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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-24
GERMANS ATTACK
RUSSIAN CENTER
Kaiser's Forces Suddenly Resume
Offensive in Poland, Striking
Heart of Line.
BERLIN CLAIMS THE VICTORY
Says Success Near Lipno 1mperils
Enemy's Attempt to Cross
Vistula River.
BERLIN CLAIMS THE VICTORY

London, Nov. 19.-NO change in
the Kaleidoscope operations in
Russian Poland has been more start
ling than the sudden resumption of
the offensive on the part of the Ger
mans, movement by which the
heart of the Russian line has been
attacked and Warsaw again threat
ened
AS usual, conflicting reports ar
rive from the neighborhood of these
operations. Petrograd does not deny
that the Germans have resumed the
offensive, bVt dispatches from the
Russian capital declare that such
movement will not cause the slight
est diversion from the Russian in
vasion of East Prussia, which is pro-
ceeding slowly but steadily.
Meanwhile Berlin claims a vic
tory near Pipno, imperiling the
Russian forces which, according to
German reports, must make a stand
before crossing the Vistula river, as
a retirement behind that stream
would be too difficult. Berlin re-
ports that the Russians are near
Kuth, but Vienna claims victory
for her ally at this place.
From this weller of conflicting
reports energies clearly the fact that
great battle is under way in wes-
tern Poland on the line between the
Vistula and the river Warthe. 1t is
equally clear that the Russian ad
vance has been brought to a halt.
In the meantime Russian progress
continues through the Carpathians,
before Cracow and in East Prussia.
Bad weather conditions still are
having their effect on the operations
in the western arena. Artillery
duels continue, but it is hardly like
ly that either side is attempting to
make much use of its infantry.
Paris claims in an official COM
munication that the invaders renew
ed their attacks to the south and
east of Ypres, without modifying
the situation. At the same time the
allies, according to this announce
ment, have made marked progress
at every point attacked. Special dis
patches announce heavy German
losses in fresh fighting at Dixmude
and the existence between Newport
and Ypres of a protective sheet of
water which renders any further
danger of German advance in that
region negligible. The Germans are
reported, also, as having completely
abandoned the left bank Of the User
the flooding of which endangered
their possession of Dixmude.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-24
BADLY
BURNED BY OIL
Ida Grove Man Nearly Meets Death
When Oil-Saturated Clothes
Burn.

Ida Grove, Ia, Nov. 20.-Albert
Sass, a young farmer residing north
of this city, is lying in local hos
pital in a critical condition as a re-
suit of being burned about the low
err limbs and body up to his waist.
Mr.. Sass had been in Ida Grove Tues
day afternoon and had purchased
two barrels of gasoline for use in
his automobile.
On his way home, distance of
about seven miles, he stood between
the two barrels and one of them
leaking, caused the liquid to splash
over his clothes. After arriving
home and putting his team away, he
entered the house and striking a
match to light lamp he dropped
the burning match at his feet. AL
most instantly he was swathed in a
mass of flames, which were ex-
tinguished only after he had been
terribly burned from his ankles to
his hips.
If no complications result, skin
grating will have to be resorted to
cover the burned spots.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-24

pearing in infected states with So
called cures. Officials say there is
no specific cure for the disease, and
that the only way to prevent its
spread is to keep we'll herds from
contact with the infected ones.
The department of agriculture
particularly cautioned stockmen not
to allow strangers to visit their
stock or attempt any demonstrations
of socalled cures by injections or
otherwise, as there is great danger
such persons might disseminate the
disease by carrying germs on their
clothing.
Gin infected territory" the state
ment said, lit is quite possible that
a man who has come in contact with
stricken animals may bring the dis
ease to a perfectly healthy herd.
This also accounts for much Of the
spread of cholera"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-24
100000 LOSS
CAUSED BY fire

Galveston, Tex, Nov. ia loss
of 100000 and injury to half a
dozen firemen was caused by fire
which destroyed the Sunset elevator
here yesterday, according to w. B.
Scott, president of the Sunset Cen
trail lines of the Southern Pacific
system.
The elevator handled large part
of the grain shipped abroad from
Galveston this season. About $780,
600 bushels of wheat is said to have
been in the structure when it burn
ed. Capt. J. Ryan and five other fire
men were trapped on an upper floor
and compelled to jump fifty feet in
to a life net. All were injured.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-24
bob" BURDETTE
PASSES AWAY
Noted Preacher Succumbs to Long
Illness in California.

