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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-03-24
Send Advance Agents.

we are sending advance agents %
South America to give publicity to the
floating exhibition down there. and 80
arrange FOR the running of excursions
for merchants from inland towns TO
the ports where we shall call. The
government has promised To give us
such aid as We may need i'm getting
the project known, ana American
consuls will bring it to the attention
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-03-24

A. w. Woods is TO produce "a falc,
comedy from the German called "Slrc
py Theodore"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-19
MANY Of FRENCH
DEPUTIES ABSENT
EMPTY SEATS WILL BE CON.
sPIcUoUs IN PARLIAMENT At
THE COMING MEETING.

Paris, Dec. 1S.-There will be num-
ber of empty seats in both houses
when the French parliament neets on
December %. Those of Senatay Emile
Raymond and Deputies Pierre Gougon,
Edouard Nortier and Paul Proust, who
were killed in battle, will be draped in
crepe.
There are number of senators and
deputies in the territory occupied by
Germany, and the French government
has been attempting to communicate
with them through the Spanish en-
bassy in Berlin but so far unsuccess-
fully. Among these members is one
of the deans of the senate, the academ-
ician, Aired Mesieres. Others in the
occupied territory are Senators Chas.
Noel, Georges Ermant, Charles Seb-
line, Joseph Dehove, Gustave Dron,
and Auguste Potie, who are mayors of
the cities they represent in parlia-
ment and remained at their post.
Deputy Pasqual, territorial lieuten-
ant in the active French army, is an
other who will be missing. He was
taken prisoner at Maubeuge. Deputy
Basly, the mayor. Of Lens. will also BIZ
absent, as he is believed to have beeh
shot by the Germans.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-19
MEN
start BIG RIOT
TWO HUNDRED INVADE EATING
PLACES IN SEATTLE AND
APPROPRIATE FOOD,

Seattle, Wash, Dec. 1S.-Two hun
dred unemployed men terrorized the
patrons and proprietors of lunch
room at Second avenue and Cherry
street last night by marching into the
place and forcibly taking all the food
in sight, including meals spread for
diners. They then paraded the down
town streets and within an hour made
an onslaught on the Westlake market,
selling everything edible within reach.
Responding to hurry call, the
police reached. the Testaurantrin time
to capture eighteen Of the participants
and twenty-five more were arrested at
the market.
The forty men were placed in three
large cells at the city Jail. They
kicked the plaster off the wall in
chunks and broke, all the windows.
Then volley of the pieces Of plaster
brought the big glass light globes
crashing to the floor, leaving the cor
ridor in darkness.
In the cells were buckets of water.
The men ground the glass and plaster
and soaked 1t in the water, making a
soft, sticky mass that packed like a
SNOWFALL. Then, when a Jail official
would appear in the corridor, he was
bombarded with the balls
Early today the prisoners were still
holding the fort.
The men said they had agreed not
to go to the Hotel Liberty, the mu-
nicipal home for men without jobs, be.
cause they would be required to cut
wood, swab the floors, cook and per-
haps pay for their keep by grubbing
land.
The mob formed on Washington
street ard dragged an express wagon
through the streets bearing cloth
placards advertising their state of un.
employment
The men arrested offered Industrial
Workers of the World literature to the
patrolmen.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-19
BULLETS CONTINUE
TO CROSS BORDER

Naco, Ariz., Dec. 1s.-Stray bullets
from the Mexican side crossed the
American line last night and early to-
day during the usual bombardment Of
the Maytorena trenches by the Car.
rama garrison Of Naco, Sonora.
carranza Force Beaten.
Mexico City, Dec. 18.-Details Of the
fall of the city Of Puebla were receive
ed here today. 1t was said that after
evacuating the place the Carranza
forces made stand to the north,
where they were defeated, losing many
men.
The Carranza troops retreated in
disorder towards the Interoceanic rail-
road. with the evident intention of
making their way toward Vera Cruz.
The retreating forces burned freight
and passenger trains. The oil tanks in
the vicinity were emptied and set on
fire. Generals Zapata, Arguemedo and
Amazon were in command of the Villa
troops. They place their losses at fifty
killed and wounded.
Troops Hurry to Border.
FL Paso, Texas, Dec 18.-The nine
trains Of troops from Texas City and
Fort Sill began passing through this
city today on their way to Naco, Ariz.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-19
Get news OF BIC FIGHT
British Squadron Which Defeated Ger
man Fleet, Lost Only Four Men
in the Battle.

