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Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-04
SUPREME COURT TAKES
 UP ADAMSON LAW TODAY
Motion Will Be Presented for Assign ment of Early Date.

Washington, Dec. 2.-Steps to secure an early decision on the constitution a1ity of the Adamson eight hour law in the test case of the Missouri Alabama and Gulf railroad will dominate inter- est in the supreme courts session to- morrow following astwo weeks recess.
 A motion will be presented by Solicitor General Davis, with formal concurrence
 of counsel for the railroads. asking the
 court to assign an early date for
 hearing the governments appeal from
 the decision Of Federal Judge Hook of Kansas City, Mo, holding the law null and void.
 The railroad brothernoods, according to present plans, will not be repre- sented in the formal procee dings to-
 morrow, but may have counsel partici- pate in the arguments. Although motions to expedite cases are seldom acted upon by the court until week after their presentation l it is considered not unlikely that Chief | Justice White will immediately an- | nounce date for argument in this | instance. What that date may be however, is very uncertain, as tomor- l rows calendar of 20 cases specia liy
 assigned for argument is unusually long.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-04
PRESIDENT WILSON TO
 READ HIS MESSAGE.
Is to Hold Conferences With Congress
 sionaI Leaders.

Washington, Dec. 3.-Back from New York after inaugurating the new light ing system of the Statue of Liberty last night, President Wilson today be- gan work preparatory to the opening of congress tomorrow. With Mrs. Will son, the president returned to Wash ington at 7.30 this morning.
 The president has made few general engagements for the week because of his desire to devote himself almost entirely to conferences with congress sional leaders in an effort to get 1he executive machinery started properly. Expecting to remain almost constant ly in Washington, he probably will &C., cept few of the many invitations now before him to speak in different places. No final plans have been made for de- livering a special message on the high cost of living to congress later in the session, 5ut MT. Wilson is understood to favor taking such 2 step when the opportunity offers.
 Tuesday MT. Wilson will follow his custom of going before congress per- sonally to read his annual message Wednesday he vii, entertain William J. Bryan ard Mrs. Bryan at lunch in the White House, and Thursday night he will give a dinner in honor ot Vance c. Mccormick. chairman of the democratic national committee, tC which have been invited members o1 the democratic and progressive cam paign committees.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-04
CONGRESS TO HASTEN
 RAILROAD LEGISLATION
Speaker Clark and Minority Leader kitchin in Accord.

Washington, Dec. 3.-Speal5er Clark and Representative Kitchin, majority leaders to talk over with them the Wilson at t White House conference tonight, that they would do all they could to hasten the passage of rail- road legislation at the short session of congress which begins tomorrow.
 The president summoned the house leaders to tai koyer with them the legislative programme and to secure their cooperation in expediting impor- tant measures. Legislation to supple nfent the Adamson law. he said. was of the utmost importance :Ind he ask ed that this be given precedence in consideration over all other general legislation.
 Realizing that three months is a short period for consideration of gen. eral measures when appropriation bills also must be passed, the presi- dent asked the house leaders if they thought there would be time for en- actment of new railroad laws before March 4. Both told him they thought there would be and promised to ex- ert every effort to econonlize time on other matters.
 Scores of members of both houses reached Washington today and tonight and a full attendance of congress to- morrow is assured. One Of the last to arrive was Vice President Mar shall, who was c.ven an enthusiastic reception at the railroad station.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-04
NEW ENGLAND ROADS
 oVERTAxEp BY BUSINESS
Are Doing a Gross Business of $9o,
 100000 Year.

Boston, Dec B. = The facilities of the New York, New Haven and Hart ford and Central New England rail- roads are over-taxed by the volume of business, but. notwithstanding the fact the ratio of revenue to expense com pares favorably with2 that of many other roads, according to a report is- sued today by the companies. The report covers the first months ending October 31 of the fiscal year. It says that the two roads. which are really all one for commercial and operating purposes, had a total operating rev. enbe for the four months of $30,239, = 05S and total operating expenses of 19, ,220,939. The net income after de- duetions for taxes, interest, etc, was s3,5S5,292.
 The figures indicate a gross busi- ness at the. rate of $90.O00,000 a year on the 2,30614 miles of railroad" says the report, "or at the rate of $39,000 n mile, much of which is earned on the heavy mail lines. This great volume of business indicates the need of add ed facilities on these mail lines and at the important terminals.
 "The business is so dense that it is difficult at D number of places to get satisfactory train and terminal move ments. In spite of the over-taxing of facilities, the ratio of revenue to ex- pense, of G3.55, compares favorably with many other roads.
 "The tendency of expenses and charges against income to increase rapidly, due to higher wages and prices for all kinds of materials is shown very clearly in the reports for September and October. The increase in expense and charges seems to be greater in those districts where there Is intense manufacturing activity"
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-04
1 NAVAL PENITENTlARY | IS ABSURDLY MANAGED
Thomas Mott Osborne Will So Report
 to Secretary Daniels.

