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New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
Admit Loss of Bremen.

Washington, Oct. 19.-Loss of t 1 German submarine merchantm
 Bremen virtually was conceded tod ] ty ranking Teutonic diplomats position to be familiar with the fnol
 ments of the vessel. The Bremen
 now one month overdue.
 l It was admitted that Germ , officials, not only in this country ! l in Berlin, were without information , tc the fate of the Bremen.
 1 All they know is that she set 0 i for America from Bremerhaven al that she should have arrived at American port soon after the midt of last month. It is regarded doubtful that accurate informati concerning the fate of the vessel W the war, if then.
 The disappearance of the Brem will not cause abandonment of t project to send merchant submarir regularly from Germany to t United States it was said There a peared to be reason to expect th another sub sea freighter, either t Deutschland or some other, wou reach an American port some tir within the next month.
 German officials in Washington not believe the Bremen could ha| fallen into the hands of the Briti| unless she had some accident to hI machinery. They pointed out thi unlike naval submarine, nerchal submarines avoid all localities fr| quented by shipping and therefd are not open to the same risks.
 When the Bremen was wei overdue no anxiety regarding n was felt. The Deutschland was jJ a week overdue when she ca11 through the Virginia Capes and Il weather conditions then were muI better than those which have p1 vailed during the last month anal half. When the vessel was tj weeks overdue anxiety was appare| in various Teutonic quarter, al word of her arrival was anxioud awaited.
 Since then hope that the subnI rine might be safe has dwindled cal day, and today she was spoken of having been lost.
 Reports that the Bremen had s| rived in New London, Conn.,, wd published in newspapers in GermaI more than two weeks ago. It vi at New London that a dock had bel especially arranged for the receptil of the craft.
 The Bremen was commanded Captain Schwarzkopf and carried crew of approximately 25 men.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
SMITH COLLEGE PUTS UP BAl
Undergraduates Forbidden to Let
 City for Sporting Events.

Northampton, Mass. Oct 19.-4 tendance at college football games other vents which would take tn away from this city, was forbidden regulations announced today to undergraduates of Smith College President Marion l.. Burton. I order is effective until Nov 2.
 The restrictions, pr. Burton plained, were intended to prevent possible introduction of infanl paralysis into the college from O side sources. No case now exists the city or college, he said.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
TO BREAK GASOLINE TRUST.
l Combination Fixes Prices, Charge or San Francisco Prosecutor.

San Francisco, Oct. 19.-The United States government under the anti trust laws will begin in this city a suit to dissolve the alleged com b1na- tion of a number of large oil com panies for unlawfully fixing the price of gasoine, according to the ChronlcIe today.
 1rnited States District Attorney Preston has been in conference With w. IT. Perry, member of the federal trade commission, for several days in regard to bringing the suit.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
R. R. TO RAISE WAGES
Chicago and Eastern Illinois to- Give Increase of 21a Cents Hour and Adopt Eight Hour Day.

Danville, Ill.,, Oct. 19.-W. J. Jack son, receiver of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad, announced today that a flat increase of ? 1a cents an hour had been granted to shop men employed by the company and that all other employees receiving less than the standard pay in their class will be advanced to the standard rate This will mean an increase of to cents an hour for a large number of men, it was explained The com pany also agreed to establish the eight hour day except in round houses. The increase affects about 2,500 men,
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
German Line Intact.

Berlin, Oct. 19, via London, 4:04 p. m.-Desperate fighting occurred yesterday on the Somme front, the war office announces, in consequence of efforts to pierce the German line on the Le Sars- M orval front. The attacks were continued from day break until noon, and are said to have failed partially under the Ger man fire. The German positions either were held or were recaptured after being lost.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
TNCREASE COST OF MILK.

New York, Oct. 19.-Ar increase or one cent a quart in the retail price or all grade of milk was announced to- Gav bv the BOardenS Milk com mpany. poeinning tomorrow grade A milk ,cil1 be 12 cents quart. grade B 10 cents certified milk 16, and butter ,ailk I. The milk supply has again become normal
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
Campaign in Western Atlantic

Amsterdam, Holland, Oct. 1e, via London, 11:40 a. m.-The VoIks-zei- tung of Cologne says: " German sub marines will operate in the future in the western Atlantic. They will visit the we'll known shipping routes around the eastern point of Nan tucket Island and will sink British merchantmen after giving the crews opportunity to save themselves.
 The newspaper believes this ac- tivity will influence the supplying of food, especially grain, bacon and lard, to England
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
CHALkER DECLINES TO RUN.

Essex, Oct. 19.-Democrats of this town, who nominated A. D. w. Chal- ker for representative after several nominees had refused to stand have been notified by MT. Chalker that he is now republican and doesn't want the nomination. Daniel T. Doane has been named in MT. ChalNer's place.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
YALE HAS S,S05 STUDENTS
Enrolment Shows Small Advance Over Last Year-MemberS Of Fav- ulty and Officers Total 6O9.

