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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
SUES ON ESTATE CASE

Suit was filed in circuit court today
by the German-American Trust and
Savings bank, administrator for the
estate of Anna B. Gaar, against Jonas
Gaar. 1t is alleged that 81, 600 interest
and principal. is due on a loan made
by the decedent to the defendant in
1908.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
MINES PLANTED
BY GERMANS IN
ENGLISH PORTS

NEW YORK, Jan. 3--Passengers ar
irving here on the Holland-American
line steamer Nieuw Amsterdam say
that German mines containing excep-
tionally high explosives have been
planted close to all the large harbors
in England, Scotland and Wales. They
point to the experience of the Nieuw
Amsterdam and their own narrow es-
cape as confirmation.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
VILLAGE BOARD MEETS

OXFORD, O., Jan. 3.-The village
Board of Education has elected these
officers for the year: President, ].
Gilbert Welsh; vice-president, Linn
Brown; clerk and treasurer, Everett
E. Williams. The amount appropriate
ed to run the schools for the first six
months of tie year was s12,500.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
HOLD "STAR CHAMBER

Wayne county commissioners We're
in star chamber" session more than
two hours today.
Members of the board denied that
they had been considering appoint
ments They announced that they
would make the other appointments
Saturday
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
DISCUSS HACK LAWS

Wayne county's board of education
held its monthly business meeting in
the county superintendent office to-
day. The time was taken up with dis
cussion of school hack and advisory
board bills which will be brought be-
fore the state legislature by the state
committee Of township trustees.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
DR.. LIGHT TO SPEAK

Rev. Somerville Light, district SUI
perintendent, will speak tonight at
the fourth OF the series of "Win-My-
Chum" week services being conduct
ed by the Epworth league of the First
Methodist church. Tomorrow night,
B. Earl Parker, former pastor of
the church now located at Marion,
will speak.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
City Statistics
Deaths and Funerals.

NORTHRUP-Jame Northrup, aged
IA years, died at her home in Earlham
Heights Tuesday evening. He is sur
vived by his widow and son, Everett
Northrup. The funeral will be held
from the home Saturday afternoon at
2 O'Clock. Friends may call Friday
afternoon or evening. Burial will be
in the Easthaven cemetery.
HARTER-Ralph the infant son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Harter SO Bridge
avenue, died at the home of it's par.
ents this morning The funeral will
be held from the home Thursday after
noon at O'Clock. Burial will be in
Earlham cemetery.
WEST-The funeral of William
West will be held from the A. NJ. E.
church, South Sixth street, Friday
afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial will be
in the Earlham cemetery.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
LEGISLATORS GATHER
FOR FIRST SESSIONS

/ INDIANAPOLIS. Jan. 3-Practical-
ly everyone of the fifty senators and
one hundred representatives who will
make and unmake laws for the state
of Indiana, during the next sixty days,
are in the city. Their chief business
today was permitting themselves to be
button-holed for 'just-a-minute' by
those who have axes to grind at the
caucuses this evening.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
INFANT CHILD DIES

CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind, Jan. s.
The two-months' son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Close died yesterday Tuesday,
morning, after an Hines from pneu-
monian. The funeral was held this
wednesday, Afternoon, at o'clock at
the home. Rev. F. C. Mccormick of
Milton, conducting the service. Inter-
ment in Riverside cemetery.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
OFFICERS TAKE CHARGE

At a meeting of the Richmond lodge
No. 1876, F. & A. M. at the lodge rooms
last evening the following officers
were installed: Clyde D. Smith, W.
NJ. James F. Bank, Sr. W.; Frank
Thomas, Jr. W.; Edward Valentine,
treasurer; Ralph Personnel, S. D.;
John Longstreth, J. D.: Lewis De.
Almond, s. S.; r. c. Lyon, J. S., and
John Mathew, tyler.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
scHWAN ISSUES GREETING

New Years greetings are being
issued by L. A. Schwan, physical d.
rector of the Y. NJ. C. A. Mr.. Schwan
calls attention of members that now
is the time to store up energy and
vim during 1917 by working out in
the "Y" gymnasium.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
LUTHER LEAGUE TO MEET

