BRITISH LOSE 100
FROM TRANSPORTS
Turkish Torpedo Boat Sunk After
Atiacks on Troop Ship.
———————————
LULL IN THE CARPATHIANS
Weather Conditions On the Eastern
Front Prevent Active Operations.
Airmen Of Both Belligerents
Are Active.
Lovdon.—A Turkish torpedo boat,
which attempted to interfere with toe
preparations for the resumption of the
operations against the Dardanelles and
Asia Minor by atlacking the British
transport Mantou, was driven aground
on the coast of Chios and destroyed by
the British cruiser Minerva and Brit.
ish torpedo boat destroyers
An otucial statement in reference to
the affairs says that three torpedoes
were fired at the Manitou, but missed
the mark, but that 100 men from ine
transport were drowned. How this oc
swred without the transport being
struck is not explained.
Forts Again Bombarded.
the only official staten
Allies on the land aud
eperations ag t Turkey, but from
unofficial it Is learned that
warships have been attacking the forts
at Bulair on the Gallipoli
while Turkish reports say that attacks
bave been ont the Dardanelles
from the outer entrance, and that te
Majestic and Swiftsure have bombard-
ed the forts near Gaba Tepeh.
The arrival of spring, which has
given the aviators their opportunity,
hes brought almost to a standstill the
battle in The
sians are still he neigh
bonhicod of Uszok Pg
through which
heig
but wit!
Sowing
This is ent
from the BOA
ains
sources
peainsula
made
the Carpathians
SALACKILE
in road
is
commanded by
ts held the Germanic allies,
snows, the
movement
In the »
at widely
front, |
sec
the
Alsace
Champagn
in the
Prove
when
A !
ordina
has
border
pats
territe
SUusiLOms
advar
SY
CK, HE SHOT DUKE
Wounded By General Sievers
AYES
ly unimpeach
reported sic
olas Nic
the late General
ied Russia
sumrooned bs
ihe
A heated
WAS
to ex}
nth Army
pe
lain dels IY
# ue
and Duke
eral Vers box on the
latter thereupon drew a revolver
wounded the Grand Duke, gud
ly turning t upon himself
ear The
ma
equent
he weapon
REPRISALS UNDER WAY
Officers Placed In Bolitary
Ce
Ten British
nfinment,
alle, Ten
pr Gen
taken from the local
srs of war and placed
confinement in Magdeburg
of reprisal for the
Jritain of the
submarines held pris-
The 10 officers re
to include the son of a former
bassador In Berlin. The
of this officer, however, ia not
Germany
ieoners of the
in solitary
T: is 4 measure
ir
erew
oners
ferred
British
Ramer
given
aimerd by Great
of German
in England
An
DYNAMITERS SENT 10 PRISON.
May Serve 30 Years For Blowing Up
Clergyman’s House,
Wilkes-Barre, Pa-— Michael Petrol
tonls, who pleaded guilty of dynamit.
ing the home of the Rev, J. V. Kud-
irkas in Kingston, near here, under a
Blackhand threat, was sentenced to
not less than 11 years and 9 months
and not more than 30 years in the
Penitentiary and to pay a fine of 31.4006
SEES END OF WAR NEAR.
Okuma Predicts Early Peace Because
Armies Will Be Exhausted.
Toklo, Japan.—Count Okuma, the
Japanese Premier, speaking to a num-
ber of journalists on the European
war, expreseed the opinjon that hostill
ties soon would have to come to an
end owing to the exhaustion of the
belligerents.
AIR RAID UPON
ENGLISH COKST
Aeroplane and Two Zewdlis.
Drop Fifty Bombs.
———————
NO LIVES REPORTED LOST
Larger Cities Avoided—Rald Believed
To Be In the Nature Of Re.
connaissance, To Be Fol.
lowed By Others.
Amiens, France.-—Several bombs
have been dropped by a German Taube
aeroplane In the vicinity of the
Cathedral here. Ten persons were
killed or wounded. “The
damage done was shen!
London. England experienced
third hostile air raid, but the ast,
like those immediately preceding
resulted in no loss of life. In the sev-
eral raids, however, there was con-
siderable damage to property.
Taking advantage of fine
weather, which enabled a
to visit the
and the coasts
a
flying
vicinity of the
of Suffolk
woplane, having
Tyne
Ee
croseed
SEX, German a«
rth Sea, flew over the
bombs
dropped in
towns of
ingbourne, the
Bugle
which ia the
dropping
all, four mis les were
of t!
eham Sitt
just across the
Shep
the
All bon
On hi
in
inity
and
from the Isle of
bey, birthplac
British royal
abs fell in
8 way the
rbury
naval fiving corps
fields.
irman pass
oth er
+
ed over
in Ke
logive
Cante and towns {
ex]
near t 1
People Cut By Glass
nd
nol loose any pro
upon or
Tor il» + 3
Leppelins—-{oy : believed
wo of
Anglia
here Lo con
of
it in the
De nature
a y
of mill
.
