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The Washington herald., 1916-12-27

He is a little boy about Is years CID.
But he has a head on his shoulders He
opens carriage doors and Limousine doors
at the Metropolitan and he averages
about so a week in tips. This despite
the fact that the Metropolitan has a car
Rage man on duty at all times.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09
AGREEMENT ON ARMY BILL
House Military Committee to Report
Measure for Increase Of Fight
ing Troops, Unanimously.

Washington, March 4.-Final agree
ment has been reached by the house
military committee on it's bill for the
Increase of the army and it will be
reported unanimously to the house
early next week.
In round figures the measure would
authorize the formation of an army
composed of regulars, national guards.
men and federal volunteers with a
total peace strength Of approximately
100000 men.
1t provides for a maximum strength
OF 10000 fighting troops for the reg:
ular army, for a minimum of 1926, 00C
for the National Guard within five
years and for organization of federal
volunteers through an extension OF a
summer training camp idea.
1t is estimated that 100000 men can
be enrolled in the latter force.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09
RESUME HEAVY OFFENSIVE IN
VERDUN REGION - FRENCH
CLAIM ASSAULTS REPULsED
WITH GREAT LOSSES.
SECOND VERDUN FORT
IS REPORTED TAKEN
Fort de Vaux Falls, According to I'm.
confirmed German Message
British Claim 300 Yards of
Trenches Retaken Along
Ypres-Comines Canal.

London, March 4. - The Germans
have resumed their heavy offensive in
the region of Verdun, with the French
everywhere strongly opposing it.
While on most of the front from east
Of the Meuse down into the Woevre
region the German big guns have been
active, around Douaumont the Teutons
launched several infantry attacks of
extreme violence. This, the French
war Office declares, was put down by
the French troops whose fire decimat-
ed the enemy ranks. LIE Mort Homme,
the Cote du Pivre and the Douau-
mont sector particularly, have suffer
ed heavy bombardment.
French Guns Effective.
North of St. Mihiel, the French
guns have been worked effectively
against the German positions. In AL
SAGE in the region of Seppois a heavy
artillery duel has been in progress.
The British along the Ypres- Com
ines canal have reversed the victory
gained over them February IA, by re-
taking the 800 yards of trenches which
the Germans captured at that time,
The German mine galleries in the
trenches were destroyed and four of.
ficers and 176 men were taken pris.
oners. In addition, French guns have
destroyed German work in the re,
s1on OF Beauvraignes, which lies be.
tween the Somme and Disc rivers.
Teutons Claim Gain.
Unconfrmed reports from German
sources said the French had evacuat.
ed Fort de Vaux, one of the Verduu
forts, two miles southeast of Fort
Douaumont.
The defenses, It Is stated, we're
wrecked by German mortar fire. From
the heights south of Douaumont the
French have played steady streams of
shells over the approaches and the
ruins Of the fort and the Germans
have been unable to occupy it.
II this report is true, the Germans
have now wrecked two of the forts
defending Verdun from the northeast,
Fort Douaumont having been destroy
ed by shell fire several days ago. Fort
de Vaux lies five miles northeast of
Verdun.
No mention of the reported capture
was made in the French official re-
port.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09
British Not Involved in Plot.

Honolulu, March 3.-No evidence
has been obtained that the British
government is implicated in the al
legged recruiting plot in which three
arrests were made, according to the
United States attorney. There has
been no breach of neutrality, and no
evidence that Great Britain is inn
pllcated in the plot" he said. "The
only evidence is documentary and il.
wolves c.. D. and w. R. Seligsen in
recruiting soldiers for the Allies. The
third man was former service man.
smplcyed to uncover the allesed nlo. -
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09
REPORT ON u. S. COMMERCE
Federal Department Says American
Trade Again Taking Normal
Direction.

