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Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03
Arras sombarded.

Paris,-The following official state
ment was issued
1.-THE day was relatively calm on the
tire front.
There has been artillery fighting
birth Of Souchez, at Neuville and at
soclincourt. Arras has been bonn
Ided by guns of huge calibre.
Between the Disc and the Aisne the
leFS duel continues, with the ad-
antage on our side.
''In the Argonne and on the heights
Be the Meuse. at the Calonne trenches
the Germans have not renewed their
attacks.
Zone of our aeroplanes was able to
rop eight boml on the Zeppelin
angar at Friedrichshafen. Motor
ouble obliged the aviator to land dur
lg his return journey. Fortunately he
as able to reach Swiss territory a
heinfelden."
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STATE AID BOARD TODAY.
VIII Hear Applications For ApproprIa-
tions.

viii Hear Applications For Appropria-
tlons.
The Board of State Aid and Charities
heard the applications of a number of
hospitals and State aided institutions
for appropriations from the next Legis-
lature for the years 1916 and 1917. The
institutions heard, together with the
appropriations they are now receiving
and those for which they are asking,
are as follows:
Frederick City Hospital-Now re-
ceiving $4,000 a year, asking for
$4,000.
Dupont Maternity Hospital, Cam
bridge-New institution. to state its
needs without asking for a specific
sum.
Hebrew Hospital-New receiving
$4,000, asking for $4,000. with $751;
900 additional for buildings.
Maryland General Hospital-Now
receiving $4,000. with $4,000 for
maternity department, as ling for $25,-
900, with $500 for maternity depart
ment, with $4,000 for buildings.
Maryland Homeopathic Hospital,
now the Hahnemann Hospital-now
receiving $500, asking for $4,000 on
the strength Of having consolidated
with the st. Luke's Hospital.
Mercy Hospital-Now receiving $685.
900, asking for 100000.
Maryland School for the Blind-Now
receiving $4,000, asking for $4,000,
together with its present appropriation
of $4,000 for the colored department.
Patapsco Academy-Now receiving
5000, asking for $1,50O, with $500 for
buildings.
Baltimore Manual Labor School
Now receiving $2,50O, wants $4,000.
Hebrew Shelter and Protective Asso-
ciation-Now getting $500, asking for
$4,000.
Hebrew Orphan Asylum-Now re-
ceiving $4,000, asking for $4,000 with
81 900 for buildings.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03
Porporato Finishes Second and Rick.
enbaeher Third-crant Covers
Course Without Max
ina Stop.
HOW DRIVERS FINISHED.

Chicago.-All competitive speedway
automobile records of the world from
SO miles to 500 were shattered in the
running of the first Chicago 50O-mile
derby here.
They were not only beaten by Dario
Resta, who won with a French car,
and captured more than $4,000 in
prize money, but by the nine other
drivers, who finished in the money.
The previous record, made by Ralph
de Palma at indianapolis, was at the
rate of 1884 miles per hour. Resta
averaged 97.6 over the same distance
and j. Cooper, who finished tenth, bet
tered the de Palma mark, averaging
90.3 miles.
The result, according to experts, es
tablishes the reputation of the new
wooden track as the fastest in the
United States, If not in the world. 1t
was announced that despite threatening
weather early in the day $4,000 persons
witnessed the spectacle.
The performance of the veteran,
Harry Grant, in driving the entire race
without a stop excited almost as much
enthusiasm as the brilliant victory of
Resta.
Grant never hesitated during the en-
tire 50O-mile grind, although his aver
age speed, which landed him in the
fourth position, was 95.O6 miles per
hour. The previous nonstop record in
competition was S05 miles.
Twenty-one cars started and eight
dropped out in the course of the grind.
]. Cooper, the last of the 10 drivers to
finish, was only rs minutes 4 seconds
behind the victor.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03
GERMAN TROOPS
CROSS DN|ESTER
Russians Reported to Be Making
New Stand.
HALICz TAKEN BY TEU1ONs
Military Men In London Now Look
Ing For Important Engagement
On the Blota Lipa River
Assas Bombarded.

