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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
YOUTH TRIES TO KILL SULTAN
Young Egyptian Fires Shot at Ruler
But Bullet Misses Mark, Says
Dispatch.

Cairo, April 10.-An attempt to as
sassinate the sultan was made on
Thursday, but failed. A young Egyp,
tian fired at him. The bullet failed
to take effect.
The present sultan of Egypt, Prince
Hussein, was placed on the throne by
the English on December IS, last, the
former sultan having been deposed be.
cause of his pro-German sympathies.
Sultan Hussein is in everything except
birth more of an Englishman than a
Turk. He was educated in England
and is in full sympathy with the Eng.
lish annexation of Egypt.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
Huerta to Visit U. S. Soon.

Washington, April 10.-Inquiries
have been started by the government
to find out the purpose of the coming
visit to the United States of Victo.
riano Huerta, the former Mexican die.
tator deposed by the administration
The state department has been ad-
vised officially that Huerta is due tc
arrive in New York Saturday on the
steamer Antonio Lopez. This will
be his first visit to this country.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
BIG WAR MATERIAL ORDER
sion for 10000 Tons of Steel
for Shrapnel.

Pittsburgh, Pa, April S.-An order
for $4,000 tons of steel rounds for
shrapnel has been placed with the
Carnegie Steel company by Cleve-
land concern acting for the French
government. The order is said to be
really a doubling of one placed by the
same interests with the Lackawanna
Steel company and calling for 10000
tons at a cost approximately So, 800, 600.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
LEAPS FROM TENTH STORY
Member of Wisconsin State Assembly
Kills Self in MilWaukee-Had
Been Financially Involved.

Milwaukee, April 12.-By leaping
head first from the tenth story of the
First National bank building, Chris
topher Paulos, sixty-one, member of
the state assembly, committed suicide
on Friday. His head struck the pave.
ment Last January Paulos became
involved in some financial difficulties
when several checks appeared at the
bank when there was not sufficient
cash to his credit to meet them
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
Total vote. .426,os4 243,7e7 6e9,s91
T'ompson plu .84,O45 54,e46 13e,e91

Tho womens vote was an important
factor in Thompson's victory. Thomp-
son received about &c per cent of the
women's vote.
The avalanche swept in the rest Of
the Republican city ticket. Charles
H. Sergel was elected city treasurer;
John Siman, city clerk; Hosea W..
Wells. Judge of the municipal court.
The vote of protest" for minor can
didates proved a myth. Stedman, So
cialist, got 23,826 votes, less than the
party polled four years ago; Hill, Pro-
hibition, got $3.50.
Thompson won the mayoralty in
the face of one of the bitterest per-
sonal campaigns that could be con-
templated, and despite the fact that
the supporters of Robert M. Sweitzer
controlled one of the greatest politi.
cal machines that has been operated
in Chicago since the election of Will
liam Mckinley president in 1896. y
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
KRoNPRINz WILHELM SLIPS IN.

Newport News.-Last Of Germany's
sea raiders, the Kronprinz Wilhelm,
gcourge swept, her crew facing starva-
ton, her bunkers empty, barred from
New York Harbor by the perpetual
guard of British cruisers, sought sane
tuary here. The auxiliary cruiser had
been at sea 255 days, during which
time she sunk IA merchantmen. Nine
of these were British, four French
and one Norwegian. Many times re-
ported to have been destroyed, the
former North German Lloyd liner had
evaded hostile warships for eight
months.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
SEE BUSINESS BOOM IN U. S.
Treasury Officials Base Statement or
Bank eports-RevivaI of Trade
Activity Spreads to Every Line.

Washington, April 10.-Treasury of.
ficials predicted continued improve
ment in business conditions through
out the country. Their optimism was
based on reports from eighty national
bank examiners, which the depart
ment made public on Friday in a state
ment declaring the recent past has
been marked by steady return to
conditions existing before the Euro
pean war upset American commercial!
relations, both domestic and foreign.
Revival of business activity in vir-
tually every line was found. Good
crops are expected
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
eToRAeE PLANT IS BLOWN UP.

