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    Omaha Daily Bee
The unrivalled special feat
ure pa fee of The Sunday
Dee are in a class by them
elves. Best of them all.
THE W2AIUEB."
Showers
VOI A XLV-XO. 48.
IOWA BANK TELLER
ISARRESTED AFTER
'CONFESSING AGAIH
Leo Perrin, Depoied Employe of
Cedar Eapidi Institution, Said
to Have Made New Admit
t lion of Gnilt.
!
ACCUSED OF EMBEZZLEMENT
Money Spent, According to Allege!
Statement, in Faying In
debtedneii. BAIL FIXED AT FIVE THOUSAND '
CEDAR RAPIDS. Ia., Aug. 12. ;
Leo Perrin, deposed paying teller of'
the Cedar Rapids National bank, was
under arrest tonight charged with !
embezzlement of .$20,070 from the
institution.
He was taken into custody this
afternoon after he had made an al
leged confession that the money lost .
by the bank August 4, supposedly in
a holdup, really was taken by him.
According to bank officials, he ex
plained, however, that the money was
not obtained on August 4. Half of It,
they say, was taken a year ago, an J
the 'remainder August & The bogus
holdup, Perrin Is quoted as saying, was
staged the day following the eecoivl
theft, as he feared discovery. The al
leged second confession was made in
the directors' room of the bank to Cash
ier Kent C. Ferman, Vice President
Glenn M. Avcrill and Detective Michael
MoGulre. All day, it was said, Perrin
has stuck to the repudiation he made last
night of his first confession. He in
sisted, it was said, that 110,000 which
the police had recovered had been loaned
to him by James EX Cagney of Chicago.
Confronted with a statement from Car
ney, denying any such loan, he finally
Vve in, it is said.
He was arraigned before Justice of
the Peace F. A. Nugents and formally
pleaded not guilty. Ball was set at
15,000 and the prisoner. In custody of
Detective McOutre, was allowed to hunt
the city for a bondsman.
Perrin acoeunted for an additional
19.000 of the money in his confession,
bank officials say. He spent it, they
say, to pay a mortgage, promissory
notes. Installments due on land in Min
nesota, Oregon, Idaho and New Mexico,
and indebtedness on gold mining stock, I
Caarney Denies Makiig Leaa.
CHICAGO, Aug. 12. James E. Cageny
of the Peerless V. Bell company, talk
ing to detectives snd newspaper reporter
or any other sum to Leo perrin of Cedar
-Jtaptds. Ia. '' " ' .
. iHJJyed in Cedar Rapids for a time
and we did our banking with. Perrin at
the Cear Rapids National," said Mr.
Cageny. "That's all I know about it."
Court Refuses to- - -Quash
Indictments :
Against T. tfaggart
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind- Aug. K.-Jud?
V. II. Elchhorn, in criminal court today,
overruled the motion to quash the Indict
ment against Thomas Taggart, demo
cratic) national committeeman from In
diana; Mayor Joseph E. Bell, Chief of
'Police Samuel V. Perrott and 123 others,
charged ' with election Irregularities. The !
court held that forty-three of the forty
eight counts In the indictment were valid.
The state elected to place Mayor Bell
on trial first, although the defense aeked
to go to trial with Mr. Tairgart. Mayor
Hell's case was set to begin September 1.
Denver Woodmen
Win First Prize;
- I
AN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. U-Prixa I
award in the drill team competition at j
the twenty-fifth - anniversary of the
Woodmen of the World at the Panama
Pacific exposition were announced today.
Denver camt. No. 1 was awarded first
prise of $1,000; Portland (Ore.) camp No.
107 was given second prise of J000, and
Multnomah- camp No. 77 of Portland,
Ore., was awarded thlr prise of $230.
Forecast till T p. m. Friday:
For Omaha, Council Bluffs and Vicin
ity Showers; not much change in tem
perature. Teaperatin, at Oaiaaa Veater4ar.
6 a. m
t a. in
7 a. m
S a. m
a. m
10 a. m
It a. m
U m
1 p. m
2 p. tn
S p. in
4 p. m
P. m ..
s2 r.
