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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-10-01
AUSTRIA COMPLIES
WITH U. S. REQUEST
NOTIFIES AMBASSADOR PENFIELD
THAT DIR. DUMRA WILL
BE RECALLED.
REITERATES EARLY VIEWS
Reply to American Note of August IS
protests Against Economic Life of
u. S. Being Made Subservient to
Production of War Material"

Washington, Sept. 2S-Austria has
informally notified Ambassador Pen
field that it will recall DR.. Dumba,
the Austrian ambassador to the United
States, as requested by President Will
son.
This information was given to Am
bassador Penfield, when he informally
advised Austrian officials, on instruc-
tions from Washington, that the Unit
ed States sought the "recall" of DR..
Dumba and would not be satisfied with
his departure on leave of absence.
Mr.. Penfield was assured that the
wishes of the United States would be
complied with and that a formal note
on the subject would be handed to him
soon. Until the formal expression is
in the hands of the state department
officials, they cannot act upon the am
bassador's request for safe conduct.
DR.. Dumba had engaged passage on
the steamship Rotterdam due to sail
Sept. %.
Reiterates Position.
The Austro-H Hungarian government,
according to an official telegram re-
ceived in Amsterdam from Vienna,
has, in reply to the American note of
Aug. 16 relative to the manufacture
of ammunition in the United States,
reiterated the position taken in its
protest of June 20.
The reply affirms that Austria
Hungary never intended to imply that
it expected Washington would forbid
American citizens to do a. normal traf-
fic in war material with the enemies
Of the dual monarchy, but solely pro-
tested against the economic life of the
United States being made subservient
to the production of war material on
the greatest possible scale, whereby
the United States became militariZed."
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Mexican Revolt

Gen. Raoul Madero of Villas staff
has been arrested by American sol
diers near Maria, Tex. With Madero
were eight Villa officers, who also
were arrested when they crossed to
the American side Of the Rio Grande.
One American cavalryman is dead,
six are seriously wounded and eleven
are missing as a result of the battle
at Progreso, Tex, with more than one
hundred Mexicans. Seventeen Mexi-
cans are known to have BEEN killed.
Eighteen were captured. Carranzista
soldiers from the garrison at Mata-
moros were led by their own officers.
Ten thousand pesos In Mexican ma
tional currency, valued at $4,000 in
American money, is en- route south
from Ell Paso as ransom for G. P.
Fuller, manager If the Cudahy ranch
at Santo Domingo, who was kidnapped
with his foreman, McCabe, by bandits.
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Washington,

AS a result of the conference be-
tween Sir Richard Crawford, the Brit
ish embassy's trade expert and Acting
Secretary of State Polk, an agreement
has been reached whereby the British
embassy at Washington will issue
clearance papers to American import
ers which will insure the bringing to
this country of all goods purchased
from German and Austrian sources
prior to March l last.
The department of state acknowl"
edged the request Of Doctor Dumba,
the Austro- Hungarian ambassador, for
a saSe.conduct to Europe. Until the
Austrian answer to the American re-
quest for the ambassadors recall has
been received no safe-cOnduct will be-
given. it was announced at Washing
ton.
Henry Ford, automobile manufac-
turer, has agreed to devise a perfect
engine for the use of the submarines
and aeroplanes of the United States
army and navy. Fhe announcement
was made following conference be-
tween Ford and Secretary OF the Navy
Daniels at Washington.
A statement cabled to the Bulgarian
legation at Washington by Premier
Radoslovoff announces that bulgaria
does not intend aggressive action
against any of her neighbors and that
her mobilization is not to be con-
strued as indicating that she is about
| to enter the war.
Vice President Marshall called at the
| White House at Washington and dis
| cussed with President Wilson the in
| ternational situation, national defense
and otksr problems confronting the
| administration.
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CHICAGO Garment Workers Strike.

Chicago, Sept. ga strike of $4,000
garment workers was planned as re-
suit of the refusal of the employers to
grant a higher wage scale and inn
prove conditions. Union leaders say
the strike will completely tie up the
industry in Chicago. Police reserves
were detailed to patrol the clothing.
manufactures district, as w. NJ. Calm,
president of the Wholesale Tailors' as
sociation, said he believed that work
ers might attempt violence. He asked
police protection for the plants affect
ed.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-10-01
MINERS ENTOMBED BY WATER
Eleven Men Held Prisoners by Flood
That Breaks Through Aban-
doned Working.

