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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-03
STUDENTS ESCAPE FIRE
Throw Mattresses and Pillows Out
and Then Leap.

CHICAGO. Nov. "a dozen North
western university students saved
themselves from fire in the new Sigma
Alpha fraternity house early today by
throwing mattresses and pillows from
a second story window and leaping out
upon them John Murray, one of the
roOmers. made his way down stairs.
He fell in the lower hallway and was
seriously burned
The entire Northwestern fraternity
colony was aroused by the shouting
OF the S A r. men and bucket bril-
gade kept the fire confined TO the one
building until the arrival OF the fire.
men. The damage is estimated at
$1,000.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-03
KING SUFFERS RELAPSE
Journey From Front TO London Caus.
ed Restless Night.

LONDON. Nov. 3.-King George has
suffered a relause as a result of the
suffering caused by his removal from
the front to London.
However, his condition will i'm
prove rapidly as soon as he is thor
oughly rested.
The following bulletin was issued
at Buckingham palace today:
The king did not have a good night.
He still suffers pain. His general
conditions is improved and he is now
able to take solid food"
The king is being attended by four
physicians and the bulletin was signed
by all of them.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-03

Maintenance of prisons in England
costs $2.23O. 0OO a year.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-03
NOT ON PEACE MISSION
Official Denial is Er..red by German
Government.

MADRID. Nov. 3.-The German
embassy issued an official statement
today denying that Prince Won BuelOw
intends 10 discuss peace terms here
and i'm Washington. The German dip
lomat who is now i'm Switzerland, is
expected to arrive at COrunna shortly
on the Dutch steamship Tubantia.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-12-30
KING FLEES CETT|NJE
Conquest of Montenegro by Teu-
tons Almost Complete.
Royal Family to Take Refuge In Italy
Fighting Is Still In
Progress.

Rome, Dec 25.-Conquest of Mon
tenegro by Teutonic troops is almost
complete. The remnants Of the Mon
tenegrin army are fighting bravely in
the mountains against the Austro-Hun-
garian. forces, but their situation has
become SO hopeless that arrangements
are being made to evacuate Cettinje,
the capital.
King Nicholas and Queen Milena
will take refuge in Italy, which has
also offered to shelter King Peter and
his Serbian court.
The Montenegrin royal family Is
said to have already left Cettinje and
gone to Antivari, where the king and
queen will embark for Italy, where
they are expected early in January.
They will reside in the famous Pitti
palace at Florence, which is being ar
ranged for their occupancy.
Cettinje, Montenegro, Dec. 25.-Se-
we're fighting between the Austro-Hun.
garian and Montenegrins is in pro.
gress in Montenegro, according to the
following official statement:
"0n December 22 the enemy violent
ly bombarded the Mojkovatz sector
without effect. In the direction oi
Rozai and Berane the enemy attacked
Tourisk, but was repulsed with very
heavy lnsees Toward Rinln wa MIR
sued the enemy as far as Ivania."
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-12-30
ANC0NA SITUATION IS GRAVE
Baron zwiedlnek Calls On Secretary
Lansing to Present Communication
From Austrian Government.

Washington, Dec 25.--Baron Zwied.
inek, Austrian charge here, called
upon Secretary Of State Lansing to
present a communication from the
Austrian government in regard to the
Ancona case Although both Mr.. Ian.
sing and the baron declined to discuss
the matter in any way, it was learned
from an authentic source that the con.
ference did not serve to relieve the
tension over The situation. On the
contrary, 1t was intimated, the COM
munication brought by the baron rath
eg implied a disinclination on the part
ofthe Austrian government o accede
to the American demands and tended
to increase the gravity of the situa.
tion.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-12-30
THE SUBMARINE PROGRESS
Naval Constructors to Prepare All
Plans for Bids.

