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VOL. XLI.—NO. 36.

RUSS DEFENSE HOLDSTEUTON FOES IN CHECK

Resistance to Advance On Warsaw Stiffens But Germans Break Through at One Point.

GERMANIC FORCES CONTINUE POUNDING AT FRENCH LINES.

Italians Report Steady Development of Offensive Along Carnic Plateau and Success of Air

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BERLIN, July 6.—A great British aeroplane attack was directed against the German positions in a German bay of the North sea on the morning of July 4, according to a German official statement issued under date of July 5. The attack, tlie announcement adds, failed.

German airships sighted at dawn off Terschelling, an island off the Netherlands, the advancing British forces. They consisted of several hydroaeroplane motor ships, accompanied by a number of cruisers and torpedo boat destroyers. The British vessels were forced to retreat.

One British hydro-aeroplane, which succeeded in rising in the air, was persued by German aeroplanes, but it escaped by flying over Dutch territory.

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July 6.—Special dispatches

from the western front say that in *he recent battle between Arras and Lebassee the French and British forces suffered fearful losses, one command alone losing 3,400 men out of 4,200.

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WASHINGTON July 6.—Secretary Lansing stated today that a dispatch had been received from Ambassador Gerard giving informally the views of the German government on submarine warfare, but this government has not replied.

While declining to discuss the con tents of the dispatch Mr. Lansing let it be known that the proposals contained in it were similar to those which have already been discussed in Berlin press dispatches, indicating a desire to clarify the situation before making formal answer.

Stiffer resistance to the Teutonic advance toward Warsaw is being offered by the Russians from day to day, the latest official reports indicate. Along the entire eastern battle front of approximately 850 milei, from the Baltic to Bessarabia, in fa-jt, the Russian lines are apparently holding the Austro-Germans except at one point. Near Krasnik, in southern Poland, the Archduke Ferdinand's army has broken through and continued its advance to v.ard the Polish capital.

In France the Germans continue pounding the French lines, but toward the north the silence which for some time fyas prevailed along the front held by the British remains unbroken.

The Italians report the satisfactory development of their offensive on the Carnic plateau and the success of air attacks on Austrian encampments in the vicinity of Dobero. Severe fighting is in progress on the edge of Dobero plateau, according to the latest Austrian statement.

Through Manila come reports of serious unrest among the native population of British India.

LONDON, July 6.—Special correspondents in Petrograd telegraph optimistic predictions concerning a coming Russian campaign for the defense of Warsaw which forms the center of a vast circle of 100 miles of strong tortifications. Even the fall of the fortress of Ivangorod, according to these correspondents, would not mean the loss of the Polish capital.

Fighting described as desperate in the official Petrograd reports, is raging between the Vistula and the Bug rivers along the base of a triangle, of which Warsaw forms the apex. The country there is marshy and it 13 predicted in London that because of the character of the terrain this campaign will be a constant strain on German resources until victory will be almost as costly as defeat.

The German thrust against French positions to the west of the Moselle river apparently has not extended beyond the infantry attack which regained the trenches previously lost by the Germans but preparations probably are under way for a further advance. as Paris reports a violent bombardment in this region.

In reply to the German wireless claim of an aerial raid on Landguard fort at Harwich, the British admiralty states that a German seaplane and an aeroplane, flying at a great height, were pursued by J*ritish airmen and forced to drop the?r bombs into the

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U. S. WEATHER REPORT.

THJIPERATl'RE 1CECORD. C. t-7 Sotjn 75 •J a 77 3 77 Kelative humidity at 2 p. m., 69 per cent.

LOCAL COXDITIOINS AT 7K)0 A. JULY 6, 1015. Station pressure). 2C-.52 temperature, fi- highest temperature yesterday, 7* lowest temperature last night, 60 precipitation, direction of wirnl, southwest velocity of. wind, 5 miles

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ative humidity, 82 per cent.

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TERRE HAUTE—Fair tonight Wednesday warmer tonight. INDIANA—B'air tonight and Wednesday: warmer tc night.

ILLINOIS—Generally fair tonight and Wednesday exocpt prrbablv local thunder showers north portion. Warmer tonight tnd couth portion Wednesday.

OTHER LOCAL REPORTS. ltivperatur-3 ty Bt rtin\- thermometer. 7 a. m., 62 2 p. m., .84.

