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PAGE EIGHT THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, MAR.. 10, 1915

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WAR TIIEflTRE Snow and Rrost Hind ere Activity in; Vosges R jgion Fighting Continues in the Champagne Distric t Only. BY FREDERICK YVERI1ER, Staff Correspondent for Int trnational News service. BERLIN, March 10. A- lul 3 has settled down over a great pa rt of the , western theatre of war, , Acc ording to an official statement Jssuet 1 by the war office today, the only lighting Is in the Champagne district. In the Vosges snow and frost are hindering operations. An attempt of, the Rus sians to break througn tnc t. uerraan line at Augustowo In Poland, s has fall ed, it is stated. The report. follows: . . "In the western theatre of 'war, the fighting is limited. Snow tand frost are hindering operations in' the Vos ges. The om.- fighting that I s in prog ress is in Champagne. Bavarian troops achieve, a success net ir Souain. The enemy advanced at son le points but a counter-attack at Lest Mesnil forced them back there. t "In the eastern theatre a.t! war, a Russian attempt to break through at Augustowo failed. The b tittle of Ostrolenka is still in progresa: Fighting is developing at Prsasnypz in our iavor. The war office estimated Che allies losses in the Champagne district of France at 45,000. The German troops took 2,450 wounded prisoners. FRENCH STATEMENT" PARIS, March 10. Further muccesses for the British troops conducting a fierce offensive against, the Germans in the Champagne region are claimed in this afternoon's official communique. It says that-the French have gained ground along the road from i Perthes to Tahure and have Klso adj vanced beyond the rldge northeast of i MesniL" REJECTED MAN KILLS COUNTESS IN ROME South American Lover Follows Woman From Chili to Italy. BY LEASED WIRE1 ROME, March 10. With the body of Countess Blanche Hamilton still beautiful in death, lying in her luxurious apartments awaiting burial, and Antonio Cienfuegos, a wealthy South American, dying from self-inflicted wcuiKls, the final chapter of a romance ct three continents ia being written here tcday. Ciem"iigo3 saw the countess last night after following htr through South America. North America and Europe. Several times he overtook her and pleaded for her to show him the love she accorded him when they met in Chili a few years ago. The final parting occurred In Paris three weeks ago. After spurning Cienfuegos again, the countess fled to Rome and hid here, fearing he would carry out his threats to kill her. Cienfuegos arrived here Sunday and traced his former sweetheart through a mutual acquaintance. Then he secured apartments Tuesday afternoon near those occupied by the countess. After he had waited for three hours Cienfuegos heard the countess enter her apartments. Breaking down the door when she refused to open it for him, he fired six shots at his victim, il of which took effect. In his rage tl tben tore all the clothing from the body of the countess and dragged his lifeless victim about the apartment by her hair. MAYO'S FIRST WIFE CLAIMS HER RIGHTS BY LEASED WIRE. SCRAN TON, Pa.. March 10. Mrs. Florence Mayo, aged 55 years, living here for the past fifteen years, with her three daughters, declared today that her husband is Virginius J. Mayo, C Wew Haven manufacturer, who P9s9 Into prominence recently fftrough the suicide in New Haven of Lillian May Cook and the disclosures showing that Mayo maintained a home in New Haven for Mrs. Mayo and also another in Brooklyn, N. Y., where Allis Lois Burnham posed also as his wife and a"! such had borne him two children. Mrs. Mayo asserted that the manufacturer deserted her In New York fifteen years ago and that no divorce has ever been obtained by either party. The discovery of Mrs. Mayo's relationship followed the publication of the New Haven story and Mayo's picture in the local papers. SIGNS CLEARY'S BILL BY LEASED WIRE. INDIANAPOLIS, March 10. Among the new laws signed by Governor Ralston today were the Cleary bill, requiring the destruction of blue pencils and excess ballots at elections, and the Vanhorne measure, relative to construction and maintenance of street I lights on petition of fifty per cent of property owners. The latter was originally intended for Hammond, Ind., . but was amended so as to make it applicable to all cities of the state. 8ENT TO PRI80N. GOTHA, March 10. Herr Geithner, a Socialist member of the Saxe-Co-burg diet and the editor of the Gotha Volksnlatt, has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment for commenting sarcastically on Emperor William's statement that he no longer knew narties but only Germans. The

