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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-12-09

ARTILLERY FIRE SHAKES CHAMPAGNE fRONE
oy The United Press
PARIS Dec o-Erench artillery broke Up repeated A'avy
a Of as Germans souain during last hight tbs va
once reported this afternoon the whole Easern cAangaSHs
-eroa trg rocked by artillery are South Of st.
opDls, ssnea shells exploded German munitions depot 7
is admtea tho reutoua established themselves part os
trench cost Of souan elsewhere their attacks we're reDcs
ed II was oficially stated
French troops the Argonns suecss'iuy exploded sVo
nlne- in ths region Of c5eyau'heo
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-12-09
court COT HIM; He
DRAWS SIX MONTHS

John keenan,, who recently sent word
from Chester, Pa, to Agent Frank Stout
that if he wanted him for failing TO live
up to a court order to support his wife
and three children he would have TO
send for him, was a prisoner in City
Court today.
Keenan, was sent for all right, for
Court Officer Jolly yesterday brought
him back from Chester.
When Keenan, was arraigned IN City
Court today Mr.. Stout said he was Sol
in arrears on an order to pay So week
to his family.
keenan, said he had wanted his wife
to live in Pennsylvania but she had re-
fused.
"Six months in the workhouse,' sai'
Judge Churchman.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-12-09
GRANr LETTERs ON ESTATES.

Register of Wills Isaac r. Brown has
granted letters Of administration on the
estate of Clarence pleasanton to Bessie
NJ Pleasanton. The deceased was one
of the Hagley yard explosion victims
Letters of administration have also
been issued on the estate of Esther Tat
nall Gayley, Henry 4. Gayley being
named administrator of the estate. Let
ters testamentary on the estate II
Anne G. Reese have been issued to Jen-
ME W. Nearsley.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-12-09
LAuRFL STORES ROBBED.

Special to the EVENING JpUkNAL
LAUREL, Del, Dec. 9.-Robbers
broke into the stores OF Christopher
Ellis and Sydney Studley early this
morning. but got only small amount
of money. Arrests are probable.
robberies have become frequent here
OF late
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-12-09
GEoRGIANNA FoRGIvEs

Edward Crooms, colored, was dismiss
ed in City Court today on charge Of
assault and battery on Georgianna
Washington, also colored The latter
said Grooms struck her ON the nose with
a nail. Grooms denied this and said
Georgianna fell and cut her nose.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-12-09
ARREsrFp WRONG MN.

Dominic Salvatore, charged with oper-
ating a motor vehicle without the proper
tags was dismissed in City Court today
because it appeared that his chauffeur
and not he had operated the machine.
"The chauffeur should have been arrest
ed" remarked Assistant City Solicitor
Lynn
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-12-09
MAN SAYS WOMAN ROBBED HIM.

Ida Darnell. colored, was charged in
City Court today with acting improp-
erly toward Harry Acopion and with
robbing him of 500. Ida asked for a
continuance of her case until tomor-
row. She was held in $500 bail. Acop-
ion, who is employed at Carney's
Point, was held in 800 ball.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-12-09
PEACE STATEMENTS OF
GOVERNMENT LEADERS.


Premier AsGuith. IN ihe House
Of Commons. yesterday; "If pro-
pOsnlS Of n serious character for
n general peace are put forward :
by the enemy governments either
directly or through neutral
power, they will be discussed by :
the Allied governments"
Chancellor Won Bethmanu-
. HollWeg. I'm the Reichsiag. today
. "As long as In the countries Of
. our enemies guilt and Ignorance
. of statesmen are entangled with :"
: confusion 0f public opinion. II
would be folly for Germany to
make peace proposals. which
would not shorten but lengthen :
the duration Of the war"
their faces. AZ present they speak OF
a war OF annihilatlon against US. We
have TO consider this fact-that the
oretical arguments for peace or pro-
positions, will not advance us; they
Will not bring the end nearer.
III our enemies make peace pro-
posals compatible with Germany's dig
nifty and safety. then we shall always
be ready TO discuss them.
Fully conscious OF our unshaker
military success We decline the re
sponsibility for the continuation o
the misery which now fills Europ
and the whole world. Nobody can sa
that we are continuing the war be
cause we want TO conquer this or th'
country as pledge
Enthusiastic cheers filled the Reicl
, stag chamber when the Chancellor CO
: cluded his reply to the peace interp
lation Of DR.. Philip Scheidemann. s
A Continued on Page FourteenJ
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-12-09
rnENCH EYAcUATE sTATION.

