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PITH or THE
WEEKS NEWS
Latest Telegraphic and Cable
Intelligence %EpitOmized.
OLD WORLD AND THE NEW
Political Pot 10 5ubbIlng F~urIoualy-
News About Ware THAT Are Rag
Ing and Rumors About Wars
to Come.
OLD WORLD AND THE NEW
War Bulletins

III extremely rainy winter, the
worst Europe has experienced in many
years, causing floods in the river val
leys OF the continent, as well as those
OF England, has prevented any opera
lions on a large scale on the western
battle front and has seriously inter-
Tered with those in the east.
There have been heavy artillery en-
gagements from the sea to the Swiss
borders and occasional attacks by the
infantry of the opposing armies, which,
when not repulsed, have added a few
yards for the attacking forces, but
have always proved costly.
The Kaiser, in a New Years mes
sage to the German army and navy,
said he looked forward to new VIC
tories, and in a message to the King
and Queen of Bavaria he expressed
the hope for peace, before the end of
1915.
The British ~battleship Formidable
was sunk by a mine or submarine
in the English Channel. More than
600 Of her crew were lost.
An Austrian biplane which attempt
ed to carry food to the Galician
fortress of Przemysl, was brought
down by Russian troops.
Petrograd described the flight of
the Austrian army through the Car
pathians as becoming more disorder
ly, while Berlin officially admitted the
defeat and retreat of the Allies OF
Germany.
Berlin announced that the French
were concentrating forces for a gen
eral attack in the Vosges on a line
approximately ninety miles long and
extending from Belfort to Nancy.
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Foreign

The American steamship George r.
Hawley, held at Falmouth by the Brit
ish Admiralty since November 80, was
released and permitted to proceed to
Copenhagen.
Baron Wimborne, formerly Lord
Ashby ST. Ledgers, has been appoint
ed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to sue
coed the Earl of Aberdeen, who re-
signed.
Thomas J.. Mcnamara, Parliament
airy Secretary to the British Admiralty,
speaking at the Browning Settlement,
London, intimated that the Govern
ment contemplated a recourse to con-
scription to swell the army and navy.
Military authorities at Ottawa or
dered the release of the three
Canadian soldiers held for the shoot
ing of two American hunters.
Yuan Shih-Kaih has obtained the
passage of legislation in the Chinese
National Assembly which assures him
of the Presidency for life.
The Folk tunnel through the
Pyrenees. part Of a new railroad be-
tween Paris and Barcelona, by way
Of Toulouse, was pierced.
Nine. Poincare, wife Of the French
President, finished the distribution Of
5000 parcels Of clothing and toys to
the poor Of Paris.
Forty trains of German dead from
the western front have been sem to
Charleroi to be burned in furnaces.
The wine harvest in eastern France
is 1.484.000.0 900 gallons as against
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MUskRATs CHANGE N. J. SENATE.
Upper House Now Republican as Re-
suit of Hunters Votes.

TO muskrats is given the credit for
changing the political complexion of
the upper house of the new State Leg.
islature. through influencing the cleo
ton OF Collins B. Allen, Republican,
OF Warrington township, Salem coun-
ty, 9 Senator Isaac Smick, Demo
Gratis 10.
Muskrat trapping is one of the i'm
portant industries in Salem county
curing the winter. Trappers and ma
i've hunters in the county found re-
visions in the game laws distasteful
last year, and they took out their re-
sentiment against the administration
upon Senator Smick. Senator Allen is
a farmer, and besides being pledged
TO seek some important changes in
trapping and hunting laws he will
cast his vote for revisions in the State
school and road systems.
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PI44 OF H
WAR NEWS

The takg of Steinbach, an Alsatian
town 4 the heights between Thanh
and Sanheim, by the French, after
a thru days hand-to-hand fighting
from rect to street, was admitted
by thefficiaI German Press Bureau
in Bein.
The mohpiece of the War Office in
B~erlinays that the French won a
victor west of Sennheim, where
Gener Joffre's troops took posses
sion the heights, an important
stratec point. From here, how
ever, e French were again driven
out a an enormous cost in lives
on bo sides.
Advices rom Amsterdam state that
2oo,ooGermans passed through Col
ogne ( the way east. They are be-
ing set to Gen. Won Hindenburq
preparatory to another great effort
to batr through the Russian lines.
A reliab report in London said that
Great .ritain would suggest to the
UnitecStates the establishment of a
joint tmmission to act as a board
of aPfal on rulings by the Prize
Court IN ship seizures.
The Gefan Imperial Chancellor de-
clared hat Germany had enough
supple on hand and enough funds
to keerup the war indefinitely.
A miIitar observer, observing the OPP
GRAFTON in the East, told how de-
lay on the part of the Austrians
had poiled a plan of Won linden
h.-e - 4-~~ Abe pusei7~e uuhi~h
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General

