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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-16
Illinois Governor Puts on
ODerQZS to Start Road Work

Aurora, Bloomington. Quincy, Moline
and about fifteen other cities road
dragging contests were held and cham.
pionship prizes awarded to the win.
ners. Hundreds of smaller towns and
villages of the state participated in
the good roads celebration by holding
stone hauling and road dragging con
tests.
AS guests of the Chicago Motor club
Gov. Dunno and party of state Of
ficials left Chicago early today on l3C
mile automobile trip to Sterling, Ill
The party planned to visit twenty-foul
cities in which good road mass meet
ings and celebrations were scheduled.
Gov. Dunno doned overalls at Moose
heart near Aurora and began the work
on the Illinois stretch Of the Lincoln
highway by turning the first spade o.
gravel.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-16

Are Hurypmgon
Wdp to 7dn7pico

On Board U. s. Arkansas, off the
Virginia capes, April 15-Rear Ad-
miraI Badger, commander in chief
Of the Atlantic fleet sailed for
Tampico from Hampton Roads at
noon today with the superdread-
noughts Arkansas, Vermont, New
Hampshire and New Jersey. In a
thick fog that hung over the bay,
the big ships started off under or
ders to make eleven and half
knots an hour. That speed would
bring them to Tampico in seven
Gays.
Rear Admiral Fiske, chief Of the
navy bureau Of operations, who
brought Admiral Badger instruc-
tions from Washington was the
last man to leave the flagship Ark
ansas before the squadron steam
ed out.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-16
FLYING TRAIN HITS AUTO
Inmates Of Car Hurled Out Of Seats
Four Being Killed and Two
Severely Injured.

Georgetown, Texas, April 15.-Foul
men were killed and two seriously in
jured here today when Missouri
Kansas and Texas passenger train
rushed into an automobile in which
they were driving. The dead, all OF
Florence, Texas, are:
C. C. Cresset, c. Robinson, w. J
Joiner and Joe Howell.
The injured are Lester G. Gresset
and w. n Howell.
The automobile was demolished.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-16
ACCUSES OFFICIAL
GRANTED VACATION

St. John, N. B., April Isl. X.
Fleming premier Of New Brunswick
against whom charges of securing
500 900 from government timber lands
were made on the floor Of the legtsla-
ture, has been granted leave Of abb
sence by his own request pending in
yestigation of the charges. Geo. j..
Clark, attorney general OF the province
will act as premier and J. A. Murray,
chief commissioner of agriculture will
take over the premier portfolio Of Eiip-
lister OF lands and mines.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-16
.COXEY's ARMY"
. BEGINS ITS MARCH
ONE DETACHMENT OF THIRTY
FIVE TAKES UP THE HIKE
TO WASHINGTON.

Massillon, Ohio, April 15.-The first
organized band in connection with
General" Jacob S. Coxey's second
army of the commonwealth" arrived
here this morning. 1t was composed
Of IS men from Coshocton, Ohio, under
command of Col" Paul Armstrong.
It was estimated that about 100 men
are ready to accompany General
Coxey when the army starts tomorrow
in the march overland to Washington.
1t Is expected that the army will con-
sist of several hundred men when the
several other "brigades' form juno
ton with the main forces at Beaver
Falls, Pa. later on.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-16
SANTO DOMINGO IS
PEACEFUL AGAIN

Santo Domingo. Dominican Republic,
April 15.-Provisional President jose
Bordas Valdez, at the head Of large
force Of Dominican troops today com
pleted march through Mosa, Santiago
anc Montcestri without meeting any
opposition from the rebels He was
received enthusiastically all along the
route. Dispatches from all parts Of
the republic indicate that there has
been no disturbance of peace.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-16
PLAN A REVOLT IN CHINA
Authorities Claim To Have Learned
Much Regarding Activities Of
Former President.

4 London, April 15.--C Chinese govern.
ment officials In Shanghai today arrest.
ed number of revolutionaries who
had come from Japan, according to a
private dispatch. They were charged
with spreading sedition among the reg
ular soldiers.
AT the same time documents were
seized, alleged to be signed by DR.. Sun
Vat Sen, former provisional president.
They are said to contain instructions
for widespread uprising and the mas
saCre of officials this month.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-16
STRIKE IN ENGLAND OFF
Labors as Result Of Efforts at
Concilia&ion.

