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The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-23
United States Refuses
To Be Bound By the
British Embargo Order
On All C Commercial intercourse
with Germany as Well as
Other Neutral Countries.
CONFERENCES SUSPENDED
BY The Foreign Trade Advisers
of the State Department
on the Subject.


WASHINGTON, May 23-The de-
termination of the United States gov
sernment not to recognize or be bound
by the provisions of the British or
der IN council which declared an en-
barge on all commercial intercourse
directly with Germany, as well as IN
ward or outward bound through
neutral countries. was manifested IN
several ways today.
The foreign trade advisers OF the
state department announced that
they had decided to suspend all con
ferences with British embassy ofd-
cials here with reference to the lnfor-
NAL arrangements which had been IN
progress not only to assist American
cotton exporters in obtaining pay
ment for cargoes detained but also
to secure for American importers
American owned goods now In Ger
many contracted for. before the or
der In council went into effect Sec
retary Bryan said that this step had
been taken in order to secure a pet
ter understanding with the BRUSH
government as to the capacity 10
wbieh the foreign trade advisers were
acting.
Page TO INQUIRE.
Ambassador Page at London was
instructed also to INQUIRE OF 1ns
Rritfsh foreign office the meaning OF
the sta-eneni made in their memo
randum issued on Thursday that tie
terms of and arrangements between
onrepresenta11ves ano
the British goSernmentswere aecepta-
Bile to the United States government
Sir Cecil Spring-Rice. the British
ambassador here, called on .SecretarS
Bryan during the day to explain tnas @
he also had always understood tna'
the United states government was
not to be considered as having recos-
nized the British order IN councii IT
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-23
FYTR q SESSION DOES
NOT COME TO AN END
AS the House Can Not Muster
Enough Votes to Pass Cen
eral Appropriation Bill.
.<,re,AL.ro r.srrrEerAa,

CHARLESTON, May 22-Repeat-
ed efforts to suspend the constltu-
1ional rule in the House otzDetegates
TODAY so that the general appropr1a-
ton bill might be put upon us pass
age failed and at $50 CLOCK tn1s !:
afternoon the House adJourneo,
which action was followed 1e"
minutes later by the Senate. thus eA-
tending the session OF the legislature e
into next Week
Friends of the pollution of streams
hin ,rI,ich is desired by the coal, TIM
Der and other interests OF the StaCe
as well as many of the cities oe-
manded that this bill be put through
before the appropriation bill Wds
passed. and in many instances Sucu
delegates withheld their suppoIs
from the general appropriation bill.
On the other hand many desired Ine
proposed amendment to the pEonipt
ton law so that persons reSlo1nS u
this state could not receive snip.
ment of inIoicants and demanded
thar .he bill be sent through the
House ahead of the general appropr1-
alton bill. believing that IT the gen
eral appropriation bill vent through
first no other measures would De con-
sidered by me House
Slip on Final Test
While several agreements be1%een
these factions were entered into dur
ing the day when the test came there
was a slip. When the final test o.
the suspension of the CONSTITUTIONS
rule on the general appropriation oli1
was taken there was bare maoorlty.
instead of lacking a few votes OF the
necessary two-thirds of the member
ship as on the first test
It is evident now there can oe NO
SUSPENSION of the rules and all olits
will have to take their regular course.
which will extend the session beSond
the middle of next week While the
House passed. the legislative appro-
priation bill. carrying the mileage
and per diem OF the members, the
senate did not take up the Dill
Part OF the time of that body was
devoted to the consideration OF the
pierce pipe line bill. which vas hnallyr
sent to the select committee: to the
exempting of FIRE insurance com
pantes from paying licenses in cities
as is the case with life Insurance.
companies. which went to third read
ing. and the fish and game Dill which
was avanced to third reading. The
mainder of the day was taken up oy
a meeting OF the Senate select COM
nnittee in considering the general ap-
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-23
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It was again demonstrated las
night that rain will not keep lClarks'
burg people away from the tabernacle
The water were somewhat like they
were in the time Of Noah, they came
from the heavens above and the foun-
tains beneath seemed to open NJ
also But that did not deter the peo-
PIE from coming out and actively
engaging in the service The down
porr OF ram was so heavy that 1t
kept back the service somewhat, but
the time was spent in singing the
songs making melody with the patfer-
ing raindrops ON the root.
Before rhe sery1ce began the Rev.
q: W. aGoruSon. president OF the
n1:nisterfal association, called atten-
ton TO the fact that. tomorrow. IS
Hamilton Day and that It, was hoped
that a good offering would be gwen
for DIR. Hamilton.
Dr.. Hamilton sermon was taken
from the first Question-God IS re-
corded to have asked Of Adam,
-.Where Art Thou - It was search
inS question when applied to present
day conditions and to men and wom-
en- in Clarksburg. This was the ap-
plicat5on made and he drove the
points home with unusual stress and
vigor
At the invitation period the re-
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-23
ITALIANS DETAINED
On the Swiss-German Frontie:
and Germans VIII Not Let
Them Leave Country.
t,, ASSOCIATES rress,.