Buenos Aires, Dec 1S.-The COM
mandant of the Argentine cruiser San
Martin, which has just come into port,
relates that in the Colo Nuevo he met
the British cruiser Carnarven and ex-
changed visits with her commanding
officer.
The engagement December 8, which
resulted disastrously to the German
squardon was discussed The COM
mandant of the San Martin was in
formed that the English squardon had
four men killed and fifty-six wounded.
None of the wounded has been landed;
they are being cared for on board The
German cruisers opened fire at a dis
tance of about 1900 yards. The
British vessels held their fire until
they were within 5000 yards of the
enemy.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-19
NEW BOARD TO Be
POLITICAL
pREs,DENr SAYS "COMMON
SENSE WILL QUALIFY NEW
TRADE COMMISSIONERS.

Washington, D. c., Dec. 18.-Presi-
dent Wilson has let it be known that
he had made common sense" the
chief qualification of the five men he
is to nominate as members Of the new
trade commission within the next two
weeks. He does not desire theorists
for the commission, but men who will
be able to intelligently deal with busi-
ness conditions in the United States.
Politics, 1t is said, will not govern
the makeup of the board, although at
least one republican probably will be
named.
Among the numerous men whose
names are under consideration are
Joseph Davies, commissioner of cor
porations; A. c. Tuman, solicitor of
the commerce department; Z. N. Hur-
ley, president of the Illinois Manufac-
turers association; John E. Richard
son of Tennessee; Thomas s. Fielder
Of Georgia; DR.. Rublee of New Hamp-
shire; Samuel l.. Rogers Of North Car
olina; Professor Henry ]. Waters OF
Kansas; r. A. Krauthoff of Missouri,
and w. B. Westlake of Indiana.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-19
RIVER AND HARB0R
BILL IS TRIMMED
COMMITTEE LoPs $2o,oooooo OFF
ESTIMATES AS FIXED BY
ARMY ENGINEERS.

Washington, D. c., Dec. 1S.-Big
cuts in army engineering board esti-
mates for existing waterway improve
ment projects throughout the country
in some instances more than fifty
per cent-are made in the annual river
and harbor appropriation bill as re-
ported to the house today. The COM
mittee on rivers and harbors Topped
off nearly $20,0O0,000 from the army
boards recommendations and brought
in measure appropriating $34, 4,13S,5SO.
No provision was made for new pro-
jects, the bill providing only for con-
tinuance of work already undertaken.
The committee has been preparing
the bill for several weeks and COM
pleted it's work last night. Estimates
had been submitted to the committee
by the board of engineers calling for
appropriations aggregating $53,0OO,O00.
The measure as laid before the house
carries little over $14,000,000 more
than last years appropriation, which
was for maintenance of work on exist
ing projects.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-19
University Head Has Plan
to Develop Citizen Soldie1p

Each student, under the plan sub
mitted by President James, would be
drilled six hours week instead of the
customary three, and the course ex-
tended to four years instead Of two.
The federal government would offer
$3.50 a year to each cadet who would
pledge himself to give this extra time
to the study Of military tactics and
practical drill He believes that such
a system would add 1000 to 1000 Of.
ficers qualified as lieutenants to the
immediate available forces of our sys-
tenn OF national defense.
President James wrote that while he
is "pacihcist of the extreme type
he feels that the citizen soldiery should
be developed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-19
AUSTRIAN LOSSES
REPORTED HEAVY

Paris, Dec 1S.-In dispatch from
Nish. Servia, the correspondent Of the
Havas agency says the Servian au-
,horities have re-established them
selves in the vicinity of Podrinie,
where the Austrian troops surrendered
to them. Prisoners affirm that the
Austrian losses in the recent engage
ments in killed and wounded have
been very large and that they exceed
The losses in prisoners. Heavy casual
ties are shown by the innumerable
.unburied bodies of Austrian soldiers
found on the line of their retreat.
Loznitza, where there has been no
fighting recently, was burned by the
Ausarians
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-19

Paris, Dec. 1S.-The ministry of mar
inc announced today that the British
auxiliary cruiser Empress of Japan
had captured the collier Exford, hav-
ing on board three officers and forty
men from the German cruiser Emden
sunk November 10 by the Australian
cruiser Sydney. These are the forty
men who escaped to Cocos island and
subsequently sailed away in COM
mandeered schooner.
Forty men of the German cruiser
Emden were ashore on Cocos island
when their vessel was overtaken and
sunk by the Sydney. Under the COM
mand of Lieutenant Mureke, they COM
mandeered Cocos island schooner,
loaded it with provisions and sailed
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-19
DEsTROYERs ARE
SUNK BY RAIDERS
GERMANS REPORT HAVE DiSPOS.
ED OF SEVERAL BRITISH SHIPS
IN NORTH SEA.

