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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27
WOMEN PROMINENT
IN CHICAGO SOCIETY

Chicago, Feb 2I.--Mrs. Albert II.
Hoy. wife OF DIR. Albert II. Hoy OF
London. and daughter. Elizabeth, who
are reported to have been drowned
when the Cunardcr Laconia was tor
pedoed, were prominent in Chicago so
ciety.
They first moved TO Chicago from
Racine, Wis, about Il years ago. They
lived here II years before moving To
London. They still maintained their
social connections here and vi3ited
friends and relatives frequently.
DIR. hoy and his son, Austin, are in
London and Mrs. Hoy and her daugh-
ter were on their way to rejoin them
after spending several months here
They were guests at the Congress no.
tel and were entertained at Christmas
time at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
George W. Blossom, of Hubbard Woods
When they left Chicago they in
formed friends that they intended to
sail on an American liner and much
surprise was evidenced when 1t was
learned that they had been on the ILL
fatcd Laconia.
Austen Hoy. son, is London repre-
sentative of the Sullivan Machinery
company The elder .oy is about 7C
years old. Miss Elizabeth Hoy. be-
lievcd to have drowned, was % years
old.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27
STRICKEN DOWN AS
INFORMED OF LOSS OF
WIFE AND DAUGHTER

London, Feb. 27.-Dr. Albert Harris
Hoy. who lost his wife and daughter
In the Laconia sinking, was stricken
down with grief over his loss as he
talked over the telephone to the United
Press office today. He was removed
to his room and put under physicians
care.
DR.. Hoy Is practicing physician
here, despite his advanced age. He was
formerly a resident of Chicago.
Talking to the United Press office
here over the telephone. he said:
II am an old man4-S4 years of age
and 1t is a terrible blow to know my
own dear wife and my daughter have
gone"
Al this iuneture DIR. Hoy's voice
broke and there was silence. Efforts
to obtain further answer from the tele-
phone We're futile. Subsequently one
of the servants in the Hoy home said
Dr. Hoy had been overcome and re-
moved to his bed, i'll.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27
ALLIES PRESSING
THEIR ADVANTAGE
ON SOMME FRONT

With the British Armies Afield,
Feb. 27.-There seems every rea-
son to believe the present German
retirement will not be ended un-
til the Teutons reach line APP
proximating the front between
Arras and Cambria.
Meanwhile the British are still
pressing forward today. They are
constantly in touch with the Ger
mans-and the Germans are
breaking many war records in their
retreat. The British pressure is
toward Bapaume and the advance
Is being rapidly pressed.
The Germans. however, are Of
fering stiff resistance with large
caliber guns. which are evidently
mounted on railway trucks, all
ready for n quick get away at the
psychological moment.
ALL EYES ON 6APAUME.
For the present moment, all eyes
are turned toward Bapaume. The
Germans have converted the city
into an underground Gibraltar and
have iavished on it all the arts OF
modern fortress building. Many
explosions have been heard in the
city and there were verious re-
ports today that the garrison had
blown up all these wonderful cell
lars and passages. as well as the
city's wells, preparatory to leaving,
when the pressure Of the British
forces becomes stronger.
The clearer weather OF the last
few days has enabled thine British
to harass the retreating Germans
and has permitted aeroplane ac-
tivity.
The British forward sweep
stretches from south OF CONNIE
court as far as LIE Transloy. Com
mecourt is tottering.
Prisoners taken by the British
say the German retreat is AN "un-
pleasant job'-because the British
guns keep hammering away. MAX
ing the roads all but impassa bic
either by day or night.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27
NO OFFER TO HELP
MADE BY SUBMARINE

London. Feb. 27.-After the La
COMA S survivors had taken to the
boats, the German submarine which
apparently sank the Cunarder, ap-
preached one lifeboat. inquired for the
captain and asked the nature of the
cargo. Receiving information in reply
to these questions from the second Of
ficcr Of the Laconia, the German offic-
or remarked that a British admiralty
boat would reach the survivors short
ly and then departed without offering
assistance.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27
THE WEATHER CALM.
CUNARD COMPANY
RECEIVES MESSAGE