on THE ITALIAN FRONTIER,
Nav %. via Paris. May 23.-Two tai
ian miners. who worked for many
years in the mines in Wesspnai1a'
Germany. arrived at Milan TO-DAY
having managed 60 escape the WIZ
lance OF the guards during the n1sne.
These miners report that many tnou-
sands of Italians, who were return
ing home. have been detained on the
Swiss-Gernan frontier. beyond Basel.
the German authorities refusing to
allow them TO leave the country
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-23
POPE BENEDICT
Gives instructions That All
German and Austrian Priests
Leave Italy at Once.
cnr %ssociAr~ rKEsS

ROME, via Paris. taay 25--Pope
Renedict. wishing to avoid comph-
cation. it IS announced. today gave
instructions that all German and
Austrian ecclesiastics, whose pres
ence in Italy is not indispensable. had
better return home In some OF the
Italian bishoprics that OF Sutr1 ana
SuDi near Vfrerbo, which has been
entrusted to German Franciscan.
Father Bernard oDebbing, crowd
of people attacKed the priests resi-
dence. but after he had left Rome by
aufomobile. From the cap1ra1 ne
proceededSto Switzerland
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-23


DR. Alexander Graham Bell, in-
ventor of the telephone, has Just
been awarded the Edison medal for
meritorious achievement m electrical
science The medal, which was
aEarded to him IN New York at the
annual meeting of the American 1n-
stltution Of Electrical Engineers, IS
awarded each year to a resident OF
He United States or Canada and IS
provided for By trust fund estab.
Isked by trends and associates OF
Thomas ADDISON
DE-. Bell is most famous for hls
telephone invendon,. although many
other things can be placed to h1s
credit He has just celebrated hls
sirty-elshth birthday and lives most
Of the year N Washington. spending
his summers m Nova Scotia
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-23
MUCH DAMAGE
Is Done to Property in Marion
County by Continuous
TorrentiaI Rains.
p~ .nsoe,.4rs .-rso

FAIRdoNT. May 22-Torrential
rains which began last midnight have
caused heavy properly damage IN
Fairmonr, and Marion county. Corn
and other crops have been WASHED
out and much damage has been done
to railroads and trolley lines. Coun-
NV roads have suffered severely
Iandslides along the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad are delaying trafic-
Heav showers continue tonight
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-23
MANY BODIES
Are Recovered from the Wreck
of Three Trains on an
English Railroad.
cav .ssoe,.rse -rrss,

CARLISLE. Eng. May 22.-With
seventy-three bodies already recov-
cred the casualties of the wreck OF
three trains on the Caledonia rail
road at Gretna today Is expected to
reach nearly 400 Many of the In
lured sustained fatal hurts. Most OF
the dead and injured are soldiers a
troop train collided with local and
an express train plowed into the
wreckage which later caught fire.
Many persons were burned alive
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-23

