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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-11
ITALIANS keep
UP THEIR GAINS
Key to GOritz Is Captured,
Fall Imminent.
5000 PRISONERS ARE TAKEN

5rIdcehsdd to Austrian Stronghold Is
Stormed and Advance on Trieste
Is hreatened--Victory is the Great
est Mon by Latins Since War
Started.
ROME italian troops have
scored their greatest victory since the
opening of the Austro-Italian war. Of
fetal announcement was made that
the Goritz bridgehead where the Aus
TRANS have defended themselves with
the greatest stubbornness for more
than year has been captured by Ital.
ian troops. At the same time it was
announced that Monte Sabotino and
Monte Sr. Michels, scenes of almost
equally bloody fighting and strongly
fortified Austrian positions, have fall
en- before the new Italian offensive on
the Isonzo.
The position lies on the Carso
Plateau barely five miles southwest Of
Goritz.
Italian artillery is now Smelling
Goritz itself and is driving the enc
my out of houses just west Of the city
it was officially announced The fall
of the fortress is considered by Ital
ian military officers to be imminent.
Behind the Goritz bridge head lies
the Austrian fortress of Goritz, which
has held up the Italian advance to-
ward Trieste since the beginning OF
the war With the bridgehead in theil
hands and Monte Sabotino and Monte
San Michels taken from the Austrians
the Italians now seriously threaten
the great Austrian stronghold.
Monte San Michels itself was one of
the strongest Austrian positions on
the Isonzo. From trenches of concrete
and armored steel Austrian machine
gunners for months have beaten off
Italian attacks on San Michels, infiict-
ing frightful losses on the attacking
forces
Official reports give the number of
prisoners taken by the Italians at over
5000 including 200 officers.
italians Shell Hospital.
BERLIN The official Aus
trian report of Aug. says italian
front: The hospitals maintained by
monks at Goritz were destroyed by
italian shell fire and several persons
were killed"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-11
"Whuppity Scoorie."

The ancient custom at Lanark, Scot
land, of ''whuppity scoorie," the origin
and meaning of which ale lost. is cele-
brated annually and watched by 6
crowd of grownups. The town bell is
rung nightly at 6 o'clock from March
to September and then lies dumb for
six months. On the first night of the
ringing all the young folk congregate
at the cross, and after parading three
times around the parish church the
Lanark lads meet the New Lanark
boys in free fight. in which the only
legitimate weapons are their caps tied
at the end of pieces of string.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-11
VENIZELOS LEADER OUSTED
King Lets Out Aide Who Invented
Famous French "75."

ATHENS General Panyotis
Danglis, former minister of war, chief
of the general staff during the first
Balkan war and credited with being
one of the inventors of the famous
French three-inch guns, has been re-
moved from his post as royal aid-de-
camp by King Constantine.
General Danglis was minister of
war in the Venizelos cabinet of 1915,
which resigned on Oct. 5, of that year
An Athens dispatch on July "a told of
his election as president of a league
formed by adherents of former Pre-
mier Venizelos to counterfeit the eff
feet of anti-Venizelos leagues among
the demobilized Greek reservists.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-11
Naval Bill Up Tuesday

WASHINGTON. d. democratic
Leader Kitchin announces that the
naval bill would be called up in the
house next Tuesday, and that Chair
man Padget of the house naval COM
mittee would move to concur in the
big senate increases in the building
program and enlisted personnel,
against which he and the other house
conferees had held out while the
measure was in conference.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-11
MAYOR CHECKS ICE RAISE
Gary, Ind, Official Orders 1000 Pounds
Sold Daily at Cost.

GARY, IND. Mayor R. O.
Johnson ordered local ice dealers TO
sell 1000 pounds of ice daily at cost
to Gary mothers with children, and
stationed police at plants to enforce
the order. Johnson's action followed
the announcement of the dealers that
the price of ice had been increased to
$3.50 a hundred pounds on account of
an ice shortage.
Plans are being laid for the estab-
lishment of municipal ice plant.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-11
poubIy Handicapped.

"Squiggs is very conscientious and
kind hearted man, is he nOt?''
Very, and it gives him whole lot
of trouble. You see. his conscience
never viii permit him to carry out his
promises. because, it tells him. his kind
heart has led him to take wrong
stand '-Ricbmond Times Dispatch.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-11
MAYOR FLEES STRIKE CITY
Food for Strike Breakers in La Sale
Stopped by Sympathizers.

