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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-10-28
Freak Wind Hits Minneapolis.

Minneapolis, Oct. 26-While the
sun shone brightly in the afternoon a
freakish Indian summer wind skipped
over the city, leveling forty poles of
the Minnesota General Electric COM
pany to the ground uprooting trees in
isolated spots aId imperilling scores
OF lives. The wind did not reach
more than 40 miles an hour, according
to the weather bureau readings, but
attacked the high electric current
lines from the right angle to start the
wires swaying and bring the support
ing posts down.
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$4,000 600 Fer Mlsaisa;nni.

Memphis, Tenn, Oct. 26.-A resolu-
ton calling on President Wilson to
support bill in the next Congress
asking for an appropriation OF at least
$60,000000 for the Mississippi river
levee system and making it distinct
from the rivers and harbors bill, was
adopted at the meeting here Of senat-
ors, representative and members of
the Mississippi River Leyee associa-
ton.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-10-28
WAY FOR AUSTRiANS is OPEN
Serbs Withdraw From Danube .eaV
Ing Enemy Free Passage
Through Bulgaria.

London, Oct 26.-The Bucharest
Roumania, correspondent of the Timed
sends the following:
Serbian troops have withdrawn
from the neighborhood Of the Danubs
and the Austrians have crossed the
river, traversing the island OF Oda,
kale. The Austrian forces will now
obtain free passage through Bulgaria
from Orzova, where so steamers and
lighters laden with munitions have
assembled"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-10-28
Lee SUEUR COUNTY VETS WIN
Carry Option Election by Majority CT
1,227 Ballots, Only Four Precincts
Voting Dry.

lie Sueur. Oct. 26-Le sueur county
voted to stay in the wet ranks in the
county option election here by ma
iority of 1927 ballots. Only four pre-
cincts voted dry. A very small vote
was cast, the total being about rs pre-
cincts below normal. There was little
interest displayed by either side in
the campaign.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-10-28
MRS. THOMSON
Tells WOMEN
How She Was Helped During
Change of Life by Lydia z.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
Philadelphia, Pal am just SO year,
of age and during Change of Life suf-

fered for six years
terribly. | tried sew
eral doctors but none
seemed to give me
any relief. Every
month the painswere
intense in both sides,
and N ad Q m Q so
weak that / had to
go to bed. At last
a friend recommen-
ded Lydia E. Pink
har1sa WonofohIA
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-10-28
Crisis in Roumania Mar

London, Oct. ga cabinet crisis
in Roumania is imminent, according
to dispatch to the Daily News from
Rome, owing to the resignation of sew
eral of the ministers, who oppose
Roumania's intervention in the war.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-10-28
TWELVE WOMEN AND ONE MAN
PERISH; EIGHT OTHERS ARE
INJURED IN BLAZE AT PITTS
BURGH, PA.
HERO RESCUES SIX; FAILS
TO APPEAR SEVENTH TIME
Peter ValIon's Charred Body Found
on Second Floor Near Form of
Young Girl, Whom He Had
Tried to Save When Over
come by Smoke.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Oct. 26.-Thirteen
persons were killed and eight injured
by fire in four-story building, the
two upper floors of which were occu-
pied by the Union Paper Box COM
pany, here during the afternoon. OF
the dead all were young women en-
ployed by the company, except one,
Many of the bodies were so badly
burned as to make Identification diff
f1cult. Mayor Joseph G. Armstrong at
once ordered that the police, city
council and the coroner make thor
ough Investigation of the fire.
The flames started i'm pile of straw
in the rear OF the feed store Of James
Brown and company, on the first floor
of the building. William G. Kimbel,.
general manager Of the box factory
at once went to the third and fourth
floors and warned the girls employed
there to leave quietly. The flames
gained Roadway so rapidly, however,
that escape by means of stairways and
fire escapes was cut off.
Bodies HuddIed on Floor.
Some Of the girls attempted to go
to the dressing room for their hats,
and there, huddled on the floor, fire.
men found majority Of the bodies.
Joseph l.. Bash, aged "a, and A. ].
Seagle, employed on the second floor
of the building. were about to jump
when they were attracted by the
screams Of girls in the window above.
The men told the girls to jump. One
by one as the girls leaped Bash and
Seagle caught them, lowered them as
far as they could and then let them
drop to the sidewalk
c. r. Carlisle, driver of a transfer
wagon, drove his wagon into All alley
In the rear Of the building and threw
up rope to girls in window above.
After making one end fast, they slid
down the rope to safety.
Saves Six; Loses Own Life.
One of the heroes of the fire was
Peter Vallon, who is among the dead.
When the fire was discovered he was
working in the building. He CROPPED
his way through the smoke to the
street, where he heard girls frantical-
ly calling for help from the upper
floors Tying a handkerchief about his
mouth he rushed into the building. Six
times he staggered to the street with
the unconscious form of girl in his
arms.
When he failed to appear the sew
enth time, however, spectators called
the attention Of the fremen, who in
Stituted search and found Vallon's
charred body on the second floor.
Near him lay the body Of a young
girl whom he had evidently tried to
rescue when overcome by smoke
Physicians expressed the opinion
that all the injured would recover.
Francis Feehan, supervising inspect
or Of the state department Of labor
and industry, made an examination Of
the building after the fire. He assert
ed that fire escapes were inadequate.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-10-28
Cor Mall In the Foot.

