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MAP SHOWS BRITISH
GAINS IN BELGIUM
Photo by American Press Association
A British war office report quotes
¥ield Marchal Haig as saying “all the
objectives” were gained in a blow at
the Bavarian troops north of the
Scarpe. German positions on a front
<f a mile on the western slopss of
Greenland hill (1) were captured. Be-
sides this action progress was made
in the sector west of Loos (2), and
trenches north of Armentieres (3)
were raided. The activity extended
ad far north as Ypres.
CLOUDBURST HITS
MONONGAHELA VALLEY
“Two Persons Missing, Twenty Hurt.
Many Pennsylvania Towns Dam-
aged by Violent Rainstorm.
Two persons—a woman and a girl—
were drowned, a score were injured
and more than thirty others were res-
cued from probable drowning, follow-
ing a cloudburst in the Monongahela
valley.
One dwelling was washed away in
Dookers Hollow, Braddock, three
other residences were destroyed and
half of the houses in the hollow were
damaged.
Munhall creek overflowed its banks
and bridges spanning the creek for
nearly two miles were washed away.
The water entered dwellings and
caused damage throughout the valley.
It is estimated the damage done will
exceed $25,000.
RUSSIANS TOLD
U.S. WAR AIMS
Wilson Sends Communication
to New Republic
mer—————
SLAVS URGED NOT TO QUIT
America’s Purpose, Says President, Is
to Help Crush Forever Menace of
Prussian Autocracy.
The war aims of the United States
were clearly made known to Russia
in a message sent by President Wwil-
son. The communication is a part of
the effort to keep Russia in the war.
In view of the approaching visit of
the American delegation to Russia,
says the president, “it seems Oppor-
tune and appropriate that I should
again state the objects the United
States has had in mind in entering
the war.”
“This war has begun to go against
Germany,’ the president asserts, and
as evidence of this he points to the
effort of the German ruling class to
use certain groups and parties in the
empire “to promote a propaganda on
both sides of the sea which will pre-
serve for them their influence at home
and their power abroad, to the un-
doing of the very men they are using.”
The message continues:
“The position of America in this
war is so clearly avowed that no man
can be misled into mistaking it. She
seeks no material profit or aggrandize-
ment of any kind. She is fighting for
no advantage or selfish object of her
own, but for the liberation of peoples
everywhere from the aggressions of
autocratic force. The ruling classes
in Germany have begun of late to pro-
fess a like liberality and justice of
purpose, but only to preserve the
power they have set up in Germany
and the selfish advantages which they
have wrongly gained for themselves
and their private projects of power
all the way from Berlin to Bagdad
and beyond. Government after gov-
ernment has by their influence, with-
out open conquest of its territory, been
MISSOURI MOB
SURRENDERS MEN
Coolness of Captive About to
Be Lynched Calms Crowd
mre.
KIDNAPER SUSPECTS JAILED
Seven Taken From Sheriff Following
Finding of Body of Baby Keet, Stol-
en From Father's Home, In Well
After an unsuccessful attempt to
reach Jefferson City with his prison-
ers to evade pursuers armed with
ropes and shotguns, Sheriff Webb was
overtaken at Stockton, Mo., by a mob
bent on avenging ihe death of little
Lloyd Keet, and his seven prisoners,
alleged to have been concerned in kid-
naping the baby, were forcibly taken
from him,
The pursuit ended in the public
square at Stockton. Claude Piersol,
who had been arrested as a kidnaper,
and alleged leader of the band, was
singled out as a special victim of the
mob’s wrath. A rope was brought and
placed about his neck and the noose
was thrown over the rafters of the
bandstand. Calmly the man watched
the preparations. With the rope in
the hands of several men ready at
any moment to choke him to death,
he smiled calmly. His cool confidence
and seemingly indifference cast a spell
upon the throng. Speaking in a con-
versational tone, seemingly unmoved,
he addressed them. Without emotion
he denied complicity in the crime.
