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THE COPAN LEADER
SECOND YEAR OF
1EI
Germany Holds More Territory in
Europe Than It Did Twelve
Months Ago.
LOSER IN OTHER RESPECTS
Entente Allies Now Hammering
Teutons Hard on
All Sides.
AUSTRIA SEEMS WEAKENING
British Naval Blockade Still Effective
After Great Battle of Jutland-
Chief Developments of Year
In Terrific World Conflict.
PRESENT MILITARY AND NA-
VAL FORCES OF THE WAR-
RING POWERS.
Great Britain (Asquith's
statement less losses)......4.5m,000
Prance .........................2.500,000
Russia (little definite known)7,000,000
Haly ............................1,500,000
Belgium ........................ 150,000
Serbia ......................... 200,000
MontenegTO ........Practically none
Portugal (little definite
known) ...................... 15,000
Japan (only officers at
front) ........................ 300,000
Total, entente allies.....15,225,000
Germany ......................6.000,000
Austria-Hungary .............2,600 000
Turkey .........................1,500,000
Bulgaria ....................... 700,000
Total, central powers....*,700,000
TOTAL KILLED, WOUNDED
AND PRISONERS.
(In considering the losses It must
be remembered that many listed as
wounded are only slightly hurt and
return to the front. Some are
wounded several successive times
and each time appear In the casu-
alties.)
Russia ..........................5 500,000
France (about 900,000 killed).2,300 000
Great Britain ................. 800,000
Italy ............................ +10.000
Belgium ....................... 180,000
Serbia .......................... 230.oOO
Total, entente ............9,410,000
Germany, (estimated 700,000
killed) ........................4,000,000
Austria-Hungary ............2,760.000
Turkey ........................ 600,000
Bulgaria ...................... 50 j00
Total, Teutonic allies........7,300,000
Grand total, killed, wound-
ed, prisoners .............16,710.000
In the Napoleonic wars, 1793-1S15
1.900.000 men were killed. In the
American Civil war 494,400; In the
Russo-Japanese war 655,900,
What the War Is Costing.
The war is now costing ip direct
governmental expenditure $110,000,-
000 a day. *4,580,000 an hour: *76,000
a minute: and *1,270 a second.
The end of the second year of the
great war finds the Germans In posses-
sion of more of Europe than they held
on August 1, 1915, the first anniversary
«f the start of the great conflict
This is practically the only respect
In which the situation is more favor-
able to them. Russia, her vast man
power at last organized and furnished
with Implements of destruction In
plenty, Is battering the Teuton lines
on the east and has already won back
1,500 square miles. Great Britain
boasts five million men In her army
and navy. France fights as strongly as
ever. Italy Is Increasing her formi-
dableness.
Austria appears to be losing heart
and efficiency. Bulgaria refuses to
send re-enforcements to the west or
Russian fronts. Turkey shows slight
offensive power.
The British navy, following the
much-disputed naval battle of Jutland,
still shuts off Germany from use of
the seas. One German merchant sub-
marine has reached America, but the
supplies which can be carried over
to the besieged nations in C-boats will
be of little account.
Germany and Austria both feel the
pinch of hunger. Their armies are
sufficiently fed, but their industrial
workers complain of lack of nourish-
ment The present harvest Is watched
with anxiety, and if it fails or Is only
of fair size, famine will stalk Into the
situation next spring, or earlier.
.Germany Seeks “Reasonable Peace:”
The German chancellor three times
In the relchstag has offered peace to
the entente. On account of this, for-
midable opposition has arisen to him
at home, although he Is the kaiser's
"other self.” His friends are rallying
to his defense, and on August 1 of the
present year begins the curious coun-
try-wide lecture campaign to prepare
the minds of the hitherto docile Ger-
man people for a “reasonable peace.”
Meanwhile, with the sky brightening,
the entente allies reaffirm their resolu-
tion, taken in the dark hours of last
winter, never to cease their efforts till
Germany Is crushed. The Teutons not
only must be beaten In war, according
to the allied formula, but must be re-
pressed economically for many years
after the signing of a treaty of peace.
