The Syracuse Journal, Volume 7, Number 39, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 28 January 1915 — Page 1

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GERMANS BATTER AT ALLIES' LINES Teutons Penetrate Trendies ot Foe Near Craonne. AUSTRO-GERMANS TAKE KIELCE Pciish City Now in Hands of Teutonic AHies, Says Cracow Dispatch—Russ Take Jacobini Province—Berlin Says British Lost Three Ships in North Sea Fight. Greatly increased activity along the western battle front is reported in the official French communication. The initiative rested with the Germans, .who in some sections deitvei red as many as five successive attacks of great violence, it is said that all these assaults were met successfully, except in the region of Ciacnne, where the Germans succeeded in penetrating the trenches of the allies and holding some of the ground gained. A dispatch received In Berlin from Cracow, Galicia, says that AustroGerman forces have occupied Kielce, Russian Poland. LONDON — The Bucharest correspondent of the Daily Mail says the Russians, after destroying the. electric ‘railway station at Jacobini, Buhtwiija, which was built by the Austrians, have occupied the whole of the Jacobini district, but only after a hard battle, in which the Russians lost an entire regiment in killed or wounded. They were obliged ternyorlly to retire to Czokancschtie under a constant Austrian bombardment which prevented any advance until reenforcements were received. “They now hold the key to Josefalva, in Hungary,” the correspondent adds, "while Dorna-Watra is threatened and its fall is inevitable. General Wabel, commander of the Russian left ■wtog, has arrived with his staff ’at Czernowitz, capital of Bukowlna, and large masses of Russian re-enforce-ments which are arriving at Bukowina indicate that it is the intention to penetrate Transylvania in force.” Berlin Says British Lost Three Ships. BERLIN (Via Wireless.to London.) Repeating its~’ctaim” that the ftritisn” battle cruiser was sunk in the Sunday morning naval battle in the North Sea, the German war office declared ft has Information that two British destroyers also were sunls and the enemy’s ships badly damaged. “Well-informed German parties declare they have information that an English battle cruiser was sunk by a German torpedo-boat with two shots, after the cruiser previously had suffered severely from the fire of our guns,” said the official bulletin. Berlin papers declared the North F-ea engagement a brilliant victory for the German squadron, though, regret|sWg the loss of thfe Bluecher. Aside from the sinking of the German battle cruiser, Rear Admiral Hipper’s squadron sustained but slight losses, it was reported here. Captain of Bluecher Saved. LONDON — The Daily Mail says It understands that Captain Erdmann, who was in charge of the German armored cruiser Bluecher when she was sunk by the British warships in the North Sea Sunday, was among the survivors landed at Leith. British Destroy Big German Gun. STOMER, FRANCE _ The heavy artillery of the British has destroyed an enormous gun which the Germans were placing on a hill about a mile behind their first line trenches, and about two miles from. Fesfubert, with the object of silencing the English howitzers and bombarding Bethune. The position of the big gun was marked by a British aviator and the fourth shell from the British guns demolished it. Ihe British gunners then directed their fire on a group of German artillerymen engaged, in placing a similar gin. a mile farther behind, scattering them, with a few well timed shells. Thye also smashed three pumps brought up by the Germans to empty water out of their trenches. NEW QUARANTINE ON YARDS Federal Men Find Traces of Plague in Chicago Hog Shipment. CHICAGO — Discovery of foot and mouth disease in shipments of ln>f s from Chicago to Philadelphia caused the federal 'government to place a new embargo on the entire outward movement of live stock froifr the Chicago stockyards. The embargo was stated by federal officers to be merely temporary. But apprehension exists that it will be necessary to close the market for disinfection, as was done recently at Buffalo, Pittsburg and Cincinnati. Eastern shippers have large orders for cattle, hogs and sheep and the tie-up practically destroyed competition, throwing the market into the hands of local packers. — Ship Sunk—Crew Saved. NORFOLK, VA. — One man was lost and thirty-ninp were rescued with difficulty early in the day when a schooner collided with and sank the American Hawaiian steamer Washingtonian off Fenwicks Island, flftj miles from Ca_pe Henry.

