TRYING TO SAVE THEIR ARMIES Russians Facing the Problem of Evacuating Warsaw. CITY HAS BEEN DENUDED Russian Front To Bug River Shaken. Fortress Of Ivangorou May Have Been Left To its Fate. London. face the and losing their armies, while the Austro ~The of the surrounding Russians now Warsaw without problem evacuating country German forces are making a supreme effort Ket treat. The with to acrose their line of re. Teutons are said to have met partial success in report this attempt, hat resum the midway a Berlin official stating t Field Marshal ing the offensive, Lublin-Cholm Mackensen, had railway yon reached about those and that of Russian between two cities far front southeast this as as the river the had been “shaken.” One Retreat Line Blocked. The Macken sen in getting across this rallway, aft Rus denies at least success of General von er being virtually stopped by the glan counter-attack, line of retreat to the who might still be him Warsaw, and also places the Germans one hetween porition to move against the Bug front, in a river upon. British military should this be critics, however, Nicho las, commander-in-chief of the Russian fuse to believe that Grand Duke provided for all con that he of his troops before forces, has not tingencies not fairly sure of the or Was safety indicating world that he had to the decided to take up a new line May Have Quit Indeed the Berlin official crossed Ivangorod. H news contained the in statement that the Ger the V of Warsaw, nd Kozienice belief that fallen perhaps river Pi leads the the mans istula southeast Hea river military have between the writers to the in even Russians already back this region, and nave that JUDGE LANDIS SEIZES EASTLAND Action Puts Vessel in Charge of U. S. Government. Tech. inquiry-—Company Officials Not Allowed To Obtain Redfield Continues nical Immunity. Chicago Federal Judge Landis of his S€iZIng in the name States ISIE Lhe ued an order Gel the [United power office Governn East] 1,000 lives were los steamer which more than The action of was the Judge Landis to its fate There is no the Narew Buelow's situation General news of the of on river or You wider outflanking movement in Kovno Provinces However opinion here as German plaus contemplate a series of attacks rather than a simultaneous one it is likely that are waiting for Field Marshal Mackensen reach some previously posi tion before they the is expressed that the they Yon to arranged thelr att resume acks Warsaw Denuded, Is Report According received here, which the to dispatches country around Russians are leaving to the invaders has been put to torch, while the city itself has been denuded of everything that might be of to the Germans if it falls into their bands. It may even be some days be fore the Teutons occupy the Polish the Warsaw the 18e gians are fighting than a guard action. In fact, they are still delivering very heavy blows at their opponents and are gaining some local successes, par- ticularly on the Narew and southeast of Cholm, where they are opposing the efforts of the Austrians the Bug river However, eritics say that these local successes will not affect the Russian plan of falling back to a shorter and stronger front more rear to Move On West Expected. As soon as the present against Russia are concluded, whether or not they succeed in destroying any the weet, 2a movement which, however, will take a couple of months at least It will, therefore, be a race between the Teutonic forces and the France, where as it has been in Alsace, where the offensive in situation remains weeds past, except the French the positions protecting There has been sharp fighting here, the French advance converging on Muenster from the north and from Metzeral to the southeast of Muenster Valley, in which the town stands, on the open road to Colmar Most Brilliant Strategy Of War, The military expert of the London Times says: “The great operation against Russia which was planned by Gen. von Falk: enhayn and has been in course of execution for the past three months fo the most aspiring and, In some ways the most brilliant plece of strategy this war has yet produced. General Falkenhayn obviously pre pared his plan by the light of the rvignal fallure of the other German plans of the autumn and winter, but his merit is not less because he ree ognized previoug errors and sought to avoid them, “ Wak as unexpected as it was drastic Ihe wholly in the East: hands of the Federal # el the # rescue of order placed ihe fs iift ter of in mat vestigation and bodies from t sunken the hands of the except in r as Judge direct their act Bodies In Engine Room. More bodies of vic the ca trophe, probably he hull of vessel out of the police and the Stats authorities Landis 