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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-03-04
Republicans F7ilibustering Tactics Force Democrats
 to Give Up Fight.
R. AND IT. BILL,
 GOES THRU SENATE
Measure Carrying 25,OOO, ,OOO Enacted After All-Night Session, During Which Vice President Was ROus.
 cd from His Bed.

Washington, March 3.-The admin- lstration ship purchase bill waa ,;iven it's death blow late this afternoon when it became apparent that the Republicans intended to renew their filibuster, and Senator Fletcher, in charge of the bill withdrew his mo- tion that new conference be asked of the house. Senator Stone, one of those who have led the fight for this bill, declared that it had been .'incon- tinently strangled"
 The ship bill came over from the house and was called up from the vice presidents table by Senator Fletcher's motion that the senate in- sist upon it's disagreement to the house amendments and asked further conference. Senator Bankhead, one of the seven seeding Democrats, dis cussed the bill at some length ara was followed by Senator Weeks, in charge of the Republican filibustering forces.
 Senator Weeks said he intended to make flew remarks" and would speak anywhere from one to three or four hours, if Mr. Fletcher pressed his motion. He then read to the sen- ate a list of 20 odd Republican sena- tors who, he said, also intended to speak at, .some length This thinly yelled threat of filibuster made 1t ap- parent to Democratic leaders that all other legislation in process of com pletiOn would have to be sacrificed if the ship bill were kept before the senate.
 After the bill had been disposed of, Senator Thomas of Colorado launched into vigorous denunciation of the filibuster through which the bill had met it's death and paid his respects to Senator Smoot of Utah whom he charged with being the organizer of the fight that had obstructed the en-
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DISGUISED MEN ROB GILLIAN BANK .:f Wearing Boards, Two Ban dits Take $1,000, Kidnap
 ping President and
 Patron.

DeQueen, March 3,-Two unmasked men, who wore false boards, footed the Bank of Gilman, about 13 miles north of here, of about $1,00O at 10 o'clock this morning.
 Dr. Hendricks, president of the bank. and customer, were al' ne m the bank, when two men entered and covered them with revolvers. After taking all the cash, the robbers or dered the president and the other man to walk out of town ahead o1 them, threatening to shoot them il they looked back.
 After walking a quarter of mile Dr. Hendricks looked back just m time to see the robbers riding out of town on horses.
 Posses in pursuit are handicappe by a hard rainstorm.
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,I0nNSON- N-WILLARD
 FIGHT PLANS OFF
Black Champion Refuses to Go to Mexico, Fearing He'll Be Turned
 oyer to U. $. Officers.

Fl Paso, Texas. March 3.-The chances of fight between lack Johnson and Jess Willard went glim- mering today, even in the hopeful breast of Tom Jones, manager of Willard. when Jack Curley, promoter Of the Jlarez fight, cahled from Ha- vara and asked Jones for his terms to come to Havana to fight.
 A message was also received from "Tex" Rickard, who promoted the Johnuson- Jeffries fight at Reno, ask ing for Willards terms to fight at Bmenos Aires.
 Curley's message is taken to mean that Johnson has absolutely refused to come to Mexico.
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RAILROADS PAY
 DIVIDENDS 0N WATERED STOCK
Witness at Wage Hearing Says Amount Thus Paid Would Give Men Wages
 Wanted.

Chicago, March 3.-Testimony deal ing with the financial management of Western railroads was given by w. J. Lauck, a statistician, at today's ses- sion of the board of arbitration in the Western railroad wage hearing.
 Taking ten representative Western systems, MT. Lauck stated that in 1915 these railroads paid $11,276, ,495 in div
 idends on so-called fictitious stock. He pointed out that $9.450,755 of this would have been sufficient to have paid an increase of 9 per cent to the engineers and firemen on these Iroads. The railroads mentioned were the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe: Cnlca- go& Northwestern; Chicago, Burllng- ton & Quincy; Chicago, Milwaukee x
 St. Paul; Great Northern; Illinois Central; Northern Pacific; Oregon
 Short line; Southern Pacific and Un- ion Pacific.
 During the period 1900-1910, the witness said, these railroads issued fictitious securities to the aggregate amount of $179,122,796. Commissions to underwriters of the securities amounted to $9,120,124, he said. James M. Sheehan. attorney for the !! railroads, asked if MT. Lauck had ln- vestigated to ascertain to what extent public utilities commissions had gov erned the issue of these securltles' Lauck replied that it could be assum- ed that where such commissions ex- isted they had approved the issues. He attributed the financial difficulties of the Rock Island road, the Wabash the Frisco system and others to over ca canitaIiZatiOn. ! .-..
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GHOULS AT WORK.
Attempt to Remove Body of Late
 Newark Justice of the Peace.

