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The Ely miner., 1915-10-22
Hearings in Chicago Strike.

Chicago, Oct. 20.-Defnite decision
to get the facts underlying the strike
of garment workers, which now is in
it's fourth week, through public hear
ings, was made by the aldermanic
Notifications were sent out during the
day to employers and employees alike
that the hearings would begin at p.
m, in the council chamber. Members
of the council committee declared that
they were far from satisfied with the
information they had been able to get.
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Big Tobacco Combine Announced.

New York, Oct. 1S.-Announcement
of the formation of the Mutual Tobac.
CO company, incorporated, $2O,000,'
900 corporation, which includes some
of the largest tobacco manufacturing
concerns in the United States has
been made. Among the concerns taken
over by the Mutual Tobacco company.
incorporated, it is stated are: G. 3.
Miller & Co., New York; Hoffman &
Co., New York; Allen & Dunning, Pat
erson, N. j., and the Campbell Tobac
CO company, Newark, N. ].
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Heaviest Fighting In West.

London, Oct. 18.-The western
front was the scene of the heaviest
fighting. The Germans are battering
fiercely at the French and English
lines in the effort to stop the Allies
advance to counter-attacks. In the
Vosges, the Germans have wrested
from the French some of the ground
previously won. but in Lorraine the
French have recaptured trenches held
by the Germans since October, and
have also repulsed the kaiser's troops
around Hartman Weilerkopf in the
Vosges.
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CARRANZA Is PRESIDENT

Washington, Oct 20-Formal recog.
milton by the United States of the de
facto government of Mexico, with Gen
eral Venustiano CarranZa as chief ex-
ecutive, was accomplished at noon
Tuesday by the delivery to General
Carranza's representative, Elseo Are
dondo, at the Mexican embassy, of a
letter from Secretary Lansing. Rec
ognition letters from the Pan-Ameri-
can conferees, similar in tone, also
were received by Mr.. Arredon1o.
The communication from Secretary
Lansing was sent by messenger, and
later Mr.. Arrendondo was invited to
the state department by the secretary
for general conference on Mexican
affairs.
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General Electric Strike Continues

Schnectady, N. Y, Oct. 20.-Neither
the General Electric company nor it's
$4,000 striking employees have made
any move in the eight-hour dispute
which is now in it's third week. 1t
is announced that all employees not in
the shops at a. m. cease their con-
nection with the company, which
means loss of standing for pensions
and necessity for physical examina-
tion before re-employment. All but
the main gate will be closed and the
unions will have about 1000 pickets
on duty.
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Ford BIames Wall Street.

San Francisco, Cal, Oct. 20.-"Right
now the European war is being car.
ried on by Wall Street." said Henry
Ford of Detroit, a visitor here.
"The whole trouble now is they're
shooting the wrong men. If the right
men were shot the war would be over
in a week"
1t was plain Ford meant that kings
and czars should fight their own wars.
"The day is not far off, when the
men who are now making up the
worlds armies will refuse to fight
without just cause"
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To Put Alien Foes to Work

Winnipeg, Man, Oct. 19.-Mayor R
D. Waugh of Winnipeg left for To
ronto to confer with Premier Border
of Canada on the question of employ
ing thousand alien enemies, at !
nominal wage, now concentrated in
military camp at Brandon, MAJ, t
clear the lands known as the Winn
peg water lands, near here.
The lands would be cleared for tt
purpose of making homes for return
ed Canadian soldiers after the wa
Forty acre tracts, with small comfor
able cottages are proposed.
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Charlton Describes Murder.

Rome, Oct. 19.-Trembling and at
the point of collapse, Porter Charlton
told the court which is trying him for
his wife's murder how he met and
married his victim, of their life to-
gether, of the events which led up to
the killing in the honeymoon villa on
Lake Como. The young American told
of his discovery that he had slain the
woman during an interval, he declared,
that was a blank in his mind; of the
manner he sank the body in trunk
in Lake Como, and finally of his fight
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EIGHT ARE DRAGGED TO DEATH
Only Two Members of Crew Of Wreck
ed Schooner Escape Pursuing
Comhers Off California.

Point Arena, Cal, Oct 20.-One
after another seven men and two
women who had fought their way to
Nal Pass Rocks, after escaping from
the wrecked gasoline schooner Alli-
ance No. 2, were dragged back into
the sea by pursuing combel3. Eight
were swept to death The ninth, Ra,
fael Mediner, was flung ashore alive.
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ITALY TO FLOAT LOAN IN u. S..
Arrange to Place Issue of s25,ooo, 600
One-Year's Notes to Pay ]
For Supplies.

