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3 STAGE IS SET FOR BATTLE IN MEXICO in of she and the 151 It of sel a ber at the ing. CARRANZA TROOPS MAY MEjET THE VILLA FORCÉ8 AT LAMPAZOS. FIRING CLOSE TO RIO GRANDE Villa Forces Expected to Reach Lam pazos, and Battle Probably Will Be Fought—Carranza Troops Assemble. Brownsville, Tex—Firing between Villa and Carranza forces began short ly after midnight, March 30, near the breastworks on the west side of Mata moros, close to the Rio Grande. The firing was under cover of a heavy fog. The firing continued intermittently for half an hour and then stopped. Sev eral cannon shots were heard. None of the firing was in the direction of Brownsville. .« Washington.—While the Villa forces are marking time in their attack on Matamoros, awaiting the arrival of ar tillei*y, the stage Is being set for an other battle at Lampazos, about 70 miles southwest of Nuevo Laredo. Advices from the border to the state and war departments said the Villa forces bound to attack the Carranza garrison at Nuevo Laredo were expect ed to reach Lampazos, "where a battle probably would be fought." Other messages said Carranza troops were being assembled at Nuevo Lare do, Including the force recently driven out of Piedras Negras. The garrison will number 1,200 In all and presum ably a part of this force will be sent out along the National railway to meet the Villa force at Lampazos, if the bat tle is not already in progress. Should more troops be necessary on the Amer ican side at Laredo, Tex., in the event of an attack on Nuevo Laredo, a regi ment of infantry is in readiness at Texas City. The situation at Matamoros and at Brownsville, across the border, was un changed. The Villa troops repulsed in their first attack were encamped five miles from the city, the state de partment was advised, expecting to re new the assault on arrival of their ar Ùllery. Latest estimates of the losses said 300 Villa troops were killed and an equal number wounded, while the Car ranza garrison had 10 killed and 39 wounded. ers, be of of TAKE MOUNTAIN POSITION French Wrest Top of Hartmann's Weilerkopf From the Germans. d« London—Tbo following official statement was issued by the war office: « "The day passed quietly along the front, the enemy showing no activity. "A German aeroplane which had thrown a bomb in the region of Badon ville was brought down by us. T/ie pilot and observer were captured." Also the following communication was issued: "During the night of March 26-27 the Germans bombarded Arras with shells of all caliber. Fire broke out in Arras, but it was quickly extin guished. The fighting has been going on at La Boiselle under conditions favorable to the French. "In the Argonne district, in the vi cinity of Bagatelle, there has been bomb throwing from one line to the other, although no infantry attack has taken place. "After an energetic engagement which lasted for several days the French troops were successful in reaching the top of Hartmann's-Weiler kopf, which they captured from the Germans. The French also made prog ress on the northeastern and south eastern flanks of the main army, tak ing more prisoners, including several officers. "The Germans have abandoned im portant war material and left numer ous dead on these battlefields. The French losses were inconsiderable. "A German aviator dropped several bombs on the town of Wilier, to the northwest of Thonn. Three little chil dren were killed." » MISSING BOAT REACHES SAFETY. London.—The missing boat from the British steamer Aguila, sunk by a-Ger man submarine off the Pembrokeshiro coast, containing 15 members of the steamer's crew and two passengers, has reached safety. This is the fourth boat that put off from the Aguila after the submarine attacked 1 . It was be lieved up to the present time to have foundered. The number of men now supposed to have lost their lives with the sinking of the Aguila is nine. a Saw Delmira Torpedoed. London.—The captain pf the steam lip Lizzie, which arrived at Llanelly, Wales, stated that he was close by when the British steamer. Delmira was torpedoed March 26 by a submarine in the English channel. He said the sub marine proved to bn the U-37. The submarine waa some distance ahead of the Lizzie, which ran over it full apeed. The German then disappeared an<T from oil concluded the underwater boat was either seriously damaged or sunk. on the surface the Millo Resume. Youngstown, Ohio.—Sheet iron milia of the Mahoning valley resumed opera the new wage scale adopt a tions und< i w * Sheet sod ifla of'the Niiee had - 'L r-« - aa. .-ha Jg 3 BRITISH VESSELS SUNK Hundred and Forty Lives Lost When Three Merchantmen Go To the Bottom. London.