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If* (ft ft S i BE?*? European War News It was stated on excellent authority in London that the British cabinet has virtually decided upon a modified form f conscription bill, to be introduced In the house of commons, giving the government the necessary power to bring in single men and preserve Premier Asquith's pledge to married men. It is reported McKenna and Runciman have resigned. Their resig nations have not yet been accepted. A dispatch to the Geneva Tribune from Vienna says. "Chancellor von Bethman-Holweg is expected in Vien na shortly with the full conditions un der which the central powers will ac cept peace.' The conditions will be officially communicated to the allies." King Victor Emmanuel of Italy has oeen wounded by an Austrian gren ade and is now in the hospital, it is stated by the Overseas News agency. The agency attributes its information to a traveler who has just arrived from Italy. The naval steamship Venetirum has oeen sunk by a German submarine. Her crew was saved, says a dispatch from London. The steamer United States, which arrived at New York from Scandi navian ports, reported that on Decem ljer 13 she was stopped east of the Shetland isles by a British cruiser and taken to Greenock for examination. There the British removed 1,961 small parcels and 930 parcel-post packages. The steamer was released on the (eighteenth. The correspondent at Athens of the Exchange Telegraph company of Lon don says a royal decree has been is sued disbanding two auxiliary classes of troops. According to an unofficial report from Paris the British charged from their trenches before Armentieres and by surprise drove the Germans from their first-line positions and took 800 prisoners. The losses on both sides were considerable. Eighty persons lost their lives when the French liner Ville de la Ciotat was torpedoed by an unidentified sub marine in the Mediterranean on De cember 24. According to the latest re ports received at Paris there were no Americans on the vessel. The Bulgarian premier has assured the agrarian party that the Bulgarian campaign in the Balkans has ended, according to Bulgarian newspapers re ceived at Athens. A British Indian army corps (about 40,000 men) has left France for an other field of operations, it was offi cially announced in London. The British steamship Yeddo, from *Calcutta to Boston and New York, was sunk in the Mediterranean with a loss stimated at $2,000,000. Her crew is reported saved. The nationality of leT assailant is still in doubt The Yeddo was of 4,500 tons. Domestic M, CapL Karl Boy-Ed, forme, naval at tache of the German embassy in Washington, before sailing from New York for Rotterdam defended his ac tion in sending supplies to German warships at sea, and blamed a Provi dence newspaper for starting what he termed "spy hysteria" throughout the country. The federal grand jury at New York Indicted for conspiracy to foment atrlkes in American munition factories the following men: Congressman Frank Buchanan of Illinois, H. Robert Fowler, former congressman from Illi nols Frank S. Monnett, former attor ney general of Ohio David Lamar, Jacob C. Taylor, president of Labor's National Peace council Franz von Hintelen, a German agent H. B. Martin. Herman Schulteis. "Skate" Young of South Dakota was fettled and John Luffy of Tulsa, Okla.. probably was fatally wounded by Dick "Wade when they attempted to hold up gambling house at St. Joseph, Mo One auto bandit was killed, another was shot through the shoulder, a third -was captured and a fourth escaped in wild chase through the streets of oChfcago. Several detectives partici jpatai in the battle. Salvadore Man #seuo was killed. One of weirdest storms the East 9mm seen In many yearsrain, hail and Ipnow accompanied by thunder and jp^htnins and a gale that reached a fawdnram velocity of 90 miles an haur fr m ponded from the northwest. It six deaths In New York. Surrogate Fowler of New York re to set aside the probate of the jsjffl of Mrs. Frank Leslie In which gtbm disposed of an estate of $1,748,- S50, more than $1,000,000 of which goes 4k the voman suffrage cause. **5cL-i^a:- s^j^&feiS W' W^f^' VfffiWW^F Fire destroyed the principal busi ness block of the village of Little York, Warren county, Illinois, caus ing a loss of $65,000. Mayor Carl H. Keller of Toledo, O, was indicted on the charge of accept ing a bribe. It is alleged Keller was given an automobile to influence his vote, as,member of the city board ol! control, to award a $65,000 contract to the Peerless company for motor fixe apparatus. Thomas Mott Osborne, warden- of Sing Sing prison, was indicted on live counts by the Westchester county grand jury of Westchester county, New York, which has been investigat ing conditions at the prison. The First National bank of Havener, Okla., was robbed of about $15,000 by four bandits. Doctor Ruhland, city health com missioner of Milwaukee, who urged residents to stop kissing during the grippe epidemic, has fallen victim to the grippe himself. Fire, believed to be of incendiary origin, caused small damage on the British sugar steamer Inchmoor as she lay moored south of Brooklyn. Two policemen shot and killed three brothers at Freelanspur. 