80 Ia may ivities tims of not more maybe ag LO. we the Eastland engine AE many the hull down in divers women tightly ered in of Far boat the room of the upon the forms of wedged CARINE men, and children, 80 together it impossibie to The between and the Redfield Conducts With a investigation disaster threatened, the Federal grand jury began taking evidence and Secretary of William C Redfield went with his nical” The first nesses called before the Federal grand Jack Clark, lookout, and an oiler, of the Eastland’s Was them been bodies had the boilers Probe count pushed down of the vessel Congressional of the Lommerce ahead “tect 3 investigation wit were Joe Conrad crew Congressman A J nounced before Secretary inquiry board began that unless the Secretary's prote went deep as possible into the facts bear Sabath an Redfield's its session William H. Hull general manager of the Joseph Chicago Steamship Company, owner of the Eastland, and Walter C. Steele, secretary-treasurer of the company, be allowed to testify before st will not testimony before the Federal in case they were Their render them immune from this grand jury Body No. 386, the “little feller,” as the tiny form was spoken of by police morgue, was Identified that of Willie Novotny, ° years old, whose father and mother also went down with the Eastland. The identi fication was made by two playmates of the Ind, and later confirmed by Willie's grandmother, Mra. Agnes Martenek Willie's body will be buried with Scouts in the city will be represented in the line that will follow No. 306 to his grave. To Hunt “Cranky” Ships. Washington. —Reportshaving reached the Department of Commerce that other cranky passenger ships, besides the Eastland, are operating on the Great Lakes, department officials stated that special Inspection of all such craft in these waters will begin shortly. The need of a naval architect in the inspection service to Inspect all designs for new ships will be brought to the attention of Congress, it was added. The so-called “hull experts” have none of them, it was staled, any ex perience in naval architecture, the training of most of them having been confined to navigation solely. SHOWED Fi | Americans Met Resistance, But | | Had No Casualties. i i PORT AU PRINCE DISARMED Now 400 Or 500 Marines and Blue. jackets For Shore Duty Backed Up By the Guns Of the Cruiser Washington American marines landed at Port au Prince, Haltl, en which countered resistance, Was OV er . : Casualties the following come without AMONE sailors "he from Admiral the HIesEARe Caperton was given out at Navy Department landing Slight established ir during wae being forces ¢ part of This Cas resistance early night as advance made ce easily overcome NO An pre and civi to our force weed ing ais y Haitian soldiers i vy disarm The message the first tima tion received by the Navy Department men from resistance eaid he force WAS in that Caperton’s the cruiser had patel Pre had | arhore 1 ’ 1 ot r- ry Washington met | vious dis merely landing and placed a guard about His that » Port e the established his the French | however Legation first iggested regimen marines Prince city sent to au enable be him to rust vif re Pie entire Admiral by the force was in marines Caperton’s creased arrival of 100 fron the collier Jason 400 for f Od 1 GUAnianamo on available and blueiackets backed by in all he has between and shore duty 500 marines up the guns the eruiser The French ed Port au Prince from Cape A small force from the Eagle was landed at the to guard the French has opened its doors to Port au Prince Descartes reach Haitien States Cruiser au I'nited | survey yacht latter place con which refugees suiatle from TWO AMERICANS KILLED, Shot By Snipers At Port Au Prince Ini Night Attack. Washington. — Two American sallors ! have been killed by snipers at Port au Haiti. Announcement to this! made by Secretary of the i Navy Daniels, following the receipt of | a cablegram from Rear Admiral Cap erton, in command of the naval forces which took over the military control | | of the city following the attack on the | | French Legation and the killing of President Guillaume, of Halti Simultaneously with this announce ment, Secretary Daniels issued orders | ito the battleship Connecticut, at) Philadelphia, to get under way at | once with a force of marines These reinforcements give Ad { miral Caperton a shore force of ap | proximately 1.000 men, which, he has { indicated, will be sufficiet to control { the city until order is restored rince {effect was LOO will JAP CABINET RESIGNS, | Minister Of Interior and Others Ac. cused Of Bribery. Tokio The Japanese Cabinet, headed by Count Okuma as Premier, has tendered its resignation to Em. peror Yoshihito. This