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The paper that boosts keo KUK ALL "HE TIME. Subscribers of the Dally Gate City are* served the,full Leased Wine Serv ice of the United Press Associations. VOL. 120. NO. 50., 'IkZ "J f. j?11 tnx-t'V 11 -hwytf fl0 Hostile Action to be Taken Because of the Blowing up of Two American Ships by /, Mines in European Waters. REBRETTABLEJ-BUT NOT HOSTILE ACTS ^1^®, Strict Neutrality of Presidsnt Wilson is Not to be Changed Because of the Loss of the }j Carib and Evelyn. a "5 5. 4W [United Press Leased Wire Serv ice.] PARIS, Feb.. .28. (Sunday)— A French prize court in all prob ability will decide -whether the American, steamer Dacia, bound for Bremen with a cargo of cot ton, was purchased in good faith by aij American citisfen or wheth er her sale was engineered by the Hamburg-American line to prevent capture. The minister of marine announced tonight that a French cruiser stopped the Dacia in the English chan nel and that she is beihg es corted to Brest. Attache* of the ministry of foreign affairs had retired f6r the night when #^6 report was receivedlieVe 'trat it -tfas assumed a speedy test base will be made ot the Dacia seizure. [By John Edwin Nevln, .United Press Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C-, Feb. 27.— ihere will be no hostile action by the United States because ot the loss or the steamers Carib and JBvelyn. High officials in close touch with Presi dent Wilson asserted thH tonight. There is not the slightest doubt that both vessels- were sunk "by mines. Whether the mines were German, British or French, cannot be ascer tained. Commander Gheradi,' United States naval attache at Berlin, re ported today that the. Evelyn was sunk in shoal water in latitude 53 degrees, 52 minutes north longitude 6 degrees, 7 minutes eaBt, or in the language of the layman,, some twen iy-flve miles off the Dutch coast. This is in the safety zofle indicated by the German admiralty, through which neutral shipping might pass and within those boundaries all ship ping Bhould be safe. But it was pointed out at both ths nav" and state departments that scores of mines have floated ashore along the Dutch and Scandinavian coasts and• that- ships of all nations fife Was Fierce and Threat ened to Spread to Heart of the ft*' lift' LOSS OF ABOUT $400,000 Wind Sent Sparks Two Blocks and Several Buildings Caught *V Fire. 3 Jf rUnited Press Leased Wire Servlce.1 PEORIA, ill., Feb. 27.—Entailing a joss estimated at $400,00., Are which began at five p. m., today, destroyed the German Fire Insurance building, on North Jefferson avenue, the Ham i'n building, adjoining it, ana threatened for a time to spread into be*" of tbe retail district. A are in the collection which Jiave Since, been destroyed and the officials frankly state that to hold any par ticular nation responsible for the mines that destroyed these American -vessels flying the stars and stripes, Us an utter Impossibility. As a matter of fact, officials re ported for the government's attitude toward the European belligerents very plainly declare that President Wilson has in no way changed his at titude of strictest neutrality be cause of the loss of two American merchantmen. These craft accepted the hazard of navigating waters contiguous to the scene of hostilities and the adminis tration takes the view that their loss was "regrettable, lut in no war. on account of hostility.'' NaturallyGermany wanted the ciw goes of the ships The secretary stated that he "ex pected- that some word would come from England ftext week. He made it very plain by his attitude, however, that the British government had ex plained becaiHe Germany's submarine blockade was directed equally against France and England, that England considered all matters in connection with it, must be considered by all of the British allies. Therefore there might be even more delay before a final decision can be reached. There was little doubt in the minds of re sponsible officials of the state de partment, however, that none, of the (Continued on page 2.) TOWN PEORIA III PANIC WHEN FIRE ROARED THROUGH BUSINESS DISTRICT LAST NIGHT Dofwn town Peoria was in a panic. A high wind was blowing and show ers of sparks were carried for a dis tance of more than two blocks. The Rouse building, a three story struc ture at Main and Jefferson streets, caught fire in a half dosen places, but was saved from destruction. A water tower on the top of the Orpheum theatre building blazed until the wa ter was released. Two-story build ings in the violnlty were damaged by fire and water. Tbe flames reached their height at six o'clock. Practically all cara. run ning into the residential districts were stalled. Bucket brigades extin guished hundreds of incipient. blazes that started on the roofs of buildings in the block south of