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THE SUNDAY TELEGRAM full associated press service by leased wire VOL 2, NO. 6. CLARKSBURG, W. YA.. SUNDAY, JANUARY 2. .191(5. FIRST SECTION PRICE FIVE CENTS SIT1 . SERIES SINKING OF T BRINGS A NE IN DIPLOMA Danger of a Break between the United States and Austria is Renewed. LANSING DOES NOT TALK Officials of State Department Are Not Inclined to Doubt Austria's Good Faith. WASHINGTON*!*'Jan""' ? Official Washington tonight anxiously awaited details of the torpedoing of the British steamship Borsia, on which American citizens were known to have embarked. While it was realized that reports expected from consular and dlplonatic representatives might show that the submarine commander was justified in sinking the vessel, officials were not inclined to minimize the gravity of the situation confronting the United States should it develop that there has been a violation 01 American rights. New dangers, it was admitted, threatened the relations between the United States and the Central powers which seemingly had just been placed on the road to satisfactory adjustment by the assurances contained in Austria's reply to the second Ancona note. Should it develop that the submarine was of Austrian nationality, as there apparently is ground for believing, the Vienna government will be given every opportunity to explain. Meantime, the state department desires that ll be determined definitely whether the Persia tried to escape; whether the torpedo was fired at it after or before she was stopped: whether warning was given; whether the passengers had sufficient time in which to leave the vessel. Only two official despatches concerning the sinking of the Persia were received by the'state department today. These were from Uonsut-uenerai swnner ? i.uuuun and the information they contained virtually was Identical with that in press despatches. Copies Immediately 1 were transmitted to President Wilson at Hot Springs and the department dispatched requests for Information to its representatives at Alexandria. Kgypt, and other points where survivors might be landed or detail^ Of the attack might be available from other sources. One American citizen aboard the Persia was Robert XcXeely, newly appointed consul at Aden. The belief was expressed in official circles tonight that had lie escaped, some report would have been forwarded by liim, as more than two days had elapsed since the vessel went down. Pausing Will Not Comment. In the absence of specific details, Secretary l>ansing tonight declined to comment upon the sinking of the Persia. He made it clear that until the nationality of the submarine had been' definitely established and facts of the' attack were known, no action would lie'taken. He apparently was viewing the situation with an open mind. It was realized that should an Austrian submarine have destroyed the, vessel, the Vienna government might (Continued on page 7, first Section.11 IJP Is to Lose Its Student Members as It is Undesirable to Go through Sea. COPENHAGEN,"vln"London. Jan 1, 7:05 p. m.?About one-third af th? members of the Ford peace expedition. the majority of whom are students. will leave the party at Copvn hagen. The remaining members ?t the party, about one hundred Amen cans, arc going to The Hague. The reason assigned for the students' action is that it was thought ttndesli able for them to take the risk of a voyage through the North sea. The expedition lias obtained information that it will possibly take six ^ days more time than is usually re_ quired for the voyage to The Hague, B on account of the ship being required to move only In the day time. Members of the expedition express a desire to reach The Hugue as soon as they are able, to obtain pyblicity or hold meetings in Copenhagen. Mayor Lindhagen, of Stockholm, has arrived in Copenhagen and joined the party WAGE DECREASE For 1(1,000 Women nnd (ilrls Employed | In Hctnil Stores, < * *saoctATto ANiaa) BOSTON. Mnss., Jan. 1.?A decree i establishing n minimum wage for 10,-; 000 women and girls employed in retail stores in this state went into effect today. The decree was Issued by . (he Minimum Wage Commission and wlille not mandatory, it has boen accepted by nearly all of the retail i stores In the state. The minimum weekly wage for ex- i Dcrlenced employes is fixed at ?S.50. i UA1 j OF LI HE PERSIA :w DANGER TIC AFFAIRS HEAO-OIKOLLISIOIf On a Crossing Results in the Death of Three Persons and Injures Half Dozen. LAPQRTE, Ind.. Jan. 1.?Three persons are dead and half a dozen badly injured as the result of a head-on collision today between a passenger and a freight car on the Gary and interurban railway at Brooks Crossing eight miles west of here. The dead: Willie Wickershatn. 