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ALLIES ARE WINNING IN BIGJBATTLE Foe Beaten Back at French Center, 4,000,000 IN CONFLICT 250,000 Hessian Troops Repari In France. TURKS CJN3EHTBATE 80,000 Belgians Wi i in Battle With Invaders —German Casualty List Reports 16,236 Lost —Burgomaster Asked to Surrender Ghent to Kaiser’s Men—Germany Turns Down Austrian Request For Loan—Allies Evacuate Senlis — German Emissaries Inciting Mohammedans Against English. Czar Nicholas issued an official proclamation declaring Galicia a Russian province. The Belgians have achieved a notable success over the Germans near Saint Amand. Whole companies were put out of action. A Petrograd dispatch says the strong Austrian forts at Nicolaieff and Mikolajow, situated in Galicia, about twenty-five miles southwest of Lemberg, were captured by the Russians Sept. 5. The Germans have lost ground In the fighting on the French center between Fere-Champenoise and Vitry-le-Francois at the southern point of the forest of Argonne. According to the Rome Tribuna there is in France today a total of 250,000 Russian Troops. The twentieth casualty list just issued in Berlin contains 1,180 names. Included in the list are 187. dead and hearty 1,000 wounded. The total casualties thus far published aggregate 2,273 dead, 10,714 wounded and 3,249 missing. According to the newspaper Bien Publlque of Ghent, the burgomaster of that city has received a letter from the German commander asking him to come to Oordegen to make arrangements for the entry of the Germans in Ghent. The Turks, in order to be prepared to oppose a possible landina of Russians, have concentrated 80,000 men at Tchatalja, twenty-five miles northwest of Constantinople, and at Rodosto, on the Sea of Marmora, and are fortifying along the Sea of Marmora at other points. - The Reuter Telegram company says that the czar has prohibited the sale of liquors for the duration of the war . A Havas agency from Zurich, Switzerland, says that the newspapers there announce that Germany has rejected Austria’s request for a loan and that th e bankers have taken similar action. A dispatch from Bucharest to Petrograd byway of London and Odessa announces the entry of Russian troops into Czernowitz. The city is the capital of Bukowina, AustriaHungary, and is 146 miles southeast of Lemberg. The French town of Senlis was evacuated by the allies, and the north and south movement of the German ' army continues, the French embassy announced after receiving a cablegram from its government at Bon. deaux. A dispatch to the Reuter Telegram company from Naples says: “Steamers arriving from Egypt report that German emissaries are inciting the Mohammedans against England, saying that Germany Is everywhere victorious.” Henryk Sienkiewicz, the Polish author, has issued an appeal to the Austrian Poles to fight with Russia. Mr. Sienkiewicz is the author of “Quo Vadis.” A dispatch from Antwerp to the Exchange Telegraph company dated Sunday, says: “The repulse of the German attack against the southern part of Antwerp at Chappelle au Bois, yesterday was successful, the Germans leaving thousands of bodies in the field and retiring in disorder on Vllvorde, six miles northeast of Brussels. They are demoralized by the complete check of the attempt against Antwerp and by the losses Inflicted by our field artillery. The Belgian losses are not numerous.” A second Austrian army operating in front of Krasnozdow in the Lublin region has suffered great losses and is now on the defensive, says a dispatch from Paris. A fact showing the importance the Germans attach to the battle now" raging Is that Kaiser Wilhelm himself Is now in that theater of war. Accounts disagree as to his exact whereabouts, but it is known that

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THE NEW POPE | Cardinal della Chiesa Crowned Supreme Pontiff at Rome. * Viw - jL , &.**! *' 1 I V-’. • 1914. by American Press Association. he is in charge and is at some point along the German eastern line. LONDON — Both flanks of the German army have been turned--iha! of the east by French troops under General Joffre and that of the west by the British under Sir John French, according to unofficial dispatches received here. It is stated, however, that both French and German armies are in critical positions, in which defeat would be absolute disaster. The conflict extends over an irregular line 120 miles from east to west and fifty miles from north to south. The retreat of the Germans from Lille is declared to be due to their fear of attack from an army of British and Russian forces believed to have been landed at a port on the English channel. The