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manent the prohibition Of the sale OF
absiltae and other similar liquors.
The government finds that the mill.
tary decree forbidding absinthe has
benefited the population The cabi-
net also has approved a bill which
provides that no licenses shall be is
sued to ne establishments for the
sale of spirituous liquors, unless an
accessory to u restaurant.
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NOTED ARTIST DEAD.

New York, Jan. 7.-Boswell Morse
Shirtletf widely known American
artist, died suddenly today. He was
76 years old, graduate of Dartmouth
and a civil war veteran and a national
academician.
The Sentinel=record., 1915-01-08
KILLING OUT sPARRoWS.

London. jan THE Shefford Spar
row Club in Bedford reports that dur
ing the past year its members killed
1856 sparrows, bringing its total for
four years mp 70 100000 Sparrow S
are unpopular because they not only
annoy the farmers but drive awav
Woim. citing birds and songsters
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BIG SHIP THROUGH CANAL.

Panama. Jan. THE United States
naval collier Proteus passed through
the Panama canal yesterday. She Is
the largest ship which has used the
waterway On an average six ships
are making the trip through the
canal daily The canal channel is In
better condition than it has been
since October -. when the last big
.Ila ntlurrnh
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WAR SUM MARY

been going on il France during
the past day or two, it has been
rather discounted by the Russian
successes against the Turks in
the Caucasus and against the Aus
trians in the Carpathiaas. In both
eastern and western war thea
ters the Germans have been ex-
lceedipgly active, steady Lfogess
is noted in thelt official state
ments regardi lg The operations in
Poland and the French official
bulletin reports violent German
attacks in the Argonne in the re-
giol of Verdnn aGd around Stein
bach in Alsace.
Details of the fighting, as usual,
are lacking, us the long drawn out
battles are referred to briefly,
seemingly as a matter of routine,
unless something of extraordinary
nature occurs.
Regarding the operations in the
west as "A whole, a British eve
witness. who has been the regular
chronicler of events, says that
marked progress has been achiey-
ed by the allies. He adds, how
ever. that the German defensive
is an active onep and that it
must not be inferred that the
progress has been other than
very slow and laborious, or that
the final result is within imme-
diate reach.
Berlin reports that a Turkish
official bulletin announces the oc-
Cupaton by the Ottoman troops
OF Urumiah, an important town of
Persian Armenia
Petrag1ad s. celebrating Christ
mas, the Russian observance fall
ing l3 days Iater than that Of the
other countries and the people of
fhe Russian capital seem to be in
70 wise depressed by the war
which has called 80 many millions
of men to arms
Activity by Austrian subma-
rines according to Berlin. appar-
emily has compelled the French
admiral to withdraw his ships
from the Strait of Otranto, at the
entrance to the Adriatic sea.
The German military govern
ment in Belgium gives denial to
the report that cardinal MERCER,
primate of Belgium, has been ar
rested or detained by the German
authorities. Neither have any
priests been arrested, it is as
serted
The British admiralty is Of the
opinion that the sinking Of the
Formidable in the English chan
mel was due to two torpedoes
fired by a German submarine.
The Marquis of Crewe has so an
nounced to the British house of
lords
Great Britain's preliminary re-
ply to the United States govern
ment's protest against delays to
American commerce is to be for
warded shortly A further reply
will come forward later. The pre-
lim'nary note will be in the ma
ture of an acknowledgment of the
American note and general
statement of the unusual condi-
tions facing the allies and tie
many new problems thrust upon
England.
Germany has ordered that there
Dee uo MOTE tratenizing between
hc Germans ald their opponents
H The Held.
The Sentinel=record., 1915-01-08
FREDDIE WELSH MATCHED.

Akron. Ohio, Jan Freddie
Welsh, lightweight champion of the
world was today matched to meet
Johnny Griffith holder OF the Austral-
ian title, in a tweleye round bout
here February /. The men will be re-
quired to make 1875 pounds at six
O'Clock.
The Sentinel=record., 1915-01-08

the question OF naval stores and it is
expected that Arrangements viii be
made by which shipments can be
made to the Netherlands and Italy
and other neu.rals without difficulty"
The Sentinel=record., 1915-01-08
WALKER is SENTENCED.
Negro Boy Charged With Theft Gets
Minimum Sentence Under the Law.

