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' ..jv -4; VJ L-s ';- '.5.:. V . - - - . : 4 -57ji'-- -. - ""-:.r,-?-f5-;r,'-,- '-- " V -" ' - v"' vT -"v . -C-': i " ' - - ' - N , ' ' - THE MORNING STAR,W1LMINGTQN, N. C.J. TUESDA'Vt MARCH 3;,l915. ' I t V; 1 ' TWO 1 ?' i - i. . lit,. 51 -: : i M i:':4 14 . . '-I m 1 kl-i'N' ENTIRE DAY TAKEN TO COMPLETE JURY Taking of Testimony in Thaw Case Will Begin Today. : IS FIGHT FOR FREEDOM It is Clear That .is to Be the End Sought by His Attorneys -State's Contention la , Ontiined--'rhaw - ;Pidgnimme Alto. Lieutenant Douglas, reconnoiterlngi at close quarters in another seaplane was wounded, but returned safely. "On the fifth seaplane No. 727 pilot Flight Lieut. Bromet with Lieut. Brown was hit 28 times and seaplane No. 7 pilot Flight Lieut.' Herlshaw, with pet ty" officer Merchant, was struck eight times, in locating concealed positions. ,'The Ark Royal.: the mother ship for seaplanes is equipped with every ap pliance necessary for the repair and maintenance of the-numerous air craft which she carries." ADVANCES TO SMALL ALLIES hy New York,. March 8. In- the room where he twice -faced a jury for toe murder of Stanford White, Harry Ken dall Thaw today went on trial for con spiring to escape from the State Hos pital for the Criminal Insane at Mat teawan. With him as co-defendants were five men, who, the state charges, were parties to the alleged conspiracy. The entire day was required to com plete the jury. Taking of testimony will begin-tomorrow. From the outset It. was evident the trial would be another fight for Thaw's freedom. The defendant's attorneys plainly initmated that they would seek to offer evidence . designed to prove their client was sane when he escaped from asylum. - - Such being the case they said in ex amining talesmen the defendant was being detained illegally at the time of his flight. They asked prospective jur ors whether they would be prejudiced against a man of sound mind, who .used any means at his command to es ycape from a hospital for the insaae. "These statements were amplified later by John B. Stanchfleld, Thaw's cnief counsel, who said that should the Jury find his client not guilty, he immedi ately would sue out a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that . "his de tention was illegal because the jury would have established his sanity." The state's contention, as outlined, while an assistant district attorney was questioning talesmen, is that Thaw, although : insane at" the: time of his escape, nevertheless was competent to enter into a conspiracy and that, there fore, he should be punished accord ingly, i Deputy Attorney General Kenendy In charge of the prosecution said that if Thaw were found guilty he - would be : returned immediately to Mattea- wan. The first witness, Mr. Kennedy said, would be William Penny clerk of the -criminal branch of the Supreme court, where the trial is in progress who will be asked to identify the court record of Thaw's second trial for murderand the commitment pa pers on which he was sent to the asy lum in 1308. In obtaining the jury each side used only three of its five peremptory chal lenges. Thaw now and the nassisted in selecting the jurymen. His co-defendants, however, rarely offered any suggestions. These co-edefendants are -Richard J. Butler, formerly state as semblyman; Roger Thompson, alleged to have been the driver of the machine in which Thaw fled, Michael O'Keef e, Eugene Duffy and Thomas Flood. When the adjournment was taken upon the completion of the jury, Thaw wasescorted to the sheriff's office on the floor above the court room. There he greeted his white-haired mother, who, with Mrs. George Carnegie, his eister, and Josiah Thaw, his half brother, were in court all day. Thaw kissed his mother and then the two opposite each other and held a brief whispered conference. That over, Thaw stepped into a corridor and posed for newspaper photographers. Before he crossed the Bridge of of Sighs on his way back to his cell in the tombs, he eaid he was satisfied with the jury. Thaw appeared to have taken on con siderable weight since his return from New Hampshire. His face was ruddy and he seemed in , good physical con dition. Detail of Fiends to Be Loaned Great Britain and France. ' Paris, March The Temps today details advancea already made or whch are to