Leeds. Eng, April 15.-A settlement
of the Yorkshire coal miners strike
was reached today when the men vot-
ed to resume work. The strikers, num-
bering 100000 left work on April 2,
demanding the introduction Of min
imum wage scale. A conciliation board
pursuaded the men to take the vote.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-16
JOHNSON PLANNING
TO FACE THE COURT

Paris, April 15.--Jack Johnson. the
negro pugilist. will return to Chicago
for the retrial OF the charges against
him under the Mann act. He was out
of town today, but had authorized his
Paris representative. Henri Wolf, to
say that after his fight with Frank
Moran he would sail for America and
place himself at the disposal OF the
court.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-16
SCION OF WEALTH
is WHITE SLAYER

San Francisco, Cal, April 15.--J.
Parker Whitney. younger son Of an
old and wealthy California family
pleaded guilty today to the charge of
white slavery brought against him re-
Gently by Genevieve Hannah Of New
York, and was fined $1,000 by Judge
Dooling in the United States district
court.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-16
GARDEN NAMED FOR
BRAZILIAN POST

London, April 15-The appointment
of Sir Lionel Garden as British minis.
ter to Brazil, was officially announced
today. 1t is understood that Sir Lionel
will proceed direct to Rio De Janeiro
from Mexico City, to which place he
is now on the way.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-16
STILL ANOTHER CUT.

independence, Kas. April 15.-An-
other cut of cents in the price of
crud oil in the Kansas-O Oklahoma fields
was announced here today, making the
present quotations IS cents barrel.
This is the fourth cent drop in the
price within ten days. Over produc-
ton is the cause assigned.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-16
STILL A PRISONER.

Denver, Colo, April 15.-MotheT
Mary Jones, whose release from the
Walsenburg Jail was announced for
yesterday. still was in her cell early
today. The withdrawal of state troops
from Huerfano county had not been
completed, and will not be until late
today or tomorrow.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-16
DECLARE WOMEN
VOTED ILLEGALLY

Lockport, ILL.,, April 15.-At least one
hundred women under 18 years Of age
voted here in Tuesdays election, was
the assertion today Of saloon advo-
Gates who declared that the election
would be contested on that ground.
The dry majority was seventy-five.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-16
Girls Plea For Her
Life is Needed bD
Brothers Slayer
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6,a,,o, lol!dgO slelS

X1a,ooe lol!dnO slplS
''''os IsolIolsIH e,sls w +,
, After killing rranA D......--.- It
) his home on Long Island farm
J today, Frank Fowler, farm
} hand. who slept In the house.
) went to the bed room OF Sam
) mis- sister, Mary, told her he
) had killed her brother and was
) going to kill her too. He held
) a bloody axe. The girl pleaded
) that she had always been kind
) 10 him and begged him to spare
) her life. He finally consented
) to do so and left the house. He
) has not been found. The police
) think him insane.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-16
STEAMER is MISSING.

London, April 15.-The British
schooner Grand Falls. from Harbor
Breton, N. F., for Oporto. has been
posted at Lloyd's as missing.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-16

1t was the arrest of marines
from ships under the command
Of Rear Admiral Mayo and his
subsequent demand upon the
federal commander that the
men be Instantly released, thar
there be an official apology and
that the stars and stripes be
publicly saluted by the firing of
twenty-one guns, that brought
about the present crisis in the
relations Of the United States
and the government at Mexico
City.
The Sentinel=record., 1914-08-23
ISSUES ADDRESS ID
 AMERICAN CATHOLICS
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF DEATH OF POPE PLUS IS MADE
 BY MGR. BONZANA.