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BEHIND BREASTWORKS British Soldiers Fighting in Forest in Northern France. ■ I r illlll Photo by American Press Association AGENERAL SIWEY~OF THE WAR. Thursday, Ja n . 21.—The French army invasion in Alsace has penetrated to the town of Hartmanns Weiler, fifteen miles from the Rhine. The French are pressing determinedly on. The reports from the front indicate general successful operations by the French near Arras. Elsewhere in the western field there have been little more than desultory artillery exchanges. Official news from Petrograd says the Austrian resistance in northeastern Hungary has broken that ’Russians troops 'are marchihg through the Borgo aud other passes. In Poland and Galicia siege operations continue with both sides making new dispositions. Friday, Jan. 22.—The German war office emphasizes a ..victory for the kaiser’s troops in Alsace, where, at Hartmanns Weller Kopf, a height commanding the roads to Muelhausen. the Germans evicted the French and took some prisoners. The abandonment of a trench, at Berry-au-Bac is admitted. Nothing important took place elsewhere. * Official reports from the Russian general staff support dispatches from correspondehts to the effect that the Russians are maching toward the German frontier on an unbroken front forty miles in extent.- The Russian right wing with a base at Rypin is within ten miles of the frontier. The objective jof the movement is the fortress of Thorn, the German base for in northern and central Poland. / Indications are that Roumania will soon ejAer the conflict. War preparatic ns'are being openly rushed and precautions are being taken to protect gun powder and ammunition depots against aerial attacks. A number of foreigners who have been suspected of espoinage have been ex-1 polled. Saturday, Jan. 23.—There was an' intense bombardment by the Germans in the region north of Zillebeke and a lively fusilade near the chateau of Ehrenbagg. In Alsace the battle con-| tinues in the region of Uffholz and around Hartmanns Weiler Kopf. At other points in France and' Flanders rifle fire and artillery took place with no decisive outcomes. Under’ a murderous fire from a German infantry regiment the Bussiah cavalry menacing the German \ seres southeast of Kikol was forced i to retire. The outposts having clashed, news is awaited of the beginning of ope of the greatest battle in northern Poland since the present campaign began, A group of German aeroplanes attacked Dunkirk and nearby coast villages. They dropped about eighty bombs. There are twenty known victims of the raid of whom seven are dead. Sunday, Jan. 24. —The London admiralty announces the British patroling squadron with a destroyer flotilla sighted four German battle cruisers aiid several light cruisers in the North Sea The German ship were apparently steaming for the English coast. The British squadron pursued at high speed. In the running fight that ensued the German cruiser Bluecher was sunk. Many of the crew were saved. The French report tells of progress throughout most of the western front, and claims the retaking of the position of Hartmann Weiler, captured by the Germans the same day. If. the eastern field the Russians in the Carpathians lost several trenches and were driven south of the passes. In Bukowlna quiet reigns. Along the Vistula and in Galicia no decisive fights have taken place. • ’ *' |

QUARTER BILLION JOHN D.'S GIFTS Son of Oil Magnate Testifies Regarding Gifts. CITES GREAT PUBLIC SERVICE J. D. Rockefeller Tells Federal Industrial Relations Committee of Vast Philanthropies—Largest Sums Have Been Given Through Rockefeller Foundation. New York, Jan. 27.—John D. Rockefeller, during his career, has given a quarter of a billion dollars to philanthropy. Most of it has gone through the Rockefeller foundation, the genera! education board, the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and the University of Chicago. His son, John D. Rockefeller Jr., made this statement to the federal industrial relations committee. He said that $100,000,000 had been given to the foundation, $10,000,000 to the institutions, $34,000,000 each to the educational board and University of Ch'cago, and the remainder in various other ways. He declared the money that was disbursed this way had done more good for humanity than if it had been distributed among his father’s eraplcyes. For Great Public Service. The elder Rockefeller had in mind the, performance of great public service. the witness said. The founding of the general education board, the Rockefeller foundation and the Rockefeller institute were detailed. Mr. Rockefeller Sr., the witness testified, made no suggestions of any kind, leaving the whole management to experts and men trained in such affairs. After the institute’s physicians had found a remedy for cerebro spinal meningitis, Mr. Rockefeller said, the death rate was reduced from 75 per cent to 25 per cent. In the first 600 cases treated, he said, 300 lives were saved. Young Rockefeller said he did not believe any privately