mo THE EUROPEAN WAR A YEAR AGO THIS WEEK April 17, 1915. French made progress Vosges, in Champagne, Notre Dame de Lorette, defeated French in the and at Germans at Flirey. Russians repulsed attacks in di- rection of the Stryj. Czar of Russia left for the front Turkish torpedo boat attacked British transport In the Aegean, 100 being lost, and Turkish boat was destroyed by two warships. Greek steamer Ellispontis torpe- doed in North sea. French airship bombarded Strass- burg and German aeroplanes at. tacked Amiens, April 18, 1916, Germans repulsed English attack near Ypres and took position in the Vosges. French had successes at several points in France and Alsace. Russians on the heights of British ashore in was boats. Bread riots and Bohemia made gains Telepotch, submarine E-15 the Dardanelles, and by British picket ran destroyed occurred in Vienna April 19, 1815, British took Hill 60 and pushed their line south of Ypres forward three miles. French made gains along Fecht river and took summit of Burgkorp- feld. Germans repulsed French at Combres, British and French forces landed on Lemnos. Von der Turks, Goltz made commander of Russian squadron shelled Turk. ish coast and sank many vessels Rhine Bel raided Germans bombed French towns and fort. Garros, captured by airmen famous French Germans April Heavy artillery f and the A pagne Germans stormed Embermenil, ans repu d heavy Germar of Telepolch BC east Severe fighting for possession ¢ heights near Oravozi Two Turkish torpedo boats | ip by Russian mines at Bosp eritancs German ) barded Bialystok, Great air batt won by allied airmer Russian Poland e over the Rhine April 21, 1915 attacks on Hill 60 erkopf German and Hartmannawe repulsed French lost ground at Flis and in Forest of Le Pretre. Russian advance in Carpat stanned topped. « Twenty 3ritish lan t of Ba Germans ir Central Afri man aviation Bulgariar Great battie near Ypres Ger mans forcing way across the canal and capturing several villages French south. made gains farthe defeated Austrians ir but lost Russians Bukowina Uzsok pass. Allied fleet nelies forts. heavily at bombarded Darda General erals. Joffre retired 29 gen April 23, 19185, French made progress at stat and near St. Mihiel. Russian cavalry invaded East Prussia near Memel. Severe fighting region. For in Uzsok pass Blockade of Kamerun, West Africa, Britain. German declared by Great Russian aeroplanes Mlawa and Plotsk. bombarded TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES A farm in England is devoted exclu eively to raising butterflies, of which upward of 30,000 are sold cach year. The total value of fish caught in Canadian waters in 1914 was $32- 207,748. The bottling trade of the British isles requires 70.000 tons of cork an nually. China has established a double mtandard of weights and measures that dncludes the metric systom and a pa tive one OR FEDERR in Beating Beef Trust. FAVORS BORLAND Suggests the Establishment Of ernment-Owned Slaughter-Houaes and Markets As a Means Of Correcting the Troubles. Washington, D. C.—Governor Stuart, engaged with executive duties, told a gub-committee that stock rails had lost money in the last year beef packers. He testified favor of the Borland resolution (0 vestigate the packing the anti-tru indu termine i violated “In the 30 ¥ attle 1 never bid on aid the Gover TAISINE « than one condition obtain fg only what the one conciu ducer four Tag 100 le differed wit PROOF Attrit Federal Te Jury 0. . . Len i R. HARDING DAVIS DE AD While Tak Noted Author Phone Stricken Message Moun fing Da mile bled with he He telephone him {rot did not booth or respond y pad 4 dropped de: C8 : New 10 Cal Mrs FAY formerly DBessi McCoy, the x § : : investigale and nim tele wont to found lying dead on the floor beside the phone MARSHALL TO RUN. Senator Lewis Says He Is Not Candi date—May Be the “Keynoter.” Washington Vice President Mar shall again the running mate for Presi dent and Senator J. Hamilton Lewis temporary chairman and “"kevnoter” at the prospective arrangement, accord ing to many Democratic leaders gath- ering here for the meeting of state chairmen. Senator Lewis announced that talk of his possible candidacy for the Vice-Presidency had been dispelled run again KNOX OUT FOR SENATE. Files Papers With the Commonwealth Secretary, Harrisburg, Pa.-Philander ¢. Knox filed papers al the office of the Becre- tary of the Commonwealth certifying that he in a candidate for the nomina tion for UnMed States Senalor on the Republican ticket. His name will go ot the ballot for the primaries, which will be held May 16. A . 