Washington, March. 8. - American
trade again is taking it's normal direc-
ton, the commerce department re-
ports. While war supplies keep up
their phenomenal figures, lumber, ma
val stores and agricultural nipple
ments are gaining. They had been
hard hit by the war. Biggest exports
for 1915 were:
Breadstuffs, $527,900,O00.
Cotton, $417,0OO,O0O.
Iron and steel, $3SS,000,00o.
Meats, 100000.
Explosives, $181, 100000.
The total exports for 1915 were &c.
4S6,0o0,000 against $2,071, 900, 900 for
1914.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09
SYRUP Of FIGS FOR
4 CH|LO'S BOWELS
It is cruel to force nauseating,
harsh physic into a
sick child.

Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the dose" mother insisted
on-castor oil. calomel, cathartics.
How you hated them, how you fought
against taking them.
With our children it's different.
Mothers who cling to the old form OF
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The chlldren's revolt is well-found.
ed. Their tender little "insides" are
injured by them.
II your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing, give only doll
cious california Syrup Of Figs" It's
action is positive, but gentle. Millions
OF mothers keep this harmless fruit
laxative" handy; they know children
love to take It; that it never fails to
clean the liver and bowels and sweet.
en- the stomach, and that teaspoonful
given today saves sick child tomor.
row.
Ask at the store for a 5o-cent bottle
of California Syrup Of Figs" which
has full directions for babies, children
of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
IN each bottle. Adv.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09
DECISION IN APPAM CASE
State Department Makes U. S. Posi-.
ton Known to acknowledgements
Of Memorandum Withheld,

Washington, March 1. - The state
department has sent to Count Bern.
stortf, the German ambassador, it's de.
clslon In the case of the British liner
Appam, which was captured by Ger.
man raider and brought into Hamp-
ton Roads in charge of a prize crew.
Announcement of the contents will
be withheld at the request of counsel
for the German government, pending
a decision in the libel action brought
by agents of the original British own.
ers in the federal court at Norfolk
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09
British Admiralty Orders Public,

London, March 4.-The British ad.
miralty has officially made public ad.
miralty's orders to armed merchant.
men, given October 20, 1916, that the
armament Of such vessels must be
used solely for resisting an attack by
an armed vessel and for no other pur.
pose. AS British submarines and air
craft are ordered not to approach
merchantmen, the orders say, the ap-
proach to British merchantmen of
a submarine is to be regarded as done
with hostile Intention,
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09
ADMINISTRATION FORCES MUS,
TER ENOUGH VOTES TO KILL
RESOLUTION, POLL
INDICATES.
HOUSE IS EXPECTED TO
FOLLOW SENATE ACTION
Sitting Of Sentiment Against Presi-
dents Foreign Policy Seen-Lead-
ers Are Confident - Greatest
Partisan Debate in Years
Heard in Senate.

Washington, March 4.-Out of a
days development in President Will
sons fight with congress, crowded to
the utmost with elements of the SEN
sat1onal and dramatic, the administra-
ton forces in the Senate emerged
with pledges Of enough votes to kill,
once and for all, Senator Cores res
olution to warn Americans off armed
ships of the European belligerents and
demonstrate that Congress stands be-
hind the President in his negotiations
with Germany
Action in the Senate, it is believed,
will be followed promptly by sitting
of sentiment in the House against the
Presidents foreign policy.
Greatest Debate in Years.
In one Of the greatest non-partisan
debates the Senate has heard in
years, Chairman Stone of the foreign
relations committee declared he was
not in accord with the President; Sen
ator Lodge, the ranking Republican,
pledged his support to the Presidents
determination to secure to Americans
their rights on the high seas, and
Senator John Sharp Williams, just
from sick bed, delivered a wither-
ing denunciation of the Presidents on
ponents.
The Senate adjourned until the fol-
lowing day when the administration
leaders planned to bring up the Gore
resolution and table it, disposing Of it
finally as an embarrassment to the
President in his conduct of diploma
tic negotiations with Germany. They
have found that not more than %
votes can be mustered against them.
House Leaders Confident.
In the House, where the President
was faced with further delay, the
promise Of administration victory in
the Senate gave signs of breaking up
the opposition and the leaders were
confident Of similar action there.
While the Senate debated there
came news to the state department
from Berlin which Convinced officials
that the contention in Congress was
being deliberately made to weaken the
Presidents hand in Germany. Conf,
Dental advices state that reports cir,
culated in the German capital as hav.
ing come from Washington, declared
that Congress stood five to one
against the President.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09

