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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-06-11
Further Gain in Labyrinth
Is Claimed by the French

PARIS, June II (2:2S p. m.-.--The
French war office issued the follow
ing statement this afternoon on the
progress of hostilities:
There is nothing of Importance to
add to the announcement given out
last night, with the exception of fur
ther success In the labyrinth. where
we have, continued to force the enemy
back, and some progress to the east
of the labyrinth, where we occupied
sevral German side trenches not far
from the highway from AEras to
Lille.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-06-11
Showers Tonight and
Cloudy Weather Tomorrow

Showers tonight and cloudy weather
tomorrow, with moderate south to
west winds, were the indications seen
by the forecaster at noon today. The
lowest temperature last night was
50; at noon today the thermometer on
the roof of the Central High School
registered "A and nine-mile wind
was blowing from the south.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-06-11
KILLS F|ANCEE,
THEN HIMSELF
INA LOVE PACT
Swedish Nobleman Figures in
Double Tragedy in Gen.
traI Park.

NEW YORK, June 11.-Frederlck
J. Hussenius, said to be member
of a swedish noble family, but es-
tranged from his relatives, today
shot and killed his fianeee, Anna
Malmquist. young music teacher, in
Central Park, and then sent a bullet
into his own brain. causing death.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-06-11
Anglo-French Forces Lost
More Than z, 900 Killed in
Night Battle With Turks
By the Associated Press.

BERLIN $3.50 p. m.), June liza
dispatch received here today by wire
less telegraphy from Constantinople
reports that the fighting at Avi
Burnu, on the Gallipoli peninsula,
during the night of June SO cost the
French and British forces more than
1000 men killed.
The losses of the Franco British
expedition all last week, the message
adds, were enormous.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-06-11
Engagement of Miss Shanklin
to Mr.. Mindnich Announced

Announcement has been made of
the engagement of Miss Grace r..
Shanklin, daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
John Shanklin, of 749 South Eigh-
teenth street, and Frank C. Mindnich,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank A. Mind
mich. of $40 South Fifteenth street.
There has been no date set for the
wedding.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-06-11
To Set Day for
Meadow Visit

Mayor Thomas L. Raymond today
received a committee from the Traffic
Club and talked with them on a plan
by which the general public might
see the meadow development 1t was
decided that the club should set a
date and the mayor would announce
to the general public that the mead
ows will be open for general inspec-
ton.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-06-11
Extent of Ha!y's
Campaign Agreed
Upon, Is Report
Operations Aim to Keep En-
gagged Teutonic Army of
1000, 900 Men.
BY the AssocIated Press.

DN fbU EtBHVCfHttU TNbH'
LUCIANO, Switzerland, June II tvia
Paris), 11:45 a. m-Information has
been received here from Italian
sources that Italy has made an agree
ment with her allies as to the extent
of her offensive campaign. According
to this information, which lacks ofii-
cial confirmation, the Italian govern
ment has undertaken to conduct oper-
ations of a character which will COM
pei Austria and Germany to bring up
and keep engaged an army of 100000
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-06-11
Consul Talks in MiIIburn

Euptlo Conoscenti, Italian consul in
this city. addressed a large audience
of italians In the parish house of St
Stephens Episcopal Church, Mill
burn, last night in behalf of the
Italian Red Cross fund.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-06-11
GERMAN GOVERNMENT GETS REPLY:
U.S.RESTS PROTEST AGAINST SEAWAR:
LEAVES WAY OPEN FOR CANCELLATION
British Cruiser
TorpedOed by
the AuStrianS
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, June II (By wireless to
Sayville.)-An official statement is
sued at Vienna under date of June
10 announces that the Austro- Hun
garian submarine No. 4. commanded
by Lieutenant Singule, torpedoed and
sunk small British cruiser of the
Liverpool type on June . at a point
thirty miles west of st. Jean Medua,
on the Albanian coast. The British
cruiser was being protected by six
torpedo boat destroyers.
by the Associated Press.
INNSBRUCK, June IL, (by Courier
to the Swiss frontier and Geneva,
10:45 a. M, and Paris. 2:50 p. m.)-
Announcement has been made here
by the Austrians that one of their
submarines yesterday sunk Brit
ish cruiser of the Liverpool type at
point thirty miles off st. Jean
Medua. in the Adriatic.
The Liverpool is a light cruiser.
Five vessels of this type were built
for the British navy in 1909. The 9TH
er boats are the Bristol, Gloucester,
Newcastle and Glasgow. The last
named cruiser sunk the German
cruiser Dresden off Juan Fernandez
Island in the Pacific last March.
The boats of the Liverpool type
are 430 feet long, 47-foot beam, 15.2
feet deep and displace 1920 tons. They
are built to travel at a speed of
twenty-five knots and carry a crew of
376 officers and men. These vessels
are armed with two siX-inch guns,
ten four-inch guns and two eighteen
inch torpedo tubes. st. Jean Medua
is a seaport on the Albanian coast
between Durazzo and Dulcigno.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-06-11

