The Syracuse Journal, Volume 7, Number 47, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 25 March 1915 — Page 1

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YIELD PRZEMYSL TO mMOTINI Troops Defy Officers and Re fuse to Make Sortie. 6ARRISON FACED STARVATIOI Ruts Report That Fortifications An in Good Condition—Czar’s Forcei Relieved of Siege Work, Expectec to Beleaguer Cracow Next—Fall Anticipated, London, March 24. —While details of the surrounder of Przemysl comt In slowly and are read with aviditj the main interest in military circles centers around the future of the Rus sian army corps released by the sue cessful conclusion of the six months siege. According to dispatches from Pet rograd the indications are that Gen •eral Demetrieff and hjs troops will now start bn Cracow, about 140 miles distant, the last fortified stand oi Austria in Galicia. They will invest it and reduce it just as they did at Przemysl. Large forces will protect all roads from relief columns and the sRi-ssian troops will wait for nature to aid them in bringing about the fall of the six big fortifications which guar< [he liner fortress of the city Appt caching from the east along tht railway which comes from Lemberg they can speedily envelope the anall communicawAgns from every point. \ Destitution Faced Defended*. The limb narratives of the gradually dwindling provisions, the lack- of warm clothing, the lack of medicines, the desperate assaults, the faith that kept up to the last, the final sortie by some, are all to the credit of the Austrians for whom there are heard expressions of admiration on every hand. After tjie failure of the Austrian advance byway of Gorlitza early in the week not only th e commander tn chief, General Kusmanek, knew the end was in sight, but the soldiers as They were down to a famine of dry biscuits. All meat Hhf'lO'igsiure vanished, all Hvfhg anImais in the city had been killed exJpept a few horses belonging to the fegh officials. The sick were mounting up daily. Typhus and typhoid hac appeared in the garrison and the wounded lay unattended in the fireless houses of the city. Despite that when General Kusmanek ordered the sertie of Friday last the soldiers received their last lot of cartridges, cheerfully plunged eastward along the San against the Russian ring of steel only to fall back exhausted. Sadly in numbers, they returned in despair. Ther e was a conference of high officials and on Sunday the genera' ordered another sortie of 20,000. This time there was no enthusiastic response. The faithful twenty-third honved some paris of the . eighty-fifth ehr and . *he fourth hussars forward, but the others threw dowr; their arms. Refuse to Fight Without Food. “We can fight no more without food.” they said simply. "You may kill us now—we cannot go.” Urgings. entreaties ana commands made ho difference. They were threatened with execution, but they stood silent. The faithful 20,000 went forth and opposed by the encouraged ring 'Of besiegers, faltered and returned. That war the final stroke. But one more thing remained to be done. Orders were given that every gun in the fortress, every rifle, every cartridge should be employed in one last defiance. This was done Sunday and Sunday night. On the following morning after engineers had vainly tried to destroy their own fortifications the white flag was run up. The main body of the Russian troops has entered Przemysl, according to the dispatches from Petrograd. Preceded by a corps of Red dross nurses the commander in chief and his staff, followed by the Infantry, went into the town to be greeted with joy by the few citizens who had remained to suffer the hardships. 11l and wounded were in nearly •very house and everywhere were the starving crying for food. So soon as some orderly disposition could be made and the formal ceremonies arranged food was distributed to the i prisoners and the citizens. 117,000 Prisoners Captured. Petrograd, March 24.—The Russian war office announces that 117,000 men were captured at Przemysl. The statement follows: “According to figures given by General Kusmanek, late commander a Przemysl, the number of prisoners who surrendered to the Russians was nine generals and ninety-three officers of the general staff, 2,500 officers and officials and 117,000 men. The number of guns and other war material captured is being calculated.” i I Wealthy Man Goes Insane. Kalamazoo, Mich., March 24.—A. J. Winslow, one es Kalamazoo’s wealthiest men has been admitted to the state hospital. 11l health caused his piehtal derangement, state doctors. 1 ■— . ■ —r ■

