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The midland journal., 1915-02-12
NEW STRUGGLE IN EAST PRUSSIA
New Army Appears To the Southeast
OF Polish Capital.

Petrograd.-A new menace to the
Russian forces around Warsaw has de-
veloped in the discovery of what ap-
pears to be separate Austro-German
army about 80 miles south of Lemberg.
on the Wyzkow- -Nadworna line
The purpose of this new army ap-
pears to be an effort to pierce the Rus
sian line east of Lemberg and menace
the forces about Warsaw in the rear.
The appearance of this force adds to
the seriousness of the situation in the
Carpathians. The new army is to the
east of the region where the most
recent fighting on this front has &C.
Cured, and where the Austro-G o-Germans
are in tremendous force on a line
which forms the arc of circle in the
vicinity Of Mezo Laborcz, so miles
southwest of Przenysl.
On practically all the Carpathian
front the Russians have succeeded in
checking their antagonists, but the
Austro-G Germans still are undefeated.
The Germans, (. with their usual
mobility, suddenly appear at various
points and then as suddenly disappear.
According to Russian staff officer,
the Germans are used like cement,
to hold together. detached corps of
Austro-Hungarians." III &E
The stubborn character of the bat
ties developing in the extreme north
of East Prussia is attracting the atten-
tion Of the Russian General Staff.
which sees there, indications that the
Germans have withdrawn troops from
the Bzura region and massed them in
the vicinity ofa Insterburg, between
Gumbinnen and Tilsit.
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
DIRECTORS MUST
PAY BACK LOSSES
Treasury After Officials Of Six
New York Banks.
FEW MILLIONS INVOLVED
Federal Department Withholds the
Names OF National Institutions,
Bu. Announces None OF Them
Is IN Slightest Danger.

Washington. - Active steps have
been taken by treasury officials to COM
pei directors Of at least six national
banks in New York city personally to
make good losses sustained by their
institutions through what the govern
ment holds were investments not au-
thorized by law. Officials declined to
give the names of the banks. but it
was said that none Of them was in the
slightest danger and that the total
amount involved was a few million
dollars.
The investments took the form, It is
said, of underwriting operations and
occurred several years ago. Many Of
the directors of the banks at the time
are said not now to be connected with
those institutions. but restitution has
been demanded. nevertheless.
Some OF the directors concerned are
said already to have agreed to make
good, but negotiations with others are
still in progress.
Action was taken by the department
at this time, it was understood, be-
cause the statute of limitations might
operate to prevent stockholders of the
banks in question from recovering the
amounts lost through legal proceed
ings. Such proceedings probably would
not be discouraged by department off,
cials if the directors refuse to comply
with requests for settlement
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
TWENTY KILLED
IN MINE FLASH
Disastrous Explosion in Car
Isle (W. va.) Shaft.
PROMPT WORK BY RESCUERs
The State Mine Department Had
Recently Ordered That the Car
IIsIe Mine Install safety
Lamps.

Charleston, w. Va.-Twenty miners
were killed in gas explosion in the
Carlisle Mine of the New River Com
pany, in Fayette county, in the heart
of the New River coal field. The fact
that the explosion was of local
nature. confined to one section of the
mine, saved many lives, as 180 miners
were In the mine at the time.
District Mine inspectors John l.
Absalom, of Montgomery, and Lance
B. Holiday, of Beckley, who hurried
to the scene of the diaster Immediately
after being notified of the explosion, in
reports to the State Department of
Mines, declared that the bodies found
in the section of the mine affected by
the explosion were in good condition.
Only two of the miners who met sud
den death a few minutes after they
had gone to their work were badly
burned. The others had been asphyx-
lated while at work.
That the mine disaster was the re-
suit of an explosion of gas the district
mine inspectors did not seem to doubt.
although they would express no official
opinion. The mine generated gas in
liberal quantities, but the explosion
was the first to occur in the Carlisle
mine, although it had been worked for
a dozen years. The mine is connected
with the Oakwood mine, and is only a
few miles distant from the Parral mine,
where a disastrous explosion occurred
several years ago.
Recently the state mine department
had required the Carlisle mine to in
stall safety lamps, and 1t is claimed
that this order was being complied
with at the Carlisle and other mines
In the vicinity re a.a II -
The Carlisle mine is shaft 44O
feet in depth. Fire bosses are en-
ployed. and an examination Of the mine
is made every morning before the men
are permitted to enter for the days
work sr o rs
The usual investigation was made
by the fire bosses, but it is supposed
that a miner ignited a pocket of gas
with an open lamp and the explosion
resulted. VA @
The midland journal., 1915-02-12

