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PENSACOLA WEATHETS PENSACOLA If t'-e Natural Gulf Gateway for th? Great South American Trade of the near future. Fair TVedr derate t9 eat winds. F,!r Wednesday, wlfh i Yesterday's temperature derate t briek north- Highest, 61 degrees; low- 3 VOL. XVII. NO. 301. PENSACOLA. FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 28, 1914. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. - . - r I let CO rot 'Pi rf; TT f Jr 10; m if It tt lr, ar ; 11.41 Iv CJIlJ.S iLSlE -made THAT GERMANS' km, BlIfEN SACK FRENCH INFANTRY, AIDED BY BRITISH MONI TORS, FORCED INVADING TROOPS BACK ACROSS YSER CANAL. FRENCH REPORT CLAIMS THERE IS NOW NO REASON TO FEAR FAILURE DISPATCH ADDS THAT TOWARDS THE END OF LAST WEEK THE SITUATION WAS DOUBT FUL GERMAN HEADQUARTERS SAY THEY HAVE MADE SOME PROGRESS SOUTHEAST OF LILLE, BUT AT OTHER POINTS THERE ARE NO IMPORTANT CHANGES. BT ASSOCIATED PRRSS. London, Oct. 27. Brief o'ficial statement by French war office tonignt eaid there was nothing to report except some progress by the allies in the region south of Dixmude. A central news dispatch from Northeastern France, however, says the Germans, in the great part, were Jriven back across the Yser canal yester day. French infantry, aic'ed by British monitors, accomplished the task. A dispatch adds that toward the end rf lest week the situation was doubtful, but now there is no reason to fear failure. The German general headquarters today declared the battle on the Yser, near Ypres, and southeasterly from L?lle is proceeding with the same stub- bornness while the Germans made progress yesterday. On the other battle I front In the Western theatre no important events have occurred. West of Augrstowe the German attack is slowly proceeding. Southwest of Warsaw t the uermans have repulsed strong RuEsian forces. North o" Ivangorod the new Russian army ' corps has crossed the Vistula. Petrograd reports trie failure of the Germans to utilize an opportune mo ment for an attack on Warsaw, after ihey had approached within e;ght miles undiscovered has turned the tide of the German invasion of Russian-Pola J, according to advices received ?rom the front today. The Russians genera! are at a loss to explain why the Germans dft'ayed their night attack. The enemy decided to delay and that allowed the Russians time to obtain rein forcements. On a miniature see the status of the eo-)s;ng armies in upoer Bel gium ran parallel today to the conditions which prevailed when the Ger man rush toward Pans was checke-J. The Cerm-jn forward movement has been characterized by. an even prefer prodigality of men than was shown in the march in the direction of Paris. The invaders succeeded for days i," battering their way on and then suddenly came to something which caused them to pause. CLAIM NO GMN IR BrCCRritD.-v - -rv v- Since Saturday no German g-in has been recorded and it is apparent that the allies have either brour-ht up s'Jch strong reinforcements or en-, trenched themselves so we'l or bot!, that the Germans must sacrifice man after man for every foot of aro-nd. The flat country in West Flanders pernvts no such entrenchments as made the area of hostilities in Franre famous, but the British and Ee'gian? with warships at their back h-ve dug themselves in wherever practicable, while throwinq out every obtae'e possible to impede the enemy. Whether Germany cn drive her forces like a ram throt'-.h the aHied bar rier is a task, the result of which should decide the success or failure oc Belgians Fight With Desperation as Homes Go Up in Smoke !. ,f- -of. ' Tf t H : f .if '-L" ..-. .