0. TROOPS American Cavalry Had Gone Into Parral. ONE KILLED, ONE WOUNDED No Objection Made To Them C Began To ChiefF Until Search for Made They the Bandit irst Targets By Snipers rived in hidi: Falta There is indicate nothing in private that the Carranza in Parral took part in the attack on the Americans were to One report i says there the Parral and that two clashes left separate before Americana finally in second populace the ent hi which rapidly by the encounter with commander he crowd, was being mowed down American bullets Carranza troops to disperse WOULD LIMIT U. 8. FORCE. Carranza To That Thousand Cavalrymen Make Up Expedition, Mexico City The Mexican will inslat with inflexible deter insist govern the United Statea which er can territory in the guise expedition must limited men of one gerviee alone cording to a statement made by Juan Neltali Amador of for eign relations hiring the absence of Gen. Candido Aguilar, minister of for eign relations, in Queretaro, Subsecre- tary Amador is in charge of the For Mexi fers he io , CAVAIrY, at subsecrotary i International affairs, FOR DEFENSE Pursuit of Villa to Go On Until He is Taken. PREPARED FOR DIFFICULTY te Troops In H Watch Mexican General HUNTED DOWN Till Then, Says House Stay Resolution Yi £8 hp A 754 ! ALON bobtl od up e Texa Hepresential it duced 8 measure pre American wt be 1 Hed viding forces now in Mexico n with drawn untill Villa hs cap. tured or The amble Carranza has pla way [ the U has thereby i Villa forced pre that the and of of the resoliut LTR cles in Army capture GERARD IN GERMANY. MC. A Prison Camps. Berlin Jame w Gerard, the weeepted membership on 4 committee headed | Pring Max of Baden, formed to American Ambassador, @ uper- Men's Christian A ciation in the prison eamps of Germany. A similar areanigation, headed by a grand duke, exists in Russia, KILLED WHEN TRAINING COLT. Aged Man Thrown Against Tree When Animal Bolts. Luray, Va~<John F. Austin, 8r., 66 years old, was killed near his home in Shenandoah when riding a colt. He of a haltor The colt be came unmanageable, throwing Austin againat a tree. He lived only a few minutes, He ia survived by a widow TST. ADMITS U-BOAT JANK SOME SH Interesting Defense Made in Latest German Note. DID NOT SINK THE SUSSEX Note Arraigning Germany For Acts Of Go Forward When All Evidence Has Been Complled, Submarines To Fragn snagged ieamer Bussex, Paris which a; ents the which the crosgchannel have of been anded t Am an naval Wa Gives Germany's Thee I'h mple ng io ailacke on m Further evidence the Ameri and Pari It % Paul it London liner St embassies at on the that Gerard, accom ormation gathered by the department, will go forward soon thereafter arrive unde rstond Ambas to aador TWO DIE OF ANTHRAX. fected Hides. Philadelphia and in James McCauley, Alexander hides, died Gremerk, workers in Muni Cairns, chief medical in The men conlracted the dis through abrasions on the faces fle handling diseased hides Dr rig blames the jax importation law ons MILL BLOWN TO PIECES. Explosion At Du Pont Works Kills Man and Injures Others. Hceranton, "Pa. One man was blown to atoms and several were injured when the press mill of the Du Pont Powder Company, at Du Pont, blew up. The dead man was David Warner. The axplozion blew the mill to pleces and smashed windows within a radius of several hundred yards The ‘trial of T. 8. Bradbury, grand nhphew of President Taylor, who with Mre, P. G. Jenkins iz accused of slay ing Mrs. Jenkins husband, was begun al Pine Qlaff, Ark. IN VILLA CHASE ment on That Basis. PURSUIT WILL CONTINUE | Baker Announces That No Change i» Contemplated In Plansg—Persh. ing Reports Two Killed At Parra! ven nyiains oxen GIVEN DEATH SENTENCE Accused Of Killing Sheep Case Was Tried Animal's in Court Marlinton / | In the Cirenit Court here, Jud; ries 8S. Dice pre | gliding, the case ¢ re. Tlannah Dolan’s dog, convicted in a justice's | court of having the sheep killing habit, {| was heard on Judge ice | sustained the justice's decision and his sentence of death will be executed i An appeal FARMERS UP AGAINST IT. | New Yorkers Report Unprecedented Shortage Of Labor. New York gardeners Slates ~-5 Farmers and market New York and nearby suffering an unprecedented shortage of laborers, save John J. Dil Jon, State Commissioner of State Foods and Markets. Authorities say there has never been zuch a demand for farm help and so limited a supply as at present mn GIRL MURDERED IN HOME. Deaf Father Was In House, But Knew Nothing Of Crime. Columbus, Ohio ~While her father who is deal, upsiaira, Léllian Schwenker, aged 18, was dragred from her home and thrown in & cletern in the rear yard, Her mother and sister, returning from a picture show, found the house ransacked. They followed a trall of torn clothing to the cistern, where taey found the body slept
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