Washington.-Bids for submarines
for the United States nav will here
after be asked on the basis of plans
prepared by the naval constructors.
Heretofore the navy merely has asked
for bids for submersibles to perform
certain service, and the bidders have
furnished the plans. The old practice
of submitting to bidders only the gen.
eral requirements of the navy will be
abandoned, but that will not prevent
bidders holding patents from submit
ting alternative bids, and between the
two the navy may make its choice.
The fact that such progress in subma-
rlne construction has been made by
the navy's own constructors to permit
OF such departure is disclosed to the
annual report of Rear Admiral David
W. Taylor, Chief of the Bureau of Con.
struction and Repair.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-12-30
WoRKMEN ARE URGED TO UNITE,

London.-David Lloyd George, min.
lister of munitions, addressed a meet
ing OF 5000 trade union officials and
workshop stewards at Glasgow on the
imperative need of an agreement be.
tween skilled and unskilled labor. In
his appeal to the workmen, Mr.. Lloyd
George said: EITHER we must tell
the soldiers that we are sorry that
we can not get the guns to enable
them to win throughout 1916, owing to
the trade union regulation, or we must
tell them that II they manage to hold
out for another year perhaps Ameri'
can workmen will help us get a sulIl'
cient supply for 1917. Another al
Tentative is that we might tell the
kaiser frankly that we can not go on.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-12-30
new YORK HIT
BY FREAK STORM
THUNDER AND LIGHTNING AC-
COMPANY SHORTER, LEAVING
TRAIL OF SEVEN DEAD.
Velocity of n Miles and Hour ls
Reached-Gale Lifts Many Roofs
Buildings Destroyed.
Western Newspaper Union News servic.

Western Newspaper Union News Servics
New York.-Leaving seven dead and
scores injured and widespread dam
age to property, freak blizzard, with
its thunder and lightning, amid blind
ing snowfall, its gale rising to a ve-
loclty of II miles an hour; its sleet
rain and slush, swept on northward,
leaving New York coated with a
mantle of snow WHICH the bright aft
ernoon sunshine tried to thaw faster
than the bitter north wind could
harden. The deaths resulting from
the storm were those of Matthew
Ward, fireman, injured while re-
spending to an alarm; Mrs. Margaret
Charles, who was run over by street
car in Grand street. an unidentified
woman found dead in McKibben street,
Brooklyn; deckhand on canal boat;
flagman at Tottenville, Staten Island,
who was blown in front of train and
killed instantly; bicyclist, riding in
a heavy rain, running into an automo-
bile at Mineola and being fatally in
jured, and an aged man fell on the
icy pavement in Newark and died Of a
fractured skull on his way to hos
pital.
Twenty women and children were
rescued from a string of canal boats
which went adrift in the lower bay and
finally piled up on the shore near
Fort Hancock, N. ]. The Brighton
Heights Reformed church, of New
Brighton, S. l., was riddled with light
ming during the blizzard. Roofs were
blown from the Newark city aims
houseS the Newark city hospital
nurses home and a number of build.
ings throughout New York City and
neighboring communities. A three
story building in the course of con
struction was blown over in the Bronx
Hundreds of windows were smashed
in by the heavy wind and loose OBJ
jects being hurled against the glass
Pedestrians were blown in front oI
moving vehicles. The roof Of church
In Brooklyn was blown, off,. Y
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-12-30
Grown on Two Acres.

From North Carolina comes
the interesting report that Coun-
ty Agent j. B. Steele has just
finished computing the results of
a corn crop of two acres grown
consecutively for five years by j.
A. Myers, Of Davidson county,
One thousand one hundred and
twenty-five bushels, at a total
cost Of $203.2 is the result, MAX
ing an average cost of only 18
cents a bushel. At 80 cents this
would bring 5000. That portion
Of the crops marketed sold for
more than that figure.
Mr.. Myers was credited for
full market price of his labor and
the seed, although this was grown
upon the two acres. His expense
in actual money was only $25
during the whole five years and
this was spent for phosphoric
acid. Last year he gathered 254
bushels from the plot, but this
year a storm destroyed a consid-
cradle amount and he did not get
but 230 bushels. The crop has
been measured each year in the
presence Of the demonstration
agent and several neighbors and
every item Of expense carefully
noted.
Until a record for consecutive
corn yields to beat this one is
produced, Mr.. Steele says this
one must hang up as par excel
lence. Crimson clover was sown
each fall and turned under in the
spring, giving proper deversifica-
tion. Inland Farmer.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-12-30
CHILDREN friends
ARE Remembered
President Has Gifts Distributed
to Fifty Tots Living Along
Washington Road,
Big TREE IN White HOUSE
Chief Usher Of Mansion Takes Role Of
Santa Caus-Ten Small ReIa-
tives of President Hang Up
Their Stockings.