Luther League Of ST. Paul's Luther
an church will meet tonight. Mildred
Klute will present a paper of New
Year resolutions, while the Rev. F. W.
Rchlfing, pastor, will review the les
son topics.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
TWO DIVORCE SUITS
FILED IN COURT

Two suits for divorce were filed III
circuit court today.
Sarah e. Benbow filed suit for di
<orce from George Benbow. They
were married at Centerville in 1888
Cruel and inhuman treatment was the
charge.
Lawrence Diehlman charged cruel
and inhuman treatment in his com
plant for divorce from Emma Diehl-
man.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
ORDER EARLY REPORT
ON WOODS RESOLUTION

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-Represen-
tative Woods resolution for a special
investigation of charges of a leak" on
President Wilson's note was held
privileged" by the House today and
it was referred to by the Rules COM
mittee with instruction to report with
in ten days.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
ST. PAUL'S ELECTS
ELDERS AND TRUSTEES

John Klgte was reelected elder and
John Hasemeier was reelected trustee
Of st. Paul's Lutheran church at the
annual congregational meeting last
night Gus Hoelscher and Walter
Knollenberg were elected deacons.
These officials will be installed next
Sunday. Elections for one-third of the
offices of the church are held each
year.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
EXAMINE EATON ROADS

County commissioners were the
guests of the New Paris Stone COM
pany this afternoon in an automobile
trip to Eaton. O., where some improv-
ed roads constructed by the company
were inspected.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
OBSERVE HOLY COMMUNION

Holy communion will be observed at
ST PauPs Lutheran church on Sunday
morning, Jan. IA, instead of next Sun
day. Both German and English serv.
ices will be held
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
CARRANzA CONSUL
HELD FOR PLOTTING
To SHIP MUNITIONS

NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-Joan C. Burns.
Carranza consul general here was to-
day arrested charged with being con-
cerned in conspiracy to ship arms
and ammunition to Vera Cruz in viola
ton of President Wilson's embargo
proclamation of 1915.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
ELECT LEONARD ClORE

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 3.-Leonard
Clore of Elkhart county, was elected
president of the Indiana Board of
State Fair directors today when it
met and reorganized here.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
ATTENDS ANNUAL SESSION

George Mathews. county assessor,
attended the annual meeting of the
state tax board and county assessors
at Indianapolis yesterday.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03
STORE ROAD EQUIPMENT

A large tool shed is being erected on
the lot back Of the county Jail in which
all machinery used in doing work on
Wayne county roads will be kept
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-01-03

Cholera kills about 5O,O00,O00 worth
Of hogs year in this country.
The Mankato free press., 1917-11-23
SHIPPING AID GRANTED
What One Big Japanese Concern
Would Do For the United
States
RALPH r., TURNER,

Toxic, November 3.-[By MALL
With the object of rendering more
substantial shipping aid to the
United States, the Nippon Yuson
kaisha Japan's foremost Shipping
company with 120 vessels aggregating
100000 tons at it's command has de-
cided to place at American disposal a
general amount of cargo space. These
boats will of course be of help to
all the allies, but especially will they
be used in carrying big shipments
OF war supplies from New York to
Vladivostok. 1t is believed here this
move is the result of negotiations
between Toxic and Washington on
the question of the United States
steel embargo and enlarged Japanese
participation in the war;
Japan wants the aid of about 15O,-
600 tons of Japanese shipping, say
reports here. To satisfy this request
nineteen Nippon Yuson Kaisha yes
sells each 1900 tons vii be re-routed
to ply between Yokahoma and London
via Panama, touching New York and
Vladivostok. With a rendering first
aid the company is considering
sending its passenger lines now
sailing between Yokahoma and Sc
attic to Vladivostok on the return
trip to Japan.
The Mankato free press., 1917-11-23
CIVIC EXPERTS AT MEET
Men Who Are Conversant On
Municipal Affairs Gather
In Detroit
UNITED Press Dispatch.l

