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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-09-13
MURRETTE.,
VIEW MANY cuRloS.

MONTPELIER, Ind. Sept. .13.-The
"Dawley Ono Man Fair" the strangest
affair Of the kind in the world. viii
be held at the home Of J. c. Dawley,
east OF here. Sept 20 and 80. Dawley
is a collector of curios and every year
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-09-13

he throws open his home to the public
and Thousands Of people view his col
lection. This year Congressman
Adair. OF Portland. will make an ad-
dress.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-09-13

Collins are being made OF paper in
France.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-17
LEO NJ. FRANK.
Allies Give Notice
They Will Declare
Cotton Contraband

peter. always recognized as absolute
contraband In the manufacture OF gun
powder will be held TO be an estab-
lishcd fact. and by way of convincing
the state Department to that effect at
tention probably will be directed to a
letter by Secretary Hay TO w. w.
Rockhill, American minister TO China,
during the Russo-Japanese War, stat
ing that the American ordnance Of
hccrs whom he had called into CONSUL
tation regarding the Japanese block
ade orders had advised him that cotton
was used In the manufacture Of smoke
less powder. and so must properly be
regarded as contraband.
EFFECT on GROWERS
SUBJECT OF CONTENTION
1t is expected that somc arrange
mcnt will be proposed by which the
allies Will allow cotton to travel un-
moicsted TO neutral countries in guam
titles IN proportion TO their normal con-
sumption. What the effect will be on
American cotton growers is subject
of contention. The allied powers are
prepared to argue that 1t will not be
far-rcachinE.
The cotton interests have for some
time been alarmed ut the prospect. and
1t is known the State Department has
been preparing to resist the new move
with every means at the command OF
diplomacy.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-17
ARMY OF 100000 NEEDED
There Should Also lie Second Line OF
sumo Number, Snys CrnEo

There Should Also lie Second Line of
same Number. Says Crngo.
DETROlT. August 16.-Representa-
tive Thomas $. Crago. of waynesburg,
Pa. commandcriu-c chief of the Vet
erans OF Foreign Wars OF the United
states. told the organizations annual
convention mere to-day that the United
states should have tirst-linc army of
100000 men. Il second line army of the
same number and equipment for
100000 soldiers.
The experience Russia is now hay-
ing shows the vital Importance of
equipment for war" said Comma nde
CraSo.
The experience OF other nations dur
Ing the great war now raging shows
the necessity for men"
About l.200 delegates are attending.
: The Imperial Order OF the Dragon,
made UP of veterans of the Chinese Re-
lief Expedition of 1900. is holding its
eighth annual reunion Jointly with the
larger organization.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-17
They Decide on Step OF
ar-Reac hing Import
TO This Country.

w S II NC T o N. August 16.-The
allies intention to declare cotton con-
traband has been communicated unof-
fcially. but authoritativcly, to the
State Department. The departments S
advices are that the decision has been
reached. and the delay in making an
announcement is due to the necessity
of arranging uniform treatment of the
subject by all the allies.
The step has been agreed upon by
Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy
and Belgium. but Japans attitude has
not been defined. She may decide no
action is called for from her at this
time. because OF the elimination OF the
only German colony in the Far East
from the military problem and the lack
of any reason for n blockade.
MORE EFFECTIVE
MEASURES DEMANDED
Ever since the application of the
British orders in council to cotton,
among other American products, the
entente allies have felt that some more
effective and less burdensome method
must be found for dealing with cotton
and preventing its entry into Germany
and Austria. The allies contend that
American cotton shippers. in many
cases alleged to be backed by German
capital. have been shipping cotton to
Germany through neutral ports.
Under the orders in council, such a
cargo, if captured. was merely taken
into British port and paid for by
the British government. The allies
contend that under these conditions
much cotton got through Sweden. Dem
mark and Holland into Germany
From the allies point of view. the
orders in council were ineffective. be-
cause they obliged the British govern
ment to buy cotton and at the same
time offered an incentive to blockade
runners.
PRESSURE HAS COMPEI.LED
CHANGE IN PROGRAM
According to the adviccs reaching
Washington, the pressue in Englann
and France has compelled change.
The British government originally re-
garded cotton as noncontraband and
expressed n desire to avoid inflicting
hardship upon the Southern planters
and to avoid development Of an. anti
British feeling in this country. The
change TO contraband will be defe led
as authorized by international law.
Great Britain protested against the
American blockade Of OF going cotton
from the South during the Civil War.
and had refused to recognize 1t as con-
traband during the Russo-Japancso
War, but will now contend that radical
changes in the conditions Of warfare
since that time justified change in
the attitude
The entente powers, 1t is said, expect
that the department will resist making
cotton contraband and are prepared to
base their action on American prcce-
dents. The advices reaching here indi-
cate they Intend to argue that both
Presidents Lincoln and Johnson in
formal proclamations Issued In April,
May and June, 1865. went oh record as
maintaining as contraband materials
for the fabrication of ammunition"
That cotton has taken the place OF salt
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-17
PETITION FOR RECEIVER
Action Brought Against Missouri-Pncific
Iron Mountain Railway.

