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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-28
AT The THEATERS
At the Iris.

At the IT'S
The feature at the Iris today and to-
night. The Wall Between" according
to critics who have reviewed the play,
introduces a new theme in silent
drama
Two leaders in the film world are
shown Francis Y. Bushman and Bev-
erly Bayne The acting is intense, the
photography is flawless and unneces-
sary scenes are entirely omitted.
It can be said of THE Wall Be-
tween" If such a term can be applied
TO photo-dramas, that it is meaAsE
through and through.
Along with this feature comes Bur-
tor Holiness Easy Chair Trav-
elogues' Special music has been ar
ranged from an Aeohan harp and
grand piano Tomorrow matinee Will
be the chiIdren's performance while
"A Modern Thelma" comes in the
evening.
At the OrpheuDl.
Dorothy Gish with Owen Moore in
Little Meena's Romance" are the
headliners 1T the Orpheum today and
tonight The theme Of the feature
film takes a little girl from the COM
mon classes and leading her through
the experiences Sc common 20 the in
experienced girls of smaller towns
when they drift to certain quarters of
the great cities. finally brings her to
romantic period of a succe ssful ca
reer.
The Keystone comedy has been
changed again and The Wife's Mis-
take" will be the fun maker for today
and tonight Fatty Artuckle takes
the responsibility for the laughter pro-
duced. The vaudeville act and Calkins
orchestra round out the bill to perfcc-
ton.
Children's Matinee.
The matinees of moving pictures for
children are being continued and will
be given every Saturday afternoon at
the Iris theater so long as they are
sufficiently pstronized to make the
plan worth while
The program for Saturdays matinee
this week will include a five reel pic
ture. TIE Wizard of o." and a two
reel picture in colors. The Children
of the Netherlands
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-28
POLICE To STRIKE, TOO
Will Quit Jobs Unless Strike Deputies
Are Taken Off Streets.

Pittsburg. Pa. April 2S.-Nine po-
Hcemen making up the force at Will
merding. where the Westinghouse Air
Brake company's plant is closed be-
cause of the strike of electrical and
munition workers. in the Turtle creek
valley, notified the chief of police to-
day that they would resign unless the
deputy sheriffs were removed. They
said they had no objection to the
deputies remaining at the works, but
they did not want them patrolling the
town
Quiet prevailed in all the strike
boroughs in the valley. strikers gem
orally remaining off the streets. Their
leaders claim they now have more
than 10000 workers out, and that
many other trades will join them on
Monday. all seeking the eight-hour
day. Reports that BARRIERS and ele-
vator operators had demanded shorter
hours and higher wages further COM
plicated the labor situation.
Attacks Wilson; Is Arrested.
Philadelphia, April 28.-Govern-
ment agents made known today that
they have under arrest H B. Stilz.
formerly draughtsman at the Phila-
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
SPORTING

A Detroit writer says that Pitcher
shape by killing stones flung from his
right hand.
April 20, the Princeton varsity and
junior varsity crews will measure
blades with Harvard on Lake Car
negie; for the Childs cup on Schuyl-
kill River course at Philadelphia on
May IS against Pennsylvania, Col
umbia and the Naval Academy, and
May 27 the Princeton crew V i'll row
Cornell at Ithaca.
Owing to the poor showing made
by Fred Fulton in his bout with Porky
Flynn, Promoter Tortorich has called
off the Willard match so far as he is
concerned.
Lawrence Waterbury and j. c. Wa
terbury of New York Racquet and
Tennis Club are the national racquets
doubles champions for 1916.
A nine days ice frolic was started
at st. Paul, Min. Movies are shown
inside an ice fort.
Paris LIE Journal Oficiel prints a
decree announcing that the State ac-
cepts the late H. B. Duryea's gift of
the thoroughbred stallion Barney,
which will be placed in the national
stud.
Connie Mack, manager of the Phila-
delphia Athletics, released to the Bal.
timore Internationals' pitchers Knowl-
sol and Sherman and infielder Kopf.
Ernie Hjertberg, the Swedish Olym-
pic coach, expects to be in this coun-
try for another four weeks unless he
is summoned back to Sweden unex
pectedly.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
FOREIGN

