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PARIS, Aug. Madrid dispatches received here quote M, Dato. presi- dent of the Spanish council as stating formally that at no time has the Spanish government been asked by the German Government to act as in- terIediary in peace conferences.
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J. ". Gay, O. Portland. H. DeCueldre superintendent Of the Kazaan cannery A. Seale, Of the Wards Cove By-Prod- ucts plant. J. VI. Mckay. Of Sawyer < Mckay and Arne wahi are guests st the Stedman today.
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< % ' < . < z z $ THE WORLD WAR \
 YEAR AGO TODAY

A1g- I-BrftIsh and French 1
 gained further ground in Tpres 1 ! sector. but Germans recaptured 1 : St. Julien and part Of Westhoek- 1 ' Aug 1-Ssazse passed SheD- { : psrd resolution for national pro 1 : hibttion amendment 10 the consst 1
 , tuition.
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Mrs S. Pederson, of the Quadra canneyy. $ guest at the Stednan for few days while On shopping trip. M-. Pederson is superintendent.
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PARIS. Aug. In the case Of for. mer Premier Joseph Caillaux. charg ed with treason. the preliminary in. vestigation is now practically com. plered and fl is reported that he is 10 be tried by the Senats, sitting as high court. This has not been con. irned as yet, however
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-01
DESTRUCTION OF BRITISH FLEET NOW
 PREDICTED
von HoItzendorH Says Sub
 Will Do The Work Soon

AMSTERDAM, Aug. i.-The des- srucsion Of the British fleet by Ger. man submarines is the sensational prediction made by Admiral Von Holt zen6orT. chief O. the German naval staff. This is contained in dis. patch fro nBerlin today. The admiral Is said 10 have made the announce ment at a banquet last night.
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RETURNS FROM SEATTLE

Mrs. J. E Smith and little daGgh- tsr. who have spent the past six months or go in Seattle were return ing passengers on the Prince George last evening
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ZURICH. Switzerland. Aug 1.-Iu ;he recent explosion which destroyed a munitions factory 2a2 persons were killed and forry-eight injured. accord ing 10 the last statement made by the Plauen burgomaster. where the fac tory was located
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A wise man doesn't waste any tim' arguing with . prize fighter.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-01

When a man comes in after dinner he comes before dinner.
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WEATHER REPORT

For 34 hours ending p. m. yesterday precipitation .S4 in.
 maximum temperature s7s; Min. szs.
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MOVEMENTS OF BOATS
 SOUTHBOIrND

SOCIdBOUNU. Princess Saturday a. m- Alameda ssh August Admiral FsTazut AHzuzt
 NORPHBOUND. Humboldt Friday City of Seattle Saturday. Alaska Saturday Spokane Monday.
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IT woman looks good she Is not good looking.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-01-26
Bishop Of Duluth Diocese for 27 Years.
Distinguished PreIate Succumbs to
Attack of Acute Indigestion.
Celebrated Golden Jubilee of Priest
hood in June of Last Year.
Began His SacerdotaI Career II
America as Assistant Pastor
of St. Paul Cathedral.
Pastor of Immaculate Conception
Parish in Minneapolis 22
Years.
A Faithful and TireIess Worker In
the Lords Vineyard Called to
His Eternal Reward.

The announcement of the death of
Rt. Rev. James McGolrick, first bishop
of the Diocese of Duluth, which oc'
Cured on Wednesday, Jan. %, was
received with a profound sense OF re-
gret among his innumerable friends
and acquaintances in the Twin Cities.
During the period Of his sacerdotal
service Of about % years in this COM
munity, he had made thousands OF
acquaintances and friends, who held
him in the highest esteem by reason
of his general disposition and public
spiritedness Not only among the
Catholic laity did he enjoy popular
ity and confidence, but also among
the general public. He was a per-
sistent worker in the cause of char
ity and never tagged in his efforts
along this line, even to the hour OF
his death. His splendid scholarship
and Intellectual ability were recog-
nized by all who came within the
range of his magnetic personality. 1t
was in st. Paul as assistant pastor
at the Cathedral that he began his
priestly functions in America. A short
time afterwards, in 1868, he came to
Minneapolis and built the first Cath
olic church in this city on the west
erly side of the river-that of the
Immaculate Conception, at the corner
of Third avenue and Third street
north. This parish was afterwards
consolidated with the Pro-Cathedral
of st. Mary.
He remained as pastor Of the I'm.
maculate Conception for % years until
his conservation as Bishop Of Duluth,
in December q, 1889.
Continued on page .
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-01-26
(From the New York American,
January 14.)
By Hannah sheehy-skefflngt