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PRINCE RUPPRECHT I Heir to Bavarian Throne, Reported Wounded at the Front V ' i a. i-' A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR. Thursday, March 18.—For the first time in nearly five weeks the Russians are either over in East Prussia or are oh the line north of the Niemen and their drive is towards Tilsit. The first seizure made by Great Britain under the provisions of its recently announced blockade of the German efrast was made when the Swedish steamey Geheland Dacon, carrying a cargo of provisions intended for a German port, was held up and brought into Lee in the custody of a British patrol boat. The Glasgow steamer Gienartley was torpedoed and sunk this morning in the English channel off Beacliy Head Friday, March 19.—The French battleship Bouvet, bombrading the Darda- j nelles forts, has Leen snntc by the guns of the Turkish forts, the Turkish war office announced in an official state. No mention is made of the fate of the crew. Victory for the allies in desperate fighting in the Lorette hills country northwest of Arras and impotrant French gains in the Argonne were reported in dispatches from the front. Russians raiders who invaded East Prussia at the extreme north have actually succeeded in entering Memei, fortified Baltic seaport, the German war office admits. The Austrians have received re-en-forcements and have resumed a strong offensive in Bukowina, according to a Bucharest dispatch. A Copenhagen report says Denmark, Norway and Sweden have made an identical representation to the allied gov ernments against the Anglo-French policy of reprisals on German com merce. Saturday, March 20.—Two more batships of the allied fleet were blown up while battering away at the Dardaneles forts —The British Irresistible and Ocean. The waters had been swept clear of mines, but, according I to the British admiralty, floating mines were cast into the racing current through the narrows and carried doom to the British vessels and the French warship Bouvet. Most of the crew of the Bouvet were drowned, while a majority of the crew j of the British ships were saved. The disaster announced will not, it is stated, by admiralty officials, interfere with the Dardanelles operations in the slightest. The government of the Netherlands, according to the correspondent of Reuter’s Telegram company at The Hague, has sent to Great Britain and Fiance a protest against the British blockade of Germany. Commanders of the Anglo-French fleet in the Adriatic Sea have been notified by their governments that the transportation of goods of any kind to pr from ports on the Austrian coast is prohibited under the terms of the allies’ new naval policy and that steamers carrying such cargoes are to be seized. Sunday, March 21. —The long expected but scarcely dreaded Zeppelin raid on Paris took place this morning. Two of the craft appeared over the city, dropped a number of bombs on the city ami suburbs, doing but little dan/age and departed just ahead of a squadron of French aeropdanes. The passage of the anti-espionage and anti-contraband law, which many believe is the last step in Italy’s war t pi eparations, was passed in the sen-j att s 'The French official communique states that after having lost the grand and little Reichaken Kopes in the Vosges. they have recaptured the latter I place and that a fight ot retake the ether summit is now proceeding. It alao claims that violent counter attacks of the Germans at Las Eparges, on heights of the Meuse, were repulsed with heavy losses.

GERMAN! SEIZE I RUSSIA! TOWN Capture Krottlflg|i After Driving Out Slavs Fijpi Memei RUSS SWEEPjTo HUNGARY Halt a Million Merlin New Move Against Austrians Press Forward in the Carpathianal-Bouvet’s Men Sink Standing at SaLte— Cry “Vive La France.” BERLIN — The statement says: \ "German troops are 'pursuing the Russians, who were drifen from Monel, East Prussia. The Germans occupied the Russian town of Krotingen, across the border from Meinil, and treed more than 3,000 Germans who had been dragged away from their homes by the Russians. "Attacks made by the Russian troops on both sides of the Orzyc river, in Russian Poland, were repulsed.” 