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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-09-04
CALLS ROOSEVELT'S
VALOR STAGE PLAY

Platte City. Mo. Sept. 4.-United
States Senator James A Reed, at the
county fair, characterized former
President Roosevelt as that prince of
demagogues who Eliminates from the
safe and peaceful banks OF Oyster
Bay"
mo thoughtful man in this coun-
try believes that Roosevelt really de-
sires to plunge America into a great
international conflict" said Senator
Reed. What he does seek to do is to
pose as a national hero and substitute
Braggadocio for valor.
I'm this country we have taken his
measure. He is valorous when dan
ger Is afar. He knows the American
people cannot be induced to plunge
into a war unless such action is abso
lutely necessary. Hence he does not
hesitate to strut the stage, crack his
heels together. gnash his teeth and
assume a warlike attitude.
Happily for US, neither the pur'
rings of the peace at any price propa
gandists nor the loud mouthed bay
ings of the professional demagogues
have an adherence to the line of con
duct now being pursued by President
Wilson"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-09-04
WILLING TO TALK PEACE
Teutonic Powers Are Said to Be In
That Mood.

Washington, Sept. 4.-The United
States will make no further efforts to
bring about peace in Europe until II
has received information that its good
Offices will be welcomed by both sides
I'm the conflict. This was stated au-
thoritatively here in official discus
sions of the message from Pope Bene
dict. delivered to President Wilson by
Cardinal Gibbons.
From the fact that the Vatican Is In
close touch with Austria the construc-
tion placed by officials on the popes
message is that the Germanic powers
would be willing to discuss peace at
this time.
President Wilson has made II clear
several times that his original offer OF
services to bring about peace still
stands and that he will do everything
possible to further the movement.
The pope's message will not be
made public by this government, al
though there would be no objection II
Cardinal Gibbons gives 1t out. Enough
Of the contents of the message is
known, however to give basis for in
dicating that Austria, Germany and
Turkey are not adverse to discussing
peace
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-09-04
IGNORES PEACE MOVEMENT
Gompers Declares II Places United
States in False Position.

Washington, Sept. 4-Samuel Com
pers. president of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, made public let
ter he had written to John Brisben
Walker. chairman of the national com
mittee of The Friends of Peace, de
clining an invitation to support a
peace gathering at Chicago planned
by the latter organization.
From my knowledge of events
which are transpiring and have oc-
Cured" Mr.. Gompers wrote, lit is
not peace which is being furthered by
your movement and your meeting, but
your purpose is to place the people of
the United States in a false position
before the world, to play into the
hand of some one OF the warning ma
tions as against the other"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-09-04
THREE MEXICAN
BANDITS SLAIN
County Officers Kill Out
laws Near Border.
HER DEATH ACCIDENTAL

United States Soldiers Fire on Mexi-
can Woman When She Approaches
Them I'm the Darkness in Search
of Protection.
Brownsville, Tex, Sept 4.-Three Of
the Mexican bandits operating just
north of Brownsville were killed by
county officers at Los Cuatros. FIVE
miles east of Barreda station, four
teen miles north Of Brownsville. ac-
cording to information received here.
In addition to the Mexicans killed
ii is said a Mexican woman, deserted
by her husband when the Mexican out
laws appeared at their home north of
here. was accidentally killed by Unit
ed States soldiers when she ap.
preached them in the darkness in
search of protection.
When the bodies of ]. II. Smith and
Earl Donaldson, who were slain by
Mexican bandits, reached Brownsville,
evidences of brutal treatment were
seen That Donaldson's body had been
dragged at the end of rope was in
dicated by the condition of the ankles.
which were badly bruised and appar-
emily rope burned A savage fight for
life by the American was evidenced
by the decorations on the arms and
hodv
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-09-04
0vERWHElM BARNES VIEWS
Objection to Sociological Legislation
Is Raised Loudly.

Albany, ~ ", Sept. 4.-William
Rarnes in the New York constitu.
tional convention vehemently protest.
ed against the adoption of proposals
designed to bring occupational dis.
eases under the workmens compensa-
tion act and to permit the legislature
to regulate or prohibit manufacturing
in tenement houses.
Both proposals were advanced to
the order of final passage by over.
whelming majorities.
IF it Is the Republican position to
follow out the program of sociological
legislation outlined by Samuel Comp
ers," he shouted, then it is not the
Republican party of which | have ever
had knowledge and is not the party
to which ! belong.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-09-04
MAD OFFICER SLAYS SELF
AS DESERTER.

