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Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1914-12-12
SOCIETY NOTES FROM
NEIGHBORING TOWNS

Worth ou g business mission
Little Ada Coffee ha. been on the
sick Inst this week but is improving.
a a. Wilson OF Joshua visited az
the W u Matthews home this week
n Newman ana f. $. Barron
went 10 The river Monday ON q hunt
Miss Lelah Baird OF pampa visit
"a 90 the &C. 4 Baird home over
sunday
Quite @ crowd OF pJmpa youn-
folks Sundayod 90 the j A. Meade
home
Miss Lilly Lodcn of Amarillo Is
visiting her sister. Mrs stephens in
Miami this week
a n Noil and family and Chpo.
Smith and wife were here from No
beetle sunday
Milus Gum and U'u Locke lct,
Friday stating thcy were bound l1.
Amarillo
Mrs r NJ Cunningham lcu
Monday morning for san Antonio
whore She Niil Spend thc white,
Mrs T. s Barron came Zoo sun
day rom visit with relatives iu
the east
Elder Noddcchock closed a meet
ins - laho'ou Friday evening o.
last week
ot- Webster Nas 100 from the
ranch SUNDAY visiting tHc HON"
folks and tIp Cray family
Pen TJlley Iui o. % SAXON made
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GERMANS FALL BACK
BEFORE CZAR'S
ON PRUSSTAN BORDER
Furious Fighting in Wirbal-
len Region R esults in
Heavy Losses Berlin Re-
ports Success Along the
Niemen.
PETRoGRAD, Oct. 9.

PETROGRAD, Oct. 9.
An official communication issued from
general headquarters says:
"The fighting on the east Prussian
frontir continues with the same ferocity.
In spite OF German reinforcements, all
their attacks in the region Of Wirballen
and Philipoff have been repulsed with
great losses. BY night assault the
Russian troops have captured the VIII
lage of Kamenka, near Bakalargewo.
I'm the forest of Massalstchizna, west
of Ratchka, our troops in night attack
surrounded German detachment, which
was partly exterminated, the others being
dispersed, abandoning their rapid frers.'
(Thesc places are all on theRusso-East
Prussian frontier and indicate fighting
along a 40-mile front)
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mond Poncare knew that he not only
faced the probability of war with Ger
Ilany, but also that because of his cleo
ton, France faced the probability of
grave crises working, from both ends Of
the social scalc-the Socialists among the
masses, NJ. Clemcnceau in Parliament.
From the moment that NJ. Poincares
election was announced up to the very
hour Of his return from Russia, three
days before the order for mobilization, he
was the object of attacks in the press
that were unparalleled in even the his
tory of this phase of public life under
the Third Republic.
Everything that NJ. Poincare did was
wrong, every act was misconstrued. every
proposed law to which he gave his APP
proval was a menace to the French Re-
public and positive evidence that NJ.
Poncare was forcing certain legislation
by his personal influence" These two
words, indeed, were the bogey of the OPP
position, and never a day passed but they
were flung to the public as the supreme
evidence of the danger that menaced the
very existence of the Government while
NJ. Poincare remained its chief of state.
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CZAR'S NEW ARMY
MARCHES ON THORN,
ON GERMAN SOIL
Great Stronghold Is Key to
Posen and Berlin-Rus-
slams Within 3 Miles of
Cracow = Przemysl Re-
ported Fallen.

The Russian centre mobilized at War
| saw, has started forward on the first lap
OF its march to Berlin. War Office ad-
vices today said that this army. includ-
ing the pick of the Cars forces, s now
entering action in the territory around
Wloc!awek, around the Yistula and 80
miles from Thorn
Russian forces in Poland have now ad-
vanced to within 90 miles of Posen, It is
asserted. Fighting continues, but the
Russian advance is steady and over
whelming.
Russians have driven the Germans from
U-IoclawelS CRussan PJoland. on the Wis
tula, 35 miles southeast of Thorn. East
Prussia( and have fortified themselves
within few miles OF the fortress OF
Thorn.
The German left wing in Poland ac-
cording TO the dispatch, is said to have
been partly enveloped.
A Petrograd dispatch to Reuters Tele-
gram Company says the Russian tgpops
are advancing slowly but irresistibly~lpon
Cracow, the population of which has al
ready ben reduved by one-half.
The Germans have now depbyed their
full front of troops for the campaign in
South Poland. Their main line was
formed on a crescent from westward of
sandomierz to the right bank of the
Warta River. westward of Lodz: then
turning upward to the left bank Of the
Vistula River. below Thorn. The Rus
slams have had successful cavalry con-
facts with both ends of this position.
(Sandomierz Is on the border of Galicia
on the Vistula River, about 20 miles
southeast of Opatow where outpost en-
gagements have taken place. The Warta
River runs north and south about IS
miles west of Lodz, the second city of |
Poland Thorn is in east Prussia, on |
the Vistula, about 10 miles from the Pol |
ish frontier Thorn and Sandomiez are |
about 175 miles apart, Warsaw is about |
70 miles equidistant from the ends and |
centre of the German line)
The Austrian line projects at right |
angles from the right OF the German |
front south through Tarnow TO Sandec.
(Tarnow is on the Dunajec River, 1885
miles west of Lemberg. Sandee is about
. miles to the southwest)
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HER CONGRATULATIONS