Main street be tween Jefferson and Madison avenne. Sidewalks were piled with store stocks and merchants more than ri block away, started to move out their stocks before the fire was under con trol at six-thirty. Attorney E. J. Abersol escaped from the German Fire Insurance building by jumping from a second story window and Charles Cramer, secretary of the insurance ..company, and two young women, descended a Are escape. rfeRrAs' .7-. si'&i S 'J? jC'H Tt 4 3 [United Press Leased Wire Service.] BERLIN, (via Amsterdam), Feb. 27. —Von Hindenburg has again outwit ted the czar's advisers. Less than a week after hie great victories east of Von Hindenburg struck first along a line leading south from a point east of Augustof to the Ruesian fortress of Ossowetz. A German army that fought- peril. and would have saved theta if she could. And the al lies had no interest In their cargoes, which are absolutely guaranteed by "their own consular representative as non-contraband. Secretary Bryan in .explaining to night that it was impossible to maxe public any details of existing negotia tions .with any belligerent powers, took occasion to deny specifically that Ambassador Page at London had been told by the British foreign ofilce that England, after Consulting w.tb her allies, had decided that it m-ist push drastic reprisals against Germany, even to the extent of declaring all conditional contraband, actual con traband. onlv has the Russian threat againat east Prueeia disanneared RUSSIA [United Press Leased Wire Service.!/ PETROGRAD, Feb. 27.—Prza.nysz has been recaptured by the Russians. The czar's troope have taken 3,600 German prisoners.' The Germans are retreating .northward toward the Prus- slan border |n great disorder, hotly (N from The grand duke saw his great from the £Sn«r$uSS%1ME3M saw on the right bank of the Vistula KEOKUK, IOWA, SUNDAY, FEB. 28, 1915 RA river First from Grodno to the north North of Verdun, the sians to check the German advance, pagne, the main French attacka on for hoid all Poland but that Von Hindenburg will soon atroyed on Friday. The war department tonloht aaaln vainly at the German ntrenchmenU «P •i number of heavy guns In the El In the Champagne region all week, it Kantara region to the north accord waa declared, without making percept- "g to despatches from Italian sources Ible gains received here tonight. WAS AN ENGLISH MINE. BERLIN, Feb. 27. (Via wirelees to Sayvllle, L. I.)—The Norwegiap for eign office, according to advices re ceived here tonight, h*e been inform ed that the Norwegian steamer Regin sunk in the' English channel was de stroyed by a Britlah mine. German admiralty officials asserted that the British admiralty purposely gave out the report that the Regln had been torpedoed by a German aubmarine, to .. cause ill-feeljng to be directed against [By Henry Wood, United Prees Staff! [By Ed. L. Keen, United Preee Correspondent.] Correspondent.] PARIS, Feb. 27v—By a series of brll-- LONDON, Feb. 27.—Ten bl0 battle llant bayonet charges, th« Frenoh! ships Including the powerful dread gained new victories In the Cham-j naught Queen eilzabeth and at least the Maxurlan lakes, the German warjpagne region, It was announced in the] thirty smallsr warships formed the Idol has executed two sudden strokee! official communique from the war of-j Anglo-French fleet that reduced the that may sweep the Russiana out of jfice tonight. North of Mesnll-L-Hur- outer forte of the Dardanellee, the ad- Poland, I us, th« Germans were drj^en from ajmlralty announced tonight. Landing The new strategic moves of "the] series of trenches, the French ad- partie# of marines executed a success old man of the lakes" were revealed vancing nearly 600 yards. Two ma in dispatche* received here from east Prussia tonight. The grand duke's army protecting Warsaw from the north has been eplit in two. The Pol ish capital may be In the kaiser's hande before early spring. chine gune, a cannon and 100 prlaon era were taken by the French. Fighting has been resumed along the aand dunee near the Belgian sea coast. A French patrol captured a German trench neir Lombaertzyde, annihilating its occupants'. Vigorous French aesaults near St. Mihiel and to the north. In the region between! its way through Tyck under the eye in tonight's dispatches, presage^ al'orte Inside the entrance. The fort of the kaiser, moved in a southeast- concerted attempt to lift the pressure ress of Dsrdanos already haa auffered er|y direction until its left wing waa upon the fortrees of Verdun. eeverely from, the warships' shell fire, in contact with the right wing of thet For the first time in several weeks Mine sweepers today sweot the chan army that inflicted dlaastroua losses the French have renewed their then from the region north of War- prince's army ia strongly entrenched.1 ced, did