London.-Berlin reports the fall of
the Galician town Of Halicz and says
that the Austro-Germans have crossed
the Dniester river, which means that
the f1ve days desperate rearguard
action by the Russians has ended in
their retirement. However, the stub
born resistance Of this flag of the
forces of Grand Duke Nicholas, COM
mander-in-chief of the Russian armies,
has undoubtedly enabled him to re-
form his lines along the River Bug vir-
tually without interference.
The River San now takes the place
Of the Dniester as the scene of a san,
culinary battle in the Russian effort to
prevent the investment Of Warsaw
Petrograd admits the retirement of
the Russians to the River Gnila Lipa
which is some 80 miles from the from
tier and falls into the Dniester at Hal
icz, but military experts do not expect
heavy lighting along that river.
They express the opinion that the
next serious battle probably will occur
along the zlota Lipa river, which runs
AfOA NACA W LnG AAApd lQIlnCl Cdob-
ward. where the Russians would bene-
At BY the railroad with which the Tar
uC line connects. These operations
anq plans. according to military men,
confirm the theory that the Dniester
,~fDrces were merely covering for the
northern army.
The reorganized Russian Cabinet
has returned to Petrograd after a field
conference with the Emperor and
Grand Duke Nicholas. The Russian
devotes considerable attention tc
instruction Of the Cabinet, the
ion of ne Douma and the
ition of industry for war pur
one writer declaring that the
o ms I'VE" and they" as applied
inguish the Government from
pple, will now cease to exist.
sral Polivanoff, who has beer
lgnated as Minister Of War, was
Assistant Minister of War during tht
reorganization of the army following
the Russo-Japanese War. He has thu
reputation of being an excellent sol
der and organizer, and enjoys con
siderable popularity on account Of hi
liberal views.
On the western front the only i'm
pOrtant actions, according to the brie
French report, consisted in the repuls
Of German attacks on the Calonn
trench and near Metzeral. On tn,
other hand Berlin claims that tn
French attacks at all points were re
pulsed.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03
STATE
MARYLAND RANKS FIFTEENTH.
Table Showing Property Values In
Every County In This Com
rnonWealth,

The assessed valuation Of all prop
erty subject to ad valorem taxation
in the State of Maryland, is, according
to latest official information, $685.
457,6O7.
These significant facts are displayed
in 2OO-page monograph, just issued
by the United States Census Bureau
covering the results of a special in
vestigation Of the assessed valuation
of property and amounts and rates Of
levy in the United States from 1860 to
1912. This monograph has been pre-
pared in connection with the deciminal
investigation to present in advance a
part of the data to be included in the
complete report of the Federal census
of 1910 and to furnish convenient
volume for reference for the use of
those interested especially in the
statistics of assessed valuations and
tax levies.
Increase Since 1860.
The way in which the assessed
valuation of all property in Maryland
subject to ad valorem taxation has
increased since the beginning OF the
American Civil War is set forth as
fol1owe.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03
ANNE ARUNDEL LOSES TAXES.

Annapolis Water Company Held To Be
Municipality Owned.
Ninety-five thousand dollars will be
stricken from the taxable basis OF
Anne Arundel county, and the county
will lose over $1,000 in revenue for the
current year, together with $4,000 for
back taxes, under a decision of the
Court of Appeals, which holds that
the Annapolis Water Company Is a
municipality owned concern and there
fore exempt from taxa ton for county
purposes.
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TO RETURN NEW ORLEANS FLAG.
Governor Dunno, OF Illinois, signs
Legislative Bill.

Springfield, Ill.-A legislative bill
providing for the return to the women
of New Orleans of a flag presented to
General Jackson, and captured in 1868
by Illinois troops, was signed by Gov
ernor Dunno. The Governor also ap-
proved a bill creating the Vicksburg
Military Statue Commission and ap-
propriating $4,000 for the erection in
the National Cemetery at Vicksburg,
Miss, of statues to General U. s.
Grant and other generals from Illinois
who participated In the siege of Vicks.
burg.
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$1,t2O,OOO,oOO MORE FOR WAR.
French Deputies Vote Funds For Next
Three Months.