An Evanston lady was telling me the
other day about rather lugubrious aunt
who seemed to see everything through
blue speotacles. Her greatest pleasure
In life was in attending funerals, and in
case OF friends illness she would con-
sole the patient with gloomy forebodings
and with tales Of others who had met
untimely deaths through similar affllc-
, tions.
Her sister, who, though In good health.
was by no means young, was celebrating
her birthday and it fell to the me1an-
choly one to send congratulations.
MY dearest sister" she wrote. you
have passed another milestone In llfe's
journey Do you realize that you are
year nearer your grave? 1 wish you
many happy returns of the day."-Chl-
eago Inter Ocean
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CLASHES GROW
IN VIOLENCE ALONG LINE

Aisne is now complete. The Germans
have evacuated most OF their important
trenches in the "bloody angle" formed
by the confluence of the Aisne and
Oise In some Of these works the Eng
lish found a number of German dead
victims of typhoid fever and dysentery.
Two of the heaviest German cannon,
resting on elaborate cement founda-
tions, had been left behind in the aban-
doned stone quarries.
Twa salient events which marked
part of the fighting of which scissors
was the centre were the capture by
the Allies Of Fort Condo, after a siege
of t6 days, and the remarkable slaugh-
ter by the British in the last of a SER
les of German attacks.
1t is agreed that wherever the Ger
mans dealt severe havoc in the region
around Scissors their success was due
wholly to spy system, The Allies in
that district soon learned that the Ger
mans were able to diagnose their
readily and instituted a
systematic search for offenders. They
captured seven spies, one of them Z;
woman, who used an electric search
light to signal from window.
The battle of the Aisne is not yet
ended, but in the last few days the sue
cesses of the Allies have been more
according to official an
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TOWNS IN BOSNIA
FALL BEFORE RUSH
OF MONTENEGRINS
Austrians Suffer H e avy
Losses as Invading Forces
Make Steady Advance
Toward Sarajevo.
CETTINJE, Oct. Q.

CETTINJE. Oct. o.
Montenegrin troops are sweeping away
all opposition, and are daily approaching
nearer Sarajevo the Bosnian capital says
an official announcement issued by the
Montenegrin War Office today.
The statement says that the Montene-
grin advance guards captured Grog Hill,
a short distance to the northeast of the
capital after sharp fight, in which the
Austrlans were forced to retreat.
a Havas Agency dispatch says that
Montonegrin detachments operating in
Herzegovina inflicted heavy losses on the
Austrians and occupied important
strategic positions near Ga&ko. After
hard fighting the Montenegrins occupied
Ablak, Stepen and klipjutch. taking a
large number of prisoners and much am
munitior.
An Austrian aeroplane, while seeking
to observe the French batteries was hit
with shells and fell into the sea.
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HAND OF THE VANDAL-
DESCRIBED IN DIARY
OF TEUTON OFFICER
France, to Be Our Tomb, :"
Officer Says, and Men Pill
laged, Plundered and Slew
as They Went.