Kansas City, Moan explosion of
dynamite or nitroglycerin, planted by
spies, police say, wrecked the six
story beef storage house of the Cud-
ahy Packing Co. in Kansas City. More
than 100000 pounds of dressed beef,
which was destined for the armies Of
the European allies, is believed to be
destroyed. The damage to the build.
ing and contents is estimated at $780,
OG0. Refrigerator cars on a switch
track beside the building were mash
ed fiat by the falling walls.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
wells Poisoned In South AfrIca

Capetown, April 10.-The Union
British forces at Aus are expericnc,
ing great difficulties owing to the poi
soning of the wells and the desrruc-
ton of the pumping plant at Kubus.
Land mines have been exploded
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
STEAMSHIP NOORDAM ARRIVES
Has 200 Passengers From Germany
First Voyage Since October, When
She Struck a Mine. e

New York, April 9.-Bringing 200
passengers, mostly from Germany,
and a cargo that included $500 ca
naries, 300 partridges, 200 pheasants,
four swans and two Belgian storks,
the Holland-American steamship Moor.
dam arrived on her first transatlantic
voyage since last October, when she
was damaged by striking mine, Her
officers report that the English chan
mel is sown with mines, passage
only 1000 feet wide being left for
ships.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
PLAN STRIKE OF 100000
International Labor Leaders Said to
Be Making Supreme Effort to
Force World Peace.

New York, April 9.-International
labor leaders here are trying to arrange
a strike throughout the world Of 20
100000 trades unionists as means of
stopping the European war, according
to Ernest Bohm, secretary of the Cen
trail Federated Union.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
BaIloonist in Queer Accident.

Hopkinsville. KY, April ~9-John
Henry, aged twenty, in descending
from a balloon in a parachute, landed
heavily in Riverside cemetery, his
head striking a tombstone. A deep
cash was cut in his forehead.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15

George E. Scott of Mt. Pleasant
Jefferson county, member of the ex.
ecutive and legislative committees OF
the Ohio State Grange, has issued a
statement denying that the grange has
endorsed any candidate for the posi-
tion of secretary of the board of agri-
culture, which is to displace the state
agricultural commission. He did this
to correct a report that Charles Nc.
Intyre of Columbus, who wants the
Job, had been endorsed for the p'ace
by the grange.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
Greece to Remain Neutral.

Berlin (wireless to London), April
"a dispatch from Athens states
that the Greek government has held
crown council to discuss the interna.
tional situation. The cabinet decided
to maintain the strictest neutrality.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
BULLET FIRED BY ASSASSIN

Toledo, O.-Five years ago, in the
United States Court in this city, Jo-
seph Cation, 81 years old, gave testi-
mony in favor of the government
when many of his countrymen were
accused of being members of the ne
farious Black Hand Society. Cation is
dead in his home, the victim Of bull
let fired by an unidentified slayer. At
the trial five years ago sc Sicillians
were convicted in the Federal Court
of extortj0n Of money by use Of the
ulails.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
German Scientist ls Dead

Berlin, April 12.-The death of Prof.
Friedrich Loeffler, the German scien-
tist, who in 1884 discovered the diph-
iberia bacillus, was announced here
on Friday. Doctor Loeffier was born
in 1852.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
shorter Hours For wnm.n

New York. April 12-Announce.
ment is made by the Western Union
Telegraph company of an eight.hour
day in place of nine hours for woman
employees, to take effect at once. The
order affects 1000 women.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
NAV Give War Nurses Mo..

Ottawa Ont. April 12.-All soldier,
in the Canadian contingent, whether
twenty-one years old or not, and fe
male nurses should be given the vote,
it was urged before the house of com
mons in committee.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
Street Car Men Strike.

r Syracuse, N. Y, April 1O.-Not
car wheel turned on the Auburn and
Syracuse Electric railway, because of
a strike of the Amalgamated Associa.
ton of Street and Electric Railway
employees.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
Bob Eitzslmmons Marries.