500,000 Russ Strike at Austrians. PETROGRAD — Half a million Russian troops, inspired by the news of the fall of Przemysl, are pressing forward in a gigantic movement all along the Carpathians, according to war office dispatches. From the Dukla Pass region to the borders of Roumania the Slavs are driving southward in a mighty sweep toward the plains of Hungary and the crown land cf Bukowina. Bouvet CreWjAfe Heroes. PARIS — S trading p.t salute and shouting "Vive la France,” the officers and crew of the French battleship Bouvet, which was sunk in the Dardanelles March 18, went down with their ship, according to an account by the Tenedos correspondent of the Athens Patris, who thus describes the action in which the Bouvet and the Gaulois were engaged: “The captain of the Bouvet had been ordered to cross a dangerous mine zone and force a passage to Chanak Kalessi, thus making the allies masers of the straits as far as Nagara. At 1:20 p. m. the Bouvet was five miles from Chanak and was firing at Per* -Horilanoc. It l»c»a mine zones Th e Gaulois followed, flrI ing at Fort Dardanus. It had crossed two mines zones. The Gaulois followed, firing all its guns. The commander of the Bouvet by a skillful maneuver avoided two mines which were exploded by a destroyer, but a third struck it in the region of its magazines and it sank by the head. Pass Night In Small Boat. “Seven survivors of the Bouvet climbed into a boat and passed -the night in a bay on the European side oi the strait. They were taken off the next day by a British destroyer. "When the captain of th e Gaulois saw the Bouvet was sinking he ordered ‘full steam ahead* without an iustant’s hesitation, but his ship had been struck seven times and h e was obliged to put back anchoring off Mavrais island.” NEGRO IS GIVEN 24 YEARS Jesse Williams, Who Assaulted Mrs. Schwartz, Aged 75, Is Sentenced. WHEATON, ILL. — Jessee Williams, the negro who attacked and beat Mrs. Frances Schwartz, a sev-enty-five year old white woman, at Wheaton, was sent to the penitentiar/ foi twenty-four years. ' The crime of Williams was without the usual excuse of the “hungry” or the “unemployed.” He whs a janitor in the flat where the aged woman Jived, and attacked her when he knew that the family had left her at home alone. He supposed she was dead, but she was able to tell who had attacked her, and is now slowly recovering. LORIMER PLEADS NOT GUILTY Former Head of La Salle Street Bank la Arraigned. CHICAGO, ILL. — William Lorimer, president of the defunct La Salle Sheet Trust and Savings bank, *as ai raisned before Federal Judge Geo. B. Carpenter on a charge of misapplication of funds of the La Salle Street National bank in 1912, before the institution was made a state bank. As the clerk called the case of the People against William Lorimer, Mr. Lorimer stood up. “Do you wish to enter a plea at this time?” Judge Carpenter asked. “I do. Not guilty,” Mr. Lorimer answered. U. S.-Russia Treaty Signed. WASHINGTON, D. C. — Ratifies tion of the peace commission treaty between the United States and Russia were exchanged by Secretary Bryan and George Bakmeteff, the Rus sian ambassador. Fifteen such treat les now are in force. Rate Raises Are Suspended. WASHINGTON, D. C. — Proposed Increases in lake and rail freight rates, both ?ast and west bound, were suspended by the interstate commercs commission for investigation of theit I reasonableness. I

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HNDIANASTATENEWSt ♦♦♦♦♦ * Accuse Bankrupt of Fraud. LAPORTE, IND. —Some sensational developments followed the bankruptcy hearing here of Max Barnett, owner of the New York clothing store, which recent its doors, the owner filing a petition in the federal court at Indianapolis, saying that he was in debt >14,000 and had >5,000 assets. It was brought out that by Barnett’s admission he had for some time conducted a traveling store, shipping goeds from his Laporte store to small towns and holding various kinds of sties. He also admitted that only a few months ago he shipped a quantity of goods to Peoria, 111., and to Detroit, Mich., the goods being hauled from the Laporte store to Stillwell, twelve miles south of here, where connections were made with the Grand Trunk railroad. He is alleged to have received cash for these goods. P.oth Trustee Surprise and Attorney Dulksey asserted that the matter would be taken before the federal grand jury at Indianapolis, so that an account might be had and charges preferred against Barnett for alleged conspiracy to defraud the creditors. Indiana Banker Dies. GREENCASTLE, IND. — James Valentine Durham, eighty-two years old, father of Andrew Durham, Putnam county representative in the last legislature, is dead at his home in Russellville. Mr. Durham formerly was connected with the Central National bank here, but later established the Russellville bank, of which he was president at the time of his death. - » v Decapitated Man Vaudeville Actor. LAFAYETTE, IND. — The death of Frank Clark, a mechanic, who was decapitated by a falling coal conveyor at the Monon railroad shops her e a few day 3 ago, revealed that the man-was Benjamin Immerman of Buffalo, N. Y., a .college graduate. The man had given up the practice of law and adopted thb name of Clark when he went into vaudeville. Slot Machines Found. SHELBYVILLE, IND. — Deputy Sheriff James Whismann and John Marsh, assistant chief ot police, visited a few of Shelby county’s smaller towns