davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-02
NO DOUBT SUBMARINE
WHICH SANK ARABIC Is SUNK

London. Sept. Notwithstanding
the silence of the admiralty, II Is be-
llieved beyond a doubt that the sub
,marine which sank the Arabic Is rest
ing at tho bottom of the sea.
How and where it was sunk Is a
lmatter Of much speculation. the
favorite story being that while 1t was
Engaged In Smelling a cattle boat. kill
ing fifteen mules, British patrol ship
'opened fire on the German submarine
and sank It, This story. however, 10
unconfirmed.
IT may be stated that Lord Sell
borne's recent statement that the
British admiralty had the submarine
menace well In hand" erred on the
side of modesty. and that the work
of the admiralty in eliminating the
Submarines is far more effective than
the public is aware.
The fact OF the destruction of the
submarine which sank the Arabic Is
so important that It is regarded here
as the reason for Germany being so
ready to climb down on the Arabic
controversy. and in other submarine
questions with the United States.
The general opinion is that Germany
wishes he United States 10 exert pres
sure upon England to give up her
blockade OF Germany. giving up. in
return. her submarine attacks which
lare rapidly becoming futile.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-02
AMERICAN MINORS
SEEK ARMY RELEASES

London, Sept 1.-THE American em-
bassy has been heset to such an ex-
tent with applications from American
parents to secure the release OF their
sons of minor age from the British ar
my that to cut dow n an extensive bus
mess in debating and typewriting let
tiers printed requests to the British for
eign office for the release of blank
have been run off by the hundred.
Already Ambassador Page has Sc
cured the release OF about sixty such
youths--boys under age who ran away
from home and managed TO get 70 Eng
land, enlist before their parents could
stop them. The printed application to
the foreign Office presents the compli-
ments OF the ambassador to Sir Ed
ward Grey the foreign minister, and
requests the discharge Of the minor
there is the blank space for name)
from the British army.
The liner New York is carrying to
the United States three adventurous
youths who have been discharged from
the British army through the insttga-
ton Of Ambassador Page at the request
of their parents. All three are minors.
They are Theodore v. Coppinger, of
Richmond. Va. OF the Scots guards;
John Sullivan. Of Cambridge. Masa..
of the Royal army medical corps;
Thomas D. Ployd, Of senatcbia, Miss.
OF the South wales bordsrerA
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-02
ROOSEVELT GRATIFTED
ASSASSINATION STOPPED

oyster Bay, n, Y, Sept, Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt issued the follow
ing statement tonight on Count Won
Bernstorns note:
"On its face It appears to he most
gratifying and II the acts OF the Ger
mans bear II out and IL suitable
amends are made for the lives lost
on the Lusitania and the Arabic, and
or the Gulfltsht and E,alaha., and sim
liar cases, and If there is no provi-
sion expressed or implied AS to ac-
don on our part such as was request
ed by Germany before as regards
England and France, the result will
be in every way satisfactory.
4 wish 10 call attention, however,
10 one thing, This Is in no sense q
concession from Germany. as II has
been styled in some papers. II is an
announcement that she intends to stop
the policy OF assassination. To stop
such a policy establishes no claim 10
gratitude and / take 1t for granted
that of course there will he the mos,
ample amends so far as such amends
are possible made not only for the
property. but for the 1870 lives OF
American men. women and children
who have been assa ssinated during
the four months and over that the
policy has been carried out
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-02

GLORIOUS VICTORY
10 GERMAN THEME

Berlin tvia AmDterdam), Sept. L.
Despite the optimistic views of British
correspondents concerning the Rus
sian campaign and their opinion that
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg's great
coup has failed and that the Grand
Duke extracted his army safely from
all traps. the Germans proclaim the
onward march of the Teutonic allies
eastward as the greatest feat of the
war.
Berlin papers insist that the position
now won by the kaiser's troops Is
one from which no human power can
dislodge them. German military ex-
perts are convinced that no effort.
either in the west or In the east. can
alter the destiny which clearly says
that Russia has fallen"
The Dusseldorfer General Anzeiger.
the most important and powerful or
gan in Rheinish Prussia, In an official
ly inspired article says:
Germany Is entering upon the last
phase of the war The Imperial
Chancellor already has announced In
the Reichstag that the collapse of the
Russians will free numerous armies
for other theaters of war
"On the western southern and
southeastern theaters doubt Is ex-
pressed regarding the result. The de-
tenders of these frontiers will be re-
lieved. Victory will come as certain as
it came to Hindenburg and Faul.:en-
hasen. Only little while longer and
then the bells will ring and all Ger
many will rejoice. Then. after
glorious victory. exquisite peace."
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-02
|lRI 1nAW ENTERS
SUIT FOR DIVORCE
@noooR That Women He Did Murder
4 nor Has Given S,rlIsurai Grounds
For Divorce.
rs cAusTlcAILy CRITICAL
Hi Wife Dcnounccs Him a. Amer
fcas' Pet Mursierer--Says She Saved
Him From Electric Chair ana
ID Wants TO &c Let Mono