troops engaged number more than than 4,-000,000, the Germans having 2,000,000 soldiers in France. The forces of the allies, now reinforced, are believed to be equal in numbers to the invaders. Paris reports that French and British armies, reunited after the long retreat on the left wing from Maubeuge to Paris, gave battle to the Germans and defeated them in the first stages of conflict. The retreat of the Germans is being harassed by the French in pursuit, who are keeping up a constant artillery fire on the enemy*. The struggle which may decide the war so far as France is concerned rages from Nanteuil to Vardun, Nantevil is twenty-five miles from Paris. Wounded soldiers are being brought into Paris. The French war qffice gave oirt thia statement: “A general action has started on the line through Nanteuil-Le-Hau-douin, Meaux, Sezanne and Vitry le Francois and extending to Verdun. “Thanks to the very vigorous action of our troops, strongly supported by the British, the Germans started retiring. “The Germans had advanced Saturday and Sunday into the region between Coulommiers and La FerteGau,cher.” Germany’s army now has its back turned to Paris and is being pursued by the French and British. The enemy is moving to the northeast, apparently to join the German center army. Protesting to the foreign office against its note of Sept. 3 to the diplomatic representatives in Peking and referring to the transgression of Chinese neutrality by the landing of Japanese troops at Lungkow, Baron Von Maltzan, the German charge d’affairs, declares that Germany would hold China responsible for permitting Japanese and British soldiers to cross her territory. The wide turning movement of the German flank near Paris is believed to be caused by a fear on the part of the German general staff of attacking Paris while the French armies are intact. The danger of exposing their rear, in thus swinging around Paris in the hope of destroying the French army, is obvious, and the French are ccntinuing to harass the German’s front and rear. Shells fall continually in the rear of the swinging German army. The belief is growing that the present battle is of the utmost importance, particularly as regards the eastern lines of the French armies. If the fourth German army cuts off the retreat of the eastern French armies which have been holding the Germans in check between Toul and Epinal, ♦wo strongly fortified towns, it might be able to drive the Frenchmen over into Switzerland. t

CZAR'S TROOPS TRAPjAUSTRIANS Russians Hemming In Foe and Prepare to Wipe Them Out. pALACIA ANNEXED BY NICHOLAS Austrian Troops Are Surrounded by Superior Forces —Big Slav Force Besieges Przemsyl—German Airmen Arrive to Aid- Kaiser’s Ally—Russ Capture Strong Austrian Forts . LONDON — In an attempt to complete the trapping of the main Austrian army, Russian troops art pushing around the Austrians’ flank while engaging the army in force in the centci. Reports from Petrograd say that the Austrian army is in a precarious position, being completely bottled up on three sides by superior Russian forces, and its retreat cut off on the fourth side by swamps in the country about the San and Vistula rivers. While the main Russian operations are against this Austrian army, a big force is reported as besieging Premsj 1. German Armies Arrive. A special dispatch to the Star from Petrograd announces that many German aeroplanes are appearing ofi the Russian frontier, heralding the arrival of re-enforcements. The Germans seems to possess a powerful force in the Posen district, the Star correspondent says, as they move their troops from Posen to East Prussia or Galicia as occasion demands. Prisoners Sent to Interior. A telegram from Petrograd to the Reuter Telegram company says It is estimated that 82,000 prisoners, taken in recent battles on the Austrian frontier, of whom 12,000 came from the Austrian center, have all been sent to the interior governments of Russia and that there is difficulty in knowing how to dispose of them. POPE CROWNEDWITH SOLEMN CEREMONIES Supreme Pontiff Received with Popular Acclaim. ROME, ITALY. —Fifty-eight cardinals, including the three American cardinals, gorgeously robed and mitred, and numerous prelates, chamberlains in full uniforms, and troops surrounded the Gestadorial chair bearing the pope as it was carried through the crowded corridors of the Vatican. After the adoration of the sacrament in. the Pauline Chapel, the cortege proceeded to the Sistine chapel, where the pope, assisted by the cardinals, celebrated high mass. He then was solmenly crowned with the tiarra amid the acclamations of the crowds, the sounding of trumpets and the ringing