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The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
GEORGE ADLER ARRESTED
Wealthy Bank Director of Forest City,
Ark, Charged With Forgery and
Attempted Murder.

Waukesha-A dispatch from St.
Louis, Mo-, says:
A man, said by detectives, to be J..
w. Bernhard, a "a year old wealthy
bank director of Forest City, Ark,
was arrested here on warrants charg-
ing him with forgery and attempted
murder, issued at Waukesha. Wis. Ac-
cording to detectives the prisoner has
confessed to forgeries. The detectives
say their prisoner, under the name of
George Adler, was arrested for first
degree forgery in Waukesha last Janu-
airy, after he had attempted to obtain
a loan on a fraudulent warrant deed.
With three other prisoners, he escaped
from jail Aug. IS, by calling the jailor
to the door Of their cell and beating
him into insensibility. The prisoner,
the detectives say, had led double
life, the details of which he had con-
fessed to them.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
BANDIT HOLDS UP AGENT
Night Operator With Pistol and
Makes $547.44 Haul.

Oconomowoc.-A lone robber held
up the Milwaukee road depot here and
got away with $4744 in cash and about
$500 in pay checks. He missed $125
in a sack.
With pistol pointed at his head,
Earl Campbell was forced to stand
with his hands up while the robber,
who was unmasked, rified the office.
Campbell, who is third trick man, went
outside while the 1870 train came in,
and when he re-entered the office the
robber stepped out from behind a
stove and covered him with his pistol
Mr.. Campbell went on duty at 1
o'clock in the morning. He relieved
William Guttschall, second trick man.
Guttschall placed the 1925 missed by
the robber in a sack.
The bandit was about feet z
inches in height, about 20 years old,
and we'll dressed. He wore a dark
blue suit and blue cap.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
AUSTRiANS ARE IN FULL
RETREAT AT TWO POINTS
EmmanueI's Forces Are Well Ad-
vanced Beyond Plezzo-Foe In
Precarious Position.

Milan, Aug. 30.-The Austrians are
in full retreat at two points. One is In
the Val Sugana, where they are blow
ing up bridges and viaducts and de-
stroying all roads and railways as
they retire. The other is in the re-
gion of the upper Isonzo, where the
Italian Alpini are wrestling an impor-
tant mountain summit from the Aus
trian grip.
The latest official reports show that
the Italians are now we'll advanced
beyond Plezzo and are attacking the
summit of Monte Rombon, 5000 feet
high, which overlooks the valley OF
the Coritenza, tributary Of the Ison-
20, and also commands the highway
that eliminates in Predil pass at
height of $500 feet and thence de-
scends into the Zebach valley, where
the Italians captured positions about
week ago.
The Austrians are in precarious
position at Jarvis, as we'll as at Tolml-
no and GoritZ, not to mention the
strong series of defenses they lost In
the Val Sugana.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
MRS. PERSHING DIES WITH
HER THREE DAUGHTERS
Wife and Children of U. S. Army Gen.
eral Perish in Flames at
Preside Home.

San Francisco, Aug. 30.-Mrs.
Frances Warren Pershing, wife of
Brig. Gen. John J. Pershing, U. S. A.,
and three of her four children were
suffocated to death in their quarters
on Friday at the Preside of San Fran
cisco.
Their bodies were badly burned.
Mrs. Walter o. Boswell, relative,
and her two children escaped, as did
Warren Pershing, five years old, and
three servants. The dead children
are Helen, Anne and Margaret, all
under eight years old.
Mrs. Pershing was a daughter Of
Senator Warren of Wyoming. Her
husband, commanding the Eighth
brigade, U. s. infantry, is at Ell Paso,
Tex, in charge of the border troops.
Ell Paso, Tex, Aug. 30-News of
the death of Mrs. Pershing and three
of her children reached Gen. John j.
Pershing, commander of the Eighth
infantry brigade here, through Asso-
ciated Press dispatches. Gen. Perish
ing was overcome by the tragedy.
He had been preparing home for his
family, which he expected would leave
San Francisco for Ell Paso this week.
He said he would leave Immediately
for San Francisco
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
RUSS FLEE GRODNo FORTRESS.
Military Property Being Removed,
Says Dispatch.

