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AUTHENTIC DRESS STYLES For rromra are charmingly Illustrated dally om Ihe lloune hold !'?(? of THE TIMES-DISPATCH TO-L'AY'f WEATHER 64th YEAR RICHMOND, VA.. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1914 NUMBER 19,906. TEN PAGES SUNDAY WANT ADS PAY It ring your copy (o-dar. Ural IXntr. Uualncas rimvren, Hoard ers Wnnted. Help Wnolril. THE TIMES-DISPATCH AIR PRICE 2 CENTS. VILLA MAY TAKE MEXICAN CAPITAL WITHOUT BATTLE Obregon, Who Is Loyal to Carranza, Evacuating City With Troops. PURPOSE OF HIS MOVE REMAINS UNEXPLAINED Soldiers of Villa Are Headed Southward and Meet No Opposition. WAIt IS FORMALLY DKCLAKIOD l'ew Troops Under General Blanco May He I*eft to Protect. Inhabitants. Rumor That Blanco Has Seized Power \ WlA ( ni'7,, >otrtnltrr 211.?An uarontlrn'ril report litis renehcil here thot t.ciiernl IjUcIo llliiiicrt, of llie fountl t utlonnltst furi'fH, bj n rnop il'rlnl, lion Imprisoned (irnrrnl Oti rrKon nml innilr himself Hfrullir liruil of flir Mexico (II) covrrn> mcnt. WASHINGTON, November CO.?pfT. clal advices to the American govern ment to-day from its aRrnts in Mex ico pictured the situation as more confused than It ban been in many nonths. The official tolcKrHiiin cum inarlz'iil fventn an follows: General Gutierrez, selected Provis ional President by the Aguascallentcs ? onventlon. has decided lo continue ??encrul Villa In command of all the troops controlled by the convention. Villa has advanced to Irapuato will, out resistance, and American consular agents say he will continue to ?.nj?-r?' taro and the vicinity of .Mexico <"lty without (brticulty. General ? ?breKon, In the M? xlcan capital, loyal to Cat - ranzu. haw formally declared wir on villa, but his troops have been evac uating Mexico City to-day. Tin pur pore of the move is unexplained. Getiernl Obregon will leave t|,.; cap ital on Saturday. One message sci:l n? v.oubl po to Salina Ortiz, on th?? west ? -oust. from which point it was thought he would move north to Gua dalajara ami attempt to get into the rear of the Villa forces. Another telegram spolto of lilt* probable depar ture for Vera Cruz, where it is sup posed ho will Join Carranza next Mon day, to take possession of the city wlien the American forces depart. All the public olllces In Mexico City have heen vacated. American agents there do not I;now whether the Car ranz.'t-ObroKon faction will leave the place undefended, or leave a small Ksr rlKun there while General Pablo Goti xales and other Carranza forces move norv.lt to meet the Villa advance Rallrond communication tiorth of \Iexlco City is Interrupted, and either Zapata followers or cJc-Kederals ha\e cut the line from Mexico City to Vera Cruz at .San Marios. There are rumors at Villa's head quarters, according to one consular dispatch, that Piiehla has been occu pied by Zapata. III.AVtO >1 \ V It EMM'S TO I'llOTKCT l>'IIAIUTA.\TK MEXICO i MTV. November 20.?The military has taken complete coinmund of all roads out of the capital, and troops In tIn- tMiburbs, facing 'Zapata supporter?. have been strongly reln forced. It Is believed General l.ucio Ulanco will remain to protect InhaM tants from a raid by Zapata adherents. A meeting of all crenernls Id the city 1 was held to-day to discuss the gen < ral situation. % ICHA CHI 7. IS ( | T (IKK FHOM I'lTV OK MEXICO VBIIA CIU'Z. November 20.?Traill c nas interrupted to-day on both the railroads loading from Vera Cruz to Mexico City. .Mexican railway officials said the i' instltutlonalist* had taken all rolling ntock ou that road between Mexico City and Kspcranza for movement of troops. Colonel Edmundo Martinez. 1 representative of General Candido Aguilar, Intimated that another reason tor suspension was to prevent entrance to Vera Oru?. of passengers who might turn out to be followers of General! Villa. > j Tho' Intcroeeartc, the other line to Mexico City, Is heiiiK operated only in ] sections. *A stretch beyond fc'an Marcos ! is under control of the ex-Fedcval Gen- | e.-al Hlglnlo Aguilar. TIIIIBB STRONG COMUINS HEADED TOWAIII) t AIMTAl. 