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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-18
GERMAN OFFENSIVE on
THE WEST SLACkENED

BERLIN, March 1S-The German
offensive has slackened along the
entire western front because oper-
ations are hindered by a heavy mist.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-18
MENCANS At PHOENIX
HOLD A MASS NEE TING

PHOENIX, Arizona, March Is
Following a secret meeting of one
thousand local Mexicans who adopted
resolutions denouncing the American
invasion of Mexico the city commits
sion today authorized the swearing
in of a limited number Of special
citizens police in case of an out
break
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-18

neck and ears in a rough way.
If Hairs Your Pride Use Herpiclde
(AdvD
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-18

7 AUN.T
Considering they didn't have to
pay taxes, Adam and Eve certainly
played thunder by cutting up in the
park and having custer proceedings
served on them
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-18

If Hairs Your Pride Use Herpicide-
(Adv.)
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-18

If Hairs Your Pride Use Herpicide.
(Adv.)
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-18
MADE THIRD FORTUNE
AFTER AGE OF FIFTY

CHICAGO, ILL.,, March 1S.-Char-
les II. Mcconnell died here today in
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-18

! If Hairs Your Pride Use Herpicid@.
(Adv.)
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-18

|If Hairs Your Pride Use Herplcide'
(Adv.)
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-18

If Hairs Your Pride Use Herpicide
adv.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-18

II Hairs Your Pride Use Herpicide
(Adv.D
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LII Hairs Your Pride Use Herpicide.
| adv.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-18

II Hairs Your Pride Use Herpieide.
fAdyl
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-18

If Hairs Your Pride Use Herpicide.
tAdv.)
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-18

If Hairs Your Pride Use lIerpicide
(Adv,1
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-18

his seventy-fifth year lie made and
lest two fortunes aggregating nearly
$1,000, 900, and built a third after
he was fifty years old. and was So
In debt. His last fortune was made
in the "eut rate drug business
II Hairs Your Pride Use Herpicide.
(Adv)
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-18

Ii Hairs Your Pride Use Herpicid9
(Adv.l
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-18

IIf Hairs Your Pride Use Herpicide.
(Adv.)
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-18

If Hairs Your Pride Use Herpicide
(Adv.)
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-18

If Hairs Your Pride Use Herpicide
adv
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-18

II Hairs Your Pride Use Herpicide
(Adv.)
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-03-18

If Hairs Your Pride Use Herpicide.
(Adv)
New Britain herald., 1916-10-25
Italian Cavalry in Macedonia.

Paris, Oct 25, noon.-Italian cav- airy from southern Albania formed a Junction yesterday with cavalry and artillery of the entente forces on the Macedonian frC/t, the war office an- nounced today.
 Italian forces occupied the Alban- ian seaport of Avlona before Italy entered the war against Austria. No further operations of cOnseuuence were undertaken by the Italians for some time, but in the last few months there have been occasional reports that endorsements were being sent to Albania and that Italian detach- rents were pushing their way east by Greece as within it's sphere of in fuence, and towns in this region have been under control of Greek officers. The Greek representatives were re- quired to withdraw from the towns taken over by the Italians.
 There has been no accurate inform ton heretofore as to the extent of the Italian advance, but it is evident from tCdays French announcement that this movement as well as the eXten- sion westward of the Macedonian front, has been carried forward more rapidly than previous advices had indicated. The entente allies now have an unbroken front across the Balkan Peninsula, from the Aegean sea at the mouth of the Struma river 10 the Adriatic at Avlona, a distance of 25O miles.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-25
C0NFEREES MAY MOVE AGAIN
Commission May Decide to Sit in Washington-Villa's Activity to Be Discussed.

Atlantic City, N. J., Oct. 25.-Un- official consideration is being given by the Mexican-Americ joint commis- sion to a suggestion that it transfer its conferences to Washington. Be- cause of the better facilities there for obtaining records it is pointed out the commissioners might expedite their work there. It was indicated today that 1t was not improbable that this would be the last week in Atlantic City.
 When the commissioners met today the Americans were in receipt of state and war department reports of Villas activities near Chihuahua but the Mexicans were yet without off, c1al information. It was expected that the resumption of the confer ences would be marked by a study of the reports at hand and their con- sideration In the light of the commits sioners' efforts to reach agreement on some practical and amicable o1an of border control.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-25
Germany'S Iron Grip Tightens.