James Walker, known as sunny
Boy" and yer> black and very dis
tmbins element in police circles, was
Yesterday given minimum sentence
of one year in the state pententiary
after a jury returned a verdict in cir
cult court The negro was charged
with larceny ami receiving stole.
property. He was defended by At
torueys Bouic and Tom Martin
"Sunny Boy" waived his rights ant
took his sentence ia the afternoon 81
Hat his time meht begin
The Sentinel=record., 1915-01-08
Russian Christmas. -

tPetIpsrad. Jan 2 via London, l0:55
p. m-Russia today is celebrating
Christmas Wars shadow has failed
to darken the customary Christmas
spirit, which is more variously and
intensely manifested in the Russian
capital than elsewhere in the world
The Christmas celebration is any
thing but a brief ceremony. Official
ly lasting three days it is often pro
longed by festivities, we'll beyond
New Years during which time busi-
ness is suspended and the stores are
closed, while the country is given mp
to one festive season which breaks
the long period Of winter
AS in other places in Europe, the
war has interfered to some extent
with the Christmas customs I'm Rus
sia, such as feasting and drinking,
which suffer from the rigid enforce
ment of the prohibition laws and the
difficulty in importing fruits and
Christmas dailties. Oranges and ap-
pies We're selling on the Russian
markets Christmas eve at 25 cents
each.
But if the homes are empty of the
material accessories to the Christmas
tide the spiritual and religious side
of the Christmas life has been given
an unusual impulse by the Russian
military successes in the Caucasus
and the higher community of interests
of a national war.
On the streets the holiday season
manifested itself in the sharp wind
which sent the mercury four below
zero; the children gathered around
blazing street fires, singing Christ
mas carols, and the bustling parcel
laden crowds exchanging greetings
All day the streets were lined with
people on their way to the principal
cathedrals for observance of the re.
ligious rites-cne traditional feature
of the Russian Christmas with which
the war has not interfered,
The American hospital gave re.
cepton and concert for the wounded
soldiers.
The Sentinel=record., 1915-01-08

Paris. Jan. 7 20 p m.-The cabi
net has approved a measure for SUB
mission to parliament, making per
The Sentinel=record., 1915-01-08
Prohibit Army Football.

I'rrI.o Ma london, Jan. Z. q pam.
The Sentinel=record., 1915-01-08
All the War News

The SentinelRecord prints all the
war news up to 1880 eacl morning,
two hours later than any other news
paper reaching Hot Springs. When
you read it in tnis paper you are
reading the latest.
The Sentinel=record., 1915-01-08

WASHINGTON D. c., JAN. p
FORECAST FOR ARKANSAS: FAIR
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.
Evening star., 1915-01-28
Provisions of the Disputed
Section of immigration Bill

The much disputed section OF the I'M
migration bill. the literacy test for
aliens. which constitutes the principal
change in the immigration laws. pro-
v,des that "all aliens over sixteen years
of age, physically capable of reading.
who cannot read the English language
or some other language or dialect. In
Guiding Hebrew or Yiddish" shall be
excluded from the United States.
EXEMPTED from this test. however.
are aliens who shall prove to the sat
isfaction of immigration officers or the
Secretary of Labor that they emigrated
from their home country for the pur-
nose of escaping from religious perse-
cution Any admissible alien also may
hiring in his father or grandfather over
fifty.fiye years Of age. his wife. mother.
grandmother or unmarried or widowed
daughter, who cannot read.
The new law also increases the head
tax on aliens from 81 to S. 1t adds to
the existing exclusion HIST stowaways.
nersons OF constitutional psychopathic in
feriority. chronic alcoholics, persons af-
fiicted with tuberculosis. and all persons
who advocate or believe in defiance of
law and authority. all persons who di-
rectly procure or import persons for pur-
noses Of prostitution and persons who
have come in consequence of advertise
ments for laborers distributed in foreign
country. All children under sixteen
years Of age unaccompanied by or not
coming to ono or both of their parents
are excluded, except that such children
may be admitted if in the opinion Of the
Evening star., 1915-01-28
STEEL COMMONS PRICE
IS SOON At MINIMUM
London Refuses to Meet Cut, Despite
Heavy Losses Since Pass
ing of Dividend.