When he had finished he said:
“I guess you are going to kill me.”
“Yes,” the crowd shouted.
“Well, you might as well go ahead
and get it over with.”
With this statement Pierson folded
his arms. a
His action took the crowd .by sur-
prise and it was feared that he might
be innocent. Other members of the
party were brought forth and threat
ened with hanging, but aside to con-
fessing to another kidnaping case they
made no admissions.
Sheriff Webb then promised to de-
liver the prisoners to the Greene coun-
ty jail and the crowd dispersed.
County officials declare they have
linked together in a net of intrigue
directed against nothing less than the
peace and liberty of the world.
meshes of that intrigue must be brok-
en, but cannot be broken uniess
wrongs already done are undone; and
adequate measures must be taken to
Mrs. Anna Ivon, aged thirty-two,
and Mary Buzo, aged nine, both of
Dookers Hollow, were drowned.
Mrs. Ivon was last seen sitting on
the porch of her home, with her baby
in her arms. Both were swept from
the porch. The child was injured
about the body.
The others injured were removed by
residents of the little foreign settle-
ment to the offices of physicians.
It is estimated fully twenty feet of
water passed through Dookers Hollow,
which is one mile long and a quarter-
mile wide. There are forty houses in
the hollow.
PERSHING AND STAFF
GUESTS OF ENGLAND
American Commander Will Remain In
London Several Days—To Inspect
Big English Training Camps.
Major General Pershing, comman-
der of the American expeditionary
army to France, and his staff, arrived
in London.
The expected arrival of General
Pershing and his party had been
kept a fairly close secret from the
London public.
' @eneral Pershing and the twelve of-
ficers of his senior staff are guests of
the British government. The remain-
der of the contingent will be looked
after by American societies in Lon-
don.
General Pershing and his staff ar-
rived at an English port after an un-
eventful trip. All the members of his
party were in good health and spirits.
“Their ship was escorted into port by
American destroyers. A hearty wel-
come was extended to the Americans
by official representatives of the ad-
miralty, the war office and the muni-
cipal authorities. The war office has
assigned a brigadier general of the
British army as aid to General Persh-
ing.
TO PROBE DANIELS’ CHARGE
Senate Naval Affairs Committee Takes
Up Spy Allegations.
The senate naval affairs committee
decided on » thorough investigation of
the documents and papers declared by
Secretary of the Navy Daniels to have
been stolen from the navy's confiden-
tial files by 2 spy or traitor.
The inquiry will embrace a sifting
of the charges, accompanying the
stolen documents, of defective am-
munition in the navy.
Records stolen from the confiden-
tial files of the United States navy led
Secretary Daniels to make the charge.
Indications were that the letters and
documents had been filched from the
ordnance department or the Indian
Head proving ground, where navy
guns and ammuni ion are tested.
prevent it from ever again being re-
woven or repaired. *
“Of course, the imperial German
government and those whom it is
using for their own undoing are seek-
ing to obtain pledges that the war will
end in the restoration of the status
que ante. It was the status quo ante
out of which this iniquitous war issued
The |
! child was frund by a sheriff’ 8. posse
no evidence connecting these prison-
ers with the Keet case. }
The body of the fourteen-months-old
which had gone to a “haunted” House,
long since abandoned in the Ozark
mountains, eight miles southwest of
here. In some way not yet explained
the sheriff was told that trace &f the
child could be found on the farm.
1t was several hours, before they
thought of the well. A deputy was
lowered into the opening while others
held him by his feet. And there was
found the body of “Buddie” Keet,
wrapped in the pink blanket which
forth; the power of the imperial Ger-
man government within the empire
and its widespread domination and in-
fluence outside of that empire. That
status must be altered in such fashion
as to prevent any such hideous thing
from ever happening again.