Washington. D. C., Aug. 22-The aporteic de.egate to the United States, Monsignor Bonzana, has ad- dressed the following letter to the Catholic hierarcny or the country giv- ing the official announcement of the death of Pope Plus x:
 It is with deepest sorrow that I communicate to you the sad news of the death of our glorious pontiff, Plus x. l am sure that the sorrow We feel is shared in by all the clergy and faithful of the United States.
 Plus X reigned only eleven years but the work he accomplished clearly shows 1t was divine providence that 1t placed in his hands the government of the universal church.
 His condemnation of the modern methods of attacking the Catholic faith, his defense of the rights of the church against the mighty ones of the earth: his regulations concerning sacred music and the recital of the divine offices; the Reorganization of the Roman curia and the undertaking of the qualification Of the canon law; the reform of ecclesiastical semin- aries and finally the decree regarding frequent communion and the com munion of children, are deeds that testify to the eminence of his zeal and the nobility of his birth. These glorious achievements will assure him his place among the most glori- ous pontiffs of the church of Christ
 What adds to his glory is that while he was engaged in these labor- ous works. he ever preserved his calmness and serenity in spite of se- we're trials that afflicted him in so many ways. His paterlal owe for all nations, especially for America is known to all. His constant prayer was to see all nations at peace and it was grief over the sorrows that war inflicted upon his children that brought him to his grave. While Plus X will be known as the Pope of the people and the pope of the blessed eucharist future generations wifi proclaim him also the pope of peace.
 As in grief as sorrow we bow over the grave of this glorious pontiff, let us pay Aim the worthy homage of our esteem and 'ove by praying for the repose of his beautiful soul Let us also pray for the speedy accomplish ment of his dying wish-the end of war and peace among all nations. Finally let us not forget to pray that God may give His church q man ac- cording to His heart, wortyhy sue cessor of our beloved Plus x
 John Boasano.
 "Archbishop of Melitene.
 Apostolic Delegate"
The Sentinel=record., 1914-08-23
MANY REFUGEES
 HAVE ARRIVED
WHITE STAR LINER, BALTIC, AR. RIVEs AT NEW YORK WITH
 2,12o PASSENGERS.
Nearly All Are American Refugees Also Carries Six Thousand Sacks of Mail for the U. S.

New York, Aug 22-The White Star liner Baltic arrived today from Liverpool and Queenstown with e.ro0 passengers and nearly G,0o0 sacks of mail The passengers included more than l500 American refugees who reached either Queenstown or f,ivcr. pool from the continent after suffer. ing many hardshps.
 Seven hundred of the 1 loo steerago , passengers were Americans unal,lc to get accommodations in the first or second class cabins. One of tho mas sengers was Miss Florence Ralpa. of Buffalo who at the outbreak of hos. tililies was studying music in Berlin She heard the emperor deliver the 1 speech in which he said his sword had been forced into his hands by hls enemies. As ne said it. Miss Ralph declared, he patted the hilt of q heavy sabre hanging at his side and tears came into his eyes. The Ger mans cheered the emperor's speech i until he told them to go to the churches and pray.
 "TAe day before I left Berlin tbe authorities issued orders" she said that no parades should be allowed and that any persons found singing patriotic songs would be arrested. The idea. ! understood the gov ernment wanted to impress upon the people that is was a time to be sol emn and not to he over confident"
 
 Samuel UntermeyeT the lawyer. said that American women who were forced to take passage in the steer. age sat at tables sandwiched among foreigners of the class usually found in the steerage. In the steerage were IS Americans who had been arrested in Germany and Russia as spies.
 Dr. E. Pollock of san Antonio, Texas, was a steerage passenger. He was at Liege August 1 and ? and said the streets were filled with wounded men. Many were sitting with their backs against the sides of houses nursing their wounds. He said there seemed to he few physi. ciaus in the town. He himself dress cd the wounds of several men.
 Miss A. Nelson, of Brooklyn, 0 steerage passenger, rode from Berlin to Liege in a freight car. She lost all of her baggage, iewelry and mon ey.
 The Baltic was conveyed by tho British cruiser Essex from the mid. de of the Atlantic to within q short distance of the three mile limit All the passengers praised the British government for it's efforts to ease hardships of stranded Americans.
The Sentinel=record., 1914-08-23
COMMERCIAL! WAR
 AGAINST GERMANY
ENGLAND PROPOSES A BOYCOTT ON ALL COMMERCIAL BUSINESS
 WITH GERMANY.