be made by France, Great Brit ain and Russia" to small allied coun tries, as agreed on by the finance min isters of the three powers at. the re cent conference in Paris.. The total advances for the present, according " to ' the newspapers are to be ?270,000,000, which amount is to be bforne . equally "by the three powers. These ' powers J already ' have advanced to Belgium $50,000,000 to Servia $37, 000,000, to Greece $4,000,000 and to Mon tenegro $100,000. There remains to .be advanced $178,900,000 which will be di vided between Servia and Belgium.. France, the Temps says, wilt take care of Russia's share fpr the : present by placing sums against grain to be bought in Russia for French Recount. FRENCH OFFICIAL STATEMENTS" Nothing: of Importance to Report in Champagne Country. Paris, (via London), March 8. The war: office gave out the following state ment: . - "There is nothing of importance in the Champagne section to add to yes terday's communication. Progress re ported at different points is enhanced. At the end of the day we captured trenches to the northwest - of Souain. The captured trenches between Perthes and Beausejour represent 400 to 500 metres. We captured ' a number of prisoners, including officers." "In the region of the heights - of the Meuse our heavy artillery, accord ing to prisoners, seriously damaged a 42 centimetre gun recently placed -In position by the Germans. This " gun had to be dismantled and . sent to the rear for repairs. Four of the gun crew were killed and seven wounded. "In Louralne we progressed north west of Badonviller. "In the Vosges, at Reich. Acker kopf, the Germans made a violent counter-attack lat Sunday afternoon. For the moment they jwere able to gain a footing on the-ridge, but after a fu rious hand-to-hand fight our rifle men drove them back and finally remained masters of Reich Ackerkopf. The losses sustained by the enemy was ex tremely heavy. - "In Upper Alsace southward of the railway station at Burnkaupt an attack attempted against our advanced posi tions was dispersed by the fire of our infantry." tending honors jto the captured crewa of Germansubmarine" boats owin&ito the methods and that itls intended to segregate them under special restric tions pending their possible conviction at the end of the war, . V :;i The admiralty states . that this;rul ing applies to the 29 officers and . men of German submarine U 8, sunk ceht ly off Dover. - - . . V -J have ceased thefi attacks in" the SvldV. rnlk region, but continue" vainly " their assaults on our' positions in the- di rection of Balingrood . ":- - "-. , "New . enemy attacks in the Koz-mwhka-Toukla'r region met ' with no better success..." In the region of IKtase- Oexmans,; a whdler hattalion of the ene-J mies enveloping column surrenaerea. , AIR ATTACK ON OSTEND Carried Out by Six Aeroplanes oC the British Air Wing. London, March 8. The admiralty to night issuedthe following statement: . "Wing Commander Longmore re ports .that an air attack on ' Ostend was carried out yesterday afternoon by six aerpolanea of the naval wing. Of these two had to return on account of Petrol-freezing. The remainder reach ed Ostend.. dropped eseven bombs on the. submarine repair baseband four bombs on the Kursaal, the headquarters of the military. "All the machines and pilots re turned. - It .:is probable that consid erable damage was .done. No subma rines were ' seen in " the basin. The attack was carried out in a fresh, north-northeast wind." 1,500 VESSELS TAKEN OVER By British Admiralty for Use as an Auxiliary Fleet. Washington, Marqh 8. Some idea of the size, of the auxiliary fleet Great Britain is using to move and sustain her armies in the field may be gained from American Consul Lathrop at Car f rom American Consul aLthrop at Car diff, Wales. Fifteen hundred British vessels, he reports, aggregating more .than 3, 500,000 tons, have been taken over by the British admiralty. BLACK SEA FORTS BOMBARDED. Several Pat Out of Commission by Russians They Claim. London, March 8. On behalf of the Russian naval general staff, , the offi cial press bureau tonight made the fol lowing announcement: "On Sunday our fleet bombarded Zun guldiak, Kozlon and Kilimli, (ports on the Black sea) destroying all struc tures and plants for the shipment of coal. The bombardment was followed. by a terrific explosion and fire. Four