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The midland journal., 1915-09-10
LINER HESPER|AN
HIT BY TORPEDO
20 American Passengers Were
on the Steamer.
SHIP TAKEN BY SURPRISE
Ship Taken BY surprise-Two Amer.
cans Reported Among Crew On
Steamer-EntIre Party Landed
At Queenstown.

Washington A cablegram from
American Consul Frost at Queenstown
to the State Department, announcing
the torpedoing of the Allan Line
steamer Hesperian with loss Of prob
ably eight lives, said the liner carried
mounted and visible on her stern a
4.7-inch rife.
Doubt Gun Was Carried.
Montreal officials Of the Allan Line
here doubt the statement of American
Consul Frost at Queenstown, who in
a dispatch to Washington said that
the Hesperian carried 4.7-inch gun
$50 far as known" said one Of the
officials of the company, the He's
perian did not carry gum
Carried $50 Passengers.
London The Allan Line steamer
Hesperian, with $50 passengers and a
crew of 800 aboard, bound from Liver
pool for Montreal, was attacked with
out warning by a German submarine
off the Irish coast just as darkness
was falling Saturday evening. AL
though the torpedo found its mark. the
vessel remained afioat, and, according
to statement issued by the company,
every soul aboard was saved.
No submarine was seen, and prob
ably it was too dark to observe the
wake of torpedo, but all the pas
sengers and members Of the crew who
arrived at Queenstown in the rescue
steamers agree that the attack was
made by German undersea boat,
basing their opinion on the force Of
the shock and the great volume of wa
ter thrown into the air. This dropped
back on the deck, drenching the pas
sengers who were taking an after
dinner promenade, feeling quite safe in
the belief that they had passed the
submarine danger zone.
Two Americans In Grew.
The force of the explosion was
tremendous, and of the passengers
landed at Queenstown, many of them
scantily clad, about 20 were injured.
There were no American passengers
aboard, SO far as the American Consul
could learn, but two members Of the
crew were American citizens, and they
were both saved.
About 30 Canadian soldiers, who
were wounded in battle in Flanders,
were going home to recuperate. Most
of the other passengers were Canadians
returning from visit to England, or
English people on their way to Canada
to settle.
Captain Sticks BY Ship.
The torpedo struck the Hesperian in
the forward engine room and the ship
Immediately began to settle by the
head. Captain Main ordered the pas
sengers and crew into the boats, but,
with his officers, remained on the
bridge. although at that time he must
have felt sure that his ship would 90
down.
The discipline was perfect, but one
of the boats, the falls of which be-
came jammed, capsized and those in
her were thrown into the water. In
the darkness confusion naturally pre-
vailed, but all were picked up, and,
with other passengers and the crew
were transferred to the rescue steam
ers, which arrived in answer to wire
less calls for assistance. The Hesperi
an was about $50 miles to the west.
ward when struck.
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The midland journal., 1915-09-10
GIBBONS BEARS OLIVE BRANCH.
Cardinal After Seeing the President
Is Hopeful

Washington.-Card Gibbons, Of
Baltimore. presented to President VIII
son confidential communication from
Pope Benedict inviting and urging this
Government to cooperate with the.
Vatican and neutral nations to bring
about peace in Europe.
A conference on the same subject
was held later at the State Depart
ment between Cardinal Gibbons and
Secretary of State Lansing.
After his visits and confidential talk
to and with the President, Cardinal
Gibbons said:
81 think the prospects of peace are
Frightening"
The midland journal., 1915-09-10
MUNITIONS WORKERS STRIKE.
Employees In Youngstown, Ohio, Fac
tory Demand Raises.

Youngstown. Ohio.-Workmen en-
ployed in the munitions-making depart
ment of the William Tod Company,
manufacturing machinists here, went
on strike for higher wages. The men
demand AZ cents an hour for roughers
and heaters and S6 cents an hour for
operators and greasers. A compromise
offered by the company was refused.
The midland journal., 1915-09-10
WILSON TO STAY ON JOB.
Has Given Up Plans For Return To
Cornish.

Washington.-President Wilson has
given up all plans for returning to his
summer home at Cornish, N. H., this
year. 1t was said at the White House
that he considers his vacation over
and will remain in Washington to be
in personal touch with the European
and Mexican situation and prepare for
the next session of Congress.
The midland journal., 1915-09-10
RAILROAD EARNINGS GROW.
Net For July Increased $6,tss, 1874 Over
July Of 1914.