LONDON, May 22-Only the for
NAL declaration of war is now neces-
sary to complete the breach between
Italy and her former allies OF the
Triple Alliance and this is expected at
any moment Ambassadors are still
at their posts, but news comes that
the Italian consul at Munich has been
ordered to return to Rome and
throughout the three countries the
respective nationals are packing up
their belongings in anticipation OF
hnal and Official rupture.
should rupture come it is not ex-
pected IL would have any Immediate
effect upon the battle now in progress.
but It would be likely TO influence the
action of the Balkan states. which
have been awaiting Itaiy's decision
Roumania. it is reported tonight.
has received assurances from Bull
garia that if Roumania decides to
join the allies and go to the assist
ance of Russia, by an invasion of
Transylvania, Bulgaria viii not at
tack that country and that in fact
Bulgaria itself, is considering the pos
sibiIity Of taking similar action al
though its attack would be directed
against Turkey
GREECE is Ready. Too.
Greece also is Interested in the de-
velopments and her efforts, if it
should decide to join. the allies. would
be directed to the Dardanelles and
Asia MINOR In these latter theaters
of operations the allies continue their
activities and the official report sent
by General Sir Ian Hamilton states
that in an attack on Australians and
New Zealand positions the Turks SUI
fered a loss Of 1000 men. Of whom
1000 were killed.
This report does not mention the
operations against Smyrna. but from
other sources il is learned that the
allies are almost as active there as
they are on the Gallipoli peninsula
There is little or no change in the
situation on either the eastern or
western fronts in Europe. The Aus
rrians and Germans claim no further
progress in their offensive in middle
Gancia. and so the British military
critics draw the conclusion that the
big battering ram which drove the
Russians eatward and at some points
across theSSan river, has been brought
10 a standstiu against the bu1wark OF
The Russian reinforcements- Stubborn
nShting, however, is still in progress;
and it may be many dayssoefore either
side can claim definite result.
Germans Land New Force.
Mention in the German official re-
port of cavalry engagement east OF
Windau indicates that the Germans
have landed another force on the
coast Of Courland TO take the place
of the one the Russians drove back
just when it was reaching the envir-
ons of Micau- All through this north
region and as far south as the East
Prussian. frontier confused lighting
continues between widely separated
forces, which ebbs and flows as one
side or the other brings reinforce
ments into the field
Both British and French claim to
have made headway at LaBassee.
but Ihe Germans declare that all at
Iacks have been repulsed or that the
hghting is still in progress Appar-
entity the allies are engaged in
straightening out their front to con-
form with the positions which they
won in recent engagements. task to
which the Germans are offering stub
horn reSisrances
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-23
MOBILIZATION
Of the Italian Army and Navy
Ordered by Royal Decree
viii Begin Today.

LONDON, May 2S-A Rome
despatch to the Stefan1 bureau says
that the general mobilization Of the
arrny and navy ordered by royal de-
cree VIII begin tomorrcw All We
:bicIes and drauSht animals will be
:reorisitioned. Ordinary passengers
and freight service on the railways
viii not be disturbed
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-23
3. .HA MILT TON DA "
IN .CLARKSBJlRG
TOBE MEMORABLE
BARRACKS BLOWN UP-
VERONA, Italy, May 22.-

VERONA, italy, May 22.-
The Austrian barracks at Ro-
verto. a toYn in the Tyrol.
with about 1900 Italian in
habitants was blown up today
The police Immediately
placed under arrest many Ital-
ian citizens. although there
was no evidence TO show that
the Italians were in any way
responsible for the explosion
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-23
KEPoR1s UNTRrE.
t~AssoeIarEo rarsso

wASHINGToN. May 22--Ambas-
sador Gerard. at Berlin, cabled the
state department. today that reports
20 the effect that members OF the
embassy stan are advising Americans
20 leave Germany at once are with
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-23
SWISS army
Is Sent South Leaving North.
east Frontier of Switzerland
without Protection.
~ a~IorarD~rW9

BASEL, via Paris. May %
french and British citizens in the
German speaking part OF Switzerland
express uneasiness. because the
reater part OF the Swiss army has
been sent south leaving the north
east frontier unprotected Confidence
IS expressd In omciaI quarters here,
however, that Germany viii respect
Swiss neutIallHv \
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-23
SHOULD ROJJMANIA JOIN
ALLIES WITH ITALIANS
W1He a State of War is Off
cIaify Declared in Several
of the States of Italy.
GREECE now INTERESTED
And if That Country Joins Allies
Efforts Will Turn toward
the DardaneIIes.
ear .sree,.rse ,-....
LONDON. May ss. I:15 a. M

LONDON, May 23. 1-15 a. m-A
Stetani despatch from Rome says
From May 23 state of war IS
declared IN the provinces Of Sondrio.
Verona. Vizenza, Beliuno, Gdine-
Jenczia, TreviSo, Padua, Mantua and
Ferr1ara, and the iSIanls and COM
munes ON the Adrfatic coast as well
as In all the fortresSeS which may
be declared in state OF resistance
This proclamation is made by or
der of the ministers of war and ma
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-23
AUSTRIA. PAINFULLY
SURPRISED At FIALY
@, .a.oc.ArEp rpczs,

