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Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
June 9, 1918.

French gained at NeuVille-St.
Vaast and the Forest Of lie Pretre.
Austro-Germans took StanisIau.
italians captured MonfaIcone.
Allies landed more troops at
Sedd-uI-Bahr, GallipoIl.
Second American Lusitanla note
sent to Germany.
British destroyed German suhma-
rlne.
German submarine sank British
steamer Lady Salisbury.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
June Z, 1915.

Germans lost more ground to the
French at NeuViI'e-St. Vast and
the Labyrinth.
Teutons crossed the Dniester.
Italians maze general advance
across the Isonzo from caporetto
to the sea.
Austrians retook Freikofel from
Italians.
Turks beat allies near Sedd-ul-
Bahr.
Sub. Lieut.. Warneford destroyed
Zeppelin in duel 5000 feet in air.
italian dirigibIe bombarded Pola.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
Less Pessimism Felt.

The pessimism which prevailed as a
result of the Admiralty's original state
ment of losses, which now is consider
ed to have been needlessly candid and
conservative in Understanding the
extent of the German losses as COM
pared with those of Great Britain, has
been greatly lessened by the latest
statement.
A dispatch from Copenhagen says
rumors are current in Hamburg that
two additional German warships than
those announced in the German COM
munication-the battleship Westfalen
and the battle cruiser Lutzow-were
sunk in the battle. A wireless dispatch
received here from Berlin said the Ger
man Admiralty admitted the loss of the
Westfalen.
The admiralty statement declares
that the German losses in the fight
were not only relatively, but absolute
ly greater than those of the British.
Maintaining its practice of caution, the
admiralty still refrains from giving the
names Of the lost German ships.
Scarcely An officer Saved.
The official list of the casualties
among officers shows that hardly
single officer Of the line escaped from
the British cruisers sunk in the battle.
An additional casualty list of petty Off
GERS shows that 43 of them were saved
from the Queen Mary, Invincible, For
tune, Ardent and Shark. None was
saved from the Indefatigable, Defense,
Black Prince, Tipperary, Turbulent,
Nomad or Nestor.
The list gives the names Of IS men
killed aboard the Warrior and of 27
men wounded. On the other ships en-
gagged in the fight, 115 men were killed
and IS wounded.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
June 10. 1915.

Germans took French trenches
near Soualn and Les Mesnil.
Russians forced Germans to re-
treat In Baltic provinces and ad-
Vaneed in GaIicia.
Teutons In Bukowina crossed the
Pruth.
italians occupied Podestagno,
north Of Cortina.
Two British torpedo boats and
many other vessels sunk by Ger
man submarines.
Germany insisted the w. P. Frye
case go before prize court.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
EMPLOYEES TO SHARE PROFITS.
Chandler Mctorcar Company To Pay
Per Cent. Of Wages.

Observation-Disclosures were posted at
the plant of the Chandler Motorcar
Company that the employees would be
given share in the profits earned by
the company during the past year. The
notices indicate that sum equal to
per cent. on all wages paid, including
overtime, commencing July l, 1915, and
ending June 80. 1916. win be paid with
the July 20 payroll.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
Educational Scheme.

I'm in favor OF this proposition to
have graphophones in the public
schools"
Are, eh?"
"Yes, it will give the history a
chance to repeat itself louisville
Courier-Journal.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
June II, 1918.

Russians defeated Mackensen's
army and hurled Linsingen's army
across the Dniester.
Italians took Ploeken.
Fierce fighting for Goritz and
along the Isonzo.
Severe fighting near Maldos, GAL
Iipoli.
Garua, German West Africa, sur
rendered to AngIo-French force.
Turkish cruiser MiduIIu sank
Russian destroyer in Black sea.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
REPLY TO cARRANzA BEGUN.

But Draft Not Advanced Enough For
Submission To Cabinet.
Washington. = Although Secretary
Lansing has begun drafting e reply to
General Carranza's demand for with.
drawal of American troops from Mex.
leo, its preparation had not progressed
far enough for submission at Tuesdays
Cabinet meeting, and Mexico was not
discussed.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
SHE'LL FIDDLE FOR FATHER.
Missouri Bankers Daughter Hopes To
Land Him In Office.

st. Louis.-When William C. Askin,
banker of Salem, Mo-, announced his
candidacy for the Republican nomina-
tion for Secretary of State, his daugh-
ter, Miss Bernice Wolcott Askin, the
youngest member of the San Carlos
Opera Company, was in New York. The
news of her fathers candidacy, how
ever, has brought her back to Missouri
with the announcement that she will
accompany him on his campaign with
her violin.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
June 8, 1918.