Washington, April 12-Bob Fitzsim-
mons, the former heavyweight cham.
Zion, married Miss Temo Zillen, aGso,
Iiated with him for some time on the
stage. The brides gift from the
bridegroom was $S5,OOO in jewels.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
Doctor Dies: rvphus Victim.

Washington, April 12.-Dr. Ernest
P. Magruder of this city, one of the
physicians at the Nead of the Ameri.
can Red Cross unit in Serbia, has fall
en- a victim of typhus fever. His
death was reported from Belgrade.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
LIQUOR Barred to Troons.

Paris. France, April 10.-The gen.
eral in command of the army of the
Vosges has forbidden the purchase or
sale OF spirituous liquors in the terri
tory occupied by the army. violatOrs
Of this order will be punished,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
Christian Scientists AppeaI.

Hundreds of Christian Science heal
ers and adherents appealed to the leg
islature this week in behalf of the
Fox bill, which proposes to permit the
Science practitioners to treat the sick
without legal restrictions. The inter
probation placed on the laws by tho
supreme court is that divine healers
may treat the sick but may not accept
any sort of pay for their services. The
Fox bill would remove this lir.itation
and would take away all other legal
barriers to the fres exercise of the
faith healing
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
Noted Indiana Artist Dies.

Greenfield, Ind, April 9.-Richard
B. Black, age twenty-seven, an artist
of note, died at the home of his moth
er, Mrs. lone Black, in this city on
Wednesday. Two of his pictures were
sold to the French government.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
Carl Busch Is Dead.

Pasadena, Cal, April 1O.-After a
long illness, Carl Busch, twenty-six
years old, the youngest son of the late
Adolphus Busch. the millionaire St.
Louis brewer, died here. He was
practically an invalid all hiG life
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
Mlsn Helen Taft at canltal.

Washington. April 9.-Miss HeIen
Taft, daughter of the former president
has arrived in Washington and will
spend week with Miss Sophie John.
son, daughter of General and Mira
James Marion Johnson
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
American Boy Held as spx.

London, April 10.-The American
embassy has been asked to aid Mr.
and Mrs. Conrad Schauerman of New
York in procuring the release of their
son, who is reported to be held by the
Germans as a spy.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
G. 0. P. TICKET WINS
REPUBLICAN ELECTED MAYOR OF
CHICAGO OVER DEMOCRAT.
Has Plurality Of 1ss,ssf, Breaking All
Records-243,7s7 Women
Cast Votes.

Chicago, April S.-William Hale
Thompson was swept into the mayors
chair on Monday in Republican land
slide that carried nearly the entire Re-
publican city ticket to victory. Rob-
ert M. Sweitzer, Democratic entrant,
was bowled over in an overwhelming
ly large vote. 1t was the biggest ever
cast in a local election.
Eighty-seven per cent of the total
registration of 769,017 was polled. OF
this 243,797 votes we're cast by wom-
en-, who for the first time participated
in a mayoral election.
The vote for mayor was:
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
Paris Bars the TANGO.

Paris, April 12.-The Argentine
tango was absolutely banned in Paris
by a decree of expulsion issued
against five tango professors who had
established themselves here and were
organizing classes.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
Fumes XIII Three.

Gary, Ind, April 10.-Burns and in
halation of gaseous fumes are held
responsible for the deaths of three
steel workers who died at the hos
pital of the Illinois Steel company.
Two others are said to be dying.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15
.PRINz EITEL INTERNED
COMMANDER OF GERMAN cRUls-
Err AsANDoNs DASH TO SEA.
Says Help Failed to Arrive-Vessel
VIII Be Held Inactive Until
End of War.

