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Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-27
CONVENTION OF AMERICAN
 BOARD FOREIGN MISSIONS
300 Delegates in Attendance at Toledo -Dr. Ussher Speaks This Morning.

Toledo, O., Oct. 26.-Addresses by missionaries, a business session, with election of officers and miscellaneous business, will occupy the third day of the convention of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions here today. More than 300 delegates are in attendance.
 During the afternoon there will be a separate meeting for women. Miss Ellen Stone and other woman mis- slonarles will speak
 War and the work in Turkey will be discussed at the morning session by four men, Rev. c. T. Riggs of Con- stantlnople, who was born of n1is s1onary parents in Marsovan, Dr. A K. Hoover, ten years a medical mis- sionary at TaIas, Dr. c. E. Clark of S1vas and Rev. K. N. Chambers of Adana, who has been 37 years in Tur- key. Bulgarias Future will be dis cussed by Rev. T. T. HoIway of Sofia, Missionaries from Africa also will speak
 Tonight the presidents annual ad- dress will be given by Dr. E. o. Moore of Cambridge. Four mission converts. one each from Africa, Picking, Madura and Turkey, will tell what the Ameri- can board has done for their people. Five student volunteers also will give brief addresses and will be consecrat ed to their work in the foreign field,
 The meeting will close on Friday morning with addresses about condi- t1ons under the Russian flag by pr. Clarence JISsher, who has just passed through the ty phus epidemic and siege at Van, Turkey, and Rev. Robert Sta pleton of Erzroom, who went to Turkey in 1897.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-27

waving thousands of American flags, shouted in answer:
 "No."
 Mir Hughes had prepared his speech in advance and while he adhered to it tu substance he made radical condi- tions of its phraseology. He reached the city after two addresses at Hart ford and Providence, untired and ap- parcntly in good spirits. The big arl- dience gave him a five minute cheer when he entered the hall and time aft CT time interrupted him with applause and cheers.
 Heclelers sought to question him on various topics and one man who per sisted finally made himself heard. amid great confusion. In doing so the heckler had the aid of the nominee. who sought to quiet the crowd and urged that the qucstioner be allowed 10 proceed.
 What specific policy will you taks in Mexico?" the heckler shouted. What specific policy will you take in (Continued on Page Two)
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-27

and Oituz valleys the Rumanian arms have also been successful.
 Again the Germans have delivered counter attacks - four in number - against the newly won French posi- tions at Douaumont, in the region of Verdun, but like all of their efforts since the drive of Tuesday they were successfully withstood. Similarly a violent attack against the British in the Stuff trench, north of the famous Stuff redoubt near Thiepval, was put down, the Germans suffering consider able casualties and the loss of forty one men made prisoners. Elsewhere on the front there were only artillery duels.
 In the wooded region of the Carpath- ian mountains the Germans essayed assa ults against the Russians, but &C., cording to the Petrograd war office their efforts failed. In Volhynia to the west of Lutsk the Russians. without previous artillery preparation, at tempted to storm with infantry a German position. The German artill- cry, however, broke up the sortie
 Two villages southwest of Lake Doiran, on the Macedonian front Golobrda and Laisitsa-have been cap- tured by the French. Elsewhere in tbis theatre the fighting is being done mainly by the artillery, although there is still activity in the Cerna river re- zion.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-27
BRIDGEPORT GETS $2,ooo,oco
 GOVERNMENT CONTRACT Bridgeport ProjectiIe Co. to Make
 Guns and Ammunition.

Bridgeport, Conn.,, Oct 26.-The awarding today by the United States government of s2,O00,0 900 contract for guns and ammunition to the Bridge port Projectile company will mean, ac- cording> to plans announced tonight by President w. H. Knight, that work will start immediately on the erection of big addition to the already large plant here. The contract calls for 146 five-inch guns fGr the navy at a cost of $9,50O each, and for about $500, 900 worth of steel shells for the army
 The company, only about two years old, already has the largest steel shell plant in the country, but no facilities for making guns A two story build ing, 300 by 120 feet, will be built un- der rush conditions for this work, and when the gun plant is completed, President Knight said, it will be the third largest of it's kind in the United States.
 The company has been working day and night, turning out shells, and a short time ago, when the Mexican con- ditions were threatening, the entire output was offered to the United States government, contracts already in force to be discarded or delayed.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-27
CHIEF OF-DIVISlON
 OF MILITIA AFFAIRS
Briaadier- General w. A. Mann Sue
 ceeds General Mills.