Berlin, Oct. A, e:so D. m., Via London, Oct. 25, 6:48 a. m.-The iron grip of the central powers upon REmania has frightened in two impor- tant notches with the capture of Med- Jld1e and Rashova> in Dobrudja and of Predeal in the Pennsylvania border. The conquests of these important places have been achieved with sur- prising speed.
 With the capture of Constanza, the Rumanians lost their principal seaport, while the taking of Medjidie and Rashova now places Tchernavoda 1n critical position and. in military opinion here threatens Rumania more than ever.
 '"The capture of Predeal comes as a climax to the recent forcing of a number of important passes from Iransylvania into Rumania, so that the central powers appear to be nearly in a position to sweep down upon the Rumanian plains and attack the heart of the country.
 Predeal and the passes behind it spell the loss to Rumania of it's na tural western Notifications formed bv mountains of Pennsylvania. Ned Jld1e and Rashova, if they lead to the capture of Tchernavoda, denote with Turtukai and Silistria the removal of the artificial barriers to access into Rumania across it's other natural for tlt1cat1On, the Danube river
New Britain herald., 1916-10-25
AUTOMOBILES CRASH;
 THIRD IS DAMAGED
Cars Owned by w. l.. Hatch and Mrs. c. H. Parsons SidesWipe Each Other
 Near Stanley and Allen Streets.

The large Packard touring car owned by w. l.. Hatch and driven by Herbert c. Lee of 82 Lake street and a Pierce Arrow touring car owned bv Mrs Charles H. Parsons and driven by Elmer West, sideswiped each other near the corner of Stanley and Allen streets this noon. Neither car was badly damaged but MT. Hatch's ma chine was forced into a telegraph pole, knocking it down and carrying with it telephone, telegraph and tro'- lev wires. The pole in falling struck a standing automobile owned by Mrs. Elsie Levy, crushing in the top.
 According to the report of the ac- cident given the police, MT. Hatch s car was coming towards New Britain fdom Stanley QuQarter and IFS. Par sons car was also in-bound but from Newington, vil the Allen street hill As MT. Hatch's machine passed Allen street, Mrs. Parsons car turned into Stanley. Thus the two machines sideswiped It is said that Mr Hatch s car was going at a rate of speed es- timated to be thirty miles an hour while the other machine was g0ir 9. about ten miles an hour.
 Fortunately no one was severely in- inred although a Rockville banker q euest of MT. Hatch in his narhine suffered a badly sprained wrst He was brought to this city in Mrs. Par sons car and given medical attend anCe
New Britain herald., 1916-10-25
DIR. REEKS COMING HOME
Message from New Haven Isolation Hospital Says He Will Return to New Britain This Evening

Word was received from the New Haven Isolation hospital late this af ternoon that Health Superintendent T. E. Reeks, who yesterday entered the institution to recuperate, will re- turn home this evening Dr. Reeks is said to materially improved and will probably be able to resume his duties in the health department within a few days at the most.
 Arrangements were being made to- day to have the Davis baby trans ferred to the isolation hospital at New Haven. Owing to the crowded condition of the institution this has been difficult to accomplish
 Last evening at a special meeting of the board of health Drs Arvid An derson, H. T Bray and G. H. Bod ley were named a health commission to supervise health matters during Superintendent Reek's absence. It was decided to keep open the lab oratory, thus countermanding an earlier order
New Britain herald., 1916-10-25
TEN COMMANDMENTS STAND
Efforts to Shorten Them Abandoned by Protestant EpiscopaIians Until Convention Meets in 1919

St. Louis Oct. 25.-Efforts to shorten the ten commandments have been abandoned at the present session of the convention of the Protestant Episcopal church, leaders in the con- clave announced today. It was as serted that until the next convention in 1919, at least, the decalogue will stand in the prayer book as it is. A commission appointed to suggest q method of revision of the book Of common prayer favored the shorten ing of five of the commandments by the elimination of the reasons Mem Lers of tho commission asserted to- day however that this suggestion would not be pressed. Discussion of other phases of the proposed revision vas 70 he resumed late today.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-25
COMP PANIES E AND l
 ARE MUSTERED GUT
Official Thanks Read from Secretary of War
 Baker.