Newark, March 3.-Unidentified ghouls. using picks and shovels. broke into the grave of Justice of the Peace J. M. Black, who died two weeks ag,, and attempted to remove the body. The lid was taken off the casket and the corpse pulled into sitting posi- tion. The glass front of the coffin was broken.
 Authorities Investigating the case believe the ghouls were surprised while at work and fled. There is no clue to the mysterious depredators.
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0fFICIALSa RAID
 THE ''BR00kH|Ll" County Authorities Believe They've Captured Full Grown "Blind Tiger" ;" WHO OWNS THE Bo0ZE7 Large Quantity of Liquor, Some of It Shipped from Ulm Recently, Discov.
 cred in Rear Room of
 Building. 

County officials believe we'll de- veloped "blind tiger" was captured yesterday afternoon, when Sheriff R. H. Williams and Deputy James Lytle raided room in the rear of the Brookhill saloon, owned by M. Hol- land, and took possession of quanti- ty of liquor found there.
 An inventory of the stock by Depu- ty Sheriff Lytle shows:
 2,7OO pints of whiskey.
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!. Blockade, Articles
 kans Can Supply Will 1 Not Be Barred.
LING IS U. S.
 ERlEs TO 1NTRUDE
l. American Note Will Say Ger |h Asking Neutral States to for Her What She Cannot l yor Herself-Denies She
 Tses Mines.

m. March 9.-Exrortatio2 srmany of such goods as Great
 desires and is able to obtain hat county will be permitted
 British government, notwith- , the declaration of Premier
 that Great Britain and her Eould prevent commodities Of ud from reaching or leaving y.
 point was made clear in T bnt respecting the blockade delivered in the house Of com oday by Walter Runciman. bt of the Board of Trade.
 ral Lord Charles Beresford whether aniline dyes could be d to Tngland. MT. Runcimar l that persons licensed by the hent to import aniline ayes be permitted to continue to hem in, since these dyes were ty for the purpose of the war the admiralty and several in- s suggested that if German tontinued to be brought in t e impossible for Great Britain Sent Germany from exporting b America. He declined to this poirt. He said:
 is necessary that we should. [ if we can get, some goods esMany-for instance, if we explosives and can get them ermany, we certainly shall do publication of the American the British and German gov D looking to the withdrawal Fsdbmarine blockade and the Anee of food movement to y for the civil population, has h wide attention.
 Germany Might "Renfg.n English view. which undoubt- Il be embodied in the reply fica, is that the suggestions
 that Great Britain shall
 forego the strength Of her due to her superior navy. Tn (ords, Great Britain feels Ger
 trying to have the neutral perform for her duties which Id possibly carry out had she (ior navy.
 ermore, the British govern
 is asserted, will ask wha:- zee the United States will g,ve rmany would not resume he~ me activities after she had
 sufficient food under the re- elations to enable her to carry war indefinitely.
 mug reply to the suggestion
 oelilgerents cease the use of
 mmes will be that she has lsei them.
 Iaellsh position as to the use sai flags and the arming of ~ ships is that no general (as neen issued for the use of s or neutral states and that V snlos were armed only .a,any had declared a subma-
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Rural, Credits Go Over.

Washington, March 3.-By a vote if 219 to 104, the house tonight adopt ed the conference report on the agri- cultural bill, which sets aside all rural credits plans and substitutes therefor the appointment of joint committee to Investigate and report upon farm loans at the coming ses- sion of congress.
 The commission will consist of the chairmen of the house and senate committees on agriculture, banking and currency. with two members to be chosen by the chairman.
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FOUR PINE BLUFF
 CLAIMS IN BILL
First Baptist Church to Get $1,96C, Methodist Church $1, ,300EJones and Lis
 ter Estates Also Ben
 eft Through Action.

