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Republican farmer., 1918-10-18
HA|GHT SHOOTS SELF SADDENED BY LOVE AFFAIR With Two Bullet Wounds in Lung [ Be is in Serious
 Danger. CONSIG. ID LOVE
 TO THE FLAMES Body Found Unconscious in Lot Near w. E. Seeley's
 Home.
Saturday, Oct. 12

The unconscious form of Oakley Haight, 19, of 856 Fairfield avenue, was found at 2 o'clock this morning in vacant lot near the residence of William E. seeley, SO6 Brooklawn ave- nue, with two bullet wounds in his left lung just above the heart. He was removed to St. Vincent's hospital, where he later stated he had been held lice say it was a plain cast of at tempted suicide. He is not expected to live.
 Many persons in the neighborhood were startled at the sound of the shots and James Stafford of 791 Cleve- land avenue with Ivan Ward of 13O Hillside avenue were the first to reach the prostrate form of the wounded man. They summoned Patrolman Dellaco of the Third Precinct who was hurryfng in the direction of the shooting. A call was sent to the Emergency hospital, responded to by Dr. Frank E. Gavlas, who had the wounded man removed to St. Vim cents hospital.
 A .22-calibre Colts automatic pistol was found in the lot by Harold See ley. Two cartridges had been dis charged.
 According to information gleaned from a number of letters found in the young mans room, he was engaged to be married, but had a disagreement with his fiance. He asked his land- lady. Mrs. Futile, last evening, if he could burn a bundle of letters. This request was granted. Mrs Futile stated today that she believed the let ters were from the sweetheart. Among the papers found in his room was an envelope upon which had been hurriedly written: Louis Hodge has library book; Gordon, the tailor on State street, has a pair of creamers; Knapp, the government inspector
 owes me s2.5O; I have government check coming the 22nd of this month. Address as below or it is apt to go astray. Mother in haste" Then follows this address: Oakley
 V. Haight Corner Magnolia and
 First street, Highland Park, New
 Brunswick, New Jersey, care of c. A. 1 Waterbury, Jr.'
 The only description which Haight
 seems able to give of his assailant is that the man was a stranger to him, was about five feet ten in height and
 was exceedingly dirty looking. He does not say what amount of money
 was stolen from him, nor does he give any account of other valuables miss ing.
 | His financial affairs must have been | ct q rather low ehh for annne- the pa-
 pers found in his room were two pawn tickets, one for a cigarette case and the other for a ring. He has said i nothing of his troubles, if he had any,
 but friends have noticed that within the last few days he has been melan- AcEoly
Republican farmer., 1918-10-18
BRITISH GRAND FLEET LEAVES PORT AT WILL
Says Admiral Sims Speak ing at Luncheon For
 American Editors.

London, Friday, Oct. 11-Vice Ad- miraI Sims, speaking yesterday at Lord NorthcIiffe's luncheon for visit ing American editors, said the aver age number of enemy submarines op- erating against merchant ships and transports across the Atlantic was about eight or nine, but that some times it ran up to twelve or fifteen. That was all of the submarines the enemy could keep out at a time, he declared.
 Around the British Isles, vice-Ad- miral Sims said, there were about B. 900 anti-submarine craft in operation day and night. Of American craft there were 16O, or three per cent. of the total, and it was about the same in the Mediterranean. The British grand fleet, he said, continues to come out of port whenever it wants to and goes wherever it pleases around the North Seas. The grand fleet is enabled to do so simply be- cause it is surrounded by an area carefully patrolled by screens of de stroyers within which it would be suicidal for a submarine to show its nose.
 The convoy system, Vice-Admiral Sims explained, is nothing else than a great fleet of merchant vessels sur- rounded by a screen which makes it very dangerous for submarins to make an attack. There are about 5000 anti-submarine craft in the oper sea today, cutting out mines, escort ing troop ships and merchant vessels and making it possible for the Allies to win the war.
Republican farmer., 1918-10-18
AUSTRALIA WILL
 CONsCRIPT MONEY
Bill Making Subscriptions Compulsory Passes First Reading in House of
 Representatives.