By Tho united Press
SOFIA via Amqterdam Dec sBulsarian troops have Oo
esnea the railway station Of DsmrEapu which
.,ss v bs FRENCH # was oacaiy announced today w
lace Of erovica has also been occupied By Bugarans.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-12-09

THE EVENING JOURNAL will co.
operate with the Delaware Anti-Tu-
berculosis Society and the United
States Health Department in showing
stereopticon slides from THE JOUR-
NAL building. Fourth and Shipley
streets. tomorrow and Saturday even
ings.
Through the efforts of DR.. Albert
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-12-09
NEW YEAR CELEBRATION.

The Veteran Volunteer Firemen's
Relief Association will hold New
Years supper and dance on New
Years eve.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-12-09
FINFD FOR MISCONDUCT

Joseph Siska was fined 81 and costs
in CITY Court today on a charge Of act.
ing improperly at Front and Wes'
stroets last night.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-12-09

on the other side the latest modern
steamer.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-12-09
STUDENTS HEAR RAILROAD
MANAGEMENT DEFENDED in AN
ADDRESS TODAY BY MR.. LEE

P, B. wv. General Superintendent Condemns Dema-
gogueS Who Cry Out Against Great Business Inter
ests Without Having Expert knowledge Of Their
Subject Business Has Suffered from UnwSe Laws
SAYS PRESENT PROSPERITY IS
Due TO ABNORMAL CONDITIONS
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-12-09
NO PEACE In EUROPE
UNLESS KAISER'S FOES
MAKE FIRSTOVERTURE

German Chancellor Before Reichsfag De-
cIares That Under No Circumstances
viii Country Consider Surrender to
France OF AIsace-Loraine. Says
"Enfenfe Must AbandOn Idea That They
Will Crush Prussian MiIiiarism."
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-12-09
WEATHER

Partly cloudy and sOmc-
what colder tonight. Friday,
fair; fresh northwest winds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-09
START OFFENSIVE.
Russians Strike South From Lublin,
Where Germans Have Been Resting.

PETROGRAD, July 9. 11:4o am, via
London. 2:5s p.m.-In spite Of the mill
tary distractions along the northern
and western fronts. which include fifful
activity between Suwalki and the Kol-
yari river and the feint at Warsaw
from the west, the main efforts Of the
forces arrayed against Russia are still
concentrated between the River Wis.,
tula and the River Bug and are aimed
at Lublin.
In this region. however, the Russians,
according to latest report, have tenn
porarily stopped the Austro-German
advance. and they are even beginning
a new offensive movement of their
own between the vistula and the
Vfeprz river, striking south from Lub-
lin against the German positions near
Ourzendoff. Buchava and Krasnik. The
front marked by these points IL, broad
ly speaking, about twenty miles to the
south of Lublin and Kholm, and about
thirty miles to the northeast Of San
domir.
German forces have been resting now
for several days at these points with
out any particular change in the sit
uation. and the movement on their
part. which for nearly two months has
been making steady progress. has come
to standsttn
This condition, taken in conjunction
with the new Russian offensive activ-
ity, explains the confident belief among
Russian observers that q turning point
at last has been reached and that the
psychological moment to prevent q fur
Their German invasion has now present.
ed itself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-09
MILITARY EXPEDITION
TO MEXICO REPORTED
Department Of Justice Informed One
in Interest of Felix Diaz
Il Under Way.

Reports that q military expedition
fitted out in the interests OF Felix DiaE
has been preparing to sail for Mexico
are being Investigated today by Of
ficials of thes Department Of Justice. 1t
has been reported that Felix Diaz or
his supporters have chartered three
vessels to carry arms and munitions
and men to Mexico. Ono Of these YES
sells Is said to have been the Atlanta,
which sailed from Baltimore last even
ing.
and ammunition. She cleared for Vera
Cruz, but 1t is believed that she Is to
touch at Havana, Cuba, and will con-
voy another vessel from that port to
Mexico. At tho department 1t was said
that the Atlanta sailed under the
American flag.
Another vessel under suspicion Of the
department Is the Ventura, at Miami,
Fla For several days the department
has had its eye on this vessel. it having
been reported that the Ventura was to
take part in the Diaz expedition. Word
has been received, however, that the
Ventura has been libeled by one of the
crew, and 1t was said today she prob
ably could not sail on that account.
AT the department 1t was stated that
IT would be within the rights of the
United States to send a war vessel to
overhaul the Atlanta and bring her
back. 1t was added. however. that the
department did not take the report
of the expedition seriously enough at
sending a war vessel after the Atlanta
Felix Diaz, when last heard of by
the department officials two or three
days ago, was in New York city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-09
HoRs Guard Declares
He Heard Explosion
Such as Pistol Shot

