The Syracuse Journal, Volume 7, Number 49, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 8 April 1915 — Page 1

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U. S. PROTESTS DO NOTBLUSTER Notes to Germany and Great Britain Made Public. ASKS $228,059.54 FOR FRYE Protest to England Is Lawyer’s Argument, While Stating Position o.* Washington With Vigor—Reparation tor Losses to U. S. Citizens Appeals Sole Intent of Document. WASHINGTON, D. C. — While Protesting vigorously against certain tea- ■ tures of the allies’ of tier- I many the United States government : is not yet indulging in any threats or ■ otherwise attempting to coerce Great ■ Britain into conducting her war op- > erations in conformity with wijat this government considers to. be the law ci nations. This was made clear here •with the issuance of the note of the United States to Great Britain with respect to £he British orders in council making effective the plan of the allies to cut off all trade with Germany. The American note is essentially a lawyer’s argument, framed with a view of upholding what this government conceives to be the law, rather tnan in the expectation of achieving any substantial mpdification of the , British policy. Its tone is more solemn than U. S. Expects Reparation. Notice is served that the United States will look to Great Britain to “make reparation for every act which under the rules of international law constitutes a violation of neutral rights.” This announcement that the United States will demand compensation for every loss growing out of specific acts of British interference with American trade in violation of v.hat are considered to be American rights are the sole reference contained in the note to the intentions of the United States in the premises. Settlement is thus put upon a basis of dollars and cents and it is generally conceded that for the present this represents the full, measure of what States is-ia a-por-tion to do. Demands $228,059.54 for Frye. WASHINGTON, D. C. — The United States government has asked of Germany compensation to the amount of $228,059.54 in the case of the American ship Wm. P. Frye, sunk Jan. 28 by the Gerrnar commerce destroyer Prinz Eitel Friedrich. The state department made public the text of the note in which th e American claim is presented to the German government. Ambass 'dor Gerard reported to Washington that the foreign office at Berlin had promised him an early reply to the note he presented and stated that the legal department of the European office is already at work on the case. The foreign minister referred to the fact that exchanges have already begun between Berlin and the German embassy at Washington. GERMANS SINK ITALIAN SHIP Reported Destruction of Luigi Parodi Causes B'tter Feeling in Genoa. ROME — A report reached here that the steamer Luigi Parodi, carrying a cargo of coal from Baltib mere, was shelled and sunk by a Ger- ■ man submarine. The report has not A been officially confirmed. The Luigi V Parodi is an Italian steamer of 4,127 r tons. Her port of registry is Genoa. She was built in 1891 and is 360 feet in length. The report has caused a profound impression in Genoa, and there are many expressions of resentment. Nothing is known as to the fate of thv crew of the Luigi Parodi, which was made tip entirely of Genoese. ROBERTS AND OTHERS GUILTY Twenty-Seven Convicted In Terre Haute Vote Fraud Cases. INDIANAPOLIS — All the twen-ty-seven defendants, including Mayor Donn M. Roberts, in the Terre Haute election-fraud cases, were found guilty by a jury. The case has been on trial In the federal court here since March L Judge Anderson instructed the twenty-seven men found guilty as well as the eighty-nine who had pleaded guilty, to go to their homes and return to court April 12, when sentences will be pronounced on all. ITALY IS MASSING TROOPS All Houses on Austrian Border Ocou- . pied by Soldiers. CHIASSO, SWITZERLAND — Ths assembling of Italian troops on the Austrian frontier is continuing with the greatest activity. All houses of peasants in the districts bordering the confines affected have been occupied by soldiers. It is learned that still more important military activity Is fender way. Information on this point is refused transmission by the Italian censors.