On August 1, 1915, the Germans and
Austrians were In the midst of their
brilliant campaign against Russia. The
"pincers” were closing In Irresistibly.
That day Lublin, an Important city In
southern Poland, fell.
Von Mackensen, with Gallda con-
quered, was pressing northward, while
on the north side of the Polish salient
Von Hindenburg bore with Ills host
of field-gray warriors.
Without guns, without ammunition,
with nothing except myriads of Slav
giants, some of whom resisted charges
with sharpened sticks in their hands,
Russia was forced to fall back rapidly
Twice it seemed the flower of the
czar’s army would be surrounded, once
in the vicinity of Warsaw, and again
tn the great battle near Vilua.
The tale of the taking of great towns
grew almost tedious. It seemed the
Germans would never stop. Whether
they did stop of their own accord or
were finally checked by the Russians
is not yet clear. They settled down
for the winter on a long line stretch
lng from the Baltic just west of Riga
southeast along the Dvina river, and
then almost due south through Polles
sle, the I’insk marsh district, to the
Roumanian frontier.
Reawakening of Russia.
On September 8 Czar Nicholas took
command of all his armies In the field,
sending his cousin, the Grand Duke
Nicholas, to the less important com-
mand of the Caucasus operations.
With their “Little Father" at their
head, the Russians forgot their long,
discouraging retreat. Millions pf new
young soldiers joined them, drawn
from Russia’s great reservoir of hu-
man beings, which produces three and
a half million men of military age ev-
ery year.
On September 10 the Russians won a
success near Tarnopol and Trembowla.
and two days later they drove the Teu-
tons back 14 miles In Galicia. In other
parts of the front the Germans were
still seizing large slices of territory,
but their enemies were regaining their
energy. On September 26 the Rus-
sians recaptured Lutsk, but were driv-
en out in a short time. On October 20
they recaptured Czartorysk, but they
were not able to prevent the Germans
storming Illuxt five days later. Czar-
torysk was lost and again taken by
the czar January 8.
Meanwhile the conquest of Serbia,
the greatest tragedy of the war, ex-
cepting only the massacre of 800,000
Armenians, was being enacted.
Invasion of Serbia.
The real invasion of Serbia started
in the first days of October. A great
diplomatic battle had been fought In
Sofia, and the allies had lost. On Oc-
tober 7 Bulgaria in an ultimatum to
King Peter of Serbia, peremptorily de-
manded the Immediate cession of the
Macedonian lands In dispute between
the two countries and then In the pos-
session of the Serbs.
1 After a general bombardment the
Teutons crossed the river boundaries
of Serbia in many places on October 8.
Two days later they occupied Bel-
grade. On the thirteenth Bulgaria in-
vaded her neighbor at three points.
The successes of the Teutons and the
Bulgarians were almost unbroken. The
Invading forces consisted of a vast
amount of heavy artillery, with small
Infantry supporting forces. They
shelled the Serbians out of position
after position In an avalanche of steel
to which the Serbians could make no
reply.
Small forces of French and English
landed at Saloniki, a Greek port to
which Serbia had certain entry privi-
leges, and did something to cover the
retreat of the Serbians by engaging
the Bulgarians in the South.
At the beginning of winter, Novem-
ber 22, the Serbian soldiers crossed
their western border and struck the
| trails of the dreary, snow-covered
j mountains of the coast. Great num-
bers perished of cold and hunger on
the way. On November 29 Germany
proudly announced that the Serbian
campaign had ended, having met with
complete success.
Two Blows to the British.
The winter also saw the humilia-
tion of the British In Mesopotamia.
The Indian government recklessly
pushed a small, poorly supplied expe-
dition up the Tigris valley and actu-
ally penetrated to within seven miles
of Bagdad. Here the Turks, with Ger-
man officers directing them, adminis-
tered a defeat and the Invaders fell
back with the enemy harassing them
to the town of Kut-el-Amara, where
they were besieged December 10.
