Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 256, 7 September 1914 — Page 2

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PAGE TWO. THE KlunmuND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. MONDAY, SEPT. 7, 1914

PRICE OF HOGS

FALLS RAPIDLY DURING MONTH

New Cornfed Porkers and foreign Markets-Closed to Imported Meats Drive Prices Downward. BY A. D. COBB. Nine carloads of livestock were shipped from Richmond last week by the Glen Miller stock yards. The receipts for the week were as follows: Hogs, 456; tops $9.00. Cattle 85; tops $8.00. Calves, 62; tops $10.00; bulk $7 to $9 Lambs, 64; tops 7c. Owing to heavy receipts at all the large markets, and the fact that new corn hogs are coming In the decline In hog prices has been rapid. The week's trade was marked by a decrease of from 40o to 60c. A further Influence working to bring about lower prices la that there Is no foreign market for cured meat. European war conditions are such that there Is no basis for making any predictions as to when the export trade of the packers can be resumed. The bottom price paid for hogs during the week was $8.60 on Saturday, when the larger markets reported a drop of 25 cents. While cattle prices have remained strong for some time, the number now being offered at all shipping points would Indicate a lower market in the near future. Many Buyers Out. Cattle received at the Glen Miller yards last week were mostly rough and mixed lots. On Friday and Saturday, 24 bulls were delivered at the pens. The management of the yards has several buyers working out In all directions from Richmond. As evidence of the magnitude of business that these men are handling, O. Cranor of Economy started six years ago delivering 2 or 3 calves a week. Last week he delivered over $2,000 worth of cattle and calves to the local yards. On Friday the Flatley brothers of Webster township brought in 66 hogs. On the same day Clayton Miller, one of the largest feeders in the county, brought In 53 hogs averaging 260 pounds, that brought the top price of $9.10. Bring In Stock. The following farmers delivered livestock last week: Geo. Paulson, Thad Nichols, Burl Jarett, W. S. Duke, Henry Lawrence T. S. Martin, Walter Osborne, Grant Hunt E. S. Commons, Flatley Bros., A. Boston, C. Miller, William Clark, D. E. Thorn, D. A. Hlnshaw, G. W. Mills, Marion Stanley, Harry Jay, R. C. Newman, Lewis Garett, Charles Surface, O. Cranor, T. F. McDonnell, E. Timmons, H. J. Malone Jas. Thompson, Mrs. Chas. Dilks, W. Ewbank, Oran Caskey, Walter Farlowe, Carle Clark, John White, John Beard, Scott Edwards, L. Raper, Claud Dearman, J. F. Edwards, J. J. Ullom, Will Wesler, Eschelman, Wm. Crampton. A. D. Cobb Charles Ford, George Kircher, H. Osborne, Clint Commons, O. M. Jennings, D. Conway, Charles Middleton, John Whittier, Fred Sasser, Rosa Thorpe, Fred Varnaub, Wm. Warner, Sam Smith, Forest Van Sant, George Toschlog, T. Fitzwater, L. Manning, Ed Norris E. S. Wright. LARGER EXPENSES POINT TO RAISING OF COUNTY TAXES Council Meets Tuesday to Pass on Budget and Fix Levy to Finish Revenue for 1915. The tax levy for the county will be fixed tomorrow morning by the county council, which meets at the court house. Because low general fund the county due to excessive repairs to bridges washed out in the flood of 1913 and to the large amount of special appropri ations made during the last few years for anticipated improvements, which were not included In the annual estimate for the purpose of rate making, the tax levy this year will be raised. The total appropriation for flooded bridges in 1913 and 1914 was $65,000, which nearly depleted the general fund. The increased cost of maintenance of some of the county institutions also will cause an increase. The estimated expenses for the court house next year is an increase of $803 over last year. Because of the Improvements in the Home of the Friendless, the maintenance of this institution next year will cost the county more. This increase, included that of the increase in the expenses of the county jail, amounts to $859, as estimated. The cost of registration and election this year, also costs the county a large amount, making a total Increase in above mentioned items of $7,094, compared with the expenses this year. Free turnpikes turned over to the county for maintenance and supervision, also adds to the county expenses GLUYS AT MEETING John Graham and Howard Gluys are attending the national convention of Stationary Engineers which is in session at Milwaukee this week. They are representing the local branch of the association. The state organization which holds Its meeting during the summer has selected Richmond as the convention city for 1916. RUSSIANS ADVANCE BY LEASED WIRE. PETROGRAD, Sept. 7. It is officially stated that Russian troops in Galicia have begun a movement to surround Przemsyl, a fortified town 45 miles south of Lemberg. Przemsyl Is defended by a strong force ot Austrian!.

