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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-06-05
CHICAGO Live Stock; Opening


Chicago, June 4.-The opening live
stock market follows:
Hogs-Market to 10c higher; quail
ity good; receipts, 10000; left over, q
SIS; estimated tomorrow, 5000; bulk.
$7.50@77O; light, $7.40@7.75; mixed
$7.3697.75; pigs, $5.75Q735; heavy,
$705@7.65; good heavy. $7.20@7.66;
rough, $705@7.20; Workers, $7.70@77b.
Cattle-Market steady to strong; re-
ceipts, 1000; estimated tomorrow. 100;
beeves, 36s0@9.3e: Texans, $8.40@7.50;
westerns, $s.S0@8.10; cows and heifers
$S.20@8.70: calves, 37.50@10.
Sheep-Market steady; receipts, A.
900; estimated tomorrow, 1000; natives
$6.40@7.10; westerns, $3.50 @7.2O;
yearlings, $7.60@9.10; lambs, native,
$7.50@10.25; westerns. $775@10.6O.
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Kansas City Produea,

Kansas City, Mo-, June 4.-Butter,
eggs and poultry unchanged.
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st. LOUIS Produce.
st. Louis, Mo-. June 4.-Poultry, but
ter and eggs unchanged.
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Now York SUGAR

New York, June 4.-Raw sugar
Steady; centrifugal, 4.95c; molasses
Also.
Refined-Steady.
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wheeled the cannon into position by
hand.
But their armory never had been
fitted for subcalibre practice. as 1t
never had been fitted for mounted in
struction. None of the men had been
qualified as first class or even as sec
ond class gunners They fired and
their shots went wild. serving only to
betray their situation to the enemy.
They did not know how to place them
selves for protection from indirect fire.
So they died.2i
A troop Of militia cavalry. trying to
move forward near Hartford was cut
on by an advance patrol of enemy
cavalry that had crossed the river to
outflank the defenders from the north.
The Americans charged. But they
were mounted on horses never used
before for cavalry work. The enemy
riders were men trained to swordsman-
ship. The American troop had aver
aged only thirteen men in mounted
drill In whole year. because they had
possessed neither horses nor armory.25
The green brutes reared at the sight
OF weapons. They pitched into each
"a. Page, 231. report on militia field
artillery, Gen. Mtlls. u. s. A., 1914,
25. Table 3, militia cavalry statistics,
Division Of Militia Affairs, U. 8. A.,
annual report. 1914.
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other rs the enemy cavalry dashed at
them and added their iron hoofs to
the melee. For one brief moment eyes
stared into eyes. and It was hack and
thrust. Then the enemy riders were
through them, and whirled like a gale
and swept through them again and
killed and killed.
"Annihilated." reported the scout
cavalry little later. when its squad
rons camcAup. "Our loss one dead,
three slightly wounded"
Annihilatcd, Yes, gentlemen Of
Congress. sitting m Washington at
that moment and passing resolutions
and appropriations and uttering fine
sentiments about millions for defence
ana not one cent for tribute! There
were ugly things there on the Com
necticut River shore that answered
you more loudly in their eternal ST.
lencc than II they had spoken with u
thousand angry tongues.
That days battle that filled the
fields OF Connecticut with dead mems
bones to be ploughed up in many a
year afterward went down in Ameri-
can history as the massacre Of the
Connecticut River. A massacre IL was
an American massacre, carefully
prepared by elaborate carelessness
through many year before.
Less than a thousand men. it was
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Even Raids by Taubes, in Which
Dropped Manifesto Kills Jeweller,
Fail to Stir Interest

