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STOPS TRAVEL FROM ENGLAND TO CONTINENT British Adxiiralty Suspends Traffic After Two Steamers Meet Disaster in Waters of War Zone. FRENCH SHIP STRUCK Norwegian Tank Steamer Strikes Mine Off Dover But Manages to Reach Port. BULLETIN. COPENHAGEN, Feb. 19 Seandinavlan naval official In a joint mooting In Christianla today agreed upon atop naceaaary for the destruction of mine that are imperilling Scandinavian shipping in Scandinavian waters. BULLETIN. BERLIN. Feb. 19. A dispatch from Amsterdam states that all Dutch steamships bound for America will hereafter use the route norjh of Scotland recommended in the German blockade decree. All sailings from Rotterdam and Flushing for London have been cancelled.WASHINGTON. Feb. 19. United States Ambassador Page in London today cabled the state department that the British admiralty had suspended all travel between England and the continent of Europe until further notice. The ambassador's message merely told of the admiralty's declaration and gave no explanation of this action by the British authorities. State depart ment officials interpreted It to mean that Great Britain is greatly alarmed over the prospect of German's submarine campaign against British vessels and it is believed to forecast the early Issuance by the British government of a proclamation for a blockade of Germany in retaliation. TANK 8TEAMER 8INKS. LONDON. eb. 19. The Norwegian tank steamer Belrldge struck a mine off Dover today, according to the Exchange Telegraph company. The Belbridge was bound from New Orleans to Amsterdam. Her crew was rescued and will proceed to Amsterdam. This is the first-neutral vessel reported to have suffered damage since the Oerman'War zone declaration went . into effect. The ' steamer crawled Into Walmer with part of her hull full of water. FRENCH SHIP TORPEDOED. HAVRE, France, Feb. 19. The French steam Dinorah was torpedoed early today without warning by a German submarine a few miles from the French port of Dieppe. Sea traffic between Dieppe and England has been discontinued. The German torpedo failed to sink the Dinorah. but stove in a plate on the port, side below the water line. The steamer was kept afloat by her crew at the pumps and she was towed into Dieppe. The Dinorah was bound from Havre for Dunkirk when she was attacked by the German submarine. Several fishing boats were in the vicinity when the Dinorah was attacked. These fled into Dieppe and assistance was immediately sent to the Dinorah. LAW MAY ALTER STREET LIGHTING PLANSJFOR CITY Bill to Place Cost of Ornamental System on Property Owners Passes House of Legislature. Progress of a bill in the legislature which prescribes the method to be pursued by Indiana towns and cities in installing ornamental lighting systems is being followed with keen interest by Richmond city officials. The bill has passed the house and it is expected it will pass the senate. This measure provides that when property owners petition for onamental lighting systems they shall pay for the entire cost of installation and that property owners benefited shall pay fifty per cent and the city fifty per cent of the cost of maintaining such systems and supplying the current. Club Files Petitiona. Last fall petitions were submitted for installing ornamental lights the entire length of Main streets and sections of Ft. Wayne avenue and North E street. Previously the city had proposed to install ornamental lamps, attached by brackets to trolly poles, on sections of these three streets, the city to meet the entire cost of installation and make no charge for maintenance and current. The Commercial club made a fight against such a lighting system, desiring the lamps placed on ornamental standards and the club then had petitions, now on file with the board, circulated. For installing a system desired by the Commercial club the city had agreed to pay toward the cost of installation what it would have cost the city to install the bracket system, and to furnish the current without cost to the benefited property owners. If the pending bill becomes a law the city cannot hold to its agreement and it may be that the petitioners will decide to -withdraw their petitions.

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Princess Ibrahim Hassan, who before of Oakland, Cat. Is Going Back to Home in California to Live Life Over Again. Princess Ibrahim Hassan, the American girl whose beauty made her Egypt's modern rival to Cleopatra, is going back to California to live life over again. "I'm just going there to live over the joyous days of my 'teens," she said today. "Royal blood? .. Bah!" She gave a cynical smile. "Give me the true-hearted American. The Turkish idea has not changed any. Your husband there wants you to be his slave, not his wife. He wants his harem, with all that goes with it, and hU wife soon becomes a faded flower, cast away in contempt after awhile. The strange Oriental atmosphere is alluring, it is true. You know, they say that after English women once taste of the waters of the Nile they always go back but I'm through." Her husband is the. cousin of the late Khedive of . Egypt. She lived there seven years after a romantic marriage in London. "An American girl just won't be subjected to the mystic abuses," 6he added, explaining why she is suing for a permanent divorce. Before her marriage she was Ola Humphrey, an Oakland (Cal.) girl. She had won quite a reputation as an emotional actress when Prince Hassan wooed her. Weather Forecast For Indiana: Partly cloudy tonight and aSturday. Temperature, Noon 46 Yesterday. Minimum k. 24 Maximum . . .' . 43 Local Conditions Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Mild temperature. General Conditions: Ccld weather continues over the St. Lawrence valr ley .and New, England states. Zero weather in Vermont. The weather remains unsettled and warm west of the Mississippi river, with scattered rains. A cold wave prevails over western Canada with temperature 12 degrees below zero at Edmonton, Alberta. W. - E. MOORE Forecaster.

