y RESULT OF GREAT
DOSRUDJA BATTLE
| STILL IN DISPUTE
Rome Dispatch Reports Troops
k of Russia and Rumania
Have Gained Smash
ing Victory.
CLAIMS DENIED BY BERLIN
Heavy Fighting Continues —
Germans Launch Attack In
Dvinsk Region—Mace
donian Line Holds.
Home, Sept. 25.—(via London)—-Tile
letreat of the German army under Field
Marshal von Mackensen In the Ruman
ian province of Dobrudja continues, ac
cording to a report received by the
Wireless Press today from Switzerland.
The Danube fortress of Siiiotra recently
captured by Germans and Bulgarians
is said to have been abandoned to the
Russians and Rumanian forces.
Russian naval forces in the Black
sea are said to have resumed their
bombardment of the Bulgaria:; seaport
of Varna.
Berlin. Sept. 25.—(via London).—
Russian and Rumanian troops in
Dobrudja liave been attacking Field
Marshal von Meckensen’s forces on
both flanks of the battle line, according
to the war office announcement today.
The attacks, which on the one flank,
were near the Danube, and on the other
southwest of Toprai Sari, 14 miles
southwest of Const')nza, were repulsed.
j B"rlin. Sept. 25. (by wireless to Suy
m f ville) Troops of the central powers
T have defeated an entente force com
prising more than 20 battalions on the
Dobrudja front, the Bulgarian war of
fice announced in its report of Septem
ber 22. The hostile attack was beaten
off and the forces engaged in it routed
by a counter attack and pursued by
cavalry, says the statement which
reads:
‘'A battle occurred on the line of
.Casioei Enginez (Enigea) and Beakoki.
The enemy attacked with about 20
• battalions, three batteries and nine
squadrons, being routed by a counter
attack and pursued by our cavalry until
dark.
“German airmen successfully bom
barded positions near Tcliarnavoda and
hostile camps near Coehirelni and
Ivreniz,” I
\ Bad Weather Hindering
* Operations In Macedonia
Paris. Sept. 25.—The French com
munication on the progress of hostili
ties along the Macedonian front issued
this afternoon says:
“Bad weather has interfered with op
erations along the front in the orient,
and there have been only a few skir
mishes in the vicinity of Doiran lake.”
Berlin, (by wireless to Say ville).
Sept. 23.—Bulgarian attacks .on the
Macedonian front on the extreme west
erly end of the line and east of the
Vardar are announced in the Bulgarian
official statement of September 22.
Trenches between Fiorina and Lake
Prespa were captured, while in the
A'arSar region an attack by entente
troops preceded by artillery prepara
tion was repulsed.
The official statement reads:
"Macedonian front: On the heights
of the Staranerein Planina, between
Prespa lake and Fiorina, enemy infan
try was dispersed by our artillery fire.
AVe captured some trenches.
“In the Moglenica region hostile bat
talions were dispersed by our fire.
"East of the Vardar, after artillery
preparation, an attack was made by ]
enemy infantry, which we repulsed.
“On the slopes of the Belasiwa Pla
^ nina we took the villages of Calmish
and Svetipuka. Between the villages
mentioned and the heights of Devalig,
the enemy abandoned a camp with
•quantities of war material.”
Germans Driven Back In
• Narocz Region By Slavs
Fetrograd, Sept. 23, (via London).-—
German troops in the region of Lake
Narocz, on the northern end of the
Russian line, launched a gas attack,
lasting two hours, yesterday, and in
the intervals between the gas waves,
dense columns of Teuton troops ad
vanced against the Russian positions,
says the Russian official statement, is
sued today. The attacking force, the
statement adds, was driven back each
time.
Portuguese Participate
In East African Raid
Lisbon, (via Paris), Sept. 23.—An ex
tensive invasion of German East Afri
ca by Portuguese troops is reported in
an official statement issued by the war
office. The statement says:
"After the passage of the Rovuma
fiver our columns advanced eight miles
and occupied Miobo. The left column
seized Katibus and the German bar
racks and then proceeded toward Na
eoas. The columns on the center and
right, marching toward the Migomba
depot, reached Talceto on Rovuma bay.