Lansford, Pa, Sept. %. - Eleven
men, six of them Americans, employ
as miners, laborers and drivers in the
Foster tunnel of the Lehigh Coal and
Navigation company at Coaldale, two
miles from here, were sntombed short
ly before noon by a sudden rush Of
culm and water that had broken
through the roof Of an abandoned
working.
Gangs of men hastily summoned
from other colleries worked in half
hour shifts all afternoon and night in
an effort to stem the flow of water that
was pifing up the barrier of culm, dirt
and coal behind which the men are
held prisoners,
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Receiver For Road Appointed.

st. Louis, Sept. 28.-Charles e
Schaff, president Of the road, was ap
pointed receiver for the Missouri
Kansas & Texas railroad by Elmer &
Adams, United States circuit judge
The action followed the filing of twa
suits by the law firm of Boyle G
Priest One Of the receivership suits
was begun by tie Railway Steel
Springs company of New Jersey, which
filed a claim of $4,000, and the other
.. B. Hussey, tie contractor. who has
q claim for $120,G18.
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U. S. Will Pretec4 Americans.

washington, Sept. Z&.-Ambassador
Morgenthau at Constantinople was in
structed to inquire into reported out
RACES against Arme.ians in Turkey, to
ascertain if any victims are American
citizens by birth or naturalization. So
far nothing has been received from the
embassy at Constantinople to indicate
that American citizens have suffered,
but American mission property has
been taxed and threatened with confis-
cation. The reported murder of two
American missionaries still is uncon-
firmeG.
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Galena, ILL.,, is covered with water
from two to ten feet deep as the re-
suit of a cloudburst. The property
damage 10 business houses and to
farm lands will reach thousands of
dollars.
The west side of Broadway between
Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth streets
in New York collapsed. For more
than 100 feet the thoroughfare
dropped to the bottom of the new SUBJ
way excavation, 40 feet below, killing
one woman and seriously injuring
three others. This is the third seri-
GUS subway excavation accident in
four days.
Reports from Philadelphia indicate
that w. e. Corey, former president OF
the United States Steel corporation,
Percy Rockefeller, and others, are in
terested in the purchase of the Mid
vale Steel company and other indie
pendent companies, the object being
TO form new SL0cl CouIUludtIOu to
compete with the United States Steel
corporation. 1t is reported that Corey
will head the new company.
DR.. Nj. Symbad Gabriel at New York.
president of the Armenian General
Progressive association in the United
States, has received from Nubar
Pasha, head of the Armenian church,
advices in regard to the massacres OF
Armenians in Turkey, in which 1t 10
stated that Christian martyrdom has
at no time assumed such colossal pro-
portions" Four hundred and fifty
thousand Armenians have been killed.
It is estimated in New York that the
net earning of the United States Steel
corporation in the last quarter Of this
year will be more than $50,000,OOO,
new high record.
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ITALY READY TO AID ALLIES
viii Send Wherever Necessary Con
tingent of Troops Sufficient to In
fluence Developments.

Rome, Sept. 2s (via Paris). -- A
meeting of the Italian cabinet minis
tiers, which a. prominent statesman
said might be called a council OF war.
has just been held. Premier SalandeI
presided. Italian military experts af
firm that all preparations have been
made to send wherever necessary a
contingent Of Italian troops sufficient
to exercise considerable influence or
Developments.
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MANY BUILDINGS AT ARDMoREy
OKLA, RAzED AND BURNING
OIL THROWN IN EVERY
DIRECTION
RAILROAD STATION Is
SHATTERED By SHOCK
Scores of Houses Quickly Take Fire
from Flying Liquid and Main
Street Becomes Roaring Fur
macedonian Burned
Saving Children.