French made advances south Of
Arras and in the Labyrinth.
Teutons pushed back Russians In
East GaIicia.
Secretary of State Bryan re-
signed, disaPproVing presidents
policy toward Germany.
German submarine sank six more
vessels.
Austrian aeropIane bombarded
Venice.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
WILSON WITH coNFEDERATEs.
Attends Memorial Exercises At Arllno-
ton Cemetery.


ton Cemetery.
ington.-President Wilson at
tended memorial exercises held in the
Confederate section of Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery Sunday, but did not
speak. His appearance was unex-
pected, as he previously had announce
ed he would be unable to attend. He
was enthusiastically received by a
large crowd.
Senator Vardaman, the orator of the
occasion, defended the right of the
Southern States to secede and declared
the answer to the question, "Is it we'll
that the Confederacy failed?" rested
with the way the general government
used its power.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
England Shocked.

This is the second shock the country
has sustained within a week. The
other was when the newspaper ap-
peared Friday evening with the first
intelligence of the naval battle in the
North Sea in the form of list of the
ships lost, with virtually no intimation
that there was any compensation in
the way of enemy losses.
The bulletin telling of the death of
Kitchener gave the country even
greater shock.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
YUAN sHI KAl DIES AT PEKINc.
Rumors That President Committed
Suicide Denied.

Peking.-Yuan Shi Kai, President
of the Chinese Republic, died at /
o'clock Tuesday morning in the palace
surrounded by his wives and older
children. Rumors that he had com
mitted suicide are denied stoutly by
high officials, uremia being given a.
the cause of death.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10

Columbus lectured about America at
Salamanca, sort of European Harry.
ard, in 1892, when the city contained
10000 students.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
IN PROCLAIMING FLAG DAY
PRESIDENT ASKS REAL
"UNION"

President Wilson issued a proclama-
ton calling upon the people of the
United States to celebrate Flag Day,
June "A, with patriotic exercises. The
proclamation follows:
My Fellow-Countrymen - Many cir
cumstances have recently conspired to
turn our thoughts to a critical exam
ination of the condition of our national
life, Of the influences which have
seemed to threaten to divide US in in
terest and sympathy, Of forces within
and forces without that seemed likely
to draw US away from the happy ira
ditions Of united purpose and action,
of which we have been so proud.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
KILLED LEAVING CHURCH.
One Boy Strikes Another On Head
With Brick.

Bristol, Va.-Tenn.-Arthur Love, IS
years old, was struck on the head with
a brick by Henderson McNutt, 10 years
old, and died without regaining con-
sciousness. The assault followed a
dispute as the boys were leaving a
prayer service. McNutt was arrested.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
ADVANCE To
CERTAIN DEATH
Paris and Berlin Report Great
Slaughter of Enemy.
RAvlNE SCENE OF CARNAGE
British Said To Have Recaptured
Most Of the Ground Lost To
Teutons At Ypres-Scene
Of Carnage.

London.-Torrential rains brought
to a temporary halt the German attack
against Fort VauX, outwork of the Yer
dun stronghold against which the Ger
mans have been hammering with
logged determination for the last few
days.
The British and Germans were re-
ported to be fighting hard in the region
of Ypres, where last Saturday the Brit
ish in hand-to-hand encounters and
with the aid of bombs recaptured most
Of the trenches the Germans had pre-
viously taken from them in sector from
the Ypres-Camines Canal to Hooge
Point. In the face of repeated attacks
the British have been unable to retain
the bulk of the recaptured ground, but
are still fighting strenuously to keep
what they have and to recapture what
they have lost.
RaVine Scene OF Carnage.
In their repeated attacks on Fort
Vaux, the Paris report says, the Ger
mans are hurting forward their in
fantry in masses so compact that the
first ranks are obliged to advance to
certain death. The assaulting columns
debouch from the village of Damloup,
below the fort and separated from it
by ravine which they are obliged to
cross to attain the slopes near the fort.
For three days this spot has been the
scene of carnage which has saturated
the ground with blocd.
One German column advanced no
farther than the bottom Of the ravine.
The front ranks, pushed on by those
behind, fell as fast as they reached the
dead line swept by the French quick
frers. AS they toppled over others
came on to take their place and fall in
turn.
French officers who have returned
from the Verdun front, although hard
ened to the worst sights of war, de-
clare the butchery there surpasses i'm
agination.
Berlin contradicts Allies.
According to the Berlin official re-
port repeated attacks by masses of
French infantry against German posi-
tions on the Verdun front east of the
Meuse broke down with heavy losses.
The statement given out at army
headquarters reads:
Western front: The British again
the positions captured by US
southeast of Ypres. The attack broke
down under our artillery fire.
"a feeble attack which was under
taken by the French, after gas prepara-
ton near Prunag, in the Champagne,
resulted in failure.
"On the Verdun front west of the
Meuse our artillery fred on the
enemy's batteries and trenches with |
good success. French infantry at
tempted an advance on our trenches |
west of the Haucourt- -Esnes road and |
was repulsed.
Reports French RepuIsed.
East of the river fighting continued |
with undiminished violence between
Caillette wood and Damloup. The
71VhIJ . lilduI4y III uldSS 1OImdIlOu dI'
,empted to regain positions captured
BY us during the last few days. The
greatest efforts were made by the
enemy on Fumin ridge, southwest of
he village of Vaux, and in the district
ioutheastward. All French counter
attacks were without success and were
with the heaviest losses.
Eastern and Balkan fronts: The
is unchanged"
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
Undaunted.