—Polly 140 lives were lost in the sinking by German submarines of the African liner Falaba and the British steamer Agnila, bound from Liverpool for Lisbon. The Falaba, torpedoes in St. George Channel, carried a crew of Ob' and 151 passengers, and of this total only 135 were rescued. The Aguila's crew numbered 42 and she carried three passengers, and of these 23 of the crew and all the pas sengers were lost. The admiralty issued the following statement: "Twenty-three members of the crew and three passengers are missing from the steamer Agulla. "The steamer Falaba, which also sank, carried a crew ot 96 persons and 151 passengers. About 140 survivors have been picked up, eight of whom, including the captain, died afterward. It is feared that many persons on, the steamer were killed by the explosion of the torpedo. \ "The Dutch steamer Amstel, a ves sel of 853 tons, of Rotterdam, when on a passage from Rotterdam to Goole, England, struck a mine the 29th of March, in a German mine field off Flamborough (Yorkshire, England). The crew has been landed in the Hum ber by the Grimsby trawler Pinewold. An official list supplied at the of fices of the Elder Dempster Steamship company shows that so far as is known at present 52 first-class passengers, 34 second-class passengers and 49 of the crew of the Falaba were saved. Four of the passengers and four of the crew are reported killed and 61 ■passengers and 43 of the crew miss ing. on he ft In each case, on sighting the sub marine, the captain tried to escape by putting on all speed possible, but the underwater craft overtook the steam ers, showing that Germany now has some of her most modern submarines engaged in the blockade operations against England. VILLA AWAITS ARTILLERY as The Coming Villa Artillery Must Be Powerful Enough to Cope With Field Pieces. Brownsville, Texas. — Brownsville faces one of the greatest of border crises, namely, the apparent certainty that the battle which began for pos session of Matamoras, the Mexican town across the Rio Grande, will not be decided without the use of artillery consisting of field cannon firing three inch shells. There was no fighting March 28 ex cept occasional shots several miles south of the city, and Villa officers an nounced that they were awaiting the arrival of artillery. The likelihood of such shells falling in Brownsville was demonstrated by the rifle bullets vrhic-h dropped here during the first Vila assault on the Matamoras trenches, a costly failure for the Villa forces, in which their losses were offi cially given as 100 killed and 400 wounded. This attack was a headstrong dash of 2,000 mounted men firing rifles. The Carranza losses were 10 killed and 45 wounded and two persons were struck by bullets in Brownsville, being slightly injured. The coming Villa artillery must be powerful enough to cope with nine three-inch fied pieces of the defenders, none of which was fired Sunday. In addition, the Car ranza troops are said to have four 3M inch guns. ADMIRALS IN CONFERENCE The Final Assault On Dardanelles Will Decide Question of Importance. London.—A dispatch from Athens tells of the colossal preparations being made for a final assault on the Dar danelles forts. The French have de clared, says one correspondent, that one way or another the Dardanelles will be forced, for it is not only a question of honor, but It is of tl\e ut most importance to the allies to clear the straits. After council of the admirals, the dispatch says, the captains of the war ships when summoned and special in structions were given to them. It appears the decisive assault was postponed to allow for the arrival of further warships. Eight were expect ed March 29— three British, four French and one Russian. Paris.—The trans-Atlantic liner Niagara, from New York to Havre, on March 26, encountered a German sub marine off Cherbourg, according to a Havas dispatch from .Havre. The Niagara, owing to its speed, was able to escape. The steamer had on board the crew of the French line steamship Florida, which was sank by th" German auxiliary cruiser Prim Eitel Friedrich. Relief for Masons. Cincinnati, O.—Thirteen thousand dollars has been sent to Masonic grand lodges in eight European coun tries tor the relief of suffering or destitute Masons there, according to a report by the Masonic War Relief association of the United Stales. The grand lodges of Germany, England, Ireland and Belgium each received $3,500, while $3,000 has been divided between the grand lodges of France Italy, Switzerland and Lnxembourg. The fund la rapidly approaching $50,000. in Ship Is Aground. New_ Orleans.—The British steam ship Olènshield. loaded with supplies from Belgium, to aground near the mouth of the Mis s i ss i ppi, ac c o r d ing to a report received at the maritime ex The v a st s ! apparently to i*' - -NW«* In SOMERVILLE COURT still are and DECLARES THAT HE WAS LABOR ING UNDER INTENSE EX- < CITEMENT. the zok the ing pel ing or two was land CONFESSES; SEEKS MERCY Judge Everett Says If Verdict Is First Degree Murder There Is No Ne cessity For Specifying the Penalty. foi Somerville, Tenn.