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Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1914-12-31

The Viribus Units is of 10000 tons
displacement and has complement
OF 1000 men. She is one of the four
ships constituting the largest type of
the Austrian navy. A London news
paper dispatch from Venice In Sep
tember said that one side of the
Viribus Units had been badly dam
aged in fight in the Adriatic, but
that she escaped her pursuers.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1914-12-31
DROP BOMBS ON DUNkIRk.

lAONDON, Dec. 31.--FOur German
aeroplanes flew several times over
che city of Dunkirk Wednesday drop.
ping bombs as they went, according
10 the Dunkirk correspondent OF the
Daily Mail. Soldiers in the streets
tired on the machine and one Taube
seemed to have been hit, but all got
away safely. The official returns of
the casualties show that Is persons
We're killed and 30 wounded. The
combs were filled with shrapnel.
For half an hour the whole city
cracked with rifle shots and bombs
which threw up dense clouds of black
smoke. No sooner did one aeroplane
seem to depart than another arrived.
Buildings in all parts of the city were
wrecked
The first bomb fell on the fortifi-
cations, two more near the railway sta
ton and many others in different
parts OF the town and in the suburbs
OF Rosendaell and the districts of
Coudederque and Furnes. One child
had an arm blown OFF and an old wo-
man was killed outright.
The fifth aerOplane remained as a
sentry outside the town ready to at
tack any of the allies aeroplanes that
might seek to repel the air assailants.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1914-12-31
AFTER SERVING A v. + LONG
SENTENCE NEW 81: is GRANTED

HOUGHTON, NJ Dec. 30.-Three
strike breakers deputy sheriff
new serving Is ) sentences for
the killing OF 81 utrich, striker,
in August, 1911 e granted a new
trial tonight ldge r. G. Flan-
niean. The Edwin Polking-
horne, John Groll, Arthur Davis and
Joshua Cooper, were convicted last
February and have served nearly a
year of their sentence.
Acting as officers the four went
to Seeberville to arrest a striker who
had worked in the Champion mine
The residents of the boarding house
resisted and Putrich and Alois THAN
were shot and killed. The man whom
they sought escaped.
The four were tried only for the
killing of Putrich and were convicted
of manslaughter. Polkinghorne was
deputy sheriff and the others were
strike breakers
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1914-12-31

Continued on page 81
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-08
Criticize
QUARANTINE RULING
Assert That There Should
Be Zone and Not
County Limits
MAKING TESTS TO
PREVENT DISEASE

PENNSGRoVE, N. j.. Dec. S.-Far-
mers in Salem county. who have had
to postpone their vendues because Of
the quarantine established as a result
of the outbreak of hoof and mouth dis
ease near here, are complaining that
farmers just across the county in
Gloucester county are not affected at
all by the quarantine, while their cat
tie are much nearer the scene of
trouble than is the stock Of scores
of dairy farmers twenty miles away
in the other end of Salem county.
These farmers insist that the only
fair quarantine would be by zones
rather than by counties. They point
out the Quarantined territory should
be within a certain radius of places
of infection and that il should not be
limited by county lines.
Nearly a score of big farm sales
throughout the country have had to be
postponed, because of the quarantine reg
ulations. Cattle sales, which are one OF
the BIG attractions for farmers in this
region during the winter months, have
been put off indefinitely. 1t is feared
that It will be impossible TO sell cattle
with much success, even after the quar-
antine is lifted, as most OF the farmers
are wary now about buying new stock
and some of them are selling of what
cows and swine they have ON hand as
fast as they can get rid OF them.
There seems to be little doubt but
, that the hoof and mouth disease out
break here can be traced to a bull whicl
Alvin Nipe, of Perkintown, bought u
Delaware some weeks ago. state vet
erinary experts are now carrying ON al
interesting experiment with calf be
longing TO Charles Harbeson, which they
have inoculated with virus from th
bull in order 10 trace the development
of tho disease and see if they can dis
cover an antitoxiu with which TO com
bat il.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-08
women ASK AID IN
HOME RELIEF WORK
Few Responses to Appeal
For Help For Those in
Wilmington
MONEY, PROVISIONS,
CLOTHING, WANTED