Another expedition, also Insufficient,
was sent to relieve the first. It was
beaten off with large losses a few
miles below Kut, a flood of the river
and swamps assisting the Turks, and
on April 30 the 12,000 defenders of
Kut capitulated by order of the Brit-
ish higher command.
A further British humiliation was
the evacuation of Gallipoli peninsula,
where the ■British held on doggedly
month after month, losing perhaps
200,000 men, until they were finally
withdrawn In confession of failure the
first week of January.
These two British fiascos were what
was needed to arouse the sluggish
fighting blood of John Bull. They
finally brought England Into the war
fully and uncompromisingly, to the
same extent as the other great pow-
ers.
On August 10 Great Britain started
of
her national register, or census of a.,
men of fighting age. The result showed
a vast reserve of man power. Certain
sections demanded Immediate con-
scription, but they were not success-
ful. Instead the earl of Derby was
commissioned to start a vast recruit-
ing campaign. This produced a num-
ber of classes of “attested men,” who
bound themselves to come Into the
rnnks with their age groups. But
there were still hundreds of thousands
unreached, and the public began to
see that It was discriminating In favor
of the "slackers” and the cowards.
On December 21 David Lloyd-
George, the minister of munitions and
greatest man the war has produced In
Great Britain, declared the country
faced defeat unless greater efforts
were made. A week later he threat-
ened to resign from the cabinet un-
less conscription was adopted.
Conscription was fiercely fought, but
on January 6 a bill introducing It
passed its first reading in the house
of commons by a large majority. The
bill was finally signed by King George
May 26.
Allies Get Together,
Their defeats finally taught the al-
lies that their efforts must be co-or-
dinated, like their enemies’, if they
were to be effective. A new war
council, with all the allies represented,
met in Paris December 7 and a kind
of International general staff was or-
ganized. It is known that General Jo-
seph Joffije, French commander in
chief since the beginning of the war
and the hero of the battle gf the
Marne, wus tin* presiding genius. The
effects of the council were not to be
seen for several months, but now they
are being realized In full measure.
To check a simultaneous allied of
fonslve, which they clearly saw coin-
ing, the Teutons decided on two at-
tacks of their own.' This follows the
well-known axiom of German mili-
tary strategy that the best defense Is
an energetic attack.
The first of these offensive defen-
sives was the attack on the French
fortress of Verdun, where the works
were subjected to a whirlwind of fire
beginning February 21,-—The gains of
the first week were great, and German
critics foretold the collupse of the
French. Two of Uie defending forts,
Vaui and Douauinont, fell, and Impor
tant positions were taken west of the
Meuse river as well.
But Joffre rallied his men In splen-
did fashion and sold each yard of
ground nt nn awful cost In German
blood. Step by step the crown prince's
men pushed forward, but today they
are still more than two miles from the
ruined fortress town and the resist-
ance of the French is as strong as
ever.
Austrian Drive Checked.
The second Teutonic offensive was
organized by the Austrians tn the
Trentino, and they struck in the di-
rection of Vicenza with the object
of cutting off the northern end of Italy
from the main portion. On May 26,
as the result of several days' vio-
lent artillery fire followed by Infantry
rushes, they were able to announce the
capture of 24,000 Italians.
General Count Cadorna hurried
about a hundred thousand men In mo-
tor cars to the scene, while many more
arrived on foot or trains. Just when
it seemed the Austrians must reach
the lowlands the counter-attacks were
delivered.
On June 30 Rome announced a splen-
did victory. In bloody fighting the
Austrians, perhaps weakened by
drafts to bolster up their Russian
front, were driven from peak to peak
almost to where their lines had stood
throughout the winter.
In March the Russians delivered
vast but futile attacks on the Ger-
man front at many points, probably to
distract attention from Verdun. The
Germans seemed to have been lulled
into security by these efforts, which
they probably considered the best the
czar could do. But the tens of thou-
sands of Muscovite bodies lining the
Germans’ barbed wire were but a pat-
ter of rain compared with the storm
that was brewing behind the Russian
lines.
At the beginning of June this storm
broke with full force and, following
the principle of attacking the weakest
point, the Austrians holding the line
from the marsh district southward
were forced to ^eur the brunt of It.