Newport News, Va, April g.
Commander Thierichens Of the Ger
man auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel
Friedrich on Wednesday night hand
ed the following letter to Collector of
Customs Hamilton:
Il inform you that l intend to in
tern s. M. S. Prinz Eitel Friendrich.
The relief l expected appears not to
have arrived in time, so the number
and force of the enemy's cruisers
waiting outside the bay makes 1t
seem impossible for the dash for the
open sea to be made with any hope OF
success.
Il have decided not to deliver the
crew and ship to fruitless and GER
tain death.
Il am greatly obliged for the cour.
tesies shown by all United States au'
thorities.
Respectfully yours,
"THIERICHENS.'
Collector Hamilton Immediately
wired the news of the Prinz Eitel
commanders action to Assistant Sec
retary Of the Treasury, Peters, who
was in charge of the case in Wash
ington.
He then lifted the embargo on the
departure of merchantmen flying bel
ligerent flags, releasing about twenty
five British steamers.
officers and crew of the Eitel were
downcast. Commander Thierichens
himself declared that the action he
had been forced to take made him
sick; that he was heartbroken to be
compelled to resort to such step.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-10-15
OCTOBER IS. 1915
SNAP SHOTS.

Only a woman of tact can smile,
when she hears rival praised.
And many good husband has the.
courage of his wie's convictions.
Sometimes a mans past takes a
short cut and heads off his future.
Some men can't even blame cigar
cites for their failure to make good,
"A woman isn't necessarily level
headed because her hat is on straight.
But a man usually drops his pros.
erous look when bill collector calls.
A nomely girl can seldom UNDER
stand why people think some men are
mashers.
But instead of marrying man to
reform him, the average woman mar
ries him to inform him.
Truth and trouble play no favor
ties. It's easy for a woman to paint
a pretty face-if she has it.
The street faker reaps a golden har-
vest when he faces crowd that wants
something for nothing.
What has become of the old-fash-
ioned boy who would rather stay at
home and work than to go to school?
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-10-15
COUNTY SCHOOLS CROWDED.
Assistant Supervisor Gives Out State
ment.

Figures given out yesterday by Miss
Ellen Drury, Supervisor of Schools.
in this county, show that 1000 pupils
are enrolled, a record.
OF that number 1900 are enrolled in
schools in the vicinity of Curtis Bay and
Brooklyn. At the present time there
are fourteen tachers at the Brooklyn
school AM Miss Marie Durham, who
is teaching in the Masonville school,
has been appointed to teach at Brook
lyn. Another teacher will be appoint
ed Immediately, it is thought
Al Curtis Bay there are twelve
teachers. The school there is so much
oyercrowded and the assembly, hall has
been divided into class rooms in order
to make room for pupils. Work will
commence next week on a building for
the manual training centre. II is
planned to build large addition TO the
school in the near future.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-10-15
NOW MAKING PLANS
FOR MARYLAND WEEK.
Exhibition to be Held in BALTIMORE
Essay Contest for Boys and Girls
Again to be Feature.

Plans are well under way for the
annual MARYLAND Week Exhibition to
be held at the Fifth Regiment Armory.
in Baltimore, from November 16 to 90.
The exhibition is given under the aus
pices of the Maryland State Horticul-
tural Society, the Maryland Crop I'm
provement Association, the Maryland
Dairymen's Association, and the Mary
land State Beekeepers' Association
For many years Maryland Week has
been looked forward to by the people of
the country and city alike 1t affords
an opportunity for a display of the
States agricultural resources. and the
keen competitions for the awards for
the best products, which are given by
the association, has done much to stim-
ulate the interests of the farmers in the
scientific raising of crops.
Each year the Brownsville and the
Millersville Farmers Clubs Of this
county enter the contests. and usually
they win their share of the prize
awards Tire exhibit attendance and
general interest manifested last sea-
son by the citizens of the State far eX-
ceeded that of any other year and as
the officers of the associations have
obtained the cooperation of the busi-
ness interests of the city, the affair this
year should be a record-breaker.
Already floor space has been taken
by more oranges than were represent
ed in the exhibit last year, and those in
authority say that the exhibits them-
selves will be bigger and better than
ever before. The rules and regulations
regarding the club exhibits have been
revised and the prizes increased, and
the flower exhibit will be one Of the
features of the show.
Prominent speakers and specialists
in each line of agricultural develop
ment will address the annual meetings
of the affiliated associations, while
special demonstration in up-to-date
methods of agricultural practice viii.
be conducted in the exhibition halt
each day of the exhibit.
With a view of interesting the school
BOYS and girls of Maryland in the agri-
cultural development of the State he
officials in charge of Maryland Week
have decided to again hold essay con-
tests. which viii be open TO all boys
and girls regularly attending the pub
/ lie schools of the State.
The subject for the boys essay viii
be What Can be Done to Promote the
Interests of Agriculture in Maryland
and the subject for the girls essay
will be How Can Daughters of Mary
land Make the Farm Home More At
-. 4:x-c p, A u,.szo Of S2S will he given
for the best essay on each subject.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-10-15
KEEL LAID FOR
ELECTRIC WARSHIP
Daniels Says the California Marks
New Epoch.
SILVER HORSESHOE ON WAYS.
Secretary Of the Navy Declares Begin
ming Of Work On Dreadnaught
Propelled by Electricity Puts
u. S. Ahead.
SILVER HORSESHOE ON WAYS.

