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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-03-11

IL. B, REEVES. boarding officer:
Maj.lGen. Fred Funston is q small
man physically. but II there's anyone
who can catch villa il Is he.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-01-06
Sporting

Mike" Devanny, the two mile ma
tional indoor champion, has started
his training for a hard campaign on
the board floors this winter.
Jack Abel of Chattanooga defeated
Mickey Sheriden of Chicago in a fu-
rious eight round bout in Chattanooga.
Ted Lewis, the Whitechapel lad,
carried the British colors through ten
rounds OF courageous and efficient
fighting against the best 142-pound
fighter America can produce-Willie
Richie, of California and now the
welterweight championship in New
York.
Thomas l.. Shevlin, millionaire lum-
herman and Yale football coach, died
in Minneapolis of pneumonia. He was
stricken with the malady after being
weakened by overwork and exposure
in drilling the Yale eleven last Fall
Official announcement has been
made that the Washington and JEFF
ferson football team will play Rut
gers College on the ePolo Ground,
in New York City. on next Thangs.
giving Day.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-01-06
CAR HURLS GREAT ARMIES
AGAINST AUSTR0-GERNlAHS
100000 ON 30O-MILE LInIE
New hlusCOvte Offensive in GaIca Is in Full sygiaq--
Series of Battles Projected in Effort to influence
Rumana to Join the War
BRITISH SHIP NATAL SUNK BY INTERNAL EXPLOSION

London.-Hard battles were fought
by the vast Russian force which is
pressing the new campaign of the Car
IN Bessarabia, and the attacks covered
a front of 300 miles, from the Pripet
River to the Rumanian border.
The initiative over a distance of
100 miles on the Volhynian and Cali
clan fronts is firmly on the side of
the Russians, who seem to be securely
established across the Styr River north
OF Czartorysk. They have captured
the village of Khriask, three miles
from the river.
Inc Russians continue to pour rein.
1orcements into the region. and al
though the number of their troops en-
gagged in the drive is not disclosed. re-
ports from the Entente sources indi-
cate that the Muscovite forces are
much larger than those opposing them.
The Austrians and Germans are said
to total at least 100000.
Dispatches from Petrograd emnba.
size the excellence of the equipment
and munitions and the abundance of
the supplies of the Russian army. ac.
cumulated in the period of inactivity
following the retreat before the Ger.
mans in the last campaign.
London observers assert the Bessa.
rabian move is likely to become the
greatest dash of the whole war. and
predict it will be a colossal attempt to
break the backbone of the whole line
OF the Central Powers and their allies
across the Balkans.
Both the Central Powers and Russia
have been for months trying to fnfu-
ence Rumsria to intervene on tbeil
sled. Rus inn having failed 10 obtain
Rumantan consent to drive through her
territory for an invasion of Bulgaria.
sent the large army which had been
massed IN Besssrahla 20 the Cal.ctan
front with the object it is believed.
Of winning over King Ferdinand by
iniicting a decisive defeat of the Aus
tro-German troops there.
The British warship Natal a first.
class armored cruiser, was blown Nd
in an English port, with heavy loss OF
life. The Admiralty stated officially
that the explosion was due to internal
causes aboard the vessel.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-01-06
Foreign

Germany is reported to have dis
covered a successful substitute for cot
ton in the manufacture of gurpowder.
Two Austrian torpedo boat destroy
ers have been sunk as a result of an
encounter with sea forces Of the al
lies at a point outside of Cattaro,
in the Adriatic.
Germany has extended recognition
to the de facto government of Mexico
headed by General Venustialo Car
"a lza.
Lieutenant-C Colonel Joseph Green
wood, aged so, committed suicide by
hanging in the Office of the Horse
Guards at Whitehall, London.
The Turkish Government announced
that money orders will be accepted
for Bulgaria, Austria Hungary, Ger
many, Switzerland, Holland and Scan
dinavia.
General Francisco Villa has re-or.
ganized the remnants Of his army and
Is making a march southwark to join
the Zapata forces.
Operations were begun on Jan.
1, by the syndicate organized by the
Swiss Government for the supervision
of the importation of iron, steel, and
other metals.
Fifty thousand cars of Rumanian
wheat were purchased by Germany.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-01-06
PITH OF THE
WAR NEWS