Washington, Dec. 25.-I. H. Hoover,
chief usher at the White House, who
played Santa Claus there this year
in the absence Of President Wilson on
his honeymoon trip at Hot Springs,
Va, was busy man.
At an early hour yesterday the
White House car, loaded with pres
ents, departed for the Virginia side
of the Potomac river to remember so
little friends Of the president. They
live along the Washington road be.
tween the river and the Virginia club,
where he often plays golf When
Mr.. Wilson assumed Office the chill.
dren began waving greetings to him
from the roadside and soon they and
the chief executive became quite
chummy. So just before leaving for
Virginia the president asked Hoover
not to forget them at Christmas.
Ten Little Stockings to Hang.
This was only the beginning of
Hoover's work. Up in the library of
the executive mansion, on the second
floor, he found a large Christmas tree
on which ten little stockings were
hung last night. It was trimmed for
all Of the McAdoo children, Sally and
Mona, and the presidents grandchild,
Ellen McAdoo, seven months old, and
Francis Bowes Sayre, one year old,
and Josephine Cathron, 3 grand
niece, twelve years old, who Nare TO
spend Christmas at the White House.
McAdoo at White House. :,
Besides the children, Secretary and
Mrs. McAdoo, Mr. and Mrs. Francis
Bowes Sayre, Mrs. Ann Cathron, Prof.
Herbert Axson, Mrs. Ann Howe, Miss
Margaret Wilson and Miss Helen
Woodrow Bones were at the White
House for the holidays. Secretary
Tumulty spent the-1ay with his fam,
lily here
Every White House employee re
ceived his customary Christmas gift
of turkey from the president.
Presidential Suite Decorated.
Hot Springs, Va, Dec. 25.-A force
of detectives transformed the presi
dental suite, occupied by, Presi
dent Wilson and his bride, into q
veritable Christmas bower. Wreaths o.
holly and mistletoe were festoonet
over the walls and electric light fix
lures, while a beautiful spruce treC
was set up
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-12-30
Using Ground Lime.

1t is estimated that about 10,-
600 tons of ground limestone got
ten out by two State crushers
have been put upon the farms in
Hardin county this fall, besides a
very large amount which has
been purchased from Goodin &
Brown at Upton. The State
crushers have operated largely in
that section of the county remote
from the railroads. Mr.. Dick
Richardson, who was in the News
Office yesterday, said that he and
his brothers put on seventy-hve
tons at a cash expense Of only
SIS, AT a cost anywhere near
this figure the poorest farmers in
the county can afford to lime
their land. - EIizabethtown News
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-12-30
Are The Rural Schools In Kentucky
Sanitary

The up-to-date farmer and his
busy wife at this time Of year,
have harvested and stored their
fall crops for the winter. They
have provided not only comfort
able but sanitary quarters for
theiy chickens, hogs, cows and
horses.
Probably it would be well just
now for them to turn their at
tention to the winter quarters in
which the children will spend
most Of their time during the
coming school months. In some
rural school districts, an honest
answer to the following questions
would bring out the fact that the
Kentucky child is not receiving
the same scientific care that
Kentucky hogs ard horses are
getting.
Is your district school comfort
ably heated and lighted? Is it
swept and scrubbed regularly?
Can the windows be lowered from
the'top, Or do you rely on the
cracks in the walls to provide
proper ventilation?
Are the outhouses sanitary and
adequate? Is there plenty Of
pure water, and are individual
drinking cups provided?
Is your teacher a trained eX-
pert in her line of work? You
consult agricultural experts for
advice on raising cattle or grow
ing fruit; why not employ an ex-
pert to assist in rearing your
child?
Has your school proper equip
ment, including some good books
and pictures, so that the teaching
may be efficient and vital?
The scientific farmer is realiz
ing that the greatest of all conser
walton is that which relates to thu
child. The child's welfare can
not be promoted without money
expenditure and intelligent
direction, and these two factors
must operate to produce
! maximum efficiency in the ruraI
school.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-12-30
PREMIER ASQUITH
GIVES CASUALTIES
Announces Number as 528,227 in
in Reply to Question Asked
in House.
FURIOUS BATTLE IN ALSACE
More Than 1900 French and Ger
mans Fall in Fight on Mountain
SIope-Turks She'll Five De.
stroyers, Down Airshp.