VIENNA, via LONDON. etay 2s-
Baron stephen Burian Won Rajecz. the
Austro-Hungarlan minister for for
efm affairs, today banded to the
Italian ambassador. note expressing
apainfuI surprise, at the decision OF
Traly to -put an end in such an abrupt
manner to the treaty which was based
on the community of our most I'M
arpont poh6cal interests; which has
guaranteed security and peace 70 soIE
states Tor so many years and which
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-23
Hos1E pEFENsE cALLED-
saY Assoc,A+zE eRrs,

aYAssoesAEEs cREsn
BUDAPEST. via London. May 22.
The offcial Gazette publishes de
cree calling upon the landsturm from
Is to 20 years Of age, for
miiitary examination 1t will be de-
cided later whether these classes are
wanted for military service.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-23
ORDERED HOME.

<vY a.soeiSrro P1ESn
MUCICH. Bavaria, via London.
here vas instructed today by the
Italian embassy at Berlin to close the
consulate and leave Munich with the
consulate,s STAN toniEht
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-23
ITALY cur OFF.
NJ SsxoGNrr ~,

/ PARIS. May IS. 1880 m.-The
/ tHavas Agency announces that all
! icommunications with Italy were cut
at midnight
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-23

Macct1o-
Prince :yon, Bueaow Of Germany. and
Baron Macchio, -of--Austrla. counted
among the ablest diplomats in the en-
p1oy Of their respective governments
as ambassadors at Rome during the
trying months when Italy was hesi-
taring between war and peace made
use of all their powers of diplomacy
to keep Victor Emmanuel's kingdom
out of the conflict. Their failure may
he ascHbed to the Overwhelming de-
mand for war on the part of rhe
Italian people.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-23

4Continned on pase 8. frst seehono.
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lconhnued o. page 3; arst section3.
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The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-23

Good Response
the imitation perjpd the re-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-12-17

WTiter?"
The S. W. came out of the reverie
into which she had descended upon
her introduction to the girl with
brown eyes like pansies, a nose that
tip-tilted just enough to be saucy,
and mouth that Cupid himself fash
Toned to ensnare love. The S. W. had
been wondering, with some rancor,
why it is that the Creator makes
some women so beautiful that even,
well, ordinarily nice-looking women
pale into insignif1cance, so she
snapped at the pansy-eyed girl.
"Oh, it is easily explained" she
said. 81 thought everybody knew
why they call us sob writer's, but if
you don't will tell you.
"Once upon a time a grumpy edi-
tor awoke to a startling fact that re-
porters, even the veteran who could
squeeze tears out of dry dishcloth,
lacked something, and the grumpy
editor decided that something was
the feminine touch of sympathy that
the masculine, unless he is one OF
those 80 per cent feminine mortalS
that always marry women who bull
doze them, could not produce.
Nov it is fact that women are
needed, but not wanted, in the bust
ness world, so for long, long while
the grumpy editor just sat and
scratched his head and tried to think
of way to avoid trouble with the
masculine staff of reporters and at
last he hit upon happy solution. He
introduced on the staff a woman re-
porter, and instantly about his desk
there clamored a bunch of he-crea-
lures and from the veteran to the
cub they demanded what the woman
was doing there.
The grumpy editor laughed deris-
lively. "Oh, she is just a sob writer, +"
he said.
ooh, only a sob writer?" said the
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-12-17
THE SOB WRITER AND PANSY-EYED GIRL TALK
OVER THE PERFIDY OF MALE SEX