Melbourne, Oct 12.-A bill making subscriptions to the war loans in Aus. tralia compulsory has passed the first reading in the Commonwealths House of Representatives.
 W. A. Watt, Acting Prime Minister, has moved the second reading of the bill, which calls for the making up of shortage of voluntary subscriptions. Two classes of citizens are exempt however, those whose taxable income falls below s25O, and Australian sol- diers and sailors serving abroad. The amount that an individual may be required to subscribe to all loans during any given year must not exceed six times his yearly average income tax for the three preceding, years The | Commissioner of Taxes will be em- powered to decide objections. and an appeal board to be provided will be able to exact as a penalty from those failing to subscribe a sufficient amount
 to war loans an amount equal to twice the yearly average income tax for the preceding years. The penalty, how
 ever, will not relieve the individual from the obligation to subscribe.
 This unique piece of legislation from
 the southernmost nation of the world
 is only typical of the progressive methods of statecraft that have long made it famous as a great political i laboratory.
 Of a character similar to the fore going law is the decision of the Fed
 eral Cabinet to remit penalties and | forfeituraS incurred bV deceased Aus l tralian soldiers and sailors who died
 since July 1, 1918, and whose ac-
 counts have not yet been adjusted.
Republican farmer., 1918-10-18

London, Oct. 12.---Laon, the great strategic rail-base and southern hinge of what remains of the Hindenburg line, is being evacuated by the Ger mans.
 News that Ludendorff has at last begun this withdrawal came late yes terday at the end of another day re- p:ete with triumphs for the Allied American arms. Grand Pre- has fallen before the Franco-Americans.
 The clearing of northern France by the invaders under the terrific pres sure of Foch's armies is in full prog ress. The retreat is spreading north wards, though the enemy is expected to cling to Lille, his northern pivot, as long as the utmost risk allows it. The last German is out of the Ar gonne Forest, and all the way from the east to Rheims to the Mouse, and beyond that river. North of Verdun aross the Lorraine heights of the Mo- selIe, thence down to Alsace, Ameri- can troops hold the whip-hand Haig's Anglo-American forces are plunging eastward through the Cam brai-St. Quentin gap. The French, on their right, are driving toward Guise, g miles north of Laon, to cut off one : of the main lines of German retreat While Anglo-American troops yes- terday pushed eastward from Le Ca teau and widened the breach, captur- | ing St. Hilaire-les-Cambr Avesnes and St. Aubert, General Debeny's French army crossed the Disc at sev- eral points in it's southeastward drive 1 toward Guise. The French north of Rheims put themselves in complete control of both banks of the suippe river, elim- mating that stream as a German hope for. a stand, and captured Bertricourt.
 Due south of Laon, against the apex of the pocket, Italian contingerits are fighting with the French. Courtecon and Tryon have been captured in that sector, and this Franco-Italian aid- vance was the immediate signal to Ludendorff's beginning the evacua- tion of Laon.
 | Grand Pre-, the important railway town at the bend of the Aire river, 9 miles northwest of Verdun, has been entered by the French, according to latest news from the southern battle
Republican farmer., 1918-10-18
U. s. SOLDIERS
 IN PRISON CAMPS

Washington. Oct 12---The War De- partment made public the names of "A American soldiers held as prisoners of war at various camps in Germany. They include:
 At Rastatt: Carl Hoffman, Hamp- ton, Conn.,; Hyman Wolfe, Chelsea, Mass; Robert E. Trainer, APO Hamil- ton street, Allentown, Pa; John Mis- hiwice, New Haven; Epifiance Lu- cente, Conshohocken, Pa: Ferdinand > Thull, New Brighton, Pa; Joseph Tartaglio, Philadelphia; Czestav Przy- gucuki, Braddock, Pa; Michaele Mar gone, New Haven; Joseph Rogers, Somerset, Pa; Eugene Gibson, Colum- bia, Pa; Arnold Roberts, Greensburg, Pa; Leon H. Kise, Columbia, Pa.; Howard H. Graham, New Brighton, Pa.; John W. Carl, Newport, Pa. Thomas A. Fredericks, Philadelphia; Warner s. Weston, 16O6 Margaret ave- nue, Altoona, Pa.
 Frank Laiding. Berlin, Pa; Joe Endzel, Jenner, Pa; Bomasa Reic- hardt, Philadelphia; Homer Shaffer, Garrett. Pa; Steven Sullivan, West Bridgewater, Pa; Joseph E. Chardy Quincy, Mass; Clarence H. Zinkan Beaver. Pa; Bernard J. Morris, Phil adelphia; John Gaynor, Nanticoke, Pa; William F. Bonn, 716 Moosic street, Scranton. Pa; George W. Mar shal, Madfield, Mass; Alexander Will sky, Lincoln, N. H.; Gustave Longer man, Pittsburgh.
 At aDrmstadt: George Johnston 1 Pittsburgh.
 l At unknown canona. Artbrr Paedar | Trevorton, Pa; Lloyd J. Shaw, Con- nellsville, Pa; Harry L. Northeimer PAT Jefferson street. Reading, Pa George M. Plop3ert, Conway, Pa.; Jo- seph Widkowsky, McKeesport, Pa.
Republican farmer., 1918-10-18

