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Italy Notifies Germany It Will Remain
Neutral France Sees No Hope for
Anything Save War Bank of Eng
land Raise Its Rates.
Rome, Aug. 1 A newspaper -message
today saysGermany has sent
an ultimatum to Russia and
France. In that to Russia,
Germany asks that Russia sus
pend her moblization within twelve
hours. In the French ultimatum, Ger
many requires France to inform her,
within eighteen hours,, whether, in
case of war between Germany and
Russia. France wpuld remain neutral.
The German Ambassador asked Italy's
attitude in the event of war between
Germany and Austria, on one side, and
Russia and France on the other.
King George Appeals to Czar.
Loudon, Aug. l.-King,. George has
sent an urgent message, to the Rus-
bud emperor in efort to avert war.
When news of the K!rlg3 Interven-
tioti with
the German
n Embasr, here, elicited
the remark that it "tended to revive
hope." "
The National fenny Bank, an in
stitution with many branches where
small deposits were received was
dosed today.
Ultimatum Expires at Noori.
Berlin, Aug. 1 It was officially
announced today that the time Jimit
of the German ultimatum to Russia
expired at noon today.
An official communication pub
lished today in the NortbJ3erman
Gazette says Russian emperor on
July 29th telegraphed Emperor Wil
liam urgently requesting him to help
in avertinK war and to try to res
train his ally, Austria, from going
too far.
Empeicr William replied he would
"illingly take up the task of medita-
tor and accordingly diplomatic act
ion was initiated in Vienna.
While this wan in progress,, the
Dews Russia was mobilizing reached
Berlin and Emperor William tele-
raphed the Emperor of Russia that
Ms role as mediator was by this
endangered, if not made , impossible.
A communication adds that decision
was to have been taken in Vienna
today, in i pgard to the N mediation
Proposals, in which Great Britian had
joined Germany, but that in the
"'D the meantime, Russia had ordered
fall mobilization of her forces. Upon
this, Emnpmr Will!
kst telegram to Emperor Nicholas
is emphatically declaring that his
0WU l'eSDonsiihiPtv fnr tho oufotv of
the German Empire had forced him
to take defensive measures.
Scenes at Bank Repeated
The scenes witnessed at the bank
of England yesterday, during the rush
tO Obtain irohl in ovrhono-c fn hanlr
notes, were repeated this mornine. but
on a still larger scale. A few people,
oo were too late yesterday," spent
Je night in the vicinity to be in line
lhe first tmlnv
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Gazette says the
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tnan government, vesrprdflv Kent
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mmcation to St. Petersburg, de-
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clari
ng that AllStritl Vorl Tin Intantlnn
annexing Servia, extinguishing the
j ngIegnty of Servia, or of re-enter-
S sanjak, Provinro nf Mm,IKa,or
LondePhniC communicatIoa between
dav !!! and Paris was interrupted to-
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in . , governments nav
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ociviue m oraer iu
-.va6C ui war news.
In ank of England Raises Rate,
of ti,'68,"1 t0 the fInancial situation,
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ui Ejngiana, which was
called
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day t 1 01 eold, raised its rate to
than u ,ten percent, which is higher
tiny ln J :8.been sincethe Indian mu-
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bassy here today that the German Am
bassador in Paris has intimated he
purposed leaving his post tonight.
France Expects War.
Paris, Aug. 1 At the French For
eign Office today officials declared
they considered it wo;uld nor Jje folly
to rely on any hope of A peaceful out
come of the international orisis. Eng
land's efforts at Berlin yeseday, they
said, had failed and any glimmer of
hope, which has appeared, has been
immediately extinguished."
Conditions under wich diplomatic
"conversations" continued today made
it, in the French official view, appear
almost impossible to expect satisfact
ory issue and It was reluctantly admit
ted that war seemed to be only a
question xr the houfcs, . , '"V'1
The German; -Ambassador , who s
ready to leave at' 1" p.?tn. received
dlsnatch- from Berlin, makinf soma
0 t tcZFtn& aLh
and about which it exchanged views
with London and - St. "Petersburg. The
French Cabinet, after being in session
several hours, adjourned until 4 p.
m:
. Americans Clamoring to Return.