PARIS The military governor's office asserts today that the position of the allies before Paris is good and that they are in contact with Germans on the banks of Grand Morin. There is an admission in the announcement from the' government that the detachments of , officers and men are : separated from the main forces, indicating apparently that the Germans have been at least partially successful in.-cutting off some- parts of the line from the main formation. r Fighting is believed" to be in progress east of Paris, but information on the actual events is lacking.. Germans seem to have abandoned for the present their idea of trying to swing around the left wing of the allies. - Paris is calm, while the work of strengthening the fortifications continues actively.. LONDON-The presence of the-Kaiser-in the vicinity of Nancy is taken by experts to mean that he will be on hand for the decisive blow which may be struck this week. War Secretary Kitchener has given out a reassuring statement and declares that the position of the allied army is entirely satisfactory. The English have landed another army at Ostend. This is the fifth army sent across the Channel in the past five weeks. The British cruiser Pathfinder was blown up by a mine in the North Sea. The loss is not definitely known. She carried a crew of 268 men. Navigation of the North Sea has been ordered stopped. The Wilson liner Runo was also wrecked by a mine but the passengers were saved. BERLIN The general staff announces that the Emperor is now in the vicinity of Nancy, although he is reported to have made a second trip into Brussels to confer with the military authorities there. BORDEAUX "The enemy is steadily being drawn further from the base, while the position of the allies continues advantageous. Although the armies of the defense have been falling back, the situation is not to be considered alarming. The situation in the east is encouraging. To prevent the capture of Berlin, the forces of Germans will have to be withdrawn from France." (Official statement Monday by the French war ministry). Government business is being carried on with difficulty. PETROGRAD The impression prevails here that the Germans back would be broken before the winter sets in. The Russian strategic plans are being carried out successfully. Two Rus

sian armies are now marching to invade Hungary from the east and north through the Carpathian Mountains, while a third is forcing back the combined Austrian and German forces that are trying to avert the investment of Posen. From Posen the march to Berlin will be taken up. (Official statement of the Russian war office) . ANTWERP A force of Germans is reported 18 miles outside the city. In the battle of Termonde, the Belgian garrison of 6,000 men stood off 20,000 Germans for six hours, German artillery, however, battering the fortifications to pieces.

RUSSIA

TO AID IN AUSTRIAN FIGHT

BY LEASED WIRE. PETROGRAD, Sept. 7. It was learned today that the Russian army which was checked in the vicinity of Allensteln has been heavily reinforced. Among the new forces sent to the front are Asiatic troops from Siberia and Manchuria. Large forces are also proceeding north to Warsaw. The general staff states that the Germans who occupied points in Russian Poland near the frontier at the outbreak of the war, are evacuating their positions. In an engagement at Piotrkow, according to a report from the front, a detachment of death-head Hussars from from Dantzig, where they were recently under command of Crown Prince Frederick William, were cut to pieces. Their new commander, Count Stolberg, was killed. The Austrians had thrown up earthworks aroundi Arnopol on which were mounted heavy guns. When the Russians got within range the Austrians began bombarding them with artillery. The Russians pressed forward against this fire and soon were within rifle range. For three hours the Austrians held off the invaders, but the Russians refused to retire. Finally the Russian infantry gained a foothold in the trenches and hand-to-hand fighting ensued. The Austrians were driven from their works and fell back upon the town. A majority of the Russian regiments carry the czar's portrait on the march, as well as the regimental standard. Prince Beloselsky, who married Susanna E. Whitacre of Boston, has presented the pennant of General Skobeloff to the Russian army in Galicia to be maintained as a holy symbol. Word from the front says that a wounded Russia noticed forty German non-commissioned naval pf fleers in the Red Cross hospital at Soldap. He made inquiries and found that they had been transferred from the nearest fleet for land service. General Ruszki, who commanded the Russian army which penetrated Galicia and took Lemberg, had made a GET NEW ENGINES FOR FREIGHT WORK Pennsy Shops Receive Fourteen Large Locomotives From Logansport Branch. Fourteen big H-6 type freight engines have been sent to Richmond in the last few weeks from Logansport to replace the smaller types. The effect has been to reduce trains and to reduce crews. On one division out of Richmond, seventeen engines are doing the work of twenty-eight a year ago. There is also a slight increase in business over a year ago. The difference is being made up in longer trains and heavier loads. Old F-l types and other small engines have been discarded and even the yard engines have been replaced by heavier engines. Big E-2 passenger engines which are the biggest operated through Richmond are replacing the smaller ones which are even being discarded on short local runs. The ' cause of the change is the decrease In the number of the trains and the condensing of the schedule,

