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Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
RECORD IN SPENDING
Democratic Congress Has Sci
New Mark.
Promised Economy, Made Before the
Election, Has Given Place to the
Most Reckless Expenditure
in the Country's History.

Inc administration is in the posi-
ton Of the young man who inherited
a fortune which he thought it impos-
slble to spend, when he received a no
tice from his bankers that he had
~overdrawn his account. Three a
ago when the Democrats met in Balti-
more, they denounced the p~rof1igate
waste of the money wrung from the
people by oppressive taxation through
the lavish appropriations of recent Re-
publican congresses" and they prom
S to return to that simplicity and
economy which BELTS a democratic
government" There was a surplus of
$166, O0O, 900 In the treasury when the
came into power. They
feared a surplus and proceeded to re-
duce it both by checking the inflow of
revenue and increasing the outgo of
expenditures, and Chairman Fitzger-
AID now points to the danger of a huge
oenclt, the issue of bonds. and the pos
si9ie increase of vexatious taxes. In
TWO years the Democratic congress
mas appropriated $2,231, 900, 900, or
nearly $500, DOC, 900 more thar it's most
e~xtravagant Republican predecessor,
n the administration made strenu-
Gus efforts to secure about 500, 00e. 900
more. This same Democratic con-
gress changed customs taxes which
dld no reduce the cost of living. and
introduced new and vexatious taxes
which call for an inQuisition of every
mans income Then it added more
vexatious war taxes in time of peace,
and at the close finds that it has used
up all its revenues and SIPS, 600, 900 OF
the nest egg left by the Republicans in
the treasury.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
GIVES BIRTH TO DAUGHTER
Crown Princess cecelie Of Germany
Now Has Five Children, Four
Boys and One Girl,

Berlin. via London. April Grown
Princess Cecelie on Wednesday gave
birth to a daughter. The mother and
child are doing well. The crown
princess. who is a daughter of the late
Friedrich Franz III Of M~ecklenburg-
6chwerin. married Frederick William,
che German crown prince, in June,
1906. They now have FIVE children,
four boys. the eldest being nine years
Of age. and one daughter.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
Conference Held In New York.

Refusal to accept the proposed
substitute for the Thatcher bill,
increasing the maximum railway
passenger rate in Ohio to 2h cents a
mile, formally was announced by the
executive committee representing rail.
road interests doing business in this
state. AS outlined in these dispatches
this decision was reached at a confer
ence of executives held in New York,
the results being t~elegraphed to the
campaign headquarters in this city.
Accompanying the announcement was
the statement that the decision was
arrived at through the unanimous vote
of the Ohio railroads.
This rejected substitute proposed
that the matter of increasing rates
shall be placed under the control
of the state public utilities commits.
sion which is to be given power to ad.
just tariffs within a maximum of PA
cents, although it should be said that
no final figure has been determined
upon.
The committee voted indefinitely to
postpone the Thatcher bill and to Gre
ate a subcommittee of three members
to draft the substitute. Action has
been delayed pending the conference
expressing the hope that its decision
would have their approval.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
Republican Guidance Needed.

The Democrats blame the a
They harp upon that one string. Yet
the enormity of their financial excess
Is a fact that cannot be e~radicated.
The country has an unproductive and
d~iscouraging tariff law, an unwieldy
and little ~serviceable currency law; an
inquisitorial income tax law, and a
burdensome so-called wal tax law. Yet
it stands in the place of the money
lender begging-or presently will do
so-for funds. The story of the last
congress does not make pleasant read
ing. Nj. Gillett is right in saying that
the trails of revenue failures and prof
legacy lead to the executive chambers
and point to the president and his cab
met as primarily responsible. It is
unfortunate that the country should
not now have the opportunity of ex-
pressing itself. so as to turn its affairs
over to the competent Republicans
and to discharge the incompetent Dem
ocratS.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
10 BRITISH SHIPS DESTROYED
German Submarines Sent Five Mer-
chantmen and Same Number Of
Fishing Boats to Bottom.

