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Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
April 20, 1915.

Heavy artillery fighting In Cham
payne and the Araonne.
Germans stormed and retook
EmbermeniI.
Russians repuIsed heavy German
attacks east Of Telepotch.
Severe fighting for possession of
the heights near OraVoziI.
Two Turkish torpedo boats blown
up by Russian mines at Bosporus
entrance.
German aeropIane squadron hom-
barded BiaIystok, Russian Poland.
Great air battle over the Rhine
won by allied airmen.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
April 1s. 1915.

Germans repuIsed English attack
near YPres and took position in
the Vosges.
French had successes at several
points In France and AIsace.
Russians made gains on the
heights Of TeIepotch.
British submarine Els ran
ashore In the DardaneIIes, and
was destroyed by British picket
boats.
Bread riots occurred In Vienna
and Bohemia.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
BOMB FALLS NEAR czAR.

Hurled From Austrian Aeroplane
Lands Few Feet From Emperor.
Petrograd.-Czar Nicholas had the
narrowest escape Wednesday from in
jury or death he has experienced since
the outbreak of the war. A bomb
hurled from an Austrian aeroplane at
the Russian Emperor, who was review
Ing troops in the little town of Iwantz.
on the Bessarabiau frontier, fell few
yards from where the monarch stood
and wounded young Russian private
standing guard.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
THE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
Aprn u, 1s1s.


French made progress In the
VosgeS In Champagne, and at
Fjotre Dame de Lorette.
Germans defeated French at
Flirey.
Russians repuIsed. attacks in d.
reetion Of the Stryj.
Gar Of Russia left for the front.
Turkish torpedo boat attacked
British transport in the Aegean,
100 being lost, and Turkish boat
was destroyed by two warshIps.
Greek steamer EIIispontis torpe-
doed in North sea.
French airship bombarded Strass-
burg and German aeroplanes at
tackled Amiens.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
INTERESTING NOTES FOR ALL

Radium is valued at nearly SO, ,00O,-
900 a pound.
Last year the United States pro-
duced 100000 tons of zinc.
Half the people of Maryland live in
Baltimore.
All substances are more or less
radioactive.
France was the first country to use
an ambulance.
The total length of the worlds rail-
ways is estimated at 100000 miles.
twenty-five members of the Allen
town Rotary Club organized Rotary
Club at Bethlehem.
The worlds largest electric sign Is
in New York, being 261 feet long by
more than Is feet high and containing
1916 lamps.
The cat, sheep and turkey are ex-
ceptions to the rule that animal
species increase in size after domes-
ticarion. An average wild sheen
weighs 100 pounds more than his farm
yard cousin.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
WANTS VILLA HUNTED DOWN.
Troops To Stay Till Then, Says House
Resolution.

Washington. - Another McLemore
resolution bobbed up in Congress when
the Texas Representative introduced a
measure providing that the American
forces now in Mexico must not be with.
drawn until Villa has been killed, cap
tured or forced into exile. The \pre.
amble of the resolution charges that
Carranza has placed obstacles in the
way of the United States Army and
has thereby impeded the capture Of
Villa.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
Virtues Attributed to stone.

Many virtues are attributed to car
buncles. 1t is related that those who
wear them can resist poisons and are
preserved from the pest. They dissi-
pate sadness, control incontinence,
avert evil thoughts and dreams, ex-
hilarate the soul and foretell misfor-
tune to man by losing their native
NDlendor.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
PHYSICIAN ATTACKED BY cow.
Animal Breaks Chain and Two Ribs OF
Its Victim.

Martinsburg, w. Va-Dr. George D.
Swimley is in a serious condition at
his home, near Bunker Hill, as a re-
suit of being gored by a COW. The
animal, which was chained because of
its ugly disposition, broke it's chains
and charged on the physician. DR..
Swimley was knocked down and was
rescued after he had sustained serious
injuries, including two broken ribs.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
Ap-lI %, 1915.

Great battle near Ypres, Ger
mans forcing way across the canal
and capturing several villages.
French made gains farther
south.
Russians defeated Austrians in
5ukowina but lost heavily at
Uzsok pass.
Allied fleet bombarded Darda-
nelles forts.
General Joffre retired 29 gen.
erals.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
FOR AMERICAN TMMoRTALs."
President Signs Bill Creating Arts and
Letters Academy.