For the New York Stock Exchange
1914, has been the dullest year since
1878.
Charles Rodth of New York, who
committed suicide after being arrest
ed for shoplifting, left an estate Of
500, 600.
Clearance L. Howard, head of the
Commonwealth Steel Co., of Granite
City, HI, refused an order for ST.
000, 900 of sharpnel for European
belligerents, because he d%isapproves
of war.
The Attorney-General of Illinois has
filed a suit in the Circuit Court in
Belleville, ILL.,, charging the National
Stock Yards of East st. Louis with
being a trust in restraint of trade.
Justice Thompkins, in the New
York Supreme Court at Newburgh, N.
Y, granted an injunction restraining
the New York Control Railroad from
issuing $50, OO0, 900 worth of 4 per cent.
bonds.
Walter Smith, an American, of Buff
falo, N. Y, was shot and killed and
a companion, Charles Dorch, wounded
when fired on by Canadian troops
while hunting ducks near Fort Erie,
Ontario.
Archbiship Riordan, of the Catholic
Church, died at his home in San Fran
cisco, aged So.
As a result of Billy Sunday cam
paign in Des Moines, Ia, all saloons
will be forced to close doors by Eebru-
airy Is.
The Illinois Central Railroad has be-
gun the construction of a 100000
hospital at Chicago.
George Horn, aged 20, of Millville,
N. j., shot and killed six-year-old
Beatrice Bailey, aged six. He fired
with the Intention of shooting Alice
Petit, whom he feared would jilt
him.
Gussie Leder, fifteen, living in New
York, committed suicide by inhaling
gas after She received word her family
had lost their home in Rzeszow,
Galicia, by the war.
Moulds for making counterfeit half
dollars were found in the cell of
William Brandon, who is serving a
sentence of five years in the Mis-
souri, State Prison.
The harvesting of the New England
ice crop which has begun in several
sections, will provide employment for
thousands of men during the mex few
IN
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GERMAN FLlERS RAIN
BOMBS ON CHANNEL PORT.

London.-The Daily Mails CORE
spondent at Dunkirk telegraphs:
In answer to our raid on Cuxhaven
German aeroplanes raided Dunkirk,
dropping bombs all over the town. A
fleet of four aeroplanes flew several
times across the city, dropping bombs
on each journey. The soldiers in the
streets replied with a vigorous rifle
fire, but the aeroplanes sailed calmly
on. One seemed to have been hit, for
it turned its head and descended sew
eral hundred feet before righting it.
self, but it got away safely.
No sooner did one aeroplane seem
to be departing than another arrived.
The whole city cracked with the noise
OF the rifle shots and bombs which
threw up dense clouds of black smoke.
Buildings and windows were smashed
in all directions. The tramway lines
were cut clear through in one place.
The first bombs fell in the fortified
lions. Two more landed near the rail-
way station. Others fell in the Rue
Caumartin, in the kitchen of the mill
tary hospital near the town hall, in
the Rues Pierre and Newport, near
the arsenal and in the suburb of Ros-
endael.
Factory districts in Coudekerque
and Furnes also suffered. Many were
wounded in these places. The arm
of a child was blown off. An old wo-
man was killed outright, her body
dreadfully disfigured. The bombs
were filed with s~hrapnel which pitted
the walls of buildings.
The official returns estimate the
casualties at Is killed and 80 wounded.
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Sporting

G. McCrea, of Bannock, Scotland,
led from the beginning to the end of
the Powder Hall 15-mile marathon run
at Edinburgh, Scotland, winning by
400 yards from Willie Kolehmainen,
the Finnish rune McCrea's time
was 1 hour, 20 minutes and 10 seconds.
Pennsylvania's share of the tickets
for the Army-Navy football game net
ted $1S,852, which the University Of
Pennsylvania turned over to Army
Navy authorities.
The services Of Chief Bender have
been awarded to the Federal League
club of Baltimore. The Indian insist
ed upon going to the team that
sheltered his old time friend and side
partner, Eddie Plank.
Robert Mclean, international ice
skating champion holder of all anna
teur records from 22O yards up to two
miles, announced that he no longer
al an amateur. Mclean admitted
that he received SIS a week and other
perquisites for exhibition skating.
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AIienatIon suIt AS llahlIItx.