151. PASO. TEXAS. November 20.? ] Villa's agents here declared to-night . that three strong columns of Villa | troops, aggregating GO.OOu men. now j were on the march?one headed by I Villa himself, toward Mexico City, and anoChcr from Irapuato. under General Itaoul Maricro toward Guadalajara, a metropolis on the west coast; the third, headed by George Martiano Servln, from San l.uis I'otosi, toward Tamplco. (iEVEUAI, SA I. AX \li ESCA I'KS KIIOM ALIIl (U'KUQlE JAII. AI.CiUQUF?IIQU 55. X. M.. November 20. --General .lone Ynez Sala/Vir escaped from tlw Bernalillo county Jail at Old Albuquerque to-l)lgbl. <'ITV ?r QUEIIETAHO NAMED AS I'APITUi AGUA8CAI.IBNTBS, November 20.? In h proclamation Issued to-day by tP.e Ag.naseajlontes convention, the clly ot QuereJaro la made provisional. capital of Mexico. The city has been occuplcd by the troops of General Villa, and from It a committee of twenty-one will temporarily administer the affairs of the republic, rtoque Gonzales Garza is at tlie head of this committee. MRS. JACKSON ILL Wliloiv of Sonth'n (irrnl Gruernl in Crltlcnl Condition. CHARLOTTE. N. C., November 20,? Mrs, Stonewall Jackson, widow of tho South'* great general, is most alarm ingly 111 at her homo In this city, Sho in Id her elghty-fourtti your. ITS FORCE IS SPENT Colit Wove J'nnnlnir. nnd Iltglirr Tem pprnturoM Arc \rnr. WASHINGTON. November 20.?The cold wave which spread over the Southern States last night and to-day. forelng the mercury below the freez ing point, had spent Its fovo to-night, and. according' to Weather Bureau forecasters, a reaction with ijtilrk ef fect Is bringing higher temperatures. Iteporta from Atlanta early to-nlglit show a temperature of 24 degrees there. At Jacksonville. Kla., It was 31; at .Mobile, 0; Chattanooga, 24: Mem phis, 3 I. and ('harlottc. N. C, 26. Kront Northern Virginia to New Eng land near normal November -tempera tures ?will prevail to-morrow. The cold snap was attended to-day , by snow In North Carolina, and the i lowest November minimum teinpera l turf In forty years In 'iborgla and AIr j bams. The cold wave started in the | Northwest and moved rapidly to the i South Atlantic coast. i Weather P.ureau reports showed a temperature this morning of 10 at Asheville. N". 12 at Chattanooga; H? tat Nashville: 14 at Knoxvllle: 1F> at , Memphis; It at Atlanta; IS sit MaeOn, I ami 22 at < 'li.-rluti o. At Hb.'hmond it was 30: Norfolk, 36; ' Charleston, 38: Italeigh. 30: Jackson 1 villo and Savatinah, 32: Mobile and i New Orleans. 34. Snow continued to-day In New I'.ng l?tnd and along the Great I.akes. HOW DID HE GET $100,000? SIcrH's Mtornr7K Sir Did H on llrnrnul of .Votrn. OKNHSKM, N. V.. November 20.?Tes | tlmoro' as to how Henry Slegel, the ' New York merchant, Obtained a loan , of JlOO.^io from the 'National Bank of ?Commerce of New York featured the | Sl?*gel trial to-day. | Oscar A. l'rall, o:i<*c confidential sec i rotary to Slegel, declared that hia cm ? plover obtained the money on the re . newal of four notes. Slegcl's attorneys | declare that if the money was oh ! talrjed on renewed notes, the larceny !charge against their client will not stand. Tlie prosecution has contended , that the notes were originals, arid that ' Slegel misrepresented the condition of Isome of Ills stores to obtain the money. John S. Alexander, president of the bank, tebtlfled that he would not have made the loan If he had known the Slegel stores were losing money. Several character witnesses were call'd to testify for Slogel after the ?Sfiiti! had rested Its case with Trail's j testimony. SEA CLAIMS ITS TOLL ICIrvrn llnillen Washed Ashore I'roni W nlrm of l.uke .Superior. SKNKY, MlClf.. November 2ft.?Klght bodies found to-day on the shore of I^ike Superior, about eight miles from (Srand Marals. ar>: thought to have J come from the lumber barge Anna M j Peterson, which left Haraga late Wed I nesdny afternoon in tow of the Meatner if". f\ Curtis, for Tonawanda, N. Y. The ! barge Is b.-lleved to have been wrecked In the gale which swept I.aUe Su perior yesterday and last , night. Three llodlrn Come A who re. MAKQL'F.TTE, MICH.. November 20. ? Three bodies were washed ashore to-day at Grand Marals, Mich., in a tangle of wreckage believed to bo part of the barge Anna M. Peterson. It Is believed the barge, foundered with all hands in the blizzard that swept | I*akc Superior Thursday. COMMITTEE ORGANIZES It Will Supervlur Distribution of .?* I :ir?.(K)ft.(KM) Cotton Tool. | m:\v VOI IK, November 20.?The | loan committee selected by Secretary ! MeAdoo to supervise distribution of I I In- ? 1 3."