NEW YORK. July s.-Jerry Ryan
who was tho last man. II Is believed, who
saw Frank Holt alive; and who was
his guard in tho Mineola Jail on the
night Holt came to his death. does not
corroborate the story that Holt killed
himself by . twenty-foot jump on his
head, which has been told by the dis
trict attorney, tho coroner and the
warden Of the Jail.
Ryan has been interviewed at his
home, and disagrees with the officials
as to Hollis death.
IT have never decided that Holt
Jumped to death and that he did not
use q pistol" he said. II shall never
be convinced that the noise I heard
when I was out Of tho corridor for .
moment or two was not the sound of
a pistol shot or an explosion. They
are trying to put 1t up to me, trying
to hold mo responsible for careless
ness. I'm not going to make an ac-
cusation At this time. but the truth will
come out, perhaps. whom this stir Is
all over.
II know this positively, that when
Hollis body was drst discovered they
were sure that he had shot himself and
they looked for q revolver. Everybody
in the place searched for q gun, even
turned Holt's body over, thinking the
pistol might be underneath. Then Dr..
Cleghorn and tho others had q confer.
ence and tho word went out that Holt
had jumped"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-09

This difference in price" says supt-
Sherman. does not represent exorbi.
tant profits for dealers, but exorbitant
waste incurred in storage, transporta-
ton charges. rentals. insurance. deliv-
cry costs, etc. incurred in the legtti-
mate effort to give to the people what
they have demanded from force of hab-
it. without thought of the tremendous
cost involved
There is plentiful supply of fish on
the market at the low prices stated.
The difference in prices indicated above
is not characteristic of one day only,
but is about the normal difference that
has existed all summer. The probabi
ity Is that these prices will go slightly
lower tomorrow. will recover to their
present level next Monday and stay
about as quoted during the week, with
small occasional variations.
"A1l fish prices would be lower in
Washington If more people would eat
fish on other days of the week instead
of only Friday. Prices must be high
when one days business must pay the
profits of the week.
Lazy living costs high"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-09
POLICE FIND CLUES,
+ HINT AT A MURDER
Woman's Mourning Handkef-
chief, initiated IF" and
Other Apparel Are Found.

The finding Of q woman's mourning
handkerchief initiated "F' may be tho
means Of solving what the police think
is likely to prove q murder or assault
mystery. With the handkerchief were
pieces Of wire, a datiron, second
handkerchief and a woman's red skirt
The several articles were in bum
die on tho sea wall near the Lincoln
memorial now being erected. and were
found this morning by Park Police
man F. W. Regain.
When the park policeman found the
bundle, he reported to Detective O'Dea.
wet. as II they had been in the river.
In the soft mud which was exposed at
low tide he pointed out what appeared
to be footprints, a short distance from
No effort was made to obtain posses
sion OF the basket, however, and the
articles found by the park policeman
were turned over to Detective O'Dea.
Stains on the handkerchiefs may have
been made by blood, it was suggested.
but the detective thought they prob
ably were made by the coloring in the
skirt being washed out by water.
Net There Yesterday.
How long the bundle had been on the
wall or how it got there the police
were unable to learn. The park po-
ltceman Is sure 1t was not there yes
terday. he stated. and his idea was
that 1t had been fished from the river
by fishermen or others and deposited
on the wall.
But how the natiron got there" he
said. Il cannot imagine, unless 1t had
been used to weight the clothing"
The shoes were tied together with the
strings, and 1t Is deemed certain that
they were not washed from the feet of
their wearer.
Detective ODea took tho articles to
police headquarters for further exam
ination. Fred Sandberg. in charge of
the police bureau of Identification. will
examine the skirt and handkerchief
for bloodstainA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-09
French War Prints.
From the New York Globe.

