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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-03-23
GaIician Fortress of Przemys| Surrenders
CAPTAIN OF GERMAN STEAMER MAY BE PROSECUTED
FUR TRYING TO LEAVE WITHOUT PROPER PAPERS

WASHINGTON. March 22.-NN nile
the guns OF MORO Castle hold the
Hamburg-American liner OdenwaId
prisoner in the harbor of san Juan. 4.
r.. officials Of the United States gov
eInment are considering the question
whether the steamers captain shall b.,
prosecuted for his attempt TO leave
san Juan Sunday without clearanc.
papers. II II probable that no dects-
ion viii be reached until more com
plete reports ara received from m,
authorities at San Juan.
Lieutenant Colonel Burnhani. com
manding the Porto Rican regiment.
cabled the war department today that
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MURDERED WIFE:
THEN SUICIDES
SHOCKING An MYsTtFYING
TRAGEDY TAKES PLACE IN
NEW YORK CITY.
Banker Kills wife While She Wss
Playing Plano For Hir,-No Cause
For Tragedy Known.

NEW YORK. March O. Howard
Boocock. treasurer Of the Astor Trust
Company. ~ this city and prominent
In New York society. shot and killed
his wife tonight as she was pia-ing
the piano for hiz eufsrtainmo'V .u
their home In East Eeyenty. fourth
street The banker then committed
suicide with the same revolver
According 90 the police. the banker
left no word rNplauinC tHp murder
and suicide. nor could any member Uf
the household throw lEhf ON re aI.
fair. The servants declared that fHp
couple were ON the most anrrHurIl
terms
The tragedy occurred shortly after
dinner The maid who served the
meal told fhr police that &c. Boo
cock seemed tu be Iabornr under
some Excitement
After dinner fhe fVH GoUru,E chill
drcu. n boy years old end aIrI uf
Il wore afnf f0 their rooms. rTr.
'ho parents went fn fl. dHu.H
room
ono of fhf maId servant. e..f .Hrf
tHn heard three aHUfa TH. rrHf H#.
lef fatally wounded Wra fuu.u.s.
tho mark 0l fhn second va. found .r
fhe ,eilina tha third ended fHs bank.
ora Nfe Hr bad aHuf H.masIf
fhfouEh the head
The servants fflsrHo1rf '. friend
OF Mrs H0Urock. Nr. H..I. W uH
tlaon. wife uf tho banker who IH H
member ~ fhe frm uf d. P MORGAN
q Company Nra DAVIDSON won. ru
the Hu0g0rk home and frHm frlr.
summoned ri physician IHn fu....
found Mr. HrnrnrF dead and Phi. u|..
hIrafh'rr bfr IHa
Nr U0urn.k wee s Sob. .IHIU ..
OH. class nf 1000 mi. HH. r .....
old
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LONG SIEGE OF AUSTRIAN
STRONGHOLD COMES TO END
DEPLETED BY DISEASE AND
SURROUNDED BY SU-
PERIOR FORCE
Garrison Gives In - Important
From Russian Point of View
Moral Effect Great.

