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Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
FOUR KILLED on
U. S. SUBMARINE.
Explosion Occurs on the E-2 in
Dry Dock.
AT NEW YORK NAVY YARD
Ten Others Hurt; Five Dangerously.
MaryIanders Among Those
njured-lnVestiqat
Is Started.

New York.-Four men were killed
and ten others injured, five of them
dangerously, in an explosion which oc-
Cured on the submarine E-2 while the
craft was undergoing repairs in dry
dock at the New York Navy Yard. One
Of the men killed was an enlisted elec-
trician and the other three civilian
workers.
At least three of the ten now in hos
pitals are not expected to live.
Although the detonation was terrific,
the submarine itself from the outside
shows none of the effects of the explo-
sion, the second fatal accident of its
kind in the history Of the United States
Navy. The apparatus was badly shat
tered, but so tight was the vessels
shell there was no means Of escape for
gas which accumulated, and it was
more than an hour after the blast be-
fore the work of recovering the bodies
could be completed. A ladder was
blown up through the coming tower
and fell $50 feet away
Gas Drives Back Rescuers.
The injured men and one body were
removed soon after the accident, but
three bodies far down in the craft
could not be reached until the gas had
been blown out by compressed air
Soon after the explosion several naval
officers led a rescue party into the
drydock, but were partly overcome by
gas fumes when they attempted to de-
scend into the vessel 1t was then
that compressed air pipes were run
into the shell and the gas forced out.
The number of men inside the sub
marine at the time Of the explosion
is not definitely known. About 20
were working on the craft, but all of
them were not on the underwater boat
at the same time. It is not thought
possible that anyone who was inside
could have escaped injury.
Doubt As To Cause.
What caused the explosion has not
been definitely decided. Rear-Admiral
Nathaniel r. Usher, commandant of
the navy yard, after an examination
of the craft and questioning workmen
who had been near by, declined to ex-
press an opinion He said:
''The men were at work in the bat
terry compartment of the E-2, discharg-
ing the new Edison batteries through
a rheOstat to measure the voltage and
the explosion occurred in that COM
partment while they were working
there. The battery will generate no
kind of gas and there was no gasoline
on board. The engine was of the oil
burning Diesel type"
Pending the appointment of an off,
cia1 board of inquiry by the Navy De
partment, Rear-Admiral Usher named |
= temporary investigating committee. /
Had New Batteries.
The E-2 was the only vessel in the
world equipped with the Edison nickel
batteries and she made her first trip
successfully with them on December
Z last. 1t was reported that the new
batteries gave better speed with less !
fuel !
There were three other submarines
in the drydock, but there were about
so feet from the E-2, which had been
repairs since December 80.
There were no torpedoes or gasoline
aboard any of them.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22

could stand by the policy that seems
| to have been adopted by Aafyiaiiu Aoi
the support of these institutions.
Governor Harrington called atten-
tion to the report of the GoodnoW Com
mission for the reduction OF legislative
expenses. Maryland now having tne
fourth most expensive Legislature IA
the country. and announced that COM
mission would soon submit plan IOf
a budget With the establishment OF
a proper budget system he feAt that
steps ought to be adopted for the cut
ting off of the dedicated FUNDS. All
the moneys raised by taxation and the
moneys from the indirect revenues ne
felt. ought to go into the generaI treas
ury. and be paid out as speclhed IN the
General Appropriation bills. Undef
the plans be outlined. he felt that tne
State could be put on cash basls' ana
there would be no excuse for any pos
sible deficit. He also advocated uni
form fiscal year and uniform system
of accounting for all State otnces ana
denartments. and for all institutions
supposed in whole or in part Dy t1e
State.
Governor Harrington urged fairness
Justice and coolnes in dealing WIN Lne
annexation problem. 1t ought not 10 "e
a political question, he said, but b'sl-
mass ouestion. and one that demands
the best thought and the coolest 1uos-
ment of both the Legislature ana tne
Executive. There should be no hne-
up of the city against the counties or
the counties against the city, ne nslst-
ed. and urged everybody to put as1oe
all partisan strife and remember Only
that they were Marylanders.
AS / stand here today, said Governor
Harrington, no .man could feel more
deeply the honor conferred by ms Iei-
low-citizenship in electing him the
Governor of the State, and can repay
them only by complete dedication OF
nv services to the peoples cause. But
today / feel more the burden IMAM
do any undue elation. But conscious
of my determination, as God gives me
light, to render true service to the
State. and having implicit trust that
your honorable bodies will nobfy assist
and likewise do your full duty, and re-
lying upon Him who never 1a1ls n
time of need, have no fear and am
now ready to take the oath OF offlee
as required by the Constitution Of our
State.
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WILSON WILL GIVE
CARRANZA A CHANCE
President Will Stand For No
Intervention in Mexico.
BANDITS WILL BE PUNISHED
De Facto Government OF Mexico
Sends Troops After Bandits
and Promises Pun
ishment