Alienation Suit AS a Liability.
Argument over including a $40, 900
alienation suit in the liabilities of
George Hyatt Robinson, of Roselle,
caused a postponement of the involun
tary bankruptcy proceedings against
Mr.. Robinson.
When the case was called before
Judge Hunt, Jacob j. Lazaroe, of New
York, one of Robinson's counsel, con
tested the entry of the alienation suit
as a liability on the grounds that it
was not a probable claim. The alien
alton suit was instituted by Charles
M. Purdy, of Mt. Kisco, N. Y, who
charged Robinson with alternating the
affections of Mrs. Purdy.
Mr.. Robinson, it was announced, had
agreed to pay his creditors in full, and
Mr.. Lazaroe said he would produce
before the court in Newark written
consent from the creditors to the dis
missal of the bankruptcy proceedings.
Irving L. Ernst, of New York, also a
counsel for Mr.. Robinson, argued that
where recognized creditors had agreed
to accept 100 per cent. settlement Of
their claims, involuntary bankruptcy
proceedings had been dismissed.
He suggested that the alienation
suit be tried in a separate action 1t
law.
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Thirty persons were killed in New
York city streets during the month of
December.
Matthias ]. O'Keefe was sworn in
as Mayor of Salem, Mass, succeeding
John F. Hurley.
The Neverslip Manufacturing Co.. of
New Brunswick, N. J., will start night
and day forces to work continuously
for seven months to fill a 81, 900, 900
contract for the Russian Government
for horseshoe calks.
R. c. Bonnie Of Fredericksburg, Tex
as, butchered a Tamworth hog that
weighed more than 500 pounds.
Thomas A. Edison predicted that
1915 will be a most prosperous year
for manufacturing in this country.
The appointment of women as mem
bers OF the Board of Education and
Board of Health. of New Brunswick,
N. J., was a feature of the formation
OF governing bodies for 1915.
The United States District Court Of
Philadelphia handed down an opinion,
refusing the governments petition to
dissolve the Keystone Watch Case Co.
A $300,000 fire destroyed the large
train shed and station of the PhiladeI-
phia & Reading Railway Co., a lumber
yard and several buildings in Phila-
delphia.
The Mexico Petroleum Co. has plans
under way for a reinforced concrete
oil plant to be constructed 1t Marin
er's Harbor, S. l., at a cost Of $780,
900.
The Bureau of immigration reported
a decrease of nearly 500, 900 immi-
grants arriving in this country during
the five months of the European war.
DIR. Fritz B. Talbot Of Boston, an
nounced that he has discovered a me-
thod to cure children Of asthma by in
o~culating them with white of eggs.
New York must go, says
Commissioner of Accounts Leonard M.
Wallstein, in a report to Mayor Nit
chel.
Construction of the placements for
coast defence batteries at Fort Arthur,
on Point Frimin, Los Angeles Harbor,
has begun.
A bequest of $4,000 for establishing
a chair of gynecology at Harvard Med
ical School is contained in the will of
William Baker, of Waltham.
All Federal troops will be ont Of
the strike district in Colorado within
eight days.
Governor Cox, Of Ohio, pardoned
Walter Diehl, who aided in lynching
Carl Burlington, a detective, in 1911.
immigration through the port of
New York fell off to the extent of
COL 40 persons, or 45 per cent. from
1913.
The new Arizona a~nti-alien labor
law against which both Italy and
Great Britain have protested, goes
into effect.
Wynand Vanderberg and Mrs. F. K.
Dartnell of Tenafy, N. j., were killed
when their auto was struck by an
Erie train at the Jay street crossing
in that town.
DR.. Don A. Bisbee, a druggist Of
Bristol, VT, arrested for selling
poisoned whiskey which killed thir-
teen persons, was found guilty of in
voluntary manslaughter.
Miss Della c. Torrey, of Middlebury,
Mass, aunt of ex-President Taft, pre-
sented a large tract. of land to the
town of Middlebury to be used as a
park.
Mrs. Kenneth R. Kingsbury, aged
So, wife of the president of the
Standard Oil Co. of California, is dead
at the home of her brother, l.. H.
Roberts, in Los Angeles.
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ZICZAG FIGHTING IN ALSACE
SAY BOTH PARIS AND BERLIN
GERMANS STRIKE AT RUSSIANS
Austrians Continue Their Retreat Through the Carpathian,
and Turks Are Over Trans-Caucasian Line
LOSS OF LIFE is ENORMOUS ON BOTH SIDES IN ENCOUNTERS

