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ROCKVILLE, Ind., Oct. 15.—The device which was said to have been found on the roof of the Ehrmann V,clothing factory prior to the labor trouble which led to the shooting of ^2dward Wade by Emil Ehrmann was produced in court Thursday and Dr. ""\John White, Ph. D, head of the chemistry department at the Rose polytechnic, testified that he would pronounce the device a bomb and said that if it had been exploded on the roof of the

Ehrmann factory it probably wouiu have ^orn a hole in the roof of thi. facto' eight or ten feet in diameter and

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am* dropped near two or three people Dr. White said that they would probably be injured. .0. The defense expected to close Thursday afternoon. Other witnesses called

durinp: the day were Edward Tetzel, a gunsmith Frederick Reckert, Sr., Frederick Reckert, Jr., and Tony Brooks, superintendent of tne Ehr- .' mann plant. It was said that the defense would close without calling Emil

Ehrmann, the defendant, to testify in his own behalf. Frederick Reckert, Sr., s&id that at the time of the shooting the vestibule was filled with rioters and he was struck three times when he tried to ieecort some of the strikers out of the factory.

Dr. White qualified as an expert witness by saying that he had taught chemistry at the Rose polytechnic for eleven years, that he had studied at John Hopkins university seven yeara and eighteen months in Europe. He said he had taught chemistry altogether twenty-three years.

During his testimony Louis Delgrande, of the Delgrande Fireworks company, of Paris, 111., was admitted to the court room on motion of the state.

At one point Dr. White went off Into a technical discussion of explosives and their Ingredients and his di-

gression was so far beyond the comprehension of the individuals assembled in the court of justice that risibilities of the assemblage were stirred to such a degree that the court admonished the expert to reduce his verbiage to a plane that might be comprehended by the average auditor. Dr. White smiled sympathetically at the lawyers, jury and spectators and readjusted his terms to the intelligence of those in the court room, including the reporters.

Reckert Brought Bomb.

Dr. White was asked: "Have you studied explosives?" t, "Only incidentally." "Did you see Fred Reckert, Jr., in

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"Yes, in the early part of April." "Did you examine an article he brought you?" "Yes. It was a cylindrical article made of brown paper with a neck two or three inches long." "Tell the court what you did." "I examined the paper cylinder and found it to contain a yellow powder. About a pint, I should say, of yellow crystalized powder. I took a teaspoonful of the powder out to make a test." ^4 Here Whitlock objected to this line of testimony on the grounds that the "bomb" had not been identified as the "bomb" which was found on the roof of the factory. Judge Aikman overruled the objection. Dr. White continued: "I found that it contained picric acid. I made a physical and chemical test. I mixed a portion, about what could be held on a dime, with some red led in an iron diah or tray and placed this on a tripod. I placed a lamp under the dish for about two minutes and there was an explosion which knocked a hole in the bottom of the dish.** "What caused the explosion?" "The picric acid." "Is picric acid a high explosive?" 'Under certain conditions very." "What are those conditions?" "When it is compressed." "What is it used for?" "To make explosives, in the making of shells, in government ordnance and the like." "Is its force upward or downward?" "Dike all high explosives, downward." "What would have been the effect of this bomb had it exploded on the roof of the Ehrmann factory?" "I would say that 1t would have torn a hole in the roof eight or ten feet in diameter."

Sheriff Brings Bomb.

Sheriff Nicholas was directed to bring the bomb into court and it was marked as exhibit No. 4. At this juncture the state asked that Louis Delerande, of Paris, 111., a fireworks manufacturer, be allowed to take a seat In the court room. The court complied. '•What was the nature of this instrument?" Dr. White was asked.

"I would classify it as a bomb." Here Attorney Whitlock for the stole [..iook the witness. Iff "Is picric acid dangerous if not ompressed?" "No."

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EXPERT CALLS

Rose Professor, Called As Ehrmann Witness, Says Instrument Introduced Was Dangerous.