27. Uiporto, Ind. motorman on the passenger ear: Mrs. Ellen Reed. Westville, Ind., and nn unidentified man front Hammond. Ind. A heavy fog is blamed for the col1 Ison. The third person killed later was identified at Lloyd J. Watrous, of Chesapeake. 0. He was prineipal of a high sehool in Laporte county. Motorman Cales. of the freight car. may die. EARTHQUAKE Recoiv.ng Lasts Three Hours and the Vibrations Are Violent North and South. WASHINGTON,'* Jan""?A very severe eurthquake, the heaviest recorded In some time and lasting almost three hours, occurred in an undetermined location today. Seismographs of Georgetown University observatory began recording the tremors at 8:43 a. hi. The shocks increased in intensity and between 9:25 nnd 9:45 o'clock they were violent. The vibrations were principally north and south. It was conservatively estimated the distance of the center of the disturbances was 3,000 miles from Washington. SEMKILLS Three Men in Emporium's Lockup and Two Other Persons. KANE, Pa.. Jan. 1?Three men, being held in the borough lockup at Emporium were killed and two other persons living in an adjoining building, were rendered unconscious by escaping sewer gas early today. The men were: r.tiwara rie, oiussuurg, rranuio Dickson, New York, and James Ilouton, Canton, Pa., and were employed by an explosive company. Their bodies were found when a policeman visited the lockup today Mrs. Melvin Logan and her little daughter were in a critical condition when found hut physicians tonight declared that both would recover. EARTH SHOCKS Are Itrrnrdfd In City of St. Louis More Thau Two Hours. ST IX)tMS**Jan 1?Earth shocks ?-re recorded on the seismograph at St IxHiif I nitersiiy here between 7:54 and 1" II o clock tills morning. Appai-utH the disturbances were almut mile* from St. I.ouis. TS. I uw shock was recorded : S The M ismograph rec. .) :>< m.nusion that two dlstthci eaitii MSHMlU had occurred and " tremors of different direction* bad met. | ANGRY WHI1 SEARCH F Who Are Among Those Accused of Murdering a White Overseer in Georgia. ' Y AtaOCIATIO YHIMI BLAKELY, Ga? Jan. 1?Men bent upon finding two of the negroes accused of the murder of Henry J. Villi plgue, a white overseer whose death near here Wednesday cost the lives of six negroeB killed by angry whitea, Btlll searched the Chattahoochee river swamps tonight. Outwardly the county was quiet,1 but the apcarance of two automo-1 biles carrying armed men through town enroute to the sceDe of recent negro killings and the Arrest of a Negro who was threatened by whites, created some excitement late today. The automobiles bgre men to aid those seeking Mike and Ulysses Ooolsby. twd> negroes accused In connoctlon nor NKED { Left te right, top: Frank S. Monnctt and Robert Fowler; center, Harr; B. Martin. Congressman Buchanor and OaTia Lamar; bottom, vranr ron Rintelen. The prominent men indicted a few days ago by a federal grand Jury it New York on a charge of consplrin; to foment strikes in American mu nitions factories assert one and al their innocence. The men are: Con' gressman Buchanon of Illinois; for ^ mer Congressman Robert Fowler oi Illinois; Frank S. Monnett, formal attorney general of Ohio; Paeob C Taylor, president of labor's Nationa Peace Council; Harry B. Martin DnxriH Ijimnr and Fran* Rintplen. LOSS OF IS VERY ON Tl NO DISORDER When Transition from Wet to Dry Takes Place in Four Pacific States. SAX FKANCISCO, Cal., Jan. 1 ? I Prohibition became effective today in [ Washington, Oregon. Idaho and Colorado without any resultant disorder, according to reports received front lite four states. In Seattle and Portland the windows of yesterday's har rooms were either placarded with signs announcing new business ventures for the former saloon keepers or disclosed bar rooms from which fixtures had been removed to make way for new tenants. In Colorado, the usual New Year's eve celebrations were held last night In the larger cities but liquor establishments closed early and quietly. In Ilolse, Idaho. niOHt of tbn saloons were closed long before the stroke of the new year. res STILL OR NEGROES with the VillipiRue killing. Negroes who had slept