TTSUSu OSPuhSS NShS uH0S TSE NoNh
Three Months.
Paris.-The bill appropriating $780,.
100000 francs ($1,120, 0,00O,0O0) to cover
Government expenses for the three
months beginning July was passed
almost unanimously in the Chamber Of
Deputies. The vote was 492 to l.
Alexandra Ribot, French Minister of
Finance, in a speech on the bill prior
to passage, said he recognized the
necessity of France buying as little
abroad for the requirements of war as
possible. To do so, he asserted, would
be one of the most important
economies for the country. This would
tend also to facilitate exchange, al
though up to the present there had not
been the least monetary depreciation,
French credit was intact and France
felt no embarrassment, notwithstand-
ing all her requirements.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03
maryland NEWS
IN SHORT ORDER
The Latest GIeanings From All
Over the State.
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS

Armour & Co., after a very profit
able season, have suspended opera
tions for this year of their preserving
plant at Ridgely. The company re-
ports the largest pack since the plant
was established. About 100000
quarts of Strawberries were handled
at the factory, about twice as much as
last season. The total amount of pre-
serves put UP is said to be 100000
pounds. 1t is estimated that $500
pounds of sugar were used, a total of
5000 barrels. Over $4,000 was paid
out for the contracted berries and sew
eral thousand dollars more for those
bought through the exchange. The
cost Of labor for four weeks was $14,,
900. The company will increase the
capacity of the factory before next
season opens.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03
U. s. WARNING TO JAPs.
Insists On "open Door" In TokIo's
Pact With China.

Peking.-Warning that the United
States would not recognize any agree
ment between China and Japan which
impaired American rights in China or
endangered the so-called open door,
policy was conveyed to the govern
ments of both China and Japan in an
identical note from Washington, which
was delivered about May Is. The
notes were handed to the foreign Of
fees of both countries a week after
China had acceded to the demands con
tanned in the Japanese ultimatum. in
sisting upon concessions from the
former nation.
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BIG sHRAPNEL ORDER.
Laekawanna Steel Company Gets a
French Contract.

New York.-The Lackawanna Steel
Company announced that it had closed
another contract with French inter
ests, whose names are not given, for
$4,000 tons of shrapnel steel. All told
the company has been awarded con-
tracts for about 100000 tons of this
material at an average price of $40 per
ton. The Lackawanna company has
also received orders for about 10000
tons of rails and track materials from
the Russian government to be used in
the further construction of the trans
Siberian Railroad.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03

The Laurentide Company, Of Quebec,
producers OF pulp and pulpwood, is
reforesting its non-agricultural cut
over lands. It is also importing REIN
deer from Newfoundland to see IL they
can take the place Of dogs in winter
woods work.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03
JAPs COMMIT SUICIDE.
HarI Karl Preferred To Life When
Germans Took Lemberg.

Tokio.-Major Nakajima and Cap
tain Hashimoto, Japanese officers fight
ing with the Russian Army at Lem
berg, committed hari kari when the
Galician capital fell, rather than suffer
what they considered the dishonor of
being made prisoners of war, accord
ing to official advices received from
Petrograd
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03
NO EMBARGO BY U. S.

Officlal Statement Denies Any Plan Is
Being Considered.
Washington-The United States is
not considering the placing of an en-
barge at present on shipments to any
belligerent country. This was stated
Dhicially at the State Department as a
result of published reports that an en-
barge on all shipments of American
AprOducts to England was likely step
ln retaliation for British interference
vith American trade with neutrals.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03
FIRE DESTROYS B., c. q A. SHOP
Does $4,000 Damage To Railway At
Salisbury.

Salisbury, Md.-Fire, the origin of
which is unknown, destroyed the en-
tire car shop of the Baltimore, Chesa-
peake and Atlantic Railway Company
here with lot of rail, $4,000 worth of
car material, and one coach. The
total loss amounted to $4,000, partly
covered by insurance.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03
BIG SLIDE THREATENS.

Panama Canal Closed To Ships OF
over 26 Feet Draft.
Panama.-The slide on the west side
Of the Culebra Cut section of the Pan
ana Canal, north Of Contractors Hill,
has closed the channel 70 ships having
q draft Of more than 26 feet The
slide, though only Temporary one. is
ressfde 81 he foser11ne 81 az i'm.
portray m 17emsrt alons fhe en.
tire distance 81 1000
cohlr4 IN ID
back q
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03
WHITMAN SILENT ON BECKER.
Refuses To Discuss clemency Appeal
With Attorneys,

New York. = Governor Whitman,
who came here from Albany to attend
the exercises in connection with a new
flag which has been designed for the
city of New York, said he expected to
have no conference while here with
attorneys for Charles Becker, now in
the death house in Sing Sing await
ing execution for instigating the muir
der of Herman Rosenthal.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03
MAY ExPEL U. s. OFFICIALS.