ever since.
81 have a sob story to tell you
about a girl friend of mine said
pansy eyes, ''but 1 will not tell you
her name.
''She grew up with boy who was
awfully nice, but he never seemed to
get ahead, and one night she was out
late in a storm when man bumped
into her. He apologized and as he
was crossing the sidewalk to get into
his car he asked her if she would not
accept his hospitality and permit him
to take her home.
Perhaps the girl felt little reck-
less because she didn't have any of
the good things-the most she ever
got was balcony seat at second
rate theater and she had never been
in a high class restaurant. Anyway,
she accepted, my friend, you know,
and he took her home and asked her
to permit him to see her again.
ITO make the story as short as
possible, he took her to restaurants
in which she had not even peeped be-
1O1CJ W CdDd1OIo IldI
her, and to the theater, and riding in
his car. 1t was a wonderful glimpse
into a fairyland; it gripped the girl
so that she felt she could not, simply
could not give it up and go back to
the stupid existence. You don't know
probably just how stupid life can
seem to a girl when she has chance
to compare it with life as it should
be.
''The boy she grew up with knew
of the attentions the other man was
showering on her and l suppose be-
cause he grew up with her he felt he
had to NEEDLE, though 1 know in a
story book he would not have told
the girl, my friend, as brutally as he
did tell her, but he found out that the
man was married and he told the girl.
'The man didn't deny it when he
saw she knew, but he told her his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-28
PIPE DEN FOR WOMEN
AT COUNTY POOR FARM
Smoking Room to Be One of Fea.
lures of Minnesota
Institution.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, August 2S.-A
silent little group of gray-haired wom-
en-. some of them grandmothers and
some great-grandmot others, resting
easily in comfortable rocking chairs
with thin blue ribbons of smoke rising
from their meerschaum and calabash
pipes. will be one Of the modernisms
at the new s150,000 women's building,
now in process of completion at the
Ramsey county poor farm.
For the old women are to have an
elaborate smoking room, fitted in mod
ern style, and. said Mrs. Albert Moore,
wife of the farm superintendent, to-
day. 'ff the dear old souls want the
walls covered with pictures of race
horses. prize fighters and base ball
players, they may have them.
When we took poll of the old
ladies regarding the establishment of
den for smoking she continued.
there was hardly a dissenting vote.
We shall furnish the tobacco, and we
expect the smoker to be one of the
most popular places of the institution"
Several of the old women are plan
ming to color meerSchaum pipes, while
others declare they will retain their
cob pipes, despite their contrast to the
furnishings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-28
MINSK IMPORTANT POINT
ON THE ROAD TO MOSCOW
Russian City, Without Navigable
Water, Owes It's Prominence
to Railroads.

Minsk, following Riga and Duena-
burg, is the third most important city
toward which German forces are NOV
ing, and one of the very few cities of
any consequence in west Russia. The
following description OF Minsk is con-
tanned in today's National Geographic
Society war primer:
warsaw, Minsk, Smolensk, Moscow
are the important points along the
great eastern railway whose line be-
yond Brest Litovsk the Teutonic ar
mics are endeavoring to dominate.
There is little value in the 220-mile
stretch of country between Brest Lii
tovsk and Minsk, in the northeast, but
beyond the latter city the industrial
and agricultural development of the
country become rapidly more signif-
icant
Large manufactures OF leather. aE-
ricultural machinery and tobacco are
produced in Minsk, and these industries
are of quite recent growth: The COM
merce Of the city is Of considerable Inn
portance. and Is mostly in grains, pota-
toes. leather and in products from the
wonderful waterway advantages en-
joyed by most Russian cities, Minsk
owes it's increase in prosperity and sig
nificance entirely to the railroads. Be-
fore it's connection east and west and
- OF no standing and was very poor.
"Minsk lies about 10 miles southeast
OF Duenaburg. and about 100 miles east
southeast Of Wilma. 1t Is $50 miles
southwest of Moscow by rail. The city
Is situated on the Svislotch, tributary
Of the Berezina, and upon the junction
Of the Warsaw-Moscow and the Libau-
Kharkov railways. The region around
is billy and we'll wooded. The town Is
population Of $4,000. About one-third
of the inhabitants are Jews. and most
of them are very poor"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-28
CLEAR SKIES TO FOLLOW, -,
trH
AUGUST "WINTRY STORM,
Weather Bureau Also Gives Promise
49,
That It Will Be
Warmer. ,-s

In the midst of cold, dismal showefs
the weather bureau holds up to citiSens
of Washington the picture of the win
try storm dissolving into the Atlantic
ocean, leaving behind generally fair
and warm weather.
According to the weather bureau, the
cool wave which spread frosts and rec
ord low temperatures over much of the
country east of the Mississippi was AL
most spent last night. The weather
bureau predicts warmer weather to-
day and declares that by tomorrow the
"wintry storm" will have passed into
the Atlantic, etc.
The disturbance was traced from he
northwest Canadian province south
ward to the middle western states and
last night was passing through the
northeast states to the coast. Although
frosts occurred generally through the
upper lake region and in the north
east. officials said no reports had been
received of crop damage in this terri
tory.
Another disturbance over central
Manitoba. Canada, was reported last
night, but only a few thundershow.
ers resulted.