OTTOWA, ILL. = Adjutant Gen
eral Dickson and Sheriff Davis of OF.
tawa visited La Sale and Oglesby>tc
make a personal investigation of con
ditions due to the cement strike. May.
or Morrison of Oglesby, who was as
saulted by mob of rioters last Fri
day has left the city. His whereabouts
are unknown.
Grocery, beer and ice wagons load.
ed with provisions for strike break
ers in La Sale were stopped by strike
sympathizers.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-11
CHAP MAN PULLS RARE PLAY
Cleveland Shortstop Scores Run on an
InfieId EIv

CLEVELAND, o. - One of the rar-
est plays in baseball was pulled here
in the first inning of the Yankee-In.
dian game when a fly 20 infielder was
converted into sacrifice, causing a
tally.
Chick Gandil, the Indians first
sacker, sent the leather for a fly to
Gedeon in short right and while he
held the bali Ray Chapman sprinted
across the plate Chapman is the first
big Lacquer to pull the stunt this sea.
son.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-11
WINS 0'DONNELL CHILDREN
Wife Awarded Them in Court Action
at Detroit. Mich.

DETROIT, MICH. = Costody OF
her two children, Donald, Jr., and
John, kidnapped from her by their faith,
er, Donald ]. O'Donnel, three years
ago in Chicago. was awarded Mrs.
OEonneI CT Wit of lapsas Sc
SIC jr ediately returned to Chic {.
go with JEei..
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-11
lis Change.

Modern civilization has made a
great change in the commercial aspect
of marriage"
How SOP
Fathers used to sell their daugh-
tiers. Now they have to give them
aWay.'-Baltimore American.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-11
ATTACK COST FRYkTT LIFE
German Newspaper Comment on Exc
cution of British Sea Captain.


BERLIN German neWspa-
pers discuss British comment in re-
gard to the execution of Captain
Charles Fryatt of the British steam
ship Brusselsl, declaring unanimously
that British commentators are at
tempting to confuse the facts by pre-
tending that the captain was son.
fenced to death because he defended
himself against aggression" says the
Overseas News agency
LAS a matter of fact, the sentence
was imposed because he undertook a
treacherous surprise attack on a Ger
man submarine in order to gain the
prize promised for the destruction OF
a submarine"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-11
FOOD RIOTS IN PETROGRAD
SerIin Report Says % Persons Were
Killed and 100 Wounded.

BERLIN Stockholm dis
patches given out by the semiofficial
German news agency reported that
serious riots broke out in Petrograd
July 80 because of lack of food
Twenty-eight persons were killed
and more than 100 wounded before sol
diers finally dispersed the crowds loot
ing houses and stores.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-11
Still a Baby.

THE last time / saw him was thirty
years ago. when he was a baby
.sWeH, / saw him yesterday. and he
hasn't changed a bit"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-11
OUGHT to Cheer Him.

Figg-What's the matter. old man!
You're looking wretched. Fogg-Pm
not myself at all today. Figg-Oh.
come; that's nothing to feel wretched
notwithstanding
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-11
CroWbar Kills Man.

BLOOMINGTON. ILL. Albert
Custer of Saybrook was killed instant
Is bT q ooT-'r niereing his head
" "a l6 ~
house Va
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-11
The Difference.

Papa. what is the difference be
tween fiddler and a yiolinist?''
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-08-11

-MuSis a! = .ileFica I
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-02-27
Quantities of Cyanide In
Me- ormick Conservatives

This. coupled with other discoveries,
sent the authorities on the trail afresh.
They learned that in the conservatories
of the Mccormick estate. OF which
young Orpet's father Is manager. there
were large quantities OF cyanide OF po-
tassium and sulphuric acid. Some Of
this was found discarded, the police
say. in an ash heap. The rest was In
cabinet, which had recently been broken
open.
On the other hand. the counsel for
the defense learned that a similar state
of Affairs existed In the greenhouses or
the Jonas Kuppenheimer estate. over
which the girls father presldes, the
poisons being used in the preparation
of insecticides. To this, they contend,
the girl might have had access.
Again the case was at a standstiil. so
far as actual evidence was concerned.
with the balance a little In favor OF Inc
prosecution. II they CHANGED TO md the
poison bottle and identified II as the
one purchased by young Orpet. Md 80
the search for the phial continued.
After combing the woods frultlessly.
the men of the law. on on another
| trail, at last announced they had re-
covered the missing bottle. A Dhial was
| found two days after the death oil
! Marian Lambert In the mud and snow
| beside the Sacred Heart station.
Immediately TIE prosecution declared
! the case solved. But they success wa
short lived. The clerk. who sold thu
phial to young Orpet on the day befoI.
the girls death. declared positively tha
the bottle found in the snow at tn
station was not the one he had sold tn
younV atiidant
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-02-27
Describes Needed
School Hygiene Lam
DR.. Small Summarizes Desired
Features Of Legislation in
Federal Report.

