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EPITOME OF THE BIG HAPPEN-
INGS OF THE WEEK.
TO BE READ AT A 6LANCE
Items, Both Foreign and Domestic,
That Have Interest for Busy Read
ers, Arranged and Classified
for Their Convenience.
JLuropean War News
Thirty thousand Russian soldiers,
22 cannon and 64 machine guns were
captm-ed in the battle of West Galicia,
according to official statements given
out in Vienna and Berlin. Petrograd
admits that the Austro-German armies
crossed the Dunajec river in Galicia.
In a dispatch from Athens received
by the London Exchange Telegraph
company the declaration is made that
the vali of Smyrna has entered fresh
negotiations with the allies for the sur
Tender of the town.
It is officially announced at Berlin
that a German airship dropped bombs
bn several English submarines in the
North sea. One submarine was sunk.
Three more British boats, two trawl
fcrs and a steamer, have been torpedoed
by German submarines in the North
luea. Six lives were lost.
A
Five towns taken by the Ger
mans in their latest offensive in the
Western theater of war are Zovencote,
Bonnebeke, Westhoek, Polygonwuld
and Nonneboschen.
The American oil tank steamer Gulf
light, which was torpedoed off the
Scilly islands, was attacked without
warning by a submerged submarine,
according to Second Officer Paul Bow
er of the Gulflight, whose home is in
Chicago and who arrived at Plymouth,
England, with thirty-two members of
the crew.
News of the sinking of seven more
vessels by German war craft was re
ceived in London. The Norwegian
steamers were torpedoed and sunk
in the North sea by submarines and
a Swedish steamer met with the same
fate, also in the North sea. In addi
tion two British trawlers 'were de
stroyed by submarines.
The official statement of the war
office at Berlin that the Germans have
broken through the Russian front in
western Galicia, capturing the Rus
sians across the Dunajec, has caused
a great outburst of jubilation in Ber
lin. The city is decorated and noisy
crowds fill the streets.
Direct information from the Ger
man embassy at Rome confirms the re
port that negotiations between Aus
tria and Italy have been broken off.
The excitement in the city is growing.
Premier Salandra unexpectedly called
a meeting of the cabinet. It was an
nounced that, "owing to the interna
tional (situation," the king and his
ministers would not attend the Quarto
celebration.
Domestic
i-
Word was received at Amsterdam
that Emperor William %and Prince
Henry of Prussia visited Antwerp and
Inspected the German defenses there,
after which they returned to Luxem
burg.
Theodore Roosevelt again went on
the witness stand in the supreme court
at Syracuse, N. Y., after many wit
nesses, including a son and also a for
mer secretary of the late Thomas C.
Piatt and Franklin D. Roosevelt, as
sistant secretary of the navy, had tes
tified in his behalf.
Farm dwellings and barns were
leveled and several persons received
severe injuries when a tornado touched
near Grand View, la.
Secretary Bryan declared In an ad
dress under auspices of the National
Abstainers' union at New York that
the European war had developed that
even patriotism was no match for the
appetite which alcohol cultivates in
its victims.
Fifty thousand or more head of
eheep, valued at about $400,000, per
ished in a snow and wind storm in
northeastern Oregon.
The jury returned a verdict at Trin
idad, Colo., pronouncing John R. Law
son, labor leader, guilty of murder in
the first degree, fixing penalty at life
imprisonment, for the killing of John
Nimmo, a deputy sheriff, in a battle
with strikers October 25, 1913.
Two lives were lost in a fire that de
stroyed a shed on the North River
rside road near Purdue university.
Eighteen hundred bridge and struc
tural iron workers went on strike at
-Chicago. Refused raise in wages.
John J. Slomski, private banker at
^Chicago, was shot in a daylight hold
up of his bank by five young auto
bandits and died shortly afterward.
fThe robbers seized $83 from a de
osito and escaped.
With what is said to be the largest
list of passengers that ever crossed,
the Pacific ocean and with a cargo
valued at $4,000,000, the Pacific mail!
liner Manchuria reached port at San
Francisco from the Orient. Among
the 740 passengers were 48 of the
cabin passengers of the liner Minne
sota, wrecked in the Sea of Japan.
