! { } | { 3 FOREST FIRES SCATTER DEATH CARRANZA WILL QUIT CHIEFTAINCY Will Enter the List as Candidate for TWO HUNDRED PERSONS BE LIEVED DEAD IN ONTARIO ' FOUR TOWNS ARE WIPED OUT | Prospectors Trapped—Many Families Destitute —Lake Affords Refuge for Some-—Many Remote Hamints to Hear From May Swell List * —— Enziahert Ont Forest fires rag ing in Northern Ontario are Dellevad ito have resulted in the loss of [rom 150 to 3) lives. Scores of pirsons [have beer injured. and ft Is feared many of them may die several small towns have bean | wiped out by the flames that have {been ragite 43 hours. Reports show i 87 perishad at Nushka, a French Canadian setilernont. and 34 ut Math ssan Ceafarane has 18 dead and 34 injured. [oguols alls 15 dead and many infered. and Ramore 6 The natn her led at Porn Junetion 14 not kpown buat the Lire OWED Was pateored axe tq ipatiroad wation | i | i Fraspectors Trapped, The deach Het will be np fnersased, it Is feared by viol [ontlving AMtricts Thor § i parently wall-i Pt hat ran wit ¥, ante § «din the ha they milght save tihatr Bornes i ! (however, and walls of ¢§ ed { amcape. Lake Saves Many A nearby lala in which they found | rota YE ea yed THANY [Cochrane $ « wr A | NOTE CEMANDS THAT ENGLAND LIFT BOYCOTT | Ambassador age Directed. te Trans {mit Note Written in Positive Tarms. I Washington ~— Great Hejtaln | warned. fa the American note of pro { test against the blackliss made pub | He by the Riate Department, of the | “many gerinus consaguencas 10 ne | tral righis and neutral relations | which wach an act must necessarily | fnvolve | Already in the hands of the Brit | fa fortign office. the note declares iin the graves! terms” that It 5 *manifently out of the gueniion thal the government of the United Brat | should wequinses Mm such rsethods’ i f { $ fof all the citizens of all the natioss | and that the United States regards {the hladklist as “inavitably und es isentially inconsistent with the rights inot fnvilved fo the war” It re minds the Rritish governrysnt that | “citizens of the [United States are entirely within their rights in at tempting to trade with the people or the povernmants of any of the na tions mow a0 war, subject amnly to welldefined international practices and understandings which the gov ernment of the United States deems the government of Great [ritalin to have too lightly and frequently dis Note Is Firm. The American note ia ewvirn more ‘have intimated Ambassador Page waz instructed by Acting Sacretary Polk to deliver #t formally and text i sally. sn dr ped ————— STEAMER APPAM RESTORED I i Liner Captured by German Raider § Awarded by Court Norfolk, Vi. ~-Federal Judge Wad dill decided the libel procsedinegs for possession of the captured British {liner Appam In favor of the Keglish owners and against the German prize crew which brought her here The court held that the Germam government lost all legal claim to the Appam and her cargo as priges of war when Lieutenant Derg and his prize crew brought them into the with the intention of “laying up” the | vessel indefinitely. Law Is Violated. “rhe court's concigsion™ the de. bringing the Appam Into the waters | of the United fitates, as well ss her a violation of the neutrality of the United States; that she came In without bidding or permission; that she is here {in violation of the law; | that she is unable to leave for lack! of a crew, whith she canndt provide | or augment without further violation | of neutrality, | Bishop Electrocuted. Carlisle, Fa —The Rev. Willian Perry Eveland, missionary bishop ot | the Methodist Episcopal Church for | the Philippine Izlands was found dead near Mount Holly Springs, having been electrocuted when his steel fish | ing rod came in contact with a high | Meat Prices Go Higher. tension electric wire | Washington ~-Prices of meat ani ¢ | mals wont up one-half of 1 per cent | during the month from June 16 to July 15. i positive In ita terms than officials | neutral waters of Hampton Roads eisfon reads. "tv that the manner of | Mexican Presidency. Fex —Venustiano Carranes is to irs as frst chief of the de factn government of Mexico atl an arly date, ANG ail} Pyai are randiad by {jen Pablo Gonraiss, according te information given out by Mexican sd ministrative cireles 1 Carranza will enter the field sa a prestdential csndidate a? the forthenming general