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1FTERN00N m READ THE 'WANTS' VOL. Issues Declaration That She Will Respect Ser vians Territorial Integ rity "This is War of Defense" Says Note Disclaiming Conquest. BULLETINS BERLIN, July 29. Emperor William of Germany and Czar Nicholas of Russia are in direct communication today on the war crisis. The kaiser sent a dispatch to the czar, it passing in trans mission, one from the czar to Ber lin. ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, July 29. A dispatch from Bel grade says that city has been bom barded by Austrian artillery and the bridge across the River Save lias been blown up. ST. PETERSBURG, July 29 The Rusian government was of ficially informed this afternon that Austria Hungary would respect Servia's territorial integrity and was even desirious of abstaining from occupying Belgrade. PORTLAND, England, July 29 The first British fleet sailed to day under secret orders from the admiralty. Its destination is be lieved to be the North Sea. All patients were removed from the ship s hospitals before the fleet departed. VIENNA, July 29- The world's peace congress scheduled to be held here in September, was called off today. Official notice will be sent to all nations that had planned to send delegates. BY HERBERT TEMPLE. LONDON, ifnglanJ, July 29. Though the w?r cloud hung low over all Fhirope throughout the Jay, the situation took a sud den change for the Letter late this afternoon owing to these two im portant developments: 1 Emperor William and Czar Nicholas took the threatened dis pute of their countries arising from the Austro-Servian contlict i 'lit of tho hands of their foreign ministers and ambassadors and assumed personal charge of the matters at issue. 2 -The Austro-Hungarian gov ernment permitted this authorita tive anouncement to be made iiere: "What ever action Austria Hungary may be compelled to take it will not be the acquisition or retention of territory. Austria Hungary desires only the perman ent safetv of her own territory and definitely to decide the rela tions with Servia. Austria's ac tion is essentiallv defensive." The tirst glimmer of hope that diplomats here had received came with the knowledge that the sov ereigns of Russia and Germany were in direct communication. It had been feared that Czar Nich olas in whose hands lav the de cision of peace or war, would be influenced by the strength of the Russian war' party and his bellig erent cabinet to take a hostile Mep that would have precipitated a contlict into which every power iff Europe would have been drag- vi . Admits ir:iily of Situation. P.efore the n'ws of the negotiations iewe n the czar ami the kaiser reach ed here, Premier As'iuith admitted bw- SO TV r XXXI., NO. 217. uu II Scenes in Servian Capital Which is Menaced by Austria limn vmmdm4 pWiik tpipiiip ii?ifeifte PRINCIPAL BUSINESS STREET PRIXCE MICHAEL. European Unrest at a Glance Ai. stria-Hungary is hiding its movements by a strict censorship of news, meanwhile moving troops and blockading ports. No news out of Belgrade, the Servia capital, has reached the world at lare In the past I'O hours. Servian olllcer.s conferred with Montenegro army heads. Many of the Serbs object to war and disorders throughout Servia aro widespread. Servian troop aro on tho march to the Drina river. f Russian, officials believe their country will be at war in a short time. The crown council has ad vised the czar to prepare to war. Martial law has been declared at Yalta, in the Crimea. The British fleet left Portland this morning for an "unknown" destination. Pres. Poincare of France ar rives home from his interrupted vacation. Plans complete for mobilization" "of the' French army" All French railways suspend vaca tions of employes. Dispatches received in London portend a general European con tlict. Ei'ht failures vwere reported on the London stock exchange up' to noon. English time, today. British consols today touched lowest prices in years. The Liverpool stock exchange closed a few minutes after it open ed with no trading. The Glasgow exchange was closed today. There was no trading on the Paris Bourse. Tho Budapest exchange did not open for business. A reign of terror prevails in Warsaw, where revolutionists have blown up many buildings, and kill ed and injured a score of persons. Rome hears that Austria has al ready concentrated more than 300. 