zeal that he fell into German hands.
He rode from Blone toward the Ger
man lines, convinced that before he
warned by sound of firing.
ON this morning there was no firing,
and the battle bummeler" (this is a
German eXpression) happened to
strike spot where there is a big gap
in our lines. He rode straight into
a German outpost which was con-
cealed in a forest. The Germans at
first wanted to shoot him as a spy.
After a thorough search they re-
leased him.
Seeing the war-whch usually
means hearing it's a favorite
amusement of we'll to do Varsovians.
They drive along the Lodz road until
they can hear the gun thunder clearly,
and sometimes they venture far west
and see the blaze of villages.
When the Germans got to Prush-
kow, the nearest point to Warsaw
reached, a large party of battle anna
teurs went along the Lodz road and
stopped only when the invaders. mis-
taking them for troops, sent along a
shrapnel shell. In the present week,
rigorous measures are being taken to
prevent civilians getting near the
firing line and the customary resource
-donning Red Cross badges de-
clared to be punishable.
Warsaw is entirely without reliable
war news. The censorship is strict
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Because it's not big enough"
chorus Varsovians. There are $4,000
spies in the CITY,"
Warsaw Is obsessed by figures. The
cafe Of the Hotel Bristol is thronged
with do nothing gentlemen, who turn
over the pages Of the comic journal
Muchd, and say: "There are 10000
spies" There are 500 pounds Of
dynamite in the mine under the
Alexander Bridge" This morning
100000 fresh troops arrived from
Petrograd. Did you hear ="
Nine Warsaw citizens out Of ten
view the harmless citadel as palladium
of their liberties. Varsovians are
weak in military knowledge-as may
he judged from their Il 900 900 troops"
tale-and the citadel imposes. 1t is
tangible and visible whereas War
saws real forts, of which there are
sixteen, at Skorosche, Prschitse and
other sneeze named suburbs, can't be
seen.
The citadels only garrison is bell
ringer and ten prisoner warders; II
could be captured by squad Of arch
ers. But that Is not plain to un-
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Continued from Fijth Page.

commanded by men who did not know
war. They bore the shock of machine
gun assaults from advance patrols.
They bore the shock of cavalry
charges from scouting detachments.
At Middletown they were attacked
in force by heavy cavalry that crossed
under cover of gunfire and Outfianked
them and charged in mass. They sent
the charge back broken, with many
empty saddles.
They lay under the fire of inch
gun at Cromwell for an hour and en-
dured and died. but they denied the
river crossing to battalion.
For two long hours they held the
river along their whole line. 1t seemed
to them that they were fighting
great battle. Surely their dead testi-
fled to it and the hot fire that beat on
them testified to 1t, and across the
river. or floating down with the
stream, were many enemy dead to
testify to It.
They cheered and shouted to each
other hoarsely that they were win
ming. They watched with ever grow
ing savage lust for more assailants.
In the Headquarters of the advance
ing army there was received this re-
port from the brigade commander:
1.-TWO or three thousand raw hut de-
termined Americans disputing pas
sage OF Connecticut River with our
advance guards. They have machine
guns, no artillery. Am sending field
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ENEMY'S LINES PUSH OUT TOWARD NEW YORK
he Inva of