London, Dec 25.-Replying to a
written question by p. A. Molteno,
member of the house of commons,
Premier Asquith gave the total Brit.
ish casualties up to December 9 as
52S,227.
Crisis over Conscription.
The repeated postpor aments of
Premier Asquith's announcement of
the figures of the earl of Derby's re-
cruiting campaign are now said to
be due to pressure brought to bear on
the ministers by anticonscriptionists.
1t also is alleged that the premier can
only hold his ministry intact by in
PRODUCING some form of conscription,
although he himself is not in favor of
that course.
According to parliamentary gossip,
the number of single men attested un-
der the recruiting scheme was only
a quarter of the total Of single men
on the national registry, end it is as
serted that when men unfit for serv-
ice or engaged in munitions work are
eliminated only very few will be
available for the army. OF course, it
is impossible to confirm these state
ments before the official figures are
forthcoming, but there is little doubt
that there is strong force within the
cabinet working for conscription on
the ground that the single men re-
sponded inadequately to the appeal of
the earl Of Derby.
On the othes hagd. there is a very
strong party in Gerliament dead
against conscription. according to
the Weekly Nation. this party nun.
bers 200 and is well organized and
determined to fight. 1t consists OF
virtually the whole Irish party, ma.
jority of. the labor leaders, and a
large number Of liberals and radicals
The Nation contends that if the con.
scriptionists prevail serious crisis
will be produced and strong liberal
ministers will resign.
$1,000 Fall in Alsace.
Zurich, Dec. 25.-The most violent
artillery battle that had occurred in
Alsace since the beginning of the
war is accompanying the infantry
struggle on the slopes of Hartmanns
weilerkopf.
Reports brought here from Swls!
frontier towns said shells are falling
at the rate of 40 to so a minute. TIL,
French and German losses in fiv,
days fighting on the snowy mountain
side total more than $4,000.
Turks Shell Five Destroyers.
Constantinople, Dec. 25.-The Turk
ish war office gave out the following
statement concerning the progress O
hostilities:
"On the Caucasian front Russian dc
tachments which attempted to az
proch us in the Milo sector were n
pulsed.
"0n the Dardanelles front five to-
! pedo boats and one cruiser were con
PEELED to retire, the cruiser havin
been hit. At Sedd-ul.Bahr there was
violent artillery action on the rigl
wing. A hostile aircraft was she
down at Birsheba.'
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-12-30
NE PkPER MAN
ON COWS STAFF
TWO GREAT STATE INSTITUTIONS
ENJOY MERRY CHRISTMAS
AT FRANKFORT.
STATE WARDS ARE DINED
Turkeys, Pudding and All the Deli
cacies of the Season We're
Served.
Especial Frankfort correspondence.)

Frankfort.-It is Cola Coebel now,
for Gov. Stanley appointed Justus Goe-
bel, of Coyington, member of his
staff. Col. Goebel rendered signal serv-
ices in the recent election.
Thomas B. Cromwell, of Lexington,
political correspondent in Kentucky
for the Enquirer, was appointed a
colonel by Gov. Stanley along with
former Senator Johnson ~ Camden, OF
Versailles. Edmund Watson Taylor, of
Frankfort, was given the same honor.
The seven other men appointed col
onels are: Arthur B. Krock, Frank
McGrath, Louisville; Jos. C. Vanmeter,
Lexington; c. B. Sullivan, Versailles;
James r. Rash, Henderson; Walter
Elred, Kevil, and George B. Martin,
Catlettsburg.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-12-30
POWDER GAS KILLS MINERS
Four Aephyxiated and Three Over.
come When Blast Fails to
Explode.

Brandy City, Cal, Dec. 25.-Four
men were asphyxiated by powder
fumes, three others ate unconscious
and expected to die, and another is
in serious condition as the result
of the failure of a 22,OOO.pound blast
of low grade powder, set in the Brandy
City mine near here, to explode fully.
superintendent G. w. Taylor is the
only one of those injured to recover,
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-12-30
J0FFLE GUSTS IS GENERALS
Commander Of French Forces Pro-
notes Men Who Distinguished
Themselves in Battles.

Paris, Dec. 25.-Gen. Joffre, com.
mander in chief of the French army,
continues ruthlessly his policy Of elm
mating from the high commands all
officers not maintaining the highest
standard Of efficiency, both technically
and physically, The latest official
statement contains the names of five
generals of divisions retired, three
placed on the reserve list, and seven
brigadiers placed on the reserve, Men
who have distinguished themselves in
the recent operations are being pro.
NOTED to their places.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-12-30
Study Fee Question.