AUDIENCE KEPT GUESSING BY TECHNICAL TESTIMONY

Court Finally Asks Him to Put Language in Plainer Terms—Says Reckert Submitted Cylindrical Affc.ir.

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Toward Ostend, the Belgian seacoast town, the Germans are steadily pressing on. This is the only stronghold in Belgium not now in German hands, and its loss would be a serious blow to the allies. At this city, only about one hundred miles from London, tens of thousands of British soldiers have disembarked.

Should the Germans take Ostend they probably would plan an aerial attack on London from this point. A German submarine raid might also be launched to better advantage from this point than from any other.

OPEN SESSIONS

Mayor Roberts and President Ball Welcome Delegates From Indiana Commercial Clubs.

DAY'S PROGRAM IS FEATURED BY ADDRESS ON GOOD ROADS

Secretary of Indiana Commission Discusses Great Advantages Brought About By Improvement of Highways.

Officials and delegates from the various commercial organizations of the state began to arrive in the city Wednesday evening, and were pouring in rapidly Thursday morning, to attend the seventh annual convention of the Indiana Federated Commercial Clubs, the opening session of which was held in the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce in the Tribune building Thursday afternoon.

Among the early arrivals was Secretary C. B. Williams, of the Huntington Commercial association. Mr. Williams is after the convention for 1915 and already has several others boosting for his city. It is said the Huntington Commercial association is one of the livest organizations the state and that the members are hustlers from the word go.

The opening session was called to order at 2 o'clock, with President C. C. Hanch presiding. The convention was opened by Mayor Donn M. Roberta, who extended a hearty welcome to the visitors on behalf of the city of Terre Haute.

Mayor Roberts' Address. Mayor Roberts found a sympathetic audience for his address, the federation concerning Itself deeply with the problem of good roads. The mayor discussed the improvements that have been made here, saying that the city made more advance in this respect in the last year than in ten years previously and expressing the belief that when the initial cost of pavement is cared for nothing so enhances the comfort and convenience of a community as good streets and good roads. He said in part:

In the future the question of "good roads" will mean permanent roads, or hard roads. The volume and severity of modern traffic means that the roads which formerly sufficed for the ordinary community will no longer answer the purpose. Communities will have to build "hard roads," roads built of granite, brick or concrete. I believe that reinforced concrete for road building is one of the greatest discoveries of the age. Too, we^ have built good brick streets here. Streets built of wire, cut brick and laid in a practically pure cement filler can hardly be excelled. We have some such streets that have been down for 22 years. Indiana is the third state in the union in the matter of Improved roads. Next year this state will collect 1300,000 in automobile tax. This should be the nucleus for the construction of $3,000,000 worth of good roads in the state and I believe that the next legislature will be committed to such a program.

Here we are solving some of the public problems which confront our municipalities. We have established a system by which all city supplies are bought through our purchasing agent. Durine: the first six months of the present administration the city spent $26,000 less than was spent in the corre-

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Secretary Wilson has had an unique career in public life. For many years he was secretary of the Unit0''' Mine Workers. He attracted attention by the broad spirit in which he administered the affairs of the International union and in which tye conducted the relations of employer and employe, and when the department of labor was created in the president's cabinet the eyes of the administration turned to Wilson as the logical man for this Important post.

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A VIEW OF THE DIGUE OR DIKE, THE PROMENADE EXTENDING Al.OXli OSTEND'S SANDY BEACH.

Secretary of Labor Wilson Terre Haute's, Guest Today

Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson will arrive here late this afternoon and this evening at 8 o'clock will deliver an agrees on th£ jppllticai, issues of the day from a platform in front of democratic headquarters oh Ohio street. Five thousand seats will be provided and the committee in charge said at noon that the indications were for the largest crowd of the campaign.

His administration has been characterized by notable achievements in the advance of labor and the betterment of labor conditions and relations. He is deeply regarded by the miners of the country and has been greeted by tremendous crowds wherever he has appeared on his present speaking tour. SECRETARY W. B. WILSON.