Military Property Being Removed,
Says Dispatch.
Petrograd, Aug. 30.-GrOdnO is be-
ing evacuated. Only sufficient troops
to delay the German advance are now
in the fortress. Military property has
been removed.
Olita, a Russian fortress guarding
the Niemen river between KOvno and
Grodno, has been captured by the
Germans, the general staff reported
at Berlin. The fall of this city, on the
bank of the Niemen, opens the way
for another drive toward Wilma, to the
northeast, and Groino, to the south.
For the second time the German adj
miralty issued a statement at Berlin
declaring that the Russian admiralty
claim that the battle cruiser Moltke
and other German warships had been
destroyed in the Gulf Of Riga, is a
fake"
mo such battle took place." the ad
miralty said.
THE Russians allege that they cap
tured some German ships. They prob
ably mean those steamers captured
by the Germans and sunk to block the
passage
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
WILL BE PAID HIS SALARY OUT
OF THE GENERAL APP
PRECIPITATION.
5000 GRANT is REPEALED
Money Voted for Executives Assistant
Inadvertently AnnuiIed by SoIons,
Is Discovered-To Get $4,000
Year.

MadiSOn.-LaWrence G.. Whittet of
Edgerton, speaker of the lower house
of the legislature, will continue to
serve as expert financial assistant to
the governor, Notwithstanding the dis
covery that the section of the law ap-
propriating $4,000 year to the COVER
nor to pay the expense of such an
employee was inadvertently repealed by
a law passed later in the session.
The provision of the law authorizing
the governor to employ financial ex-
pert to keep a check on public ex-
penditureS was not affected by the
section repealed, and hence the COVER
nor will continue to employ Mr. Whit
tet and instead of paying him as at
first intended, will pay him out of the
general appropriation made for the ex-
ecutive department, which is $4,000
for the current year and $4,000 for the
next fiscal year.
After it was discovered that the Sec
ton of the law carrying the $4,000 an
nual appropriation for the financial
expert had been repealed, the governor
decided that although the appropria-
tions for his department during the
coming two years had at his request
been cut 80 per cent from that made
for his predecessor in Office, the ap-
preparation was still large enough to
enable him to meet all demands and
also retain Mr. Whittet at salary of
Cd S00 with n o11nWan0n ~
$500 year for expenses. Mr.. Whittet
said he would continue to serve as
financial expert.
One of the state departments dis
covered that the section of the law
appropriating $4,000 for a financial ex-
pert had been repealed by law pass,
ed later in the session.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03

greeniSh, blackish or reddish lice, like
sucking insects, such as the green ap-
pie aphis, and rosy aphis. Insects
feeding upon the leaves without a nest
and not concealed within, leaf or bud
-cankerworms, several species Of
caterpillars, brown tail, gypsy and
tussock moths; caterpillars living in
web nests in spring or summer, or con-
cealed in folded leaf or bud; fall web
worm, tent caterpillar, bud moth, leaf
sewer, and cigar case bearer; conspic-
uous winter stages-several moths,
such as orchard and forest tent cater
pillars, cecropia cocoon, brown tail
moth nest, antique and white marked
tussock moths.
The third classification: insects in
juring the fruit; caterpillars, lesser
appleworms, codling moth and the
notified fruit caterpillar, legless mag
COTS or grubs, railroad worm and cur
culio; mature insects with wings and
legs, plum curculio, rore chafor, tar
nished plant bug.
The notified fruit caterpillar is
very familiar apple insect. The eggs
are laid in a mass attached fatty to
the leaf. The larva is a smooth, hair
less caterpillar, one and half inches
long when grown. It's head is shiny
yellow with one dark blotch on each
lobe It's body is notified grayish
brown above and pale grayish green
upon the foliage and the fruit The
pupal stage is passed In the ground,
glistening brown object, about three
quarters of an inch long. This cater
pillar is readily dislodged, Earring the
tree and killing the insect on the
ground is a convenient combatative
measure.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
PLOT TO BLOW
UP POWDER TRAIN
Cars of Explosives Have Narrow
Escape at Gary, Ind.
RAILS WERE TAMPERED WITH
Employee of the Aetna Company Dis
covers PIot-Enough Guncot-
ton to Destroy Entire Town
Three Plants Destroyed.