Horses and cattle are liable to blood
poisoning from stepping on rusty nails.
For such an injury apply Hanford's
Balsam Of Myrrh and get 1t into the
bottom Of the wound. 1t should kill
the poison germs. Always have bot
tie in your stable, because you will
find different uses for it. Adv.
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creace Pressed hv Allies.

London, Oct. 26.-The Allies have
repeated their request that Greece
decide whether to join them or the
central powers, according to an
Athens message.
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Matched.

Did you match that blue ribbon for
me today, Henry?"
yes, love. 1t was just the color OF
the salesgirl's eyes, but they didn't
have any more Of the ribbon left"
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New York, Oct 26-Details Of a
plot to hamper the shipment of NUM-
tions of war to the Allies by placing
clock-worked bombs on the rudders or
propellOrs Of ships, SO timed that the
ships would be disabled on their way
the confession Of one of five men
charged IN a complaint filed with
United States commissioner with con-
spiracy to violate federal statute.
Following upon the confession of
Robert Fay, lieutenant Of the 10th
SaXony infantry, who admitted that
he came to this country last April
through an agreement with the Ger
man secret service to blow up or de-
lay steamers laden with war supplies
for the Allies, William ]. Flynn, chief
Of the secret service, filed before Unit
ed States Commissioner Houghton
complaint in which not only Fay but
four other men are charged with pro-
noting the conspiracy. The hearing
on the federal charge was set for
Nov. 4.
Talked With Won Papen.
Fay confessed that while on the
battlefield he talked with his superior
officers about a device to blow up
ships, that later his idea of coming to
America and carrying his scheme
through was well received by the Ger
man secret service, that he came well
enough supplied with money to act on
his own responsibility and that he
talked with Captain Won Papen, mill
tary attache, and Captain K. Boyd,
naval attache of the German embassy,
about the plan, but they refused to
have anything to do with it.
The confession Of Fay, who said he
had been decorated with the Iron
Cross for fighting in the Champagne
district in France, covers his arrival
in the United States On April 20 last,
his making Of clock-worked bombs
since then and his activities in ex-
perimenting with explosives along the
Hudson river Quantities of acid in
the room occupied by Fay and Walter
L. Scholz i'll Weehawken, n. J., and
boxes, each containing 120 pounds of
chlorate of potash used in making So
called sugar bombs, in a boat house
on the Hudson, had been found after
the arrest OF these men on Sunday.
Other Arrests Made.
School, a brother-in-law of Fay, ia
mechanic.
Two other men we're arrested and
another, making the fifth, was named
in the complaint but he had not been
apprehended The new arrests were:
Paul Daeche, Jersey City, n. T., who
said he was a graduate of Cologne
university and came to the United
States in 1912.
DR.. Herbert Kienzle, % years old,
manager of g clock company, charged
in the complaint with having aided
in procuring explosive materials used
by Fay, committed to the Tombs for
examination OF Nov. 4.
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MASSACRE EVERYONE IN TOWN
Turks Stay Entire Armenian PopuIa-
ton of Kerasund on the Black
Sea, Says Dispatch.