particularly effective work on saw, he pushed large bodies of Rue- Excepting the fighting In the TURKEY ^el lumted Preps leased Wire Sendee Wi£ CONSTANT*NGPLE, /V* ?mb- dfiuw An ia hMviiv thst1j diy adifMtted that the outer forte of serioue resistance to the Oermans moving eastward through Plock and heavy bombardment by the^ allied. with the Argonne and the Meuee, reported a determined attack upon the Turkish efforts on the fleeing Russians In the swampaj to cut off the German force that o^i distance of four miles. east of Augustof. The two armies cuples the west bank of the Meuse at, The admiralty's official atatement pressed forward, threatening the Im-'st. Mihiel or force Ita retirement. Ae tonight gave the marlnee full credit portant railway lea'ding Warsaw'rapidly aa the Germans pontoon the the European side were put out of:f0r ATTACK characterized The fating France| BERLIN, (via wireleee to SayyJIIe.) in the past week aa of little Import-1 «.). Feb. 7. ur ance. The French have ano. .... imwi batte^d againet the Suez canal, have'brought I.), Feb. 27—Turks operating Charged With 8wlndle. [United Press T-eased Wire Service] PORTIjAND, Otb., Feb. 27.—On al legations that 4,000 persons, scatter ed all over the country had been swindled out of approximately fl.250, 000, a federal grand jury today in dicted nine former officers and sales men of the United States Cashier company, cn charges of conspiracy and misuse of United States mails. The officers indicted were Frank Menafee, president: Thomas Bilyen. dtrector Germany. 'changing and computing* machines, which the company was organized to MAKES JOFFRE MAD, {manufacturer, F. M. tiemon, sales BERLIN, (via Sayvllle) Feb. 27.—'manager and Oscar Campbell, direc General Joffre, French- commander, tor. The indictment also alleges that is becoming exasperated because ao the five so-called Inventions which many French machine guna are fall- were listed on the books of the com ing Into the ha-nda of the Germans, pany as assets valued at $500,000, according to a communication to the were not covered by patents as the war office today. 'officers and salesmen are saia "»jjqulry officers and salesmen are said to I have represented. The company was organized In Sep-, itember 1910. On January 31, 1914, /it sold out to a Terre Haute, Ind., firm. It was manufactured any- machines •commercial scale. THE WEATHER ca8 t: ra jn or an Monday. pursued by Ruesian cavalry, accord-j Missouri: Cloudy Sunday probably Ing to an official atatement 1 the war department today.- Coupled tions Monday cloudy. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Decisive with succea« of the Russians north of Iowa—Generally fair Sunday and action generally admitted to 1 Warsaw, came official reports tonight Monday. rural credits legislation by con of fresh victories along the Niemen. was taken up by the house late today, and Bobr rivers. Russian artillery! Local Observations. (Parliamentary moves forced a situa flre practically annihilated an entire Feb. 1 German battafian on the Bobr. 27 7 a. 30.3C" 27 NE Cl'd? vote Monday on tacking on some sort The AusArlans who were defeated 27 7 p. 30.33 34 WEPt Cl dj of a rural credit bill as. a ride to the south of Stanislau, have renewed their) River stage, 7 a. m. 12.8. annual agricultural appropriation attempt to take a new offensive to-i Change in past 24 hcurs. rise .4. bill. Friends of rural credits were ward Lemberg, through Rosei»atow. I Mean temperature. 31 highest, 36 Jubilant tonight. They predicted It They have been beaten off with ae-l vera losses, the Russians taking 1,261 prisoners and five cannon. bank. greater than waa unofficially reported, crown Cham- of, With the forces defending Warsaw the last four days have been directed j'from the rear, while the French war thus depleted. Von Hindenburg threw! against the German trenchee In this shlpe^vvere battering her front, forced the extreme right wing of his Mazur-1 locality. Ian lake conquerors against the Rue sian at Przasysz, sixty mllee north of Warsaw. These fortifications were stprmed and fighting of a violent na ture Is now In progress. It waa offi cially admitted today that heavy Rus sian reinforcements have temporarily halted the German advance south of* Psrsayaz. The war office pointed out, ^e-'forto *of Sir V*5 F:%f .