000 men on the Servian border. Berlin Is quiet. Belgium has called out three classes of the army reserves. Several persons killed by an anarchist's bomb near Madrid. Peace conference scheduled for September, postponed. fore parliament that the situation was one of most extreme gravity. This caused pessimism in diplomatic circles which had looked to England to tind a way out of tho tangle. The gloom lightened, however, when a Berlin dispatch announced that Wil liam and Nicholits were exchanging views. Then came the announcement that Austria would not seek the ac quisition of -territory. The revival of optimism was evidenced by the fact that the stock exchange which had been on the verge of panic since trad ing opened Monday, closed firmer this afternoon than on either Monday or Tuesday. Leading linanciers were in a more cheerful mood and expressed a belief that within 2 4 hours the great crisis would have been passed. Activity at Foreign Office. Before the unexpected developments restored tho hope that had earlier po. e Klimmerlncr. the British foreign ohiee presented an animated scene. In rapid succession the ambxsadors of Russia, Germany, Austria, Spain and France called upon Sir Edward Clrey, the foreipn secretary. Paul Cambon and Count Becken dorff. representatives, respectively, of France and Russia, were cheered by a crowd that watched their arrival and departure. Count Liehnowsky, the German envoy, received no greeting. The crowd remembered that the British fleet had sailed from Portland early In the day. and their patriotism was tired by the thought that the Eng lish warships might be on their way to risrht the German armada concen trated at Kiel and Wilhelmshaven. Mobilization Is i:etrietotl. Another important fact which de veloped during the day was the semi official announcement that the mobili zation of the Russian troops had been confined to four military districts Kieff. Odessa. Moscow and Kazan. In eacli district there were four army corps on a peace footimr. The mob ilization orders converted these 16 corps into 32. It was pointed out that this mob ilization alTected only the Austrian frontier and not that of Germany, in dicating that Russia was scrupulously averting any siim of affront to Berlin. Kazan is a central district whence re cruits are drawn for service on the western border. VIENNA. July A reisn of ter ror Drevail in Warsaw. Russian LARGEST SWORN rH BENE NE AVERAGE DAILY NEWS SOUTH BEND, OF BELGRADE, THE RUE Poland. Ilevolutionists have blown up several powder magazines with dynamite bombs, according to dis patches received from well informed quarters today. Several, bombs were exploded at the principal postotlicea and many persons were killed and in jured. One dispatch asserts that the whole "Warsaw citadel was blown up. This structure, known as the Alex ander citadel, was the chief military quarters in the north sid of the city. The tirst sign of an outbreak, tho dispatches say, came on Monday, when a magazine of one of the 15 Warsaw firts was blown up. Explosions in others followed. Leaders of the polish revolution ists deny that their followers are re sponsible for the explosions, but these denials are given little cre dence. Semi-official statements given out in Warsaw attribute the explosions to lightning. KMPKROR ASSUMES ALL RESPONSIBILITY 1 Oil WAIL Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary issued a. long manifesto to tilsTeople tottnylfr 'whrch he vu sumed full responsibility for the war with Servia. It concluded with an invocation for divino support for the Austrian army in the conflict. The manifesto was written by the aged emperor at Ischl, and brought here by a court attache. The document is a stirring .appeal to the patriotism of the emperor's subjects, but at the same time is pathetic in that it shows the grief caused by the assas sination of Archduke Francis Ferdi nand. Declaring that "malevolent op. ponents" prevent his ending his closing years in peace, the emperor refers at length to the "ingratitude, hatred, intrigues and murderous at tacks" of Servia. letailing the rejection of the Aus trian ultimatum by Servia, the em peror concludes: "I'm fully conscious of the whole significance of my resolve and my re sponsibility beforo the Almighty. With serene conscience I set on the path my duty points. I trust in the Almighty to give victory to my arms." SEUYIA PUTS AVIATION COUPS INTO SERVICE. Servia has put an aviation corps in the held and army ollicers will spy on the Austrian advance from aero planes. The war otfice was notiiied