..000,000 cotton pool, organized here to-day. 1 W. P. (5. Harding. of the Federal Reserve Hoard, who was elected chair vna;> of the committee, announced after 1 a protracted executive session that lit tle in the way of definite results had been accomplished aside from formu lation of subscription and application forms. . * Several State committees, which, in turn, will appoint local oommittees to ; safeguard the work of the main body, were selected, subject to slight change. The personnel of the committees was not disclosed. HORSES ASSEMBLED HERE They Will lie Shipped From .VeTrport .\>wn for tiso of Allien. NBWI'ORT NEWS, VA.. November 20.? Tlie British steamer Raeburn ar rived here to-day from Bordeaux. I Fiance, to load horses for the French and British governments. The horses arc now being assembled in Richmond, it is said, and will be shipped to this port within the next few days. It was learned here to-day that n local man, who has Just returned (roni New York, has secured contracts to supply three more shiploads of horses to the warring powers, although he j would not state which government was concerned. These shipments will bo made as soon as possible, it is said. ORDERS ARE STRINGENT Aliiolutr Neutrality of Canal /.one i Must He Preserved. PANAMA, November 20.?Stringent ? orders have been issued, to preserve ! neutrality throughout the Canal Zone. | Hereafter no information will be ' given to any one relative to the ear I goes carried by ships using the water- j way. These orders have resulted partly from President Wilsons recent neutrality proclamation and partly from the efforts of local British dip lomatic and ronsular agents, to learn what ships carried coal and oilier 1 probable contraband through the canal| for possible transfer at sea to German I warships. THEY RECEIVE ORDERS nut .Neither Connnnnder Clve* Fur- | ther Details of Smyrna Incident. WASHINGTON. November 20.?Sec , retary Daniels received messages to- j day from Captain ' Pecker, of the 1 cruiser Tennessee, and Captain Omar, i of the cruiser North Carolina, ac knowledging receipt of his order that no action be taken in Turkish waters without specific instructions, but neither commander supplied additional details of the firing at the Tennessee's launch at Sinyrna Reverb!, days ago. The Stale Department also is still without advices from Ambassador Morgeilthau. BEST FOB BUSINESS OB PLEASURE. Vork River I.lnt to Baltimore. 6:10 1'. >1, ?Me ??.?0 round trip. De lightful and Invigorating (all. What Men and Guns Failed to Do, Nature Quickly Accomplishes. ! FIGHTING IS IMPOSSIBLE IN PRESENT CONDITIONS ?Terrific Blizzard Har Chilled Marrow in Bones of Strug gling Soldiers. II/IAKSS IS KVEHYWHERK Thousands of Casey of Pneumonia Have Been Reported I'"nun Front. Zeppelin Is Seen Headed for London I ^prrltl ('nblr to Thf Tlmfi niMflliO-h.) IiOXDON, No Vfmlirr 20.?A dl* pntoh to thr t'entrol \cnii from Dover nun that nn nlratilp un* ?ffn thlK evening over DuoRrnrnx, a hendland on the Kentish cnaitl. kn ottier dispatch states Ihnl tin* nlr nhlp la a 7.rpprlln heading lovrard ; l.ondon. PAUIS, Novenibor 20.--The battle I front In Flanders and In France, from j the North H?-a to the Meuse, Is ntorin bound. What the two (jrfnt'ni war machines evr assembled In the history of the warn have failed to accomplish with their ultra-modern ermines In destruc tion. the elements to-day?in the phrase of the War Office reports?brought to : a successful conclusion. Lioth great armies ar>' atlenrod. ? The rival battle lines, which :i week ago were great towers of strength waging u titanic struggle for Ihe gain ? of a few hundred yards, only to lose It j again as the vanquished of the morn , lug's contllct by a suiirenie effort be I came the \-lctors with the coining of 'night, to-day remained two Impotent , masses. Great numbers were stricken down before the fury of a frriiic bliz zard, which leveled the trenches, en I Veloped the big kuiis and chilled the . tnarrow in the bones of the. fighting Til Of MAX OS OK CASKS OF I'MSUMUMA IIKI'OHTKU Thousands of cane* of pneumonia ? have been reported from t ho fr?