111., when they resisted arrest on a charge of drunk enness The dead are: John. William and Frank Wilkas Wong Yuen Yuns. a cousin of Pres ident Yuan Shi-kai of China, was shot and killed in the Chinese quarter at San Francisco Yung had been on secret mission. His assailant escaped Mexican Revolt News was received at El Paso, Tex., of an attempt to assassinate Gen. Francisco Villa noar Bustillos, state of Chihuahua. Four of Villa's follow ers tried to shoot him, but missed. Villa killed two of the would-be as sassins. Victoriano Huerta, former president of Mexico, who is held at El Paso, Tex., for alleged violation of the neu trality laws of the United States, is ill and was removed from the prison at Fort Elias to the residence of his wife. Friends of Gen. Rafael Egula Lis have been informed that he, with all his staff officers, has been executed at Cuautia, Mex., by order of Emiliano Zapata. The order waB fulfilled pub licly by a Zapatista. Personal George W. Glover, only son of the late Christian Science leader, Mary Baker Glover Eddy, died at Lead, S. D., of peritonitis, aged seventy-six, af ter a short illness. Melvine Hall, member of the Amer ican ambulance corps in France, was killed by a German shell In the Vosges region. He was a son of Dr LewiB Hall, a professor at Univer city of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Mich. Washington The state department announced at Washington the receipt of a cable from Consul Bristow at Port Said, an nouncing that the Japanese liner Ya saka Maru was sunk without warning Claiming that they are subjected to unfair competition, Illinois Coal Operators' association complained to the Interstate commerce commission at Washington against the rate adjust ment over the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, and connecting lines from Indiana and Illinois to Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota. A readjustment is asked The state department at Washington has received from Ambassador Pen field at Vienna a report on the Ancona case indicating that the Austrian gov ernment is in an amiable mood and de sirous of a friendly and satisfactory settlement of the controversy. The Panama canal failed to pay In terest on the investment of $357,000,- 000, and also to pay its cost of main tenance. These facts are disclosed in the annual report of the governor of the Canal Zone, Maj. Gen. George W. Goethals, which was made public at Washington. Siuce the European war began Great Britain has built as many ships of war of all classes as the United States now possesses. This informa tion has reached the navy department at Washington. An additional 7,200 officers and men are needed by the marine corps for adequate performance of Its manifold duties, in the opinion of Maj. Gen. George Barnett, commandant, as ex pressed in his annual report, made public at Washington. The postal service has doubled In the last twelve years and during the last fiscal year audited transactions reached the $2,000,000,000 mark for the first time, according to the annual report of Charles A. Kram, auditor for the post office department, made pub lic at Washington. Foreign Prince Hohenlohe Schillingsfarst, son of the former chancellor of Ger many, died at Berlin. I'SHBMA* i -a*****^ ^i* i* I'l i rf" J1 \T" :t "W v-f VJM-Ct,! mr South Honors Memory. From that moment the South did all in its power to honor Minnesota's dead governor and to express its sympathy with those who mourn him. The Clinton lodge of Masons as sumed temporary charge. Governor Luther E. Hall of Baton Rouge, some 30 miles away, was notified. The body was sent to Wilson, La., and a few hours later started northward accompanied by Governor Hall, a Louisiana military escort and more than 100 Louisiana Masons who, on first call, laid aside their respective duties and hurried to the side of their noted Masonic brother. This Louisiana did in honor of the ?o\ernor of Minnesota and to light en the burden of