—"Guilty of mu» der in the first degree," was the ver dict returned in the case of Heniry Roberts. After Henry Roberts had taken the witness stand and admitted shooting and killing Deputy Sheriff David Dob bins and wounding Sheriff J. T. Jor dan, the jury t»*ying the case of the young bandit and gang leader retired. Roberts practically threw himself on the mercy of the court and jury. He stated he was laboring under intense excitement when he shot the officers, and denied that he entertained malice. Judge S. J. Everett, in charging the jury, reviewed the crimes of outlaws, and stated that if malice was shown and proven in the killing of Deputy Dobbins, a verdict of murder in the first degree should be returned. Judge Everett, however, stated that if thé jury was convinced that Roberts, after he shot Sheriff Jordan, turned and shot Deputy Dobbins under stress of excite ment, a verdict of second degree mur der should be returned. If a verdict of murder in the first degree was returned, Judge Everett de clared, it would not be necessary for the jury to specify the penalty. Judge Everett said the law automatically fixes death by electrocution. tl|e his day or / U, S. WARSHIP AT NORFOLK Battleship Alabama In Port, But! Not To Protect German Sea Raider. Newport News, Va. —The United States battleship Alabama arrivi Hampton Roads under orders ffrom Washington to enforce American^ neu trality in the port of Norfolk and New port News and in American waters out side the Virginia capes, where and French warships have bei ering since the arrival in thi^ port nearly three weeks ago of the converted cruiser Prinz Eitel {Fried rich. I Authorities here are stolidl^ silent as to circumstances which activated the government in sending a warship here, but that the purpose was not to pro tect the Prinz Eitel Friedrich within the three-mile limit of the American coast, as had been sugg| sted, now seems apparent. The Germäii^eti rawer; 'in all prob ability, will be interned in this port be fore many days, although persons who have talked with officers of the Eitel declare they are ready to brave the dangers of a dash for liberty. in •itish hov irman ni ARTILLERY ORDERED TO BORDER. Precautions Are Taken To Prevent Fir ing Across the Line. Washington.—Acting Secretary of War Department Breckinridge has or dered three batteries of the Third Field Artillery to Brownsville, Tex., as a demonstration to the Mexican forces fighting for possession of Matamoros that American lives must not be en dangered by firing across the line. A regiment of infantry also was ordered held in readiness at Texas City to be moved to Brownsville-if needed. Those precautions were deemed nec essary, although assurances had been given by both Carranza and Villa agen cies here that no shooting across the line would be permitted. in of Subject Given Consideration. London.—The king of England is using all his influence to bring about action with respect to the drink ques tion in Great Britain, a subject to which the British cabinet is giving ear nest consideration. It has been de cided to organize the Liverpool dock workers under the name of the First Dock battalion of the Liverpool regi ment, thus incorporating them into the army. May Never Be Raised. Washington.—Efforts to raise the sunken submarine F4 in Honolulu har bor were temporarily suspended after a hawser with which the boat was be ing dragged toward short snapped. Rear Admiral Moore reported from Honolulu late that the submarine evi dently was waterlogged and too heavy to be raised by the equipment em ployed by the searching fleet. This de stroyed any faint hope that might have been left of finding any of the crew of 21 alive. The vessel lies in 45 fathoms (270 feet) of water . Three Killed By Electric Wire. Lob Angeles, Cal.—When Cornelius Valkhoff went out to his rabbit : hutch to procure a hare for a birthday dinner, he stepped into a water puddle as he touched the latch of the hutch gate and fell dead. An electric cable had broken daring the night and turned its 2 , 200 -volt current into the wire tench surrounding the hutch. Later two oth ers were killed and three Injured. Mrs. Valkhoff and Harris Skinner were killed when they went to ValkhofTs in an j< /Injured bodies. aid. Three others were effort to recover the Two JWen On Trial. New York.—Frank Abarno and Gap mine Carbone were placed on trial to the supreme court hegwon the charge of making a bomb and placing it in SL Patrick's- cathedral on the morning at Magch 2. An effort to postpone the ; «SS AIRMEN M»ED BOMBS In the East the Russians Are Holding the Germans in North and Cen tral Poland. London.