- ?.' -.'s :tr. - 7 ' ' Jt Sr r. -jr "ii.v 1 ' - ,7 .. ,:-T:, ?wrr Photo shows Belgian marksmen, wlt'i their long bored rifles capable to car ry a long: distance, laying in ambush on the bank of the Nethe ready .o pick off the Germans on the opposite side. Note in the distance the rti.i tnce the great smoke rising from burning- bildlngrs. WILL LOAN $135,000,000 ON COTTON WAREHOUSE RECEIPTS FOUR PERSONS KILLED AT SAMSON, ALA. BY COLLAPSE OF A DRY KILN BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. Samson, Ala., Oct. 27. Four men were killed and a fi?th seriously injured early this morning wi;e i a lar&e dry kiln of the Alabama Lumber and Kiln Company collanpd wtm-'r warning. All were bur.ed beneath thousands of feet of lumber and it m a miracle that any escaped with their lives. The dead J,-A. Butler. Ed Fra:er. Marcus Hargrove and Alto Pew. Wilbur Hall is" the most seriously injured and not expected to live. r in motion a I enrj-cherished the German n England, her plan to reach Ca'ais and from trere scheme to harass England. On t-e other h-rd the failure c-V forces to progress, it is mrint-tined by military observers probably would mean another retreat. A statement issued by the official p'-rs bur?y todsy indicated how s'ov'y each side must feel its way among the hundreds of little Fe'gian viM?gs To co forward without careful recornoiter"ng wr-j'd be extremely pert'ous, as it never is known whether a vi!l?'7e is merely occupied by harmless cit irers or by armed forces ready to .-ttsck. The admiralty haj not yet aduited that the monitors working off the Eelci'n corst have sustained any d-imsre though the Germans claim to havo reached the vessels with their artillery. The talk of Zeppelins visiting Lonr'on has aS!med second place a'org side the speculation as to when the German warships will dart from their havens and engaqe tho British naval units. EnVishmen cannot explain to their own satisfaction how the Germ-ns are aing to do this feat, neces sitating as it will the running of the gauntlet ef the British fleet as well fs speeding through a mined area. It mk-s t'"od food for araurnflnt. however, and the newspaper writers build ip and tear down the plausibility of the performance in the same article. ttla I- vi- if yj-Vi t i !, I CUUiiLU Ul I LOSE LIVES lil A M EXPLOSION Details of the Plan Made Known Loans Will Be on Basis of Six Cents per Pound for Middling. 1JDT0 MU)t 0 iffHUL Terrific Blast Let Go In :i Shaft Where Three Hun dred Were Working, But Many Escaped or Were Rescued. BATTLE FOR THE ROAD TO CALAIS IS UNDECIDED tonrlon. Oct. 27. The battle for the fad to Calais was- still undecided today. The territory west of the Yser, the crossing of which cost the German Tniy more men, compared with the area cf hostilities, than any other sin gle engagement in the war. continues o he tne scene of the deadliest of con flicts. Althoush it is Raid that t.le "w of German reinforcements seems i be without end, l;ey arnarently. J" flaring from news in London, have made no noteworthy advance since saining this river. Tho left wi-g of the allies has been reinforced. This m?.y he due in nnrt o efforts to offset the constant move- pnt of fresh German troops and in irl to making good the activity o- tho rltish fleet, which accordirg to Ger man advices has been forced to witli- aw further from the coast lh-.e bv tht. Tective fire of the Corman artillc v wrman snips, aside from subrc.'t dispatch declaring thnt the Belgians lost 10 000 men when they were dri ci from the banks of the Yser. Tne biggest of the G?rman guns are now reported to be at Bruges. There has been no notable change along the battle line in France proper, although the Germans claim . that the fate of Verdun will e sealed promptly as &o n as tf.eir powerful guns get into action. From ne.T Pheims has come a dis patch dwelling upon the local Indica tK n:- thr t the Germans are preparing to hold their rnsi!inns In that part -f the Alsne all winter. Most of the claims from the Eastern arena or tne war continue to ,i e the uprT h-i"d to the Russians, al though the Germans are rallying an3 seeking to stem the Russian onrush. It seems to be officially conflrincl that Italy has landed forces in A! lo'-ij ar-d thpt Greeks also are making their way Into this territory. A NEW ZEPPELIN. A disnntch from Geneva, Switzer land, to the Express gives this account Ines. have been reported in this vl- i f ' ' launching of a new Zeppelin: nity, Dut the London press is diily evoting more space to such a con- nsrency. Gnrmany hps a number of small cruisers at "Wilhelmshafen, together "U a detachment of Gestrovers. suA sudden appearance of some of r-" r-hipn norhaps accompanied bv H battle cruiser, would be no sur- icsfatches reaching London a-er "at Kmperor William har demanJe 1 ""firivonnlly thnt Calais be taken. !'3 a telegram received todav