Washington. - President Wilson
signed the bill Incorporating the
American Academy Of Arts and Let
ters, which includes in it's membership
Mr.. Wilson, former President Roose-
Velt, and other authors, publicists and
artists. The President used an eagle
feather pen with which he signed the
repeal of the Panama Tolls Exemption
act.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
GIRL MURDERED IN HOME.
Deaf Father Was In House, But Knew
Nothing Of Crime.

Columbus. Ohio.-While her father,
who is deaf, slept upstairs, Lillian
Schwenker, aged 10, was dragged from
her home and thrown in a cistern in
the rear yard. Her mother and sister,
returning from picture show, found
tie house ransacked. They followed
trail of torn clothing to the cistern,
where they found the body.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
April "a. 1918.

French made progress at For
stat and near St. MihieI.
Russian cavalry invaded East
Prussia near MemeI.
Severe fighting In Uzsok pass
region.
Blockade Of Kamerun, German
West Africa, declared by Great
Britain.
Russian aeropIanes bombarded
MlaWa and PIotsk.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
MOVING PICTURES
WILL Be CENSORED
Governor Signs Bill Despite
Opposition.
PENSIONS FOR MOTHERS
Among Them Are Many important
Propositions, Including Meas
sures Creating a conser-
walton Commission.

strenuous opposition, Governor Har
rington signed the bill creating a
Board of Censors CT moving pictures.
Lloyd Wilkinson made a most earnest
protest against the measure. The bill
becomes effective June 1. The Cover
nor will not appoint the censors until
about the middle Of May. One OF
them must be a Republican. He has
very strongly hinted that one of the
censors will be q woman. Mrs. 8.
Johnson Poe and Miss Freshman have
been mentioned.
Among the other important bills OF
the two hundred and more signed were
the following:
Providing pensions for INDECENT
mothers.
General registration in the counties
prior to primary election day.
Reducing State Road Commission
to three members.
Authorizing Board of Public Works
to compromise suits for leases on
oyster beds returned to the State.
School building and conduit loans
! for Baltimore.
Conservation bill.
Uniform system of accounting in all
| state departments.
Imposing an additional tax Of $1OG
on saloons and a graduated tax on
hotels with bars attached.
Increasing traders licenses.
To pay for state patients in hos
on per capita basis.
State loan of 100000 for roads,
bridges and armories.
Bill revising corporation laws Of the
state.
Abolishing discounts on taxes.
Creating penal board.
Educational survey bill, which also
includes compulsory school attend
ance.
There yet remain over a hundred
bills to be signed, among them the
omnibus appropriation bills for 1917
and 1918. Over 80 bills have been
consigned to the morgue. The Cover
nor will complete the task of signing
bills marked for approval on Wednes-
day of next week.
The Circuit Court for Dorchester
county will meet April "a. The Gov
ernor hopes to attend the opening ses.
sion.
The impression was abroad in the
State House that the Governor will
sign the bill creating the board Of cen
sors of moving-pictures, and also the
bill providing pensions for widows.
Among other bills awaiting the Cover
nor's signature are the following:
Providing for the working Of con,
victs on public roads.
Appropriating $4,000 for erection Of
lime manufacturing plant in Southern
Maryland.
Omnibus appropriation bills for 1917
and 1918 for institutions.
Amending the health laws.
Appropriation for erection Of hos
pital in Charles county.
Relating to the salary Of the sheriff
of Baltimore City.
Game laws for several counties.
Granting use of Fifth Regiment
Armory to Elks.
Transferring the tobacco warehouses
to the Board of Agriculture.
Bill reducing tolls on the Havre de
Grace bridge.
Creating Board of Labor and Stats
tics.
Incorporation of the Baltimore Tran
;it and Terminal Company.
Transferring the powers and duties
If the State fire marshal to the State
insurance Commission.
General game bill.
State Board of Prison Control.
Tax on commissions Of executors
Ind administrators.
Creating State law department.
General bill increasing license fees.
Road bond bill
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
WOULD LIMIT U. S. FORCE.
carranza To Insist That Thousand
cavaIrymen Make Up Expedition.