Ardmore, Okla, Sept. 29.-Betweer
IS and so persons were killed and it.
is estimated 200 others were injured
here during the afternoon when a 250s
barrel tank car Of gasoline standing
near the Santa Fe freight Office in the
business district, exploded. The terri
t1c force of the explosion RACED many
buildings and threw burning gasoline
in every direction. A few minutes lat
er Ardmore was at the mercy of scores
Of fires. At o'clock the fires were
under control.
The city is under martial law.
Private homes were Immediately
thrown open to the injured and scores
of men were working in the smoIder-
ing ruins along Main street in search,
for additional victims.
Newspaper Plants Damaged.
Not building on Main street es-
capped damage, either from the force OF
the explosion or from the resultant
fires. The publishing plants of the
Daily Ardmoreite and the Statesman
were DaQly damaged.
All school buildings, business houses,
and residences within IL blocks of the
business district bear evidence of the,
explosion. Practically every window in
the city was shattered.
Two workmen were repairing the
tank at $3.50 o'clock in the afternoon.
One of them struck the tank with
hammer and it is believed a spark
from the blow ignited escaping fumes.
There was terrific explosion, follow.
ed by many smaller ones. The work
men were killed. The shock shatter-'
ed the Ardmore railroad station, used
by the Santa Fe and Rock Island rail-
roads, and the Rock Island freight sta
ton, and scores Of other buildings
quickly took fire from the flying liquid.
Street 10 Roaring Furnace.
The flames spread rapidly until all
of Main street was roaring furnace,
Thirty freight cars in the Santa FEE
railroad yards were destroyed. The
roof Of the Wilmington hotel was
blown off by the force of the first ex-
plosion, but all guests were believed
to have escaped. The entire block in.
which the Pennington wholesale groc-
cry was located was RACED by fire.
At the store Of Maddin and company
scores Of girls were working and it
was feared some of them lost their
lives.
The pail of smoke which hangs over.
the whole city has seriously hampered
rescue work, but deeds of heroism
were many. A woman waiting at the
railroad station with a baby in her
arms and a four-year-old child at her
side, dashed three blocks with her
double burden, her own clothes blazing
as she ran. Passers-by smothered the
flames with their bare hands. The
mother was taken to the hospital, dam
gerously burned. The children were
not seriously injured.
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Bull CARA SENDS ULTlMATUM
Delivers Final Word to Serbia, Ac-
cording to Rumor-AIlies' Repre-
sentatives to Depart.

Berlin, Sept. 2S-A dispatch from
Sofia given out here b. the Overseas
News agency, says it 10 rumored that
Bulgaria has sent an ultimatum to
Serbia and that the diplomatic repre-
sentatives Of the entente powers in
Bulgaria are preparing to depart.
French papers received here give evi.
dence that the allies have abandoned
hope Of inducing Bulgaria to remain
neutral.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-10-01
Personal

Keir Hardie, the labor leader, died
of pneumonia in a nursing home In
Glasgow. He was a product of the
masses and by the masses he was
idolized. He was born Of humble par
ents in Scotland, August Is.
Rev DR.. Thomas S. Barbour, for
merly foreign secretary of the Ameri-
can Baptist Foreign Missionary so
ciety, died suddenly at his summer
home in Stoddard, N. H.
Col. Samuel Hobert Tallmadge, sew
enty-fve years old, prominent in 6.
A. r. circles in Wisconsin, died at
Milwaukee, Wis. He was born In
Chicago in 1910, and at the outbreak
of the Civil war enlisted in Company
A. Chicago Light artillery.
DR.. Austin Flint, noted Psychologist,
alienist and consulting physician, died
at his home at New York. Apoplexy
was the cause of his death. Although
Doctor Flint was in his eightieth yea.
he took a prominent part at the jury
trial to determine Harry K. Thaw's
sanity.
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HAlTlEMs ATTACK AMERICANS
Forty Eeheis Are Killed IN Encounter
With u. S. Troops-Refuse
to DisaTm.

Cape Haitien, Sept. 2S.-In an at
tack by Haitien rebels on an Ameri-
can force, about two miles from Cape
Haitien, 40 EFaitiens were killed. Ten
Americans were wounded.
The rebels have refused to disarm
and the Americans are marching on
IIaut du Cap, in the Plan CT the
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German Prisoners Escape.

