The Syracuse Journal, Volume 8, Number 4, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 27 May 1915 — Page 1

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BRUUN CHOOSES ITS NEW CABINET Lloyd-George Is Given New Post in Coalition. REDMOND REFUSES POSITION Chancellor of Exchequer Is Maae Minister for Munitions to Relieve Kitchener—Latter Remains at Head of Military Portfolio—Bonar Law Is Cabinet Member. London, May 26.—The organization of the new war cabinet has been completed and its makeup, as announced by the official press bureau, is as follows: Premier, Herbert Asquith; chan- , cellor of the exchequer, Reginald Me- i Kenna, former home secretary; foreign secretary. Sir Edward Grey: secretary for war. Lord Kitchener; first loid of the admiralty, Arthur J. Bal.four,. Unionist leader, vice Winston Spencer Churchill; minister of munitions (newly created office), David Lloyd-George, former chancellor of tlie exchequer; member without portfolio, Lord Lansdowne; lord high chancellor. Sir Stanley Buckmaster, former solicitor general; lord president of the council. Lord Crewe; lord privy seal, Lord Curzon, former viceroy of India; home secretary. Sir Jchn Simon, former attorney general; secretary for colonies, Law, leader of the Unionist party; secretary for India, Austen Chamberlain; president board of trade, Walter Runciman; president local government board, Walter Hume Ixmg; chief secretary to lord lieutenant of Ireland, Augustine Birrell-, secretary for Scotland, McKinnon Wood; president board of agriculture and fisheries. Lord Selborne; first commissioner of works, Lewis Vernon Harcourt, the present secretary for colonies; president board of education, Arthur Henderson, chairman of the Parliamentary Labor party; attorney general, Sir Edward Carson, the Ulster leader, Winston Churchill, former head of tie admiralty, becomes chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster. John Redmond, the. Irish leader, refused a place offered him. Llcyd-Georpe to Supply Monitions. David Lloyd-George, for years chancellor of the exchequer, has been selected to supply the British army with munitions and supplies in place of Lord Kitchener, whose judgment in this regard has been the subject of so much criticism that a new war cabinet has been formed. Lord Kitchener Is retained as secretary of war, to the satisfaction of all factions in parliament and the public, but a new office of minister for munitions with Lloyd-George as its first incumbent is created. Backed by Bankers. Great surprise was occasioned by the fact that the chancellor was removed from his former office to fill the new one, as it had been predicted he still would retain his post in the ticasury. In the new cabinet Reginald McKenna, former home secretary, 1 becomes chancellor of the exchequer. Leading English bankers and business men by scores had petitioned that Lloyd-George be retained in the treasury because of the fear that his removal would tend to render English finances less stable, and France has added her official plea to the request. TAKE 21,000 RUSS PRISONERS Germans Claim New Offensive Success North of Przemysl. Berlin, May 26.— (Via London.)— General Mackensen has renewed his offensive against the Russians north of Przemysl and he captured 21.000 prisoners, according to the official statement given out in Berlin by the Germain war office. The report says: “The army under General’ Van Mackensen resumed the offensive yesterday to the north of Przemysl. The attack ended In entire success. The strongly fortified villages of Drohogow. Oatrow, Radymno, Wysocko, Weltlin, Makowisko and the hills northeast of Dobrosska and east of Cetula were taken by storm. So far 153 officers and more than 21,000 men have fallen Into our hands as prisoners, while thirty-nine cannon, including nine heavy guns, and at least forty machine guns have been captured by the Teutonic allies. The Russians suffered extraordinarily heavy losses. ARREST SOCIETY FAVORITE *Hand«ome Jack” Coker, Fancy Dancer, Accused of Swindling. . South Bend,,, Ind., May 26.—“ Handsome Jack” Coker, who was an instructor in the latest fancy dancing steps and had entrance to the exclusive homes and clubs of South Bend during the last winter, is under arrest at Marshall, Mich., on a charge of obtaining S3OO under false pretense from Mrs. T. C. Hubbard of Jackson, Mich. After leaving South Bend, Coker went to Detroit, where he posed as a dancing teacher, piano instructor, palmist and seer.

