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The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1916-07-22

Miss Lilly Melanson returned
from Now Orleans on Wednesday.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1916-07-22

Miss Hazel Conrad and A lima
Mestayer, of New Iberia, are the
attractive guests of the Misses
Marin. Patterson Tribune.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1916-07-22

Mr.. and Mrs. Storde, of Able
vile, arrived this week to b,
guests of Mr.. and Mrs N. Ii
Riggs. They left on Friday fol
Ohio.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1916-07-22

Mr. Willie Smith, of Cade sta
ton, was II brief visitor 10 his ais
tefs and little daughter on last
Sunday evening.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1916-07-22

Mr.. }, w. Mccullough, of
Houston, Tex, Auditor of the
Frisco X Il Co., was here on
Thursday.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1916-07-22

MIss Euzeide DeIahoussayc, of
st MartlnvlIle, ia the guest of her
niece, Mrs Il II Darby.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1916-07-22

Mira f G. Schwiug and daugh
ter, Miss Ria, left on Sunday to
visit Mrs. Is. J Eels at her coun
try home near Gibson.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1916-07-22

Mrs. M. Glbhn, of Beaumont
Tex Is IN the cllty visiting her
parents, Nj. and Mrs st. Cyr
LouvIere
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1916-07-22

Mr. POrIeus II Burke arrived
here on Thursday morning on HIS
return trip from the Guy of Now
YORK.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-25
RESTAURANT KEEPER
IN BLACKMAIL NET

New York. Oct. 25.-Fnrther details
Of the operations of the alleged coun-
trywide "blackmail syndicate" which
the authorities assert. was conducted
in connection with the Mann white
slave act, were disclosed here when
charges against James A. Brown, a
restaurant owner OF Brooklyn, were
made public.
A formal complaint accusing Brown
of being a fugitive from justice from
New Jersey asserted that he, Edward
Donohue and William Butler imper-
sonated government officers at Allan
tic City Sept 80, 1915, so as ito de-
fraud certain person, whose name
at present time is withheld for public
policy"
Donohue and Butler are held In
the Tombs prison awaiting trial on
similar charges,
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-25
ODDS ON HUGHES AND
WILSON NOW THESAME

New York, Oct 25.-For the first
time since :he presidential nomina-
tions were made wagers were record
ed in the Wall street district at even
money.
Early betting was at 10 to on
Hughes. Later the odds went to 10 to
8. and at both these figures it is esti-
mated about $4,000 was staked on the
Broad street curb, the largest day In
the campaign.
A representative of E. Bunge offer.
ed on the curb 1000 even on Hughes.
This was quickly taken, and it was
reported that other bets on the same
basis were made on the stock ex-
change.
The largest bet of the day was made
by Edward McQuade. who placed s9,-
900 on Wilson against $4,000 on
Hughes. Another large bet, between
two stock exchange firms, was s4,500
on Wilson against $4,000 on Hughes.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-25
MEXICAN GENERALS FORM
POLITICAL PARTY.

Mexico City, Oct. 25.-More
than a hundred of the most
prominent generals and other
leaders who have been active
ly associated In the revolution
met at the home of General
Pablo Gonzales and formed a
political party, the objects OF
which, 1t is stated, are TO unity
all elements of the Constitu-
tionalist party and support the
candidacy Of General Carranza
for the presidency.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-25
KILLS SHERIFF, WOUNDS
FIVE, HIMSELF SLAIN

Whiteston. \. Y. Oct 25.-After
killing Sheriff Paul Stier of Queens
county and wounding John Neurkins,
a policeman who had served him with
a warrant for his arrest, with a shot
gun and keeping at bay for hours a
posse OF police and deputy sheriffs
who had surrounded his home here,
Frank Taft, sixty-hve years old, was
shot and instantly killed by one of his
besiegers
Four policemen and one OF the dep
uty sheriffs were wounded by Taft
before he was killed.
The sheriff had gone to Taft's home
with an order for his arrest in a case
pending in the supreme court Taft
barricaded himself and shot Stier
down from the window.
Reinforcements were sent and a
siege of Taft's house began. Sailors
from the United States torepdo boat
Henley. lying in the sound off White
stone. landed 90 assist the police, and
the bullet which killed Taft was fired
from an automatic repeating rifle Dor
rowed from one of the sailors by Ser
geant James Fitzgerald Fitzgerald
shot Taft after he had himself been
wounded
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-25
TEUT0NS TAKE
Three TOWNS
Make Rapid Advance on ROu-
manian Front.
CAPTURE MANY PRISONERS