Boston, Dec. 3.-An indication of the report that Thomas Mott Osborne, for mer warden of Sing Sing prison, will make to Secretary of the Navy Dan iels on his investigations of the peni- tentiary at the Portsmouth, N H., navy yard, was given in an address by MT. Osborne before the Twentieth Century club. it was learned today
 MT. Osborne asserted that the pen alty seemed to him "absurdly man. aged" that the uniforms were de grading" and that the treatment of the men was 'the most severe any where.''
 What is it for?" he asked, 'to fit men to return to the navy Or to go out in the world? In either case it is a failure"
 Though it shelters youths who have committed no crime in the eyes of the civil authorities, the treatment is the most severe anywhere" MT. Os- borne continued. When the men re- turn from working on the sea wall in place where could not possibly have obtained anything but sand boulders and seaweed, they are strip ped and searched. Portsmouth re- minded me of Portland, England where men are searched in that ab- Surd fashion ten times a day.''
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-04
DECEIVER OF RAY TANKER
 UNDER ARREST IN CHICAGO
Admits He Represented Himself as
 James w. Osborne.

Chicago, Dec. 3.-Detective head quarters announced tonight that they had arrested a man who has admit ted he represented himself as James w. Osborne, New York lawyer, in escapades with Miss Ray Tanze- as a result of which lions Osborne was sued by her for $50,000 ,n March, 1915.
 Wax told of meeting Miss Tanzer about October 1. 1914. through a fir tation near Columbus Circle. He met her frequently after that. he said, and was surprised after an aequaintance ship of several months to read in a newspaper of suit against the law yer, Osborne.
 '"The story told of the mysterious Oliver Osborne" Wax said, "and l decided to go to my nanesake, but he was not there, but his law partner gave me his home address and I went out to Broadway and Seventy second street. I met his wife and assured her that her husband was not the MT. Os borne mixed up with the girl. I met him the same day and gave him sev- eral letters the girl had given me and made an appointment to meet him the next day. I didn't keep this because I got frightened and also was ashamed to go on the witness stand and tell of my relations with her"
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-04
AN ORGANIZATION OF HOUSEWIVES IN NEW YORK
To Resort to Boycott Whenever it is
 Deemed Necessary.

New York. Dec. 3.-An organization of housewives. through which every consumer in this city may be reached whenever it appears necessary to es- tablish a boycott on articles of food" will be formed January 1. it was an- nounced tonight by Joseph Hartigan, commissioner of weights and meas ures.
 The plan, MT. Hartigan said. is to have at least one woman assigned to each of the 420,0 900 square blocks here, whose duty twill be ito keep in touch with the residents of that block and keep them posted as to the prices of the various articles of food.'' These women, he added. would work with the retail dealers. as far as possible
 The Weights and Measures League, an organization numbring approxi- mately 22S.000 men, also will work in conjunction with the women, MT. liar tigan asserted.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-04
HEAD OF THE VEN1ZELIST # RECRUITING BUREAU ARRESTED Charged With lnciting Greek Soldiers
 to Desert.

Athens, Dec. 2, 4.o5 D. m, via Lon- don, Dec. 3, 8.10 D. m.-General Cora kas, head of the Venizelist recruiting bureau, has been arrested, charged with melting guerilla warfare in Athens annd using his room in the Hotel Majestic as "a point from which to fire upon soldiers and civilians. A number of soldiers deposed that Cor akas paid twenty five drachmas -per head to induce soldiers to desert the army and join the Venizelists at Sa- loniki. General Corakas probably will be tried on a charge of abetting trea- son.
 M. Boulajanfs, editor of the ob- acure Venizelist journal Astyr, has also been arrested. It is asserted he was found to be carrying 51 900 drach- mas. The Venizelist police lieutenant Maroudas was taken into custody while carrying 10000 drachmas
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-04
MAYOR OF SANDUskY, O,
 HAS BEEN INDICTED
Charged With Neglect of Duty While
 Acting as Police Judge.