BY Hannah ehy-Skeffington
Washington, Jan. 13.-Some little
while ago petition reached me
how 1 may not say, except that the
British censor assuredly did not
! "pass" it-from the leading women in
the Irish Women's Council (or Gu
mann ma mBan), the women's organ
ization of the Sim Fein party.
was asked to present it with my
own hands and not to give it to any
body but President Wilson himself. 1t
was a petition for democracy for Ire
land, as one of the small nations
which America seeks to free.
The petition is signed by Constance
Markievicz, nee Booth, condemned to
be shot, reprieved and given life
sentence, of which she served nearly
one year; by the widow of O'Rahilly,
head of the old Kerry clan, herself
American born; by two women pro-
fessors in Dublin colleges; by the
widow of Tom Clarke, executed for
his part in the Irish uprising; by
Grace Clifford, girl-bride Of the Irish
poet, Joseph Plunkett, executed two
hours after his midnight marriage.
Mrs. Wyse Power. one of the found.
ers of the Ladies' Land League" who
worked under Parnell, also signed.
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irish WORLD BARRED FRoMl
U. S. MAIL F0l one Week
Other New York Publications May
Also Be PenaIized.

Washington, Jan. 23.-The postof-
fee department has sustained the de-
cision of the postmaster at New York
in excluding from the second class
mailing privilege the issue Of the
Irish World of January 10, which con-
tanned editorial matter held to be in
violation of the espionage act. In
making this announcement last night,
Solicitor Lamar said the decision
would not affect future issues of the
paper unless Objectionable matter is
found in them. The department had
under consideration recent issues of
the Gaelic.American and New York
Freemans' Journal, other Irish papers
held up at the New York ONCE, for
alleged violations Of q similar nature.
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ing and serene, and seeme
ularly excellent spirits,

ing and serene, and seen1e6 aAppestia, ID
ularly excellent spirits.
Handing him the petition, briefly
stated its nature and thanked him for
his courtesy in receiving me. added
we women already owed him a debt
Of gratitude and that we hoped he
would consider the appeal of Irish
women on behalf of the suffering
motherland.
The rest may not divulge, but l
left feeling that our request would re-
ceive consideration and attention
and that, at present, is what we want.
Previously no envoy, official or un-
official has been received by the Presi-
dent. 1t is not too much to hope, then,
that he is not unfriendly to Ireland 8
claims and they will not be forgotten
by the United States government
when the time comes.
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MRS. MISREPRESENTATION RE-
CEIVED BY PRESIDENT WILSON

thus linking up the older Parnell
movement and the new Sim Fein.
Another signer is Annie Kent
whose husband, a we'll known Irish
musician, was also executed. Louise
Gavan Duffy, another signatory, is the
daughter of Sir Charles Gavan Duffy
who was exiled for his share in the
'48 revolution. Afterwards he became
Premier of the Australian Common
wealth.
1 received notification previously
that I was to attend at the White
House at 2:15 p. M, on Friday, and
there went. I was presented to the
President after he had received and
said a few gracious words to a depu
tation of California suffragists, who
came to thank him for his champion
ing of the Federal amendment.
From the distance through the part
ly opened door, I saw him pat the
curly head of the youngest member
of the deputation, solemn little
maiden of about twelve-her first dep
utation doubtless.
They passed on-the White House
seems a place of wide and spacious
vistas-and then was presented
alone by Mr.. Tumulty, an Irishman
originally, his family, I believe, from
County Cavan, and had the privilege
of shaking the Presidents hand and
reminding him that he had some Irish
blood in his veins.
I had seen pictures Of the President
previously-who hasnt?-but It seems
to me that they misrepresent him az
rather grim and unbending, almost
"dour." His mood yesterday was Of
the blandest; he was gracious, smil.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-01-26
camp and a guard with. a rifle for
everv two nrisOners