Because of a failure of the public
to respond to its appeal, the Home
Relief Committee has been unable to
take up the work of relieving the
needy men, women and children Of
this city.
"The Home Relief Committee has
met with so little response in the
way of money, clothing or provi-
sions," said a woman actively inter-
ester in the campaign today, that
we are not able to begin the work un-
til we have more assurance of sup
port.
1--WE will be greatly Obliged if you
will publish our plight, so that we
may soon be relieved of the embar-
rassment caused by failure of the
public to respond to our appeal"
Mrs. Charles r. Miller is president
and Mrs. William G. Coke is secre-
tary of the Home Relief Committee
/ The organization comprises some OF
the foremost women of Wilmington
who are anxious to relieve the suffer
ing and need of worthy Wilmington
\ ians
] The committee is particularly anx-
I ious to receive money. clothing OF
provisions. The committee proposes
to Investigate cases and distribute
aid in a systematic manner.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-08
TODAY S MOVES
IN THE WARZONE,,
What They MEAN
BY J. w. II. MASON,
Former European Manager Of the
limited Press

OUllRu IItNN.
NEW YORK. Dec. S.-G1 a. MI
Official confirmation is now forthcom-
ing of the suggestion made in this
column that the Germans have with
drawn troops from the western front
for operations against Russia. Petro-
grad estimates six army corps and
five cavalry divisions. about 100000
men. have been added TO the German
strength in Poland within the past
fortnight Part of this force is dc
clared to have come from France
and Belgium. but Petrograd doesn't
state the proportion
The gains the allies are now MAX
ing in Flanders and Northern France
following the long weeks of slow re-
tiroments undoubtedly mean a very
considerable change I'm German
strength OF 100000 reinforcements
sent TO Won Hindenburg. probably
one-half, and possibly more have
been withdrawn from the west
Whether the seasoned veterans can
be returned to Belgium and France
is a crucial matter for Germany.
That Germany has had 10 divert
troops from one frontier for work on
the other. means, beyond any doubt.
the limit OF supply Of munitions has
been reached.
The official French estimates Of
Germany's present battle line
strength. coupled with German census
figures show there are probably n
million men in Germany with military
training. apart from the unframed
civilian population. who have not been
sent TO the front. IT, instead OF draw
7 ing on this force. the western trench
es are weakened to give Won linden
burg the reinforcements he needs
I there can be but one Interpretation.
-Four months of devastating warfare
have terminated even the unpre-
cedented preparedness of the Ger
mans.
Undoubtedly this limit would have
been reached before if Liege hadn't
fallen into the German possession
Liege is one Of the worlds greatest
manufacturing centres Of war sup.
plies. Not only is il the Belgian Els
sen, but it is also the munitions fac,
tory for many Of Europe's smaller
countries. The Germans undoubted
ly have set all the furnaces and forgel
OF Liege going at full speed. The sup
plies thus turned out are forming
splendid supplement 10 the Krup
output and yet, the wastage of war /
preventing the continuous arming q
, Germany's reserves.
= II appears now as II Germany wer
} fast approaching the critical time +,
her double cAmpaigu Hitherto, N
tactics OF Frederick The Great. VIII
held Europe at bay by a quick concer
! trations against isolated divisions q
. the enemy, have been followed by tn
German general staff Il is becoming
however, more and more dangerous Z
continue these tactics, because tn
enemy's strength is growing. For tn
first time since the war started. tn
German race back and forth betweel
frontiers is beginning to make tn
men pant
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-08
GERMANS lose Heavily
IN EIGHT DAY FIGHT
BY The United Press.


PETROGRAD. Dec S-That the
Germans we're able to make vigor-
GUS attack for eight days up to
December s. by the arrival Of REIN
forcements OF six army corps. about
100000 men and Eve cavalry divisions.
is adIitted In an official statement
issued here today A part of the
new troops came from the western
battle area 1t Is stated and others
were new formations Owing to lack
of cohesion, the Germans suffered
great loss, 10 is asserted
Lodz is mentioned in the statement
with the declaration that il would
prove inconvonient" to hold the town.
Tho statement follows;
"The Germans brought up to their
eastern forces six army corps and
five cavalry divisions. parts Of which
were from the western front and the
remainder new formations, enabling
them TO attack for eight days to De-
cember s.
But owing 10 the lack OF cohesion
and as a result Of their lesson on
the fifth. after suffering great losses.
the Germans abandoned the attack
Fighting on the sixth around Lodz
and Lowicz was characterized by an
absence of German activity.
Among other questions. the de-
Tense of Lodz remains to be revised,
as the desire TO retain that point abb
solutely would prove inconvenient in
many important respects.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-08
MAY HAVE TO MOVE BUILDINGS
BACK FROM SURF AVENUE LINE