Gary, Ind, Aug. 31.-An APPARENT at
tempt to wreck train carrying
enough guncotton to blow up the
whole city of Gary was discovered on
Saturday at the height of excitement
which has developed with the secret
agitation and spying revealed in the
search for the motive and murderers
in the case of Rev. Edmund Kayser.
Fifty feet north of the Aetna Pow
der works, three miles east OF Gary,
the storm center of plots against ship
ment of war munitions to England,
an effort to derail a train due to leave
the works Sunday for the East was
discovered.
The rivets of a plate holding to-
gether the ends of two rails had 5een
pried or chiseled off and the end OF
one of the rails had been crowbarred
about six inches out of line.
The discovery was made before the
train started by Anton Slazatoski, an
employee of the powder works.
Armed guards are marching about
the plants and spies are at work for
both parties of the European strife.
Eighty per cent of the Gary popula-
ton is composed of foreigners, almost
all of whom have personal and warm
interest in the outcome, and every
body in Gary suspects his neighbor OF
being a foreign secret service agent.
Excitement is running high In the re-
mote quarters of the city, and numer-
GUS fights and firearms scrapes have
followed the disclosures and conjec-
lures.
Acton, Mass, Aug. 31.-The glazing
mill of the American Powder company
was blown up at $3.50 o'clock Sunday.
Murray Ballou, president of the COM
pany, would not attempt to place the
responsibility. Armed guards are now
patrolling the vicinity Of the mills.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
FIGHT APPLE TREE INSECTS
Something of Its Habits and VuIner-
able Points Must Be Learned Be-
fore Combating Insect Pest.
(By E. M. PATCH.)


Before it is possible to combat an
insect pest intelligently we must learn
something Of it's habits and of it's vul-
nerable points When these are known
proper remedial measures may then be
taken for its repression or extermina-
ton. In the United States alone
more than four hundred species of in
sects are known to affect in greater or
less degree the apple tree or it's fruit.
For convenience in dealing with the
species of insects which damage apple
trees, they have been classified, in &C
cordance with the character of the in
jury they cause, into three primary
groups. ,
A. Injuring root, trunk or branch;
borers and sap feeders.
AA. Injuring the foliage; biting or
sucking insects.
AAA. Injuring the fruit; maggots,
caterpillars, bugs and beetles.
In the class of those injuring root,
trunk or branch, are the borers-
roundheaded, flatheaded and shot
borer-which are destructive to the
wood; the scale insects and plant lice,
which include the oyster shell and San
Jose scale and the woolly aphis.
In the second class-those injuring
foliage-are the plant lice. small,
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
MAN MUST PROTECT ORCHARD
All Dead Grass, Weeds and Brush
Where insects May Harbor During
Winter Should Be Burned.

The man who expects to hay vest
any fruit must protect his orchard
from the ravages of insects ard ami
mails. All dead grass, weeds and
piles of brush where insects may har-
Dor during the winter should be
hauled out and burned.
Insects deposit their eggs in the
summer and fall in the grass and
weeds and brush piles. These hatch
out in the spring and make their at
tack upon the trees to the destruc-
ton of much fruit OF course, in sea-
son the spraying should be carefully
done
A good deal of fruit may be har-
vested without spraying, but most OF
It will be defective.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
BATTLE HIGH IN THE AIR.
Italians and Austrians Fight on Edge
of Precipices.

Italians and Austrians Fight on Edge
of Precipices.
Rome, Sept. 1.-Fighting on the
edge of precipices and engaging in
hand-to-hand combats on crags high
in the air, the Italian soldiers at
tempting to take the Austrian posi-
tions on Monte Rombon, in the upper
Isonzo region, arc slowly but steadily
gaining ground, according to dis
patch received from Udine.
The Alpine troops have already as
cended the mountain for 5000 feet
but the Austrians. hold the summit
1000 feet above An entire company
of Alpine troops was swept away Sat
urday when the Austrians loosened
an avalanche of rocks.
Another company narrowly es-
capped the same fate, but these men
assembled the steep path made by
the avalanche and gained 1000 feet
before the Austrians were able to
check them with their rifle fire.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
CLEARS WAY FOR
MEDIATION MOVE
vUgB UtIHAIEIN H6IvEMH
Germany and England to Make
Concessions to America.
MAY REOPEN GERMAN TRADE
Washington Gets Note From Berlin
Relating to Arabic case-May
Yield to Wilson's Demand for
Freedom of Seas.

