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Connecticut western news., 1917-04-12
SALISBURY

Joseph Stamp of New York spent Easter at the Parsonage.
 Mrs. George Andrews and daughter Margaret of Millerton spent Easter with her mother, Mrs. l.. M. Eggleston
 Miss Mabel K. Selleck was home from Hartford over Sunday.
 Mrs George Rand of New York is in town.
 Percy Tanner and Paul Parsons were home from Hartford over Easter Stanley Sherwood. who has been in Hartford has joined the militia and is now in Willimantic.
 Philip Wells of New Milford spent Easter with his sister, Mrs. Donald T Warner.
 The collection taken at St. Johns Church Easter morning amounted to $575. At the children's festival service in the afternoon jar of pansies was given to every member of the Sunday School in memory of Mary Clark Conklin. The flowers were the gift of friend.
 Theodore Stafford of Yale has been visiting his mother here.
 Mrs. William Whitbeck and Samuel attended the funeral of her father in New Jersey last week.
 Miss Mary Fenn of Waterbury spent Easter in town.
 The Easter Services in both churches were we'll attended, indicated by the goodly collection taken in the Episcopal Church, amounting to more than five hundred and seventy five dollars in the morning collection.
 Mrs. Margaret Russell opens the White Hart Inn this week.
 The Misses Althea and Clara White spent Easter with friends in Winsted.
 Mrs. James R. Harrison and daugh. ter Harriette spent Monday and Tuss day in Hartford.
 Mrs. Joseph Sanford and sister spent Tuesday in Winsted.
 Mrs. W. P Bishop spent Tuesday in Hartford.
 The members of the Home Guard drilled at the Town Hall on Monday evening. A man from West Point was present and supervised the drilling.
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-12
EAST CANAAN

The Easter exercises passed off in fine shape. The flowers were lovely, quite an addition being hyacinths and a beautiful lily sent to MT. ami Mrs Fuller by the Misses Eldridge. The children's singing was nicely rendered. Miss Philinda Stevens having charge of them, also a solo ny Miss Marguerite Gaylord. The sick and shut ins were remembered with the potted plants.
 The Ladies' Aid Society meets on Thursday with Mrs. Gillette.
 Miss Clara Allyn has been i'll with german measles for a week. Mrs. Chas. Goodwin has also been ( Il the sick list, also Mrs. Frank Goodwin has had all attack of grippe.
 The Grange annual maple sugar party is Friday evening; come all, and have a good time. and good sugar.
 Miss Laura Webster of Waterbury is at her grandfather s, E. $. Roberts for week.
 Louis Gangell of Bridgeport spent Sunday at his home here.
 Mrs. James Tierney, pr. has been on the sick list the past week.
 Miss Helen Kane of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. spent Thursday at Martin Casey's.
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-12
125 KILLED IN
 TOMBSTONE BLAST
Corporation Head Denies Plot
 Wrecked Plant.

One hundred and twenty-five muni- tions workers, the majority women and girls, are known to have perished in mysterious explosion which wreck cd the shrapnel loading building of the Eddystone Ammunition company. own. ed by the Baldwin Locomotive works at Eddystone. Chester, Pa.
 Eleven Of the dead have been identi. fled. Scores of others are missing, and it is believed the final death toll will reach lJ0 or may go even higher. Six hundred and twenty-five persons were in the structure when the explosion DC. cured, and of this number more than 250 were injured. many of them fa tally.
 Alba B. Johnson, president of the Baldwin Locomotive works. denies all rumors of plot He insists it was due either to an accident or carelessness on the part of persons in the building. He said POO armed guards picket the plant day and night and that no alien or dis loyal plOtter could have had access to the building without the Knowledge of the guards.
 Shells for the Russian government are loaded at the plant.
 Ninety girls were at work at the loading room while about thirty-f five others were busy in an adjoining room to the north when there came n low rumble, the building shivered, and then came a gigantic blast.
 Instantly the structure was engulfed in flames, and hundreds of men and women were held helpless prisoners with escape shut off. They were car ried down in the ruins when the build ing collapsed under the force of -the three explosions that followed in rapid succession. Exploding shrapnel shells filled the air with a rain of bullets. and victims were slain by these as if they had fallen in battle. Many of the dead were blown to atoms, while others. stunned by the explosion, were burned to death in the flames that ate up the structure ill an incredibly short space of time.
 Women ablaZe from head to foot were hurled by the force of the explo- sion through the windows or tossed high in the air, only to fall lifeless. Dozens of others were rescued by workmen of the other plants in the stockades, who rolled them in the snow.
 State militia were hurried to the plant and relieved the armed guards of the plant. federal investigation was begun at once.
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-12
GOETHALS BARES PLOT.
Tells of Rolled German Attempt on
 Panama Canal.