Mr. Nowell, the sole companion of the governor when he was stricken. Louisiana's Example Followed. The example set by Louisiana was followed through the night journey northward by the other Dixie states. The Louisiana delegation stayed with the funeral car until it reached Vicks burg. Miss., where Governor Earl Brewer of Mississippi at* the head of another military escort and with an other Masonic guard, took over the duty of escorting northward the body of the stricken governor of a sister state. This same beautiful example of Southern courtesy was taken up by Tennessee when the Mississippi es cort arrived in Memphis to deliver \e the body to the governor of Ten nessee, who was prepared to provide it with, an escort over the line into Kentucky. Minnesota Sends Delegation. While the South was showing its homage to Minnesota's governor, who Schmidt Gets Life Sentence. Los Angeles, Dec. 31.Mathew A. Schmidt was convicted of first degree murder as the accomplice of James B. McNamara, in the blowing up of the Los Angeles Times building here five years ago. The specific charge was of having murdered Charles Hag erty, one of the 20 victims of the Times explosion. The jury was out 46 minutes, and fixed Schmidt's pun ishment at imprisonment for life, the same penalty imposed on James B. McNamara. /C$ THE TOMAHAWK, WHITE EARTH, MWN. WINFIELD SCOTT HAMMOND St. Paul, Dec. 31.The body of WinPeld Scott Hammond, stricken governor of Minnesota, is homeward bound under military escort of the respective Dixie states through which the funeral car is passing. With the body of the governor io but one Minnesotan, James A. Nowell of St. Paul, who made the trip South with the governor. But, as the body of the dead governor journeys northward, so southward to meet it speeds a party of Minnesota political leaders who will escort the remains of the dead executive back to the Minnesota capital. GOVERNOR UNWARNED OF FATE. Governor Hammond, entirely unwarned that fate threatened him with any serious malady, died in his.hotel In Clinton, La. Apoplexy, aggrav- ated by a slight attack of ptomafne poisoning, is given by the Louisiana physicians as the cause of hiadeSth. The governor, believing Ttfmsslf In splendid health, went South De- cember 23, just two days before Christmas, with Mr. Nowell, to seek rest, pleasure and to look over some of his lands and lumber interests in the East Feliciana parish, Louisiana. FOUND LYING ON FLOOR. In the South the governor ate something which disagreed with him but believed his illness to be but a slight attack of indigestion. Seem- ingly entirely recovered, he stepped into the washroom of his hotel in Clinton about 9 a. m. Mr.' Nowell a moment later heard him groan. Mr. Nowell burst into the room and found the governor lying on the floor in a state of collapse. "Jim," the governor exclaimed, and that was his fast word. He was carried to his room but was dead before doctors reached him. WiHV*!'^ *f,u flv A** tia* f* ,V had died practically as a stranger in a strange land, Minnesota was send ing a delegation of its most prominent public officials of both parties to Chi cago to meet the body. In fact, the first official act of J. A. A. Burnquist, after taking the oath of office as successor to Governor Ham mond, was to appoint this delegation to hurry to Chicago to escort the body of the stricken executive back to the state capitol. The party was constituted of Sam uel D. Works, Carlos N. Boynton, C. M. Andrist, A. H. Turrittin, J. A. O. Preus, Julius A. Schmahl, Frank E. Ford, T. J. McDermott, J. G. Armson, J. F. Farrell, A. J. Rush, Judge Ira B. Mills, J. C. Nethaway, Justice Al bert Schaller, A. L. Sorter and Adjut ant General Fred B. Wood. Milton Hammond, the late gover nor's brother, found himself unable to make connections at St Paul with this party and went direct from St. James, the governor's home, to Chicago. The whole state of Minnesota is striving with poignant regret to com prehend the news which came over the wires from the little Louisiana town, where the noted governor of Minnesota met his death. Andrist is Overcome. St. Paul, Dec. 31.C. M. Andrist, Governor Hammond's private secre tary, was almost on the verge of col lapse during the afternoon and fin ally had to be taken to his home in Minneapolis by friends. He was the first to receive the news of the death of the executive and it was some time before he recovered from the shock. So intense was his grief that he had to be led to a couch and in duced to lie down. Message in Bottle 16 Years. Hoquiam. Wash., Dec. 31.After floating about in the Pacific ocean for 16 years, a bottle