E minute study of the country before the war broke out. He had been commander of the Giev military district, and it is safe to say that the conquerer of Lember (or Lvov as the Russians have renamed it) knew every path, gull and elevation better than the Austrian leader. Wounded Cossacks at Minsk state that the German military authorities are disseminating among the inhabitants of East Prussia the idea that the Cossacks are cannibals addicted to frightful cruelty. When the Cossacks attacked Salluponen, Germans who fled to Insterburg concocted the story that the Cossack chieftain had cut a clergy man s neart out and was bearing It on his lance to Insterberg. PARTIES LAY PLANS FOR FALL CANVASS Activities of the Democratic party during the coming campaign will be outlined tomorrow night when members of the party and of the Wayne Democratic club meet at the rooms in the Colonial building. The meeting has been called by Henry Farwig, who announced that important business in the interest of the organization will be up for consideration. The Republicans have been holding sessions and caucuses for some time, the candidates getting together to discuss the prospects about once a week. Plans for the .campaign were made last week. " The Progressive candidate for congress, Elbert Russell, has been speaking in the Sixth district for some time. Earl Crawford, formerly a Democrat, has also been speaking in the interests of the new party. JAPS MAKE PLANS OF GERMAN FORTS BY LEASED WIRE. TOKIO, Sept. 7. It was stated today at the admiralty that the operations of hydro-aeroplanes over the fortifications of Tsing-Tao were proceeding without any casualties among the Japanese aviators. They are making fcmaps of the fortifications that will be of vast benefit when the combined land and sea attack on the German stronghold begins. From the present indications this will start about Sept 21. Heavy rains have interferred with the movement of the land forces. SARAH BERNHARDT "REACHES BORDEAUX BY LEA8ED WIRE. BORDEAUX, Sept. 7. Among the 125,000 refugees from Paris who have arrived In Bordeaux, is Sarah Bernhardt. She reached here today after speeding thirty miles in an automobile.

MOR

MEN

FAIR FOR RICHMOND PLAN OF BOOSTERS TO ADVERTISE CITY Leaders Start i Movement to Provide Annual Event' to .. Draw, Thousands of Visitors for a Week. P