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/NEW CHAMPION / -1 Jess Willard, Who Brings the Fstic Crown to White Race. j— I ’i ik/ ■ Photo by American Press Association JESS WiLLARD IS NEW FISTIC KING ~ Age and High Living utfone Jack Johnson,. HAVANA — Jess Willard, the gigantic ex-cowboy, was crowned heavy weight champion pugilist of the world at the race track here. He battered his way to the throne through twenty-fiv e * rounds of bruis- . ing. smashing attacks and retreats I and won his niche in the fistic hall of fame in. the twenty-sixth round by driving his huge right first into Jack Johnson’s midsection and following it ith two terrific blows from the same hand to the negro’s jaw.... Johnson went to the floor with a thud, an inert mass of bronzed flesh while Referee Jack Welch of San Francisco went through the formality of count- ’■ ing out the ten seconds before proclaiming the white man the winner. j Pandemonium broke loos e as the negro crashed down. The shrill cries from many women’s throats rose high above the frenzied shouts of deeper toned voices. Men laughfed hysterically and threw their hats on high. The Cubans, who made up a large proportion of the vast attendance, bawled their pleasure at the dramatic climax, blacks and whites alike. They fairly revelled in the carnage and their excitement was revealed in eyes and excited outcries. BRITISH WARSHIP IS LOST . Berlin Reports the Lord Nelson Was I Sunk at Dardanelles. BERLIN — The British battleship Lord Nelson was stranded inside the Dardanelles and destroyed by fire fropi the Turkish forts, according to Athens dispatches received here. The Lord Nelson was built in 1906. he had a tonnage of 16,500, was 435 feet long and 79.5 feet at her beam. She carried a crew of about 865. The Lord Nelson’s largest guns were four 12 inch cannon. -No Japs to Europe. TOKIO — The project to or,ganize and send a Japanese volunteer army to Europe has been abandoned. The promoters explain that they failed to get the governmental sanction, which was judged necessary. The promoters then to work for the dispatch of one regiment instead of two divisions, ana Applied to the army authorities for approval, qply to meet again with failure. The project was therefore abandoned, Wilson’s Man Off to Mexico. VERA CRUZ — Duval West, President Wilson’s personal representative in Mexico, left for Mexico City, accompanied by Arnold Shanklin, the American consul general. They planned to go by special train to Ometusco. Beyond that railway commufiication la iuL I -

RUSS VICTORIOUS IN CARPATHIANS Sweep Austrians Rack In Furious Baycml Engagements. ARTILLERY RENDERED USELESS Austrian Losses Alone on Sunday Are Over 15,000 Men—British Steamer Is Sunk by Submarine —Crew Saved-* German Submarine Caught in Trap Off Dover. PETROGRAD — The most furious bayonet battle in tife historj of the world is being fought on the southern ridge and slopes of the Carpathians at the Lupkow Pas.J, according to dispatches reaching here. In snow-filled gulleys up and down the slippery mountain sides, the struggle is going on. The Austrians in their retreat southward from the railway abandoned mfleh of their artillery. The Russians moved up the heights supported only by small mountain guns. Guerrilla Warfare Waged. Neither side has been able to put its artillery effective use in the broken ranges. Guerrilla warfare, fierce struggles between small groups in the narrow defiles, with Austrian and Slav clashing with cold steel, is strewing the Lupkow region with thousands of dead. The czar’s troops have not yet passed the Lupkow, according to the best information available at “the war office today. They have driven the enemy from each successive height dominating the railway, the Austrians making their stand on the last ridge. Reports Are Conflicting. Because of the nature of the fighting at this point dispatches are conflicting and it is possible that with bbtn lines broken by intervening mountain peaks a few small bodies'of : Russians have made their way down the southern slopes through the Austrian lines. Heavy re-enforcements have been 5 thrown into the attack on the Lupkow. ? The war office believes that once the way is cleared through this pass the right win* oi the eupmy north cf Qjp j Uzsok will begin to withdraw. * Austrians Lose 15,C00. GENEVA — Dispatches from Budapest state that a serious battle started in the Carpathians on Saturday evening, extending from Dukla to 8 Eperies, Saros County, Hungary. The I dispatches state that the fighting was f tie severest around Saros and that 8 the Austrian and German armies wer e e repulsed. i- -* The new