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Jersey Women Work Hard tor suffrage at Polls To-Day IATCST mm. wm Circulation lloolcn Open to All." ) "Circulation foolrn Oprn to All." PRICE ONE CENT. ,w,7.'uii5r,M',M NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1915. 18 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. ALLIES ANNIHILATE BULGAR BATTALIONS; CLAIM BIG SUCCESS AT GRECIAN BORDER NOON RUSH OF JERSEY VOTES AS WOMEN DECLARE VICTORY FOR SUFFRAGE IS CERTAIN Workers Jam Election Places at Luncheon Hour, but Men Leaders Say Fair Campaigners Will Be Defeated. Reports frorotho largo cities In Now Jersey thin afternoon state that thero was a heavy vote on the Woman Suffruge amendment In the Jjour be tween 12 nnd 1 o'clock. Factory employees and clerks, who hod not voted In tbo morning 'before going to the polls, sfttirnied to the voting places, and in ninny precincts tho rush was too heavy for the election oMclulx to handle. In Newark and Qundw, when'" 1 them is a politically organised oppo sition to rotes for -women, tho voting Is hearler than anywhero elso In tho Btnte. Tho rurnl voto Is light. Tho New York nnrt Philadelphia com muter voto was largely cast between 6 and 9 o'clook tills morning. Up to noon about 8,000 votes had teen cast In Jersey City, whero thero did not appear to bo n great deal of Interest In the balloting on votes for women. Ordinarily between 30,000 and 35,000 votes are cast cm election day In Jersey City. From the Indica tions this aftcrnon political lenders estimated that not more than fiO per cent, of the voters would take tho trouble to vote on tho suffrage ques tion. ELECTION BOARDS ALSO LOOK ING AFTER REGISTRATION. Tho fact that to-dny Is tho first registration day In towns of 5.000 and over for the next general election In Now Jersey complicates tho special election. The bo.irds In the polling placet! aie siting In a double capacity at election bnarda receiving votel and uh registration boards recording icglstratlons of voters. All voters who have registered be fore to-day are entiled to vote on iin. mifTnmo amendment and two other minor amendmentH any tune up to 7 o'clock to-night, when tho polls close for the election. Hut, be tween I o'clock thli.aflernoon and 9 o'clock to-nUht oters not already leglMeied will leglster at tho poll ing places. , These voters may cast their votes ns soon as they leglster, The mif fraglsts fear thai tho double-barreled system will work to their dis advantage by giving the machine bosses In the cities a ehaiico to run In i e pea tors. President Wilson cist his vote for votes for woomii at 1 o'clock this af ternoon in fie little lire house polling place below tho campus of Prince ton rimcriiliy. There was a crowd r students unci women wearing the i,. o and while suffrage bannrr wailing for him when he arrived In (Continued un Second P.i;:.) BUY BARGAINS'! i Why piy hlRli or even "rtRulir" prl$ tor UK tliiiiSJ yini noe.l lor your bonis or business since ou cm shop on in extremely economical tusls at one or Jiiuilier uf t'.u AUCTION SALES advertised n ""le World from djy to dy? iiirnnN SALU ADS. in The Mornlne World w-stcrdiy announced the sale to the hlKliest bidder of woollens, broad cloth, owrcojliiitfs, chinchillas, cltnk uis. I.iiinss, furniture, pUttm. carpets, rugi. baimaRe. rubber, urocenjJ. hard ware, leather belting, unclaimed mer chandise, cloal.i, suits', lurs, paint ings, Follow World AUCTION SAI.l: ADS. and Buy Right I WOIVrAN CANES YOUTH SHE SAKS IS MASHER; HAS HIM LOCKED UP LOUISE CONTI Mrs, Coiili Also Charges He Struck Her on the Arm With Stick. A well dressed young man, who said be was Frank Taussig, twonty-thrco, of No. 10 West .S'lnnt -fifth Street, was locked up la tho West Sixty eighth Street Station Into lust night on