Fntsburs. Pa. Sept t.--tEarry
ssThaw, fiaed slayer Of Stanfo / White
n flied sui: lste today for .iiyor0e
s.Agains; his wife. Evelyn 'Nsshit Thaw
Thaw charges infideJty. The name
OF the correspondent ls 3ohp Francis.
w Although Thaw refused To mention
s1hc names Of persons WITH whom he
\ asserted his wife had been intimate,
Tha~ declared ira; several prominent
New Workers we've concerned.
N Mrs J. c. Holman. % Mount lie
banon. mother ui Evelyn $esnlI Tntw-
4 when questioned today AS tc Sne
Whereabouts II her daughter, declared
she did nos Snow. che Also refused
to comment on the divorce SAT- in any
way. i an Mira. haN mother
and what would you think 81 me II
said anything were her only
words
Thaw asserts that his wife desers-
I'd him on JHiy J. lae9.
Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit were mar
ried April i, 1905. After T'haw : IN
saIteratIon. Evelyn sioearnc the
mother OF a child 10 whom she gave
4 The name OF Russell, otherwise KNOWN
Is .Pampon.
Kept Chiid's Birth SECRET,
& Evelyn kept the Ia by's hirth secret
for son7e time and the child was sew
eral months, old before il became
sxenerally known that he had . tcn
I born. Subsequently she gave ou' a
nsatement that Harry was the father
81 the child and that she was his
mother. This Thaw pas publicly de-
Il MED.
vs. Harry X Thaw first announced that
I No would divorce Evelyn Neshit Thaw
4on JULY -, white he was sepHding
few davs at Atlantic Ciiy, after Jus
tice Hendrick and a jury had agreed
that he Was sane.
A@ Seated at a dinner At the Hotel
u Dennis, he pushed back his chair sud
Rdenlv and announced that he would
hiring suit. adding that there could be
no reconciliation with his wife
!. Mrs Thaw was al the time in camp
with her dancing uartner Jack Cllt-
eford Lake Chnteanguay. in the ADJ
rcndaeks She expressed herself on
Thaw as follows
i "America pet murderer is evi-
identity STU Csf- fes may change
It's fur. but ia hfTs-~reser az
the man saved from the electric
: chair rfFEr III + ask afhtrn- Is that
he leave me in peace to continue
my stage career"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-02
jUDeE DIRECTS PROBE !
INTO FRANK lYhch|IG
NEWSPAPER MAN TO EXPLAIN
Will he Closely Questioned as to Man.
ner In Which He Received Franks
Wedding Ring For Transmittal TO
Mrs. Frank.

Marietta. Ga, Sept. LIN brief
Patterson told the Superior Court
grand jury OF the Blue Ridge Circuit
here today to investigate thoroughly
the recent lynching in this county,
but did not mention the name of the
victim-Leo NJ. Frank. Thirty-five
witnesses have been called. 1t was said
at the sheriff's office. The jury began
its work on the case late today.
Judge Patterson laid emphasis on
his statements that this was not a spe-
ciaI grand jury and that the jury had
not been reassembled solely because
OF the recent lynching"
You are not special grand jury
as has been stated, but you are the
regularly organized grand jury OF Cobb
County" the Judge said.
Among the witnesses summoned for
the grand jury are O. w. Keller, re-
porter for an Atlanta paper. who lives
I'm Marietta. He will be asked to tell
how he came in possession of Franks
wedding ring, which he says was mys-
teriously delivered to him with a re-
quest from Frank to sec that 1t was re-
turned to Mrs. Frank
w. f. Swanson. sheriff of Cobn
County: S. NJ. Hicks. the deputy who
took charge of Franks body imme-
diately after it was found. Mayor F..
r. Dohbs and NJ. l.. Looney, chief OF
police of Marietta are among the wit
nesses summoned. They will go be-
fore the grand jury this afternoon.
Others Are Summoned.
Suhpoenas have been issued for T.
r. Patterson. r. +. Davidson and F..
l.. Rainey, members of the State
Prison Commission. who were at the
prison farm the night Frank was
taken away. Josiah Carter editor of
the Marietta Journal, and f.. B. Waite,
city policeman. and J. r. Wing. coun-
ty commissioner. also have been sum
moned.
w. NJ, Mayo. chief Of police of AT
lanta. and John Black. of the Atlanta
detective department. also are expect
ed to GO before the jury TODAY.
Mayor r. P. Dobbs. IN a statement
today. denied the report that several
persons who had aroused suspicious
of Marietta citizens had been sent out
of town last week.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-02
TtUT0NS TAKE
Continued from First Fage.)