River stag.*, 2.C feet.

JULY 4TH TOLL

Two Days' Celebration Results in Nineteen Dead and 903 Injured By Explosives.

LOSS BY FLAMES DOUBLES THAT RECORDED LAST YEAR

Two Fires in Terre Haute, One Costly, Mark Day in City—Few New Accidents Reported

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Nineteen persons dead and 903 injured was the nation's aacrlAce to the two days' celebration of the FourtlTb'f July, according to corrected figures compiled today from reports from qJl sections.

These figures show an increase over the totals of 1914, when there were" 12 persons killed and 879 injured. A large increase also was shown in the fireloss, the total for this year being $239,325, as compared with $99,545 last Near. Causes of the fatalities this year were distributed as follows:

Fireworks, 9 cannon, 4 firearms, 4 gunpowder, 2. In Chicago the celebration was the sanest in history. Only one person was killed and two injured.

Maurice Brown the 10-year-old son of Mr., and Mrs. L. Brown, 230 South Sixteenth street, was the fifth victim of the Fourth of July celebration reported in this city, and though the injuries are not serious, Dr. David W. Bopp, the attending physician, regards them as very painful. While playing in the yard of his home, the boy attempted to ignite a live cracker from one which he thought had been exploded. As he took the supposedly dead cracker and blew on the smoldering end it exploded, driving some of the wrapper Into his eye.

Four Fires Recorded.

Toy balloons caused four runs for the fire department Monday. All of the alarms were from the east side. The first alarm, at 10 o'clock, took several companies to the Frank overall factory on North Fourteenth street on crosscd circuit alarm. There was no fire there.

The second call came a short time later from Fourteenth and Poplar streets, where the roof of a house was damaged by fire which started from a toy balloon. The damage was estimated at 510.

The most serious fire of the day destroyed the barn of the D. F. Scott Furniture Co., at 1336 Wabash avenue. The fire was discovered about 11 o'clock. Five horses, two tons of hay, a ton of straw and some grain were burned in the barn. The loss is estimated by Mr. Scott to be $1,000. There was no insurance on the building.

The firemen say the barn caught fire when a toy balloon fell on the roof. Efforts were made to save the horaes, but this work was hampered by the dense smoke.

A burning balloon fell on the home of Gus Pfirman. 1446 Poplar street, on Monday night and started a small fire. There was no damage.

(KEY'S DEATH NEAR

ROCHESTER, N. Y., July 6.—James Edward Quigley, Catholic archbishop of Chicago, ill here at the home of his brother, is gradually growing weaker, and the end may come at any moment, according to the statement issued by his physicians early today. Free use of stimulants was being continued.

At 1 o'clock the condition of the patient was worse. The archbishop was in a semi-conscious state, the paralysis had reached the vocal chords and relatives were notified that signs of approaching death were apparent. It was not thought the prelate would survive until nightfaU

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Attorney Wells Holds Company Liable for Accident Which Resulted in $10,000 Damage Action.

Notice has been given the Terro Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction company by City Attorney George Wells that it will be^required to ^efend the city In the damage suit of Elmer Margason, in which Margason is seeking $10,000 damages against the city for injuries received recently when he fell from a truck at Ninth and Cherry streets. V-

According to the complaint, the accident occurred when a wheel of tho truck struck a depression in the street car tracks, caused by a low place in the street. Wells contends that if the traction company does not defend the suit it is liable for any judgment the plaintiff receives.

The depression in the street which caused the accident, .according to the city attorney, is located immediately next the car track, which, according to the franchise, the traction company Is supposed to keep in repair.

Margason alleges that he fell from the heavy truck when the wheel slid into the depression and was run over, causing two fingers to be severed, his leg broken and other injuries, which, he says, will be permanent.

Wells filed a motion in the Superior Court Tuesday morning in which he asked that the complaint be made more specific. There were 16 paragraphs to the motion,

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Impressive Peace Day Pageant at Brazil, Ind., Monday

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ASKS TRACTION CO. TO DEFENDS IN SUIT

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UNION LEADER SHOT IN WAKE OF LOCKOUT

CHICAGO, July 6.—Charles H. Johnston, secretary and treasurer of the brickmakers' union, was shot twice below the heart as he answered a ring of his doorbell early today. Physicians said the wounds probably would be fatal. His assailant, whom he failed to recognize, escaped. The brickmakers have been thrown out of employment as a result of the action of the construction material interests in refusing to deliver building supplies until the strike of 16,000 carpenters is settled.