New York, Feb. 21.-Df1iciaIA OF the
Cunard line today received cable add
vices from London telling of the death
md burial at sea of Mrs. Mary Hoy and
her daughter, Miss Elizabeth Hoy,
shortly after they left the steamship
Laconia, torpedoed Sunday.
Three missing also were mentioned
in the cable as Cedric +. Watts, Brit
ish subject; DIR. Fourtenat Zyndel,
Swiss; William Irvine Robinson, Brit
ish
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27
A SEVENTY-YtAR OLD COUPLE.

Mr.. and Mrs. T. b. Carpenter, Har-
risburg. Pa, suffered from kidney
trouble. He says: My wife and |
suffered from kidney trouble and had
rheumatic pains all through the boGy.
The first few doses of Foley Kidney
Pills relieved us, and five bottles en-
tirely cured us. Although we are both
In the seventies. we are as vigorous as
we .ere thirty years ago" Foley
Kidney Pills SOP sleep disturbing
bladder weakness, bacltache, rheuma :
tism, swollen joints Whitehead's
Drug store. Adv-T-TH-S
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27
NO WARNING GIVEN;
TWO TORPEDOES FIRED

London, Feb. 27-American Consul
Frost at queenstown officially report
ed to the American embassy today that
the Laconia was sunk without warning
and by explosion of two torpedoes.
The second torpedo was fired 20
minutes after the first had struck. In
this interval of 90 minutes the first
IL lifeboats were launched from the
Lacona.
The weather was cloudy and there
was a heavy swell on the ocean.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27
FATHER UNION VETERAN.
TO OPEN BIDS ON GUNS.

Washington, Feb. 27.-Bids will be
opened by the navy department tornor.
row for 2400 one. pound guns and
mounts, $50 three inch guns and
mounts and several four and fivs.ineh
mounts. These guns arc tho type most
effective against submarines and are
the size guns that would be mounted
on merchant ships in case congress 90
ordered.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27

Slideli. La, took it's place on the
roster Of American shipbuilding towns
on Dec. 80, 1916, when the steamship
Baltic was launched by the Slidell
Ship Building company. This is the
first of four wooden steamers con-
tracted for by this company, and Is
reported to be the largest steamship
that has been launched south Of New
port News
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27
PARIS EXPLOSION
KILLS TWO HUNDRED

Berlin, Feb. ct ircless) ON
Feb. n terrible explosion took place
in the large ammunition depots at
Paris, which ruined more than 10000
tons of ammunition and killed 200 per-
sons" declared the official press agency
today, quoting a Frankfurter Zeitung
report via Switzerland from n private
source in Paris" Seven hundred were
wounded, it was said
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27
EIGHT DIED FROM
EXPOSURE IN BOATS

Queenstown. Feb. 81. - Eight of
those who left the Laconia in lifeboats
which were later picked up and
brought into Bantry. died from expo
sure in the open boats, according to
dispatches reaching here today.
The eight were part of % persons ac-
counted for at Bantry.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27
BURIED AT SEA.

Mrs. Hoy and Miss HOY died from
exposure in an open boat. They were
Niried at sea. Eight others who sur
vived the two torpcdocs launched at
the Cunarder. likewise succumbed to
their suffering while waiting eight
hours in an open boat for rescue. They,
too, were buried at sea. Five were
drowned.
Six others were reported by Ameri-
can Consul Frost to be in hospitals re-
covering from injuries or the expo
sure which they suffered,
SURVIVORS LANDED.
At Queenstown. 26i survivors were
landed. Bantry, ireland, reported "a
arriving there.
Thus the total death list is 10, two
Americans, and women.
Survivors at Queenstown reported an
admirable discipline among the Off
GERS and crew of the liner and very
little of anything like a panic. The
lights went out Immediately after the
first torpedo struck and this caused
some slight confusion.
THE WEATHER CALM.
Two torpedoes found their mark in
the vessel, the first exploding at the
stern and the other further forward
The weather was comparatively calm,
but there was heavy swell running
on the sea.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27
IN LONDON FOUR YEARS.