Russia’s Big Push.
Millions of shells, manufactured
largely In British, Japanese and
American factories, blasted away wire,
trenches, dugouts and observation
points. Then the hordes of Sibe-
rians, Cossacks and others swept
over the field. The Austrians could
not withstand the Impact and they
gave way steadily.
June 6, General Brusiloff announced
the capture of 13,000 Austrians; June
8, the number for the three succeed-
ing days alone was 43,000, and the
numbers kept mounting until on July
20 General Shoovaleff, Russian min-
ister of war, estimated the number of
Austro-Hungarian prisoners at 270,-
000. The killed and wounded are un-
told, but the number must be large
enough to bring the total loss well
over half a million.
German support was rushed to the
Austrians, but the foe captured Lutsk
and Dubno, and reached the Stokhod
and Llpa rivers in Volhynia; overran
all Bukowina to the Carpathians and
sent patrols of Cossacks into Hungary
to ravage the country.
That the czar is anticipating further
great gains of territory Is seen from
Russia's action in mobilizing the
males of the island of Saghalien, Tur-
kestan, and one other district to build
roads, dig trenches and do other work
of organizing the ground won.
Allies’ Drive in Somme Region.
Almost a month to a day following
the beginning of the great Russian of-
fensive French and British opened
their drive in the vicinity of the
Somme river. They have gained grad-
ually but steadily, and the official re-
ports assert the losses of the attack-
ers are comparatively small.
It Is also the claim of the allies that
the Franco-Brltlsh offensive ean be
kept up at its present rate indefinite-
ly, nnd will cot have to be slackened
for lack of shells, guns or men. The
rate of progress Is mu< h greater than
the Germans’ at Verdun, but the coun-
try traversed Is less difficult. On the
other hand, the Verdun assullajits
have the advantage of attacking from
the outside of a curve, while the
French and British now attack from
Inside the salient they have made In
the line. Meanwhile the Verdun offen-
sive of the Germans continues.
Outside of Europe the Germans have
lost their Cameroon colony on the west
const of Africa, the remaining defend
ers having crossed Into Spanish ten
rltory and been Interned. The array ot
East Africa still resists the converge
ing columns of Belgians, French anc
British but, shut off from re-enforce
meats, its doom would seem to hi
sealed.
On April 25 Sir Roger Casement
Irish knight, Tried to laud from a Gee
man warship 00 the const of Ire
land, but was captured. The pext dnj
n revolt In Dublin ami other Irish cltlei
broke out and the center of the Irish
capital was burned. The revolt was
easily quelled, the British nnnouucinj
resistance laid reused on May 1.
More successful was the revolt ol
the Arabs, led by the grand shereft
against their Turkish overlords. Meo
ca, Medina and others towns have been
captured and are held still, probably
with British assistance.
Doings In the Air.
Recent months have seen a ecssn-
tlon of Zeppelin raids on undefended
British nnd French towns. The cause
of this Is somewhat of a mystery, ns :
the Germans have claimed Important
military results from their attacks.
On September 7-8 there were twe
raids on London, thirty persons being j
killed and a proportionate number i
wounded. Fifty-five were killed by i
Zeppelins in a ruld on Loudon October
13.
On January 20 the German dirigibles
bombarded Paris, killing 23 and on
February 1 Liverpool and other Eng- j
llsh centers were visited and 59 slain, j
On April 2 a Zeppelin killed 28 In ,
England nnd was destroyed on the!
British const as it returned. On March
6 13 were killed.
On April 6 It was announced that
the fifth Zeppelin raid In six duys on [
the British coast had been made. The
Germans declared that wnr munition
factories nnd supply depots had been
destroyed.
Since then England apparently has
been Immune from the Zeppelins. This
may he due to the large number of
dirigibles lost, or to the outcry ngalnst
the Inhumanity of the practices of the
Germans which was raised in neutral
countries.
One other Important moral defent
was sustained by the Germans when
they hurried Edith Cavell, a British
nurse, to execution, as announced by ’
Brand Whitlock, American minister of
Belgium, on October 22.