LONDON, March %. 1925 D. m
The long investment OF the mid-Gaii-
clan fortress OF Przemysl has ended.
Depleted by disease, subsisting on
horseflesh and surrounded by a super
Tor force OF Russians. the garrison has
surrendered 20 the besieging army
after a defense lasting many months.
which up 20 the present Is recorded as
Austria's most noteworthy contribu-
tiOn 20 the war.
Petrograd. London and Paris are
celebrating the event tonight-Petro-
grad and Paris n the spontaneous
manner characteristic OF those cities.
London with silent grim satisfaction.
which Is the Briton's way.
The newspapers assert that the fail
of the fortress marks the most i'm
portant capture OF the war. not except
ing Antwerp. IN that II not only re-
leases considerable Russian forces
which can be thrown into the fluctu-
ating struggle in the Carpsthians. but
opens the door TO Cracow and the
plains OF Hungary
Moral Effect Good
IL Is argued moreover that the NOR
al eject OF the surrender will be tre-
hA' 'Ahbhnf AAAH Alfblg VI lut dilltH Dt-
ing that IL viii stimulate feeling in
their favor both In Rumania and Bul-
garia, just as the operations in the
Dardanelles are causing an agitation
in Greece and Italy.
The Italian situation is receiving re-
newed attention by the press of the
allies, though rumors. rather than
facts. seem to be the basis OF most of
the dispatches. The Italian embassy
AZ London had no confirmation to-
night Of the report that freight traf-
nc between Italy and Germany. by
way of Switzerland. had been stopped,
nor was there any confirmation Of
the reported massing OF Austrian and
German troops along the Austrian It,
toral. or the assembling OF artillery
At TriesF-
Fell With Honor.
Przemysl fell with honor. the Brit
ish press comedies. for Il withstood
the Onslaughts longer than any place
during the war. the investment hav-
ing begun about September 16. some
thing more than six months ago. The
duration OF the siege. compared with
the length OF time n took the Ger
mans to capture such strongholds as
Lieee. Nsmur and Antwerp. was due
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.Hr fn.r
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opening session Of The lntelhEencer
and New Home Economies School yes
terday afternoon
In fact. the gymnasium. i'm whi,sh 30
Ccontinusd on Page Three1
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APPALLING CONDITIONS PREVAIL
IN SERYIA FROM TYPHUS FEVER
SIR THOMAS Upton TELLS OF
DEATH DEALING EPIDEMIC
IN STATEMENT
To Associated Press-Death Toll
From Disease Enormous-Or.
Oonnelly Great War Hero.

LONDON. March %. 1215 a. M
Just as DO took fire To stop the Great
Plague in London. so fires are needed
fu clear Seryia Of typus Infected
houses and the clothing Of the people
must b. burned. a. the disease d.
carried by Ncrmin. which is Omui-
present said Sir Thomas Upton
tonight in statement to The Asso.
ciated Press. in which he recountcd
The appalling conditions In Servia
whore ho spent q considerable time
Too personal NEGOTIATIONS
% met on the country roads the
sick. 700 weak to crawl 10 a hospital.
bullock carts we're gathering them up
often woman and children were
leading bulIocks. tho husband and
'aih'r zoo the cart. raving with fever.
scarcely enough people remain an.
stricken t0 die graves for the dead.
which us exposed boz the cemeteries.
'Ihe situation Is entirely beyond
f1n control OF the present force.
which imr0ra.iyrIy needs all the help
H can r'. frufs hospitals. doctors.
nurses. m0fafu appliance and cloth
iur fu replace fHu garments full OF
HrHu h.IfIH. s"m.u"
UssrrN.na tho hospital af Gbey
rh'I whore occurred the death of
I |ar.. HHurrIF rf fHc Amcri.
... E.H .-H... whom Sir Thoma
calls uH. u. fH. greatest h,ror. of
fH. war H. .H.U
Breeds Disease
IH. u..." Ia H village Ir a. barren.
Hu...f....u country ..r hospital au
u.. Tobacco" factory formerly HrIuu.
u. 'u N.H.I HHm.f. Ir If were crowd.
UH 1000. ..-.uH. V..HuH. blankets nr
mIfIT...U.. U| even straw urn NIu.
.r 'Hr .Iu'Hl. .r vH... they had lived
u 'H. r.u.Hr. Tor months. swarm.
" Wit" I.rU.H 800 diseases ..fr.
nH" typhoid Ir..Hf.rt and small
.". H.r. H.rI.H together In such
nf. Hr Uu.H.HN found fHo hos
". "|.r" m. bad force of els
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CROWD At INTELLIGENCER-
NEWS COOKING SCHOOL
C0MPELGS ACTION
y. W. {. A. GYMNASIUM IN
ADEQUATE TO ACCOMMO-
DATE ATTENDANCE
Men Invited TO Attend To-night's
Lecture-Baked Ice Cream
Prepared and Served.
TUESDAYS PROGRAM.