The Missouri supreme court at
Jefferson City, Mo., overruled the mo
tion for a rehearing in the case of
the state against several packing
firms on a charge of violating the
state antitrust laws. In the original
suit the packers were fined $25,000
each, and this decision they have
sought to have set aside.
The retail dry goods firm of W. H.
Albrecht & Co. of Terre Haute has
filed a petition in bankruptcy, listing
liabilities of $75,000 and assets of
$65,000.
The board of bishops of the Metho
dist Episcopal church, in session at
Des Moines, la., accepted the over
ture of church unity made by the
Methodist Episcopal church. South.
Danville, 111., was voted dry by the
city council for the first time in the
history of the city. Seventy-three sa
loons were put out of business.
The senate of the Wisconsin legis
lature passed for the second time the
antitipping bill, which had been ve
toed by the governor.
Washington
Robert T. Lincoln,' chairman of the
board of the Pullman company, testi
fied before the United States industrial
committee at Washington that the
company's capital stock was $120,-
000,000 and eight per cent interest
has been paid annually since 1900. He
said that the wages of porters should
be more than $27.50 a month.
The empress of Germany expressed
her appreciation of the American Red
Cross work in behalf of Germany,
sending her message through the Ger
man ambassador, who sent a letter to
Miss Mabel T. Boardman, at Red
Cross headquarters at Washington.
President Wilson, Secretary of State
Bryan and the international law ex
perts of the department at Washing
ton have decided to suspend judgment
in the case of the American tank ship
Gulflight, which was torpedoed off
Scilly island, with the death of Cap
tain Alfred Gunter and two sailors.
A total of 142 foreign-built vessels
of 500,705 gross tons have taken ad
vantage of the ship registry law of
last August to register at Washington
as vessels of the United States and
engage in foreign trade under an
American flag. The value of these
vessels is $32,000,000.
Postmaster General Burleson an
nounced at Washington that mail fa
cilities would be extended to 1,000,000
new rural patrons before July 1,
through readjustment without increas
ing the present cost of service. Motor
vehicle service will be inaugurated
at postal centers.
Having enacted his role as god
father to "Baby" Sayre, President Wil
son returned from Springfield, Mass..
to the White House. The new name
for the baby is Francis Woodrow
Sayre, sharing the name of his dis
tinguished grandparent.
General improvement in business
conditions, with "returning confi
dence," is announced in the federal re
serve board's digest of reports at
Washington of agents in the 12 re
serve districts into which the country
is divided.
Mexican Revolt
Jack Mayes of San Francisco was
killed at Aguas Calientes in making
a test flight of one of the aeroplanes
purchased for the Villa army.
Personal
Thomas A. Edison has been voted
the American who has done the most
to benefit mankind and is to receive
the civic forum medal of honor for
distinguished public service.
Foreign
Fire destroyed the palace of justice
at Madrid, Spain. Judge Aranda per
ished while endeavoring to save the
court records. Many firemen were in
jured.
The correspondent of the London
Central News at Tokyo cables: "I
learn that the cabinet in special ses
sion has decided to send an ultimatum
to China. The ultimatum will accord
a brief time limit for China's compli
ance with the Japanese demands."
Military preparations are being made
by the Chinese government for the
defense of Peking.
Canada has stopped the shipment
of grain from that country and the
closest restrictions will be enforced.
Exports cannot leave Canada for the
United Kingdom or the United States
unless specified consignees are named
nor to any foreign country unless un
der Ottawa permit.
China has replied to the Japanese
demands in a note which, while com
plying with some of demands, definite
ly refuses to accede to others, in*
eluding the most important, embodied
In what is known.as group 5.
CARRIED SIR
E
GULFLIGHT BORE STARS AND
STRIPES AT TIME OF
DISASTER.
THREE EXPLANATIONS OPEN
Washington Looks for Pacific Settle
ment of CaseAid Expected From
German Government in Making
American Position Easier.
Washington, May 7.From the own
ers of the Gulflight, torpedoed off the
Scily Islands, comes the information,
addressed to the Department of tSate,
at Washington, that the ship earned
the American flag.
This leaves three possible explana
tions open to the Germans for the de
struction of the American ship:
First.That the captain of the sub
marine was mistaken as to the iden
tity of the vessel.
Second.That he assumed the
American flag was being misused to
cover the real identity of the ship.