complaint of .Mrs. Louisa Coutl, a widow, oi No. Kiii West Sovonty-sec-ond t-'tn i t. Aceonlliw to Mrs. Coutl's story, she was alighting from a taxleab In front of her homo with two young women, und the eh.iufteur hud gono to got change for a bill. Taus.dg, sho said, approached and linked her If the ma chine was for him. Ho m.idn other reinul'kH which she umi nied.'ulio Hit It, and finally ho -.tlil, "Vou'ro pretty smart." Then, Mis. ('mill mid, sho pushed hbn nway from her with a cano sho earrd because of a sprained ankle, as ho vvns sidling up to tier and hor two ompaulous. ' The youth leturned, swinging, hln cane. The cane struck her, Mrs. Contl aesertod, on tho right arm, lea lug a lirule. Tmitflg win aiiiiijii d l.efirc M.'f- I Urate HnUM' 111 t'.l" U'.Mt Sl' P.iil.V Court l is ir. ur.itrr !i-ii'.rcil ullh ll' otdeil cjti.iuci. The rua?, at hi', icqueht, was adjourned tilt ThurUuj uud bu wa bold In tOUU ball. BANDITS N AUTO HOLD UP 3 TRAINS Engineer's Wit Saves Express Car Train as Robbers Were Going Through It. LITTLE BOOTY ISTAKEN. Signal Wires Were Cut Near Tunnel Entrance Gang Makes Escape Good. Klght bandits held up two freights and a fast express-car train loaded with valuables late last night at tho south end of the long tunKcl between Congers and Havorstraw on tho West Shore road nnd mado their escape In nn nutomoblle, Tho gang seemed to be familiar with the running of trains and the operation of tho signal ap paratUH In the tunnel.. Police mid rnllrond detectives aro watching all the ferries and search ing all the country for ono hundred miles west nnd north of New York. It Is thought that tho robbers may have a hiding place In tho hills. They got little, If anything, from thn express-car train, owing to tho quick wit of ICnglneor Kd. Nolan, who slipped nboard ond started It off be fore they had searched very far. Tho robbers apparently hid their motor car In the woods near the south end of the tunnel a llttlo beforo It o'clock. They cut tho wlro of tho electric signal apparatus, nnd this net a rcil danger light. A fast frolght, due nt llaverstraw at 10.57 and known nn It. F. No. 1, was stopped at tho end of tho tunnel. Ttvo lialnnieU with lanterns went In to see whero the break win. Three robbers covered the engineer with revolvers nnd ordered him down. The conductor ran up, and he was covered too, while the robbers b'roke open two lumber cars and a ear of Hiigar. They cursed nnd sent tho train 200 ynrds Into tbo tunnel. In a few minutes a freight called W. F. No. J was lingered, Rnglneer Tyler and the fireman were token down by masked men with guns. Five or six men from tho bushes begnn to break open nnd search tho cars. Conductor Heath came forward from the calmose. He opened tiro on tbo gang, but six shots emptied his pis tol, nnd ho ran toward Congers. The robbers broke opon seven ears In W. Nn. 5, .found nothing valu able, rnvlled thn members of the crew nnd ordered thorn to tnko thn train Into thn tunnel. Somo of thn gang went along with them. Then enmn th" fast express In charge of Knglneer IMwnrd Nolan, who saw a lot of boxes scattered beside the track, thought there hail been a wreck and stopped to help, Iln nnd Conductor Now kirk wero held up with pistols. Tim leuiler of the gang blew live blasts on a shrill whistle, and the men who hail gono with the two freight trains Into the tunnel let them go nnd camo back to him. Tho gang then began to break open the N'iMnn'il K-Tr'""" or" eivnp"lng the train. Nolan, (villi the revolver no longer confronting him, derided on prompt action. Ho nudged Newklrk and his llremnn. The Uneu JuiTfpcil aboarl the engine, Nolan pulled tho throttle, and away shot the train with thn robbers still busy. They fr.mMcilly plunged through door. and dived out of wludotv.4 to i et awnj. SAILING TO-DAY. I Lenain, Jaskicnvlllo 1 P. M, I City of Cclumbut, Savannah. . 