Detroit, November 21.-Civic ex-
perts from every part of the United
States were in Detroit today to at
tend the conventions of the National
Municipal league and the City Man.
ayers association, both of which
opened their sessions here this morn
ing.
Feeding of cities in war time will
be the dominant topic throughout the
Municipal league convention. George
w. Perkins, chairman of the New
York market commission, is to ad-
dress the assembly on state organi-
zation for food supply. He will tell of
the advisability of aligning women in
the conservation movement. Marcus
N. Marks, president of Manhattan,
will talk on retail and wholesale mar
kets.
A food administration representa-
tive will talk on "How Cities Can Eff
fectively Assist in the Food Crisis"
City managers will particu arly
consider adoption of the city manager
form of government to all cities. The
budget making and training for pub
lie service are other topics which will
receive attention.
The Mankato free press., 1917-11-23
BRITISH IN SWEEPING
ASSAULT ON TEUTONS
English Forces Capture Sec
ond System Of Defense
SUPPORT Line IS TAKEN
Infantry and Tanks Pressed On
Taking Towns in Their
Rush Forward
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch. ]

London, November 21.-The Hin
denburg line has been broken to 6
depth of four to five miles, the wal
office announces. The British storm
ed the first system of the Hindenbure
line of defense along the whole front
between ST. Quentin and the Scarpe
river. The British infantry anC
tanks pressed on, capturing the Sec
Ond system of defense over a mile
beyond.
The attack was begun yesterday
by the third army. There was nc
artillery preparation and the Ger
mans were taken completely by sur
prise. The second system of German
defense captured by the British is
known as the Hindenburg support
line.
The British captured Benauis, Lam
mau Wood, La Vacquere and the de-
fenses known as Welsh Ridge, and
Ribecourt village. Operations are
continuing and several thousand pris-
oners were taken.
The whole German line west of
Canal Du Nord to the Bapaume- Cam
bria road has been captured. The
British also fought their way through
the Couillet wood, Lieutenant Gen
eral Sir Julian Byng in command of
the attacking army. The towns of
Havrincourt, Marcoing, Graincourt
and Anneux, and Neuf Wood have
been captured.
From st. QUentine to the Scarpe
river, thirty-two miles, the British
drive covers part of the field of last
years offensive of the Somme sec
tion of the Arras battle front south
of Arras.
Victory Is Stupendous.
London, Eng, November 21-Field
CONTINUED on Page Two.)
The Mankato free press., 1917-11-23
HEAVY BLOW STRUCK
RATIFIED THE TEUTON
German Forces We're Caught
Off Their Guard
TANKS BLAzED THE WAY
No Artillery Preparation For the
Attack; Trenches Were Not
ImpregnabIe
limited Press Dispatch. ]

With the British Armies at the
Front, November 21.-General Haig's
forward move was the most remark
able blow struck during the present
war. For originality of conception, ii
has but one rival in all history, real
or tabled and that is the famous wood
en- horse before the gates of Troy
General Pershing himself witnessed
that marvellous forward smash. II
came at a time when the Prussians
thought nothing of the kind could pos
sibly happen. The Germans were
quietly reposing in their supposedly
impregnable trenches. AS a rule, an
advance of either army has been
preceded by a tremendous artillery at
tack. This was not.
Reckoned Without Cost.
The Germans had supposed that
their great barb wire entanglements,
together with other preparations, rem
dered them secure. 1t was thought,
too, that the main British strength
was in Flanders. 1t seems that the
Germans did not dream that the
British had any such strength pre-
pared in the region of Cambria There
was no artillery preparation for the
British attack. The great armored
tanks went ahead and blazed the way.
The Tommies followed in a walk.
Small wonder was it that the Teutons
were taken completely off their feet.
The Mankato free press., 1917-11-23
DARING DAYLIGHT BANDITS
CARRIED AWAY SPARKELERS
Entered Store In MinneapolisDu During Morning and
Left With $4,000 Worth of Perfectly
Good Diamonds
lAssociated Press Dispatch

Minneapolis
compelled
according estimates
leading
WE'RE UNMASkED.
jewey
to
the of
their
escaped with The described follows
No. thirty height,
weight $50 pounds; smooth face white
collar black shoes
No About the height feet six inches weight 1aO
No. g. Thirty old; height, five six inches
The Mankato free press., 1917-11-23
BAD CASH ON FOREHEAD
Miss Theresa Mountain, Student
At the High,..Victim Of.
Broken Glass

