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The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
CHAIRMAN OF n, P, ROAD DIES
W. P. CLOUGH, ASSOCIATED FOR
YEARS WITH J. J. HILL.
Elected First Vice President Of Great
Northern Railway When Organ
lied in 1890.

New York, Aug. 19.-Colonel Will
liam P. Clough, chairman of the board
of directors of the Northern Pacific
Railroad company, died at the Pres
byterian hospital in this city, follow.
ing a short illness. Mr.. Clough was
director of several other railroad
companies and was vice president of
the Northern Express company.
William Pitt Olough was born in the
village of Freetown, Cortland county,
New York, March 20, 1845.
Goes to St. Paul.
In the summer Of 1872 Mr.. Clough
went to St. Paul and for several years
was associated with the veteran coun-
sci, the late John H. Gilman. He be-
came prominent in his profession, and
in the fall of 1880 he was appointed
Western counsel of the Northern Paci-
fic Railroad company.
May 81, 1887, he resigned his posi-
ton with the Northern Pacific railway
company and the next day entered
the service of the St. Paul, Minneap-
oils & Manitoba railroad, where he
first was associated with the late
James Jerome Hill. A few months
later he became second vice presi-
dent. Upon the organization of the
Great Northern Railway company,
February l, 1890, Mr. Clough was
elected it's first vice president.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
GIVES AMERICA SECOND
LARGEST NAVY IN WORLD
House Accepts Building Program Au-
thorizing Construction of 157 War
Vessels in Three Years.

Washington, Aug. 17.-Congress has
virtually completed the national de-
Tense program by finally approving the
great increases in naval construction
and personnel written into thu naval
bill and urgently supported by the ad-
ministration.
The House accepted the building
program to which it's conferees on the
measure had refused to agree, by a
vote of 283 to 81 with seven of the
members present not voting. The per-
sonnet increases, on which there also
was disagreement in conference,
were approved without a record vote.
The personnel and construction Sec
lions, which already have the approval
of the Senate, authorize an increase
in enlisted men to 74,70O, and the
building of 157 war vessels within the
next three years, with four battle
cruisers and four battleships included
among the ships for 1917.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
CONDEMNS DEMOCRATS
POLICY IN PHILIPPINES
Hughes Declares America Cannot A.
ford to Lose Sight Of National
Obligation.

Portland, Ore, Aug. 10. - Charles
E. Hughes, before large audience in
the ice rink here, assaulted the Demo
cratic party for it's policy toward the
Philippines.
1--WE can not afford i'm this country
to lose sight of national obligations, -
Mr.. Hughes said. "Our friends on the
other side were almost ready to say
that we should abandon the Philip
pines. That was matter Of national
honor. We assumed obligations there,
which we are bound to discharge.
1T is not much a matter Of self-in-
terest. But when this nation un-
dertakes before the world a RESPONSE
bility, it must discharge it.
"And we ought not to consider the
suggestion of scuttling cut of tho
Philippines to leave them in the pre-
dicament which you know perfectly
we'll without my describing it.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
GERMANS TO DEFEND Trieste
RUSH TROOPS TO OPPOSE lTAL-
IANS IN AUSTRIA.
Latin Advance Guard Reported Only
Thirteen Miles From the
TeUton Naval Base.

London, Aug. 17.-Germany is rush
ing troops to Trieste to defend the
Austrian city against the Italians, &C
cording to a dispatch received here
from Milan.
The message states that Germany is
taking over the defenses of the Aus.
trian naval base, from which the 1tal.
ian vanguard was last reported only
13 miles distant, and is sending troops
specially organized for that purpose
Siavs Resume Activity.
Russian troops, after a long period
of inactivity in the Carpathians, are
moving aggressively against the Teu.
tonic forces there
Russian captures of prisoners from
June when General Brussiloff inaug.
urated his offensive to Aug. FL, are
officially reported by Petrograd to
have tctaled more than 35S,00O men.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
GOES OYER HEADS OF MANAGERS
AND COMMITTEES IN DE-
TEaMlNED EFFORTS TO
AVERT STRIKE.
PRESIDENTS OF ROADS
CALLED TO CONFERENCE
Chief Executive Will Appeal Finally
to Powers Which Control Railways
if Presidents Of Lines Sustain
Their Managers i'm Refusing
Eight-hour Day.