Paris, Sept. 4.-The idea
that soldier OF France should
desert the army at the time of
his country's greatest need so
weighed upon the mind of
Lieutenant Poncet that he
committed suicide under the
hallucination that he himself
was deserter.
The lieutenant was a clerk
OF the supreme court and had
. been detailed to act as a repre-
. sentative of the ministry OF
justice before the second court
. martial of Paris. In this ca
pacity he was called upon to
. investigate many cases of de-
. sertion His mind. thus fixed
. upon this subject. Ii came to
haunt him until he became de-
; ranged.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-09-04

Grodno, Securing over Three Thou
sand Prisoners, One Cannon and
Eighteen Machine Guns.
Berlin, Sept 4.-The army OF Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg has captur
ed Grodno. the last of the strong Rus
sian fortresses to hold out.
Announcement to this effect was
made at army headquarters Also it
is given out that the German troops,
which are advancing on the impor-
tant Russian port of Riga. on the Bal.
tic, have made further consequential
gain. They have captured position
northwest of Friedrichsstadt. forty
miles from Riga
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg's
army conquered Grodno." the an
nouncement says, after rapidly fore
ing a passage of the Niemen and
fighting the Russians in the streets
OF the city
The Germans reached the Niemen
between the Augustowo canal and the
Swislocz-Lenneward line. German
cavalry advanced to the northwest
and west of wilma The Russians at
tempted TO oppose our advance. but
failed, suffering extraordinarily large
losses
Southeast OF Mercez the Russians
were driven back General Won Gall
ff1t En hn afCfu nf
the enemy on the Alekskce-SwislocZ
road.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg's 8
army captured more than 1000 Rus
slams, as we'll as one cannon and
eighteen machine guns.
THE army of Prince Leopold of
Bavaria is still engaged in battle
north OF Prusany.
THE army OF Field Marshal Won
Mackensen. pursuing the Russians
reached the Jasiolda river near Sill
mex and Bereza. and also In the dis
trict of Antopol. east of Kobrin. Aus
tro-Hungarian troops are advancing
to the east and south of Boloto and
Dubowje.
Southeastern theater of war:
General Bothmer's army is ad
vancing and is fighting in the Sereth
district.
Western theater of war:
Near Souchez attacks delivered
b, the French with hand grenades
were repulsed. In Flanders and the
Champaign mines were exploded sue
cessfully."
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-09-04
MARINE WINS ARMY TRIAL
Decision uphoIds Contention of Man
Convicted by Naval Court.

PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 4.-The conten-
tion of Tonkin S. Davis. a marine,
that he should have been tried by the
war department instead OF a naval
courtmartial for slashing a comrade
with a knife while serving in Vera
Cruz under General Funston. was sus-
tanned in an opinion handed down
here by Judge Dickinson in the Unit.
ed States district court
Different views on the question have
been expressed by various officials
Judge Dickinson ruling is said to be
the first judicial decision ever handed
down on the subject
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-09-04
ASSUMESCHARCE
OF ALL DETAILS
Widow of Slain Physician
ArrangeS Funeral.
GETS RELEASE ON BAIL

Woman's Attorney Says He Will at
Once Begin a Search for the viii Of
Dr. C. Franklin Mohr, Who Was
One of the Wealthlest Practitioners
In Rhode Island.
Providence, r. L., Sept 4.-Although
accused of having melted the murder
of her husband, DR.. c. Franklin Mohr,
one of the wealthiest physicians in
the state, Mrs. Elizabeth Tiffany Blair
Mohr, released on bonds OF $4,000,
had full charge of the funeral of her
husband, from whom she had been
separated for several months.
Mrs. Mohr sent out invitations to
the services and asked Rev. Francis
]. Bassett. rector of the Church of
The Epiphany, to read the Episco.
pal funeral ritual in the parlor of DR..
Mohr's house in an exclusive resi-
dental section of the city. Mrs. Mohr
also directed that the burial should
take place at the Swan Point GENE
terry.
Only intimate friends of the family
were asked to attend Mrs. Mohr ar
ranged that her two children, c. Frank
lin Mohr, Jr, and Virginia who have
been living with her, return to their
former home for their fathers funeral
Charles Manning Mohr of New York
son of the physician by a former
marriage, also was here to attend the
funeral
Arthur Cushing, Mrs. Mohr's attor
ney. who succeeded in obtaining her
release only by offering his own prop
erty as part security for the bond
said that he would begin a search fol
the doctors will as soon as the fu
neral was over He had full charge
of the books and papers of the doc
tor, he said. and expected to make q
careful search for valuable docu
ments
He could not estimate the value Of
Dr. Mohr's estate. but friends of the
physician who knew the extent of hi:
practice said that the property would
be worth 100000. They estimated
DR. Mohr's income during the pas
fifteen or twenty years from $4,000
to $4,000 a year
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-09-04
8l2 LOST ON THE EASiLAND
Coroner's Figures Show 226 Victims
Were Married.