PETERS CASE PASSED

Len Peters, west end saloon keeper, was called before Special Judge J. P. Stunkard in City Court Tuesday morning, charged with violating the Nicholson law by selling on Sunday. He was represented by Attorney Orph M. Hall, who asked that the case be continued until 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. The request was granted.

James B. Nosier, hardware dealer at Twelve Points, and Joseph Cannon, bicycle dealer, near Seventh street and the Vandalia railroad, faced charges of selling firearms to minors in City Court Tuesday morning and their cases wore continued until Wednesday morning.

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NO NEW DEPOT WHY PROPERTY IS DOWN

Professor Cunningham Says He Anticipated Terminal Station When He Bought.

Charging that the failure of the traction company to erect its much taiked of traction station had depressed Wabash avenue property between Eighth and Plinth streets, Arthur Cunningham, owner of the buildings at 812-818 Wabash avenue, complained to the board of reviewsi Tuesday morning on his assessments as fixed by the board.

He alleges that when he purchased his property it ^as generally understood that the traction company would build a station, and that he purchased the buildings with the expectation of a raise in value. The station has never been built and, in place of the valua increasing, it has remained about the same, according to the complaint.

Cunningham says he paid $15,000 for the property and was -assessed $2,000 higher in 1911, and this year the assessment has been fixed at $31,000. He says the raise is unjust.

In the complaint it is alleged that side street business is interfering with Wabash avenue values, and that general business depression has kept rent down and will probably decrease it. The fact that the property is on the east angle of the street where it turns is also given as a reason for lowered values.

The assessments on the personal property of all the corporations of Terre Haute is more than five and onehalf million dollars, as fixed by, the board this year,

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DALLAS, Tex., July 6.—A letter written by Frank Holt after the bomb '••as exploded in Washington, but be* ne shot Mr. Morgan, was received here today by Holt's wife. The letter referred to the bomb incident. It also advised Mrs. Holt that he was then going to the Morgan home to keep the Morgan family in custody until Morgan should go to Europe to .end the war.

GLEN COVE, N. Y., July 6.—Frank Holt, J. P. Morgan's assailant, who has also cortfessed to setting the bomb that exploded in the capitol at Washington last Friday, attempted to kill himself at midnight by trying to opsn the artery in his left wrrist with a lead pencil. The attack was unsuccessful. Holt, lying on his side in a cell at Nassau jail at Mineola, was seen by an attendant to writhe with pain. The attendant entered the cell, found blood flowing from the wound, summoned the warden and bound up the wrist, checking the flow of blood.

Notwithstanding the promptness with which Holt's attempt was discovered, he lost "a considerable quantity of blood.

Holt spent a restless night tossing about on his cot, from which he had been unable to rise during the day, ind muttering to himself at intervals. HLs keepers had taken from him his belt, his suspenders,, and ®very other article in Ms possession with which they thought he could have committed suicide. He seemed go despondent during the day that it was tlxought best to take the articles from him.

After several hours' had passed without sledp during the early night Holt called to an attendant and asfcdd for a lead pencil. He said that he wanted to write to his wife. A lead pencil was brodght to him and a few moments later a pad of paper. The attendant remained in the oell, a few -ininutes and Holt, turning on his left side, apparently started to write.-

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The attendant then left' Withi^i less thian five minutes he passed the door of Holt's cell again. He then noticed that Holt seemed to be In pain, entered the cell and saw blood flowing from a jagged hole in Holt's wrist. After the flow had been checked and the wound bandaged, the keeper and Warden Hulze searched for the pencil. They found it on the cot. Holt had extracted the rubber eraser from the tip of the pencil and with his teeth had bitten the metal which held the rubber in place until the edges met. The result was a fairly sharp blade perhaps, a quarter of an inch long.

Apparently Holt had not reached the artery. He had cut a vein, howpver, and from this the blood was flowing. To the warden's questions as to why he had attempted to kill himself, Holt refused to reply. ,^'Jf"' "V

Dr. Guy Cleghorn wa^'hot summoned because of the lateness of the hour. He was to have visited Holt some time during the forenoon of today. The bandage still remained on Holt's wrist today, and is was said that Dr. Cleg horn's attention would be called to the wound.