to investigate complaints that slot machines were being used. Two Henry Haughey and Samuel Lawson were charged with having gambling devices in their possession. ’Farmer Hit by Train Dies. LAFAYETTE, IND. — Mr. Valentine Arnold, twenty-seven years old, who was struck by a west bound Lake Erie and Western passenger train while walking on the track three miles east of the city, died in a local hospital. His skull was crushed and he was hurled twenty feet from the track. He was a farmer and lived near Dayton. His Transactions Deceptive. EVANSVILLE, IND. — Mr. Virgil E Driskell, thirty-two years old, was acquitted in circuit court here of a charge of embezzling money from the Owensville Mercantile company," but before he left the court room he was rearrested on a warrant from Kansas City, Mo., charging him with embezzlement. He will fight extradition. Makes Big Cattle Sals. SULLIVAN, IND. — Mr. William H. Jones, a farmer, made the largest ' sale of cattle ever made in this county when h e sold 215 head of shorthem steers to a packing company of New York for >28,000. Thirteen cars were required for transportation. A ' silo on the Jones farm is said to be the largest in the United States. "Dope" Fiend Robs Office. TIPTON, IND. — A "dope” fiend paid a visit to the office of Dr. S. W. Curtis, a dentist, some time in the night and ransacked his office in search of drugs. The burglar found a small bottle of a drug tysd departed. A large amount of gold leaf was left untouched. Killed by Own" Wagon. BLOOMINGTON, IND. — Mr. John W. Bruce, fifty-nine years old, of Bedford was fatally injured in Polk township, Monroe county, when his wagon struck a stump, throwing him from his seat. He sustained a fracture of i the neck and died in a few minutes. 1 Letter Writer’s Sanity Doubted. GREENCASTLE, IND. — A lun-1 acy commission has declared Char-1 lie Haymer insane and an appli- ' cation for his admission to the state hospital will be made at once. Haymer was arrested after writing rambling letters to a local minister. | i Sold Cholera Hogs. CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND. — John Miller, H. Curtis Mitchell, John Crane and Clifford Coon, farmers, pleaded guilty here to a charge of selling hogs infected with cholera and were fined in a justice court. | Bond fcr Alleged Embezzler. BRAZILLE, IND. — James A. Muncie, arrested for embezzlement in Jackson township, Clay county, was released from jail on >1,500 bond, pro- 1 videfi by his relatives. j

HE HAS JUST PLAIN INSANITY Young Man Crazed by Father's Slaying Not Vengeful. HUNTINGTON, IND. — As, • result of seeing his father shot down before his eyes, Glen Stevens, twentyfour years old. a son of Newton Stevens, who was slain by Firmer Shearer at Andrews a week ago, has gone violently insane. At a sanity inquest it was decided to send the young man to the Easthaven hospital at Richmond. After seeing his father killed the boy three times to drown himself in the Wabash river near his heme. Each time he was saved by the vigilance of relatives. The crepe that hung on the door of hit: home after his father’s death he Imagined was a cat and he attacked it viciously while the funeral was in progress. The boy labors under the hallucination that some one is seeking to kill him. Shearer, who was a son-in-law of Newton Stevens, was indicted for first degree murder. BY HECK, HE’D HAVE JUSTICE “Villain” Takes Taps From Buggy at church; Hounds Follow Preacher. COLUMBUS, IND. — While Shen n.an Huntsman, a justice of the peace, living near Ogilville, and family were attending services at the Mt. Healthy M. E. church, same mischievoas person removed two taps from the wheels of the Huntsman carriage. Huntsman, on discovering the trick, telephoned here for the sheriff and his deputy and to Bob Owens at Bloomington, fifty miles away, owner of bloodhounds. Both responded and searched all night. Th e dogs took the trail of the Rev. ' Hartsaw, who preached at the church, and followed to the home of Morris Dye. where the minister went immediately after his sermon. Later the I dogs went to the home of Perry Anderson and reared upon a bed in which Anderson was sleeping. No arrests wer e made. The hounds cost Huntsman >4O. GIVES $125,000 FOR Y. M. C. A. Anderson, Ind., Citizens Seek to Equal Gift of Rich Banker. ANDERSON, IND. — A public meeting of Anderson citizens will be I called within the next few days to I devise means of raising $125,000, vihich is necessary to obtain an addl-, : tionAl donation of >125,00d from J. A. J. Brunt, a wealthy capitalist, to erect, equip and maintain a Y. M. C. A. building in this city. Mr. Brunt several years ago gave >IO,OOO to the Indianapolis Y. M. C. A. and the same amount to Winona Tech- ■ nical institute. He is reputed