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KING FERDINAND Ruler of Roumania Who la on the Brink of War. Photo by American Press Association LONDON, ENG. -r- The Bucharest c< rrespondent Os the Daily Chronicle telegraphs that Roumania is carrying on negotiations with the allies regarding her entry into the war. Great enthusiasm prevails in the capital where King Ferdinand reviewed the army.

PACKERS IN THREAT TO STARVE ENGLAND Will Shut on Meat Supply If Terms Are Not Agreed To. NEW YORK — A Washingtcn dispatch says: ‘ With a threat of cutting England off from her meat supplies in North and South America unless she yields to their terms and allows the unrestricted importation ot meat into neutral European countries ccntigious to Germany, representatives of Armour & Co., Swift & Co., Morris & Co. and Sulzberger & Co., the four great Chicago packing-houses gathered here to case before the United Statesyjynment. The packers declare the meat supply of both South and North America and that they can starve England unless she yields. “Great Britain now has, they say, $2,500,000 worth of their products tied up in British ports, which was seized by British while en route to neutral ports oh that ground that it was intended for consumption in Germany. “The claims of the packers against Great Britain have been before the state department for several months. It is understood Great Britain is willing to pay for such cargoes as the British warships detain and to allow to them entire freedom if they will agree to limit their shipments to the neutral countries to the amount normally consumed by those countries. However, the packers have refused to make any such agreement.” BERLIN CLAIMS 2 VICTORIES Official Statement Says Allies Lost in Drives Against German Lines. BERLIN — Defeat for the allies, with extremely heavy losses in two distinct drives against the German lines in the last twenty-four hours, is reported in official dispatches. Between Neuve Chapelle and Givenchy the British launched several tttacks during the night. German machine guns raked the highways and the fields. The enemy retired, leaving the ground between the trenches strewn with dead and wounded. The French are making reckless attempts to capture the northern slopes of the Lorette hills. In the fighting here, near Ablain and south of Neuville the Fr ench losses have been exceptionally heavy. Teutonic Envoys Leave the Vatican. LONDON — The Reuter’s egram company has received a dispatch from its correspondent at Madrid, who says the German and the Austro-Hungarian representatives a: the Italian court and at the Vatican lef‘ Rome last night, having entrusted the interests of their countries to the Spanish ambassador in Rome. Martin, Steel Inventor, Is Dead. PARIS — Pierre Martin, the inventor of a process for making steel which by 1913 was employed in producing two-thirds of the world’s steel supply, is dead. The Steel Institute of England on May 13 awarded Martin the Bessemer gold medal. Austro-German Ships Are Seized. ROME — Eighty Austrian and German vessels in Italian valued at '20,000,000, were oidered seized. Among them are several of the finest essels in the Gernjan merchant marine, interned at Gnoa since the beginiag of the Europea war.

ITALIANS TAKE 4 AOSTRIANTOWNS Occupy Heights at Border Betwesn Judfiio and Isonzo. ITALY, SHELLED; 6 DIE Rome Gives Approval to Plan to Prevent Separate Peace With Dual Alliance—Kaiser Will Direct War on New Foe —Italian Destroyer Ruins Shipping in Harbor of Buso. ROME, ITALY — Official announcement was made by the war office that Italian forces had penetrated Austria, occupy ing Caporetto, the heights between rhe Juduio and Isonzo, and the towns of Cormans, Cervignano and Terzo. LONDON — Five or six civilians were killed, and a train traveling at full speed was struck by a shell, during the Austrian bombardment of the Italian town of Ancona, according to dispatches from the Rome correspondent of the Daily Mail, published here. “The fire of the warships damaged part of the railroad station and five engines,” said the Mail’s correspondent. “The damage to the port was insignificant. That in the town was somewhat more extensive.” LONDON — Italy has given be? adhesion to the agreement already signed by the allied powers not to conclude a separate peace. The signature of a formal document to this effect is imminent. LONDON — The Rome correspondent of the Daily Chronicle telegraphs that the kaiser is reported to be about to take personal command of the troops operating against Italy. According to Swiss reports, the emperor is advising the Austrian commanders to delay battle against the Italians until he can take charge of the armies, • ROME — Italy has delivered her first aggressive strokes both on land and sea. Italian cavalry crossed the Austrian border in the Isonzo district, attacked a strong enemy outpost and forced the Austrians to retiie after a sharp engagement. Makes Raid