London, Oct. pa dispatch to
the Daily Mail from Odessa says:
"The Turks have massacred the en-
tire Armenian population of Kerasund
on the Black sea.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-10-28

Truth may be stranger than fiction,
but some men make it hustle to keep
ahead
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French Pursue Bulaare.

the SERBIAN troops are ClSpIGy Ing IAey
can hold out double that time.
French Pursue Bulcars.
London, Oct PA dispatch 10 Reu-
tiers Telegram company from Athens
says Reliable news received con-
corning the last battle near Valandove
Is to the effect that the French pur-
sued the Bulgarians to the frontier.
The Bulgarians have been defeated in
the sector Of KTupuli to which three
Serbian regiments from Strumitza pro-
ceeded and occupied the left bank Of
the Vardar The French occupy the
sector between Dorian and CRATIC"
BuIgar9 Are in Peril.
London, Oct 26.-Bulgarian forces
which invaded south Siberia, pene
tFatiur to Istip, Veles and Uskup, have
been placed in great peril by sharp
advance of the French, who are now
reported 40 miles north of the Greek
border
The French after effecting a juno
tion with the Serbian army Of the
South, fell upon the Bulgarians at
Krivolak and inflicted upon them so
severe a defeat that there is mo ques.
ton Of their ability to take the in
vaders on the flank. Some reports say
the Bulgarians already are in fight
toward Strumitza with the Serbian
cavalry in pursuit.
Turks Arrive Too Late.
German advices via Amsterdam
state that Turkish cavalry has arrived
at Egri Palanda and is proceeding to-
ward Veles. Apparently they arrived
too late to be Of assistance. 1t is adj
mitted in these dispatches that $500
Bulgarian wounded have arrived at
PhiloppOpolis from Serbia and that the
Bulgarian loss at Istip was 5000 men.
The Serbians, it is said burned the
munition depots there before leaving
Istip.
British military experts now assert
that the situation in Serbia, while
serious, is far from desperate, and the
help which the entente powers are
now rushing to the scene will in all
probability be sufficient to turn the
scale, as the Germans, they assert,
cannot send adequate re-enforcemGnts
to Serbia SO long as the present pres
sure is maintained in France, Russia
and Italy.
Thousands Are Slain.
With the entente forces now in &C
tion, which are said to comprise co.
900 first line French troops and per
haps 10000 British colonials, the Ser
bans, the experts say, will be able to
check or retard the various invasions
Of their country until the Allies can
bring their full strength TO bear. This,
OF course, is the British view; Berlin
is no less confident that the invasion
is progressing exactly as it was plan
ned
The bombardment OF Dedeaghatch
caused the death of 10 civilians and
more than 1000 soldiers, and there
also were a large number Of soldiers
wounded, says g dispatch to the Elk
change Telegraph company from
Athens.
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KING FERDINAND's FORCES, DE
FEATED NEAR VALANDOVE,
FLEE TO THE FRONTIER
FRENCH JOIN SERBS.
SERB CAVALRY PURSUES
ENEMY TO STRUMlTZA
Situation in Kingdom, While Serious,
Ia Far From Desperate-HeIp From
Allies Now Being Rushed 20
Scene Expected to Turn
Scale.

London, Oct. 26.-The Allies have
asked the Serbian headquarters to re-
sist the Teutons and Bulgarians for
only five days more, by which time eff
fective aid from the Allies will be
forthcoming, says the Daily Telegraph
Nish correspondent. The correspond
ent adds that, Judging by the fine spirit
the Serbian troops are displaying they
can hold out double that time.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-11
sEABoARD SCHEDULE



No. 1.-Lv. Jacksonville, $3.50 p. m;
Ar. Ocala, las a. m; Lv. Ocala 1:5O
"a. m; Ar. Tampa 6:30 a. m; Lv
Tampa 7:30 a. m; Ar. St. Petersburg
9:30 a. m.
No. 3.-Lv. Jacksonville $50 a. m;
Ar. Ocala 1857 p. m; Lv. Ocala 1:17
p. m; Ar. Tampa, 5:25 p. m; Lv
Tampa, $40 p. m; Ar. St. Petersburg
8 p. m.
No. 9-Limited train; Lv. Jackson
vile 1:30 p. m, Lv. Ocala, 4:30 p. M
Ar. Tampa, 7:45 p m
North Bound
No. 2.-Lv. st. Petersburg, 4:30 p
m; Ar. Tampa, 6:55 p. m; Lv. Tam
pa, 8 p. m; Ar. Ocala, 2:30 a. m; Lv
Ocala, 2:35 a. m; Ar. Jacksonville
6:45 a. m.
No. 4.-Lv. Tampa, 9 a. m; Ar
ocala, p. m; Lv. Ocala, 1:20 p. N.
Ar. Jacksonville, 5:25 p. m
No. 10-Lv. st. Petersburg, s:3l
a. m; Ar. Tampa, 1880 a. m; Lv
Tampa, / p. m; Lv. Ocala, 4:10 p
NJ; Ar. Jacksonville, 7:15 >. m. Linn,
tied train.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-11

Chief Chambers has his eyes on
everything around the fire station.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-11