batteries . were silenced and eight steamers destroyed. Our casualties were three wounded." FRENCH COLONT" WITHOUT :r 1 1 BREAD-WINNERS DESCRIBED TURKISH SIDE OF IT ALLIED FLEETS HAVE BATTERED THEIR WAY . NEARER THEIR GOAL GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT Says Aviators of the Enemy Have Drop ped Bombs on Ostend-Review. Berlin, March 8 (via London). The German war office today gave out this report: "In the Western arena: . Aviators of the enejny have dropped bombs on Ostend. The fighting in the Champagne dis trict continued last nigljt. At Souain the enemy was, .repulsed, after a hand- to-hand engagement, Hostilities were again resumed during the night. "In the district to the East of Le- -Misl the enemy attacked in the after noon but this movement failed com pletely. Our night counter-attack was successful, forty French men were captured. "We repulsed attacks in the forest of LePretre to the Northwest of Pont-A Mousson. . "In the Vosges, in the district west of Munster and north of Sennheim the fighting is still going oh. "In the Eastern arena: To the south of Augustowo, Russian attacks failed with heavy losses to the enemy. The fighting has been resumed in the vicin ity of Lomsea. "To the west of Przasnysz and east of Plock the Russians have made several unsuccessful assaults upon our lines. Furthermore, German troops have re pulsed two Russian night attacks at Rawa. Russian advances from the vicinity of Nowomiesto have not been successful. In the subsequent fighting we took 1,500 prisoners." Official Statement Given, Out in Con stantinople Yesterday. London, March 8. A dispatch from Amsterdam to Renter's Telegram Com pany says the following official state ment was given out today in Constantinople: "The British ships Majestic and Ir resistible have reinforced the enemy fleet. The five of our batteries put a French armored cruiser out of action and damaged a British armored cruiser. "Owing to our bombardment the hos tile ships rtreated and ceased their fire. Our batteries suffeerd no dam- i i NO EXCITEMENT IN TOWN. Dardanelles Municipality Viewing Situation WItaont Alarm. Berlin, via London, March 9. In a wireless from Dardanelles, timed 10 o'clock Monday morning, the Lokal An zeiger's correspondent, describing the bombardment of the forts in the straits says there is no excitement jn the town of Dardanelles. "Only a few shots have been fired from the shore batteries," the corre spondent adds. "Not one-tenth of the batteries have yet replied to the allied fleets' fire as the artillery commanders have forbidden them to do so. .Yet the few shots fired have had remarkable result. British ships have been hit twice." Islands, of St. Pierre and Miauelon De- serted Jr Men of War.' St. Pierre, Islands of St. Pierre and Mlqueron, March- 8. A colony - without bread-winners. - Such is this tiny In sular possession, of France, the-, last remaining vestige of her once 'great empire in North America. The "catch" upon which the whole Industry of the Islands - Is dependent, is 'known - to be promising, but ' the - fishing vessels swing idly at their moorings, the" dories are nested on the beach, and the trawls are coiled in .tubs on- shore. Every ablebodied man who. could meet - the. re quirements for v-miUtaryrthere - were 564 in all has corssed the seas to fight for the Motherland... Nearly 3,000 nilles of ocean separates St. Pierre from the battlefields and the St. Pierrais, while intensely loyal, know little of the causes of ' the war and of its --progress. Since the beginning of hostilities a strict 'censorship of the cable has permitted only vogue tidings from the outside world, to reach the fisher-folk. Occasionally " a mysterious message from Paris was received by the civic administrator, M. Chaubaud, and one day the latter posted a notice announcing that the time had come for St, Pierre and Miquelon to play its part in the world tragedy. All able bodied men of fighting years were, or dered to be at the pier at 8:30 o'clock on the morning of February 1. Two hours after the time set the steamer Chicago dropped anchor in the harbor and when she sailed against only the old men, women and children remained. The French government is paying 25 cents a. day to the wife of every fisherman-soldier with an aditional al lowance of 10 cents for each child. The winters are long