Washington Aug. 49, President
Wilson laid his plan for averting thu
threatened railway strike before the
employees committee of $40, and haV
ing found the managers COMMITTEES
adamant to his proposal that they &C
cept the eight-hour day, he appealed
to the railroad presidents and asked
them to come to the White House fol
a conference.
There is every Indication that if the
railroad presidents sustain their man
ayers, President Wilson will appeal fl
nally to the financial powers which
control the roads, for it Is his rur'
pose to deal with the ultimate author
ity before he gives up his efforts.
Employees Expected to Accept Plan.
The Presidents plan, which is ex'
pected to be formally accepted by the
employees committee, proposes:
An eight-hour day as the basis for
computing wages.
Regular pay at the eight-hour day
rate for over time.
To refer all other collateral issues
to small commission to be created
by Congress on which the employees,
the railroads, and the public would
be represented.
Presidents Back Up Managers.
The conference between the rail-
road presidents and the managers
committee developed further indica-
tons that the managers were to be
backed up by their chiefs in the atti-
tude they had adopted toward tho
Presidents proposals.
I'VE have gone over the situation
thoroughly" said one of the presidents
as he left the conference, "and we
agree thoroughly in every particular
with what the committee has DONE"
To See Presidents Alone.
When Mr.. Wilson sees the railroad
presidents, the committee of man.
ayers who have been comforting with
him all this week will not be present
It was decided that the President
should lay his plan fully before the
executives of the roads alone, and
word to that effect was sent to the
hotel where the managers and their
chiefs were in session.
Before proposing his plan, it was
learned Mr.. Wilson had sought vainly
for two days to have both sides &C
cided finally that this was absolutely
impossible and then determined on the
proposal laid before the employees
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
Plan War on Infant Disease.

Washington, Aug. 1S.-Plans for 4
more vigorous campaign to prevent
the spread of infantile paralysis were
made here at conference of health
authorities of most of the states with
officials of the federal public health
service.
Admission was made by many ex~
perts that the cause of the plague is
unknown and the means of it's trans.
mission not determined Physicians
VINO have been fighting it in New
orh' pennsylvania, New Jersey and
connecticut gave the latest scientific
observations.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
DANISH UPPER HOUSE IN
FAVOR OF SELLING ISLES
to United States-Vote
Is AZ to q,

Copenhagen, via London, Aug. 49,
The Landsthing, the upper house Of
the Danish parliament, met as a COM
mittee of the whole to consider the
treaty providing for the sale of the
Danish West Indies to the United
States and 81 Of the 81 members pres
ent placed themselves I'm favor of the
order Of the day stating that the sale
can not be settled before elections for
both houses of parliament have been
held. Five members Of the Landsthing
were absent from the meeting.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE
ASKS FOR $130,000,O00 TO DE-
FRAY EXPENDITURES DUE
TO MEXICAN SITUATION.
AMOUNT WOULD LAST ONLY
UNTIL END OF THIS YEAR
Statement From Treasury Department
Estimates Disbursements for Fiscal
Year 1912 at $1,12S, 243,ooo and Re-
ceipts at 100000 49, Huge
Sums fer Army and Navy.