Mayor Thompson of Chicago, who
swept into Office eleven months ago
by plurality Of AZ, 1000 ,otes, war un-
successful yesterday in his effort to
sweep the Rebel Nine" out of the
cit:' council.
Thirteen mon are dead and fifty.two
have been brought safely from mine
No. ~ Of the Davis Coal and Coke
company, near Kempton. W. Va,
where dust vplosion occurred.
The robbery of four valuable regis
tered mail packages became known at
New York. The packages were stolen
from mail pouches. One of the stolen
packages contained 100000.
Two men are dead as a result of a
fire which consumed a construction
camp tent at Cleveland. o.
Mrs. Katherine Vance Harrison, f1f-
teen-year-old bride of Charles Har-
rison, nephew OF United States Sena-
tor Charles Culberson of Texas, is al
legged to have confessed that she shot
and killed w. R. Warren, hotel pro-
prietOr at Fort Worth, Tex, claiming
that he had wronged her before her
marriage.
An unidentified negro was lynched
at Gainesville, Ca. after being taken
from Jail, where he had been placed
on charges of having tried TO break
into the home of Mrs. A. T. Heath.
Robert N. Walters, chief gunner's
mate, and B. M. Bixby were drowned
when roWboat was dashed against a
pier in Lake Michigan at the United
States Naval Training school at North
Chicago, Ill.
More than 100 men at the Edison
phenol plant went on strike at Silver
Lake, N. j., for five cents more per
hour. They were employed in the car
bolic department.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09
MEAT CLOGS KIDNEYS
THEN YOUR BACK HURTS
Take a Glass Of Salts to Flush Kid.
neys II Bladder Bothers YOU
Drink Lots Of Water.

NO man or woman who eats meat
regularly can make mistake by flush.
Ing the kidneys occasionally, says
well-known authority. Meat forms
uric acid which excites the kidneys.
they become overworked from the
strain, get sluggish and fail to filter
the waste and poisons from the blood.
then we get sick. Nearly all rheu.
matism, headaches, liver trouble, ner
vousness, dizziness, sleeplessness and
urinary disorders come from sluggish
kidneys.
The moment you feel dull ache In
the kidneys or your back hurts or if
the urine is cloudy, offensive, full of
sediment, Irregular of passage or at
tended by sensation of scalding, stop
eating meat and get about four ounces
or Jad Salts from any pharmacy: take
q tablespoonful in a glass of water
before breakfast and in few days
your kidneys will act fine. This ia.
nous salts is made from the acid of
grapes and lemon juice, combined
with l1thia, and has been used for
generations to flush and stimulate the
kidneys, also to neutralize the acids
in urine so it no longer causes irrita.
ton, thus ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and cannot
1njure; makes delightful efferves.
cent lithia-water drink which everyone
should take now and then to keep the
kidneys clean and active and the blood
pure, thereby avoiding serious kidney
complications~-Adv
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09
Mexican Revolt

Brig. Gen. Felix DiaZ, nephew OF Por'
tirio Diaz, has landed a military expe
dition in Mexico, according to state
ment made by close personal friend
of General Diaz at New York. Gen
eral Diaz is now at the head of a
force in the field against General Car
ranZa
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09
T. R. NOT ON ILLINOIS BALLOT
Co'onePs Secretary in Letter Says Mr.
Roosevelt Has No lnten-
ton of Filing.