According to Mr.. Moore's idea this
amount should be mostly paid by indi-
rect taxation-that means raise the
rate to the consumer.
I have shown all provisions ever
made by tax levy for city lighting
has been used up in the various city
departments, and for the purchases
of real estate. The council of 1913
purchased the Robertson lot for $4,000
and the council of 1914 purchased the
civic center lot for $12,5O0. No tax
levy was made to provide for the pur-
chase of real estate, so all available
funds were used and this council
found the city in debt to the tune of
$4,000. With this Indebtedness and
the bond issues of $275, 900 to be tax
en- care of, the taxpayer will see that
a higher millage must be levied, but
it will be only for this. year.
/ The light plant will take care of
its own bond interest and sinking
fund. The water plant will not take
care of bond interest and sinking
fund, and millage must be provided
for one year.
After water and light plants are
built, they will not only take care OF
themselves, but pay large dividends tc
the city.
1t must be remembered that thi:
council is not responsible for the EN-
barrassing position we are placed in
but the council of 1914, backed up by
the tax payers of the city on the the
bond issue, so we should not hesitate
to do our duty and fix the millag'
as it should be.
The revise budget tries to evade tn,
issue, pleading financial depression
hard times, does not want to burden
the tax payer with direct taxes, re
questing that the strictest econom.
must be practiced in every city de
partment, as under the present condi
tions the tax payer must not be burd
ened by wasteful and extravagant ad
ministration. This is "solar plexus.
/ think the city of Ocala is blesser
with the best of men in every depart
ment.
II In the executive department, thal
Mr.. H. C. Sistrunk, more obligine
Honorable and efficient person coul
not be found. Has served the cit
for many years
Fire Department
II Chief Chambers has his eyes o.
lieverything around the fire station
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-11
BILIOUSNESS
AND CONSTIPATION

1t is certainty surprising that any
woman will endure the miserable feel
ings caused by biliousness and consti-
patton, when relief is so easily had
and at so little expense. Mrs. Chas.
Peek, Gates, NJ. Y, writes: ~About n
year ago used two bottles of Cham
berlain's Tablets and they cured me
of biliousness and constipation" OBJ
tainable everywhere.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-11
som.thIna 60 smlI. At.

Try to SMILE" said the head OF the
department store Look at yonder
clerk. He Is always smiling"
HE finds Ii easy to smile. He sells
face powder TO pretty girls. sell col
lar buttons to old grouches."-Louis-
vile Courier-JournaL
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-11
NOTICE TO HoUsEKEEPERs

If you want any kind of furniture
repaired, re-upholstered, re-pohshed
or remodeled, write me. Satisfaction
guaranteed, and the prices are right,
Fred ]. Burden, Box 44S, Ocala,
Fla. 9-2-1m
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-11
LADIES

Don't fail to see the famous South
Bend Malleable Range which is now
on exhibition at our store from Sep
tember Sth TO 14th. Marion Hard
Ware Company. est
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-11

OUR prescription department is at
YOUR service at all times. Accuracy
is the watchword which insures you
careful compounding. The Court
Pharmacy. If
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-11

Total :. ...........$7 81, ,954.00
This is the amount Of direct tax
foisted on the tax payers, of which
he never paid a dollar.
If the water plant was the proper
ty of an outside corporation the tax
payers would have been called on not
only for 1884 but for considerable
more, as the water rate was reduced
33 1-3go soon after the plant was pur-
chased by the city.
Mr.. Moore says, as l have previous
ly stated, to foist the efficiency that
may occur in the operation of the
water plant by reasons of its low rate,
upon the tax payer is adding double
burden on about one third of our adult
population, and then Immediately rec
ommends that water rate to city be
reduced 500.
The city tax books show that we
have, 786 tax payers who pay on real
and personal property, 772 who pay a
personal tax only, $50 nonresident
property owners who pay only on real
estate, 279 pieces of property assess
ed unknown.
There is no way to ascertain how
many pieces Of property is owned by
nonresident property owners, assum-
ing there is fifty per cent, half of
279, 139 and $50, making the total
number of nonresident property own
ers 289.
We have 760 meter services, 1919
of these, or 76, are non-tax payers.
Mr.. Moore lays so much stress on
the non-tax payer in his revised budg-
ct, he would raise the water rate to
tax 76 consumers of water, but not
tax payers, and relieve 279 non-res-
ident property owners of paying any
tax for hydrant rentals or city water,
yet they may be owners of valuable
buildings and reap great profits from
high rents charged their tenants, but
pay no tax for these services.
We should always bear in mind that
water and light bills are paid solely
by people who live in the city and
whose efforts are building up the city
Taxes are paid, in part, by those who
do not live in the city, who do not
contribute to its upbuilding, but who
do own property here, which the eff.
forts of those who live here are en-
hancing in value. Therefore, the
city should levy tax for both light
and water This would shift part Of
the burden from the resident consu
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-11