Every berth on the trans-Atlantic
steamers sailing before September
15th have been sold. Many thousands
Americans here have become almost
panic stricken. One today gave a
thousand dollars for a steerage ticket.
To Prptect Belgium.
Brussels, Aug. 1 The French Min
ister to Belgium called on the Belgian
Foreign Minister today and informed
him that France would respect the
neutrality of Belgium in the event of
war. Should Belgian neutrality be
violated by another power France, he
said, would then take necessary meas
ures. Chancellor TVIakes Strong Speech.
The German Imperial chancellor to
day addressed a huge procession of
demonstrators from the window of his
official residence, making a stirring
speech.
"In the gravity of this hour," he
said, '.'I remind you of the words of
Prince Frederick Charles to the men
of Brandenburg. 'Let your hearts beat
for God and your fists on the enemy' ".
Enthusiastic cheers and singing
of the national anthem greeted close
Of the speech.
To Pray For Peace.
New York, Aug. 1 Thirty million
members of the world's Sunday School
Association, scattered throughout the
world, have been called upon to pray
t6morrow for peace.
Called to Arms From United States.
New York, Aug. 1 Official notice
was received at the Austrian consul
ate here today that the reserves had
been called for general mobilization.
Two hundred thousand Austrians and
Hungarians, it was said, at the Consu
late, would therefore immediately be
called upon to return homesfrom this
country. The problem of getting them
across the water was serious one, in
view of the possibility of seizure.
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Washington, Aug. 1 Official ad
vices received at the White House ,
vices receivea . 1 minion and Atlantic Transport Steam-
today reported that he a.. gailing for the BritIsh
bassador to nussia. i - i
tersbursr.
Ambassador Herrick, at Paris, re
ported the proposal to place German
interests in France in his hands was
being discussed there. No action has
been taken by the United States on
this proposal, but officialsexpect such
duties would fall upon American dip
lomats generally In Europe and would
be assumed by them. '
Steamsb Service Suspended. ,
New Y6rk7 Aug. 1The trans-Atlantic
steamship service, between New
' news Forecast for the
T'coming week
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Washington, D. C, Aug. 1.
The working out of the, Mexican
problem; ' the progress of the
trust legislation in Congress and
possible y developments in the
Euronesoi war combine to
give promise of an abundance
of livefuews during the week. In
addition, the beginning of Aug-
ust will see the warming up of
political campaigns in many
parts of the country. f
Politicians will centre their i
attention particularly on Kansas
and Missouri, where general pri-
inaries are to be held Tuesday
for . the selection of candidates
for United States senator and
representatives in Congress and,
in Kansas, a complete State
ticket from governor down. In 4v
f both' States public interest is
confined' largely to the senator-
ial contests. Both Senator Stone
of Missouri and Senator Bristow
K of Kansas are candidates for 4
4 renommation and both have op- f
position. The result of the vot-
ing in Kansas will be carefully
4 analyzed, since they may be ex- 4
pected'to afford a more or i less
reliable indication of the rela-
4 tlve strength of three parties in 4
the next election. 4
Numerous large conventions
4 are scheduled for the week. At
Niagara Falls there will be held
an important conference of Cath-
'olics of the United States and
Canada favorable to the prohibi-
tion. of the liquor traffic. Other
4 gatherings of more or less inter-
est will be the convention of the
Knight of Pythians, Winnipeg;
J the meeting of the supreme 4
council of the Knights of Col-
vumbus,at,St. Paul;, the annual
4f convention .of .ihe American Os-
4 delphia; the national gathering
4v of the Fraternal Order of Eagles 4
at Kansas City, and the annual
4 meeting of the Association of
Canadian Clubs, at -Vancouver.