and hard and fuel is a prime necessity. TheNsoil of the islands is barren and all food stuffs must be imported. Many are suffer ing for the cause of the Allies. Instead of the great sailing fleet that usauljy comes from France for the spring fishing it is expected that steam trawlers will be sent. . These can be operated by a comparatively" few men thus releasing thousands of fishermen for service on the warships. In this way the French government hopes to meet the requirements of their market for codfish. The St. Pierrais, generally loyal, do not appreciate fully their relation to the mother country. Several years ago a" civil administrator, sent here by the Paris government, aroused the hostil ity of the fishermen who made a dem onstration in front of the official's resi dence, hoisted the Stars and,. Stripes above the principal buildings and de clared their intention to annex the Is lands to the United States. Still earl ier they forced an unpopular gov ernor to flee from the colony and seek safety in Canada. - Arranged for ort Teiiiand State Treasurer Lacy. of ALEX. WEBB AGREEING Joint Audit to be Made by Experts for . Treasurer and Those of State Board of Internal Improvements. To Find' Discrepancies. (Special Star Telegram.) Raleigh, N. C, March; 8 It was ar ranged this afternoon between State Treasurer Lacy ' and Governor Craig and the State Board of Internal Im provements that thereshall be a joint examination of the books of the State Treasury by the audit experts of the boardV and those who made audit for the State Treasury, to the end that the auditorsfor the Board of Internal Improvements show just how. they reached the figures to show the Treas urer's audit Incorrecx and that the au dit for the board "uncovered" $220,000 institutional balances as well tfs other large balances. - In his demand for such an audit, Mr. Lacy declared such reports were doing him an injustice, and made the joint audit he demanded necessary. In reply to Mr. Lacy's demand Gover nor Craig wrote him j that he had re ferred the matter to Alexander Webb; of the Board of Internal Improvements, with the request that the joint audit be had and that Mr. j Webb had given assurance that 4fe id ready to do this without delay. In his letter to Gov ernor Craig that he was ready to pro vide for the joint audit, Mr. Webb wrote that in -the report of the board they did not go into 'the detail of the overlapping i appropriations, but .at the request of Chairman Gilliam, of the committee on appropriations, he put the board's audtior at his disposal .and he reported that the gross overlapping ap propriations to the State Hospital at Morganton aggregated $76,302.99, and to the credit of the hospital at Raleigh was $61,150.89. r-that the auditor, B. A. McKinney, made no further report to him, afjd Chairman Gilliam, of the ap propriations committee, informed him the overlapping appropriations totaled $220,000, the other figures Mr. Gilliam informed him having i been gotten from the treasurer's office. ! - DIES WITH FORTUNE IN GRASP Oil on Spoater vt Afterward Located Oklahoman's Farm. (Tale, Okla. JDlspacch to JCew York ; - Tribune.) . U , H. C. McCroskey; who died- in Okla homa City recently, was the owner of the farm here known In the oilworld as the McCroskey farm, and on which the Alice Kathryn Company well N6. 1 1b located. The McCroskey farm is the northwest quarter of section 7-19-6, one and one-half miles north. of Yale. Misfortune seems to have followed McCfoskey through life. Several years ago his two ?year-old child fell from a wagon, the wheels of; which crushed out the child's brains, and ahort time before the accident McCrosky lost an other child, . which was burned to a crisp. ' McCroskeys death recalls the fact that he was the second person here to die just as a fortune was almost with in his grasp, after having lived most of his time In circumscribed circum stances. William Fisher, who died two weeks ago, was the owner of a farm here on . which-is located the largest oa well in the mid-continent field, having come in recently at more than 9,000 barrels daily. On the Fisher far jnare four other large oil wells, known as the C. B. Shafter wells. BRITISH STEAMER SUNK. Was Seen from II fran combe to Go Down Following Distress SignaL Ilfracombe, England, Sunday (delay ed), via London, March 9. The British