3 P, M, Mcldartklni Aryantlno 3 P, M, NEAR HAVERSTRAW Woman Watcher As Jersey la SCU-Klti. IN NRW JtiRtiliV POUUNG PLACU. ", EXPLOSION STARTS BIG FIRE AT MAMARONECK Fcnr Lives Have Been Lost in llha That Sweeps Business Block. An explosion of gasoline In the general store of W. P. lleilyn, on the Boston Post ltoad, this atteruoon, started tbo biggest (lie ever known In Mamnroneck. Tho flames Imme diately spread to tho buildings on cither side, and thero are fears that one or two lives may have been lost. There Is a flat house on tho wont sldo of Ilorlyn's store, occupied by three famlllrs. It Is belloved that all theso peopln havo been taken out safely. The .Mnmaroiieek Klro De partment Is being helped by com- panics from I.archmont and Lurch inont Manor. William Dayman, a member of the Mniiiaroueck Compnii), fell off a ladder at tho second utory of tho llat houso and was badly hurl. 1 1 u was taken Into nn undertaker's aliop next door for treatment, lie was uncon scious, ANOTHER ACGUSER FACES "COUNT" LOUDEN Swindle in Buffalo Is laid to Man Held Here on Charge of Bigamy. "Count" Louden, who Is held here on a charge of bigamy, was to-day Identified in the Tooihx by W II Mm. inn of No, :t5 St, NIcIioIiih Terrace as (human who induced Ills mother, Mis Alee I .a (Van of lluffalo, to Invist .Vi. .1(10 lu a patent for a nclf-starilng lan t) rn to be lined In llgi.i houses. Mr. .Moran told .Nsl.it.mt District Attorney Ihnbreo that the "Count" lived lu lluffalo a Wit a year ago, rcpr-sentlng hlnisulf as nn inventor ami a iiianutuctuii-r. .l'n l.all'an subserlbed lo his proposition and wiK'ii "he found no retains t'orllieom- Ing, bail him Indicted" fi r itiund l.n -i eny. Tile "Count," l.affan said, spent four 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 .s In J. ill anil 1 1 1 11 mmiiii I his u-le.iHu on bull and li.u nut bivn tccu iu Uuffulo simy. at the Polls Votes on Suffrage TAGGART ESCAPES TRIAL, HIS CASE DISMISSED Prosecutor Says Hvidcnce Is Lack ing to Convict Democratic Leader of Election Frauds. INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 19.-Tho 'ease against Thomas Taggart, Democratic National Committeeman for Indiana, charged with election conspiracy, was dismissed by Special Judge W. H. Kichhntn In Criminal Court to-day, on tho motion of Prosecutor A. .1. Itucker. Tho statement wns made that conclusive evidence against Tag gart Is lucking. Tho cases of tho" more than ono hundred other men who wero Indicted with Taggart and .Mayor Joseph U. Hell wero put over to Dee. 1. Mayor Hell was acquitted by a Jury last Wednesday, after a trial lasting mine than live weeks. BRITISH E-BOAT TAKES A SWEDISH STEAMER Submarine Carries Its Prize, Loaded With Ore for Germany, to - . Russian Port. (Hll'I.K, Sweden, Oct. m (via Tm ilon). Tho Nordland Sposten states that tho Swedish Legation at Petro grail has Informed tho Foreign Olllcn at Stockholm that, tbo Swedish steamer Nlko has been captured by a llrlllsh submarinn. Tho Nlko was on her way from a Swedish port for Stettin, (iermany, with a cargo of ore. Sho was taken by the sllbiuarluo to the Itilsslau purt of Itovul. FOUR KILLED IN TRAIN CRASH Number of oilier loloreil on lloeU lliioil ftonil In OUIntioiiiii, OKLAHOMA C1TV. Okla.. Oct. 19. l''oiir person.i wile lulli I .nut several Injured III II helld-iill cnlliHlou between two trills oil the l'he.i'il, Itoek Islmid and pielfl.' U.ulw.iy .if Chtcl. .nil. i eaily to-d.iv, I'oilllil llillll. (.'II .lei 1 1 it r Oil, Mm tin III" ii, a wiilowei, IMmt wit li hit i hlld. a ill ir.in Klf .eeoiiil Slteet, til e 'il' li, - ' loilliil ib lld lu ll i V I I III I ' HI 'I ii' g.'K Jet WHS lll'lf loilliil in ana pnlli'i inver.'lu.illun