London.-The French War Office an
ounce that the Germans have been
driven from Steinbach in Alsace and
that French troops hold the German
defensive positions west OF Cernay
(Sennheim). This is a material ad-
vance in the Alsatian operations. Stein
bach has been the scene OF house to
house fighting for several days.
The German War Office describes
the desperate fighting in upper Alsace,
and admits the loss of the defensive
nositions near Cernay. 1t is announ-
ced that the French have taken the
heights around Steinbach, but 1t is as
serted that the battle for possession
of the village continues.
A writer in the London Daily Elk
press makes a violent attack upon
Viscount Haldane, the Lord High
Chancellor, asserting that he is friend
w to the Germans and opposed to
British interests in the war. 1t was
announced in London recently that
Lord Haldane would probaly resign
his position.
The Russian General Staff amour
ces that the operations in central Pol
and continue without change; that the
Germans, after a slight C at
Bolimow, have been beaten back, and
that the rout of the Austrians in Cali
cha is complete. Russian troops have
taken Sutchada, %two-thirds of a mile
from the Austro-Rumanian frontier.
The Germans have made a number OF
night attacks and the fighting is still
extremely violent.
Both Russian and Turkish official
statements claim advantage in the
fighting a Kars, on the Russian side
of the Caucasian frontier. Russia says
the battle of Sari Kamysh is still on,
but the Turks assert that it has ended
in complete victory for them.
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Washington

J. Montgomery Wright of Kentucky,
Marshal of the United States Supreme
Court since 1888, died after a long
illness.
A vote in the House on the women
suffrage constitutional amendment on
January II has been definitely agreed
upon by leaders. -
The annual p~ostofice appropriation,
carrying 1921. O00, 900 was passed by
the House.
President Wilson pressed an cleo,
trio button hat opened the Panama
California Exposition, in San Diego.
Secretary Redfeld told President
Wilson and the Cabinet that exports
from the United States during De-
cember, until December &c, exceeded
the imports by $88, 600, 600.
Representative Mann, minority lead
er of House, has introduced bill for
scientific tariff revision.
President Wilson declares his sup
port of Jones bill for ultimate Philip
pine independence will not be altered
by recent disturbances.
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FRENCH ATTACKS IN ARGONNE
BEATEN OFF BY GERMANS

Berlin, (via wireless to London.)-
The official statement issued by the
German army headquarters says:
s"Some of the enemy's ships, accom-
panied by torpedo boats, appeared off
Westende (Belgium), without firing.
"On the whole of the western front
artillery fights took place. An infantry
attack by the enemy followed to the
north of st. Menehould Tin the Ar
gonne Forest). 1t was beaten off with
severe losses to the French"
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London.-The German General STAR
reports the repulse of a French attack
In the Argonne. It that
tne Russians have been badly beaten
west of the Vistula, that the attacks
III ne Ravka region are proceeding
II that reports of Russian successes
IN Roland are pure inventions.
lie Russian General Staff reports
that the Austrian retreat in southern
Gaicla has developed into a rout,
that the Austrians are also being beat
en- q western Galicia, that all German
attaks on the Bzura-Ravka front have
peel %repulsed and that the Germans
nav undergone a severe reverse in
hghing fifty miles north of Cracow.
lie French War Office reports the
success of operations in Alsace and
annsunces that the slackening of the
allid offensive noticed recently has
pee caused by the incessant rains all
Along the front.
July despatched a warship to pro-
tecther interests in Durazzo, the AL
oanan port. A rebel force is reported
manning toward Durazzo.
TIE withdrawal of six German army
corB from before Warsaw was due to
a cange of tactics by Field Marshal
vonHindenburg.
Iea effort to take Warsaw has not
Dee abandoned. The German Field
Manual has diverted troops to Ger
wink on the Vistula River, north of
Wasaw, and Groitzy, on the Vistula,
soua Of Warsaw. He is attacking
witt AL his strength toward the Rus
sian f~ortresses at Nowo Georgiewsk
andlvangorod.
Tese two forts command the ap-
proahes to the unfortified Polish cap
ltal. THE Germans have captured an
lmpffant Russian position at Borji-
moVput have gained no other import
FVantage. Nevertheless, the Ger
mani are everywhere holding their
owngn Poland.
Up Austrians, on the other hand,
hayE been again defeated in Galicia,
andlave lost Uzsok Pass. The Aus
tria4setreat in Bukowlin is described
as 4cst a Toui.
5ATAEsHlP FORMIDABLE SUNK.
Laon.-German naval warfare
oncenore succeeded in getting home
on e British fleet, when, in the
heig 5of a heavy, gale in the English
Chanel, the battleship Formidable
was struck either by a mine or a
subnrine torpedo and went down
withnOre than 600 of her crew.
IL Daily Chronicle states that sur
vivo of the ~battleship report that
the fessel a t%orpedoed both fore
and tt and sank almost Immediately,
givig the crew hardly time to escape.
II official announcement from the
Pres Bureau reads merely as pillows:
"Ie battleship Formidable was
sunin the Channel, but whether by a
min or a submarine is not yet GER
tain Seventy-one survivors have been
picki up by a British light cruiser,
and It is possible that others may
havsbeen rescued by other vessels"
rs expressed hope was partly full.
filledater in the day, when the trawl-
er Fovidence made port in Tor Bay,
brinng with her seventy additional
memers of the r~'ormidable's crew,
makig the total saved out of $50,
so ia As is known, 141.
TIL formidable was more than ff-
teen years old, and in the age CT
d~readoughts had long outlived her
name she was a 1~5,000-ton ship, and
went ntc commission in 1899, being a
sister Of the Irresistible and Implac-
able.
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Find Bomb In Church.