New Haven, Oct. 19.-The total student registration at Yale, as an- nounced today, is 3,305 as compared with 3,26O last year. Increases are noted in the schools of law, medicine, religion and fine arts. The enroll ment in Yale College is 1,509 and in Sheffield Scientific school 993. Mem bers of the faculty and officers of the university are 609
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
FRENCH MARINES ARE
 KISSED BY GREEKS
Bayonet Charge Follows Hostile De- mOnstration and 15O Are Arrested
 As Native Troops Book On.

London, Oct. 19, 1:32 D. m.-F1fteen arrests were made by French marines in the streets of Athens on Tuesday night after they were hissed as they were marching through one of the principal thoroughfares, according to the version of the incident given by the correspondent at Athens of the Exchange Telegraph Co.,, telegraph ing under Wednesdays date. The ar rests were made in the course of a bayOnet charge which dispersed the demonstrators, says the correspondent, who adds that Greek troops witnessed the occurrence without interfering.
 The Greek cabinet has protested against the arrests, according to these advices
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
NEW RAILROAD ISSUE
New York Central Offers S25 ,OOO, ,OOO
 to Stockholders.

New York, Oct. 19.-Directors of the New York Central Railroad Com pany today auth orized an issue of $25. 100000 new stock, to be offered to stockholders at par on the basis of 10 per cent. of their present holdings. It is understood that the new stock will be issued early next year. The proceeds will be devoted to general corporate purposes of the company.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
SUNK WITHOUT EN ALTON
\ Norwegian Steamer Sent to Bottom
 by German Submarine.

London, Oct. 19, 11:55 a. m.-The sinking by a German submarine without previous examination of the Norwegian steameship Sten is re- ported by Reuters Copenhagen cor respondent. The sixteen mem bers of the crew were landed at Christian sand. The Swedish bark Greta Vrem was set atire by a German submarine Eighteen men from the bark were landed at F'riedrickShafen.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
COMPANY M MUSTERED OUT.
Machine Gun Company Also Allowed
 to Go Home

Hartford, Oct. 19.-Company M of Winsted and the Machine Gun con- pany, First Connecticut Infantry were mustered out of the federal ser vice at the state armory today. Com peny M left Hartford for home at 11:15.
 It is expected that Company c of Middletown and Company G. of Man chester will be mustered out late this afternoon.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
Heavy Rain on Somme.

London, Oct. 19, 12:56 p. m.-"Rain fell heavily during the night says todays official report from the French front. Padding parties en- tered enemy trenches near Loos and south of Arras Otherwise there is nothing to report"
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
OMAHA HAS SNOW STORM.

Omaha Neb., Oct. 19.-A rain and sleet storm which lasted most of the night, turned to snow here today The storm extended over most of South Dakota, Nebraska and western Iowa. The snow will benefit the wheat crop, it is said, dry weather having prevailed for several weeks.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
French Make Progress.

Paris, Oct 19, noon.-South of the Somme, between Biaches and Le Maisonette. the French made further progress last night it was announced officially today. All the gains achieved yesterday were held in the face of several counter attacks.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
Sailed From New Yorl October 7th and Lief. Passengers at Fall
 mouth, Officials Sal
SOME OF CREW ARE
 REPORTED MISSIN
Steamship Was Way to London When Blown } This Moining-CaptainB Benison d
 Some of His Seamen Saycd--Lt of Submarine Bremen Is Conceded

New York, Oct. 19.-The Cunal liner Alaunia has been sunk by mir in the English Channel between Fla mouth and London, according to cab advices to the Cunard Line here toda
 The Alaunia sailed from this DO October with passengers, but tl Cunard Line officials believe that tn, were all landed at Falmouth Ca. tain Benison and some of the ere were saved, according to the cah message but some are missing.
 The Alaunia called at Falmouth d Tuesday and was on her way to BoI don when she struck the mine sor| time this forenoon. It is pTobaH the passengers were taken off at Ed mouth.
 The Alaunia's crew numbered 25 When she sailed from New York sl carried 185 cabin passengers and steerage, of whom a few were Anne jeans.
 The Alaunia was a comparative new boat, having been built in 191 She was 520 feet long and had gro tonnage of 13,400; 64 foot beam al a depth of 43 feet.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
MINERS ENTOMBED.
Explosion Closes Shaft in Mine Near
 FairmOunt, Va.

Paramount, w. Va, Oct. 19.-An explosion in mine No. [ of the Jamie son Coal and Coke company, at Bal rockville, near here, today damaged the property and entombed a number of men. The exact number has not yet been determined, as the shaft was not in operation today.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
NO PIAGUE DEATHS REPORTED

New York, Oct. 19.-Not a single death from infantile paralysis in the entire city was reported today by health authorities for the first time since the last week in June, when the epidemic began. The total deaths since then were 2,375. Six new cases were reported today.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
WORKMEN HONOR METGS.