Pasadena, Cal, Nov. 20.-Dr.
Robert j. Burdette, preacher, auth
or and humorist, died at his home
here at 2 O'Clock yesterday after
noon. He had been i'll for the great
er part of two years, and for the
last week had been in a state of
coma.
DR.. Burdette's illness became
acute ten weeks ago. Up to that
time he had continued his literary
and journalistic work to which he
turned after giving up the active
pastorate of Temple Baptist church,
Los Angeles, in 1909. Two weeks
ago attending physicians said there
was no hope for him.
At his bedside when the end came
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-24

a spent bullet. The third was
Mexican agent for General Hill,
whose Carranziata troops are de-
Tending the Mexican town.
Three of Hills wounded were kill
ed in their beds by shrapnel fired at
their temporary hospital, which
flew the Red Cross flag. Hills cas-
ualties for the day were eighteen
killed and fifty wounded. Maytore-
mas losses are unknown.
A passing Rock Island train, the
Golden State Limited, had an I'M
pleasant experience when a stray
bullet from the Mexican side shat
tered window of Pullman, show
ering glass on sleeping passenger.
There was heavy fighting all
morning, but the cannonading in
the afternoon was only intermit-
tent.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-24
BRITISH BARON IS
KILLED IN BATTLE
Latest Casualty List Names Twenty
five Officers Killed.

London, Nov. 19.-According to
casualty lists dated Nov. II, II and
10, twenty-five British officers have
been killed and fifty wounded. Four
teen officers are reported missing.
Among the killed is Henry Bligh
Fortescue Parnell, fifth Baron Con-
gleton, a lieutenant in the Grena-
der guards. In the list of wounded
is the name of Brig. Gen. Frederick
C. Shaw, commanding the Ninth In
fantry brigade.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-24
FLAMES SWEEP
NEBRASKA Town
Fremont, Neb., Hit by 100000
Confagration.

Fremont, Neb., Nov. 20.-Fire in
the heart Of the business part of
Fremont early yesterday destroyed
four mercantile concerns entailing
losses aggregating 100000, with
insurance of half that amount. Zero
weather made the work of the fire
department difficult.
The principal losses were Gum
pert's department store, $125,000;
H. F. Gumpert, Simon Kranse and
J. H. A. Thomas, owners of the
burned buildings, $4,000.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-24
PLANS FOR NAVAL
PARADE PROGRESS
Formal Opening of the Panama Can
al is Expected to Present Great
Spectacle.

Washington, D. c., Nov. 10
Plans for the international naval
parade through Panama to San Fran
cisco, which is to mark the formal
opening of the canal, are going
steadily ahead, despite the fact that
on account Of the war most of the
great maritime powers may have to
recall their acceptances of invita-
tons to participate.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-24
Young Slayer Seized.

Portland, Ore, Nov. 20.-Fred
Traunson, the youthful slayer of
Miss Emma Ulrich, whom he way
laid and killed near her home here
last Monday because she had reject
ed his attentions, was captured yes
terday near Kelso, Wash.
Traunson was cold and hungry,
having been out of doors and with
out food since Monday, he said. He
is said to have confessed his guilt.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-24
MANY BULLETS
CROSS BORDER
Mexican Woman Killed and Six
Others Wounded in Naco.

Naco, Ariz., Nov. 19.-One Mex
lean woman was killed, three others
wounded and three men hurt on the
American side yesterday as the re-
suit of the attack on Naco, Sonora,
made yesterday by Governor May
torena's Yaqui Indian troops.
Two of the men were Americans
H. H. Reynolds, United States GUS
toms inspector, whose leg bone was
shattered, and trooper of the
Tenth United States cavalry, hit by
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-24
FIND BODIES OF
EIGHT PERSONS
Two Women Among Victims of Lake
Superior Storm.