ST. LOUIS. August l6.-A petition
for a receiver for the Missouri Pacific
Iron Mountain Railway system was
hled in Federal Court here to-day by
Boyle & Priest, attorneys for the Com
monwealth Steel Company. OF st. Louis,
which claims to be creditor OF the rail-
road to tho extent OF sS5.o00 for rolling
stock and other railroad supplies,
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LONDON August 1s.-Prince Leo
pold's Bavarians have fought their wav
across the Bug near. Drohiczyn, fifty
miles northwest of t-Ltovsk, ac-
cording to Berlin, and formed a slight
wedge in the Russian front, which had
been virtually straight since the War
saw salient was abandoned
Won Mackensen also is reported push
ing the Russians back along the Bug.
while farther west Won Hindenburr ia
credited with n successful attack on the
advanced dcfcnccs of Kovno and a sue
ccssful attempt TO break the Russian
lines between the Narew and the Bug.
Military movements, however, at
tracted less attention in London TODAY
than the diplomatic negotiations in the
Balkans. y brief dispatch from Athens
stating that former Premier Venizelos
had won a decisive victory over the
government in the organization of the
garded as significant of some early
change in the foreign policy of Greece
TURKEY SEEMS CONFIDENT
OF PRESENT POSITION
The withdrawal of the Bulgarian n
delegates from Constantinople also
caused much speculation here, the con-
sensus of opinion being that Turkey
is so confident OF her present posi-
tion that she does not feel compelled
to make concessions.
The usual grenade and mine fighting
is reported in the west. and there has
been some activity along minor fronts
In the Caucasus, where the Russians
claim that they have repulscd Turkish
attacks. At Livingstone. on the Rho
desian border in South Africa, Brit
ish force which had been besieEed by
a German detachment. is reported to
have finally driven off the besiegers.
A German submarine has shelled
three towns on the Cumberland coast
Of England. Several fires were started
by shells. and the railroad was dam
aged. but there were no casualties IL
is said, as Il result of the attack
Except in their financial columns tho
newspapers pay little attention TO the
decline of sterling exchange. The gov
ernment has given no hint OF any plan
it may be considering to relieve tho
situation which the leading financial
circles regard as decidedly serious.
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WIND BLOWS AS HIGH
AS NINETY MILES AN HOUR

GALVESTON, TEXAS. August 16 (by
telephone to Houston).-At s o'clock
tonight the barometer had fallen to
29.0O and still was falling. The wind
was blowing siXty-five miles an hour,
There were about three feet Of water
in the streets OF Galveston near the
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-17

Senor Don Jose Pardo was elected
president OF Peru at the elections last
May. and the choice was unanimously
ratified at session of the Peruvian
congress In Lima on August 10
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-17