auotii ir ffi Saxon Gazette gives what cur ing to he a plan of German invas'on, m the north coast of Franca Is In i -i" hands. V T, . . . towns or west nanoers, over through which the battle for the has been was'ng are In ruins. rr. nals are choked with the dead ; the country side is scarred as if ' ' 'nhquake. "'- the Germans have not been r In heavy losses is attested by a The most powerful Hepcelin yet made has Just been launched at Fried -richshaven. on Lake Constance. With out preliminary trials it flew aay l orthwnrds at great speed, cheered by the soldiers who shouted Ho London!' "Count Zeppelin was present at the Isnnching. The airship has a. special armored compartment for bombs ner the propellers and a tig gun la mount ed In front to destroy aeroplanes. A ttcond airship of a similar type will be ready by the end of October. "Jicre Zeppelins are bt'ng built at Puiseldorf, Colmar and Berlin, tha German staff desiring that the num- cer be brought to a hundred quickly." The Greek government has an nounced to the powers Its Intention of provisionally occupying Northern Epi rus, owing to the necessity of sup pressing the anarchy prevailing tlire as the result of the breaic down of the (CottAuued on Page Three.) BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. Royalton, 111., Oct. 27. One hundred or more miners were killed, it is be lieved, in the Mitchell coal mine near here today when a terrific explosion occurred in the lower level of the mine soon a "ter three hundred men had be gun work. Of those who entered the mine, about 100 escaped but thirty bodies were soon brought to the surface and mors than 100 other men were known to be imprisoned in a lower level, cut off from rescue by fire. It was thougnt that all of those" shut off by the wall of flame in the interior were soon burned to death. - - Royalton is a mining village 86 mil'-s southeast of St. Louis on the St. Louis. Iron fountain' and Southern railroad. ' All the men whose bodies were taktn from the upper level had been over come by gas; none baa been burned. General Superintendent Mitchell said the men in the lower ravel doubtless had been overcome by the gas before It exploded and that if they regained consciousness, the fire that followea the explosion would prevent their es cape. The blast occurred in the northwest corner of the mine where from 150 to 300 men were working. Men in the southern part of the miiie heard the explosion and Hurried to the cages which took them to the surface. Three hundred and seventy-two men were employed in the mine but about fifty had not entered tne shaft. Up to 11 o'clock tho rescue parties were unable to penetrate more than fifteen hundred feet in the workings but at that hour the rescue car came from Benton. 111., with Tour hours' sup ply of .oxygen. This made possible a further penetration of the mine by the rescue parties. General Superintendent Mitchell said he could not account for the explosior as the- mine had been in continuous operation and no gases had been Je tected. At noon rescuers said they could see at least twenty-five bodies on the upper level. Kescuers scnght to checK the flames in the lower level by drop nine blankets soaked with water. This temporarily checked the flames, but A TIE H I RISH I TO ASSASSINATE BENEfUL VILLA Staunch Supporter of Gen. Carranza Tries to End the Life of Rebel Leader He Confesses and is Shot. BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. El Paso, Oct. 27. An attempt has been made to assassinate Genera! Villa by a man said to have been commis sioned and paid by Gnerl Pablo Gon zales, a staunch Carranza supporter, a message to the Associated Press from Louis Beravides. Villa's first sec retary, said today. The would-be hs pascin Francisco Mugla. was executed a. "ter making a confession before George C. Carothers. the American consular agent. A tlegrim from Vi la's secretary said Mugia was appre hended at Guadalupe; wnare Villa with bis troops have been awaiting the wt come of the Aguas calientes conference. BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. Washington, Oct 27. Pull details of the plan for the one hundred and thirty-flve million dollar cotton loan fund was made public tonight by the 1 federal