young Bavarian troops sufs feted heavily, it is said, and the AusII ti lan losses on Sunday alone were over f 15,000. The battle continued and re- £ enforcements were being hurried up t to assist the Austro-German forces. e BriUsh Steamer Northland Si nk. a LONDON — The British steamier Northlands of 2,000 tons, with a 1- cargo of iron ore, was sent to the boto tom by a German submarine in the I- English Channel off Beachy Head. >- The Northland sank in ten minutes. Her crew of twenty-four men were e picked up later by the Belgian steam--8 er Tepati. e The Northland was built at West f Hartlepool in. 1900 and was owned by d the Northlands Steamship company, n limited, of Cardiff. a German Submarine Caught in Net. 1- PARIS — A German submae rin e has become securely entangled 8 in a net specially designed for that" e purpose and placed off Dover, accords’ ing to the Petit Journal’s Dunkirk corfl respondent, who adds that the French naval authorities expect to capture the submersible when it comes to the |" surface. » CURTIS GUILD PASSES AWAY p Former Governor of Massachusetts and e Diplomat Pneumonia Victim. e BOSTON, MASS.—Curtis Guild, foro mer ambassador to Russia, is dead. Mr. Guild was stricken with pneu- >. monia last Friday. Mr. Guild was born 5 in Boston Feb. 2, 1860. He was edi. ucated at Harvard and in Geneva, e Switzerland. His father founded the r Commercial Bulletin of Boston and Mr. Guild received a training in newspaper work on that paper. He was brigadier general of the r- Massachusetts state militia at the outr break of the Spanish war, served I. through the war and was inspector 1- general at Havana, Cuba, until the 1( break up of the corps in Cuba. Mr. e Guild held the decorations of an oflir cer of th e Crown of Italy and the 4 Grand Cordon of the Order of St. e Alexander Nevski, Russia. He served o *r» various diplomatic capacities and :t v?as active in state and national Republican politics. , Germans Expel Pinchbt. t, THE HAGUE — (Via London.) i- —Gifford Pinchot, ex-chief forester of Die United States, who, it is undere stood, has been acting as special y agent for the state department at o \ Washington in the European war : zone, has Tien expelled from Belgium I by the German authorities.

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ffiSASWEiiEWSI * Indiana Woman Dies in Fire. TOLEDO, OHlO.—Police and fir> men ar e attempting to reach the interior of the Niagara hotel, a spur story structure in the center of the business district, occupied principally by members of the theatrical fraternity, v.ho were trapped in their beds by a fire at 1 o’clock in the morning. Mrs. J. L. Frye of W’inchcster, Ind., is among those believed to have perished. WINCHESTER, IND. — Mr. and Sirs. John L. EVye of this city, reported to have met their death in a Toledo, O.» hotel fire, are well known here. Frye is a baker, but has net been employed here for the last six months. He has been working near Toledo. . Mitchell, Ind., Dry by 106. MITCHELL, IND. — Mitchell and Marion township, surrounding the town, both voted dry, the majority in each instance being greater than even the drys had predicted. The majority in Mitchell was 106 and in the township 114. Mitchell has been without salcons for the last ten years. Although the wets won in the election two years ago by a large majority remon strances prevented the granting of licenses. Marion township also has been dry. Option Petition Is Filed. PRINCETON. IND. — A petition /containing 520 names, asking fcr a wet and dry election to be held in this city this month, was filed with the county auditor for action of the county commissioners next Monday. The petition is said to contain the required per cent of names of the voters. Remonstrances were circulated by the ijfys recently and it is asserted that a majority was obtained in each ward. Falls Dead in Court. LAWRENCEBURG, IXD. — H. D. McMullen, seventy-eight years old, next to the oldest attorney in Dearborn county, died ‘ suddenly at the court house, where he was engaged in a case. * He is survived by four sons, Harry and Cassius of Aurora, Stanley of El Faso, Tex., and Edwin of Pine Bluft, Ark, Mr. wife died less weeks’ ago. Politician Charged With Embezzling. EVANSVILLE, IND. — In a petition filed in the probate court Attorney E. J. Crenshaw asks the removal of Walter A. Burlingame as guardian of fifteen year old Colletta Osborn, alleging Burlingame has absconded with $525 of the girl’s funds. Burlingame was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for congress in the last election. One Killed, Three Hurt in Auto. HAMMOND, IND. — One person was killed and three injured when an express train struck an automobile here Srpday. Mrs. Edgar Hill ot Farmland, Ind., and a ten year old daughter were injured seriously, while another young daughter was killed. Hill also was injured, but not seriously. Many Oil Leases Recorded. ROCKPORT, IND.