A German plot to cripple the Panama canal by blowing up a vessel loaded with dynamite at the Gatun locks was disclosed by General George W. Goe- thals, builder of the waterway. He spoke before the American Geograph- ical society In New York.
 General Goethals told the members that shortly after the beginning of the European war he received from Wash ington a nasty dispatch asking him to look out for a German vessel loaded with high explosives. The plot was thought to be to blow up the Gatun locks, the vital feature of the canal.
 The vessel arrived at the Atlantic port of the canal, was thoroughly in- spected and allowed to pass with only an American pilot on board. Hardly had she left when a more urgent mes sage from Washington said the first report had been confirmed.
 The vessel was immediately halted by a wireless flash to the American pilot. A squad of marines was rushed on board replacing the crew, who were taken off. With an all American com plement the boat was guided through the original crew being permitted to board again only when it reached the Pacific.
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-12
HUNTSVILLE

MT. and Mrs Olin Pendleton and son of Hartford are visiting at MT. Pendle. tons home for a while. "-.' .
 MT. Hackie of Bridgeport is shipping hay from Harry Deans farm to Bridge. port in bales.
 Mabel Howe who has been caring for her mother, who has been on the sick list for some time, has returned to her work. Her sister Maud, is caring for her mother now.
 George aanchett, who has been visit ing at his home in this place, has re- turned to Bridgeport.
 There were quite number of people attended the Easter services at the church in South Canaan. MT. Haven being away for the conference.
 Mrs. Ganser who has been on the sick list is reported better.
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-12
CANAAN VALLEY

Walter LeVeen of Bridgeport was an over Easter guest at A. Anderson's and E. J. Donald's.
 Messrs. August Anderson and J. O. Stevens are drawn as jurymen to the New Milford court.
 Joseph Deloy and A. Anderson each purchased horse in Winsted last week
 Theo Silvernail has returned fcom a visit with relatives in Philmont and Hudson, N. Y.
 Miss Frida Anderson of Bridgeport spent Easter at her home here.
 MT. and Mrs. McLaufling and MT. and Mrs. Frank Deloy of Torrington visited at their home in this place over Easter.
 Walter Tupper of Bristol spent Easter with his family at Howard Rockwell's.
 Hiram Bartlett of Canaan called on friends here Easter.
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-12
U. S. SEIZES PASTOR.
German Minister at Hoboken Arrested
 by Federal Marshals.

The Rev. Hermann Bruckner, pastor of St. Matthew's German Lutheran church and head of the Seamen's home for German sailors in Hoboken, was arrested by deputy United States mar. shals. The arrest was made just prior to Good Friday services in the edifice.
 While a congregation of 800 waited for the pastor to appear at the services the marshals placed him under arrest They refused to state the charges.
 Since the beginning of the war Bruck. ner has been one of the leaders of the German movement in this country. He was one of the several Germans who made affidavits that the steamship Lusitania carried guns on the voyage that resulted in her sinking without warning by a German submarine or the Irish coast.
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-12