Bridgeport, Oct 19.-Felix $. Maigs of this city was chosen 1nastcr work man at the ctate convention of the An cient Order of limited Work men which is meeting hcde today in Lyric hall. The election of other officers of the state organization is in progress this afternoon.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
Allies Repulsed With Heavy Losses.

Sofia, Wednesday, Oct. IS, via Lon don, Oct. 19, 1O:5O a. m.-The repulse of allied attacks with heavy losses on various points of the Salonil1i froEt is reported in an official statement is- sued by the war office today.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
SHIPMENT OF HORSES STOPPED

Chicago, Oct. 19.-Shipment of 4,000 horses purchased by the allies was stopped today by 8 quarantine on the Calumet shipyard, following discovery that six hundred of the ami mals were suffereing from contagious stomatitis which causes sore mouth
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
WALKS INTO TRAIN.

Milford, Oct. 19.-An unide entified man, apparently about 50 years old, was struck and killed on the N. Y, N. H. X Hartford railroad today about half a mile east of the station by an east bound express. He was walking the tracks with his head bowed to the storm and did not see the aDprouC h. ing train until it was upon him.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
Serbs Recapture BrOd.

Paris, Oct. 19, noon.-The Serbians have captured the village of Brod, on the western end of the Macedonian front, the war office announced today.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
French and Serbians Chalk Up New Vic- tories Over Their Teuton Enemy
BULGARIANS FORGED
 TO GIVE BACK BROD
Town on Cerna River Again Changes Hands-Paris Claims Small Victory on SOnnne While London Reports Nothing But Rain-Sofia Says En- tente Lost Heavily in Assault on SalOniki Front.

tSnte Lost HcaVlly HI Assault on
 SaIoniki Front.
 Despite the unsettled conditions in Greece, which apparently have mili- tated against a determined pushing of the entente operation on the Mace donian front, fresh and successful at tacks by French and Serbian troops. are reported.
 Paris announced a Serbian victory in the Cerna River region, southeast of Monastir, where the town of Brod, within the bend of the Cerna, is de- clared to have been wrested from the Bulgarians. who recently recaptured it. A delayed report from Sofia an nounced that Serbian attacks in the Cerna sector had failed of success.
 Interest attaches to further possi- ble developmonts in the Vardar re- zion, in the center of the Macedonian front, where little but artillery activi- ty has been reported during the wig orous operations on either flank. Last nights announcement from Paris that
  had been penetrated to a depth of a quarter of a mile iE an attack by French troops indicates the possibility that the entente offensive ir force is to be extended to this important sec ton of the front. The line of ad- vance here lies along the railway line toward Uskup.
 In pursuing their closing-in opera tion on Peronne the French on the Somme front are continuing their re- gently renewed pressure southwest Of the town between Biaches and La Maisonette, on the opposite bank of the river. They carried the entire German first line in this sector yester- day and not only successfully with stood several counter attacks but eX- tended their gains, the Paris war of flee reports.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19

Athens, Wednesday, Oct IS, Via London, Oct. 19, 12:45 D. m-A further detachment of French marines was landed tthis morning. The com mander demanded the use of the par liament and university buildings as barracks
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
THAW ALIVE AND WE'LL
American Aviator Reported Killed in France Arrives at Paris Home to Attend Prince Funeral

Paris Oct. 19. 1 D. m.-At the f'arls nome of Lieutenant William ThaW of the Franco-American Avia- uon Corps, 1t was said today that the lieutenant was alive and we'll He arrived during the night from the front to attend the funeral tomorrow Of Sergeant Norman Prince of the E'rancO-American Corps, who died as the result of injuries sustained in a raid over southern Germany.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
Germans on Offensive.

Berlin Oct. 19, via London, 4:O| p. m.-German troops tok the otfen- sive yesterday in Volhynia and cap tured Russian trenches on the west bank of the Stokhod, it was an nounccd officially her today. Rus
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
VILLA LEADS ATTACK
Bandit Chief at Head of Column Which Ransacks Town-Dissentfon Reported Among His Men.

Fl Paso, Texas, Oct. 1s.-Francisco Villa personally led his men into Cusihuiriachic on Tuesday of last week and seized all the supplies he could lay hands on, according to pas- sengers here today from that district. They also said Villa was in posses sion of the town last Saturday.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19

Chihuahua City, Mex, Oct. 19( De- serters from Villas ranks arrived here today and say that dissension has broken out among the bandit leaders and that Villa quarreled with Salazar, while tho latter and Uribe drew re- volvers during a recent dispute. The deserters assert that they had been i'm pressed into the ranks on threats ot death.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19

A New Haven despatch yesterday
 said that word had been received there of the death of Lieutenant ThaW.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
WEATHER.