Companies F and I, First Regiment, C. N G., were formally mustered out Of the federal service this afternoon at the State armory on Arch street. The ceremony for which the boys have been impatiently waiting for
 more than a week was simple and ac- ccmpanied with no more formality than the occasion demanded. The troops were lined up in company for i~:ation on the armory floor and the roll called. As each man answered he stepped one pace to the front. The roll having been checked with the muster roll the soldiers were then paid off and the companies formally declared mustered out. Major Shut tleworth of Hartford was in charge of
 the formalities.
 Members of both companies were in high spirits today at the prospect
 of being mustered out, having become
 thoroughly tired of the tedious waiting
 around the armory, which has been
 their lot for the past ten days. AS a part of the ceremony at tached to mastering out the troops,
 Captains Low and Ladbury read from
 the government for their service is- sued by Secretary of War Newton G.. Baker. It follows II wish to thank you and the officers and men of your organization on behalf of the govern
 ment for the valuable service just rendered to the country by it's pres ence on the border. When the Na- tiOnal Guard was called into the serv- ice of the Federal government the lives of the men, women and children along the southern frontier were in
 grave danger, owing to formidable bandit raids from the Mexican side
 of the border. It is not too much to say that had these raids contniud, there was danger of of international l war. From the time of the assembly of the units of the National Guard on the border these raids ceased and the tension between the two countries
 began to relax. It is the hope and
 belief of the government that the
 presence of these units of the Ma tional Guard, together with units of the regular army on the border and in Mexico has made possible a peace full solution of difficult and threat
 ening problem"
 With the mastering out from the government service completed, the To-
 cal companies will at once resume
 their duties as members of the Con-
 necticut National Guard and orders
 for drilling at the armory have been
 given Drill will be resumed by both
 companies beginning next week and
 each company will have two nights
 of this work instead of one as for
 merly It is understood that Con-
 pany E will drill Tuesday and Thurs
 day evenings and Company I Wednes-
 day and Friday nights until further
 notice
 The armory was visited today by
 Mayor G. A. Quigley, Councilman G.
 M Landers and Representative E. w.
 Schultz of the soldiers comfort com
 mittee
New Britain herald., 1916-10-25
BOMB EXPLOSION IN SUBWAY
 INJURIES FOUR, WRECKS SPOT
Tears Up Railroad Tie, Breaks Concrete Platform, Smashes News Stand and Blows Ticket Chopper Twenty Feet-May Be Echo of Labor Troubles.

New York, Oct. 25.-Explosion of a bomb or dynamite at the 10th Street station of the Lenox avenue subway line early today did consid- erable damage at that station, smash ing the ticket agents booth injured the agent slightly, broke the electric lamps and windows in the kioske, tore eff portion of the sidewalk over lead and broke the windows in some Of the apartment houses nearby. I here was no train at the station or near it at the moment. Traffic in the subway was suspended for half an hour or more as the result of the blast.
 Subway employees at that station said they saw no one lettering about and did not know how the explosive vas brought into the station. The Cnly theory they could suggest was that it eight have been set off be- cause of the street railway strike which has been in progress since early in September.
 The explosive evidently was placed upon one of the tracks at the south crn end of the station platform. The explosion took place before daylight. It tore up one of the railway ties, troke away a part of the concrete platform, wrecked the confectionery and newsstand and threw the ticket chopper twenty feet from his post. The explosion was heard nearly mile away. Ambulances and physicians, policemen and repair crews were summoned, but there was little to do but to clear away the broken glass and shattered concrete.
 Later police reports showed that -four-persons>a were injured. Charles Eckhart, ticket agent, received scalp lacerations; Louis Lapari, ticket chop per received scalp wounds; mes senger boy named Garby, was hurled from the platform to the tracks, and Otis Williams. a negro. who says he vas entering the station, received 1acerations and a sprained knee cap.
 Inspector Owen Egan of the bu- reau of combustibles said the explo s1ve was bomb containing high power dynamite. It was placed under the edge cf the platfrom. and not on the tracks as at first reported.
 A subway train containing passen- gers had left the station exactly two minutes before the explosion occurred.
 Several stores in the vicinity were robbed through windows shattered by the concussion.~
New Britain herald., 1916-10-25
GERMAN LINE AT VERDUN
 CRUMPLES UNDER SUDDEN /: ONSLAUGHT FROM FRENCH
FIVE NORWEGIAN SHIPS ARE SUNK BY U-BOATS:
 LOSS 5,OOO,OOO KRONER.