Third.That in view of the warn
ing given by the German government,
no vessel has a right to assume safety
in the published war zone.
Friendly Settlement Likely.
So far as developments here are con
cerned, every indication points to a
pacfic settlement of all the cases in
point and that Washington will confine
itself to its usual program of writing
notes and making protests.
Aid is expected from the German
government in making the American
position easier.
If a more drastic policy is adopted
it will mean that the President has
yielded to advisers in the State Depart
ment, not Secretary Bryan, and that
the entire administration policy rela
tive to foreign relations is changed.
Pacificism is expected to prevail.
If Germany disclaims knowledge of
the identity of the submarine which
fired on the Gulflight, the administra
tion will be puzzled to say differently,
should it wish to do so.
It is generally admitted that the
German advertisement warning Ameri
cans to avoid the war zone has a tend
ency to place the burden of proof on
the German government, but the ad
ministration may not look at it that
way.
The general expectation is that the
administration will find a loophole out
of the present difficulty.
Liberty Bell is Repaired.
Philadelphia, May 6.The clapper
which had hung inside the liberty bell
for 162 years has been removed and
a "spider" of structural steel inserted
on the inside of the relic.
The "spider," or steei skeleton,
stretches its six metal fingers down
underneath the bell and at equally
distant points around the chipped
edges, clasps them tightly so that the
crack in it may be prevented, if pos
sible, from growing further.
Whether the clapper will be taken
with the bell to the Panama-Pacific
exposition will be decided by the Coun
cilmanic committee which has pre
pared the plans for the journey.
Proclaims Ad Week In Chicago.
Chicago, May 7.Mayor William
Hale Thompson has issued a procla
mation designating the week of June
20 to 26 as advertising week in the
city of Chicago, in.honor of the elev
enth annual convention of the Asso
ciated Advertising Clubs of the
World, which will meet here that
week. Merchants are asked by the
mayor to observe the occasion by
quitably decorating their places of
business and by making special dis
plays of advertised, trar"'-marked mer
chandise.
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THE TOMAHAWK, WHITE EARTH, MINN.
AMERICAN SHIP BLOWN UP BY GERMANS
American tank steamer Gulflight, which was blown up by a German torpedo or mine off the Scilly islands. Be-
low, at the left, is its commander, Capt. Alfred Gunter, who died of heart failure at the right, Charles C. Short of
Chicago, wireless operator, who jumped overboard and was drowned.
MAID ALLEGES BRIBERY OFFER
DECLARES DETECTIVE WANTED
HER TO CHANGE STORY.
Celia Coleman Says She Was Told
That Mrs. Carman Would
Pay Her $300.
Mineola, L. I., May 8.Celia Cole
man, who has been the state's chief
witness in the two trials of Mrs. Flor
ence Conklin Carman for the murder
of Mrs. Louise D. Bailey, supplied new
testimony in the continuation of her
examination when she declared that
she had been offered $300 to change
the story she told at the first trial.
She said the offer had been made her
by a negro detective named Hicks.
Mrs. Carman's lawyer admitted that
Hicks was in the employ of the de
fense. Celia said Hicks told her Mrs.
Carman would give her the money.
Corroborates Maid's Story.
Following up this new development,
District Attorney Smith put on the
stand George Toomer, a negro, who not
only corroborated Celia in regard to
the alleged bribery offer, but was
prompted to testify that she had told
him on July 2 last of Mrs. Carman's
alleged admissions to the maid regard
ing the killing of Mrs. Bailey.
Mr. Smith, in his examination of
Mrs. Ida Powell, sister of Mrs. Carman,
put questions intended to show that
Doctor Carman, husband of the defend
ant, knew that a woman who was in
Doctor Carman's waiting room the
night of the shooting had gone to
Canada. Two young women were in
the waiting room then and Doctor
Carman and his family have maintain
ed that they did not know who thoy
were.
"Did Doctor Carman tell you that
one of these young women wrote to
him and said it would ruin her to tes
tify at the first trial?" Mr. Smith asked
Mrs. Powell.
She answered "No."
To Refute Testimony.
To refute the testimony of Celia
Coleman, the defense on opening its
case, called Mrs. Helen Corby, niece
of Mrs. Carman and her husband,
Charles Mr. and Mrs. Piatt Conklin,
Mrs. Carman's parents, and ten-year
old Elizabeth Carman.