PctroErnd again asserts TINT the
RuSsfnns I'm Cour1nnd hnve driven
bnck the Germans md also rcpuIsed
German c0untcroffensivem movements.
In Poland, however. the reports or
the Tcutonic allies indicntc TINT
their forces almost everywhere still
nre advancing.
Artillery enEnEemcnts arc the
rule generally nIonE the western
front.
An Austrian senpInne hns attacked
the const forts OF Venice and,
despite an attack by Italian nirmcn,
reached Its bnse I'm snfety.
n German submarine has fired
shells into the English towns of
Parton, Harrington nnd Nhitehuycn.
No casualties, Ia Is snld, resulted,
but some material damage yvns done,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-17
BRITAIN MAY PLACE
BIG FOREIGN LOANS

LONDON. August ia strong ef-
fort is being made in financial quarters
to have the government issue a largo
amount of short-tcrm high-rate bonds,
to be placed on the American market
as n means OF relieving the present low
rate of British exchange. The ex-
change rate continued downward here
to-day. at one time touching the low
est known record-4.67 1-2. This
caused unusual activity in the exchange
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s1S ROUND TRIP TO NIAGARA FAILS

From Richmond. via r.. r. &c Z. and Wash
tngton. Limit IS davs. See ticket agents or
W. r. Taylor T. NJ. Richmond. Va, for
full information.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-17

The newly elected Greek Cham
her Of Deputies hns chosen for It's
presiding officer NJ. Znvitzanos, an
adherent of VI. VenizcIo md the
Cabinet of VI. GOunnris Inns re-
signed. The mcngcr announcement
of the changed political conditions
In Greece contains no fntimation M
tn how NenizcIos now stands with
regard to this country's .,osition in
the wnr. The Athens correspondent
of Berlin newspaper INSERTS, how
ever, TINT VenizeIos still believes the
interests of Greece lie on the side
of the entente allies. but TINT Il tx
not yet time for her to Join them
actively.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-17
BAVAR|ANS DRIVE
ENTERING WEDGE
IN RUSSIAN FRONT
Fight Way Across Bug and
Again Bend Back Lines
of Defenders.
FURTHER VICTORIES
CREDITED TO TEUTONS
Military Movements Attract Less
Attention Than Situation
in Balkans.
ENGLISH TOWNS ARE ATTACKED
German Submarine Sends Rain of
Shells on Cumberland
Coast.
ENGLISH TOWNS ARE ATTACHED
German Submarine Sends Rain Of
Shells on Cumberland
Coast.
Wars Political Side
Again to Forefront

W iTH military operations pro-
cccdinE virtually as for days
pnst. the political side OF the wnr
again hHs risen to the fore with
announcements that the qundruplc
entente allies have decided to de-
cinrc cotton contrnbnnd md thnt the
party of the former Creek Premier,
VI. Nenizelos, whose Cabinet resigned
Inst March when King Constantine
disnpprorcd of his policy In fnvor
of the entente nliies, again tx In
power.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-17
BE:NAVIDES RESIGNS
He Stcpa Down and out nv President
OF Peru.

LIMA. PERU. August l6.-Colonel
Oscar Benavides, provisional president
of Peru, resigned to-day
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BALKANS ARE LINING UP
FOR QUADRUPLE ENTENTE
tSpecial Cable to The Times Dispatch. ]
LONDON, August l6.-Reports from
all the Balkan capitals foreshadow an
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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-06-03

.d.4 II 4ess
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-07
SCHOONER SALES REPORTED.
Sidonia Curley and Eva May in
Hands of New Owners,