The capital stock on the CONSOLIDATE
ed Mining and Smelling Co. of Canada,
Ltd, has been increased from $780,
900 to SIS, 900, 900.
Announcement was made in Rome
that the American Academy has plac-
ed at the disposal of the Italian Gov
eminent the Villa Mirafiori for blind
and m%utiliated soldiers.
A report from Copenhagen says that
strikes involving $4,000 men will be
begun mostly in the s~hipyards.
Twenty-thousand Chinese rebels,
with II cannon are marching on Pekin.
The Austrian wheat crop is expect
ed to be a record one.
The British Government will pur-
chase the entire 1916 grain harvest
of Rumania.
Cardinal MERCER of Belgium held his
farewell audience with Pope Benedict.
The National Bank of Cuba shipped
$500, 900 in gold and $135. 900 in silver,
in the new currency to Cuba.
A report from London says that al.
though ordinary crime has decreased
in Prussia since the beginning of the
war, juvenile crime has increased
alarmingly.
Germany is seeking to arrang a
| meeting between King Ferdinand of
Bulgaria and George of Greer e.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
WASHINGTON

Secretary Lansing informed the Sen.
ate Foreign Relations Committee that
Col. E. NJ. House, who is touring
Europe as President Wilson's person
al representative, is receiving no pay
outside of his expenses.
The Supreme Court adjourned until
Monday, Feb. 81.
Representative Emerson of Cleve-
land will lead a fight to permit the
to babies reported to be starving in
Germany.
A bill providing for a tax of 10
per cent on war munitions, except
those manufactured for the United
States, was introduced in the House
by Representative Flood of Virginia.
Optimism over the Lusitania stu
alton among officials was reawakened.
A more hopeful view, based on de-
velopments, was taken.
President Wilson's statement in his
Pittsburgh speech that he has not
fixed on any of the many plans pro-
posed for raising an army of defense
mas lCNifOU IAC hOPOS " dIAS
leaders in Congress that some other
way than the establishment of a con-
tinental army will be chosen.
One thousand bundles of petitions
urging an embargo on war munitions
to Europe, and signed by 1000, 900
persons, were presented to the Senate.
Secretary Daniels will test the wire
less detective invented by Frederick
holster of Washington. The device
locates the source of radio messages.
General Leonard Wood told the
House Committee on Military Affairs
that the United States fleet would
be at the bottom of the sea in sixty
days or less if tbs country were at
tackled by a first class power.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
GENERAL

Gasoline prices, tank wagon basis,
were advanced l cent a gallon to 20.5
cents at Nashville, Tenn.
Gen. Villa, bandit chief. is reported
to be surrounded by C~arranzista
forces nea FL Vale, Mexico.
A charter was issued at Ottawa TO
the Chalmers Motor Co, of Canada,
Ltd, capital, l 1000, 900.
The Pullman Co. will add 1000 men
to its working force, making its num-
Der of employees 5000.
Shipments of fresh and cured meats
from Chicago last week tCtalled so
CIT, 900 pounds.
Crude oil was advanced 5 cents a
barrel to rs cents at Healdton. Okla.
All Philadelphia sugar reineries ad-
Prince Eric of Denmark, arrived at
New York on the steamship Helig
Olav. He will go to Canada to study
agriculture.
Greene County. H., was partially
inundated following the breaking of
the levee of the Illinois river at Hart
we'll.
The Baltimore & Ohio has placed
orders for 5000 steel hopper cars.
The principal Crane Paper Manu-
featuring Co., of Dalton, Mass, an
nounced a five per cent increase in
the wages of it's 500 employees.
The Holland-America liner Noordam
arrived at New York from Rotterdam.
On her trip over, she was compelled
to leave 1858 bags of mail at Fal-
mouth.
The battleship Oklahoma, built by
the New York S~hipbuilding Co., re-
turned to the company's yards at Cam
den, N. j., after successfully under
Going tests.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
PITH OF THE
WAR NEWS

In Mesopotamia, the situation of the
British force surrounded in kut-el-
Amara for more than two weeks is
becoming desperate. Since the Bri-
fish troops attempting to relieve
kut were driven back a week AGO,
they have not renewed their at.
tempt to reach the city.
Further progress in the occupation of
the cameroons was announced in a
London official statement, which
tells of the taking of Ebolwoa, 100
miles inland and 40 miles north of
the French Congo border, by a
strong French column which was
spendidIy equipped.
The Russian advance, which was the
climax of w weeks of concentrated
attacks, gained forty miles of forti-
fled positions around Erzerum.
The British entered the German
trenches about the kemmel-Wyt-
schaete road, killing or capturing
the men in it.
During the month of January British
casualties published reach a total
of 1,o79 officers and 1924 men.
Food riots were resumed in Berlin,
and in the latest clash six persons
were killed and sever injured by
troops who were called to uppress
the disturbances, London reported.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
Martin Would Be Governor.