been uncovered by the oceans wash.
Water was turned on today.
Part of the porch of the Hotel Hen
lopen was torn apart by the batter
ing of the storm and noated away.
The only portion of the boardwalk
remaining is north of the Hotel Hen
lopen.
Joseph Harper of Chester today was
planning to put stills under his new
cottage which is dangling in q peril
Gus position. Several of the cot
tages along Surf avenue are in dan
ger of collapsing because of being
partly undermined.
During the storm yesterday after
noon Bertha Barker, known as a
writer living on Brooklyn avenue,
near Surf, who was i'll, had to be car
ried out of her cottage A minute or
two after she left the sidewalk caved
in in front of the cottage.
"Rehoboth has suffered from the
most serious blow it ever received" f"
said DR.. w. R. Messick. Mayor
The storm which has ragged along
| the coast since last Friday was the
worst experienced by this town and
coming as it did just after the Town
1 Commissioners had spent $500 for
repairs to Surf Avenue and other
streets, has staggered US. AS a result
Rehoboth will have to make an appeal
for aid in rebuilding to the State OF
] Delaware"
The property loss is estimated al
about $4,000 to Charles S. Horn
owner of the collapsed pavilion. ano
TO owners of the cottages along Surf
Avenue. The boardwalk, which cost
nearly $4,000, was demolished Be.
sides this, thousand of dollars worth
of street paving, curbings and water
mains are destroyed. The total mum
ber of houses or cottages along Sur
Avenue damaged is nineteen.
Shifting of the northeastern gale tC
the north yesterday afternoon. whil'
the tide was at its height. prevented
any further collapse Of the cottages
but shortly after nightfall. the wine
whipped again to the northeast
Last evening, after the tide recedet
scores of citizens gathered in group
on the corner of what had been form
, erly Surf Avenue, and discussed II
blow.
: To add to the alarm Of the citizen
last night the town was without wa
ter service, and lights because of th
storms effect. Some of the stree
gas lamps were i'm use for awhile.
Mayor Messick in his home las
evening was busy answering tele
phone inquiries from many owner
of cottages who live in other citie
! or towns. When asked by reporte
what he thought the financial damag
} would amount to. the Mayor said
1T is hard to say. I do know tha
the town cannot recover without as
sistance from the State Legislature.
: While the Mayor was talking hi
! eyes fell on the piano where a shee
CONTINUED on Page p
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-08
RUSSIAN ADVANCE
ON GERMANS Halted

rnil.a rrsss sian corresponasnl.


LONDON. Dec. s-The army o
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg In
Poland is now hghtlng desperately
to advance rs southern front and
strengthen It's line along the right
wing.
Heavy fighting IS reported south
west of Piotrkow, which Is 30 miles
to south and east Of LODI The Rus
sian advance along the Nova Rad
omsk line Is declared TO have been
halted. This was a movement against
the right flank of the Germans. The
attempt to outhank the Germans on
the north by dashing cavalry raids
has been frustrated by the occupa-
ton of How, Within forty miles of
Warsaw and the German line Of COM
munications is now completely pro-
tected along the Vistula.
Whether Lodz has been occupied
by the Germans or is still held by
the Russions. e is evident today that
the lighting in the east is still far
from a decision. There is no con-
flrmation at Petrograd of the cap
ture of LODI by the Germans. In
stead, the Russians claim a victory
in the region The Berliner Tage-
blatt today modifies the German
claims today by saying:
"Om victory may be considered d
rupture in the Russian lines. II can
only bc positively called a victory, how
ever. if the Russian retreat is followed
by a German pursuit. If the pursuit il
successful. however then the German
center is strong enough TO act will
force against the northern and southern
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-08
FALL OFF SCAFFOLD FATAL
TO LUTHER B. M'ILVANE