Washington.-On hundred and one
of the leading railroads in the United
States earned $6,1S3,124 more in July
this year than in the same month in
1914, the Interstate Commerce Com
mission announced. The net earnings
of these roads last July totaled $52,-
56s,S57, against s46,1Sl, ,2Ss in July,
1914
The midland journal., 1915-09-10
TOY AERO FLIES s,ss7 FEET.
Model Machine Driven BY Elastic
Bands Makes New Record.

New York.-A worlds record Of
S,537 feet for the fight of small models
Of aeroplanes was set by Wallace A.
Lauder, president of the Summit
IN. J.) Model Aero Club. His ma
chine, launched by hand, covered the
distance in 10-mile breeze during the
Henry S. Willard prize contests at Gar
den City
The midland journal., 1915-09-10
EAsTLAND's DEAD s12.
Coroner Makes official Report On
Lake Steamer Disaster.

Chicago.-Coroner Hoffman made
his official report on the steamer East
land disaster. The total death list is
placed at S12. of whom 81 were less
than 10 and 295 less than 20 years of
age. OF the 812 there were S61 men
and boys and 451 women and girls
among the dead.
The midland journal., 1915-09-10
TRAIN HITS AUTO; FIVE KILLED.
Another Occupant OF Motorcar, Which
Was Cut In Two, Injured.

Albany. N. Y.-Five people were
killed and one man was injured when
the automobile they occupied crashed
into a speeding Delaware and Hudson
Railroad excursion train at grade
crossing near Glens Falls. The auto
mobile party were returning from an
outing at Lake George to Whitehall,
where they all resided.
The midland journal., 1915-09-10
TWO MORE SUNK.
Danish Steamer and Norwegian Bark
Sent Down.

London.-Lloyds announces that the
Danish steamer Erode has been sunk.
Captain Clemmeson and Is members
of the crew of the vessel were saved.
The Norwegian bark Clint has been
sunk, but its crew of IA was landed
safely.
The Clint was a vessel of SS4 tons
gross and was built in 1878. 1t was
owned at Arendal, Norway.
The midland journal., 1915-09-10
FIGURES LOSS BY u-BoATs.

Cologne Gazette Puts 1t At 4Ls Per
Cent. OF Ships over 100 Tons.
Berlin, via wireless.-The Cologne
Gazette publishes statistics purport-
ing to show that during Germany's
submarine war England has lost Az
per cent. Of her ships above 100 tons.
The midland journal., 1915-09-10

Cambridge. Frank Grano, the
Italian who killed Mr.. and Mrs. John
Levin p Robinson and their farm
hand, Alonzo Redden, on the Robinson
farm, near Snow Hill, Worcester coun-
ty, was brought here shortly after mid
night by Deputy Sheriffs Denison and
White, of Wicomico county, and placed
on the State steamer Governor
Thomas to be taken to Baltimore
The Governor Thomas weighed
anchor about 1880 o'clock was steam
ed down the Choptank on its run to
Baltimore with the man accused of \
triple murder whom a mob had driven
from two country jails on the Eastern
Shore.
The midland journal., 1915-09-10
SLEW THREE IN COLD BLOOD.
italian Killed Farmer, His Wife and
Man He Considered Rival.

4
Snow Hill, Md-Two men and a
woman were shot to death three miles
from this town by Frank Grano, an
Italian, who gave himself up and was
whisked of to the Snow Hill Jail and
safety just when the countryside was
beginning to seeth with lynching talk.
Grano apparently planned the mur-
ders deliberately, inspired by motives
Of love and jealousy His victims were
Levin w. Robinson, farmer by whom
he had been employed as laborer:
Mrs Robinson, the wife, with whom
he was in love, and Alonzo Redden, a
farm laborer, for whom, he believed,
Mrs. Robinson had shown fondness.
Mr. and Mrs. Robinson were killed at
their home and Redden in field
where he was at work.
Taken Secretly From jail.
Scarcely was the prisoner landed in
the Jail when reports of a mob form
ing in the lower section of the county
reached town. After consultation it
was decided to spirit the italian away
for safe keeping.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-10
GERMANY SIDESTEPS MAIN ISSUE RAISED BY
US. IN NOTES OF PROTEST