on Austrian Port. Official announcement was made that an Italian destroyer shelled the Austrian harbor of Porto Buso, at the head of the Adriatic, sinking an Austrian motor-boat flotilla and destroying the quay, landing stage and military barracks. The enemy lost two men killed. The destroyer took fortyseven prisoners, arpong them one officer and fifteen non-commissioned officers, who were landed at Venice. There were no casualties aboard the destroyer. King Victor Leaves For Front. King Victor Emmanuel left for the front, accompanied by his staff and escorted by cuirassiers. A huge crowd gave him an enthusiastic ovation. Prince von Buelow, the German ambassador; Baron von Macchio, the Austrian ambassador; the Bavaria nminister and all other German and Austrian diplomatic representatives are safely beyond the Italian frontiers. Large crowds gathered at the railway station when they ?> parted, but there were no demrations of hostility. BUTCH SEND PROTEST . NOTE TO GERMANY THE HAGUE — The government of the Netherlands has sent a note to Germany protesting against the sinking May 7 of the Cunard line steamer Lusitania by a German submarine. The contents of tins note are substantially the same as those of the American communication on the same subject. The lives of several Dutch subjects were lost when the Lusitania was torpedoed. WE NOW HAVE “TELESCRIBE” Edison Invents Device for Recording Conversations by Telephone. WEST ORANGE, N. J. — That he has finished his thirty-eight years of labor on a new invention which he has styled the “telescribe” was the announcement of Thomas A. Edison at his laboratory here. The device will record telephone conversations even though speakers are 3,000 miles apart, and a simple, small box on a business man’s desk will be his guarantee against misunderstanding language used by him to others, as well as an insurance that he got messages to himself accurately. German Reply to U. S. Delayed. BERLIN — Germany’s reply to the American note will not be ready for several days. Officials of the foreign office are so occupied with the Italian developments that they have had no time to elaborate the draft of the note.

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j INDIANA OE NEWS! Second Wife Death Cause. EVANSVILLE, IND. — A noie in a bottle found in the river near hex a by a fishernu.n is thought to suAa the mystery of the disappearance if Resie Kelley from Louisville, Ky., twj years ago. The following note without a date was found in the bottle: “Whoever finds this bottle pleas* have these lines published in the Te:.nesaeo papers and in all the Kentucky papers as follows: t- M : ss Ros; a Kelley, alias Mrs. Heston, Mrs. Brow; , Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, has drowne I herself because she was out -of wori , and did not want to live an unfair life, so I am telliftg all good-by j Resie Kelley. I am the daughter cf H. S. Kelley, 618 East Madison street, Louisville, Ky.’ ” Telegrams from Louisville say the girl’s father say.; she left home two years ago when ui. able to live happily with her father’s second wife. May Yet Pay for His Fun. MARION, IND. — Judgment aggregating $4,379.50, rendered in the Clinton Circuit court, have been filed in Grant county against Orville Hodson, now.serving a term at Jeffersonville, Ind. Hodson is the young man whosespectacular undertakings mystified the authorities and found their climax, in his arrest in Pittsburgh, Pa., after a revolver duel with the police. One; of the judgments is for $2,614.89 in favor of the First National bank of Frankfort, and the other for $1,762.50 in favor of the American National bank of the same place. The money is due for checks Hodson forged upon depositors and which the banks made good. Should young Hodson fall heir to the estate of his father the judgments would be good. Convicted Judge Ousted. TERRE HAUTE, IND. —By order of Charles M. Fortune, probate commissioner, Thomas C. Smith, former judge of the city court, was removed as administrator of the estate of his mother, the late Emma Smith. Abraham L. Miller was appointed administrator. Fortune referred to the fact that Thomas C. Smith had been convicted in the United States District court and sentenced to the Leavenworth prison. The estate consists of about SSOO worth of personal property, and real eistite. Checks Girl a s High Flyer. KOKOMO, IND. — The Farmers Trust and Savings bank has been appointed in the circuit court as guardian for Mrs. Lillian Rhodes, nineteen years old, wife of Oscar Rhodes, a farmer. Her father, W. F. Brown of Tipton county, filed the petition, alleging that when the young woman’s mother died and left her $3,000 she abandoned her home ana came to Kokomo, spending money lavishly. Aged Couple Jailed as Drunks. COLUMBUS, IND. — Mr. Conn Deily, seventy-five years old, and his wife, Rebecca Daily, seventy-three, were placed in jail charged with drunkenness. They said their home was in Lee