Che enemy retreated in the direction of
Sasawara, west of Lindi. The natives
willingly accepted Portuguese domina
tion.”
t BRITISH IN ACTION.
| London. Sept. 23. "On the Struma
front our patrols successfully raided
enemy trenches in the neighborhood of
Komarjan, causing casualties.” says the
official report of today in regard to the
Macedonian campaign. “Our naval air
craft bombarded an enemy transport
near Drama, apparently with good re
f suits. On the Doiran front we raided
( P enemy trenches at three points."
TAKE BRITISH PRIZE.
Deri in. Sept. 23, (by wireless to Suy
ville).- The capture liv German sea
forces of a Dritish steamer, Colchester,
an Thursday night was reported lo-’ay
by the Overseas News agency. TheOol
> heater was taken to Zeebrugge this
morning.
AUTO BANDITS FSCAPF
j- WITH $750 PAYROLL
Chicago. Sept. 23.—Miss Mary Pinter,
cashier of the Leyser-Creen Hat com
pany, was knocked down and robbed ol
the di m's payroll, by one of three
automobile bandits today. She was re
turning from a bank. The bandits h*
•■at e.d.
WILSON WILL SPEAK
IN OMAHAJQGTOBER 5
Arrangements Not Completer
But Other Speeches May
Also Be Delivered.
Bong Brand!. X. J., Sept. —Presi
dent Wilson today accepted an invita
tion to deliver an address at Omaha,
Neh.. October .'. Complete arrange
ments have not been made for the trip,
hut it is expected that he will arrange
hie seised!:!' ho that he can make
speeches in several other cities.
JEWISH LEADERS URGE
ELECTION OF WILSON
Xev; York. Sept. 23.—A 'committee
of 1.000’’ for the purpose of collecting
funds for the democratic campaign
among the .lews in America lias been
organized by ex-Ambassador Henry
ivloigt nthau, Herman Bernstein and
Bernard Rdelhartz. The committee has
issued An appeal to the progressive
Jews of the country urging them to
support President Wilson in the com
ing elections.
EARTH SHOCK IS FELT
IN WASHINGTON TODAY
■Washington. Sept. 23.—An earth
quake, estimated to have occurred 2,300
miles distant from Washington, was
recorded early today on the seismo
graph at Georgetown university. The
shock lasted from 12:40 to 1:20 this
morning and was moderato in inten
si! v.
NORMAL TEMPERATURES
TO PREVAIL NEXT WEEK
■Washington. Sept. 22.—Weather pre
dictions for the week, beginning Sun
day, September 24. issued by the weath
er bureau today, arc-:
Upper Mississippi valley and plains
states: Local showers Monday and'
Tuesday, followed by fair weather, with
showers again probably at the close of
the week. Temperatures will average
near normal.
IOWA GETS WAR PROMOTION
Cedar Rapids. Ia., Sept. 23.—R. C.
Toms, of Marion, la., has been pro
moted by the French government to bo
superintendent of the mechanical head
quarters of the entire ambulance corps,
with headquarters at Paris.
ADULTERATING OYSTERS.
Washington, I). C., Sept. 22.—-The de
partment of agriculture today issued a
warning to dealers against interstate
shipments of oysters which are pol
luted or soaked to increase their bulk.
Prosecutions will fce pressed against
violators of the law forbidding adul
teration of oysters, it was stated.
Canada Will Finish the Bridge.
From the St. Louis Republic.
The second Quebec bridge disaster
staggers the mind. No engineering mis
adventure is rarer than the failure of a
proat bridge. Not since the Tay bridge
collapse, in which a passenger train went
down into the waters of an arm of the
sen in Scotland In 1H79. has either Great
Britain or the United States witnessed a
bridge disaster of the first magnitude, for
in no structure is the factor of safety
larger.
The first Quebec bridge collapsed dur
ing erection, either on account of wrong
construction of tile compression members
or because of faulty diagonal bracing.