1.-THE local police department states
that it is not prepared to make thumb
print tests"
Whats to be done?"
"Oh, It is still prepared to deduce." {"
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10

Russia is holding at Petrograd an
exposition featured by competition
of inventions and appliances in the
manufacture of artificial limbs.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10

l therefore suggest and request that
throughout the nation, and if possible
in every community, the fourteenth
day Of June be observed as Flag Day,
with special patriotic exercises, at
which means shall be taken to give
significant expression to our thought
full love of America, our comprehension
of the great mission Of liberty and JUS
tice to which we have devoted our
selves as a people, our pride in the his
tory, and our enthusiasm for the
political program Of the nation, our
determination to make it greater and
purer with each generation, and our
resolution to demonstrate to all the
world its vital union in sentiment and
purpose, accepting only those as true
compatriots who feel as we do in the
compulsion of this supreme allegiance.
Let US on that day rededicate our
selves to the cause of the nation, zone
and inseparable," from which every
thought that Is not worthy Of our
fathers first vows of liberty and right
shall be excluded, and in which we
shall stand with united hearts for an
America which no man can corrupt, no
influence can draw away from its
ideals, no force divide against itself
a nation signally distinguished among
all the nations Of mankind for it's clear,
individual conception, alike, and its
duties and privileges, its obligations
and representatives.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
FUNDS FOR STATE CAMPS.
House Accepts Senate Amendment Ap-
proprlatlng 5000, 600.

PToPTIatIh9 9zUU,UUU.
Washington.-The House, in agree
ing to Senate amendment to the
Crago bill, appropriated 100000 for
conducting maneuver camps of the ma
tional guard of various States. The
action means that there will be sufi-
cient funds for the State troop encamp-
ments. 1t had been expected that the
regular army appropriations bill, which
would have taken care of these en-
campments, would be passed before
July 1, but it has developed that this
is impossible.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10

To prevent skidding and slipping in
damp weather the streets of San Fran.
cisco are sanded by a machine mount.
ed on motor truck.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
|EARL KITCHENER
AND STAFF LOST
With Cruiser Hampshire on Way
to Confer With Car.
WARSHIP SUNK OFF 0RKNEYS
England Mourns Loss Of War Chief.
Blow Regarded AS Worst Re-
ceiVed Since Conflict
Began.
Kitchener's Life and Career.