steamer Gengrove was seen in distress and sounding her siren five miles off this shore at 1:30 o'clock Sunday after noon. Forty minutes later the ship sank. Thousands on the shore watched her go down. Two steamers were in the vicinity. One, the Paignton, of Liverpool, res cued the crew of 33 and local fife boats brought them ashore. AGREEMENT ON THE PRIMARY REACHED (Continued from Page One.) on this measure showed 60 for, and 11 against the bill. , . , ,. Prevent foreign corporations from do ing a fiduciary business and limiting the meaning of the word "trust." Authorize extra jurors in Rocking ham county. i Amend the law creating a lien on goods stored, in warehouses. The bill passed to authorize the Fed eral government to control game and fish regulations in territory in this State under Federal . forest preserve control. GERMAN SOLDIER'S DUTY OF SILENCE IS REITERATED In Announcement by Authorities of the Fortress of : Cologn. WOMEN GO TO RALEIGH AND GET WHAT THEY ARE AFTER SNOW STORMS INTERFERING PARIS REPORT ON DARDANELLES. (Continued from Page One.) Hemidieh-I-Tabia and Hamidith which are marked on the admiralty maps as Forts U and V, by indirect fire across the Gallipoli peninsula firing et zi.ooo yards. These forts are arm- d as follows: "Fort U, two 13-inch guns and seven 9.4 guns; Fort V, two 14-inch, one 9.4, .one 8.2, and four 4.9 Inch guns, "The Queen Elizabeth was replied to by Howitzers and field guns and three shells from the field guns struck her, without, however, causing any damage ''Meanwhile, inside the straits, the "Vengeance, Albion, Majestic and Prince George and the French battleship Suf- fren fired on Souain Dere and Mount iardanu mbatteries, marked F and E on the admiralty map, and were fired n by a number of concealed guns. "Fort Rumill, Medjdieh Tabia, mark ted J., on the admiralty man. which liad been attacked on the previous day, opened fire and was engaged and hit py 12-inch shells. "Most of the ships in the straits were struck by shells, but there was no se rious damage done and no casualties resulted. "On the 7th of March, the weather continuing calm and fine, four French battleships the Gaulois, Charlemagne, Bouvet and Suffrend entered the Btraits to cover the direct bombard ment of the defenses of the narrows by the 1 Agamemnon and Lord Nelson. The" French ships engaged the Mount jjaraanus battery and various conceal- ! ed guns, silencing the former. The ; Agamemnon and Lord Nelson then ad vanced and engaged the forts at the narrows, at from 14,000 down to 12,000 yards by direct fire. ' "Forts Rumill, Medjdieh, Tabia (marked J.) and Hamidieh I. Tabia (marked U) both were silenced after a heavy bombardment. Explosions oc curred in both forts. Fort L has not fired since the explosion on the 5th. "The Gaulois, Agamemnon and Lord Nelson, were, each struck three times, but the damage was not serious. Three men on the Lord Nelson were slightly "wounded. V ."While these operations ere In prog ress, the ' British ; light cruiser Dublin - continued to watch the Bulair isthmus. She was fired at with 4-inch guns and struck three or four times. "Owing to the importance of locat ing concealed guns, the seaplanes had to fly very low attlmes. "On the 4th"tastaht a seaplane, Pilot Flight lieutenant Garnet, and Observ er Lieutenant Cpmmader Williamson, : became unstable and ten into the sea. With Operations In the Champagne Country, Says French Report. Paris, via London, March 8. The following official communication was issued by the French war office tonight: "In Champagne, snow st.orms have interfered with our operations. This morning the enemy tried to retake a wood captured Sunday west of Perthes. He was repulsed, and our counter of fensive enabled us to gain ground to the north and east and to take some prisoners. The advance continued and increased during the afternoon. In the region of Perthes we won more than 1,600 feet of trenches. "Between LeMesnil and Beausejour, we lost some trenches we had taken yesterday, but gained about 300 feet on the ridge north of Mesnil. "Jn the region of St. Mihlel and in the Bois of Brule (forest of Apremont) we gained a footing in a German trench and captured therein a great quantity of materials. Operations Described in Statement by Freneh Ministry of Marine. Paris,' March 8. The French minis try of marine tonight issued the