today that several Servian aviators had been seen Hying along the bor-, der. i Though the Austrian government hid its own military movements part of the information received a to Servia's operations were given out. I It was learned that before Servia re turned its reply :o the Vienna ulti matum, the general othcers of the rb army conferred with repre sentatives from the Montenegro gov ernment at Podgoritza. Reports have reached here that a great part of the Servian populace is opposed to war and that disorder has already broken out at several towns , in the little kingdom. Heavy detachments of soldiers are said to be approaching Valjevo, Azico and Svelaunao. Strong divisions of volunteers are gathering along the Drina river. KING FITTER WILL L11U TROOPS ACAINST AVSTIUA KRAGUVEVATZ. Servia, July 2'J. Though not fully recovered from se vere illness which caused the appoint ment of Prince Alexander as recent. King Peter took personal command of the Servian army today. He will lead his troops in battle with the Austrian invaders. The army of Montenegro is work ing in concert with that of .Servia. A Montenegro brigade equipped with mountain guns arrived at Prijpolje today and effected a junction with the Servian forces there. Prijpolje is on the river Lim. An entire Servian division is advancing from Novibazar to the Um. The volunteer forces are assembling at Leichnitza. south of Belgrade. From there they will move southward to join the Prijpolje troops. The troops that withdrew from Belgrade are fall ing back to Kraguyevatz, where the main headquarters have been located. This indicates that if the Austrian troops press on after capturing Bel crade the Servians will make a final and desperate stand in the mountains near Kruchevatz. The extreme southern forces aro concentrating at Istib and Fskub. The greater p;irt of the artillery used in the recent Ba'kan wars has been gathered at UVkub. Col. Dushan Stephanovitch. the war CONTINUED ON PAGE 1. IE1 CIRCULATION IN NORTHERN INDIANA. - TIMES CIRCULATION FOR INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JULY n3 rzr Hn n HjJ H THE PRINCIPAL SQUARE IX BELGRADE. OF THE FAMOFS NATIONAL HERO. MICHEL. r ' tym i x':y.vvr:' :v.v:v:':x-x':: vv:':v .-:::: VIEW OF THE WATER FRONT OF BELGRADE, FACING THE DANUBE. ACROSS THE RIVER IS AUSTRIA. M PROPOSES A NEW PEACE PLAN Would Let Powers Formulate Plans for Punishment of Servia. UV FREDERICK WERNER. BERLIN, July 23. A suggestion for settling the Austro-Servian dis pute that would eliminate the possi bility of a struggle between those na tions and thus avert all danger of a general European war, was made in diplomatic quarters today. It was to tho effect that Austria might be. pre pared to consider proposals by Eng land, France. Italy and Germany to formulate plans for the punishment of Servia in a manner that would satisfy the demands of Austria's prestige. This suggestion was re garded as of the highest importanco in view of the fact that Berlin dip lomat circles are in close touch with those in Vienna and it was considered possible that the proposal might have come direct from the Austrian for eign ollice. Reciprocate Peaceful Tone. The Nord IXutscher Allet;emeine Zeitung states semi-otlicially that the peaceful tone of Russia's communi cation of yesterday is heartily recip rocated. Following its "hands off" warning given to Russia on Tuesday, the Ger man government today presented through its ambassador at St. Peters burg a diplomatic notice that was in effect an ultimatum. This notified Russia that if it should only partly mobilize, the en tire German army would be put on a war basis. It is understood there that this second warning was Emperor Wil liam's final effort to curb the war spirit that is sweeping over Russia and extending to the highest olfices of the czar's empire. Germany believes that this notice will have the desired effect. FIREWORKS BLAST KILLS 25 AND INJURES FIFTY MAIR11 July 20. Twenty-live persons were killed and 5'j seriously injured by an explosion of fireworks at Tudela. in Navarre province, last night, M;uiy of the victims were blown to pieces. First accounts of the disaster re ceived today tsaid that it had been caused by a bomb thrown into a crowd from a window. FIND MAN'S BODY IN CREEK BOTTOM LAFAYETTE, Ind.. July The lifeless body of a man whose identity is not known wius found under the Wabash railroad bridge east of here today. He had fallen a distance of CO feet into Wildcat creek. He was about o" years old. and had some hecks in his pocket that were is sued by a Kokumo, Ind.. poolroom. JUNE WAS 15,993. 