Perpignan, France, Sept. 2S.-Sev-
eral German officers who were con-
fined in the French fort at Villefran-
che de Content, escaped by means Of
ropes made of bedsheets.
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EagroDeGrs War News

PetrOgrad says Russian forces have
recaptured almost entirely the fortress
triangle which includes Dubno, Rovno
and Lutsk. In Galicia the Austrians
have been driven back across the
rivers which run parallel to the bor-
der.
BY combined, simultaneous raid
with overwhelming forces on every
sector of the battle front stretching
800 miles, from the North sea to the
Vosges mountains, the French and
British armies have captured more
than twenty miles of German trenches
and Notifications, for depth in many
Instances of two and half miles.
They have taken more than 10000 pris-
oners and many guns. Souchez and
Loos were captured. The loss on both
sides was heavy.
The Harrison liner Chancellor, a
British ship. has been sunk by Ger
man submarine. Part Of the crew is
reported missing, among them G. W..
King Of New Orleans, an American,
who was assistant Marconl operator
on the liner.
Germany's third war loan has been
oversubscribed by more than $507,-
100000. The following official state
ment was issued at Berlin: THE war
loan is an immense success. The sub
scriptions amount to $3,O07, 100000
The amount sought was $4,000 ,OOO,OOo
A dispatch to the Exchange Tele'
graph company at London from
Athens says: "a decree has been pro-
mulgated convoking the chamber OF
deputies Wednesday to pass an act OF
martial law and put at the disposal
OF the government all the state rail-
ways. Transportation of merchandise
has been forbidden"
Field Marshal Won Mackensen 8
army has been forced to retreat be-
fore the Russians in the region or
Iogoschin says a statement issued at
Berlin. In0 CLdI LOlSCS 0NNAAv
launched an enveloping movement that
nut Won Mackensen's forces In dan
gerous position and they were forced
TO withdraw from the east and north
east of Logoschin.
Upon hearing that Bulgaria had mo-
bilized her troops, King Constantine OF
Greece called a cabinet meeting that
ended In an order for the mobilization
of Greeces soldiers, according to an
Athens dispatch to London.
1.-THE battle north of Lutsk was
great success for the Russians. We
took 1000 prisoners and recaptured
the town of Lutsk," says the Petro-
grad correspondent of Reuters Tele-
gram company.
A new army Of 10000 men has been
sent to the assistance Of the allied
forces at the Dardanelles, according to
the Overseas News agency at Berlin.
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GERMANY YIELDS
IN FRYE DISPUTE
LATEST NOTE DISCLoSES tMPoR,
TANT VICTORY FOR THE
UNITED STATES.
TO ARBlTRATE INDEMNITY
Berlin Accepts Proposal to Fix Dam
aaes-Gives Assurances American
Ships Carrying Conditional Con-
traband Will Not Be Molested.

Washington, Sept. 24.-Germany' s
latest note on the sinking Of the Amer
lean sailing ship William p. Frye, just
published by the state department.
discloses an important diplomatic vic.
tory for the United States.
Germany accepts the proposal to fix
damages by commission and to let
The Hague pass upon disputed treaty
rights involved. She also gives as.
surances that no more American ships
carrying conditional contraband will
be destroyed under any circumstances.
American ships carrying contraband,
however, still may be destroyed. What
effect this can have in practical opera
ton is problematical, because Germany
and Great Britain in their oscillations
have made absolute contraband, prac'
tically everything which was condi.
tional under the Declaration of Lon.
don.
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PIERCE TEUToN POSITIONS IN
NORTHERN FRANCE ON FRONT
OF MORE THAN FIFTEEN
MILES.
FIGHTING is BLOOD,EST
OF THE ENTIRE STRUGGLE
Teutons Are Reported to Be Rushing
Strong achievements to Front
Kaiser Hastens to Luxen1-
burg to Urge on
Armies.

London, Sept. 28.-The great drive
of the allies has already carried them
far into the German positions from
the sea to Verdun, for a greater gain
than they have registered since the
battle of the Marine.
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Domestic

Eighty passengers OF q southern IA
cific Mexican train were thrown into
O car containing hay and the car set
on fire by a band Of Yaqui Indians
near Torres, Sonora. Only twenty
passengers escaped.
The Anglo-French financial commits
sion and eastern bankers have reached
q virtual agreement on the details OF
the proposed halfbillion dollar credit
loan to Great Britain and France. Four
members Of the commission left New
York for Chicago to confer with west
ern bankers over the tentative terms.
Herbert Heckler, opera singer, Of
Chicago, shot and probably mortally
wounded Pearl Palmer, twenty-three,
also an opera singer, in conservatory
at New York. HeckIer then killed him
self.
With a loss of more than 100000
the building of the Union Warehouse
company at Los Angeles. Cal, was de-
strOyed by fire. The building covered
an entire city block.
With dozens Of landslides, numerous
bridges damaged and five miles of
crack washed out between Dubuque
and Farley. Ia, the Great Western is
detouring all trains over the Illinois
Central as far as Dyersville. The dam.
age was caused by floods.
Grace Episcopal church, one of Chi
cago's most venerated landmarks in
the southern outskirts of the city
when 1t was built in 1868, was de-
stroyed in one of the most spectacu
lar fires in the city's history. The
loss is estimated at 100000.
Charles Adams, thirty eight years
old, unmarried. was fatally shot by
Frank Sturgeon when the latter re
turned unexpectedly to his home five
miies east of Franklin, Ind, and dis
covered Adams leaving his house
Adams died
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re Visit Ships.