They testified that at the time of the
shooting and subsequently, Mrs. Car
man was in her room.
CLAIMS GERMANS USED GAS
British "Eye-Witness" Says French
Continue Advance Despite the
Asphyxiating Fumes.
London, May 7.The British offi
cial "eye-witness" in a long account
of the engagement of the last few
days in the Ypres region records that
the Germans have continued the use
of asphyxiating gases, but with less
success than on the first occasion.
Despite the use of gas by the Ger
mans, the narrative says, the French
have made continual advances east of
the Yi.res canal south of Pilken, the
result of which was to remove the
wedge occupied by the Germans and
in the French line between the canal
and the Ypres-Langemarck road, a
gain of more than 1,000 yards. Dur
ing these advances a large number of
German prisoners were taken.
Northwest Pioneer Dies.
La Crosse, Wis., May 7.Mrs. Han
nah Moulton, 85, wife of Captain Isaac
H. Moulton, a prominent figure in the
early days of Mississippi river traffic,
died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Abby H. Burton. Captain and Mrs.
Moulton came to La Crosse in 1865
from Minneapolis, where they went in
1857. Captain Moulton was one of the
first business mfen to locate at St.
Anthony Falls. Mrs. Moulton was born
at Biddeford, Maine, March '5, 1830.
She married Captain Moultcn at Sal
mon Falls. N. H.
FINDLABQ
GUILTY OF
JURY CONVICTS JOHN R. LAWSON
PENALTY 5S LIFE IM-
PRISONMENT.
WILL FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
Chief Counsel for Defense Declares He
Will Fight Case to FinishHad
Confidently Expected Acquital
or Disagreement.
Trinidad, Colo., May 5.John R.
Lawson, noted labor leader, has bee.n
condemned to spend the remainder of
his life at hard labor in the Colorado
penitentiary. He was found guilty of
first degree murder in connection with
the death of John Nimmo, a deputy
sheriff killed in a strike battle Oct.
25, 1913.
Under the Colorado statute making
it the duty of the judge to fix the
penalty at death or life imprisonment
the jury in the district court fixed the
milder punishment.
Lav/son sat immovable as the jury
filed in the courtroom. There was
only a sprinkling of spectators. Judge
Granby Hillyer had announced lunch
eon recess until 2 o'clock and it was
not quite that hour when the jury re
ported.
Judge Hillyer glanced at the verdict
submitted by the jury and then handed
it back to the clerk. The clerk read
aloud:
Murder in First Degree.
"We, the jury, find the defendant
guilty of murder in the first degree
and fix the penalty at life imprison-
ment."
Lawson did not move. A slight
smile played over his features. There
was silence for a few moments, then
Horace N. Hawkins, chief counsel for
the defense, asked that the jury be
polled.
As the clerk read the names, each
man assented to the verdict. Then
there was brief legal formalities and
the crowd filtered out the door.
Thirty days were given to file a mo
tion for a new trial and Lawson was
released temporarily in custody of his
counsel.
Judge Hillyer later announced that
the labor leader would be released on
?20,000 bond pending action on his mo
tion for a new trial. The bond was ar
ranged for at a conference between
Judge Hillyer and Horace N. Hawkins,
chief counsel for the defense.
Fights for Workihgmen.
Seated at his lawyer's table after
the verdict, John R. Lawson talked
calmly of the outcome of his fight for
life and liberty.
"They may get me, but they can't
defeat the cause of labor," Lawson
said. "I'm not worrying about myself
it's the fight I have been making
for the workingmen that I am inter
ested in and that will go ahead just as
before. Even for me, it's a long way
to the penitentiary. My attorneys will
not give up until everything possible
has been done to save me."
Lawson and his counsel had confid
ently expected an acquittal or at most
a disagreement.
"Ripper" Threatens Another Murder.
New York, May 7The letter-writ
ing murderer who killed 5-year-old
Eleirore Cohn and 4year-old Charlie
Murray has written to the Murray
boy's mother, telling her that he will
commit another murder when the
present excitement over her child's
death subsides. The letter was re
ceived at the time the little victim's
body was about to be buried. Mrs.