I'rt tahMshiil I'lht UUvn vtiiiiu to Idl dculll accldentall, ANSI NG PRESENTS NOTE RECOGNIZING E United States in Brief Docu- mcnl Accepts First Chief as Heail ofx Government. PAN - AMERICANS JOIN, Wilson as Next Step Will Order Anns Embargo, but New Ruler Will Be Favored. WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. Mexico to-day ro. entered thn "fntnlly of na tions." After nearly threo years of civil warfare nnd revolution, n now government was given birth, headed by Venustlnno Oarrnntn, as "Chief Kxecutlve of tho do facto (loverli ment" thn tltlo ngreed on. Sending of a nolo by Secretary of Stato Ivinslng to Kllsoo Arredondo, Carrnnra's representntlvn here, ac cording Carrnnza recognition by tho I'nltod States, wns tho formal stop. Similar notes were sent Arredondo by all Latln-Amerlcnn Governments of thn Pan-American conferenco. Secretary tanslng' note, lo Arre- dondo read: "I tnko plensure In Informing you that tho Government of tho United Stales recognizes the do faclo Oov- ernmcnt of Mexico, of Oen. Venus- tlano Carranzn as Chief Kxecutlvo, and tho Government of tho United Stilton In prepared to receive n diplo matic representative from tho de facto Government of Mexico, nnd as soon as possible will send n diplo matic representative from tho United Stales." Arredondo was also requested to In form Carrnnza. Ho conferred later with Ianslng. Thn embargo on arms which Presi dent Wilson will soon proclaim, It was olllclally announced, will bo a general embargo against nil exporta tion of arms to Mexico, but will make exception of the Carraiira govern ment, llchiimptlnn (.of Ited Cross famine and other relief work isex peeted soon. The title of President, provisional or ad Interim, will be either assumed by Carranr-'i himself or oonferred by the Mexican Congress, which Car-, ranza proposes to convene shortly. Arredondo plans to leave here be fore the week end to convey ison ally to C!arran.a the miles oT tho I'nlted States and U'ltlu-Anic rlcn'n countries recognizing the first chief. The Stato Department to-day ad vised all consuls In Me.Mril and American diplomats abroad nP(!,ir ramta's recognition. Appointment of nn American charge d'affaires nt Mexico City is planned soon aa the first move In re. establish ing diplomatic relations between the Tinted States and Moxlco. Selection of an Ambassador will ho deferred f$ a time. It is understood tin chnleo now hinges between Ambus sailor Henry l. Fletcher at Chill, Am haswdor Kd?:!n V. Morgan at lirasl! and Ambassador I'lcdcrlu Stlmsou at Argentina. Carranzii Is expected In a short time to Issue a call for municipal elections in the terrltor lie controls In order that civil government nny bo organ ized. Theso elections will piobably be held lu Uerember. lu .Innuary the new ruler Is expected to tall for elec tions to the Mexican Congress, which would assemble 'in the spring nnd ar range for toe holding of tho Presi dential ('cctlon lu dune, the man elected to take olllce In tho fall: Cai ratiz.i cannot bucoino a candidate at this election. . .. . . CARRANZA S RUL GREAT ARMY OF THE ALLIES TO SWEEP THROUGH BALKANS; MACKENSEN TAKES NEW TOWN Italy Declares a State of War With the Bulgar Nation Berlin An nounces Capture by Bulgarians of Vrania, a Serbian Railroad Centre. FRENCH CLAIM REPULSE OF FIERCE GERMAN DRIVES PARIS, 0:t. 19. Heavy losses for the Bulgarians In the fighting which preceded' the capture by the allies of Stnnnnitsa is reported in a despatch from Satonlca. Is is asserted that entire battalions of Bulgarian! were annihilated by the Franco-Serbian forces. British as wll as Frencl troops, the despatch says, took an Import any part in the engagements northwest of Dorraln, near the Vardar klver, and at Valanovo, In the northeast sector. At the latter point the