avoided, nal
y + 1
pasgag
in the Carpathians.
thaw has
and the
o mud an
swolle
no inki
of th
»Germans
anking
inity
rection
movamen
wgtrinns
we the fact
been
and Gna
pro-
eonding
Car
Pol
in, apparenily wil
iting the Aust
ore rein
utheast
foreen nto the
hians,
In the West tive calm pre
valls, following the reported French
of Arras, which would
give trem another point of vantage
which to launch an off
chosen moment arrives
pa
-
para
victory north
from nsive
when the
Indian Troops Lose Heavily.
office reports
flicted an
who had
Indian
have In
Turks
of
them in Mes
he British
troops
on the
arge force
that Indian
other defeat
athered a
and irreguiars to oppose
BOPO hile the Rossians
have harassing Tarkish
merce
Lama,
been
in the
four steamers and several sailing ves
and bombarding Asia Minor coast
gels
forts
IN FALL
JAP OORONATION
Emperor Yoshihito Toe Be Crowned
November 10.
Tokio. ~The cabinet fixed November
10 as the dute for the coronation of
Emperor Yoskihito. The ceremony
was to have taken place last Novem
ber, but a postponement was made
neceseary by the death of the Dowager
Empress. The Diet already has ap
propriated 4,000,000 yen ($2.000,000)
for the expenses of the ceremony.
EE
GIRL TO FLY ACROSS U. 6.
Miss Stinson, Aged 19, Plans Long
Aeroplane Trip,
San Antonio, Tex. Miss Catherine
Stinson, a 19yearold aviatrix, an-
nounced here she would undertake a
transcontinental flight from New York
to San Francisco. Bhe expects to
start from New York about June 1 In
a f0-horsepower aeroplane,
i
i
|
wk,
# a 155 A
. Sih,
a
“compere Rout
ARTILLERY ABANDONED”
py Eh)
AGAIN SUSPECT
JAPANESE PLOT
Suspicious Conduct of Warships
in Mexican Waters.
4,000 Japanese Marines
S To Be
Said
sumably
Jackies
in Turtle Bay, Pre.
In Connection With
anc
Saving Of Stranded Cruiser.
Will Make inquiries
Navy Daniels
at
t coast
ition
¢ two Mexican
od that nN
(¢
gnoe fie
i Villa and
wy asked
kad obtained fro
and
$s
io
io
in the
Bernsiorfl, no
but
hint
1 interested
absence of Ambassador
off cial statement was fortheoming,
indicated at the embassy {
Gerpan legation al Mexico City
be advised the repor Any
protest to the Mexican orities con
the matter, wuld
a vi lation of Mexico's neu
nade thr the
the Maxon capi
Can
it was
the
will of in
auth
which =
cerning
pear
ap
io be
would be ugh
nl
ained In
Arrange
ghe
at
be asce:
made no
Bo
under
tab
which
ments with sxico
was autho lish a camp
Turtle Bay.
TO BUY 38 HYDROAEROPLANES.
MADERO NOT SLAIN
ONHUERTA ORDER =
Ex-President of Mexico Denies |
He Was Implicated.
|
i
|
To Burgess Company.
Washington, Secretary
announced that eoniract for three
hydroseroplanes at $11.600 each
would be awarded to Burgess
Company of Marblehead, Mase The
specifications call for machines with
a gpecd of 80 miles an hour, sustained
flight at least seven hours and ability
to climb with full load, 6600 feet In
20 minutes. Proposals will be issued
in the near future for more hydro
aeroplanes. Meanwhile naval aero
patitical experts are watching closely
developments in alr eraft growing out
of the Eurapes War,
thes
FIVE BODIES FOUND IN HOME.
Poisoned Four Children and
Herself,
Spokane, Wash.—The bodes of Mrs,
Luther A. Leonard and her four chil
dren were found in the family home
here. The police reported Mrs. Leon:
ard had poisoned her children and her
golf. Neighbors told the police that
Mrs. Leonard has been despondent be
cause her husband had met financial
reverses and that she had been fll
Mother
Statement In
clares Heads Of the Administra.
tion At Washington
Unfair To
Were
Mexico
io
The
rele
former
fed the
when ho
had
becan
oouniry
He
months «
ted
lapacd
Mex
poir
situation in
deeply
a word
and for me to analivee
"Anarchy is too soft
" 1. Mexico would eventual
he an
but ?
be saved v
he did
aM
would be 1
GIRLS BRAINS LIKE MEN'S
President Of Vassar Sees Little
Difference.
New
Chicago. Axiris
about as me
Noble MeCracken, new
Vassar College
n's de,
¥ fruv £ Ae aii wy
before oeintio
Private Prepara
$s €
1 Middle West at the
tory Schools of the
University of Chicago. “Men and wom.
en differ little in me character
istics.” said Dr. McCracken, “What
is due to the genera.
tiong of artificial economic and social
conditions under which women have
heretofore lived.”
nial
STRIKE RIOTER GUILTY.