Montenegro is suffering from a great
dearth OF provisions, owing to the
sinking of foodships by Austrian
submarines in the Mediterranean.
The French armored cruiser Suffren
withdrew in flames after beinq hit
twice by Turkish shore batteries at
the DardaneIles.
The attitude Of Rumania continues
to grow in Importance, and REPORTS
have been renewed that the entrance
OF Rumania into the war on the side
of the Entente will not be DELAYED
much longer.
Operations In the Austro-ltalian arena
are confined to artillery dueIs.
Rumanla's entry into the war on tn.
side of the Allies is imminent. This
is the Interpretation placed here
on the new Russian offensive that
has been launched from Pripet to
Bukowina.
In the terrific battle in the vosoes for
the summit of Hartmanns-WeiIer.
kopf the French beat back German
counter attacks made with qren.
AIDES.
Every French soldier received az .
Now Years gift from the Govern.
nent a slice of ham, a Jar of lam
a pint Of wine, cigar, an ORANGE
and two apples.
sevsnty-fve thousand Serbian. h,v.
reformed at Soutari and EIoassan
In Albania, and the MonteneorIn
army is now throwing itself ener.
getloally into the contest aoaInst
tho Austrlans.
Tho Russian advance In Persia Ia At
points too remote to menace N.
Turks who are fighting the British
under General Townshend,e but Tho
move is counted upon to have an i'm.
portant political effect.
Vienna asserts the renewed onsIauoh+s
against the Austro Hunoari,ne
north OF the Bukowlna fron+ier
failed, with losses to the Russians
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-01-06

Amsterdam.-Two new landings by
the Allies in the near East are report
ed. The British have transferred some
troops from Saloniki to Orfano, a
small Greek port sixty miles east of
Saloniki, with the intention of check
ing any possibility of a hostile ad-
vance from that quarter.
The second landing was made by
the French on the Greek island of
Castelorizo, off the southeast coast OF
Asia Minor, not far from the import
ant seaport of Adalia.
An Athens dispatchs says that the
occupation of Adalia is the object of
the landing. A railway runs north Of
Adalia, and the presence there of
strong allied force would menace the
communications of any hostile force
operating against Egypt or the lower
Tigris region.
Rome reports that the Central
Powers have begun a general with
drawal from the entire Macedonian
front owing to the serious Russian
campaign in Bessarabia.
Durazo, capital of Albania and one
of the chief Albania seaIorts, was oc-
cupied by the Italians, according to re-
ports received by way of Geneva.
Exemption OF ireland from cOmpul
sorry military service, and a cOmpro-
mise on mild form OF CONSUMPTION,
averted the threatened crisis in the
British Cabinet, according to the gen
eral belief in London.
Russians, continuing their strong at
lacks in Galicia were again repulsed
with heavy losses, according to Wen
ma The Cars troops attempted to
storm the bridgohead at Bukau0y on
the Strypa, but were thrown back
leaving dead and wounded on the field
and SOC prisoners ia the hands OF the
Austrians.
An overwhelming force OF Turkish
troops destined to cooperate in the
Teuton-B Bulgarian drive on Saloniki,
is being rushed into Macedonia.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-01-06
FRIDAY,
the 9TH day of January, 1916,

at the hour Of two O'Clock p. m. in front of
the Garrett National Bank, on Second
Street, in the town of Oakland, Maryland,
offer at public sale to the highest bidder the
property mentioned in said mortgage and
described as follows, to wit:
All of that lot, piece or parcel of
ground situate, lying and being in the
town of Deer Park, Garrett County.
MARYLAND, and described as follows.
Beginning for the same at the junction
of the road leading to Oakland and the
road leading to Altamont and on the
North side of said road, then North 66
degrees West 163 feet, then South 20
degrees West 67 feet to the beginning,
this being the same property which was
conveyed to the said Claud C. Friend
by deed dated the 10th day of Deem
Der, 1911. by Phoebe Clark. ct al, and
duly recorded among the Land Records
of said Garrett county.
Said lot is improved by an excellent
dwelling, stable and other necessary
outbuildings.
TERMS OF SALE:-Cash on day of sale. Con
veyancing at cost OF purchaser.
WIN. X. OFFUTT. Mortgagee.
\. B. For further particulars consult
William K. Offutt, Attorney at Law. Garrett
National Bank Building. Oakland, Nd. Any
party making substantial and satisfactory
down payment can secure reasonable terms
for deferred payments.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-01-06
General