of bells. The cardinals paid their homage and kissed the pope’s feet. A pontifical blessing ended the ceremony. DINANT IS REPORTED RAZED Germans Destroy Belgian Town and Kill Many Civilians. LONDON — Germans have destroyed the Belgian tow-n of Dinant after shooting hundreds of male inhabitants because it was alleged shots had been fired from the heights overlooking the city, says an Ostend dispatch to the Reuter Telegram company. Following is the text of the telegram : “The Germans, in a few hours, by shell fire and incendiarism, destroyed Dinant, on the Meuse. Hundreds of male inhabitants were shot, including one party of prominent citizens, who were executed together in the Place . d’Armes. The Germans alleged that the civilians had fired shots into , Dinant from the heights.” — Seven Burn to Death. I LA CROSSE, WIS. —At least seven men, railway construction employes, were burned to death in a fire in a barn just outside the city. The men stopped in the barn to sleep, the building probably being set fire by their matches. Coroner Herman Langstadt and Dr. Robert E. Flynn, county physician, recovered seven bodies, burned to a crisp and unrecognizable. It is possible more bodies may still be in the ruins. Turks Install Government LONDON — An Exchange Telegraph company’s dispatch from Valona, Albania, says that a complete Turkish government was installed there. Genady Adin Bey, a former Turkish official, will replace the provisional government, which took charge of affairs when Prince William of Wied | withdrew from his kingdom.

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INDIANA STATE NEWS Woman Found Dead In Field. SCOTTSBURG, IND. — Miss Lena Kolb, thirty-six years, who has been missing from her home in Vienna, two miles south of this city, since last ; Wednesday, was found a suicide in a ' corn field about a quarter of a mile ; from her home. Near the body was ' found a small glass jar, which had contained poison, which Miss Kolb ■ taken. A letter written by Miss Kolb stated J that she had made up her mind to j drown herself, but that no one was to tlam€ for her action but herself. She said that she wished her property to be evenly divided between her three brothers, and she also left certain instructions regarding her burial. It is known that Miss Kolb had worried greatly over some financial matters. Chiesa Kin Lives in Indiana. KOKOMO, IND. — Louis Chiesa, an Italian fruit dealer of this city, was probably the most interested person in Indiana in the news from Rome that Cardinal Giacomo Della Chiesa bad been elected pope. Chiesa, who is about forty-eight years old, asserts he is a distant relative. on his father’s side, of the new pontiff. He came to this country about twenty years ago from a village near Pedli, the birthplace of the new pope. According to Chiesa he remembers the pope as a young priest who frequently visited with relatives in the neighborhood. A number of families of Chiesa live in and around Pedli, according to Louis Chiesa. Gary Mills at “Top Notch.” GARY, IND. — The United States Steel corporation mills at Gary are now running at “top notch” for 1914, according to a statement which has been given out here. “Top notch for 1914,” however, is not equivalent to the business condition just preceding the period of depression, but is a great improvement over the situation earlier in the current year. When the new financial system adjusts itself and arrangements can b e made for credit dealings with South American corporations in the market for steel products, a genuine prosperity movement will set in, it was stated. Indiana Educator Marries. BLOOMINGTON, IND..— Dr. Halbert P. Bybee of Rochester, Ind. and Miss Ruth, Wpolery bf this city were united in marriage here. Rev. W A. Bender of Indianapolis officiated. • The bride is a graduate of Indiana university and for the past two years has been an instructor in the botany department. Bybee was graduated from Indiana university in 1912. He will have charge of the geology department of Washington university at St. Louis beginning with the fall term. Hit by Late Train. KOKOMO, IND. — Walter JuIcw, twenty-one, farmer and son of John Julow, living east of this city, was struck by a train over an hour late on the Clover Leaf railroad while driving over a crossing near his home in a buggy. He was badly injured. Woman Struck by Train. LAFAYETTE, IND. — While returning from attending mass at St. Anne’s church Mrs. Mary Ryan, aged fifty, was struck at the Smith street crossing of the Big Four railroad by a west-bound freight train and was probably fatally injured. Mower Nearly Severs Leg. Greencastle, ind. — when Roe Underwood, a