fol lowing statement concerning opera tions in the Dardanelles: 'Four French battleships, the Suf- fren, Caulois, Charlemagne and Bouvet and. two i British , warships, the Aga memnon and Lord Nelson, entered the Dardanelles March 7th. While the British ships bombarded at long dis tance, the. forts of the narrows sepa rating Chanak and Kalid Bahr, the French battleships .'covered them by bombarding the batteries of Mount Dardanus and ' Couain Dere and con cealed batteries that were- silenced." "Fort Rumill Medjdieh, Tabia,. on the European side, and. Hamidieh I, Tabia, on the Asiatic side, replied to the fire of the British battleships - but also were destroyed." . , VNorthwest of Pont-a-Moussoh, the Germans attempteed to deliver an at tack, which .however, broke down. "In Alsace, at Reich-Ackerkopf, we repulsed a counter attack." AUSTRIAN VICTORY REPORTED. Many Russians Captured, With Other Successes, in Carpathians. Washington, March 8. An Austrian victory in the heights of the Carpa thians, repulse of repeated Russian at tacks in the Lupkow and the capture of several advance points , in Russian Poland and West Galicia, resulting' in the capture of some 2,300 Russian pris oners, were announced in Vienna for eign office dispatches to the Austro Hungarian embassy here today. ZEPPELIN DESTROYED. glum News Confirmed. Amsterdam, via London, March 8. - The Telegraafs. Tirlemont Belgium, correspondent confirms the jreport . of the destruction there last Thursday of the Zeppelin L-8, .which was forced to make a hurried descent owing to a ae ranerement of Its niotors. ' The correspondent".- says, the airship collided with trees and- smashed its cars and that 17 of its crew of 41 men wre killed. NO HONORS TO BB EXTENDED Crews of German-Submarines Captured n be Treated DMferently. V . London. March 8. The admiralty an Both officers weTO ; InJureoV Flighfjnounces that It 1 not justified la ; ex GUNS HEARD: IN NORTH SEA - . According to Report From Amsterdam First Time Since January. Amsterdam, March 8 (via London). For the first time since Admiral Sir David Beatty engaged a German squad ron in the North sea, the latter part or January, neavy gun jire, according to a dispatch from the Hook ' of Hol land to the Telegraaf, was hea.rd in ine grin sea toaay. .' . Five Thousand Dollars Addition' for Building Fund of Women's Home. (Special Star Correspondence.) Raleigh, N. C, March 8. J. A. Tur ner, of Louisburg, member of the board of directors for the North Carolina Home for Confederate Women, to be located at Fayetteville, was here to day with a special committee of ladies to aid in pressing through the Legisla ture the bill to allow the additional $5,000' building fund, which they had the gratification of seeing through and ordered enrolled. Mr. Turner says that the passage of this bill, just accomplished, means that on March 30 the board of directors will award the contract for a $16,350 build ing, plans for which have been already adopted. This building will accommo date 65 Confederate women. The work of construction is to be pushed as rap idly as possible to the end that the in stitution may be opened. The commit tee of ladies here today included: Mrs, Hunter Smith, Fayetteville, chairman of the commitee on Home for Confeder ate Women; Mrs. E. R. McKeithan, Fayetteville; Mrs. Harlee Townsend, Fayetteville. The board of directors having in hand the "Establishment of the Home, consists of J. A. Bryan, New Bern; J. A. Turner, Louisburg; W. H. White, Ox ford; T. T. Thorne, Rocky Mount; Geo. M. Rose, Fayetteville; A. D. McGill, Fayetteville ; Haywood Parker, Ashe ville. It is understood that Mr. Parker has resigned and that Gen. J. S. Carr is to be appointed as his successor. M. ZAIMIS HAS DECLINED M. King Constantine' Will Summon Gounarls for the Task. London, March .8. A Reuter dispatch frorn Athens says that M. Zalmis has declined to form a cabinet to succeed that of Mr. Venizelos, which ' resigned Saturday; and -"that King Constantine will- summon' M.v Gounarls, -deputy1 for Patras, for the task. v v RUSSIAN OFFICIAL REPORT Was Forced to Make a Descent in Bel-JjBy Repulsed In SulwaKl Region Other Successes Claimed. London, -March' 8;- Reuter's ; Petro grad correspondent Sends, the official communication issuea Dy tne Russian war office Monday . night "In the Sulwakl region we repulsed the enemy. On, Jth.e Marlanpol-Simno Augustowo front- bur offensive .contin ues. - v ";.";."'