29, 1914. MONUMENT IS THAT v-: .... 'vU-?'.-. .: v.V:-: :: ;:::::: Rebel Leader's Proclamation Guarantees No Riots Will Mark Surrender. CI U DAD VICTORIA, State of Mex ico, July 29. Gen. Carranza today issued a proclamation pledging the rebels to protect the liven and prop-1 frfv rf fnrnp-rprz in Mevieo Citv when I the government surrenders to the rev olutionists. Referring to those iMcx icans who rebelled against Pres. Madero, the proclamation says they will be punished in conformity with the law. The proclamation follows: "I have learned that in the capital of the republic a report Is being cir culated Caat the constitutionalist army upon its arrival in Mexico City would not give guarantees of life and prop erty in the interest of inhabitants and that the constitutionalist authorities would permit the troops to commit excess. "I wish to dissipate this idea, which is absolutely without foundation. When the forces under my command reach the capital of the republic tho inhabitants will enjoy all guarantees, both as to their persons and property Interests. "Respecting those who may have participated in the rebellious move ment against the legitimate govern ment of Francisco Madero, they will be judged in conformity with the law." Gen. Carranza and staff arrived here last night from Tampico and. will go to Monterey at once. Tho rebel chief has been notiiied ty his agent in London that a syndicate of foreign bankers had offered to make the new government a large loan. WARBURG TO APPEAR BEFORE COMMITTEE WASHINGTON. July 23. Sen. Hitchcock of Nebraska on his re turn to the capital today said that he believed that Paul M. Warburg shortly will appear befor; the bank ing and currency committee in order that he might be recommended for cont.rmation as a member of the fed eral reserve board. Information came to the white house that Paul M. Warburg prob ably will come to Washington to morrow and appear for examination before the senate committee on banking and currency. The white houe was in telegraphic communica tion with Warburg today and he stated he had sent a telegram to the white house outlining hi position. BORNEO MEN REBEL AGAINST THE DUTCH BATAVIA, Java, July 29. Details of a tierce revolt of natives against Dutch rule on the west coast of Bor neo were received here today. The rebels murdered the burgomaster, burred the othcial buildings and resi- 'chief and then marched on the capi tal. They were met bv Imtch troops and repulsed, many beint; killed. (liM PLEDGES 10 SAVE FOREIGNERS TTTT VII lio PRICE TWO CENTS p. 1 THE ROYAL PALACE AT BELGRADE. THIS PETER AND REGENT ALEXANDER LIVE. Girl is Missing; Leaves no Clue, Parents at Sea Members of her family and the po lice department are searching for Lottie Baniski. IS, who has been miss ing from her home since early Tues day morning. The case is a mysteri ous affair in that she left no word as to her whereabouts nor told any of her friends where she was goinsr. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Baniski, ICS X. Sadie St., were under the im pression that she "had been working for the past few weeks at the City Steam laundry plant, but a search of the books and records there failed to disclosed her name. The family asvrts that she had no reasonable cause to leave home. That ehe has been the victim of foul play is the belief expressed by her father. While that opinion is not shared by the police, they are at a loss to ex plain why she has not been heard from for so long a time. According to her father, she has never been away from home at any other time for any lengthy period. No note has been found that would present a clue to her whereabouts. ROOSEVELT TO GET CHANCE TO OPPOSE COLOMBIA TREATY WASHINGTON, July 29. Former Pres. Itoosevelt will be permitted to voire his opposition to the Colombia treaty before tho senate committee on foreign relations, the committee decided today. No agreement was reached, however, as to when the treaty would be taken up. It appear ed likely that Col. Ko'osevelt would get no hearing during" the present summer. STEPHENSON WILL NOT ENTER RACE AGAIN MILWAUKEE. Wis.. July 29. United States Sen. Isaao Stephenson today announced through his own Milwaukee newspaper that under no circumstances will he be a candidate for the senate again. He says eif?ht years have been enough and being far over 80 years