to be i worth approximately >1,000,000. all oi ; which he amassed during his life time in this county. Mr. Brunt is more than seventy years old and is a bachelor. JOSEPH H. DENNIS IS DEAD . s — He Recently Celebrated Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary. DARLINGTON, IND. — Joseph H. Dennis, eighty-fiv e years old, who constructed the first cable street railway system in St. Louis, Mo., a half century ago, died here at the home of his niece, Mrs. Kate Rogers. With his wife, who survives, he celebrated his sixeieth wedding anniversary last September. As a civil engineer Mr. Dennis surveyed the lines of the Southern Indiana, Indianapolis, Decatur and Springfield, Vandalia, Grand Rapids and Indiana and Indianapolis and Vincennes railroads. WEALTHY RECLUSE IS DEAD Man With Two Sections of Land Lived on Cheese and Crackers. CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND. — John E. Lusk, seventy-eight years of age, known as the hermit of Turkey Run, is dead at his home, twenty miles south of here. Lusk was the owner of a 1,300 acre farm and one of the wealthiest men in the vicinity, but he diessed like a tramp and lived principally on crackers and cheese. He was th® last survivor of the Lusk family, which was one of the first to settle in this part of th® state. He was unmarried and had lived alone since the death of his mother, thirtyfive years ago. CLYDE BARNHILL CONVICTED Jury Finds Him Guilty of Manslaughter in Killing Ball Player. BOONVILLE, IND. — Manslaughter which carries a sentence of from two years to twenty-one years in stat® prison, was the verdict returned by the jury in the case of Clyde Barnhill, charged with the murder of William O’Loughlin, a former ball player in the Kitty league, whom he charged with intimacy with Mrs. Barnhill. The jury reported at 5 o'clock in the afternoon after deliberating from midnight Steps Before Train, Killed. JEFFERSONVILLE, IND. — Mra. Ida Foster, fifty years old, wife of Alexander Foster, was killed at Borden when she stepped in the path Os a Monon tfain. Sh® leaves a fani*» Uy- |

THE BOUVET French Elattleship Sunk by Turks in Dardanelles Straits. ' lllll i A 7/ / iZw' - . : r ; ■■■■■• • ■ ■ — Photo by American Press Association. RUSSIANS TO GET ST. SOFIA It Is Said Plan® Are Made by Allies for Cathedral’s Disposition. NEW YORK — The allies have finally reached an understanding regarding the disposition of the Holy Land and of the Mosque of St. Sofia in Constantinople in the event of the fall of the Turkish empire, according to information reaching here from England through missionary channels. The plan, these reports say, is to make the Holy Land more accessible tn travelers and to develop it as more of a tourist center than it has been under Turkish rule. St. Sofia, according to the same information, is to become a cathedral of the Russian church. expecFno EXTRA SESSION Wilson Says He Sees No Need for Calling Congress Together. WASHINGTON, D. C. — Formal announcement was ma4e at the Whit® Hous® that' at present President Wilson has no intention of calling an extra session of congress before the beginning of the regular session next December. It Was said that the president sees no prospects of any contingency arising which would cause him to alter his present intention. Several senators had suggested that the president call a special session of the senate in October .to consider ratification of the Colombian and Nicaraguan treaties. NAMES TWO AS AX SLAYERS ■ ♦ ■ Negro Woman Tells Police Husband and Man Held Slew Dawson Family. PEORIA, ILL. — Police officials of Monmouth and Peoria obtained a confession, according to the police, from - Annie Marie Krjight, a negro woman of Monmouth, that it was her husband, John Knight, and Lovey Mitchell who murdered William E. Dawson, his wife, and daughter at Monmouth on th e night of Sept. 30, 1911. Mitchell has been arrested. Mrs. Knight was brought to Peoria by Chief of Police Morrison of Monmouth. After several hours of questioning the woman said she was willing to confess. SCOTT BRINGS PIUTE CHIEFS Chief of Staff Takes Warlike Redskins Single Handed. BLUFF, UTAH — The Piute Indian uprising in Utah is over. Brigadier General Scott, chief of staff of the United States army, returrfed here with Old Polk, Tse-Ne-Gat and other members of his gang as his prisoners. General Scott took the Indians single handed. Six men were killed and many wcunded in early fighting between the Indians and members from the posse headed by United States Marshal Nebeker. FIFTY SLEEPING MINERS DIE Fifty Hurt as Avalanche Sweeps Aw„ay Houses at Howe Sound, B. C. WINNIPEG, MANITOBA — Fifty lives were lost by a snow slide which came down at midnight and carried away a number of bunk houses filled with workmen at the Brittania mine on Howe Sound, twenty miles from Vancouver. Because the mine is several miles from shore a special steamer with ' doctors and nurses are on the way to the mine. Fifteen miners were also injured. Another Aurora Suspect Freed. CHICAGO, ILL. — In the case against Clarence Burke, held in the jaili at Aurora, in connection with the murders of Miss Emma Peterson and Miss Penni® Miller, Hal Burke, a brother of Clarence, was released. Clarence Burke’s hearing again has been postponed for ten days. He is being cured of the drug habit while 1