camp and a guard with a rifle for
every two prisoners.
I'VE rode all day and all night.
Twice l put up the window to jump
and lost my nerve. It looked too
much like sudden death. AS l put it
up again, about a. M, the guard
gave me an ugly look. knew it was
then or never and dove out.
Escaped From Train.
For nearly month thought my
left eye was gone. The scars are
there yet. BY the time the train
stopped, half mile farther on, 1 had
stumbled to hiding place. Those
Germans looked everywhere-on the
side of the tracks toward the border.
l was in the opposite direction.
''It was a month before I got rid of
my English uniform. I stole pair of
overalls one night. I got cap the
next and shirt later. A Belgian
gave me scarf. That was all the
help got"
AS an appetizer Lieutenant O'Brien
ate turnips. The entree was sugar beet
and the meal closed with cabbage
stump that even the Germans scorned.
"And 1 never did like vegetables"
he said. II hope l never have to eat
another"
One night a German soldier saw
him swimming river and raised the
alarm.
II felt sure they would be on top
of me in few minutes" he said. $50
l ran upstream and swan back to
the other side. They looked every
where on the other side.
Swan River Half Mile.
"One of the hardest things did was
to swim the Mouse river. had oil
my clothes on, even my boots, and
the river was half q mile across. It
nearly got me Is feet from shore. I
was choking. And I admit praying.
My boyhood on the Kankakee saved
my life.
when I got up the bank tainted.
It was the only time ever tainted"
It was some 40 lifetimes" after
swimming the Meuse he found the
nine foot death fence of the Holland
lIOutA0I. DodIA AAA UuI 8Ot AAM Inou,
as his improvised ladder dropped him
on the charged wires.
"A few minutes later" he said, II
could have tripped the guard with my
ladder. After he had gone dug-dug
as never dug before in my life. My
back wa was ihia1f an inch from death
when 1 crawled under and into Hol-
land"
It was King George who told him
he could not be sent to the front
again, as the Germans would shoot
him as a spy If captured.
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$1oo,ooo,ooo FOR IRELAND
United States Prepared to Advance
That Sum for Home Rule.
American Capitalists Ready to Invest
Literally There II Home Rule
Is Established.
Dublin Hopeful Of Convention.
ASSOCIATED Press J

(Associated Press.)
London, Jan. 24-Telegram's Dub
lin correspondent says report from
Washington the United States is pre-
pared to loan Ireland $100,00O.00O to
obtain the fullest measure of home
rule and American capitalists are
ready to invest a like sum in Ire
land II the question is settled, is prom
inently displayed in all Irish papers
and has caused lively interest.
Dublin correspondent of the Times
says the report furnishes friends of .
settlement with new and powerful
argument and will serve to increase
the disrepute of the Sim Fein policy,
whose violence and abuse now embrace
the President and government Of the
United States.
Dublin reports regarding the Irish
convention continue hopeful. Dis.
patches to the Chronicle contain mys-
terious references to Certain eventu-
alities following the convention =
which might induce John E. Redmond
to regard his retirement from leader.
ship as obligatory and makes an earn
est plea in Redmond's behalf, saying:
"If he is driven from his position
wherein he would feel obliged to re-
sign because of an action or failure
on the part of those who get support
from him, the cause of Ireland, as far
as the war is concerned, would go
down with him and all consequences
- 4
appear to be betrayal of Ireland, for
so the world would read what would
appear a betrayal of Redmond"
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Thrilling Adventures
Of Aviator O'brien
The BoIdest Imaginary Exploits Of the
Movies Outdone in Real
Life.
IRIsH-AMERcAN GENIUS VAN
QUISHES GERMAN EFFICIENCY
" Days and Nights Of ToiIsome and
Dangerous Travel In the N.
emy Country.
oTHELLo's RECITAL OF WAR
ADVENTURES OUTDONE