Il am an American business man.
Hoy explained. Il have been in London
in business for four years, represent
ing the Sullivan Machinery company
of Chicago.
Father is now too old, and 1t de-
wolves upon me az the active head Of
the family to see that this outrage
does not go unavenged.
Il beg that you won't consider me
in a mock heroic role-but l intend to
enlist because ] could not expect that
other Americans would offer their
lives in avenging this wrong. unless
| did likewise.
FATHER UNION VETERAN.
My s4-year-oi father is veteran
of the Union army. He enlisted in the
Nineteenth Wisconsin regiment in 1861
and served throughout the Civil war.
becoming an assistant surgeon.
when the war was over he prac-
ticed several years in Racine, Wis.
Father was born at New Haven,
O., and my mother at Galena. o. My
mother was a sister of William 4.
Young, of Breton hall. New York City,
and an aunt of George Young of III
Wall street. New York.
when we were home our Chicago
residence was 461 North State street.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27

iTOIn fdSc.)
die west, which heretofore has voted
the majority opinion generally for
every possible effort to keep peace.
CABINET TO MEET.
The president and his cabinet VIII
have all the facts available before
them when they go into session at
2:30 this afternoon.
Officials declare the situation is now
In the hands of congress and that quick
and positive action should be forth
coming.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27
nineteen DEAD
in WRECK; ALL
VICTIMS IN A
PULLMAN CAR
Freight Train Crashed Into
Rear Car Of Express, Com
pletely Demolishing it and
Killing All of the Passen-
gers Outright.

Altoona, Pa, Feb. o.
Every passenger, 10 in all,
in the Pullman sleeper Bell
wood, was killed this morn
ing when the Mercantile Ex-
press, on the Pennsylvania
railroad, which had stopped
at Mount Union for minor
repairs to the brakes, was
run into by a fast freight
train.
The engineer of the
freight, A. 7. Cash, Of Har-
risburg, and a Pullman por-
tor on another car, received
minor hurts, they being the
only persons reported in
jured.
WHOLE FAMILY KILLED.
Chester A. Minds. coal operator and
farmer full back on the football team
Of the University Of Pennsylvania. was
one Of the killed. 1t is believed his
whole family was killed with him, in
Guiding his young wife, baby, two rel
atives and a nurse. They were on their
way to Utica to ,.ttend the funeru! OF
Mrs. Minds father.
List OF DEAD.
Following is the official list Of dead
in the wreck at Mount Union this
morning:
P. j. KELLY. Brooklyn.
H. A. LOEFLER. Plattsville, Wis.
c. A. MINDS, WIFE AND ONE
CHILD. Rancy, Pa.
MRS. MORT OWEN. sister of Minds.
RICHARD OWEN, I, Rancy; nephew
of Minds.
DoTTIE OWEN. 8, GENE OWEN,
4. nieces of Minds.
NJ A. CALFISCH. 20, broth~r OF
Mrs. Minds. Raney.
MRS. SEGUR DELLING, Cleveland
with Minds party.
- BRIGHT. porter on Pullman.
New York.
ROTOR HYMEs, 474 West 17Sta
street, New York.
CHARLES LEVINE. New York.
PHILIP POL..ND, New York.
T. r. MANNING, Plattsvillc. Wis.
Lady in berth with Manning believed
to be his bride, who had a Bible in
suit case marked Miss Ella Palmer
Hoyt, 300 East Colfax avenue, DEN
yer
c. MEDSKE.. New York.
Two unidentified bodies believed to
be women.
a pocketbook was found in the de-
bris containing money and a visiting
card bearing the name of Mrs. Ches-
ter A. Minds.
The express train was standing ut
the station at Mount Union and was
about to pull out when the crash came.
The Bellwod. the rear car received the
full force of the blow and crashed
into the next car ahead, splitting 1t in
two parts.
Immediate Identification of the
bodies Gagged in the wreckage was al
most impossible.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27