“We are fighting for the liberty, the
self-government and the undictated de-
feature of the settlement that con-
cludes this war must be conceived
must first be righted and their ade-
quate safeguards must be created to
merely because they have a pleasing
sonorous sound. Practical questions
can be settled only by practical
means. Phrases will not accomplish
the result. Effective readjustments
will, and whatever readjustments are
necessary must be made.
“But they must follow a principle
and that principle is plain.
ple must be forced under sovereignty
under which it does not wish to live.
No territory must change hands ex-
cept for the purpose of securing those
who inhabit it a fair chance of life
and liberty. No indemnities must be
insisted on except those that consti-
tute payment for manifest wrongs
done. No readjustments of power
must be made except such as will tend
world and the future welfare and hap-
piness of its peoples.
“And then the free peoples of the
world must draw together in some
common covenant; some genuine and
practical co-operation, that will in ef-
fect combine their force to secure
peace and justice in the dealings of
nations with one another. The broth-
erhood of mankind must no longer
be a fair but empty phrase; it must
be given a structure of force and
reality. The nations must realize
their common life and effect a work-
able partnership to secure that life
against the aggressions of autocratic
and self-pleasing power.
“For these things we can afford to
pour out blood and treasure. For
these are the things we have always
professed to desire and unless we
pour out blood and treasure now and
succeed, we may: never be able to
unite or show conquering forte again
In the great cause of human liberty.
“The day has come to conguer Or
submit. If the forces of autocracy
gan divide us, they will overcome us;
if we stand together, victory is cer-
tain and the which victory
will secure. We can afford then to
be generous, but we cannot afford
then or now to be weak omit any
gingle guarantee of
gurity.”
ustice and se-
velopment of all peoples, and every ;
and executed for that purpose. Wrongs |
prevent their being committed again. |
We ought not to consider remedies |
No peo- |
to secure the future peace of the’
was upon his bed the night he was
stelen. A woman’s skirt, too, of biack
silk substance, was wrapped around
the body, and the only evidence left
| by those who threw the body into the
|
water.
‘SLACKERS ROUNDED UP
Men Who Avoided Registration: In
MILADY IN KHAKI--
GARB FOR MILITARY WORK
CONTRARY ORIENTALS.
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They Have a Habit of Doing All Things
the Other Way.
Every European who has lived long
in the east will, I think, bear me,
out, says Earl Cromer in the Quar-
terly Review, when I say that in the |
most trivial acts of life the easterner
somehow or other manages always to
do or say exactly opposite to what
would be done or said by the west-
erner.
I was one day looking out of the
window of the viceroy’s house at Bar-
rackpore and noticed that a native
policeman was walking up and down
the terrace. His attention was at-
tracted by a piece of paper which flut-
tered to his feet. He stopped and eyed
it intently. I conceive that under simi-
lar circumstances a policeman of any
western nation, even if he had been
barefooted and his toes had not, from
the constant use of boots, lost their
prehensile qualities, would, had‘ he
wished to possess himself of that bit
of paper, have stooped to pick it up.
But the Bengali policeman kicked off
the wooden shoe from his right foot.
seized the bit of paper between his two |
Photo by American Press Association.
A GENERAL SURVEY OF.
THE WAR
British might asserted itself on a
gigantic scale and, after one of the
most tremendous blows which has yet
been launched against the German
hordes, the fruits of the great offen-
sive have not been fully calculated,
so vast was the onslaught. ’
Today the town of Messines and a
score of other important points are
in British hands. The Germans made
prisoner already run into four figures,
with the totals increasing as further
reports are received.
More than 1,000,000 pounds of high
explosives was blown up under the
Teutons’ forward positions—the most
gigantic mining operation in the his-
acute observer of eastern ways. told
. test the intelligence of an Egyptian,
| Burcpean nation, supposing he under
| stood the difference between right and
. left, would certainly have seized the
first toes, brought up his foot to the
level of the knee and, without stopping,
convoyed the paper from his toes to
his fingers behind his back. ’
A friend of mine who was a very
me that on one occasion, in order to
he asked him to indicate his left ear.