It is possible that before ma'ny ! weeks steps will be taken by a number of Richmond men to organise a fair association for Richmond. The fact that the fall festival has not been made an annual event and the .city is absolutely without, an amusement enterprise that can be depended on as an annual event,' has stimulated the' proposed undertaking. Shelbyvllle, Connersville, Liberty, Rushville, Muncie, Anderson, Greenville, Eaton, Hamilton and scores of, other near-by Indiana and Ohio cities are in line for this - class of- annual - entertainment which brings thousands of . visitors Into the towns, having not only a direct commercial value, but serving to keep the towns In the lime-light constantly. Richmond's example In the way of fall festivals has shown that the benefits are great, yet efforts' to make the festival an annual affair have not proved successful. The proposition for a fair, however, has not reached the stage of development that those Interested care to give much publicity to it, preferring to wait until it can be quietly ascertained whether a sufficient number of citizens can be interested. It Is said that those who have taken up the question believe that the location should be west, rather than east of the city a tract of ground to be pro cured that will provide for a halfrnile track. Instead of a mile circuit, and with an area sufficient to provide for the necessary buildings. Under the Indiana statutes the county can make a specific appropriation lor an agri cultural fair and should the present enterprise be developed there is no question, It is said, that the county would give assistance the same as is done in other counties of the State. MISS GRAVES HELPS CARE FOR CHILDREN OF GERMAN TROOPS i m Richmond Woman Writes of Experiences in War Zone While Mothers Tried to Earn Living. f Taking care of German children whose mothers were forced to earn a living while their fathers went to war fell to the lot of Miss Virginia Graves, daughter of Mrs. Clara B. Graves, while in Berlin. Miss Graves Is expected to arrive in this country on Tuesday or Wednesday on the steamer Lapland, but a letter was received today from her, written in Berlin on August 19th. It was sent to America by means of an American tourist who had secured passage ahead of Miss Graves. The great suffering that is being experienced among the poorer class in Germany is told in a vivid manner. Miss Gertrude Bartel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Bartel, arrived in the city Sunday morning. She alsq has had trying experiences in Germany but according to her story, she went through no inconveniences although the uncertainty of her safety was intense. She left Berlin August 20 on a special train to Holland. The train was run especially fbr the accommodation of American passengers who wished to escape from the war zone. There were no Germans on the train, according to Miss Bartel. She secured passage" to England from Rotterdam, Holland where she consulted the American embassy. She arrived in New York on the steamer "Cedric." Miss Bartel will leave for Indianapolis Wednesday or Thursday where she has a position in the German department of Manual Training high school. Emory Thomas, traveling auditor of the M. Rumely company, was in the city yesterday and told of thrilling experiences in Odessa Russia. He has been spending the summer in Russia In the interest of the company. R00SEVELT SPEAKS Addresses Progressive Rallies in New Orleans. BY LEASED WIRE. NEW ORLEANS, Sept. " 7. Colonel Roosevelt arrived here today from New York for a two days' stay, most of which time he will spend in the Progressive cause in this state. The former president this afternoon spoke at a Labor day picnic at a local park and tonight will address a mass meeting in the French opera house. He conferred with a number of party leaders during the day. Colonel Roosevelt when welcomed by a party of Louisiana Progressives said he believed in reasonable protec tion for sugar and federal control of the levees. He will return to New York tomor row night. PIRATES DEFEATED PITTSBURG, Sept. 7. The St. Louis Cardinals ' defeated the Pirates in the morning game by a score of i to 4. Mammaux was unsteady and after passing the first three Cardinals and letting loose two wild pitches, scoring three runs, gave way to Coop er. The latter yielded a run in the fourth on Riggerts single, and Beck's double, and two more in . the fifth The Pirates scored a run In the third Inning, on a pass to Mensor and sin gles by Kelley and Viox. They got three runs more In the eighth on Ca rey's single, Morse base on balls, KelIT tnnje. aa an, out at prat,

ALLIES TAKE

AT S DELAY ' BY LEA8ED WIRE. BORDEAUX. 8ept 7. "With the allies In the strongest position they have occupied since the war opened they are now ready to take the offensive," Bays an official statment issued at the war ministry today. It continues: "Though the armies of defense have been falling back, the situation is farther from his base, while allies are very near theirs ana are therefore In a more advantageous position. News from the eastern theatre of war is very encouraging. The Russians apparently have shattered the Aus trian army and are bringing up reinforcements for the conflict with the German army that temporarily halted tneir progress in East Prussia. To prevent the capture of Berlin large forces of the Germans will have to withdraw from France." Minister of war Mlllerand went secretly tp Paris on Saturday, and returned here today. Watches of the war office said today that, he was thoroughly satiated with conditions in and around the capital. CHARGE FOUL PLAY IN DESTRUCTION OF BOSTONIE PAPER Members of South Side Association Say Enemy of Improvement Got Petition and Burned It. Who burned the Boston pike road improvement petition? This Is the question which is wor rying a large number of the residents of the South Side and persons interested in the improvement of the Boston pike. A petition containing only 154 names was presented to the county commissioners last week and the date for hearing Bet for some future time. According to B. A. Kennepohl, who is interested in the road improvement, which was petitioned for under the three-mile road law, there were sereral hundred names on the petition more than a week before the petition was presented to the commissioners, but some one, who was an enemy to the proposed improvement, got hold of the petition and destroyed it. Consequently when the matter was presented last week a remonstrance containing about three times as many names was presented so that under i-ie law, the commissioners are required to refuse the petition. "We could have secured a thousand signers if we had thought It was necessary." Mr. Kennepohl pleaded before the commissioners this morning. "We thought that only fifty names were necessary so we didn't work for many more." The residents of the south side are incensed over the loss of the mammoth petition and it is probable that a new petition will be presented if it is legal. FOOD SUPPLY IN ENGLAND IS SHORT BY LEASED WIRE. LONDON, Sept. 7. There is today in London only food enough to provision the city for one hundred days. Inquiry showed other British cities to be in about the same situation. About the only commodities of which there were a noicetable shortage were bacon and eggs, the staples of the British breakfast table. But there is little alarm over the situation, as it is known that eight vessels are on their way from Australia and Canada with food stuffs, which, barring accidents of war, will arrive within a few days, and it is anticipated that freight traffic between the United Kingdom and the United States will be largely restored before the one hundred days elapse. Coming to actual figures, J. G. Broodbank, chairman of the docks and warehouse committee of the port of London, said that the present stock in the port warehouses and in ships discharging cargoes included 36,000 tons of meat, the supply being so plentiful that it was necessary to use a new warehouse for a part of it. The warehouses were having a very busy time, said the chairman. Vessels were entering and leaving the port, he said, as if nothing unusual were happening. GERMANS PREPARE RULES FOR BELGIANS BY LEASED WIRE. PARIS, Sept. 7. According to a dispatch from Ostend, Germans have laid down the following rules for the inhabitants of Brussels: "They must furnish provisions and forage; lodge all soldiers and their horses; keep streets in condition to facilitate transportation; light their houses during the night; aid troops; they must not assemble in the streets or ring bells; make any manifestations against the troops; keep guns in their houses." The Belgians are warned that any found with firearms in their possession will be prosecuted. WINSLOW ARRIVES BY LEASED WIRE. GALVESTON, Tex., Sept. 7. Rear Admiral Winslow arrived here today on board the United States battleship New York from Vera Cruz. Admiral Winslow is on his way to Washington. ijrallaaiUm Want AOS Jray