The greatest naval engagement of
history In number of men engaged
and number slain was fought June 3
near the Skaggerrak, In the North sea.
The result was inconclusive, each side
claiming a great victory and the re- ,
ports varying widely in estimates ol
losses on the two sides.
If the Germans, as they assert, seri-
ously crippled the British grand fleet,
we will probably soon see them come
out of Kiel again, to finish their task, j
At present, however, the British block-
ade is broken only by the. merchant
submarine Deutschland, which reached
Baltimore July 9.
Kaiser Yields to America.
The year has also been the culmi-
nation of the submarine dispute be-
tween the United States nnd Germany,
which terminated In the kaiser’s capit-
ulating and promising to warn mer-
chantmen before attacking.
A U-boat sank the liner Arabic Au-
gust 20, two Americans being among
the slain. Two more of our nationals
died when the Hesperian was torpe-
doed September 6. On November 10
several Americans died in the torpe-
doing of the Italian liner Ancona. It
is thought two Americans were lost In
the sinking of the I’ersla in the Medi-
terranean January 2. The crisis was
precipitated March 20, when the Brit-
ish channel ferry steamer Sussex was
torpedoed without warning. Two hun-
dred and thirty-five persons were
killed und several Americans were In-
jured.
This flagrant violation of the rules
of war caused President Wilson to
press Germany for sweeping assur-
ances, which were given in a note May
0 on condition that the United States
force Great Britain to conduct hei
blockade legnlly. Mr. Wilson an-
swered he would accept the promise,
but without the proviso.
The many times heralded Turco-Ger-
man Invasion of Egypt has not yet ma-
terialized and probably never will. On
the other hand, the Russian grand
duke has added to his laurels by cap-
turing the Important Inland city ol
Erzerum February 17, Bltlls March 4
nnd the seaport of Treblzond April
19.
The Turks in counter-attacks
pressed back the Russians In I’ersla,
but recently the czar’s men have ad-
vanced rapidly In the northern part of
Asia .Minor and the resistance of th*
Turks seems to have been broken.
Exploits of the Moewe.
Only one German commerce raider
net a submarine distinguished Itself
in the year. The fast Moewe sank
many allied ships off the coast ol
Africa and reached n home port In
safety March 6. On February 2 a Ger-
man prize crew brought the Appam, a
British capture, Into Hampton Roads, I
having come all the way across the At-
lantic with her. The ownership of this
vessel is still In the American courts.
Two more nations have been drawn
Into the war. The entrance of Bul-
garia has been described. On Marefi
10 Germany declared wnr on Portugal.
Portuguese nnd German troops hnd
clashed In Africa some time before
and Portugal had Just seized the Ger-
man ships In her harbors. The ac-
tions of the republic were Induced by
n treaty according to which she prom-
ises to come to Great Britain’s assist-
ance whenever requested to do so.
The British lost the equivalent of
several army corps when Lord Kitch-
ener was drowned June 7 In the sink-
ing of tho cruiser Hampshire by a
mine while on his way to Russia.
RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN IN TURKEY
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Asia Minor. 2—The evacuutlon of Erzingan obliges the Turks to utove their
fighting line virtually 150 miles west to Sivas, which now is the next objec-
tive of the Russian advance. 3— Angora, which Is 350 miles west of Erzin-
gan. Is the chief objective of the Russian campaign. It Is the terminus of
the railroad to Constantinople.
CASEMENT PAYS THE PENALTY
SIR ROGER HANGED AT LONDON,
FOR TREASON.
Last Chapter Written In Recent Sinn
Fein Uprising In
Dublin.
—
London.—Sir Roger Casement, for-
mer British knight and consul, who
was executed for high treason, was
declared guilty of the worst treachery
possible in a statement issued by the
British press bureau. The Irish brig-
ade which he proposed to raise among
prisoners in Germany was to be used
in Egypt against the British, the state-
ment says.