New York, Oct. 19.-Announcement,
has been made that the Italian gov
ernment has arranged to place an u.s..
sue of $25,000,O00 one-year notes in
the United States. This will be the
first direct loan negotiated here by
Italy since the beginning of the war,
and it will be used in payment for the
heavy purchases of war and general
supplies now being made by the gov
ernment in this country. Heretofore.
these have been largely paid for
through London.
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Five Fatally Hurt In Wreck.

Joliet, ILL.,, Oct. 20.-Three trainmen
aud two passengers were fatally injur-
ed and score of others seriously hurt
when Chicago and Alton commutor
train ran into an open switch here
The fatally injured are: Mrs. w. R.
Taylor of California of California, both
legs broken, fractured skull, internall
injuries. Rockey, Joliet, legs
broken, internal injuries. Jack Null
ligan, legs broken, internal injuries.
E Hines, legs broken, internal injuries.
Charles Brant. legs broken. internal
injuries.
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LEAVES THE BRITISH CABINET
Sir Edward Carson Resigns Owing t3
Condition of Affairs in the
Near East.

London, Oct. 20.-Sir Edward Car,
son, attorney general, has resigned
from the British cabinet.
The resignation of Sir Edward Car:
son. the first open manifestation o.
the divergence of views known to ex:
ist among the ministers, is the result,
according to an authoritative state.
ment, not of the controversy over con.
soriptioH, but to the condition Of af.
fairs in the Near East.
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Third Film Fire Victim Die.

Atlanta, Ga, Oct. 19.-Miss Lucille
Davis, Is, one of those seriously burn.
ed here Saturday in a fire in the Office
OF the Mutual Film corporation, died
yesterday, bringing the death list mn
to three. One young woman was
burned to death in the building, an
other died shortly after being taken
to hospital.
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Slavs Bend German Line.

London, Oct. 1S.-The Russian at
racks in the east have bent the long
Austro- German line into the shape of
an enormous bow. now stretched to
the danger point by the Slav gains
+. to the south il Galicia and to the
north around Dvinsk. Berlin admits
the Russians have broken through the
German lines before Dvinsk ito the
width of battalion" but asserts the
attacks further south were repulsed
with heavy losses. General Zupelli,
the Italian minister of war, has left
Rome for the front.
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DECLARES WAR ON BuLGARIi
Rome Explains Move BY Saying Bul
garia Attacked Serbia and Aided
ltalys Foes.

London, Oct. 20.-Italy has declared
war on Bulgaria. Italy was preced.
ed by Serbia, England and France.
Russia has announced that state OF
war between the Russians and Bulgar-
ians existed from the moment the lat
ter began fighting the Serh!ans, but a
formal declaration has not yet been
issued. Explaining it's declaration, the
Rome government said Bulgaria had
not only attacked Serbia, but allied
herself with Italy's enemies.
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Fatally Hurt in Nashua Riot.

Nashua, N. H., Oct. 20.-An aug
mented military guard patroled the
plant of the Nashua Manufacturing
company where one man was proba-
bly, fatally shot, one woman bayonet-
ted, and other persons were dubbed
during a strike disturbance. Two
companies of militia from Manchester
arrived late in the afternoon to help
the two local companies which have
been on duty inside the mill gates
since the strike for more pay and
shorter hours began two weeks ago.
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MEXICAN Revolt