Seney, Mich, Nov. 21.-Eight
bodies were found yesterday on the
shore Of Lake Superior, about eight
miles from this place. Two of the
dead are women. 1t is thought they
came from the lumber barge Anna
NJ. Peterson, which left Baraga late
Wednesday afternoon in tow of the
steamer C. F. Curtis, loaded with
lumber for Tonawanda, N. Y.
The barge is believed to have been
wrecked in the gale which swept
Lake Superior Thursday and Thurs
day night.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-24

were his wife, Mrs. Clara Bradley
Burdette, his son, Robert j. Bur-
dette Jr., newspaper man of Salt
Lake City, and his stepson, Roy
Blanchard Wheeler. He had been
for two days.
Funeral services will be held at
Pasadena Presbyterian church Sat-
urday afternoon. Temple Baptist
church of Los Angeles. DR.. Bur-
dette's former charge, will hold me-
mortal services Sunday
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-24
MAN KILLED IN
AUTO ACCIDENT
Carroll Farmers Neck Broken
When Machine Turns Turtle
on Highway.

Carroll, Nov. 10 William Nc
Nabb, a farmer near Ralston, this
county, brother Of Albert McNabb,
of this city, is dead, the result of a
fatal automobile accident a short
distance east of this city on the Lin
coin highway last evening. The
cause of the accident was too fast
driving. The car turned turtle and
McNabb's neck was broken. He
leaves a wife and three small chill
dren.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-24
DISEASE IN THE
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Epidemic Among Pupils in Cedar
Rapids May Close Two
Buildings.
F0RTY-TWO CASES; SIX DEATHS
Parents Ask Board to Close Schools
Officials Opposed to
Plan.
FORTY-TWO CASES.; SIX DEATHS

Cedar Rapids, Nov. 19.-Some
parents in the west side of the city,
fearing there will be a spread Of
the diphtheria epidemic among
their children, have asked the board
of health to close the Harrison and
Madison schools. There has been
some talk of circulating a petition
to this effect and presenting it to
the board. So far the board has de-
clined to close any schools, believ-
ing it unnecessary. Mayor Roth
takes the position that child is in
more danger of contracting the dis
ease by playing indiscriminatingly
in the street than by attending
school where he is under constant
surveillance of the teacher who
notes his condition should there be
symptoms Of the disease and mott
ies the proper authorities.
The total number of cases in the
city totaled forty-two last Sunday
and no new cases have been report
ed since then. Six deaths have re-
suited from the disease, and in each
and every instance death has been
brought about because physicians
were notified too late after the dis
ease had made its appearance, &C
RI nr IS1 a
DR.. Beardsley says if
parents would notify their physician
as soon as there were symptoms of
the disease or when a child suffers
of a sore throat, the case could be
taken in hand and cured before it
reached the danger point. He says
responds more quickly to
the serum treatment when taken in
its incipient stage than any other
disease of which he knows.
In the opinion of DR.. Beardsley
the serum treatment is not danger
GUS. Some people are opposed to it.,
he says, because they fear it affects |
the heart, when as a matter of fact |
it does not. 1t is the diphtheria |
poison which hurts the heart, and
the poison is not present in such |
large quantities when the disease is
young. 1t is also the opinion of DR..
Beardsley that the spread of the dis
case has been brought about by
liphtheria carriers, persons who
nay be immune to the disease them
selves but who carry the germs in
he clothing.
The learned are those who have
studied in books-the thinkers,
yeniuses, enlighteners of the world
md liberators of the human race
ire those who have read direct from
he pages of life itself-Schopen-
launr
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-24
A WARNING TO
CATTLE OWNERS
Impostors With So-Called Stock Cure
Are Abroad.