4 Dr. Jose Vicento Concha, the
newly elected President of the
4 Republic of Columbia, will be in- 4
4 stalled in office Friday. Other
events of the week abroad will 4
include the World Church Peace 4
4 conference, at Constance Germa- 4
4 ny; 'the tenth International ,Es- 4
4 peranto Congress, in Paris, and
4 the International Dental Con- 4
4 gress and the International Vet- 4
4 erinaty Congress, both of which 4
4 will hold forth in London. 4
4 Other events of the week will
4 include the arrival of the Do- 4
4 minion's Royal Commission in 4
4 Canada, the dedication of a 4
4 status, of Baron von Steuben, at 4
4 Utica, N. Y.; the annual regat- 4
4 ta ot. the National Association 4
4 of Amateur Oarsmen, at Phila- 4
4 delphfa, and the jubilee celebra- 4
4 tlons in Montana in celebration 4
4 of the fiftieth aniversary of the 4
4 organization of Montana territo- 4
4 ry and the twenty-fifth anniver- 4
4 sary of Statehood. 4
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CARRANZA ARRIVES
FOR THE CONFERENCE
Saltillo, Mexico, Aug. 1 General
Carranzaj the Constitutionalists chief,
arrived here last night. The commis
sioners? from Provisional President
Cabrajal are expected tonight to enter
into' negotiations with Carranza for
peaceful . turning over of the Mexico
City government to the Constitution
alists.' t
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ity go to the Grand. Advertisement.
bended today by the Cunard, White
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I ports - was not interrupted.
Suspends Service.
New York," Aug. 1 The Hamburg
American lines service, between Ame
rican ports and the West Indies and
Panama, have suspended and the
steamer Allemania, which sailed yes
terdayhas been recalled.
'- The-Russian-American line has an
nounced; all sailings - cancelled. -
Gerxhan steamers; Grosser Kurf irst,
Friederfch Der Grosse and Neckar,
v?ereordered by wireless to return
tp the 'American' ports? -
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Protection For Pedes-
t nans.
STAIUE TOK03BICA
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Proposed to Erect One in Memory, of
. The Great Diva Big Cerebration is
Soon to Open.
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New York, Aug. I-A new idea in
this city for increasing . the safetly
of traffic for pedestrians is found
in the plan of therf pommittee on
Street Safety, recently appointed by
Police Commissioner - Woods. The
committee will study all phases of
street safety, the number and charac
ter of accidents, their possible pre
vention, the matter" of public play
grounds and the new traffic rule3
concerning the use of. streets for one
way traffic, and the closing of others
for playgrounds. The committee's re
ports are expected to form the basis
for new ordinances .to be passed by
the Board of Aldermen.
Friends of the lat&v Madame Nordi
ca have enlisted the aid of promi
nent musicians and music lovers in a
plan to erect a heroic statue of the
diva in Central Park. Should a
statue of MadameN Nordica be erected,
it will be only one of a woman in a park
in New York, and according to a re
cent inv.estigator, one. of four of wo
men J?hfsdjg$$tj& teexmag
to this authority-the only Jstatues of
women in - the country are those of
Frances Willard, in the national cap-
itol at Washington; of Hannah Dus
tin, in Haverhill, Mass., and of a no
ted woman philanthropist, in one of
the public .squares in New Orleans.
Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, it is un
derstood, will be asked to design tht
Nordica statue.
Several prison officials and crimi-
nologists of Germany are to arrive
in this city next week to spend a
month or more inspecting the lead
ing penitentiaries and reformatories
in the Eastern and central Western
States. Dr. Karl Minkelmberg, direc
tor of German prisons, will be in
charge of the commisiion, and accom
panying him will be Prof. Darmstaed
ter of the University of Berlin, and
several members of the German par
liament. Dr. O. F. Lewis, general
secretary of the prison association
in this country, is at work arranging
an itenerary for the commission.
'Tis an old saying that the world
never knows the amount of a man's
wealth until he" dies. The late Tim
othy L. Woodruff, once Lieutenant
Governor of New York and afterward
Progressive leader in Brooklyn, was
supposed to have made an immense
fortune in the manufacture of type
writers and in numerous other big in-,
dustries and financial enterprises in
Which he was known to have been
heavily interested. At the time of
his death he was rated as several
times a millionaire, but it now devel
ops that investments in business en
terprises a short time before his
death drained his resources heavily
and that his fortune has shrunk to
a little more than $300,000.