controlled organization constituted a possible menJmlustrial independence. MANN ACT ACCUSER INDICTED Jessie Cope Is Charged With Attempted Bribery of Officials. Chicago, Jan. 27—The federal grand jurj returned an indictment charging Miss Jessie Elizabeth Cope of Los Angeles, Cal., with attempted bribery of government officials. The true bill charges that she offered to split $50,000 with several officials in Chicago If they would aid her in obtaining this sum from Colonel Charles Alexander, millionaire steel man and banker of Providence, R. I. The government officials who were to share in the amount are: District Attorney Charles F. Cline, Hinton G. Clabaugh, division superintendent of the department of justice? Lusien Wheeler, a special agent of the department of justice, and former Assistant District Attorney Michael L. Igoe. BELGIUM PACT DEFENSIVE Great Britain Calls Attention to Marginal Note in Captured Papers. London, Jan. 27.—The official information bureau issued a statement as | fellows: “The foreign office, replying official'ly to the interviews with Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg, the German imperial chancellor (published in America Jan. 24 and Jan. 25), admits the existence of the documents the German has said they found in Brussels, but insists these were purely informal in case the British needed to defend Belgian neutrality. The Belgian marginal note upon the record explains that ‘the entry of the English intc Belgium would only take place aftei the violation of our neutrality I by Germany.’ ” GERMAN BOAT IS TORPEDOED Cruiser Gazelle Hit but She Is Able to Return to Port. Malmo, Sweden, Jan. 27.—1 tis persistently asserted here that the German protected cruiser Gazelle was torpedoed by a submarine of unknown rationality at a point in the Baltic niai the island of Ruegen, which is She coast of Prussia. though the Gazelle was damaged, was able to return to the port of Sassnitz. The Gazelle is a ship of 2,64 c tons, built in 1898, and carries a crew of 264 men. PURSUERS SLAY BOY BANDIT He Had*Held Up Bank and Was Fleeing With $5,000. Houston, Tex., Jan. 27.—A boy robber late in the day walked into the Guarantee State bank on Washington avenue here, covered the bank officials with his gun, forced them into the vault, locked them up, raked up between $4,000 and $5,000 and fled. He was pursued and killed before going half a dozen blocks.

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t INDI AN A STATE NEWS i * —+♦♦->+— * Son, Lost Thirty Years, Is Beck. NASHVILLE, INND. — Christa Nashville, Ind., Jan. 26.—Christo pber McGuire, after an absence ot thirty years, has returned to the home of his aged parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cal vin McGuire, in Van Buren township When ten years old young McGuire played “hookey” from school, and at ter his father had punished him he ran away. For several years the par cuts searched for the young man, and finally gave him up as dead. McGuire worked for several years In South Bend, then went to Chicago, where he r worked in a real estate office. From there he went to Florida and became wealthy. The aged father and mother failed to recognize their son when he first entered the room. McGuire will take his father and mother to his Florida home next month. ’ Rob Man Under Arc Light. EVANSVILLE, IND. — William Scherffius Sr., proprietor of a department store on the west side, was held up under an arc light at the side en trance of his home late at night and robbed of jewelry valued at $250. Two men who had been following him from his store suddenly closed in ' or. him and. leveling a revolver at his head, threatened him with death if he made an outcry. Mr. Scherffius was able to furnish good descriptions ol both men to the police. Starves Wife to Be “King.” EVANSVILLE, IND- — Mrs. An na Hantozopolis, Wife of Nicholas Hantozopolis, know* here as the “pea nut king,” because'he is said at one time to have owned all the peanut stands in Evansvilte, was awarded a divorce in the superior court. She testified that in their married life ol ' six years he has not given her a cent • although he managed to send $17,001: to his brother, to held until he had $30,000, when he jwould return tc Greece and “live lijge a king.” Alleged Slaye£ Arraigned. BOONVILLE, IND: — Mr. Clydt Barnhill, thirty yejrs old, a mine? charged with murder ip the first •> gree. was arraigned! before City Judge Nat H. Youngblood and pleaded guilty. His preliminary hearing is set sci next Wednesday. At the mjveel on the body of William O’Loughlin Coroner C. F. Martin found that death resulted from a bullet wound in the head received ht the hands of Barn — £ - Want Quarantine Removed. MUNCIE, ‘ IND. — Farmers o' Delaware county have petitioned the Muncie Chamber of Commerce to at tempt to have the stock quarantine removed from the county. The las 1 cases of the foot and mouth disease disappeared some time ago. Deputj state veterinarians say the quarantine is kept in effect by federal officers ana that the state is powerless t< remove it. * j