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KAISER NEARLY CAPTURED BY RUSSIAN TROOPS, IS PETROGRADfiSTMBHi^m THE WEATHER. PATt RDAY MIGHT, PARTLY CLOVDY AMU rOQI.KBi PRO ST PRORARLY HKAVVI SI AD VI, PAIR. C’OOLKM. FIFTEENTH YEAR. NO. 21. BATTLE ON SEACOAST RAGES ALL NIGH INJURED SOLDIERS LIE FOR DAYS WITHOUT WATER AS POISONED WOUNDS FESTER Physicians and Ambulances Un able To Reach Men Lying In Fire Zone—Small Hurts Become Fatal HEAVY RAINS ADD TO HARDSHIPS OF TROOPS Cannot Make Fires For Fear Os Attracting Attention of Enemy BY WILLIAM O. SHEPHERD. {Staff Correspondent United Press.) BKNLIS, France. Oct. mall to New York.) —One horror of war is the life that la wasted for lack of medical attention. There are plenty of ambulances and doctors, but they cannot reach wounded men who are lying In the tiring zone, and so suf lerlng men must wait as best they can without water or attention until the battle has passed on. In the meantime, blood poison sets In and the slightest wounds become fatal. One young English lieutenant who had lain on the battlefield for two days with a slight wpund In his leg was found with the limb distended with gas. He was taken to a hos pital and the leg was cut off, but he died within two days, from the poison which had entered his blood. An other young English officer had the Joint of his right middle finger shot away. Two days later he reached Paris and went into a hospital where he died within a few days, of tetanus. The French army officials try to force soldiers to carry small vials of antiseptic with which they might wash a small wound, but the men throw them away as soon as they get tired and want to lessen the weight of tuanr pack*. ? ■ ' ■» A tired, superlatively dirty soldier staggered into the little case in the town of Vlllers Cotterest. His senses seemed stunned. He asked for a drink of hot coffee listlessly. Thou, in excellent English, he asked me for a cigarette. “It’s a wonder Tm alive,** he said. W I never thought l would get back to the world again. For seven days and six nights 1 have been with my «company in the ditches or in the woods. It was terribly cold. When it rained we could not make fires be cause of the enemy. We could only lay down on the bare ground In our wet clothes and try to sleep. The food autos couldn’t find us for two days because we were stationed in a forest. When we did get food we were so hungry that we all ate too much, and everybody became ill. even our captain. I was too sick and weak to be happy when they came out to the firing line two hours ago, and brought us back here to the vil lage. We used to wish that we could get Into a fight so that we eith er be killed or wounded and have it over with.” , The little French soldier had been an Interpreter In a business house for 12 years and hadn't slept out pf a decent bed or missed a regular meal in all that time. "I’m not used to such a life," he concluded, still talking in a dazed and unnatural way, ‘but I suppose 111 have to go out there again with my company as soon as we get a little rest. If I could only keep warm and dry I could stand all the rest.” WAR TAX ON WINES ALSO ID EFFECT Collector Brady Ordered To Get Buoy With Collections Right Away * ' 4 +* 'l « ( • Right oo the heel* of the an nouiuement that the war tax on beer, rasing the rate from 91 to sl.- 50 a barrel, became effective, Fri day, internal Revenue Collector Brady received a telegram from Washington, Saturday morning, or dering him to collect the war tax on wines and other liquor*, the tax be ing effective Immediately. All still wines sold are' taxed two cents a /usrt. Champagne and other spark ling wines and artificially carbonated beverages are taxed 20 cants a quart. * All other liquors, cordials and similar compounds are taxed elx cents n qusrt. Collector Brady was ordered to nerve immediate notice on all liquor dealers that they muat keep ac count of the revenue on their goods, until such times ns stamps can be affixed to their et©< ka. The sff» nnnunl tnx on dealers was the government's mothod of raising Its revenue from that source, prlos to the slapping on of the emergency war tax. on the quart basis. -i -e- /' ■oalarr- OrttHaa Jfe fuse and M fMth.r. TM ,1«t» n»«t Wn« <l>»t 152; £& nSnuStta (it he Detroit mes ARGUMENTS IN GLINNAN CASE STARTMONDAY Taking of Testimony Ends Sud denly, Prosecutor Offering No Rebuttal Witnesses JUDGE CONNOLLY LAST TO TAKE THE STAND Declares That No Promise of v Immunity For Schreiter Was Made Arguments in the OUnnan bribery case will begin before the Jury, Mon day. Court will convene at the übuml hour, 9 o'clock. Prosecutor Frazer's addresses —he will open and close — will likely be brief, as his work in the case from the start has been char acterized by brevity of speech. On the