Sublime Porte Plans "ReprisaIs," I"
Amsterdam Hears.
msterdam.-Advices received here
from Constantinople state that the
Sublime Porte has decided to expel
the secretaries and attaches attached
to the American and Italian embassies
as a mark of reprisal for the expul-
sion of Turkish officials from London,
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03
AVIATOR FINED 500.

Jones Had No LIcense When Machine
Fell, Killing TWO.
Quincy, Mass.-Harry M. Jones,
pilot of the aeroplane which fell at
Squantum last week and caused the
death of two passengers, George H.
Hersey, Jr., of Boston, and William
Ely, of Providence, pleaded guilty to
a charge of operating an aircraft with
out license. He was fined 500, but
sentence was suspended for three
months.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03
sAEEeLowER GOT q CENTS.

Postoffice Robber, Chased, Diseards
Stamps and Leaves Auto.
Winston-Salem. ~ C.-Search by
posses. for the man who robbed the
Mooksvi1e, N. C., postofice OF 81 cents
and aboft SIS in stamps, after dyna.
miting be safe. has been without sue
cess. he stamps and the automobile.
bearing false number, il. which the
ROBBIE Escaped, have been recovered
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03
AMERICANS DETAINED.

! Liverpool Without Properly
Prepared Passports.
Durlng the past month II
have arrived p Liver
oers, have been de-
the lack Of passports
have attached thereto
81 ail the members oi
ore than "A years Of
of al these have been
once. With the
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03

II is a well-established fact that
whole wheat iour is more nourishing
and more economical than white four.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03
Increase Since 1850.

ESTIMATED on gold basis,
++Estimated on silver basis.
The assessed valuation Of the prop
erty subject to ad valorem taxation
in the principal cities and towns of
Maryland in 1912 is set forth by Uncle
Sans investigators as being as fol-
Iovuc.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03

4 steel snip win carry about per
cent. more freight than one B the
sama aize made Of iron.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03
A BUSY SUBMARINE.

Sank Seven Fishing Vessels Whose
Crews Were Saved.
London. - Seven fishing vessels
known as drifters have been sunk by
a German submarine of the coast of
Scotland. Most of the crews of the
fishing boats were saved. The crews
of the boats were taken aboard the
American steamship Llama, which re-
ported the drifters were sunk at q
point east of the Skerries.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03
RUSS WAR MINISTER OUT.
General soukhomlinoff viii Be Sue
eeeded BY Assistant.

London.-General w. A. Soukhomli-
noff, the Russian Minister of War, has
resigned, according to dispatch from
Petrograd to Reuters Telegram Com
pany. II is understood that General
PoIivanon, a former Assistant Minis,
ter Of war, win succeed General
soukhomlinoff
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03
100000 FOR THE NAVY.
British Naval Estimate Provides For
$4,000 Additional Men.

London.-The supplementary naval
estimate, just issued. provides for the
addition of another $4,000 officers and
men to the navy. This would bring
the total personnel for this year up to
100000 officers and men. The last
vote. Of 25o,00o men, was made in Feb
ruary.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03

Commodore William H. Beehler
o. S. N, retired, died at Annapolis.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03

Maryland Counties.
Another interesting section Of the
report shows the assessed valuation Of
property In every county in the United
States. This table deals With Mary
land and its counties as follows:
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03

The merchants of Chesapeake City
have signed an agreement to close
their stores each night except Satur-
day. during July and August, at P. M.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03
U. 8. CRUISER LANDS REFUGEES.
Tennessee Reaches Alexandria With
100 Americans Aboard.

100 Americans Aboard.
London.-A Reuter- dispatch from
Alexandria, Egypt, says that the
United States cruiser Tennessee has
arrived here from Beirut. She had 900
refugees aboard, among whom were
100 Americans and 450 Italians
Twelve consuls also were brought to
Alexandria by the Tennessee.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03
IHuRcH BELLS FOR WAR USE.

fered Austria BY Bishop OF Triest,
Says Berlin.
Berlin, by wireless to London.-Two
reports from separate sources reach
ing here from Vienna state that the
Bishop of Triest has ordered all the
superhuous church bells to be placed
ut the disposal of the War Ministry.
This is understood to mean that they
will be used to help meet the demand
for brass for munitions.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03