Born in County Kerry, Ireland.
June "a, 1850.
Graduated at Woolwich Military
Academy in 1871, and was made
lieutenant in Royal Engineers
Served a few weeks in French
Army during Franco Prussian
War. From 1874-78 was engaged
in survey of Palestine.
Organized courts and was as
sistant to Governor Of Cyprus.
1882.
Commanded Egyptian Cavalry.
1S82-84, and served with Nile ex-
pedition dispatched for relief Of
Gordon at Khartum.
Governor of Suakim, 1868.
Made Sirdar in command OF
Egyptian Army, 1890.
Commanded Khartum expedition
which suppressed the MadhiSt Up
rising.
Chief of staff Of forces in South
Africa during the Boer War, 1899
1900.
Field Marshal and Commander
in-Chief of the British Army, 1900
1902.
Commander-in-C Chief Of India,
1902-1909.
Member of the Committee Of I'm
perial Defense, 1910.
Consul-General and actual ruler
of Egypt from 1911 to 1914.
Created an earl in June, 1914.
Secretary of War and supreme
commander Of the British Armies
since August, 1914.
London.-The news that Earl Kitch
ener, Secretary of State for War, ant
his staff, who were proceeding to Rus
5ia aboard the cruiser Hampshire
we're lost off the Orkney Islands wal
he most stunning blow Great Britain
las received since the war began.
Accompanying Earl Kitchener as his
staff were Hugh James O'Beirne, for
ner counselor of the British Embassy
It Petrograd and former Minister al
Sofia; Col. o. A. Fitzgerald, private
secretary to the War Minis
er; Brigadier-General Ellershaw, Sir
lay Frederick Donaldson, technical
Ldviser to the Minister of Munitions
lieut.. r. D. Mcpherson, aide; F. S,
robertson and Detective Mclaughlin
Of1cers and men aboard the Hamp-
hire numbered between 400 and 500.
The casualties probably will total SOC.
On Way To See Gar.
The War Minister and his staf were
to Russia at the special in
,itation of the Car of Russia on a
pecial mission to discuss important
uestions connected with the military
nd financial conduct of the war.
1t is understood on high authority
hat Earl Kitchener's visit to Russia
7as kept profoundly secret. It was
ractically impossible for the Germans
0 have learned either that he was
ding or on what route the ship was
raveling.
That the Hampshire was terpedoed
y German design therefore is general.
, discounted. 1t is believed in the
ighest circles that the ship either
truck a mine or was torpedoed in a
hance encounter with a German sub
larine.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10

Stigmatize originally meant simply
to brand, and in the days of Shake
speare the farmer was said to stig-
matize his sheep.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10

A Virginian has invented hand
truck that enables one man to pick up
and move objects weighing 1000
pounds or more.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
MONUMENT TO COST 100000.
Hans schuIer Will Be Sculptor Of
Shaft To Buchanan.

Washington.-The House passed the
Linthicum bill, granting a site and en-
powering Gen. Lawrason Riggs, of Bal
timore, surviving executor Of Mrs.
Harriet Lane Johnson, to erect $780,
600 monument to President Buchanan
in the city of Washington. Mrs. John
son was niece of the late President.
The memorial will be placed in the
southeast corner of Meridian Park.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
10 DEsTRoYERs THROUGH BELT.
German Torpedo Boat, Badly Dam,
aged, Off Danish Coast.

Copenhagen.-The National Tidende
says that 10 German torpedo-boat de-
stroyers passed through the Little Belt
from the north going very slowly. The
newspaper adds that torpedo boat,
badly damaged, is lying off Lyngvig
Fyr, near Ringkjobing Fjord, western
Denmark, just north of the Horn.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10

The gold plaster established as the
monetary unit in Turkey is, as many
will be glad to hear, exactly one
nineteenth of the silver bejidie.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
sRANDEIs TAKES OATH.
Wife, Daughter and Brother Attend
Public Swearing In.

Public Swearing In.
Washington.-Loui D. Brandeis, of
Boston, took his seat as an associate
Justice of the Supreme Court, the sixty
second citizen to rise to that high dis
tinction. The ceremonies lifting the
new justice from among the rank OF
attorneys to a seat on the first court
Of the nation we're precisely those by
which his predecessors of the last gen
grafton were likewise elevated.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
Reports French RepuIsed.
DUTCH RESCUE SURVIVORS.

Two TrawIers In With % Men, Cne Of
Them Wounded.
The Hague.-A Dutch trawler has
arrived at the Hook Of Holland with
one dead and seven live Germans who
were saved from the naval battle. An
other trawler has taken into Ymuiden
three German officers and II sailors,
and one British sailor, who was
wounded
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10

Amy Latsham, a Pennsylvania farm
club girl, raised $50 pounds Of tomatoes
on her garden plot of onetwentieth of
an acre last year.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
GEN. COCKTAILS MAY RETIRE
Governor Of Canal Zone confers With
Secretary Baker.

Washington.-Maj.-Gen. George W.
Goethals, Governor of the Canal Zone
conferred with Secretary Baker and
is understood to have reiterated his de-
sire to retire to private life. Secre
tary Baker declined to discuss that
feature of the conference. He prob.
ably will present the Generals request
to President Wilson within a few davs.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
eRIroNs LEAD IMMIGRATION.
Total For March Exceeds Even Aggrc-
gate For Italy.