—Recorder Vaal of Spencer county has received for record fifty-four oil leases on land in Luce and Ohio townships. The leases are made to Albert L. Brahm & Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa., and cover between B.MM) and 6,000 acres of land. Youth Is Held as Forger. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. — Barclay Shaw, sixteen years old. living near Zionsville, Ind., a student in the Zionsville schools, was arrested by Detectives Morgan and Dawson, charged with attempting to defraud, after he had forged an order on a local bank, Saws Way Out of Jail. BICKNELL, IND. — Mr. James Scott, a minor of this city, changed with arson and attempted murder, who was awaiting to be taken to the county jail at Vincennes, sawed his way cut of the local jail and is still at large. Coldest Month on Record. FORT WAYNE, IND. — Last month was the coldest March of which there is any record in the Ibcal weather office, according to the report for the month compiled by Weather Observer Palmer. Mangled Under Cars. WASHINGTON, IND. — Mr. Dewey Webber of Loogootee, sixteen years old, was killed when he fell under a B. & O. Southwestern freight train here. Both arms and both legs were severed. Will Install Water Works System. BICKNELL, IND. — George Harrup, who is representing Cleveland, 0., capitalists, has begun a survey for a water works system, which is to be installed in this city. Boy Arrested for Cid Robbery. CONNORSVILLE, IND. — Mr. Roy Case, nineteen years old, was arrested and taken to Rushville by Sheriff Cavit, charged with implication. in a store robbery in that city a year ago.

DENTIST l .lS IN AUTO SPILL’ Dr. D. J. Harris, Kentland, Ind, Victim of Overturning Car. KENTLAND, IND. — Dr. D. J. Harris, thirty-eight years old, a dentist of this city, was killed and Will Martin, township trustee, was injured v Len the latter lost control of his car The men, together with Dr. Harris’ son and two other boys, had been to Shelddn for a pleasure ride and were returning here shortly before r.ocn. Fenry Russell and D. W. Markley, both of this city, were driving along the same road, and, whilefall say that tney were not racing, they admit that they passed each other two or three times on th e road. At a point about a mile west of town Mr. Markley beerd a crash behind and looking lack, saw Mr. Martin’s car turn over in a field alongside the road. Dr. Harris and Martin were pinned underneath the machine. Mr. Martin was thrown free and suffered only a broken nose and a few minor injuries. The three boys in the rear seat were thrown clear and suffered only slight brtises. TIRE EXPLODES; 1 MAY DIE “Blowout” Upsets Auto on Way to Funeral, Injuring Four. ANDERSON, IND. — C. C. Allread, sixty-seven years old, of Fairmont, was probably fatally injured and his son, Arthur Allread, thirtyfive years old; his son-in-law, Oscar Ley, thirty-three, and his grandson, Herbert Loy, eight, were seriously injured when the automobile in which they were riding swerved from the road and went over a steep embankment at the Fall Creek hill, just this side of Ovid, five miles southeast of this city. Shortly before noon the injured parties were brought here to St, John’s hcspital, where it is said that Mr. Allread cannot survive. The auto party was en route from Fairmount to Charlottesville, where the party expected to attend the funeral of Mrs. Purcella Free, a relative. When the car reached the Fall Creek hill a tire exploded, causing the machine to plunge over the embankment RUNAWAY GIRL IS CAPTURED Her Story Aimed to Start Betrayal Yarn Nipped in Bud. BLOOMINGTON, IND. — Asserting that she had been lured away from heme by a man, but afterward admitting that her statement was not true, Lulu Patton, fourteen year old | daughter of Winford Patton of Oolitic, 1 was taken from a Monon train here ; by Joseph Hensley, superintendent of pohee, after her father had telephoned that his daughter was running away.i Somebody had told him of his daughter’s departure after she boarded the train at Bedford. Lulu denied her identity and she said she was from New York city, but under questioning reversed her state- j ment. She had $lO in her purse, I which, she said, a Bedford man had given her. She changed this state-; ment upon the arrival of A. L. Clark, a liveryman from her home town, who said the money