Washington, Sept. 1.-State depart
ment officials expressed the opinion
that the way is being cleared rapidly
for another effort by the United States
to get England and Germany to agree
to the principle of the freedom of the
seas with direct bearing on the re-
opening of neutral trade with Ger
many.
A long cable message was received
by Secretary of State Lansing from
Ambassador Gerard relating to the
Arabic case and was of sufficient i'm
portance to require a visit of Mr..
Lansing to the White House. Mr..
Lansing declined to state even the sub
ject matter of the cablegram, but it
is known that it contained discus
sion of internal policies at Berlin, and
the Arabic case, and the general pros
poets of the terms on which an agree
ment between the United States and
Germany might be predicated.
After the receipt of this dispatch
from Mr.. Gerard, the British ambassa-
dor, Sir Cecil Spring-Rice called on
the state department. trade advisers
and on other officials of the state de-
partment.
After these two developments, it
was indicated very strongly that
Great Britain was willing to modify
the orders in council SO far as they
affected the export of dye stuffs from
Germany and millions of dollars
worth of goods held at Rotterdam un-
der contract for shipment to the Unit
ed States.
State department authorities, read
ing between the lines of what they
have from the German foreign office,
seem to think that Germany will
frankly disavow the act of the COM
mander of the submarine who at
tackled the Arabic if he did not give
the warning required by international
law and demanded by this govern
ment. They say that a great point
will be thus gained and that the next
step would be easy for Germany to
abandon all attacks on unarmed mer-
chant vessels. This would pave the
way for a second suggestion to Great
Britain by the United States in line
with the identical note of February
20. That note was a distinct offer of
mediation, provided that England and
Germany would make concessions.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
JOHN D. LONG PASSES AWAY.
Secretary of the Navy Under Nc
Kiniey.


bingham, Mass, Aug. 31.-John D.
Long. former secretary of the navy,
and former governor of Massachusetts,
died at his home here on Saturday.
Mr.. Long returned form @ trip to
Maine suffering from an intestinal
trouble. John D. Long was secretary
of the navy during the Spanish-Ameri-
can war Mr.. Long was called to the
head of the navy department when
President Mckinley took Office in
March, 1897, and also served year in
the cabinet of President Roosevelt.
Mr.. Long was born in Buckfield, Me-.
in 1888. Settled in Boston after his
graduation from Harvard, he served
four terms in the state legislature;
was three terms speaker of the house;
was lieutenant governor, and in 1879
defeated Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, the
Democratic candidate for governor, by
a plurality of $4,000. He was twice
reelected with large pluralities. and
sent to congress for three terms.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
SEE PLOT IN MILL FIRES.
U. S. Starts Investigation of Destruc-
ton of Munitions Factories.

U. S. Starts Investigation of Destruc-
ton of Munitions Factories.
Washington, Sept. THAT a we'll
organized plot exists to destroy NUM-
ton factories that are turning out
supplies for the allies is the, belief Of
officials here who have been investi-
eating the various German propaganda
charges.
The wrecking OF the American Pow
der company's glazing mill at Acton,
Mass, which will tie up that plant for
several weeks; destruction of black
powder mill at Upper Hedley, sub
urb of Wilmington. Del. with the
death of two men. following close on
explosions and fires at half dozen
other points during the last week are
considered far more than mere CO.
incidence And, although officials re-
fuse point-blank to discuss the matter.
1t was learned from an unimpeachable
source that an investigation already
has been started.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
q. S. WOULD RULE HAITI.

American Government Proposes Ten
Year Control Over Finances.
Port au Prince. Haiti, Aug. 2S.-The
American government has addressed
the government of Haiti. expressing
its desire that there be accepted with
out delay the draft OF convention for
ten years under which there shall be
established an effective control OF
Haitian customs as we'll as administra.
tion of the finances of the country, I'M
der receiver general and American
employees.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
1000 DIE ON TRANSPORT?
British Vessel Carrying 1000 Cana
dams Reported Torpedoed.

Berlin, by wireless, Aug. 31.-Pas-
sengers who arrived at Amsterdam on
the Holland-American steamship Ryn.
dam brought report that British
transport carrying 1000 Canadian
troops was torpedoed on August Is
off the Scilly islands. II is said that
about 1000 were saved.
No hint has come from British
sources of the foregoing report. While
it is possible that, had such an event
occurred, the British censors might
have withheld the news, this is i'm.
possible in view of the fact that Of
fetal announcement was made prompt
ly of the torpedoing of the British
transport Royal George in the Aegean
sea, with the loss of about 1000 men.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
BISHOP hebron Is SHOT.
Winona (Minn.) PreIate Wounded