Mexico City.-The Mexican govern.
ment will insist with inflexible deter
mination that any armed expedition of
the United States which enters Mexi-
can territory in the guise of a punitive
expedition must be limited to 1000
men of one service alone, cavalry, ac-
cording to a statement made by Juan
Neftali AmadOr, subsecretary Of for
eign relations. During the absence of
Gen. Candido Aguilar, minister of for
eign relations, in Queretaro, Subsecre-
tary Amador is in charge of the For
eign Office and is conducting its course
in international affairs.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

Italian army engineers will sink a
large number Of artesian wells in an
endeavor to convert a large area of
desert land in Tripoli into an oasis by
irrigation.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

Ebert H. Gary, president of the
United States Steel Corporation, now
a multimillionaire, was once a clerk
at $12 a week in a Chicago public
Office.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

An English scientist believes there
is an individuality in heart beats af-
fecting the handwriting to such a de.
gree that it can be identified when the
writing is magnifed.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

The Russian Emperor is a great
walker. rider. bicycler and enjoys
playing tennis and ninepins. He is
also an excellent swimmer.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
FARMERS UP AGAINST 1T.
New Workers Report Unprecedented
Shortage Of Labor.

New York.-Farmers and market
gardeners in New York and nearby
States are suffering an unprecedented
shortage Of laborers, says John J. Dill
lon, State Commissioner of State
Foods and Markets. Authorities say
there has never been such a demand
for farm help and so limited supply
as at present.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
FOR LARGER COMMERCE BOARD
House Pssses Adamson Bill and Sends
It To Senate.

Washing tJn.-The Adamson bill to
enlarge the Interstate Commerce Com
mission to rine commissioners at s1O,-
0C0, with authority to subdivide the
commission into three or more sec
tions for distribution of it's work, was
passed By the House and went to the
Senate. The bill was argued by Presi-
dent Wilson on account of the in
creased business of the commission.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

President Wilson will be invited to
speak at the Old Home Week celebra-
tion at Mauch Chunk the latter part Of
May.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
50 PEOPLE HURT
IN RAILWAY WRECK
Accident in the New Haven
at Bradford, R. |.
SEVERAL ARE ALSO KILLED
Number OF Dead May Not Be Known
For Several Days, AS the Cara
That Composed the Local
Art a Charred Mass.

Westerly, R. 1.-The Gilt Edge Ex,
press, of the New Haven Railroad
from Boston to New York, crashed into
local train at Bradford, r. l. The
express was travelling at high speed
through the fog. The local, train
composed entirely of wooden cars, was
standing still at the station.
At least so persons were injured,
some seriously. How many are dead
may not be known for several days.
The New York, New Haven and Hart
ford Railroad Company says, from one
to three. Survivors say, wreck tell
a story of trapped passengers in the
wooden cars that has given rise to re-
ports of from 10 to II deaths.
No bodies have been recovered.
Cars charred Mass.
The four cars that composed the To-
cal are charred mass, For the time
they hide the record of the death. The
station at Bradford is in ruins.
The accident occurred on a straight
stretch of track, five miles from here.
The express train te!escoped the
last two coaches. Many passengers
on the Gilt Edge were badly injured.
No one on the limited lost his life.
Immediately after the crash the boiler
of the express engine exploded, setting
fire to all the cars of the local train.
From the flaming mass of wreckage
the fire spread to the freight sheds,
alongside the tracks, and then to the
Bradford Station.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

Herbert Orr, formerly an assistant
in the quartermaster's division of the
War Department, and Mrs. Watkins.
of Boonville, Ind, were struck by a
car on the Washington, Baltimore and
Annapolis Electric Railroad, near
Academy Junction, and instantly
killed.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

Mrs. R. Marion Leonard, near Skip
ton, Talbot county, committed suicide
by sws& sowing carbolic acid.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

Harry S. Allows tailor shop and
furnishing store, at Hagerstown, was
burned.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

Despite the fact that under the rul-
ing Of the State Tax Commission, Allie
gany county's taxable basis has been
reduced $2.OOO,OOO, and the further fact
that S45,000 of debt was paid off, the
Allegany county commissioners fixed
the county tax rate at 81, the same
rate that prevailed last year.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
SANTIAGO eREETs AMERICANS.
Entire Press Welcomes international
High Commission.