Murray read one paragraph and col
lapsed. The murder of the boy, on
May 3, was preceded by a similar
threat contained in a letter.
WARNING OF JAPAK
TOKIO GOVERNMENT WILL ACT
UNLESS 24 DEMANDS 'ARE
GRANTED.
ARMY CORPS MAKING READY
Volunteer Defense Troops of China
and Japan Have Clashed at
Tsinan, According to Man
churia Dispatch.
PREPARE FOR EVENTUALITIES.
Tokio, May 8.Certain portions of
the army corps stationed at Hiroshi
ma and Okapama already have pre
pared for eventualities.
Dispatches from Manchuria say
that many Japanese are leaving Jap
anese Dairien, Manchuria, and that
the volunteer defense corps of Japan
ese and Chinese troops have clashed
at Tsinan. All the troops in Shan
tung province and Manchuria are pre
paring for possible trouble.
Tokio, May 8.The Japanese for
eign office declares that Eki Hioki,
minister to China, has been given in
structions by telegram regarding the
presentation of Japan's ultimatum to
China. If the demands of Japan are
not accepted before the time limit
expires Minister Hioki will leave
Pekin.
The Chinese minister at Tokio has
been informed of the action taken.
Pekin, May 8.The Japanese lega
tion has informed the Chinese for
eign office that Japan would be un
able to accept the further conces
sions offered Thursday by China and
would present an ultimatum before
o'clock in the afternoon unless the
24 demands were accepted by China
without qualification.
The Japanese legation continued its
effort to persuade the Chinese gov
ernment to concede Japan's demands
without the necessity of serving upon
China the ultimatum of the Japanese
government which was received early
Wednesday morning.
China Yields Point.
The secretary of the legation visit
ed the foreign office and informed
Vice Minister Tsao Yulin that the
legation had received the ultimatum
and that it would be presented unless
China agreed to Japan's 24 demands
before 7 o'clock in the evening. Tsao
Yulin immediately visited the winter
palace, the residence of Yuan Shi
Kai, and after" a conference with the
executive and other members of the
government, conveyed to the Japan
ese legation the following further
concession:
China reiterated regarding Shan.
Tung province that she would grant
Japan everything that already had
been granted to Germany there by
treaty.
China agreed to grant Japanese the
right to work mines in South Man
churia and Eastern Mongolia, that all
disputes between the Japanese in
Manchuria, of whatever nature, shall
be under Japanese jurisdiction that
schools and hospitals may lease land
from the Chinese, thereby reserving
land ownership, to grant a concession?
to Japan to build the Nan Chang
Chaochow Pu railway, if Great Bri
tain consents to the release of China
from the negotiations begun concern
ing this railroad two years ago.
The Japanese claim they requested
the concession for this railroad
1907.
Three Stipulations Held.
The three stipulations China made
to the demands in the nature of coun
ter proposals last Sunday were not
withdrawn by China. These were that
China asked the right to participate
in an international conference for a
re-arrangement of the altered status
of Shantung, indemnity for the losses
Incurred in consequence of the Tsing
Tau campaign, and the restoration of
the status of Shan Tung as before
the war.
It is said that the Chinese govern
ment has resolved to communicate
with the United States, Great Britain,
Russia and France on receipt of the
ultimatum, and that the nature of this
communication will depend upon the
nature of the ultimatum.
REVOLUTIONARY LEADER
RIDES INTO CAPE HAITIEN
Haitien, Haiti, May 7.Dr. Rosalvo
Bobo, leader of the revolutionary
movement against President Guillau
me, rode into Cape Haitien at the
head of a strong detachment of cav
alry. The town was occupied seme
10 days ago two of Dr. Bobo's gen
erals.
Fighting is going on between the
government forces and the followers
of Dr. Bobo at Limbe and Grande Ri
viere. Both of these towns hava
changed hands several times in the
past fortnight.
U. S. Note to Germany Made Public.
Washington, May 6.The text of
the American note to Germany declin
ing the suggestion- that reparation for
the sinking of the American sailing
ship William P. Frye by the converted
cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich b%made
through a German prize court, and
reiterating the representations for in
demnity, was made public by the state
department. It already has been pre
sented to the Berlin foreign office la
the form of a communication from
Ambassador Gerard