Wilmington. July 10. - Germany
has aESlin side-stepped the main is
sues raised by the U. s. in notes of
protest and the text of the last Ger
man reply is a series of tactful ex-
plantations of why she must do this,
that and the other, with a firm insist
ence underlying each explanation
that her rights as she sees them will
be insisted upon regardless of United
States protests.
Germany has not disaVowed the
acts of which the government of the
United States complained, nor offer
ed reparatiOn 80 far as reparatiOn is
possible for injuries which are with
out measure" Instead she has made
counter proposals which it is declared
the U. S. cannot accept.
"In the spiEt of friendship" the
note reads, "wherewith the German
nation has been imbued toward the
Union and its inhabitants since the
earliest days of its existence, the i'm
periaI government will always be
ready to do all it can during the pres
enJ war TO prevent the leOpaTQlElnS
of lives of American citizens.
THE imperial government, there
fore, repeats the assurance that
American ships will not be hindered
in the prosecution of legitimate ship
ping and the lives of American citi-
zens in neutral vessels shall not be
placed in jeopardy.
In order to exclude any unfOre-
seen dangers to American passenger
steamers, made possible in view of
the conduct of maritime war by Ger
mans adversaries, German sUbma-
rines will be instructed to permit the
free and safe passage of such pas
sengeT steamers when made recog-
nizable by special markings and no
tilted a reasonable time in advance.
The imperial government, how
ever, confidently hopes that the
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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-10

upon by naval authorities Of both
sides"
The president, in his notes, upheld
the rights of American citizens to
travel on the Lusitania, a British YES
sci carrying munitions of war regard
ed by the United States as legitimate
objects of trade. The German list of
contraband includes not only NUM-
lions of war, but several hundred 9TH
er articles regarded as legitimate by
this government.
Regarding the Lusitania, the note
declares that the blame rests with the
British.
THE case of the LUsitania shows
with horrible cleaness to what
jeOpardizing of human lives the man
ner of conducting war employed by
our adVersaries leads" the note
reads. ''In the most direct cOntradic-
ton of international law all distinc-
tons between merchantmen and war
vessels have been obIteTated by order
to British merchantmen to arm
themselves and to ram submarines,
and the promise of rewards therefor,
and neutrals who use merchantmen
as travellers thereby have been expos
ed in an increasing degree to all the
dangers of war.
eff the commander of the German
submarine which destroyed the LUsi-
tania had caused the crew and pas
sengers to take to the boats before
firing a torpedo this would have
meant sure destruction of his own
vessel After the experiences in sink
ing much smaller and less seawOrthy
vessels, it was to be expected that a
mighty ship like the Lusitania would
remain above water long enough
even after the toTpedoing to permit
passengers to enter the ships boats.
Germany merely followed Eng
lands example when she declared
part of the high sea an area of war.
Consequently accidents suffered by
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-28

newsy and interesting letter from pr. V. A. Schmitz, who has opened a drug store in tent at Anchorage He says: There are between 500 and GOO tents here and more going up. Business is very quiet here as they have had no pay day as yet. All lines of bus mess are overdone. There are two butcher shops, five grocery stores. five barber shops, three lumber yards, a. bout seven restaurants, five or six cigar and fruit stores, two hardware stores, any number of lodging houses, two physicians but no drug store as yet
 We do not know yet where the new townsite will be. There is an ideal place on the other side of the creek, on the water front, and the inhabitants nave ptlillOutu tue hdllfodu 1DluiiiS- sion to set this tract aside for a town. The days are warm here, but the nights very cool. l am told it rains here very little during the summer. This is the most orderly frontier town I have ever seen. Deputy Marshal Wardell informs me that he has been here more than three weeks and has not served a warrant or made a single arrest.
 Miss Whalen just arrived after a pleasant voyoge. Keith Mccullough has a cosy little cabin fixed up for his bride. Mrs. Brown. nee Nellie Shep- ard, lives here, and they own one of the best cabins in town"
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-28
NOW RECEIVING BIDS FOR STATION WORK
WHAT CORDOVANS ARE DOING AT THE NEW CAMP