y PARIS. Oct. 9.-Among documents re-
" Gently taken from the Germans is a note
Fbook beloniing to an officer in the 17Sth
Infantry o. the 18th Saxon corps. The
memorandum commences on August and
continues to the end of September.
'On August Is 1 was at HerpIgny," it
says. II visited q fine chateau belonging
TO the secretary of the King of the Bel
gans. Our men acted like vaRdals. They
first pillaged the cellar and then fell on
the rooms.
Everything was turned upside down.
After an unsuccessful attempt to burst a
safe, the fine furniture and silks were
destroyed and heaped pel-mell on the
y floor. The porcelain w,ss smashed. Our
men carried away heap of useless
things for the pleasure of robbery.
THE brigade to which the l7Sth regi-
ment belonged was on the march on
August 2S. During the march a company
strayed near the village of Lisogne. 1t
was fired on and fell back. The men,"
writes the officer, said they could not
advance because F'ranctireurs had fired
on them from the houses.
THE alleged Franctireurs were seized
and placed in three ranks so that the
same bullet could kill three.
I'VE took n position along the Meuse.
My company entered the village of Bou-
vines. Our men acted like vandals. The
Inhabitants were killed. The scene defiieS
description.
Not a house was left standing. We
found survivors at all corners, one after
another. and shot them en-bloc. A group
of men, women and children found in a
cloister were burned in 1t.
"On August IS our column passed VIII
lers el Fagne. The population had been
warned of our approach by the French
army. We fired the village after shoot
ling the Cure and several inhabitants.
I'VE crossed the French frontier and
took headquarters in Guidossus, q villeg
In picturesque little commune. We fired
on quite an innocent cyclist, who. falling,
let his rifle go off We pretended that
the Inhabitants had fired on lis. All the
Inhabitants perished in the flames. At
Leppers 200 inhabitants were killed.
AT the commencement of September
the 1'Sth was at Bethel The interiors
of the houses We're everywhere furnished
tn style with fine silks, which were re-
duced to tatters
The leaders of the column were re-
.sponsihle They could have hindered the
'pillage. The damage amounts to mil
lions OF marks. Many safes have been
forced"
The diary continues to Setember %,
when the l7Sth regiment arrived at Ami
tontaine. The regiment was demoralized
and the officer writes, this country il
To be our tomb"
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ANTWERP IN FLAMES
AS MERCILESS RAIN
OF SHOT CONTINUES
Fire Breaks Out in Suburbs
as German Bombardment
of Forts Increases in
Violence.

OSTEND, Oct. 9.
German shells have set fire to Ant
werp, according to reports received here
early today The bombardment that be-
gan Thursday morning continues with
terrific effect. but the gunners defending
the Belgian stronghold are replying Wig
orously. Flames broke out last night in
parts of the city lying between the
Palace of Justice and the south railroad
station, but emergency fire corps CO.
operating with the regular rre depart
ment kept them under control
The suburb of Borgerhout is burning.
The suburbs of Lnth and Bouchot. which
lie between the Nethe River and the in
ner circle of forts, virtually have been
destroyed. The residents of both places
had fled before the bombardment opened,
however, and the loss of life among the
civilians is believed small.
While the Germans keep up their bonn
bardment night and day, the Belgian
army, led by King Albert, is harassing
them from the west. Fierce fighting is
In progress along the River Scheldt.
GHENT. Oct 9.
Refugees arriving here say the mass OF
elgian trooBps heretofore concentrated IN
the city has been removed King Albert
does not desire to bottle up the remaining
first line forces and has left the city. IL
is reported, leaving only a sufficient num-
ber to man the forts
The King left Antwerp at the head of
his troops, it is reported here. The censor
does not permit transmission of the sec
tion i'm which the Belgian troops are being
but 1t is reported, unofficial
ly that King Albert and his staff have ar
rived at Zelzaele. a town on ting Holland
frontier, near Sas Van Gent 25 miles
west of Antwerp.
A report from Amsterdam says the King
has arrived in Flanders, close to the Bel |
gian frontier
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Continued from Page One
from reinforcements from Belgium, the
Germans attacked all along the Arras
line and the Allies were compelled to
fall back from Lens and Douai fight
ing stubornly all the while, The Ger
mans occupied Bethune and sent troops
into Lille. The invaders took possess
sion of the houses, firing on the French
from the roofs and windows.
Both sides had taken up positions for
their artillery near Arras, and in the
bombardment which followed shells
dropped in all parts Of the city. Fire
broke out. Projectiles crashed through
the cathedral. A dozen heavy shells
pounded the Hotel de Vile, destroy
ing the magnificent belfry.
Finally the Allies gave way and the
Germans swept forward, passing by
Arras, where citizens had emerged from
the cellars and were fighting the flames.
Cutting a line between Arras and st.
Poi, the Germans sought to effect
junction with their Bethune force. In
the meantime, however, fresh French
troops had been sent forward, and
these gave battle to the on-rushing
Germans. The invaders, wearied by
constant fighting. gave way and retired
to La Barsee, with their right wing
resting on Lille
Attaches of the staff Of General CAL
lieni, Military Governor of Paris, state
that the British victory on the River
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Woman Has Lincoln's violin