TUESDAYS PROGRAM
Afternoon Subject:
A Balanced Ration
Menu.
FIREIESS COOKER DAY
Roast Chicken Corn Oysters
Ooughnuts
Pastry Spec ialties:
NaPoIeons Cheese Sticks
Evening Subjects -
Tne Man Who Earns and the
Woman Who Spends"
(men especially urqed to
sttend.)
Menu:
Graham Nut Mullins
Baked Ice Cream.
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AMALGAMATED
To VOTE AGAIN
EXECUTIVE BOARD OF AssocIA.
TON TO SUBMIT WAGE CUT
TO ANOTHER VOTE,
Which Will Be Taken Saturday-Ac-
tion Taken This Time at Re
quest Of Men-BeneVed
viii Be Accepted
Special ,,.,.l,,I1 Dispatch to the In.slusenesr.

Special Dispatch to the Intelligence.
PITTSBURGH. Pa. March 22.-In
hnal effoIt 10 save union organiza-
tion in the plants OF the independent
sheet and TIN plate manufacturers OF
the country. the National Executive
Board of the AmalEamated Associa-
tion OF Iron. Steel and Tin Workers
to-day, on request OF the workers in
the Mahoning Valley. Ohio. decided
TO again submit 20 the referendum
the twice rejected matter OF accept
ing TO l1.2 per cent. reduction in
wages. The vote will be taken Satur.
day by 10000 workers in FIVE States.
The new submission differs from the
two earlier referendums in that the
men themselves. instead OF the manu-
facturers. or the officials OF the Anal
eamated Association. are asking for
the vote.
Voted for Cut
Youngstown. o.. Niles. o.. and War
ren. o., on the late referendum voted
largely in favor OF the cut. and az
Middletown. o.. the vote broke about
even. and the plans of the employers
in these towns TO operate under the
reduced rates. despite their rejection
by the other lodges OF the association
precipitated the request for another
vote
Mahoning Valley workers asked
that before this should be done op-
portunity 10 visit the lodges which
bad rejected the cut They reported
receiving favorable treatment almost
everywhere. Wheeling. w. Va. and
one or two other large centers eX-
cCpted.
The National Executive Board to-
day. Il Is understood. was assured
That enough lodges are ready 10 re
consider their vote TO make a third
vote worth while Amalgamated Of
ficials are predicting tonight that the
ieductlon will be accepted Saturday.
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HELFEERIcH eETs IRoN CROSS.

BERLIN. via London. March %
1920 p. m.-Emperor William has
conferred the Iron Cross. second
class. on Dr. Karl Helferich. secretary
OF the imperial treasury. The deco
ration is 2 reward for the success Of
the new war loan
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Surpa ssing the eNpecid,
tions OF those in charged a
keen interest in affairs
culinary was manifested
by the large crowd uf
Wheeling housewives who
more than filled the Y. ".
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Continued ON Page TsnJ
The Washington times., 1915-04-18
Evening Services in the Churches