E ZL
London, April German subma-
rines made a total haul of ten British
ships during the week ending Wednes-
day night, according to an official an
nouncement by the press bureau. Five
Of these ships were merchantmen
which were sunk. The remaining five
were fishing vessels. News of the
sinking of another trawler. the Ear
ina, was brought to Grimsby by the
trawlers PineweT and Ruby. They re-
ported seeing the Zarina lifted bodily
out of the water by the force Of the
explosion. The fate of the Zarina's
crew of nine was not ascertained as
the Pinewell and Ruby hurried out of
the zone for fear of receiving similar
treatment.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
BULGARs ATTACK SERBS
Irreguiars Cross Frontier and Losses
on Both Sides Are Con-
siderable.

Lish, Serbia, via London, April e.
A Bulgarian attack began at two
o'clock Saturday morning near Vallan-
dovo. when several thousand irregu-
lars, wearing military ) uniforms,
crossed the frontier and surprised and
killed the Serbian guards. They
occupied all the heights on the left
bank of the Varda river and penetrat-
ed as far as the station of Strumitza.
They cut the telegraph wires and drove
back the Serbian troops and captured
two guns.
The Serbian troops, REINFORCED, re-
pulsed the invaders after a violent all.
day fight and recaptured the guns.
The Serbians are now pursuing the
Bulgarians, who lost heavily in killed
and wounded. The Serbians lost fifty
men killed.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
8 CARS OF GOLD FOR ALLIES
Large Shipment of Bullion Leaves
Council Bluffs-LabeIed Oriental
Silk.

Council Bluffs, Ia, April Slight
carloads of gold bullion shipped Gro
the country under bills of lading de-
scribing it as silk, left Council Bluffs
for the East, en- route for Chicago
and thence New York. Heavy detach-
ment of armed special agents accom-
panied the train from here over the
Rock Island t o Davenport, where an
other guard will take it to Chicago.
Railroad men here declare the gold
is destined for one OF the warning
nations in Europe. 1t is billed through
from here to New York by express,
the special cars travelling fast as sec
ond section Of fast mail train. This
is said to be second similar shipment
of Oriental silk that really is gold
bullion.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
WILLARD Is CHAMPION
COWBOY FROM KANSAS KNOCKS
OUT JACK JOHNSON.
Right to Jaw In the Twenty-sixth
Round Wins the Big
Battle.

Havana, April Jack Johnson, ex-
lie from his own country, lost his
claim to fistic fame as the heavy
weight champion, of the world. The
title was wrested from him by Jess
Willard, the Kansas cowboy, the big
gest man who eve entered a prize
ring, and a white hope" who at last
has made good.
Johnson returned to his rooms al
most Immediately after the fight.
Aside from a cut lip he was un'
marked.
The fight probably has no parallel
in the history of ring battles. For
90 rounds Johnson punched apc
pounded Willard at will, out his
blows grew p%erceptibly less powerful
as the fight progressed, until at last
he seemed unable or unwilling to &C
on.
Johnson stopped leading and fol
three or four eccrds the battle be
tween the two huge men was little
more than a series of plastic poses Of
white and black gladiators.
So IL war until the twenty-ifth
round, when Willard got n of his
widely swinging, windmill r~ight-hand
smashes at Johsson's heart. This was
the beginD'ns of the end.
When me round closed johnson
SEM word to bis wife that he was al
in.' and told her to start for home
She was on the way out and was
passing the ring in the t~wenty-sixtt
round when a singing left to the body
and a cyclonic right to the jaw caused
Johnson to crumple on the floor of the
ring, where he Jay partly outside the
ropes until the referee counted ter
and held up Wizards hand in token Of
his newly won laurels.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
Two Cincinnati Bills.

There was reported in the lower
house the bill of Senator W. R. Col
Inns, of Cincinnati, permitting assess
ments to be made upon AUDITING prop
erty for parks, parkways and boule-
wards. 1t has passed the senate. The
house committee, however, made the
maximum that could be assessed SO
per cent of the cost of the improve
ment. Representative Yeatman, of
Cincinnati, presented a bill coming
from the municipal court judges. 1t
increases their vacations from 80 to
45 days, compels all demands for juries
to be made in writing, permits a jury
of six IN a civil case and permits five
to return a verdict. Person asking for
jury is to put up SIS in advance. The
court may issue executions up to $500
in amount upon personal and not real
property.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
BIG WAR MATERIAL ORDER
sion for 10000 Tons of Steel
for %Shrapnei.