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her marriage was Miss Ola Humphrey, STARR MAY MAKE TALKING MACHINES Officials of Company Refuse to Discuss Rumor of New Activity. That the Starr Piano company, one of Richmond's largest industries, is considering engaging in the manufacturer of a new type of talking machine was a report current today. Officials of the company are not discussing this report, however. It is reported that the machine, which is said to be controlled by a large moving picture producing company, is now being experimented with and that upon the result of these experiments depends whether- the local company will take over the patent. ,'It is said that in the event, the Starr company decides to places these, mamachines . on the market it will not discontinue the manufacture of pianos and player pianos, for which it has established an international business. It is understood, however, that the competition between tle player piano business and the talking machine busiiness have been very keen in recent years, and that the demand for-talking machines is steadily increasing. BABY DIES OF BURNS Gas Explosion Kills W. S. Osborn's Child. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2. o'clock for Elizabeth May, the 7-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Osborn, 120 South Third street, who was burned to death yesterday, when a blanket in the baby cab in which the child . was lying caught fire from a large heating stove. The child was taken to Reid hospital, but lived but a few- hours after the accident. .

NURSE SUGGESTS CLINIC METHODS IN PLAGUE WAR Mrs. Linton Believes Physicians Would Gladly Devote Time to Effort to Stamp Out Disease. .

CITY NEEDS RELIEF Friend of Sick and Poor Places Health Measures Before Extensive Program of Street Improvement. Mrs. Florence Linton, or Miss Benner as she is better known, city visiting nurse, is not particularly interested In the pretentious program for civic betterments in Richmond, which calls for more brick street, more sewers and similar improvements. She is vastly interested, however, in something she regards more important; more vitally necessary to Richmond than ten thousand miles of brick streets and sewers. It is the protection of the citizens from the most sinister and deal of all evils tuberculosis. "Sixteen of my patients died last year, ten of them from tuberculosis, and for every death from that disease seven people have been infected by its germs. What do the people of Richmond think of that?" says Mrs. Linton. Asks Comprehensive Plan. "It has been suggested that a comprehensive system of -home treatment for tubercular cases be established in this city. I can tell you it would do more good than ten county tuberculosis hospitals and its establishment would be the greatest one thing this city could do." Mrs. Linton's work takes her daily to the homes of hundreds of poor people and she knows better than any other person in the city what an menace the white plague is to Richmond. S'-ie says that to combat the disease effectively no large sum of money would be required. "A special physicIan would not even be necessary. Just another nurse to work with me, and a nurse to work among the school children will accomplish wonders," declared this capable, tireless crusader against disease. "I would alto advise in inaugurating a plan for home treatment of tuberculosis a free clinic where the poor of the city could be treated for their various ills," she said, 'I-iinfc-JUch-inond's many physicians and dentistB would be glad to co-operate in establishing such a clinic. I think nearly all of them could be depended upon to devote one day to this work every six weeks. To this clinic the city and school nurses could send their patients in need of medical attention. Outlines Clinic Work. "One day each week would be devoted to the tubercular cases, one day to eye cases, one day to children's diseases, one day to baby cases, and so on. There are so many babies among the poor that could be benefited by treatment at clinics, so many school children made healthy and robust. To guard against fraud, of course, only patients sent by the city and school nurses would receive attention at the clinic, and I believe a clinic could be equipped for less than five hundred dollars. "As Dr. Stevenson has said a school nurse is most important. Tuberculosis thrives upon children. With a competent school nurse there is no telling how many incipient cases of this disease could be stamped out by the instructions given parents of the children by the nurse. She could also nip in the bud countless numbers of epidemics.' Mrs. Linton says that the trouble with county tuberculosis hospitals is that so few patients can be prevailed upon to go to them. "The patienta want to stay at their homes, and by expert supervision of visiting nurses they can be splendidly cared for at their homes, and the members of their families protected from Infection at the same time. Medicine does them little good. The big thing is to teach the patients and the members of their families the value of fresh air, wholesome diet, exercise and cleanliness." JOFFRE CALLS RESERVE UNITS INTO SERVICE BY LEASED WIRE. PARIS, Feb. 19. French successes in the Vosges mountains and in the Argonne region are announced In an official communique issued at the war office this afternoon. Two infantry attacks by the Germans in the Vosges in an attempt to stop the French offen sive directed toward Metz, were re pulsed by the French troops. In the Argonne region . four bomb throwers were captured by the French troops. The conflict in the Aisne valley-was confined to an artillery duel. The French army is to receive great reimorcemenis immcumieiy. uenerai Joffre, commander-in-chief of the French forces, has Issued an order placing the reserve units of the army upon the same footing as troops now in active service. GERMAN STATEMENT. BERLIN. Via Wireless, Feb. 19. The capture of the Russian town of Tauroggen, 18 miles northeast of Tilsit, is announced in today's official report from the German general staff. It also claims other successes in the eastern threatre of war, as wel as in the western, where Hill No. 600 in the Vosges was taken by storm.