• 8Ubmarlne all time, action Thursday afternoon and de-. vessel a. As a preliminary step, a-capital. no SUEZ CANAL. such a atep Notification came from hlflh aut Aa and inventor of five money ,0„in_ 3$, Staff ful rear attack on the fortresses. Ths Agememnon, ritiehB battleehlp, suffer ed the most severe damage. She waa engaged at close range with the forta of 8edd.EI-Bahr. A shell burst en her deck, killing three men and wounding five. The allied fleet, preceded by mine sweepere, haa entered the channel and the aid of the marlnee le making nel free of floating exploelvee for a 1 to Petrograd, over which the Russian river at this point, French artillery tlon of the forta and aupplierf Impop armies in Poland maintained their wrecke the temporary bridgee and tant details, Indicating that the communication with the czar's capl-| drives the German englneere back strength of the allied fleet le much tal. for their work In aiding In the reduo- The marines, ths admiralty announ- the Asiatld side of the Dardanelles en- trance. They attacked fort Kum-Kale the. Turkish garrison to flee and pur-( sued them across the Mendere bridge. The marines loet one man killed and three wounded In yeeterday's fighting, the Dardanellea *ere ^amafled fleoahlp, the Inflexible. Beeides these, PlonSkr cannot be maintained at this i"6* ®n Wednesday. The Tu^leh ,efnang# ,nd sutfren and a ^number of time. Already the Russian fortified casualtiee were •ma,,er vessels were In action The position at Vyeoflorod on the right teen wounded. The bombardment bank of the Vistula and less than reeumed on Thursday, the ®"®««yi day's bombardment. The marlnee forty hilles from Warsaw has been retiring out of range Thureday after- c)mpleted the work of destruction y?s .Felled by German lon« range artll-j noon, frm The battleehlp Triumph, which was engaged In the bombartment^of Ger-1^ man forts at Talng the Tap last October, has joined the allied fleet and partlcl-1 pated In the bombardment of the outer terior forte, Other British veffsis engaged on Thursday wore the dreadnaught -Bttaebettt, the pref'sdnautfH A^e^emnoif and the" battleehlps lrre» tlble, Vengeance, Albion ind Cornwai fIs, as well as vice Admiral Carden'e French warehlps Gaulois, Char- outer the Out-brained and outfought, the Rue- French admiralty thl. a«^®on eald WILL ORDER BLOCKADE. sians are now menaced by three eepa-! the outer fort, on the matic aide of LONDON, Feb. 27.—The alliee have rate drive, that threaten to force the the Dardanelles "me to a vlrt evacuation of Poland. Berlin papers! P- m- |terday. Thursday. The British admiralty blockade must attacks upon merchant created a near panic in te will be addressed to the neutrala| A detailed story of the early next week, notifying them oficeived at Athens, was relayed here hority tonight that Premier qulth will" make public atternoon thJa Monday announcement, [United Press Leased Wire Service.] VIENNA, (via Amsterdam), Feb. 27. —There Is bitter close fighting «outh of Tsucla and around the Wyezkow! paaa region in th^Carpathlana, it waa' announced In official statement at mid-1 night. The enemy ha. been heavily repulsed, the ninth Finish regiment kmed and 300 wound ed and 760 prisoners. In eastern Galicia, fighting around Stanielau continues with Rueaiana resisting the Austrian advance. In Railway Bualneee Now. [United Press I/eas^d Wire Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—The in- alleged the company never property ana«not on a'as the on'which pyramid gigan- tic financial schemes as earlier evi dence appeared to show was the case of the first financial control by the tin plate crowd, Lee, Leeds and the Moores. penry U. Mudge, present! [United Press I.eased Wire Service.l president, impressed persons at the Little Hungary Scoured WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Fort,-! hearing today with the fact that he is Search of Man With a real railway man and it appears Illinois—Cloudy in north probably' from bis statement that he had a right Only One snow in south portion Sunday to be. He began as a section hand. Mitten ued by! snow or rain south and central por- [United Press Leased Wire Service.l Rural Credits Legislation. Bar. Ther. Wind W'th'r tion where the house will definitely lowest, 27. Ixjwest. Friday night. 27. will be up to President Wilson to ac- FRED Z. GOSEIWISCH. Observer. icept or veto some kind. 0ne terstate commerce commission's in-' Who Murdered Emma Pet- lnto the Rock IaUnd rallway 8 1 affairs close,? today. Tha last hours erson mo were devoted largely to testimony cal- Street. culated to show that every effort is being made now to operate the Rock Insure ngress All Outer Turkish Forts Guarding the Strait, are Reported Silenced and Sultan's Capital is in Near Panic. ALLIED FLEET BATTERS DOWN OPPOSITION Trainloads of Wounded Have Been Taken Constantinople, While English and French Warships Cla'm no Damage Received* [United Press leased Wire Serv ice.] ATHENS. Keb. 28 (Sunday)— The Turkish cabinet Is in a panic because of the destruction of- the-outer forts of the Dar danelles, according to a dispatch from Constantinople early to day. It has been decided to •. transfer the capital to Brouasa, Asia minor. Reports are p^eva lent in the Ottoman capital that un8ucoe6aful atte mpts have been made to assassinate the grand yJ and the |njBter of the in- [djr ttd. I* Keen, United Press Start Correspondent! LONDON, Feb. 27.