Chicago, Jan. 22-Patrick Alva
O,Brien of Momence, ILL.,, is' on his
way to his home town today to see
his mother.
His only regret is that it's meatless
day. He hopes never again to eat a
vegetable.
In the British flying corps he is
known as Lieutenant Patrick Alva
O'Brien. His real story began when
he made a descent Of nearly two
miles in his airplane after a German
bullet had rendered him unconscious.
The fall cost him bump on the head.
Later he jumped out of the window
of a moving train on his way to a
German prison camp and escaped.
Then he spent 72 days getting to Hol-
land, a distance of $50 miles as the
airplane flies. And the story ends
with one of the longest interviews
with a king on record-52 minutes.
Banquet Promised Tonight.
Lieutenant O'Brien reached Chi
cago yesterday. An early train today
took him home. Tonight the boys
back home will do him honor with a
banquet. Every man, woman and
child in Momence is expected to be
there If the hall is big enough.
Many times during those IL nights
of travel through Germany, Luxem-
burg, and occupied Belgium, Amer1-
can strategy triumphed over German
efficiency.
Usually" said Lieutenant O'Brien,
when bunch of fellows get together
they talk about women. But in our
first prison, in Flanders, we talked
only about escape and food and got
very little Of either. There were eight
omcers going to an interior prison
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-01-26
PASS The RANKIN RESOLUTION

First, that as individuals and as Or
ganizations we lombard the House of
Representatives to demand hearing
on the Rankin resolution before the
Foreign Affairs Committee. Your
own congressman will help you get
that hearing if you ask him. Such
hearings are not hard to get; you
merely have to show that you really
want it and the committee will give
it to you.
But suppose we get our hearing.
Suppose the committee hears Miss
Rankin in support of her resolution.
Suppose it hears representatives of
the friends of Irish Freedom, the Irish
Progressive League, the Clan-na-Gael
and what not. Suppose it hears all
the arguments and still refuses to re-
port out the resolution so that the
House can vote upon it. The pub
licity will help convince some of the
committee, some of the members Of
the House, some of the public, that
the issue is not an academic, but a
live, one.
Secondly, we can bring pressure
upon Congress to force the Rules Com
mittee of the House to report out q
special rule yanking the resolution
out of the Foreign Affairs Commit
tee and setting special date for a
debate and vote upon 1t.
Let's see how much political strength
we have. Let's see who our real
friends are. What we want is, first, q
hearing before the Foreign Affairs
Committee. Then, If that is unsuc-
cessful, a special rule from the all
powerful Rules Committee setting a
special day for vote on the Rankin
resolution. It isn't much to ask, in
view of the profuse rhetorical tributes
which Ireland gets from these gentle
men in every congressional campaign
when they want our votes. Let's get
together, and see what we can do!
Gentlemen of the Ancient Order of
Hibernians, and other Irish organiza-
tions, now is the time to pull together
for victory. The report Of the Irish
Convention will soon be Forthcoming.
The indications are that it will not be
as satisfactory as was reasonably ex-
pected. Unquestionably it will re.
quiret great effort to secure its en-
dorsement and ratification in the Brit
ish Parliament, and we can conceive of
no more potent argument in the eyes
of the Britishers than a duly adopted
resolution from the American Con-
gress. Who knows but what the Brit
ish statesmen themselves might well
come such an expression as furnishing
them solid footing on which to bring
the Ulster irreconcilables to a realiz-
ing sense of their grotesque pettiness
and easonableness-of their utter
failure to grasp the fundamental prin.
ciples of democrdacy.
The adoption of such measure will
not be an embarrassment to the Pres
ident. 1t is the inevitable and logical
result of the application to the Irish
situation of the principles which he
has so often and so ably enunciated
in his several messages and pro.
nouncements to the democracies of
the world.
Friends of Ireland, act now! Strike
while the iron is hot, and while the
question is open for discussion. Your
action may not only win freedom for
Ireland, but go long step toward
winning the war for the democracies
of the world.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-01-26
MORTIMER ScANLAN
DIES At CHICAGO, ILL
cago at the Age Of Over
Eighty Years.
Prominent in cian-na Gael and Other
Irish Organizations for Many
Years.
A STALWART CHAMPION
OF PARNELL MOVEMENT