>nt, , and every train to the rear from the allies' lines hi Flanders and along tlio <>la?s and the Aistie to-day bore great , contingents of oflloers and men fn jvalldod hack by serious Illness. i The midnight official report f:om j Bordeaux states merely that there is "nothing notable to announce." This j negatively confirms the unofficial re I ports from the front tilling of the terrific effect of the blizzards. Tho i midnight report ordinarily contains the ! developments of the current day. The brevity of the. anuouncmeht is in | part due to the paralyzing of the telc | graph lines connecting the headquar | tens of the general start In the Held i ! with the headquarters of the ? corps i commanders Reports of any possible i ! developments for this reason may have j failed to reacli General .loffre. Army signal men are busy erect ing the broken lines of communication, as their maintenance is oT primary im ? portancc. The stress of the storm has i prevented reionnolssar.ces by the avla- ' 'tors, and Isolation of detached bodies i of troops by surprise attacks possible 'under these extraordinary conditions' is feared. 1 Tho afternoon communique gave cvl-j dence of the waning strength of the i rival armies. On Wednesday the ar ? tlllery lire of the Germans had per- j ; ceptlbly diminished, and during the : day of Thursday there was almost a. total absence of Infantry tire exchange ; : between the lines, while-the artillery' ; fire had again slackened noticeably. ' The Yser Canal from. Ypres to Nleu- | , port was flooded, particularly the ter- j I rltory to the east of Dixmude, where j tho German detachnie'nts which occu ' pled the ruined town more than a week ! ago are isolated. The Germans have lost a number of | guns in the floods. In front of Ram- i ! HL-apelle the French troops recovered J jfrom the water two I ti.S-ceuiimotre j t mortars which had been abandoned by j I the Invaders. Up to ihe time the storm reached its < greatest height on Thursday night, the Germans had been maintaining a fairly Intense artillery lire to the south of Ypres. In the Argon ne. according to the delayed report, three successive in fantry attacks were repulsed on Thurs day morning. The greatest activity of Thursday was reported from the region of Ver- j dun, where it is ofllclally admitted that; the French wedge has been driven back ! to Its old position. ! FIIF.NCH FORCED BACK AND GKKMAMS C'llOStS UIY1CH Tho French, who occupied the west ! em part of the town of Chauvincourt. I across the Mouse from St. Mlhiel, ef fectively dislodging the Geimans from I the western banks of the Meuse, have j j again been forceii back, and the tier- J ! mans have recrosscd the river. Dynamite was the agent the Ger mans used in dislodging the French i troops. When the French occupied a portion of the town tlio Germans were driven from their barracks. These tho Frcnch troops occupied. Gut the j Germans had previously mined iho! barrack buildings, and during the j night of "Wednesday tliey blew up the j barracks, killing many of the ocou- | pants. Then followed a charge by tho ; invade rs, and the survivors of tho dis- | aster were compelled to withdraw. ( RUN DOWN BY CARS Young Woman Killed anil Two Injured nn Track* of Southern. HILL.SIJOIIO. N. C., November 20.? i Three persons were injured, one of; them fatally,' when six runaway freight cars ran down a party of five 1 persona walking across the Southern, j tracks hero Into last night. Mrs. [ Thelma McCnuly. fifteen years old. I later died in n hospital at Vuirham. j j Mfn. Leon Flnley and 10. F. MeCaulcy . I arc In a serious condition. Tho othor I members of the party escaped injury. THREE MIGHTY BATTLES RAGE ON EASTERN FRONT STILL ANOTHER DEFEAT IN FIGHT AGIST DEATH Leo M. Frank One Step Nearer Exe cution as Penalty for Murder of Mary Phagaii. ERROR REFUSED Mis Attorne.fs1Ginounce7Tntentipn.t6 Take Case to Supreme Court, and Application Will- Re Made Direct to Justice Lamar'. ' A group of some of the 110 passengers'and crew-who arrived, in New Vork aboard the Lloyd-Brazilian liner Sao Paulo from Para, Brazil, to which placc they were taken by the Asuncion, the vessel which rescued them on October ?7 from the Lamport At Holt liner Vandyck, which \vas sunk off j certify to tlic United States Supreme I the coast of Chile by the (.erinaii cruiser Karlsruhe. ! Court a writ of error In the cano of ATLANTA, OA.; November 20.?The State Supremo Court to-day refused to PROHIBITION LftW TO BE ! CONSTRUED BY COURT i i Use of .Mails to Solicit Orders in | West Virginia Called in Question. ASIv FOR PROMPT HKAHIXCi I'nited Slates Court of Appeals to j Pass 011 Right of Express Com pany to Transport Liquor Ship- i ments