Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 297, 31 October 1916 — Page 1

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FIFW-TWO OF SURVIVORS FROtl TORPEDOED MARINA LAND, SAYS CONSUL FROST

LONDON, Oct. 31. Fifty-two more survivor of the torpedoed British freighter Marina have been landed. Survivors say the ship was torpedoed without warning. Wesley Frost, United States consul at Queenstown, reports that there were prob ably. soma fatalities among the Americans on board. Sends Following Report.

The following report of the rescue I

was made to the American embassy

today

"Fifty-two more survivors of the Marina have been landed at Castletown Pier. Only thirty-six Americans on board of whom sixteen were saved .and landed at Crookhaven. "There will probably be some American fatalities. Survivors say the ship was torpedoed without warning. The seas were heavy at the time and she sank in ten minutes." , Frost's report that only thirteen are now missing leaves the fate of five men unaccounted for as the Admiralty had previously reported that seventy were missing.

FINDS LOST STONE IN DRAIN PIPE

NEW YORK, Oct. 31. While cleaning the drain pipe of a wash basin Whitney Van Wicklen, a plumber, found a $200 diamond he lost from bis ring a year ago.

GERMAN PRESS SAYS NORWAY AIDS ENTENTE

BERLIN, Oct. 31. Charges that Norway Is unneutral were made by

German newspapers today. One reason for the tension between Germany and Norway, say the Frankfurt Gazette, is that German submarine operations in the White Sea is preventing the Importation of munitions tote-Russia and England. The Hamburger Nachrlchten says that Norway is attempting to apply exceptional rules to Germany. The Hamburger Fremdonblatt says: ."Norway should be strictly neutral. If she Is on the side of the entente she must take the consequences."

200 KILLED WHEN GREEK SHIP SINKS

PARIS, Oct. 31. The exact loss of life in the sinking of the Greek steam er Angheliki off the Greek coast by a German submarine is still , unknown. A dispatch from Athens today put the dead at fifty-five. The number might reach 200, the statement added. Five hundred passengers were on board the vessel when she sank.

Romance

wrecked

Mrs.; Alice Gates Boutell Ladd, diplomat's daughter, at whose wedding Ptesident Taft was guest, sues wealthy, husband

FAIRBANKS CANCELS CAMPAIGN SPEECHES; HIS MOTHER DIES

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 31. Charles W. Fairbanks, Republican vice presidential nominee, today cancelled all campaign engagements for the week, and probably will not speak again before election, because of the sudden death last night of his mother, Mrs. Mary Adelade Smith Fairbanks. The special train engaged for Mr. Fairbanks for a trip through Indiana beginning tomorrow will maintain its schedule and speakers will be supplied by the t Western headquarters in Chicago.

AMOUNT TO $12,085

Tax collections at the county treasurer's office yesterday amounted to $12,083.16.

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ALLIED PLANE DROPS WREATH

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 31. The peculiar chivalry, which has marked the air fighting ever since the war began bas again manifested itself. .A wreath inscribed with the name of Lieut. Boelke, the famous German aviator, has been dropped from the clouds by an allied airman near the spot where Eoelke .was killed, according to a report reaching here today. 1 On several occasions German and allied aviators have dropped wreaths marked with the names of their adversaries shot down in battle. Just before his death Boelke had asked for permission to go to the eastern front.

BRIDGE ENGINEER'S REPORT BASED ON STARR OPINION WILL REOPEN CONTROVERSY

Level bridge advocates will not be satisfied with the report of J. L. Harrington, Kansas City bridge expert, upon the type of Main street bridge (level or slanting) if It is based upon Harry Starr's report to the county commissioners concerning the attitude of the C. & O. railroad toward a chanae of the grade of its-tracks

through Richmond instead of upon Information direct from the national officee of the road..

A. C. Lindemuth, attorney, for the level bridge advocates, said today that the only sure way to determine the at

titude of the railroad on the proposit Continued On Page Nine.