DR.. willard r. Small. principal OF
Eastern High School. In paper on
educational hygiene Incorporated IN
report just Issued by the Federai bu-
reau Of Education, summarizes what ne
considers the desirable features OF
legislative enactment covering health
supervision of schools.
He bases this summary upon . study
OF the medical inspection laws OF all
States having such laws in 1919
The features OF the legislation
brought out In the summary are:
ID Compulsory health supervision OF
school children; C) provision placing
the administration OF the system In
the hands OF the school authorities
with discretion TO cooperate win the
health authorities In an epidemic. etc.
whether the inspection should ne IN
the hands OF the school authorities OF
the local health board IN still an open
question:; 90 inspection by n phySi'
clan to control CONTAGIOUS diseases
90 annual examination by physicians
TO discover defects OF a deterrent ma.
ture; 49, annual tests of sight and
hearing by teachers; 49, examination
of teachers and janitors and regular
inspection OF Buildings promises anc
drinking water to insure sanitary con
ditlons; ID adequate training OF stu
dents In normal schools In conducting
tests OF vision and hearing; Cd pno
vision for employment OF school nurses
90 q penalty or other provisions to pc
cure enforcement OF the law.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-02-27
Girl Gave First of
A Chain of Clues

Questioned, Josephine Nelson DAVIS.
who had spent the night previous to
Marian's lisappea rance with her. really
gave the first OF a chain of clues which
were destined TO fling the coils OF the
law about Orpet.
She declared secret telephone mes
sage had come TO Marian from young
Orpet the night before she disappeared.
Then came another chum OF the dead
girl. Verne Jackson.
She said she had met Miss Davis ana
Marian at the Sacred Heart station that
fRteful Wednesday morning. and saw
Marian when she turned back, ostensIbIy
to mail her letter. And she told more
She declared that when passing Helms
woods she had seen young man watch
ing the two other girls from the shadow
of the trees, At first she declared the
| young man was not Orpet.
| But steadily, constantly, as they went
deeper into the case, the police say all
having been intimately acquainted with
the dead girl. Accordingly on February
| Il, Burns operatives, accompanied by
| the district attorney tourneyed to Madi-
son, Wis, and there, In students
boarding house, located the young man.
lie was immediately arrested and held
as a material witness.
J IL was about that time that Josephine
Davis produced another piece of dam
| aging evidence. She told the states at
/ torney of a letter which young Orpei
had written TO Marian Lambert and en-
closed In care OF the Davis girl The
missive whom located was found to re-
fer TO a tryst which the police believe
was the last one Marian Lambert eve'
This letter referred to a recent III
ness" which Marian had suffered. and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-02-27
orpet Defense Likely To Be
That Girl Committed Suicide

orpet's defense. should II come into
court, It Is believed, will be based upon
the simple theory that Miss Lambert
committed suicide.
His attorneys from the first have
argued that the girl lured him to Helms
woods. endeavored to re-estabiish her.
self In his affections. and failing in
that. took her own life.
They contend that the argument of
the state concerning the fear Of APP
preaching motherhood on the part OF
Miss Lambert will not hold. and say
they are prepared to show that two
weeks before her death Marian and
| orpet both knew her condition was
normal
| Great stress will probably be laid by
the defense upon the fact that when
Marian's body was found one OF her
hands was ungloved. and tiny particles
OF cyanide were found under her finger
| nails. This. they argue, proves she re-
moved her glove for the purpose Of
taking cyanide In it's crystalline form.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-02-27
Congressional Crisis Has
Passed, Leaders Think

II Is believed today that the crisis
which arose in Congress during the past
week over the submarine controversy
and the propriety Of Americans travel
Ing on the armed merchantmen of bell
ligerents has practically passed.
Administration supporters appear to
have checked the opposition to the
Presidents policy firmly upholding the
rights of Americans to travel on ships
of the character named. Nevertheless,
II Is asserted that the situation will re-
main quiet only so long as Congress
does not become seized. with the fear
that the United States Is about to drift
into war, There Is lurking danger of
Il revival of the agitation which almost
swept Congress Off its feet Wednesday
and Thursday, which did not quiet
down until yesterday.
Congressman Jeff McLemore. author
of a resolution warning Americans to
stay OF of armed belligerent vessels.
issued "a statement last night saying
that acting on the advice OF friends
of my resolution, ] shall not press the
Foreign Affairs Committee to give II
consideration, at least until the Presi-
dent has had ample opportunity to try
out his policy and arrive, IL possible, al
definite. conclusion"
A peppery statement was issued by
Congressman Glass, one of the Demo
cratic leaders, who asserts that there
are not sufficient votes in the House
to put through any resolution discredit'
ing the Presidents policy. Mr.. Glas,
says the Presidents friends welcome {
test on this matter. and he asks Il
Congress is going to become an ally o.
Won Tirpitz
Congressman william c. Adamson
dean of the Georgia delegation. has II
readiness a resolution he will offer 4
international affairs are discussed II
the House, and q resolution offered I,
Interfere with the Presidents handling
OF the armed ship question. This reso
luton says II is unwise for American
tn travel on belligerent ships. but
does not deny them the right to do so
and II afflrms the belief of Congress II
the ability of the President to handl
the situation, and asserts he should no
be interfered with.
IT would hate to believe" said Nj
Glass, that Congress In in favor O
any such detestable capitulation as tina
which has been suggested, involving In
separately an abJect REIMBURSEMENT O
cherished national rights and a bruta
preserve the dignity and prestige Of tn
United States among the great power
of the earth,
'If that is really the temper of Con
gress the issue should not be postpone
a day. We should have the ties
promptly in order that we may deter
mine whether the honor of this natior
perate legislative usurpation, Is wort
the ceaseless vigil and the brave figf
which has characterized the efforts {
President Wilson to preserve 1t. TIL
is no party question. II Is an Amer
can question"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-02-27
Substitute Resolution
Proposed by Adamson