When 'Ordered by Mail. Whether tlu' rigid prohibitory lawn of West -Virsinia, designed to prevent) the shipment of liquor into the State, can be enforced, will be decided by the, United States Circuit Court of Appeals.1 in si-.ss.lon here, injunction proceedings have been brought by West Virginia ; to restrain the Adams Express Com- ; pan.v from delivering interstate ship-j ments, unless the consignee can show i conclusively that the consignment was ordered without solicitation. Argu-| ments to have the cause of action ad-I vanced for immediate hearing will be heard to-day. as it Is desired that thej question may be speedily settled. j WeHt Virginia Hied its bill against the Adams 15x press Company, the ship-| per and the consignee 011 September 15.' in the Kanawha Circuit Court, and a) temporary injunction was granted. The | case was subsequently removed to the United States District Court for the j Southern District of West Virginia, at. Charleston, where on October 19, the Injunction was dissolved by the court. An appeal was noted, and both parties j are now endeavoring to havo the higher ? court advance the cause on its docket, j MANY PIXK I.IUiAl, POINTS A It 10 IN'VOLYKII | Many fine legal points, some of which i involve the constitutionality of Federal statutes, will be decided by the court. ? The State of West Virginia contends that its laws, which forbid the adver- ' tlsement of liquor for sale, or the | solicitation of orders; become up- ; plirablc through (he provisions of the Wehh-Kenyon antlshipping act, and the Wilson act. The defendant com pany asserts that the effect of the West . Virginia statute is to prevent the ship- ' per from using the United States malls j to solicit orders, and that if the Kod-j eral statutes permit this, that they are j necessarily contrary to the Constltu-i tlon of^ the United States, and cannot ! be enforced. Briefly to summarize the ease, it may bo said that a citizen of -West Virginia received price fists on beer from a Cin cinnati wholesale dewier. The laws of the Slate prohibit this method of solici tation and make it a misdemeanor. As j tiic offending party rc8id<-s out of the j State, ami cannot be dealt with erim- 1 Innlly. the Slut? filed a bill In equity i asking the court to restrain the com mon carriers front delivering consign ments ordered through such solicita tion on the ground that by aldliuf in a violation of the law the common car- ; ricr was abetting it, and was therefore1 In common nuisance, which could i?' i abated by a court of equity. It abked that .the court restrain the delivery of till shipments, unless the common car | ricr was satisfied that the consignment ' (Continued on Socond Pago,) NO DECISION ON RATES UNTIL AFTER HOLIDAYS i Farts Submitted Since Killing in August Xot Yet Compiled for Commission. ROADS AltK VKKY HOPEFUL. Some Henson Exists for Belief That Desired Increase Will Be Granted. President Said to Be Distinctly Favorable to Application. JSpeci.i! tn Tho Times-Dlspulch. J WASHINGTON, November 20.?The application of railroads east of the Mississippi for a further Increase In freight rates, it was strongly intimated by the interstate Commerce Commis sion to-day, would not be passed upon before the hollduys. The additional facto submitted slncc the ruling of j the commission last August have not4) yet been compiled for the commission, j and have not yet been formally con- I side red. Some reason exists for believing a further measure of relief will be af forded the roads. Chief among tlieso Is claimed to be tho attitude of the Pres ident, which is said to be distinctly favorable to tho application. Reasons for not granting the * In crease asked for are found In the fact that the net revenues of the roads. ; by tho reason of the reductions in Her- ] vice and other economies practiced at i the suggestion of the conimlhulon In | Its ruling last .July, are greater than j for the corresponding months of last ; yea r. Under the order of tho commission September IS, when the case was re opened, the railroads were required to show what facts or circumstances have | happened since the original ruling 1 other than the ICuropean war. The commission has taken cognizance of the ? disturbed conditions due to the war. j It developed in the original bearing j that if the roads were granted tho per cent advance then asked, on the\ basis