Elizabeth Hoy on the Laconia tragedy,
cabled his employers. the Sullivan Ma
chinery company of Chicago today, an
nouncing he had taken an indefinite
leave Of absence"
This leave, he said, was taken in
order to carry out plans to help avenge
the death of my mother and sister.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27
KILLED CHILDREN:
THEN TOOK OWN LIFE

Indianapolis. Feb. "a. Frank
Staader. 35, early today shot and
killed his three children and then COM
mitted suicide
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27
"jNDEFINiTE LEAVE" TAKEN BY
SON AND BROTHER OF VICTIMS

London, Feb. 27.-Austn Hoy, left
motherless and sisterless by the
deaths Of Mrs. Mary Hoy and Miss
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27
his neutral policy to recognize Ger
nan measures Of defense"
NOT ESTABLISH BLOCKADE.

NOT ESTABLISH BLOCKADE.
As is generally known in England.
we could not declare blockade. but
established only definite barred zones
within which every ship has to count
with imemdiate attack.
THAT ships escape danger Is there
fore self-evident. But that does not
change the total success.
This success we shall be able to
obtain partly by sinking, partly By
discouraging neutral shipping, which
has already happened in the widest
measures.
Thanks To the Incompatible BRAY
cry of our submarines we are ful,,'
willing to await with full confidence.
further developments, which will be on
the increase
PRAISE FOR GERMAN PEOPLE.
The chancellor spoke briefly about the
general feeling in the German nation.
The hard winter" Ne said, lis be-
hind us, especially for the poorer pop
ulation. The difficulties of railroad
traffic increased the difficulties in sup
plying yictuals and fuel. Women and
children became heroes. At no time
has the spirit of love of country stood
the test as firmly in the midst of suf-
ferings and of want.
Gentlemen. since my last speech the
military situation ha shardly been
changed.
Everywhere our front are made
stronger and our brave soldiers took
the full confidence of their leaders.
who are accustomed to victory. Morally
strengthened by the scornful refusal
of our readiness for peace, on the land
fronts safely protected by the genius
of our supreme army command, ON
the waterfront victorious and many
times more prepared for the submarine
war than a year ago we confidently
look toward the coming months, which
las we hope-will be followed happi-
ly by the termination of the war;"
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27