WaShingtOn.--General CarranzR and
the de facto government of Mexico are
to be given full opportunity, without
Intervention from the United States, to
run to earth the murderers of Ameri-
can citizens at Santa Ysabel and to
demonstrate ability to restore order
and protect foreign rights in the
southern republic.
The President, supported by his Cab
met, Is declared to be determined that
the American Government shall not be
stampeded by war talk and cries of
vengeance into rushing an army across
the Rio Grande to destroy in it's in
fancy the de factO government, which
the United States, with the co-opera-
tion of Pan-American nations, aided
in establishing after the Mexican
nation had been torn by revolution for
years.
At the State Department officials
were vigilant in their watch over the
situation, awaiting official word from
General CarranZa in reply to the de-
mand made upon him to seek out and
punish the bandit murderers.
carranza To Punish Bandits.
While no direct communication from
General Carranza had reached the
State Department, a message from him
to Elisco Arredodo, the Mexican Am
bassador designate, announced the dis
patch of troops to capture the outlaws
and his purpose to visit "condign pun
ishment upon every participant in the
massacre"
Carranza's telegram to his Ambassa-
dor read:
"The murderous attack on the pas
senger train near Chihuahua was made
by the only remaining band of outlaws
in that region. This band is being
pursued by my troops, with a view to
insure its capture, whereupon condign
punishment, which their crime de-
serves will be applied to every guilty
participant.
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TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES

In Sweden mile is 1880 yards.
Scotland has the longest bridge in
the world-the Lay, two miles and 20
yards in length.
1t is said that humming bird when
stripped of it's feathers is no larger
than humble bee.
A duster made of cheesecloth,
soaked in turpentine and then dried,
will accumulate dust instead of scat
tering it.
The Cape Cod canal is now re-
stricted to boats Of less than 18 feet
draft. but it will soon be deepened to
S5-foot waterway.
A Russian inventor claims to have
perfected motor that can safely util-
ize electricity drawn from storm
clouds.
A partitioned gravy dish has been
invented that permits fat gravy to be
poured from one side and lean from
the other.
The governments of both Denmark
and Sweden are investigating a recent
discovery of coal on the island of
Bornholm, a Danish possession close
to the Swedish coast
So that bicyclists will not have to
wear trouser guards North Carolina
has invented large disk to be at
tached to the outside of the forward
gprocket of a wheel
The needless infantile death rate
owing to neglect and ignorance costs
this country 100000 day
One of the famous carillons of
Flanders, magnificent chime Of bells,
has been transferred to the English
village of Cattistock, where great in
terest is taken in the frequent con-
ce.ts for which use is made of them.
The fossil OF an elephant that is be-
ing excavate6 from a gravel bed near
Chatham. England. is declared to have
supported the carcass OF an ''elephas
antiquus of the early pleistocene
period" puny little runt of beast
but a trite larger than a mammoth.
Ornamental handkerchiefs formerly
were worn in the hat by gentlemen as
tokens.
Gypsum, which of late years has
been supplanting lime in cement. can
hardly be considered a modern build.
ing material. investigations having
proved that the pyramid Of Cheops
was stuck together in places with gen
erous daubs of it some 5000 years ago.
For many years thrown into the sea
as worthless. low grade Cuban mo-
lasses is being exported to the United
States in increasing quantities for use
in road building. distilling and other
Ouruosea-
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MONTENEGRINS
GIVE UP FIGHT
Notify Austria Of Their Willing
ness to Make Peace.
AN ABSOLUTE SURRENDER
TO Lay Down Arms Internationally.
Promptly Agree To Preliminary
Terms Exacted BY
Conqueror.