Chicago, Sept. Final tabulations
complied and made public by the cor
oner's office show that 8l2 persons
lost their lives when the steamer East
land, with $500 on board. capsized
in the Chicago river on July "a.
According to the figures of this
number 451 were women and Gel men.
of whom 226 were married. Ninety
eight of the victims were under six.
teen years old.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-09-04
WIFE SUES JIM THE PENMAN
Thought Rogue Model Business Man
When She Welded Him.

New York, Sept A wife's charge
that the husband she believed to be a
model business man is known to the
police authorities as Jim the Penman
was made in the supreme court by
Mrs. Tina Field In applying for the
annulment of her marriage to Fred
erick E. Field. She says he support
ed himself by various criminal and
unlawful means" and is known to the
police as "hebitual criminal"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-09-04
SHOOT ESCAPED PRISONER
Police Kill One and Other Makes
Clear Getaway.

bingham, Mass. Sept 4.-James
Harmon and Robert Williams. held
for trial on charges of burglary, over
powered Chief of Police Washington
James. locked him in cell and es-
capped from the local police station.
They were discovered later hiding
In a clump OF bushes. Harmon was
killed by q bullet from a police re-
volver. but Williams eluded his pur.
suers.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-09-04
BRlTlSHERS THANK WILSON
Efforts TO Safeguard Lives at Sea
Given Aprreciation.

London. Sept l. The Mercantile
Marine Service association has sent
a cable message to Secretary of State
Lansing in Washington thanking and
congratulating President Wilson, in
behalf of British shipmasters and
officers. on the success of what are
alluded TO as his humane effort to
safeguard the lives of noncombatants
at sea.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-09-04
JAIL SENTENCE FOR ETTOR
l. w. w. Speaker Convicted at Wa
terbury, Conn.

Waterbury. Conn, Sept. 4.-Joseph
]. Ettor, a member of the Industrial
Workers of the World, who has been
addressing meetings in a hall here
after the police refused him permis-
sion to hold meetings on the streets,
was sentenced to jail for six months
In the city court for breach of the
peace. Ettor took an appeal from the
decision.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-09-04
EXPERIMENT PROVE FATAL
Effort Of Physician to Discover Potash
Formula Results In Explosion.

Milwaukee, Sept. Am explosion
during experiments to find a process
OF manufacturing potash caused in
juries which proved fatal to DIR. Fred
erick c. Gillen, prominent physician,
and may result In the loss of both
eyes to his brother, William II. Gillen,
a contractor. The experiments were
being conducted in the yard of DIR.
Gillen's home.
Dr. Gillen died as q result of his in
juries.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-09-04
|. + i. !. i. r 4. + i + i. 4. !. + +
Calls British Loss Heavy.

Berlin, Sept 4.-"The Cologne Ga
zette publishes statistics placing war
losses to British shipping at the mini
mum amount to Az per cent of the
whole tonnage" says the Overseas
News agency. "Of vessels above 100
tons an average of one In twenty OF
the British merchant fleet has been
lost"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-09-04
RATE REDUCTION DELAYED
Cut In Anthracite Coal Tariffs to Be
Effective Dec. 1.

Washington, Sept. 4.-The inter
state commerce commission post
poned until Dec. the effective date
of its order reducing freight rates on
anthracite railroads. Tho order was
- 90 into effect Qct. !.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-09-04
HOOSiER CHURCHMAN FOR
SUNDAY GAMES.