After declaring that Casement had
organized German assistance for the
Irish rebellion, the statement contin-
ues:
"Conclusive evidence has come into
the hands pf the government since the
LINE TO THIEPVAL NORTH OF
SOMME IS STRAIGHTENED
OUT BY ADVANCE.
SLAVS CROSS RIVER SERETH
Several Positions Taken During In-
tense Fighting in Galicia.—
Turks Attack In The Suez
Region.
London.—On a successful effort to
straighten out their line between Po-
ileres and Theipval, north of the
Somme, British forces have captured
the main German second line system
of defenses on a front of 2,000 yards
north of Pozieres. The attack, which
was made by Australians and troops
of the new Kitchener army, resulted
also in the taking of several hundred
prisoners.
German counter attacks against the
newly won positions were repulsed
with heavy losses.
Further than stating that a new bat-
tle was developing near Pozieres, Her
lln makes no mention of the latest
British advance. British attacks, how-
ever, against the sectors from north of
Oxillers to Foureaux wood were re-
pulsed by the Germans. On the
1 reneh front In the Somme region
paris says there has been only artll-
lary activity, while Berlin claims the
repulse of a French advance south of
Maurepas.
Bitter Fighting On Meuse.
On the right bank of the Meuse. In
the Verdun region, the fighting being
| betwepn the French and Germans,
continues to be bitter. Paris says the
forces of the German crown prince
made unsuccessful efforts to drive the
French from the Thiaumont work re-
cently captured. The Germans also
bombarded heavily the sector of
I Thiaumont and Fleury.
Berlin mentions hitter fighting at
Thiaumont work and reports the cap-
ture of 488 prisoners during German
counter attack in the Fleury sector.
Russians Cross Sereth.
On the Russian front the most in
tense fighting Is reported as taking
Place south of Brody, In Galicia. The
Russians crossed the Sereth river, cap-
tured positions in the region of Pen
laki Tcnisiopaay and repulsed an Aus-
tro-Germsu counter attack against
them. Berlin says Russian detach-
ments which crossed the Sereth near
Pauyseye were forced to retreat be
fore Austro German aounter attacks
Northwest of Zalosze. in the same dis-
trict. Russian attack., were repulsed.
Petrograd admits the retirement of
several detachments from mountain
passes in the Carpathians southwest
of Kuty In the face or a heavier Aus-
trian force.
The British positions at Romani,
twenty-two miles east of the Suez
canal, are being attacked by a Turk
ish force, estimated at 14,000 men, on
a front of seven to eight miles The
attack, London asserts, has made no
impression on the Brj ;-m positions,
while on the southern flank the Brit-
ish have taken between 400 and 500
prisoners.
Rome report* slight progress on the
Trentino front against the Austrians.
An Italian attack east of Monfalcone.
on the Oar*o plateau, resulted In the
capture of some prisoners.
OFFICIALS OF BROTHERHOOD8
DECLINE TO TALK ABOUT
POSSIBLE WALK-OUT.
FINAL CONFERENCEISNOWON
If Strike Materializes It Will Involve
400,000 Skilled Men, On Every
Big Railroad System In
the Country.
New York.—Officials of the foiE
railroad brotherhoods who are In thii
city to attend the conference of man-
agers and inform them of the result
of the vote of the 400,000 workers,
which is reported to bo overwhelming-
ly in favor of a strike unless their de-
mands are granted, declined to make
any statement that might indicate
their future course.
Dudley Field Malone, collector ot
the port; Frank P. Walsh, chairman
cf the commission on industrial rela-
tions and several officials of the brotfc
erhtiodH addressed a mass meeting
here in favor of the eight-hour day.
The meeting was attended by moi%
than 400 chairmen of the adjustment
committees representing workers on
all railways.
Mr. Malone declared the railroad
operators should realize that "stupid
lack of economic vision in handling
this problem will do more to aid agi-
tators for government ownership ol
railroads than anything the advocates
of government ownership could ac-
complish.”