—The big effort"eat still seems far off and operations are confined to an occasional attack and counter-attack. Ainne*- 1 on both sides are busy watchins**3e opposing force and dropping grdïbe. In the* t#ie Russians are holding • in North and Central Po the are putting forth all their strengM to force their way through Us zok mpa Lupkow passes, with the result thatssome 'of the heaviest fighting of the mar is in progress on the Carpath ians^both Bides claiming successes. Russians, who already have I Dukla Pass, are making their wftjdiovn the southern slopes of the CarjSathlans into Hungary, and, accord ing |r> British critics, soon must com pel the Austrians and Germans defend ing the two other passes to fall back or be threatened With interference with their ^communications Aus iralia, 'which already has sent two < ontingentS to fight for the em pire, has offered a third, which prob ably "Will be accepted. In all cases the dominions have sent more men than was originally expected. land FROM foi S. loss center courts rived Mrs, tional its land, EXPIRED IN LONDON HOME Head of English Branch of the Roths child Family Dies In London. killed step London.—Nathan Rothschild, first Ba^on Rothschild, head of the British branch of the great banking firm, died atihis London residence. He had un dergone an operation for removal of tl|e prostate gland, although the first intimation of this was contained in a bulletin sent to the London papers, saying the baron was progressing Bat isfactorily. March 29 a bulletin said that he had recovered from the first effects of the operation and the impression was that, despite 1rs age, there was no danger. News of Rothschild's death, which circulated throughout the city just as business men were leaving for the day, created a shock. His popularity had spread far beyond financial, social and sporting circles, as all classes shared his benevolence. Once a year every omnibus driver in London was deco rated with his racing colors, for on this day he sent to each driver and conduct or a brace of pheasants. a from the Steel that tin grand nople for writ Thaw CLAIM BULGARIA IS READY Report That Country Will Take Initia tive When Interests Are Threatened. dead head at of 'The moment when our in London. terests are threatened or affected to our detrlmpiyt,. we, together with the nation, will take the requisite meas ures," was one of the statements con-: tained in Prèfriier Radoslavoff's decla-( ration regarding the Bulgarian govern-' ment's policy of neutrality, made at the closing jession of the Sobranje, ac cording to the ministerial organ Narod-; ni Prava., The speech of the premier was applauded by the pro-German Id, the She press. AUSTRIAN LOSSES 18,000. a A Geneva, via Paris, in Lyutta valley and the province of Bereg (Northeast Hungary) on the day of March 28 are estimated at 18,000 in dispatches to Swiss newspapers. These advices say a column of 4,000 Austrians was annihilated in less than an hour during a desperate action in Bereg province, six miles north of Verecke. Austrian troops in this territory are reported to be demoralized as Jhe se sult of their enormous losses. -Austrian losses port, a from dent, her Movement For Uniform State Laws. Springfield, 111.—A movement to ob tain more uniform state laws through out the country was started in the Il linois legislature. A joint resolution introduced in the senate provides for the appointment of five senators and five representatives as a uniform law committee to meet similar committees from other state legislatures. Copies of the resolution, if it is passed, will be sent to the legislatures and gover nors of every state, with the request that each state appoint a similar com mittee as {^legates to such a conven tion. will to is to fast 100 Home For Newspaper Men. New York.—J. Brisbin Walker, for merly a magazine publisher here, now retired to a Colorado estate, announced his offer to give a site of 40 acres at Mount Morrison, Colo., to establish a home for newspaper men. Mr. Walker declared that "although no profession makes more serious demands upon the health of its members than that of journalism, no attempt has been made to establish a country home where those who have been giving their best efforts to the press may find a retreat in the event of a temporary or perma nent breakdown." of a by Believe Auetria le Seeking Peace. Genova, via Paris.