as a violation Of international law, as
device both fraudulent and injurious
to the honor OF both the state whose
fiag is wrongfuIIy used and that in
regard to which the use of the false
flag is made have the right to demand
the punishment Of the guilty persons.
In the war with Chile in 1879, Peru
inquired of the United States under
what conditions the United States flag
might be used. A memorandum from
the Secretary of State Evarts said that
there is no prohibition Of the use of
the American flag by foreign vessel
beyond the jurisdiction Of the United
States, or any penalty provided there.
for,''
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
RAILROAD ORDERS HEAVY.
Big Equipment Contracts Are Being
Awarded-l. c. Buys Cars.

Big Equipment Contracts Are Being
Awarded. c. Buys Cars.
New York.-The railroad equipment
buying campaign is in full swing.
The Illinois Central has ordered
1000 refrigerator cars from the AmeHi-
can Car and Foundry Company.
In a week the Moss Tie Company's
plant at Mount Vernon. ILL.,, win be
operating with full force. A recent
contract with the Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul for $4,000 chemically
treated ties will keep the works at
capacity for six months.
The Erie's rail requisitions have
been increased to $4,000 tons and the
$500" is in the market for $4,000 tons
of rails. If satisfactorily low bids ara
forthcoming, the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy will spend s1,000.000 for
equipment. including engines and cars,
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
AIMS AT ENDING EuRoRsAN war.
Resolution BY Senator la Toilette
VIII Come Up Later.

Resolution BY Senator la Toilette
VIII Come Up Later.
Washington, d. Can international
conference OF representatives of neu-
trail nations to discuss means of ending
the European war, to establish neutral
trade routes at sea and recommend
ultimate creation of an international
tribunal for establishment of world
peace was proposed in a resolution by
Senator La Toilette,
The resolution would direct the
President of the United States to con-
vey to all neutral nations the de-
STABILITY of a conference to bring
about the cessation of European hos
tilities: to extend offers of mediation
to warning nations; to consider rules
for the general Limitation IF arma-
ments; rules for prohibition of expor-
tation of munitions of war; the crea-
ton Of a federation of neutral nations
to provide for neutrality of ocean trade
routes; consideration of the rights of
neutral commerce. and all other mat
ters that may tend to establish per
manent world peace
The President would be empowered
to appoint commissioners of the United
States at such conference. whether
called by this country or any other
nation.
The resolution was received by
unanimous consent and allowed to lie
on the table for future consideration.
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
THREE KILLED WITH HAMMER.
TWO Women and Girl Found With
Heads Crushed.

Buffalo. n YThe bodies of Mrs.
Lizzie Drake. IS years old; Mrs. Irene
Spencer, 35 years old. and her daugh-
ter, Gertrude Spencer, IL years, were
found in their beds at their home at
Salamanca. Their heads had been
crushed in with a sledge hammer.
Apparently the victims had been
slain as they slept Physicians who
examined the bodies said that the
murder had been committed three or
four days ago. The police have sent
out an alarm for former boarder at
the Drake house Mrs. Drake was Mrs.
Spencer's mother.
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
NEAR FAMINE in AUSTRIA.
A Two-Pound Loaf OF Bread Now
Costs Sixteen Cents.

Venice (via London).-An official
decree issued in Trieste raises the
price of two-pound loaf of bread
from IA cents to 16 cents. The grain
markets In Austria are said to be in a
desperate condition. The war bread
that is being sold is composed largely
of substitutes for -four. The people
in Vienna are said to be complaining
of the constantly increasing price of
meat. Hogs are reported to be almost
unobtainable
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
SPAIN TO BUY ARMS in U. 8.
Government Agents start On Mission
From Madrid.

Madrid. -Senor Oviedo. director of
the Government armament works, and
observation-disclosures Rivera, of the artil-
lery, have started on an official mission
to the United States to purchase arms
from American manufacturers. 1t has
been confirmed officially that the Span
ish Government soon will purchase
several aeroplanes from factories TN
the limited States
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
GENERAL VILLA
TAKES PRESIDENCY
Action Necessary By Extent of
Territory Under His Control.
PICKS MEN FOR CABINET
carranza Army OF 1000 is Defeated
In JaIisco In Three-Day Battle,
Several Hundred Being
Killed.

