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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
GREAT CAR SHORTAGE
HAMPERS RAILROADS

New York Oct 23 Railroads oil
the United States are suffering from
the greatest shortage Of cars ever ex
-perienced at this time of the year
according to figures made public here
On Sept 80 there was a net short.
age of 81 030 cars. This compares
with q surplus of l31,o27 cars on oct
/. 1914, and of 1929 on the CORE
spending date last year.
The greatest shortage Is in box
cars. totaling 1905 while coal and
eondola cars are lacking TO the extent
Of 19,1S7.
The greatest shortage of box cars
is in the Granger states, while the
lack of coal and gondola cars is felt
most severely in the Central and East
ern sections.
Railway men say the high point OF
the shortage will be reached next
month and that mild weather would
tend to minimize the difficulty.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
WOMEN OF CHICAGO
SEEK PRICE INQUIRY

Chicago, Oct. 23-Miss Florence
King OF the Women's Association OF
Commerce announced the intention of
that organization to send commit
tee to the United States district attor-
ney to protest in the name OF the
women OF Chicago against the rising
prices OF wheat and -four.
Miss King said the committee would
emphasize statements embodied in a
report just issued by President r. +.
Ladd OF North Dakota Agricultural
college, showing the losses TO farmers
and consumers by the system OF grad
ing wheat by which the millers reap
big profit.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
RAIL STRIKE DANGER
IN CANADA IS ACUTE

Winnipeg Oct. 23.-Appointment OF
a board OF conciliation by the minis.
ter OF labor to settle the differences
between the Canadian Pacific rail.
way and its conductors and trainmen
now seems to be the only resort left
in an effort to avert strike
1t was reported that the railroad
company would request the depart.
ment OF labor TO appoint the board,
as negotiations with representatives
of the employees had failed
Leaders of the railroad workers ex-
pressed the opinion that a strike was
inevitable.
Reports were current that strike or.
ders already are being posted through.
out Canada calling out the men on
Wednesday.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
CULLEN is HELD DEFECTIVE
Man Who Attempted 10 Reach Wilson
Sent 70 Asylum.

Pittsburg. Oct 23.-Richard Cullen
may spend tire remainder OF his life in
an insane asylum.
The youthful lrish-American. who
made persistent efforts here to reach
President Wilson. is an inmate Of Mar
shalsea. the Allegheny county insti-
tuition for insane.
lie vas committed there following
an examination by police physicians.
who declared him mental defective.
DR. Barclay, physician to the Cul-
len family, said he had treated Cullen
for an acute mental disorder
Cullen maintained throughout the
examination that he only wanted to
interview the president on his for
eign policies.
But he would have had 10 agree to
change them or suffer the conse-
quences." Cullen is reported to have
said.
What the consequences" might have
been, Cullen did not say.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
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START CAMPAIGN FIREWORKS
Republican and Democratic Leaders
Exchange Charges.

New York, Oct 23-Fireworks were
touched off in the campaign when w
l.. Finley, chairman OF the Ohio Demo
cratic committee, charged the Repub.
lican national committee with estab-
fishing an enormous corruption fund
in it's effort to elect Judge Hughes.
When National Chairman Wilcox,
Republican, was told of Mr. Finley's
assertion, he said; II will say for
the national Republican committee
that no fund has been started for Ohio
and that with advertising and all 9th
er expenses, less than $50. 1000 has
been spent in that state. | should
like to ask Mr.. Finley to state frankly
how much he has squeezed from fed
eral officeholders in that state"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
WILL INVESTIGATE CHARGES
Department of Justice to inquire Into
Dalrymen's Association.

Washington, Oct. 23.-Inyestigation
OF charges by Representative Burke Of
Pennsylvania that the Northern Ohio
Dairymen's association Is a price
boosting conspiracy Is planned by the
justice department. II the organiza-
ton proves to be a combination of
farmers formed to protect their own
interests, 1t was stated, the depart
Farmers and labor unions are exempt
under the Clayton antitrust act.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
WAR SECRETARY MISQUOTED
Declares He Did Not Compare Colon.
ials to Bandits.

