federal unit this morning receipt of the of Rumanias decar aton of against Austria.
 legation in Berlin is being guarded by the say stones thrown through the win dows of the Italian embassy in Berlin yesterday.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-28
GERMANS DRIVEN BACK IN ATTACK
 AGAINST FLEURY

Paris, Aug. 2S-The Germans made several attacks on the French posi- tions at Fleury last night but were re- pulsed, says today's announcement or the war office.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-28
Crown Council Declares War

Paris Aug. 2S-Rumanias decision to enter the reached meeting of the Grown Council held at Bucharest yesterday morning Havas despatch from Geneva. The Wolff Agency that the German federal council convoked immediately after the decision became known
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-28

Antonio Federico, wanted for the murder of two policemen in Little Falls, N. J., last December, was ar rested at Newburgh, N. Y.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-28
THE WEATHER

Connecticut: showers this afternoon or tonight. Tuesday fair; light, northwest winds.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-28
RAILWAY STRIKE IS IMMINENT: FEDERAL RECEIVERSHIP TO RUN
 LINES IS CONGRESSIONAL PLAN

Situation is the Most Perilous Since the Opening of Negotiations Two Weeks Ago-Leaders in Congress Confer With President With View to Meeting Great Emergency Should Strike Result-DecisiOn Expected in "A Hours.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-28
GERMANY WARS
 0N RUMANIANS

Berlin, Aug 2s-Germany has declared war on Rumania.
 Germany's declaration of war on Rumana was fore cast immediately after Rumana declared war on Austria Hungary action at once.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-28
RUNlANIA DECLARES WAR AGAINST AUSTRIA: GERMANY, TURKEY AND BULGARIA EXPECTED
 TO BEGIN POSSIBILITIES ON NEW FOE OF ALLY

Fourteenth Nation Joins in World Struggle, Crown Council PrOmulgating War Decree Against Austria Shortly After Italy Formally Opens War on Germany Germany and Her Other Allies Will War on Rumania Within Next "A Hours, is Belief-Federal Council COnvenes at Berlin.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-28
Russians Repel Attacks.

Petrograd, Aug. 28-Attacks made bv German troops at two points on the northern part of the Russian front, near Koldycheva Lake and south of the aranovici-Luninietz railroad, were repelled, the war office announc- ed today. In Galicia, north of Mari ampol, the Russians captured a wood position.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-28
Rumanians' Decree
 Received at Vienna

Amsterdam, Aug. 2S-The note de- claring that Rumania from 9 o'clock Sunday evening considered herself in a state of war with Austria-Hungary was presented to the Austro-Hun- garian foreign minister last night by the Rumanian minister at Vienna.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-28
Fighting In Macedonia.

London, Aug. 2S-Artillery fighting is in progress along the Macedonian front but no infantry actions of inn portance areu nder way, so far as Is indicated by today's official account of the operations on this front.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-28

Berlin Aug. 2s-Fighting has begun between Rumanan and TeutOnc troops the Transyvanan frontier official of today indicates The statement ians have been taken prisoner.
 Berlin Aug 2S-Rumania declared Austria Hun i Sunday evening" it is announced officially here The announcement follows:
 "The Rumanian government yesterday evening declared war Austria Hungary
 "The federal council has been convoked for immediate sitting"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-31

VIII remain in many minds. and ma :
JoriiE Of the senate viii not confirm
the nomination because OF these sus-
picious.
The resentment felt in all the States
"hlch had candidates for the nomna
non VIII surely affect the votes of
senators from those States.
Mr.. Brandeis'S lack or judicial tenn
permanent will become more and more
evident as the debate in the Senate Is
being fought out
" every other reason operatirc
against his confirmation fails 10 enlist
Il majority of the Senate there still
remains tho precedent destroying fact
That Mr.. Erandcis is "a Jew
according to Mr. Brandcss friends
Even admitting the imputation that
the nomination was made for poiiticaI
reasons, !, is pointed out that similar
considerations daily influence the adj
mihiStra'ion's supporters.
such opposition az any petty re-
sentiment which may develop can safely
be iruo:cd
The fact tina: AIR. Erandeis is branded
ny Wall street as radical. charge
which means actually that ne Is fired
with passion for serving the people
"a against great monOpolists Is not
only admittcd!t is put forward as
one OF the prime reasons he should
he confirmed.
II may lac icritimatcly pointed out
mat this Is a precedent creating axe
ana that opposition kindied by- nothing
less palatab!c To public taste than the
matter q; creed is it's own DESTROYER
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-31