An official report from the mobiliza-
tion army of Gen. Francisco Villa at
Casas Grandes received at Ell Paso
narrates the desertion of three gen.
erals and 300 men, who were pursued
and practically exterminated, while
an alleged bribe paid one general for
deserting was captured, together with
number of prisoners.
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Announcement was made In New
York that the Italian government has
arranged to place an issue of $25.OOO.-
900 one-year notes in the United
States. The loan will be used in pay
ment for the purchases of war and
general supplies now being made by
that government in this country.
Sixteen bodies have been recovered
from the wreckage of Union Pacific
motor train No. $40, which plunged
into Fancy creek. near Randolph.
Kan. Fifty persons were injured.
some of them seriously. Many of the
victims were school teachers. Heavy
rains weakened bridge.
While nearly 1000 persons craned
their necks Joe DeBerry, a negro, con-
fessed murderer of his benefactress.
Mrs. j. H. Martin, wife of prominent
attorney, climbed to a scaffold built
in the public square, delivered brief
address and then paid the death pen
atty for his crime.
Mayor Thomas G. Sullivan, elected
under the commission form of govern
ment at Munising. Mich, last January,
was ousted from Office in the recall
election held on Saturday. DR.. e. A.
Trueman was elected to succeed him.
The plurality against Sullivan was SO
votes.
Five persons were burned to death
in a fire that swept through a five
story tenement on Third avenue, near
One Hundred and Sixteenth street in
New York.
Six men are under arrest and the
militia patrolling the streets Of
Charleston, s. c., following shooting
which cost one life and resulted In the
injury of four other persons. The
shooting occurred outside the room
where the Democratic city executive
committee was to meet to canvass the
returns of the municipal primary. Sid
ney j. Cohen. a newspaper reporter,
was killed.
The Graham & Morton Transporta-
tion company filed petition for a re-
ceiver in the U. s. district court at
Grand Rapids. Mich. The court ap-
pointed the Michigan Trust company.
The company declares it is solvent.
It's financial embarrassment is charged
to slumps in business due to the East
land disaster and poor crops in Mich
igan.
Missing from Norfolk, Va, since
Sunday, six warrant officers of the in
termed German cruiser Kronprinz Will
helm are being sought by ships at sea
and up Chesapeake bay.
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EVERY AVAILABLE TRAIN OUT OF
sALoNIkI is BEING UTILIZED
TO CARRY ANGLo-FRENcH
TROOPS.
ULTlMATUM SENT GREECE
BY RUSSIA AND BRITAIN
Exception Is Taken to Greek interpre-
tation of Greco-Serbian Treaty and
Premier Is Notified That More
Allied Troops Will Be Landed
on Greek Territory.

London, Oct. 21.-Proceeding by
forced marches across country, large
bodies of Allied troops are pressing
forward in an effort to effect juno.
ture with the Serbian army. Every
train available out of Saloniki is being
utilized to carry the Anglo-French
troops. These are in such large num-
bers that the road is practically
swamped, hence the necessity for
some divisions to go on foot.
Late dispatches say that the Ser
bians are falling back before the Bull
garian advance between Uskub and
Nish.
UItimatum Sent to Greece.
The possibility of Greece entering
the war again flames on the horizon.
All depends, apparently, on how
Athens takes the note delivered by
the British and Russian ministers, in
which the exception is taken TO the
Greek Interpretation of the Greco
Serbian treaty and notifying Premier
Zaimis that the Entente powers in
tend to land more troops on Greek
territory. The note is said to have
been couched in friendly terms.
An Italian squadron has sailed un-
der sealed orders to operate against
the Aegean coast of Bulgaria, it is
supposed. AS the blockade of the Bull
garian port of Dedeagatch is minor
operation, requiring only a nominal
force, it is believed to be the plan to
lombard that place and the other
ports along the coast.
Russia Denounces Bulgaria.
Russia's declaration of war against
Bulgaria is imminent 1t has been de-
layed merely by the need to observe
certain formalities. What form Rus
sian activity will take after the dec
laration is not yet known here.
An imperial manifesto was issued
IN Petrograd denouncing the treason
of Bulgaria and stating that Russia
was compelled to draw the sword and
defenl the Slavs.
Besides cutting the railway at Vran-
va the Bulgarians farther north are
operating westward across their bor-
der toward the fortress of Pirot,
which commands the Orient express
railway line between Nish and Sofia.
Up in the north and northwest the
Germans and Austrians are still push
ing forward their attacks and slowly
gaining ground over the Serbs.
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Case Against New Haven Men Ready.

New York, Oct. 10. - Robert L.
Watts, special assistant to Attorney
General Gregory, and his former law
partner in Texas, has completed the
summary of the address he will make
TO the jury in outlining the govern
ment's case against William Rookie
teller, Lewis Cass Ledyard, Edward
d. Robbins and their eight codefend-
ants, charged as directors of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail-
road with conspiring to monopolize
he transportation traffic of New Eng
land
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Washington