contrary, a long address is ex pected from Attorney James Mc- Namara, chief counsel for the de fense. Mr. McNampra's opening state ment to the jury waß a classic, and the fact (hat the defense begged for a recess Saturday, go it might work Saturday and Sunday on the prepar ation of arguments, indicates that Mc- Namara will wind up his strenuous fight on behalf of Ollnnan with a su preme oratorical effort. Judge Phe lan’s charge to the Jury will be lengthy. The case will likely go to u» w/dZ£r ,aj ' but '“ ot The Ollnnan trial came to an ab rupt ending. Friday afternoon, when Prosecutor Fraser, echoing the words of the counsel for the defense, said: “And we rest our case, your honor/* It had been expected that the prose cutor would use some rebuttal wit nesses, but before the afternoon ses sion, the prosecutor explained that no attempt would be made to again place “Eddie” Schreiter on the st&hd, as the court would likely rule out his testimony because Gllnnan, ou the stand, was not allowed to testify to conversations he had with Schreiter prior to July 11. Miss Grace Ollnnan, daughter of the defendant, collapsed as the jury was fHihg out, of the court room, hav ing been temporarily excused at the end of the testimony. Mrs. Gllnnan, who with her daughter and Aid. Qlln nan's sister, has been In constant at tendance in the court room since the day she and her daughter testified in Gllnnan'* behalf, was also prostrated. Aid. Ollnnan sobbed <1 he assisted his daughter and then his wife from the court room. Judge Connolly was placed on the atand by the defense, Friday after noon. He said Hugh Shepherd, the former prosecutor in the esse, had asked him what assurance the court would give that Schreiter would get some consideration from the court as the result of his confession. The judge said he told Shepherd that the court offered no consideration to any man. Charles H. Jasnowskl, assistant prosecutor, was not present during the conference in the proeecutor*a of fice, said the Judge. This last state ment bore out Jaanowski’s testimony. McNamara introduced the com plaint In the conspiracy case to fix the time of Judge Connolly’s confer ence with Shepherd. John Me Gerry, newspaper reporter, testified that at the request of Shepherd, he asked William B. Thompson, then mayor, to see Judge Connolly relative to getting Immunity for Schreiter. McGarry did not know If Thompson went to the judge. Frank H. McNamara, stenog rapher, employed by the defense dur ing the trial, awora to the authentic ity of hit report*. Portions of the transcript he prepared will be read in tho final argument. Attorney Ken nary, for the defense, then Informed the court that Mr. Shepherd had told him tjiat Attorney William Van Dyke, a whites* In the case, had made a statement, detailing his connection with the aldermanic graft investiga tion. Prosecutor Fraser said tha statement was not |n his possession, and over the telephone Van Dyke In formed the defense that be had never made such a statement. »- Contrary to expectations, former Prosecutor Hugh Shffpherd and Ed ward T. Fitzgerald, mayor's secretary aad a former newspaper reporter, who were subpensed, were not called to the witness stand. Owla* to tb» rclwllilßi of tb« Nrtcr. •«. fcrt4»f. tbs wwi-Wsal mm ms •ths Sherman Itns will fan vh» the nskqr line rout*, commencing Thurs day morning. Ort. tW. turning from Portsr north on Brooklyn to Baker, to Twenty-third, to W*. to Idvernoia. hrd oMt-t.nnnd over regular Sherman • rente. Aloe commencing on above , dare Raker mat-hound cara will tttm eolith from TM* onto Mfttten on a temporary carve nnd run oant via Sherman route to Mtchlgao-are.. Scot ten to Porter, to Twenty-fourth, to Howard, to Twelfth, to Abbott, to. Michigan and regular Baker rowte. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 24, 1914. MRS. CARMAN BELIEVED SURE OF ACQUITTAL Prisoner Expects to Spend Sun day With Her Family at Freeport NEGRO GIRL’S STORY BADLY DISCREDITED Even District Attorney Has Little Hope of Securing Conviction MINBOLA, L. 1., Oct. 24.—Mrs. Florence Carman expects to spend Sunday with her family at Freeport. When the sixth day of her trial on a charge of having slain Mrs. Louise Bailey on the night of June 30, opened today, It was certain all evi dence would be In, arguments -and charge to the jury com pleted, and the case placed in the hands of the Jury late this, after noon. Few could be found today, who did not believe Mrs. Carman was certain of acquittal. The. accused woman herself, and members of her family are confident she will leave the jail by tonight, at least, and motor to her home, free of the charge which has kept her within the shadow of the electric chair for the past three months. The worst that It predicted for Mrs. Carman la a disagreement on the