Mortimer Scanlan, brother of Mich
ael Scanlan, the poet, and uncle of
Judge Kickham Scanlan, died at his
home, 4333 Indiana avenue, Chicago,
on Friday, December IA, 1917, after a
protracted illness.
Mortimer Scanlan belonged to a
famous Fenian family and was him
self the first Fenian in the West. He
was born at Castlemahon, County
Limerick, considerably over eighty
years ago. The family came to Amer
lea in the late 'Forties Of the last
century, and lived for a while in
Massachusetts, but moved, in 1851, to
Chicago, which then had a population
of only 34,5OO. It was then weeks
journey from Boston. Arriving there
as boy, he saw the city grow dur
ing the sixty-six years of his resi-
dence in it to the second in the United
States.
Obtaining employment at Heath's
candy factory, the first one started in
Chicago, when he grew old enough to
go to work, he later became traveller
for the firm and built up quite trade
along the only railroad line then run
ming West out of the city-the Chi
cago and Galena, now part of the
Northwestern system. When his
brother, Edward Scanlan, bought out
Edward T. Heath's interest in the
candy factory, he retained Mortimer
as the travelling salesman and he built
up "a f1ourishing business. In the
course of time Scanlan's candies were
being consumed in great quantities
from Manitoba to New Orleans and
from Detroit to San Francisco.
Mortimer Scanlan worked for Ire
land, as we'll as for business on these
trips. While he was the first to join
the movement, his brothers were all in
it, and Michael and John F. became
very prominent in 1t. It was founded
in New York in 1857. out of the rem
nants of the Emmett Monument Asso-
citation, and Joseph Denieffe, fellow
townsman Of James Stephens. was
sent to Ireland to start it there, but
it made little progress in America for
some years. It was in its infancy
when Mortimer Scanlan Joined it, and
he was instrumental not only in start
Continued on page s.
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The resolution introduced in Con-
gress on Jan. 4th, last by Miss Jean
nette Rankin, of Montana, should not
be "interned" in the pigeon-hole re-
cess of Congressional committee. 1t
is cup to- the friends of Ireland here
to see that this should not be it's fate.
The fact that the resolution was in
troduced by a woman may be of tre-
mendous significance, when it is re-
called that the female element is q
new and powerful force in politics that
it is about to come out" simultan-
eously in America and Great Britain.
This force must be reckoned with
in the future in all political plans and
calculations, and those who fail to
note it's potential and actual strength
are apt to be swept from their moor.
ings to disaster. An Ajax defying the
lightning would have an easy job as
compared with the stubborn statesman
who would defy the insistent demands
of the women of a nation for what
they believed to be right and just
measures of government.
Why not, therefore, take advantage
of this tide in political affairs, which
is now reaching the flood stage, in be
half of Ireland? The gist of the Ran
kin resolution is contained in the dec
laration, I'VE count Ireland among
those countries for. whose freedom
and democracy we are fighting" It
also recognizes the right Of Ireland to
political independence. The resolu
tion was at once referred to the Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs. where al
ready are buried five other resolutions
bearing on the same subject and hav
ing the same purport.
These are the resolutions introduced
by Congressman Medill Mccormick OF
Chicago, Mclaughlin of Philadelphia
Supreme President of the Ancient Css.
der of Hibernians, NORM of Pitts
burgh, Cary of Milwaukee, and Mason
of Chicago. OF all these the Rankin
resolution is the most uncompromis'
ing and frank, but nevertheless it is
the one that is most apt to receive
consideration and discussion.
Now, of course, the Congress Of the
United States cannot make Ireland
free. Nevertheless, the passage of
the Rankin resolution by the House
of Representatives would help. 1t
would give the Irish question at the
peace conference great prestige. No
one knows what the future has in
store for Ireland, but under any con
ceivable situation we would be meas
urably nearer our goal if we could
secure the passage of this resolus
ton by the House of Representatives
of the United States. It can't possibly
hurt, and it might greatly help in
these revolutionary times.
But it requires work. Chairman
Flood of the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs is probably no friend
of the Rankin resolution. Not as
things stand today. His committee
will not report out that resolution
until it has to.
It has been suggested, therefore by