-"....;.'..-": :: "On the right bank , of the Nareuw there- has been n essential chanere. "On the left bank-of.. the Vistula in the PiHca- region a German . offensive has bee nchecked and our troops have commenced a counter attack. , "In the 1 Carpathians, the Austrians FRENCH MILLINERY SHOP. Opening, Tuesday' March, 9thtv ' SCHOONERS NOT AVAILABLE FOR TRANS-ATLANTIC SERVICE Neither Insurance .Companies Nor Gov- y ernment Will Insure Them. Washington, March 8 Edward C. Plummer, of ' Math, Me., attorney for Plummer, of Bath, Me., attorney for erating coastwise . schooners, told the Senate ship inquha'' committee today that when those carriers sought to en ter the trans-Atlantic cotton trade. Maine insurance companies would not insure their careoes and eventually they could get only a $200,000 limit of insurance on any one cargo. becretary Redfleld, lie said, ' . had sought information on sailing schoon ers for the cotton trade from the American Bureau of Shipping in New York and had been informed that such vessels were not avail n hi . Mr. Plummer also told the commit tee that the interest he represented opposed the shiy purchase bill because they feared that the govrnment but eventually sell ships to operators in the coastwise trade and injure their uuBiness. tie had furnished informa turn to Senator ! Weeks' and also dfs CUSLSeT. the bln witb Senator Townsend and Representatives Moore. Humphrey wu, i.v;juiiicuddy. Berlin, March 8 (by Wireless toSay viiiei. UlSDatnhAft tn- the riurg... News Agency from Rotterdam say it is reported at the- Dutch seaport that a. damaged warship was towed into the Firth of "Forth, Scotland, last Sat urland. . - HUNG BY HER WEDDING RING Trenton- Woman Loses Her Finger in a Strange Mishap Trenton (N. J.) Dispatch to Philadeb- phia. Record. - Mrs. Hheese Budd, an elderly woman of this city was standing on a chair fixing a curtain, when she lost her balance. She threw her hand out- to stop the fail and her wedding ring caught over a gas jet. For some time she hung, suspended by the ring, but by "struggling managed to release her self. - , The flesh of the finger was torn com pletely away and It was amputated at McKinley Hospital. Kansas City, Mo., March 8. A slight improvement which occurred late to day in the condition of William Rock hill Nelson, editor of the Kansas City Star, continued apparent tonight. His physicians, however, announced that the change could not yet be described as a positive change for the better. BELLE ISLE RETREAT OF : WW GERMAX PRisoxEB, Place Distinguished a, Summ r,, dence of Sara Bernhardt. Paris. March 8. (Corresponded 0?. Associated Press)-Belle Isle, familia! to readers of Dumas, and distinguish, by Sara Bernhardt, who flxed h B, mer residence among Its savage rock is now the' retreat of 3,000 German Drl oners of war. Breaking stone for th new roads they are employed in ing, keeps their appetites sharpened the regular camp fare, eked out Z ham, sausages and other delicacies r ceived in large quantities from ad! the Rhine. . acrosf The Alsatian prisoners are cawi-ii separated from the others, and are tl. en regular soldiers' rations and -m th privileges of French troops in barrarfc. Books and papers are provided for tho who desire to read and thosp v.-ho 11 not understand French are iven f cilities for learning it. " " . New York, .March 8. Announc'emm was made today that the mail embark between this country and Great B-f, ain which threatened to hold out until March 17tH when the White Star Wr Arabic sails for England, had been broken, and that on Wednesday tn! Rynoam, of the Holland-America' Line will start for the other side and leavt all the British mail at Falmouth. Kalamazoo, Mich., March 8. Purse, aggregating $34,000 were announce,; today for Kalamazoos grand circuit harness meeting August 2 to 6th. Earh closing events include the ?lo,ono Pa' per mills puree for 2:07 trotters; the $3,000 Burdick Hotel purse for '09 pacers, and $2,000 purses for slower events. Paris, March 8. There was a sympa. thetic manifestation for Americans to. day at the French artists' day at the exposition of photographs and vorki contributed by American artists to be sold for the benefit of families of French artists at the front. Bicycles can now be equipped with