prise than the speedy capitulation of
Brest- Litovsk, 1T Is a fortress of con-
siderable strength and was In every
respect modern. 1he German adva nee
upon this position was one OF the
speediest OF the war, which leads TO
the conclusion that the Russians prob
ably dismounted the guns and pre-
pared for retreat long before the Ger
man guns were within range. If this
was the case. the victory was an empty
one for the Teutons, though it would
be useless to minimize the Importance
of the stronghold as q strateg1cal po-
sition and the degree in which its loss
emphasizes the impotence Of Russian
arms at this time.
The fall of LUX and Zborow was
announced at Vienna in the following
brief statement:
LUX fortress has fallen. The Rus.
slams were compelled TO cross the river
Styr.
General Bonnmer's army occupied
Zborow"
situation Dark.
The fall of LUX and the collapse
OF the Russian resistance on the Stripa
In Galicia only accentuates the char
acter or the Russian situation. That
situation is generally and openly re-
garded as the darkest since the war
began. The ease with which the
Anstro-Germans took LUX forebodes
in the minds of military critics, a quick
successive capitulation of Dubno and
Rowno, two fortress built in support OF
Luck. the first situated thirty miles to
the southeast and the second thirty
miles east
In a word, there is no indication
that the Russians have been able 10
gather sufficient ammunition to make
anything more than temporary STAND
at any point on the 500-mile eastern
front. Furthermore. as is pointed out
mere and In the dispatches from
Petrograd, the impetuousity with
which the Germans have hammered
forward since the fall of the kovno-
Rrest- Litovsk line does not indicate
| that they are about 10 rest on their
victories On the other hand, ii would
| seem 10 mean that the plans of the
| German general staff in the Russian
| campaign are little more than under
way and that no halt will be called
| until the Russians are driven back to
| the Dwinsk- Minsk- Pinsk line at least.
! Begin to Dismantle Capital.
/ Some indications of the wild rumors
! to which the retreat of the Russia
| armies Is leading may be found in the
I publication today in 4 wDa nish paper
| of a statement, said to have CONS
| from the most authentic source, that
the Russians are beginning 10 dis
mantle Petrograd preparatory 10 its
evacuation From German Scandi-
nsvian and Russian sources reports
continue to come that the Germans
are gathering new momentum for y
campaign through southern Russia
with kiey and Odessa as the goal.
that they are preparing to maret'
through the Baltic province to Petro-
grad, and that they are TO direct their
chief efforts towards reaching Mos
COW over much the same route that
Napoleon followed.
LUX. which fen today, IL town Of
little commercial err artistic import
lnce. Al one time II was thriving
center with \ population OF about 40
900, but since the Polish wars o.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-02
PERIOD OF PROSPERITY
SURPRISING BELIEF

Chicago, Sept. I.--Bankers passing
through Chicago today to attend the
annua, convention OF the American
Bankers Association. at Seattle,
Wash, predicted that an almost un-
helieYable prosperity Is rushing on
the nation.
When the bank reserves which are
greater now than they have ever been
in the history of the country are dis
tributed the nation will enjoy almost
unbelievable prosperity" said William
A. Law, of Philadelphia. president
Of the American Bankers Association.
The volume OF money on hand Is so
great that Is cannot find a natural
outlet. The moement Of the tremen-
dous crops with the attendant finan-
cial activity. will still further increase
the bank reserves"
Mr.. Law attributes the present state
of business to the upset conditions
prevailing in international trade rela-
tons and to wave OF economy.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-02
INCREA REWARD
FOR NEWS OF THARP

The 500 reward originally offered
for in formation regarding the where
about Of John J. Tharp. whose dis
appearance on the night of August
20 from Cluster Springs, Halifax
County. has baffled detectives. was in
creased to 1900 yetterday by the
Pinkerton Detective Agency.
Miss Mary f. Sizemore. a nurse in
the Stuart Circle Hospital was the
recipient of probably the last letter
written b Tharp before his mysterious
disappearance. She received 1t few
days before he was missed from his
home. but she says he made no hint
az to what ne WAS planning to do,
Blood was discovered on the bed
which Tharp last occupied, 1t Is now
stated. !
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-02
WeNf-Cuttipx Time.