The engineering profession of the world
has watched the erection of the new
structure with a keen sense of the im
portance of rehabilitating modern bridge
construction in public confidence. The
disaster should be followed by the most
drastic measures to fix responsibility.
The action of tlic people of Canada is
easily forecast. They will finish that
bridge, and so finish it that it stand as
a monument to the persistence of purpose
of a great people, in the face of unpre
cedented difficulties and disasters.
To enable those unacquainted with
any sign language to converse with
deaf mutes, a Frenchman lias invented
a device resembling a typewriter,
which raises letters to spell words as
keys are pressed.
By a French invention naphthaline
has been made available for automo
bile fuel, pipes conveying hot exhaust
gases which has been primed with
gasoline melting the naphthaline.
A Vienna physician has obtained
good results and effected some cures by
treating insane persons with hypoder
mic injections of pure oxygen.
WANTS MATERNITY
KITS FOR BABIES
MADE FATHERLESS
Miss Caroline Dawes Appleton.
Miss Caroline Dawes Apnleton,
founder of “Friends of Childhood,"
has sent out a nation-wide call from
Washington, D. C„ for maternity kit3
for Belgian and French babies who
will be bom while their fathers are
away at the front. The women of
these warring nations, she says, are
sadly in need of the materials which
go to make up the maternity Vita.
' —*—■ "g
JUST LIKE THE HONORABLE SAM!
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CALL STRIKE OF
Attempt Will Be Made to Aid
Carmen’s Union Win Battle
In New York—Trouble
Is Feared.
New York, Sept. 25.—Trades unions
in the city and Westchester county to
day began to vote on the question of
ratifying the action of 80 delegates who
yesterday called for a “general suspen
sion of work" next Wednesday morn
ing. The labor chiefs appealed to all
union wage earners to stay at home
until the traction companies made it
possible for them to ride in the street
cars without offense to their union al
legiance.
It is asserted that no such action
heretofore has been taken by the trades
unions of this country, nor has a strike
involving so many trades ever been
called. Its maximum effect would call
from work 750,000 men and women.
The Unions Involved.
Following is a partial list of the un
ions involved in the call for a suspen
sion of work:
Milk handlers, bartenders, waiters, beer
brewers, house wreckers, musicians, bar
bers, clgarmakers, ladles’ garment cut
ters, paper-hangers, pipe caulkers and
tappers, journeymen horse shoers, tele
phone workers, glass workers, pressmen,
painters, plumbers, neckwear cutters,
furriers, cloakmakers, amalgamated lith
ographers, cap makers, stationary engi
neers, carpenters, decorators, leather
goods workers, cigar packers, united hat
ters, deck carpenters, printers, cooks,
retail clock workers, web pressmen,
bookkeepers, stenographers, accountants,
teamsters, Journeymen tailors, pipe cut
ters, theatrical spotlight workers.
Leaders of the movement refrain
from calling it a sympathetic strike.
They declare that many of the unions
already have voted to ratify their rec
ommendations and that any union man
who does not quit work Wednesday will
be denounced as a traitor.
To what extent they expect the un
ions to respond to the suspension call
is not disclosed. “How can I tell? It
is up to the unions," said Hugh Frayne,
general organizer of the American Fed
nsntion f T ■Prw TVTrt,.- T ♦ i
STEEL SHARES MAE
SENSATIONAL GAINS
New Record Made—Coppers
and Other Issues Reach
Highest Levels.
New York, Sept. 25.—For a week end
market today’s two hour session of the
Stock Exchange was probably without
parallel. Trading in the first hour
amounted to more than 500,000 shares
with no diminution of activity with the
approach of the close.
There were, numerous spectacular
features, but all were eclipsed by the
further meteoric rise in United States
Steel, which touched 117%, a new
record, shortly after 11 o’clock.
Other leaders rose to highest prices
in their history, notably coppers. Heal
ings embraced every branch of the list,
but the movement was far from uni
form, rails making comparatively little
headway, with reactionary tendencies
In shipping issues and some equipments
and munitions.
PASSENGERS SAFE
'Crew of Bay State Elect to
Stand By Craft After 150
Persons Have Been
Removed.