Town Quarantines Against Shows. , PAOLI, IND. — The schools churches, picture shows and all othei public meeting places here are closed tor ten days on account of the preva lence of diphtheria. One death al ready has resulted. Children less that thirteen years old are kept off ths streets and it is expected by this strict quarantine that the disease wil soon be wiped out. Needle in Leg Fatal. LOGANSPORT, IND. — A needh broken off in the leg of Florence Ger trude Brinley, four years old, wher the child was making doll clothes a* Christmas time, has resulted in ths death of the girl. She died of menln gitis, which developed from the infec tion in the child’s leg. The needlt si ifted and an effort to remove ii failed. Horse Jumps, Couple Hurt. NASHVILLE, IND. — Orval Me 1 Guire and Miss Jessie Poling werq bedlj injured when a horse they wers driving became frightened and jumpes off a twenty foot embankment. Mlsi Pc ling jumped from the buggy ant suffered a broken arm. MrGuire. was bruised about the head and was un conscious when removed. Last of Purtelle. RENSSELAER, IND. — The office furniture of the Indiana and North western Traction company was soft at .sheriff’s auction here for SIOO tc , satisfy a judgment. The company was organized by Eugene Purtelle, a Chi cago promoter, who has been attempt Ing to build an interurban line ir northwestern Indiana. i Catholic Sister Severely Injured. I LAFAYETTE, IND. — Sister Marj Adolva of the Catholic sisterhood, ir charge of the St. Joseph Orphan asy . lum here, was injured when her arn ’ became caught in a mangle in the ! laundry of the asylum and was i crushed so seriously that amputatior may be necessary. ’ Boy Dies of Burns. RICHMOND, IND. — Roy Reed er, five year old son of Mr. and Mrs Richard Reeder, died a few hours a’ ter his clothing caught fire from an ■ open stove. The mother was burred i severely in an attempt to save son. i ■ — Two Shot Firers Killed. > TERRE HAUTE, IND. — In an > ■ explosion in the Grant mine, near New Goshen, northwest of Terre Haute, » two shot firers, Guy Rawley and John Hale, were instantly killed? -I . - — ■ >■—lM— —

CAPTURE FOX WITHOUT DOGS SSO Obtained for Animal in Drive Goes to Charity. LAFAYETTE, IND. — More than 500 persons took part in the Tippecanoe tpwhship fox drive and one fox was captured in the roundup. Six fo>es were seen during the drive, but five escaped through the lines. The drive lasted three hours and all of the men and boys who participated carried noise making instruments. No guns or dogs were allowed. Three thousand persons witnessed the drive, 6 gathering on the Ross farm at Pleasant Grove to see the roundup. A determined effort will be made to caj>turo the other foxes, which have been causing fanners In Tippecanoe county no little trouble. As the result of the drive SSO was realized for the charity associations of Lafayette. The fox was raffled off and was won by Henry- Mohlman for S3C Mohlman then put the fox up I at auction and S2O was obtained. The [ fox finally became the property of ! Warren Horsman. GETS $5,000 OF HIS $32,000 I Mrs. F. W. Mitchell Part of Husband’s Award as Alimony. HAMMOND, IND. — Mrs. F W. Mitchell of Valparaiso obtained $5,000 out her husband’s $32,000 as alimony in her divorce suit against her husband, a Chicago physician, in the Porter County Superior Court. Dr. Mitchell, while on his way to the auto speedway races at Indianapolis last May, was hurled out of a berth on a Monon flyer as the train went around a curve. His operating hand was crushed, and after legal fights with the railroad and accident insurance companies Dr. Mitchell collected $32,000 as damages for his injuries Then came the divorce. Within twe days after getting, divorced Dr. Mitchell married Miss Genevieve Moore ot Chicago, a trained nurse, who was named in his wife’s bill for divorce. MURDERS DUE TO VENDETTA Double Slaying at Laporte, Ind. Traced to Black Hand. LA PORTE, IND. — The theory that the Black Hand society was responsible for the murder of Joseph Mirisenna and Salvadore Cuine in Fox park in this city Jan. 13 is confirmed Acting Chief of Police Borg: received an affidavit from a woman boarding house keeper in Cleveland declaring that members of an Italiar society murdered Sept. 13, 1914, in Cleveland, and Mariana Picci, who was killed about the same time in Sandusky, secured revenge on Cuine and Mirisen na, who were alleged to have killed Confine and Picci. 1 The police are holding two suspects CARNEGIE AWARD TO WIDOW Mrs. O. H. Carroll, Connersville, lnd„ Is Given Medal and Pension. CONNERSVILLE, IND.