London, Dec. 1S.-An Amsterdam
dispatch to Reuters Telegram Co.,
contains German official statement
which claims that some of the British
destroyers which attacked the German
raiding squadron off the British coast
were sunk. The communication fol-
lows:
1.-THE retreating cruisers were at
tackled by four British destroyers, one
of which was sunk Another disap-
peared badly damaged.
"At another point another English
destroyer was sunk
An official statement issued by the
British admiralty last night makes no
mention of any British warship having
been lost. The British statement said
that the light cruiser Patrol and the
destroyer Doom, which were among the
British ships that attacked the German
cuirsers, were struck by shells and
lost five men in killed and fifteen
wounded.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-19
GARDNER SHOWS
NAVAL WEAKNESS
Congressman Points Out to
Committee the State
Of Our Defenses
ASKS FOR MONEY
TO BUILD SHIPS
Also Points Out the Lack
of Men to Man Craft
Now in Commission

Washington, D. c., Dec. 1s.-Repre-
sentative Gardner was the principal
witness today before the house naval
in support Of his proposal for investi-
CATION OF the national defenses by a
special commission.
II am here to ask you to appropriate
for the full number of new ships recon-
mended by the general naval board for
this years construction" he said, 81
am sorry to say that Secretary Daniels
in his recommendations to congress
has cut the naval boards building pro.
gram for this year almost exactly In
two.
IF you gentlemen had permitted me
to present as witnesses few recently
retired officers, in a single day, the
country would have learned of our de.
mented policy o; building warships for
cold storage. Out of thirty completed
battleships, do you know that twelve OF
them are unavailable without long
delay on account of our refusal to pay
the bills for manning them?
"If we had gone to war with the rest
of the first class powers early in Aug,
ust do you realize that no less than
nine of our battleships would not have
been ready to fight? We have fifteen
cruisers, twenty-five destroyers, eight
cen torpedo boats, five submarines and
perhaps a dozen miscellaneous fight
ing ships kept in cold storage with the
battleships. Eighty fighting vessels OF
our modest navy are not available fol
battle In an emergency. 4, 2
Short on Men.
II charge that our navy Is $4,000 men
short and a further shortage of 10000
men is in sight. The general board
which has actually made our war plans
estimates the enlisted force of the
navy as between 10000 and $4,000 men
short for war. If any attention had
been paid to the general boards EN-
phatic appeals for our national safety
instead of only ~ battleships built and
building and authorized. we should
now have AZ battleships built: instead
OF 6S destroyers we should have 181
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-19

Chicago, Dec. 18.-A plan for a
citizen soldiery" to take the place OF
large standing army, as suggested
by President Wilson in his recent mes
sage to congress, has been evolved by
Edmund J. James, president of the
University Of Illinois, it was announc-
ed today.
In an open letter to the president,
Mr.. James suggests that the male stu
dents Of all public educational insti-
tutions supported In part by the, state
or federal government be given ex-
tended military training which would
Justify their appointment as brevet
second heutenants in the federal az
my or national guard
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-19
MANY BERLINERS
IN CASUALTY LIST

Amsterdam, Dec. 1s.-Berlin News
papers reporting here declare that a
majority of the seventy thousand resi-
dents of Berlin who went to the front
have lost their lives.
Other statistical information given
by these papers is that of the organ
ICED workers of Germany, who mum,
Der 661 900, about thirty-one per cent
are now in active military service
The German federation workers has
given over $4,000 for the unemployed
and to assist needy women and chill
dren.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-19
Last of Emden,s Daring CrelD
Caught on Captured Ship

away. A dispatch from Manila Dec.
16, said these men later captured a
collier on which they mounted two
Maxim guns, evidently brought with
them from the Emden, and began raid
ing commerce in the Pacific.
This report came through officers OF
the British steamer Malacca which
has arrived at Jolo. 1t has not how
ever, been confirmed from any official
quarter Where they captured this
collier has not been divulged. The
Malacca, fearing that she would be
overhauled by this collier, made her
way into Jolo without showing lights.
This would indicate that the collier
has been operating in the Pacific not
far from the Philippine islands.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-19
HOLD OF STEAMER
IS FULL OF WATER