Washington, D. c., Nov. 20
Warnings to cattle men to beware
of men poSing as Representatives of
the federal government in it's fight
against foot and mouth disease went
out yesterday from the department
of agriculture. Reports to the de-
partment say persons who claim to
represent the government are ap-
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-24
Ten Perish in Fire.

Tampa, Fla, Nov. 19.-Ten in
mates of the state reform school at
Mariana, Fla, are reported to have
lost their lives yesterday in a fire
which destroyed the institution.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-24
Berlin Reports Enemy's Fleet Fled
After One Ship Was Badly
Damaged.
THE RUssIANI STORY DIFFERS.
Petrograd Says Cars Losses Were
Slight and That Ottoman
Vessels Fled.

Berlin, Nov. 20 (by wireless to
The Associated Press) Turkish
fleet was victorious over a Russian
squadron composed of two battle
ships and five cruisers off Sebastopol
in the Black sea Wednesday, accord
ing to an official communication re-
ceived here from Constantinople yes
terday.
The Russian flagship Evstafry was
badly damaged in short engage
ment, the Turkish report says, and
the other vessels fed to Sebastopol,
with the Ottoman fleet in pursuit.
Petrograd, Nov. 20.-The follow
ing official statement was given out
yesterday by the Russian ministry
of marine regarding the naval bat
tie in the Black sea between the
Russian and Turkish fleets:
"On Nov. IS division of the
Black sea fleet returning from its
cruise to Sebastopol, near the coast
of Anatolia sighted twenty-five miles
from the Bhersones light Turkish
detachment consisting of the Goeben
and the Breslau. The Russian fleet
Immediately drew up in battle order,
bringing the enemy to starboard,
and opened fire at a distance of for
ty cable lengths.
"The first salve of twelve inch
guns from the flagship Admiral Evs-
tafry struck the Goeben and caused
an explosion amidships, setting her
on fire. Following the Evstafry, the
other Russian ships opened fire, the
Russian guns giving an excellent &C
count of themselves.
"a series of explosions were seen
in the hull of the Goeben, which
opened fire slowly. The enemy
seemed not to have expected to meet
us. The Germans fired salvos of
their heavy guns, directing them ex-
clusively at the flagship. The en-
counter continued for fourteen min
utes, after which the Goeben with
drew and disappeared in the fog,
taking advantage of her speed.
1.-THE Breslau took no part in the
fight, holding herself on the hori-
zon. The Evstafry suffered only in
damage. The Russian
losses were a lieutenant and nine
teen sailors killed and five sailors
slightly wounded"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-24

The learned are those who have
studied in books-the thinkers,
geniuses, enlighteners of the world
are those who have read direct from
the pages of life itself.-Schopen
hauer.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06
THE APATHY OF THE CONSUMER.

SUCH thing private control and monopoly of the fish
supply the of this power plumber the
larders of the people from could not exist the
people, the patient and enduring victims of this
should their power government 1t repoach
until they goaded doing by the few who understand
wrong the courage and address fight it.
conceivable method of plumber the people has been
pracsed this country by organized greed from the creation
millions of stock the wholesale ootng of
and the organization of predatory trusts
poisoning Of the food of the people Those evils have
come up politics and Congress has spent time in remedial egs
II was only unbearabe that the
sumner rose protest the main he still patient and
supine
Nothing easily comprehended regard to the sup
p of fish from the fact that the
pessy every he buys pound of fish, He grubles
at the prices cheated and he submits If
his family only pounds of fish weekly he will have
loss questions he gets lying replies The dcouag
ing thing takes long the truth through the head
of average stir him of his to make
protest.
this what the predatory interests count upon 1t
thc essential part of their capital.
organization recognized leaders and
individually therefore, they command influence With organ
leadership this State they could have
fish like fly and saved for themselves mil
dollars that have been from them They could
show their coo for against fish trust
piracy end conspiracy of silence great public
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06
Making a Church Make Good
BY Ivy RICHARD.