of the business of 1913. the in-! crease would yield additional revenue | between ?i0,000.000 and 3'?0,000,000. ; Including the suggested increase in j passenger fares, the ruling of '.he eotu misslcn is estimated to yield increased I revenue of about $12,000,000, a sum i tho roads claimed to bo entirely in- , adequate. Included in this estii:iate4 increase] were lho now passenger rater, that ] hnvo Just been tiled with the comrnls-i slon. ? These, the carriers say. will j amount to not more than J.M'00,000, ! and will have very little effect In re lieving the situation. These new pas- , scngor tariffs are claimed fo be based upon tho short-line haul, and are re- I adjustments of errors more than any thing else. Tho carriers now claim that even if the original per cent Increaso asked by them is allowed, It will not eomponsnto them oocauso of the vast falling off in business. Three Ilurnrd to Dentlt. PITTSBURGH, PA.. November 20.? Mrs. Marc-la Pc-tro and her two daugh ters \verc burned to death when their home In Homestead was destroyed by tiro to-day. The mother lost her lifo In attempting to rescuo her children. Leo M. Frank, under sentence of death here for the murder In April, 1913. of Mary Phagan. Counsel for Frank, af ter to-day's decision, announced that the case would be taken direct to the United States Supreme Court. The application for a writ of orror to take the case to the highest trib unal In the land was based upon the Georgia Supreme Court's refusal In Its decision lust Saturday to sot aside the verdict on the ground that Frank was absent from the courtroom when the verdict was announced. ( Frank's attorneys stated to-day that they would take steps as soon as pos sible to net the case before the United States Supremo Court. They said one method of procedure to accomplish , tixis object would be to make applica tion dlrcct to an individual justice of the Supremo Court, most likely Asso ciate Justice Lamar, to certify, the writ j of error to the highest court. The at i torneys said they havo not considered j an attempt to get the ease beforo the ' Supremo Court on a habeas corpus pro ceeding. It was learned to-day that the prose cution plans to go before tho Superior | Court next Wednesday to have Frank I resentenced. I Two of Frank's attorneys, Henry ' Peeples and Harry Alexander, left At 1 lanta to-day for Washington to pre I sent their application for a writ of error in behalf of Frank to Justice Lamar. IT IS SISVKXTH lAH.lllK OF LIHiAL liKfOKTS The State Supreme Court's action to d:j.y marks the seventh failure of legal eft'orts to obtain a retrial for Frank or a reversal of the verdict, which was [ returned August 25, 1013. Frank's I execution was tlrst set for October 10, ! 1913, but this was stayed by appeals | and motions for a new trial. In March of this year ho was resentenced to be I hanged, the date being ilxed for April | 17 last. Proceedings before the State I | Supreme Court, however, acted as a 1 I stuy of execution of the sentence. It] ! will 'now be necessary to sentence tho ; former factory superintendent the third time, and again tlx a date for ills ! execution. In arguing the motion before tho j State Supreme Court for tiie setting j aside of the verdict, counsel for Frank declared that at the trial the "air I >about the courtroom was surcharged with mob violence." It was brought! , out that tlie trial Judge suggested that i the defendant i>o absent when the ver- ! j diet w:><?? rendered. Frank's attorneys j I admitted counsel for tin; accused con j sen ted to their client's absence, but j held that Frank himself never gave j | his consent They allege his consti- ] I tutlonal rights had thus been violated, i | It is upon this ground that his present I ? attorney's hope to get the1 case before tho United states Supreme Court. [ Should this tribunal refuse to hoar ; tho .'ippeal o.