High Commission.
Santiago, Chile.-William G. Nc
Adoo, Secretary Of the Treasury of the
United States, and the other members
of the delegation to the International
High Commission, arrived here from
Buenos Aires. The entire press Of
Chile has united in welcoming the dele
cation, the hope being generally ex-
pressed that the visit will result in
strengthening the friendly understand
ing between the two countries.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

Strasburg, the capital of Alsace, was
annexed by Germany in $40, taken by
France in 1881 and recaptured by Ger
many in 1870.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

Fire destroyed the residence of Dor
8ey Gloyd, at Gafthersburg.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
LIMIT FOR TROOPS
IN VILLA CHASE
Wilson will Negotiate Agree.
ment on That Basis.
PURSUIT WILL CONTINUE
Baker Announces That No Change Is
Contemplated In PIans-Persh.
ing Reports Two Killed
At ParraI.

shington.-President Wilson has
decided to inform General Carranza,
in response to his request for with
drawal of the American troops from
Mexico, that the United States will
negotiate for an agreement along
these lines:
1.-THE United States Government is
willing to agree to fix limit on the
distance the American troops now in
pursuit of Villa shall proceed into
Mexico, and to make that limit not
much farther south than the troops al
ready have proceeded.
"The United States Government is
willing to give assurances that the
American troops will be withdrawn
within "a reasonable time or as soon
as it is definitely established that Villa
has reached a point where he can be
dealt with better by the Carranza
forces"
Pursuit To Continue.
The Presidents advisers are said to
have agreed on such a course in the
belief that it would make stronger the
chance of catching Villa. A reply to
General Carranza is said to be virtual.
ly completed and is expected to go for.
ward in very short time.
Meantime the pursuit Of Villa by
the American troops will continue.
Secretary Baker sharply outlined this
in formal statement.
THE status of the expedition into
Mexico is as it was at the beginning.
in cordial cooperation with the de
facto government of Mexico" he said.
THAT cooperation continues and the
expedition continues. There has been
no change in the orders and none is in
contemplation"
Secretary Baker and other officials
laid stress on the fact that co-opera-
ton of the Carranza troops was re-
garded as an important element, and
the negotiations for an agreement with
the de facto Government will be con-
Quoted with the idea that such an
agreement would strengthen Carranza
at home, and at the same time make
the task of catching Villa easier.
The lines Of communication of |
American troops following Villa al |
ready have heightened to the point
where sending supplies has become diff
fcult, and it is realized here that it
would be extremely hazardous for
them to go much farther.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

The voters of Mount Rainier decided
in favor of 100000 bond issue for a
water systemand sewerage plant.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

Fire destroyed the residence of Mrs.
Callie Swope, near Chewsville
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

The Eastern Conference of Mary
land, Church of the Brethren, met at
Meadow Branch, Carroll county.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

Governor Harrington signed over 200
bills passed by the legislature.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
The Station Burned.

Firemen were summoned from West
erly. On their arrival they found the
buildings completely wrecked. Calls
were sent for ambulances from West.
erly and at New London a special
train was made up to take physicians,
nurses and hospital supplies. Thirty
physicians answered the call from this
place.
One of the first of the injured to
be found was Miss Jeanette Clark, of
this town, daughter of William Clark
president of the local mill of the
American Thread Company. Imme-
diately following the collision there
were reports that at least so had lost
their lives. 1t seemed as if it would
be the greatest disaster in the history
of the New Haven Road. It was soon
seen, however, that these reports were
unfounded.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

Miss Grace Marshall, for years i'm
prisoned in her home near St. Mich
aels, and who has been under treat
ment in Baltimore since her rescue.
has been removed from the city to the
home of her aunt, Mrs. H. Rena James,
in Talbot county.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

R. Arthur Blann, 76 years old, pros
porous farmer near Trappe, Talbot
county, died Of paralysis.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
MARYLAND NEWS
IN SHORT ORDER
Latest Happenings Cleaned
From All Over the State.
LIVE NOTES AND COMMENTS

Mrs. Maria McCombs, SS years old,
died at Havre de Grace.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22
MOB LYNcHED POSTMASTER.

Learn Who Did It.
Chipley, Fla.-County authorities are
working to discover who was re,
sponsible for the lynching at Vernon
OF John Dykes, postmaster of Green
Head, Washington county. Dykes had
been arrested on the charge of killing
S. A. Walker, a naval stores operator,
ard was taken from the Vernon jail
by a mob of masked men, who over
powered the deputy in charge.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

Judge Harlan, at Belair. has granted
a temporary injunction for the city Of
Havre de Grace, prohibiting the con.
struction Of dams across the Susque
hanna River by interests vested in the
bondholders of the Susquehanna
Power Company.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

Harry Gwynn, 21, of Rock Point, was
shot and killed in an oyster pungy near
La Plata, and Reginald Hancock, of
the same town, was arrested on the
c5arge of firing the fatal shot.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