Hammond. Ind. Sept. Al.
w. Street, rural church organ
izer of Nashville. Ind. told del
egates to the national efficien-
cy church conference here that
he does not oppose Sunday
baseball
He described the pastime as
the natural expression OF
buoyant young life"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-09-04
AGED AUT0IST Is KILLED
Two Others Bruised and Third Un
injured In Accident.

Davenport, Ia. Sept. 4.-P. A.
Fragd. seventy years old. of Cam.
bridge, ILL.,. was killed and Bert Hardy
of Combridge and q travelling man
named Fake were painfully injured
when an automobile In which they
were riding overturned two miles east
of Orion.
Frank Nelson OF Lynn. III. was un-
injured
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-09-04
GERMAN TROOPS
APPROACH RIGA
Aiming to Take Russian Port
on Baltic.
ARE FORTY MILES AWAY

Won Hindenbure's Army Captures
Grodno, Securing Over Three Thou
sand Prisoners, One Cannon and
Eighteen Machine Guns
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-02-19
Transporting Children to School.

At least 43 States authorize the
transportation of pupils to public
schools at the expense of school dis
tricts. according to bulletin by A.
G. Monahan of the United States
Bureau of Education.
In certain States transportation ut
public is permissive only, in others OBJ
ligatory Ohio, for example requires
transportation for children 2 miles
or more from the school, while other
States require transportation when the
distance is 1 i-2 miles or more.
In several of the States, according
to the bulletin, the school authori-
ties may pay parents or guardians a
fixed amount per day for transporta-
ton, while Maine, Vermont, Minneso-
sofa, South Dakota, and Oregon per-
nit payment for room and board for
pupils in homes convenient to the
schools where the cost of so doing
does not exceed the cost of transporta-
lion.
AS. to the means of transportation
the bulletin says: Sentiment seems
to favor the school wagon where pro-
perly managed; yet while the wagon
is the usual form of conveyance fur
nished, many children are transported
by steam railroads, electric cars, aut
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-02-19
Ideals of True Education.

Have we not been prone to confuse
the transcendcnt power of the mat
erial forces Mt mans disposal with the
powers of man himself, which never
more than now needed cultivation
and discipline? Increase of power is
no gam unless rightly used, and even
form the strictly utilitarian point of
view IL Will not answer to concentrate
ATTENTION on things and neglect spirit
uil values. 1T is conceivable that n
seemingly impractical education, if
~ made men sober, considerable, steady
IN thought and deliberate in action
might prove to be practical in the very
highest sense. The twentieth cen.
tury cannot possibly de deficient in
that kind of real" knowledge which
has so marvelously transformed the
world IN century: the great problem
to which education must be shaped is
the problem of combining this with
an adequate ethical culture and dis
cipiIne of character. Any education
winch lacks such fortifying clements
rs like a frail bark sent to sea with n
heavy load of valuable machinery. but
not built to withhold such n crude
ana irrational mischance as tempest.
1t seems highly probable that the eff
-, VI thS wal upon educational ideals
VIII be to put new emphasis upon
this double requirement. We shall be
compelled to see that efficiency is not
an end in itself, but only a means to
an end which may or may not be the
right end; that the "useful" must he
useful for something, and that even
knowledge is not necessarily a bless
ing. 1t may well be hoped that as
soon as the world begins to recover
from the present shocks the immediate
effect will be clarifying of educat-
tional IDEAS, new sense on the one
side of the necessity of modern knowl-
edge, and a new comprehension on the
other of the solid value of the old in
tellectual discipline. If dry-as-dust
routine on the one hand and ephe-
neral fads on the other can be eiimi-
mated, it should be possible to achieve
the needed synthesis, and this is the
main end to which educational thought
should just now be directed.-Spring-
filed Republican.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-02-19
SAVES DAUGHTER
Advice Of Mother no Doubt Pre-
vents Daughters UntimeIy End.