Secretary of State Thomas F. Mar
tin announced his candi lacy for the
Democratic nomination for Governor.
His unexpected entrance into the race
is calculated to further complicated
a situation already full of entangle-
ments. q
Giving consideration to the strained
relations which have existed between
Mr.. Martin and Naval Officer H. Otto
Wittpenn, who has been regarded as
Hudson's logical candidate for Cover
nor, the new candidacy can scarcely
be seriously regarded as condu tive
to harmony. On the contrary, it.
seem to indicate a reopening of the
old sores that have kept Hudson poll
tics in a turmoil for years past.
One of the views of the situation is
Mr.. Martins announcement may be a
reminder to the Wittpenn forces that
the Fielder-Martin wing of the party
is to be reckoned with, and that the
Wittpenn followers in the Legislature
must not act in a too high-handed
manner
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
What the Wires Report Of the
Worlds Happenings
ALL INCIDENTS OF INTEREST
What People Are Doing Everywhere
Tales of Great Events From
Every cllme-Reports From
Other States.
WAR BULLETINS

Lieut.. Harold C. Tennyson of the
British Navy, grandson of the poet,
has been killed.
France has released 5000 bales of
American Gotten which have been stor-
ed at Havre and Boulogne.
Several anti-war demonstrations by
women have occurred at Dusseldorf
and other German cities.
British casualties published during
the month of January totalled 1919
officers and 1924 men.
The Japanese Foreign Office denied
q report that Japan and England had
signed a treaty recognizing Japan's
superior right in the Far East.
Emperor Franz Josef's condition is
improved.
Germany is reported to be manufac-
turing a new 22-in h gun.
Col. E. NJ. House left Berlin for
the United States via Switzerland,
Paris, and London.
Essad Pasha, with his Albanian for
ces has effected a junction with the
Italian troops in Albania,
Russian and Turkish troops in the
Caucasus are fighting in snow four
teen feet deep in some places.
Brig. Gen. George N. Hodson, of
the Indian army, who was wounded
at the Dardanelles, died at Malta.
Dispatches from Rome state that
Prince Mirko of Montenegro is be-
lieved to have been either killed or
captured by the Austrians at Scutari.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
Trenton People Win Again.

The people of Trenton won another
victory in their fight for a continual
ton of the sale of the six-for-a-quarter
tickets by the Trenton & Mercer
County Traction Corporation. Judge
Burlington, of the United States Cir
cult Court of Appeals, affirmed the
refusal of Judges Woodley, Rellstab
and Haight, in the District Court, to
grant the application of the traction
companies for a preliminary i~njunc-
ton to restrain the Board of Public
Utility Commissioners from enforc-
ing an order for the continued sale
of the tickets.
In view of the Importance of the
case, both to the companies and to
the people of Trenton, Judge Buffing-,
ton pointedly declares that it should
be heard on final hearing as Don as
possible, and as the calendars of the
Court at Trenton are so crowded as
to prevent Judges Rellstat and Haight
from hearing it for some time, Judge
Burlington especially assigned Judge
Woolley, of Wilmington, IN associate
on the Court of Appeals Bench, to
hear the case, so that al earlier dis
position can be had.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04