, . -
SLUES TO CLOSE .
GRIP ON COMBLES
French Now Fighting In the
Outskirts of City—British
Also Make Gains on
West Front.
Paris, Sept. 25.—French patrols ap
proached the edge of Comblas on the
Somme front last< night. The official
statement Issued this afternoon says
they found a great many dead Ger
mans on the field, and took a few pris
oners. South of the Somme there is
active fighting.
Apparently the Franco-British forces
on the Somme are preparing to close
their grip on Combles, the important
town on the Albert-Peronne railroad,
six miles northwest of Peronne, which
has been virtually pocketed by the al
lies in their recent operations.
French aviators engaged in 56 aerial
fights yesterday. Four German aero
planes were shot down.
After the checking of German at
tacks southeast of Combles, between
Le Priez farm and Rancourt, the end
of the French part of the entente line
which almost encircles the town, the
French undertook local operations on
the outskirts of Combles itself. An
organized and defended1 house was
captured and several trench elements
were occupied in these enterprises 140
prisoners were taken.
General Haig’s troops yesterday
straightened out their line between
Martinpuich and Flers, a distance of
about one mile, by taking two lines of
German trenches. The British front
there now runs on a direct line north
of the two villages. London also records
improvement of other positions on the
British front.
It is announced officially in Paris
that the number of prisoners taken by
the Anglo-French forces on the Somme
from July 1 to September 18 amounted
to more than 55,800. Of these, 34,050
fell into the hands of the French.
Portland, Me., Sept. 25.—The steamer
Ray State, of the Eastern Steamship
corporation bound here from Boston,
with 150 passengers, was wrecked on
the rocks off Cape Elizabeth at the en
trance of the harbor early today. Not
withstanding a heavy fog which was
the cause of the mishap, all those
aboard except the crew, were removed
| safely in small boats.
; The seamen elected to stand by the
ship.
The value of the Bay State was esti
1 mated at upwards of $200,000. Indlca
I tions were that the steamer would be
i broken up as the wind and sea were in
creasing.
GREAT COPPER ORDER
IS REPORTED PLACED
French and British Said to
Have Purchased 400,000,
000 Pounds of Metal.
New York, Sept. 23.—According to
trade reports current In the financial
! district today, a big foreign order for
copper, aggregating 200,000 tons, or
over 400,000,000 pounds, has heel!"
placed by foreign interests, chiefly
British and French, with large pro
ducers in this country. These Include
the American Smelting & Refining
company, and the United Metals Sell
ing coc'cnny, which represents Amal
gamated-Anaconda interests.
; The copper is to be delivered in the
first, six months of 1917.
This contract is said to be unprece
j dented in the history of tlio copper
j trade. No such purchase for delivery
I over any length of time has ever been
made and the monthly delivery of
! about 75,000,000 pounds is in itself equal
to the maximum tonnage ever exported,
i The total amount involved in this
transaction is said to be about $125,
j uOO.OOO. The price to be paid for the
I copper is not disclosed, but it Is be
j lieved to range between 26 and 27 cents
! a pound,
! BORDEN WILL RESUME
ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS
Chicago, Sept. 23.—John Borden, mil
lionaire sportsman and explorer, whose
ship, the Great Bear, was wrecked in
Bering sea recently, is at his home
today at Lake Geneva, Wis„ having re
turned from his voyage to tiie north.
Mr. Borden said he would return to
the north to continue ills exploration,
but probably it would not be within
j the next year as the war makes it dif
I ilcult to obtain a suitable boat.
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French Flyer Makes Raid
500 Miles Into Germany
Paris, Sept. 23.—Flying nearly 500
miles beyond the German border Flight
Warrant Officer Baron last night bom
barded the Important works at Lud
wigshafen, In the Palatinate on the
Rhine, and at Mannheim, across the
river from Ludwlgshafen. The official
report of today says the bombardment
caused a large fire and several ex
plosions at Mannheim.