Twice by Demented Man.
Winona, Mimi, Aug. 30.-Rt. Rev.
Patrick R. Hebron, bishop of the
Winona diocese, was shot shortly be-
fore nine o'clock Friday morning in
the private chapel of ST. Mary's col
lege, where the bishop was celebrat-
ing mass, by Rev. Father l.. M.
Lesches, a demented priest, who had
been passing the last week at St,
Mary's college, diocesan headquar-
tiers here, seeking an appointment,
which Bishop Hebron had refused to
give him. After the shooting the
bishop went into the hall of the col
lege, and, with the assistance of
priests, was able to walk to his resi-
dence The bishops assailant was ar
rested.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
zAPATA ASSENTS TO PLAN.

Messengers Sent Out by Lansing Re-
port in Mexico City.
Mexico City, Aug. 31.-Gen. Emiliano
Zapata has assented to the Pan-Amer-
lean program for the pacification of
Mexico. His favorable reply to the
note sent all Mexican leaders was
brought here on Saturday by ]. W.
Russell and Frank Axis, messengers
sent by Secretary Of State Lansing in
behalf of the conferees. The two
messengers have likewise received
favorable replies from Generals Man
uel Palofax, Pacheco and others.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
Catholic Meet at sheboyaan.

Sheboygan-Nearly two hundred
delegates are expected to attend the
annual convention of the Wisconsin
Federation of Catholic societies here
on Sept. 5 and 6, which will be attend
ed by Archbishop Messmer of Milwau-
kee, and many other of the leading
Catholics of the state.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
Pruning Is Profitable.

An orchard survey in an Iowa
county showed that it paid to prune
trees every year; that the orchards
pruned annually gave average net re-
turns of more than s125 an acre,
whereas orchards pruned occasionally
OF not at all gave return of slightly
less than s55 an acre.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
Allies in Furious Bombardment.

London, Sept. IA Central News
dispatch, dated Gin the north of
France" says: 1.-THE allies have be-
gun a furious boE;bardment of the
German positions. An attack attempt
ed by strong German force west of
Lille was stopped by artillery"
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
w. X. GREENEBAUM INDICTED.
General Manager Of Boat Company
Charged With Manslaushter.

General Manager OF Boat Company
Charged With Manslaughter.
Chicago, Aug. 30. = Walter K.
Greenebaum was indicted for man.
slaughter in connection with the sink
ing of the steamer Eastland, in true
bill returned by the July grand jury
on Friday. Greenebaum is general
manager of the Indiana Transports.
ton company, charterer of the East
land. Six federal officials of the
steamboat inspection service escaped
indictment only because the Jurors
were advised they could not be sue
cessfully prosecuted in the state
courts.
These are the government officials
the jury believed culpaMe for the
Eastland disaster:
Inspectors Robert Reid, C. C. Eek
lift, Ira B. Mansfield and William
Nicholas, and Checkers H. G. Oakley
and L. A Lobdell.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
Open Industrial Department.

Eau Claire.-The WisconsinMinne-
sofa Light and Power company has
announced the opening of an industrial
department for promoting the growth
of communities supplied with electri-
city by the company.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
Miss Murdoch Is Married.

Wichita, Kan, Aug. 31.-Miss Mar.
cia Murdoch, daughter Of former Con-
gresham and Mrs. Victor Murdoch,
was married here to Lieut.. Harvey
Delano, u. S. N. The ceremony was
nerformed at the Murdoch home.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
Uncle Sam Takes Another Job.

Washington. Sept. 1.-Ambassador
Morgenthau. at Constantinople, report
ed to the state department that he
had taken over the interests of Rus
STA, Italy and Montenegro in the Turk.
ish capital.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
,eronaut Leans 70 Death.

Fort Wayne. Ind. Aug. 31.-George
Williams, an aeronaut exhibiting here.
was killed near here on Saturday aft
ernoon when he jumped out of his
parachute to escape falling into for
est. His neck was broken.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
Injured in Auto Wreck.

Canon City. Colo. Sept. 1.-Mrs.
w. X. Wright was fatally injured. her
daughter. Gertrude. and Mr. and Mrs.
John Blue of Sedalia, Mo-, were seri-
ously hurt when their automobile
turned over at the bottom of the Sky
line road near here.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-09-03
Submarines Resume Operations.

London, Sept. after a lull of 48
hours German submarines resumed
their operations. The destruction of
the British steamer Sir William Ste
phenson was announced here.