Pittsburgh, Pa. April San order
for $4,000 tons of steel rounds for
shrapnel has been placed with the Car
negie Steel company by a Cleveland
concern acting for the French govern
ment. The order is said to be really
a doubling of one placed by the same
interests with the Lackawanna Steel
company and calling for 80, o tons at
a cost of approximately $4,000
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
Surety Bonds Eliminated.

Advocacy of the abandonment of
surety bonds for state officials is con-
tanned in a report submitted to the
auditor of state by Chief Departmental
Examiner J. H. Kaufman. He believes
that the ending of surety bonds would
prove a real measure of economy and
save the state a large sum of money
now paid to the surety companies. The
premius, he says, "are velvet for the
surety companies" As an instance he
cites the case of the treasurer of state,
for whom the state secures a bond
at the annual expense of s2,100. The
bond covers possible d%efalcation of
the treasurer of state for $500, 900,
while the treasurer of state has In his
custody S42. 1000, 5000 in securities. Mr..
Kaufman says: THE state of Ohio
is bigger and richer than all of the
surety companies combined. The
surety companies should eventually be
eliminated from our public business
practice and the state should assume
its own risks"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
N ADMIT LOSS OF u-2s
Admiralty Finally Accepts oHicial
British Report Of Destruc-
ton Of Craft.

Berlin. via Amsterdam, April o.
The German admiralty has given out
an official statement in which the loss
OF the submarine U-29 is accepted
The text of the communication fol-
lows: THE submarine U-29 has not
returned from its last cruise. Accord
ting TO a report of the British admit
rally Of March rs this vessel. with her
crew. was sent to the bottom. She
therefore must be regarded as lost"
II is generally accepted that the u
20 was commanded by Capt. Otto
Weddigen, who had charge Of the U-g
when this submarine sank the cruis.
ers Hogue, Aboukir and Cressy last
September.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
DRYs GAIN IN WISCONSIN
kF coIumn-Wets Capture Only
Four Villages.

Milwaukee, Wis, April S.-The vote
in Wisconsin cities, towns and villages
on the wet and dry question showed
a gain for the dry element in number
of towns gained but the larger cities
voting On the issue-Madison. Supe-
rior. Ashland and Beloit-remained in
the wet column.
F%orty-one places which were dry"
voted to remain so. and 65 voted to re-
tain saloons. Probably the most sig
nificant feature of the vote was that
10 cities and towns which we're for
merly wet we're swung into the dry
column, while only four villages which
we're dry went over to the wet column.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
Total vote. ..42s,oe4 24a,7s7eess,s s1

ICtdl vOLe. .sfZO,US4 GToJf 0foSSS'S~'
Thompson pIu. a4,o45 54,s46 1881
The women's vote was al important
factor in Thompson's victory. Thomp-
son received about &C per cent of the
women's vote.
The avalanche swept in the rest of
the Republican city ticket. Charles
H. Sergel was elected city treasurer;
John Siman, city clerk; Hosea w.
Wells, Judge of the municipal court.
The vote of protest" for minor IAN
didates proved a myth. Stedman, So
cialist, got 23 1895 votes, less than the
party polled four years ago; Hill, Pro-
hibition. got $500.
Thompson won the mayoralty IN
the face of one of the bitterest per-
sonal campaigns that could be con-
templated, and despite the fact that
the supporters of Robert NJ. Sweitzer
controlled one of the greatest politi-
cal machines that has been operated
in Chicago since the election of Will
liam Mckinley president in 1896.
Returns from the municipal election,
which was preceded by the warmest
campaign in the history of Springfield,
show John S. Schnepp, the present
mayor, leading Charles Bauman for
reelection by 100 votes. Mayor and
four commissioners are to be elected.
In the first election in Bloomington
under commission form of govern.
ment, E. E. Jones, Republican, defeat.
ed J.. W. Rodgers. Republican. for
mayor by 213 votes.
r. L. Carlock. ]. F. Anderson, A. G.
Erickson, E. R. Morgan we're elected
commissioners. Mrs. Helen McCurdy
candidate of women, was defeated.
Stanton township, the only wet spot
in Champaign county, was voted dry
by women's votes by a majority of SO
Kankakee was voted wet by a ma
jority of $500 out of a total vote O.
5000. The women's vote which was
expected to put the town dry showed
more than 500 majority wet. Thi:
was the first fight on the liquor CUES
ton in seven years.
Lincoln was voted dry by a majorit,
of 112 votes,
Pontiac passed from the wet to thu
dry column by a majority vote of $50
Nine saloons are affected.
Twenty-six put of 80 precincts Civ.
the vets majority of 1000 in Danville
Seven city and eight county precincts
do not materially change result. Abou
rs per cent of the registration voted
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
MEET TO DRAFT STATE CODE
New York Constitutional Convention
Delegates Assemble at
Albany.