A decade ago Paul Moore Strayer
landed in Rochester. N. Y, TO be
pastor of a group of WELT Pres
byterians in a swell church on the
SWEETEST avenue. They were folks who
mostly went to church Sundays out
of custom and because its soft music
and subdued light were restful.
They go now because 1t is a vital
place, a charging station and work.
house. They fill the pews. And
think of iti--strangerS are really well
come. even IL they're not dolled up.
Strayer refused to be a restricted
minister; to spend his time visiting.
He insisted Uactfully, of course) that
his job was to know life and lend
hand where il was needed most.
Hence he worked with the labor
unions, got himself elected fraternal
delegate and marched in their parades.
Then he. rounded up a series OF
Peoples Sunday Evening meetings
in downtown theatre and preached
religion with a punch in it, but with
out any frills-one-syllab religion
that the folks could understand.
The Up. S. f." had an advisory COM
mittee of uplifters, doctors, "agi-
tators'' and others, who helped to
make the programs. Discussion was
free, fearless, but fair; and when the
folks on the platform had finished
saying their say the folks in the front
talked back.
One night the topic was what to do
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06

The annual catch of polar bears is
decreasing every year. because these
animals are now being hunted about
twice or three times as much as they
We're thirty or forty years ago, says
Lorenz Hagenbeck, in the Geological
Society Bulletin. From Tromsoe
alone sixty-one vessels QUILTED for
Spitzbergen and East Greenland in
1913, and besides other things they
have brought back seven live polar
bears. 125 dead ones and 200 reindeer.
Counting the vessels leaving from
Hammerfest, Wadsoe and a few less
important towns also, about 100 yes
sells left Europe in 1913 for the pur-
pose of the capture of Northern ami
mails. Many of these vessels are pro-
vided now with motor boats, so as to
be able to penetrate further into the
ice.
In former years there were two to
three large tourists vessels leaving
the port of Tromsoe for the purpose
of hunting polar bears Usually they
were hired by rich Englishmen, Ger
mans or Austrians, and brought back
from forty to sixty polar bears, shot
within five or six weeks time.
During the last few years the cap
ture of polar bears near the East
coast of Greenland has so greatly de-
creased that in 1918 only one vessel
with tourists was sent there. The
other vessels are lying idle, and it is
not worth while to equip them.
Since 1890 a number of bear hunters
from Tromsoe and Hammerfest have
established hunting stations for the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY.
A Direct Response to an Appeal for Help

prays his prayers will be answered.
AS evening came on he found that
he was gradually becoming be-
numbed. He prayed earnestly for
succor. A little after that he ap-
parently lapsed into a semi comatose
condition.
THE people in the little settlement
We're accustomed to go to bed very
early-by s o'clock or half-past they
were all asleep. About half-past 8
one of the inhabitants of that settle
ment awoke and said to his wife that
he had had a singular dream. In that
| dream he saw his dist ant neighbor,
Elias Hall, lying helpless upon the
snow in the heart of the forest. He
knew exactly where the place was.
heed to the dream, but to go to sleep
again. He did get to sleep, but he
speedy awoke and said to his wife,
I have had that dream again and l
heard voice saying, You must go
and succor this helpless man.
'Thereupon this man got up, dress
ed himself and summoned two or
three neighbors from their beds, say
| ing that he would lead them to a
place two miles distant where Elias
Hall lay helpless upon the snow. They
| went WIN MIN anu Iney IOunu my
grandfather unconscious, having been
overcome by pain and by the intense
cold. They found him in the precise
place which had been indicated to
this man in the dream. They impro-
vised a stretcher and took him home
in time to restore him to conscious
ness.
Now that anecdote is absolutely
authentic, said Mr.. Hall to me. at
was verified by my father. But. dc
you know. when l used to tell it
people looked at me with incredulity
not believing it. But when l read
that paragraph in Howard Bushnelfs
address in which somewhat similar
incident of ineXplicable assistance
was rendered i made up my mind
that whether people were incredu-
lous or not l should tell the story
when the occasion justified it. You
can explain the incident in any way
you choose. My grandfather and his
neighbors were always convinced
that the aid that came to him was il
response to his prayer"
Copyright. 1914. by E. j, Edwards
All rights reserved.)