Washington, C.t. 26.-Brigadier Gen. eral William A. Mann commanding the army division with headquarters at La redo, Texas, was today selected for chief of the division of military af-
 fairs, in the war department. vacant by the death of Major General Albert L. Mills He will assume his duties at once.
 The selection of General Mann is un- derstood to have been passed on the. recommendations of his fellow general officers. He has high reputation for executive ability and capaIty for hard work, which will be needed in working. out the details of the new federalized national guard system.
 General Mann is a native of Penn. sylvania and was graduated from West Point in 1875. He is an infan- try officer and his active service in cludes participation in numerous In- dian campaigns, the Spanish American war, where he saw service in Cuba and the Philippine Island insurrection and duty on the general staff and in the wa rcollege.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-27
RELATION OF UNITED STATES
 TO THE EUROPEAN WAR Treated of by President Wilson in His
 Address at Cincinnati.

Cincinnati, O., Oct. 26.-Taking ad- vantage of a strenuous .isit to Gin cinnati to discuss the relation of the United States to the European war, President Wilson today declared that this is the last war that involves the world that the United States can keep out of" He gave as his reason his belief that "the business of neutrality is over'' and that war now has such a scale that the position of neutrals sooner or later becomes intolerable."
 He added that the nations of the world must get together and say NO body can hereafter be neutral as re- spects the disturbance of the worlds S peace for an object which the world s opinion cannot sanction"
 After denying the republican claim that the business prosperity of the United States during the last two years has been due to trade created by the war, the president ridiculed predic- tions that after the war Europe will overwhelm this nation by its economic strength and dump" in the United States goods now being stored up for purpose. He asserted tha texports of everything that goes to supply armies makes only per cent. of the total of AnaaItcan aornmerce-
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-27
1e PERSONS PER1SHED
 IN HOSPITAL FIRE
Which Destroyed St. EIizabeth's Hos
 pital, Farnham, Quebec

Farnham, Quebec, Oct 26-Nine- teen persons-five children, eight women and six men-were believed late tonight to have lost their lives it. the fire which destroyed St. Eliza beth's hospital early today. There were 21S persons in the hospital of whom 113 were children, 36 aged women and the others servants and assistants to the Grey Nuns.
 The fire. the cause of which has not been determined. still smouldered at midnight, making it impossible to ascertain accurately how many of the inmates of the hospital had perished The property damage was estimated at S135.OoO. partly covered by insur- ance.
 One reason for the difficulty in de- finitely establishing the loss of life it was said. was that the majority of the inmates of the hospital were with out relatives or friends. Those who Derished are believed to have been en- -ombed by tons of debris.
 An investigation as to the cause of the fire disclosed that a blaze started in chimney of the hospital Tuesday night. It the theory of the authori- ties that this smouldered and broke out again last night.
 Many of the nuns. it was said. risk cd their lives in efforts to save pa tients and children entrapped in the hospital. Famed by a strong breeze the flames. unchecked by the small jets of water the ffremen were able to throw on them. swert through the building with lightning speed, cutting off the inmates in the various depart ments.
 The .electrics went out soon after the fire started and the nuns and oth- CT reScuers had to work in the dark. Men who went into the building said they had to carry out patients with others hanging onto them. A number of the rescuers were lost in the dark ness and had narrow escapes.
 One nun, single-handed, is said to have saved lives of 45 children. She stood on a balcony on the third floor on which the children had been cut off and handed them to the firemen on ladders below.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-27
DRAMATIC STORY OF ABUSE
 BY MRS. M. c. BEATENGER
On Trial for the Murder of Her Hus- band-Her Five Children Present