Springfield, ILL.,, March 3.-Secretarv
OF State Stevenson has received a let
ter from John w. McGrath. secretary
to Theodore Roosevelt stating that
Mr. Roosevelt has no intention of fill
ing petition as a candidate in the
primary Of any party in Illinois,"
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09

II You Can't Get 1t In Town.
Someone in almost every town in
the United States sells Hanford's Bal
sam of Myrrh. If you can't get 1t,
write G.. G. Hanford Mfg. Co., SYRIA
cuse, N. Y. Price soc and $780, Adv.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09

In Different Lights.
"Footllte is convinced that In a year
hell be starring"
That's all moonshine."
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09
Personal

Henry James, the novelist, died in
London after an illness OF more than
two months with pneumonia. Althougn
he was born in New York in 1843, he
took the oath of allegiance to Great
Britain Jaly rs, 1915. He was born
April Is, 1843, the soc of Rev. Henry
and Mary R. Walsh James.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09
CLEANSE THE PORES
OF Your Skin and Make Il Fresh and
Clear by Using Cutlcura. Trial Free.

When suffering from pimples, black.
heads, redness or roughness, smear
the skin with Cuticura Ointment.
Then wash off with Cuticura Soap and
hot water. These super-creamy emol-
lients do much for the skin because
they prevent pore clogging.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09

Not Gray Hairs but Tired Eyes
make us look older than we are Keep
your Eyes young and you will look young.
After the Movies Murine Your Eyes Don't
tel! your age. Murine Eye Remedy Co.,
Chicago, Sends Eye Book on request
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09

Economics of the Rich.
Knicker-Gasoline is going up.
Bocker-Maybe we can run the car
on champagne and drink oil.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09

Seasonal Activity.
Mrs. Knicker-What Is your trade?
Weary Willie-l shovel rain, mum.
New York Sun.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09

To keep clean and healthy take Dr..
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They regulate
liver, bowels and stomach.-Adv.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09
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TWENTY ARE KILLED By
AvALANCHES IN TYROl

London, March "a dispatch
TO the Central News from Amster.
dam says that 20 persons have
. been killed and many injured by
y ava'ancnes in the southern TyroI.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09

Said Eve unto Adam: 1T gives me
pain to see you walking the floor
with a CAIN"
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09

For hot grease burns apply Han
ford's Balsam lightly until the IRE ID
extracted. Adv.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09
The Instrument

Il want to sweep the cobwebs from
my BRAIN"
why not use q vacuum cleaner?"
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09
No Cause for 10,

No Cause for Joy.
Il am glad we do not have bullf1ghts
and bear pits In our country"
Don't we have 'em in Wall street,"
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09

A dyspetic can cat his cake and
stu believe no has Il,
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09

He Is wire son who knows that
he knows less than his father.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09
Foreign

Barefooted and ragged women, many
with babies in arms, proceeded from
the quarters Of the working classes to
parliament at Athens, stopped ingoing
deputies and pleaded that the chamber
relieve the distress caused by mobili-
cation of the men and nonpayment Of
allowances to their families.
A Central News dispatch states that
the Swedish steamship Stockholm.
bound from Gothenburg for New York,
was stopped by British warship and
ordered into the Clyde, where the mail
was removed and the vessel was re-
leased.
The Norwegian ship Ander, laden
with coal pit props, has gone ashore
in Blyth bay and is total wreck
Four lives were lost
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09
CALLING a Bluff,

my heart is very sound organ"
THAT may be, but l know a belle
who can wiring IT.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09
Ruling Idea

Ruling Idea.
Judge-Twenty-five and costs.
Motorist-Gee, whiz! There goes a
new tire!
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09
Washington