D. Congressman william G. Adamson of
Georgia issued a abatement today say
ing he proposed TO stand by President
Wilson in the submarine controversy
with Germany. but that II Congress At
tempts TO adopt a resolution warning
Americans to stay off OF armed ships of
belligerents he will offer a substitute.
This substitute. he said. would he sup
'ported by the Georgia delegation. II
would declare II unwise for Americans
to take passage on such ships, but would
express confidence In the President and
would not seek to deprive Americans OF
their rights even II they use armed mel :
Chantmen.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-02-27
Origin Of the Poison May
Be the Crucial Point

And yet. SO far In their search. and
as a result OF the activities OF tho de-
tense. all the actual evidence Of the
case shows that this may or may not
have been the case
The crucial point in the trial will be-.
Il In believed. whether the Government.
which has enmeshed orpet in circum-
stance, can prove the origin of the
poison which killed Marian Lambert.
Beyond all doubt that poison was
cyanide. An analysis Of the organs
from the girls body proved that: And
that finding was upheld by the discov-
cry OF several grains of the drug be-
meath the finger nails on one OF the
dead girls hands.
In It's Investigations the state dis
covered that quantities OF the poison
was kept in the greenhouses OF the NC.
Cormick estate to which young Orpe'
had access. He might also, they con
laboratory. And they have estaoiisnec
that the day before the death Of tht
girl, he purchased an empty phtal.
on the other hand. Orpet's lawyers
have discovered that Marian Lambert'i
father kept cyanide Of potassium In the
greenhouse over which he had super
vision. although the father claims hi
daughter could not have known or III
presence there
And so, 1t Is believed. upon the settle
ment of this much mooted point ant
several others. capable OF different ex
plantations. may hang the fate or th'
confessed sweetheart OF this latest o.
the modern HaKars.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-02-27
State Compelled to Fall
Back On a Theory

And so the State. so far as the bottle
which contained the poison Is con-
cerned. have had to fall back upon a
theory that the young man, II he had
the phial in his possession after the
death OF the girl he destroyed 1t com
pleteIy or hurled 1t from the window OF
his train as he speeded toward Chicago
Yet IL the law failed to clinch this one
fact TO their fabric OF theory and cir
cumstance, they are prepared to show
even without recourse to the young
mans confession, the course which his
relations with Marian Lambert had
taken.
Before the case was very many days
old, the State had In its possession a
packet If sixty letters. Thirty-hve OF
these had been written by Orpet 90
Marian Lambert. The rest were from
the girl to Orpet.
Upon this packet OF letters. Il Is said.
the state has placed great Importance.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-02-27
Analysis of Viscera Reveals
Prussic Acid


orpet told the officers that he and the
girl walked and talked until they nnaliy
came to q log on the edge OF the woods
They sat there until Marian got cold.
and they started to walk again.
I'VE walked until we got here" no
continued, indicating the spot where her
body was found.
Then she began to cry. j took her
by the shoulders and turned her facing
me. Don't you understand / don't love
you any more?' ] asked her. Then 1
left"
But even before they had obtained an
admission OF his presence In Helm
woods on the morning of the tragedy
from young Orpet, the authorities were
busy running out other threads which
might tend to throw light upon the
mystery.
A search was instituted for the bottle
which contained the poison with which
the young girls life was ended. But q
fine-tooth- comb search OF the strip OF
woodland revealed no such container.
Yet the police were at FIRST positive
that such a bottle was In existence. and
| this belief was strengthened by re-
port that young Orpet had purchased an
extra large empty phial Mt Tiedman's
Pharmacy, In Madison, early on the day
he went to Lake Forest. He had taken
the bottle, they declared. after he found
/ II impossible to obtain hve or six
grain capsule.
| About this time the first report Of
the chemical analysis of the viscers
taken from the girls body was pub
lished. This finding was authority fol
the statement that the girls death hat
been caused by pruBsic acid mixed Will
another substance,