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Indians and White Men Found We are persuaded that not many people . know that there was onc a fort or blockhouse on the river bank east of the south end of Milton, built there by the early settlers of this section In 1811, and into which the early pioneers took refuge from the Indians in time when they , were in war paint. Painted was he with his war paints. Stripes of yellow, red and azure. In the morning of the first Saturday in September. 1912, John Deck came by solicitation of tbe writer from his home farm across the road north of the interurban power" house five miles west of Greenfield, and,I took him in a buggy to the site of the ancient blockhouse near Milton. : A few years ago Prof. Lee Ault. Prof. E. Oldaker and the writer- were appointed by , the Wayne County - Historical society to locate the spot where John Shortrldge was shot by an Indian in 1811. Visit First Site. We visited -first the site where the blockhouse stood on the southwest corner of a quarter' mile section farm that was entered by Jacob Crull. John Deck, our pilot, was a son of John Deck, an early settler here, who married the present John Deck's stepmother in her parents' home forty rods south of tbe blockhouse, and then they lived two miles east of here near the Swafford graveyard. The young John lived here until 1832 when they moved to Henry county. He told us that he played many a day in the old blockhouse when a boy. The three gravestones he showed us were markers of two women, Mary Conover knd Lida Conover and their brother, John Conover, who died In time of the Indian wars and were burled In the block- j house. A public road, he said, once passed between the blockhouse and the high river bank, but the bank had crumbled down and washed away un GILMORE EXPLAINS TRANSFER OF CLUB FROM KANSAS CITY TBY LEASED WIRE. CHICAGO, March 10. James A. Gilmore, president of the Federal League of baseball clubs, resumed the witness stand today before Circuit Judge Jess Baldwin, who is hearing the injunction proceedings brought by the backers of the Kansas City club to prevent the transfer of the franchise to Newark, N. J. "I received a letter from Mr. Haff of the Kansas City club February 4," said Mr. Gilmore, "and from its tone I decided that it was useless to expect the Kansas City unit to raise the, necessarv funds to protect its fran chise. I had been ia communication with Mr. Sinclair and had an under-1 standing with him regarding the transfer of the franchise. When I received Mr. Half's letter I conferred with mj associates and they agreed that the transfer should be made. "Later I received a letter and a telq -gram from Mr. Haff asking what thia Kansas City club owed the league . Their franchise had already beei i transferred so I considered that the, r did not owe anything and did na t answer." WILL GET PAY ONLY FOR TIME WORKED BY LEASED WIRE iniANAPni,ia. March 10. TI e resolution adopted by the house i n the last Hav of the legislative sessW m. nrnvMin? that emnloves of the hottse be paid for time intervening betwe en the opening of the session ana j ne time they were actually employed, Tj.as declared illegal in an opinion given by Richard M. Milburn, attorney geeq ral yesterday. Speaker Bed well asked. i:he attorney general for the ruling. :f.he speaker will no sign voucners ior niay provided for in the resolution. Several house clerks and door epers were not actually employed for 1 riava after the session ottjned. and the resolution set out that fniany of them came to Indianapolis expect ing to go to worK ai me upeni'ig oi tho session, had remained hen , and were willing to go to owrk at any time. GOVERNOR APPROVES TRADING STAMP BILL BY LEASED WIRE INDIANAPOLIS, March 10. Among the important measures pass' hT by the general assembly which todaj-have the governor's signature of approval, are the trading stamp bill, which was backed by many small merchants and newspapers ; a bill providing fi jr the appointment of a committee to investigate tax reforms; a meaauf s declaring houses of prostitution a j:blic nuisance and authorizing coui ts to compel vacancy of same; pr oviding for mediation and arbitration in disputes between capital and labor., and giving the auditor of state powe ;f to appoint receivers for banking institutions In process of voluntary liqtf Vdation. FIGHT WITH VE. I3MIN. By Leased Wlife PARIS, March 10. Army doctors have urged all' soldi rs to smoke through their clothes hi ung up in the trenches to kill tbe lit ;e, which one naive official report q ays were left behind in great quantity ies by the Germans in the trenches ' formerly occupied by them and sini i captured by the French. PLAGUE WIPf -D OUT. LANSING. Mich., I larch 10. The state live stock sanitary commission .announced officially today that' the state was free from hoof and mouth