selection anfarencs af Mexican gen srata with Carranms soon to be held Mexico City, according to advices, all for general RR re the retirement of ihe #5 py ¢ Washi ngton Not Surprised Washington The reported inten item of Gen Carranga 10 retire a8 rs rat ohipf an that he may become a andidata for the presidency on thrmig to tha sxpectation of ofMoiale hore whe have understood he want follow that n 8 : x In Mexico warranted the hold ing of TEUTONS DRIVEN BACK On Both Fronts Germans and Aun triang Compeling to Give Ground Bt hal hafire their tha Rehtl mans and the the mean at various points aesdn met in hand tohand combats Berlin sars that the withdrawal from the RKiak hod enrve had heen contemiplutad for some time and was made without ie terruption by the Russians Plan Riley Memarial Inflanapolin As a memorial to Janses Whitcotab Riley, the Hoosler post, & movement was started hers today to make a oollection of his jetters, many of Which are said to scattered through the United States. The work il he in charge of Edmund H Eitel a nephew of the post, wha hopes tn have the work completed fn time for the memorial celobration to be held hers October ¥. Riley's birthday anniversary. LATEST MARKETS wo ——m——— Pittsburgh. Cattle—Llond ta oh mediam to good, FR50H 16. Tidy RIMGS: fair. 37H 25: com nod to good fat balls, 500437 28: gommon to goes fa CHWR $3 5048 T2324: heifers. $5 607i% 2%: fremh sows and springera. 2 Re Hogs Prime haavy HAN EIn 1D w = medium, 3103061035; heavy York ers, $19.30416.35; ght PEO 204 10.35 hg. in Ean gerd £4 Butter - Prints. 3183132: tubs WH Le Eggs Al mark, NGM; select 28 tad) 27 Chicago. Cattie— Prime steers. $10.73411.25; butcher grades, $7 0081025 sows, $5048 25 Calves—Culls to choice, $850Q 12.00 Sheep Wathers, FE S50%340: owes, $A50G TR; lumbae $T.004 10TH Hogs — Bulk, $0406 10.00; Heht I$ 35G 10 14; salxed, $6 1410.10; heavy, $9 00§ 10.10%; roughs, $9008 9.20, Buffalo. Cattie—FPrime steers, 3110081150; butcher grades. JT00GN50; cows presence [in those waters, comstitutes | $4.1 ET. I5 Calves —Culls to choles 34504 13.00 Sheep and lamba — Choice lambe, $700010.15;, culls to fair $5508 $.25: yearlings $5.500955; sheep $3.004 5.00, Hogs Yorkers, §10254 1080. pigs $10.00; roughs, $N108:525. mixed, $10.60 qess,; stags, $8 50847 5) Susan Liners Burned. Berlin —Reporta of a great con flagration at Petrograd, in which a bridge neross the river Neva, 10 large | stores, including several transatian tic liners and the Putiloff gun works and other establishments were de stroved, are printed. William D. Travis. War Artist, Dies. Burlington. N. J—Willlam DID. Tra vis, one of the last of the famous Civil war artists, died at his home here, after an fllness of several . Pentonville prison. months. He was aged 77. De EIN JOHN K. CLARKE J Loueke pan DEVELOPMENT Sl sae Sains rh BR ALLOTTHENTS MADE S ARES. COT Pennaylvania Gets Third Largest Amount, Delaware the fimallest. PIA TEEN WAREHOUSES ARE More in Bucceedin Wears . big WRECKED BY EXPLOSION Washington -- The apportionment among the states of the flret years Justice Clarkes is the former Clpwe and. Ohis, jurist samed Sy Pragh fant Wilton to succeed formar Jus tice Charles E. Mughes on the tu argme hanch. Justice Clarke's nom nation has bean ratified by the Hane ate. WARSHIPS PATROLL FARY LAND COAST Deutehinnd Most Leave and Beitinh Cruiner Wat for Mar Ares ey regarding 2 matter and ! ware sent fo the commandar of the North Caraling It was assuned, however, thy bo had] Been dirveted to. sew that the German fuerchant avtonarine Deutsebingil. now prepar od for her return trip to Germany, in rv attacked by allied war veunels within the rhrseemile min and that American negtmadity is not otherwise ated DANISH ISLANDS PURCHASED. Are Strategic Because of Canal De fanse— Germany Bid Washington -- White Houwe officiale orinfirmed the report that the United States will purchase the Danish Went Iridios for approxbmately $35 8d wa) ft was stated that the negotiations, which have bean in progress for Ary twa Yours, sre abot cone pleted The text of the proposed purchase treaty has been agreed up on. it was mated, and the signe tires of the two nations are tO de affixed In the near future Have Stragetic Value. Ry purchasing the Danish Went In des the United Stites will aseare possession of what officials say ia thie most stragtetic sarap of islands in connection with the Panama CHAIN, The islands contain about (08 siuare niles and have xbout 35.500 population. Onity Confedarate OMiceress Dies. ichmond, Va--Capt. Sally Louisa Tompkins X31 the aly woman ever cotnmissioned an officer in the Cone tederate army. Is dead She was come. missloned captiin of cavalry in arder that she might continue to coandayt a private hospital after other such {nstitations were ordered Shoned. et kA SA 50.51 OY WITH NATIONAL LAWMAKERS Sayings and Ootngs Among Our Sen ators and Congressmen. HENATE Passed naval bill carrying $315. 