—County Stephan Tisza, the premier of Hungary, has re turned to Budapest from Vienna, wher he conferred with cabinet ministers, regarding the future coarse of the dual mnnarchy. According to dis patches to Swiss newspapers, the lead ers of difgçrent political parties are trying^ to induce Count TisXa to make an effort to persuade Emperor Francis 4hai Austria should conclude a . _ t« peace. The premier, however, is'said to have refused to make such an attempt. he an of 73 gon by W at j< ''N «god Two French SMHpo. « French battleships Suf tulois, which wer« badly the fire from Turkish bat Tut to at fron the allied fleet, hav« a French naval base, the the dry dock there. ; tto Rttft ... • the ed can of Ij NEWS 32, ry A : J HAPPENINGS OF THE SEVEN PAST DAYS ARE BRIEFLY TOLD HERE. FROM AROUND THE PLANET Dispatches From Our Own and For eign Countries Are Here Given In Short Meter for Busy Readers. cn of The Majestic theater at Sioux Falls, S. D., was destroyed by fire* with a loss of 335,000. * # * Four-year-old Teddy Slingsby, the center of a lawsuit in the British courts involving a $500,000 estate, ar rived in New York with his mother, Mrs, Charles Slingsby. * * * An announcement that the Interna tional Esperanto congress would hold its convention next August at San Francisco, instead of Edinburgh, Scot land, as scheduled, was made by the secretary. * * * Samuel Tumipseed, a farmer, was killed at Dewitt, 111., by making a mis step while trying to board an Illinois Central train. * * • David' Reynolds, 4 years old, proved a hero when he routed four families from their beds and saved them from possible injury or death when fire at tacked an apartment house in East Sixty-fifth street, Chicago. National President John Williams of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers announced that the official count of the recent referendum shows that the sheet and tin plate wage reduction haB been ac cented. • * * Secretai*y Bryan announced that the grand vizier of Turkey had informed Ambassador Morgenthau in Constanti nople that there was no foundation for the reports of violence at Urumah, Northwestern Persia. • • • The hearing on the'habeas'corpus writ by means of which Harry K. Thaw hopes to procure a test of his sanity was adjourned until April 5. ♦ Mrs. Andrew Borden, mother of Sir Robert Borden, premier of Canada, is dead at her home at Grand Pre. Dr. (Charles Richmond Henderson, head of the department of sociology at the University of Chicago, is dead of paralysis. , r - * * * The United States land' office has announced the cancellation of 47 coal claims totaling 7,000 acres in the Christopher (Alaska)> group in the Bering river coal fields. 9 Mrs. Marion Louise Davis, 37 years Id, of Paterson, is believed to hold the record for children in New Jersey. She has borne 17 children, nine of whom are living. * Mrs. Robertson Marshall of West port, N. Y„ is dead and her husband, a retired stock broker, is suffering from injuries as a result of an acci dent, to their automobile. * * • Mrs. Laura Green, wife of a farmer, living near Lexington, Ky„ was at tacked by. a cow, and narrowly escaped death after being badly gored. She seized the horns of the maddened beast and held on until her cries attracted her husband, who came to her rescue. Beginning April 1, the price of flour will be lowered considerably, the German government announced. Dr. James H. Dyea, a dentist of Benson, 111., was killed when he failed to observe an approaching train while crossing tracks. By drinking a glass of buttermilk James Robinson, inmate of the county infirmary at Warsaw, Ind., ended a fast of 57 days. During his eight weeks of fasting Robinson lost about 100 pounds. The government of China this week ordered $240,000,000 worth of tin platej a total of 70,000 boxes, to be rolled by the American Tin Plate company. m m -• Through Minister Van Dyke, at The Hague, the United States protested emphatically to Germany against bomb-dropping near Belgium-bound relief ships. , Gen. Rene Joseph Delarne, chief of a division of the French army, was killed when he was struck in the head by a bullet on an inspection (A a trench at the front. Kites were demonstrated as means of saving life wjhen Dr. F. W. Riehl, 73 years old, of Alameda, Cal., leaped from the deck of the battleship Ore gon to San Francisco bay and was towed to Alcatraz island, four miles from the anchorage of the war vessel, by a device of his invention. • * ' • The bodies of Joe Jackson and John W Ryan, brakemen on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad, were found at Denton, Tex., on top of a freight Both had been shot and their car. pockets' - rifled. ''N Thirty-five cases of smallpox have been discovered at Millville, N. J., and the board of health at a meeting completed preparations for the vacci nation of the entire population, num boring nearly 14,000. • • ■ • Thirty-eight women, ' according to the Nuevo Pottottoche Korrespondenz, hav beon decorated with the iron id-claaa, mi^e tike present • "to . lHj Eighteen members ot tue crew et the British steamer Trostburs lost their lives when the vessel was wreck ed near Cape