- decide It against Frank ' ills only recourse to escape execution. | It is declared, would be through the j I extension of executive clemency by i , the Governor of Georgia. I JOHN W. MORfONTDEAD He Served mm Chief of Artillery on \ .Staff of tirneral Forrest. M KM PUIS, TUNIS?.. November '.'0.? John \V. Morton, former Secretary of I Slate of Tennessee, died here to-'lny, ' aged seventy-one. Mr. Morton served hi the Confederal? arm., as chief of ?artillery op the staff of General Na than B. Forrest. DECISIVE RESULT MAY BE ATTAINED ON FROZEN HELD Poland Scene of Two t)es p e r a t e Conflicts?The Third in East Prussia. WEATHER CONDITIONS FAVOR FIGHT TO FINISH Reinforced Germans Are Strug gling for Mastery Over Russian Hordes. BOTH SIDES CLAIM SUCCESSES Almost Complete Absence of Infantry Attacks In Eastern Arena of War. Eyes of World Centre on Battles in Poland INTRRKST In the (Treat Knropean struggle remains centred In the eaatern theatre, where three big hattlea are being fought. The ac tivity In llelglum anil France haa lessened, because of had weather nud the Inond'itlon of a consider able area along the Yaer, In Weil Klanders. Poland la the scene of Iw# con tents In the east, and the third ta being fought In Kast Pruasln. The comhat In the country betneen the Vistula and Warta Hlvera If attract ing the most attention. It ta be lieved the Uermana hAve maaaed there at leaat 500,000 men, la an endeavor to break the Ruaalan line. The location of the battlefield and other condltlona favor' a decisive conflict, tu thin battle the (^uaa^na claim to have achieved "partial aue The aecond battle tn Poland la be ing fought1 on the Oracoir-Cienito chowa line, and both aide* claim they are aatlafltd irlth .the progress made. The Ruaalan advance In Eaat Prusaln la moving slowly through the region nhout the Maaurlsa lakes. In thla district the frcraana liave maaaed atrong forcea. The Russians are moving nentnard la Gallcla, and claim numeroua anc ceaaea, nmong nhlcli are the cap? tnre of Wlsnlca, Gorllce, Dukla and I'Jok. The only aerlona fighting now tak ing place on the allien' left In the western battle ground appeara to be aoutli of Ypres, where a violent ar tillery duel la progreaalng. In the Argonne region the German* have made vigorous attacks, which, ac cording to the French, have been re pulsed. According to official announce ment In Berlin, reports received la the German capital from HoUand state that In the recent fighting near nixschoote and Dlxmude the French loat -0,000 men, and that 1,500 Ilrltlsh were drowned In the Yaer Cannl. Iilttle news regarding operatloaa In Transcnucasla haa reached the outside world. The Turkish War Office announces that the fighting la progreaalng favorably. LONDON, November 20.?Two big: buttles, botli of which may havo deci sive robults, are raying In Poland, and a third of almost equal lmportanco Is progressing In East Prussia. Of the three battles, that now at Us hoight between the Vistula and Warta Rivers, arid in which the Rus sians to-night claim partial success, Is exciting the most Interest. The Germans, I J. Is believed, havo brought up. by their line of strategic rail ways lnJPosen and Slle-slu, at least half a million men. In an effort to break the Russian line here. .Weather con ditions. tlie frozen ground and the sit uation of the battlefield, favor a battle decisive to a degree not equaled or. any other field In the present war. The other battle In Poland Is taking place on the Cracow-G'zcnstochowa front, and Russians and Germans each claim It Is proceeding satisfactorily. In Hast Prussia the Russian advance Is moving slowly through the wild i country , surrounding the Mazurlan i Lakes. In Galieia, the Russians arc I moving westward, and at the same t'me are seizing the passes of the ^Carpathians. ! IMWNTUV ATTACKS AUK A1,MOST STOPPK1) j Thero now In almost a complete ab sence of infantry attacks In the west ern arena, and the artillery fighting is | much le::.s violent. All that region iibout Dixmudo through which the Ys*r Canal passes l.s Inundated, and the only i serious fighting appears to be taking I place south o<" Yscr, where cannonading is in progress. Bad weather, which necessarily ; hampers operations, has been expe rienced, and snow has fallen In soma | places. There has been no Important action In tho French centre, but In the Arsonno region thu Germans havo | made vigorous attacks, which, tho French say, were repulsed. On tho French rlpht wing the Germans havo retaken Chauvlncourt, part of which they destroyed a few days ago. Gor man activity In tho vicinity of Rholm* has slackened. Austria'* advance Into Sorvla is ! creating uneasiness In Bulgaria as to tlio future of the Balkan state*. Whether Bulgaria should remain neu tral or th'row In hor lot With the was discuascd to-day in the tjbbr.inja, <? Leadcra of the Democratic party d'4?