El PasO, Texas.-General villa prac-
tically proclaimed himself President Of
Mexico. He has assumed supreme
political power and organized civil
government with himself as the head.
His excuse was that interruption Of
communication has made it impossible
to work in conjunction with his forces
in the south.
Villa Gives Excuse.
He declared the zone he controlled
was so extensive that an organized
government was necessary.
The Cabinet named by Villa follows:
Minister of Foreign Relations and
Justice-Lic Miguel Diaz Lombardo.
Gobernacion and Communication
DR.. Luis de la Cara Cardenas.
Treasury and Francisco
Escudero.
These three men are among the
ablest leaders of the republic. They
have been acting as advisers to villa
for months. Villa will maintain his
capital at Aguas Calientes Temporarily
carranza Army Defeated.
Villista agents here were advised of
the defeat of Carranzista column OF
5000 men in the State of Jalisco by
troops under the command of General
Augustin Estranda. Several hundred
were killed and wounded in the battle
which lasted three days.
Official messages dealing with the
defeat of General Benavides south Of
San Luis Potosi states that 200 prison
ers, three trains, several cannon and
other munitions were captured.
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
CHARMED AWAY TEN WIVES.
Head OF anew Religion" Accused OF
Abduction BY Husbands.

Kinston. N. C.-The "Rey." Thomas
R. Miller. head of new negro re-
ligion, was arraigned In the Municipal
Court here accused of abducting the
wives of 10 other men. The case was
continued to permit the summoning OF
witnesses. Before the trial Miller,
wearing robe Of many colors, headed
a procession Of the women who have
accepted his doetrineP.
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
AMsuLANcEs FOR RED CROSS.
Harvard and Yale Students Donate IL
Automobiles.

Washington, D. C.-The IL automo-
bile ambulances donated by Harvard
and Yale students have been turned
over to the American Red Cross and
will be shipped to Europe in the near
future for service OIL the batlefields
The ambulances are Khaki covered and
bear huge red cross on field OF
white. They are fully equipped fos
Red Gross work.
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
No Law Against II.

Washington. = Officials indicated
that an inquiry into the Lusitania Incl
dent might be made, The rules on In
ternational law are clear in that each
nation has the right to determine for
itself the conditions under which its
flag may be bestowed on vessel.
Some authorities hold that the "as-
sumption Of the flag of foreign State
without its authorization is considered
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
DARDANELLEs BoMBARDEn.
Shells From Torpedo Boats Fire Am
munition Depots.

London.-Four torpedo boats of the
Allies have bombarded the Turkish
forts in the Dardanelles, according to
an Athens dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph Company. One hundred and
seventy-four shells were discharged
and two ammunition depots were set
on FIRE.
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
MAKES THREE STATES OF TEXAS
Joint Resolution Introduced In slse
Senate.

Austin. Texas.-A Joint resolution
for an amendment to the State Con-
stitution dividing Texas into three
States was introduced by Senator w.
L. Hall, of Wharton county. The
States would be North Texas. capital
PALESTINE; West Texas, capital. abb
lene, and South Texas, capital, Austin.
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
100000 BRITISH.
English Army Estimates Give This
Total, Exclusive OF India.


London.-The army estimates, TO
which Parliament will devote the first
part of this weeks session, give the
number of effective men in the army.
exclusive of those serving in India. at
100000.
There is this year novel change
in the form of the estimates, as no
totals of estimated expenditures are
given. The vote under each of the rs
headings is set at the nominal figure
of $1,000.
This gives the House Of Commons
opportunity for the discussion of each
heading, while the government may
spend whatever is necessary under
these various headings to prosecute
the war.
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
THREAD PLANT ON FoLL TIME
$500 Workers At WiIIimantie. Conn.,,
Get Good News.

Willimantic. Conn.-Commencing on
Monday more than $500 employees at
the factory of the American Thread
Company here will work on full time
for six days week, according to an
announcement. The factory had been
running four days a week for several
months.
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
POSTAGE TO GERMANY UP.
Hurleson Increases Rates On Mails
During War.

Washington. D. C.-Postmaster Gen.
eral Burleson suspended the two-cent
postage rates on mails from the United
States to Germany and announced that
until direct transportation service was
restored letters from this country to
German destinations would be charged
at rate of five cents for the first
ounce and three for each additional
ounce.
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
RUSSIAN GIRL IN 70 BATTLES.
Wounded and Decorated With the
Cross Of st. George.

