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Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09
Change in British Diplomats.

London, Jan. s. 5.57 D. m.-A Reuter- despatch from The Hague says Sir Walter Townley, British minister to Persia and former counsellor of the British embassy at Washington, will succeel Sir Alan Johnstone as British minister to The Netherlands.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09
GAR FERRY BECAME
 WEDGED IN ICE FLOES
In the Straits of Mackinac-Dynamite
 Was Used to Release Her.

AIackinac City, Mich. Jan. S.-The car ferry Chief Wawatam, which early today was caught in the ice foes in the Straits of Mackinac, was released late this afternoon. The ferry car ried 300 persons and became wedged in the ice one mile out from this place. Dynamite was used to open a way for the vessel. The ice formation in the straits is unusually heavy.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09
TO STOP PRACTICE OF
 TREATING BY BARTENDERS
Object of Recommendation of Boston
 Licensing Board.

Boston, Jan. S.-A recommendation tbat all bartenders should be licensed by the state was made in the annual report of the annual report of the Boston Licensing board to the Ieg:sla- lure tCsIay. It was stated that the proposal was aimed at the practise of treating" by bartenders, now for bidden in this city. bartender's Ii- eense would be revoked if it were kound that he had given away drinks
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09
s3 CASES OF PNEUMONIA
 AMONG BORDER TROOPS
There Have Been 24 Deaths Since the
 Coming of Cold Weather.

Fl Paso. Texas. Jan. S.-Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Stark of the United States Medical Corps in charge of this military district, stated today that re- ports from the various regular and Euard camps showed there were only B cases of pneumonia in the hospi- als which indicates that the epidemic s well under control. There have been 24 deaths in this district from pneumonia since the coming of cold EeatFer.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09
HOSPITAL SERVICE TRAIN
 ON WAY TO FORT BLISS
To Pick Up Sick Men and Take Them
 to Hot Springs, Ark.

Tucson, Ariz., Jan. S.-With one hundred soldiers aboard, the United States army hospital service train is on the way today from Nogales to Fort Bliss. where it will pick up more sick men and depart for Hot Springs, Ark. The train consists of ten cars and carries corps of nurses.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09
The Bulletins Circulation in Norwich is Do' That of Ar,
Cabled Paragraphs
King constanti

King Constantine Gets Bread Card.
 Athens, Jan. ', 9.30 a. m., via I on- don, Jan. 8. 11.30 a. m.-King Con- stantine has applied for and receiv- ed the regular bread card which is issued to all heads of families
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09
Movements of steamships.

New York, Jan. S.-Sailed: Steamer Espagne, Bordeaux.
 New York, Jan. S.-Arrived: steam CT St. Pa1l. Liverpool. Sailed: steamer Patria, Naples.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09
All But Two Rescued.

Thirteen men and one woman are candidates to succeed the late Dr. Walter B. Gunnison as principal of the Erasmus Hall High School in Brook lyn.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09
INVADERS PURSUING
 DEFEATED RUSSIANS
Field Marshal Won Mackensen's Troops Have Taken
 Another of Rumania's Fortresses
NEARLY 4,ooo PRISONERS AND SOME CANNON

Capture of Fokshanty Fortress 45 Miles Northwest of Ga latz Jeopardzes That Important Danube Town-In the Region Riga the Russians Have Taken Trenches From the Germans Near the Village of Kalzemln Vohynia and in GaIicia Attempts of Germans Against Russians Have Been Repulsed.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

According to the latest available British naval list Sir George was commander in chief of the Plymouth naval station. Earlier in the present war he was commander of the second Old
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

The exports of specie from the district of New York from Jan. to Jan. 6 were $4,59O,4s5.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

During 1916, private American ship yards built for American owners l ,16: merchant vessels.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

A charter was granted to the Wire Wheel Corporation of New York, with capital of $3,00O,OO0.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

Two hundred marines left the Phil adelphia Navy yard yesterday or tn transport Hancock for Haiti wher they will relieve men on duty there
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

Two members of posse were killed and one probably fatally wounded in fight with a band of robbers, eigh- teen miles northeast of Nowata, okla.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

The Commercial Gable Go. announc ed that communication with NortI China beyond Chefoo is restored.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

LIoyds shipping agency announce, that the Norwegian steamer Mans had probably been sunk
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

pr. Friedrich Adler, who assasinat- ed Premier Stuergkh of Austria at tempted to hang himself in his cell
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09
EIGHTY NEGRO PRISONERS
 HEMMED IN BY FIRE
At Frankfort, ky.-Dynamite is to be Used in Efforts to Release Them.