Berlin.-The King and the Govern
ment of Montenegro on January Is
asked a cessation Of hostilities and
opening Of peace negotiations, it was
officially announced by Austro- Hun
garian headquarters Monday.
The Austro-Hungarian Government
replied to Montenegro that peace nego-
tiations were only possible if the
Montenegrin army Internationally laid
down its arms, the headquarters state
ment as received here from Vienna
says. The Montenegrin Government,
adds the statements, accepted the Aus
trian conditions.
Parliament Cheers News.
Announcement that Montenegro had
made overtures for peace was made
to the Hungarian Parliament by
Premier Tisza and was received with
cheers.
Montenegro asks for peace" stated
Count Tisza
The proceedings under the first para
graph of the order Of the day had just
been completed when Count Tisza
asked permission to interrupt the dis
cussion. He stated that the King and
Government of Montenegro had asked
the Inauguration Of peace negotiations.
The announcement caused great
commotion in Parliament.
I'VE asked that beforehand Monte
negro, Internationally lay down her
arms" continued the Premier.
Joyful shouts followed this state
ment
"Just at this moment" continued the
Prime Minister, "the news has arrived
that the unconditional laying down of
arms has been accepted"
"Since the preliminary condition has
been fulfilled" added the Premier,
peace negotiations will be entered
into Immediately"
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
THE PEOPLE NOT TO
Be THRILLED WITH
Says Governor Harrington In
His Inaugural Address.
MAKES HIS POLICY PLAIN
The Oath Of Office Administered In
the Hall OF the House OF Dele
gates BY Chief Judge Boyd, Of
the Court OF Appeals.
REFORMS WHICH GOVERNOR
HARRINGTON ADVOCATES.

Radical changes for the better
in the fiscal policy of the State.
Cutting off continuing appropria-
tions.
Change in the manner of MAX
ing appropriations so that they
may meet the States actual needs,
and not be the result of personal
favor, solicitation or political pull.
Radically changing the principle
of making appropriations for
charitable and benevolent institu-
tions.
Cutting off of useless employees.
Reducing legislative expenses,
Maryland having the fourth most
expensive Legislature in the coun-
try.
Abolition of the dedicated funds,
putting all the State revenues into
the general treasury and making
payments as specified in the gen
eral appropriation bills, thus put
ting the State on a cash basis.
Adoption of the budget system.
Establishing a uniform fiscal
year and a uniform system of &C.
counting for all State officers, de-
partments and institutions sup
ported in which or in part by the
State.
The Governor also urged the
Legislature to deal with the an
nexation problem in spirit of
fairness and GOODNESS, and insisted
that there should be no line up of
the counties against the city or
the city against the counties.
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Absolute Surrender.

Washington-A dispatch to the
Austro Hungarian Embassy from
Baron Burian, Foreign Minister at
Vienna, said:
During the sitting of the Budapest
Parliament Minister President Count
Tisza declared the King and Govern
ment of Montenegro have requested
the introduction of negotiations for
peace Whereupon we asked absolute
surrender of arms. At this moment
l received a communication stating
that Montenegro had accepted abso-
lutte surrender and consequently after
realization of the capitulation negotia-
tions for peace can begin"
First Move Toward Peace.
The announcement in the Berlin
News Agency dispatch that Monte
negro has asked for peace, if accurate,
marks the first known definite step
taken by any of the belligerents in the
European war toward the making of
peace.
Montenegro entered the war on
August 8, 1914, when the Government
of the country informed the Austrian
Minister at Vienna that Montenegro
considered herself in a state of war
with Austria. For more than year
after war was declared Montenegro
was comparatively free from hostile
operations, and in fact the Monte
negrins themselves pushed into Aus
trian territory and for months held
positions outside their frontier Aus
trian attacks were largely confined to
the southwestern frontier, occasional
bombardments of Mount Lozcen and
Antivari being the chief demonstra-
tions against the little kingdom.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
BRITISH LOSSES HEAVY.
Total OF Officers Killed, Wounded and
Missing Is 22,0e1.

London.-Officers casualty lists for
the month of December show that the
British army in that month lost 275
officers killed, 63S wounded and II
missing, total of $50.
Deducting from the wounded and
missing totals a number since includ-
ed in killed, the total losses from the
beginning of the war to the end of De-
cember, 1915, are 6,847 killed, 13,489
wounded and 1,745 missing, total of
22,081.
During December four brigade gen
erals received wounds and are in
cluded in the casualty lists for the
month
Losses have been heaviest in the In
dian contingent during the month, 35
having been killed, 75 wounded and
missing; the royal field artillery had
IL killed, 43 wounded; engineers, IL
killed and 81 wounded: Yorkshires, s
killed, 35 wounded; Lancashires, II
killed "a wounded; Australians, 13
killed, "a wounded; Canadian, 10 killed
29 wounded. Losses in many other
regiments run into double figures.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Jan. 21. 1915.