In letter to Secretary Of the Treas
ury McAdoo, just made public at
Washington, Secretary of Commerce
Redfield makes a strong defense of
the new federal seamen's law and Sc
verely criticizes the officers of the Pa
cific Mail Steamship company for the
statement they made that that com.
pany was forced out of business by
the provisions of the law.
Secretary Garrison's plan, as an.
nounced at Washington, for strength
ening the military establishment and
organizing great continental army
for defense proposes the following:
Regular army of 100000 men. an in
crease of $4,000 men in the present
establishment. A continental army.
100000 strong, enlisted for six years
for service within the continental!
United States
President Wilson started at Wash
ington to pave the way for favorable
congressional action upon his program
for the increase of the army and navy
He impressed upon Congressman Ha,
of Virginia the necessity of approvins
the Garrison plan for increasing the
regular army to 10000 men and pro
viding a reserve which will assure
the United States a first defense OF
100000.
Joseph w. Folk will be the United
was learned from reliable sources a.
Washington.
The navy department at Washington
has directed that no leaves of absence
shall be given the officers of the Prin7
Eitel Friedrich. the German auxiliary
cruiser interned at Norfolk. until the
six missing officers have returned.
Secretary Daniels at Washington or.
dered the trial by court-martial or
Rear Admiral William NJ Little. re-
tired. who was inspector for the navy
at the Fore River works, Quincy
Mass, until December 81, 1914. One
of the charges against Little relates
to the passing of submarine K-2.
Secretary Daniels naval program.
which has been approved by President
Wilson. at Washington. provides an
expenditure of s500,000.000 during a
five-year period. The five-year program
calls for l6 capital ships-ten dread
| naughts and six battle cruisers.
The cost of the proposed enlarge
ment of the army and navy will add
$75.00O.000 to the army appropriations,
making the total for the next fiscal
year in the neighborhood of 1882 .000.-
900. The navy will ask an increase Of
about $75.000,000.
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National Rifle Teams Compete.

Jacksonville, Fla, Oct. 20.-The
rational team match, regarded as the
premier event in the rifle shooting
world, will continue two days.
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WILSON ON NATIONAL DEFENSE
WILL OUTLINE BILLION-DOLLAR
PLAN, NOVEMBER 4.
To Lay Before People Scope of Admin,
lstration's New Policy In New
York Address.
COST OF NEW DEFENSE.

COSl Or NEW DEF ENSE.
Estimated actual cost for six-year
navy and army program, $842, 100000.
Probable expenditure for same,
more than $1,000, 100000.
NAVY.
New ships and increased person
mel, five years, $500, ,o00,0
ARMY.
Reserve arms and ammunition, four
years, $1o5, 100000.
New coast defense and moderniza.
tion OF old forts, four years, $a1 ,ooo,.
600.
New continental army and Increased
regular army, six years probably,
$156, 100000.
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Six Men Rob Train. Eeo,n.

SN "CH fOU dTH, Escape.
New York, Oct. 20.-Six men held
up and robbed a West Shore train in
Haverstraw and then escaped in an
automobile. i
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Spanish Ministry Resiuns.

Madrid, via Paris, Oct. 10. - The
Herald states that at council meet
ing the Ginistry decided. to resign.
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Washington, Oct. 20.-A national
defense program that probably means
an expenditure on the army and navy
of upwards of billion dollars in the
next six years will be laid before the
people by President Wilson Nov. 4,
when he goes to New York to make
his first public address since the scope
of the policy upon which his admins
tration has embarked became known.
He will speak before the Manhattan
club OF New York on national defense
and the reasons which have impelled
him to approve plans to about double
the navy and quadruple the trained
fighting forces ashore within a few
years.
Grand Total, $s42,ooo,ooo.
The grand total expenditure ac-
tually planned would be $S42,000,00O.
According to plans laid out by ex.
perts OF the navy and war depart
ments, these expenditures would pro-
duce by 1925 a first line of dread.
noughts and battle cruisers numbering
43; fleet of coast defense subma.
rines that would fringe the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts with an almost
solid line of defense against attack;
fleet of nearly ITS destroyers and
squadrons of huge sea-going, fleet sub
marines to operate with the battle
squadrons at great distance from
shore.
For the army there would be at the
end of six years a trained force of
100000 men, including regular
army of 100000 and the proposed con-
fully manned coast defenses, equipped
with the largest and most powerful
guns yet built and a vast reserve of
field guns, machine guns, howitzers
and big gun ammunition
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Happenings
Of the World
Tersely Told
EuroDe1r1 War News