Detroit, Oct. 23.-War Secretary Ba-
in statements credited TO him compar.
ing Washington colonials TO Pancho
Villas bandits.
Il did not make the comparison
have been charged with making" he
to comment on the charges.
"Mr Baker refused TO discuss the
matter further, but members of his
party said that in a speech at Flint
the secretary would make it plain that
troops were rdatory.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
Grab Square Mile Adjoining
Concession at TientSin.
VIOLENCE is THREATENED
District Occupied by Foreign Troops
is Thickly Populated and Natives
Are Aroused Over Action-Chlnese
Press Bitter In Denunciation.

Peking, Oct ga square mile OF
territory adjoining the French conces-
sions al Tientsin has been forcibly
seized by the French consul with the
assistance Of troops.
The Chinese police were arrested
and Frenchmen substituted for them.
Replying TO a protest from the Chin
IS. foreign office the French legation
al Peking replied that II assumed the
responsibility for the action and re-
fused to give a reason for the seizure.
The district occupied by the French
is thickly populated and the Chinese
are threatening violence, as they have
stubbornly resisted for many years
annexation TO the French concession,
and in its protest TO the French lega-
ton the foreign Offices gave warning
that IL would not be responsible If
violence resulted.
The Chinese press is violently as
sailing the action of the French, de-
claring that il "surpasses Japanese
tactics and is actual warfare against
defenseless China"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
NEITHER SIDE GAINING MUCH
Ambassador to France Says Opposing
Forces About Even.

Boston, Oct 23.-"The opposing
forces in this great war seem to be
about equally massed and to be able
to hold ground about equally"
This is what w. G.. Sharp, United
States ambassador to France, told
members of the City club here.
"A gain of few rods nowadays" I"
said Mr.. Sharp, may mean a months
work, may cost millions IN money and
hundred thousand lives on each
side"
Mr.. Sharp spent the past two years
in Paris. He is returning to his post
there
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23

ernor Whitman Of New York that al
though conditions ia Mexico are im
proving IL Will be necessary to con
tinue the mobilization of troops for the
protection Of the border I'm due time
the president wrote. more Of the New
York troops will bc ordered home
Naturally this statement by the presi
dent refers TO troops from other states
ms well All OF them are anxious TO
20 home and return 10 civilian life.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
Making Notable Headway on
Macedonian Front.
BRITISH ALSO SCORE GAINS
London Reports New Advance on the
Somme Front in Northern France,
bat German Official Statement De.
ciares Enemy's Attacks Failed.

London, Oct. 23.--Notable headway
is being made by the Serbians on the
Macedonian front in their campaign
fer Monastir, according to the current
reports from entente sources.
Paris announces further gains
against the Bulgarians in the bend Of
the Cerna, southeast of Monastir
where the Serbians have pushed well
to the north of the river, following
their recent passage at Brod
On the Somme front in Northern
France General Haigs forces are
again scoring gains in their push to-
ward Bapaume new British adj
vance near Butte de Warlencourt
south Of the Albert -Bapaume road, is
reported
An attack on the Russo-Roumanian
lines in Dobrudia by Field Marshal
Won Nackensen's forces resulted in
the loss TO the defenders OF the vii
la Sc OF KokordIa. the Russian war Of
flee announced Later attacks on the
entente lines in the same region were
repulsed
On the Somme battlefield heavy fir
Ing continues. says the German OIL
cial statement English attacks on
the German positions between lie Sars
and Eaucourt L'Abbaye failed the
announcement says.
Russian attempts to take trenches
or the west bank Of the River Stok
hod in Nolhynia, were frustrated by
troops under command of Prince Leo
pold OF Bavaria with heavy losses to
the attackers, SAYS the official German
statement In Galicia the statement
adds. the Germans captured Russian
positions northwest of Skomorochy
taking $50 prisoners and seven ma
chine guns
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
PLAGUE REMEDY Is LOST
Bremen, Lost on Way From Germany,
Carried Paralysis Serum.