From the New York Globe.
As far as the delineative arts are con.
cerned, the feature of the present wal
in France is clearly the print Georges
Scott, widely regarded as the successor
of Meissonier and Detaille as the por.
trayer Of military types and incidents
ton for pencil or brush in the trenches
It s. with the moral rather than the
actual phases OF war that he has been
last August, Into Alsacev portrayals
of the civilian population and their bur-
dens-the farewells. the suffering wom-
on, the dead-such are tho contributions
Of Georges SCOTT. It 10 rather In the
prints and engravings that We find
nearly every phase Of tho actual strug-
gle. with the political aspects ana the
anecdotes. These range from the signed
proofs Of Forain. printed in limited
editions on Japanese paper. to the
series Of La Grande Guerre, garish in
color. Crude in popular appeal. but in
tho broad-sheets Of q hundred years
ago.
Tho whimsy and tho decorative sense
that inform this series only heighten
tho grim earnestness Of the back
ground. Take. for instance. the way
of tho Aisne. Overhead shells are
bursting in myriads. In tho distance
IL the rush Of cheering troops in a fran
tic bayonet charge. But what at this
nervous moment is a company Of Brit,
ish infantrymen doing? Gathered
around a campfire making tea! The
colors protect the campfire
from the wind. To one side stands the
killed Highlander. tho bagpipes skirl-
ing. What could hammer home with
surer stroke the supreme fact of Anglo
Saxon imperturbability. that imme-
mortal rock on which tho insensate Ger
man drive must some day split? When
one considers that some OF these prints
may be had as low as 10 confines
(the mere pittance Of cents). though
the price at which the Forain proofs
are published runs as high as so francs,
1t is clear that a valuable graphic his
tory Of tho war Is within the means OF
all but the absolutely destitute.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-09
LY2,OOO LETTERS
FOUND IN HOLT EFFECTS
hot . Single Sentence Reveals He
Had IN Accomplish in
His Work.

NEW YORK, July s.-Nearly 1000
letters found among the effects OF
Frank Holt at Ithaca have been gone
over carefully BY the police. 1t was an
nounced today. and not q single SEN
tence has been found among them to
indicate that Holt had an accomplice
in his program Of terrorism by bomb
and assassination.
The letters were written in French.
Italian. Spanish. German and English
and dated as far back as 1905. In one
Of tho letters-from tho secretary OF
Andrew Carnegte-it was learned that
Holt had offered to go to China to
teach and to take his wife with him
az q missionary. He had written that
he could not do this. however. for
$1,000 a year. and hoped that Mr.. Car
negie could make it $780,
No Reference to Muenter.
Two letters from an aunt Of Holt
in Leipzig. Germany. were found So
far as could be learned they contained
no reference to Hollis life as Erich
Muenter.
Other letters showed that Holt had
exchanged views on topics of the day
and public questions with college
presidents.
A copy Of a letter sent by him to
Mrs Ballington Booth told of Hollis
success in having induced . prison ON
cial to introduce welfare work in the
prison.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-09
CUTTER OFFICER ILL AT SEA.
Lieut.. Van Hammer, Stricken With
Aupendicitis, Hurried to HOSPITAL.

Third Lieutenant Of Engineers Isaac
John Van Hammer, at one time a resi-
dent of Washington. attached to the
coast guard cutter Manning. was
stricken with appendicitis day before
yesterday on the high seas while the
coast guard cutter was on her way to
Alaska.
The Manning was ordered this morn.
ing by coast guard headquarters to
make tho long trip from her position
500 miles west of Cape Flattery, the
northeast corner Of continental United
states, to Port Townsend. WASH. to
land the stricken of1cer for attention
at the marine hospital located there.
The Manning then will resume her
journey to Unalaska.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-09
LAUDS EGYPTIAN HOSPITALS.
Sir Frederick Treves Describes Care
of Wounded in East,

LONDON, July ., 3:46 a.m.-Slr Fred
erick Treves. the British surgeon who
Is on a tour Of inspection Of army hos
pitfalls, writes to the Times testifying
that as q result Of personal VISIT and
close examination Of hospitals in NAL
IA, Cairo, Alexandria, Port Said and
Mudros. arrangements for caring for
the wounded in the Dardanelles are
now quite adequate.
All of these institutions. he writes
are under the direction Of competent
doctors and nurses and contain ample
beds. Eminent consulting surgeons
famous throughout the world, are In
attendance. Owing to the Unexpectedly
large number of wounded. he added
there have been periods of severe pres
sure and urgent stress, but they have
been heroically met.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-09
TO BE BURIED AT DALLAS.
Hollis Body Desired by His Wife in
Texas City.