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Edward F.-Dunne, III., grandson of the Governor of Illinois, is a "superbaby." TO be more exact, his mental and physical powers are i those of a child, from eight -months to- tayi.ynr oiaer. , - - This announcement was made yesterday by Miss Mary R. Campbell formerly of the staff of the Chicago psychopathic laboratory, who has just completed a series of scientific tests of the twelve-raonths-old scion of the Dunne family. His chest from front to back is five inches, where it should normally be only four and three-quarters, arid his leg is fifteen and one-half inches long, while the normal one-year-old leg is but twelve and three-quarters inches. The greatest length of Edward's, head is 15.9 inches; its width 13.9. He MEMBERS OF LOVE BAND ENTICE AGED MAN FROM FAMILY Mrs. Callisom Charges Combined Attentions of Four Women "Holy Rollers" Caused Desertion. Chief of a "fierce love band" is the charge a 'Fort Wayne woman makes against her husband Rudolph Callisom, in a letter Chief Goodwin has just received from her, which she wrote at the suggestion of the Fort Wayne chief of police; it is stated. Chief Goodwin says Mrs. Callisom refers to a band of alleged religious workers, common! known as "Holy Rollers." They are now in the city, although Mrs. Callisom, .who is 63 years old and her husband 61, says the same band was or dered out of Richmond last spring. It took Chief Goodwin about an hour to decipher the contents of the letttT and when he had finished his task he said he would take no action against Callisom unless his wife had an affi davit for his arrest issued. Mrs. Callisom in her letter stated that her husband deserted her over a year ago and since that time has failed to support her. "He is old enough to know better but he gets worse all the time," she states in her letter. She says that she joined the band at the same time her husband did, but, she says, she would not stand for the happy-go-lucky method of living pursued by the brothers and sisters, so her retirement from the activities of the organization was insisted upon. After asserting that she still loved her husband she confessed that the combined attractions of the four women members of the band were too great to induce him to return to her. "The women told me that they had as much right to my husband as I did," Vhe letter continues. "He said the women and men in the band were h's people whom he must love, comfort and support. He said he loved them and was going to die when they died.' TRINITY WILL MEET A special congregational meeting of Trinity Lutheran church has been called, for Sunday at 2 o'clock in the church. All members Including women are urged to be present, as- important matters will be discussed.

Super-Baby has, says Miss Campbell, what the old women would call an ideal head it is round. " J Mentally the Dunne baby is even oreradTaced than phypicallyr On one or the psychological tests be "fell down." He was offered his choice of a block of wood or a piece of candy, and chose the wood. This, says Miss Campbell, does not indicate an enterprising mind. But in each of seven other tests he came out with a perfect score, and one of them was a test for a mentality of three years. This consisted of directions to indicate his nose, eyes and mouth and pictures of them. He I screwed up hia own nose and made a face . to indicate his nose, he opened his mouth to show its place and screwed his eyes to locate his eyes. LYNCH TO TALK BEFORE GUESTS OF FRATERNITY Knights of Columbus 'Announce Program for Celebration on Birthday of George Washington. Patrick J. Lynch of New Castle, will be the chief speaker at a Washington's birthday celebration to be held Monday night in the St. Andrew's auditorium by the Knights of Columbus. His subject will be, "Washington, Our Patriot." Rev. F. A. Roell will open the celebration with an address of welcome to the visiting speakers, members of the Knight of- Columbus and outside attendants, as the meeting is open to the public. Invitations have been issued to Rev. E. J. Spellman, New Castle; Rev. Josepd M. liyland; Eaton; Rev. Thomas A. McLaughlin, Liberty; Rev. Michael Lyons, Rushville; Rev. Theodore Metzger, Connersville; Rev. Michael Gormon, Cambridge City, and the local priests. The grand knight of the K. of C, L. P. McTigue will preside at the meeting. The program follows : Hymn of Praise, Mohr St. Andrews Double Quartette. Remarks by the Chairman. Violin solo, "Lieversfrend," Kreisler Miss Blanch Luken, accompanied by Miss Anna Harrington. Greeting Rev. F. A. Roell. "My Own United States," Leona Buening and quartette. "Washington Our Patriot" P. J. Lynch, New Castle, Ind. "The Star Spangled Banner," St. Andrews Quartette. The entertainment committee of the Knights of Columbus will act as ushers. They are James E. Gold rick, J. p. O'Brien, Frank Kiser, Raymond Lichtenfels, James Quinlivan, John J. Harrington, Jr. TO MOVE TO CITY. W. H. Sutherland, a sales manager for the Moore Oil company of Cincinnati, and H. S. Maltby, who covers this territory for the company, . were in Richmond today in the interests of the company. Mr. Maltby expects to move his family to Richmond from Cincinnati early this spring:.