Baltimore, Md, Oct. 23-When the
submarine merchantmen Bremen
which fate German interests now ad-
NIT befell it, it carried to the bottom
a shipment Of serum for infantile pa.
ralysis.
This statement was made by Paul
G.. l.. Hilken, American manager of
the company owning the subsea ships
Besides the serum, the Bremen car
ried large cargo of dyes.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23

Berlin, Oct 23.--The armed British
sunk in the Mediterranean by German
submarines, says ali official statement
issued by the German admiralty 1t
announces that the British transport
Franconia was sunk Oct A. On Oct.
16 a German submarine, 1t is added,
shelled factories and the railroad near
Catanzaro in Calabria. Italy.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
Exchange Fire With Force
Across Rio Grande.
No LOSS IS SUSTAINED
Bands Clash Near San Jose In Bio
Bend Country-5attie Continues for
Forty.fve Minutes-Officials on Both
Sides Are investigating.

San Antonio, Tex, Oct. 23-Ameri-
can troops and Mexicans clashed near
San Jose In the Big Bend country, ac-
cording to report received by Gen
eral Funston from Colonel Joseph Gas
ton, commander OF the district.
The fight lasted for forty-fve min.
ates. No losses were suffered by the
Americans and information is lacking
regarding loss among the Mexicans.
Colonel Gaston's report said that a
band or about thirty Mexicans opened
fire on a detachment composed OF
twenty-three men of the Sixth cavalry
and Texas national guard cavalry
squadron, engaged in patrol duty be
tween Preside and Ruidosa
Lieutenant Sudington of the Texas
squadron. commanding the troops, or
dered his men to return the fire
A vigorous exchange OF shots con
tinued for a period of forty-hve min.
utes. the Americans and Mexicans fir
Ing In skirmish formation from cover
ed positions on either side of the Rio
Grande
Colonel CASTOR reported that Major
A. V T. Anderson of the Sixth cav
airy has gone to San Jose to investi
gate the incident Colonel Riojos
comm ander OF the Carranza garrison
AT Oiinaga, has gone to the scene OF
the fight for the same purpose, ac
cordine 10 Colonel CASTOR
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23

President Wilson and Secretary OF
War Baker according to information
forthcoming from the war department.
are incen ed Over the decision OF
Brigadier General Enoch II Crowder,
Judge advocate general of the army.
that the United States legally is in a
state OF war with Mexico
The judge advocate generals office
found that the refusal TO admit that a
state OF war exists led 10 such legal
absardities that light on the real
SIRIUS was essential
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
Teutons Capture Town.

Berlin. Oct 23-German troops
have forced their way into several
points or the main positions of the
Russians and Roumanians south of
Rachova. Troops of the central pow
ers captured the Black sea town of
Tuzla after stubborn fighting and
stormed the heights northwest of Top
raj Sari and the heights northwest of
Mulciova
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
Six Die in Lake Disaster.

Cleveland, Oct 23--Officials OF the
it-Cleveland Navigation COM
pany received wireless message
from the captain OF the passenger
steamer Western States stating that
he was standing by the wreck OF a
barge off Bar point and that six of
the crew were drowned. one had been
rescued and one still was in the rig
ging.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
CHICAGO ATTACK Is SCORED
Chairman of Woman's Party Lays
Blame on Men

Reno, Ney Oct 23-In a statement
issued here, Miss Anna H. Martin, ma
tional chairman of the Woman's party.
condemned the action of the crowd in
roughly handling women at Chicago
while President Wilson was speaking.
1--WE are accused of being militant" /"
Miss Martin said, but the only mill
tants' are the men who do not hesitate
to malign us, to attack us, to knock
women down If need be-"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23

Milwaukee, Oct 23.-Flour jumped
to s11 a barrel retail in Milwaukee
shortly after the posting of quotations
that December wheat had gone over
$1.70 bushel. There was no change
in wholesale prices. Retrail grocers
said they could not sell for less. The
increase ranges from 10 to Is cents a
barrel.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
Russia to Stop U. S. Imports.