The report of special committee
composed, of Johnson n Camden,
Judge r. L. Edelen and Robert Brown,
on the legality of fees charged county
appointees at the University of Ken
lucky, was heard at meeting of the
Board of Trustees in Frankfort. The
meeting was an adjournment from the
meeting in Lexington. The matter Of
charging a fee of $15 to all county
appointees was brought to the attcr-
tion of the university in September,
when Attorney George Webb was eT-
ployed by a number of the students,
who protested against payment OF the
fee on the grounds that the school law
provided that county appointees should
be exempt from all fees.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-12-30
Talk About Roads.

The state board of prison commits
sioners held a conference with Gov
Stanley, during which the convict Ia,
Dor problem was discussed in its gen.
eral features. Atty, Gen, ,.elect NJ. NJ
Logan was called In during the confer.
ences, The governor asked many
questions about the number of prison
ers, methods of handling them, theii
employment during the winter months
when road work is stopped and Others
relating to the details of carrying ou,
the constitutional amendment relative
10 their employment on road work.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-12-30
ONE DEAD, 2s HURT IN WRECK
Fog Causes Collision When Engineer
Fails to See Train at Station
In Kansas.

Galena, Kan, Dec. 25,-Iohn Bray. a.
fireman. was killed and 2S passengers
were injured when an accommodation
train on the Missouri, Oklahoma 4
Gulf railroad crashed into st. Louis &
San Francisco passenger train No. 3S7,
bound from ST. Louis 20 Oklahoma
points, hoavy fog obscured the view
Of tho cnElneer.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-12-30
U. S. STARTS NEW INQUIRY
Consular Agents to Determine II Big
Jap Steamer Was Sunk Without
Warning.

Washington, Dec. 25.-The sinking
of the Japanese liner Yasaka Maru in
the Mediterranean, reported torpedoed
without warning, viii be made the sub.
ject of an inquiry by the United States.
Consular agents viii be asked to OBJ.
tain accurate versions OF the incident
and forward them without delay to
the state department.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-12-30
COME TAN is EXTENDED
dividends From Net Earnings and
Surplus Held Accessible by the
Treasury Department.

Washington, Dec. 25.-Stock divi.
nds paid from net earnings. surplus
undivided profits of corporations,
Ilnt stock companies, associations
and Insurance companies were held by
the treasury department to be income
taxable under the law. Returns of in.
dlviduals must include such dividends
where the total net income is more
than $4,000 a year.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-12-30
RUs ING AIDS WESTERN ROADS
Freight Rate Increases to Add Thou.
sands Of Dollars In Revenue
Annually.

Washington, Dec. 25.-Hundreds of
thousands of dollars additional rev.
enue will be derived annually by rail.
roads west of the Mississippi as a
result of the interstate commerce COM
missions decision permitting mate
rial increases in freight rates, This,
despite the fact that numerous in.
creases sought by the carriers were
denied. Most of the advances. which
include commodities as agricultural
implements, canned goods and boots
and shoes, take effect January 81.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-12-30
IN MINE e6 HOURS; RESCUED
Pennsylvania Man Buried Alive by
Rush Of Coal Is Saved After
Four Days Work.

Shamokin Pa, Dec. 25.-After being
entomOed by rush Of coal at the
Richards colliery of the Reading CON-
pany for period of 96 hours, Joseph
Renock, miner, was taken out alive.
A force of 100 men had been working
for four days at the risk OF their lives
in an effort to rescue the imprisoned
man. Renock was rushedSto a hospi.
tai. He will recover.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-12-30
RECEIVED CONGRATULATIONS.

Washington.-Adminal George Dew
ey, hero Of the battle of Manila Bay,
observed his 18th birthday anniversary
at his home here, He received large
number OF congratulatory messages
and a number of friends called to pay
their respects, Despite his advanced
age, Admiral Dewey still takes an aG-
tive interest in naval affairs, being
Chairman of the General Board Of the
Navy.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1915-12-30
BLOW FOR LOBSTER PALACES
Tempting crustaeean and shad Are
Disappearing, Says United States
Bureau Report.

Washington, Dec 25.-ShadNnd lob.
ster are disappearing rapidly from
the American waters despite artificial
propagation efforts, according to the
annual report of the United States
bureau of fisheries. Cooperation and
aid by state fishery authorities is sug.
gested as II remedy for threatened de.
pletion.