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Round Old Blockhouse at Milton. til the head stones, were only, six or eight feet from the river. He showed us the spring only a few feet south of the place- where the blockhouse baa been and from which the people got their water when they were shut In Road Passes Thicket. , From here we visited the swampy thicket still standing near, directly northeast of the blockhouse some for ty rods away. The first road running north and south- east of the river, passes through thds thicket, and. John Shortrldge, riding on Isaiah .Drury's white .horse and wearing Drury's overcoat.' was Just emerging: from the south edge of, fche thicket going towards the blockhouse, when he was shot 'He rode m to within a few feet of the fort when he fell from his horse. Soon after he f ell he waB carried from this fort to thy fort near Germantown. Word of the fall of Shortrldge was sent on nortli to the Boyd fort and Samuel K. Boyd and Larkin Harding went.down and stayed with Shortrldge until his death the next day. For want of borjrds to make a coffin, puncheon f lank ,was . taken from a floor and u'sed for that purpose. Road Note Published. For some time after we got this matter from John Deck we heard so much spo'ken against his account that we were -almost at the point of putting It away,1 but when we saw and read the note given in the history of Wayne, Vol. 1, -published in 1884, Page 384, we find that there are no contradictions in j them. Mr. Deck's account is more definite, for he took us to the ground and showed us where Mr. Shortrldge was when he was shot and how close he was to the Milton blockhouse. He showed us also that this fort was within 25 or 30 yards of Mr. Crull south line, and that John Knipefs farm joined Crull on the south. PEACE PROPOSALS CREATE INTEREST AMONG OIPLOMATS BY LEASED WIRE. WASHINGTON, March 10. Reports tit at Germany 1b to open the subject af. peace proposals were received with great interest by Washington officials ti aday, particularly in view of the situa te ion on the Dardanelles. It was eSpected that President Wlluon promptly would use his good offices to promote the interests of peace if the slightest opportunity offered. Should- the German chancellor, Von Bethmann-Hollweg, made a strong stand for an early cessation of hostil ities, it was stated the United States would do ai in its power to bring the belligerents together for a discussion of the terms. Interest Revived. The sinking of three more British ships by German submarines revived Washington interest in the situation created by Great Britain's declaration of the trade embargo on Germany. Nothing yet has been heard from Sir Edward Grey on the Inquiry by the United States as to the methods by which Great Britain purposes to carry out her new policy, but it is taken as a foregone conclusion that his reply will not change the present status materially. It is recognized by officials that Sir Edward Grey's reply may come at a time when it may decide the fate of the peace movement. LIQUID FIRE SCALDS RUSSIAN ATTACKERS Fighting in Poland, North of Pilica River, Favorable to Czar. BY LEASED WIRE. PETROGRAD, March 10 "Liquid fire" is being used by the German troops to repel the fierce attacks of the Russian forces in Poland, north or" the Pilica river. This, inflicts severe burns upon the assailing troops. The fighting in this district, as well as north of the Vistula, is of a desperate character. An official statement issued here today claims some successes for the Russian, however. Their aviators have successfully attacked with bombs tbe German positions at Szczucyn and Stawiskl, between the Bohr river and the East Prussian frontier. In the Carpathians, the statement says, Russian forces have captured the commander of an Austrian Battalion, eight officers and three entire companies. It is admitted in the war office state ment that the Germans have succeed ed in rallying their forces at Augus towo and hard fighting is now In progress there. 101 MINNESOTA TOWNS VOTE TO OUST SALOONS By Leased Wire MINNEAPOLIS, March 10. Returns tabulated today from Tuesday's elec tion show 101 towns went dry, 66 wet, and 33 yet to hear from. Thirty-one wet towns went dry, and one dry city, Eyota, voted to have saloons. Many other cities and towns will vote on tho saloon question either next Tuesday or April 6. BOWLERS ARRIVE. By Leased Wire PEORIA, 111., March 10. The ad vance guard of six thousand bowlers who will roll in the fifteenth annual tournament of the American Bowling Congress, which opens here this evening, arrived today. The meet will con tinue ten days. WRECK KILLS FOUR. AUBURN, N. Y., March 10. Four persons are reported killed In an auto mobile accident near Deify. N. Y.