.a Newark, N, Oct. 26.-With her five young children seated only a few feet from the jury box, Mrs. Marsa- ret Claire Beautinger, testified today m ner own defense in her trial for the murder of her husband, Cristof, a New York coal merchant, told a dra- matic story of abuse which she de- cIared was responsible for the tragedy She began her narrative calmly but became hysterical after telling of the events which precipitated the shoot ing in the BeutinSer home at Caldwell N. J.. early on the morning of July Il last
 After Beutinger had gone to her room twice the morning he was N led, she said. she took from bureau drawer revolver she admitted she had purchased the day before. She attended to frighten Beutinger with the revolver, she added.
 lie returned to her room for tine third time and threatened, she de- clared, that he would kill her.
 Il told him l was going to set an- other divorce" said Mrs. BeutiI. ger who already had testified sine was married to Beutinger in 1906 and sub- sequently divorced him, but re-mar- ried him in 1915. Then he rushed toward me with his hand upralsed and a glazed look in his bulging eyes. screamed and continued to scream while I reached under the pillow and got the revolver. Then I shot,
 Little Marie and Margaret (two of the Beutinger chi1dren) crept up to me and as they clung to me I moved around the foot of the bed with the revolver pointed in front of me so that l would not hit them. I pointed it toward the window where my hus- band had stood. Then I sank on the bed and little Marie got a wet towal and bathed my head. Then the ser wants came"
 Mrs. Beutinger said that when her husband rushed toward her she thought he was going to strangle her.
 When you fired the first shot, was it accidental. or did you fire at your husband, thinking your life was in danger?' asked counsel.
 T think it was both," she replied Of course, my life was in danger"
 Mrs. Beutinger told of interceding on one occasion with the secretary of war for her husband. who had been Q clerk in the army quartermasters de- partment in the Philippines but was dismissed. Askey why she had ap- pealed to the secretary of war. she said a charge of graft had been made against Beutinger.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-27
BROOKLYN EAGLE CELEBRATED
 ITS 75TH ANNIVERSARY
Episodes of Its History Were Portray
 ed in Pageant.

New York, 'Oct. 26-The Brooklyn Daily Eagle celebrated tits seventy fifth anniversary at the academy of music, Brooklyn. tonight with a pa geant, episodes. of which portrayed events of outstanding interest in inc Eagles history. Colonel William Hester. president of the Eagle com pany, was a central figure in the cele- bration, leading the veterans of the pa per to the statge of the academy where medals were presented to them Colonel Hester began work for the Eagle as a typesetter in 1852
 Letters of congratulation upon its seventy fifth birthday were received by the Eagle from President Wilson, William H. Taft, Charles F. Hughes, Governor Whitman, Secretary McAdoo Lord Northcliffe and many other not ed men.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-27
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION
 TO BE HELD IN TOXIC Association Represents 5o4,ooo Schools, With 31,ooo,0oo Members.

New York. Oct. 26.-An invitation of the Japanese to hold the next conven- tion of the Worlds Sunday School as- sociation in Tokio, has been accepted, it was announced today by the world committee which ha1d a meeting here. The convention will be held after the close of the war. The invitation was brought by B. Okura in message from the Japanese committee or which Mar Quis Okuma. former premier of Japan, is chairman.
 Thomas Robinson Ferens, member of the British parliament was elected president of the association, succeeding the late Sir Robert Laidlaw of Lon- don. The associa tion, it is said, repre- sents 304,000 Sunday schools in all countries and has membership of 31,- O00,000.
 It was announced that the organiza- tion is carrying out plans for sending a million new testaments to the soldiers in the trenches. hospitals and prison camps, to be contributed by American Sunday School children.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-27

Boston, Oct. 26.-Charles B. Hughes tonight told an audience which filled Bostons big arena that he proposed to be an American president. if elected, unswerved by any suggestion of for eign influence.
 And I propose" he added, that if l am elected we shall have the abliest cabinet that this country can sup ply"
 MT. Hughes also declared that he would maintain American rights and that he had absolutely no patience whatever with the idea that an Ameri- can citizen, following his lawful pur- suits in any part of the world should be left unprotected by the country from which he came"
 q am amazed" MT. Hughes said, that it is suggested that. a proper at tituda is that the policy or protection should not be maintained because 1t threatens our peace.
 'Ts it possible that any such notion should obtain in the shadow of Bunk CT Hill ?" he asked.
 Audience Waved Flags.
 The audience rose to its feet and
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-27
Villa is Getting
 Aid From the J. s.
SECRETRY BAKER HAS DEFINITE
 INFORMATION
TO ATTACK AMERICANS
Generals Funston and Pershine Have Been Informed and All American Forces Are in Readiness-PIot Fostered by Enemies of Administra- ton.