As the result of injuries received
at the American Car and Foundry
Company's plant, Luther b. McIlvaine,
"a years of age, of No 1901 Claymont
street, died at Delaware Hospital late
yesterday afternoon.
Mcllvaine was a foreman and was
directing several workmen on scat
fold when he slipped and fell land
ing on his head. He was picked up
and hurried to the hospital where il
was found he was suffering from a
compound fracture of the skull and
of the right hip. He died a few hours
after reaching the institution. He
leaves a family.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-08

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del, Dee s.
With the storm that has lashed and
flayed this resort since Friday last,
greatly subsidized, residents today view
the wreck and ruin caused by the cam
nonading of the sea, driven in by a
northeast gale that blew at so miles an
hour at times.
The boardwalk is gone, all but 300
or 300 feet OF it, and what remains Is
tottering and will have to be torn
down.
Surf avenue. which fronts on the
ocean, between a line of cottages and
the boardwalk. was eaten away by the
pounding and wash of the highest seas
Rehoboth Beach ever has known.
The cottage OF DR.. +. S. Anderson of
Dover. with its furnishings, was car
ricd away after the sea had inundated
it. The porche, of the Rev. J. A. Buck
son, Mrs. Anna Parsons, Joseph Har-
per. Bishop John j. Monaghan and some
other cottages were wholly or in part
carried away by the battering seas
Many of the Surf avenue cottages were
seriously damaged.
Surf avenue is no more. The
1 greater part of Charles S. Horn S
pavilion and the public pavilions that
skirted the boardwalk crumbled and
the bits became flotsam.
Rehoboth has received a staggering
blow If it RECEIVERS sufficiently 70
rebuild the boardwalk. which is ex-
tremely doubtful if it is to be rebuilt
alone from the financial resources
of Rehoboth. the cottages along Surf
avenue will have TO be moved back
some distance. and the wooden way
would have to go along what has
been the building line Of Surf ave
rue cottages. AS Rehoboth collects
but $4,000 annually in taxes, the
problem of restoring the boardwalh
and other improvements Is serious
and IL is extremely doubtful whether
the town, unaided. can pay for the
work. Mayor W. r. Messick saiC
the Legislature may be asked TO aiC
the town financially in overcoming
the effects of the gale.
During the night the wind veere'
around to the north and the rail
turned to snow. The day broke cloud
and the sea was not so high or angry
Residents turned out early and ther
was an inG,lN of visitors from Lewe'
Georgetown and other places TO vie'
the damage. The cottage Of Mr..
Anna Parsons, OF Wilmington, wa
hanging suspended over the brink o
Surf avenue In addition to par
of the porch Of Bishop Monaghan
cottage being washed away, the stree
in front of st. Agnes R. c. Churcl
was cut away by the sea and part 0
the porch of the Sisters Home wa
carried away.
1t probably will be necessary Il
move the church and the two cottage
back some distance.
Mayor Messick and Robert Hinck
ley, town commissioner, this morn
ing put 200 men at work pluggin
leaks in the water mains that ha
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-08
RUSSIAN GUNS NOW HAMMER
CRACOW; AUSTRIAN RETREAT.
FRESH FIGHTING ALONG USER.
FRENCH GAIN IN THE ARGONNE
TODAY'S WAR STORY

.
3 FRANcE-Germans more active
in Ypres and User regions. Artil-
lery duels in Champagne and Aisne
q districts. Gains made in the Ar
gorne.
ENGLAND-Bntish troops cap
+ ture Passchendaele, between Ypres
= and Roulcrs.
= USSIA--COnfirmat Of Ger
& man report that LODI has been cap
q tured seen in Russian admission
q that defenses Of that town have to
q be revised as II would prove in
= convenient 70 hold LODI.
# AUSTRIA-Aust-o-German forces
g. repulsed attacks southwest Of Pi-
f. otrkow Russian advance on Nova
q Radomsk line halted.
q TURKEY Turkish troops re-
ported successful in the vicinity of
Adiara. Russian attack east Of
g. Wan Lake failed.
GERMANY-In oentered on
g southern front where advance ex-
pected, giving Germans solid 100
" mile front
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-08
Turkish Troops Report Successes
in Vicinity of Adjara. Germans
Now Present 1OO-MiIe Long
Battle Line Against fhe Allies.
Russians Confirm German Re-
capture OF LODI. British Cap
fure PaSschendaeIe Near Ypres

parts Of the broken Russian army"
The engagements southwest of Piotr<
kow and in the vicinity Of Nova Ra-
donsk are for control of second rail<
road line leading to Warsaw. Nowa
Radomsk is fifty miles south of Lodzs
and on the railroad leading from
Czenstochowa to the Polish capital.
Should Potrsow be taken. it is expected
che Germans would endeavor TO adj
vance from LODI along a branch rail-
road which connects with that leading
from Piotrkow to Warsaw. and this
would give them control Of all lines
leading TO the capital OF Poland from
the west in the district south Of the
Nistula.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-08
sy The united Press.