Headquarters Of the Carranza gov
eminent, established at Queretaro, win
be maintained there a year.
Burglars cracked the safe of the
United Cigar Store at 113 Lenox Ave-.
New York city, and escaped with $500.
A voluntary increase of n cent per
yard was granted to the weavers of
the Diamond Silk Co., of Paterson,
N. j.
The storms of the past week In
the West and Northwest are reported
to have damaged the growing wheat
crop.
Secretary of State Thomas F. Mar
tin, of New Jersey, announced his can
didacy for the democratic gubernator-
ial nomination.
Leo. A. Struck, engraver of the por-
trait of Abraham Lincoln that is &C.
knowledged as the best likeness, died
at his home at Orange, N. j., aged 81.
President Wilson made his first pre-
p~aredness speech from a train before
a crowd of several hundred people at
Waukegan, Illinois.
The Texas and Pacific Railway re-
Ownership hearing, which was to have
been held at Dallas, Tex, was post
poned until Feb. 16.
Production of the Island Creek Coa
Co. during 1915 amounted to 2,z1o'-
GIG tons, against 2,2O7, 445 in 1914.
After having been damaged by a
Lao,-- 14o-p, tho banana liner Al
lianca arrived at New York from Girls
tobal.
A report from Washington says
that President Wilson will urge Sec
rotary of Labor Wilson to run for
the U. S. Senate to succeed Senate
Oliver.
Samuel S. Chamberlain, editor OF
the Boston American died at San
Francisco, aged "a.
County officers in Oklahoma Will
use armored motor cars hereafter IN
pursuing train and bank robbers.
Mines and smelters of the three
copper camps at Clifton, Morenci, and
Medcalf, Ariz., shut down for more
than four months by a strike, were
reopened.
The two American soldiers who
were captured by Mexicans near Pro
gresso, Tex, were returned to the
United tates unframed.
Shipbuilding yards on the Great
Lakes are so busy that no contracts
for vessels can be entertained by them
before September, 1917.
Fire destroyed the Albany Garage
Co. plant at the Odd Fellows Temple
at Albany, N. Y, at a loss of $500 600.
Four American troopers were
drowned near Progresso, Tex.
Cut nails were advanced So per
ton to $2.10 per keg in Pittsburgh.
Crude oil prices were advanced 5
cents a barrel by the Ohio Oil Co.
Flood conditions along the Illinois
river continue serious.
A seat on the Boston Stock Ex-
change was sold for SIT, 500.
Crude oil prices were advanced 5
cents a barrel by the Texas Co.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
Wreckers Twice Fail.

What was believed at the time to
have been an attempt to wreck the
munition train which passes over the
Pennsylvania Railroad through the
river front towns several nights ago
at Cambridge station, one mile below
Riverside, took on a more mysterious
aspect the next night, vixen a similar
attempt was made to wreck on of the
fast trolleys of the Public Service
Railway, a few feet away The crew
of a trolley car discovered a section
gangs tool chest across the railroad
track and t%elephoned their dispatcher
to notify the station agent at River
side of the obstruction. Before the
officials could act a west-bolnd pass
enger train struck it and hurled it
aside. The chest was full of heavy
iron tools and weighed fully 500
pounds. and that it did not derail the
train is miraculous.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
PLANS A NEW ROAD SYSTEM
Legislative Committee Favors Many
Changes in Present Method.

Changes in Present Method.
An adequate system of repair, con-
tinuity of road improvements embrac-
ing a system of State roads and re,
cognition of the States duty to main
tain a system of public highways were
pointed out as the three things that
the road problem in this State most
needs at the present time in the re-
port of the Joint Highways Com
mittee of the last Legislature made
to the present session. The commit
tee was not in favor CT a State tax
or a bond issue TO obtain these essen
tials at present, but pointed out that,
before undertaking an extraordinary
outlay, the State should first adopt an
adequate and comprehensive system
of road building and repair.
The report was accompanied by
drafts of two bills designed to carry
the committees ideas into effect. One
would create a new road department
to be under the supervision of a
State Road Advisory Board consisting
of the Governor, president of the Sen
dCe, d Oh Ln0 HOUSE anu state
Geologist. This Board would name
a State Road Commission of three
members, each representing a dis
trict into which the State would be
divided. The southern counties would
be one district, the middle counties the
second and the northern counties the
third.
This Road Commission would anne
a State engineer and assistant at sal
aries Of $500 and $4,000 respectively,
and the members of the Commission
would receive $4,000 each. The
second bill would transfer the fun
ctions of the present Department of
Motor Vehicles from the Secretary Of
States Department to the new road
department. 1t was reported that the
improved highway system of the State
had cost approximately $25, 900, 900 for
about 3400 miles of State-aid and
county roads 1t is estimated there
are 1000 miles of roads indifferently
improved and about 1 $500 miles in
their natural condition.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
STOLE SOLDIERS MONEY.

Thief on British censor's Staff Is
Sent to Prison.
London.-The latest trouble of the
British censor is the discovery of a
thief in his office. The man is a
Dutchman who was employed in the
examination of letters and he has just
been sentenced by a London magis-
trate to three months Imprisonment
for stealing postal order from CORE
spondents addressed to British pris-
oners. He admitted that in order to
hide his thefts he destroyed the letters.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
Writ on Garbage Contract.