Frankfort, Ky. Jan. s.-An un- known number of negro prisoners, es- timated by prison authorities to be as many as eighty, were cut off from escape tonight by fire which started in Cell House A." the oldest build ing in use at the state feformatory at Frankfort.
 Dynamite has been ordered from the city workhouse to blow a hole in the walls in an effort to release men held in cells which must each be unlocked individually before it's occu- pant can escape The blaze was dis covered shortly before II o'clock and Is still burning. Several men were rescued before the blaze cut off in gress to the building.
 All But Two Rescued.
 Later.-Dynamite brought from the city workhOuSe was used to blow a hole through the walls of the build ing at one end where the blaze was least fierce. Prison officials said at 1915 o'clock that all but two prison CTS had been rescued safely Many were unconscious from the effects of smoke.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09
OBITUARY
Fritz Von Erantzius.

Chicago, Jan. S.-Fritz Won Frant- zius, banker, broker and art critic is dead here at his home here of he~ disease. He left an estate valued at s11,250, 900.
 Won Frantzius was born in West Prussia in 1864 and came to America in 1888. His Chicago business career began in 1892 with a minor clerical position in a real estate office.
 A divorce separated from his first wife in 1912 and the next year he married Miss Clarissa Rose, an Aus tralian dancer known as "Saharet' 9 Six months later he obtained a di- vorce from the dancer.
 Richard Pearson.
 Seymour, Jan. S.-Richard Pearson, 75, a member of the last general as- sembly was found dead in the yard of his home today. Death was due to natural causes, it was stated. He served in the army and navy during the Civil war.
 Charles E: Perkins.
 Hartford, Conn.,, Jan. S-Charles E. Perkins, former president of the Con- necticut Bar Association and for the past 25 years president of the Hart ford County bar, died tonight after short illness, aged 80. He was one of the oldest producing lawyers in the state, having been admitted to the bar in 1855. He was a graduate of Williams College. Five children sur ViUp
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

General MaxiniIian WieIemana, chief of the Belgian general staff, is dead.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

Frank O. Lowden, Governor elect of Illinois, resigned as a member of the board of directors of the Pullman Co.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

Two men were killed and four in jured in an explosion of gas in the Maxwell colliery of the Lehigh & re, Pa.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09
Any Paper, Largest in in
Condensed TeIegrams

C. w. kraushaa, we'll known New York art dealer, is dead
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

The gross receipts of the Toronto Street Railway for 1916 amounted to $5,S22,907, an increase of $212, 2,6OS.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

Six 14-inch guns arrived at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. They are to pe placed on the new dreadnaught New Mexico.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, was taken to the Emergency Hospital, in Washington suffering from inf1am- nation of the gall bladder.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

Michael GiIroy, captain of a coal barge owned by M. & T. Tracey, of Now York, was burned to death in his cabin, at the foot of Myrtle Avenue, Flushing.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

The House Committee on interstate and foreign commerce gave a hearing on the Stephens price fixing bill.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09
Richard Pearson.
Charles E. Perkins.
Vice Admrrar warrender Dead.

London, Jan. 8. 4.30 p. m.-Vice Ad- miraI Sir George Warrender died in London today.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

Scientists at the University of Cal ifornia have discovered the Substance that produces growth in the human body.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

representatives of most of the 95 medical schools of the United States, in session at Washington, adopted resolutions advocating universal mil tary training.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

Departure of Pennsylvania Division Headquarters and the Fourth Penn. sylvania Infantry from Fl Paso was postponed until January 8.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

Commissioner John E. Dillon of the New York State Department of Foods and Markets and George w. Perkins held a conference to draw up a new bill to regulate food costs.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

Prof. Frank w. Taussig, of liar yard, accepted a place on the tariff commission and probably will be made chairman.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