Wm. H. Snyder is building house for himself next to Miss Mary Whit ney's. He moved into MT. Whitcomb's house last week, to stay until his own is built.
 John McAuliffe has moved into the Halpine house and MT. Bailey into the Garner place which so became vacant. MT. and Mrs. George Corban have gone into Mrs. Charlotte Baldwin's place and it is reported that Miss Mary Brad ford has rented her home to another doctor from New York for the summer.
 Mrs. Fanny Baldwin had a shower of birthday cards on Monday.
 Monday evening the Mems Club which has forty members. had their Ladies' Night-the best ever. The three speakers were Rev. B. O. Mead, and Messrs. John l. Miner and w. J. Will. COX. There was considerable variety of music, vocal and instrumental solos and duets, the best of all being the Star Spangled Banner, sung by Mrs. l.. O. Hedden with the whole company in the refrain. The interest held until after midnight.
 The entertainment in the Club course, on Saturday night, is to be by the musical maideDs who have marked success this season under the name of "The Sunbeams"
 The Mems Club appointed a com mittee to find out who is the proper authority therefore, and to express the Clubs desire for new fence around the public school in this village.
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-12
RICHARD 0LNEY DEAD.
Statesman Who Forced England to
 Arbitrate With Venezuela.

Richard Olney. attorney general and secretary of state under President Gro yer Cleveland, is dead at his home in Boston.
 Mir Olney, who was eighty-two years old. had been i'll several weeks. It was not until Sunday that his condition be- came serious. In an announcement is sued by the family it was stated that he died suddenly.
 While unable to leave his bed, Mir. Olney had displayed deep interest in the international situation. It was he who as secretary of state during the Venezuelan dispute with Great Britain forced that nation to arbitrate the dis pute and vindicated the principle O the Monroe doctrine.
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-12
FIVE BILLION WAR ISSUE
 NEEDN'T SCARE U. S

The $5,OOo, 100000 bond issue pro- posed by the government would amount to not more than about one tenth of the estimated national in- come of the United States last year. Here are some figures which help to throw light on the ability of the United States to provide a vast sum for war. expenditures:
 Annual national income, $50, ,000. .000. 900 Total bank resources. ... 35, ,000, 900 900 Individual deposits. A,000, ,0O0. 900 Cash held by the banks. 2,500. .000,0 900 Total gold stock in the
 country ................. 5000 oO0,0OO Available a d i t i O nal
 commercial credits on
 basis of present cash
 holdings ................. 5000, ,0O0, 900
 If the proposed financing were done in installments of S1, ,000, ,000 900 each issue would be equal to only 2 per cent of the estimated annual income.
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-12

son that strenYous opposition existec ill his committee against the adminis- tration plan.
 Several members of the committee l.tll insist bo.h in committee and in the house that cOnScription should not ho rssorted to until voluntary enlist mentS fail to bring put the required number of recruits. The president was a'So informed that no matter what form the bill takes there is no poSsi bility of it's being reported for at least week and that undcr no circum- StanceS could it bc enacted as rprml. nent legislation, but as exclusively Fl war measure limited in it's life to the duration of the present war.
 T"faS was tho first State to pyhi'it reca.cttrancy over the couS"riut Bon N#w. Governor Ferguson tclpgr1nhel to i"n rcsentative Garner that TcXaS soldiers mn%t have officers from their state and Garner laid the dispatch before the military affairs committee then in eX ecutive session. The Ferguson dis patch said:
 "A call for volunteers tomorrow would bring 50O.00O to the national col. OTIS. provided it was issued under the national guard system. l doubt if any large amount of volunteers could br obtained if it were known our boys were to enlist under officers unknown to them. All our boys in Texas want to enlist under officers appointed in Texas"
 General Munitions Board.
 In the senate. where the military ap. propriation bill was being debated Senator Chamberlain, chairman of the military committed took occasion to warn the senate not to be misled into reposing trust in the volunteer system. Senators Wadsworth of New York and Weeks of Massachusetts complained that owing to delays and the inability to supply them with equipment recruits for the national guard were being re- jected ill both states. Senator Nelson of Minnesota predicted that if the pres ident would call for volunteers 5O0OO0 would respond in few days provided they thought they were going to see foreign service.
 The work of promptly equipping and arming the United States military and naval forces has been placed under tho control of a general munitions board created by the Council of National De fense.
 Immediate efforts of the board will be directed along lines calculated to coordinate the making of purchases by the army and navy. to assist i'll the ac. quirement of raw materials and of manufacturing facilities and to estab fish the precedence of orders between the war and navy departments and be- tween the military and industrial needs of the country.
 In an official announcement by the council it was stated that it is not in. tended that the newly created board shall have authority to issue purchase orders or to bind the government in contracts for purchases, as such mat ters will continue to be done by the respective federal departments. Nor is it intended to disturb the order of de. livery of military and naval material both domestic and foreign, under exist ing contracts.
 In obedience to the announced policy of the president and his advisers the board will take full cOgniZance of the importance of early and prompt deliv- cry of war materials now under con. tract or subsequently, to be ordered for shipment abroad to the allies.
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-12
GARD OF THANKS.