Victorious Army of General Won Mack
/ ensen Rounds Up Seven Thousand
! of Enemy-Brtsh and French Re
ported Repulsed in Attack in West.
London, Oct. 25.-Predeal, south OF
KrOnstadt. Pennsylvania; the Rou-
manian town of Rashova, on the Dan
ube, in Dobrudja, and Medijidie, on
the Tchernavoda-C -Constanza railroad.
have fallen before the onslaught of
the German and Austro- Hungarian
forces in Roumania.
In the taking OF Predeal the Teu-
tonic allies won more than COO pris-
oners; at Rashova scores of the enc
my laid down their arms, and in the
winning of Medijidie the army of Field
Marshal Won Mackensen captured more
than 500 Roumanians and Russians.
In addition to taking these three
towns the Teutonic allies repelled a
rush by the British and French on the
Somme, and the fighting was so severe
that thousands of British and French
bodies now are piled up in heaps, ac-
cording to the official statement is
sued in Berlin.
Virtually the entire Constanza-
Tchernavoda railway line in Dobrudja
now is in the hands of Field Marshal
Won Mackensen's victorious forces, il
appears from a Russian official state
ment admitting the evacuation OF
Mediiidie by the Russians and Rou-
manians.
Shows Advance of Twenty Miles.
Medijidie is approximately twenty
miles inland from Constanza, the
Black sea port and terminus of the
railway, the fall OF which TO the ar
mics Of the Central powers was re-
ported Monday.
The Serbians have made new gains
in their campaign for Monastr, &C
cording TO the Paris report on opera
tions in Macedonia, stopping a Ger
man-Bulgarian counter attack in the
Cerna valley region and then taking
the offensive themselves and captur-
ing several trenches.
British troops on the night of Oct
1928 raided German trenches north
east Of Machukovo, on the Serbian
Macedonian frontier, one mile east of
the River Vardar. killing forty Ger
mans and capturing eighteen, says a
British official statement
The Serbian first army, fighting in
Southern Serbia, has made an advance
and has captured the first Bulgarian
trenches, according to a Serbian Off.
cial statement
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-25
nine NEUTRAL SHIPS
SUNK BY EXPLOSIVES

London, Oct. 20. - Lloyd's records
the sinking of nine ships. all of them
neutrals. OF these two are Greek YES
sells, four Norwegian, two Danish and
one Swedish
Twelve Of the crew of the Greek
steamer George Nj. Embiricos, one OF
the victims, are missing.
The Greek steamer Aris, the Nor
wegian vessel Drain, vi, Rabbi and
Risoy; the Danish ships Relga and
Fritzemil and the Swedish bark Len
ka were the others sent to the bottom
by submarines or mines.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-25
UNCLE SANS NEW BULLET
Ball of Small caIiber Has Great Pene-
trating Power.

New York, oct 25.-Army officers
who have observed the tests of the
new armor piercing bullet now in prog
ress at the Sandy Hook proving
grounds are enthusiastic over the re.
suits.
The bullet is of only 30-caliber and
can be fired from the regulation army
Springfield rifle.
At a distance of fifty yards the pro
jectile plowed through a sheet of steel
three-quarters OF an inch thick and
then penetrated a silhouette target
planted behind the steel plate.
1t is believed that one of the new
bullets could be fired clean through
from ten to twenty men standing in a
row
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-25
Tells ATTITUDE
ON REGULATION
Head Of Burlington Road
Makes Explanation.
PREFER FEDERAL CONTROL

Declares Railroads Are Not Seeking
Destruction of State Commissions.
hut Would Like National supervi.
sion Of interstate Matters.
Chicago. Oct 25.-The attitude Of
tho railroad interests toward state
railroad commissions was defined here
in a statement by bale Holden. presi-
dent Of the Chicago. Burlington and
Quincy road and chairman of the rail.
road presidents committee in the re-
cent trainmen's controversy
lie denied that the roads are seek
ing the destruction Of the state boards,
but said the roads would like to place
exclusive control Of all questions per
tanning to railroad affairs that are
more than statewide in their func-
tions under the interstate commerce
commission or some other federal
body.
First in importance, he said, lis
the rate making power Fortynine
state commissions making rates and
rules for the government Of interstate
carriers is rapidly leading to confu-
sion and much unnecessary expense
to the carriers
"Forty-nine states requiring many
different standards Of operation would
bankrupt IN average railroad and
mean nothing TO the public except the
bad results coming from lack OF uni
formitv 4"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-25
Ramsey County, Minn., Asks
S2,NOO,OOO Not Paid.
STATE BOARD IS PROBING
Commission Aroused by Amount OF
Taxable Property Shown In lnven
tory Of Estate Never Listed In the
Returns Made to Tax Collector.