containing a note written and thrown overbov by one of the officers of the schooner Transit was found on the beach by an Indian, Bob Wayne, near Moclips. The message reads as fcilows: "Schooner Transit, Aug. 10, 18S9. Ten days out from Honolulu, H. I., bound to San Francisco Weather calm and baffling wind AT, is veil. J. Peterson." BURNQUIST MADE GOVERNOR LEAVES SICK BED TO TAKE OATH OF OFFICE. Refuses to Make Statement as to Future Plans or Possible Changes at Minnesota Capitol. St. Paul, Dec. 31.Only a few hours after Winfield Scott Harsmond, Min nesota's bachelor, Democratic gover nor, had been stricken by death in far away Louisiana, Joseph Alfred Arner Burnquist took the oath of office as governor of Minnesota. So fate thrust the governorship of Minnesota on Mr. Burnquist, young St. Paul law yer, Republican supporter in a some what conservative manner of the doc trines of temperance and reform. It was not a gorgeous spectacle, this inauguration of the young gov ernor fate decreed to give Minne sota. He had been in bed in his home sick during the morning. Burnquist Goes to Capitol. The telephone bell rang, Mrs Burnquist answered it and, upon urgent demand, consented to'call Mr. Burnquist to the telephone. He re sponded to be told by Julius A. Schmahl, secretary of state, that Winfield Scott Hammond had been stricken by death and that it had thereupon become imperative that Mr. Burnquist, as lieutenant governor, dress and journey to the state's cari tol to take his oath as the new got ernor of the North Star state. There were hardly more than a score in the room when Justice George Bunn called upon Mr. Burn quist to raise his right hand to re ceive the oath. Becomes Minnesota Governor. When Mr. Burnquist took that oath he became at once the fully qualified governor of Minnesota and George H. Sullivan of Stillwater, president pro tem of the state sen ate, became lieutenant governor. Then and there the political com plexion of the state shifted, for the late governor was a Democrat, the new governor is a Republican, as is the new lieutenant governor. Governor Burnquist would not make any statement as to his future plans or possible changes in his official family. SORROW EXPRESSED BY WASHINGTON LEADERS Congressman James R. Mann, Republican House leader: "I had a great personal admiration for the Governor and hi3 death moves me deeply. He was a fair fighter at all times and wise in council and debate. Minnesota has suffered a great loss and so has the country at large. It is a pity that such a man should have been stricken in the flower of his manhood." Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama, Former Democratic House leader: "I am greatly shocked to hear of Governor Hammond's death. He was an ideal representative and per formed excellent service as a member of the House. As a mem ber of the ways and means com mittee 1 knew him well and had great respect for his judgment on public questions." Joseph P. Tumulty, Secretary to the President: "I knew Gov ernor Hammond welf and had re spect for his good ci^Timon sense, his poise and the deliberative judgment that he brought to bear in the consideration of public questions. He was a fine type of American, a faithful public ser vant and a loyal friend." ALLIES MAKE TWO LANDINGS British Send Troops to Orfano and French Occupy Greek Island Off Asia Minor. London, Dec 31.Two new land ings by the Allies in the near East are reported. The British have trans ferred some troops from Saloniki to Orfano. a small Greek port, 60 miles east of Saloniki, with the intention of thus checking any possibility of a hostile advance from this quarter. The second landing was made by tho French on the Greek island of Catel lorizo, off the southeast coast of Asia Minor, not far from the important seaport of Adalin An Athens dispatch says that the occupation of Adalia is the object o~ the landing. A railway runs north of Adalia and the presence there of a strong allied force would menace the communications of any hostile force operating against Egypt or the lower Tigris region. Italians Occupy Durazzo. Geneva, Dec. 31.It is reported here on good authority that Italian troops lune occupied the Albanian seaport of Durazzo. Washington Deeply Grieved. Washington, Dec. 31. Official Washington was deeply grieved at the sudden death of Governor Hammond. Members of Congress with whom he had served, felt the loss most keen ly. The expressions of regret came from both sides of the House, Repub lican House Leader Mann joining with Senator Underwood, former Democratic House leader and Speak er Clark. Representative