We are sincerely grateful to all those who were so generous with kind deeds and words of sympathy during the ill- ness and at the death of our mother.
 Lee Wickwire and family
 Fannie Wickwire Falls Village, Conn.
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-12
NAVY PATROL FLUNG OUT.
Department Officially Announces Gulf
 and Atlantic Line.

and NtIantIc Line.
 A patrol of warships has been estab- lished along the Atlantic and gulf coasts, the navy department has off cially announced.
 Throwing out of the marine septries is the first active step by the depart ment in its avowed policy of taking all steps necessary, in cooperation with the allies,' for the defeat of Germany" Assumption by the United. States of the Atlantic patrol duty will relieve the allied patrol fleet in American waters for more important duties on the other side.
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-12
Dakota conoressman Dead.

Representative Henry l. Helgesen of North Dakota, Republican member of congress since 1911, died in Washing ton after an operation for appendicitis
 He vas in his sixtieth year. In 1SS9 he became the first commissioner of agriculture and labor of North Dakota
Connecticut western news., 1917-04-12
The OriqinaI Part.

Clara-Maud, have you any original poetry in your album? Maud-No, but I have some original spelling.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-27
Cotton at 30 1-2Cents
Sets Record Price
Exchange Scene of Frantic
Bidding as High Mark
Is Established

Cotton for December delivery sold at
30ik cents a pound on the local ex-
change yesterday, this being the high
est price the staple ever attained here
in a market free from manipulation.
The closing quotation of 3O.2s cents
q pound represented gain for the day
of over SO bale.
The rise took place in lively mar
ket in which eager competition for the
notices OF Intention TO make deliveries
on next months contracts was the feat
ure. These notices, it was estimated,
covered prospective deliveries of only
about 500 bales. which apparently was
much less than local and Southern trade
interests were anxious TO obtain for
milling purposes.
Spectators caught on the short side
lent impetus to the upward rush of the
market by their frantic bidding to cover.
The more deferred deliveries, in
which there was also active buying by
trade interests, made substantial gains
in the wake of December, and the top
prices for the day, it was said, estab-
lished the highest range of values re-
corded in the New York cotton trade
since the autumn Of 1869.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-27
Townley Campaigns for
Farmers League Here