San Francisco, Cal, Dec. 18.-The
American Hawaiian Steamship COM
pany here received wireless message
early today from it's freighter Isthmian
that she was steaming slowly for San
Diego Cal with twenty-six feet of
water in her No. i hold, but with No.
2 hold not yet leaking. An earlier
wireless message from the steamer
had reported that she had struck on
Cerros island, off the northern coast
Of Lower California.
The steamer Is of 5,404 tons capacity
and is built of steel.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-19
BELGIAN PAPERS
REFUSE TO PRIME

Amsterdam, Dec. 1S.-Efforts Of Gen
eral Won Bissing, the new German gov
ernor of Belgium, to induce the leading
newspapers Of Brussels and Antwerp
to resume publication have proved to
be futile The editors of the news
papers informed the governor that SO
long as Belgium's king was absent
from Brussels and the German censor
ship continued, the papers would not
be published.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-19
BOMBARDMENT IS
TERROR TO TURKS

Paris, Dec. 18.-The Havas agency
has given out dispatch from it's cor
respondent at Athens, who quotes
a message from the island of Tenedos
to the effect that the recent lombard
ment by British fleet in the Gulf Of
Saros, Immediately north of the Dar-
danelles, completely destroyed the
Turkish barracks on shore and serious
ly damaged the fortifcations. The
Turks, panic stricken, fed to the in
terror.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-19
Decision Looked
UpOn as Boon to
Manufacturers
61s,ooc lolIdeo sls,c

~, '''oS lRo!LolslH ISIS Isis
cision granting inu,eas...
freight rates to the eastern rail
roads Is welcome news to ILL
nois manufacturers" said John
M. Glenn, secretary of the ILL
nois Manufacturers association
today. "Of course the iron and
steel industries and the car
works will be the ones most
affected, but 1t will tend to give
new confidence to every line. A
conservative estimate of the
amount of goods of all kinds
bought directly by the railroads
from manufacturers would be
$S00,000,000. Approximately
100000 employees in manufac-
turing plants all over the coun-
try will be affected by the de-
cision.
From Chicago to Cairo. Illi-
nois Is dotted with manufac-
tories and each one directly or
indirectly finds a customer in
the railroads. When the rail.
roads resume buying it will
give Illinois manufacturers a
chance"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-19
AFRICAN REVOLT IS
OUELLED BY BOTHA

Cape Town, Dec. 1S.-General Louis
Botha, premier of the Union of South
Africa, considers that the rebellion,
apart from the rounding up Of few
stray bands, is at an end. Accord
ingly he has gone for a short vacation
on his farm before undertaking a
campaign against German Southwest
Africa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-19
WIN
RATE INCREASE
Advance of Five Per Cent Is
Permitted By Federal
Commercial Board
EXCEPTIONS MADE
FOR SOME ITEMS
Ruling Follows Long Fought
Case Before Interstate
Body; Effect Wide

Washington, Dec. 1S.-The interstate
commerce commission today granted
the application of the eastern railroads
for a five per cent advance in freight
rates. except on certain specified COM
modities. Commissioners Harlan anu
Clements dissented.
The carriers are permitted TO make
the applied for advances In rates OK.
cept the rail.lake-and-rail, lake and rail-
and rail and lake traffic; rates on pl'
luminous coal and coke; rates on an
thracite coal and iron ore, and rates
that are held by unexpired orders OF
the commission.
After further consideration the COM
mission permits advances to be MADE
also on cement, starch, brick, tile, clay
and plaster. On these commodities no
advances were permitted by the decl-
sion of August /.
Joint rates between official classitl-
cation territory and territory south OF
the Potomac and Ohio and east OF the
Mississippi may be increased not to ex-
cee6 five per cent.
Interstate rates south Of the Poto-
mac and Ohio and east Of the Mlssls-
sippi may be increased not to exceed
five per cent.
Interstate rates to and from New
England also may be increased not TO
exceed five per cent.
While present existing differentlals
among various Atlantic ports are pre-.
served, the rates between any two OF
them also may be increased five pei
cent.
Text Of Decision.
The decision says:
while we differ as to the relative
importance to be attached to the varl
Gus considerations presented. we agree
in the conclusion that by virtue OF the
conditions obtaining at present, 1t ls
necessary that the carriers revenues
be supplemented by increases through
out official classification territory
Whatever the consequences OF the wal
may prove to be, we must recognize =
the fact that it exists, the fact that II
| M Qrc .
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-19