on back porches or in kitchens of homes of white persons and who kept off the streets, this morning gradually began to venture forth and late today many were seen about the town. A visit to the country section west of here where thp killings occurred failed 10 reveal any evidence of excitement., Here and there smoke drifted up; front the embers of a negro lodge hall. There were half a dozen in Early county three days ago, and It was said that as far as could be learned tonight, none had been left standing. Reports that negro organizations had plotted Villipigue's death 1 because he Whipped a Son of Grandison Goolsby. one of the ne-: grois accused later of having a hand In the killing of Villlplgue caused all1 lodge buildings except one to be, (Continued on page 7, first Section.); 4 si IS + + + + + BATTLI ' ^ ' i LIFE HEAVY 4F DFDCIA IL I LltOIH Casualty List is Next in Heaviness to That of the Big Lusitania Liner. LORD MONTAGU ABROAD Scene of the Catastrophe is a Graveyard of a Number . of Fine Ships. j LONDON, Jan. I, 2 p. m.?Next to! the Lusitania disaster, tlic sinking of; the Peninsula and Oriental liner Pcrs*! . la probably means a considerably i heavier casualty list than that of any 1 of the passenger-carrying ships that (heretofore have fallen victims to the, torpedoes of fiornian or Austrian submarines. This deduction is based on i several hundred passengers and crew and that only four life boats got away from the vessel as It went down. The Peninsula and Oriental steamship otTlco will Issue a list of the actu-i . al passengers as soon as possible. At present only practical bookings are available. These show that among those on board was Colonel Daron Montagu, of Iieaulleu, who Is known ; in America. Lord .Montagu was born in 1880. He was prominent In nth-' ' letirs and has traveled extensively, visiting the T'nlted States, Japan, [ China, India and Egypt. He was a: war correspondent in Rhodesia during the Matabele war. He was In-' terested in railway and transportation problems. The scene of the catastrophe, the seas between the island of Creto and Alexandria, recently has been the graveyard of a number of line ships: and only a few weeks ngo, the Amer Iran lank strainer I'Mluilltt MHI'IVW-' ly escaped the guns of a submarine there. Kirst Company laws, The Persia was the nrst passenger ship lost by the Peninsular and Oriental line during the war. Just prior to the departure of the vessel from I London the company held its annua! meeting. Chairman Inchepe remarked of the growing anxiety qauesd bv the enlargement of the submarine zone and of the Indebtedness of this company to the British navy for completfe Immunity (Continued' on page 7, first Section.) CR SIS B LARGE FORC AND AUi FOF TREASURE NOT IN LIl Vehemently Denies the Report That He is to Withdraw j from Race for Auditor. \ OHARL.E3STON, Jan. I.?Stale Treasurer B. L. Ijoiik tonlKht emphatically ' iliwii<xl (i rnrwirt nlvon mihliciltioil to dny by the Mate proas that he would withdraw from the race for the Reptthlican nomination for auditor and i run attain for treuaurer. | "The article referred to doea mo an I injustice," declared Mr. l/mg; "I have made no deals with anybody, and do not believe Republican nomination should lie made that way. My candidacy for auditor wns announced to my friends mote than a year ago, and through their generous support it has been pretty well advertised throughout the state. I am and intend to remain a candidate for auditor, making my appeal direct to the Republican voters of the stute and without denls of combination these nominations belong to the Republicans of the state to bestow upon whomever they choose and they should not be made pawns on a chess board to be disposed of In secret star chamber sessions. "I am sure the report referred to j wns not authorized hy Auditor Unrst, i and that it mlsrepressnts hint also, j Mr. Darst Is a man of honor and more than twolvc tnonins ago nctore announcing my candidacy lio assured mo and my friends Hint lie would not lio 1 a candidate ror a third nomination | for auditor. So I am unwilling to | credit the statement that he is to permit the use of his name for that-office again. I'nder 110 circumstances will 1 seek another nomination for slate treasurer. "I expect to he nominated for audi-1 tor but even If I should not be 1 could not honorably permit the use of (Continued on page 2. first section.) SCHOONERlURNS With a Cargo of Palm Oil at