—Mrs. Grace Carroll, the widow of Otto H. Carroll, who met death near Metamora, Ind., May 30, 1914, in attempting to save the life of twelve year old William Lewis, was notified by the Car negie Hero Fund commission that a silver medal for bravery has been aw-arded in the case of her husband. The widow also will become a bene ficiary of the Carnegie pension fund, receiving SSO a month, with $5 a month additional for her son until he becomes sixteen years old. Otto Carroll, thirty-nine years old, lost his life in a brave effort to save William Lewis, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Lewis, from drowning. DRAINAGE PROJECT BALKED N. Y. Central Files Writ of Error In the Little Calumet Case. HAMMOND, IND. — The Burns ditch project, engineered by Chicagoans, which would reclaim 20,000 acres in the little Calumet valley and , prevent the annual spring floods in this section, delayed by litigation for six years, faces further delay. The New York Central system has filed a writ ot error ip the United States Supreme court. The Indiana Supreme court recently decided that the railread would have to pay the costs of any additional bridges required by the construction of the ditch. The railroad company seeks to throw the bridge building costs on the taxpayers. HOSSIER CLIMBS TTTHE TOP Indiana Man Is Governor of Philippine Province. SOUTH BEND, IND. — Lieutenant Guy N Rohrer, . formerly of South Bend, is now governor of the province of Sulu, Philippine islands. Tc take up the duties of governor the first of the year Lieutenant Rohrer resigned his commission in the constabulary at the insistence of Governor General Francis Burton Harrison. BUTTER THIEVES USE AUTO Raids Near Gary, Ind., Yield Robbers Thousands of Pounds. GARY, IND. — Butter thieves, thought to be from Gary, are robbing dairies and railroad carl in county. Three thousand pounds of butter were taken from a Grand Trunk car and $1,300 worth' was ob< tained in a raid at Crocker. The butts.- pirates used a fast automobile. ... .nIMMr~T"- •' ■ "lij- -«mWfeitortHMii

ALEXANDER G. BELL Inventor Who Made It Possible to Speak Across the Continent. IM > / I Hk- - ' ' TALKS ACROSS CONTINENT President vi(Uson’s .Voice Is Heard From Ocean to Ocean. WASHINGTON — President Wil son inaugurated the first transcontinental telephone system by speaking directly to President Moore of the Panama-Pacific exposition in San Francisco. With Mr. Moore, Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone and President fcail of the American Telephone and Telegraph company on the wire, at different points, the President extended congratulations on the achievement. The circuit of phones used ip all the conversations was 4,600 miles. KAISER HAS BIG NAVAL GUN Projectiles Weigh Ton and Will Ca- ry Twenty-eight Miles. BERLIN (Via London) — Remarkable figures regarding' a new German naval gyri’ are given by a German artillery' expert, .writing in the Artillery Monats Hefte. The writer admits th'at Krupps are manufacturing A gun whose projectile weighs 920 kilograms fabout a ton) and which develops muzzle velocity of 940 meters! (abqyt 3,700 feet) a second. * expert- deduees, that the gun has 38 per cent motfc muzzle force than the British navy’s best weapon and has a range of about forty-two kilometers (about twenty-eight miles), while the channel at Dover is only thirty-three kilometers (about twenty-two miles) wide. He says the figures given, if correct, will permit the Germans eventually to command the English coast from Calais for a distance of nine kilometer's (about six miles) inland with the new-gun. K BAR AGAINST UNIONS UPHELD Karsas So-called Coercion Law Is De clared Unconstitutional. WASHINGTON, D. C. — The Kansas so-called coercion statutes, making it unlawfuf for any individual or cor pcrating to coerce or influence any person tq enter into an agreement not to join or remain a member of a labor organization as a condition ot such person securing or continuing in the employment of such individual oi cr rporation, was annulled as unconstitutional by the supreme court. • The decision was regarded as of the first Importance in the labor vc rid, and was announced by Justice Pitney! Strong dissenting opinions were given by Justices Holmes and Day. Justice Hughes concurred with Justice Day, leaving Chief Justice White and Justices McKenna and Vardevanter and Mcßeynolds concurring with Justice Pitney. STEAMER GIVEN UP AS SUNK British Scout Ship Viknor Is Officially Reported Lost. LONDON, ENG. — The steamship Viknor, recently armed by the government and added to the scout and commerce protector units of the navy, has been destroyed by a German mine. Undoubtedly all of her company met death. The news of the loss was reported by the admiralty in the following statement: “The secretary of the admiralty regrets to announce that the armed merchant vessel HMS. Viknor which had been missing for some days, must now 1 be accepted as lost witji all ,of her officers and men. The cause of loss is uncertain, but it is presumed that she struck a mine in seas where the Germans are known to have laid them.” ICELAND ON WATER WAGON Parliament of Arctic Country Forbids Sale of Alcoholic Drinks. COPENHAGEN — The parliament of Iceland, thirty-feur ot whose forty members are elected by popular suffrage, has passed a measure forbulding the sale of alcoholic liquors. Al’, the remaining stock in the Danish dependency has been exported. Austrian Dreadnaught Lost, Rumor. VENICE — It is rumored here that an Austrian dreadnaught has struck a mine off Pola and sunk.