Continued on Page IL. Column H.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-24
AMERICAN PROSPERITY

This country well OF he to boom
the o.
of imports
has beng o
a bushel.
Up bales had
runsb $i5 and $50 a bale
the will the difference the
the
$1,3O0,000 a
Any in
country
ordinary When the
top of
counrys
With wheat
perhaps
and ammunition et
tween $25,OOOO0O and
sterling
o
has be
of
billion dollars with the
and higher
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-24
SWITZERLAND ALSO?

With Austria of Italy Switzerland
similar
confederation
neutrality
their Belgian
believed that the
Berlin
O
ITSELF 1t million
soldiers
straight
advantages that
doubted whether other
II recently million
Switzerland The ordinary
while
understanding Switzerland
Topped
service Austria
An attack either side the Swiss
powerfully world opinion; and the side
tt the elvetian republic would
its military
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-24
FIRST FLOATING NINE
INVENTED BY DfISSLSSLPPLAN

the demiiohns were then sealed with
corks and wax. On the outside was
casing Of light wood so balanced that
the whole thing sank some two feet
under the surface. AS these floats
were strung on other wires, not until
these supporting wires were broken
did the strain come on the igniting
wire. The utmost care had to be ex-
ercised, especially by those who ham
died and fixed the wires, as we were
working in river which at that time
had a strong current.
But three lines of these mines
were laid before the eunboats below
began Smelling us. We were then told
to return to our commands. AS Cap
tain (afterward colonel w. H. Nor
gan from our regiment had been de-
tailed to command 100 men and to
sharpshoot all boats on the river from
the west bank, | was added to these,
and began to do duty with Captain
Morgan and show him where we had
laid our mines. Our effort was to
make the boats keep further to the
cast bank, where our mines were
thickest.
The exact date | am rot certain,
but | believe it was Dec 5, when two
gunb0ats appeared and began Smelling
us, after we had for several days been
annoying them and their transports
further down the river. AS the Yazoo
river was hi II and there were then
no levces on the Mississippi river, the
swamps were full of water, and could
be crossed only at certain places; so
we were in little danger from their
landing marines to drive US off. We
knew the swamps, and they did not.
Gunboats Pass Safely.
THE two gunboats steamed slowly
I'D the river, firing shells at nothing
in sight but keeping us off the banks
and preventing us from annoying the
transport following them Both the
gunboats passed the mines and there
was no explosion, but as the Cairo, or
{ Continued on Page SiX.)
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-24

NOW ON SALE-All the new ColuI
hia and Victor records for May al
June just received. Call at u
store and hear them played.-L.
Woodruff Furniture Store.
20-22-24-c|
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-24

FOR SALE PIANOS-26 new, slight
used, SECONDHAND, bankrupt, loI
and found pianos, must be sold Il
June the LIST. Get one at your prit1
See j. {. King, THE Piano Mani
Box "a, Hattiesburg. 15-tfl
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-24
THR|CE-A-WEEK EDITION
of THE NEW YORKWORf
Practically a Daily at The Price o
Weekly-No Other Newspaper
the World Gives SO Much at
So Low a Price.