The most uneducated member of any
lobe of his left ear with his left hand.
The Igyptian, however, passed his
right hand over the top of his head
and with that hand took hold of the
: top of his left ear.
The American Peril.
At Weihuei, Hunan province, an
amusing incident occurred during a
campaign against houseflies. Follow-
ing the lecture, in; which the dangers
of the fly had been emphasized, some
Chinese ladies were being Shown the
health exhibit. One of the pictures
showed a common housefly magnified
many times. On seeing it one of the
ladies exclaimed: “Is that the kind of
flies they have ‘over in America: No
wonder Dr. Peter talks about the dan-
ger. If we had such big files here in
China we would have to be careful of
them too.”—Christian Herald.
Feurteen Inch Guns.
tory of war—spreading panic among
the kaiser’s troops.
The Germans were taken complete-
ly by surprise, as proved by the fact
that the Twenty-third Bavarian regi-
ment was being relieved at the mo-
ment the attack opened.
The German forces holding Mes-
sines ridge and the salient surround-
ing it seemed to have been utterly
demoralized by the force of the Brit-
ish attack. ‘They attempted three
counter attacks, but there was no
power behind any of them. The heav-
iest was absolutely broken up by the
British artillery barrage before reaci-
ing the infantry lines. The two other
counter attacks were attempted by
disorganized German infantry without
artillery preparation or any support
whatever. Very heavy losses were in-
flicted on the Germans in conse-
quence. Few who went into these at.
tacks came out unscathed.
A British light cruiser and destroyer
flotilla sunk one German destroyer,
the S-20, and damaged another in an
engagement with six enemy destroy-
Law’s Toils.
{ One hundred and forty Industrial
Workers of the World are held in
Rockford, Freeport and Belvedere, Ili,
{ the department of justice announced.
; They are charged with wilful refusal
| to register and with agitation against
conscription. The Chicago office of
the department of justice has sent
special agents to these cities to in-
vestigate the cases.
In Chicago nine negroes who fled
from Greenville, Miss., to avoid regis-
tration were taken into custody.
Salvatore Zumpano, an I. W. W. or-
ganizer, is under arrest in Scranton,
Pa., charged with having refused to
register.
Charges of a widespread plot in the
state of Wisconsin to defeat the draft
by discouraging registration, were
laid before President Wilson.
L. W. Nieman, editor of the Mil-
waukee Journal, and Senator Hustin
laid before the president evidence of
German intrigue in Wisconsin. Sym-
pathizers with pro-German -tendeneies
are conduc ing a subtle campaign to
kill the war spirit, the men reported.
SLACKERS’ TIME EXPIRES
Period of Grace For Leniency Over.
Arrests to Be Next.
Orders went out to all police depart-
ments to bring in the slackers. The
pericd of leniency allowed by the pro-
vost marshal general in regard to per-
sons registering has passed.
Beginning Tuesday police will arrest
any and all men who have not reg-
istered. They will be taken “forcibly
if necessary’ before the proper au-
thorities and will be required to reg-
ister.
Wooden Ship Contracts Let.
The shipping board announced in
Washington that contracts for 160
wooden ships had been let within
the past ten days, 100 ships to the
Southern Pine association and sixty
ships to various firms on the western
coast, with an option for forty more
at the same price.
Paris Expects More Destroyers.
The Paris Matin stated that another
of United States destroyers and
boats is expected in European
shortly to engage in subma-
| rine hunting and convoy service.
| rea BREET
ers at long range, the admiralty re-
ported, in telling of a sea and air
raid on Ostend.
sorded with “good
y declerzd. Shore
ies returned the British fire, buf
there’ were no casualties on the Brit
ish ships and no damage done to the
attacking vessels.