NEW YORK. January %. United
States Steel common stock, the fea-
ture of yesterdays fitful stock market
after the suspension Of it's dividend
had been announced late Tuesday aft
ernoon. dropped Immediately to Its
minimum price of 43 at the opening
of the New York Stock Exchange to-
day. On the floor of the consolidated
stock exchange it sold down to below
Al. loss of nearly II points within
two days.
After touching the minimum the
stock rallied slightly. but fell back
again. About 10000 shares changed
hands during the first half hour.
London Holds to 4S.
The situation was somewhat compli-
Gated by the refusal Of London stock ex-
change to meet the new minimum here.
London adhering to the previously estab-
lished minimum Of 4S.
Another unusual feature in connection
with the trading in steel was the indie
pendet action Of the consolidated ex-
change in establishing a new minimum
of 40.
The board of governors of the New
York Stock Exchange voted at the close
of the market yesterday to fix for the
stock new minimum price OF AZ.
Evening star., 1915-01-28
ENGAGE IN SERIOUS RIOTING
AFTER NEW AUSTRIAN ORDER
Clergy Heads Slav Resistance to Mobiliza-
tion of Last Line of Reserves-Blood-
shed Marks Outbreaks.

slavonia, bodies of students tore down
the mobilization notices, and 1t Is re-
ported that Hungarian official, a stu
dent and child were killed in the
rioting that followed. There was riot
ing also at Karlstadt, in Crotia, where
the mobilization notices were de-
stroyed.
Two Rioters Killed.
At Sussex, near Fiume, the armory of
the Hungarian Landwehr is said to
have been plundered. An enormous
crowd, these advices from Austrian
sources also say, concentrated at Op-
Gina and then descended on Trieste and
Joined manifests there. All the boards
on which the official notices Of mobtli-
zation were posted were destroyed and
In the fight which followed with ma
rines two of the rioters are reported
to have been killed.
Late dispatches state that the riot
ing continues and that general appre-
hension Is felt as to the outcome.
Serious trouble is reported also in
Iransylvania. where Gov. Count Beth
len, it is stated. has ordered that all
persons refusing to submit to the de-
cree of the authorities shall be shot.
Evening star., 1915-01-28
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
TO Be MAJOR LEAGUE
Draft to Be Lifted and Circuit
Changed, According to McGill
of Indianapolis.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. January 2s.-
That the American Association Bas.
Ball League will be raised to major
league standing was the announce
ment made here today by James e.
McGill, president of the Indianapolis
club of the association.
Besides giving the American Asso-
citation major league standing" said
Mr.. McGill, "and lifting the draft ou
our players. the circuit will he
strengthened by a number of changes.
whereby few cities having major
league clubs will be placed in tho
American Association. This will mean
that some of the cities now in the as
sociation Will be dropped"
Mr.. McGill said the reorganization
plans were nearly completed and wouli
be given out in a few days. He also
said that about thirty major league
players would be taken over by the
American Association.
Evening star., 1915-01-28
AMBROSE ASKS NEW TRIAL.
Alleges Errors Of Court and Prose
ou<or ac Grnuudo

William E. Ambrose. member Of the
bar, recently convicted of embezzling
s4,650 of the funds of the Limerick
children, whose guardian he was. has
filed in Criminal Division l of the Dis
trict SUPP eme Court motion for a
new trial.
Through Attorney James S. Easily
Smith, he claims that the court erred
in admitting certain testimony and ex-
cluding other evidence and that he was
not permitted to show intent. although
the government was allowed to intro
duce testimony tending to show that he
had manipulated other funds in former
years which he had held in fiduciary
capacity.
He also alleges that the prosecutor
made an improper statement before
the Jury and declares that the court
erred. in not withdrawing a juror at
the request Of his counsel.
Evening star., 1915-01-28
GAS KILLS RETIRED SOLDIER
Tube to Stove Disconnected Causes
John Murray's Death.

John Murray. sixty years old. a re-
tired soldier. was accidently asphyN-
ated in his room at 1919 NJ street north
west. yesterday. His dead body WAS
found about $50 O'Clock. Murray. who
was retired from the army about
eighteen months ago. had lived at the
N street house for about a year.
In the room occupied by the retired
soldier was a small gas stove he had
used for heating irons He had been
in the habit of cleaning and pressing
his own clothing. 1t is said, and every
thing in his room suggested care and
neatness.
The rubber tube connecting the small
stove with the gas fixture had become
disconnected. Coroner hewitt made an
investigation and gave a certificate OF
accidental death. NJ. J. Murray, a
brother of the deceased, whose home
is in Montclair. N. j., was notified.
Evening star., 1915-01-28
BRYAN AND DANIELS ON VISIT.
Cabinet Members to Address North
Carolina Social Service Conference

RALEIGH. N. c.. January 2s.-With
Secretaries Bryan and Daniels and a
number Of other prominent men and
women on the program. the North
opened a three-day session here this
afternoon.
Secretary Bryan will address the con-
ference Saturday morning; at noon
he will address the state Legislature
and at night he Will deliver an ad-
dress at Durham. N. C..
Among the questions to be considered
by the social service conference are
child labor. education. liquor and the
negro problem. Mrs. Cora Wilson
Stewart Of Kentucky. founder of the
moonlight school, will address the
conference Friday night.
Evening star., 1915-01-28