Mayor Thompson of Chicago re-
quested the secretary of the state of
Nebraska to withdraw his name from
the Republican Presidential primary
ballot.
The National Railway of Mexico
has closed contract with the Pull
man company for thirty sleeping cars
and diners with which to resume
service between San Antonio and
Mexico City.
Claude Jones, who, with Walter Nc
Farland, robbed the Bank of Grant at
Grant, Okla, of $4,000, died of gun
shot wounds. Jones and Mcfarland
were shot by Cashier Webb and the
money was recovered.
james B. McEwan, former mayor
of Albany and member of the State
Legislature for 10 years, died in AL
bany.
Colorado, Iowa, Washington, Ore
gon, Idaho, South Carolina, and Ar.
kansas decided to go on the water
wagon"
at is conceivable that means can be
devised for the transmission through
space Of a sufficient amount of energy
In electrical form to exterminate an
army Of men or to destroy battleships
on the high SEAS" DR.. Raymond F.
Bacon of Pittsburgh declared.
American Ambassador Willard Of
Spain arrived at New York from Dor.
deaux on the French line steamship
Rochambeau.
Seattle shipping men are forming
an organization to build and operate
three steamships to ply between Sc
attic and Hawaii, New Zealand and
Australia.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-01-06
coMpuLsloN FOR BRITAIN.

London.-The advocates in the
British Cabinet Of compulsory mill
tary service for all unmarried slack
ers" apparently have won the day
The departure from London OF many
of the leading Ministers after the Cab
met meeting is taken as indicating
that a final decision has been reach
ed. The question at issue was whether
or not compulsion should be applied
Immediately to bring into the army
every eligible unmarried man who
had failed to attest his willingness to
serve under Lord Derby's voluntary
enlistment plan.
According to the Daily Mail the re-
suit was a triumph for the principle
of single men first.
Andrew Bonar Law, the Colonial
Secretary, is quoted in an interview
given to the London correspondent OF
an Australian news agency as saying
that when the time comes for the con-
clusion of peace the dominions will
be consulted and their views will have
great weight in determining what the
terms of peace shall be-"
A despatch from Vienna says Chan
cellor Won Bethmann-Hollweg, OF Ger
many, is expected in Vienna soon
with the full conditions under which
the Teutonic Central Powers will &C
cept peace.
After discussing the terms with
Baron Won Burian, the Austrian For.
eign Minister, the conditions will be
officially communicated to the Allies,
Germany suggesting that the first con
ference be held at The Hague, asserts
the despatch.
French gun fire frustrated a Ger.
man sortie over an extensive front in
Alsace The French soldiery, then
under cover of the same guns, flung
themselves upon their retiring foes
and captured a number of trenches
between the Rehelfelsen and the
Hirzstein.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-01-06
Washin6

Prosecution OF oyster dealers found
guilty Of the practice Of adding fresh
water to shucked oysters SO as to
greatly increase their size. in viola
ton of the food and drugs act, will
be recommended by the Department
of Agriculture.
A statement issued by the Post Of
fee Department declares that the rec
ord-breaking Christmas mail was
handled with scarcely a hitch.
Democratic leaders in Congress are
demanding that President Wilson
shall consult them before he breaks
off diplomatic relations with Austria
or Germany.
Announcement is made that a pass
port bureau has been opened at No.
3 Rector street, New York, by the
State Department.
Secretary Daniels announced wage
Increase in ten different trades at
thirteen navy yards and naval sta
tons.
State Department officials began in
yestigating report that American
Consul Thomas d. Edwards at Juarez,
Mexico, had given an interview call
Ing Gen. Carranza "a bullheaded old
fool"
The State Department is preparing
q protest against British interference
with American mail to and from Hol-
land.
A whole-hearted fling at the pa
cifists "of the stamp of Messrs. David
Starr Jordan and Henry Ford" by
Theodore Roosevelt, enlivened the
Pan.American Scientific Congress.
Secretary of State Lansing issued
a formal denial that there is any
friction between Ambassadors Page at
London and Gerard at Berlin and
Penfeld at Vienna.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-01-06
CAPTURE GERMAN TRENCHES

Paris.-More German defenses in
the Vosges Mountains were added by
the French to the trenches captured
by them in the last few days.
Terrific fighting marked the battle
Tor MISUNDERSTANDING, and the
struggle is fast developing into one of
the big operations of the war.
After preparation by an intense
cannonading in which guns of all cali.
bre were employed, the Germans made
several counter-attacks in an effort to
recover lost ground The troops came
to grips in the open, and the Kaiser's
FORCES, although fighting with the ut
most determination, were repeatedly
driven back, yielding each time a
little more than they did before.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-01-06
BIG EVENTS
EPITOMIzED
The News the Wires Gather
From the Four Corners.
HISTORY IN PARAGRAPHS
Great Events That Are Changing the
Worlds Destiny Boiled Down
for Consumption by the
Busy Reader.
HISTORY IN PARAGRAPHS
War Bulletins