Five German transports have been
sunk by British submarines operating
in the Baltic, says an official state
ment from Petrograd.
An imperial ukase has been issued
proclaiming "a state of war" In Mos
COW and the Moscow district. Disor-
ders of considerable proportion have
occurred in Moscow during the last
few months.
Strumnitza, in Bulgaria, has been
occupied by the allied armies OF
Great Britain, France and Serbia, ac-
cording to official advices from Sa-
ioniki, telegraphed by the Reuter- cor
respondent at Athens. Various points
dominating the railway from Saloniki
to the interior have been occupied by
allied troops, the correspondent says,
and the protection Of the line Is re-
garded as assured.
In actual military developments the
German official statement issued at
Berlin claims continued successes
against the Serbians, chief of which
was the capture of the fortified town
of Pozarevac, where $50 prisoners and
three guns were taken.
German victories in the Artois and
the Champagne regions were an
nounced by the war Office at Berlin.
Near Vermelles the British are again
driven out of the German positions.
Russians have turned to the offen-
sive in the region of Dvinsk. Although
the Germans claim they have repulsed
most of the Musco1ite attacks. they
admit the Russians penetrated their
line at one point.
The British submarine E-19 has won
Q naval victory over German warships
in the Baltic, sinking a destroyer and
two torpedo boats and putting another
destroyer and a cruiser to flight. say
dispatches to London from Sweden to
newspapers Of Copenhagen.
Thu Austro-German forces that IT.
vaded Serbia have lost 10000 men In
killed and 10000 in wounded on the
Belgrade-Semendria- -Obernevatz front.
according to :: special dispatch to the
Paris Temps. from Nish.
Following the marquis Of Crewes
statement in the house Of lords at
London, section of the peers criti-
eized the course events have been
permitted to take In the Balkans and
at the Dardanelles. The government
was asked IL 1t considered withdraw
ing from that enterprise, the compile
ton of which is now hopeless. Lord
Lansdowne replied that 1t would be
most improper and unpatriotic to
press the government at this time on
the question.
advancing victoriously in eastern Cali
cia, is said by the war Office at Berlin
to have been checked The Russians
were driven back across the Stripa
river.
Fifty-five persons were killed and
ia injured in the Zeppelin raid over
London. Fourteen of the 55 persons
killed and 13 of the ia wounded were
military casualties, according to an
announcement made by the official
press bureau at London.
The Aftonbladet's correspondent
says naval fight has taken place
near Porkala. in the Gulf of Finland.
One cruiser is reported to have been
sunk and another heavily damaged. 1t
is presumed that it was between Rus
sian and German ships.
Domestic
Peace was declared for at least 500
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Personal

Thomas H. Snow, wealthy manufac-
turer, former mayor of Batavia, ILL.,.
was married in Chicago to Laura H.
Zimmerman, twenty-seven years old,
of Aurora.
The death of Sir Lionel Garden was
announced at London. He was con-
nected with the British diplomatic
service for many years. He was min
lister to Mexico under the Huerta re-
gime and was later ordered home by
Carranza. He was born in County
Tipperary. Ireland, in 1851.
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KILL TEN MEXICAN BANDITS
TEXAS POSSE EXECUTES MEN
WHO WRECKED TRAIN.
CavaIrymen and Infantry Join ir
Search for Raiders Who
Killed Americans.

Brownsville, Tex, Oct 81. - Ten
Mexicans have paid with their lives
for alleged completely in the wrecking
of st. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico
railway passenger train on the out
skirts of Brownsville, the killing oil
three Americans and the wounding OF
four others. Peace officers said they
had clues to other Mexicans connect.
ed with the wreck. No secret was
made that more would be killed if civ.
iliar posse catch them. The news of
the wreck was quickly carried to this
city and civilian posses set out in
pursuit of the bandits. The killing of
the MeXicans was all done by these
posses.
Four Mexcans Hanged.
The first Mexican killed passenger
on the wrecked train, who was ac.
cused of revealing the hiding place
of DR.. E. S. Mccain, deputy state
health officer here. who took refuge in
the lavatory of the car when the ban.
dts began firing.
Only the bare facts of the killing
of ether Mexicans were obtainable as
the posses were careful not to give
out details.
Four MeXicans were hanged to
trees at various points and five others
were shot.
Probably $500 cavalrymen and in
fantry Joined in searching for traces
of the bandits, for distance of 80
miles up the American side of the
river. Hundreds of civilians, led by
scores of deputies, joined in this work.