Bulgarians made a counter-attack but subsequently fled across the frontier, pursued by Serbians. Tho Hnvro correspondent at Home telegraphs: "Tho Italian Government, by order of the King, hns declared that a stato of war exists between Itnly and llul- garla, by reason of Ilulgnrla's having opened hostilities against Serbia, thus allying itself with tho enemies of Italy and combatting her allies." ATIIHNH, Oct. 17. Tho Hrltlsh snd Itusstnn ministers to-day notified tho Seizure of Serbian Railroad Officially Claimed in Berlin OFFICIAL GERMAN REPORT. IiKltMX (vln wireless to London), Oct. HI. Capture of the town of Obrn- novao by tho foiccH of Held Marshal von Mackcnsen and further advance of the Teutonic army to tho heights south of ItolKrade was reported by tho War Olllce this afternoon, The oflleial statement ulso an nounced tho capture of sevor.il Seib. lan villages. The llulgarlans. nald the stfttcmrnt. have advanced Into tho Plrot Vnlloy, crossing several strenmn and taking village.1! lu the Invaded nectlon. Tho lliilgar capture of Vranln also was dlflnltely announced. Obrenovao Ih on the Save River, a stream along which Serbian ao counls liive told of repeated repulses of (lie Invndem. It In nearly forty miles Houthwest of llelgrade. French Repulse the Germans, Hold Captured Positions BRITISH TORPEDO TWO GERMAN SHIPS Periiamlnico Sunk in Bailie Off Sweden, but Sncdcrhamn Keeps Afloat. STOCKHOLM. Sweden. Oct. 19 (via London).- -Tho Ceriu m Htoainer.i Periiaiubueo, of I.T8S tons, and the Soederhamn, of l.VJ'' tons, were torpedoed lust night by a Hrltlsh sub marine off OxelneHUlid, along the llaltlc coiihI of SwmiIoii. The Periiambuco sank. The Soeder hamn was kept afloat by her cargo of vood. Until vessels worn bound fo (iermauy. Tho 1'ernambuco carried a cureo of Iron oru, Greek Government In n friendly way of tho Allies' determination to aend heavy reinforcements to tho IJalkons. Thoy discussed also with, tho foreign minister the Horbo-Grrck treaty, dip lomatically, hut plainly intimating that thn Allies could not Indorse the Oreek view that tho pact did not re quire Greoco to go to Serbia's aid against Hulgirla. Tho tiolghts south of Helgrnde ha been held by the Serbluns hitherto ami from their their defenders havo seri ously hampered tho TUtonlo novnncd nlong the line of th erallroad toward Constantinople. Tho Plrot Vnlley Is about fifteen miles on tho Serbian side of tho Serbo. Iliilgartan frontier und the town of Plrot Is rnnnected by rail with Nlsh. from which It Is distant twenty-llvs mile a llttlo to tho south of cast. Vrania. forty mllea south of Nlsh, is tho centre of tho region In which tb'd lliilgnrlaus have been fighting several days with tho allied Serbians, Drltlsh and French for possession of the .S'lsh-Snlnnika railroad. It hns ten reported captured before. Occupation of tlu railroad at Vrania cuts off all rajl communication between the Serbian capital and tha soiirco of supplies lu the south. OFFICIAL FRENCH REPORT. PARIS, Oct. tit. "Solidly Installed lu positions they had taken from the Germans In HolB-en-lluchc," suld tht statement Issued by tho war ot'.lce to- day. Following Is tho test of the war o'llco report: "CIc, ii. ao fuicon ia.il iiIhuI delivered threo serious attacks, making use of Macho, to tho iiorthrast of Souchex. Our Infantry, firmly entrenched, (it the position recently conquered by us, completely repulsed their ussaU ants. In this they were helped by our batteries, "To the south of tho River Somme, In tho sector of l.lhoiis, there we'rt spirited rifle erhangei, "In tho Champ igno District there has been somo lighting with bomb lu the cast of tho N.ivarln Farm. "The concentrated flro of our ar tillery agalnbt, tho batteries of tht enemy put u stop to a aovere bom.. .i l. i..m. iw . i