said afterward. escaped from the mas
sacre. They crawled away down gull
lies or swan down the river and hid
under weeds and painted and tied UP
their wounds with rags from their
ragged garments. They We're never
able to tell what had occurred. They
knew only that they had thought there
was victory, and then in front of
them and on their flanks and behind
them there had come flames as II n
hot line OF blast furnaces had opened
to blow In their very faces wherever
they turned.
I'VE have taught them their les
SON. sail the hostile commander.
I'VE shall have no more trouble"
1t was true. Western Connecticut
was broken under the invaders rod
as eastern Massachusetts had been
broken, That night the army occupied
Hartford, Meriden. New Britain and
New Haven though not before the
arms factories had been blown. up to
welcome the soldiers with flaming
ruins.
The next morning cavalry detach-
ments began cautiously to scout into
the Berkshire Hills to feel for the
American outposts. The way to the
city Of New York lay open.
(Copyright. 1915. on J. W. Muller. All
rights rescrpcd)
Next Sundays instaImeDt OF .The In.
vasion Of America" will tell OF the cap.
ture Of New York city.
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guns forward. Shall have passage
clear in an hour"
use ample force" answered the
commander. "These Americans" he
said to his aid. '-They aren't to be
underestimate. A little more prepa-
ration"
And We wouldn't be here!" laughed
the aid.
Thirty minutes afterward. from
points wholly invisible to the Ameri-
cans, there burst the shattering
thunder Of field artillery. Explosive
shells flew over and into the trenches.
Shrapnel screamed at them and burst
like sentient things right in their
faces, to drive rafting bullets in all
drections.23
Their machine guns were useless.
There was nothing in sight at which
to fire. The men lay face down,
clutching dirt, choking with fumes
and smoke, stunned by the blasting
things that burrowed into their earth
works and blew them apart and tore
living bodies to pieces.
At Rocky Hill a militia company Of
artillery tried to move its gun into bet
ter shelter. The plough horses that
had been seized to drag II, wild with
terror, became entangled In the traces
and fell. Cutting them away the men
23. Range Of four miles.
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M everything but its fate. In
w this 1t resembles ten other
Polish towns / have visited.
1t either ignores the war altogether
or is interested only in minor war is
sues. 1t does not concern itself with
strategy. tactics. battalions big guns
or Big Nicholas. big Nicholas
Bolshoi Nikolai in Russian-is the
Grand Duke Commander in Chief.
When Siberian brigade tramps
down the Nowy SWAT no one pays at
tentlon; but there are scores Of men
and women staring at theatre and
picture show posters which recon-
mend Ibsen's Ghosts" Native We'd
dngs in Sumatra' and "Pios Basker-
willow" In "Pios Baskervillow" I rec
ognize Conan Doyle's Hound Of the
Baskervifles." The issues that rend
Warsaws soul seldom touch the war.
You read in the Dsiennik that ten
men have been arrested for engaging
in a faction brawl at Powazki sub
urb: and you expect this is a Mon
tagu and Capulet quarrel as to
whether Poles should gain most from
Russian or German victory. In
reality, as the Dziennik explains, the
factionists are refugees from Skiernie-
vice.
In the old happy ante-war days
some one planned a railroad from
SkIerniewice to Ivangorod fortress;
and the Skierniewicians quarrelled as
to whose land the railroad should
cross. Skierniewice Is half burnt
down and the factiOnists' houses and
the railroad plan have perished; but
the feud survives: and in hospitable
Warsaw the refugees mil.tantly break
one another's skulls.
Warsaws prize frivolity is its
citadel. The citadel is an out of date
fortress, with buildings inside, which
Gear Nicholas l. built at Warsaw's =
cost in order to overawe the citizens
after the 1880 rebellion. AS a fort
the citadel has no value; and for
years past its only use has been in
holding political prisoners, In this 1t
copies the Petropavlovsk fortress at
Petrograd and the Schluesselburg
fortress at Ladoga,
Warsaw's citadel Is picturesque
group; 1t has pleasant trees below
and about 1t; and opposite, on the
right Vistula bank, Is Fort Slivckt
which Is strong tete de pont, pro-
tecting the all important railroad
bridge. During the first months OF
war spies were hanged in the citadel
Last week the new Governor Cen
eral. Prince Engalitcheff, visited II
and ordered that 1t he no more used
for hanging spies.
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and no Warsaw newspaper has TlF
correspondents People live 4- p ne
eighteenth century when news Wa
circulated-and invented .'';.'
houses.
Every week Warsaw's cafr- N...
new oracle, who gets the latest lows
from the Governor General ar. NsS
down beyond dispute the prr.. p
Polish strategy. The latest y\r"'. Is
a NJ. Steinlen, who informs O.. ' q.
Bristol that things are hIi
Governor-General has sail
"Hindenburg has sent reerf'~. m...'
to the Austrians in the Cl'W'..H'
Among well informed ,.'
zens there is panic"
After hearing these remar.- 3r-'"
through the Gribnaya strr", .r. saw
through an open window ' pan
a mazurka being danced, /. OH. NJ
dow arranged as a trophy ,... 'a''"
German bayonets and on r., .', y
each was PiCkelhaube hr.M'. TIA.
best of all shows warsaw ". sag
of tempering war with trNu
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and a booklet struck the neck of a
Jeweller who was looking out of a third
story window. and so startled him that
he fell out and broke his neck. l saw
the Taube which did this deed making
n great circle. dive, an ascent, and
then speeding east toward Siedlec
town, where our bullets nearly brought
it down.
The lethal booklet was dropped in
large numbers. 1t is called "The
Resurrection of Poland; is beautifully
printed in stylistic Polish, and has
dozen pictures depicting Poland's woes
at Russian hands. on the fyleaf Is a
poem, "Salve ReGina!' and on the
cover a picture of the Virgin Mary,
with Con the right the late Pope Leo
XIII. and ton the lefD Kaiser Will
helm.
The three other Taube aeroplanes
returned west and bombarded our re-
serve trenches at Blone. Our men
shelled them from field guns mounted
on revolving timber carriages. In the
quieter suburbs the shooting could be
heard.
Warsaw takes this affair very
grimly-not because 1t emphasizes the
city's peril, but because, as newspapers
discovered, the dead jeweller was a
gifted amateur actor, who might have
graced "The Hound of the Basker-
villes" and saved from boredom and
tedium warstricken Warsaw.
In order to collect mournful impress
sions against Warsaw's frivolous will
! hunted for refugees There are TO-
900. At first there was room for them
as $4,000 Varsovians fled to Kieff and
Moscow when the German invasion
began. But nearly all Of these have
returned, and now the refugees are
crowded badly
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LIFE IN WARSAW MOVES ON WHOLLY UNMANDFUL OF WAR