COURAGE

WAR

PETITION FDR MORE TIME Oil NATIONAL

ROAD JAST DENIED County Commissioners Refuse Extension to Contractors and Propose to Assess $10 a Day Forfeit. The county commissioners this afternoon refused to grant the petition submitted this morning by the Sisk, Sprinkle, Leavell company for an extension of time in the construction of the national road, east. The petition asked for an extension until July 1, 1915. The road was to have been completed by September 1, 1914. The reasons given In the petition for the delay are that hindrances have I the commissioners after the contract had been let. It is alleged in the petition that the commissioners granted the City Water Works company right to lay a main, which retarded the work on the road ; second, the Traction com pany refused to remove trolley poles and delayed the work of placing the tracks in the center of the road ; third, the Light, Heat and Power company made excavations in the road, which delayed the work; fourth, that the engineer employed by the county refused to allow the company to use a certain kind of stone. The commissioners state that the company did not ehow the right attitude in the beginning In working on the road? A penalty of $10 for each day after September 1 until the road is completed, will be charged against the company for the delay, according to the contract which the commissioners hold. It is probable that the road construction company will appeal when the question comes up for payment. GOMPERS DEPLORES EUROPEAN HOSTILITY IN LABOR ADDRESS Claims War Due to Labor Unrest of Centuries Ago and Denounces Monarchs Ordering Strife. BY LEASED WIRE. PLATTSBURGH, N. Y., Sept. 7. "The nature of the labor movement has made it a powerful influence in these hundred years of peace. Its ex istence and operation are dependent upon the maintenance of peace. It demands the establishment of justice and insists upon greater recognition of human rights. It seeks better understanding between all those engaged in industry a necessary and a potential condition for peace," said Samuel Gompers. president of thei American Federation at the Labor day celebration of the centennial of the decisive battle of Plattsburgh. Gompers analyzed the causes of the present European war and expressed his profound regret that "in a mad moment the countries of Europe" have delayed the onward march of modern civilization." Result of Unrest. "The European war," Gompers said, "was the result of labor unrest of centuries ago." He outlined the eternal strife between autocracy and the masses, and pointqd out that the present militarism of the European people was due to the feeling on the part of the monarchs that they must safeguard their integrity by mobilizing armies and building navies to await their command. "No one man," he said, "has the right to command fellowmen unless he has been entrusted with that power by the deliberate action of the people." Gompers attacked the standards of measurements of the independence -of men and things in international affairs, employed by the European monarchs as well as their entire governments. He spoke of the taking of cities at the expense of great numbers of lives and said: "That the gaining of a single city is worth a million men is an assertion of strange values. What manner of civilization is this that assigns values with such barbarous disergard of human lives?" PARISIANS ON HUNT FOR GAME IN SKY BY FREDERICK MERRICK. PARIS, Sept. 7. A German aeroplane came over the city at 6unset Sunday evening. It hovered for some time in the crimson of the setting sun before departing. It feared to drop too far on account of the French aerial patrol so the German air-man got little information. One of the strangest sights I have ever seen in Paris is the sight of prosperous well dressed citizens sitting at i.eir favorite tables on the boulevards with rifles at their knees. Between sips of coffee they search the 6ky for hostile aeroplanes. There is no appearance of fright or panic; these citizens have merely given way to a sporting instinct to try to "pot" a Ger man machine. "All the government officers are in the hands of the military authorities. Landmarks have been removed. Pass ports are required for passage beyond the city. The air is charged with excitement. But in pleasant contrast witn the tense thrill and the rush of defensive persons and the unending flight of civilians, is the courtesy and efficiency of the United States embassy staff from Mr. Her rick down, and the staff of the consulate who are look ing after the affairs of half a dozen nationalities. GERMANS AROUSE NATIVES OF EGYPT BY LEASED WIRE. NAPLES, Sept. 7. Passengers on ships that arrived from Alexandria today declared that German agents are active In Egypt inciting the MohamI medana to revolt against the British.