William o. Soper, convicted of man
slaughter, by causing the death of
Harry A. Latter, was sentenced at
Rockville, to pay fine Of $500 and to
serve three months in Jail.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

Governor Harrington signed large
number of bills passed by the last leg
islature.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

Rev. DR.. S. w. Owen, former presi-
dent Of the Maryland Synod and of
the General Synod of the Lutheran
Church of the United States, died in
Hagerstown.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

Rev. H. NJ. Wharton, of Baltimore,
will conduct an evangelistic campaign
in Cumberland.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

Mrs. Henry Turner, of near Knox
vile, was run down and killed by
Baltimore and Ohio express near Fred
erick.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

Solomon Sudler, colored, was
hanged at Westminster for the muir
der, January 1, near Silver Run, of
William F. Brown, farmer
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

twenty-five members of the Allen
town Rotary Club organized a Rotary
Club at Bethlehem.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

Fifteen cottages and bungalows at
Arundel-on-the Bay, six miles below
Annapolis, were destroyed by fire. The
loss is about $4,000.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

The total length of the worlds rail-
ways is estimated at 100000 miles.
Middletown transcript., 1916-04-22

France was the first country to use
an ambulance.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-05
sIinssby Heir Case.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
LONDON, Dec. 5.-The~ house of
lords heard arguments today which
may make Teddy, Slingsby prince or
pauper.
Counsel. for Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Henry Reynard Slingsby. of San Fran
cisco, argued that the six year oldyboy
was legitimately and legally the son
of that couple and thereby the first
male heir to the $4,000 year income
left by the late Rev. Chas. Slingsby.
He cited the peculiar formation Of the
child's ear, closely paralleling that Of
his fathers and the boys peculiar jaw,
resembling his mothers, as evidence
that the child was not founding
adopted by the American Slingsbys as
alleged by contesting heirs.
The argument today brist1ed with
formidable medical Technology as to
the laws Of heredity.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-05
ENGLISH CABINET
STILL QUIVERING
CONTINUED from page l.,

British politics. He has until Thurs
day and possibly until Monday. to ex-
ercise this ability-the house of COM
mons having adjourned until Thurs
day in respect to his wishes, thus stav-
ing off formal announcement of any
reconstruction" until that time. Many
members are in favor of a still longer
postponement until Monday.
There was no confirmation OF wide
spread rumor that Asquith had deter
mined to resign, but it was believed he
would do so rather than become a
mere 1igurehead with Lloyd George in
practically full charge of the conduct
of the war.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-05
ARCHBOLD DIED
AFTER OPERATION
uttered
Continued from page ~

recovered from the collapse suffered
several days ago.
Archbold was one of the least known
and most picturesque of Wall streets
big men.
From the days when he went out as
chore boy to the neighbors in the VII
lage OF Salem, Ohio, until the days
when he sailed to work down tie Hud.
son on his own yacht Archbold Kept
his ambitions strictly to himself.
Johnny Archbold's' pay as chore
boy in Salem ranged from $3.50 to 50
a week over period OF five years. Out
OF that small weekly sum, he had to
help support his mother. He had saw
ed 500 in cash by his sixteenth birth
day.
He was interested in the oil industry
of which practically nothing then was
known and at sixteen took his $lO0
and tramped off to Titusville, Pa, in
the midst of the newly discovered oil
field.
After Archbold was established in q
modest New York Office as oil agent,
he heard John D. Rockefeller was
coming to town and arranged dinner
among the oil men just to get In per-
sonal touch with Rockefeller himself
feEuapS inc DoSt ucSCIlpIIOA VI nv" ~
was done is contained in the words OF
John D. Rockefeller himself:
"At that time I was travelling about
where things were happening. One
day when I got to hotel full of oil
men where 1 had been invited saw
this name written on the ledger:
John D. Archbold. 81 barrel
His battle cry of 81 barrel was
all the more striking because crude
oil was then selling for much less and
his campaign for high price certainly
did attract attention-it was much too
good to be true. But even If Archbold
did have to admit in the end that crude
oil wasn't worth 81 barrel, his en-
thusiasm, his energy and his splendid
power over men have lasted
Archbo1d's penchant for sensational
byplays Of this sort helped in his phe-
nomenally rapid rise.
Estimates by associates today,
placed a s1OO,OO0,00O value on Arch
holds various properties.