] had brother whom ! thought a
pest
He seemed to think never needed
rest.
When wheat was stacked and ready
to be thrashed-
The crop laid by and !, all nabashed,
Would take book or magazine and
lie
With wondrous tales before my hun
CRY eyes)
Beneath a tree. to cultivate my mind
That ruthless brother would steal w
behind
And say. Come on--you've done
that long enough.
We'd better mosey out an cut some
stuff"
With inward groans I'd put the book
away
The meanwhile praying for a rainy
day.
would get out
On some hot hillside where we'd pu.
to rout
The hostile hosts OF thistles. muileins
yes,
And white-topped yarrow-T could
never guess
Just why these weeds in SUCH profu-
sion grew
When surely they. possessed of malice
- knew
That was my only chance to read and
rest
Instead Of whacking round some no.
hills crest.
Now when about the country am
ierked
And see the sort of hills on which !
worked,
MY memory sharpened eyes are always
peelel
To see II, in some cattle dotted field.
The mullen. yarrow. thistle and their
mates,
Are growing, all unconscious of their
fates,
And then | chuckle, back inside OF
me:
To think it's past. and I don't have Il
be
Out there TO whack around as once
did
When I was just book-starved. lazy
kid.
Strickland Gillian, in Farm Life
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-02
SCANT HOPE or
UNDERWRITING BODIES

Honolulu, Sept. Naval officers
IN charge OF the wrecked United
states submarine F4 indicated today
that there was scant hope OF estah-
fishing the identities Of the twenty-one
remaining bodies still held in the aft
compartment of the vessel The bod =
les, or which little Is left except hare
skeletons were located last night,
mixed with the debris OF the sea.
or the crew of twenty-five men
who went to their death when the
Ed dived during maneuvers in Hon
nlulu harbo- on March 25. only one
BODY has been positively identified.
that of George r. Ashcroft. of Los
Angeles, gunner's mate
1t was estimated today that Mt leas,
three days would be required 10 clear
the interior OF bodies and debris.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-02
PHYSICIAN RtAPS
THE WAGES Of SIN
LIVED APART FROM WIFE
Providence Physicians Misconduct
Broke Up Homo-Motive of Sup
posed Murderer Unknown--Wife
HystericaI When Told OF shooting.

Providence. Il. /. Sept. DIR
Franklin C Mohr. of this city and
Newport, who, with his housekeeper
Miss Emily Burger, was shot last
night while they were together in the
physicians automobile, near Nayatt
died in the Rhode Island Hospital
lat $40 o'clock this morning,
Miss Burger who is also In the
hospital is conscious, but unable to
give the police more than the meagre
details OF the shooting than she sup
piled last night. She. however. is ex'
pectcd to recover.
The chauffeur, George A. Heals, a
The mystery Of the double shooting
has been cleared mp by the confession
of the colored chauffeur George II
Heals, that he and another coiored
fellow. Victor Brown, formerly EN-
ployed as a sta bic boy by Mohr, had
planned robbery, but not, as Heals
intended the murder of the couple.
There enters into the affair the ele-
ment of revenge on the part OF Brown
who was discharged by Mohr on gus
picion that he was ia league with Mrs
Mohr. based upon the fact that the
wife. two weeks ago, was seen tc
speak TO Brown as he was passing
through the grounds.
Heals met Brown in this city last
Monday, when the robbery was plan
ned. on his motorcycle, the scheme
being to have Brown go down the
road some time in advance and lie In
wait In the bushes by the roadside,
where the automobile was to be held
up for pretended overhauling OF the
motor.
Suspected From First.
Suspicion was directed towards
Heals from the beginning. and Chief
Robbins, Of Harrington, picked VI
enough testimony to confirm this
Miss Burger was able to give material
assistance when she told how Heals
calling for her at aler home and tell
ing her that the doctor wished she
should go to Newport with him
fairly raced the car to Mohrs house
and from there to the hill at the FOO,
Of which the car engine was declared
70 have given out. Never before had
Healis driven at that pace. The next
she noticed was that the car was beinG
takea from the straight road and were
three miles Off their route. She
were being flashed as a signal. AL.
most Immediately came the shootine
from the rear OF the car.
Heals supplied the story from Thu:
point Brown was hiding In tine
bushes at the narrow part OF the road
as agreed. and the robbery was to DC
cur when the shooting began. Rrowv
firing In rapid succession at least Ave
shots Before any booty could he Sc
cured the little Ford referred to b,
HeaiiJ a. probably containing the mer
who had done the shooting passed. and
Brown had to keep In hiding! theI
the neiEhbors began to assemble ant
the robbery was completely frustrated
Where Brown went TO he did no
know. but he gave hts accomplish,
address as Roxbnry. Mass, and to-
night che Boston police were requested
to pick him up. Henhs said thai
Brown was very sore over his dis
charge and had declared that some
thing was going TO happen very soon.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-02