farmer residing, northeast of this city, stumbled and fell in front of the blade of a mower with which he and a son were cutting w eeds, his right leg was nearly severed. t Stood in Front of Gun. NORTH VERNON, IND. — While standing in front of a Winchester repeating rifle in the hands of Fred Zebell, Bruce Day. nine, was shot in the right foot when the gun accidentally was discharged. Celebrate 50th Wedding Anniversary. LAGRANGE. IND. — Mr. and Mrs. John Wuthrich of this city have celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary, their nine children being present when the wedding ceremony was repeated. Diphtheria Victim Dies. ANDERSON, IND. — Neecher Garretson, seven yejars old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Garretson, was the first fatality of the diphtheria plague which is sweeping over this city. Named K. P. Adjutant General. RUSHVILLE, IND. — Samuel L. Arabue, attorney of this city, has been reappointed general on the staff o* Major General Locmis, recently elected head of the Uniform Rank, K. of P. Burglar Caught Leaving House. WASHINGTON, IND. — A man giving his name as Thomas Flynn was captured as he departed from the home of James Holland, which Mrs. Holland asserts he had robbed. Re-employ Agricultural Agent. ANDEI SON, IND. — W R. Bntler, agricultural agent, has been reemployed for another year by the Madison county board of education. . — —- —■' ' t "“ t ,

JEALOUSY PROMPTS SLAYING Husband Resents Alleged Attentions to His Wife by Victim. MARION, IND. — Willard Moss burg, thirty-three years, was fatally shot shortly after noon by Charles Davis, forty-six. The two men were returning from Gas City and it is said both bad been drinking. Witnesses say the men alighted from a traction car and started homeward, both living in South Marlon, but had gone but a short distance when the shooting occurred. Mossburg leaves a wife and five children and Davis has a wife and six children. ? According to the police Davis had left his wife about six months ago. but later had returned and was again living with her and the trouble between the two men is -said to have been caused by the alleged Intimacy between Mossburg and Mrs. Davis. The latter told the policershe had been working at a factory here, earning about $lO weekly, and supporting herself and children. The police also say that Davis is reported to have threatened to kill Mossburg and that he bought the revolver with which he did the shooting Saturday nigt. FACTORY FIRE LOSS SIOO.OOO Employes in Indiana Wardrobe Plant Have Narrow Escape. SHELBYVILLE, IND. — The big Shelbyville Wardrobe company’s plant, valued at SIOO,OOO, was almost destroyed by fire here. The blaze started on the third floor from an explosion that occurred when a snark from the smokestack blew through a window into a can of finishing wax Many of the employes had narrow escapes as the flames cut them off from the stairways. Alonzo Comstock jumped from a third-story window and was seriously injured. Jerome Collins was taken down with a ladder after he had hung by his hands from a third-story window for several minutes. BANDITS HOLD UP GROCERY Gets S3OO of Proprietor’s Cash as He Puts It In Safe. KOKOMO. IND. — Four masked men entered the grocery store of William Ammerman, Tate street and Indiana avenue, shortly after midnight and forced the proprietor and his clerk, W. A. Catt, to stand up alongside the wall while their pockets were rifled. The robbers got S3OO in silver and currency from the pocket ot Mr. Ammerman, who had taken the money from the cash register and intended putting it in the safe. During the holdup, Mrs. Sam Eart ly, living nearby, went into the store to make a purchase and she was lined up alongside the two men. BOY IS~BORN ON STEAMER Captain Gives Feast, and Infant Is Named “Steamboat Bill.” EVANSVILLE, IND.—A baby boy was born on the steamer Bowling Green on Green river, a few miles from here. Mrs. Essie Joiner, who boarded the boat at East wood Landing, Ky., was the mother. The child was a twelve pounder, and the boat was stopped and a physician summoned from the nearest landing. In honor of the stork’s arrival the captain of the craft, Elmore Bewley, ordered a feast spread. The passengers and crew then took a vote and unanimously decided to name the infant “Steamboat Bill” Joiner. BEEN HOOSIERS 100 YEARS Indiana Family Will Hold Centennial Celebration. INDIANAPOLIS — One hundred years of continuous residence in Indiana will be commemorated by the Rooker family at Brookside park on Tuesday, Oct. 1. William Rooker, who planted the Indiana branch of the family, was born in London, England, in 1755. Seven generations of the Rooker