Vincenzo Talombi, sexton Of 81
Joachim's Catholic Church, turned
over to Chief of Police Cleary a tin
can, with a fuse two feet long, which
was found to contain twenty-six ounc-
es of a high explosive.
The can had been placed back of
the door in the vestibule of the
church, and had it exploded it would
have blown out the front of the build
ing. The fuse bad been lighted but
extinguished.
Mayor Donnelly received an anony-
nous letter Saturday night warning
him that the City Hall would be blown
up.
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Mouth Disease Under Control.

In the monthly statement issued by
the bureau of ceremonies and dairy
inspection of the State Board Of
Health, it is shown that since Noyem-
Der the services of every inspector
employed in the bureau were devoted
Tor part of the month to combating the
foot-and-mouth disease. Only one in
spector is now doing this work.
When the report was made three
inspectors wer employed in perform
Ing quarantine duties and assisting in
the d~isinfection of infected premises.
The report adds that the foot-and-
mouth disease is now practically I'M
der control.
me number Of deaths reported to
the State Board of Health by the
bureau of vital statistics for the month
ending December 10 was S,035. The
average for the previous twelve
months was 1912. There were 5O2
deaths among infants under n year.
l97 deaths of children over one year
and under five years, and 1,O37 deaths
or persons aged sixty and over.
Deaths from typhoid fever, measles,
scarlet fever and whooping cough
show a decrease from the previous
months. Nevertheless, the mortality
from diphtheria continued high, the
seventy deaths from that cause during
the month being higher than for any
corresponding period since January,
1913.
The report says that diphtheria has
been unusually prevalent over most
OF the State, and has been epidemic
in several localities. Ocean and Glou-
cester were the only counties from
which no cases were reported. Scar
let fever has shown a rise in the mum
Der of reported cases somewhat in ex-
cess of the usual prevalence of the
disease at this season of the year.
Cape May was the only county from
which no cases were reported.
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Town Wants Water Works.

Plans are being made to install a
municipal water plant at Forked River.
With nearly every modern conven-
fence, including gas. the town lacks
a water plant and it is now believed
that this can be installed with a small
cost and operated cheaply, as there
is water power here that will save
engine cost.
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GERMAN SUBMARINE BOAT
SANK THE FORMIDABLE.

Berlin.-An official announcement
made public through the German Off
cial Press Bureau says: ga German
submarine boat reports by wireless to
the Admiralty in Berlin that it has
t%orpedoed and sunk in the English
Channel off Plymouth the British bat
tleship Formidable. The SUBJ 'arine
was pursued bp British d~estroyers, but
escaped unchanged"
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NEW BALKAN WAR LOOMS.

Steps to Secure Bulgarian Neutrality
Not Successful.
London. The pe~rsevering steps
which have been taken to bring about
an understanding between the Chris
tian Balkan States, with the idea Of
securing the neutrality of Bulgaria,
apparently have not met with COM
plete success, according to dispatches
received IN London from the near
eastern capitals, and Greece, Servia
and humania are preparing for even
Qualities.
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Road pepartment ls shleIded-

Thomas ] McGovern, a local con.
tractor, whom the joint appropriation
committee of the Legislature refused
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money TO NdiSerS ooiolerS.
Three soldiers now at the front with
the German army will divide $4,000 I'M
der the will of Mrs. Mary Hetzel, adj
mitted to probate. They are nephews
of Mrs. Hetzel.
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