Washington, March 3.--De:nOcratic leaders in the senate today agreed with the Republican managers that if they would permit the passage of the Southern war claims bill recentlv passed by the house, no objection would be offered to the passasa of tb; volunteer army officers retirement bill which Senator Townsend of Mich igan. has been pressing for many weeks. The agreement was made and both bills were passed tonight.
 The war claims billl provides fo: the payment of the following claims from Pine Bluff and Jefferson cou1- ty, Arkansas:
 William A. Bethel, administrator of the estate of Martha Harrison and Oliver P. Lister of Jefferson county, ss99.
 Legal representatives of Virginia \. Jones, late administratrix of the es- tate of Samuel J. Jones, late of Jeffer- son county, $6,950.
 First Baptist church of Pine Bluff, s1,ssO.
 Methodist Episcopal church, South, of Pine Bluff, $500.
 The war claims bill unlocks $1,9OO.- 900 of the public funds for the pay ment of Southern war claims that have been fought for through many congresses. The volunteer army offi- cers' bill, 1t is estimated, will in- volve an additional annual expendi- ture of about $3,00O,O0O that may be practically characterized as an in- crease in pensions. This bill has not yet passed the house, and an aggres- sive effort will be made to put tt through before adjournment. At the night session the conference report on the agricultural appropria- tion bill was adopted by the senate. This report eliminated the McCum- ber rural credits scheme, which was included in the senate amendment, but provision is made for the appoint ment of a commission to investigate the subject and report at the next session of congress.
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Mackay To Move.

The office Of the Mackay Telegraph company is to be within the next few days at 1O4 West Second avenue closer to Main street and thus more in the bushes center c F. lfilpot whose office in the Elks theatre vas destroyed in the recent fire, moves into the Mackay's old quarters as POS West Second avenue.
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Returned to Little Rock

Wilfred Kemp, the negro arrested here by Chiet of Police Frank Stew art at the request of the Little Rock authorities, has been taken back to the capital city. Kemp is accused of having stolen purse containing $40 from a house where he had been sent by his employer. g grocer, to deliver some goods.
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Horse Kills Farmer.

DesArc, March 3.-W. l.. Childress. aged 45, a prominent farmer of the Cherry Grove community, three miles from here, was almost instantly kill ed. this afternoon when his horse reared and fell back on him. He leaves a widow and five children.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-03-04
,Alleeed Dynamiters Arraiened.

Los Angeles. Cal, March 3.-M. A. Schmidt and David Caplan. alleged associates of the McNamara brothers in tine Los Angeles Times dynamite plot. were arraigned today befof- Judge williams in the superior court on cE5rge of murder. The men will plead on March 16.
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Aecused Couple Acauitted.

Morrilton, March 3.-Among the most important cases tried at this term of circuit court was that of Mrs. Lon Van Matre and Dr. w. B. Israel of Oppelo. They were charged with the killing of Mrs. Van Mattress hus- band, merchant at oppelo. They were acquitted.
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Want Hopson Named.

J. H. Hellum and w. J. Ma; t.r, Vlissioners of the Kirsch Lake Dr>;nage district, have peItioned Judge A. B. Grace to appoint ). Hopson to the vacancy in the secre- taryship of the board caused by the death of Joe Smith.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-03-04

Albany. N. Y.. March 2.-The ap- peal of former police lieutenan :. Charles Becker .or the second coG
 viction of the murder of Herman
 Rosenthsl. was set for argumen' CT
 March 21 by the court of appeals to- day.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-03-04
Apnointel A Deputv Sheriff.

Sheriff R. H. Williams has appoint- ed E. E. Unsell deputy sheriff, and Mir. Unsell has already started upon the performance of his new duties. He is well known resident of East Pine Bluff.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-03-04
German Submarines to RAscue.

Geneva, via Paris, March 3.-A fleet consisting of six Austro- German submarines, accompanied by several torpedo boats and torpedo boat de- stroy.rs, left Pola, the Austrian naval base, at dawn yesterday for the Medi- teranean, bound for the Dardanelle::. according to the Telegraf, which bases it's report upon what it char acterizes as information received from a reliable source from Trieste by way of Innsbruck. The fleet IS said to have been last reported of Corfu,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-03-04

,,,. s; M. Reynolds left yesterday ,sl. With relatives and friends
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-03-04

It's reasonable that our exclusive attention to the SCIENTIFIC FIT TING OF GLASSES should produce results not possible elsewhere.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-03-04
Cuts OfP Her He.tal,

Macon City, Iowa, March 3..s- Mrs Fred Prossel committ ed suicide tndey. by cutting off her head with . razor'
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-03-04
The Weather

Rain and somewhat colder Thurs day: Friday. fair.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-03-04
Petrograd Reports Russians Are Driving Austro-Ger
 man Forces Home.
BERLIN CLAIMS
 VICTORY ON BOBR
Official Statements irCm War Office Indicate Little Change in the West. Fleet ei German Submarines tO the DArdnnelleS.