Hartford, Oct. 19. - For HartFord and vicinity: Rain tonight and probably Friday; colder Friday.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19

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The Seward gateway., 1916-05-12

men and the sheriff, but the minute you said United States Marshall they pricked up their ears.
 American folks don't like to be governed by Washington"
 "Luigi Corti had his Texas folks right. He had a lot of other Ameri- cans right, too. This little blue book would mean that you were tab bed and listed by the federal govern ment.
 Some years ago this would have sounded more uu-American than it does today. because in reality you are now tabbed and listed on the federal income rolls. But this little book of military service and citizenship would keep you in your niche, right under the eye of the federal military author ities. all the time.
 1T you left Chicago to live in Cleve- land you would be forced to have your military book vised by the military commander of the city you were leav- ing and signed by the commander in the city to which you moved.
 A centralized government would have its grip on you.
 Even the Swiss, after eighteen months of war are becoming restless under the central military control of Berne. In peace times the local com mander is an officer chosen by the soldiers in the local troop; he is al- ways a man from the neighborhood.
 But during the war high officers from Berne have gone to the various corners of Switzerland to take con- trol and the independent Swiss citi- zens don't like it. Not any more than Americans in California would like tc have an army officer from Washington come and rule their lives and actions There have been half a dozen parlia- mentary quareIs in the Swiss con gress within the last four months over this matter.
 The little blue book. issued Jy the state government, wouldn't be an in. convenience. Ameucans in every dis.
The Seward gateway., 1916-05-12

trict, to judge by the experience of the Swiss, would want to elect their own officers and be under the control of their own state government.
 Any Swiss can tell you that to sub init to any other arrangement is to upset the Fundamental ideas on which both the United States and the Swiss federation were founded.
 Military men in Switzerland want federal control.
 The citibens want canton or state control. And when they don't have it they raise a row that serves to ease up the federal pressure on them.
The Seward gateway., 1916-05-12
NORTHWESTERN ARRIVALS

The following passengers arrived from Seattle last evening on the Northwestern:
 D. Brown and wife, Mrs R. K. Hen sen, Jess Hensen, Fay Hensen, Marie Hadley, S. A. Dray, F. D. Maxwell Louis Olsen, John Norman, B. Schuartz, c. w. Dickson, Sidney An derson, E. Hansen, II. Hunziher Joseph Mcclure, E. S. Rosseter, O. Elken, D. w. Donnelly, J. w. Chism Fred Schafer, c. B. Whitehead, F. A Douse, c. Mamby, Geo. Swetze, c Reynolds, Mrs. M. A. Scott, Irene Martin and 34 steerage.
The Seward gateway., 1916-05-12
HOW IT IS WITH
 CONSGRIPTION
SHOWING WHAT AMERICANS MUST ENDURE UNDER GEN
 ERAL SERVICE LAW.
Br WILLIAM c. sHEPHERD

United Press Staff Correspondent )
 BERNE, May "A little blue book. NIr. American, with your name and your photograph and a score of facts about your life written in it., which you would carry in your pocket all the time, would be the token of the upheavel in American life which would be caused by the introduction of the Swiss military system, in its entirety, in the United States.
 Heres my book said Luigi Cortt a storekeeper of Chiasso, who used to live in Texas.
 Every Swiss must carry his book with him. When l go to the bank ] take it. When l go to 8 strange Swiss city I'm asked for is. l show it when ] register at the hotel when l draw money. when l send a telegram. My book shows how much military service I've done. fl neglected my duty my book will show it."
 "Do you think Americans would like to have to carry books like that :"
 'Not the kind of Americans used to know in Texas twenty years ago. Americans don't like their govern ment to interfere with them" said Luigi
 Luigi was in the American army during the Spanish-American war.
 This little book" he explained, is issued by the federal government Down in Texas the folks got along aI- right with the mayor and the police
The Seward gateway., 1916-05-12
NEWS NOTES

Al NOrdstrom, formerly a promin- ent mining man of Nome and recently engaged in mining business in the Prince William Sound districts, came to Seward involuntarily on the Mari pOsa. MT. Nordstrom was bound for LatOuche but the ship pulled away from that place before he got off. He will return on the next boat.
 J. W. Wright, for some time fore man of the Gateway, went to Anchor age last night to take a position with the Cook Inlet Pioneer, chiefly be- cause he wanted to glimpse over the new territory. Mir. Wright is a veter- an newspaperman of Alaska, and a hard and expert worker whose pres ence would be welcome in any print ing office.
 Mike Sullivan, formerly an expOn- ent of the fistic art at Nome, arrived last evening.
 In last evenings mail came a letter from W. c. Botsford of Eltopia, Wash, who describes himself as a sheep shearer looking for a position here.