Its Dock at San Juan, Porto Rico. RAN JUAN,"porto" Rico, Jnn. 1 ? The American Schooner Korent City., with n cnrgo of palm oil, horned at its dock here today. The Forest City was bound from Calabar, on the west; coast of Africa lo New York. The Forest City, disabled by storms and with eleven of Its crew suffering from berl berl, reached San Juan on December 13 after a seventy-one day voyage front wpbI Africa. In cable advices It was said that the schooner; would be towed to New York. TITANIC MONEY To the Amount of $119,125 to Pay Claims against Com- j pany is Deposited. ( V , AflOCI ATID PAHA, NEW YOltK. Jnn. 1?Counsel for the White Star I.lne, owners of the Titanic, deposited with the clerk of tnc district reoerni court, uie iub ui $119,125, representing all that In left of the passage and freight chargeR anil salvage on life boats of the sunken liner. This sum will be, the court found,,for the settlement of claims If n decision of United States Judge Julius M. Mayer, ns to the limitations of liabilities of the steamship company, Is upheld. The total claims are about $2,500,000 but nearly all1 of the claimants hnve agreed to ac-] cept $664,000 In full settlement. /lAii^n i>cr PEOPLES' Hospitality Shown by the Unit- 1 ed States and Responsive Chord among Visitors. *BV A.IOCIATIO BNBitt WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.?The first week of the I*an-Amerlran scientific congress ended tonight with a recep-1 lion to delegates by the board of gov ernora or the pan-American union. | The function, held at the Pan-American building was of a semi-official . character and reflected prominently ] marked trend toward cultivation of closer relations between the American ( republics which has characterized all 1 of the sessions of the congress. , Many of the visiting delegates, who , Include tedders In the political and ' scientific thought of Uttn-Amerlea, , declared their belief that the meet- t I ng hero," aside from the results of the i. i s ITIC Ell :es of germ. brians bro! l a battle i :R LONG I LY'SDEAL \ BOB-SLEDDING FATAL To Two Young Women and a Young Man is Seriously Injured. GA/L.DWTEL.U N. J.. Juii. 1.?Two i yomiK women wore killed and 11 young iimn Rerlously Injurml wlillo lioli-sledillng Imrc loilay. Tim vIcllniR were '.MIkk Winifred Dalloy unit Mian Union Vanderwnter, both of JCnst Ornngo. Their comiinnion, William Utile, Jr., son of the mayor of North Caldwell, Is sulTorlng from internal Injuries. The accident occurred when the sled dashed into a telephone pole. LIVES LOST Captain Back and Other Officers Perish When Cruiser Natal Sinks. LONDON, Jan. 1. 6:5(1 p. in.?Seventeen officers, Including Captain Eric Hack and Chaplain Algernon S. Sweet and nine warrant officers, were lost whon the cruiser Natnl sank Thursday "while In harbor" as the result of an internal explosion. Onpluitt lluck Is remembered for his con sprint <>r 10(1 yards against Itear-Adntlrnl Sir nbTterl K. Arhutlinot made In flilfllltiiont of h bet It)' litem twenty years previously. Itenr Admiral Arbuthnot wiik 4!t years old and Captain Hack 18. The race was run at. Portsmouth, Cng., anil Captain Dark won by a yard In the excellent lime of twelve seconds. CUBANS DKKEATKII. TAMPA, Fla., .Inn. 1.?The Cuban Athletic Club football champions of Cuba, was defeated 47 lo ft here today by the Southern College team. BOMB FOUND' | In the State House in City of, Boston with Fuse Fire Gone Out. BOSTON. Jan. 1?An ltnsuecessful attempt in dynamite tin* state house was made today. A bomb containing tour pounds of explosives wan at-; (ached to a basement. door and a fuac had been lighted hut the (lame apparently died before reaching the detonator. Had the explosion occurred. In the opinion of (he police, the building would hnvc been greatly damaged.! The fact that tarred rope waa uaed a? a fuae, according to Inveatlgatora Indicated Hint tho bomb waa the work of a novice. A scrub woman discovered the bomb. GREAT STORM Sweeps Over I'arts or Kciglnnd and Does Much Damage. LONDON, Jan. 1, 6:58 p. m.?Another storm of great severity swept over parts of England today, doing much damngo. At Liverpool large1 shop windows were broken. Monmouthshire suffered extensively. Houses were unroofed and trees and wires blown down. It Is feared constwise shipping suffered heavily. EMENTS | FRIENDSHIP many intricate discussions of scientific problems that have been proceeding dally at the score of more of subsectional sessions, bad