NEW YORK. Oct. s-Mrs. Jesse Van
Dyno, eff Roseland, N. j., is the owner of
a violin which she says was once the
property of Abraham Lincoln and on
which the martyr-Pre sident used to play.
1t was bequeathed to her by an uncle.
John Merry. of Hanover who got 1t
from his brother, Samuel Merry, a neigh
nor OF LIncolns at Springfield, Ill. Lin
coin is said to have given 1t to Samuel
Merry, Going through o5d effects recently
Airs. Van Dyne found the violin. II Is
badly damaged. She Is having Il repaired
50 that, II possible, 1t may again give
forth the airs lincoln loved 10 hear.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-09

Said a Perry customer to
his Perry salesman the
other day
At Perrys
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BERLIN, Oct. ..


The War Department has issued the fol-
lowing statement concerning operations in
Poland and East Prussia:
"Omcial headquarters report the ad-
vance Russian forces crossing the ME-
men in the Government of Suwalki and
a battle near Augustowo by the Ger
mans on the 1st and I'd of October COM
pletely defeated two Russian army corps,
taking $500 unwounded prisoners and 20
guns, of which one was a heavy bat
terry, and a number of machine guns.
Near Marse on October German
troops drove three Russian rifle guards
brigades from fortified position between
Opatow and Ostrowtec in Russian Poland.
They made 1900 prisoners and took numer-
Gus guns and machine guns.
''On October the Germans attacked
near Rudow two and half Russian cav
airy divisions and parts of the Ivango-od
reserve. They drove the Russians back
on Ivangorod.
Elsewhere along the Russian front the
moving of German troops for strategical
causes has reduced the lighting
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Dies of Grief Over Wife

NEW YORK, oct. 9.-Hugh Mccain, a
septuagenarian. of Is Passaic street Pat
erson. died yesterday of shock and grief
\ week ago yesterday his wife died He
was inconsolahle. At the funeral, held
last Saturday, he became i'll, was put to
bed when he returned home, and gradu-
ally sank until he expired.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-09
Court Upholds $1,000, 600 viii

NEW YORK, Oct 9.-The viii of Will
lam Runkle, of Orange disposing Of an
estate OF 900, was upheld yesterday
IN a decision by Judge William p. Martin,
at Newark. More than 1880. 600 is left 10
charitable and public Institutions. The
largest individual bequest. 100000. Is to
bequests was $50, 900 to Miss Kathryn
fFully, private secretary to Mr.. Runkle
who Is now the wife Of Morris Lynch
also teFmes employe, to whom he left
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SHE BARELY LIVED ON $7,20l.
Iron Dealers Daughter. Not junk
mans. SAYS Mrs. Ducas.

Whether Benjamin =. Ducas. ~ wealthy
manufacturing chemist, married a junk
dealers daughter. who should be able 10
live on $4,000 year was question At
Issue before Supreme Court Justice
blanchard yesterday, when Mrs. Rachel
y. Ducas asked the court to annul an
agreement she made to accept this sum
and live apart from her husband Mrs.
Ducas Is a native of Alsace-Lorraine and
had occn working AZ Red Cross nurse
in hospital near Muclhausen for two
months before she came here to testify
at the trial.
Mrs. Ducas produced her account books
to show that II cost her and her thirteen
year-old son s7.2o1 for maintenance the
last year and then she barely lived
She had TO warn her son against &C
ceptinS entertainment In the homes or
other children because he couldn't recipro-
cate she said
Ex-.Iustice Hatch. counsel for Ducss.
tried to show on cross-eNamination tina
although She had said her father dealt in
Irons and woollens" he is Just an ordi-
nary junk dealer. but Mrs Ducas replied,
II don't know what junk means"
Mrs. Ducss said she accepted $4,000
a year because OF her husband repre-
sentation that his income was 100000 a
year, but that she had found IL Is s6I 900
a year The case will go on on Monday.
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JURY AWARDS $4,000
FOR FUNNY ACHE"
String. However. Is Tied to Ncr-
diet in Favor of Nine.
Della Valpri.
A REGIMENTS NEXT FRIDAY