Ready, KY was not able 10 do
anything for nearly six months" writes
MRS. Laura Bratcher, of this place, "and
was down In bed for three months.
cannot tell you how | suffered with
my head, and with nervousness and
wonianly troubles.
Our family doctor told my husband he
Gould not do me any good, and he had
10 give il up. We tried another doctor.
but he did not help me.
AT last. my mother advised me TO take
Cardui, the Woman's tonic. | Thought
1t was no use for was nearly dead and
nothing seemed to do me any good. But
J took eleven bottles, and now am able
70 90 all OF my work and my own
washing.
=. | think Cardui is the best medicine In
The world. My weight has increased.
and look the picture OF health.
II you Suffer from any OF the ailments
peculiar 10 women, get bottle OF Cardui
today. Delay Is dangerous. We know
1t will help you. for il has helped so
many thousands of other weak women
In the past so years.
AT all druggists.
,Wrfff 70: Chattanooga Medicine Co.. Ladies'
ADVISORY DeR. Chattanooga. Tenn, for Sfreiai
xnIfr.effonI on your case and 81 page book. Home
treatment Tor Women" In plain wrapper. NC. laB
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-02-19

pike" And that's why our army
ana navy We're always neglected on
ignored. That party spent its en-
tire force to the maiing of million
aires. All of it's legis lation has
been dictated by the Interests
Nothing was ever thought of for
benefitting the common people. And
the writer, thought long an active
Republican, is forced to admit thnt the
Wilson administration has given MS
more good constructive legislation in
two years than did the Great Old Pre-
lender IN forty. We think the G. O.
2, has gone to the political "boneyard
ana only wish that Il few good men
could see their way clear to ouit Tho
roster old hulk. We do not care
to name any particular ones, but it
seems queer that honest men knowing
rotteness of Republican manipulators'
VIII longer stay in fold.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-02-19
Groundhog Day on February 2.

Pa. Ground log saw his shadow on
February 9th.
Gave one distinguished grunt and
turned away,
Slid down his hole as fast as he
could slide,
And pulled the hole in after him,
You bet.
Hung up his hat, pulled off his cont
and shoes.
And settled down to have another
Snoo2c,
First warming mother Ground hog
and the boys,
He'd spank 'em if they made the
slightest noise,
Pm tired" said he, I've done Il
hero's stunt,
There's fearful danger in a shadow
hunt,
But ! w.i brave and a,ce'. to it and
My shadow lying flat upon the
Then g1Vc q yawn and stretched him
scf and signed,
While mother and the kids ,>>ked
on with pride
Goodnight" nj last in sleeping tone.
he speaks,
Call me for breakfast in about six
weeks"
Farm and Home
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-02-19
TRY THIS FOR NEURALGIA

Thousands of people keep on suffer-
ing with Neuralgia because they do
not know what to do for it. Neural
gia is pain in the nerves. What YOU
want to do is to soothe the nerve
itself. Apply Sloan's Liniment to the
surface over the painful part-do not
rub it in. Sloan's Liniment pene-
trates very quickly to the sore, irri-
tated nerve and allays the inflamma-
ton. Get q bottle of Sloan's Lini.
ment for 25 cents of any druggist and
have it in the house-against Colds,
Sore and Swollen Joints, Lumbago,
Sciatica an dixie ailments. Your
money back if not satisfied, but it
does give almost instant relief. At
all druggists.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-02-19
'm,obilcs, and even by gasoline launch.

cs." N'' '''"''o"-
Competent drivers are essential in
ahy pian Tor transportation, according
to the bulletin. The character of Tie
9rVcr rs so important that State leg
islation in some instances. for OK
ample Wisconsin. requires that "each
driver contracted with must he of ex-
cellent moral character, Trustworthy
ana responsible, and must furnish
u safe team with suitable conveyance. !"
The kind of wagons used is regarded
MS so Important that many States
purchase their own wagons and hire
only drivers and teams. "Thc hest
wagon" declares the bulletin. care
those where the driver sits inside with
me childrenand where there are glass
sides instead Of curtains" In cold
weather rugs and lap-robcs are used.
ana sometimes the wagons are heated
by means of oil stoves.
the cost per pupil for transportat-
ION, as given by the bulletin, ranps
from I'D to ~ cents per day. The
average expense for the school yenr
Is about $23 per pupil.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-02-19

rectiy to spell his own name-I have
personally known such c.ses.
All this but tends to show how
very short-sighted men are, in being
too busy with the daily routine to
write down the facts that would be of
such great interest to coming genera
tions.
Take for instance, the question of
family, history. Few of us can go
beyond few generations. We line
up with Germany or the allies with
out knowing, or caring for that mat
ter, very much about whose blood
may be coursing through our own
veins.
| suppose the allies would not lcs;-
tate to shoot at my fathers nan,c-
Henry Branstatter Groceclcse- in
its original spelling, yet | am regard
less of that fact. rather Il warm"
ally.
Yours very truly,
f. A. GROCECLOSE.