Lieut.. Rogers, of the British Royal
Flying Corps, was killed when his
aeroplane fell at Portsmouth Eng
land, while he was flying at low
altitude.
Bulgarian reserves of the classes
of 1916 and 1917 were called to the
colors beginning Jan. l.
The Turkish Government has ask
ed Parliament to authorize loan OF
Ss7 100000 from Germany.
Several splendidly equipped hos
pital trains have been presented to
the Teutonic Allies by residents of
Holland.
Russian troops occupied Kasban,
Persia.
The Bank of England bought $4,000
pounds in bar gold.
Captain Karl Boyd, the German
naval attache who was recalled, sail
ed from New York on the steamer
Rotterdam.
1t is estimated that the Norwegian
shipping lost in the war up to date
totals. 10000 tons, and its cost is
placed at S10,000,000.
Cash payment on the third German
war loan amounted to 11,111,900,OOO
marks, or ola per cent on Dec. %.
King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, Crown
Prince Boris, and German prince
are reported TO be en- route to
Monastir, Serbia, travelling incognito,
Russian troops have occupied the
important Persian town of Kashan
and are marching toward Ispahan,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-01-06

Harry K. Thaw, late of the Tombs,
New Hampshire, Canada and Mattea-
wan, is back on Broadway for spell.
Philadelphia manufacturers are pur.
chasing all available coal IN prepare
ton of q strike Of miners expected
early in 1916.
The American ambulance work in
Paris is costing $1,000 daily, accord
ing 10 Robert Bacon, former Ambas-
sador to France, and leader in the
work
The Cudahy Packing Co, has with
drawn from New Jersey.
Crude oil prices were advanced 10
cents a barrel by the Texas Co.
a rise of IS feet in the Connecticut
River was recorded at Hartford.
Cable communication with Dutch
Guiana via Hayti was restored by the
Postal Telegraph-Cable Co.
Owners of the st. Louis Federals
paid S425,O0O for the ST. Louis Am
erican base ball team.
Construction of the new 100000
sugar refinery at Port Wentworth,
Ca, will be started Immediately.
Pacific coast wheat prices are ad-
vancing steadily.
The Anaconda Copper Mining Co.
declared quarterly dividend of $50
share.
President Wilson appointed Lefert
Slack United States attorney at In
dianapolis.
An order for 10000 tons of steel
rails was placed with the Illinois
Steel Co., by the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois Railroad.
sioner of correction of New York City,
resigned to become a member of the
parole board.
Bringing $3,93OOO0 in gold, the Am
erican Line steamer New York ar
rived at New York from Liverpool.
Senator Charles o. Hennessy, of
New Jersey, has entered the race
for the Democratic nomination for
governor.
New York is the largest city in
the world. London, according to cable
dispatches, officially admits the city
is ahead by 100000.
More than a million acres of land
will be added to the bird reservations
in the United States if the National
Association of Audubon Societies,
with headquarters at No. 1874 Broad
way, New York, succeeds in having
all the cemeteries of the country con
verted into bird sanctuaries.
The British steamship EmbIa was
beached on Muckng Flats England
The crew was saved
The steamer Nieuw Amsterdam.
New York for Falmouth and Rotter
dam, went aground at Forkspit. near
Deal
Receivership for the Texas & Pa
cific Railway Co., was asked in pc
tition filed at Dallas, Texas, by at
torneys of the Bankers Trust Co.,
of New York
Damage of $4,000 was caused when
the Silver Opera House and several
homes burned at Railway, N. J.
Mortimer L. Schiff sent to the pre-
feet of police of Paris $4,000 to help
the mothers and children Of soldiers
at the front.
The building occupied by Comstock-
Willet Co., at Bridgeport Mass,
wholesale grocers, was damaged by
fire to the extent of 100000.
The Calumet G. Hecla Co. is re-
ported to have sold its entire copper
output up to April.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-01-06
Order Nisi.

Edward H. Sincell, assignee, VS.. Joseph E.
Lint, ct ux.
In the Circuit Court for Garrett County,
Maryland, No. 20s4 Equity.
Ordered, by the Circuit Court for Garrett
County, sitting in equity, this 18th day OF
December, 1915. that the sale of the property
mentioned in these proceedings as made ana
reported by Edward H. Sincell, Assignee,
be ratified and confirmed, unless cause to
the contrary thereof be shown on or before
the Dist day Of January, 1916, provided
copy of this order be inserted in some news
paper published in Garrett County once In
each of three successive weeks before the
l4th day of January, 1916.
The report states the amount of sale TO be
$4,000.
Z, 4. TOWER. Clerk.
True copy, Test: L. z. TOWER, Clerk.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-01-06
TAX SALE
OF VALUABLE
Real Estate
In Garrett County, Maryland.