front. American troops who cleared the Argonne Forest are approaching the outskirts of the city from the east. Berlin officially admits a with drawal of the German front on IT, mile liny ''to the rear" of Grand Pre-. The Germans are relinquishing their hold on the northern part of the Che min des Danes and are believed to have begun the evacuation of St. Go- bain.
 In the last two days the Americans have taken nearly 5000 prisoners in their steady advance between the Ar gonne and the Mouse
 1. A German retreat on a 17-naile front, between St. Etienne-a-Arnes and the Aisne, where the Teutons are faced by Americans, and the virtual abandonment of the important rail- town of Grand Pre-, at the bend of the l Aire river, 25 miles northwest of Yer dun, were admitted by the Berlin War office yesterday. The statement says:
 We withdrew according to plan, undisturbed by the enemy, between 1 St. Etienne and the Aisne, to the rear of Grand Pre-.
 ''On the, east bank of the Mouse vain American attacks between Sivry-sur- Mouse and Hammont Wood were beaten off"
 | Correspondents on the western front declare the Germans have begun an evacuation of villages near the Swiss Alsatian frontier, 40 villages between Basic and Colmar having been cleared l The commander of the Kriemhilde line sector which was preached by us, is among our prisoners. He is lieu tenant coolnel. Our troops found him in dugout from which he refused to emerge on account of our artillery New German storm troops had been seth to reinforce him, but he didn't know of their arrival. We scattered the storm troops and summoned him to come along"
 He insisted that an orderly accom- pany him and carry his bag contain ing a tooth brush. He indignantly re- fused to carry the tooth brush in his pocket.
 The Serbians in their advance on
 Nish have taken 5000 prisoners and
 a number of heavy guns. They have pushed ten miles beyond Leskovatz and are making swift progress.
Republican farmer., 1918-10-18
HENRY RINCLINC
 CIRCUS MAN DEAD
Was One of Seven Brothers Who Started With One
 Pin Admission.

Baraboo, Wis, Oct. 12-Henry Ringing, youngest of the seven broth CTS who made circus history, died Thursday of heart disease. He is survived by his wife and a son.
 The Ringlings started in Baraboo by showing for one pin admission. They burst out of Baraboo as fam fly brass band. Then they had a one ring performance, next a railroad show" and so on and up until they owned not only Ringing Brothers but Barnum X Baileys and the Fore paugh-Sells show, and all the big cir GUS revenue from the whole country went into their pockets. But always they were loyal to Baraboo. The circus season ended, there the broth CTS gathered to celebrate the holiday Now the youngest brother has died in the little town of his birth.
 Henry was not one of the five broth CTS in the original Ringing firm which bought the Barnum Bailey show in 1907 for $41O,0O0. They were John, Otto, Charles, Al and Ali T. The next to the oldest brother A. Gustave, general agent for the s-Forepaugh outfit, died in 1907 Henry was too young to be regular circus man when the others were growing in stature until they be- strode the whole circus world, but of late years he was one of the mos! active of the family.
 Between circus seasons he fished in the South. Desiring comfort with his pleasure, he had a power boat that cost $12,0O0 built at Milwaukee two years ago. It was built on the lines of the V type express cruiser could make twenty miles an hour had all the fittings of a much large1 yact with accommodations for ter persons, yet drew only 23 inches o1 water and so could ascend shallow streams where MT. Ringing wanted to fish.
Republican farmer., 1918-10-18
EMPLOYES AT COLT COMPANY
 OUT ON STRIKE

Hartford, Conn, Oct. Several hundred employees of the Colt Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co.,, are out on strike, having left the factory a- 10 o'clock this forenoon. They de- mand an eight hour day and time and a half for overtime. Men and wom- en participated in the walk out.
 The strikers left the factory in an orderly manner and marched up town to city hall square where a meeting of leaders was held in a nearby hall. The leaders declined to discuss the matter outside the hall referring all inquiries to a committed report to be issued later. En ployes of the Colt Co. number about 1000 a growth of about 5000 in three years. The factory has always run on the long-hour day and there has been unrest among it's workers for some months.
Republican farmer., 1918-10-18
Trinity Men In
 Training Corps