Capt. Alfred Curley. jr., of this city
reports having sold his schooner. the
Sidonia Curley. to Capt. J. M. Garrett
of Baltimore, the TRANSACTION hav-
ing been completed early in this week
and Capt. Garrett at once taking
charge of the vessel. The Curley has
been employed in the lumber trade and
general freighting work on Chesapeake
bay and it's tributaries and was a fire.
Quent visitor here with cargoes. She
was last in port here about a month
ago, when she brought shells to the
Alexandria crushing plant from a bay
point. Capt. Curley states that the new
owner CT the Curley will keep her in
the bay traffic.
The Curley is a vessel of seventy five
net tons register and is ninety-one feet
long. She was built 1t Alexandria in
1892 and has been kept in the best of
order. Alexandria is her present hail
ing port, but this will probably be
changed to Baltimore.
Capt. James Bohannon of Baltimore
has purchased the bay schooner Eva
May from Capt. Warren Simmons, who
owned and operated her, and Capt.
Bohannon will take charge of his craft
in the bay traffic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-07
CRAB SEASON ENDS.
Complaint Made That Winter
Dredging Is DISCRIMINATING Stock.

The coming Of cool weather has brought
to a close the crab season at this city,
and while small quantities are still being
received by the dealers. the demand for
them is very light. According to reports
made by the dealers, crabs were unusually
scarce the past season. and. it is said, will
become more SO if some steps are not
taken at once to put an end to the pres
ent methods of taking crabs in winter
During the winter season the crabs
bury themselves in the mud at the bot
tom of Chesapeake bay, and vessels
armed with dredges dig them up by the
millions. They are shipped here ap-
a warm room they come to life. and are
as pugnacious as in m dsummer.
During the summer months crabs Of all
sizes are caught and shipped to the mar
kets. The consequence of these .swasteful
methods, which have prevailed for a few
years. is that the annual catch Of crabs
in the lower Potomac has been reduced
over half as compared with five years
ago. At the same rate of decrease II Is
only n question of year or two before
crabs Will be scarce in the Potomac
as are now Holsters In northern waters.
The killing out of the Holsters. which
were formerly very plentiful, IL due to
the waste:ul methods used In their CATCH
ing. the shellfsh. little and big. spawning
and not, being taken without any regard
for the future OF recent years remedial
legislation has been adopted by some Of
the lobs'er-producing states. and Il In
said the supply II on the increase.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-07

as a measure taken with the intent of
tnjuring one of the belligerents.
Finally, the remarks of the federal
government concerning the victualing
of men-of-war are apparently based
upon a misunderstanding.
The references made by the imperial
and royal government to the prohibi-
ton of supplying men-of-war. and to
the prohibition. of making certain sup.
plies to men-of-war, was not aimed at
a concrete case; it. was simply intended
to quote the prohibitions embodied in
articles 8, 10 and 20 of the thirteenth
convention of The Hague.
The undersigned has the honor to re-
quest his excellency, the American am
bassador. to convey by wire to the
Washington cabinet the above friendly
communications, which are solely made
in order to complete the outline of the
legal status defined in the note of June
20 after a careful examination of the
views expressed in the note of the fed
eral government. The undersigned
avails himself of this opportunity to
renew. to his excellency the American
amba ssador the assurance of his most
distinguished consideration.
(Signed) "BUR1AN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-07
TO WORK FISHING GROUNDS
U. S. Engineer Office Plans to Pre-
vent Encroaching on Channel.

At the request of the United States
engineer officer in charge of the Wash
ington engineering district. the light
house service steamer Jessamine has
left Baltimore for Point No Point,
Chesapeake bay, to start marking fish
ing grounds from there to the mouth
of the Potomac. and thence down the
western shore Of the Chesapeake to the
Rappahannock river she will place
buoys to mark the limits of the fishing
grounds.
For many years past complaints have
been made that the fishermen were
gradually placing their nets farther
and farther out from the shore until
they almost had the mouth OF the Po-
tomnc blocked In the fishing season.
The buoys the Jcrsamine will locate
and place viii mark the point beyond
which nets must not be placed. In ad-
ditlon to blocking the channel. u Ia
claimed that the nota will not allow
shad aud herring 60 reach their spawn.
ing Erounda In the Hprinn. and TO this
ls largely due the great decrease In the
nuinber OF nah aud threatens their
total determination.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-07
INTENSE COLD PREVAILS
DURING SERBIAN WINTER
Season Is Cherries, With Dull Skies
and Sharp, Damp
Winds.