One thing seemed to officials GER
tain-German naval commanders now
are ordered to exercise the rights OF
visit and search with respect to all
American ships to determine what car.
go the vessels carry, thus making IL
practically sure that none will be at
tackled without warning or ample time
for passengers and crew to be trans.
ferred irrespective of the cargo.
Considered with reference to the
entire controversy between Germany
and the United States, the Frye note
is regarded as an indication that the
Berlin foreign office is anxious tc
avert break with the Washington
government.
1t practically insures American yes
sells against attack without warning,
and even in the event that they are
carrying absolute contraband, passen.
gers and crew are bound, according to
the declaration of London, to be re-
moved before there is any destruction,
which can occur only in the event OF
extreme necessity,
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MOST IMPORTANT
NEWS Of WORLD
BGc HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK
CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS.
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS

Kernels Cuiied From Events Of Mo-
ment In All Parts of the World
OF Interest to All the
People Everywhere.
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London, Sept. 20. -- The allies
launching smashing attacks from
their newly won positions, are keep
ing up their great offensive from the
sea to the Vosges mountains. On the
third day, however, no such specta-
cular success as had marked the fight
ing of the last two days was reported.
Berlin claims that by violent coun-
ter-attacks the French and British
have been checked on the German
second line. Tremendous losses are
reported to have been suffered by both
sides.
The allies have captured more than
70 field pieces and heavy cannon, of
which % were taken by the British.
More than $4,000 Germans have been
taken prisoners. Berlin reports the
capture of 1000 prisoners.
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Attack on Entire Front.

The allies are attacking on the en-
tire front on which they gained sucn
striking successes on Saturday and
Sunday. In Champagne the fighting
is continual and the losses on both
sides unprecedented. Fully German
army corps has been wiped out, cor
respondents report, while the claim
is made in Berlin that the French
losses approximate 10000.
On this front the French are with
In two and half miles Of the Ger
man supply railroad and at points
nearer. A bombardment of this inn
portant line is being kept up contin-
ually, hampering the Teuton move
ments of troops and ammunition.
The British claim further advance
to the east Of Loos and the repulse
Of numerous German counter-attacks
at Hulluch, where the Teutons have
suffered tremendous losses. Berlin
claims that in this fighting the allies
have been brought to a standstill.
Germans Launch Attacks.
In an effort apparently to relieve
the pressure on Other sections Of the
Verdun loop, the crown princes ar
mics launched a series of violent at
tacks on the Argonne region. Four
times in succession the Teutons In
great strength rushed the French po-
| sitions at La File Morte behind
clouds of noXious gases and after high
explosive shells had been poured in
tons upon the trenches.
In every case the attacks broke
down before drenching fire Of shrap-
mel and machine gun bullets. In adj
| joining sectors also the Germans suf-
fered heavy losses, according to the
French report.
French Make Gains.
In Champagne, where the French
| gains extended oYer Is mile line
| from depth Of from two-thirds of a
mile to two and half miles, the
| positions before the second line Of
| German defenses, which they are still
pounding with their heavy guns.
The German attack on the French
| lines in the Argonne was preceded by
a. violent bombardment. Then the in
fantry charged and at some points
| gained the first line of the French po-
| sition. Everywhere else along this
| front, Paris declares, the Germans
| were repulsed.
| British Warship Sunk.
| One British warship was sunk and
| two others were damaged in the attack
| by British squadron on German bat
| teries along the Belgian coast, espe-
| cia!ly at Zeebrugge, simultaneously
with the launching of the Allied new
| offensive movement on land, according
| to the German official statement. Al
| ter these losses the British ships with
| drew.
| Allied airmen have bombarded
| 8ruges, Belgium, apparently putting
/ be city's gas works out Of commits.
I sion.