FIERCE BATTLE RAGES IN WIRBALLEN, POLAND

BERLIN, Oct. 15.—By wireless to Sayville, L. I.—It was officially announced today that the battle to the east of Wlrballen, in Russian Poland, which ha£ been raging* since October 4, continues favorable to the Germans. Repeated attempts of the Russians to storm the trenches have resulted In heavy losses. The Russian efforts to drive out the Germans by terrific artillery fire daily so far have failed. "The Austrian stronghold of Przemysl,' the German official state-

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Stry, Samber and Medyk, which now are being attacked by the Austrian*. ThiB line is supposed to keep in check the direct Austrian advance from Przemysl toward L, em berg."

INCOMPLETE AUSTRIAN

LONDON, Oct. 15.-3:30 p. m.—Fire in the government arsenal at Trieste, the principal seaport of Austria-Hun-gary on the Adriatic sea, has virtually destroyed an Austrian dreadnaught under construction there, according to a Central News dispatch from Rome.

Six torpedo boat destroyers also were damaged by the fire, which quickly enveloped the work shop. It is alleged that a quantity of woodwork in the arsenal was soaked with petrol. A number of workmen have been arrested.

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Germans Approach Ostend Plan Raid on London From Seacoast Town

POLICE SEARCH FOR SUPPOSED SUICIDE

"God bless all my relatives. I have caused nothing but sorrow and trouble for my children. Life is not worth living. All my love is gone. I cannot stand it any longer. Forgive me, all, and If ever you meet Jesse give him all my love and tell him my last thoughts were of him. MOTHER."

This note found scrawled on a piece of cardboard on a dresser in the home of (Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Barker, 105 Osborne street, started the police on a search late Thursday for the writer,

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ment continues, is now entirely freed, foun(j ]yjrs Barker's son, Otha Mil°f.^Ke *?uss1.an

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quarrel with her husband, who is employed by Patrick O'Leary, the contractor.

The son at once turned the note over to the police, and they began a search with the idea that she either had gone to the river or had taken some other means to end her life. The son said she had tried before to end her life with poison.

BcloW note was the following postscript: "I love him with all my heart and cannot live without him, for he is all I had in the world to love. Goodbye, my lost love, my darling Jesse."

The police had not located Barker at a late hour.

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Oct. 15.—2:15 p. m.—A the Central News from

Amsterdam conftrmp the report that the Germans have occupied Bruges, 15 miles -^st of Ostendi

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Isaiah K. Hankey Run Down Near Union Station Sheds, and Head Is Severed.

LONE WITNESS OF ACCIDENT TELLS OF TRAGEDY AT DAWN

Says C. & E. I. Detective Stood Watching Freight While Work Train Approached Apparently Unnoticed.

Isaiah K. Hankey, 64 years old, 1342 Poplar street, a C. & E. I. railroad detective, was instantly killed Thursday morning at 4:20 o'clock at the crossing just north of the Union station train sheds when a Vandalia engine, drawing a work train, struck him. Hankey was badly mangled. His head was severed from his body and his right arm was cut oft. The body was taken to the Stees-Gillis morgue.

The train that hit Hankey was the Vandalia work train that carries'the workmen to the roundhouse each morning. It is called tne "Huray Gurdy." According to the station master's report the only witness of the accident was Charles Bays, 1918 Locust street. From Bay's statement to the station master it appears that a freight train was passing east and Hankey was standing in the middle of the west bound track watching the freight. He probably did not notice the work train which was west bound, and was standing still when the engine struck him. Engineer Hardy and Fireman Modenlt were on the engine but made no report of the accident. It is not known how Hankey happened to be at this crossing.

Coroner Jett was notified of the accident soon after Hankey was killed and ordered an undertaker to take charge of the body. When the coroner arrived the body was taken away. He said he did not know any of the particulars of the accident and has not yet examined Bays or any of the trainmen.

Hankey, who had been an employe of the C. & E. I. railway company for years, is survived by his wife, Barbara, and five sons, John E., George W., William O., James C. and Clester F. Hankey, all of Terre Haute. He was a member of Ute tribe, Number 152, Red Men, and the Fraternal Aid association. The funeral will be held Saturday at 2:30 o'clock.