The finding of explosives under a
pile of lumber at Cumberland led to a
report that there was a plot to blow
up bridges on the B. o. and West
ern Maryland railroads.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03

DR.. Clyde B. Stouffer, of Hagers-
town, of the health service staff Of the
University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
has been appointed physician in
charge of the engineering camp and
biological station at Camp Bogardus,
on Douglas Lake. IN Northern Michi-
gan.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03

The Mormons are planning to build
a church this summer in Buck Valley,
north of Hancock. Three Mormon
elders were there recently arranging
for the erection OF the building.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03

Work at the mines at Kitzmiller and
at Blaine, w. Va, just opposite, is
steadily increasing. The output is
larger than for several months. It is
stated the Davis Coal and Coke Com
pany contemplates reopening the
mines near Bloomington.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03

The Maryland Pharmaceutical Asso-
citation, in session at Frederick, is
considering a resolution demanding
that druggist be admitted as mem
ber Of the State Board OF Health.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03

The new system of electric lighting
for Williamsport has had try-out and
proved successful. There are now AZ
lamps Of $50 candle power. The new
system was installed by Cyrus n. Bell,
manager of the municipal lighting
plant, and C. R. Claggett, a member
Of the Town Council.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03

The Rev. DIR. James S. Webster, pas
tor Of the Presbyterian Church, Han
cock, was badly bitten in the right
hand BY dog while trying to part
two fighting dogs in front Of the
Presbyterian Church.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03

The County Commissioners have de-
cided to construct six miles Of per-
manent road, 3.77 miles from Cecil
ton to Warwick, and 2.96 miles from
Rowlandsville to Five Points, and
awarded the contract for the roads to
be built under State aid as follows:
Cecilton- Warwick road to the Junant-
alta Paving Company, for $36,S2775;
Rowlandsville-Five Point road to e.
Ward Brown, of Port Deposit, for
S28,276.71.
Middletown transcript., 1915-07-03

With three ribs fractured and lung
punctured as the result Of kick from
a horse, Alvey Harshman, Of VOLTS
Vile, was taken to the Washington
County Hospital, Hagerstown, and is,
in a serious state. He will undergo
an operation when his condition per
mits. He was thrown from the horse
in field and before he could rise the
animal kicked him over the heart.
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CONDITION WINS
DACHsuUNDs.
SOUTH SHORE DkCHSRUND KENNELS

THE VERY REST DACIlSNlNp young aud
grown stock alW Hys an hHud.
THE tEIENNAiFD CHAMPIONS ~ THESE
kENNI..N a, AI Sltb. They ave 81 all the
recognized ,olor~
These krf ne, have rough coated dochShHnis
as Vel 90, -..uuiH ONES ll'y .'" nl ''''N-
tionAlly good aS proven ~ tucr show winnings
and records at the reading h,n,H shows under
specialist and "a. ruuil j4lLr-.
Apply Mrs \. NlNNElttokD, Ray shore
Long Island, y y.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-21
TOY sPANIELs NOT FORGOTTEN.
Class Omitted ny Error IL Placed
ON Charity show List.

\ class for English toy spaniels omit
ted 10y n clerical error has been added
to the premium list of the Charity Dog
show on March 10 n 20 at the Sew
enty-nrst Regiment Arinory. II will be
for Ruby puppy dogs and bitches. The
beneficiaries of the show are the Mayors
Committee on Unemployment, New York
Association for Improving the Condition
of the Poor. Brooklyn Association for
Improving the Condition OF the Poor.
and the state Charities Aid Associa-
ton OF New York.
Among specials received since tho
printing OF the list are a silver cup
from Richard n. Hunt for the hes. Amer
lean bred French bulldog dog or bitch,
a cup from Miss Alice Brownell for the
best Irish terrier bred by the exhibitor,
a trophy from J. Macy willets for the
best cocker spaniel shown with two OF
her offsprings, English Setter Club spe-
clals for members only hat include
those for field trial performers and dogs
bred by the exhibitors, and more cash
and cups in the Great Dane, Irish wolf
hound. German sheepdog. Pekingese and
Airedale terrier breeds. Through the
P~ekineese Club Mrs A. Mcclure HALEY
has offered h Tan Shi Of EEham memo
rial trophy for the best red female
Pehngese.