JUDGE REBUKES

LAWYER IN CASE AGAINST LIAYOU Anderson Calls Congressman Stanley for Repeated Ob- ' ' jections to Questions by Frank Dailey. BY LEASED WIRE INDIANAPOLIS, March 10. Federal Judge Albert B. Anderson today administered a stiff rebuke to Congressman Stanley of Kentucky, when the latter insisted on entering objections to questions put by District Attorney Dailey at the trial of Mayor Don H. Hoberts and a score of Terre Haute politicians on trial for conspiracy In alleged election frauds in Vigo county. Judge Anderson previously had ruled that Dalley's interrogations were permissible because the existence of a conspiracy had been acknowledged by eighty-eight co-defendants who had pleaded guilty to the Indictment, and it remained only to determine who were or were not parties to the conspiracy. Roby Admits Frauds. Stanley insisted that those who had pleaded guilty did so in a technical way and had not intended to admit that a conspiracy existed. The statement for the defense by ex-Judge F. S. Roberts, who opened today's session, was remarkably brief. Judge Roby admitted in defense that frauds were perpetrated in the Terre Haute election last fall, but declared the defense would resist the charge that a conspiracy existed, and maintained that no state or federal law had been violated. The government today began the examination of some 250 witnesses, the questioning being aimed specifically at the establishment of a conspiracy on the part of the several defenders. COURT TO DECIDE WAGON SPEED LIMIT City Employe Hit by Vehicle Claims Speed Prevented His Escaping. What is the speed limit for grocery wagons? This is the question that arose in the suit of David Rickman against Henry Zuttermelster for $500 damages, which started before a jury today In circuit court. The grocery wagon was driven by Harry Tutweiler an employe of Zuttermeister. Zuttermeister says the other men who were working on North Seventeenth street for the city street department at the time, had opportunity to get out of the path of the approaching wagon. Hickman said he had been working for the city for $1.40 a day up to tho time of the accident, November 25. He said the wagon approached so rapidly that it was impossible for him to escape being struck. ROBERTS' ATTORNEY OPENS IN DEFENSE Judge Roby Outlines Case of Men Accused of Election Frauds. BY LEASED WIRE INDIANAPOLIS, March 10. To offset startling accusations made by District Attorney Frank S. Dailey in the government's case against Mayor Doa M. Roberts, Sheriff Dennis Shea, Judge E. II. Redman and a score of other Terre Haute officials and politicians, former Judge Frank S. Roby opened for the defense today. The defendants are charged with violence, corruption and intimidation in connection with elections in Vigo county last November. District Attorney Dailey in his opening statement declared that Mayor Roberts issued directions for the riddance of certain persons, who antagonized his alleged plans for the voting of repeaters in the following language: "Go down to Chief of Police Ed Holler and get him to furnish some revolvers and knives. Take these things back to the polling places and drop them into the pockets of those who are opposing us. Then have them arrested for carrying concealed weapons." CATHOLIC CHURCH SHOWS INCREASE BY LEASED WIRE. NEW YORK, March 10 There were 16.309,310 Catholics In the United States, January 1, last year, an increase of 241,325 during 1914, according to the advance sheets of the official Catholic directory to be issued in a few days. January 1 there were 793,179 Catholics in Ohio, 1,473,379 in Illinois and 245,141 in Indiana. FERDINAND KEEPS BULGARIA NEUTRAL SOFIA, March 10. Resignation of the Bulgarian cabinet over this country's entrance into the war has been averted, says the government press. King Ferdinand is determined that the country maintain strict neutrality until developments decree otherswlse. SHORTAGE OF FOOD EXISTS IN MEXICO BY LEASED WIRE. , WASHINGTON. March 10. Secretary of State Bryan today announced that the food shortage In Mexico City was increasing in seriousness and that warning issued to Americans last Friday to leave . Mexico City was based chiefly upon the shortage and generally upon "conditions prevailing In the clUr."