For the first time since the start of
the war France's official peace terms
have been made public.
ber of deputies, by a vote of 453 to 55,
adopted a resolution setting forth the
rerubl’e’s war aimg, which are said
to represent those of the entente al
‘ies. These peace conditions include
beration of all territories occupied
by Germany, the return of Alsace-
Lorraine to France and just repara-
tion for damage done to invaded re-
g-ons. The resolution, which was ac-
cepted by the government, also favors
creation of a league of nations for
maintenance of peace.
LABOR WANTS FOOD LAW
“Drive on Congress” Planned to Avoid
Serious Unrest.
Following a conference with Her-
bert C. Hoover, selected to head
the new food administration; an oOr-
ganization was affected by represent-
atives of the American Federation of
Labor, the four railroad brotherhoods,
gress to demand immediate adoption
of food legislation.
concern over the situation which
might face the country if prices kept
soaring and something was not done
to conserve this year's harvest, for
which it was understood representa-
tives of the neutral countries were
bidding.
of the army.
The cham-
the National Federation of Postal em-
ployees and the “labor group” in con-
gress for a concerted drive upon con-
The labor representatives expressed
Peasants Urge Army to Action. ment. I soon got so much
The ct ; of peasants Petro- better that I was encour-
{ grad al 2 ( n ( upon aged and continued taking
| the army to ub pline the two remedies until I
| and lefend revelutio a. The was so well that work was
| congress affirm e duty of those it no bother to me at all”
represents to d-iasnd the country MRS. LOUIS ELG,
energet nd ke v sacri- Idaho Falls, Idaho.
| fice to sustain the fighting strength Kor rss rm msm
The making of fourteen inch guns
"18 a stupendous operation, requiring
batteries of open hearth furnaces to
produce the material, a great casting
plant and presses and heating furnaces
of the largest size, running into mil-
lions in value. The tube of a fourteen
inch navy rifle is about sixty-two feet
long, and a ninety ton ingot, five feet
in diameter, is required.
Wide Awake Eskimos.
The Eskimos are rapidly learning
the value of money. The day has long
gone by when they would give a polar
bearskin or a bale of foxskins for a
fishhook. They now know the value
of their furs and bring them to the
best markets.— Argonaut.
A String to Them.
Mrs. Flatbush— What became of that
string of pearls your husband was go-
ing to give you? Mrs. Bensonhurst—
Oh, he had hold of the string.—Yonkers
Statesman.
Her Own Idea.
“His wife is a woman of one idea.”
“That so?”
“Yes; whenever he starts to do any-
thing she has the idea that he’s doing
it wrong”
A Perfect Likeness.
Mre. S.—Oh. what a beautiful face!
| Who is 1t? Painter—That. madam, is
| your deughter. Mrs. S.—What a per-
. fect likeness! 1 think you must paint
i mel
A Household Jewel.
“Is your new maid competent?”
“Very. She can even fool agents and
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
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SOMERSET, PA.
Prompt attention given to all Teg:
business.
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WANTED—OId papers, magazines,
rubbers and shoes.
J. D. DONER,
12-16 210 Grant St
Vetenarian
S. P. Fritz, veteaaran, casiradag
a speciality. P. O. Audress, Piss
Hill, Pa. Economy Phope, Gumbert
store. 2
Joseph L. Tressler
funeral Direetor and Embalmer
Meyersdale, Penna.’
OAR ROBBERS
Office
229 Center tree
Both Phones.
Residence:
809 North Street
Economy Phone.
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Let us drive home to you
the fact that no washwo-
man can wash clothes im
as sanitarv a manner as
that in which the work is
done at our laundry. :
We use much more water,
change the water many
more times, use purer and
more costly soap, and keeg
all the clothes in constant
motion during the entire
process.
It is simply a matter of having
proper facilities.
Meyersdale Steam Laundry
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
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Striving to
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may weaken the Heart.
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is highly recommended.
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