Columbus Circle, one of New York's
finest civic centers, will no longer
be disfigured by double-decked bill
boards around the triangular vacant
lot on the north side. This build
ing site, fronting on the Circle, Cen
tral Park, West, Broadway and 60th
I Street, is owned by William R.
Hearst, and plans have been filed fof
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. GOLD BY THE TON
Philadelphia, Aug. 1. Thirty
4 million dollars in double eagles 4
was snipped today by parcel
post from the Philadelphia mint
to the New York sub-treasury,
making fifty million fgrwared
since last Thursday.vit ; is said
twenty millions more will be
sent- .Monday Today's shipment
weighed almost fifty seven tons.
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Japan Thinks By That Way
Peace Would Be Brought
About.
IS GETTltIG READY
Japanese Navy Placed in Readiness
For Any Emergency In Close
Touch With Great Britain.
Tokio, Aug. 1 The Japanese navy
is been prepared to meet any emerg
ency and theMinister of. Marine today
went to Mikko to consult the Emperor
on the international situation in the
meantime the second battle squadron
has assembled at Saebo naval station.
Premier Okuma, who is to confer
with the Emperor tomorrow, in a
speech today referred to ihe gravity
of the situation. He said that to bring
about a great peace, a great war some
time was unavoidable. He added that
perhaps, the general disturbance in
Europe would resolve itself into a
final war of the world, leading to
nntTrt o t An 4- uni t? 1 nn a V a.
Japanese government has postponed
its neutrality proclamation in the Austria-Servian
war, and is in constant
communication with the British gov
ernment. TO TRIAL AFTER
Andalusia, Ala., August 1 A muder
case which stirred this entire section
of Alabama seventeen years ago and
which ever since has remained an Im
penetrable mystery is to be threshed
out at the term of tha Covington coun
ty circuit court which convened here
today.
Seventeen years ago Wade Childre,
a aaer 01 tne law ana oraer league
or southeast Alabama, was naaiea
with bullets as he sat hy the. fireside
reading the Bible to his family before
they retired for the night. The night
was a dark one, with rain falling
heavily and all footprints were oblit-'
erated. It was supposed at the time
that the assassination was due to en
mity which the victim may have caus
ed by his activity as a leader of ttio
law and order league. But there was
not the slightest clue to the perpetra
tors of the crime and in the course of
time the investigation was dropped.
Years rolled by and the Childre as
sassination had become only a mem
ory in the minds of the oldest inhabi
tants of the neighborhood, not to-be
brought to public notice again until
last March, when a new murder oc
curred to throw light on the older
crime. . . ' .
At that time Alice Wages, a tor etty
sixteen-year-old girl, was arrested . on
a charge of having shotand killed
her father, Warren Wages. The -girl
confessed to the crime, claiming; that
she had had shot to protect her own
life and that of her mother from the
fury of her father's ungovernable tem
per. It was while relating the tribula
tions of herself and her mother' that
the young girl solved the mystery of
the murder that occurred while- she
was still unborn. According to her
story her mother had confided to her
in her in childhood that the husband
and father, in one of his fits of tem
per, had formed a gang and assassi
nated Childre to satisfy an old grudge.
The information furnished by the
girl not only Implicated her -dead, fa
ther, but caused the secret indictment
and later the arrest of her uncle, Noah
Wages; her cousins, Barney and
George Whitehead, and John McPher-
son, the latter a wealthy Oklahoma
catleman, who had left the neighbor-
hood a few months after the assassina -
tion.
Miss Wages is to be arraigned fdi
the murder jt her father at the same!
term of court at which tne iour alleg
ed assassins of Childre will be called
upon to defend themselves jfor the
murder of years ago. ' v
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SEVEIiTEEfJ
Sends an Eleventh Hour Rpjert
Emperor of Russia German Circles
Show Uneasiness
London, August 1. King George, in a final effort to pre
vent an outbreak of general European rar, and meeting of
millions of men in armed conflict today, at the eleventh hour,
sent a dispatch to Emperor Nicholas, of Russia, and his met
sage was understood to contain an ultimate appeal for preser
vation of peace. The King's action was taken after an audi-
ence with Premier Asquith at 2 o'clock a. m., when the war
clouds were blackest. s
Atjhe same time from Rome came news that Italy had de
cided to remain neutral, unless attacked. .While this informa
tion was not confirmed it was said in official circles to have
"caused no surprise."