" G>OIbb1tS IOSS
With Germany inaugurating her
new program of sinking all armed
merchant ships without warning, Pres
ident Wilson put the matter of Ameri
can rights at sea w to congress- at
Washington. In q letter to Repre-
sentative Pou the president urged an
early vote on the resolution propos
ing to warn Americans not to sail on
arme' merchantmen.
Fec eral Steamboat Inspectors Rob
ert Reed and C. G. Eckliff, who placed
the governments o. K. on the i'll
fated Eastand, and who were sus
pended some time after the excursion
boat horror at Chicago, were ordered
reinstated by Secretary Redfield al
Washington.
The senate at Washington unani
mously ratified the Haitian treaty
which gives the United States vir:
tual protectorate over the BLACK re-
public" Under the treaty the United
States will organize constabulary liz
the republic and will administer the
finances of the nation.
Germany's Interpretation Of the as
surances previously given to the Uni
ted States with respect to ships not be.
ing attacked without warning are ap.
plicable only to unarmed merchant
ships and not as being broad enough
to cover enemy merchant vessels
armed for defense and which may use
their armament Extensively against
German submarines, according to dis.
patches received at Washington from
Berlin.
Germany and Austria-Hungary have
answered President Wilson's letter tC
Senator Stone by note presented tc
the state department at Washington
by the German ambassador and con
Cured in by the AustrO.Hungarfan
charge d'affaires, announcing that
their submarines will sink on sigh
armed merchantmen encountered upoI
the high seas.
The senate at Washington confirmed
the nomination of Henry Prathe'
Fletcher as ambassador to, the gov
eminent of Mexico.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09
Wanted a First Class
Salesman orSaleswoman

TO call at every house In your town arc the o,yins
high grade household necessity that every
housewife wants. Quick sales-0eos z!otts. H1Ha
Ct ouce for territory. THE MINNESOTA SALES
co. 1888 Hague Avenue. Sc. Paul. Minnssoe>
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09

A little nonsense then and now may
stir up an awful row.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09

The true secret Of feminine beauty
is to be born pretty.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09
Domestic

Two were killed and two fatally hurt
when an automobile struck street
car at Milwaukee. Doctor Eisen and
Hans Streader were killed.
A quantity of paste oil in the dock
in which the superdreadnaught Nevada
was lying at Quincy, Mass, caught fire
an. flames shot up 100 feet about the
warship. The Nevada, however, was
undamaged
The senate of the Mississippi legis-
lature passed the anti-liquor advertis-
irg bill by a vote Of 81 to is. It pro-
hibits advertising whisky in the sta. ,
Ill any manner. Governor Bilbo states
that he will sign the measure.
About dozen scattered votes were
cast in the municipal primary which
had to be held at East st. Louis, ILL.,.
under the Illinois law. The total cost
of the election was $2,5O0 The par
ties will make their nominations BY
petitions.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-29
coNsECRATE NEW BISHOPS.
Impressive Service, Last Important
Business Of Conference, Held
at Saratoga Springs.

Saratoga Spring, N. Y. May 20
Seven new bishops of the Methodist
Episcopal Church were consecrated
yesterday afternoon at an impress
sive service, which was almost the
last important business of the twen-
ty-seventh general conference before
final adjournment today.
All of the board of bishops parti-
cipated in the service.
The conference urged members OF
the church to ally themselves with
political efforts against the liquor
traffic. A new section of the discip-
line will ask that members refrain
from the use Of tobacco.
Suffrage was indorsed and poly
gamy denounced. Efforts to remove
tie amusement clause" from the dis
cipline again failed. and members are
still liable to expulsion if they play
cards, dance or attend theaters. Min
listers who officiate at the marriage
Of divorced persons now are made
answerable to their conference for
an act maladministration. Prev
iously there was no penalty.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-29
J. ]. HILL is DEAD
Rare Medicine Has But Little Effect
on Empire Builder"

st. Paul, Mimi, May 29-James
]. Hill, railroad magnate, died short
" before noon today.
His death followed an operation for
infection of his thigh.
St Paul, May 29-The condition OF
James j. Hill, aged 'sempire builder
and railroad magnate, was considered
so serious early today. that his phy-
sicians gave out the announcement
that little hope is entertained for his
recovery.
His family has been called to the
bedside.
A little-used sedative, brought from
Chicago in a special train which set
new record for speed between that
city and st. Paul, had little effect
in quieting Mr.. Hill.
He passed a restless, unsatisfactory
day. His pulse was good, but his
temperature was high, and he suf-
fered considerable pain. At intervals
he was unconscious