Washington, Oct 23--Notice that
Russia contemplates issuance of de
cree temporarily prohibiting the i'm.
portation OF many articles, including
some goods which figure In the Amer.
ican export trade, was given in an
announcement OF the department OF
commerce.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
Tobacco Workers Strike.

st. Louis, Oct. 23.-Twelve hundred
employees in the plug department OF a
large tobacco company here quit work
when the company refused to grant
their demands for a 10 per cent in
crease in wages.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
Kin Of Tennyson Wounded. !.

London, Oct 23.-The latest list Of
wounded from France includes the
name OF Captain Lionel Hallam Ten
nyson, eldest son OF Lord Tennyson
and grandson of the poet. This is the
second time that Captain Tennyson
has been wounded
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
ASK GOVERNMENT CONTROL
Regulation Of Prices Wanted by Many
Representative Canadians.

Ottawa, Ont, Oct. 23.-Requests to
the government to take action to con
troll the prices OF food and other
necessaries were made by mayors
and aldermen OF many Ontario and
Quebec cities and representatives of
labor and other organizations. Mr..
Crothers pointed out that necessities
in Canada have increased II per cent
i'm price since the war began.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23

Cincinnati, Oct. 23.--Lee Heine. bet
ting commissioner, announces that he
has $1,000 to bet on Wilson at even
money. He just placed three bets at
$500 to $1,000, 81, 200 to 81, 900 and $2.
400 to $4,000, Hughes being the e,
vortts n each ease.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
Named to High Canadian Post.

Ottawa, Ont, Oct 23.-Colonel Hugh
Clark, member OF the Canadian house
of commons for Brace, Ont, has been
appointed parliamentary secretary for
external affairs, a new office created
on account of the development of Ca
madam relations with the British and
other governments consequent upon
the war
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
Norwegian Steamer Lost.

London, Oct 23-The Norwegian
steamer Gustav Wigeland capsized on
the coast near Berwick and was driv-
en- on the rocks. The crew was saved
The Gustave Wigeland was a vessel
OF 1886 tons. 1t was last reported ar
irving in London from Archangel.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
New Cabinet Sworn In.

Regina, Sask., Oct. 23.-Saskatche-
wan affairs passed into the hands of a
new ministry when the cabinet and
executive council formed by w. M.
Martin, the new premier, was sworn
in. Lieutenant Governor X. 5. Lake
conducted the ceremony. The new
ministry succeeds that OF Walter
Scott, who resigned as premier.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
Robbers Kill Chicago Man.

Chicago, Oct. 23.-Chicago police
are searching for three masked ban.
dts who shot and killed Louis Lich-
tenstein, q newspaper advertising So
licitor, after failing to obtain bag
OF Jewels for which they invaded a
garage where the victim lived with
his brother-in-law, Emil Noel. jew
eler
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
Dublin to Accept U. s. Loan.

Dublin, Oct. 23.-The housing com,
mission of the corporation of Dublin
has decided to recommend the accept.
ance of loan OF $2.00O.0 900 at 5 per
cent offered by Lee. Higginson & Go
Of Boston.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
MUST ENLIST OR GO TO JAIL
Judge Gives Forger Choice Of Serving
In Army or Reformatory.

Marshalltown, Ia, Oct. 23.-W. M.
Clifford, who gave a forged check in
payment for an automobile, was or
dered by Judge B. F. Cummings here
to enlist in the regular army for three
years, with the alternative OF serving
an indeterminate sentence at the state
reformatory. Clifford will apply fol
enlistment
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
French Artist Is Dead.

Paris. Oct 23.-Raphael Collins,
artist, is dead He was sixty-six years
DID, an officer of the Legion of Honor
and a member of the Academic Dis
patch Beau Arts.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23

Racine, Wis. Oct 23.-Julius Hegsr-
itch, forty-five years old, and Frank
vanassch, thirty years old, beet dig
gers employed on farms near Corliss.
were killed instantly by fast mail
train on the st. Paul. road.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23

Winnipeg, Oct 23.-All existing
grain contracts In Manitoba wheat
have been taken over by the British
government. 1t was officially reported
here.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
Another Chicago Bank In trouble

Chicago. Oct. 23.-Another private
bank was made defendant In an invol
untary petition in bankruptcy, the In
stitution being that Of A. Olsxewski.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
WOMAN KILLS BANK CLERK
AND HERSELF.