Washington, Aug. ia bond issue
of $130,00O,000 to meet extraordinary
government expenditures due to the
Mexican situation was Unexpectedly
recommended to Congress by a ma
jority of the Senate finance commit
tee with the concurrence of the Treas.
ury department.
The bond issue is urged in the re-
port of the finance committee Demo-
Gratis filed in the Senate on the $685.
100000 revenue bill. In addition to
the proposed issue and the revenue
bill the finance committee asserts
that further appropriation of $780,
100000 will be necessary to defray the
expenses Of operations in the Mexi-
can emergency if conditions on the
border continue as they now are after
December 81, 1916.
Billion Needed in 1917.
The $130,0O0,000 to be provided by
the proposed bond issue, the report
says, will meet Mexican expenditures
only until the end of this calendar
year.
Accompanying the finance COM
mittee's majority report submitted by
Senator Simmons was a general state
ment from the Treasury department
estimating disbursements for the fis-
cal year 1917 at $1,126, 900 and re-
ceipts at $762,000,000
THE total appropriations for the
fiscal year 1917, exclusive of those
carried in the so-called shipping bill,
which is to be betrayed by the issu-
ance of Panama bonds, will exceed
the appropriations for the fiscal year
1916 by about $469,00O,000," says the
report.
For Greater Army and Navy,
This increase is represented prin-
cipally by $167,000,000 additional
amount appropriated for the navy;
$166,000000 additional amount appro-
priated for the army; $2O0O0,00O ad.
ditional amount appropriated for for
LITIGATION; $41,O00,00O for deficiency ap.
preparations, about $35,0O0,000 Of
which is due to the Mexican situation
and increased requirements of the
army and navy, and $20,00O000 for
nitrate plant, which is a preparedness
appropriation. The increase i'm the ap-
preparations for the fiscal year. other
than for these extraordinary purposes.
is not beyond the normal increase"
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
TEUToNs MAKE DESPERATE Ef-
FORTS TO BEND BACK THE
ALLIES LINES NORTHEAST
OF POZlEREG.
SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES
AS MASS ATTACKS FAIL
Mystery Wells Situation on East Front
Vienna Reports RepuIse Of Rus
sian Attacks on Teutonic Forces
Retiring From TanopoI Front
-Lull in Trieste Region.

London, Aug. 10. -- For the first
time in weeks no change of impor.
lance has been reported in any the
alter of the war.
The most violent fighting took place
on the Western end of the British SAL
lent in the Sommc. Six times tho
Germans advanced in force in a des-
pecate effort to bend back the British
lines northeast of Pozieres. London
reports that all OF these assaults were
repulsed with heavy losses and that
the British in turn captured about 100
yard9 of trenches northwest of Bazen-
tin.
No Counter-Attacks Made.
An interesting feature of the situa-
ton on the Western front is that the
Germans, contrary to their usual prac-
tice, have SO far made no attempt to
deliver counter attack in the region
where the French and British claim
to have captured nearly three miles
OF trenches on Wednesday.
The French are busily consolidating
their gains and report no action OF
Importance on any section of their
front including the Verdun region
Little News From East.
Some mystery exists as to the sit
uation on the Eastern 'front.' For two
consecutive days the Russians have
confined themselves to statement that
nothing Of Importance had occurred.
The Austrian and German war office
have been almost equally uncommuni-
cative.
The only fighting mentioned by
Vienna was the repulse of Russian at
tacks on the lines of General Won
Boehm-Ermolh, who is in command of
the Teutonic forces retiring from the
Taoopol front. Berlin reports the re-
pulse of Russian attacks south OF
Brody.
Italians Straighten Lines.
The lull in the Italian operations
against Trieste is unoff1cially explain
ed from Rome as due to General Cad
orna's desire to strafghten his lines
before proceeding with a general Of
fcnsive against the great Austrian sea-
port. Austrian aeroplanes have again
raided Venice, but Rome says they
caused only slight damage.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
SLAV THANKING MOVEMENT
ENDANGERS GERMAN FORCE
Russians Are Gradually EnveIoping
kovel and Lemberg as Austrlans
Fall Back,

With the Russian Armies in the
Central Russian Front (via Petrograd,
to London), Aug. 18.-The continued
success Of General Brussiloff's two
powerful movements which gradually
are enveloping Kovel and Lemberg,
have begun to have a marked effect
on the situation in the central portion
Of the front.
The Austrian line now has receded
so far before the repeated thrusts OF
the southwestern Russian forces in
southern Poland and Galicia that the
Germans are in danger of thanking
movements from the south.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
BRYAN TRIES TO SETTLE
STRIKE BY PEACE PLAN
TeIegraphs Pleas to Rail Heads Ask
ing For Truce Of One Year
Before Acting.