reserve board. The board's outline of the plan was sent to the clearance house associations through out the country. The funds are to be administered under the direction of a "central com mittee," composed of the individual re-eerre-board members, tnit the actunl 'administration of the fund" will be un der the "cotton loan committee, con sisting of TV. P. a. Harding, a member of the reserve board, as chairman; Paul M. Warburg, a membei of the board Col. F. M. House of Austin, Tex., A. H. Wiggin, of New York, James S. Alexander, of New York; James B. Morgan, of Chicago; Festus J. Wade, of St. Louis; Levi L. Rue of Phila delphia, and William A. Gaston, of Boston. Class "A" subscriptions aggregate ore hundred million dollars to be raised In the non-cotton states. Class "B" subscriptions, the balance of the fund will be raised by bankers in the cotton states. Applications for loans must be sub mitted to the state and iocal commit tees, which are required to approve them and will be made through bankd or backers. Loans be made on notes at six per cent with warehouse re- STATE ATTOR TELLS WHY 00 HEY SI RE o TO GERMANS LOSE THOUSANDS NIGHT BATTLES MANY WERE DROWNED IN DEATH GRAPPLE WHILE OTHERS WERE BAYONETTED. THEIR BLOOD REDDENING THE WATERS OF YSER CANAL. Replies to Resolutions the Pensacola Equal, Suffrage League. of DISCRIMINATION CHARGE IS SILLY Says League Wishing to Convince Public of Capac ity of Its Members for Ballot Should Show More Discretion Than to En gage in Agitation of fat ter of This Kind. BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. London, Oct. 27. The correspondent of the Daily Mail In Northern France telegraphs under date of Sunday night regarding the fighting on the river Yser says: 'There .were 2,500 German bodies in the Yser canal this morning after the fighting in the night. Many of them were drowned and others were bay- onetted. The very water was bloody while Dixmude's streets were strewn thick with the dead. 'These ghoulish facts alone give some idea or the savageness or tne fighting, the desperation of the German attacks and the stubbornness of the allies resistance. "Tne night was a hell from dark to dawn. At almost every point of the line man was opposed by man, some times at a few hundred yards distance but more often in close grips. Face to face men even wrestled and died oy drowning each other in the canals waters. The Germans had orders to pet throuegh that night, cost what it would. "An officer of theirs who was cap tured said that the delay of more than a week in crossing this water had In censed the autocratic military mind In Germany. It must be crossed tonight If it costs a thousand men. That in effect was : the order given and the German fcoWiars all credit to them did their best. "Probably 5,000 of them gave their lives last night. They could not give more, yet they failed, .ue not because the Germans did not literally obey orders. They crossed tne waterway all right as they were bid, but once through they could not make good. They were mowed down with rifle shot, torn into human fragments by shells and bayonetted back yard by yard over their own dead Into the waters of the canal. Into the very gray of the morning this bloody work went on so fiercely that there was hardly a trench or oridge guarding the whole lines that did not Imagine that he had been singled out for special Characterizing the charge that b had discriminated in favor of a neijrt-s in the matter of allowing Mrs. Florence McGowan bond, as really silly, nnil that a leairue wishing to convince tint public of the capacity of Its members for the ballot should have shown mri discretion than to engage In the public agitation of a matter of this klnJ, State Attorney John P. Stokes list night Issued a statement in reply to resolutions adopted by the Pensacola Equal Suffrage league at a meeting Monday night severely condemning him for declining to agree to bond for Mrs. McGowan, who has been lndi"tod on a murder charge and in to be tried next week. The statement as dictated by State Attorney Stokes Is as follows: "After reading the resolution adopt ed by the Equal Suffrage b-oirue of Pensacola relative to the court's doni.il of bail to Mrs. Florence MoOnw.n, indicted upon