After a thirty minute consideration OF
indigestion and It's kindred woes a jury
In the United States District Court yes
ter1ay awarded Nine. Della NJ. Nalcr. q
vocal teacher, $500 a year for the four
year "tummy ache which she says she
contracted by eating meal In the buffet
Of Pullman car on West Shore train
bound for Lake Mohonk on August Is,
1910.
Mime. Naleri in her suit against the
Pullman Company valued her stomach ache
at $4,000. The jury. which for the most
part seemed free from dyspepsia, didn',
think any stomach ache was worth that
much
II was whispered about the corridors
or the Federal Building that the attorneys
for tho defence were watching to see
whether the jury stayed out for a meal.
IL they had "A motion for setting aside the
verdict might have been made on the
ground that some OF the jurymen had h. en-
biasse1 by their meal
The $4,000 verdict however, has a
string to it. The jury arrived al It's CON
cluslon after having been charged by
Judge Hand to base the finding solely on
fact and not OH law. The only CON
sldcration left to the Jurors therefore was
whether Nine Naleri got her stomach ache
from the Pullman food The Judge re-
| serves to himself the question Of whether
the Pullman Company was obligated by
it's warranty TO furnish wholesome food.
or merely to exercise due care In It's
preparation and service. He will hear
arguments from the lawyers on this poin;
next Friday.
Nine. Nalcri is tho wife OF Antonio
Nalsri. secretary to Signor Bonci the
Metropolitan tenor. She has q studio
at 11t Broadway and has taught SOW
eral opera singers.
The meal she ate on the train CON
sisted OF clam soup. praised beef with
| tomato sauce. an orange, rolls. butter,
coffee and table water.
Now. gentlemen" cried Edward n
Worcester. attorney for the defence. m
I his closing address 10 the jury. II asl,
! YOU. is not a meal like that in the mid
die OF August a hygienic sin? Wasn't
| II quite natural after meal like that
| for the plaintiff first 20 feel on oppre--
sion in the stomach. then sense Of dis
tension and finally suffer from sour
eructations at the throat. which you gen
tlemeu AL know to be nothing mora
than heartburn. I: needs no doctor ~
say what caused tina, condition"
The last witness called by the d'fenc.
was pr. James Ewing, professor Of
pathology at Cornell Medical school, who
after lengthy discussion OF ptomaiuc
poisoning and is causes said H. thought
tho plaintiffs condition might have been
due to overeating on hot day. She
might have contracted gastritis and
thereafter fallen a victim 20 chronic IN
digestion. he said.
Nine Valeri said she had been given
to understand on the train that the meat
she got was fresh. William T.. Hall. the
Pullman porter. testified the meat had
come in cans.
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SEES JUSTICE" AFTER WAR
Ripley Of SANTA 20 Biamcs Govern
ment for Credit Destruction.

Los ANGELES, Dec. a--E. L. Ripley
president OF the Santa F. Railroad pass
ing through Los Angeles. to-day predicted
that the show down between the rail
roads and the Government will follow
close upon the end Of the European wa
and that the result will be either Govern
ment ownership or railroad rates that VII
restore railroad stocks and bonds to Tho
lists OF attractive securities.
The presen, Administration will maxi
no move In either direction said Mr.
Ripley. ~ .s satisfied TO control to
railroads with none Il the responsibilities
OF railroad management ';overum mt
control has destroyed the Credi' "f the
railroads. for rates are refused us that a.
tract American capital to railroad invcs.
ment Under present conditions ther- car
be no new construction. while roads and
cQulpmer. are being maintained undo.
tremendous difficulties.
THE pres, nj system OF Governments con.
troll will break down when good times
return. which will b" after tho nations OF
Europe have quit beating each others
brains ou'."
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LIEBLER COMPANIES
IN RECEIVERS HANDS
Theatrical Producers Debts Put
at S325. 900 and Assets
$500. 900.
PLAYS TO BIZ KEPT GOING

The theatrical producing firms OF Lie
hlcr n Co, a copartnership composed OF
George e. Tyler and Theodore \. Lie
bier. apd the Liehlcr Company. cor
poration, were petitioned into bankruptcy
Yesterday by creditors with claims OF
81 $500 Immediately after the petition
was filed Judge Hough appointed lrvnc
NJ Uttenhoefcr receiver for both COM
ranics with instructions to carry ON the
business for sixty days.
\ statement made by Man II. Joseph
ron. attorney for the companies, says that
although the Liabilities OF about sS25.o00
arc slightly IN excess of the assets, there
IL littlc doubt that the companies will
pull through the pres, nj difficulty.
In q general way the difficulty IL traced
20 conditions caused by the war. The
Biebler Company had contracted before
Tho war to produce several plays which
Il would no; have undertaken under pres
ont conditions. and PLAYS owned by the
company which were biz money makers
IN ia, past aud were expected 10 earn
hig money this season have failed Of
tn. expectations because OF war condi-
lions