WILSON SIGNS CLAYTON BILL.

Administration's Trust Program Is Thus Completed. WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.—President Wilson today signed the Clayton antitrust bill, thus completing the administration's trust program. There was no ceremony connected with the signing of the bill.

AUSTRIA BUILDS FORTS.

VENICE, via Paris, Oct. 15.-11:15 a. m.—It is reported from Trieste, Austria, that all able bodied men in Austria are being forcibly compelled to construct fortifications. All those who refuse to obey the order are arrested.

U. S. WEATHER REPORT ——. TEMPERATURE RECORD, OCT. IS. 6 a. 52 Noon »56 9 a 5 4 3 5 8

LOCAL CONDITIONS AT 7 A. M. OCT. df 15, 1914. ^Temperature, 53 highest temperature yesterday, GO lowest temperature last night. 52 precipitation, .14 direction of wind, northeast velocity of wind, seven miles per hour state of weather, cloudy relative humidity, 95 per cent.

FORECAST.

TERRE HAUTE—Partly cloudy tonight and Friday. INDIANA—Unsettled tonight Friday partly cloudy.

OTHER LOCAL REPORTS. Temperature by Buntin's thermometer: 7 a. m., 47 2 p. m., 60.

River Stage—.8 feet.

Advance Into Silesia Probably Postponed Indefinitely By Conflict in Russian Poland.'

AUSTRIA ASSAILS POSITIONS OP MUSCOVITES IN GALICIA

Occupies Toronya After Four Days of Fighting, and Pursues Enemy —Other Smaller Skirmishes ..

Reported.

LONDON, Oct. IE.—8:05 If." Reuter's Telegram company has received from Amsterdam the following official statement Issued in Vienna at noon, Wednesday: "The general staff says that the Russians have occupied fottlflel positions on the line of Stry, Samber and Midyra In Galicia. The Austrlans are now attacking the positions. "In the Carpathians the Austrlans occupied Toronya after four days of fighting and pursued che enemy in the direction of* Wyskow. Smaller successful skirmishes have taken place in the Visso valley."

LONDON, Oct. 15.-10 a. m.—The gloom which has enveloped England since the fall of Antwerp has been somewhat lightened by the news contained In official communications that the allies are more than holding their own In furious fighting along the French-Belgium border, but this feeling of elation has been tempered by the growing realization that the Russian invasion of Silesia, which was believed to be imminent, must be postponed indefinitely pending the outcome of the battle in Russian Poland.

Russia in the east seems to have been compelled to follow the steps of her enemy in the west and sacrifice the fruits of her victories by sending reinforcements to another part of the long battle front. The resumption of the Austro-German offensive in Galicia was an outcome of the action of Russia is sending heavy reinforcements to the river Niemen. evidently under the impression that the German invasion of the Suwalki district was a real menace and not merely a diverting movement.

Przemysl Still Invested.

The withdrawal of Russian forees from Western Galicia, however, is regarded here to be not as complete as first reported, for Vienna admits that Przemysl Is still invested on one side, while Petrograd reports that the garrison of this fortress has been invaded by disease anl is on the point of capitulation. Other dispatches from the Russian capital refer to activity along the Vistula river where several attacks are said to have been repulsed, and declare that the great battle probably now is under way unless the AustroGerman advance has been hampered by bad weather.

Some idea of the ficrceness of the fighting in western France can be gained from the fact that the town of Roye, now in possession of the allies, has been taken no less than twelve times.

England already i3 speculating on the possibility of a German raia, wnich could only become pussi'ole if the Germans are successful !n securing a baso on the coast opposte the narrow part of the Englsh channel. The Germans are reported as havng been turned out of that coi%er of French territory which jutes into Belgium and are said to be strongly entrenched. This report declares that the Germans intended to dash on Callain coincidertaily with the attack on Antwerp but their efforts in that direction appear to have been checked.

Lillie Occupied.