The year 1914 has been the most e
traordinary in the history of modelf
| times. 1t has witnessed the outbr *
of the great European war, a strus5 e
so titanic that it makes all others lot.
small. 4
You live in momentous times. arI
you should not miss any of the ire.
mendous events that are occurring.
NO other newspaper will inform YOU
with the promptness and cheapness @.
the Thrice-a-Week edition of the Nek
York World. Moreover, a years su
scription to it will take you far int
our next Presidential campaign.
The Thrice-a-Week Worlds regula,
subscription price is only s1.O0 Pc
year, and this pays for 156 papers. WI
offer this unequalled newspaper ant
The Daily News for 1855. The Thrice
a-Week World and The Weekly New
together for s135.
The regular subscription price o,
the two papers is Sc and 81 respet-
tively.--Adv.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-24
THE AGE OF A WOMAN

Young bameworthy
V years of The railroad the industrial that establishes
retiring
An
Tor enlistment the
of older There suitable the school child
coaegan;
permit of adult attendance school
The thirty
gihood
where the tradition drudgng
development beauty which quickly fades until
woman of the temperate in her prime
regions is wthered
against old Personal the calendar
spiritual loneliness
vanityag The
uing rejuyenation of kind heart tranquil spirit
The Chancellor
Austrian
he recalls his
be able
ancient
the
other the world he told
his loss
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-24
Observation-Disclosures

All is we'll sweet Lille Queenl
RuthaneI. 24-St-1l
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-24
CLERKS TO MEET.

Yazoo City, Miss, May 24.-The
nual convention of the Missi'
State Association of Postoflice CT -
will meet in Yazoo City on MondaI
May 81. Every first and second claI
pOstofflce in the state is urged.l
send at least one delegate to
meeting And as the 31st day of
will be a holiday, all offices cal
range to let at least one clerk q
represent them on that day.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-24

IF YOU-Want your furniture craft
or stored or moved. ring 603 Cur
-HattIesburg Furniturs Co. D.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-24
The Man Who Pays Ills Bills

is the who suffers for the shortcomings of others
who do not pay promptly and it is a distinct advantage
to every man to be rated well in the Credit Experience
Guide which is now being prepared The publication of
this book will make bad debts impossible for the man
who has not paid up in the past will find it impossible to
secure further credit. The ratings will be benefit to
the man who makes practice of meeting his obligations
promptly, for his credit will be good anywhere 1t will
be the man who does not pay up who will suffer- if there
is suffering to do by Of neglect of ordinary
business obligations
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-24

PIANOS AND ORGANS-Don't forget
the Square and Upright Piano House,
121 w. Pine, if you want a great
bargain in piano or organ. 24-1t-p
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-24
VAN I S


GOOD-Horse and buggy for sale;
cash or terms to right party. family
broke. 437, News. 22-3t-c
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-24
LAYING the Mine.

Late in November a detail was
made of priyates to do the bidding Of
a civilian. Civil Engineer Thomas
Weldon, native of Virginia who had
moved to Mississippi some years be-
fore the outbreak of the war. l was a
member Of the detail. Only expert
enced oarsmen were selected. about
Is altogether, who assembled on the
west bank of the Yazoo river about
the mouth Of Steele bayou on what
was then the Blake place.
Some hundred or more fivegallon
demijohns were filled with giant pow
der after being provided with wires
and percussion caps on the inside and
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-24

FOR SALE OR RENT - Handsome
bungalow on Hardy street modern
conveniences. Cash or credit to re-
sponsible pay. T. M. Ferguson.
1S-tf-c
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-24