London, Aug. 22.-3 D. m.-A bitter commercial war against Germany and Austria has been inaugurated in Eng land. It has the loyal support oi press and public.
 The London Chamber of Commerce. committee at a private meeting to- day, discussed this anti-German trade campaign The cosimercial inteili. gence committee of the Board ci Trade has a skilled staff working tn lists of German imports and it calls attention of manufacturers to the fol lowing lines which Germans sell heavily in England:
 Electrical appliances and apparatus iron and steel, wire, stone and earth enwara, chinaware, cutlery, hollow ware, cotton hosiery, wooden and worsted peace goods. cotton prints, furniture, leather gloves and boots and shoes.
 Ii is estimated that sl2,000, ,000 worth of German dynamoes and mo tors are sold annually in British ter ritory. The Board of Trade has ar ranged for the suspension Of German and Austrian patents in England. wherever manufacturers want .o
The Sentinel=record., 1914-08-23

make use of them in public interest, Drug manufacturers are preparing to capture the great trade which German concerns have enjoyed in En gland.
 All English chambers of commerce have been advised and urged by the London chamber to interest manufac. turers in competing for German busi- ness.
 Daily papers as well as trade jour nals are filled with matter setting forth how to capture this German trade. Buyers are urged to boycott German goods after present stocks are exhausted.
 The treasury has announced the government will not permit British firms to deal with German and Au- strian firms in hostile territory; aiso that contracts entered into before the war with firms in hostile territory cannot be carried out.
 English papers are making an espe- eial attack upon the German mand- lecturers of Christmas cards and toys. All parents are urged to deny children playthings made by the ene- mics of the empire.
The Sentinel=record., 1914-08-23
BIG TENNIS TOURNEY.

Newport R. l.. Aug. 22.-With NJ. E. Mclaughlin and R, N Williams sec ond, of the American Davis cup team and A. F. Wilding and N. F. Brookes Of the winning Aastralasian Davis cup team as eontenders, together with nearly every state and sectional title holder in the country. the national lawn tennis championship which be gins here Monday is expected to prove as interesting as the recent in ternational matches.
 Drawings for the alleomers' tour nament today disclosed an entry list of 13S or ten less than last year
The Sentinel=record., 1914-08-23
SWISS ARMY IS
 NOW MOBILIZED
NUMBER 3oo,0Oo MEN AND IS FUL. " ARMED AND EQUIPPED
 FOR ANY PURPOSE.
Financial Situation Of the Little Re- public is Entirely Satisfactory Ac- cording to Report.

Washington D C., Aug 22-At the Swiss legation here the following statement was made public today:
 "Fhe Swiss federal council has mobilized from the bcgilning the whole military force of Switzerland. the Ellie, the Landwehr and part of the I.andsturm, numbering about @00,0o0 men. The mobilization is not a result of a menace to. Switzerland but merely a precautionary mi itary measure. The efficient training of the army and careful war prepara- tions enable Switzerland to maiatain the inyiolabillty of it's territory.
 As commander in chief of the army Colonel Urich Willie was elect ed rising to the rank of general Colonel Sprecher Von Berneck is chief of staff Both names are pop. ular and inspire the troops with high est confidence.
 The mobilization was completed quietly and speedily Tho frontiers. the Alpine passes as well as the Getthard and Saint Mauricce fortifi
  railway station at Basel is barred. Railroad traffic between Germany and Basel has ceased as all trains are stopped in the German stations outside Basel. The SwissGerman boundary there Is sharply guarded on both sides Some German patrols which crossed the boundary line were immediately disarmed and interned.
 "The financial situation is entirely | satisfactory. panics and withdrawals of money from banks and savings in- stlUtions having ceased New bank notes of twenty and of five francs were issued to preserve the metal re- serves
 "All foreigners who escaped into Switzerland are well cared for there.
 The supplies of food stuffs, prin- cipally grain and meat are satisiac- tory. In milk and cheese, Switler- | land possesses a formidable food re- serve The city population and non moblized students are helping farm CTS to harvest the crops.'
The Sentinel=record., 1914-08-23
JAPAN WILL GET
 SWEET REVENGE
GERMANY FORCED PORT ARTHUR FROM LAPS AND NOW JAPAN
 WILL RETALlATE.
Ultimatum From Japan is Direct Repetition Of Germany's Note to Japan at Close of Russian War.