Sandusky, Ohio, Dec. 3-Mayor Robert Koegle was arrested today on a secret indictment returned yester- day by the grand jury, charging neg iect of duty in connection with crimi- nal cases which he hears las police being president of the city commits sion elected under a new charter adopted recently.
 The jury investigated the mayors conduct on instructions from Com mon Pleas Judge R. E. Williams after the mayor failed to file transcripts in criminal cases with the court as or dered.
 The jury also returned two other se- cret indictments in connection with city contracts, which have not yet been made public.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-04
oLEoMAReARINE RERGAfHsat
 BUTTER IN pIET SOU
Thus Far the Dozen Giving T
 Show aNet Gain of 4 3sTP6und

Chicago. Dec. 3.-oleondargaEfha II be substituted for butter in the l two days of the test by theydier sq in an effort to learn approximat what saving can be effeeteEthro1 the use of substitutes.
 Seven of the twelve persons v are trying to den1onstrate that g meals can be served for less than cents a day have shown gain weight since the beginning of the pertinent, November 22..s~Three.z-h b lost weight and two have shown change. There is total met gaip 3-4 poundsh.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-04
Political Crisis in
 England is Acute
RuMoRS THAT DAVID LLOYD
 GEORGE HAS RESIGNED
AS SECRETARY OF WAR
Efforts Are Being Made to ForestaII the Complete Collapse of the coaIi- tion Government-Premier Asquith is to Explain the Situation in the House of Commons.

London, Dec 8, 6.45 p. m-The po- htical crisis has become acute. It is stated in well-informed quarters that David Lloyd George, the war secre- tary, las rendered his resignation which has not yet been accepted.
 Party Leaders Consult Premier.
 Premier Asquith left town yester- day but returned this morning and throughout the day there have been consultations and meetings of party leaders at the premier's residence.
 MT. Lloyd George had a long con- sultation with the premier this after noon. Other visitors were A. Bonar Law, secretary for the colonies, and the Marquis of Crewe. lord president of the council.
 Perhaps the most significant inct- dent was that Sir Edward Carson and MT. Law appeared together and ad- ionist committee, while the Earl of Derby, under secretary for war, had long interview with MT. Lloyd George.
 Official Announcement Expected It is understood no official an- nouncement will be made tonight but that Premier Asquith will see the king again tomorrow morning and thereafter make a statement in the house of commons in explanation of the situation.
 Thus far it appears no arrangement has been made for Secretahy Lloyd George to see the king, which would indicate that at the present momen, will be surmounted without the com plete collapse of the coalited cabinet and without the resignation of MT Lloyd George.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-04
DAVID HUNTER DIES
 OF AUTO INJURIES
Received When Car Went Over ar
 Embankment in Hartford.

Hartford, Conn, Dec. 3.-David Hun ter died in a hospital here today as the result of injuries received Satur- day night when the automobile in which he was riding with Frank N. Davis went out an embankment in Ma pie street and turned turtle The hutoonbile turned out for a motorcy- clist, it is said. causing the fatal plunge. After the accident, a mo- tocycle license plate was found, bear ing the number. C1219, which belongs to one of the machines owned by the state police. Captain Hurley of the state police said tonight that as far as he knew none of the state motor cycles was near the scene of the acci- dent Saturday night.
 Hunter was employed by E. G. Whittlesey and company of this city. He leaves his wife.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-04
HEAVY CASUALTIES OF
 NEWFOUNDLAND REGIMENT
During the Opening Day of the Brit
 ish Drive Last July.

St. Johns, N. F., Dec. s.-The ex- tent to which the Newfoundland regi- ment suffered on the opening day of the British drive in July last became known today, when figures of it's losses were made public. In the fight ing near Beaumont -Hamel about one hundred members of the regiment were killed or died shortly afterward from wounds, and the regiment lost 150 officers and men who were listed as missing and of whom no trace has since been found
 Of the five thousand men who went from this colony to join the British military and naval forces. about 600 have been killed.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-04
Villa Driven 0uitii:::::5. iti:5 ti::...
 of ChihuahualGiitIFy|l Git i
MANY BANDITS WERE cEPTUREf
 AND KILLED -g!ios G,, sla
NO AMERICANS KTLEEg
+N rGJ So 80C During Their Occupation of thes1ch, the Bandits Showed No Mercy fnl the chinese-viIla is Moving rfiTo-
 wards Western chihuahuat Viii Trains of Loot. |'+fis smGb 9ntef