ment has informed Greece that 1t IN
tends to comply with the requests OF
the quadruple entente concerning the
concessions demanded by Bulgaria
says an Athens dispatch to the Matin
Task a Difficult One
London. Sept. 1.-The balkan stu
alton Is discussed at length in dig
patches to the morning napers from
Bucharest. Sofia and Athe/s Although
the correspondents generally are oIxi-
mistic. emphasis Is placed on the diff
cuities which the diplomats of the
tering In their endeavors to adjust the
conflicting demands and dtsarm the
mutual suspicious OF the Balkan ma.
tiona.
! AS to the counter activity OF the tri-
pie alliance. the Posts Sofa CORE
spondent reports that the Turks are
preparing for the evacuation of terri
tory coded to Bulgaria by demolishing
forts on the right bank of the Mar
itza and by pulling down the barracks
at karagatch.
The actual Bulgarian occupation
OF coded territory, through which the
Dedeaghatch Railways runs, the cor
respondent says. will follow soon, II
Is stated.
Doubt as to Early Action.
The Standards Athens representa-
tive believes no definite developments
in the Balkan situation can be eX-
pected in the immediate future. THE
negotiations which must be concluded
before any one of the Balkan coun-
tries can intervene in the war are
protected and troublesome" he says
lowing to the great difi1culty Of har-
monizing the conflicting interests
Serbia Is wiling to go a long way
toward meeting Bulgarian require
ments, but even here there seems still
some obstacle to a complete agree
ment concerning the participation OF
the Bulgarian army.
"As for Greece. If there Is to be IN
.tervention it will not come until
Greek interests demand It. and its sole
object will be to lay the foundations
of a greater Greece. which must in
clude large portions ct near eastern
territory II the decision comes. how
ever, Premier Venizelos will have the
undivided support OF the King. coun'
try and army leaders, for he already
has exacted the most binding assur-
ances to this effect"
Concrete Offer Urged.
The Bucharest correspondent OF the
Times emphasizes the necessity Tor
better understanding between Ru'
mania and Bulgaria
The most important thing he de-
clares. is to establish relations OF
confidence between these two coun
tries. There is evident an identity OF
Interests, and Rumania avows hei
Willingness TO make required conces'
sions, but no concrete arrangement
have been concluded. II Rumania
could be Induced to make a definite
offer to Bulgaria the effect on hel
sister country would he immediate.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-02
STRUCK nv AUTO.
VI. l.. Smith, =. A. l.. Ticket Seller, II
BADLY Hurt.

VI. l.. smith, =. A. l.. Ticket seller, II
BADLY Hurt.
NJ L. Smith, ticket seller for the
Seahoard Air Line Railway. living At
1908 lakewood Avenue. was run down
and painfully injured Tuesday night,
by machine said to have been driven
by Miss Mary Msssie, daughter OF DR..
c. w. Massie, of 272I East Broad Street.
According to Information received
last night Smith was going home on
his bicycle and the collision happened
near the cornor OF Twenty ninth and
r Streets Mas Massie temporarily
lost control of the car and Smith WAS
dragged for some distance before the
machine could be stopped. 1t il thought
that his left leg was broken Just above
the ankle, in addition he received sew
eral severe bruises. Whether he re-
ceived any internal injuries has not
yet been determined
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-02
WHOM the COOS
DESTROY THEY FIRST
MAKE MAO.--VERDUn SAP

The following, which explains itself.
appeared In the Richmond Evening
Journal OF yesterday afternoon:
Commissioner John Hirscsnberg, af-
ter the meeting OF the Administrative
Board adjourned today issued an or
der to Clerk Dunford not to allow
newspaper men in the Office occupied
by the clerk OF the board. He first
had issued an order to prohibit news
paper men from coming inside the
rail where the board meets, but this
he reconsidered. He said to Mr.. Dun
ford In substance:
Mr.. Dunford, ] will suspend you
from your duties as clerk of this board
If you allow any reporter of a paper
to go inside your Office and examine
any Of the papers In there. I. as chair
man of the Administrative Board. Is
sue this order. Do.not let them look
at the papers that have been passed
on by this board. If the reporters
want to get the news, let them get II
by hearing it read or send competent
men who can get it,"
Then Mr.. Hirscaberg turned to the
representative of the Journal. and
said: IF your ---- paper
publishes what I have just, said. / will
sue the paper"
The above order will he considered
this morning at the meeting of the Nd