Albany, N. Y, April For the first
time in almost twenty-one years dele
gates assembled here to draft a new
constitution for the state of New
York. OF the 16S delegates all but
fifty-two were Republicans. Elihu
Roots selection as president of the
convention was a %foregone conclusion.
Among the most important questions
the convention is to consider are con-
~servation of natural resources, revi-
sion Of the judicial system and the
short ballot.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
E|TEL IS |NTERNED
MERCHANT SHIPS FREED AT
NEWPORT NEWS AS DASH
Is ABANDONED.
SAYS HELP FAILED TO ARRIVE
Captain Thierlchens Of German cruis-
er Submits to United States Orders
and the Vessel viii Be Held Inao-
tive Until End Of the War.

Newport News, Va, April o.
Commander Thierichens of the Ger
man auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel
Friedrich on Wednesday night hand
ed the following letter to Collector of
Customs Hamilton:
! inform you that l intend to in
tern S. M. S. Prinz Eitel Friedrich.
The relief l expected appears not to
have arrived In time, so the number
and force of the enemy's cruisers
waiting outside the bay makes it
eem impossible for the dash for the
open sea to be made with any hope
Of success.
y have decided not to deliver the
crew and ship to a fruitless and GER
tain death.
Il am greatly obliged for the cour-
tesies shown by all United States au.
thorities.
Respectfully yours.
"THIERICHENS."
Collector Hamilton Immediately
wired the news Of the Prinz Eitel
commanders action to Assistant Sec
Rotary OF the Treasury Peters, who
was In charge of the case in Wash
ington.
He then lifted the embargo on the
departure of merchantmen flying bel
hgerent flags, releasing about twent-
U-hve British steamers.
oficers and crew Of the Eitel were
downcast. Commander Thierichens
himself declared that the action he
had been forced to take made him
Hcik; that he was heartbroken to be
rmpelled to resort to such a step.
The commerce raider will make her
last cruise Of the war. She win be
taken 10 the Norfolk navy yard, across
Hampton Roads from the shipyard
here. where she has been laid since
Aimping into port March 10, after the
remarkable commerce-destroying voy-
age from the Orient. during which
she sent the American ship. William
p. Frye. to the bottom.
Collector OF Customs Hamilton
boarded the Eitel Wednesday night
with an imperative notice to the YES
sells commander from the Washing
ton government that the time for his
stay in this port would expire at mid
night April Z and that he must leave
american waters by four o'clock on
tho morning Of April s. Before the
customs collector could deliver the
message Commander Thierichens
handed to him the written announce.
ment OF HIS decision.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
5,259 Claims Disposed Of.

The monthly report of the claims
department of the state industrial
commission shows that during March
there were 5,258 claims for compensa-
ton, under the women's compensation
law. disposed of. For the same period
there were 4,722 accidents reported to
the commission, % of which were
deaths. Since the workmen's compen-
sation act has been in operation there
has been a total of S4,915 accidents re-
ported under the regular plan OF state
insurance
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
Settle, Is Advice,

Alternative courses confront build
ing and loan associations in several
parts of the state, but located princi-
pally in the Miami valley, with respect
to $1,777,000 of state funds that they
now have on deposit. Under a ruling
given by Atty. Gen. Edward C. Turner
to Treasurer of State R. W. Archer,
they must return the money by April
10 or they must defend their claimed
right to hold it longer in the supreme
court. While no representatives of
the Miami valley associations were in
the city, it is assumed that suit will be
brought at once to test the ruling. It
was a strict application of the prin-
ciples of law announced by Turner in
his earlier opinion to the general as
sembly oh the referendum provisions
OF the amended constitution of the
state at the time the Better tax ripper
bill was pending that led to the conclu
sion that the building and loan asso
Citations which had state funds under
the V~onderheide act of 1913 must re
turn them at this time.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
GERMANS CROSS THE USER
Village of South Dixmude Is Occupied
by kaiser's Troops, Declares
Berlin Announcement.