Today's Fashion . Note

Illustrating the Adrance Spring and Summer Styles Displayed In ; the Parade , of Mannequins at - the Fashion The Daasant, Gives Under the Direction of Mi M. P.' Groner and Mrs. R. W. Hawkes worth In the Hotel McAlpin Winter Gardes, New York

White serge model Spring walking suit; moire collar and cuffs, gathers at waistline. Circular bottom waistline defined with row of pearl buttons edged with ribazlne to effect buttonholes. Skirt-yoke gathers at hip line; two box pleats at back. From Stein & Blaine, Fifth Avenue, N. Y. Dutch Boy suit, ppur la Jeunne fille, of blue gabardine. Collar and lapels f white satin; coat IB higb-waisted, the skirt short and full. From Hickson & Company. Fifth Avenue. N. Y.

WILSON NOW DIRECTS OUR FOREIGN POLICY

BY SIDNEY ESPEY. WASHINGTON. March 10. The wind-up of congress bas given President Wilson an opportunity to devote his intellectual energies exclusively to foreign affairs and to place himself in direct charge of the nation's foreign policy. He has long wished for this opportunity, for- no man is a keener student of International law than he. Now that he has it, he will utilize it to the fullest extent. It is not a generally known fact, but it is nevertheless true, that the p-esl-dent reads every line of cablegrams coming to the state department fromi abroad. The most insignificant consul has his reports except those that are purely routine scanned by the chief executive, and in this manner more than one man has been promoted for efficiency at his post, and more than one aspect of American foreign policy has been developed. It will surprise many of his critics to know that the president probably has a better grasp of the situation than any other man on this side of the Atlantic, barring a terr specialists who know only one phase of its Infinite ramifications. The president works as late as one and two o'clock in the morning reading the dispatches, so determined is he that his administration does notf "slip a cog" In any of Its dealings! with foreign nations. His attention has been particularly assiduous since the German "war zone" declaraction, when it became apparent that the United States was standing on top of a powder box and might be precipitated Into the world conflict at any moment. Since that moment the president has been at the directing helm of the state department; he has been, in a word, the acting secretary of state, guiding and directing every move the United States made on the international chess board. The preservation of American neutrality in the past six weeks has been an extremely difficult task, but President Wilson believes he has succeeded in passing all the breakers. He has from the first endeavored to preserve ' the spirit as well as the latter of the laws of neutrality, and he tbinks he bas done this in spite of tremendous pressure, and most bitter and unjust criticism, from many sources. He has been assailed by both pro-British and pro-German advocates for maintaining such a strict neutrality, and many, of them has read into his interpretation of internationl law an obvious bias towards their opponents. The fact CREAM FOR CATARRH OPENS UP NOSTRILS Tells How To Get Quick Relief from Head-Colds. It's Splendid! In one minute your clogged nostrils will open, the air passages of your head i will clear and you can breathe freely, j No more hawking, snuffling, - blowing, ' breath at night; -your cold or catarrh will be gone. Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm from your druggist now. Apply a little of this fragrant, antiseptic, healing cream in your nostrils. It penetrates through every air passage of the head, soothes the inflamed or swollen mucous membrane and relief comes instantly. Tt n t -a i. 1 m jusu uuc Hint iswiy siunea-upj with a cold or nasty catarrh ReliaT svuivm wo quicaiy. -