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50,000GIVEUPAS PRZEMYSL FALLS Long Siege, Disease and Little Food Force Surrender to Russ. CRACOW IS CZAR’S NEXT GOAL ——— Stronghold Is Called “Key to Austrian Empire”—Siege Has Been on for Six Months—Petrograd Rejoices —Czar Cails for a Te Deum —Germans Retake Memei. LONDON, ENG. — The long investment of the mid-Galician fortress ot Przemysl has ended. Depleted by disease, subsisting on horse flesh aud surrounded by a superior force of Russians, the garrison, of more than 50,000 men, has surrendered to the besieging army after a defense lasting six months, which up to the present is recorded as Austria’s most noteworthy contribution to the wai. The capture automatically releases a Russian army of nearly 160,000 for action in Poland and along’ the Carpathian front and constitutes perhaps the greatest victory for Russian arms eince th e beginning of the war. Will March on Cracow Next. The besieging army f will now march on the strong Austrian fortress of Cracow, 125 miles to the west ot Przemysl, it being the announced determination of the Russian commander in chief to reduce the ancient Polish capital as speedily as possible. Moral Effect of Fall. It was argued that the moral effect of the surrender will be tremendous the theory of the allies being that it will stimulate feeling in their favor both in Roumania and Bulgaria, just as the operations in the Dardanelles are causing an agitation in Greece anti Italy. Przemysl fell wiih honor, the British press concedes, for It withstood the onslaughts lunger than any plac<| during the. war, the investment havi-u* begun about Sept. 16, something r ore than six months ago. Why City Held Out The duration cf the siege compared with the length of time it took the Germans to capture such strongholds as Liege, Najuur and Antwerp was due to two causes, one being the desire of the Russians to keep the loss of life amontg the besieging army at a roimimum, the other to the lack of gieat guns which the Germans had in Belgium. • Czar Attends Te Deum. As soon as the news of the fall .of Przemysl reached the headquarters of the Russian commander in chief a Te Deum of thanksgiving was celebrated in the presence of Emperor Nicholas and Grand Duke Nicholas and all their staffs. Great Joy in Petrograd. The Exchange Telegraph company has a dispatch from its Petrograd correspondent saying that great enthusiasm was manifested in Petrograd on the receipt of the news. Crowds of people thronged the streets, cheering and indulging in patriotic demonstrations. The fortress was occupied by Russian troops immediately after its surrender. LASSEN AGAIN POURS LAVA Eruption Continues From Peak for Third Successive Day. REDDING, CAL. — lessen peak is in eruption for the third successive day. The outpouring comes both from a vent near the mountain’s timber lipe in the Manzanita lake region and from the main crater. The volume of smoke from both vents is small, however, in comparison with the huge plume previously emitted and is not so sulphurous nor so heavily laden with ashes. SLAYS WIFE, SHOOTS SELF Treasurer of Astor Trust Company Commits Double Tragedy. NEW YORK — Howard M. Boocock, treasurer of the Astor Trust company, shot his wife as she was playing the pianola Jn their home at 36 East Seventy-fourth street about B:s€ o’clock at night and then shot himself. Both were dead when a physician arrived. Just what led up to th® murder and suicide the police were unable to learn at a late hour. Dutch Protest German Seizure. THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS — (Via London) — The Netherlands government at noon, after a meeting of the state council, forwarded a telegram to Berlin asking for an explanation of the proceedings of the German submarine in taking forcible possession of the Dutch steamers Batavier V and Zaanstroom. Defeat lowa Primary Bill. DES MOINES, IOWA — The lowa house today defeated the bill that would have given to cities of the first class 'nd cities operating under special charter, the right to nominate their candidates for city officers at a primary election. *

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