Hartford, Oct Periodically all the Trinity college men have been in- ducted into the Students Army Training Corps The new Trinity mess hall and kitchen are in full op- eration with 16O men eating at the tables. The accommodations are for 300 men which number are expected. The space used for these buildings was that originally used for the col lege commons CT dining hall when the present Gothic buildings were erected in 1875.
 Contracts have been left for new and complete plumbing, including shower baths for dormitories now in use for s. A. T. c. barracks. Electric lighting is being installed throughout the buildings which lack that equip ment now.
 The Trinity men are progressing well in drills, military studies and intercompany athletics.
Republican farmer., 1918-10-18
Christmas Parcels
 For Men Abroad

The Navy Department has advised that parcels intended for officers and men on United States naval vessels in home waters and abroad or sta toned at naval bases or stations in foreign waters should conform to the following conditions:
 l. Parcels may not exceed 2C pounds in weight and must be so pre- pared for mailing that the contents may be readily examined. Substan- tial boxes or other suitable contain CTS should be used.
 2. The parcels must bear the name and address of the sender in the up per left corner of the address side and be addressed in the following manner:
 (a) Name an address in full to-
 gether with his rank or
 rating.
 (b) The designation of vessel or
 station or naval base to
 which addressee is attached. (c) Care of Supply Officer,
 Fleet Supply Base, 18th St..
 and 3rd Ave, Bush Terminal
 Station, Brooklyn, New
 York"
 (d) The words Christmas Box"
 or Christmas Present" 3. Parcels prepared and addressed in accordance with the foregoing wi! be chargeable with postage at the fourth-class or parcel post zone rate applicable between post office where mailed and Brooklyn, New York. i. No perishable food products oth- CT than those packed in tin contain CTS should be inclosed in the Christ. mas parcels.
 3. Parcels may bear inscription: such as Please do not open "nti Christmas" Merry Christmas, Happy New Year." With Bes Wishes" and the like; also the name! and quantities of articles inclosed to- gether with such other marks ol words as may be necessary for the purpose of description" of the arti cles.
 6. Christmas parcels for naval of ticers and men should be mailed a! soon as possible so as to reach Busr Terminal Station not later than Nov 15, 1918.
 c. F. GREENE,
 Postmaster
Republican farmer., 1918-10-18
300 GRIP CASES IN CoLLINsv1LLE

Collinsville, Oct. 12-Even though there are now nearly 300 cases of in fluenza in this village there have not been so many new cases reported in the last twenty-four hours. Mem bers of Company E, Connecticut State Guards, have been detailed to make a house-to-house. canvass to ascer- tain how many members of families are i'll with the disease. In many instances people were unable to ob- tain the services of physicians and in such cases they were immediately taken to the emergency hospital which was opened in the chapel of the Con- gregational church. Here all pa- tients are under the care of doctors and nurses.
Republican farmer., 1918-10-18
BARRIERS GIVEN
 GAUZE MASKS

New York, Oct. 12-The Jersey City Health Board today distributed gauge masks to barbers, which must be worn for the duration of the epidem- ic while cutting hair and shaving. A total of 4,502 cases have been reported in Jersey City.
Republican farmer., 1918-10-18
son avenue, Brooklyn, New York.

son avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
 Sergeant Lockhorn Hupman, Com pany I, Sixth Infantry. For extra ordinary heroism in action at Fra belle, France, August r, 1918. After his platoon commander had fallen Sergeant Rupman took command ut lis platoon and led 1t to it's objective through heavy enemy barrage al- though himself twice wounded. Home address: Nathaniel Hupman, brother, brother, 421 Steinway avenue, Long Island City. N. Y.
Republican farmer., 1918-10-18
WILLARD, FAMOUS
 PAINTER IS DEAD

Cleveland, O., Friday-Mr. Archi-
 bald M. Willard, painter of the fam ous picture, "The Spirit of '76" died
 at his home here today, aged eighty one years. Death was due to heart
 disease.
 MT. Willard's painting was finish ed in 1876 and was exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial; after which it was bought by General L. H. Dev-
 erauX, of Cleveland who presented
 it to the town of Marblehead, Mass, where it now hangs in Abbott Hall. General DeverauXs son, Harry K. DeverauX, president of the Grand Cir
 cult, posed for the picture of the boy
 in the painting.
 MT. Willard was a civil war veteran and came to Cleveland in 1873 from Wellington, Ohio. He leaves a daughter and a son.
 While MT. Willard's work is best known because of '"The Spirit of '76'' he has left many ather works of art,
 but the story of "The Spirit of '76" is an interesting part of his life. MT. Willard had become a business part ner of an art dealer in Cleveland, Ohio, his popular pictures being pro i duced in wholesale lots and sold 1 throughout the country. The Gen. i tennial Exposition was soon to open
 and his partner, MT. T. F. Ryder, sug-
 gested that he paint a satiric picture
 on the theme of Yankee Doodle , He set to work, and after many false | starts and failures was about to give
 it up. His father had been persuad. ed to pose as the aged drummer. but when he fell i'll and was about tC
 die MT. Willard could not go on and
 make the picture a jest.
 He then devoted all of his energies
 in the painting of a picture of patri-
 otic theme and inspiration, with the
 result that every one is familiar with
Republican farmer., 1918-10-18
WOMAN R1vETER SETS RECORD,