At the Italian embassy belief was expressed that should
Italy remain neutral, with the possibility left open of her hmT
ing against her allies, German and Austria, the latter nation
would be reluctant to embark on a general European warrT"
On the other hand, the fact stood out that Germany had
taken a very firm attitude and had asked Russia to suspend
mobilization of her forces within twelve hours, the time limit
fexpinng a noon today, bhe
within eighteen hours, her attitude in case of war by Germany
and Austria against Russia. It was pointed out, in authoritaye
circles, ttiat France's attitude could only be that under the terms'
of her treaty with Russia she would be compelled to intervene.
. Qerman circles today' showed considerable uneasiness all
cehtrted at Tsing Tau, the,
vanciun anu uie uerman mercnant snips were, ordered to
seek neutral ports'in regard to the Far East.
The Japanese ambassador in London said today-that as long
as warshiDS, belongj5 to nations composing the triple alli
ance, remained at Tsing Tau, Japan would lalnoTactioni
against them, but should they attack the British interest or
should Tsing Tau be attacked a situation would arise which
would be deal with by Japan in the spirit of the Anglo-Japanese
alliance. . . ,
STOCK EXCHANGE STILL
CLOSED.
New York, Aug. 1 The New
York stock exchange remained
closed today, with indications
it would not open until such
4 time as the European situation
should show marked Improve-
ment.
BIG GATHERING
OF OSTEOPATHS
Philadelphia, Pa., August 1 Today
witnessed the arrival in Philadelphia
of the advance guard of what is ex
pected to be the largest gathering of
osteopathic physicians and surgeons
ever held in the world. The occas
ion of the gathering is the eighteenth
annual convention of the American
Osteopathic Association, which em
braces leading practitioners of osfeo-w
pathy throughout the United States
and Canada. Tomorrow some of the
distinguished delegates to the conven
tion will occupy the pulpits of vari
ous Philidelphia churches and will
preach sermons on "Health". The
business sessions of the gathering will
begin Monday and continue until Fri
day. To Unveil Soldiers' Monument.
Elwood, Ind., August 1 A monu-
lment to the unidentified dead of the
civil war will be unveiled in the El
wood cemetery tomorrow with impres
sive ceremonies. The memorial was
erected by popular subscription. Many
lyeading members of the Indiana G. A.
R. and other patriotic organizations
will attend the unveiling.
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WORLD CHURCH
PEACE CONFERENCE
Geneva, August 1 One hundred and
fifty Protestant ministers, . one-third
of whom represent the church in Ame
rica, have assembled at Constance to
take part in the Wdrld. Church Peace
Council, which is to begin a four days'
session tomorrow. The gathering will
be the first of its kind and will be
conducted under the auspices of ths
Church Peace Union, which was found
ed by Andrew Carnegie in the early
part of this year with ah endowment
of $2,000,000. The participants In the
Constance conference will be .confin
ed to Protestants. A similar gather
ing for Catholics is to be conducted
at the same time and under the same
auspices at Liege, Belgium.
The Constance conference will con
sider, among other topics,, "The Roman
Catholic Church and the Peace Move-'
ment," the purpose being not to criti
cize it but to ascertain If possible
workable methods by which co-operation
between Protestants and Catho
lics may be utilized.
Other subjects of discussion will
be a proposed congress of the church,
es of Great Britain, Canada and the
United States to celebrate one hun
dred years of peace; education in
theological schools, looking to the
making of ministers of the future more
Inclined toward peace .sentiments;
war and peace in, budgets, the British
and German councils .aiming at bring-
ing about better political feeling be
tween their nations; and whether as
an outgrowth of thef Gonstance con
ference, a word congress
ference, a world congress of churches
shall be called within the next year
or two. '
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