electric lambs. . A small battery sup., plies the necessary current. Cologne, March 8. The German sol dier's duty of silence, as well as of fighting, which in' bold type is empha sized on' all 'railroad trains,'' is reiter ated in an announcement by the au thorities of the fortress of Cologne, as follows: "The great interest which the Ger man people has shown in everything connected with the war is the cause of the heartiest congratulation. The ne cessity, however, of guarding against revealing military movements is ob vious. The revelation "of such mat ters can easily result in the greatest harm to -the fatherland. ' 1 "Often our thoughtless word about new formations, the direction taken by troops or transports or the names of commanding officers suffices, if heard by unfriendly ears, to do untild harm to the fatherland's cause. "The layman may not appreciate that the repetition of news which reaches' him from the field is anything but harmless. It should be remembered, however, that the enemy has a far- reaching information service with an tenna stretching far into oun country, and that from such Information im portant conclusions sometimes can be drawn -which enable him to make the proper counter moves. ? The government therefore consid ers it a duty to point out thp situa tion and tot sound tne warning m public places .especially in hotels, rail road carriages and j the like, to guard against the revelation of military news to strangers." Three hundreds ! members of the Reichstag -and the '. various state par liaments of the German empire are now at the front as soldiers accord ing to the Cologne Gazette. The to tal membership of these parliaments is 1,800. I MassanssavwBaiBnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnM Academy of Music March 1 1th MATINEE AND NIGHT COHAN & HARRIS PRESENT MR. GEO. M. COHAN'S MYSTERY FARCE SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE" PRICES: MATINEE, 25c, 50c, 75c. $1.00 PRICES : NIGHT, 25c, 50c, 75c, $1, $1.50 Seats on Sale at Woocjail & Sheppard's Thursday, March March 11th, at 8 A. M. Mail Orders Now, if Accompanied by Proper Remittance MATINEE PROMPTLY3 O'CLOCK. NIGHT, 8:30. SMOTHER BEES FOR HONEY Scientific Thieves i Accomplish Their Work-Without Danger at Stings. . (Carlisle, Pa Dispatch to Philadelphia Record.) Scientific larceny is responsible for Lfhe loss of 40,000 honey bees and 100 pounds of honey belonging to ueorge A. Beetem, near Carlisle. Beetem, as one of the more prominent hee cultur ists, has acquired j distinction, but of late years has had ; serious mishaps. Last year thousands of Beetem's bees weer killed byf feeding in orchards which had been sprayed by State offi cials. ' Night before last honey thieves invaded Beetem's yards and burnt four sulphur under the hives, suffocating more than 40,000 bees. Thus, the. in vaders captured the honey without be ing stung. A short time ago 67. tur keys in Beetem's yard were poisoned. TOOK HALF A PAL'S SENTENCE hleywood Soft Shoes For Men With Enlarged Joints And Tender In Lace and Congress at PETERSON & RULFS Home of Good Shoes Tender-Hearted Chicago Crook is Thankful He's in Jail. (From theChicago Herald.) , Harry Neville,' 22 years old. is thank ful that he is in, jail, thereby shorten ing a sentence Of Charles Eddy, with whom he had been caught attempting burglary. Neville was released on pro bation. It being his first offense.. Eddy, a paroled convict, was about to . re ceive his parole, when Neville "pleaded for him. ' i V "Give me half of it, ; judge," he. beg-J ged, "I won't have , anything to be thankful for, if I'm free and Eddy is facing 1 3years. ! The burglary was my fault." . . . :- Vi: ; Judge Dever , gave both men a jail sentence- 't 7 ' ' "- t . i. - New York, March, 8. The $500 fiiie imposed on Frank Tannenbaum in. ad dition to a year's imprisonment for leading unemployed men into : St. Al phonsus church last year was remitted today by the court of general sessions. Tannenbaum's prison . sentence expirts tomorrow. - , . , FRENCH MILLINERY SHOP. , 'S, 'Opening. 4 Tv"4a.v-Marches 9th. t fif. Ife IhiO(g WE CAN SUIT YOU Carl F. Strunck & Co. 128 Jo 130 South Front Street. Phone 800-J AUTOMOBILES FOR HIRE HIGH GRADE MACHINES Day and ; Night Serviced 'PHONE: 345 Rates v . . . ; . $2.50 Per Hour . Packard AutoRent Co. .- ' B. B.' CAMERON, Manager.' v.. V