MoscIw-Among the wounded who
have arrived in Moscow from the front
Is Olga Krasilnikoff, girl of 10 years.
After taking part in 19 battles in
Poland she was wounded in the foot
The girl enlisted under a mans name
and this deception has just been dis
covered. The Cross Of St. George,
fourth degree, has been awarded to
her.
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
WOMEN AS BRIaETAkERs.
Three Accused OF Selling Their Votes
For Dollar.

Pikesville, Ky.-t was learned here
that three women have been indicted
on charges of selling votes in the last
school election. and they will be tried
with the 1.100 men who are accused of
having committed fraud at the primary
election last August. 1t was alleged in
the indictments that the women sold
their votes for dollar each.
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
TO INCREASE NAVAL FORCE.

Parliament Asked To Add $1,000 Men
To British Enrolment.
London.-The naval estimate, just
issued, asks Parliament to vote for an
additional force of $4,000 officers and
men. This would bring up the total
personnel for the present year to $780,
600 men.
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
NO CIGARETTES FOR TEACHERS,
Diplomas Withheld BY Bill In wiscen-
sin Legislature.

Madison, Wis.--No educational in
stitution of any kind which Is sup
ported in whole or in part by public
money shall employ a teacher who
smokes cigarettes, nor shall any In
stitution grant diploma or certificate
OF education to anyone who smokes
cigarettes. Such are the provisions Of
a bill introduced In the Assembly by
Representative Wcfsovern
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
CHILD DEsERTERs TO PRISON.
Haeffner and wife Sentenced In New
York.

New York.-Just to make the past
time of abandoning children as un-
popular as possible in New York,
Judge Rosalsky sentenced George
Haeffner and his wife jeanette, to
terms of from two and half to five
years each. The father will serve his
time in Sing Sing and the mother will
be sent to Auburn.
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
THE NAVAL BILL
PASSED BY HOUSE
Votes for Two Dreadnoughts
Over Strenuous Protest.
PERSONAL PLAN WINS OUT
Leader Underwood Led curtaiIment
Advocates, Using the Prospect
OF Big Deficit AS
Argument.

Washington. D. Cover a strenu-
GUS protest from Majority Leader Un-
derwood the House in passing the
Naval Appropriation bill retained pro-
vision for the construction of two
dreadnaughts.
Representative Underwood declared
the nation was facing a probable
Treasury deficit next year Of $35. 5.0O0.-
600, and economy advocates led by him
succeeded in striking out appropria-
tions aggregating more than $6,00O,000
for five submarines. transport and a
hospital ship.
The bill as it goes to the Senate car
ries $144,64S,902, and authorizes the
following construction program:
Two battleships of the largest and
most powerful design, $7.S0O,O00 each,
exclusive of armor and armament
Six torpedo-boat destroyers, $685.
600 each.
One sea-going submarine torpedo
boat, $1,400,000.
Eleven submarines, $550,000 each.
One oil fuel ship, $1,140.000.
The proposed hospital ships would
have cost $2,5OO,00O and the transport
s1,1OO,0O0.
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
BOY OF NINE KILLS MOTHER.
Shotgun Being Taken BY Lad To
Father Suddenly Goes on.

Colfax. Wash.-Mrs. o. r. Meye, IS
years old. was killed accidentally by
her s-year-old son at their ranch home
near Hay. in Western Whitman county.
Meye was hauling straw and had sent
his son to the house for his shotgun.
The lad while leaving the house dis
charged tse gun. the shot striking his
mother In the breast and shoulder.
Sh& lived less than an hour
The midland journal., 1915-02-12

Washington, d. C.-Informal discus
sion by President Wilson with his adj
visers of the German notification of
the dangers to which neutral ships may
be subjected in the newly prescribed
war zones around Great Britain and
Ireland and the use by the British
liner Lusitania of the American flag
foreshadowed a diplomatic correspond
once between the United States and
both Great Britain and Germany, re-
spectively, on these questions.
In each case the American govern
ment, because of its neutrality caC1ot
discuss the rules which the belligerents
may adopt toward each other. The
prescription of the war zone itself
however. or the use of neutral flag
by belligerent-owned vessels as a
stratagem of war has not given the
American officials concern so much as
the prospect that these acts may en-
danger the lives of American citizens,
whose right to travel on the high seas
on neutral ships during time of war,
1t is intimated. will be vigorously de-
Tended.
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
CUNARDER FLIES U. S. FLAG
"Old Glory" as Protection TO
Her Passengers.
TEXT OF BLOCKADE ORDER.