Washington, Aug. 10. - William
Jennings Bryan, it developed Friday,
has sought unsuccessfully to settle the
threatened railroad strike by the ap-
plication of his temporary truce peace
plan, having telegraphed pleas to
heads of the various brotherhoods and
the President asking that it be put
Into effect. 1t would provide for a
truce of one year, during which time
the contentious Of both sides to the
controversy should be investigated
thoroughly by a commission and a SET
t]ement attempted on the findings.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
Negotiate For Second British Loan

Negotiate For Second British Loan.
New York, Aug. 17.-Negotiations to
establish the second great British
credit in this country were conc1ud-
ed at conference Of bankers in the
office Of J. P. Morgan & Co., and the
official announcement merely awaits
arrangement of details. The agree
ment provides for tho purchase by a
banking syndicate of $250,000, 900 two
year S per cent British notes, to be a
direct obligation Of the British gov
ernment. The exchequer will deposit
securities with the syndicate manaxers
to an amount Of 3300.000.000.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
PLANS TO PUNISH ENGLAND
Germany Orders ZeppeIns to Make
Civilians Suffer.

Berlin (via wireless to Sayville)
Aug. 16.-German Zeppelins will pun
ish England for it's failure to punish
the crew of the British steamer Bara-
long, who killed members of a Ger
man submarine crew after they had
been made prisoners, it was official
ly announced here.
In the future Zeppelins raiding Eng
fish towns will have no consideration
for the lives of civilians other than
that demanded by international law.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
HUGHES TALKS OF TARIFF
Nominee Makes Four Addresses to
Crowds in Oregon.

Medford, Ore, Aug. 1S.-Charles T..
Hughes, southbound on his 85-hour
ride from Portland to San Francisco,
talked of the tariff and the national
honor to crowds which assembled at
stations along the way. From the rear
platform Of his car tho nominee made
four addresses at Riddle, Roseburg,
Grants Pass and here. In each he
also summarized his stand on prepar-
edness, protection Of American rights
and industrial cooperation.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
Charged with enticino Babies.

Council Bluffs, Iowa, Aug. 10. 49,
Gathering her seven small children
around her, Mrs. Evelyn Clark escaped
from home for dependents, and fled
to the Iowa bluffs along the Missis.
sfppi river. Police and sheriff's posse
secured the hills in the search of her
for hours, and finally found her with
her baby In her arms, where she had
tainted after long climb. The other
youngsters were huddled around her.
She now Is charged with "enticing,
taking away and decoying" the chill.
dren from tho custody Of the county.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
6Ieachers Fall; Score Hurt.

Warren, Ohio, Aug. 18-A score Of
persons were slightly injured when a
section Of the temporary bleachers at
the Trumbull county fair grounds COL
lapsed while big crowd was watch.
ing boxing match. Six women were
among those hurt. Two persons are
reported missing. A thousand people
occupying the bleacher seats were
tossed into heap amid the tangle of
broken timbers and the crowd of 25,-
900 which was attending the county
fair was panic-stricken when the crash
came. Police prevented stampede.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
ITALIAN SHIP SINKS; 300 DIE
Leonardo da Vinci Was Constructed in
1918 and Carried Thirteen 12-lnch
Guns and Crew Of 1000 Men.

Paris, Aug. 16.-The Italian battle
ship Leonardo da Vinci caught fire and
after several explosions turned over
and sank in the harbor of laramie, &C.
cording to Turin dispatch to the Petit
Journal. About 300 of the crew were
drowned.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
Try to Avert Coal Strike

Kansas City, Mo-, Aug. 1S.-After a
meetlng lasting three hours the gem
eral conference of coal operators and
!nihers representatives considering
inc threatened strike in the south.
western fields, agreed to submit it's
olHerences to a subcommittee Of four
IN nnal effort to reach a decision.
Inc subcommittee will be made up Of
"lIiam Diamond of Indianapolis.
ind.' and Alexander Howatt of Pitts,
ouren' kan., representing the miners
ana ira Fleming and D. J. Jordan Of.
KANSAS City. for the operators.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
Ship Building May auffer.

Washington, Aug. 17.-Wth an un.
precedented building program facing
them, navy officers are concerned over
the shortage of trained mechanics
available for carrying out such Of the
new work as may be sent to govern
ment yards. Ship building trades have
been unable to supply enough men
for construction In progress and off,
Gals believe there will be considerable
delay both in public and private yards
due to this condition. The keels of
the battlesh1p, California and Tennes.
see still are to be laid.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
Queen Is Mexican Road Owner.