ANCHORAGE, May 25-The Rail dOad Commission issued a call yester- day for bids for station work between Ship Creek and Matanuska Junction for clearing, grubbing and grading. The bids may be submitted at any time and they are to be opened on the Wednesday or Saturday following their receipt. A large portion Of the right of way has already been cleared as far as Eagle River, and half a dozen or more grading camps have been es- tablished between Ship Creek anG the junction, which is in the vicinity of Station 250 of this branch and 3525 on the main line of the Alaska Northern.
 The commission states that bids will be received only from individuals or partnerships, commonly known as stationmen, this being interpreted to mean Dig contractors" are to be eliminated; that the commission will furnish tools, powder and supplies at reasonable prices as long as work is proceeding satisfactorily to the engi neer in charge; that when the work is completed the commission will, al their option, take over all tools that are in good condition, at fair valua tlon.
 Charges are to be made as follows
 s1.50 per 100 feet of track per week | 25 cents per day for cars. stationmer
 to build their own cars from materia 7 furnished by the commission free horses and harness, S3 per day, witl
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-28
NOW 4 TORPEDO WAS.CAUSE OF BLOW UP

LIVERPOOL, May 2S-The officers of the American steamer Nebraskan, which was disabled off the south coast of Ireland last Wednesday, state that the damage done to their vessel was by torpedo. They are positive in their belief, having conferred with the American naval attache, who came for the purpose of making a report to the Washington government. Upon the pend ts setus% of the representations to be made to Germany over the incl dent by President Wilson.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-28

ard is in good shape, needing only new ties and the construction of a few small bridges. The next eighty miles is through a rough country, which will require plenty of heavy work. The thirty-eight miles from Anchorage to MatanusKa Junction is practically level, with a small growth of burned timber. North of there is a tract of ground by 10 miles that is level. dry and easily cleared that would be an ideal place for homes for several thousand people There are ranches here that have passed the experimental stage, and have been informed that the farming land is better in the Matanuska region.
 This town consists of several hun dred tents and idle men, with plenty of lodging houses and restaurants. We have a doctor and a dentist, three drug stores, twelve barber shops and any number of general merchandise stores, with a weekly paper to soon start The Cordova colony is getting established and as most all of it's peo pie are rustlers, they will get theil share of the business. Finklestein & Sapiro have big stock of goods and are doing good business; Capt. La throp has a full-fiedged transfer out fit here and of course you can't keeI him out of the money: pr. V. A Schmitz and his assistant, Miss Wha | len. are starting creditable drus
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-28
CHRIS BUSCHMAN U | M M | I $
 SUICIDE

Seattle, May 28-Christian Busch mann, manager of the Northwestern Fisheries Company, with canneries at Cordova and other places throughout Alaska, committed suicide by shoot ing himself. The act was committed in a vacant office on the nineteenth Moor of the Smith building. Busch mann has been in i'll health for some time, and it is believed by the dead mans friends that hopelessness. caused by the fear that he would not recover, was the motive which prompted him to take his life.
 Christian Buschmann has been one of the leading figures in Alaska fish cry circles for years, and as superin- tendent for his concern had succeed ed fin largely increasing the output of the canneries, and had the incen- tive of success and prosperity to make him wish to hold on to life. Busch. mann was a comparatively young man with a promising future before him, well-liked and popular with a wide circle of acquaintances. His was a familiar figure upon the streets of al. most any Alaskan town.
 The suicide of Buschman recalls the fact that his predecessor as superin tendent of the Northwestern Fisheries Co, Capt Jarvis, the famous Alaskan shielded under similar circumstances The deceased was the son of Peter Buschmann, the pioneer canneryman of Petersburg, Alaska.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-28

PETR0GRAD, May 28-The Russian war office makes the definite statement that the Austro-G Ger man advance in Galica has been checked It says that Ger1na inactivity along other sections of the eastern battle line is increasing. The line commenc- ing at the Baltic, running southward just east of the Prussian border, bends eastward within thirty miles of Warsaw, and then extends to southern Poland It is along this section of the front that recent de- velOpments tend to show that the Germans are now turning their attention, for general attack has been launched practically along this entire portion of the fighting line. The bombardment of the Rus sian fortress of Ossowetz which has been started three separate times has again been renewed Ar tiery engagements and cavalry battles are reported close to Edvabno, and generally along the front of this section.
 From Larosau, in Galicia to the Roumanian
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-28
$. ?. ROAD JAN
 RUN BOATS ID ALASKA