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GERMANY GIVES TANGLE TO FOOD Grave Point 1$ Raised by Goveroment Order. AU SUPPLIES NATIONALIZED — I • Attitude of British Government Toward Wilhelmina Not DecidedQuery Raised as to How Food Can Be for Non-Combatants When Government Assumes Ownership. LONDON, ENG. The' attitude which the British government will adopt toward the carro of the American steamship WUJfelmina, which sailed from New Ycfrk for Hamburg last Friday with food stuffs for Germany, has not yet been decided. The Wilhelmina, originally the, British steamer Newborough, is the first food laden vessel to leave an American p<r t for Germany since the opening of the war and the question of food stuffs as conditional contraband will ccnie up for the first time. * i Food Question in New Angle. ; The United States and Great ain are agreed on the principles of I contraband. They also admit the ! contention that food stuffs placed on ■ the conditional contrabandi list may ( be shipped without condition of selzj ure provided they are not designed for j a belligerent government or the use of the enemy's armed force. But it I is this question of destination that I ls causing study in the case of the Wilhelmina and for this reason is ■ there sufficient guarantee that the cargo will not be used by the German government for its armed' forces, par- | ticu’ariy in view of thp various GerI man proclamation that food stuffs--are i primarily the property of the governI ment? The question revolves itself into this: What guarantees can the ] consignees of the Wilhelmina’s cargo offer that it will not be used tor German forces? The case will be thoroughly investigated yet in a spirit, of the utmost fi ‘endliness, and while the burden of pi oof of the bonafides of the cargo is on the shippers, still there is every disposition to meet the situation in ; M-Wosriffifimie wnSreKVMrear — - - insisting too much on the technical rights or aspects of the case. Brya n ’s Letter Clears. Atmosphere. The letter of Secretary Bryan to Senator Stone on America’s view of th*- duties of neutrality is regarded in. official circles as eminently satisfactory and frankly it may be said that the letter helpe’d to clear the atmosphere. The speech by Senator Ixidge . is welcomed also, as he is believed to be pointing out a real danger to the good relations betweeri the United ’ States' and the belligerent countries as he drew attention to the fact that in the case of he Dacia, if she had been a government owned ship engaged in trade with an enemy's coun- - try the situation might have devel-'< oped awkwardly. RADICALS IN ITALY VOTE WAR Milan Congress Also Demands Intervention and Denunciation of Alliance. ROME — The committee of the radical party has unanimously aaopted a motion declaring Italy’s participation in the European conflict is indispensible to the satisfaction of her aspirations and the protection of her interests. This vote emphatically disproves the rumor that several radicals desire to support Signor Giollittl iu a strictly neutral policy. The radicals of Padua and the revolutionary associations of many cities represented in a congress at Milan # have voted fcr intervention and an immediate denunciation of the triple al« llarce. Anti-War Ricts in Croatia; LONDON — Anti-war riots approaching a revolution have occurred in Agram, capital of Austrian Croatia, according to mail advices from Vienna. For three days the palace was beseiged by rioters who succeeded in burning one wing of the building. Ban Ivar Skerlecz. head of the Croatian government, was badly wounded. Austria Defies Italy and Roumania. VIENNA — The Wiener Tageblatt, which is the mouthpiece qf the foreign office, credits to Foreign Mlnistei Burian a statement that he will refuse territorial concessions to Italy and Roumania. even if such course makes, “inevitable the intervention of these states on the side of Great Britain France and Russia. Prussia Calls on .Aged Citizens. AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND — A tele grain received here from Berlin sets forth that in the province of Biandenburg, in which Berlin is located, there have been called up for meaical examination the fifty year old untrained men of the landstrum of the 1886, 1887 and 1888 classes. Sweden to Mobilize. PARIS — A Petrograd dispatch to the Temps says Sweden has reexiled its officer instrustors who have been serving in the Persian gendarmerie. The cotrespondent says s semi-mobilization feature can be seen in Uiis movement. ' i—ATi • ‘

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