Washington.-A bulletin issued by
the Bureau Of immigration shows that
Great Britain has supplanted Italy as
leader in furnishing immigrants to the
United States. Statistics for nine
months ended March of the present
year place the flow of immigrants from
the British Isles at 29,916, as against
24,755 for Italy. Greece is third with
1929.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
BRANDEIs CONFIRMED BY SENATE

Vote Ends One Of the Bitterest Con-
tests Ever Waged.
Washington - The nomination of
Louis D. Brandeis, of Boston, to the
Supreme Court to succeed the late
Joseph Rucker Lamar, was confirmed
by the Senate by vote of Al to %.
The vote, taken without debate, ended
one of the bitterest contests ever
waged against a Presidential nominee.
Mr.. Brandeis will be the first Jew to
occupy a seat on the Supreme Bench.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10

The earth's population reaches a
grand total of O.O0o, 900 souls
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10

The earth's atmosphere is supposed
to vary in depth from 125 to 200 miles.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
THE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
Dune 5. 1915.

June B, 1918.
French made important gains
north Of Arras and In Labyrinth,
and retook Souehez sugar refinery.
Left wing Of Austro-Germans
threatening Lemberg checked by
Russians.
Fierce battle on lsonzo at Toll
mino.
German Taube bombed Calais.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
June 6. 1918.

June o 1918.
French made further big gains
but were repulsed on Lorette
slopes.
Austrians defended Tolmino des-
perately.
italians failed TO cross lsonzo
near Sagrado.
Zeppelin raided east coast Of
England; "a killed.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
STEALS TO REJolN BAND.
Convict Wants To Return To Prisons
Musicians.

Harrisburg, Pa. = Joshua Stewart,
who was sent to the Eastern Peniten-
tiary for theft in Middletown, told
deputy sheriff that he had stolen to get
back to the Eastern Penitentiary,
where he could play in the institutions
band. He had been released only
short time ago.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
TOLD IN SHORT ORDER.
The average Russian wheat yield is
only 10 bushels to the acre.

The total receipts Of the theaters in
Paris in 1914 were 41,600,000 francs,
as compared with 68,45O,GOO francs in
1913.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-10
SO DIE IN ToRNADoEs.
More Than 100 Others Injured In
Series Of Storms.

Little Rock, Ark.-Fifty-nine per.
sons have been reported dead and
more than 100 injured in a series of
tornadoes that swept Arkansas. All
means Of communication are crippled,
and it is feared the list of dead and
injured will be increased by later re.
ports. North Arkansas appears to
have suffered most severely.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1916-12-21

|. +. Taylor was in Riverdale Mon.
day and Tuesday on business.
John Mcintyre and Howard Willard
OF Alma spent Saturday evening with
|. p Taylor
Emery Wiley of Alma was an oven
Sunday guest Of his family at this
place.
Mrs. Levi Pritchard is slowly re-
covering from severe attack Of
rheumatism.
Miss Mary Mallory, teacher of the
Sumner school, was an over Sunday
guest of her parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph Mallory
Mrs. Claude Mallory, little daughter
and Miss Mary Mallory were Alma
business callers Saturday.
George Baxter of Alma was an over
Sunday guest at the Wycoff home
Otto Wiley was an Alma business
q Her Saturday,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Dalrymple
ard Mrs. Emery Wiley were Ithaca
business callers Wednesday
Miss Amy Mallory of St. Louis
spent Sunday with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Mallory.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fayette Mallory, Mr.
and Mrs. Elias Rockwell, Mrs. Rogers
end Pete Henderson, visited Mr.. and
Mrs. John Mallory at the Walter NAL
Tory home Wednesday evening.
George Sande returned from De
troit Friday evening.
Marble Slingluf was confined to his
home the week end with the grip.
Herbert Gilpin has been suffering
with the grip for the past week.
Miss Coda Ravens of Alma was an
Ger Sunday guest Of her parents. Mr..
and Mrs. Tom Havens
Floyd Nelson was AN Alma bust
ness caller Monday evening.
!. p Taylor, who has served for sew
IN years as weigh master for the
Michigan Sugar company, has been
given the position as fieldman in the
same concern. Mr.. Taylor made good
rs weigh master and his many friends
ere not surprised TO learn Of his pro-
motion.
Mr.. Dean, our minister, was unable
To be here Sunday on account of ill
ness. Floyd Kruger of Alma filled the
pulpit. The announcement was made
that all should be present at choir
practice as special music is being ar
ranger for Christmas.
Miss Mamie VIM was an over Sun
day guest Of her mother at Alma.
Mrs. Dan Welch and daughter, Miss
Lena, and Miss Lena Hamp visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Johnson last Sat
urday.
Mrs Rice visited Mrs. l.. Y. Irish |
IN Alma Friday.
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