While the world is discussing float
ing mines, which have proven SO de-
structive to commerce in the European
war, the claim is made by Confederate
veterans that Mississippian, Thomas
Weldon, invented the first device of
! this kind, which was used successfully
| on the Yazoo river, Dec. 5, 1862, in
the destruction of the union transport
Cairo, with a loss of nearly 500 lives.
Weldon, a civil engineer. placed giant
powder in his crude continuance, the
explosion of which would have scarce
iy made dent in modern armor-plate
II. Clay Sharkey, receiver Of public
| monies at Jackson, formerly member
of the third Mississippi regiment, one
| Of the % men who were picked to as
sist Weldon in laying his mine, tells
OF the incident, mention of which is
made in neither Mississippi written
history nor the naval history of the
United States.
Late in November, 1862 says Capt
Sharkey, when the federal gunboats
were preparing to pass our batteries
at VicEsburg and 'Whistling Dick Ga
celebrated piece of artillery on the
Vicksburg fortiications) kept them
from passing the hills, Gen Grant be-
gan a movement to go up the Yazoo,
land a force above Vicksburg, and
take the army guarding Vicksburg in
the rear. The Yazoo river had q float
ing obstruction at Snyders Bluff This
was a raft of LOGS fastened together
and made fast TO each bank. Our can
non were placed on the bluff to drive
back any gunboat which might come
up the YazoO to cut or destroy the
raft. A small force under General S.
d. Lee was on the hill overlooking the
Yazoo valley from Snyder's Bluff to
Vicksburg. AS Snyder's Bluff was
some Is miles from Vicksburg, Gen
eral Grant conceived the idea of land
ing an army between the raft and
Vicksburg, which, under command in
the battle Of Chickasaw bayou Dec &c,
1862.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-24
FOR RENT

FOR RENT-Store room in concreI
building, 24X75 feet. Desirable loo
tom. S. Byrd. 24-5t-pl
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-04

frost ceases falling earlier in the sprngtime
and holds off longer in the fall than in any
other part of the state. Even as we are writ
ing this article, October 4th, while to the
north, east, west and south all tender veg
etabe growth has been scared by the icy
breath of the Frost King, we are gazing out
upon the garden of our neighbor, Mr.. Bush,
Sank Centres premier Grand Army Garden
er, who works his truck patch with the same
persistent conscientious methods that he cur
ried his horse and polished his saber when he
wore the blue, and there we behold pumpkin
vines, tomato vines, all the tenderest vegeta-
ton and parterre bloom growing and flour
ishing in all the gorgeous greenery of glor-
ious midsummer.
In the Park Region corn is as certain crop
as turnips. Under the extraordinary meter
illogical conditions of this remarkable sum-
mer and autumn Western-Central Minnesota
will become the seed corn depot of the North
west.
These same conditions make it a great
fruit producing region. Every variety of
northern temperate zone fruit, apples, plums,
cherries, and every variety of small fruit is
easily and successfully grown here. The
Park Region peaches are the choicest in the
universe; they wear skirts, walk and talk.
Western Central Minnesota is no longer on
the frontier. 1t now possesses all the advant-
ages and appliances of the most modern
communities, good, and constantly growing
better roads intersect every section school
advantages are equal to any to be found in
the United States; market facilities are of
the highest ORDER church opportunities,
where thanks can be rendered for manifold
blessings are found on every side; practically
every farm home can secure a telephone if he
is willing to pay for the same. The people
are friendly, energetic, cosmopolitan and pro-
gressive.
Farms surrounded by conditions similar
to those existant in the territory ada
cent to the city of Sank Centre, and not
parts of the country, cannot be purchased
for less than SITS to $3.50 per acre. Here
they can be obtained at the present time
from $40 to 1925, but these prices will not
long prevail. That in ten years time good
farm cannot be bought anywhere in the Park
Region of Minnesota for less than 5000 per-
acre is as certain as death and taxes.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-04