Man in shera Montgomery
street northwest,
"a Faith the Rev John Ensor Calvary NJ E. Church.
Columbia road near Fiftecrth street northwest, g.
Nativity" Monteor Hamine NJ E. Church. Ninth
streets northwest, g.
ministerial Reward the Rev DR. W. Wedderpoon Foundry NJ E.
Church, Sixteenth and Church streets northwest, g.
of L. Chambers MckenIree
Ninth northwest
Church. Twentieth Pennsylvania northwest
the Rev. Howard F. Downs Wesley
E. Chapel, Fifth and F streets northwest s.
Purdum Ingram Memorial
Church. Tenth street and Massachusetts north
"Paying Fire. Jay T. Stocking First Congrega
tonal Church, Tenth and q streets northwest, g.
Secretary State w. Bryan Fourth Preshy
Church. and Fairmont northwest
Choosing Our Chums" Davis, Westminster Presby
terrain Church Memorial Seventh street near street southwest
byteran Fourth and streets southeast, 7:45.
Chinese Life Mrs O. Spamer Northmnser Presby
1.-TWO Medieval Pictures" Radcliffe,
Avenue Presbyterian Church. New York avenue and streets
Gods Boundless Compassion John Washing
ton Heights Presbyterian Church. Columbia and Kaorama roads,
Creation of Man the Rev. Dr. Charles
Wood Presbyterian Church of the Covenant Connecticut avenue
and Eighteenth streets northwest g.
the Rev Harvey Durham Western Presby
terian Church, H street near Twentieth northwest g.
f. T. Tupper, All Souls Unitarian Church,
Fourteenth and L streets northwest g.
Heaven Temple Memorial
Church, Fourteenth and streets northwest 6.
Tiger Mrs Suhkoda Banerjee,
Metropolitan Baptist Church. Sixth and streets northeast 45
Upted the Rev. B. D. Gaw West Washington Baptist
Progressive or Backsder? Johnson Baptist
Church, Ninth and d streets southeast 745.
Ruined the Rev. Dr. j. J. Muir Temple Baptist
Church, Tenth and streets northwest, 7:45.
Wedding Palestine the Rev Charles F. Furz, United
Brethren Church. North Capitol and r streets, 80.
Rev. Dr. Earle WIfey Vermont Avenue Christian
Church, Vermont Avenue near N street northwest,s
The Washington times., 1915-04-18
THE ALASKA MEGALOMANIA

Tens of thousands of people all
over the country are getting excited
over the possibility of making easy
fortunes in Alaska. The great
Northwestern Territory is in the
public eye because of the Govern
ment's final preparations to begin
building the publicly owned system
of railroads there, and because also
of persistent reports of rich strikes
of gold and other metals and
minerals.
A calamity that may assume seri-
Gus proportions is threatened, if
there shall be a rush to Alaska this
year. Nothing whatever in present
Alaskan conditions justifes it. The
man with plenty of capital and GER
tainty that he will keep within
range of supplies, may have an ex-
cuse for pioneering there at this
stage. But the man who goes with
little capital, and expects to find a
job or gold mine, is doomed to dis
appointment unless he is the very
rare exception. This is good year
to keep out of Alaska. Next winter
will be mighty bad winter to be in
Alaska, especially to be stranded
there for want of money to get out.
Let the Government authorities deal
ing with the Territory, especially
with the railroad operations up
there, use every effort to impress
this view on adventurous people.
They may save the country from a
real horror next winter,
The Washington times., 1915-04-18
ABNORMAL SPRING WEATHER

The oldest inhabitant has but a
vague idea of whether there ever
was a March like the one that befel
this section the present year; the
general impression is that the re-
cent windy experience was unique.
There was almost no precipitation of
moisture during the month, while
the wind movement was excessive,
and the temperature recorded a con-
siderable deficiency.
Resulting from these conditions,
the soil was dried and cracked, and
fall-sown crops, as wheat and rye,
suffered severely. The continued
cold has held back planting of spring
crops. "Truck" is still to go into
the ground, which means that the
early homegrown supplies will not
he ready at the usual time, and will
have to be brought in from the South
or else dispensed with entirely
Wheat has come through the winter
in poor condition, and the outlook is
for an unsatisfactory yield.
OF more immediate and less specu-
The Washington times., 1915-04-18
THE SHORTAGE OF TEA