The proclamation issued by the
German Government to neutral
nations, as translated by the State
Department in Washington, reads:
The waters around Great
Britain, including the whole Of the
English Channel, are declared
hereby to be included within the
zone OF war and that after the
18th instant all enemy merchant
vessels encountered In these
waters will be destroyed, even If il
may not be possible always to save
their crews and passengers.
Within this war zone neutral
vessels are exposed to danger,
since In view Of the misuse of the
neutral flags ordered by the Gov
ernnent of Great Britain on the
S1st ultimo and of the hazards OF
naval warfare, neutral vessels can
not always be prevented from suf-
fering from the attacks intended
for enemy ships.
The routes of navigation around
the north Of the Shetland islands
In the eastern part Of the North
Sea and In strip so miles wide
along the Dutch coast are now
open to the danger zone.
London.-The British steamer Lusi
tania. of the Cunard Line, which sailed
from New York January 80 and ar
rived at Liverpool Saturday after
loon, flew the American flag from the
time she passed Queenstown until she
entered the Mersey.
The Lusitania received wireless.
message from the Baltic. of the Whit,
Star Line, that two submarines hat
been sighted from that vessel.
The captain of the Lusitani in repl,
to question of one of the passengers
declared that he had a right to fly tht
dag of neutral country for the pro
lection of neutral passengers ant
mails which his ship was carrying.
According to a statement by VIII
Irwin, an American writer, the Lusi
tania carried the regulation large
American flag at her stern. with ;
small American flag and mail pennan
at the forepeak
Former United States Senator La
fayette Young, another passenger
while he did not personally see the flal
flying, said it was accepted as fac
by all on board.
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
POSTAL BILL CLIPPED.
Senate Committee Reduces Appropria.
ton BY $2,ooo,o0o

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in the
Postal Bill as passed by the House
we're cut $2,0O0O0O by the Senate com
mittee because of the decrease in pos
tai revenues since the outbreak of the
war.
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
AMERICANS MUST
Be PROTECTED
Vigorous Notes to Go TO Both
BelIigerents.
NEUTRALs HAVE RIGHTS

The State Department Is Awaiting
More Definite Information Before
Addressing Notes To Both England
and Germany, insisting That While
We Have No Concern With What
They Do To Each Other, Neither
Has the Right to Endanoer Ameri.
can Lives On the Neutral Ships.
The midland journal., 1915-02-12
Pacific Coast To Get Share.

An. amendment was adopted au-
thorizing the construction of three of
the six destroyers on the Pacific coast.
Five of the submarines are to be built
there. The bill provides that any of
the vessels authorized may be con-
structed in government yards, but
Chairman Padgett, of the Naval Com
mittee, explained that the New York
plant the only one to which battle
ship might be given, already was work
ing to it's capacity.
All new legislation, including pro-
visions for the creation of a naval re-
serve, for an aide for operations in the
Navy Department to head war board,
and for creation of the rank of admiral
and vice-admiral, were stricken from
the bill several days ago. An effort
will be made to have them restored in
the Senate. as
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-25
LOCAL EXHIBIT WILL
BE ONE OF LARGEST
Thirty Feet of Wall Space VIII be
Required For FederatioB's
Display.

Thirty feet of wall space will be re-
quired for the display of the exhibit
sent to Richmond, Ind, Monday night
by the South Bend Federation for So
cial Service. This exhibit proba bly,
will be the largest single exhibit at the
state conference of charities and cor
rections, which is 20 be held from
Oct. so to Nov. 2. and il will prove a
drawing card for South Bend in the
bid for the 1916 convention.
1t is expected that there will be 10
delegates from this city. There will oe
a total Of 500 delegates at the confer
ence. The South Bend federation will
have a poster, 3x15 feet, as part of
their display bearing the words,
South Bend Federation Tor Social
Service 1915. Come to South Bend
1916 Beneath this will be a space
so feet by sc inches, containing cards
iSith the individual exhibits. The Mu-
nicipal Recreation committee will have
10 cards; the Associated Charities,
eight; Children's Dispensary, six; Y.
W. G. a, two, and the federation