Mann was especially close to Governor Ham mond, notwithstanding their differ ences in politics. Defective Page AUSTRIAPU THELINERA DANGER OF BREAK IN RELATION* BETWEEN AMERICA AND DUAL- MONARCHY PROBABLY IS CLEARED AWAY. READY TO PAY INDEMNITY FOR ALL AMERICANS LOST Reply to Second American Note Ad* mits Commander of Austrian Sub- marine Did Not Sufficiently Take Into Account Panic Aboard Sinking Vessel. Washington, Jan. 1.Danger of a break in diplomatic relations between the United States and Austria-Hun gary over the sinking of the liner An cona probably has been cleared away Punishment of the submarine com mander for failure to take into ac count the panic prevailing aboard the Ancona before torpedoing the vessel apparently meets the principal Ameri can demand. In effect, it might be re garded as a disavowal of the act. London, Jan. 1.The Austrian re ply to the second American note on tfte Ancona states that the comman der of the Austrian submarine has been punished for not sufficient!/ tak ing into account the panic aboard the Ancona which rendered disembarka tion more difficult. The note, while annoancmg th willingness of the Austro-HunParian government to pay an indemnity for the- American victims of the Ancona declares that the government "cannot admit responsibility for damage caused by the justifiable firing on the fleeing vessel, or by the capsizing of the boats before the torpedo was fired/' The reply of the Austrian govern ment is forwarded to Reuter's Tele gram company from Vienna by way of Amsterdam The note says: Agrees With Washington. "In reply to the second American Ancona note, the Austro-Hungarian government fully agrees with the Washington cabinet that the sacred laws of humanity should be taken into account also in war. and em phasizes that it, in the course of this war, his given numerous proofs of the most humane feelings. "The Austro-Hungarian government, too, can positively concur in the prin ciple that enemy private vessels, so far as they do not fly or offer resist ance, shall not be destroyed before the persons aboard are secured. Vienna Values Good Relations. "The assurance that the United States government attaches value to the maintenance of the existing good relations between Austria-Hungary and the United States is warmly re ciprocated by the Austro-IImr^arian government, which now, as hereto fore, is anxious to render those re lations still more cordial." The Austro-Hungarian government then communicates the results of the inquiry into the sinking of the An cona, which was recently concluded. Submarine Fired at Ancona. The inquiry showed that the com mander of the submarine from a great distance, in the first instance, red a warning shot on the steamer, sighted at 11:40 in the forenoon which heat first believed t be a transport steamer, at the same time giving a signal for the vessel to stop. As the steamer failed to stop, and tried to escape the submarine gave chase and fired 16 shells at the steamer, of which three were observed to hit. The steamer only stopped after the third hit, whereupon the commander ceased firing. The commander of the submarine, the note continues, allowed the steam er more time than was necessary for the passengers to take to the boats and then torpedoed the vessel in such a manner that it would remain afloat as long as possible to enable the pas sengers to disembark"an object which would have been obtained if the passengers had not been forsak en by the crew." Submarine Captain Punished. "Fully appreciating the attitude of the commander who had in view the rescue of the passengers and crew," says the note, "the Austro-Hungarian naval authorities have arrived at tho conclusion that he apparently neglect ed to take sufficiently into considera tion the panic among the passengers which rendered disembarkation more difficult, and the spirit of the regula tions tha't Austro-Hungarian naval of fcers should refuse assistance to no one in distress, even an enemy. The officer was therefore punished for vio lating the instructions embodied in the rules in force for such cases." To Indemnify for Damages. The Austrian reply further express es the hope that Washington will be able to supply the particulars of how the American citizens were affected, but in the event of such evidence be ing lacking and the United States be ing unable to state how the American citizens came to their death, the Aus tro-Hungarian government "is ready to pass lightly over this deficiency and indemnify for damages, whose proximate cause cannot be fixed, and hope?, thereby that the incident will ke regarded as ended'"