Yesterday at New York the keel OF
the $15,000.000 uper-drearnaugtt Cal
ifornia was laid Mt the Brooklyn navy
ward. Secretary Daniels, in a speech
concluding the brief ceremeoy attend
ingthe beginning of actual work on The
fighting craft, said the California will
mark the most advanced step taken IL
navalengineering in many years.
The uper-dreadnaupht will be the
first large war vess-l to be propelled
entirely by electricity. Secretary
Daniels said electric motors had been
thoroughly tested on the collier Jupi
ter, and a most satisfactory type had
been deve,oted Besides Secretary
Daniels and several members OF the
Naval Advisory Board. more than 900
persons saw Commander George II.
Rock, chief Of construction at the yard.
guide the two center plates and the key
plate into position.
Commander Rock riveted then with
with four nickel-plated bolts. Work
men then placed a silver horseshoe and
tablet Just ahead of the point on the
ways where the California's bow will
rest. The California is expected to lYc
launched within fifteen months and to
he placed in commission in about three
years The vessel will he of % .0OC
tons displacement, length 625 feet and
beam 81 IA feet. She will carry u
l4-inch guns, as well as having four
submerged torpedo tubes.
Secretary Daniels, in his address at
10 10 Win
said that the California was fittingly
M ned, for that State was the crown
and climax of the American pioneers
achievement He continued:
'It may be said with entire truth
fulness that the battleship California
represents one of the greatest advan-
ces in modern marine engin sering.
The entire subject OF electric propuI-
sion is one that has been widely dis
cused in all countries for several
'ears past, bit the United States IL
the only nation so far which has got
ten past te discussion stage and which
has demonstrated by actual test that
electric propulsion is success
The California is the logical ont :
come of the departments experiments
On the Jupiter. She will be the FIRST
battleship of any navy in the worlc to
be propelled by electricity. Prophecy
IS always risky, but il il hardly too
much to say that the installation of the
electric drive upon the California ush-
ers in new epoch in m irrigation, Just
as far reaching and important as that
in which steam srcc, eded sail power.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-10-15
FALL FROM SCAFFOLD
Kills James A. Brown Resident Of Bal.
limore, Once Native Here.

James A. Brown, so years old, a
painter. living at 1924 Druid Hill ave-
nue.. Baltimore, fell from a scaffold on
Wednesday at the third-story window
of the home of William f. Lucas, Jr
94l North Calvert street, that city, and
was injured so badly that he died an
hour later in the Mercy Hospital.
Brown. with George Boths, of Broad
way, and Orleans street, was sent to
the Lucas home by A. p. Snow, paint
ers and decorators, of 227 West Mul-
berry street, by whom they were en-
ployed.
The deceased was a brother Of Mr.
Travis T. Brown, of this city, and lived
in Annapolis when a boy. He was also
brother of Messrs. Joseph and John
Brown, of this city Another brother
lives in Baltimore.