belonged to her faClark took the girl back home. FIND BABY’S BODY IN GUTTER Crime That May Develop Statewide Sensat'on Is Suspected. WARSAW, IND. — In a gutter at Syracuse, partially hidden by old leaves and other rubbish, was found the body of a baby about four months . cld. An automobile party saw the ob- j ject and reported the matter to the authorities. ; Coroner C. A. Kelly of Warsaw is making an investigation and it is believed this probe will uncover a very sensational case and one which may result in the filing of a murder charge. The body was foutul at the side of th» road leading to I-ake Wawasee and it is rumored that the investiga-' tion may implicate persons who are well known throughout the state. BUSINESS IS BOOMING HERE Furniture factory at Bloomington, Ind., to Have $50,000 Addition. BLOOMINGTON, IND. — A welcome announcement to Bloomington was made by the Showers Bros, company, proprietors of the furniture factory located on the center of population of the United States. W. E. Showers, vice president, announced that the company had accepted plans for a $50,000 addition to the plant, to be made at once. Only two years ago the company built an addition that cost $600,000. The plant is now working 800 men and has been compelled to put on a night shift. For the last two weeks the shipments have averaged sixteen cars a day. SURPRISED AT OWN VICTORY Rushville, Ind., Beats Liquor by Unprecedented Majority. RUSHVIIXE, IND. — Rushville voted dry by 178 votes at the local option election. The result came as a surprise even to the most ardent dry workers, as a close contest had been expected. The wets carried only cn e precinct and that by seventyseven votes. |

cMrtis guild — I j Ex-Envoy to Russia Succumbs to an Attack of Pneumonia. - ... I If"' ■ ■"/ Wsfek x i I gw{fete. ! I GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR. Thursday, Xpril I.—T’he .French steamer Emma, bound to Mordeaux, was torpedoed off Beachq Head by a German submarine. Nineteen members of her crew were drowned, only ' two being saved. The British admiralty announces successful aeroplane attacks on German submarines at Hoboken and ZeeLruggee, Belgium. Petrograd say s the Slavs west of Warsaw have delivered swift smashes against General Mackensen’s forces along a fifty-mile front from the Vistula to Opozno and claims success at several points. Vienna claims the Russians have been unable to make any important ga : ns along the Carpathians. ! The situation in the Augustowo and the Suwalki districts remains unchanged, according to the German var office which says Russian attempts made at night to cross the $ Rawka river at a point southeast of Skierniewiez resulted in failure and' on Opoome were re- 1 pulsed. , Friday, April 2.— Two more neutrals ships have been blown up and sunk j with the loss of seven lives as added ‘ toll in the blockade war by the Ger- ! I mans. The Dutch steamer Schie4and i i v. as sunk four miles southeast ot ! Spurn in the North Sea. The Norwe- i gian bark Nor, was destroyed west of Dogger bank the crew was given | a chance to leave. The sinking of j three British trawlers and Brit- ! ; isb steamer Southpoint also is reported. ? The German general staff reports heavy infantry fighting in and near the forest of Le Pretre throughout the night and say that the Germans repulsed the French attacks and drove ' the enemy back to their old positions, j The Russian war office says the Germans have been driven back in j North Poland toward the East Prussian frontier. Saturday, April 3.—The great battle for the possession of the Carpathian passes is approaching the decisive stages. Along a twenty-mile front line reaching from Vola Michova easti ward to the Jftiver Sen great armies are locked in death struggles on the icy hills. According, to dispatches reI ceived in Petrograd the Russians be--1 tween the Lupkow and Uzsok passes have driven thg Austrians backward upon the heights and have seized the railway leading through Vola Michova and Lupkow southward into Hungary. There has been no serious fighting recently in the Dardanelles. The British steamer Lockwood was " torpedoed by a German submarine off Start point, in Devonshire The members of the crew were saved. Sunday, April 4.—The struggle in the Carpathians continues to be most desperate. Between the Lupkow and the Uzok passes the Russians have advanced to within a mile of the summit, according to Petrograd reports, and the retirement of the Austrians from them, positions near the latter . pass is regarded as imminent. Such letirement would open the Hungar- ' ian plans to the Russian invaders. Within the past ten days the Russians have taken most of the summits of the Beskid range. A statement issued by the Austrian ver office says the presence of large Russian reinforcements arriving from Permysl compelled the Austrian armj to withdraw firoin the Beskid region. The French war office reports cow tinned progress in the Woevre front and the capture of the village of Reg- . Imeville, west oi Fay-en-haye. |