London, Oct. 25. 1915 D. m. The sinking by German sub marines of five more Nor wegian steamships, valued at about 5,0OO,OO0 kroner, is re- ported in an Exchange Tele- graph despatch from Chris tiania.
 Shipping shares dropped con- siderably on the Christiania Exchange today
 The steamers Alex and Ris- ing and the schooner Theodore, together with the Swedish schooners Antoinette and Hen riette, are among the latest submarine victims, adds the despatch.
 The Tidens Tegn of Chris tiania states that one boat with six men from the Norwegian steamer Raven, reported sunk by a German submarine in the Arctic on Oct. 2. have been lost, while another boat with eleven men on board reached a lonely part of the Russian Murman coast, after drifting thirteen hours.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-25
Commanding Officer a Prisoner

Paris, Oct. 25, noon.-The Germans rlade a counter attack north of Yer dun last night in an effort to regain ground won by the French in yester- days assault. They attempted to re- capture the Haudremont Quarries and the Damloup Battery. The war cfhce announces that in both cases they were repulsed. The French gains were maintained.
 The German officer in command at Fort Douaumont is among the pris- oners taken.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-25
RESIDENTS WARNED
 OUT OF CHIHUAHUA
General Trevino Advises All to Flee and Sends His Wife to
 EI PaSO.

San Antonio, Tex, Oct. 25.-General Jacinto Trevino, commandant of the Chihuahua garrison, has issued warn ing to residents to leave the city, &C., cording to g. report that reached army headquarters today from General George Bell at El Paso.
 General Bell said Mrs. Trevino was among the many refugees who have arrived at El Paso from Chihuahua
New Britain herald., 1916-10-25
Germans Completely Surprised.

Paris, Oct. 25, 2:45 a. m.-The French attack at Verdun apparently took the Germans completely by sur prise and not at one point did they succeed in stopping the tmpetuous rush. Tn three hours the French re- captured ground, to gain which, re- uuired months of patient effort by the Germans, including such positions as Douaumont front and Thiaumont Work. which in the past were won and lost repeatedly.
 The official French account of the battle. every word of which was weighed carefully, does not say the German line was forced back, put that it was "burst''. Later details or the French victory show that its ex- tent was as much of surprise to the French as it must have been to the Germans. General Petain re- garded the front east of the Mouse as too cramped, and suggested to Gen. Nivelle, the commander of Verdun, that he give himself moro elbow room With that end in view infan- try was sent up to reinforce the French and artillery was ordered for the establishment of new batteries. The aviation department was comm1s- stoned to make an exhaustive sur vey of the positions of the German batteries and points of assembly. This work was carried out, and the secret was kept so well that to all appearances the Germans never had an inkling of what was in prospect. Furthermore they evidently believed the energies of the French were being absorbed by the battle of the Somme, and made no preparations to meet a thrust at Verdun. Thus it came about that what was intended for a small maneuver became a brilliant tactical success.
 Planned For Ten Days.
 The attack was planned for ten days ago. Artillery began prelimin- ary work, but rainy weather set in
 (Continued On Fifteenth Page).
New Britain herald., 1916-10-25
TOWNS FALL BEFORE MACKENSEN'S ARMY Russians and RulnanianS Still
 Forced to Give Ground
 TCHERNAVODA EVACUATED
Last Line of Railroad Communication in Dobrudja District Now in Pos session of Forces From Central Powers, Berlin Asserts.