ahon' without, the aid OF a cane or a
crutch. l suffered from rheumatism Of
the joints for years My feet were
sore. painful and stiff, my knees wer.
drawn up, and the least move would
make me cry out from the pain. Nv
hands. fingers and wrists we're swollen
from chalky deposit. and so stiff that
WAS unable to move them.
Physicians wanted TO operate on mo
ana Try to remove the deposit NV
legs were drawn up so that they could
not be Strengthened. and to have any
one INT me from the bed was agony
unbcarable. For one year | did not
leave the bed without assistance. How
hcipiess was and what | suffered only
God and myself knows" said Mrs /
w Cheney. Moosup. Conn
me rector of ST. Alban's Church. in
hanielson, knows my condition, for he
called on me while | was confined 10
bed for tive purpose OF giving me com
mun!on When | started on Var-ne-
SIS ! was III he'd continually getting
worse. and for almost year did not
see very much Improvement EXCEPT thar
my stomach was better and my
strength began TO return.
There is hardly porson I'm th;.
section who does not know about my
condition, and ! am glad you called
Tor II may be the means OF helping
other sufferers In fact. I am always
tH'" |" near from amy rheumatic sur
ferers and let them know how | re-
gained my health. My address is r. O.
BOX 1874. Moosup, Conn. ! have loaned
my wheel chair. crutches, pulley and
shoes to Nar-ne-sis TO add 10 the col
lection in Boston"
Hundreds Of rheumatic sufferers have
recovered their health through Var.
ne-sis after ordinary remedies had
falied. Nar-ne-sis does not contain
salicylates, iodides. Colchicum or the
usual drugs so often given, but Is com.
posed of roots, herbs and barks No
rheumatic can afford TO ignore Var
ne sis.
Write TO w. 4. Vnrney. Lynn. Mass,
Tor newspaper devoted 10 rheumattcs.
Get Var-ne-sis now to-day at Tragic
Drug Co. Tell your druggist to Eat
Var-ne-sis for you from hts whole.
salcr or send to W, A. Yarney. Lynn.
Observation-Disclosures a
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! A. & M. SOCIETIES
WIN JOINT DEBATE
ihcE Defeat Team, From Alabama Poly
tcrhni" institWtc-First Victory
tU Their Credit.

Special To Tie Times Dispatch.1
WEST RALEIGH, \. G.. January 80.
The literary societies at the .Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College are
rejoicing at the victory which their
representatives wOn last night over a
team representing the Aiabaina Poly
technic Institute. The Agricultural and
Mechanical speakers were y. y. Mon
roe, of Moore County. and j. +. Will
liams, Jr., OF Charlotte. Their op
ponents were Armstrong Corey and d.
d. SAUNDERS. The debate was Judged
by chief Justice walter Clark, r. w
Winston and Secretary OF State j.
Bryan Grimes.
The victory is more welcome because
last year. the first year of Agricultural
and Mechanical debating, the Alabama
Polytechnic defeated Agricultural and
Mechanical twice. In spite OF these
defeats and in spite Of one at the hands
OF the University of Georgia. the Agri-
cultural md Mechanical BOYS have
worked with Il will this year, nnd now
have a victory to their credit
The question dcbat ted last night was
Resolved. That Great Britain's policy
OF nonintcrference in the peoples af-
'airs makes for Il higher civilization
than Gernany's policy Of governmental
control The British policy. that Of
noninterfcrcncc. was upheld nv the
Agricultural and Mechanical speakers,
the German method of prearrangcment
and centralized control by the Auburn
representatives.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-31
NEWS OF ASHLAND
special TO The Times Dispatch.