GENEVA, January IS. via Paris.-The
order of the Austro-Hungarian govern
ment for the mobilization Of the last
line of reserves has brought about
serious rising among the southern slavs,
according to unconfirmed dispatches
reaching here from Austrian sources
The clergy. these advices say, headed
the movement of resistance. which be-
gan Sunday morning at Laibach. thirty
fve miles northeast Of Trieste. After
the sermon by a Slavonian priest the
crowd is reported to have left the cathe-
dral shouting Down with the war;"
Down with the Germans"
Gendarmes Attacked.
The rioters attacked the gendarmes.
and, after shots were fired. the cavalry
was called out and charged the crowd.
During the disturbance the projects pal
ace was burned and its furniture and
pictures, which were thrown out Of the
windows, were trampled to pieces.
At Agram, capital Of Crotia and
Evening star., 1915-01-28

Continued from Flfst PdSe)
the discussion Of certain train cost
statistics produced by the railroad
They dealt generally with train costs.
and J. G. Gurley. secretary of the Met
ropolitan Branch Commuters Associa-
ton, sought to get from witness ]. X.
timore and Ohio, who had compiled the
statistics, specific statements Of the
coat of commuters trains on the Met
ronolitan branch. The witness said he
did not nave ,s sueh fun,has ssas'e es this point
TO- show that the statistics produced
were unfair in that they did not apply
to the particular case. witness theh
turned to Counsel w; ID. psrker. & . tor
said that they did not have such sta
sWill you have a witness produce
them?" pressed Mr. Gurley.
"Tben." said Mr.. Gurley. turning to
Commissioner Daniels. IT wish to get
in the record the fact that l asked the
railroad for cost statistics and they
was refused" c,
sioner Daniels commented that the
burden Of proof to show the Justice
and reasonableness of the proposed
rates was on the railroad. and that II 1t
these facts 1t was its misfortune.
Competition Lowers Rates.
When Mr.. Mccarthy resumed the
stand yesterday afternoon he was
questioned concerning the ffty-trip and
ffty-four-trip tickets which 1t is pro-
posed to withdraw. He declared that
these two forms Of tickets should never
have been sold.
Questioned as to the reason for higher
rates west of Rockville than east. he
declared 1t was because Of electric rail-
way competition.
L. cabell Williamson. president of the
Metropolitan Branch Commuters As
sociatIon, sought to show. by questions
asked Mr.. McCarty. that the commuters
were bearing tho brunt Of the needed
increase in revenues.
Witness denied that this was so. and
declared that all branches of the traffic
were forced to bear their proportionate
percentage Of increase.
Examiners could not get the witness
to admit that the electric railroads in
competition with the steam roads car.
ried the bulk of trafiic because of lower
rates. He charged 1t to the fact that
] the electrical lines furnished moro fire.
Evening star., 1915-01-28
MAY REDUCE WAGE SCALE
Sheet Steel Mill Owners Meet With
Committee From TTn;on

PITTSBURGH. January 2s.-The first
move looking to a readjustment of
wages in the steel industry was made
here today when thirty independent
sheet and tinplate manufacturers. head
ed by W. J. Lynch of Granite City. Ill
met committee from the Amalga-
mated Association of Iron. Steel and
Tinworkers under President John VII.
Niams and Secretary Tigh of Pittsburgh
According to Mr.. Williams. the manu-
facturers called the meeting to con.
slider with the officers Of the union a
possible reduction in the wage scale
adopted last July and to continue for
one year. The manufacturers declares
they were unable to compete with mills
employing non n-union labor.
Evening star., 1915-01-28
Large Bequests to Philanthropy.

ST. LOUIS. Mo-. January 2S.-The will
of Mrs. Eliza Mcmillan, filed yesterday.
which disposes of an estate estimated
at 100000 to s4.oo0.oo0. makes elab-
crate bequests to thirteen educational
and philanthropic institutions. and re-
members hfty-eight relatives. friends
and servants. The largest of the con-
tingent bequests is the residue" of the
estate, which goes to Washington Uni
yersity, ST. Louis. for the establish
ment of an eye. ear, nose and throat
hospital. This residue is estimated at
more than $1,000,000.
Evening star., 1915-01-28
ROCKEFELLER TO MEET :
MINE WORKERS CHIEFS
Hopes to Bring About Better Condi-
tions in the Colorado
Mine District.