action, follow: ing the resignation of Viscount Kan. stake Oura, Minister of the Interior, grew out of an investigation by the Ministry of Justice into bribery charges resulting from the Parlia. mentary elections last March. Vis count Oura’s resignation was sanction: ed by the Emperor after a report on the situation had been nade to him by Count Okuma Premier Okuma, believing he should hold himself responsible for the acts of the members of his Cabinet, was the first to tender his resignation. The other Ministers Immediately decided to foliow the example of their chief. After receiving Count Okuma the Em. peror summoned the Elder Statesmen for a conference : . MEXICAN CRISIS NEAR TO CLIMAX An American Carrying Dis- patches Assaulted. A FAMINE IN THE CAPITAL Carranza, Villa and Zapata Must Get Together—Plenty Of Money In Capital, Dying of Starvation. But People Are Washington Demanding in the name of humanity that food be mitted to reach the starving people of City, urgent were sent by the State Department to Carranza, Villa and The declare avenues of portation to Mexico opened to provision trains per representations Generals Zapata notes trans City must "be text of iblie, it forerunner Mex establish Although the the representa ions was not made pi ig known hat a final end constitutional government by means ¢ the document is a of demand that the can {af tions their strife and a joint conference Officials believe General ( at Vera Cruz, is in a positior the raliroad to Mexico City from Lruz open ¥1 ransportation o at least as that point that the road be by forward was signed went immeding CAn representative ial reports from purchass American A mess An assault near 1} American 1 Fiag Violated fron Bape Vera Cru : ¥ new di % iy War created Mexica Heretofore Affairs appointed chie American 3 he Amer Red ¢ Jd. O'Connor, its CAD I'OR¥ gpecial directing relief work cated ommun He announced rmined effort to the capital would be People Dying Of Starvation y's message, cabled fron io get mads Mr Vera Cruz, is as of food is far woes £37 ¢ nung follows “Reareity greater thar it was two ARO it ie almost Yegeliabier = thes than are act far less plentiful ere weeks ARO dying of starvation by doctors and nurses no word of supplies States Each to buy anything are two uaily Drove had ing the have started some change made a change We are ready to dis have not al a rea Conditions are more and there is People ar 1 We can have con from time we here of government has of plan NEeCEessary food to families, but price chaotic than ever not a BECKER ELECTROCUTED. Unshaken In Walk Teo Death Chamber, MN. XX Former Police Charles Becker, of New twice convicted for the mur was electro Nerve Ossining, der of Herman Rosenthal cuted at 5.45 Friday moming He sald that he would die game and he did. The early part of his last farewell meeting with his wife at mid tight he became calm and lay on his cot in his for an hour or so ap parently asleep Meanwhile the electricians had tested again and again the apparatus of the death chair. The sacrament of communion was administered the doomed man by the attending priests and as the final offices of the Church were being said the first rays of day light crept through the barred win dowe of the cell Fathers Cashin and Curry accom panied Becker in his walk to the chair Physicians and guards and Assistant Keeper Dorner were also in the party The official witnesses of the execu tion included Dr. Joseph C. Stammers, who represented the sheriff of New York city; Max Griffenhagen, Milton Schnaler, a sanitary engineer: Dr, Frank E. Miller and Dr. William 8 Bryant. FRANK CERTAIN TO RECOVER, Progress For Days Excellent and Con dition Satisfactory. Milledgeville, Ga.—~leo M. Frank's condition was pronounced satisfac tory, with no indications of complica tions. His progress for the past sev. eral days has been excellent and his prospects for recovery have reached the stage of certainty. cell Sei puey fast, Our Rider Agents every where are Wil partievlors and special offer af ones, 1 you receive and sDUrove your Wrycle, HB. withoul a cent deposit in rile for L If you are “ie and put it to any test you wish, We furnish the highest grade Vicycies it ia poe=eible to make al one small profit shove DO NOT bic yele, biey cies Tor ios above factory cost, when you receive enr basotifyl rate bog oe snd wads our super god ent - h i} the Wig hoot grade are In wit is rat DEALERS, you can — bieye ths 1d bbls prices, Orders filled the day reese ved, BOL reg uiany handle seonnd Land Hey Chew our Clilengo retail plores, These we giear 10. 