price of their products. They replied
in the negative.
The only other interruption of Town
lev's speech came when a man in the
audience rose to ask question. Inc
speaker signifed his Willingness to re-
pIv. but the man was ordered TO slt
down by Chairman Mitchell. when ne
persisted he was warned by the police
and left the hall.
In announcing that the conference,
which was held behind closed doors,
had arranged for the appointment OF
ioint committee of farmers and LABOR
representatives, Commissioner Dllion
said: ave have taken the suggestion
for the organization we hope TO FORM
from the Farmers NOn-Parusah
League. We plan to have the tempo,
rary committee, which will consist Oh
representatives of five grange and ilve
industrial labor organizations, call
state convention to establish "a perma-
nent organization and formulate the
principles on which the farmers ana
labor can make a joint fight. Al pres
ent the principal aim seems to De TO
lower the cost of distributing 1000
products. The temporary committee wiz
be asked TO send an address to the
farmers of the state:
Carl Beck. head of the Labor Forum
and leader Of the Labor Food CONFER
ence, said that the purpose OF the az
tempt TO bring the farmers ana WORK
ingmen of this state together was hrst'
10 further the mutual economic welfare
of both. and, secondly, to discuss
legislative plan" ~.
The conference voted TO as k the New
York Grange. the Dairymen's League,
the New York State Fruit Grow
ers' Association, the New York state
Vegetable Association, the State Ag-
ricultural Association and the State
Society each to elect one
delegate to represent the farmers on
the Joint committee. A resolution was
passed to have labor represented by one
delegate chosen by the New YORK ivy
district Office of the American feders-
tion of Labor, two delegates by, the
state branch of the American federa,
tion of Labor and two by the Labor FOOD
Conference. John J. Dill on to be the
eleventh man on the committee;
Among those present were AieXanuel
Law. of the Central Federated Ullon,
James BOYLE and j. Fitzgerald 0i the
American Federation OF Labor; marry
Bull. president of the Orange OVuhty
Dairvmen's League; Webster B. Bird
sail. member of the Otego Produce TX
change: s. j. WILDER. president OF the
Dairymen's League; Ely Greenb 'att,
president of the Federation of Jewisn
Farmers; L. G. Bradley, master OF In, the
Seneca County Grange; J. a: Hep-
worth. chairman of the Pomana Grange,
Morris Casar. Of the Cooperative
Credit Union, and J. Clark Nasbltt, who
hos been elected to the Assembly as
non-partisan candidate IN Delaware
CouOtv
New-York tribune., 1917-11-27
Dealers Official
Sits With Board
At Milk Inquiry
Not Authorized To Be
There, Declares Head of
Investigating Body

The Federal Milk Commission had its
dignity bit upset in the course of its
brief opening session at the City Hall
yesterday.
When the members of the commis-
sion had taken their seats, and X. d.
Cooper, president of the Dairymen's
League, the first witness, had been
called, it was noticed that there were
twelve instead of eleven men at the
commissioners table. The twelfth man
whom everybody present except some
members of the commission knew, was
the busiest man in the room.
He was |. Elkins Nathan. secretary
of the New York Milk Conference, the
organization of the milk dealers. Mr.,
Nathan at once began to write notes TO
the commissioners, the subject being
questions to be asked witnesses.
When the session adjourned, DR.. W.
II. Jordan, chairman of the commits
sion, was asked what Mr.. Nathan s
presence with the commission meant.
DR.. Jordan said ne had noticed Mr..
Nathan, but had not paid much atten-
tion to his actions. He displayed con-
siderable excitement when Mr. Nathan's
official position was explained to him.
81 want it distinctly understood" he
said, chat this man was at the COM
MISSIONS table without my permission
or the permission of the commission.
also want to assure the public that this
Is to be an impartial investigation, and
that the commission will conduct its
own investigation. Mr.. Nathan will not
be here when we meet again tomorrow
"The presence of Mr.. Nathan at the
table with the commission must not be
construed as meaning that he or any
other person representing any of the
interests involved will have any inhu.
ence in determining the commissions
decision in the matter of price fixing"
Mr.. Nathan, when asked why he sat
at the commissioners table, said he
wanted to be near c. S. Shedrick, men,
ber of the commission, who is president
of the Queen City Dairy Company. of
Buffalo, and president of the New York
Mi X Conference Board.
Mr.. Cooper testified that the cost of
New-York tribune., 1917-11-27
Rintelen Imprisoned
For Passport Fraud
Friend of Prince Henry Pleads
Guilty and Gets Twenty
Months

Franz Rintelen, friend of Prince
Henry, of Prussia, Berlin banker and
German naval reservist. who plotted
with David Lamar, the "Wolf of Wall
Street" and agent Of Labor's National
Peace Council. to foment strikes IN
this country, pleaded guilty in the
Federal Court yesterday to an indict-
ment charging conspiracy to defraud
the United States by the procuring OF
a fraudulent passport. He was sem
fenced by Judge Mayer to serve twenty
months in the Federal penitentiary IN
Atlanta.
Rintelen is now serving in the jail
at White Plains part Of sentence oil
one years Imprisonment for his par
ticipation in the conspiracy with
Lamar. He has been IN Jail in Eng
land and in this country for twenty
eight months. His health is said to
have become impaired, and because OF
this he was removed recently from the
Tombs to White Plains.