the charge of murder in the first degree, and my refusal to agree to bail In this cusp, ail that I wish to elate I that I regret tint I cannot comply with the wishes of iho ladies. As one who is fond of Hie ladies it always gives me pleasure to conform to their wishes and It in wltn regret that I must adhere to tho per formance of my sworn duty in 'h.s casei "The ball of all parties lndlcte.1 In the circuit court Is fixed by thn jud; '. Until the evidence Is presented to the court, the court will not allow K-iii in a murder case without the con-erit of the state through its state attorney. If the state attorney feels that it. ii Iks duty to refuse to agree to ball, tho De fendant may take the matter IkI'oim the court, where the evidence i i n -sented and tho court decides the q na tion. ATTORNEYS FAIL TO ACT. "In the case of Mrs. McGowan I de clined to agree to bail, because the evidence before me, if found to bo trua by the petit Jury, will Justify a verdict r-" rmrf'r In the first degree. Under these circumstances it was my duty as a., officer of the state to decline to agree to ball for the accused. If tint defendant's attorneys bad reason to believe that their client wtt entitled to ball they had the right to take thu ceipts for cotton as collateral on a basis of six cents per pound for mid dling. Applications for loans must be made before February 1, 1915. Loans have a maturity of one year with the prem ise of a renewal for six months on ap proval of the central committee. NEW LAW WILL RELEASE VAST AMOUNT OF MONEY attack. "It is believed that some five thous- matter be'ore the court and present, and Germans crossed the river Yser the evidence and have the quHtln but hardly one of them got back. Those settled by the court. Having declined to the north and northeast of Dixmude , to do this, the inference is Irrnslstlhb probably two thousand were met by a i that the defendant's attorneys th 'm fine rally of the Belgian infantry and "Hve holieved that their client was of the cavalry who had tethered their not entitled to bail. horses, and were driven by main force "Reference has also been made to at the bayonett's point, to the river the case of Sarah Mitchel. who wa. canal and into it. There must have also indicted for murder in the first dc been frantic scenes and the bodies ' ree- and on whowe behalf a requ -sf. coon in vw n th. nrt Hav vtavm i was made that the state asrree to hail grim testimony of this. I for her. On behalf of tne Mate I agreM "About three thousand German in fantry men got into Dixmude. They held it for a time but with shell and Washlngtrn Oct 27. Comptroller of' rifle fire the place was riddled through CAP"AN7A SUBMITS HIS RESIGNATION TO CONFERENCE (Continued on Page Three.) Mexico City. Oct. 27. General Car ranza has submitted hl3 resignation as firt chief of the Constitutionalists to the Aguas calientes conventim '"'i condition that General Villa will re tire to private life. Carranza ?alJ, in offering to resign, that he was actu ated only by the highest motives of patriotism and the acceptance or re ection of his offer must depend on whether or not his r-'-MnPt'e" contribute toward peace and further ance of true democratic ideas. Currency Williams tonight made pub lie a statement showing the reserves j held by National banks on September j 12 were five hundred and eighty million dollar's in excess of the amount re- quired under the new banking law. Of ; this, twenty-one mllVlon is In Fich 'mond; fourteen million In Atlanta, and twenty-four million dollars In the Dnl . las districts. The statement polr ts out the approximately four hundred and sixty-five million dollars will be . released under the new aw. U.S. Torpedo Boat Paulding Driven Ashore In a Gale BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. Norfolk. Vt, Oct.. 27. The torpedo boat destroyer Paulding1 went ashore about 2 o'clock this morning at Lynn haven Inlet and now lies fast, bow on. She is supposed to have been driven ashore by the gale of last night, which blew for a time with almost hurri cane violence. A portion of the Paulding this after noon is imbedded in about five feet of sand. The North Dakota, the Pan ther and the Culgoa are lying by her. A line has been attached