WASHINGTON, May 28-The Inter state Commerce Commission has handed down a decision denying the petition of the Southern Pacific Rail- road to operate boats between it's terminal ports in California and ports in Oregon and Washington. The commission does give the railroad per. mission to run boats direct between California and Alaska If it so desires
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-28

feed No proposals will be consid- cred from employees of the commis- sion except day laborers.
 Other bids have been called for piling, to be opened May 31, as fol- lows: 22,4OO llneal feet for the Eagle River bridge and 2,4OO lineal feet for two swaller bridges in the same vi- cinity.
 A famine has prevailed here since the goth inst, and will not be re- lieved permanently until supplies can be received from the national capital. The famine affects only those Who wish to send out mail, as 1t is con. fined to postage stamps, the last hay. ing been sold by Assistant Postmaster Wood on the date mentioned
 Construction of the temporary ter minal city of tents in crazy-quilt style, with reckless disregard fol street lines, regularity or moral rights of others who have already located continues. A census taken infor mally during the past week showed that there were more than $50 tents and 75 log and board structures here { with population of approximately 1900.
 The first number of the Cook Inlet Pioneer is due to appear next Satur day.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-28

store and will have their formal open ing by giving a dance; M. w. Deidrick is busy installing the Inlet Soda Works, while E. A. Hegg was here for a few days sizing up the situation.
 The wages paid on the road are $11 per week and board for carpenters, and $17 per week for contract work. For cleaning right of way from s2O to $70 an acre, with board at $1 per day. The commissary prices are a. bout the same as at Cordova, with some articles a little higher. For rajToad ties 20 and 25 cents are paid for delivery on the right of way. The wages in town are from S1 to s3 a day for cooks and from 50 cents to S1 for helpers.
 In my opinion Seward will not get a great deal of benefit from the construction work this summer, and the outlook here Is not any too good, as there are several hundred idle men. No American can compete with the Russian labor employed, and there is talk of petitioning President Wilson to employ at least 5 per cent of En. glish-speaking people on our govern ment work. Under the existing cir. : cumstances the driving of the first spike here was the last nail in Alaska s coffin, as the shadow of the Russian
 flag looms up at every turn.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-28
GERMANY $ REPLY BE RECEIVED
 TOMORROW

LONDON, May 2S-A dispatch to the London News from the Hague says that Germany has framed her reply to Wilson's note on the Lusitania incident, and that it will be presented to the American government tomor- row. The dispatch asserts that the reply will be of temporlzing char acter, and that it will delay a definite answer to the American demands until the United States can satisfy the Im- perial German government that the Lusitania did, or did not carry ammu- milton for the Allies on her last voy- age.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-28
BATTLESHIP MAJESTIC BLOWN UP

Princess Irene was blown up by an internal expos- ion at Sheeness harbor yesterday. The Princess
 Irene was commandeered by the British government when the broke out and brought to Eng land, where she was converted into mine layer.
 The vessel was being fitted for laying mines when the explosion occurred. The destruction of the yes se was compIete as not one person escaped to eX- plain how the explosion occurred The entire crew of two hundred and fifty, and the seventy eight shipwrights who working board perished. The explosion terrific that nothing but small scraps of the vessel could be picked up and the men
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-28

frontier the Russian line is holding like a stone wall against the repeated attacks of the AustroGer man forces Despite the apparent futility of the Teuton attacks they continue their fierce assaults against the Russians with disregard for the heavy loss of life that ensues.
 These assaults now being made along the entire front with great determination that it may be said that the whole eastern battle line is en- gagged at present, Strong German forces, accom- panied by much heavy artillery, are concentrating on the roads in Galica leading toward Lemberg. As long as Jasoslau and Przemysl hold out, how ever, Lemberg is safe from attack. The Russians express confidence in their ability to retain 9ler present positions in Galicia and assert that within a short time the Russian offensive will be resumed.
 BERLIN, May 28-Today's official statement
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-28

WASHINGTON, May 28-President Wilson, as head of the American Red Cross Society, has issued official appeal to the American people asking them to contribute to fund for the relief of the dest- tute people of Mexico. The appeal says that money and food in large quantities needed at in der to alleviate the desperate condition of thousands of Mexican non combatants who have been made homeless and hungry because of the internal strife that has been ravshng the country for the past two years.