St Paul, Oct. 25-Ramsey county
is going into the courts in an effort TO
collect approximately $4,000, 900 as de-
linquent personal property taxes from
the estate of James j. Hin.
County Attorney r. d. O'Brien said
he is preparing to sue the Hill estate
for alleged tax lodging" and Is mere.
ly awaiting the action OF the Mime
sofa tax commission before the suit
is actually begun.
The tax commission is investigat.
ing the Hill estate with view to or
dering County Auditor George Ries
to levy against IT for delinquent per-
sonal property and money and credits
taxes and to increase the 1916 levy
County Attorney O'Brien said he be-
lieves that the statutes will permit
the county to go back seventeen years
for delinquent personal property taxes
On this basis IL is believed the total
tax sought is approximately $4,000. 900
$5o,00o,o00 in Taxable Property.
County Auditor Ries declined 90
comment on the situation, but other
county officials said that Mr.. Ries has
sent copy of the Hill estate inven.
tory to the tax commission.
That inventory indicates, county of.
ficials said, that the taxable property
in Ramsey county will total $4,000.
600 and II was estimated that the 1916
tax would therefore total about $685.
900. Taking an average OF 100000
due for each OF the last seventeen
years the total approximately would
be 100000.
In 1915 the Hill estate tax returns
gave S200.400 in personal property and
S671. 100 in money and credits as tax.
able. The tax was $1,000
The tax levy for 1916 to date shows
return OF only s223,365 for personal
property and 100000 money and
credits. The tax on this total would
be about $4,000, county officials said.
The 1915 returns were made before
the filing of the inventory which dis.
closed that the railroad builder left
property worth about 500, 900 900 and
county officials believe about half that
amount Is taxable In Ramsey county
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-25
CHICAGO CHIEF Is INDICTED
Grand jury Returns Two Counts
Against Chief HeaIey.

Chicago, Oct. 255.--Charles G. Hea
ley, chief of police, was indicted on
two charges in returns made by the
grand jury.
The first indictment accused him of
malfeasance and the second names the
chief. William Luthardt, his secretary
and Charles T. Essig, secretary of the
Sportsmen's club, as conspirators In a
plot to nullify the anti-gambling laws.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-25
FOUR PERSONS LOSE LIVES
Auto Goee Through Open Draw Bridge
at Chlcaao.

Chicago, Oct. 25.-Four social work
ers were drowned when an auto in
which they were riding plunged into
an unguarded open draw Of the river
The dead are Hugo J. Warner, aged
thirty-one: Sylvan Kusel, law student
at Chicago university; Mrs. I.ilan
Klausner. thirty, social worker at Hull
House Miss Jennie Klausner, TWEEN
ty-two, cousin Of Mrs Klausner. teach
.af at Jewish Normal Training school
The party was returning from an
evenings work at the Maxwell settle.
ment The ear approached the bridge
at Twelfth street in the fog cautious
~ Observers say the signal box
sounded no alarm and the car plung
cd into the open draw.
Investigation showed the fuse con
nccting with the signal was blown out.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-25

men, believed TO nave participated in
the robbery Of the Burroughs Adding
Machine companys pay car in Detroit
on Aug 4. probably will be arrested
within the next forty-eight hours. it
was intimated at police headquarters.
The men are Arthur StefIins and DOUG.
las Walton.
James Walton, former employe -of
the Burroughs company, who was ar.
rested at Dallas, Tex, confessed that
he was the leader of the bandit game
which robbed the pay car of more
than s32 900.
Walton in his confession implicated
his brother Douglas and Steffins
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-25
NEW LOAN TO GREAT BRITAIN
Amount VIII Be at Least Quarter OF
Billion Dollars.

New York, Oct 25.-Oficial an
nouncement of the terms of the new
loan to Great Britain by American
fnanciers is expected here before the
close of this week.
The amount will be $250,000,000 or
$500. 900, 900, it is understood, bearing
6 per cent interest, with the issuing
price at SO and maturing in two years.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-25
Emperor William In Berlin.

Berlin, Oct. 25.-The emperor who
is paying a brief visit to Berlin, con-
ferred with the imperial chancellor,
DR.. Won Bethmann-Hollweg, and will
continue the discussions on the gen
eral situation, concerning which the
chancellor and the foreign secretary,
Herr Won Jagow, last week visited
great headquarters.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-25
rormer Circus Star Killed.