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that both sides have accused him of favoring their enemies, is, in his view, the surest proof that he has been strictly impartial. The president's first aim has been to keep out of all entanglements which might embroil the United States In war, and this, in the view of administration officials, he has done without impairing the dignity of the strictly independent position of the nation. OPPOSES DEATH EDICT. SPRINGFIELD. Ind., March 10. In a special message to the legislature today. Governor R. Dunne urged the abolishment of capital punisbmlnt in Illinois.

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Condensed Statement To Comptroller of the Currency, of UNION NATIONAL BANK RICHMOND, INDIANA At Close of Business, March 4, 1915 RESOURCES Loans and Discounts $ 554,626.14 U. S. and Other Bonds 354,610.00 Federal Reserve Stock 5,000.00 Banking House : 31,500.00 Cash and Sight Exchange 217,845.63 Due from U. S. Treasurer 7,000.00 $1,170,581.77 LIABILITIES CapitalStock $ 150,000.00 Surplus and Profits 154,725.62 Circulation 140,000.00 Deposits 725,956.15 $1;1 70,681. 77 OFFICERS DIRECTORS . GEORGE L. CATES " WILLIAM D. LOEHR President M. C HENLEY EDWIN H.' CATES " E. G. HIBBERD Vice President nvn-anv w hirt M. C. HENLEY , TL Vice President ; GEORGE I CATES H. J. HANES ELWOOD MeGTJIRE Cashier CHARLES A. McOUIRE HENRY J. KOEHRING EDWIN H. CATES Assistant Cashier H. J. HANES

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waB uvu TO PUT BRftKCn IN INDIANAPOLIS Indiana League Includes Enlistment of Working Women and Life Membership In Program. fBY LEASED WIPP 1 INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, March 10. Delegates to the annual convention of the Women's Franchise Leagne of Indiana this afternoon tackled the proposition to establish an Indianapolis branch of the organization under a plan contemplating a separate board of directors for the city to act Independently, from the board of directors representing the remainder of the state. The election of officers was scheduled for tonight. The re-election of Dr. Amelia Keller, Indianapolis, as president appears to be assured. The campaisn to obtain the franchise for women In 1917 as adopted at the forenoon session embraces the following program: A campaign for the constitutional organization of rural forces; enlistment of wage earning- women; life membership to suffragists for $15; organisation of men's clubs: a campaign fund of $5,000; salaried organizers for state works; education of female vot-. era; and prizes for best essays on woman a suffrage by high school students. SINKS GERMAN SHIP BY LEASED WIRE w-.v., .u av ajiaiu nulla of the British steamship Overdale ca-. bled the admiralty today that his ves-. set 6ank a German submarine on New Years' day in the Irish Sea. The Overdale is now in American waters, havine arrived at N'orfnlk phnura 23. He intends to claim the reward for the first submarine sunk by a merchant vessel. THAW LOSES HEALTH IN GOTHAM PRISON BY LEASED WIRE. i - n. vv ivivjv, aiarcn io. uecianng ithat Harry Kendall Thaw is in a seri ous state or neaun, aue io a cold contracted in the Tombs prison, John B. Stanchfleld, chief counsel for the slayer of Stanford 'White, today requested Justice Page to order his transfer to the prison ward In Bellevue hospital. SEIZE U. S. SHIP BY LEASED WIRE-1 NEW YORK. March 10. The American steamer Vigilancia, Savannah to Bremen, with a cargo of cotton, has been seized by a British warship and taken to Kirkwall. Scotland, according to marine advices received here today. CHIROPRACTIC Spinal Adjustments J.C. Bockman, D.C Rooms 5 and 6 Over Knollenberg's Annex. South 8th St. Phone 1868. lOttBiL 11,