NFURM MAYOR

OF PROBE INTO FACTORY WORK Members of State Commission Set September 21 as Date for Investigation of Richmond Plants. Governor Ralston's commission for the investigation of laboring condi lions and wages of women workers ot the state will conduct an investigation in Richmond Monday, September 21. as one of the ten cities chosen 'n which to make the probe. Mayor Robblns was notified today by Mrs. Miller of South Bend that the commission would begin ita fall work here. The investigation will last only one day. Mrs. Miller asked for a room with a seating capacity of about two hundred. The Commercial club room will be offered the commission. It is presumed that the commission will make personal Investigation ot factories during the day or part of the day and at night will examine employers and employes in a court of investigation. As the message was sent over telephone from South Bend, no details were secured. Richmond officials were notified last May that an Investigation would be held then. For some reason the commission failed to come and did not correspond with citizens relative to a postponement. It was then thought Richmond had been cancelled from the list. Members of the Commercial club and city officials are looking forward with interest to the investigation. Most employers of female labor here said last spring that they welcomed an investigation, as conditions in Richmond are believed to be as good or superior to working conditions elsewhere in the state. EAST INDIA TROOPS TO ASSIST BELGIUM BY BERNARD BELANCOURT, International News Service Staff Correspondent. ANTWERP, Sept. 7. The German army which took Termonde, after a gallant defense by a garrison which was outnumbered more than three to one, has moved northward occupying Lokeren. As a result of the occupancy of Lokeren, railroad communication between this city and Ghent, by way of St. Nicholas, has been interrupted. A German force has reached a point only eighteen miles from Antwerp on the southwest, and it lies between this city and Ostend, where the British army has been landed. The English troops brought in at Ostend are the first to be sent here direct to help the Belgians, and is believed to have been the intention of the British war office to send them eastward for a Junction with the Belgian army at Antwerp. The English expeditionary force contained the East India troops who have been sent east to meet the Germans. Lokeren is eighty-seven miles east of Tormonde and thitrty-seven miles northeast of Ghent. Ghent is thirtyseven miles east of Ostend.SPORTSMAN OF U, S, GUNS FGR TROUBLE BY LEASED WIRE. LONDON, Sept. 7. A dispatch received today by the Mirror from Antwerp says: "Three armored automobiles each with a Hotchkiss gun went reconnoitering Saturday. Among the crews were George Straus, an American sportsman. Prince De Lighe, Baron Serelas and Count De Wallencourt. "Near Dieste, the cars were ambushed. Straus fired ninety rounds of ammunition and iorced the Germans to retire. The two other cars were disabled, and all of the occupants were hit. Count De Wallencourt was killed, and the Prince was wounded, receiving four bullets in his head. FLOODS INUNDATE CITIES OF MISSOURI BY LEASED WIRE. KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Sept. 7. The worst flood in ten years washed away dozens of houses, rendering hundreds homeless and putting all street cars and railroad trains out of commission. Six inches of rain fell in this city between midnight and 9 a. m. today. The water reaches the second story of many houses. Lightning struck a number of buildings, but the fires were quickly extinguished. It is impossible to estimate the damage. Basements all over the city are flooded, the sewers proving inadequate to carry away half of the flood debris. NATION CELEBRATES Labor Day Causes Washington to Rest. WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. Congress was silent today and the government machinery generally halted In observance of labor day. The nation gave Itself over to pleasure and receration. Cabinet officers and government officials generally who left Washington for the week end, remained out of the city. President Wilson spent the greater part of the day automobiling and golfing. He also put in some time at the White House on his personal mail and on official matters of pressing Importance. Not a wheel turned in the various government departmental