part of the Jury. Few expect this. District At torney Smith privately admits he has little hope of conviction. Mrs. Carman came through her croae-dxamlnation with colors flying. The district attorney# by sharp, pressing questions, sought to pic ture her before the Jury as a woman whose Jealousy and suspicion was easily aroused: that she might be expected to fly into a rage and con sequently commit such a deed as the shooting of Mrs. Bailey, while the woman was In her husband's of fice as a patient. Immediately after ward, however, a paradox was pre sented when, through Smith's ques tioning, Mrs. Carman declared that when The slapped the aura# In her husband's office a couple of months before the shooting. It was the pass ing of money to the woman that aroused her—not the fact that the nurse kissed Dr. Carman on the cheek. Cool calculation of whether the family aavlnda were leaking away throngk Dr. Carman giving money to nurses stirred her more than did the sight of another woman kissing her husband. THE WEATHER Oetrett aad »MsHn MrtsHsy alshl, ad'TeeGw** I WtrMlaaai etoadr «M ■Ur heavy. Maadar. Fair aad' eiuiee. Vk.WOT.IM. iW THE CHRISTMAS SHIP LOOKOUT, POSTAL EMPLOYES WILL BE INSURED New Plan Provides For Full Pay When Injured While On Duty Accident Insurance for its employes Is the latest activity in which the busy postofllce department has em barked, and 1,200 men actively em ployed by the Detroit postofllce will benefit by the plan. Anyone Injured while in the performance of hls duty, is entitled to receive his full salary for a period of one year, and may draw 50 per cent of hia regular salary for the second year. If he dies, with in a year, from the effects of the in juries, bin estate will receive a death benefit of $2,000. and the money shall be exempt from payment of any debts of the deceased. Under the present system, post office employes injured while on duty, and disabled, are compelled to take their enforced leave of absence with out pay. One clerk, injured through the fault of hls own while alterations were being made to the postoffioe, is confined to his home, and his pay stopped at the time of his absence from duty. A carries, injured by an auto, is in the same plight. The new arrangement stipulates only that the inturies must received through no carelessness of the em ploye. He must file a sworn state ment to that effect, and must be ready to submti to examination as to the extent of hls disability. He must ap ply for leave of absence, for not more than SO days, and must renew his ap plication each 30 days. MAN BATTERED AND ROBBED BT NEGROES Milton Stimson, 21 years old, of No. 1650 Mlchiganave.. was beaten on the head with a brick and robbed of S2O and his gold watch at 2:30 o’clock Saturday morning by three Negroes, a half-mile outside of the city limits on Mlchigan-ave. The Negroes, leav ing their victim lying In the road, drove away in a taxi-cab. Stimson was found wandering aim lessly on Mlchigan ave., by Patrolman Kowalsky. His head was battered and he was weak from loss of blood. The officer summoned an auto ;>atrol and sent him to Grace hospital. Ho will recover. Bt!mson was walking to hls homo when the automobile drove up behind him. The three men alighted and, without warning, attacked him. There had been a Negro dance at Addlaoo’s Switch, two miles beyond the limits In Mlchigan ave., and the police be lieve that the robbery was planned by the trio after they left the dance hall in the motor cor. > The police have notified Sheriff Oakman, whose deputies are working on the case. Isaac Saperstetu, of No. Sit Alfred st., was also held .up by o Negro. Sat urday morning. Sapersteln woa enter ing hie house, when a man with a revolver confronted him and demand ed that he held up hts hands. Instead ot obey tag, ha shouted so lustily that the Negro fled without getting any X-RAY AIDS IN BARING CAUSE OF MAN’S DEATH I Shows Silas B. Collins Fired Bul let Into Mouth; Doctors Sus pect Assault at First VICTIM’S RELATIVES MUM ON TRAGEDY Suicide Said To Have Resulted From Chiding As “Kill Joy” At Party After four detectives and three phy sicians had worked for three hours to determine whether Silas B. Collins, 26 years old, was a victim of an assault or whether he had attempted to take his life, an X-ray examination proved that Collins had fired a bullet into the roof of hia mouth. He died at 4 o’clock, Saturday morning, in St. Mary’s hospital, shortly after the ex amination was made. Detectives Rick, Snook, O'Orady and Costa were unable to get infor mation from relatives of the man that would point to suicide. The only mark of violence that could be found at first was a slight bump on the back of CoUlna' head. Dr* H. W. Yates, E. L. Brandt and F. N. Blanchard, who were summoned by the Collins family