fsiJffO dns9
 Juarez, Mexico, Dec. s.-Itrwas off cially announced at mi1itafYr head quarters today that the iaEarranz forces have re-occupied the, citN.ao Chihuahua, having driven the yift bandits out. Photographic coEnnuniea ton with Chihuahua City, oyer. rtb federal line has been re-estSbi biisheaI
 General Carlos Ozuna entered, Chi huahua City from the northi,A Tske clock last night. according teea, jfeie gram received tonight byd11G GeaeEs Francisco Gonzales, brigade comnan der. The message was fr6fRGeReFs Ozuna and was dated ChihuahuazCjty
 General Gonzales was pfkpaN1s 1t leave late today for ChihBahd4z Cit with large command of. Carranz troops. He said telegrapfHH commu nication has been restored south t
 Latest reports here are that imain1 Villa followers have beenLg eaptaire and killed. No definite news has bee received about Americans, but it :: believed here that all forAshkrs ey cept Chinese are safe.
 It was announced that Villa, has le for western Chihuahua = sfolrowin trains of loot. s..Es ta.sc. sz,, General Francisco Muftsdffa;J5G Carranza commander whot has | moving slowly northward lffom StftU reon, was also reported teaiiAeYete ef | tered the city today after having ds | feated the Villa column st{frty mile south of Chihuahua City. 1SA1Ek
 | --= HaTEz0N NO AMERICANS KlLLED,pr4s sa |
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-04
Muderer Holds Off
 Philadelphia Cops
NEGRO HAD BARRIcApEp HIM.
 SELF IN A ROOM.
MANY SHOTS WERE FIRED
Fifty Policemen Were Held at Bay for Nearly Two Hours-Two Were Se- riousIy Wounded-Murderer Took His Own Life When Ammonia Fumes Were Used.

Philadelphia, Dec. 3.-Besieged by fifty policemen in a third story room where he had barricaded himself aft CT murdertns a woman with whom he had been infatuated and after serious ly Wounding two policemen who tried to arrest him, Charles Westcott, a negroo, held the attacking force at bay for two hours today and finally shot himself dead
 HuEdreds of shots were fired by, the negro and the police. Then the fire department was called and an at tempt was being made to file the room with ammonia fumes when the negro killed himself
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-04
JURY DIsAeREEs IN
 TRIAL OF ALBERT FREEMAN
Who Was Indicted With Julian Haw-
 thorne and pr. Morton.

New York, Dec. 3-After deliberat- ing more than A hours. the jury in the case of Alfred Freeman in the fedar- al district court announced today it was unable to agree. Freeman was indicted several years ago with Julian Hawthorne and Dr. William J. Morton for an alleged conspiracy to swindle investors in mining stocks by illegally using the mails. The three were con- victed and sentenced to prison. Free man, however, appealed and was granted a new trial. Hawthorne and Dr. Morton served their terms in the federal penitentiary.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-04
OBITUARY.
John w. Futile.

Middletown. Conn, Dec. 3.-John w Futile, prominent in state prohibition circles, died at his home tonight after a short illness. aged 66. He was state central committeeman for the prohibit ton party from the Thirty Third dis trict and at the last election was can- didate for senator.
 Mrs. Caroline Jacobs Hunt.
 Belfast, Me, Dec. 3.-Mrs. Caroline Jacobs Hunt, said to have been the oldest living graduate of Mount Hol- yoke college. died here today She was 91 years of age. Mrs. Hunt was a student at Mount Holyoke under Mary Lyons, founder of the college She was the widow of the late State Senator William H. Hunt of Liberty.
 Mrs. Sarah Baeleus Lyon.
 Meriden, Conn.,, Dec. 3.-Mrs. Sarah Backus Lyon, widow of Thomas M Lyon, died ir her Tooth year at her home on Johnson avenue, this city, Saturday.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-04

Rumania still holds the center of interest in the world war. The en- circling movement of the Teutouic allies continues to draw closer toward her capital, Bucharest, although the Rumanians apparently are stiffening their defense.
 The Teutons have crossed the Ar gechu river west of Bucharest, but both Petrograd and Bucharest assert that southwest of the capital the Ru2s sians and Rumanians, fighting tSs gether, have forced the retirement of the Teutons and taken prisoners and booty-the latter including 26 guns The German Official communication says that in this region a Rumanian force was outf1anked and thrown back with heavy casualties.
 Hard lighting still continues from the borders of Bukowina along north
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-04

ern Rumania. with both sides claim ing the advantage.
 On none of the other fronts has there been. any great infantry activ- ity, the big guns of all the belliger- ents still doing the greater portion of the work. An attack by the entente forces northwest of Monastir on Sat- urday was put down with sanguinary losses, according to Berlin. The Ital- ihans are claiming an advance of 300 FMetres over a front of tWo-thirds of mile on the Carso sector of the Aus tro- Italian front maneuver which strengthened out the Italian line.
 Official advices from Athens are to the effect that the fighting there be- tween Greeks and entente troops has ceased and that the entente troops have ceased and that the entente troops have been sent back to Piraeus.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-04
NO AMERICANS KiLLEp.pS3 sa
 IN CHIHUAH4bAaedT
The Only Foreigners to Suffer We
 the Chinese. aS4 ss