Miss Theresa Mountain, nineteen
year old daughter of Mrs Alice
Mountain, and student in Mankato
high school, received several bad cuts
this afternoon from broken glass, when
the large plate glass window, near
which she was sitting in the high
school assembly room shortly after
school was called, was blown in by
the wind and broken into fragments.
The crash of breaking glass startled
the assembly of students and teachers
in the room, and it was thought at first
that Miss Mountain was seriously in
jured. She sustained large cash in
the flesh of her forehead and her hand
was also cut by the broken glass. Her
escape from more serious injury was
very lucky DR.. J. S. Holbrook was i'm
mediately summoned, and he brought
Miss Mountain and girl friend to his
office, where the wounds were dressed.
The Mankato free press., 1917-11-23
SAINT NICK GUARDIAN
Old Fellow Keeps the Menin an
Intoxicated Condition From
Harm

That Old Nick himself looks out
for the drunks, and saves them from
injury where a sane man would pos
sibly be killed is the opinion of sew
eral who witnessed an automobile
accident on the road leading out of
LIE Sueur last Sunday. Four men,
boisterous with liquor, were in an
automobile coming toward the rail-
road tracks, and when they struck a
stretch of soft sand, coming at a
high rate Of speed, the machine turn
ed turtle, spilling them all out in
the road, with a veritable shower of
whiskey and beer bottles around
them. The auto was quite badly
damaged, and a man who saw the
accident thought the men must be
near death and telephoned for a
Mankato physician. The man of med
icine arrived and found the men, a
trifle soEered, picking themselves up.
and trying to get the bottles Of liq-
uor under cover "Who needs doc
tor here?" he demanded. The four
looked at him with round, blank
eyes. "None of u.s." finally answered
the most sober one, eve are all alive
and kicking" His services thus
spurned the physician returned to
town.
The Mankato free press., 1917-11-23
ELLSWORTH AT ARMOR\
Congressman Will Speak This
Evening; the Time Is Eight
O'clock

Congressman F. F. Ellsworth will
deliver patriotic address at the arm
ory tonight, under the auspices of the
Mankato Commercial club. The pro-
gram will include several chorus num-
bers by the Mankato Choral society
under the direction Of Mrs. H. A.
Patterson. There will be no admission
or collection, and the general public
is invited. The program will start at
eight o'clock
The patriotic songs by the Choral
club and the Orpheus club members
assisted by an orchestra. will include
America" keep the Home Fires
Burning" "The Flag Without Stain
"Tim Rooney" "The Star Spangled
Banner" The soloists viii be Mrs.
Eleanor Phoeler, Miss Anna Lee, Miss
Eleanor Quimby, Mr.. Joseph Tallman
and Mr. D. NJ Jones.
The Mankato free press., 1917-11-23
HITS AT The BREWERIES
State Safety Commission to
Put Stop to the blind
Pig" Sales

st. Paul, Nov. 21.-Aiming blow at
brewing companies, domestic or for
eign, which sell beer to blind pigs, the
State Public Safety commission has
ordered that the attorney general be
and he is hereby directed to institute
proceedings to vacate the charters of
all domestic brewery corporations
and to terminate rights of all foreign
brewery corporations to do business
in this state, that habitually violate
or connive at the violation of laws of
this state"
The Mankato free press., 1917-11-23
ALLIES SHOULD UNITE
Lord NorthcIiffe Declares Self
On Proposition of Concerted
War Action
LORD NoRTHcLlFFE.

London, November 21.-Ycur wise
presidents bugie call to the allies
should pat them wise as to the insist
ent of getting together in regular,
businesslike conference.
The American mission here is do
ing fine work and now that President
Wilson has added his personal punch
and rop there will be no excuse for
the delays that have been productive
of such disastrous results in the past
three and one-half years.
l trust the presidents action also
will have the effect of causing our
prime minister to remove his cabinet
of some of the dead wood. am disap-
pointed at not being able to accept the
high cabinet position which was Of
fered me, but I feel I can do better
vo~l5 with newspaper axe on the out
side than if 1 were inside where
woulG be gagged.
/ expect to return to America i'm
mediately after the London and Paris
conferences.
The Mankato free press., 1917-11-23
THROWN FROM MOTOR
Herbert Evans Suffered Severe
Injuries in Accident Last
Evening