The things that nobody could
imagine in advance of their happen
ing, are always more interesting
than those that were reasonably OBJ
vious. Anybody would have fore
seen that wheat would get expensive
if half the world went to war, and
that powder and shrapnel shells
would be above par.
But who could have foreseen that
5 o'clock tea would be substituted
halfway around the world for more
strenuous drinks, and that long be-
fore the first year of war was ended
there would be a shortage of tea and
an increase in the price, with the
threat of a serious revolution in the
whole business of raising and selling
tea?
This is the most recently discov-
cred effect of the war. The soldiers
in the trenches, and the people they
have left at home, are cutting out
the hard liquor, and taking to tea.
Consequently tea is being consumed
in larger quantities than ever before,
while there is no present prospect
of expanding its production fast
enough to keep step with the de-
mand. Tea suddenly becomes one of
the items of war material, and the
price, we are assuredt has gone up in
the primary markets 20 to 80 per
cent, with prospects of a real short
age before long ard still further ad-
vances in price.
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lative interest is the effect that these
abnormal weather conditions have
had on human health. The preva-
lence of grip and pneumonia has re-
peatedly been noted, and it is OBJ
served, too, that both have been ac-
companied by an unusual proportion
of fatality this year. In the city,
and throughout the adjacent States,
the number of deaths from these
causes has been so great as quite
to justify the frequent comment that
something like an epidemic has been
going on.
Vegetation suffers for rain, and hu-
manity suffers for real seasonable
sunshine.
The Washington times., 1915-04-18


and this has made for a morale the
absence of which was the principal
cause of the conspicuous failure in
Manchuria. b. a..
The peasant soldiers of the Gar
are admittedly among the best de-,
fensive fighters in the world. They
lack imagination, and consequently
they fight blindly and doggedly and
patiently until they are killed or
ordered to fall back.
1t is the same lack Of imagination
which makes them terrible in a
bayonet charge. Their vitality is
enormous. Life is hard and bitter
on the peasants farm, so the trench
is. not much of a change for the
worse. Indeed, the food is often
better and more regular in the
trenches-and rain and snow and
cold have been their playmates from
childhood.
This much for the resistive power.
But in, this war there is a powerful
dynamic force at work in the Rus
sian peasant. For one thing, some
how, some way, he believes that out
of this war will come better living
and. more liberty for himself. For
another, he hates the German,
wholly and bitterly. German eff
cheney has made him tired, literally
and fguratively. He has been
shamed by German neighbors and
lashed by German overseers on the
big estates.
But, above all, he is intensely re-
ligious, with the emotionalsm of the
Middle Ages. In a dim way he un-
derstands that he is helping the
Serbs, co-religionists. The Gar,
Gods spokesman, has called. The
ikons have been held before his
eyes. 1t is Holy War.
With this spirit physical discom-
forts are discounted. But the Cars
generals have solved the transport
problem in way which has aston
ished the world. Without Germany's
marvellous network of strategic
roads they have managed to hold
the Germans even and feed their
men on the firing line. This has
been done by adapting the transport
to the character. of the country.
One, two, and four-horse carts
drawn by lightweight, tough, shag-
gy Siberian ponies which laugh at
cold and fatten where a real horse
would, starve-these have kept the
food and cartridges close behind the
marching regiments.
And back of all this is the gigantic
figure of the grand duke, a. patient,
masterful man, with brains and
judgment of the kind which led him
to break down every barrier to reach
men with those two qualities. The
result is that the Russian general
staff has astonished the world and
forced Germany to pit against it the
best brains of her military estab-
ment. And so far they have not
blunted Russia's purpose to hold
Germany with one hand and bear
down harder and harder on her weak
Austrian ally with the other.
The Washington times., 1915-04-18
HOW RUSSIA DID 1T