Petrograd, March 3--North ana south the Russians have succeeded in converting the spectacular advances of the Germans and Austrians into definite t;.ats, and themselves aye pressing forward from both ths Niemen and the Dneister.
 The Germans on Monday had fallen back 20 miles from the Niemen above Grodno. Everywhere else. except at Ossowiecz, they are again spreac:ns their forces for defense.
 In East Prussia their siege artil- lery is in considerable jeopardy. Fac ing Ossowiecz, the streams draining the forest and marshes into the Bobr are thawing. The Germans have taken some heavy guns westward outside of range to dry land. Around Radzilov, it is believed that some oi their heaviest guns to the norm ol the fortress cannot now be moved.
 A column from the southern bend of the Bobr is now fighting seriously in an attempt to relieve the German siege equipment.
 The Russian army on the western line of North Poland is conducting q vigorous advance toward the frontier threatening the railroad to Thorn Tine Germans tried desperate rail from Sierpec, when they were imlhe; diately confronted by 8 Russian squadron with armored cars, whict shot the 'IGerman column off the main road. The Germans then triet a barricade by throwing their owr transports across the road, but thu men M~:e all killed.
 The latest maneuvering of all tho German columns in the northeast suggests, that General von Hinden berg realizes it is impossible t( establish himself inside Russia.
 Bulletins Brief.
 London, March 3-Nothing of grea importance is mentioned in the ot ficial bulletins from Berlin and Pari: today. Berlin announces success 1T battle with the Russians on the river Bobr, claiming the capture o1 1900. The repulse of French ad vanGes in the ,Argonne district is also announced.
 The Paris bulletin reports heavy artillery firing, hut says there i: nothing of importance to add to las nights communication"
 German Submarines to Rescue. Geneva, via Paris, March 3.-k fleet consisting of six Austro-Germnl submarines, accompanied by severa torpedo boats and torpedo boat de otr0v.tc Taft pO1a tho Austrian maya
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-29

limited Press Leased Wire Service.]
NEW YORK, Aug. 28.-Colonel
Roosevelt tonight issued q statement
regarding the Wood Garrison contro-
versy in the course Of which he said:
Secretary Garrison now wishes to
dis-Rssociate himself from the admin
istration. He Is the servant OF the
president just as Mr.. Daniels is. Each
says or does what the president
authorizes or permits him to say or
do and the president Is fully respon-
sible for both.
"He says he will 20 as far as l will
for preparedness. l assume therefore
that he heartily backs up the proposal
for universal military service. II SO
I heartily congratulate him and as
sure him his position is proper.
"Does he deny that President VIII
so141 message last December was an
elaborate plea against preparedness.
II challenge Mr.. Garrison to give
one quotation from anything have
ever written or spoken In which ad-
vocated going to war with folHsor Ave
nations, or in which I ever advocated
going to war because of unprepared-
ness"
Roosevelt said that Whlle ne Was
president not shot was fired by an
American soldier against foreign foe.
Wilson, he said. has waged two sma3i
wars, one against Mexico and one
against Haiti. He suggested that II
the expression "waged peace" were
preferred he would stand for the SUBJ
stitution, but that a score or two
American soldiers had been killed.
He ridiculed the administration
course in both instances.
six months have gone by" said
Roosevelt, since the administration
Of which Mr.. Garrison is a member,
sent to Germany note which was in.
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GERMAN SUBMARINE BOAT AND
FRENCH AER0PLANE IS ALL
THAT GARY IS LACKING NOW