NEW YORK TRAFFIC PARALYZED
General Strike of Car Men Compel*
People to Walk.
llpf
g
Sir Roger Casement.
trial that he had entered into an agree-
ment with the German government,
which explicitly provided that the
brigade which he wx,* frying to raise
among the Irish soldiers held prison-
ers might be employed in Egypt
against the British crown Those
among the Irish soldiers who resisted
Casement's solicitations of disloyalty
were subjected to treatment of exeep
tional character by the Germans
Some of them since have been ex
changed as invalids ana have died in
this country, regarding Casement as
their murderer.
New York.—Surface car traffic has
ceased in the boroughs of Manhattan,
the Bronx and Richmond. The city
Is in the grip of the most serious tarn-
sit blockade in its history. Brooklyn
was the only borough in the greater
city not affected by the strike of mo-
tormen and conductors. The menace
of a general strike that would include
the elevated and subway lines is grow-
ing hourly more threatening.
Within an hour after the halting of
traffic, steady streams of jitney ve-
hicles were flowing through Broad-
way, Fifth avenue and other streets
running north and south, as well as
through the cross town thoroughfares.
Hundreds of automobiles, taxicab and
autotruck owners did a thriving busi-
ness. In most instances the fares
Were not exorbitant.
With the suspension of car traffic
the danger of serious disorders be-
came less menacing, but the police
did -not relax their vigilance. Each
patrolman will be provided with twen-
ty rounds of ammunition.
Car Strike At Philadelphia.
Philadelphia.—A strike of motor
men and conductors on the lines ol
the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com
pany was ordered. Messengers wert
dispatched to the car barns, notifying
the men to at once quit work. Offi
cials of the company declare that only
15 per cent of their men are members
of the union and say that they do not
anticipate any difficulty. Union lead-
ers claim that at least half of th*
4,700 men are out. Recognition and
increased wages are demanded by the
unions.
BRUTAL MURDER AT HOFFMAH
Deutschland Gets Away.
Norfolk, \ a The allied cruisers
I patrolling the entrance to Hampton
roads to prevent the departure of the
German submarine rfierchantman
Deutschland still are in position with-
in sight of shore «nd there Is nothing
! to indicate that they were aware of
the passage of the Deutschland
through the capes. Marine men here
INTERESTING INFORMATION
Panama is rising three feet In each
century.
Iron rings were used as money by
the ancient Britons
In Asia tusks are possessed only by
the male elephants.
The normal daily consumption of
milk In Paris and Its suburbs exceeds
1,000,000 quarts.
More than 3,800 Illegal distilleries
were seized by the United States rev-
enue detriment last year.
Tools kept In damp places can be
kept from rusting If some unslackened
lime, which absorbs moisture from the
air, Is kept near them.
Among nature's freaks Is a tree
from the fruit of which oil and tallow
are extracted. The tree grows In the
Azores, In Sumatra, In Algeria and in
China.
Daniel Miller of Shevers Creek,
Huntingdon county, I’a., Is using a
wagon which was built in 183L The
date Is stamped on an Iron plate on the
wagon.
believed the *ubraar»ible ha* vntirely
eluded the war vessel* and wa* safely
on her way acroas the Atlantic on her
return voyage to Germany.
Minnesota farmers In four years
have Rpent about $20,000,000 for new
balldings.
Females of the Australian wild tur-
key lay their eggs In common neRts
holding half a bushel or more, cover
them with soil and decaying vegetable
matter, and leave them to hatch.
There Is an extraordinary echo In
the cathedral at Pisa. If you sing two
notes there Is no reverberation, but If
you sing three they are taken up,
swelled and prolonged into a beautiful
harmony.
ANOTHER BRUSH WITH BANDITS
U. S. and Carranza Soldiers Fight
Side by Side.
San Antonio - Carranzlsta and the
United States troops fought side by
side in the engagement with Mexican
bandits south of Fort Hancock. Texas,
according to the official report from
Brigadjer eneral Bell, Jr., at El Paso,
to Major eneral Funston.
After the bandit* had been sur-
rounded In a ranch house on the
American side of the Rio Grande river
and an American customs guard had
been killed, another customs guard
named Bean, ran down to the river
bank and called to a detachment of
Carranzista* on the Mexican side to
come over and assist the American
troops.