A loving heart 10 the beginning Of all
knowledge.-CarlyIe
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-11

mers and tax payers to nonresident
speculative holders of property.
If no provision is made by direct
taxation TO take care of 100000
water bond interest and sinking fund
of $4,000, and water plant does not
quite pay all expenses, and still rec
ommend a decrease in its earnings,
how do you propose to raise funds TO
take care of the $4,000? Of course,
the answer is clear-raise the rate to
consumers.
Public Lighting
This is a parallel case with public
water, as both plants are owned by
the city, only of much greater magni-
tude and far better paying invest
ment.
Short History of the Light Plant
In the year 1898 the city f1oated a
$4,000 go twenty year electric bond
issue. The sum of $14,20O was ex-
pended for the purchase and improve
ment of the plant. Since then the
plant has been continually operated
by the city. On January 1st, 1915, it
is invoiced by the city at a valuation
of S5S, ,278.59, and the records avail
able will show that the light plant
has not only paid all operating ex-
Dopcov ord bent ~ +I,a ;r+a-a-4 -, a. =
bonds, but added value to the plant in
extensions and improvements in the
sum of S44, ,07S.59, but this is not al
yet. can only find records from
Sept. 1, 1907, from that date to June
1st, 1911, the electric light plant paid
in money and service to the general
fund:
In money and city service $20,500.0C
From June 1st, 1911 to Oct.
i, 1913 ................ 22,S5O.OC
Oct. 1, 1913 to July L, 1915. 15,446.3S
Total =. :. ......s 5s,796.SS
Extensions and Improve
ments =. ........ 44,078.5e
Total .s1O2, ,s74.92
These figures represent net earn.
ings paid by consumers, tax payers
and consumers that are not tax pay.
ers, in other words, all indirect tax
The $4,000 bonds are due in 1915
and remains unpaid. This will show
the whole electric light plant was
bought, operated and improved or
the city's credit and not one dollar
paid to this day by direct taxation.
Electric Light Service Charged to City
From the auditors report Decem-
Der 81, 1914, find the following
charges against the city unpaid:
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-11

the rate TO the consumer in order to
Tighten the burden of the tax payers,
and foist larger indirect tax on the
non-tax payer who Is, in nearly every
instance, a wage Garner. He pays a
minimum rate of 81 a month for wat
er, also the same for light. He must
also make deposit in advance, be-
cause he is not property owner. He
must pay a higher rent to the tax
payer, because the house is equip
ped with light and water. The nom
tax payer usually spends his money
with the merchants in town, and if
he can save a few dollars from his
earnings it is with view of ac-
quiring a home of his own and become
a tax payer.
The police protection amounts to
nothing; they have no valuables to
speak of to cause them to fear burg
lars and robbers; neither fire pro-
lection is necessary to mention; the
few household goods they possess are
usually saved in case of fire.
AG city Has 4OO HdbcI IuSICI SCI
vices, about 500 of them are resi-
dent property owners, about 300 pay
personal, and about 1919 of these pay
no tax.
The books in the city clerks Office
show that 760 services have paid for
operating the plant, general expen-
ses, also distribution and mainten
ance, leaving only small deficit.
On January /, 1915, the tax pay
ers were indebted to water fund as
follows:
Hydrant :. ...........$4,s6 $50. .OC
City Market .... 64.OO
Public Service ......... 10000
s5,s24.OC
For six months beginning
Jan. 1st to July 1st, the
same service, less city mar
ket .............. 10000
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1915-11-04

pany was held. pursuant to call. at
which meeting all of the capital stock
of said company was represented and
unanimously voted for, and passed
the following resolution:
WHEREAS. The debts of The
South Canon Lumber and Mer-
camille Company have all been.
paid. and il has no Indebtedness.
whatever.
RESOLVED, That said corpora
ton be dissolved. and that the
President and Secretary be. and
they are hereby. directed to give
notice of such dissolution and
cause the same to be recorded
and published as provided by
law"
Iu pursuance of the authority in us
vested by said resolution. we make
and sign this notice.
WITNESS, Our hands and the seal
of said corporation this ninth day OF
October. 1915.
d. E. GIBSON.
Attest: President
GUY U. HARDY, Secretary.
First Publication Oct. 81. 1915.
asst Publication Dec. ., 1915.