Under and by virtue of the power
vested in the Treasurer of Garrett
County, MARYLAND, by section 81 of
Chapter 566, of the Acts of the General
Assembly of MARYLAND for the year
1890, title Garrett County," subtitle
County Treasurer, and as amended
by the General Assembly of Maryland
for the year 1898, Chapter IA, the un-
dersigned late Treasurer in and for
Garrett County, Maryland, will, on
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-01-06
PASSPORT DENIED Or. COOK.

Papers to Travel to Germany Refused
by Minister to Denmark.
Copenhagen. - DR.. Frederick A.
Cook, the explorer, and his secretary,
DR.. F. P. Thompson, called at the
American Legation. They expressed
much disappointment because the
Legation would not give them pass
ports into Germany.
DR.. Cook and his secretary may ap-
peal to the United States Government
against the decision not to supply
them with the passports.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-01-06
FRIDAY
the 31st day of December, 1915


at the hour of 10 O'Clock a. m. on the prem
ises of the said Jefferson Burch. located in
Election District No. in Garrett county,
Md, and about one and one-half miles west
of Blooming Rose | will offer for sale and
sell to the highest bidder or bidders all the
right title and interest of the said Jefferson
Burch in and to the following personal
property, to wit:
One brown bald-face Mare named
Nell; ! black Horse named Dock, l
black Mare named Bird, sets Harness,
l Road Wagon, lot of Spreaders and
Grabs, Hay Rake, 2 Cows, l lot of
Hay and Straw.
And further hereby give notice that upon
the same day and place and Immediately
after the sale of the above described person
al property | will offer for sale ana sell to
the highest bidder or bidders all the right,
title, interest and estate of the said Jeffer-
son Burch in and to all that part of the
tract OF land called "Yough Manor con-
tanning Il acres, more or less, and being the
premises WhereOn the said Jefferson Burch
now resides and being the same land which
was conveyed to the said jefferson Burch
by John H. Friend and wife by deed dated
May 4th, 1898, and recorded in Liber E. L. t.,
No. "a, folio 476, one of the Land Records Of
Garrett county, Nd.
TERMS OF SALE:-Cash on the day of sale,
ana no personal property to be removed I'M
I'LL terms are complied with.
Sheriff of Garrett County.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-01-06
Mortgages Sale
OF A VALUABLE
and Lot
In the town of Deer Park, Gar
rett County, Nd.

Under and by virtue Of 8 power of sale
contained in a mortgage from L. Z. Friend
and Claud c. Friend to William r. Odutt
dated the 18th day OF December, 1914, and
recorded in Liber f. Z. T, No. 81, folio 500.
one OF the Mortgage Records Of said Garrett
County default having occurred in the CON
ditiOn Of said mortgage, the undersigned.
the said mortgage, hereby gives notice that
he will on
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-01-06
THE STATE OF MARYLAND

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
DECEMBER Z, 1915.
To all whom 1t may concern:
Notice is hereby given that application has
been made to the Governor of Maryland for
the parole of Benjamin Helmick, who was
convicted at the December term, 1911, of the
Circuit Court for Garrett county of Assault
to rape, and sentenced to the Maryland
Penitentiary for period of five years.
The Governor will take up the said case
for final decision on or after Tuesday, Dec
ember q, 1915, until which time protests
against such application will be heard and
the papers filed will be open to inspection
at the discretion of the Governor
By order of the Governor
ROBERT P. GRAHAM,
Secretary of State.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-01-06
FRENCH CONDEMN soLvEIo.
Vessel Owned by American Transat-
IantIc Company.

Washington.-The steamer Solveig,
owned by the American Transatlantic
Company, has been condemned by the
French prize court. The owners will
appeal.
Flying a Norwegian flag, the Solveig
was seized while in a French port.
Her American papers reached her
Commander a few days later. Sus-
pected German ownership was given
as the cause for OBTAINING the vessel.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-01-06
MO ICE OF STOCKHOLD.
IN Frs MEETING.

The regular annual meeting of the stock
holders OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF OAK LAND, MARYLAND, will be held
at its Banking House on
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-01-06
Tuesday, January II, 1916,

from to O'Clock p. NJ, for the purpose of
electing Board of Directors for the ensuing
business that may be brought before them
r. E. SLIGER, Cashier.