London, Sept. 23.—British naval aero
planes have successfully bombarded
German aerodromes at several points
In Belgium, the admiralty today an
nounced. Especially notable results
were secured by this and other bom
bardments of the aerodrome at St.
Denis, Westreme, says the announce
ment.
Berlin. Sept. 23, (via London)—North
of the river Somme the battle between
the Anglo-French forces und troops
commanded by Crown Prince Rup
precht of Bavaria was resumed yester
day, says today’s German official state
ment. The French attacked the Com
bles-Rancourt line and the British at
tempted to advance near Courcelette,
but neither force, the statement adds,
gained any success.
London, Sept. 23.—The German
trenches on a front of about a half mile
east of Courcelette in the Somme re
gion were captured by the British last
night, the war office announced today.
"South of the Ancre,” says the state
ment, “a further advance was made last
night by our troops east of Courcelette.
A strongly fortified system of enemy
trenches was captured here and our
line was advanced on a front of about
a half mile."
MISS LINCOLN MARRIES
YOUNG BRITISH OFFICER
London, Sept. 23.—Gertrude Aimes
Lincoln, of Los Angeles, Cal., was mar
ried at Helleingly, near Eastbourne, to
day to Lieut. Arthur Lett Haines, of
the Royal Field artillery*. Local news
papers say she Is a grand daughter of
Abraham Lincoln.
Chicago, Sept. 23.—Gertrude Aimes
Lincoln, who was married in London
today, is not a relative of Abraham Lin
colr, according to associates of Robert
Lin twin, a son of the former president
pointed out that Wednesday is the be
ginning of an important Jewish holi
day when mnny workers ordinarily
would stay at home.
Union Mon Incensed.
Tiio call for a cessation of work is
based on the grievance that men of un
ion affiliations cannot ride to their em
ployment except in cars manned by
nonunion conductors and raotormen
old under police protection. Statements
Issued by the leaders indicate that they
rre incensed by Mayor Mitchel’s warn
ing that be stood ready to use military
power to restrain violence and that
they consider the city to be dominated
by the traction interests.
To reinforce the police, Commissioner
Woods has instructed the captains to
select 10 civilians In each precinct to
bo sworn in as special policemen. This
would add about 800 men to the de
partment.
TWO PERSONS KILLED
IN MOTOR ACCIDENT
New York, Sept. 23.—In an automo
bile accident in tlu» Bronx today Alois
ITannk. 30 years old, buyer for a cloak
and .suit house in San Francisco, and
Fdward F. Rohan, 33 years old. a po
liceman. were killed. The machine, in
which they and four companions were
ritlina. struck a pole, skidded and
ri •: hod into a tree. ITanak’s skull was
fractured. The other four men, includ
ing Morris Reich, of San Francisco,
were not injured.
HELEN EVERS. ALLEGED
SIREN, IS QUESTIONED
Chicago. Sept. 23 Mrs. Helen livers,
hold i y federal authorities under bonds
- f C2&.0C0 as a member of an alleged
’ '• mailing syndicate, was released
i y representative:; of States Attorney
Tleyne today after ho had taken her
nto cnotedy and questioned her. The
v.-cnan w -.s reined in a cafe while with
'Yii'.ard T'owell, who is kn->*vn as “the
Waco kid.”
Mrs. rivers refused to make known
the n.ttuio of the questions asked her
by the state's Attorney's representa
tive*.
REPORTED GREECE
HAS IRE OFFER
TO JOIN ENTENTE
Venizelos Said to Be on Verqf
of Taking the Leadership of
One of Numerous Grow
ing Revolts.
TROUBLE IS WIDESPREAD
Kingr Said to Have Been Shorn
of All But Semblance of
His Power—Develop
ments Near.
Athens. Sept. 23, (via Gnndon, Sept.
15).—The Greek government is said on
the best authority to have telegraphed
definite proposals to the entente capi
tals which, if accepted, will mean
Greece's entry into the war. If the
uncertainty of the relations between
Greece and the entente continues it is
regarded as not improbable that Greece
may declare war on Bulgaria on her
account. Semiofficial efforts of the
cabinet to obtain from the entente
ministers here a statement as to the
desire of the allied governments have
been fruitless. The ministers were
given to understand that as many as
three members of the Greek cabinet
were ready to resign if the entente
wished. The sole reply wras that in
struction had not been received.