Half are Jews. The Jews throng
the northern quarter near the
Krasinski Palace; the Christians are
scattered all over and outside the town.
Refugees are still coming in, and as it
is spring weather they are under
canvas. l found at Rakow in the
south of the town camp Of
700.
With them is NJ. Miezkievitch, one
of Poland's richest men, and-since
the war began-Poland's only serious
man. NJ. Miezkievitch's house was
burned down: his wife died of fatigue.
and his officer son was killed in the
last big battle in Masuria. He gave
to a refugee fund all the money he
could realize from his ruined proper
ties. and he vowed that he would
spend the rest Of his life making less
miserable the victims of the war. At
present NJ. Miezkievitch lives in
refugee tent at Rakow. feeds. attends,
gives medical treatment to the home-
less and generally lives by his new
device. Il am the servant Of all"
Within five minutes of his leaving
his house he saw, he told me. German
shells falling into it. The invaders
took the house for a divisional stan
headquarters and they shelled it to
bits. Some refugees in Rakow camp
have bad burns from shells. The chief
Of the gmina tcommune) from
Miezkievtch's district says that shells
destroyed six out of the seven villages
nearest to his. Warsaw's airy
ignoring of the historic drama which
iS hpinp n1nVnH only fhirtu .
the west is not absolute. Some citi-
zens take enough interest in the war
even to wish to see 1t.
The cousin Of NJ. Skallon, formerly
Governor-Geneul.s showed such battle
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military Warsaw; and every evening
! hear in the Cafe Bristol:
Yes: the Germans may capture
Ossoviec Fortress; but they cannot
take this city. Spies were caught
yesterday examining the citaders de-
fences. There are ~. 900 spies. Waiter,
bring me black coffee"
In the morning scores of impressed
Narsovians tramp through the dirty
old town and up the Zakrocymska
street, in order to get a look at the
citadel. / went there. expecting to
be shot at when I got within q mile,
but / found not even a sentry outside
the citadel; and an old woman with
apples (Which credulous Warsaw
would swear concealed spies) coming
out.
The real palladium is the railroad
br Gse close by. There are two sem
tries for every ten yards of this
bridge: and II, as you approach, you
put your hands in your pockets, there
is terrific bawl Of "Nelsia!" which
means You mustn't" People with
hands in pockets are suspected Of
carrying bombs.
An hour after left the rich Lodz
refugee PiOtrkowski approached the
bridge with one hand in pocket and
the other twirling a stick. At the cry
You mustn't" he ceased twirling the
stick, but left the hand in pocket. A
sentry's bullet clipped piece out Of
his ear. In this sacr"mental way Is
guarded the bridge connecting the east
and west Polish railroad systems.
On this evening, probably to avenge
NJ. Piotrkowskrs ear, came four Ger
man Taube aeroplanes, and dropped
at the bridge bombs and in the city
booklets. The bombs killed nobody
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Beauty In Fire Escapes

49, ff. dwelling lines ~ '.. -..''
Of New York N r H.
creased in ar. i.!4'
beauty fully 80 per cent, .. . .I'-'
were made in the law a,' .- ~"
escapes said a well hu.w. 81
ment house builder a day ''p lI'
When you glance down "'"
your eye is actually pain. .'. '"@
sight of the glaring irurn 20.
escapes jutting out from ... ''
dwellings. | have croct,N .ur'
of houses where I've don. ".'
this, but il has been a
of living room.
"My plan has been TO h"
in the front of tn" h..
tiCitnt size to cmbraCr -iI.'
needed for the fire escl'
alCove | place the iron p '
ladders that you now 81"
over the street line. ThH- .'
is preserved in whatever ... "'
beauty II possesses. IN.
this takes up room. !.
laws demand that yuu
many feet of your lot f..
air. So, If you build -" '"
fire escape, like | have
cases, you simply lose "',
space on your lot that
would be devoted 10 the r.. ''
Of your fiat,
There are many who "
have the room than tl'
line. And again, If yuu '
fire escapes in an alcov" o.
or four houses YOU erect "a.
some other builder who pI
escapes out over the S'ro.
spoils your view an1 ''.
wherever I have put n
operation II has been pa
Other builders agree tho
is improved through u-" ~,
coved fire escape mcth".
small hope for its genera " .'.''"
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Little Within the City to Indicate That
1t Is the Objective of Desperate
Drives by the Germans