RELLER MAY ASK GRAND JURY TO PROBE MILK PRICE RAISE AGREED UPON BY DAIRYMEN

With the announcement made today that. the dairymen who furnish Richmond its milk supply had advanced the price of milk from 7 1-7 cents to 8 1-3 cents a quart, coupled with the intimation that the price might increase to 10 cents sometime during the winter, Prosecuting Attorney Will W. Reller stated he would at once examine the Indiana "anti-trust" law and if he found the action of the dairymen to be a violation of this statute he would call the case to the attention of the grand jury when it meets next week. Dairymen Hold Meeting ' : '

Dairymen held a " meeting in this I

city last evening at the office of Dr. L. C. Hoover, South Ninth street, and

after a' discussion of the situation de-

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SURVIVES STRONG SHOCK

JOHN CASELEY DIES AFTER SHORT ILLNESS

John E. Caseley, 40 years old, a wellknown and highly esteemed man. died this morning at his home, 316 Lincoln street, after an illness of several weeks. He was an expert automobile flfcchanic and for several years bad been in the employ of the George W. Davis Motor Car company, and for two years had been in charge of the erecting department of that concern. He was compelled by ill health to retire from acUve service with the company two weeks ago. The announcement of bis death today was a Continued On Page Nine.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. X, Oct. 31. Henry James, 36, survived an electric shock of 2,400 volts. It required nearly an hour of work to revive him. It is expected ho will live.

FILE INCORPORATION PAPERS

Incorporation papers for the F. & M. manufacturing company, Cambridge City, were filed at the county recorder's office today.

HOLD DISTRICT RALLY

ELDORADO, O., Oct. 31. A district rally of the Women's Foreign Missionary society of the Universalist church was held here today.

HUGhtS LEADS HERE

Hughes led in the straw vote which is being taken at the Fosler Drug store, Sixth and Main streets, yesterday. The vote stood: Hughes, 40; Wilson, 16.

PORTER'S EIGHT STORY FALL STARTS ALARM; HE WILL SURVIVE

NEW YORK, Oct. 31. Frank Mather, a porter, fell eight stories to the roof of a factory building. The jar broke the covering of an automatic sprinkler thereby causing an automatic fire alarm to be sent in. He is expected to live.

BIG GUNS BATTLE ON VERDUN FRONT

... PARIS, Oct. 31. The big guns fired all night on Verdun front The war office announced today a violent artillery duel on the Fort Dauoumont line north-east of Verdun. . There was no infantry action however. STORMS HINDER WAR

LODGE WILL REPLY TO WILSON LATER

BOSTON, Oct. ; 31. Senator Henry C. Lodge declined today to enter a reply to the President's denial of the Lusitania note postscript charges. "I do not want to "answer the president of. the United States off hand." he said. "I shall probably make a full reply tonight, however."

TWENTY MEN HELD

Twenty men are now confined in the county jail. " ' -- - - -- -

Weather 1 Forecast

VIENNA, Oct. 31. Storms are inter, fering with operations, on the Italian front, the ftar office reported today.

; For Indiana by the ' United States Weather Bureau Somewhat colder tonight. Wednesday fair.1 Temperature Today Noon ..61 , Yesterday ' Maximum . . . . . . . .... .69 Minimum 40 For Wayne county by W. E. MooreFair tonight and Wednesday. Colder

lomgnt. . . ; General Conditions The unsettled weather which' caused Uight rains early this mornine Is nassine bwit.

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me Mississippi vauey., , . it win De somewhat colder x tonight but' no severe weather is expected.

NEW SUBMARINE WAR OPENED BY ATTACK ; ON SHIPS BEARING AMERICAN CITIZENS; : U. S. TAKES STEP TO REGISTER PROTEST t WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.-The attacks by German submarines upon the Marina and the Rowanmore is believed in official circles today to be the opening of German submarine warfare on a larger scale than ever before attempted. The state department has received confidential information that the German . navy has set about to destroy every merchant vessel bound for an English port. There is not, however, to be a general return to "ruthless" submarine warfare. The work of destruction of the under-water war vessels is to be conducted generally in accordance with the principles of international law as upheld by United States government. All violations of law by submarine commanders will bring severe and immediate punishment by the German government.