Washington, Feb. 27.--The state de-
partment today received cable from
Consul Frost at Queenstown, confirm
ing officially in almost every detail
press dispatches regarding the I'M
warned torp, doing of the great Cum
arder Laconia.
Frost's message said two torpedoes
struck the liner and said Mrs. and
Miss Hoy, both Americans, were
buried at sea.
CONSUL FRosT's CABLE.
frost's cable under Queenstown
date $50 a. M, today reads:
Deaths of Mrs. and Miss Hoy, as
reported. positively confirmed. Ced-
ric b. Ivatt. New York, probably Amer
lean, is apparently lost. Among Amer
leans saved are the following: Negro
fireman and seaman Douglas Adams.
Newport News; Benjamin Parker, 80
West Goth street, New York, Louis
Darnell, 535 Perry street, Baltimore:
Percy Masseburg, 10 South Nineteenth
street: Newport News; Edward Smith,
32 South Manchester street, New York;
Henry Young, $50 Park Road New
York. Barney Rhctter, 264 West 61st
street, New York; John Williams, ad-
dress unknown; William Wynne Cor
Wing), 308 North Bethel street, Phil
adelphia; Henry Smith, 126 Trap
street, Indianapolis; Joseph Lewis, 6s
William street, Buffalo; Dan Iarael,
$50 Olive street, Savannah. Isaac
Bowman. $50 Olive street, Savannah;
John Joneson, $50 Park Road. New
York Joseph Aumter, 80 Neeton and
Calhoun street, Charleston Is in all.
Total survivors landed here, 267; land
ed at Bantry, Il.
Total on board, 294.
DIED OF EXPOSURE.
Missing 10, of which five drowned
and eight, including Mrs. and Miss
Hoy, died of exposure and were buried
at sea.
There are six hospital cases, one
believed grave.
First torpedo struck abaft engine.
Steamer going IT to IS knots. En-
gines stopped and ship turned, listing
to starboard so that most boats got
off that side.
Twenty minutes later when most
boats were cleared, submarine fired
second torpedo striking engine port
side.
ship sank in about IS minutes from
first torpedo.
'Iaconia torpedoed without warning,
=, 25th $50 west Fastnet. Over
cast breeze; heavy swells, not break
Ing Fair breeze.
"Laconia carried Al gun invisible
at night. Second torpedo fired 20
minutes after first
Thirteen boats away, of which No.
s, in which were Hoy ladies', was lost.
Wireless had been sent out. Boats
picked up by admiralty patrol at a.
m, 26th.
Cargo, cotton, foodstuffs and nom
explosive munitions. Apparently eight
deaths out of 335 on board; 26o crew:
rs passengers, including many women
and children"
Had fired six rockets when seen by
admiralty patrol. Wireless also used
up to last moment. Boats scattered
two or three miles in swells IL feet
high. Burned flares and picked up
seriatim between and a. m. 10th
instant"
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27
Two AMERICAN
WOMEN BURIED
At SEA, CONSUL
FROST REPORTS
Representative of American
Government at Queens
town Declares the Laconia
Was Sunk Without Warn
ing by Submarine.
FIGURES OF DISASTER
ANNOUNCED AT LONDON


+ ANNOUNCED AT LONDON
+ London, Feb. 27.-Official fig
+ ures Of the laconia disaster to-
!. day showed:
i Total passengers and crew,
+ 2e4.
+ Survivors landed at Queens
!. town, 267.
:. Survivors landed at Bantry,
+ ID.
!. Drowned, 5.
i. Died Of exposure and buried
!. at sea, 8.
+ In hospitals, 6.
+ The figures were furnished
:: by the American consul at
! Queenstown and sent to Am
+ bassador Page today.
i Consul Frost reported that
+ the Laconia sank in one hour
!. after the torpedoins.
1. i 1. + i. + I. + + I. j. !. 4 i 1. + 1.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27

Phone ia taxi line without
Ford. All large cars. Orric S. Cole.
ADV. II
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27

Piles Cured IT, 8 to "a Days
Druggists refund money II PAZO
OINTMENT fails to cure Itching,
lind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles.
First application gives relief. 500. Tusa.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27
SON AND BROTHER
Continued from First Page)

ton, which he held with American
Ambassador Walter Hines Page and
Consul General Skinner, which he said
convinced him he had the right thus
to act
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27

London, Feb. 27.-Two American women were among
the l3 killed in German submarines unwarned torpedo
ing of the Cmlard liner Iaconia.
They Mrs. Mary Mrs. Albert Harris) Hoy and
Miss Elizabeth Hoy.
American Consul Frost at Queenstown made this re-
port to the American embassy here today adding that the
They Floyd p. Gibbons, Mrs. F. E. Harris, A. T..
Kirby and Rev. Father Wareing
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27
FIGHT AND GAIN VICTORY

Continued From First Page.)
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27
TACOMA CASE

Continued from First Page.)
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27