Louis Urich Convicted Of Murder Of
Constable Riggs.
Falrmont, W. Va.—The jury in the
case of Louis Urlch, tried In Circuit
Court here on the charge of firstde
gree murder in killing Constable W.
R. Riggs in the strike riot at Farm-
ington, found the prisoner guilty of
firet degree murder, and recommended
lite imprisonment. Otherwise the
punishment, according to the State
laws, would have been hanging. Others
implicated in the riot will be tried
Monday.
TRAIN HITS GAR
FIFTEEN KILLED
Twenty Injured on Outskirts of
Detroit.
BODIES DROP ALONG STREET
Most Of the Dead Are Foreigners,
Who Were On Their Way
Home—Four Victims
Are Women,
Detroit, Mich. Fifteen persons were
killed and about 20 were Injured in a
collision between a Detroit city street
car and a string of freight care pushed
by & switch engine on the Detroit
Toledo and Ironton Railroad. Most of
the dead are foreigners, whose homes
were beyond the western limits of the
city. Four of them are women.
The street car, one of the
service, was heavily loaded with
homeward bound from
day's Ag the car ap
hed tl raliroad crossing it gtop
and the mdauctor ran akead to
largest
in
i } passe
[pete
Prong
[4
ngers
work
DIVER,
On Bandy Bottom
Feet Down
used
2,527 KILLED IN BATTLE.
At Neuve Chapelle
itish ex
conidnent,
three day
follows
men
174
AP
othe:
report con
i cevernl thousand
field, and we
that
have positive
12,004
train
r ranks
sd on the
ation of
by
oth
upward
removed
Wd 1,857
undad "Were
“hirty officers a: of
captured.”
nM
wi
“FROM FRIENDS IN THE U. 8"
i Americans Present Three Hospital
Trains Te Germany,
ri-on-Malr via London
trains, each consisting
automobile with two trailers,
been presented to the military
f commander here 88 aA gift “from
friends of Germany in the United
" The trains were obtained
through the activity of Mrs. Taylor, an
American resident here. One of the
trains will be attached to the army of
Crown Prince Frederick William; an
other to that of General von Hinden-
burg and the third to the Eighteenth
Army Qosys.
BRITISH Losses PUT AT 189, 347.
Under Secretary ot ‘War So Announces
in Commons.
fondon.-~The total of British
casualtios in the war from the begin
ning of hostilities up to April 11 is
136,347 men. This announcement was
made in the House of Commons by
Harold J. Tennant, Under Becretary of
War,
e'ranklo
| Three
{of an
: have
hospital
“tales
pi
STATE
LAWMAKERS
Harrisburg —A bill designed to bring
the 200,000 soft coal miners in the State
under the provisions of the proposed
workmen's compensation law was pre
sented in the Senate by Senator Mar
tin, of Clearfield. The bill is some
what similar to the one now before
the legisiature relating to hard coal
miners. Under the present mining
laws coal operators must select mine
foremen {rom among men who had
been granted certificates by the State
after an examination as to thelr
competency
Under court rulings, coal companies
not responsi for the szcts of
foremen because the companies
not have the right of free seleo
of the men. Under the bill just
the may select
with to whether
have Portifica nd the
an
nploye the
are ble
mine
vid
companies
regard
or
brought
foremen ut
tes not
8 are under
vision of the companies
Second
t ihe
allow.
ner
$18 000
ital, Phila
e, Philadel)
, 811.000
$141
th BE
Sisters of Cha
ciety, Greensburg
£2,000
$£15.000.
Philadelphia,
Home, Erie,
Franklin City Hospital
Mission,
Imwood
al, Philadelphis.
im Hospil
terlan Hospital, Pittsburgh
gelleal Home
iphia, $4000
Eye Hospital,
for the Aged
Philadelphia,
t Hill Hospital, Philadelphia,
Sewickley Fresh Alr Home, Boaver
county, $8500
SL. Christopher Hospital for Chi
fladeiphla. $18,000
Allentown Hospital, $37.000.
Home for Widows and Single Wom
en, Lebanon, $3.600
Good Samaritan Hoepital, Lebanon,
$18 Onn
Allegheny General Hospital,
Side. Pittsbureh, $175.000
Peaver County Children's Home,
New Brighton, $3,000,
Monroe - County Hoepital,
re. $600
Children’s Home
hem, $3,500
Florence Crittenton Home, German:
fown, Philadelphia, $2.000.
German Hospital, Philadelphia, $36.
000.
Senator Catlin, of Luserne, pre
sented a bill providing that Mayors
of thirdclass cities shall be eligible
to succeed themselves,
Among the bills reported from com
mittees was that which provides that
counties shall pay the expenses of
primary elections.
JAnother bill reported was that
which provides that where two jndges
receive more than half the voles cast
for the office at primaries and mere
than half the total vote polled al the
srimary, they sball be the sole nomi
nees at the succeeding election where
two judges are to be elected.
Narih
Strouds
bu
of South Betlle