By The United Press.
PETROGRAD, Dec. s.--Russian guns
are now hammering at the outer de-
fenses Of cracow II lis reported here
today that General Dimitrieff has reach
ed the city with a force Of more than
100000 men, The Austrian forces out
side the city have withdrawn, il is de-
olared.
The War Office still refuses to admit
the capture Of LODI by the German
forces The engagement is still in prog
ress in that region, it is stated. The
Russian losses in this fighting have
been heavy, but some estimates place
the German casualties in the general
fighting as high as 100000. After the
retreat Of the Germans upon Strykow
bodies we're found piled in heaps waisl
high. Survivors still endeavoring to fgh
their way out of the Russian wedg'
closing in upon them and in some in
stances intrenched behind piles Of bod
les Of their comrades.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-08
Wire END NEARLY
Blinds LINEMAN

George Fisher, a lineman for the
Wilmington and Philadelphia Trac-
tion Company, met with a painful ac-
cident yesterday afternoon which may
result in him losing the sight of his
left eye. Fisher, with a number of
other linemen, was out on some re-
pair work near Elan on the Concord
turnpike, when the accident happen
ed. While up a tree stringing a wire.
he cut the wire, and when II recoiled
the end struck him in the left eye.
sticking there. He managed TO pull
the wire out, although suffering great
pain. Fisher was taken to the Della
ware Hospital. where ii was stated
today his condition was favorable
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-08
RUSSIAN ADvAScr cECxED.

By TAe Unsea Prese
BERLIN via me Hague, Dec saress inorsst e soszs
oentered In the opsrsons Ausosrsn porcs ia
southern front ia rOisnd stssneut Vienna ssas
the Russian a@vsaee along Raduask me has r
completely salsed Is expected followed BY easy
Of the ceyau s4sst wing giving Hsd@
suv as nss s.s@ sss vissula e paas Ssssesxy 1es
aslsso sorzz-
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-08
.HATPIT JABBER keeps
OUT OF JURISDICTION

The assault and battery case against
Marie Woodward charged with
thrusting a hatpin into Charles Ryan
was continued for one week in City
Court today. The defendant is said
to have left the city for York. Pa. She
may be brought here to stand trial.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-08
GRANGE MEETING POSTPONEn.

Because of the storm, the regular
meeting of the Delaware Grange at
Newport. was postponed last night
until next Monday night. The cleo
tion of officers for the year was
scheduled, but il will take place next
week
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-08
FLASHES FROM THE WAR
xrpgILNs ExrIIIy FAI1 OF toDE.

By The Uuised rresS
LONDON Dec sThe ohcaI statement from psxot-s5 Be-
day that the "dere TO retain would prove coue-fs
In many Important respec acoepsa bars ec1rsnSns
the German reports has captured Tie cur
iher statement Peosrad that the defene of Inds 70
naius to Be rssea taken additional edsnce tnss the
Gereas nov eeeupy city and have msss 0rs Of tas
principal potusS Ia their Ifue
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-08
NOMINATINC DIRECTORs.

The Chamber of Commerce polls for
the nomination of candidates for the
Board Of Directors will be open again
this afternoon from 10 o'clock.
The polls are In the lobby Of the Ho-
tel DUPONT There will be twelve
nominations from which five directors
will be chosen.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-08
CHRIsTMAs sHIP ARRIyEs.
BY The United Press.

Dy Inc OulleQ fIeSS.
GENOA, Dec. S.-The U. S. Collier
Jason, christmas Ship" for the chill
dren of the warning nations of Europe,
arrived here today. A special train
was furnished by the government to
carry the presents from Italy 10 the
children in cities of Austria and Ger
many.