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JAPS PREPARE TO GOBBLE UP ALL OF CHINA Demand Complete Political Control and Are Fully Backed Up by British Diplomats. READY TO USE FORCE Member of Diplomatic Corps Declares Mikado Ready to Back Up Demands by Force. BY LEASED WIRE. LONDON, Feb. 19. Japan has demanded of the Chinese government that she be given complete political control in China. This was learned from a leading member of the diplomatic corps today. He declared that Japan's action has the complete endorsement of the British and asserted that Japan will have supreme control, commercially as well as politically. Among the demands recently made by Japan upon China, he said, was the following: "The central government of China shall employ influential Japanese subjects as advisors for conducting administrative, financial and military affairs." Gives Japan Dominance. It is understood that this demanJ was not included among those which Japan announced she had served on China. The diplomat who gave this information to the International News Service said that the granting of this single demand would make Japan dominant in the celestial empire. He also asserted that if China rejected the "concessions" demanded by Japan, the latter country would proceed to take forcibly what it demands-. The revelations ot the real ChinaJapan situation is of the utmost importance to the United States. It will be recalled that four powers participated in the formation of a syndicate to finance China. They were Great Britain, France, Germany and Austria. U. S. Interested. The United States was to have been a party in this syndicate through a banking syndicate, but the termination of so-called "dollar diplomacy" caused a withdrawal of the official United States interests, but nevertheless largi funds were actually subscribed by United States financial concerns acting through English bankers J. P. Morgan & Co. and Kuhn. Loeb & Co. subscribed. It is understood. $50,000,000, of which $16,000,000 was designed for the development of Manchuria, of which Japan demands practically complete possession. It is believed here that China has alread appealed to the United States to take action to curb what it term.s the rapacity of Japan and developments are being anxiously awaited in diplomatic circles. INTRODUCE BILL TO GIVE PLANT'S PROFIT TO CITY Senator McConaha and Rep. Judkins Place Richmond Measure Drafted by Rupe Before Legislature. Bills to amend a state law so that cities which own utility plants may benefit from their surplus earnings, provided proper provision has been made to protect the bonded debt of the utilities, were simultaneously introduced today in the Indiana senate, by Senator McConaha, and the house of representatives by Representative Judkins. This amendment is to benefit the city of Richmond directly and was drafted by John L. Rupe at the request of the public service committee of the Commercial club and Mayor Robbins. It has the opposition of City Attorney Bond, however, but he will probably not make an effort to prevent its enactment. When the bills come before the committees in the two houses representatives of the Commercial club will be present to advance arguments to have them reported back favorably. Tbe provisions of the bills, which are identical, are very comprehensive and the city's best interest are thoroughly protected. It is provided that when the sinking fund of a municipally owned utility is sufficiently large, figuring in compound Interest on Its funds, to retire bonds when they mature the surplus earnings of the utility may be paid over to the city to be used for general municipal expenses, subject to the supervision of the statft utilities commission. KING OF CLIMAXES SLAIN BY 3 MEN BY LEASED WIRE. LEESBURG. Ga-, Feb. 19. Three shots last night ended the life of A. D. Oliver, banker and speculator, whose meteoric career in finance has astonished middle Georgia, where he was known as the "King of Climaxes." He had Just left tbe Farmers' Bank and Loan company's building when three men approached him. two opening fire. Oliver fell, shot through the heart and neck, dying immediately. Oliver came to Climax In 190S with nothing but a handbag and soon rose to Influence. He served a short prison term In Lee county, returned to GSj max and again won a fortune by clW er banking operations. I