Plans for $12,ooo,oo movie" film corporation are under way at ChicaEo
 The new concern will be known as the
 Universal.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

Mime EImira Broadway, of Chicago who was arrested in London last month charged with fortune telling, was found guilty.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

Captain Frederick Courteney SeIous hunter, explorer and pioneer during the growth of the British empire in Africa, was AiIled in action against the Kaiser's troops in German East Africa.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

Two men were killed and four badly injured by an explosion in the smok- ing compartment of the Southern Pail ways Birmingham Special just as the train was entering Birmingham from New York.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

One members of the Eighth Ohio Infantry at Fl Paso, Texas, has died and one other soldiers of the same command is sick with spinal meningit- is, according to Col. Edward Volrath of this regiment.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

The National Woman Suffrage Asso- citation announced that within the next few weeks bills permitting women to vote in municipal as well as presi- dentiaI elections will be introduced in the legislatures of every suffrage state.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

The sentence of Dr.. HaIdane Glenn inson of Chicago, condemned to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife in Nov. 1909 was commuted by Governor Dunne, to twenty-five years Imprisonment.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-09

has cabled to MT. Vopicka, American Minister at Bucharest, asking for a statement on Germany's charge that he had been guilty of unneutral con- duct by favoring Rumania.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-17
Entered Politics in 1914.
TWO GLOOMY NIGHTS
White Way Lights To Be Turned Off
Sundays and Thursdays.

Under an order issued by the fuel
administration at Washington. affect
ing all cities, white way lights and
electric signs in Topeka will be turned
off every Sunday and Thursday night,
it has been announced by Frank New
land, commissioner of water and
lights.
The policy in Topeka became eff
fective sunday night when only street
lights and the top lights of the white
ways were burning
Newland says the saving in fuel will
be about S15 a night He has sup
ply of coal good for about five days
on hand for the light plant. as five
car en- route to the plant were con-
ffscated, he says. The railroads re-
fuse to tell who got the coal
The order from the fuel department
was issued despite the fact that
French and English war notables has
advised against gloom in allied cities,
as it would, they say, dampeu the ardor
and affect the morale of the public.
NorthcIiffe in addresses in this coun-
try advised that things be kept bright
and cheerful above all City officials
today were quick to pass the buck to
the fuel administration, saying the
turning out of the lights is in accord
ance with national orders
In the meantime production of coal
is being tied up and curtaiIed by pri-
vate controversies between miners and
operators and the inability, it is
charged. of railroads to furnish cars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-17
REID EXPLAINS ALL
Artist Tells of Cartooning and Illus
trating Before Saturday Night Club.

Producing original drawings and
paintings of Christy. WenZeu and
many other famous artists, as well as
an original cartoon by MeManus. the
man who draws Bringing Up Father
for the State Journal. Albert T. Reid
well known Topeka artist and cartoon
ist. gave a most interesting and in
structive address before the Satur day
Night club Saturday evening.
He had original sketches from art
lists and also the books in which ap-
Feared the printed illustration Mr..
Reid not only gave many fascinating
inside facts on the magazine and novel
Illustrating practices but he carried
the original paintings from the time
they were sketched to the time they
appeared in the printed form, ex-
planning in detail the process of en-
craving. plate making, color printing
etc.
In explaining the reproduction of
cartoons he used mats. plates and
proofs from the McManus comic strips
in the State Journal and ''scoopedf
the newspaper by showing the guests
the Monday Bringing Up Father"
Following the talk Tom McNeaI
gave a series of witty "reminiscences
of the days that he and Mr.. Reid went
on a combination political chaIk-taIk
campaign together in 1900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-17