county, Kentucky, but that they were on their way on foot to visit relatives in Shelbyville, Ind. The husband carried a 100 pound sack, containing household effects, on his back. Oil Not Up to Standard. BLOOMINGTON, IND. — Dr. B. D. Myers, head of the medical department of Indiana university, who was appointed oil inspector for the City of Bloomington, condemned the first two cars of oil received this week as being below the standard. It will require more than twenty-five tank cars to keep the dust down in Bloomington during the summer. Insurance Companies Fight Claim. VINCENNES, IND. — Two insurance companies have filed suit for $5,000 each against Lawrence Ebner, executor of the estate of Joseph L. Ebner, “ice king-,,” here, who died recently, alleging that the dead man obtained insurance by making the false statement that he had never been rejected by any other company. Three Counties In Good Road Fest. BRAZIL, IND.—Business and professional men, clerks, laborers and farmers will join with the road officials of Vigo, Clay and Putnam counties Friday in a un ted effort to improve the National Old Trails road fiom Terre Haute to Indianapolis. Tie will be known as “Good Roads clay.” Traction Barn Loss $75,000. LAFAYETTE, IND. — Thirteen street cars, a snow sweeper, a sand car and the SIO,OOO electric brake test car “Louise” were destroyed by fire here when the storage barn of the Fort Wayne and Northern Indiana Traction company burned- to the •ground. The loss is estimated at $75,000. Left Husband for Negro. EVANSVILLE. IND. — That his eighteen year old wife told him she cared nothing for him and wanted to go to John White, colored, of this city, was the story told on the witness stand in the city court here by Clyde Chapel, a Petersburg, Ind., farmer.

ADUTii SLmLG NEIGHBOR .... _ i Indiana Man Confesses He Crushed Victim’s Skull After Quarrel. COLUMBUS, IND. — William ' O Winfrey, twenty-nine years old, I station agent for the Chicago, Terre Haute and Southeastern Railway company at Grammar, who is charged with murder in the first degree, confessed to Coroner L. E. Bracken here that he killed Robert Samples, a contractor who a few days ago was found dead in his home with a crushed skull. Winfrey said that he went home with Samples and that Samples, who had just left the United Brethren church in Grammer, was angered because the minister had denounced drunkards and drunkenness. Winfrey said Samples had been drinking and was quarrelsome. Last summer the two men had trouble over a line fence and while at the Samples home Samples referred to the trouble and said that he intended to settle it then and there. He struck Winfrey twice, according to the prisoner, and fired at him with a shotgun. Winfrey says he then hit Samples on the head with a carpenter’s plane and fled. ILLNESS ENDS WITH SUICIDE Charles Gauss, Prominent Indianapolis Politician, Hangs Himself. INDIANAPOLIS, IND.—After an illness of about six years, in which he had suffered a severe nervous breakdown. Charles A. Gauss, sixty-three years old, at one time prominent in Democratic politics and candidate for mayor against Lew Shank, committed, suicide at his home here by hanging himself. -Mr. Gauss had been suffering from melancholia, but the day of the tragedy he seemed more jovial tnan usual and when members* of his family left the house he was in particularly good spirits. When they returned he was not about the lower part of the house and his son Herman made a search and founu the body in the attic. Mr. Gauss ba l been dead only a short time when the body was found. SHE’S QUALIFIED TO SPEAK Easy to Get, Says Woman, Seventy, Seeking Fourteenth Husband. EVANSVILLE, IND. — Mrs. Polly Anne Weed Strodes, aged seventy, who has been married thirteen times announces she will seek a divorce fn.>m Harrison. Strodes, aged eightytwo, and as soon as she obtained it would marry her fourteenth husband. She was forced to pay a bond of SSOO for her husband in the city court. The husband was charged with assault and battery. He has left the state and the wife says he will never return. Mrs. Strodes says husbands are easy to get. She was freed from her other husbands by death and divorce. “Men love flattery,” said Mrs. Strodes. “I never use love powders. I simply win them.” TWO PROMINENT MEN DEAD Leading Attorney and Noted Educator Pass Away Same Day. WARSAW, IND. — Death in one day has claimed two prominent Warsaw citizens. T. Wayne Anglin, forty-one years old, died of pneumonia. He had served two terms as 'prosecutor and also for a time as county attorney and truant officer. At *the time of his death he was a member of the Warsaw library board. Prof. A. C. Rand, who for the last five years has held a chair at Winona i college in the department of German j and psychology, died after a short 111- ; ness. He was educated, at De Pauw i and Ohio “Wesleyan universities and 1 Leipsic university, Germany. He was I a minister of the Presbyterian faith and was well known throughout Indiana. 