NEW YORK, January 2s.-John D..
Rockefeller, jr.. expects to meet today
three representatives OF the mine work
ers employed by the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company. OF which Mr.. Rookie
feller Is a director. with a view of
reaching a better understanding be-
tween employer and employees in the
Colorado district.
The miners representatives with
whom Mr.. Rockefeller will confer are
Frank J. Hayes. vice president of the
United Mine Workers of America: John
R. Lawson. international executive
board member of the United Mine
Workers of America. and Edward l..
Doyle, secretary Of District No Is OF the
same organization.
Talk With Mother" Jones.
The conference will be held In Mr.
Eockefeller's office. where he received
Mother" Jones at the close of his tes-
timony before the federal commission
on industrial relations. For two hours
Mr.. Rockefeller and the woman cham
pion of the Colorado miners cause con-
ferred together. after which newspaper
men were admitted to the office and
listened to MT Rockefeller's descrip-
tion Of his talk with Mother" Jones.
Il found Mrs. Jones a very clear
minded woman Mr.. Rockefeller told
points upon which she laid stress
throughout our conversation l assured
her that, in principle, l quite agreed
with her view.
Plans Visit to Colorado.
II assured Mrs. Jones of my inten-
tion to go to Colorado as soon as my
engagements will permit and make a
further thorough personal inquiry on
the ground. While there I hope l shall
have the opportunity to meet and talk
freely with men who took conspicuous
part in the strike of last year. In the
meantime ! assured Mrs. Jones or my
intention to do whatever lay in my
power consistent with the duties Of
a director and an owner to bring about
more harmonious relations and to in
sure more stable conditions of indus
trial peace"
Performance Wanted.
Mother" Jones. the strike leader and
labor organizer, in a typewritten state
ment she distributed at the hearing of
the commission on industrial relations
To-Day LeTIneQ Tic SCIciho VI SoiacSsASo
bargaining recently inaugurated by the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company in
Colorado as a "hypocritical and dis
honest pretense.'
She said, however. that she did not
believe John D. Rockefeller. jr... under
stood this. and she expressed the nope
that he would go to Colorado not next
spring OF next fall. but while the
ashes of Ludlow are still hot" SO that
he might see for himself and under
stand the entire situation.
is q very pleasant young man. He as
sured me that he is anxious to help
the workers in their struggle for a
chance to live as free men and women.
and we are going to give him every
chance in the world to show that he
means it. Good intentions are all right
as paving blocks. but what we want is
performance-and We want it now. l
don't believe Mr.. Rockefeller under
stands the needs and aspirations of the
working people yet. If he did under
stand and if he is sincere he would
ing his men in Colorado is sham and
q fraud"
Evening star., 1915-01-28
VETO WAS EXPECTED.
Senator Kern Says Matter Will
Await Action on Ship Purchase Bill.

The Presidents veto of the immigra-
ton bill was fully expected. according
to Senator Kern. the democratic leader.
Senator Kern said he believed the mat
ter would not be taken up in the Sen
ate until after the ship purchase bill
had been disposed of.
Nothing will be allowed to interfere
with the consideration Of the ship pur-
chase BILL" he said.
The supporters of the immigration
bill insist that the Senate will pass
the bill over the Presidents veto. 1t
is expected, however. that, when the
veto message is taken up In the Sem
ate it will lead to considerable debate.
Senator Reed of Missouri said today that
he intended to speak in support of the
veto.
Evening star., 1915-01-28

Dr. Schmarya Levin has made ar
rangements to deliver an address Sun
day evening. January 81. at Adas Is
rael Synagogue. 9Th and I streets
northwest. under the auspices of the
Ahavas Zion Society.
DR.. Levin, who will speak on the
Jewish Zionist movement. waa a mem
Der of the first Russian duma and q
signer of the Viborg petition. which re-
suited in the arrest Of all the mem
bers who objected to the closing OF the
duma by the Russian government. He
has since made his home in this coun-
try and is now a member of the body
of six who lead the Zionist movement
He has aided in establishing a tech
ntcal school in Palestine.
Evening star., 1915-01-28
Women May Escape Telling Age.

CHICAGO. January es-Woman vot-
ers Of Chicago win not be Obliged to
tell their ages when they register next
Tuesday II County Judge Thomas F..
Scully can md some provision in the
law by which the age declaration can
be omitted. The age Is required mere
iy as a matter Of Identification" Judge
Scully said. and I do not believe a
woman should be compelled to tell her
exact age. ! believe 1t would encour-
age women to register IL they knew
they did not have to tell how old they
were"