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MEAD of Gree from anyone 4 A SAMPLE PAIR TO INTRODUOE, ONLY Notice the thick rubber tread A and puncture strips‘ 'B" end “D' sino rim strip “HM to prevent rim cutting. This tire will outlast any other make - SOFT, ELASTIC and Yor &5 EASY RIDING. presented making the price $4.58 advertises «. Yourun sl OUR expense if for any resson th HY 00 ue de ee safe ae In 8 beak 7. woky befler, inet longer and ‘ bee po well Pieasod that wi (there per pa Lan mE & prioee DO ROT THINK OF BUYING & biepoe or 6 paly STATE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD Foot Fed. Pennsylvania Declared Free of and Mouth Disease Save Ir eral Restricted Areas of the State. Bethichem Strike Steel At Full Capacity Boon Adjusted At Reding ton Plant Science Necessary For Farming The Bethlehem open hearth department of the Company i# running 100 per cent. according to a statement by Austin DD. Mixsell This means that the sixteen are working and producing 60 0 f Eight of the eles Hive] vice-president furnaces ingots 8 month hearth fumaces are working and department's capacity be increased by £2 500.000 ’ LE of of the lLehiet the biast fur |HOTLY Opty piant Dace will the § Tw about LUIDRCes type this are be blown in other furnaces ready several thousand per State Zoologist Bur make Addressing Benton the by increasing and decreasing through scientific by raising the Farmers whose Ons at face his declared farmer musi the mze of the cost of farn Os! mnoney Crops production manegement, nol CODEUmMer only ambition is for what they grow are traitors 10 the public he declared 6 the fo good Alexander Dubitseky at Turkey Run Colliery. Shenandoah while John Kilemey, thirty-one years old. war injured seriously in a similar manner at Maple Hill Colliery. Du biteky was 10 have been married Wed nesday and was working bis last week There wat 8 rshortlived strike fuse plant of the Bethle Steel Company ing shells hundred short order The trouble was adjusted in and the girls Klingler, of Al the amount Martin that Postmaster reports $18,170.22 over the year before, and afer paying salaries and miscellane expenses of $106.27335, he re Judge J. Q Van Swearingen award ed a writ of peremptory mandamus on the Favette County Commissioners to compel them to accept the non-par tian petition of J. E. Hanly, candidate for Mayor of Uniontown, thus declar ing constitutional the non-partisan fea. ture of the Clark Act governing third class cities, Eli Hoover, of Conoy Township, driver of an automobile, In company with Mrs. F. Blecker, Mrs. Clayton Peters, Mrs. Edward Boyd and three. yearold daughter and Mme. K. Zerby, of Elizabethtown, all were injured seriously while descending a hill near Jednota, when the car toppled over an On the charge that while under the influence of lquor he ope! ated his car, State Highway Commissioner Cunnlog. bam revoked the automobile licensee of Orover Zeller, Warren, Pa. cept from a Inger Be origin: swine To Hand Down Decisions decisions in maplaints of public nounced ommission onth Liore 10 dorkets Om actis rman ng with bureau work of the com and working CRBes Com Pennypacker, Brecht and Monaghan went to Manheim to hold a bearing, while Commissioners Rilling and Mages Punxsutawney The telephone schedule will be taken the mission meels next RE =x fhe «AM CORBEE Ale OF Hnissioner Aine: day regarding 10€ spent 2 COnsuM the on missioners went 10 up when con Want Price In Writing. When representatives of the David in county, at a hear Highway Commie fixed 310.000 as Mr. Cun Somerset State Cunningham of their property, ing with the State. He previously has announced that. in taking over toll roads, be will in case of an evident at. purchase and build a parallel road way Arrests in Pure Food Act Crusade. Twenty-eight arrests for viciations Lancaster counties, with a few in Mit The cases arose out of discovery the Dauphin cases being of coffee, cherries and similar articles, while the Philadelphia cases were ten five for sale of eggs unfit for food Sturdy License Tags. Automobile license tags for 1918 wil} be made of a special steel that will not break the enamel when bent, and will be of orange color, with biack let ters and figures, according to an an: nouncement by State Highway Com missioner Cunningham. The State i asking for bids for 348.59) individual plates and for 325000 chauffeurs’ badges, the specifications for the 1 cense plates being different materially from those of the last hall dozen years. EN Purchase Toll Road For State. The Dauphin and Berks toll road, between Wernersville and Hummels town, one of the most traveled stretches of highway between Phila delphia and Harrisburg, will be bought by the Harrisburg Motor Club and turned over to the State. Highway Commissioner Cunningham approved the plan. 4 ¥ i
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