Germans repuIsed in the Ar
dennes woods by French and Bel
gianS.
French retook trenches at Notre
Dame de Lorette.
Germans retook the forest of lie
Pretre.
Russians renewed their offensive
against MIaWa.
Austrians routed Russians from
intrenchments along the Oonajec.
German cruiser Karlsruhe report
ed off Porto Rico.
Allied airmen dropped bombs on
Essen.
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NAVAL CAMP FOR CITIZENS.
May Establish Stations On Atlantic
Coast and Great Lakes.

New York.-The naval reserve com
mittee of the Navy League has under
taken an effort to establish on the
North Atlantic Coast naval volunteer
training camp for the instruction next
summer Of citizens in naval routine
and discipline. The movement is un-
derstood to be in line with the plan
to establish a training camp on the
Great Lakes near Chicago
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
MISS WILSON OPERATED ON.
Adenoids and Enlarged TonsiIs Sue
cessfuIIy Removed.

Philadelphia.-Miss Margaret Will
son, daughter of the President, was
operated on at the Jefferson Hospital
here, adenoids and enlarged tonsiIs be-
ing removed. The operation was pro
nounced highly successful. Miss VIII
son went to the hospital last Tuesday.
She was accompanied to Philadelphia
by Miss Helen Woodrow Bones, the
Presidents cousin.
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INTERESTING NOTES FOR ALL

Seville, Spain, will soon spend $6,-
100000 On public improvements.
A new gasoline engine uses only
one-twentieth of drop of fuel at
charge.
Italy's imports in the first six
months of 1915 were valued at $685.
794,65O; exports, $246,O26, $50.
Recent excavations of an ancient
Roman villa, near Liege, disclosed
fragments Of coal, leading to the be-
lief that the fuel was mined in Bel
gium as far back as the beginning of
the Christian era.
Reliable statistics show that of an
the timber trees cut in our forests,
less than half of the available wood
material is actually used.
An Iowa truck farmer irrigates his
land by pumping water from an
artesian we'll with pump to which his
automobile is attached.
The Supreme Court of Panama has
sustained recent law whereby the
government reserves ownership in
metal mines and deposits of coal and
oil
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Jan. 2a, 1915.

German troops were massed In
Hungary.
Russians made further advance
in the north.
German airmen dropped bombs
on Dunkirk.
Nine. Grouitch came to America
seeking seeds for Serbians.
Germans renewed their activity
near Ypres and bombarded left
wing of allies.
Severe battle in the AFgonne re-
gion.
German supply ship was sunk by
Australian cruiser.
italian Vice-consul at Liege dis
missed by Germans for aiding Bel.
gians.
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WOMEN TO INSPECT STREETS.
New York Names Five To Assist
Spring Cleaning.

New YOrk.-New York will have
five women street inspectors to assist
in the spring cleaning of streets, it
was announced by Commissioner
Fetherston. This is the first time
women have been certified by the
Municipal Civil Service Commission
as inspectors or examiners Of street
cleaning. Their salary will be $1,000
q year each.
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MRS. pANkHuRsT TO BE FREED.
President Wilson Opposed To Mill.
tant't Exclusion.

Washington.-Mrs Emmeline Pank.
hurst, the suffragist leader, now on
parole in New York, under the immi-
grafton authorities, will be formally
admitted to the United States soon
after the papers in her case reach
Washington. President Wilson is op-
posed to her exclusion. Mrs. Pank-
hurst is working in behalf Of the
Serbian relief movement.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22