Washington, Oct. 62. - Secretary Baker announced late today that the war department had received definite information that enemies of the gov-
 ernmentS policy toward Mexico. in connection with Villa or other bandits had arranged for spectacular attack on American troops on the border, to be made before the election, to create sentiment against the administration Full particulars of the plan, the sec retary said, had been forwarded to Generals Funston and Pershing and all the American forces are in readi-
 ness for the attack
 MT. Baker issued this statement:
 ''The war department has received definite information confirmed from other sources, that enemies of the ad- miniStration'S policy toward Mexico, in connection with Villa or other ban dits in Mexico, have arranged spec tacular attack, to be made upon some part of the American forces or upon some American community on the border, between now and the date of l the election. for the purpose of turn ing the tide of sentiment against the policy which the administration has adopted for the protection of the bor- der.
 Tt is significant in this connection | that both the state and war depart ments were advised that the bandit ! forces operating at the present time 1 in Mexico are being paid in silver 1 coin.
 Full particulars have been trans mitted to General Funston and Gen. l eral Pershing. All American forces | are, therefore, forewardend and in | readiness for such an attack" l Intimations of Attack. For some days vague intinations l that an attack of some sort along the | border might be in prospect have been reaching the state department Up to today they have been so indefinite, it 1 is understood, that officials were not l inclined to treat them seriously There | were no clues on which to start an 1 investigation.
 Villa Supplied With Money. It has been know nfor some time i also, that Villa, or whoever the bandit l chieftain may be who is operating name, has had a considerable supply both of silver money and ammunition | sn1uggled over the border from the l United States. The reference in Sec ! retary Bakers statement 10 the fact ! that Mexican bandits are known to have been paid recently in silver is | thought to have been founded upon
 those reports.
 President Wilson Silent.
 Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 25.-Secre-
 tary Bakers statement was shown to l President Wilson here tonight, but Ee l would make no comment
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-27
CHICAGO WOMEN
 CHEER FOR ROOSEVELT
When He Told Them He Would Fight
 to Protect Them.

Chicago, Oct. 25.-Chicagc women cheered Colonel Roosevelt today when he appealed to them not to be inf1u- enced by the plea that President Will son had kept the nation out of wal" When he told them that he would fight at the drop Of the hat if necessary to stop the m1rder of women and chil- dren, they met the announcement with a chorus of applause that delayed the speaker and he waited while they rose sa1d waved handkerchiefs and flags.
 The colonel closed his western tour here today with two speeches, the first exclusively to women, with not more than a scant score of policemen and reporters in tie auditorium. He had been asked, he said, to appeal espe- cially to the women who had been in fluenced by the peace slogan, but he had decided to make, he declared eX- actly the same appeal he would have to men.
 q am not going to speak," he said, ito what I might call the early Vic torian aunt
 There was no attempt at heckling, tho only interruption, except for words of approval, being after he had told of women and children killed in Mexico, and said he would have gone to war if necessary to avoid that, several voices called:
 What about Hughes ?"
 "Mr. Hughes can be trusted to keep his word" answered Colonel Roosevelt. 'FWhen he says that he would not sub- init to such deeds as the sinking of the Lusitania or the killing of our cit izens in Mexico, he means what he
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-27
MAYOR OF HAVERHILL
 ON WITNESS STAND
Testified in His Own Defense o4 Charges Of Failure to Prevent Riotine.