Herbert Evans, a young man who
lives with his uncle, Albert Herbert, in
South Bend, suffered severe injuries
in motorcycle accident last evening,
and is confined to his home He was
dence OF a neighbor, and came down
one of the small hills at rather high
rate of speed. When the machine
struck the soft sand at the bottom of
the hill it almost stopped, and young
Evans was thrown from his seat,
striking in a barbed wire fence at the
side of the road and severely cut He
was brought to Mankato for treatment,
and eighteen stitches were required to
close his wounds.
The Mankato free press., 1917-11-23
DATING UP The CLINICS
State Board of Health Decided
On InfantiIe Paralysis
Treatments

Word was received today from the
office of the state board of health
that the time of the infantile paraly-
sis clinic which is to take place in
Mankato has been changed. 1t will
be on November 26, 27 and %, in the
same quarters of the National Citi-
zens' bank where the last clinic took
place. The Olivia clinic will be held
December 8 and 4; Marshall, Decem-
Der 6; Tracy, December Z; Worthing-
ton, December II and IL; Rochester,
December 13 and IA; Winona, Decenl-
ber II, Is and 10, according to the
present arrangement of the schedule
The Mankato free press., 1917-11-23
LADIES EXHIBIT PLUCK
Employees in the Brett Store
Prevent What Might Have
Been Dad Accident

An admirable exhibition of pluck
was shown by some ladies on the
third floor of the Brett store this
afternoon, when the large pane o.
glass in the upper sash of one of the
windows, broke, and a large piece
most of the pane, was caught out
side the lower sash in such way
that it was liable to fall at any mo-
ment to the sidewalk below, where
people were passing from time tC
time One of the ladies reached out
through the hole of the upper sash
and held the large piece from falling
while another opened the next win
dow, and in a perilous reach, manag-
ed to grasp the dangerous piece OF
glass, and drew in inside the win
dow where she stood. The strong
wind made the feat more difficult
The lady who reached out and got
the broken pane was Mrs. l.. w.
Johnson.
The wind caused the pane to break
as it had been slightly cracked before
The Mankato free press., 1917-11-23

With the Italian Armies at the
Front, November 21.-All ideas that
the Teutons are outstanding their
supply of men has been dissipated by
the manner in which the invaders
are making their attacks. They are
pursuing the same old tactics of
marching ahead in close formation,
with their men so massed that the
artillery does enormous execution.
The airplane observers bring back
reports that the Germans and Aus
trians are hurrying great masses of
men and supplies forward, evidently
in the hope of inflicting a crushing
defeat on the Italians before the
British and French can send suffi-
cient aid to give them materal as
Sistance.
Thus far the Italians have managed
to drive back the Teutons with en-
ormous slaughter. At one point on
the lower Piave yesterday, the Teu-
tons advanced outnumbering the Ital-
ians two to one in men and four to
one in guns and yet the Italians beat
them back The ground was
thickly strewn with the enemy dead.
Continued on Page Two.)
The Mankato free press., 1917-11-23
SAFETY FIRST CAMPAIGN
Conservation of Man Power Is
Aim of Dr.. John Price
Jackson
UNITED Press Dispatch. ]

Harrisburg Pa, November 21.-
Further conservation of "man pow
er" is the aim of a winter drive
by safety-fir workers which DR..
John Price Jackson, Pennsylvania S
state commissioner of labor and in
dustry, has launched.
Commissioner Jackson, citing the
national need, has ordered every
employee of his huge department ito
go on the stump" personally for
safety first.
Additional safety first rallies at
large plants, rapid-fire MONDAY talks
while the workers are lunching, ad-
dresses at individual associations
and the like are all a part of Jack
sons supplementary program.
State officials believe the new plan
will further reduce the annual num-
Der of accidents.
The Mankato free press., 1917-11-23
ATTACK TEUTON POWER
Waging Political Battle Against
German Politics Must Not
Cease; Gsason
UNITED Press Dispatch.l

London, Eng, November 21.-Arthur
Henderson, the British labor leader,
says the allies should not cease their
political attacks on the German power.
He declared today that the house of
HohenZollern was as much afraid OF
the influence of the allies on the Ger
man people as of the arms of enemies
of the German autocracy. Mr.. Hender-
son quoted part of a recent speech
made by the crown prince, in which
the latter remarked that the enemies
Of Germany were trying to sow dis
sension among the Germans, and that
this must not be allowed to succeed.