desiring farm home locations
The state may be said to be divided, ar
bitrarily, rather than geographically, as
follows: The Red River Valley, Northern
Minnesota, North Eastern Minnesota; South
ern Minnesota, and West-Central Minnesota,
or the Park Region. All these different
parts of the state boast of some agricultural
speciality, which the residents feature, dwell
upon and boast about, except Western Gen.
trail Minnesota Park Region-that has
no speciality but possesses all the specialties
found in these other parts of the state. AS
reservoir of agricultural specialties it stands
unequalled by any territory in the world.
The Red River Valley, whose fertile sur
face, in antediluvian times, was undoubted-
1y the bed of great inland lake, has soil
formed by centuries of decayed vegetable
growth, and is the greatest natural producer
of wheat, oats, flax and other small grains to
be found anywhere on the globe. and it's in
habitants proudly term it "The Worlds
Bread Basket"
Northern and North Eastern Minnesota
where they claim "Clover Grows Like
Weed" is marvel for vegetable production,
potatoes and all garden truck produce spon-
-taneously; stock of all kinds thrive famously;
facilities for sheep raising are especially ex-
plotted and dairying is rapidly assuming an
important position among it's dairy indus
tries.
Southern Minnesota proudly claims that it
is "within the corn belt" and is fruit pro-
~ducing region par excellence, and it has good
foundation for the claim, as its large fields
of waving corn and many fine orchards bear
witness.
Yet the "Park Region" of which Stearns,
Pope, Douglas and Todd are the most prom
inent counties, consisting of the counties of
Stearns, Wright, Kandiyohi, Chippewa, Lac
.Qui Parle, Traverse, Big Stone, Wilkin, Of
ter Tail, Wadena, western Morrison, Grant,
Douglas, Stevens, Swift, Pope and Todd
have from the earliest history been rightly
considered the cream portion of the state.
Almost 60 years ago noted correspondent
of New York paper, writing of this region,
stated: eve left the Falls of st. Anthony
and journeyed northward to Sank Rapids,
and from there northerly and westerly to the
banks of the Red river, making many wide
detours of investigation returning by more
southerly route to Fort Smelling Our course
took us through a country surprisingly beau
tiful, fair as the garden of the Lord and
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-04
POINTS ON MINNESOTA

Minnesota has an unexceed state university and
five state normal schools
Minnesota leads all other states in average yield
of hay per acre. 1.89 tons in 1879
!, In 1916 Minnesota had 10,296,942 chickens, not
counting those kept in cities and villages.
The poultry and egg production Of Minnesota
amounts to $34,0 900 annually.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-04

wondrously fruitful. Sylvan groves, stretches
of heavy timber, undulating prairies covered
with succulent grasses and bespangled with
wild flowers of brightest hue, woody bank
ed rivers and forest encircled lakes. It was
one panoramic succession of natural parks
far SURPRISING anything ever created by the
hand of man. In the wooded portions many
varieties of wild fruits were abundant; the
lordly moose went crashing through the un-
dergrowth; bear and deer were plentiful,
while small game such as rabbits, pheasants.
squirrels and woodchuck were met with on
every hand. The rivers and lakes teemed
with finest fish of every sort found in fresh
water and swarmed with waterfowl of every
description.
CAS- we proceeded across the prairie herds
of antelope scattered at our approach, grouls
of magnificent elk, their stately antlers
glistening in the sunshine appeared on the
horizons edge, and on the western leg of the
trip we encountered immense droves of buff
faloes who gazed at our equipage curiously
from under their shaggy brows. Some time
this will be one of the fairest agriculture al re-
gions in all this broad land of ours"
Hundreds of years before the white man
ever set eyes on this territory the abor1gin-
ees had placed upon it the stamp of their APP
prevail and rival tribes battled fierceIy Tor
it's possession.
The American Indians picked out natural
centers for their cities of tepees and wig
vans with uncanny precision, and selected
the choicest territory for their abiding
place and hunting grounds with al acumen
never equalled by the white men. Practlcs.'ly
every city of Importance in North America
is located on the site of some prehistoric In
dian village, many of them retaining the or
iginal Indian names or the names of the
chiefs that headquartered there. The chnic-
est portions of the continent are ancient
grave yards of warriors that strove against
each other for their possession.
No part of America was battled for with
greater determination than this Park Region
of Minnesota. For centuries the two most
powerful tribes of American In6iars, the
Ojibeways and the Dacotahs, known later as
the Chippewas and Sioux, waged constant
warfare to establish their permanent abiding
place in this territory Almost every farm
stead is an ancient battlefield land every hill
top burial mound of fighting men and the
history of these two great tribes is rich in
legends of wonderful deeds of prowess per-
formed by chieftians and warriors in repeat
ed attempts to obtain permanent possession
of this coveted territory.
This region, Western-Central Minnesota,
produces small grains almost, if not equally
as well as the far-famed Red River Valley,