London. Sept. 25.—After saying that
the removal of thp Greek censorship
will permit the truth being told, the
correspondent at Athens of the Daily
Mail hints at the likelihood of former
Premier Venizelos leaving Athena
shortly for one of the districts where
a revolution has been started, where he
will be able to organize the whole
revolutionary movement.
"The kingdom of Greece,” says the
correspondent, "is now only a name.
Salonlki, Thasos, Lemnos, Chios, Sa
mos and Mytilene no longer are gov
erned from Athens. Crete and Cycla
des are about to follow suit. A procla
mation of independence has been is
sued in Epirus, the Larissa district is
biding its time, while Phocis and Ac
arnnnia are wavering.
“Only Athens and Pora remain, and
Athens is placarded with such appeals
ns ‘draw the sword, king, or abdicate.'
It is evident that the king’s authority
is almost gone. Houses in Athens
stored with arms for revolutionary
purposes are openly guarded, and the
king does not dare openly to challenge
the least act of Venizelos. If Venizelos
chooses to leave Athens to lead a sep
arate government elsewhere no one will
oppose him.”
London. Sept. .... Athens is filled
with rumors that 300 men of the crew
of the cruiser Averoff have mutinied.
According to a telegram to the Ex
change Telegram company. The reports
pay the remainder of the crew and de
tachments of marines were sent away,
in boats. Other ships of the fleet are
said to have quelled the mutiny'.
The Averoff is an armored cruiser
built in 1910. She carries a crew of
550 men.
Paris. Sent. 25.—Former Premier
Venizelos. of Greece, in an interview
cabled from Athens to the Petit Jour
nal. declares that the Greeks must de
fend their national Interests regardless
of the government. M. Venizelos Is
quoted ns saying: "Although Rumania
entered the struggle, the court power
which governs us seems to persist in
the policy of what it calls neutrality.
This policy is persisted in even after
the shameful Kavala incident. You ask
me what the future will bring. I am not
in the position to answer, but certainly
something must be attempted, if Greece
does not wish to die.
"What was done at Saloniki, though
improvised and precipitate, and recent
manifestations in the islands of the
archipelago, show that everyone re
alizes that. If the government has for
gotten its duty toward the nation, the
nation must immediately take in hand
the defense of Its own interests.”
DREW OF SUBMARINE
SAVED BY AVIATORS
Austrian Aeronauts Rescue
French Seamen When Plun
ger Goes Down.
Berlin, Sept. 25. (by wireless to Say
ville).—The exploit of Austro-I-Iungar
ian aeronauts, who with two seaplanes
rescued 29 men—the officers and crew
of the French submarine Foucault—is
described by the Tageblatt. Official
announcevent was made at Vienna yes
terday of the sinking of the Foucault
by an Austrian seaplane in the south
ern Adriatic.
The sea was rough at the time and
there was also danger that the Austrian
aeronauts would be captured by hostile
warships, as well as I hat the aero
planes, overloaded by taking on so many
men, might collapse. The Austrian avi
ators told the men from the French
submarine to swim to the seaplanes and
take hold of them. The commander
and second officer of the submarine
were allowed to climb into the pilots'
seats.
The aviators signaled for help and
half an hour later a torpedo boat ar
rived and took on board the men from
the submarine.
KILLED FOR TAKING MAN’S
WIFE HOMEJROM DANCE
David City, Neb., Sept. 23.—Verna
Godden, of Brainard, Neb., shot last
night by Harold Blevins, died at 10
o’clock this morning. Godden was tak
ing the wife of Blevins and a Mrs. Ly
man Jackson home from a dance. Blev
ins ran out, climbed on the runnfng
board of the automobile, and shot God
den in the head.
The Denver inventor of a self-stab
ilizing monoplane employs a heavy
pendulum to tilt both the wings and
the propeller should the machine start
toward the ground at a dangerous
j angl»