accomplished ' vast good In cementing the friendship of the American people. The hospitality shown hv the United States on the one hand, and the responsive chord it has found among the visitors on the other, were features generally recognized as almost historic in their significance. Among speoiflc developments of the week's session, delegates have, been particularly Impressed by Secretary Lansing's advocacy in an address of t z Pan-Americanism that would mean. "one for all; all for one" and by the speech of Elllni Root, a former secretary of state, in which he told the : Latin-American delegates that "so long the spirit of American freedom j (Continued on page 2, flrst section.) j :al OUGHT : % ANS JGHT UP N PROGRESS One and a Half Million Ger- | mans and Austrians Are Fnnannri in Rattle. ARE FIGHTING RUSSIANS Fragmentary News from the Field Show Teutons Are Not Making Progress. STRIKE RKItl.lN, .Inn. 1, via laimlon 8:0(5 p. in.?III!'Minn forces which have linen roiuliiet.liig nn important of. fcmdre movement in eastern tint Ida. | linvo lieon flnnkiMl iijiiI repulsed, the nnr olllce announces today. ...OCIAT.fl ...ill LONDON, Jan. 1. 8:40 p. m. ? l.arge forccH of Germans and Auatrlnns Imvo born brought up for battle now In progress In eastern Gall- -J i cln. A Iteutcr Despatch from Petro< xrnd snjH: "A great baltle, or aeries of linked battles, la proceeding on the southweatern front. Tho Austro-German nrnilea under Field Marshal Von ' Miirkensen and Genoral Pflanger, which are engaged from the Prlpet river to the Itotiuianlan frontier, are | estimated at 1,800,000 men. Only frngmenlnry newa of the . lighting has been received but It la istated authoritatively that the Austin-German forces have made proKress nowhere; that the Russians have retired nowhere nnd that such changes as have occurred on this front, have boon to the advantage of the Husshins. GREAT RUSSIAN ATTACK (WI-BIF TFHTnN FnflPFS & <ar AimeiATiD fhmi * I/XVDO.V, Jan. 1, 10:43 p. m.?The ' 'I?! rejuvenated Russian army, equipped with munitions from Japan, America Ajjj anil Kngland, Is engaged In n griat atinck on the Austro-Hungarlan forces in (lallrla. Iloports from Vienna and .$ I'ctrograd claim the advantage for tholr respective forces but neither capital describes derisive results. The details, which are few and conflicting, give no definite description of the battle line. Newspaper correspondents In Petrograd estimate that one and a half mil and assert that whatever changes have occurred In the lighting line are In favor of tbo Hussions. The Austrian war office official report says that the mission attacks were everywhere repulsed with hoavy losses. A w significant fact is that the Russian army has aguln been able to take the offensive. Recent Itelegrams from the war theater where this battle Is -J raging say that the Austrlans show better fighting qualities now than In the earlier stagos of the war The result of the battle Is expected to bavo nn Important Influence on the Balkan situation particularly on the e! Roumanian policy. Apparently Russia has been preparing for these operations for some time past. Cable communication from the Bessarablan region has virtually been suspended tor more than a month. Thousands of messages being held up until Wed- - 3jjfl noaday last, when the censorship was (Continued on page 7, first Section.) ITpr M One of North Carolina's Leading Men and Former Member of the Legislature. (IV A.anCIATIO SIIHI CHARLOTTE,?. C? Jan. 1.?Robert 'Ney McXeeley, the United States consul on board the torpedoed steamship 1'eraian was accompanied auuaru u> g bin brother, Dowd MoNeeley, until recently editor of the W&xhaw (N. C.) Enterprise, It was stated at Monroe tonight. Dowd .McNeeley, It Is said, ' --.pM was to have been his brother's secre18Robert Key McNeeley was born near , 'j Waxhaw In 1884. He was educated at. the University of North Carolina . , and practiced law here bofore entering the consular service. He had been: J a member of both housed of North i Carolina General Assembly. MEDAL CONFERRED, ( r aaiociatio run,) BERLIN, Jan. 1?(By wlreless to Sayvllle)?Emperor William has ebn- . v t$8M ferred the Red Cross medal of the Bavaria, for special merit In attend-- ' lng wounded and sick soldiers. , l?Y AMOCIATtfO PRIM) tens Traction Company announced . js? today that It had granted its em- j ployes Increase: In wfges amounting to *4,000 annually. Seventy men 3 are affected. s '-j- -S } "'Jfl