Mexico City, Aug. 1S.-Queen Mary
of England will benefit by the return
of the Mexican railway between here
and Vera Cruz, which has been in the
control Of the constitutionalist au-
thorities for more than a year, to
the shareholders. Large stock hold
ings In the English company which
built and owns the, railroad are cred
tied to tha queens account, although
The fact Is said not to have any bear
ing on the decision of the Carranza
government to allow the company to
re'enter into possession Of the road,
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23

To Prohibit Expectation to Sweden.
London, Aug. 18.-A proclamation is
about to be issued prohibiting the ex-
portation to Seweden of all commodi-
ties except on presentation to the
customs officials of Swedish trade
commission guarantee.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
''U-BOAT WAR IN FULL SWING"

New Campaign Follows German Note
Of February, Expert Says.
Paris, Aug. 10. - Germanys sub
marine warfare against merchant
ships is again in full swing, accord
ing to the naval expert of the Temps
The Temps declares that this new SUBJ
marine campaign follows the German
note to the United States of February
in which 1t was said:
Merchant ships carrying guns can
not be considered as peaceful ships"
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
AEROPLANE RAID ON VENICE

Austrian War Office Reports Slight
Damage and No Casualties.
Rome (via London), Aug. 19.-An-
other Austrian air raid on Venice is
reported in the official statement is
sued by the war office. Only slight
damage was done and there were no
casualties.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23

U.BOATS SINK "a ALLIED
MERCHANTMEN IN MONTH

Berlin, Aug. 10. - An official >
statement issued here, says that
during July, 70 merchantmen be-
longing to the Allies were sunk by
German and Austrian submarines ;
and mines. The ships had a total >
tonnage Of 1os, 1000 tons. i
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
DEUTSCHLAND SEEN, REPORT
LARGE SUBMARINE SIGHTED OFF
GRAND B.eNkS BY LINER.
Submerges as Steamer Approaches,
According to Story Told by
Members of Crew,

Boston, Aug. 19.-The sighting of a
large submarine, believed to be the
German merchantmen Deutschland,
of the Grand Banks was reported by
members Of the crew of the Warren
liner Sachem, in from La Pallice,
France and Liverpool. The submer-
sible was travelling in northeasterly
direction at moderate speed.
Soon after the submarine was sight,
ed the steamer was turned toward
her, the Sachems officers believing at
first she was a dismasted vessel. A
few minutes later the submarine sub
merged and was not seen again.
Pursued by u-Boats.
The quartermaster said that on her
second day out from France the
Sachem was pursued for eight hours
by two submarines, believed to be
German. The Sachem, making ID
knots an hour, succeeded in keeping
out of danger.
The pursuit was ended, according
to the quartermasteF, when British
patrol boats appeared and fired sew
eral shots at the submarines, with
what result it is not known.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
RUSSIANS TAKE JABLONlTZA
Capture Gateway From Galicia to the
Hungarian Plains.

London, Aug. II. - The Russians
have captured Jablonitza, one of the
principal gateways from Galicia to the
Hungarian plains, and Petrograd re-
ports that their offensive in this d.
rection is continuing. This is the first
news Of an advance by the Russian
Southern army since the conquest of
the Austrian crownland of Bukowina
was completed.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
Bear in Park lniares Two Men

Bear in Park Injuries Two Men.
Cody, Wyo., Aug. 17.-Ned Frost, a
guide, and Ed jones, a cook, were
brought here suffering from serious in
juries received In battle with large
female grizzly bear near the Lake ho-
tel in Yellowstone National park.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
BRITISH VESSEL TORPEDQED
Sole Survivor Of Steamer Whitgift Was
Japanese, Is Report.

London, Aug. 10. - "The British
steamer Whitgift, previously reported
missing, now is understood to have
been torpedoed and sunk April TO-"
says Lloyds. 1.-The sole survivor was
a Japanese" The Whitgift sailed
from Almeria, Spain, April IL, for
the Tyne and was last reported as
leaving Gibraltar April 10.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-08-23
DEATH RATE IN CAMP IS LOW
Eight Out of 100000 Troops at Border
Die in One Week.

Washington, Aug. 18.-Eight deaths
from sickness among the regular and
national guard troops on the border
during the week ending August IL are
disclosed in statistics made public at
the War department. Medical officers
regard the death rate as exception
ally low since it covers a total force
Of approximately 100000 in field
camps.