| AnnaDOliS.-EmerSon G. Harrington
is now Governor of Maryland. The
oath of Office was administered to him
by Chief Judge A. Hunter Boyd, of the
Court of Appeals, before distinguish
ed audience that packed the brilliantly
lighted and appropriately decorated
senate chamber. The Governors in
augural address had been previously
delivered in the House chamber.
In spite of the lowering clouds and
the drizzle of rain which persisted all
day the inaugural ceremonies were
carried out impressively and success
fully.
The ceremony took place at noon in
the hall of the House of Delegates and
was witnessed by judges Of the Court
of Appeals in their gowns, members of
the Senate and House and a large
crowd, conspicuous among which was
d delegation of suffragists.
After his Inauguration Governor
Harrington swore in Thomas w. Sim
mons as Secretary of State, witnessed
a parade of detachments of the several
Maryland regiments, st. Johns College
cadets and political organizations with
the suffragists with banners and street
wide streamers at the end of the pro-
cession.
In the afternoon the new Governor
held public reception in the old Sen
ate chamber.
After the reception the Governor
and his family took possession of the
Executive Mansion.
During the evening he was in con-
ference with President Campbell, of
the Senate, and Speaker Laird, of the
House, on the organization of the two
houses, including the appointment of
committees. He also received social
and political callers.
Mr.. Goldsborough delivered a fare
well address, in which he said, among
other things. that the day of partisan
ship has passed and the day of state
welfare has come.
In the afternoon former Governor
and Mrs. Goldsborough and the mem
bers of their family left Annapolis for
Cambridge. They were escorted to the |
wharf by the several detachments of
the Maryland regiments with brass |
band.
Governor Harrington, in his inaugur- |
al address, took his stand sQuarely |
behind every pledge made by the Dem
ocratic party in it's platform on which |
he was elected, and he urged the mem |
bers of the Legislature to cooperate |
with him in their redemption. The |
people of Maryland, he declared, were
no longer to be trifed with, promises
and professions would no longer
satisfy them, but they were expecting
and demanding the fulfillment of those
things which the party had promised
them.
He declared at the outset that re-
form in the fiscal policy of the State
was imperative, explained the evil of
continuing appropriations which the
late Governor Crothers had tried to
have abolished, but failed because the
combined efforts of the beneficiaries
Of those appropriations were strong
enough to defeat all efforts to repeal
the laws providing for them, and advo-
Gated radical change in the manner
Of making appropriations of the peo-
pies money. Pointing out that Mary
land was the second state in the
Union, notwithstanding it's small size,
in the amount of its appropriations to
charitable and benevolent institutions,
be expressed the belief that the finan-
cial condition of no state in the Union
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
s,ss7, IA SOULS IN NEW YORK.
State Census Shows s,c5s,o51 Citizens
and 1925 s,229 Aliens.

Albany, N. Y-The population of
New York State is 9.687,744, accord
ing to the report of the State census
taken last June and submitted to the
Legislature Monday. Of this total, s.
047,221 are residents of Greater New
York The census shows that $685.
SOL are citizens and 1,62S,22 aliens.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
ASK PROTECTION FOR COTTON.
Texas Farmers Plan To Ship 100000
Bales To Germany.

Texas Farmers Plan To Ship 1000, 900
Bales To Germany.
Washington.-H. N. Pope, president
of the Texas Farmers Union, accom-
panied by Senator Sheppard, told
President Wilson of the unions plan
for sending 100000 bales Of cotton
to Germany by way of Rotterdam in
American ships and asked for assur-
ances for protection against British
seizure Senator Sheppard said the
President promised to do all he could.
Cotton is on both the British and
German contraband lists and the
legality of that action now is the sub
ject of diplomatic correspondence The
cotton men say they have no objec-
ton to British seizure if they get the
27 cents a pound they are promised in
Germany. The market price is 20
cents. That is what the British have
been paying on seizures.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Jan. %. 1915.

Fierce fighting In Hartmanns-
Weilerkopf region.
New Russian army neared PrHs-
sian border.
Russian invasion Of Hungary was
halted.
German submarine sank British
Steamer DUTward.
Maj. Gen. Sam Hughes began en-
listing third Canadian contingent.
Russia ordered expulsion of Aus
trian and German subjects.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
Jan. 20, 1915.

British troops captured FreyIing-
huysen.
Russians drove back Austrians in
Hungary and marched on Jacobeni.
Dutch naval patrol boat sunk by
mine, five men drowned.
Governor Of Cracow ordered
partial evacuation Of the city.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22

Miss Mathilda L. Selig, of Balti-
more, has been appointed by the Child
Labor Bureau, of Maryland, as mspec-
tor at Hagerstown, and has been
placed in charge of the work of the
bureau in Washington and Frederick
counties.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22

Thirty thousand American settlers
have entered Canada since the out
break of war. immigration to the
Dominion from Great Britain and Con-
tinental Europe has almost ceased
since August.
Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
GEN. GUTIERREZ EXECUTED.
Condemned AS Traitor To Anti-Car.
rama Party.

Ell PasO. Texas.-General Eulalio
Gutierrez, formerly provisional Presi-
dent of Mexico under Villa, is dead.
Dispatches received state that he was
executed at Pachuca, 120 miles north
of Mexico City, on January s, after
having been found guilty of treason
to the anti-Carranza party.