Berlin reports the occupation of Lille but declares other than this there is nothing to report on the western front.

According to a dispatch reaching London, typhus has shown itself among the German troops along the western front, and rumors of the outbreak of various other diseases are

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Succeed in Driving Germans Back Toward Mnelhatisen After Losing Heavily In Assault.

WIRELESS MESSAGE REPORTS FRENCH LOSS AT ST. MIH1EL

Say» Teutons Are Continuing March Toward Ostend and French Frontier—Russian Defeat

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PARIS, Oct. 15.-6:30 a. m.—Th», right wing of the allies Is now begin~j ning to show signs of activity. Ac»i cording to reports reaching Paris thiSj morning there was yesterday an al-( most continuous firing of heavy artillery along the frontier. A force of Germans delivered a spirited attack on French troops in which number* were wounded. As night closed thi» force of the enemy was driven back in the direction of Muelhausen.

BERLIN, Oct. 15.—(By wlrelew t»L Sayville, B.- I.)—Information concerning the progress of the war was givenj out in Berlin today as follows: "German troops in Belgium are now marching In part towards Ostend and in part in a southwesterly direction toward the French frontier. The head* quarters of Emperor William has be«v moved farther into France. "There has been heavy flghtfcig taj France east of Soissons and the Ax-1 gonne. The French official reports1, about successes In the Woevre disij trict are untrue.. The Germans no-i where have lost ground. Etan, twelv* miles east of Verdun, is in German, hands. French attacks against otnrf* position near St. Mlhlel have (beenf-~| repulsed. "The war booty secured In Antwerp cannot yet be estimated. Twenty-six thousand Belgians and 2,000 Englishmen have been interned in Holland.: In the harbor of Antwerp we foundf, thirty-two German steamers, the bdlli ers of which apparently had been dis^ abled. "Russian forces have been defeated at Schirwindt, in East Prussia, nine-" teen miles east of Gumbinnep, with a loss of 1,500 prisoners and twenty^ cannon. German troops have repulse®' the Russians south of Warsaw and hold southern Poland as far as the" Vistula river. "Emperor William, acting on a pe-i tition handed him by Cardinal Hartmann, of Cologne, has prdered that French Catholic priests among the prisoners in Germany who entered the French ranks as common soldiers shallbe treated in Germany in the same manner as are French officers. "It is reported here from Stettin that German torpedo boat destroyers discovered six vessels of Norwegian, Swedish and Danish nationality loaded with goods and provisions destined for'' London and also for Russia. All were taken into Swinemunde." ,,

FRENCH RECOUNT SITUATION.

Little Change Noted in Official Pari*, Communication. J!j£~ PARIS, Oct. 15.—2:45 p. m.—The official communication given out by the French war office this afternoon, is as follows: "In Belgium, German troops coming from Antwerp are marching toward' the west and the evening ©f October 14, they reached the region of Bruges and Thielt (15 miles southeast of Bruges). "First—On. our left wing the enemyhas evacuated the left bank of Lys. Between the Lys and the canal of LaBassee, the situatipn shows n®' change. "In the region of Lene^"shd betvi jn" Arras and Albert our progress i.as been marked. "Between the Somme arid the Olse there has been no changes. The Germans have cannonaded our line without, however, delivering any infantry attacks. "Second—On the center between the Oise and the Meuse, we have advanced in the direction of Craonne. "In the northeast of the highway: from Berrv-au-Bac to Rheims and to the north of Prunay, in the direction' of Beine, several German trenches have been taken. "Between the Meuse and the Moselle, after having repulsed during the night of October 13-14, certain attacks to the southeast of Verdun, our troops advanced oh the 14th to the south ofl the highway from Verdun to Metz. "Third—On our right wing the partial offensive movement undertaken by the Germans in the Ban de Sapt, to the north of Saint Die, has been definitely checked. "In Russia the fighting continues along the front beginning in the vicinity of Warsaw, stretching, along the Vistula and the San are far as Przemysl, and further in a southerly direction as far as the Dneister. "There has been no change in East Prussia."

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