The Alaska citizen., 1915-04-19
kOl DUP MEN BISY

hOLOUp MEN BUSY.
 BUFFALO. N Y. April l5 NJ agara county was the scene of a daring holdup today. twelve ban dits stopping a fast New York Cen tral train and stripping the express car of shipment of bolted silks valued at $50 900 The holdup oc. cured at Sanborn. where the loot was loaded onto auto trucks.
 THEY DENY IT.
 WASHINGTON. D. C., April l5- epresentatiyes of the Japanese gov ernment make emphatic denial of the report that naval base has been established in the waters of Lower California.
 FIFTY HURT IN WRECK
 NEW YORK. April l5.- Fifty pass engers were more or less seriously injured today as the result of the derailment of seven-car train on tle elevated railroad in this city. Many of those injured were hurt during the panic which followed the accident to the train.
 KILLED IN COLLISION.
 DETROIT, April l5.-Fifteen pass engers were killed and d score injur- ed today as the result of a colli- sion between a loaded street car and a freight train at a street in tersection in this city. The con ductor of the street car is blamed Tor the accident.
 GERMAN LOSES MIND
 LOS ANGELES. April l6.-J0hann Wulfshon. former German consul at Vancouver. was found wandering about the streets of this city today, carrying a broom in one hand and l bunch of flowers in the other. His mind is believed to have been affected by the loss of his fortune, which was swept away by the war.
 TO SEND LIBERTY BELL.
 PHILADELPHIA, April Is. - Not Wthstandins the fact that strenu- ous objection has been made to the removal of the Liberty bell to San Francisco for exhibition purposes during the PanamaPacific lnterna tional exposition. the members of the city council have voted to send the bell to the Pacific coast during the coming summer, probably in July.
 Objection to the removal of the bell from it's present resting place in Independence hall was based on the fact that the bell is suffering from the disease of metals, aggra vated by numerous trips about the country. In addition to the old yer tical crack a new crack has devel- oped in comparatively recent years, starting from the top on the old crack and extending diagonally around the upper portion of the bell, more than a quarter of it's ciT conference.
 MAY GO TO SERBIA Sureeon-General Goroas, of the American army. accept place on the permanent sdff of the Rocke- feller foundatioI, |, there is the prob ability that he will go to Serbia to devote his energies to stamping out the epidemic of typhus which is sweeping that country
 r. R. IS PROGRESSIVE
 OYSTER BAY, April 16.-In an interview given out today. Colonel Roosevelt denies emphatically that he has abandoned the Progressive party He also denies that he has advised any of his followers, either to quit the party or to stand with him. He admits, however, that the situation is of the hairtrigger vari- ety, requiring the greatest tact on the part of the party leaders to prevent the collapse of tne Progress sive organization.
 AlDRlCH DIES
 NEW YORK, April 16 - Former United States Senator Nelson Al drich who retired from the nation al lawmaking body at the expiration of his term in 1911 to devote his entire time to the work of the National Monetary commission, of which he was chairman, died here today aged "A years The i'm mediate cause of death was a stroke of apoplexy.
 1HAW LOSES.
 NEW YORK, April 16. - Harry Thaw has lost his fight before the appellate division of the supreme court in which he sought to secure permission to return to New Hamp- shire The court upholds Supreme Court Justice Page, who tried Thaw
 The next move in the Thaw case will come next week when the suit to determine the Matteawan escapes $ sanity will be decided