11 WAS DESPERATE chase Girl Knocked Insensible; Man Breaks ! Jaw, Playing “Drop Handkerchief.” I SHERIDAN, IND. —At a marsh- ' mallow toast on the W. A. Poe i farm about fifty neighbors were play- ■ ing “drop the handkerchief.” While j Clem Vickery, farmer, twenty-two j years old, was trying to catch Miss , Illa Beals, eighteen years old, with j the handkerchief, they collided with I such force that the girl was unconI scious for several hours and Vickery j sustained a fractured jaw. He was taken to Indianapolis for an X-ray examination. The condition of the girl is not serious. 8-YEAR-OLD BOY ENDS LIFE : Resents Being Left Alone by Parents After Giving Them Warning. VERSAILLES, IND. — Edward Hehe, eight year old son of Edward Hehe, living three miles northeast of this city, committed suicide by shooting himself with a rifle. The boy and three other younger children were left at home by themselves. Edward took the rifl\ loaded it and shot himself through the head. . i It is said that he had threatened, before to kill himself if left at home by his parents. Farmer Badly Hurt. PETERSBURG, IND. — Mr. John Thomas, a young farmer, fell from a 1 wagon and was run over, two ribs and his right shoulder bone being | broken. He was also internally injured.

BARON SONNINO Italian Foreign Minister Who Directs the Nation’s Destinies.

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A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR. Thursday, May 20.—Except for a continuation of heavy fighting in Galicia, where the Austro-Germans are declared to be pushing still farther their successes of several weeks past, military operations are almost at a standstill. In the west, in Belgium and France, bad weather and soggy ground have prevented almost all troop operations anfi virtually made artillery duels the* sole method of offense and defense. No changes of any moment are recorded by the war chancellories of any of the combatants along this line. The fighting throughout Galicia is increasing in intensity, according to Petrograd, and the Austro-German forces which have crossed the River San are spreading over the vicinity of Jaroslan, Radawa and Sieniawa. To the south of Permysl the Teutons have taken Russian advance trenches, but at the cost of enormous sacrifice, according to an admission of Petrograd. Friday, May 21.—A declaration of war from Italy to Austria is expected before the week’s end. Plenary war pew’ers have been conferred upon the Italian government by the senate and the lower house. The Italian military authorities are guarding with strictest secrecy the movement of troops. The weather having improved in Fiance and Belgium heavy fighting has been resumed. Paris reports the French troops won ground north of Ypres and east of the Yser. Progress for the British troops north of La Bassee is also claimed. Berlin reports the French attacked German positions north of Ypres during the night and the battle continues. Failure of a French attack in the Foiest of Ailly with considerable ksses to the attackers and of a British attack south of Neuve Chapelle is claimed. Saturday, May 22.—1 t now seems almost a certainty that tomorrow’s dawn will hear the roar of guns along the frontier of Italy. The king is said to be preparing an address to the people which will declare war on Austria. On the eastern front the Galician campaign is at its crisis, and the Russians are making a desperate resistance against further Austro-German advance. The stretch of sikty miles between the confluence of the San and Vistula and j Permysl is the scene ot a struggle that may prove decisive. While the Russians are more than holding their own on the wings of the battle front that stretches from the Pilicia, in Poland, to the Pruth, in Bnkowina, they are on a perilous defensive at the center above defined. From the western front the French report a complete success on the heights of Notre Dame de Lorette, claiming the capture of the last of the German positions. Monday, May 24.—Next in importance to the entrance of Italy into the war is the success of the allies at many points in France and Belgium. Checks to the Germans north of Arras, progress to the east of Festubert and tp the northeast of Notre Dame De Ixirette and the capture of trenches near Neuvilll St. Vaast are chronicled by Paris. Heavy losses in men killed and captured are indicated in this report. Berlin, on the other hand, asserts that to the south of Neuville the Germans made gains, and that an attack behind the Lorette height was repulsed. In the east in the vicinity of Jaroslau and along the Upper Dniester, the Austrians, according to Vienna, have repulsed the Russians. Otherwise no change is recorded In the general situation. In the northwest ot Russia, Berlin claims a defeat of the Muscovites near Shavli and on the Dubysa River, with the capture of some 2,600 prisoners and a number of machine guns.