Holt was cheered somewhat today by the receipt of a telegram from his wife at Dallas. It read: "Have best counsel here. Advised to rest and wait and you must do the same. Send loving greetings hourly. Beautiful tribute to you in both evening papers here. I am tarrying for details of our finances. Will come when you need me. Do not be afraid. Best."

The telegram was signed "T-eone." Morgan Much Better. The condition of Mr. Morgan, who is recovering from the two wounds in his left hip, inflicted by bullets from Holt's revolver, continues to improve. It was said that Mr. Morgan felt so

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Professor Frank Holt, Who Also Dyiia* mi ted Capitol at Washington, Severs Vein in Wrist With Pencil

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much better that he wanted to get up, but that this was not approved by his physicians. The physicians feel so much encouraged by his progress that they have reached a decision to ,issue no more bulletins on his condition.

Holt in Bad Shape.

Holt was considered to be in such a serious physical condition from lois of blood and refusing to eat that forcible feeding and his removal to the Nassau county hospital at Mineola were considered at a conference of county officials. "I have never seen a man in worse condition," said District Attorney T. J. Smith. "Holt is very weak and I shouldn't be surprised if he died. I do not know whether he is trying to'starve himself or not but I do know that he is not eating- and that he had lost much blood."

Charles R. Wood, an assistant district attorney of Nassau county, who knew Erich Muenter at Harvard, (visited Holt again today In an effort®!" establish his identity, if possible. Kh, Wood said he was still unable to say whether Holt ^nd^_ Muenter ^were the same man.

NEW YORK. July 6—Frank Holt, who dynamited the capital at Washington and* shot J. P. Morgan, lay In I h.vsical and mental collap-e tn-lay in hin cell at the Mineola, L. I. jail. He lmd promised to tell the whole story of his life when he was arraigneu oefore a justice at Glen C-cve tortiofi'ow ••hut hfca condition was puoh that there was ?-:ave doubt whether ne could appear in court.

Dr. Guy- F. Cleghorn, thd jau ,pn?--" sictan, Was quoted today as sAyinif that Holt "was unsound when he attacked Mr. Morgan and he is unsound now The only place for the man is the Matteawan asylum. The intestirial and stomach troubles he is having are often present in cases of mental disease. He is highly nervous." V*y

To prevent an aggravation "of 111* mental condition virtually all questioners were temporarily excluded from Holt's cell.

Holt was, nevertheless, described as quieter than yesterday when he paced his cell crying that he wanted to die and asking that he be shown a way to do so. Precautions were taken to prevent him from attempting suicide.

Exhaustive inquiries were made W detectives to trace Holt'3 career. Federal authorities who had tried to as1certain whether he had bought dynamite to make other bombs besides the one he exploded in the capitol learned today that a railroad freight agent at Syosset, ten miles from Glen Cove had notified the police that a man whom hi believed might be Holt had received cases containing 120 pounds of dynamite, fuses, caps and exploders at the Syosset station June 28.

In an attempt to settle the question whether Holt is the Eric Muenter wanted by the police at Cambridge, Mass., an assistant custodian of Harvard university and a Cambridge detective were expected in Mineola today. To his counsel and others Holt "has denied that he is Muenter or that he was ever ait Harvard.

Latest official reports as to the condition of Mr. Morgai} placed him out of danger.

LITTLETON JOINS DEFENSE.

Takes Charge of Case for Assailant of Morgan. NEW YORK, July 6.—J. P. Morgan talked over the telephone from his country home at Glencove with partt ners of his firm here today. Mr. Morgan said that he was feeling fine. Af the office of J. Morgan & Co. it was said that because of Mr. Morgan's rapid progress toward recovery the is -i suance of bulletins on his condition probably would be discontinued.

Martin W. Littleton, formerly of Dallas, Tex., went to Mineola today to assume charge of Frank Holt's defense.-? Mr. Littleton said he had,-been asked by residents of the south Who believed that Holt is mentally irresponsible to look after his legal rights. 71

THINKS HOLT IS MUENTER.

Chicago Professor Sees Striking Similarity in Photographs. CHICAGO, July 6.—Professor John F. Maxwell Crowe, a teacher

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