The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-09-11

S0uIneQ8Is OF bAnZ4Ss Oh 4tuS
small river which flows into the
Frische Hall about i've miles from the
town. Its population is about %: OVV:
IN 1898, and again In 1903, It was
seized by the elector of Bradenburg
as a security for debt. Charles MI
Of Sweden held it for ransom, and the.
Russians captured It In ITO In l77z'
it fell to Prussia through the. nrst
partition of Poland. At the great
Schichau iron-works in Elbing are
built most OF the torpedo boats an8'
destroyers for the German navy, as
we'll as larger crafts, locomotives and
machinery. IN addition, EIbtng has
important iron-foundries and manu-
factories of machinery, cigars, lacquer
and metal ware. fax and hemp, yarn.
cotton, linen and organs.
LIEGNITZ-A Prussian town in the
province OF Silesia, forty miles north
of west OF Breslau, on the main rail
way line to Berlin. In 1910 its pop
factures are cloth, wool, leather, to-
bacco. pianos and machinery. During
the Thirty Years war, Liegnitz was
taken by the Swedes, but was soon re-
captured by the Imperialists. The
saxon army defeated the imperial
troops near the town in 1915; in 1850
Frederick the Great gained q decisive
victory over the Austrians; and in
| 1918 Butcher defeated the French In
the neighbcrhood at the battle Of Katz-
bach In 1906 the German autumn
maneuvers were held over the scene
of these great battles
LODI tLodzia) IA town of Russian
Poland, eighty two miles by rail
southwest of Warsaw and sixty miles
from the Posen boundaries. Chiefly
owing to q considerable immigration
of German capitalists and workers,
Lodz has grown with American-lfke
rapidity It consists principally of
one main street seven miles long. 1t
has population of about 400, 900. The
city manufactures cottons, woolens,
chemicals, beer, machinery and silk.
VINO (Wi1no) "A Russian town,
436 miles south of southwest of St.
Petersburg, and 10 miles from the
Prussian frontier, at the intersection.
of the railways from st Petersburg
to Warsaw and from Libau to the
mouth of the DON It's population in
1910 was 1874 ,5S2. 1t is an important
and Is the seat Of many scientific So
cieties. Wilma was united with Poland
in 144T. The plague of 1888, the fire
in 1910 and the wars between Russia:
and Poland, which began in the seven
teenth century, checked its growth.
The Russians took Wilma in 1906, the,
Swedes captured 1t in 1902 and I7O6,
and the Russians regafned it in 1888.
1t was finally annexed to Russia in
1895, after; the partition of Poland.
CZERNOWITZI Austria's eastern
most city, 420 miles east of Vienna
and 1874 miles southeast of Lemberg
by rail, on the right bank of the river
Pruth. In 1910 it had population OF
SLIPS, The city's industries, not well
developed. consist chiefly in corn mill
ing and brewing, although an active
trade is carried on in agricultural
products. wood, wool, cattle and spir-
its
RIVER SAN--Rfses In the Carpath-
ian mountains, at a point near the
confer southern border line of Galicia
It's course to the vistula carries it past
Sanol. Przemysl and Jafoslau From
the latter place it flows northwest to
the Russian Poland boundary line,
where 1t marks the boundary for ten
miles From thence it flows into the
Vistula.