The following Warsaw
He does nota
military simply
the attitude taken by the public in the
The sun., 1915-05-16

w YARSAW city is engaged with
M everything but its fate. In
this 1t resembles ten other
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reach that bridge" thought Ichabod.
Il am safe" Just then he heard the
black steed painting and blowing be-
hind him; he even fancied that he felt
his hot breath. Another conyulsiye
Kick In the ribs and old Gunpowder
sprang upon the bridge; he thun-
dered over the resounding planks; he
gained the opposite side and now Ich-
abod cast look behind to see if his
pursuer would vanish, according to
rule, in flash of fire and birthstone.
Just then he saw the goblin rising in
MS stirrups and in the very act of
hurting his head at him. Ichabod en-
deavored to dodge the horrible missile
but too late. 1t encountered his cram
lum with a tremendous crash-he
tumbled headlong into the dust and
Gunpowder, the black steed and the
goblin rider passed by like a whirl-
wind.
Inc next morning the old horse was
found without his saddle, and with the
orldie under his feet, soberly cropping
the grass at his masters gate. Icba-
bod did not make his appearance at
oreakfast-dinner hour came. but no
lchabod. An inquiry was set on foot.
and after diligent investigation thew
came upon his traces. In one part of
the road leading to the church. was
found the saddle trampled in the dirt:
the tracks of horses hoofs deeply
dented In the road, and evidently at
FURIOUS speed, were traced to the
bridge, beyond which on the bank of
broad part of the brook, where the
water ran deep and black, was found
the hat of the unfortunate Ichabod.
and close beside it shattered pump
Kin.
An old farmer who had been down
o New York on visit several wears
alter, brought home the intelligence
nat lchabod was still alive. But the
I'D country wives, who are the hest
judges of these matters, maintain to
ms day that Ichabod was spirited
way by supernatural means.
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heart began to sink within him; he
endeavored to resume his psalm tune,
but his parched tongue Glove to the
roof of his mouth and he could not
utter stave. There was something
in the moody and logged silence of
this pertinacious companion that was
mysterious and appalling. 1t was
soon fearfully accounted for. On
mounting a rising ground, which
brought the figure of his fellow trav-
eler in relief against the sky, gigan-
tic in height, and muffled in a cloak,
Ichabod was horrowstruck, on per-
ceiving that he was headless; but his
horror was still more increased on
observing that the head, which should
have rested on his shoulders, was
carried before him on the pommel of
his saddle! His terror rose to des-
peration; he rained a shower of kicks
and blows upon Gunpowder, hoping,
by sudden movement to give his
companion the slip-but the specter
started full jump with him. Away,
then, they dashed through thick and
thin; stones flying and sparks flash
ing at every bound. Ichabod's flimsy
garments futtered in the air, as he
stretched his long lank body over
his horses head, in the eagerness of
his fight.
They had now reached the road
which turns off to Sleepy Hollow; but
Gunpowder, who seemed possessed
with demon, instead of keeping up
it, made an opposite turn and plung-
ed headlong down hill to the left.
The road leads through sandy hol-
low, shaded by trees for about quar-
ter of mile, where it crosses the
bridge famous in goblin story and
Just beyond swells the green knoll
On which stands the whitewashed
church.
AS yet the panic of the steed had I
given his unskilled rider an apparent ,
advantage in the chase; but just as he
rot half way through the hollow, the !
,irths of the saddle gave way and he 8
cit it slipping under him. He seized
t by the pommel and endeavored to
lold it firm, but in vain; and had just
ime to save himself by clasping old a,
round the neck, when the
addle fell to the earth, and he heard
. trampled to earth by his pursuer.
.fter that he had much ado to main :
ain his seat; sometimes slipping on
ne side, sometimes on another, and
ometimes jolted on the ridge of his
orse's backbone with violence that
e verify feared would cleave him
sunder.
An opening in the trees now cheered
i'm with the hopes that the Church
ridge was at hand. The wavering
election of a silver star in the bosom
the brook told him that he was
ot mistaken. He saw the walls of
lie church dimly glazing under the
ees beyond. He recollected that
lis was the place where the horse
en- disappeared. eff l can but