—Trainloads of wounded Turks are arriving in Con ,r OI forte were silenced In Thurs- stantinople ae the allied fleet con The' ttiiuea Its methodical battering of the Dardanelles flcrts. Sevew Anglo- French warships have penetrated the strait and are training 12-lnch guns upon Turkish land defenses. This was the information here to night from Sofia and Athens. Sofia advices asserted that COO wounded agreement that a Turks were carried into the Ottoman be decreed againat i'capital, following destruction of the their arrival the sultan's re" was tonight from Paris. It contradicted previous stories from Athens and de clared that none of the allied war ships had been damaged by the Turk ish gunners. Vice Admiral Carden's flag ship, the Inflexible,. led the assault that resulted In the final destruction of the outer Turkish forts guarding the strait. Steaming in cloae, the Inflex ible opened fire with her eight twelvo incb guns on Sedd-El-Bahr, the strong- to n_fl the Fiend DOPE FIENDS ARE HELD "4^¥T|. THK WEATHEK •'•.* Fair Sunday and Monday. Saturday's temp—7 a. m. 27 7 p. m. 34. TWELVE PAGES. At $ p. m. a French aviator brought the, information that the Gaylpls*. KbelTs had been aimed with such re markable precision that the fort *U partially wrecked. The French bat tleships Suffren and Charlemange then approached to within 2,000 yards of the fort. Steaming slowly by, they directed heavy gun fire upon Kum Kales'sl and at 5:15 aviators signalled that the Turkish gunners wenre fleeing and that the fortress had been leveled. The allied fleet then withdrew. At daybreak the following day, mine* sweepers were sent into the channel under the protection of a cruiser flo tilla. They did their work so sue cessfully that the Gaulois made her way without danger past the entranco and into the strait early yesterday. directing her fire at the fortress Dardanos, Just outside the strait. Sho was Joined by the other French unit-*, which had engaged another Turkish land defense when the last reports were received at Athens. The Inflexible, after reducing Sedd iCI-Bahr, took up a position just Inside the entrance and continued shelling $ the land fortifications lnsi.le the strait. An Athens dispatch reported the lights house northeast of Sedd-El-Bahr be in flames. The admiralty tonight officially designated the forts reduce! (Continued on page 2.) WHEN NIGHT FALLS IN AURORA, WOMEN AND GIRLS ARE FEARFUL TO GO OUTSIDE OF HOMES (were held, but the authorities admit ted tonight they have nothing tang ible which would point directly to any one of them as the slayer who has I terrorized this little "city of lights' and made women and girls fearful to go abrcad from their- homes after nightfall. One faint, very slender thread, on which all efforts centered tonight in the man hunt, was the rough woolen mitten found near the scene of the crime. The police today learned' where the mitten was purchased. A clerk in Podolsky and Cohen's North Broadway store, sold it. But he has scores like it. Notwithstanding this fact, detectives tonight scoured Little Hungary on the banks of the Fbx river in an effort to match the glove. They found innumerable pairs like it. but none of the hardy work ers in that neighborhood had only one mitten. in1sold I [United Press Leased Wire Service.] AURORA. III., Feb. 27.—^The man who crushed in the skull of Emma Peterson Thursday night, was tonight as far from the clutches 6f the law, as the murderer of Theresa Holland er, slain here in February] 1914, and Jennie Miller, who was 'clubbed to [death here last fall. A dozen clues 'that held promise today, tonight had credit plan of ^en run to earth without! avail. Ten suspects, all dope fiends, still $ to J'1A Jtfrfs/ E a 3 entrance. Trailing her, came two other British battleships, shelling Okhanieh and Cape Helles on the European side. The British gunners hurled projectiles with deadly accuracy, while the Turkish reply Was described as feeble and ineffective. The French, working In perfect harmony with the British warships, opened fire on the forts oa the Asiatic side. The Gaulois began battering Kum Kalesai at long range. Two hundred heavy guns from the Turkish forta roared a reply but thuir shells fell harmlessly about the French battleship. A coroner's Jury today held the usual inquest over the girl's body. After hearing witnesses tell of the discovery of th^ crime and how it was committed. Mre. Sophia Anderson. Km ma's mother, was called. She could furnish no Information that would throw light on the mystery. She collapsed as she left the stand. The Inquest was concluded without find-,' ". ings, it was announced. The body will be taken to Chicago for lntar^ ment, probably Monday. Ml "Vi.- *. I i, I* v* 1 :V^ ,• i: i'Al 1 IJ :p