In the Carpathians as elsewhere
Russia gets her setbacks, while
crushing her massive way forward
cost it tens or hundreds of thousands
of troops.
Russia has upset the calculations
Of all the strategists in the war
excepting the Russians.
Berlin gave that hitherto unwieldy
and always inefficient neighbor at
least thirty days for the first mobil-
ization. Russian army corps were
sweeping across the border into East
Prussia on the sixteenth day of the
war. This unlooked-for nimbleness
forced Berlin to bring back first line
troops from the west-and the last
chance of crushing France went
glimmering.
Russia's campaign in Galicia,
which from the beginning has been
the scene of her true advance, stands
out as the one consistently success
full operation of the entire war. To-
day, though. there comes the usual
check after the usual advance, Rus
sia holds the Carpathians and every
foot of Galicia east of the Donaj jec
river. On the now famous Grodek
line she crushed in single great
battle a huge army Of more than
100000 Austrians-and when the
broken masses hurled themselves
across the Vistula it was practically
the end of Austria's offensive power
in this war.
Won Hindenburg has been twice
driven out of Poland and has splin-
tered the flower of the German army
against the Slavic wall in front of
Warsaw. But despite all this we still
regard the Russian as more or less
of patient, clumsy blunderer-for-
getting that a clumsy blunderer, no
matter how stubborn or patient he
might be, could never have CON
1uered Galicia and held Won Hinden-
burg to stalemate at the same time.
In the first place, Russia showed
her marvellous advance in her rapid
mobilization. Whose van might have
read the future in that one fact.
Her grim businesslke determination
was shown in the wiping out of the
vodka trade. There was another
sign that Russia was getting over
the slipshod days-or had gotten
over them.
Germans and other correspondents
have noted with amazement that
Russian shrapnel unfailingly eX-
plodes and that the high-eXplosive
shells burst with a shattering shock
as they should. This marks another
marked advance. 1t means that this
lot of Russian ammunition was made
without graft-or almost without
graft-and it is easy to deduce from
this fact that other graft in supplies
and munitions is cOrrespondingly
light.
There is Il story that when wal
was declared the harpy contractor.
gathered as Of old with low gurgle!
of joy in the ante-room of GranC
Duke Nicholas office. They waitet
uncomfortably long, but rushed t.
greet him with outstretched hands
when at last he appeared. He eyeC
them coldly and uttered these frigiC
words: Him who steals, l hang
Good day" Not dangerous amour
of stealing has been reported.
The Russian field piece is trul.
splendid weapon and, contrary to tn
general belief, the Russian is nat
urally an ideal artillerist. He doe
not become nervous or hurried. Th
Japanese war bred a large crop o
efficient artillery officers and officer
sf all kinds. The men trust then
The Washington times., 1915-04-18

Nowadays, it is impossible to tell
whether a man is married or merely
worrying about the war.
The Washington times., 1915-04-18
City In Chaotic State.

On my arrival at Percmysl with the
Austro-Gcrman army, | found the city
in a chaotic state. Instead of repro
visioning the city and preparing for
further contingency, it was being de-
pleted of its food
The bridges across the river were de-
stroyed and their ruins We're left in
such state that immediate repairs
were out of the question. The river
San itself was rendered unnavigablc,
many stone laden boats having been
sunk in it. Upon our arrival We had
found several thousand wounded and
SEX soldiers; these were ia addition to
thousands of sick civilians.
Instead of clearing the city of its
burden Of sick and wounded, and re-
moving the nonCOmbatants to TarnoW,
the relieving Austrian and German
armies engaged in disputes, which be
came so critical at the end Of october
that on the first day of November
drawn battle between them was I'M
mnent.
The Austrian army chiefs were for
the reprOvis'Oning of the city, while the
Germans were already removing the
Immense stores of food and ammunition
which were left on the west banks of
the river toward NistuL. tran
made Of sixty-two freight cars, laden
with munitions and provisions WhiSn
were being taken westward by the
Germans. was blown up by the Hun
gartRn u0oDs.
This hkppened on the 29th day Of
October. The Austrian and the German
armies, on entering the fortress, treated
it rs an enemy city.
The German soldiers requisitioned
everything on which they could lay
their hands. street fights between the
Austrian and German soldiers were
common sights, while Hotel Victoria
and Hotel Royal became the dual
grounds for the Austrian and German
officers
The Washington times., 1915-04-18

We've never seen any war bread,
but any dairy lunch can supply bis
cults that will furnish the same re-
suit.
The Washington times., 1915-04-18

For married men, this years style
in straw hats will be last years.