old he is satisfied with the honors he has had. GIRL IN SUICIDE PACT DIES, MAN RECOVERS LAFAYETTE, Ind.. July 29. Grace Plant, 22, of Delphi. Ind.. who joined her lover, Emil Buehrer of Toledo, O.. in a suicide pact here ten days ago, died today from the effects of the poison that Fhe swallowed to end her life. Buehrer also took poison, but has recovered. ELKHART SHOP FIRE WILL COST $50,000 ELKHART, Ind., July 29. Th Elkhart car repair shops of Swift A: Co., Chicago packers, and 20 stock cars owned by the same company, were destroyed by fire of unknown origin in the Lake Shore gravity yards here early today. The loss is placed at $50,000. SERVIANS IN CAPITAL PROMISE TO FIGHT INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., July 29. Six hundred Servians living here telegraphed their willingness to go back home and fight for their coun try against Austria today. The mes sage was sent to Michael I. Punin at Columbia university. The foreign section of Indianapolis in which the Servians live was awake throughout last night. Excited gToups of men ami women listened to stories of the war translated from the Enirllsh newspapers. In every trroup the word "rata" (Servian for "wiix") was frequently heard. Vladimir P. ltitich, an educated Servian, said that the 600 men who offered to tight for their country included every man of lighting age in this city. THE WEATHER. INDIANA Fair to night and Thursday. LOWKII MICHIGAN Fair tonUht and Thursday. IS WHERE KING N FOR I S. T Henry Clews Believes American Labor and Business Would Profit But Stock Brokers See Disaster Ahead. AMERICAN SECURITIES WOULD BE UNLOADED NEW YORK, July 20. Opinions as to the effect of a general European war on the United States among bank ers and brokers connected with the NVw York stock exchange differed to day, the hankers appearing to believe that in the end tho war would prove beneficial to our business interests, while the brokers seem to think that such a war would only result in harm. Henry Clews, the banker, believes that while tho early period of the contlict might affect American busi ness, the American basinet-man would be sure to profit in tho long run. "The first effect of war," said Mr. Clews, would be a shock to financial affairs, as the impulse of the timid is to run securities into cash, and a American securities are the easiest to get rid of. prices here would natural ly decline. However, should a for eign war be likely to last some time, the armies would take men from the fields, the shop and the manufactur ing places and tho products of th countries affected would gTcatly be curtailed. This would lead to an in creased demand for the products of the United States and would stimu late business here. Differs With Clews. W. C. Van Antwerp, ono of the governors of the New York slock ex change and recognized as one of iu most authoritative spokesman, differs with Mr. Clews: "It is my belief." he said, "that the war would result in incalculable harm. The man who thinks other wise is, in my opinion, wrong. Take the effect on wheat, for instance. Where would the citizens of this coun try be if the price of wheat went to $2 a bushel? Anyway, we ha.ve no merchant marine to carry the wheat to Europe, and if we had how would we get it by the blockades that would be established? "Prices would o up here as well as in Europe and people here would suffer. The co.t of living is hig enough now. "American securities wnuM be the only ones that would be worth any thing and everyone who wante, to raise money would hell them. Thi-J would have a li, effect on the mar ket. "Th'-re is no truth in th repot t that the stock exchange hue is to lose as some in Europe have dune. We will not elose, no matter what happens." ( AUSIM FOUR IWII.l RES. LONDON, July - 'J . Pour f.uiurei due to the slump caused by the u.ir scare were announced on the stock exchange today. Though the exchange opened as usual, practically no busi ness was dor.e and pricx were only nominal. In a m;irket ruled by depres.-ior., American stoeks v.eie i!at. Canadian Paciric fell i:;l-2 points and Emeu Pacific dropped ';-4. iher reces sions were off a point or more. The firms which failed w.re J. ;. Eiser S: Co., Leavor. Mayor v . C".. (. H. Travern and C. r 1 Ian key. Eiser A: Co. is a l.iXe brokerage tp. rern. while the other thrte vsere small firms. LXPLOMONS KILL CASSEL. Oerin.my. July Twelve miners were i;il!-d ;tt S.Lxony. fcioa. today in a d j nu in it . MENAGE id gai FROM W