at 12:30 o'clock in the morn ing, a few moments after the injured man had been found, thought that he was suffering from a fractured skull. This led to the theory that he had been attacked. When the physlciana taw that the man's life was ebbing, they ordered him removed to the hos pital. There blood began to trickle from his mouth. The X-ray was at once pressed into service. Back in the roof of the mouth It showed the bullet hole. The bullet had lodged In the skull. Collins shot himself after having been chided for acting ass “kill-joy." according to officers. He had attend ed a party with hls brother. Friday evening, and left early. Hls brother, it is said, scolded him for “breaking up" the merry-making. Collins went to his home, st No. 267 Junction avo., and shot himself while lying in bed. The weapon he used was found by hia side. POLICE SEEK MOTHER OF ABANDONED BABE well-dressed woman, with chestnut hair and a sweet voice, la being sought by Detective Bandemer as the mother of the three-weeks-old baby girl which was left Friday afternoon in the arms of Louis Barbier. 14 years old, of No. 742 Rivard-st. Tha woman asked the boy to hold the infant for a few moments, while she went Into the Crowley. Milner and Cos •toro. Hhe lad stood in the alley nopr the afore for a half hour, and when the woman failed to appear he trudged to police headquarters with the baby. The abandoned child was soot to the Florence Crlttenton home. THE CLEAN NEWSPAPER GERMANS UNABLE TO GAH AT ANY POINT, DECLjfll ALLIED COMMANDS! G. 0. P. HAS NO ISSUES, CHARGE OF DEMOCRATS Doremus and Harrison Content Selves With Attacluiig Republicans DETROIT MAN PRAISED AS PRESIDENT’S FRIEND First District Congressman Giv en Glowing Eulogy In Address Speaking at a mass-meeting in the armory, Friday night. Rep. Frank fi. Doremus, of the First district of Mich igan, and Rep. Byron P. Harrison, of Mississippi, declared tnat the Repub lican party has no issues in the pres ent campaign, and made an earnest plea for the return tFf a Democratic majority in congress to “hold up the hands of President Wilson," whom they lauded in the highest terms. Both speakers contented them selves with praising the president and attacking Republican principles, leav ing Democratic issues strictly alone, except by inference. , < Incidentally Mr. Harrison took occa sion to put in a good word for hia colleague, by declaring that "no man In Washington is closer to President Wilson than Frank Doremus.” The remark, while doubttaqs surprising to a majority of the audwaee. provoked considerable applause. Rep. Harrison paid g high tribute to the president. In this connection he said: “Great aa has been the constructive record of our party, there la a record of stili greater significance. The page of history that will show the greatest service to our country and to human ity hi being written now. From the great * war now raging across , the waters names of great generals will be written in histdry and their deeds of valor will be read. But by their side and by the side of all the heroes of war and blood, history will record In • unsurpassed resplendence, because of hit service to humanity, hia* Influ ence for peace, the name of Woodrow Wilson. x "While the rebels and federals were fighting in Mexico, Mr. Wilson pur sued hls policy of watchful waiting. He was the target for villlflcation and abuse from men and newspapers. He suffered —no man knows how much. Yet he bore hls sorrows in silence rather than allow hhs country to enter Into a war of conquest, which would rob thousands of mothers of their sons and impoverish the nation. “Hls wisdom and foresight was not appreciated until from across the waters we heard the roar of cannon, the clash of firearms, the groans of the dying and the wailing of widows and orphans. Now hls wisdom Is ap preciated. “He is the most popular man in America today, the most outstanding figure of hia time, the greatest presi dent since Thomas Jefferson. Ns president ever faced so many complex problems and trying situations as he. No one could have discharged hia duties more faithfully, more patriotic ally and more manfully, in the midst of sunshine and in the shadow of a great grief, with a breaking heart, he has been the same calm, fearless, un perturbed and capable leader.* * i Then came the eulogy of Mr. Do i remus: j “To hold up the president’s hands, a Democratic majority must be re turned to congress Among all the | Democrats who hav« aided the presi dent, none has done more than your capable, rising, efficient represents —Frank K. Doremus. He has been at all times on the watchtower. He Is a Democrat of the strongest fibre. No man in Washington Is clos er to President Wilson than Frank Doremus. Are you not proud that your represet tatlve Is leading the forces of your party? I appeal to you not only In my own behalf, but In be half of his colleagues in congress and In the name of his personal friend, th* president of the United States, to re-elect Mr. Doremus.’ * Rep. Doremus’ brief speech was a challenge to the Republican party to make known Us issu***. "What Is the program of the Repub lican party if It la returned to pow er?” he began. k Whit will It profit the American people If * Republican majority Is returned in congress? “What measures would the Repub lican party repeal? “Would they repeal the present cur rency law and return to the antiquat ed money laws of Civil war times? "Would they repeal the anti trust law simply because It was enacted by a Democratic congress? “Would they reperl the income tax law? “Republican nominees a fie making their appeal to the people through at tacks on the Democratic admlnistra (OibNbml •• Fa«i Tw«>. , * Long Range Artillery Nof|||| plying To Monitor F!otifljffS|| Channel. But Ships Ma« tain Advantage JS FRENCH MAKE PROGRESS IN ALSACE INVAH Altkirch Carried At Pos|M Bayonet—Both Sides Lm| Heavily LONDON, Oct 24. —Lloyd's isl tion on the Isle of Wight rswH| that the French ship Marla MM riette, with wounded soldiers mg baard, is ashore off Cape 'H flsur, 16 miles east of Cherbourg; It is understood that the wotiMg ed were in process of tranafilM the Isle of Wight. Whether «R ship is in a dangerous positlflijH not yet known. /#§s 'M PARIS, Oct. 24.—There was a«9EH| sation In the lighting along front l>a Harare tc the sea lust night, i.cording to the ports received m headquarters ■flraH| At a number oi i oints the al)!**sJßH|j e ground in the ...»t of tltO WBfflM attack, hut no poiut of porrtru'c were the Gerrtans ablipilip ira'n The i'"ed commander* ever, oheying the rule in PitHOMllp throughout ..i.» can fa «n. fused iwelei«iy to sacrifice mevflßH holding expos-od postpone in of superior numbers MSB The German long range has been brought into action the Nleupo’u Dlxr.iude-V pres against the Hri ‘ >h and French. itor flotilla, hut so far the iu the artillery duel has the allies. The heavy guns, and the French threednOft-Mlllll demolhhed battery after the Germans with enormous ChH| ties among the gunners. The Germans are also beatflHfl every effort to drive a wedge the allied lines at Arras and Uglgßß take At mens Seres, west of LiUs.' ISBBk ' have so far been unable to mStojflßHH substantial gains. It is conniddNnH certain here that two separate •B|§l| distinct movements are in prpgjMll!! One has for its objective the |of the allied lines west fro» , thus cutting off the Belgians and &dmßm tali still Inside of the Belgian ly frontier. The other contemplt9B| the capture of the railway lines d9|§§ tending west from Arras. either succeed a considerable portlHH of the allied army would he in jgerous way and it is stated hndfflcffff? prevent it additional were Hent forward last night. 'I<JS9 There is much rejoicing hero Imߧ§ (Conllaurd um Pag* TwOJb THOMAS A. EDISOm HENRY FORD’S GUESS Famous Inventor Will Visit bXI troit Auto King For Ser*■ :j eral Days M Thomas Alva Fdtson. inventor aH the incandescent light, the phoMM| graph, and so many otiier things he is called The Wistsrd.” in ordiHl to eliminate the necessity of d«ujn lng the magic he has wrought, iHH rived at the home of Henry Fotififl No. 66 Kdlson-ave., with his Wife ÜBM son, Charles. Friday afternoon, lo «1 the guest of Detroit * automobile kfcftfß I for several days. The Rdlson party made tbs trlM from their home In West Orange* Wp J , by automobile, taking the trip ftflH easy stages, but Mr. Edison foOMa the long ride very trying, and wtlH tired out when met In Windsor by bttH host, and escorted to the Ford townß house. H The visit of the distinguished vMH itor was promised at the time Ford and John Burroughs, the bataflEg alist, were guests* of Mr. the latter's winter home in Fodljj Meyer. Florida Mr. lOdlson Mr Ford tliai he would com** hertvjl and inspect the immense auto plaiWM which the profit sharing plan, and institution of ideal working coad|l| tions, has m.ude the locus of IM& world's attention. She visit of. IfjHi spection was planned for Saturdasß That the visit may have somo fcodH lng on the future announcement oC electric automobile that will sU*vg the world, is one surmise based the known fact thai Mr. Ford Mfljgfjj- y-j Edison have dismissed thf' of electricity to the general utility purposes as well town and city use. ..11l During the Civil war. Mr. Mjfll w-ns a • news butcher” on a train ning between Detroit and Port HmMK||| He knew that the people along | route were clamoring for war %&m3im He set up « printing press oM-JpgSl train and printed MIM^S of the nt«. These he sold. iIWMIwIIIt route, and made s tidy suae of through the enterprise. c *«■ ONE <m