family have resided in Marion county, six in Hamilton county and six in Morgan county. At the centennial reunion the facts commemorating the family’s first 100 years in Indiana will be placed in suitable form for preservation. CHARMS SNAKES WITH MUSIC Aged Indiana Darkey Has Supernatural Influencce Over Reptiles. IND. — That a snake can be charmed by the tones of music has been proved to many per sons here. Moses Reny, an aged negro living in a dilapidated shack on the banks of the Whitewater river, near here, claims supernatural influence over reptiles and animals, and the most treasured of all his pets are a blacksnake four feet long and a big water moccasin, the latter being allowed the freedom of the stream. HIS RECOVERY IS DOUBTFUL Prickly Heat; Coal Oil; Lighted Pipe; Hospital. LOGANSPORT, IND. — John M Griffin, a railroad shopman, unable longer to bear the tortures of prickly heat, rubbed coal oil over his body to cure it. Then he put his pipe in his mouth and lighted a match. At the hospital A was found Griffin was bad ly burned from head to foot. His recovery is doubtful. «

HOLDING UP TOURISTS J Party of Americans In Bel- I gium Undergoing Inspection. [ M/1J jA GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR. Tuesday, Sept. I.—Reports from Paris say the French left wing north of Paris have been forced to “mark a new retirement,” but nowhere have they been broken through. A dispatch from Dieppe says a great battle has been fought at Croisilles. No details are given. A Roumania report says that the Russians have inflicted a crushing defeat on the Austrians in Galicia. Wednesday, Sept. 2.—The fourth day ot the second general battle between the Germans and the allies finds Emperor William’s forces pressing their advance on Paris with unprecendented strength. Their right is reported to be within fifty miles of the French capital In the east the fighting continues with unabated fury. Both the Russian and Austro-German armies have met successes and reverses. It was admitted in St. Petersburg that two army corps were defeated in East Prussia and three generals were lost. On the other hand the Austrians appear to have been defeated in Galicia, where overwhelming successes are claimed by the Russians. Thursday, Sept. 3.—The Germans are pushing their right wing nearer Paris, while their center and left appear to be held by the French. Russia is pressing forward in the Austrian province of Galicia, after having taken the strongly fortified capital, Lemberg. The Germans are admittedly victorious in East Prussia. Japanese are said to have occupied seven islands near Kiauchau and to have landed additional troops within marching distance of Kiauchau in the face of protests by China. The government of France Is now established at Bordeaux. The foreign embassies and legations, with the exception of those of the United States and Switzerland, also have been moved from Paris to Bordeaux. Friday, Sept. 4.—The German right is at the rear of the retreating French, who are falling back through Creil, Senlis and Crepy-en-Valois. This news would place the advance of the German army within perhaps twenty-five miles of Paris. A London report says that British transports have landed 80,000 Russian troops in France. The German ambassador to the United States. Count von Bernstorff, announced that he had positive information that two British cruisers off New York harbor .were receiving supplies from a vessel flying the American flag. Saturday, Sept. s.—The Germans in a semicircle seemed to have reached points east and West of Paris, their left wing touching La Ferte-sous-Jouarre, in the department of Seineet Marne. A Rome dispatch says five German army corps have arrived at the Vistula river to support defense against the Russian invaders of East Prussia. The Russian general staff asserts that its victorious army in Galicia is sweeping the Austrians before it. The Servians report that the Austrians left 30,0-00 dead after the battle of Jadar and that the Servians capturde 4,600 prisoners. Svndby. Sept. 6.—The Belgian army has renewed its activity in the district about Tirelemonde and has been engaged for two days. Belgian dispatches say thousands of German dead have been found on the field. A St. Petersburg dispatch says the Russian troops completely defeated the Fifteenth Austrian division on Aus. 28 near Lastchevo, and continuing the operations in that direction, captured three flags, twenty field guns, eighteen machine guns, two aeroplanes, 150 officers and 12,000 soldiers. The German forces are proceeding divided into four armies, in a turning movement toward the south rather than pushing toward Paris.