Spartet, on the Moroc can coast, at the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar. Hall Thompson of Virginia, III., aged 32, son of the late Harry Thompson, .committed suicide by taking strych nine a t the home of his grandfather. Robot Hall. He waa engaged to mar ry a girl in Chicago early this-spring. ' * • • The total attendance at the Panama Pacific exposition during the first five weeks was announced officially aa having been 2,358,642. This was aa average daily attendance of more than 64,000. WAR • * * The Jefferson County (111.) Medical Society at Mount Vernon placed itself cn record as opposed to the practice of cl&irvoyancy. An alleged swindle perpetrated by a clairvoyant was the Goltz, er ers, to meet and the A says: age ing are in that of sunk Leon past West and fill gave the from will an ing ing reason. X • • - Eight masked robbers entered the mail order business of B&bson Broth ers. Chicago, felled the watchman, John Kastory. with an iron bar, Bound him to a chair, blew open two safes and a vault and escaped with more than $400. • • • "Kansas motor care increased in -number from 36,775 to 53,216 in the last year. In the same time the num ber of motorcycles has grown from 6,911 to 8,344. It is estimated $16, 000,000 was spent in the state for cars during the year. * * * * Col. Francis Desclaux, Madame Bechoff and a soldier named Verges, who were convicted by a court-mar tial of stealing army stores, and sen tenced to terms of imprisonment, have appealed from the decision of the court. « Clarence Burke, who has been held at Aurora, 111., for a month as a sus pect in the Emma Peterson murder mystery, was released from custody. ■* A. M. Augustine, one of the leading horticulturists of Central Illinois, has discovered that the peach crop in that section has been ruined by the severe temperature of last winter. * * • California has 800 incorporated oil companies and 276 oil producing com panies. The number of producing wells is 6,183, producing 657,051,458 barrels of oil. • * * Forty-five hundred Villa soldiers were opposite Mercedes pumping plant, on their way to Matamoras to give battle to the constitutionalists. Villa currency is being traded her* freely at three Villa dollars for one 25-cent piece of United States cur rency.* A German Zeppelin attacked the Russian fortress of Lomza on t,he Narew river, the war offices an Fourteen bombs were of the nounces. dropped and nine civilians were in jured. Sammy Mucoish, aged 11, confessed that he had shot and killed Felix No venski, also aged 11, near Jackson ville, Ind., recently. He admitted hid ing the body in a clump of bushes. • » • As a result of a fight at Big Muddy, 111., Patrick Priest is in the county jail, probably mortally wounded, and six other men, slashed with razors and shot, are in hospitals and eight others are prisoners. • • - Bernard Montvid was held by the police court lor trial for murder in connection with the killing at New Britain, Conn., last month of Rev. Fa ther Zabris and his housekeeper, Miss Iva Gilmanaitis. a bad late 7 man will tate ler A Mrs. Victoria Cadaract, aged 105, is dead in Ottawa county infirmary, near Oak Harbor, O. Mrs. Cadaract was the last survvor of the native Ohio Indians. R. The report which has been circu lated that Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria has been seiously wounded by a shell is officially denied. Ben Horn, 25 years old, and his bride, 18, were found dead in bed at their farm home at Gainesville, Tex. The woman had been shot through the temple and the man through the heart. ers Walter L. Ross, receiver for the Ckyver Leaf railroad, applied to the federal court for permission to bor row $600,000. son by • • • The South African assembly unani mously passed an amendment to the war indemnity bill, removing the death penalty from all participants in the recent rebellion. the ity "in A vote on the preferences of chil dren in the Alton, 111., public schools as to moving picture dramas shows that the largest number like cowboy dramas. The vote was as follows: For cowboy pictures, 684; for comedy, 594; dramatic, 447; crime, 65; educa tional, 23. G • • Col. Roosevelt has not accepted tha invitation to testify before a senate committee on the ground tha he has no information, called a conference to decide whether to issue a subpena for the colonel. to at ous the Chairman Walsh Maj. Gen. John P. Storey, former chief of artillery of the army, died at his home at Pasadena, Cal., aged 74 years. • • • The bill intended to provide pen sions for widowed mothers passed the New York assembly, 129 to 8. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Slifer of Freeport, 111., eaqh 98 years old, have just celebrated their seventy-aixth wedding anniversary. a Seven German prisoners of war were drowned at Belle Isle France. A severe storm waa raging on the coast and they went to the hooch to watch the breakers. i Stewart, owner of great tracts throughout the North * BL. at the . ,< rt, it at $ ■ MISER RETURNS TO WAR COUNCIL WAR CHIEFS GATHER IN BERLIN TO FLAN NEW CAM PAIGN. AMERICAN L0ST0N SUNK SHIP London Pspere Welcome Incident in Giving Rise to Question as How United States Will Act Under Circumstances. London, England. — The Germât emperor is in Berlin holding a war council with Field Marshal von Der Goltz, the German military command er of Constantinople, and other lead ers, and 1 b planning a new campaign to offset the fall of Przemysl and meet the .situation In the Dardanelles, according to reports from Petrograd, and what Germany's next move in the military field will be is at present the chief subject of speculation here. A Rueter dispatch from Athens says: "The Turks are repairing the dam age done to the forts and concentrat ing troops in Smyrna. "The operations in the Dardanelles are confined to an intermittent bom bardment of several Turkish positions, in which seaplanes co-operated. The Turkish reply was feeble." American Citizen Lost. The official announcement is made that among the- missing passengers of the steamer Falaba. which was sunk by a German submarine, is Leon Chester Thrasher, an American engineer, who had been living for the past year on the Gold Coast, British West Africa. Thrasher had an American passport, and in the form he was required to fill out before embarking, described himself as an American citizen, but gave no American address. He was employed by the Bromassle Mines, Limited. Inquiry at the offices of the company in London elicited the In formation that nothing had been heard from Thrasher, and that it was pre sumed he had been drowned. The Daily Mail, in an editorial in connection with the drowning of Thrasher, says that the question whether the Washington government will permit a belligerent to destroy an unoffending passenger ship carry ing an American citizen without giv ing that citizen any opportunity to escape is raised in its sharpest form. Government Gets Valuable Timber. Washington, D. C.—The bureau of forestry, which ha^ just ap praised the merchantable timber ac quired by the government in the pur chase of land for national forests in the White mountains of New Hamp shire and the Southern Appalachians, places the amount at more tha 1,000,000,000 board feet, valued Çy.OOO.OOO on the stump. Caruso Gets $7,000 a Night. New York, N. Y.—Giulio Gatti-Oas asza, general manager of the Metro politan Opera Company, has received a cable from Enrico Caruso in Monte Carlo, stating that the famous tenor bad been engaged for 10 appearances late in May at the Buenos Aires opera house, Argentine, at $7.000 a night. Fiancee Wins Will Suit. 7 Chattanooga, Tenn. — Judge Bach man directed the jury to sustain the will of N. Phillips, which left an es tate of $35,000 to Mrs. Margaret Mid ler of Fort Wayne, Ala., his fiancee A sister sought to break the will. Child Bern to Yoakum's Daughter. New York.—Mr. and Mrs. Franc!» R. Larkin are receiving congratula tions upon t'e birth of a son. Mr Larkin is a enughter of Mr. and Mi - Benjamin F. Yoakum. To Furnish Bernhardt's Leg. Washington.—A contest Is on be tween Washington and Baltimore deal ers as to which city shall have the honor of furnishing the artificial leg which Sarah Bernhardt, will require Woman Burned to Death in Bed. Bloomington, 111.—Mrs. Thornes Wil son of Lincoln was burned to death while asleep In her bed. The clothing caught fire from a spark from a timr by stove. Wireless Profanity Barred. Washington» — Radio operators in the United States must not u; e profan ity or obnoxious language of any kind "in the air." This ruling was madt to stop a growing practice. Sir John Lamb Is Dead. London.—'Sir John Lamb, a nctnl , English scientist, is dead at his ho-nt { at Hempstead àt the age of 6». Children Perish, Mother Burned. Des Moines, la.—Two sleeping chd-j dren were burned to death, and tl;eir| mother, Mrs. perhaps fatally burned In ous explosion and fire which wrecked! the O'Brien jiome. Charles O'Brien, wasi mysteri a Interurban Car Held Up. Joplin, Mo.—An interurban car o> the Joplin A Pittsburg Railway wag held up by four masked men at Cbe okee Junction, Kan. The conducto motor man and the only passenger of board were robbed. Marshall Views Troops. Vice-Preside > San Diego* Cal. Marshall and his party have pur in aK strenuous time at the San Diego exH position. Finit on the day's prograui§l|i was a military and naval review, an«am|| a little later be was called upon make two addresses. A "Fey ae You Coir for Fires. Cleveland, O.—Citizens here mu pay for the coot of a fire departme run if the Maze Is from a need) the of an o ■ ■