London, April German troops
have crossed the User and captured
a village on the west bank south of
Dixmude, according to an official an
nouncement from Berlin on Sunday,
which says:
"On the User canal, south of Dix
nude, German troops occupied the
village of Drei Grachten on the
western bank which was held by the
Belgians.
Several French charges in the for.
est of lie Pretre we're repulsed."
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
UNABLE TO RAISE THE "a
Admiral Moore Notifies Navy Depart
ment That No Results Have Been
Obtained by 7escuers.

Washington, April s. - Admiral
Moore. in charge of the work Of To-
eating and raising the lost submarine
ia at Honolulu. reported to the navy
department that no results had been
obtained thus far. although the res
cue force was working over It.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
PLAN STRIKE OF 100000
international Labor Leaders Said to
Be Making Supreme Effort to
Force World Peace.

New York, April 9.-1nternational
fsbor leaders here are trying to range
a strike throughout the world Of
100000 trades unionists as a
Of stopping the European war. &C
cordlng TO Ernest Bohm. secretary Of
The Central Federated Union.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
Commission Appointed.

Representatives were commissioned
to examine the pending liquor decen-
Trailing bills in the house of repre-
sentatives. They were appointed by
Chairman Van S. Deaton, of the COM
mittee on temperance, after a hearing
upon the Hake, Andrews and Purdum
bills, held before a handful of specta-
tors. The commission is to make a
selection or bring in a new bill if 1t is
possible to agree upon a satisfactory
measure. 1t is unlikely, though, that
anything will be done until some sort
Of an agreement is reached in the sem
ate, where the Republican majority Is
still badly divided. There is a feeling
developing in favor of the plan sug-
gested by County Auditor Peter w.
Durr, of Cincinnati. This does away
entirely with local commissions. 1t
provides for license in perpetuity, the
present holders to retain their certif-
Gates.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
Bids Are Received.

Bids for the construction of the first
lap of the new Chesapeake & Ohio
route from the Ohio river to Columbus
we're received at the Columbus engi-
neer's Office. The first 28-mile section
will be built from Sciotoville to Wa
verify. This is said to be the most diff
ficult section of the entire route and it
is estimated that it will take nearly
two years to complete this strip. Work
on the remainder Of the route to Co
lumbus will not be started until next
year.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
sneaks With Authority.

The advice of ex-President Taft is
the more to be respected and followed
because it is from a man who has
occupied the highest place in the gift
of the nation, and speaks with au-
thority of the problems which now
confront us. And he holds up the
true lesson of patriotism as distin-
vuished from the lingo spirit.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
Country Really to Blame

If former Senator Root were secre-
tary of state right now eneasiness
would disappear Immediately. But
then, when the country permits the
Democratic party, though a minority,
to get control of the government, it
really deserves to have a government
Of deserving Democrats.-Brooklyp
Standard Union.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
Cold Feet Cause Broken Sleep.

A common cause for restlessness at
night is found in cold feet, and these
should be especially guarded against
with children who are prone to suffer
In this way. Hot water bottles. care
fully covered with felt so that there
Is no risk Of burning the sensitive
skin, should be resorted to when any
tendency to cold feet exists, and in
cases of chilly babies generally, cold
is extremely bad for little children,
and much broken sleep is due simply
to il,
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
Discover Huge Sun spot.

Washington, April 6.-The navy de.
partment made known that on devel.
oping a photograph of the sun taken
at noon March 20 what appeared to be
a very large sun spot was on the edge
OF the northeastern limb of the sun.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
Germans vii, Paw Indemnity

Washington, April e.-The German
government has replied to the claim Of
the state department for compensa-
ton for the sinking Of the American
1hap William P. Fry, assuming iabiii-
y not only for destruction Of the YES
yed, but of the cargo.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-04-16
Kino AIbert,s Son in Rsnks

Dunkirk, April S.--The duke of Bra
bant, son of King Albert of Belgium,
age fourteen, enlisted in the Twelfth
infantry. He was marching In the
ranks when the regiment was re-.
viewed by his father and mother.