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GERMANS LOSING IN DIGFISHT Allies Driving Back KaisePsJssts. LEFT WING SHA TERED Armistice to Bury Ger lan Dead Is Refused. PARIS TELLS OF THE WVANCE Fully 4,000.000 Men Pari cipated In Day’s Fighting—Vast Ge man Ar&iy Is Farther Away From F iris and Is Falling Back —Japanese Aviators Damage German For-' "ications— Czar Is Determined t Visit in Berlin. Dispatches from St. Peters iurg quote the czar as saying tha he is determined to go to Berh , and that if Russians fail to clear ' >e way the Japanese are ready to c operate. The African World, a ommerciat weekly published in Lor lon in the Interests of the Afrhiar trade, announces that Emperor > rancis Joseph of Austria-Hungar. has been dead for twelve days. Ghent, Belgium, has surr< ndered to the Germans, but accor ing to an understanding between he burgo f master and the German ommander the city is not to be < rcupied in force. The two ships, the BresL j and the Goeben, are now flying t’ s Star and Crescent and have been ' iven Turkish names. Turkey still nsists that she is maintaining a str st neutrality as to the war. Paris, Sept. 9.—Driven ’ ack along their entire battle line ant 1 with their right wing army shaltere by heavy losses, the Germans asked he French for an armistice to bury heir dead and care for the woundei The request was refused, it wr ; reported unofficially, because it is 1 nown that the kaiser is re-arranging his forces to meet the offensive mo ements of the allies and might empl< ' the time of truce to strengthen his ositions. French and British trooj were victorious from Meaux, near Paris, to Chateau Senlis, in Lor line. The greatest shock of the batt s was felt on the French center whs e the Germans were forced to . ■•tin after they had delivered a ser of violent attacks to pierce the 1’ nch lines. The 2.090,000 German troops in •'rance are believed to be exhausted > while the French have been reins reed with fresh reservists from the outh. Ful- • ly 4,000,000 men particips ed in the day’s fighting. Official Commtmiq e. The war office issued ’his state ment: Paris’ Statement of S' uation. * The official communiq..e, section one. says: “First —On our left wlnf the allied armies comprising the eler >nts of the far outlying defense of Pa. s continue to advance from the ba. <s of the Our river up to the cour *y around Montmirail. The enemy is retreating toward the Marne rive between Meaux and Sezanne. Freni i and English troops took a large umber of prisoners, notably a battr ion of infantry and a compapny of rntrailleuses and several caissons. “Second —Along our cc ter hartl fights were engaged in bet een Fere, Chapenoise and Vitry-le-Fr ncois and the southern point of th Argonne ridge. We have not been . ipulsed at any point and the enem. has lost ground around the edges f Vitry-le-Francois, where a retrea 'ng movement by the enemy is learly observed and established. “Third —On our right i German division attacked us along c line passing through Chateau Sa ines and Nancy, but it was repulse north of the forest of Champeinoix. 'lsewhere. farther to the east, our tre ips retook the crest of Mandray and the pass of Fourneaux. “Fourth—There is no change in the situation in Alsace.” Aviators Damage Fortifi ations. Tokio, Sept. 9.—lt was officially announced that the Japanese aviatoru operating in conjunction with the blockading fleet off Kiau hau have succeeded in greatly damaging the German fortifications. As i result it is stated that the command ar in chief is confident that when the army can reach the positions allotted to it the task of capturing the German concessions will be less difficult than was originally feared. Alarmed at Attitude of 'lulgaria. Rome, Sept. 9.—(Via Lor. ion) —Dispatches received here fn m Vienna by the Tribuna iesisf* atam to

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