Juarez. Mexico, Dec. 3.-anb A4nef cans have been killed inE iAna message received here tdARh zE0 that city. The message safd tkae#H only foreigners to suffer were the Oh nese, for whom the bandits showed I mercy. Generals Murguia and IT., vino were both in Chihuahua City t, day, it was said
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-04
COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE
 THE HIGH COST OF LIVING Has Been Appointed by Governor
 Whitman of New York.

Albany, N. Y Dec. 3.-The appoint ment of a committee of five un,ier the chairmanship of George w. Perkins to investigate the causes of the high cost of living and to recommend such legislation as may result in lower prices of food through economical dis tributiOn, was announced by Governor Whitman today.
 The other members of the commit tee are State Senator Wicks, chair man of the executive committee in- vestigating the dairy industry; Judge George w. Ward. counsel of the Wicks committee; s. J. Lowell, master of the state grange. and Clifford s. Sims, vice president and general manage of the Delaware and Hudson railroad.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-04

Miss Anna Adams, of New York, was fined S1O0 following her convic- ton on a charge of carrying loaded revolver in hef handbag in the City Hall subway station on Sept. Is.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-04
FRENCH TRANSPORT SUNK;
 WAS FILLED WITH TROOP
Steamer karnak, 6soo Tdhs.=sspt
 the Bottom Near MalI

Berlin, Dec. 3 GBy wireIessafes sa, yille). The sinking by Gafu5hhs SUI marine of 6.800 ton FE8nchFfan port filled with troops was Han6dnC today by the admiraltK N nouncement fo1lows:s
 "A German subma rine orNovenb e7 near Malta sank the French tran port steamer Karnak, $500 tons. T karnalS was crowded with troops de tined for Saloniki'
 The karnak was 447 feet long, W built in 1899 and was owned in. Ma seilles- She was a pasSepgM lin and was last reported on neT arri1 at La Ciotat. on August 8, $ir& &elwhi time she apparently has been in t service of the French admiralty. Ls January she reported on her arTiI at Marseiiles with a large number passengers from Alexandria and Mt ta that she had been pursued for SC eral hours, by a submarine.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-04
MIR. AND MRS. RIcHARe\ Fl
 CROKER IN MEWIYOF
Former Tammany Leader is to~~F main in America For T~so>sof Tfl Years.

New York, Dec. 3.-Richard Crok former leader of TammaaFe .Hel1. kAs companied by Mrs. Croker, arfved h. today on board the American .EpeE, Louis from Liverpool MI. .SiCfoI said he probably would rareRain
 America two or three yek1rsJ He es spend a, week here and then will
 to Palm Beach, Fla. wfeps feIa Mrs. Croker plan to spend the wint spent much of his time .sfAsS fetff from politics, here, MT. Croker S were very bad at the presents tiIhaI-l cost of living has about doubled,
 added. ,r, -FG -.s
 "The Irish question is riott settle asserted MT. Croker. They sho have had home rule long ago. .ssE atli
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-04
READY TO BUILD FAST,
 LARGE PASSENGER SHIPS.
T,e international Mercantile Marine to Be Operated Under American Flag.

New York, Dec. B. The International Mercantile Marine is ready to build urge, fast passenger ships and oper- ate them under the American flag, &C., cording to P A. 5. Frarklin, presi- dent of the International Mercantile Marine, who arrived in New York on the steamer St. Louis. Vessels of 32,- 900 tons, with speed of B knots an hour, have been under consideration, he said, and will be>bui.t if satjsfac- tory arrangements can be made with the American government
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-04
Three Vesseis Sunk.

reports the sinking of the following vessels: British steamships Burcombe, 3,516 tons gross, and Istrar. 4,Hs2 tons gross; Norwegian steamship Skioldulf, 489 tons gross; French sailing vessels Briantais, 2h6 tons gross, and Caplihou, 252 tons gross.