000.0040 hy a vote of 71 Ww & Confirmed the pomination of John H. Clarke as associate ustice of the Supreme ourt, Passed the Pielan bill, ceding to the Panama Pacific Internalional Ex | position Company. subject to revoea tion, a portion of the San Francisco | Presidio for mainlenalice as a perma- nent place of fine art HOUSE A favorable report on a Mil to ap propriate $35,004 for a monument to John Ericesen, inventor of the Moni tor, was flied by the House library opmmitiee Representative Whaley of Sonth Careling and Willlam E. Williams of inots declared legally elected and srititled to their seats despite «one Lasts agrinst them Absolived in Titanic Case. New York With a payment of $885 600 ontaide of court, the White Star Line stands absolved of all Ha bility for the sinking of the steam ship Titanic with a loss of | Lawn ves, and tha four sears of littleation of claimants {a brought to an od Casement Execution August 3. London Sir Roger Cisement's ax ecution has been fixed for August 3. Unless granted a royal reprieve Case ment will be hanged (2 the yard corriiee appropriation of $5000 060 carried hy I rw rod roads wet wa sanounc. PRUBE 1S OX FOR CAUSE 3d by the depariment of agricuityos prhtch bas certified the fdgures to rearury deparipient and state als To be entitled tale Death List Believed to be Low Con sidering the Extent of Damage fihock Felt in Five States ‘Warrants for Arrest Texas gots Naw York Hus ism —— Waer York — Property loss estimal. od at FI5000000 was caused by a serious of terrific sxplosians of ame munition awaiting shipment to the Ententes Allies and stored on Black Tom (sland. a small strip of land iting into New York bay off lTersey City "haat Joss of Hs will not he deter minmt definitely until there hau heen opportunity to cheek up the work he 8% man employed, Three are kpown to tHE he esd and at least five more are CHOWILE migning tl The detonationg. felt in five slates, i§ 256 710 TRE B48 bi B44 beings with a rapid fre of mall shally, theg the blowing up of great guantities of dynamite tranitrotaluens tye at. Shrapnel a Ase Eure rg for many J : altar tha ral vo Sereirapets Are Shaken. The fra, which apread Al ¥ * R E TAILR 0ADERS VOT £TOST IKE | geinintion in its wake af the Wage Ww raha eee tional Rrorage Company Tov [ainnd tn which wears for FAN ian valipent hatwessy Yio . »* - LS AAA. Rep i” df tha BM and $15. aa G00. The flames ware ‘Middle Wast Brotherhoody Dves wheimingly Favor Quitting Work, cadl ree reflected against New swwitc'a “ak of a Hue” of inweril Affen haltidines soled wars shaken toe thelr fo sri ge tims By the hiast Miles of sirosts by Manhattan alone were Sires Be -» : h Og, Ta $ s haters 1 38 with broken glass and attered -. wn ~ a marge. signs ; 4 ERE i Cause Not Oietermined, wi “ayme of the Jdisasler has »of totarminead iticials 3 he fn ploy es, Natlonal Starage Company and the Laien © New Lehigh Valley Hallroad, which aise Hyerasl Ly th a Terad through loss of property, de it im ox ehared. however, that reports to them he come showed a fle sturtedd on a saree five belonging to an Sdopandnt rowing : Ye he comnting ompany that had been moored inished Adigust 4 and a pronster weiss alongside a dock gued by the raliroad hating of (he four leotharboexds | Snpany to trankler ammunition fag wen oliled 0h tha Amatardiim shipments from rains 10 vousels mera Moy in New York thal sight The bares it in anid wus there thar vote will thin be Without authority either of the ratfk rou or of the storage company. The a a officials refused to disclose the name fLL RELEASE STUDENTS of the independent towing company, = shaving they were investigating i» War Department Will Reduce Number BAnciirlain whether the barge purpose. of Boarder Soldiers It had bean set on fre as the resull af & plat Warranta charging manslaughter wire isstied for the arrest of three persons accused of having legally purmitiad explosives to be stored (whers hurnan {fe wan endangered 7 Miss Liberty Badly Damaged. Damage to the statoe of Liberty that as soon as conditions perinit han baal variously Sutissated at Sa Nivtional Guard offaninstions oony Hae a 00 The ntter i» pita larwely of college giadeats will Hie Suey ut aptain tum I» Tres wit Bdrawn from ia boarder to al Charge of Liberty fatand The er at injury cannot be ascertained am til experts have made a careful ae amination of the pedestal and base Washington ~ Wiiile the gegoria with the Mexican poverninent for the ait lernant of border differences (0th thie wir department indb th about Ww make a fue im its forces aling the The department announced ax a job TX ww them GO peste thelr seholastie futies at the opening of he college vedr” They will bs mustered out hat according to the noliey of the way of the statue. ; The light on the status burned jepnrtment an ofort will be rade to i 3 steadily, not even flicker when th aniee them into branches of the x Re - ji 1 . spcoesuive hilasts rattled the mone GLAORTE Teserve corps 8 ent to its foundation. Every window in the pedestal is breaken A little carlo shop inside Mexico Clty Unofficial reports ure the statue was found to have hesn that Gegerdad Lais Cabrern, a lawyer: cumpletely demolished, 00 or more Alberto Pan, an engineer, and Robert shartered states Hitering the bottom: Posepiera have been designated as of the staircase. deletes to a conference whieh wil) Mexican Peace Conferstts Named. sndeavar 0 bring about a settament Wheat Reduced. i the controversy betwen Maxico and Bismarck, N. DR. F Flint sts a United States comminstoner of agrieaiture. esth ah ete i mated that the North Dakota wheat Gale Sweeps Spain. crop this vear would be 75.000 009 Madrid A hurricane of gnprece bushels, cr just half of what it was dented violence ravaged several pro Mt Year and I5.000.000 bushels less virices, The village of Torreon is com han the Federal estimate of July 1 phetaly in ruins and three churches Hust heat and flood waters are the Bave been swept away hy foods In three factors that have reduced the the village of Atsca The bodies of Prospective yield tI wietims have best recovered so TH far and the material damage is enorm- Separantisty Elect. as Annapolis, Md liegt H W. Yea i ie ot ms mans. . Medical Corps. 17. 8B. A. sta Soldiers Print Newspaper tioned at Fort Barry Cal, was slect. Brownsville. Tex—With a circuls od president of the Esperanto Asso fon of 5.0080 coples. The lllinets Caw { lation of Noreh America. br. B. K slryman, a semiweakly newspaper, | Simonel, Chicago. wis chosen view sited by a staff of Chicago newspa | president, ‘and Dr. C. H. Fessenden, rer men who are members of the 1 Boston, secretary treusyrer. Mest [linots Cavalry, made its ap | Stripling Pardoned yearance hers, " nba —— ——— Atlanta, Ga. Thomas Edgar Strip War Profits Returned to Britigh | Ing who, under an assumed name, Ottawa, Ont.—Profits on war cone | acted an chief of police of Danville tructs to the amount of $750,040 have | Yo~ While a fugitive from justice been voluntarily returned to the | from Georgia on a murder charge, British treasury by F. W. Butllte of | W™8 pardoned by Governor Harris, Humditon, Ontarte, president of the after serving five years of a lite sen. Canadian Cartridge Company | tence. Pert dt etre bbe bres] Swedish Minister Named. 3 + | Washington. Premier Hammarsk. i $ i * WE MAY WEAR * Jjold of Sweden. has been invited to WOODEN SHOES + : Berve as a commissioner represent. pi in 4 Ing the United States under the Chicago. —Unless the world de 4 terms of the investigation peacs velops a substitute for leather : treaty Regotiated with China within two vears, America will be the next wooden shoe nation, it : Past G. A. R. Commander Dies. was stated at the convention of +. JAunesville. O.--Gen. R. B. Brown, the Illinois “hoe Retailers As $ Past commanderin-chief of the Grand sociation. Speakers declared that # | Army of the Republic, and widely the country is in the throes of +i known as a distinguished Clvil Was a leather famine. + VYetnran and newspaper editor, died swe Cr » PEPE Ebr bbb 2000 Nllowing a protracted illness. . mm——
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