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RUSSIANS CHECK GERimiEIVE Czar’s Troops Gampef Enemy to Give Ground in East BRITISH DRIVEN OUT EY 6AS Sir John French Admits Loss of Trenches at Ypres by Use of Poisonous Fluid—Fumes Fail to Budge French Who ftepulse Foes With LOSS. LONDON, ENG. — On the eastern frontier the signs of check to what at one time seemed an overwhelming Austro-German offensive movement are becoming more and more apparent. Even the flyihg wedge which vas driven into the Russian center along the River San has been compelled to give some ground by the energetic counter attacks of the Russians. 1 British Routed by Gas. ; ENG. — Asphyxiating gases and poisonous shells have once mere enabled the Germans to penetrate the British lines east of Ypres. A report from General Sir- John French says the Germans attacked at 3 o’clock in the morning under cover of a heavy fire of shells, containing stupefying gases, and forced the British to evacuate some of their trenches at two or three places in the line. The fighting is still in progress, says French, and some ot the lost trenches already have been regained. Gas warfare also was waged north of Ypres against the French and Belgians, but Paris ’ reports thafthe attacks failed. Th? French replied by bombarding the German ship yards at Raverzyde. southwest of Ostend, and a vigorous artillery duel followed. In Northern France the fighting seems to be proceeding in’ fhyor of the allies, although General French fails to mention the progress of ! the battle on the line from Arras to L|lle. Paris, however, declares the Brfifish have made further progress north of I.iaß&ssee and that a determined German attack north of' Neuville Was checked by artillery fire. The Germans defending Notre Dame de Lorette are declared by the Frepch statement issued at night to hlive been annihilated, Berlin 1 reports that French o», the northern slopes of the Loretfe hills were repulsed. This battle, has been waging for weeks with furious bayonet attacks and counter attacks, is developing into one of the fiercest on the western front. Paris reported a few x ihe plateau of LorettS was' 'tn French hands, but the German statement disputes this claim. ROOSEVELT WINS IN $50,000 LIBEL SUIT SYRACUSE, N. Y. — The jury In the Barnes libel suit against Theodore Roosevelt brought in a. verdict for the defendant after being locked up two nights. The jury expressed a belief that all that Col. Roosevelt, charged against Barnes was true. “FOE” FAILS TO LAND IN U.S. ■ Dreadnought Wyoming Theoretically Sunk by Scout Cruiser Chester. BOSTON — Defeat of an attempt to land an armed force of “invaders” on the New England coast, in connection with the naval war game, was reported. According to this report the superdreadnought Wyoming, the flagship of Admiral Fletcher, head of the fleet of defense, was theoretically sunk by the scout cruiser Chester, the flagship of Rear Admiral Frank E. Beatty, in command of the He stiles. . The center of the maneuvers moved ferm Narragansett Bay to a spot somewhere off this port. POULTRY TRUST~IS JAILED After Four Years’ Delay Convicted Men Start Serving Term. NEW YORK —- After nearly four years of delay, made possible by the liberal use of money for legal talent and taking advantage of legal technicalities, twelve of the thirteen members of the inner cirele bf the poultry trust went to Blackwell's island to begin serving the three months’ sentence inflicted I>y Yudge Rosalsky in August, 1911, when they were convicted. The thirteenth convicted man, Solomon Frankel died three months ago. King Constantine Better. WASHINGTON, D. C. — King Constantine of Greece is improving, according to a dispatch received at the legation here. The king’s fever has abated, the message says. Nine Entombed in Blast. JOHNSTOWN, PA. — Mine No. 1 of the Smokeless Coal eomm.ny, just Booth of th-' city, was blown up. ThChi are nine men in the mine and »!• are thought to have been killed.

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