Indianapolis. Oct. 20. - Tragedy
closed the career OF Mrs. Pearl Jones.
who In her younger days, as Katie
Lapearl, was sensational bareback
rider In the leading circuses. She
was struck and killed by a street
car She was fifty years old and was
married here three years ago.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-25
LONG STAY ON THE BORDER
Troops Destined to Remain There All
Winter.

Washington. Oct. 25-Belief here Is
militiamen will be kept on the border
all winter
President Wilson has decided to
keep the troops there until the Mexi.
can problem is solved.
Meantime there is little likelihood
of the Mexican-American commission
ct Atlantic City reaching an agree.
AaxA
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-25
POLICECLOSING 0NSUSPECTS
Detroit Officers Have Burroughs Rob-
bers Under Surveillance,

Detroit. Oct 25.-Two more young
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-02-12
BIG BUSINESS INTERESTS IN TELEPHONE DEAL
BROUGHT OUT IN OPEN

dig in back Of the stuff newspa-
pers hand us and what do we find be-
third this Automatic phone deal? The
two biggest business interests in Chi
cago. These interests are powerful
enough to. get pressure on politicians
and newspapers and shut off agita-
ton. Those like myself, who have
followed this deal through its wind
ings the last three years, have got
facts newspapers don't print for peo-
pie of Chicago. 1t would stop the
DEAL"
Morton L. Johnson of the publicity
committee of the Public Ownership
league led off with this statement in
a speech to the bakers union, 208
Oak st., this afternoon.
"The Armour crowd and the Mar
shall Field estate investment interests
arethe two chief financial factors be-
hind this DEAL" said Johnson.
1.-The ordinance now before city
council to be voted on Feb. 81 author
ICES the sale of the Automatic phone
property to the Chicago Telephone
Co. The price fixed in the ordinance
is $4,000, 900 less than the price the
same buyer offered to the same seller
three years ago in an ordinance nam
ing $6,3OO,O00 as a fair price.
'"The owner of the Automatic
phone property is Chicago Utilities
Co. Samuel McRoberts and Robert
]. Durham sit as directors in this
company. They are known as Ar
f1our men. Their names, are in di-
rectorates of other Armour-owned
concerns. The Armour crowd is the
seller of the Automatic phone prop
erty. The political wires for the deal
are pulled by Armour influences.
"The buyer is the Chicago Tele-
phone Co. The leading Chicago fac
tor in the directorate of the Chi. Tel.
Co. is from Marshall Field interests.
John ]. Mitchell and Robert T. Lin
- 70 TinaOIY1 1
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-02-12

IOTC6S all us pOrL6rS anu COnQuCCOrS
to buy their uniforms from Marshall
Field & Co. John ]. Mitchell, presi-
dent Illinois Trust & Savings bank,
sits as director with John G. Shedd,
president of Marshall Field & Co., and
is known on La Sale street as an OPP
erative with and for the Field estate.
''These are the men to go to for
an explanation why the city of Chi
cago should cheat itself of $4,500,000
by taking the small sum of 100000
in lieu of forfeiture when $5,000,000
is price which should go to the city.
Walter Fisher has been dragged in
to make the deal and comes telling
the city to take 100000 for property
rights worth at least $5,000,000 The
deal is intended in part to choke off
municipal ownership.
Aldermen who vote for it will have
to look the record in the face every
time they run for Office. If it's 20
years from now voters will remind
them of the Automatic nestench."
Voters in Aid. John NJ. Kimbal's
ward asked him what proof there is
the Armour crowd is behind the Au-
tomato phone property. Kimbal
pointed to Armour financial men on
Automatic Phone Co. directorates
and produced clipping from the Ev-
ening Post, Sept. II, 1913. 1t reads:
"a year or two-ago the interests
which control the Automatic Elec-
trio Co. gave an option on the stock
of that corporation to the Armour in
terests at $3.50 share, running for
a period that is understood to be five
years. 1t is believed in well-informed
quarters that the option will be ex-
ercised in the near future.
Earnings of Automatic Electric
Co. for the half year ended June 80,
1913, equal II per cent on $4,6OO,OOO
capital stock outstanding. More than
SIS, 100000 worth of other business in
Independent telephone enterprises is
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-09-22
w ounded Soldier
In Mexican Army
Boy often Years
ConvaIescing From Bullet Punc-
ture Sustained In Battle With
Americans At CarrizaI
nv The Associated press.)