Serbian winters are severe and
cherries, with dull skies and sharp
damp winds securing the valley. while
intense cold settles upon the exposed
uplands," says a bulletin issued by the
National Geographic Society. I'm the
lowlands adjacent to the Danube win
ter weather is milder, but the ground
through many days is spongy with
dampness. In the mountainous dis
tricts. however, the cold is as bitter as
that which deadens the Russian plains
during January and February, and
most of Serbia is included in the moskn
famous area. The north central sec
ton, in the Danube valley. the north
west, section, in the Save valley, and a
belt, northwest. through the heart OF
the country, the Morava valley, to-
gether constitute the sum total of the
important lowland areas of Serbia. In
the northern lowlands the winters are
like those of central Germany, while in
the Morava valley the cold Is greater.
Upland Serbia has only two clearly
defined seasons-winter and summer.
There are scarcely any transition pc
RODS between the cold and the heat
Summer lasts between May and Octo-
Der, which latter month is wet and chill
ly. The chilly wetness lasts sometimes
well into November. Mists hover over
the valleys until toward noon and con-
geal on the mountainsides. Going is
accomplished through a characterless
damp. which is not snow, or slush, or
mud. but an indeterminate combination
in a porous coating by a ribwork of
frozen dew. The snowfall is consider
able and generally covers the hills
throughout the winter.
Temperature F1uctuates Greatly.
Fluctuations in temperature are
great. A humid heat of 100 to 105 de-
grees Fahrenheit sometimes Expresses
the valleys for days at a time. where
winter temperatures are experienced
frequently of from 10 to 20 degrees be-
low zero. In the mountainous districts,
on the other hand. summer is cool and
pleasant among the high groves of fir
and pine. Travellers who have spent
winters in search Of sport in the Ser
bian mountains have brought back
arctic stories about buying their cream
derings wrapped in a piece of paper.
and of handling fresh eggs without
the shells as successfully as though
these had been hard boiled Winters
in the highlands of Serbia are as siren
nous as those Of Russia.
1.-THE lines of the contending armies
are now drawn up through the areas
visited by the coolest winter. which
are found in the southern and central
parts of the kingdom. Here. in the
southern and central mountains, despite
the fact that Serbia's climate is gem
orally described as being mild, winter
reigns with a stern arctic sway Among
the hardest peasants in the Balkans.
people Injured to exposure, labor and all
manner of difficulties. are bred in these
cold uplands, and 1t is their homes
which are now coming within the battle
zones"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-07
Sales Of Vessels Recorded.

Trnnsfsrr OF vessel property employ.
ed on Chesapeake bay and its trIbu
,srieH, ana recently made. were record.
cd IN the oustomhouse at baltimore IA
the past week as follows
Power yacht Clara, 30 tons, from w
bernard Duke TO Alexander Won Lin,
dsnhersi %,
fo~.r yacht Isona, 10 tons. from ss
tate ~ tbs iats James knyssv 4.
Charles A. Jefdlnsy ttl0.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-07
Wounds in the Head Now.

Up near the heights of Montmartre
10 the Ecole Dentaire. where some OF
the lesser dental cases are cared for
When the wound has been healed the
unfortunate is sent here TO have what
IL missing supplied no far as possible
I'VE are getting more dental cases
every day" said tho physicians In
charge. '"rhe men are being hit In the
head now"
n seems that Mt the beginning OF the
war there was "a surplus OF wounds
In the legs aud feet. The oermanH
were nring low then. IA IN. field war
sars continued their rife practice bet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-07

Earl Mckenzie, nineteen, son OF
Charles Mckenzie, was crushed to dea 4 h
In the mines Of the Brcthers Valley
Coal Company. near MsysrEiule, Pa,
before the eyes of hia father. with
W HON hs was WORKING.