Mayor William Riddle, of Atlantic
City, made application in the Supreme
Court for a writ of certiorari to review
the action of the City Commission
adopting ordinances providing for the
purchase by the city of the equipment
of the Atlantic City Products Company
at a cost of $4,000. Mayor Riddle
charges hat the equipment is not
worth more than $500.
The Atlantic City Products Com
pany at present has a contract with
the city which will expire on Au-
gust /.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
examinations for State Jobs.

examinations TOT otdIC JOOS.
Examinations open to male and fe-
male residents of the State for mu-
scum assistant in the State Depart
ment of Conservation and Develop
nent will be held at the State House.
February IA. The place will pay
$1,000 per year.
Tests open to female residents of
the State will be held February 81
for the position of nurse at the Sol
diers' Home at Kearny, paying $40
ner month, and chief nurse at the
7ame institution at a salary of $50
per month
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
eERAMNs RENEW OFFENSIVE.

GERAMNs RENEW OFFENSIVE.
Paris.-German Zeppelins raided
Paris twice within 2 hours. Nine
women were killed and IA wounded,
n baby was killed and two children
wounded. the total casualties being
"a.
One of the houses in which the most
serious damage was done was a home
in which the family had met to cele-
brate the return of a son, a Zouave,
on leave of absence from the front.
Around the table were the grandfather
sc years OF age; his daughter, the
latter's husband, and aunt, two sons
and a girl of Is years. Seven mutt
lated corpses were found in the
wreckage of the house.
Renewal of the Gerran offensive
south of the Somme, in France, re-
suited in tie capture by the Germans
of two miles of French positions
south of Frise and also the capture
of that village. Northeast of Neu-
vile the Germans stormed trenches
over a front of LOO yards, Berlin
CldlLnInS IHe capture Oh 1,AoI
and nine machine guns.
Turkish airmen dropped bombs on
an Allied monitor. which fired upon
Akbach, in the Dardar lies. Three
bombs hit the vessel aft of the bridge,
setting it ablaze, so that only with
difficulty could the monitor flee to the
Bay Of K~ephalos On the island of I'm
bros, reported Constantinople.
Abandonment of all ,ttempts to
stop the Teuto, drive through Alban-
ia is foreshadowed in an official state
ment issued by the French War Office
telling of the continued retreat of the
Serbians.
The British army besieged at Kut-
el-Amara by the Turks has driven
back the investing force. The Mos
lens have evacuated their trenches
on the land side of the city and with
drawn to about a mile from the Brit
ish defenses.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04
NORWAY GUARDS NEUTRALITY

Won't Discontinue Treaty Of 1907
Lest Motive Be Questioned.
London.-The Norwegian Govern
ment has decided not to give notice
to Great Britain, France, Russia and
Germany of the discontinuance of this
treaty of 1907 guaranteeing her indie.
pendence and territorial integrity, ac
cording to the Christiania Journal
A despatch from Reuters Copenhagen
correspondent quotes the Journal as
saying the announcement was made
by the Norwegian Foreign Minister.
The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-04

Rome.-The Russians are pushing
the advantage they have gained in
the Caucasus and were reported to
be closely investing Erzerum, where
so, 900 Turks, under Field Marshal
Won der Goltz, are penned in, with
only two weeks provisions on hand.
The situation of the Turkish army
is said to be much more serious than
previous reports here indicated.
On the western front the Germans
continue their offensive and announce
another gain south of the Somme,
where they threw their line forward in
a hand-grenade fight.
Near Messines, Flanders, the Bri-
fish fought their way through the
German first line of defenses and
gained a foothold in the trenches,
but were dislodged in sharp counter
attacks.
In the Eastern theatre artillery bat
ties are reported from the Riga region
to Galicia, but the infantry actions
have been sporadic and only small
forces have been involved. The Rus
slams say hat the Germans near
Lake Narotche fired shells of large
calibre emitting a pugent odor.
In the Austro-Italian arena artillery
duels are practically continuous. On
the Isonzo front the Austrians have
thrown shells on the Commons Rail-
road station and IN the Moraro coun-
try, killing some civilians.
The most recent military movement
reported from the Balkans is an air
raid On Saloniki, where a German air
ship is said by Berlin to have sue
eessfully attacked Entente ships and
depots.
The Austrians continue their ad.
vance in Albania, and occupied in force
San Giovanni di Medua and Danilo-
grad. The Serbians near the two towns
retreated toward Durazzo. They had
previously sent away their cannon by
French trawlers, which DOL the guns
from the Adriatic port to Brindisi.