JCAREZ, Mexico, September 81. -
with large red top as playthinR and
yellow, stub.tailed dog, that spends
most of its time chasing flies as a play.
mate, Eulnio Rodriguez, CaIrahza
soldier Of the Canales brigade, is con.
'valescing in a local hospital from
wounds sustained in action. Eulalio.
who is ten years old, is perhaps cne of
the youngest of the boy soldiers help.
ing to make up the fighting forces of
Mexico. He was wounded in the en-.
gagement with Americans at Carrizal
in June. ..-. ~
The youngster was bending over the
body of his company commander, Lieut..
Evarista Martinez; when he was shot
through the body. But Eulalio insists
that, although his wound hurt, he kept
on fighting until the Americans had re.
treated. .-.a3 E'1
The child was tak0n to the military
hospital in Chihuahua City, discharged
as recovered, and ordered with his bri.
gade to Juarez. On the troop train,
however, his wounds broke out afresh
and he was taken to the hospital here,
where he is said to be recovering rap.
hulN. Euch uhy ne slts IN the sun q
while and spins his top, given him by
an American newspaper man, while tho
dog, which "just adopted him." plays
about. U... .
Eulalio, although he can neither read
nor write, seems rather precocious In
his patriotism, and in answer to ques.
tions he said: d
81 like peace better than war. And
when the fighting is over IN going
home with my father and go into tho
farming business" r4..
Gen. Francisco Gonzales, comman.
dant here, is proud of the boy soldier,
whose home is near PenjamO, Guana.
iuatO, and plans, when he has reeov.
cred, to detail him as messenger at the
commandments.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-09-22


OF kumana INTO the war may prove to be one of the turning points
Of the for by this victory the and Rnmanian lay
s s &c ho
line in Greco Macedonia AA H. n a 6as - Il ~. KY
'sTRUGGLE HAS Come TO sTANDsr1IL '.
In the Berlin official the Dobrudja fighting German
general staff merely that the struggle there has
Fstandstil" @.. - - F|s*aea.%. ,
The campaign Of which the Dobda battle has proved the climax
began last week when the retiring Russians and
up line of positions reaching Dobruda
from the Danube river to the Black Sea distance d
thirty miles Their right flank rested the point
distance the south Of Chernavaza eastward by Nedd
and Muriata the Black Sea south OF Ru
manan port of Constanza. .T#"H|
Here the Germans and Bugarans command Of Field
Marshal Mackensen of all the of
the 'uc allies the Balkan heater OF the attacked them
The cuon attacks necessarily frontal the
the Entente armies were protected by the Danube there wide
and deep river, and the Black Sea. ,,..
GERMAN COMMANDER CONCENTRATES STRENGTH
Ever since the invasion of the Dobruda district the
commander has been concentrating all his strength in this attack
Hc took the important towns Of urtukai and Ak Kada The
OoTua district forms the Black Sea toa of Runiana
the section OF territory lying of the Danube after that river
turns north from Bulgaria and Rumanan land The district
about l5 miles north and SOUTH and averages about fifty miles
and
More than year ago Russia began laying railway lines
from her g ceers to Knef Later these lines extended
REM little town wing at the of the Dobrudja wedge and just
Prh from engineers were busy
for MONTHS preparing depots tracking road LAYING out
sdng and detraCk making preparations
things upon Rulana or the utilization of the Dobuda
route for launching attack the flank the Austrian
guarding the Vienna line With
the entry of Rnana into the war the first Of these alternatives
the second and the open But apparently
was not quite ready to strike and Macnsen realizing the
of the Dorudja both from a military point political
one struck first. ,.rE
RUSSIANS POUR IN TO RELIEVE RUMANIANS
The Kuan armies had been sent by the directing staff the
entc Powers to hold back the Auan the ansyvanan territory
and they accomplishing their work well Bugar
bolt fell their southern frontier They retreated losing
and the other towns they fell back Es...
Then the Russian railroads began food the district with Russians
Russian transports rushed enforceen Constan
and the Entente line held FAST The Germans
ing the importance of the positions also the
scene and last week Berlin announced that the fighting that region
had become ae dispatches told the
for the Russians and RmnanianS claimed slight
for the BuIgarian Sofia also claims Yesterday
the tenor OF these changed we'll coming Bucha
rest winch had been admitting from Rumanian reverses
of
VICTORY is OF VAST IMPORTANCE TO ALLIES
The importance of the this district
The reports winch have come of late from Peograd announcing
ornGlon OF great be used in eliminating