Lawrence, Mass, Oct 26.-A threat of tar and feathers, delivered over the telephone by some person unknown, was the first intimation that Mayor l.. Bartlett of Haverhil had of the riot in that city on the night of April 3, according to his statement on the witness stand lste today. Mayor Bart lett and four other members of the Haverhfll city government are on trial on charges of failure to suppress the riot, which followed an attempt of Thomas E. Leyden to deliver an anti : Catholic lecture.
 The mayor testified that he had just returned from a public school enter tainmerN when the telephone bell rang and a mans voice said:
 There's a riot at city hall, and we are thinking of coming up to tar and feather you.'
 Then the telephone receiver was hung up.
 The executive was the only witness for the defense. After a few witnesses in rebuttal are heard and arguments are made tomorrow, the case will go to the jury.
 Mayor Bartlett related at length the efforts he made to suppress the dis turbance. After receiving the tar a;sf feathers threat, he testified, he tele- phoned Alderman White in response to a message that the alderman had left with the mayors housekeeper Mayor Bartlett said he gave Alderman White authority to call out the Ioca militia company if the situation war ranted. Mayor Bartlett testified thai later he hurried to city hall, where the crowd cheered him. He urged them to go to their homes. He saw no vio- lence committed. Afterward he learn ed that Leyden was in the city hall he said, and fearing that the crowd would rush" the building, he went out on the steps and read the riot act When the local company arrived May. or Bartlett said he mapped out what measures the guardsfnen should take to clear the streets
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-27
COPELAND TEsTIFiEs IN
 HIS OWN DEFENSE
Did Not Shoot Black andDid Not Know Who Did Shoot Him.

Galveston, Texas. Oct. 2e.-John Copeland this afternoon took the stand in his own defense at his trial here on charges in connection with the killing or William Black. an anti Catholic leo turer. Copeland identified one of inc circulars circulated by Black in Mar shall. containing an alleged oath of the Knights of Columbus and testified 1t was false.
 The defense before Copeland took the stand had delved into the past life of Black with the intention. it announce ed, of trying to show that it adver- Using himself as ''an ex-priest" he had not told the truth.
 Copeland teaified that he, John Rog- CTS and George Rysn went to see Black together He testified he went to pro- test against Black delivering his sched uled lecture against convent life
 He declared he did not shoot Black and did not know who did shoot
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-27
AUTOS TO BLAME FOR
 lNFANTlLE PARALYSIS?
Assertion Made at Convention of
 Public Health Association.

Cincinnati O., Oct. 26.-Automobiles. not germs, are to blame for the cpl demic of infantile paralysis that has swept over the country, according to the assertion made by Dr. Thomas F. Harrington, deputy commissioner or labor of Massachusetts, in an address before the annual convention here of the American Public Health assocla- tion.
 'Tnfanti1e paralysis is due to chem icaI agents, namely, gases and fumes given off in the atmosphere by the combustion of oils and fluids used in automobiles" Dr. Harrington declared. Cases of gas and fume poisoning and cases of infantile paralysis agree in every essential
 "In infantile paralysis we are deal- ing with chemical agent and not micro organism. Infants and old per- sons are more susceptible to the mala- dy. Although infartile paralysis has been epidemic for years, it's prevalence in epidemic form dates from the intro duction and wide use of the automo- bile''
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-27
RUMANIA SUBJECT IN
 HOUSE OF COMMONS
Military Situation is Engaging the At-
 tention of the Allies.

London, Oct. 26, 4.17 p. m.-The sub ject of Rumania was brought up again in the house of commons today when Premier Asquith said tHar 'the military situation of Rumania was engaging the most anxious attention not only of this government but of those of our allies
 "They have taken and are taking now" he added, every possible stey to support our gallant comrades in Ru- mania in the splendid struggle they are making. I hope we shall not take un- duly pessimistic views. In Russia, France, England and Italy there have been and there are concerted measures in which each of us is doing all in his power to support Ruman1a Ill her struggle for independence"
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-27
NORTH AND EAST ARE
 THE "WET" SECTIONS
Prohibition Presidential Nominee Des- mates Them as the "Bad Lands"

Norwich. N. Y. Oct. 26.-The Bad Lands of this country are no longer located in the new west but have been rolled in liquor barrels to the old northeast, Ira Landrith. the prohibit tlonist vice presidential nominee to- day told New York crowds when the dry" special train again entered the state from Pennsylvania.
 The very frontiers of civilization. g he said. have been rolled in rum bar rels from the wild and woody west. now dry and law-abiding, to the Dead woods and Dodge cities. the Lead yilles and the Buttes. the Cripple Creeks and the Boises of PennsyIva- mia, Ohio, Illinois. New York, New fathers HI With the south practically dry and the west hastening to become prohi- b1t1on territory. the north and east face a new menace to it's boasted in tellectual, moral. political and com merc1al supremacy, for among people of the same races sobriety spells eff cfency."