A captain and eight soldiers re-
ponded. They joined in the fighting,
which became general. Soon, the re
port sav*, the bandits fled from the
ranch house and retreated over the
river, leaving behind four dead.
115 CASES OF PARALY8I8
__ |
Seven Ca*e» of Infant Disease In Illi-
nois Fatal During July.
Chicago. One hundred and fifteen
cases of Infantile paralysis were re-
ported to the Illinois state board of
health during the month of July. Only
In seven cases thus far has the dis-
ease proved fatal, Thirty-four cases
were reported from Chicago and the
remainder from fifty-nine different
communities about the state.
Charles Vaughn the Victim of Negri
Thugs.
Muskogee—With faur knife woundi
in his back and hts throat cut fron
ear to ear, the body of Charlei
Vaughn, an oil man at Morris, wai
found In the toneau of his autproobih
on a road near Hoffman. Life wai
extinct when officers arrived. A poss«
was quickly formed and was reward
ed in a short time with the capture
of Cecil Towery, a negro, whose shiri
and hands were still wet with blood
The negro was taken to Okmulger
and placed In JaJl. He talked freely
and although he fetgned Innocence
his statement* were contradictory and
he was unable to explain away the
blood on his clothes and hands. A
few minutes ufter his incarceration in
the Okmulgee jail, a mob formed. In
tent upon lynching the negro. Towery
was secreteik from the Jail by officers
and taken to Tulsa.
He confessed to Chief Bowman at
Okmulgee that he was guilty. Search
is being made for Will Towery, bla
brother, an accomplice.
Would Hang the Kaiser.
London.—One of the biggest dem-
onstrations by workingmen that haa
occurred during the war took place
in Trafalgar square. The great gath-
ering demanded repraisals for the exe-
cution of Captain Fryatt of the British
steamer Brussels by the Germans in
Belgium, speakers urging the im-
pounding of all German property and
the hanging of Emperor William, Ad-
miral von Ttrptt* and Governor Gen-
eral von Blgginger of Belgiuui, as
‘'common malefactors'’ before the con-
elusion ot peace.
Mark Twain.
Mark Twain's popularity Is In n«
danger of diminishing to Judge by an
order Just given by his publishers foi
10,000 yards of cloth to be used In
binding his books. If Mark Twain
were still alive and this cloth were
stretched out along the New York
pavement, we might see the familiar
white-clad figure walking over this
green carpet 40 Inches wide all th«
way from city hall northward to On*
Hundred and Fifty fifth street.—New
York Telegram.
Congrea* Sets New High Record.
Washington — Appropriation* of Illinois Miners Die In Gas Blast,
congress passed the $1.500,000,W0 I’ana, 111 —Four miners were killed
mark and *et a new record. The billi in an explosion in Spring Side mine
for support of the District of Columbia 1 here. The fan at the mine had been
carried tha appropriation* over the
j previous mark Several other bills
| still remain and leaders expect appro-
priations of another $loo,000,000 be
fore adjournment. The dlatrtct bill as
j R passed the senate carried the usual
provision by which the federal gov
; eminent pay* half of the expenses of
! tbe WaKhington city government. The
house had struck It out
shut down for a day and go* had col-
lected. When the men entered the
shaft their open lamps ignited It.
Twenty Thousand Coat of Defsat.
Dalla*.—Chas H. Morris of Winns-
boro, defeated candidate for the aom-
Ination of governor in the recent prl-
maries, spent $20,131.41 in hi* Wi4„
ipaign.
Texas Negro Lynched.
Seymo’qr. Texas.—W. L. Ellis, E
years old, sheriff of Baylor count;
was knocked down by a blow from th
handcuffed fists of Steven Brown, m
gro, whom he had under arreat, an
then shot with his own revolve
which the negro snatohed from hln
The sherlfT died two hours later. Th
negro was overtaken a short time af
er hf* escape by a mob, which kille
him lustantir by the dl*oharge of
dexen shotguns and pistols. The m
gro was under arrest for a mine
charge and was attempting to escapt
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