Portsmouth, N. H., Oct 12.---Miss Annie Tobey, an operative in the cleo trical shop at the Portsmouth navy yard. won a contest for women rivet CTS here yesterday when she drove 264 copper rivets into battery boxes in two hours.
 Machinists say this is a record for women.
Republican farmer., 1918-10-18
HUNS WESTERN FRONT COLLAPSES
 WHEN DRIVEN FROM LAON THEIR
 LAST STRONGHOLD IN FRANCE

French Race For Guise to Gut Rails Behind Ludendor
 Army-Pershing Sweeps Past Argonne- Angglc- Americans Plunge East From Le Cateau, Capture Many Towns, Mop Up Fleeing Germans and Double Menace to Rear of Laon PocketEBerlin Admits Loss of Grand Pre- to Pershing Civilians Ordered From Alsace Towns Foch Seizes Both Banks of the Suippe
Republican farmer., 1918-10-18

the crew and 300 United States sol- diers and 30 French sailors. They were landed at North Irish port.
 The Otranto drifted ashore on the island of Islay. She became a total wreck. Sixteen survivors have been picked up at Islay. There are missing and it is feared drowned 335 United States soldiers, Il officers and S5 men of the crew, including men with mer- cantile marine ratings.
 ''The Kashmir reached a Scottish port and landed its troops without casualties"
 ---=-i Oct 12.---The Telegram states that 1t was in obedience to or ders from the Otranto, which was the flagship of the concoy, that the steam CT Kashmir after the collision pro- ceeded without attempting to rescue any one from the Otranto.
Republican farmer., 1918-10-18

Damage amounting to s3,O00 was caused by the explosion at the Aetna Chemical Co.'S works at Hidelburg, near Pittsburgh.
Republican farmer., 1918-10-18

Lauren J. Drake. president of thl Standard Oil Co.,, of Indiana, 1. daad.
The sun., 1918-08-25
Aboard a German Raider

IF any busy scenario writer ever makes
l. a "picture" out of Capt. John Stan
lev Cameron's Ten Months in German
Raider he may very properly entitle the
film Sared at The Elercnth Hour. For
that was the happy fate of Capt. Cam
eron, his wife and daughter, together with
other captives Of the German raider Wolf
when the Spanish steamship Igotz Mendi
Zone Of the VOLTS many prizcs) ran
ashore on the Danish coast in fog. The
sea raiders prisoners were within a few
hours of German soil and probably some
years of life in German prison camp!
Cyril Brown, who set down Capt.
Cameron's tale for publication, has had
the wit to let the narrative stand as a
plain sailors yarn with no graces other
than the unvarnished facts and the sheer
romance of the adventure. His tale be-
gins with the sailing Of Cameron, ac-
companied by his wife and little daughter,
on board the little bark Beluga from San
Francisco in May, 1917. On July 9 the
Beluga was overhauled by the Wolf and
her captain and crew made prisoners.
After as much of her cargo of benzine as
the Wolf wanted was taken aboard the
German raider, the bark was destroyed
on July IL by gunlire. "Rotten shoot
ing" Capt. Cameron says it was, for at
two and half miles the Germans fired
eighteen shots that were misses, the nine
teenth finally hitting the mark.
The experiences of the Camerons
aboard the Wolf and, subsequently,, the
Igotz Mendi were a succession of good
times and bad, depending on the nautre
of the vessels commanding officers. Com
mander Merger of the Wolf was an officer
and gentleman, who told Capt. Cameron
that if he had known Mrs. Cameron and
the little daughter were on the Beluga
he would have allowed the bark to pass
them; but that once the identity Of the
Wolf was revealed he had to make pris-
oners of the Americans in self-defenee.
He treated the Camerons with official
naval courtesy; and not only this, but he