DALLAS, Tex, July o.-The body of
Frank Holt, who exploded q bomb in
the United States Capitol last week and
afterward attacked ]. P. Morgan
and later killed himself. will be
buried hero because Mra Holt,
whom he married dve years ago in
Texas, cannot bear to think Of her
husband lying in q distant grave"
my daughter first yielded to our
wishes that the burial be in Ithaca.
N. r, so she might DO spared tho
ordeal Of the funeral" said Mrs. Hollis
father, tho Rev. o. r. Sensabaugh, in
makinr the announcement, but later
she insisted on Frank being buried
here, where she expected to make her
The body is expected to arrive here
Sunday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-09
COMMUTAT|ON0 Of HICKS
SENTENCE IS URGED
Attorney General Acts Favorably on
Petition of Man Convicted Of
Misusing Mails.

Attorney General Gregory. after a
careful investigation of the petition
for the pardon of Robert E. Hicks of
New York, has recommended that Pros
ident Wilson grant a Communication OF
sentence to expire at once. II the Presi-
dent returns to Washington in . few
days he will sign the communication. II
he remains in Cornish much longer the
papers will be sent there for his sig
nature.
Hicks case has been a most remark
able one. In New York, May 20. 1908.
he was sentenced to ten months in
prison and to pay a fine Of $1,000 for
improper use of the mails Of the Unit
ed States. He was released on bond
and fed to Europe.
thorities soon losing sight Of him and for
getting his case. Some years ago he re-
turned to New York, married, and 10 now
the father Of three children He started
ally began to do printing for churches
and charitable organizations. Two years
ago he was converted to Christianity. and
since then has devoted himself to the
good Of humanity and to helping others
become Christians He became acquainted
with the most earnest church workers in
New York. and they grew to like him
Voluntarily Surrenders Himself.
He brooded over his conviction.
which no one knew anything about,
not even his wife. and June 10 last
suddenly surrendered himself to the
federal authorities and began serving
his sentence. He frankly told his story
and tried to conceal nothing. At once
the church workers he had como in
contact with started q petition for hts
pardon. giving him . splendid name
and crediting him with great good in
the Christian held. It was this peti-
ton that was acted upon by the At
torpey General
The federal authorities in Now York
represented to tho Attorney General
that II Hicks had not surrendered and
had kept his mouth shut he probably
would never have been disturbed, as
the case had been practically forgotten.
and no efforts to apprehend Hicks
had been made for many years.
Secretary Tumulty took deep in
terest in the case, which was hrst told
to him by a New York minister who
came to Washington for that purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-09
DELEGATES TO LABOR MEET.
Wilson Names Represent
atives Of His Department.

Secretary Wilson Of the Department
Of Labor has detailed the following to
represent the department at the labor
conference to be held in San Francisco
August 3: Secretary Wilson, Assistant
Secretary Louis F. Post, Commissioner
Of immigration A. Caminetti, H. L.
Kerwin. T. v. Powderly. A. W. Parker.
Mr.. Meeker. all commissioners Of I'M
migration at ports. all inspectors of
immigration in charge at inland ports
and supervising inspectors of immigra-
ton.
Requests that representatives be sent
from their departments have been sent
to the Secretaries Of the Department of
Agriculture, Interior Department, the
Department Of Commerce and Post
master General
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-09
To Plead for SlaYer's Life.

MoUNDsvLLE, W. Va. July o.
Employed by convicts In tho West vir-
ginia psnitentiary here with money
collected BY them yesterday, Martin
W. Brown. an attorney. left during the
night for Charleston to plead with
Gov. Hatfield for tho life Of Matt Jar
rell, who was sentenced to be hanged
at sunset today for the murder OF
silas Mace, town marshal Of Eskdals
Jarrslis aged mother arrived here
last night from KanaWha county and
will remain until the sentence Of the
court 10 carried out or the reprtevs
r. Groate4.