dents in general treat as negligible
the undertaking of Germany and her
allies not to withdraw troops from
the eastern front A Petrograd dis
Of Germans already have been re-
moved and that probably the German
command transferred all il purposes
to employ elsewhere. so that its plans
are not likely 60 be deranged ser
iousIy.
The reported suicide during the
armistice negotiations a Brest-Litovsk
of the Russian general. Slzatons, ap-
parently has made a considera bic i'm
preston at Petrograd- a1tho the Rus
sian national commissaries are silent
in regard to it A Petrograd dispatch
to the post says General Skatons was
responsible for armistice conditions
including the evacuation of Noon
sound, which so offended the Germans
at the nrst meeting of the negouators
and rendered nugatory the efforts of
the first mission General Skatons re-
turned most unwillingly for the sec
end meeting under imperative orders
of his superiors. The correspondent
prove that he committed suicide,
which is most improbable and insin-
yates that he was murdered
There is no confirmation of last
weeks official Bolshevik announce
ment regarding the arrest of General
kalendines.
South Russia an Enigma
The situation in southern Russia
continues to be obscure, and news is
fragmentary and contradictory Com
munIcatIon by rail and wire with Ros-
TOW, in the Don Cossack territory.
ported to have been stopped Fighting
in the neighborhood of Kharrov Is re-
ported in a dispatch to the Daily Mail
Med at Petrograd on Friday, altho
kharkov itself is said to be calm
The latest returns from the cleo
tons to the constituent assembly as
supplied by the Bolsheviki show that
OF 237 delegates, So are BoIsheviki,
rs Social RevoIutionists, 10 Consti-
tutional Democrats and the others
scattering. About eighty delegates are
now in Petrograd, but no further at
tempt has been made to hold d meet
ing The Ukrainan delegates are ex-
pected to arrive in Petrograd today.
Referring to the numerical prepon-
derance of Social RevoIutionists
among the delegates, the Petrogad
correspondent Of the Daily News says
the whole crux of the matter is what
proportion of the delegates belong to
the right and what to the left, the
latter being mere tools in the hands
of the Bolsheviki. The real meaning
of the figures cannot be ascertained
at present, because the names of those
elected are not available.
Big Strike in Moscow.
The official denial of the story that
former Emperor Nicholas had escaped
and the telegram froIa ToboIsk re-
ceived by the railway mems union.
saying the report was false. hold the
field for the present against various
rumors regarding the Romanoffs who
are becoming objects of increasing in
terest to a section of the population
Of Petrograd.
A strike at Moscow began yesterday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-17
XMAS FOR BELGIANS
Many Thousand Destitute Children
Looking to America.

New York, Dec 17.-Many thou
sands of destitute children in Belgium
are again looking to the Dollar Christ
mas fund to shed a ray of sunshine
upon their lives this year. They were
not disappointed last year nor the
year before. The plan is to cable the
entire proceeds to Brussels on Christ
mas eve and arrangements are already
in hand whereby approved charities
and agencies, acting under the
auspices and control of the commits
sion for relief in Belgium, will under
take the purchase of extra food in
Belgium for distribution on Christmas
day.
The response to date has not been
quite SO gratifying as in previous years
and at the time of writing there is a
prospect that the British contribution
VIII beat the American contribution
for the first time since the war started
Any donation sent to Henry C1ews.
care of Henry CleWs & Co. bankers.
Broad street, New York, will be CRATE
fully acknowledged The same repre-
sentatives and responsible committee
which backed the first annual appeal
of the Dollar funF four years ago is
working again this year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-17

Kansas whose place can't be filled by
appointment
In other states where provision is
made for appointment of certain
officers, those officers are exempt, .
said John J. Schenck, a member of the
board But in Kansas holding a
county office does not exempt a man -
Many Seek Legal Aid
Probably a dozen young men called
at the court house this morning to
obtain legal advice in filling out their
missionaries As yet, no puzzIing
questions have arisen Four or five
young wives sat near their husbands
while the latter busted themselves
filling out the questionnaires- IN an
ordinary case It takes a man about
forty-five minutes to fill out his ques-
tiOnnaire.
Judge Dana's division of the district
court looks like a business college.
Large Wricing desks have been placed
in the court room and ink bottles
blotters and pens cover the desks.
At first, attorneys had time to
spare. E5G a. dsE by day the number
OF men with missionaries to prepare
increases there will be less time To
spend with each individual For that
reason. it is urged on every man re-
ceiViug a questionable to call at the
court house as soon after the receipt
of the document as possible
AT 10 o'clock this morning another
school of instruction was held by the
attorneys
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-17
RICH MAN POISONED
Doctor Thinks There's Foul Play in
MiIlionaire's Death