ly. by the throat. Police believe that
n Kayser was not a German spy,
many Of the Slavs, Frenchmen, ser
bians and persons of dozen other
nationalities who compose Gary's
DoIvelot population and whose coun-
tries are at war with the kaiser.
firmly believed such was the case.
Since Gary's great mills began to
grind out war orders for the allles,
after long period Of inactivity. the
feeling here has developed into
tightly drawn line over the European
war. Gary has a large German col
ony here. Long before Kayser's muir
der there were whispers Of spies at
work. It was Kayser's murder that
brought this talk to the surface, ana
when the police started in to run
down the murderers, they were liter
allv flooded with letters and tips
which hinted at reasons why persons
Of a different race than kayser
should want to put him out OF the
way Among the innumerable for-
eien" tips thus developed, many were
found to have color Of real clues. ana
Chief of Police Heintz tonight hinteo
he has not enough men on MS fotce
to follow up any one Of which he De-
1ieves might lead to the assassins.
police admit tonight, there certainly
10 no woman in the CASE Such ru-
1,ors have been rife all week. TWO
women to whom Chief Heintz talked
tbis afternoon, dispelled his beiief IN
these stories. It was this fact that
oaneed a score of German residents
today to subscribe a fund OF seselaa
tbonsand dollars to employ private
detectives. Several privately en-
Moved sleuths were at work mere TO-
night. . story
To add to the spy scare, seory
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pR,,ss1AM LOSSES.
RUSSIA

rJInited Press Leased Wire service.I
PETRoGRAD, Aug. 2s.-The Rus
alan war Office tonight admitted that
the Austro-Ge by heavy attacks
aoainst the Russian lines In Gaiic'a'
have forced a crossing OF the Ziosa
Lipa river, the last limo OF Russia" de-
fense on enemy territory.
last night and today the enemy
attacked on many sectors along the
zIota Lipa and Dneister front, SAID
the of1ciai statement. Oils offensive
was especially energetic north OF
erxezany and west Of PodhaJce, whore
he secured footing upon the 'e's
bank Of the Zlota Lipa."
The war office also admitted enae
tho Russian retreat continues through
In. whole region Of the middle Nte-
men and on the Bobr and Pr'pet river
fronts, but reported that Won Hinden.
bura's offensive movement towaro
wilma was checked by the Russians In
enoaaements on Thursday and Friday.
4 bIa battle is developing southease
Of RIos where the Germans are at
ten,otino to break through the Mitau-
Kreuzbere railway. Stubborn fighting
continued throughout yesterday with
out important changes In ths saeua-
tIon.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-29
Won Tnpitz Warfare on Unarmed Ships is Not
Relished BY Kaiser and Halt May be Call
cd On Violation. of international Law.
no SHIPS SUNK WITHOUT WARNING
Controversies With America Over Recent Tor
pedo Outrages is Likely to Bring Fruit
and Forever Settle the Difficulties.

fBy Carl w. Ackerman, United Press
Staff Correspondent
ICopyright 1915 by The United Press
copyrighted in Great Britain]
BERLIN (via- The Hague) Aug %.
With the support OF the kaiser,
the German chancellor. DR.. Won Beth
mann-Hollweg Is expected to win the
fight he IL now making for motif.
cation Of Germany's submarine war
fare that will forever settle the diff
Hculties with America over the sinking
OF the Lusltania and the Arabic.
Both the chancellor and Foreign
Secretary Won Jagow are most anxi-
Gus to end at once and for all time
the controversies with Washington.
desiring Americas friendship. The
United Press is able to state this to-
night on the best of authority.
The marine department, headed Dy
Garnd Admiral Won Tirpitz, creator of
the submarine policy, will oppose any
disavowal of the action Of Germany's
submarines. But the kaiser is ex-
pected to approve the steps the chan
5cellor and foreign secretary contem-
plate taking, swinging the balance
In favor OF Won Bethmann-Hollweg's 9
contention that ships in the future
must be warned before they are tor
pedoed.
Because OF this internal discus
sion, the Arabic crisis may be said 10
be in Germany-not in America. The
foreign office, strongly against the
sinking of passenger ships under the
circumstances unofficially reported in
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AUSTRIA

r. nited Press Leased Wire Servics.J
VIENNA, Aug. %. (Via London.)-
Six thousand Russians were taken
prisoners in the battle In Galioia last
nioht when the Austro-Germans broke
the Russian front on the Ziota Lipa
river, the war office announced today.
The Russians were driven back on
twelve mile front extending both north
and south Of Bryzezany.
The Austro-Germans who arc pur-
suino the Russians in the upper Bug
region ard near Brest litovsk. are ap-
preaching the city Of Kobrin. The
RUSSIANS are retreating in a NORTH,
easterIy direction.
The war office reported that several
Italian attacks on Carso plateau were
repuIsed last night and at daybreak to-
day. Little activity is reported on the
Trentieo front.