London, Dec 1S.-12:1s p. IA
Again the Germans and the Austrians
seem to be on the crest of wave OF
battle as the interminable struggle in
the east continues again Berlin Is gay
with flags and again Petrograd declines
to concede victory to the invaders.
Berlin and Vienna contend, however,
that the Russians are falling back
along the entire front from the Baltic
to the Carpathians, with the invading
center less than thirty miles from War
saw
TO the south, where a few weeks
ago Russians were pouring over the
Carpathians into Hungary, combined
Austro-German columns have now fore
ed them back through the passes and
it is asserted have advanced two.thirds
Of the way across Galicia and are
nearing the fortress Of Lemberg, oc-
cupied by the Russians early in the
Galician campaign.
The Russian official announc cements
admit none OF this. They dismiss the
4 happenings. in Galicia as engagements
of no Importance and class the opera
tions to the west Of Warsaw in the
same category. 1t is claimed, however,
that the extreme Russian right near
Mlawa has thrust the Germans back
and that Russian cavalry has swung
across the southern border of East
Prussia.
In the western arena there have
been no events of great Importance;
at least none have been reported. Foot
by foot the allies appear to be fore.
Ing the Germans out of their trenches
in Flanders and maintaining the pres
sure elsewhere on the front from the
sea to Switzerland.
The British press today naturally
makes feature of the annexation OF
Egypt and the Sudan, which takes
from the sultan of Turkey 14,000,0OO
subjects and 100000 square miles OF
land This "a ction, moreover, robs
the Turk of his last foothold In Afri-
ca, Italy having taken Tripoli from
him a few years ago.
All England is still buzzing with
talk about the German raid On the
east coast, interest having been stimu-
lated afresh by the latest accounts
coming out of Hartlepool.
Many Of the naturalized Germans
arrested on the east coast after the
German raids, have been liberated.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-19
oTTUMWA WAPEILo COUNTY, SATURDAY 49, 1914
Allies Announce Thep are
Beating Back the LnDadeTs

London armies which invaded France
yielding steadily
statement like its recent predecessors
ports battle line 1t Is stated that
further advance in Belgium although the re-
Bel
confirmed Several German trenches have been
the Is
ma up a trench in the Argonne.
ground
epused
that Argonne captured The German
that
victory hadb gained the Russians.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-19
SWITZERLAND NEAR 3
TO BEING ANNEXED

Paris, Dec. 1S.-As proof that Ger
many made plans to annex Switzer-
land, the Maun prints Photographs Of
German ten and twenty pfennig
stamps, across which are printed in
black letters, "Schweiz, ten centimes,"
and "Scheiz, twenty-five centimes. ;"
The editor claims that he has stamps
of this kind in his possession
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-19
KAISER IS WELL AGAIN
Report From Berlin Says William Will
Return to the Battle Front In
Few Days.

Amsterdam, Dec. 1S.-According to
the TELEGRAPH, Emperor William. who
has been detained in Berlin for some
time because Of illness, will return
to the front this week.
The emperor, the Dispatch says, has
Just conferred the decoration Of the
Iron Cross, first class, on Chancellor
Won Bethmann-H Hollweg.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-19

Cincinnati, o., Dec. 18.-The police
today are searching for. the $13,10O OBJ
tanned Nby Frank G.. Hohl automobile
bandit, from the two banks he held
up and robbed yesterday before he was
mortally shot in a pistol duel with
three police officers. Patrolman Ed
ward Knaul. the policeman shot by
Hohl, was operated on early today and
the attending physicians held out very
little hope for his recovery
Hollis body still lies unclaimed at
the city hospital His wife, Mrs.
Bertha Hohl, who was arrested
last night, declared she would not
claim the body. She denied knowing
anything about the robberies, saying
she even was ignorant of the fact
that Hohl had been in the city. Mrs.
Hohl said her husband left her more
than a year ago because she would
not take an active part in his career
of crime.