Chicago, Dec 1.-THE death Of
Lucius B. Berdan. millionaire of To-
Iedo, Ohio, in a hospital here last
Wednesday was due to poison. in the
opinion of DR.. F. J. Port, who attended
him during an attack of commissions
hospital
Investigation into the death of Ber-
dan has already been started by
Coroner Peter NJ Hoffman, and today
he expects to receive the report of Dr.
W. D. McNaIIy. coroner's chemist. who
IS perfectng an analysis of the stom-
ach contents Four other physicians
who attended the postmortem exami-
nation expressed the opinion that Ber-
dams death was caused by interstitial
nephritis. but admit the possibility
of poisoning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-17
BUSINESS SHOWS DEFICIT
Big Express Companies Report Loss
of $3,496 in Month.

Washington, Dec. 17.-Leading ex-
press companies whose application for
a 10 per cent rate increase will be
heard further by the interstate COM
meree commission tomorrow, report
ed to the commissino today an ag-
gregate deficit of s3,496 in operating
income during August as compared
with earnings of S931,000 operating
income in the same month of last
year. During the eight months end
ing with August, the companies
earned s1,18S,0 200 operating income,
as compared with s6,092, 600 in the
same period of 1916.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-17
SNUFF BOXES COME BACK
USE EN- FOR SUGAR NOW

London, Dec 17.-Snuff boxes
are said to be coming back into
fashion. but with the difference
that they now contain sugar in
stead Of snuff
The sugar rationing is expected
to make II necessary for visitors to
carry around their own sugar and
the old tightly fitting snuff boxes.
of silver. enamel. and iulaid wood
are being brought to light for this
purpose There Is said to be also
a demand for fUturist boxes with
weird effects painted on them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-17
TURKS SEIZE ISLANDS
Occupy Position Off the Coast of
Asa Minor.

London, Dec IL British Admir-
atty per Wireless Press. 1.-The occu-
patton by the Turks of two islands off
the coast of Asia Minor is announced
in an official statement issued yester-
day at Constantinople- The text reads:
I'VE occupied the islands of Mes
sonfssi and PIaka, on the coast of Asia
Minor"
+.On the coast in Palestine, an at
tempt Of a strong enemy patrol to adj
vince was repuIsed- East of Jeru-
salem there have been artillery duels
at several points
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-17
HELP The BLIND
That Is Way KanSan VIII Do
His Bit in War.
Leroy Highlands Offers Serv-
ices to Government.
WRITES SKETCH OF LIFE
This viii Be Given Soldiers
Who Lose Sight.
Encourage Them To Try To
Bteter Conditions.
WRITES SKETCH OF LIFE

Leroy Highlands. the blind man
from Harper county, who represented
the Seventy-fiFst district in the kan
sas house of representatives. IN the
last two sessions of the legislature,
has written a short sketch of his life
at the request of the surgeon general
of the United States This sketch IS
to be published in book form by the
national government for use as
stimulus and encouragement TO SOL
diers who become hopeIessly blind
thru service in the war
Some weeks ago Highlands wrote
to the surgeon generals department
offering to 'tdo his Bit as teacher
of blind soldiers, and stating as a
qualification his decided success in
overcoming the handicap of blindness
in his own life. He received a reply
that the government was not as yet
employing any teachers of blind SOL
diers, but also making the above men
toned request
Sketch of Life.
Vernon w Wilson, of Topeka, who
was Hughbanks's private secretary
during the last term of the legislature,
has prepared a short sketch OF the
Iatterts life, which will be forwarded
to Washington for official approval
LeRoy Highlands was born June
-, 1924, near CrisfieId. Harper
county, Kansas In 1905 he entered
at Kansas City, Kan, where hard
work, combined with a brilliant intel
1ect won him many honors- III health
brought on by overWork compelled
him to leave school in 1910. but he
later resumed the study under private
tutors of theology, philosophy and
the natural sciences, and in Septem-
Der, 1911, entered the ministerial field
in Harper county.
Entered Politics in 1914.
He was elected to the state Iegis-
lature in 1914, winning the race
against powerful opposition. and is also
a member of the present house His
legislative work has been marked by
much ability, and he was member
of several important committees.
| Highlands is an able orator and
| lecturer, and has done considerable
work on the Iyceum circuit He is
now taking a course in law at the
| Washburn law school in Topeka.