and efforts will be made to float her. The Paulding is resting easy on the sand and Is in no danger. The surf is heavy :Dut life boats go out to her without difficulty. Cannonading at Sea Thought to be Naval Battle . BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. New York, Oct. 27. Heavy cannon ading at sea off the Virginia Capes heard by those aboard the steamer Saratoga and at r.rst thought by them to be an engagement between British and German war vessels wm believed today by Captain Miller of the steamer to have been United States battleship In target practi-ee. . The Saratoga reached New York this afternoon. nd through. The Germans dushoi out of the crumbling houses only to be wiped out jy a sirocco of shrapnel and shot in the stieets. "When Sunday morning broke, the dead and wounded were everywhere. Dixmude was a cemetery, but In the woods not far away the Germans still lingered. They held a position under that this defendant's ball be fixed at one thousand dollars, which she wan unable to give. She Is now in Jail. CHARGE A SILLY ONE. "It has been suggested that bwatm Sarah Mitchel was a re?ro and Mr. McGowan was a whM person. I dis criminated in favor of the negro tnd against tho white person. Thla la rea.il silly. "The evidence against Sarah MltchM will not Justify a vrdU"t of guilty ? any degree of unlawful homicide hllt- desperate fire and eventually were re-j T mansinugnier. wnicn is t.vi inforced. The allies cooild not oust ' lowest degree of unlawful homicide in tham and the Germans are still across j tnls "tate rh" 'art ' th'u r ?p-iouf lr the Yser. (question whether the evidence will Jus- ."-w!r ,.,,,.,, may not be per-I t!lV B verdict of guilty of nny unlawful manent and they may suffer the same I homicide whatever, but he was m i . u ..a oexcome hundreds of their I d,oted by thP rnnd ,,Jry "nd U ,ny rii7 cr.w,r. ,,..... ,-, .t, I duv to prosecute her. Fhe was f-n- got over only to meot their death, but tho Belgian and French lines, for the time being at least, have been drawn back about this point." TARGET PRACTICING BY THE DESTROYERS Norfolk, Va., Oct. 27. The reported naval engagement off the Virginia Capes last r.;,'iu was most likeiy the target practic; of the torpedo boat destroyers. A large number of them are maneuver-.ng now and most of their practice is at night It is said at Cape Henry today that no filing could he heard tuere i&t right on account of a 58-mile gale. A m erica n Vessel Stopped and Fourl of Crew Removed s BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. St. John. N. B.. Oct. 27.The Ameri can tug Security, owned by the Stan dard Oil Company, was boarded v. terday afternoon by, a detail of e'ght men from the Slxty-ecr.d regiment and four of her crew were removed. One, a naturalized clt ?n. was re leased. The other three, all Germans, were detained. The members of the crew were ar rested on the grounds that they were subjects of a nation with which Great Britain is now at war. The tug's paper showed that thr of the t : men had signed as subjects of Germany. titled to bond, however, and It was roy sworn duty under the evid-n e in ihi ca.e to apre to hall for her. "The difference In those two c.iei Is thit in one case the evidence wl'l Justify a verdict of guiltv of muni r in the first degree urn in the .thr case it will not. In th former caii the accused person h.'f.i no ristht In ball and in the latter case the a-ou:l person did have a rU'M to bail. "Being a sworn ofTlc;r 'f the stnt i with the facts before me, I wm cniie j pon to perform a dutv. The Fqwril 'Suffrage league was withot the fo( and had no duty to perform, and lik i others who act without Information with respect to matters with refer --rr i to which they have no duty to perfur-n. they may engage In Idle criticism and rlve vent to their rympithy. AGITATION UNFORTUNATE. "It would seem that n league that wishes to convince the puhl!c of tn capacity of Us members for the ballot, would show more discretion than to ergage in the public aquation of .i matter of this kind. The cas I pend ing In court and we are on the eve of the trial. Agitation pro and con lin tho effect of stirring up ruMle senti ment for and against the accused an 5 (Continued on Laat Page ) I . ' !