Petrograd. Oct 25, Via. London, 2:3O D. m.-The Rumanians and Russians have evacuated the Danube town of Tchernavoda, in Dobrudja the war office announced today.
 The statement says Field Marshall Won Mackensen's army is continuing it's attack all along the Dobrud1a front. The Russo -Rumanian position at Lake Tachaul, near the Black Sea coast, about 12 miles north of Con- stanza, also has been evacuated
New Britain herald., 1916-10-25
Last Railroad Communication Gone

Berlin, Oct. 25, by Wireless to Say V1lle-Vulcan Pass, on the Transyl- Vanla front, has been captured by general Won Falkenhayn's army, the war office announced today
 In Dobrudja pursuit of the Russians ana Rumanians continues. Tcherna- Vooa was captured this morning, de- pr1vlng the Russians and Rumanians or the1r last railroad communication in Dobrudja.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-25


 Paris, Oct. 24. 11:45 p. m.-Verdun long lost sight of, sprang suddenly and unexpectedly today into the fore- front of public mind which exclusive ly had been directed towards the bat tie on the Somme front. The German front on the right bank of the Mause literally was swept away for a dis tance of four and half miles like straw before the wind.
 General Nivelle for weeks past had been watching the German move ments like a lynx, carefully calculat- ing the effect of every withdrawal of troops for transfer to the Somme and eastern fronts. At the same time, he quietly made his preparations and when he judged the Gemans had thinned their defenses to the dan- ger point, he struck like lightning. The result was one of the most bril- liant operations of the campaign.
 The Germans, who yesterday were pressing closer upon the inner line of defenses at FortsSouville and Ia vannes, have now been driven beyond the outer defenses of the fort Douaumont-VauX line. Vaux fort re- mains in possession of the Germans but the French line extends beyond it on the north at Vaux Village and Fumin wood and also on the south Of 1t at Damloup Battery and--Ghenois wood from both of which positions 1t can readily be attacked.
 Artillery Preparations Intense.
 The French artillery preparation was brief but intense and was over before the German commanders had time to bring up endorsements, even if they were availeble. The assault ing French waves cought them before the Germans recovered from their surprise and swept over trench after trench, sending prisoners in all lines to the rear.
 The French losses were very light, it is beelieved, even lighter than any recorded in the attacks on the Somme front.
 . News of the success has caused tremendous public enthusiasm here, and this is all the greater because or the general impression that Verdun was over and done with and that poth sides were contenting themselves W1tn holding what they had won. Ioday s operation, proving that the french could strike a smashing blow at Ver- dun while carrying on an extended or fensive on the Somme, has greatly Increased public confidence and gone far to lessen the depression caused py the loss of Constanza-
New Britain herald., 1916-10-25
Admit Ground Lost at Verd,In.

Berlin, Oct 25, by wireleses to Say V-lle.-The war office announced to- day that an attack made on the Ver- d1n front by the French yesterday gained ground for them. French as- saults on the Somme front were with out success.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-25
RumanianS Forced Rack

Bucharest, Oct. 25, Via London, l:34 D. m.-A further retirement by Romanlan forces on the Transylvanian front is announced by the war office The Ruman1ans near Predeal and klmpoulung, the statement says. were forced to fall back little
New Britain herald., 1916-10-25
W E.ATIiER.

Hartford, Oct. 25. For Hartford and vicinity: h. crcasing cIou,lincSs and warm CT tonight. Thursday rn- settled probably rain.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-25
GREEKS ATTEMPT ID
 PLACATE THE FRENCH
King Constantine Explains Attitude and Troops May
 Be Withdrawn.

Athens, Tuesday, Oct. "A, via Lon- don, Oct. 25, 1:O5 D. m.-The Greek government today issued communi- cation to clear up misunderstanding due to exaggerated reports of King Constantines interview with the French military attache on Friday. The communication explains that the French government made no de- mands, but merely submitted memo randum, and that the king never de- clared he was prepared to break off relations with the entente.
 It is thought that as a result of a conversation between the king and the French minister this morning, during which explanations were made, the French marines may be with drawn shortly from Athens and Pi- raeus.
 A Reuter- despatch sent from Athens on Friday said the French military attache had presented to the king demands that Greece transfer the en- tire military force in Thessaly to the southern part of the country and de- liver to the entente allies war ma- terials intended for the Thessalian forces, but there has been no previ- ous intimation that the king had threatened to break off relations with the entente.