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GERMAN CHARGE INSULT TO U. S. Honesty anJ neutrality Qoestloued by Imjlication. CRITICiSES ROLOiHG OF SHIP Embassy at Washington Publishes Astounding Statement Regarding Case . of Cderwald —German Statement Varies From U. S. Records—Disputes Report From San Juan, Washington, April 7.—Officials here v. ere astounded by the publication ot the German embasssy of serious charges against the United States government In connection with the German steamship Odenwald which was forcibly prevented from leaving Sar. Juan. Porto Rico, without clearance papers. These charges constitute a grave implication against the honesty, fairness and neutrality ot the United States. Not the least amazing feature of the action of the German embassy was the publication of these charges before the department of state had had opportunity to consider them and make reply. The announcement by the embassy was accompanied with the statement that the state department had been requested to investigate the case of the Odenwald. Varies From U. S. Records. The veracity cf the United States officials at San Juan who reported on the Odenwald case is called into question fey the German embassy’s statement. The German account ot the incident varies, in several important particulars from that in the official records. The only explanation suggested for the extraordinary cl.aracter of the German statement was that it must have been predicted on a belief in official German quarters that the United State? is .not honestly endeavoring to be at Mutely fair to German intone. s v b.erever met with in the affairs of H.'s government. The embassy charges that the Odenwald was' twice searched by customs officers at San Jut n'following Its request for clearance papers for Hamburg and that the results were satisfactory. Reports from San Juan stated that American officials were refused permission to make the kind of search desired and that a custom officer was pvt off the German Ship just as she jStarted out of the harbor.. The embassy states that the Odenwald was promised clearance papers. Official reports received here indicate that no such promise was ever made and Lieutenant Colonel Burnham, U. S, A., reported that he had personally notified the commander of the Odenwald three days before she left that • force would be used if necessary to prevent vessels leaving without clearance. Says Vessel Feared Enemies. The embassy states that the captain of the Odenwald felt compelled to disregard the port rules after being kept waiting three days for clearance papers as otherwise the destruction of his, vessel would have become inevitable through enemy vessels It arning of his intention to depart. The embassy states that no warning shots were fired at the Odenwald when she steamed out. The official reports state that “warning shots were fired with a machine gun and one shot across her bows with a five inch rifle,” The embassy states 4hat the shots were fired directly at her contrary to the rules of international law and that it is “attributed to a lucky chance that by this attack no human life was lost." ROOT HEADS CODE REVISERS Ex-Senator Elected President of New York Constitutional Convention. Albany, N. Y., April 7.—Elihu Root, former United States senator from New York, was elected president of the seventh state constitutional convertioh, 129 to 32, over Morgan J. O’Brien of. New York. Mr. O’Brien was supported by the Democratic members of the convention, although he was not formally nominated for the position. The fonvvv*ion is the t :st gathering called to revise the organic law of ths- state that has met in twentyone years. Butte Socialist Is Defeated. Butte, Mont, April 7.—Returns shew that Charles H. Lane, Democrat, was elected mayor at yesterday’s election here, replacing C. A. Smith, Socialist. The city council, heretofore having a Socialist majority, now has a Democratic majority of thirteen. River Death Mystery. Davenport, la., April 7. —The authorities are investigating the death of Peter H. Goede, whose body was taken from the Mississippi river near Muscatine. His sister declares Goede had several enemies. * ‘ . 4 . •

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