ASHLAND. VA, January 3D.--About
-" was raised by The members OF the
NomaNs Club and Young Women's
Choir. OF Ashland. when they gave a
moving picture show on Friday at the
'aEc'% Theater here, for the henent
"f The war relief fund Of Richmond.
IN" committee IL charge consisted or
Mrs Hal! Can,er chairman. assisted
10y Mesdames + w. Newman. w. r..
F"N y \. Lapsley John Addison,
Misses Sallic Garland and Stuart Blan-
ton. An attractive musical program
was also given. IN which Misses Gar
land Grey Lipscomb. McCullen and
carter and Floyd Tucker. Jr.. were az
sisted by the Randolph Macon C;ice club.
During the performance candy and
peanuts were sold by the Young Girls
Of the town
The Civic League held meeting on
F'r:daT afternoon il tho high school
Auli'o'!um. ~ which busireys of much
Amnor'ance YVES transacted
MISS Audrey Graham. Of Norfolk was
The recent guest OF Mrs w. NJ Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Smitley. Of
LA wrcnceville. and Lieutenant and Mrs.
NeNandcr Wadswor,i,. OF Norfolk. were
mere thS week visiting Or. and Mrs,
Il. &. Smithcy.
Thomas H. Fox has returned from
q business trip 10 New York.
Miss Marie McCul.en viii return "a
her home in Washington on Monday.
after visit 70 Miss Hoofnagle and Mrs.
Hail Carter.
Miss Helen I.ipscomb left Saturday
ioF her home in Petersburg. after a
visit I" friends here
Mrs. Is. Morgan Shephe-d vii, re,rr,
ON Monday from T.ynchhurc, where She
mas heen the guest OF Miss Gannawav
for several days
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-31
AT the Movies I o-Day

i.ITrLE-DuStin Enrnu,u. In "rhc
Call Of the CuubrriIEGH."
'S!s-.ianc Govt, In >.'rhc Garden
az Lies
nDE3N-"ii1htin. in France"
nnd "nrS PickfOrd in "Pnor Little
Pcpinn.''
blJOi Henry Woodruff. In '.rhc
BrCknning tlnnc.'' mud ~ Modern
Enoch Arden" with Joe Jackson.
REN-''thc tnit.' with William
tiin0rd and ROstOck'H animals.
HICrDE-..Fhc Greater WILL"
with Gym Nnudc.
CONCENTRATING Stewart md
Enri HiliiRms. In MY I.ndy's Slip
per-"
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"Odd Man Stays"

Royal. Va the discovery having been
made accidentally while workmen were
dlgging foundation for the erection
OF new set OF crushing rolls weigh
ms seventeen tons. The new vein is
about sixty feet, from the vein that is
now being worked. Mining Engineer
Trent. % California. who has been
spending some time At the mines
stated that the veins eventually viii
proee to he about 900 feet thick The
mines are situated along the western
slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains. and
have been in operation for number
Of Nears.
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IN AND OUT OF TOWN.

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Fairfax and
Hiss Eugen!a Fairfax will spend the
ate winter In the South.
Miss Virginia Christian left yester-
lay for several weeks stay in Flor.
ida.
: Mrs. James David Hit. OF this city,
s visiting her parents ut their homo
N Roanoke.
, Mrs. Henry Gylkerson, Of New Jer-
sey. is a guest Of Miss Lora Crump at
Inc Chesterfield.
AIRS. Whitaker, OF Chicago, is spend
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Bcll-liuyIOr

Special 10 The Times Dispatch
WlNCHESTEE. VA, January COS
w Bell, formerly ~ Augusta CO .ity,
ana Miss Florence Lee Baylor, ;, M
hct or the old and prominent Nira,ini,
valley family OF that name. were mar
rled several days ago ar the ranch
OF the groom, at Roosevelt, y. NJ whcra
;hey will make their home The we'd
aim" was the culnlination of a romance
dating back 10 the days az childhood
when. as hoy and girl. they played to-
gether on adjoining farms in Virginia
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-31

prehenslon. II IS natural treatment, safe
for the mother, has no drug effect whatso.
ever and for this reason must exert most
beneficial influence upon those functions d.
rectly connected with motherhood. In q
very Interesting book the subject Ia freely
discussed and copy will he mailed free to
all cxpcctant mothers By Bradheld Regulator
Co.. 4o6 Lamar Bldg. Atlanta, Ga. Get q
bottle Of Mothers Friend" today of any
druggist. Use as directed and you will then
know why mothers for nearly half century
have used and recommended this splendid aid
TO motherhood. Their letters are messages
Of cheer. that breathe comfort IN every word.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-31
In the Trcnchc~" az Odcon.

Clear across France. past army
hases. past field division headquarters
past heid hospitals. past the big guns
numbering night and day. into the
trenches, and TO the very front trench
VIII those who go TO the Odeon to-day
be taken The Mutual Film Corpora
tons picture. 'Fighting for France
"b!l he seen there to-day
Mary fickford will also be seen IN
Door Little reninn.,