!. Seattle. Oct. 23.-Leo Pratt,
: an eighteen-year-old clerk in
!. the Canadian Bank of Com
!. merce. was shot and killed in
:. the bank by Mrs Edwin G. So
:. bel, thirty years old, who then
!. shot and killed herself.
+ Mrs Sobel is reported to have
!. accused Pratt of telling her
!. husband stories rejecting up
!. on her character
:.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23

Eliseo Alfedondo. ambassador desig.
nate TO Washington. will return to
Mexico City to become a member Of
the Carranza cabinet, il is reported
He will be succeeded at Washington
by Luis Cabrera, present head Of the
Mexican section of the American.
Mexican commission.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-10-23
DO Not Surrender.

or course the Republicans have not
agreed TO surrender and withdraw
from the contest on these statements
by Democrats. Some Republicans are
somewhat alarmed-those in Washing
ton-but they do not believe that the
Democratic reports will be borne out
by the votes in November
At the same time, they are going to
work with extra vigor, in the hope OF
counteracting any Democratic drift"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-29
Bombardment by Germans
Continues With Great
Intensity.
GERMANS GAINING
GROUND SLOWLY
Paris Admits Attaeksl Have Made
Advances at Several ints-HsrIin
Reports Briefly AnnoS see That
Prdprsss Has Been Made Wand TO.
HanH Fighting Near viliAss Of
Douattmont-sevsraI Civilians Ksled

Paris, Eeb. 2s.-The bombardment t.
the north \of verdun is continuing with
great intensity.
East Of Me Mouse las. night there
was q RESUMPTION Of violent attacks.
Near the village of Douaumontx the
fighting camel to hand-to- hand en-
counter and \the Germans were re-
pulsed by Freneh troops.
After intensA artillery fire, German
forces captured the village Of Man
haulles bNnt counter attack brought
the French to th's western boundary o.
this location.
In Lorraine theN Germans succeeded
in occupying smal3 sections Of French
trenches but were very shortly driven
from these positionst
Reports from Verd,un say that TWEEN
ty-one persons Of the civilian popula-
ton have beenS killed. by shells which
fell in the city. 4 smaN remnant of the
population was still reluctant to leave
but were urged by tho authorizes to go
and they crowded ION open freight cars,
used for the handling Of artillery, and
they departed for q safeis region. One
aged woman refused to goA stating that
she was resigned to IDLE. btt her maid.
who was herself e2\ years. Of age,
pleaded with her. and finally placed
her in wheelbarrow Aand W Wheeled her
thru eight miles Of SNOW ana mud to
place Of safety.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-29
Harvester Company Funds
Spent for Gunboat and
Munitions.
BOUGHT ARMS FOR
YUCATAN REVOLT
Witness Before Investigating Com
mittes Declares Letter Of Credit Is
sued by International Harvester
Company Was Used to Secure Cash
to Finance RsvoIution-Boston At
tornsy Opposes erandsis.

Washington. Feb. 29.-How part Of
a $4S0,000 letter Of credit from the In
ternational Harvester Company was
spent for a gunboat and munitions for
a revolution in Yucatan. Mexico last
year, was told to the senate commit
tee investigating a combine TO control
the sisal output, was told by Domingo
Evia, who said he was one of a COM
mission Of Ave who went to New York
to get the cash and buy the arms.
General Argumedo, who became gov
er1,or Of Yucatan in February. 1915,
after revolt against Governor Santos.
had confiscated the Yucatan gold re-
serve to buy arms, Evia testified. when
Avelino Monies, sisal buyer. offered
the letter Of credit, for which he re-
oeived 100000 pesos issued by the
Mexican organization formed for mar
keting sisal Evia said he obtained
$3.50, 900 on tho letter. with which he
bought a gunboat and ammunition.
Walter L. Fisher, counsel for the
harvester company. emphasized that
Monies had issued the letter in ex-
change for currency with which to
transact the purchase and that the
deal was only an ordinary transaction
of the banking business which Monies
conducted.