Some members objected that the
American stand against submarines is
bound to react in the future--is des-
tined to render useless yaluab BILE
weapon for us some time,
AS for the "other instrumentalities"
than those Wilson yesterday specifi-
cally requested, the minority members
said that was unthinkable--it merely
delegated to him virtual war making
power. reposing in congress itself.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27

ternational law, would have bartered
for its establishment In equal fash
ion with all belligerents and il. wish
ing to restore peace to the world, 1t
would have taken measures enforcing
an end of bloodshed," said the chan
cellor.
The American circles who are nn-
friendly to us thought that they could
point out the important difference be-
tween our course of action and that of
the English. England. II has been
pointed out. destroys only material
values, which can be replaced, but
Germany destroys human lives which
are impossible to replace. Well. gen.
tlemen why did the English not en-
danger American lives?
SUBMITTED TO ENGLAND.
only because neutral countries, and
especially America. voluntarily sub
mitted to the English orders and be-
cause the English therefore could OBJ
tain their object without using force.
What would have happened IL
Americans had been able to have un-
hampered passenger and gods traffic
with Bremen and Hamburg, as much as
that with Liverpool and London?
IF they had done SO. then we would
have been freed from the painful i'm
preston that accordingly America Is
under submission to the English power
and control. not entirely incompatible
with the essential character of nett
trality but that it is incompatible with
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-27
ENTERS HIS PROTEST.

IF these arguments are correctly re-
ported the chancellor continued. then
must decidedly protest against them.
For more than century friendly
relations between Germany and Amer
lea have been carefully promoted. We
honored them as Bismarck once put it
AS an heirloom from Frederick the
Great.
Both countries benefited by 1t;
both giving and taking.
Since the beginning of the war,
things have changed on the other side
of the waters.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-02-05

The Bylaws of this corporation ar
TO be made, altered or rescinded D.
the members of this corporation upo
a vote of two-thirds in favor OF an
desired action.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-02-05

Notice is hereby given that the un-
'dersigned will. on the tenth day Of
February. A. ID. 1917. apply to the
Honorable F. A. Whitney. Judge Of
the Circuit Court for the Tenth Judic-
ial Circuit OF tie State Of Florida. for
a charter. incorporating THE Elks
Club Inc. OF Lakeland. Florida" a
copy Of which proposed Charter is an
The Press., 1917-12-13
The Bopshead Bee

The intelligence of the honeybee has been greatly Overrated. according to Everett F. Phillips. who is the govern ment expert on bee culture He says that this Insect really has no adapta- bilIty at all. but wonderfully perfect ed instinct. Success in bookkeeping, therefore. depends upon studying the bee and giving 1t exactly what Its i'm perious instincts require. For exam pie, the space between the wall of hive and the comb in which the honey Is to be placed must be exactly a quar- ter of an inch. If it is more the bees win store honey in the space. and If 1t is less they wiD seal it closed In either ease the hive must be broken open to get the honey Baltimore Star.
The Press., 1917-12-13
The Horse Unekairs.

]. Not lUng since Ic were riding on an seleyatel train in Chicago. We looked SoUt of the car, and there. right at our .GiiioW. was horses head, thrust sthrouah the upper floor window of
 brick building. II Was startling sthing. We felt like :,l .''ii:g, Now, what oil earth arc you doing mp here, old maE!'' But the hCi SC appeared to be
 very much at home. No doubt he lived
 there, twenty feet or so from the ground. It was like ;t jail. He had no
 barn lot or pasture. When his days
 work was oyer he was taken direct
 from the wagon h his upstairs stall.
 Rents were too high fer his owner to
 furnish a stall on the ground. He
 never had chance io ''foLi over" OF to nlbble at bit Of fresh riowed earth.
 Yet that horses life ia the city was no
 moro artificial and abnormal than the
 life of the average city man. The man
 goes of his own accord, however, and
 the horse has no chOiSc in the matter.
 Probably the horses wonder why men
 want to hive together like bees,-Farm
 Life.