EMBASSY PROBES ATTACKS WE ON BRITISH VESSELS BEARING AMERICANS IN CREW

LONDON, Oct. 31. The United States embassy has begun an Investigation into the sinking of the British freighters Marina and Rowanmore, both of which carried Americans in their crews when they were destroyed by German submarines. Already the Admiralty has turned certain facts over to the embassy for transmission to Washington. There were 49 Americans on board the Marina and aeven American citizens, five of them Filipinos on the Rowanmore. Some Lives Lost. :

It has not yet been officially established how many Americans, if any, lost their lives, but the fact that seventy of the Marina's crew were still missing indicates that there are probably some Americans among them. There is a growing belief in official circles that the sinking of these two ships may reopen the whole submarine question between Germany and the United States. v -" . r '

PRESIDENT EXPECTS TO GAIN NEW YORK IN CLOSING CONTEST

SHADOW LAWN, N. J., Oct. 31. President Wilson today prepared for the firing of his last campaign guns to take place in Buffalo tomorrow and in New York City Thursday. A final "salvo" will be dispatched by Mr. Wilson in a speech here Saturday which will be his last public appearance of the campaign. Democratic managers today expressed firm confidence that the president's Buffalo and New York City speeches will dispel the last doubts as to New York state being "safe for Wilson." On the trip to Buffalo and New York the president proposes to stop enroute only for brief periods of handshaking.

NORWAY FILES WASP PROTEST WITH GERMANY

BLOCK WASP WARFARE

STOCKHOLM, Oct. 31. England is reported to have sent a squadron of warships into the Arctic Sea to protect Archangel traffic from German submarines.

COPENHAGEN, Oct. 31. Norway's long-expected reply to Germany's submarine protest was forwarded to Berlin today, according to a dispatch from Christiania. Events of mighty importance depend upon the negotiations between the two countries for they may result in the entrance of another nation, Norway, into the war. It is understood that Norway's contention is that she is according Germany the same treatment as other belligerents. Germany's protest was against a Norwegian decree barring German submarines from Norway's territorial waters.

Probe Ship's Status. Further investigation was being made today by the state department representatives In London to determine the status of the steamer Marina, sunk with the reported loss of a number of American citizens. The status of the Rowanmore is accepted as definitely established ' as a merchantman, and the attack is in violation of Germany's pledges to the United States. If final official reports substantiate the reports of Consul Wesley Frost that American lives have been endangered or lost by an act in violation of international law. It is generally accepted that demands for an immediate appology and for punishment of the submarine commander will bo made upon the German government by President Wilson through the state department. It is not doubted that the demands will be complied with without hesitation. A categorical apology and severest punishment for the submarine commander would follow. Make Diplomatic Issue. "With official information apparently making it clear that international law was violated when the Rowanmore'a crew was shelled after taking to the lifeboats, state department officials here began taking the first steps toward making a diplomatic issue of the case. The American embassy in Berlin already Is seeking information unofficially. Plans were laid here today for a formal request from the German foreign office for all Information.

HUNTER NABS POSSUM WITH BARE HANDS

FAIRMOUNT, Ind., Oct. 31. Demonstrating to his friends that he still retains some of hi? oldtime hunting ability, Denni"-Montgomery, octogenarian, waught a "possum" on the street here with his bare hands. The presence of the animal in town can not be explained.

AUSTRIA MAKES FINAL STAND TO SAVE TRIESTE FROM FOES

ROME, Oct. 31. Heavy reinforcements of Austro-Hungarian troops are arriving for the final defense of Trieste. The Italian war office announced today that an unusual number of troop trains were observed to be arriving in the district north of the city. The text of the official report follows:

Heavy artillery duels are reported from the Upper Butt and the Giulie front. An unusual numben of troop trains is observed to be arriving at Opoina, Nabresina and Dottogllano." The three cities mentioned are behind the front of the Austro-Hungarian army defending Trieste.

SERBS ADD STRENGTH TO ROUMANIANS

POUNDING GERMANS IN JIUL VALLEY

LONDON, Oct. 31. Another great engagement has developed in Dobrudja between the German allies under Field Marshal von Mackensen and the Russo-Roumanians. The Russians and Roumanians have been reinforced by a column of Serbian troops. In the Transylvania Aips the fighting is hindered at some points by

snow storms, but in the sector of the Jiul Valley the Roumanians are still pounding away at Von Falkenhayn's army. Official dispatches from Bucharest today state that the Austro-Ger-man forces in that region are being pressed backwards toward Vulcan Pass. The Roumanian war office announc

ed also the repulse of numerous AusJ

tro-German attacks and a violent bom

bardment in the Orsova sector. A wireless dispatch from Rome says that heavy Roumanian forces are car. rying on guerilla warfare in the Roumanian mountains and that "the Germans have lost about one-fourth of

their men."

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