London Aug 22 -7:l6 p.m-"From my fairly intimate. knowledge of the Japanese, l felt certain that as soon as war broke out they would join in driving the Germans out of Kiao Chow" said Sir Valentine Chirol former director of the foreign depart ment of the Times, in a statement to- night. Sir Valentine is looked upon as an authority whose word carry weight in all chancellories of Europe
 "The Japanese, he continued probably would nave done it evea if there had been no Ang O-Japanese treaty and even if the Japanese gov ernment had tried to hold back, pOpu lar feeling would have insisted The share which Germany took with Rus sia and France in compelling the Japanese to evacuate Port Arthur in 1895 after their victories over China never has been forgotten or forgiven.
 ''I was in Japan then and in con yersation Prince Ito. usually reticent and reserved, brought his fist down on the table and exclaimed Germany we shall never forgive Russia looks upon us as a future rival in the far east. France is, of course, her ally and has important possessions and interests in eastern Asia; we can un- derstand their action, But for Ger many-who always professed such genuine friendship and has no spe- cial interests il these regions-to join hands with them and stab Us in the back-her intervention was odi- ous and gratuitous.'
 Moreover. Japan believed l really think, that Germany instigated Rus sia.
 Compare, too, the text of Japan's ultimatum to Germany with the text of the utimatum addressed by Ger many to Japan in 1895. It is clearly direct paraphrase The curious ex- hibition that the Japanese govern ment believes it to be it's duty to give advice to the imperial German gov ernment to withdraw from Kiao Chow is borrowed almost teXtually from the 1895 ultimatum which may be de- scribed as advice given to Japan to rcnounce possession of Llo Tung peninsula as new proof of sine re friendship
 The bitter irony with which Japan after nineteen years now turns the tables on Germany speaks for itself
 Japan has given a definite under standing not only that the sovereign rights of China over the territory leased by her to Germany shall not be curtailed but that the territory it. self eventually shall he restored to her. Thanks also to the Anglo-Japan- csc alliance, Japan is ready to con fine her operations to a limited area within the China ses. Okuma has pledged Japan to take no action which could give third parties un. easinoss.
 "All Japan wants is to eliminate from China the root of German influ- ence and 1 am well aware that any action which would estralge public opinion in the United States is in- compatible with the Anglo-Japanese alliance. especially revised three years ago to exclude such possibili- ties. Positive assurances have been given all neutral powers having pos sessions in the far east.
 Japan no doubt wishes to secure
The Sentinel=record., 1914-08-23
AMERICANS WERE
 KINDLY TREATED
THE ONLY INCONVENIENCE SUF. TERED WAS ON ACCOUNT OF
 MOBILIZATION OF ARMY.
German Government Took Especial Measures to Safeguard the Lives of All American Tourists.

Rotterdam, Aug. 22, via London, S:3O D. m.-A thorough canvass of Americans here shows that the Ger mans have been universally cour- teous to them.
 Tlardships undergone by Americans have been due in all cases to condi- tions attending mobilization. lack or facilities of travel and at first a re- striction of the hours during which the streets couid be frequented.
 The government took measures not alone for the safety of Americans but for their comfort. Those hardest hit are American students, who have found difficulty in getting their usual remittances. Every measure has been taken to help them.
 Dr. W. G. Kanter of Detroit who travelled widely in Germany during the mobilization, stated today that Americans could not have received better treatment i'll their own coun. try. pr kanter was in Frankfort-oa- Main. August ?, when the authorities discovered French aeroplane over the city. He said the airship was fired on and came down, the ayHtor being killed. That same night sparks were discovered issuing from the top of house in Frankfort. Investiga- tion showed that the sparks were caused by a wireless apparatus.
 Eighteen Frenellmen found in the house put up a fight with revolvers but were overpowered. It is believed the aeroplane took message as it was lowering near the house at night The German authorities suppressed the story but Dr. Kanter's version has been corroborated
 At Cologne eight Russians were short on August :. One was dis. guised as a priest, two as nuns and five wore ordinary dress of women The impression is that they were or dinary Russian citizens afraid to leave Germany any other way
 During the first few days of mo biization the Germans were all con fident that they would win. When il became known that England had made common cause with France ano Russia, a feeling of depression came over the entire nation, Since then this feeling is said to have given place to resignation and grim deter imitation to do the best possible.
 Men of all classes are volunteerine for service. During the first week ,300.000 enrolled They now are being armed and drilled. The occu- patton by troops and guards of bases and lines of communication was pro ceedng in Germany. It is asserted that women urge their husbands aad sons to die for the fatherand.
 The cases of destitute Americans in Rotterdam are few and are being relieved by the American consul gen eral.
 The American consul in Berlin is providing free transportation to al stranded Americans as fas as pos sible. Tho scarcity of passenger cars ia problem.