J i. ra..... n
Sp. m 7; j ' uner was thousand Italian reservists from the
Comparative l,oal Hecord. ! "mber of the constitutional conven- Pittsburgh distiict have applied to tlw
1815. lU 113. .Mil"0" ad V78 Partner- a)lan te n,.,, for tr(,n,porUUor4
Highest today Si w ; ship with J. M. Woolworth of this city, to ltllJy u, .., rJ," r
lowest today 1 64 70 6. which continued for one year. During t...nh v.f-ii- .w! Vi .
Mean temperature 7i 78 SO 7 the score of years following thla neriod . JePl1 Natalie, the Italian Met
Precipitation 0 i .m m . J l owl"f PCTl"1 1 eonsul. dtcllntd to enter into details.
Temperature and precipitation depart- Mr. Munger devote himself as.lduou.ly llutylnK th,t . of tne Mutrjaitl, of
ure from the normal at Omaha since 1 to the Practice of his profession, yield- I, htt nni.a states he had no d..i,. i
two-year.1; nd comni w,th th j Continued vn P.ge Two. Column One ) (ore.,. th. .mprtaslon that active Tecruit
Normal temperature .4 1 ' ling was In progress here.
i-sric-ieney ror the day......... i
ioi wuciency since warcn i, wis so?
Normal orctttljkf l,,n i-
iDeflclencv for the rfr.. . " "? I 'l-w I
Total rainfall since March 1...19.S0 inches
txceas since March 1, 17 Inches!
Ief!ctency for cor. perio t, 1M. 4 ta Ini hos '
-deficiency for cur. fmiioJ. 1W3. 4.11 Inches'
Heavrts (rem Statloaa at T P. II. J
Station and Btale Temp. High-Rain-.
v. m-r. , p. ,n est. tail.
- yenne, part ciouay..
70
7i
7
hJ
. 78
7
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7
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74
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76
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7 T!
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W .00'
W .00,
! .10
a .w
Jnver, clear
es Molncs, ck.ir. ... ...
Dodge City, cit-ar
leader, patt cloudy....
North Platte, cloudy...
Omaha, clear
I-UoUo, clear
Rapid City, cloudy...'..
fait Lake, il.ar
Pante r, part cloudy..
fherldan. citir
Hloux City, clear
Valentine, clouily
J" A' WKLH. IakuI Kufecarter.
Indicates below sero.
THAT DRIVE ON WARSAW-One of N : troop
trains, with the left-overs riding on tl'v-uof, after the
coaches had all been filled, cheering the advance into the
enemy's territory.
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HUNGER FUNERAL
TO BE SATURDAY
Short Services at Residence Here,
After Which Body Goes to Fre
mont for Interment.
MASONIC FUNERAL AT GRAVE
Funeral services for Judge Will
iam Henry Munger, who died
Wednesday night at his residence,
will be
held In Omaha Saturday
morning at 10 o'clock at the family
residence, 1624 South Thirty-second
avenue, -with , Rev, Mr. Bum of. the
Congregational church of Fremont
officiating.
The body will then be taken to
Fremont and escorted from, the train
to the residence of his brother-lu-law;
Frank Fowler, where, at 2:80,
after a few-words and prayer by Rev.
Mr. Buss, Fremont lodge No. 15 of
the Masons, of which Judge Munger
was a charter member, will take
charge from the house to Ridge
cemetery, where interment will be In
the family lot with Masonic services.
The pallbearers for the Omaha services
will be all officials of the federal court.
as follows:
T. C. Munger John Nicholson
S. R. lU8h K. R Howell
W. P. Warner K. C. Hoyt
Arrangements havs been made with the
Union Pacific on Its 11:K train Saturday
noon, Omaha to Fremont, to accommo
date the funeral party and friends de
sirous of attending the services and In
terment at Frement.
Judge Munger was born, in Bergen,
, ' Qenessee county. New York, Ootober U,
, 1M5. At the age of 20 years he went to
Cleveland, O., where he entered a dry
ole store kept by an uncle. While thus
employed he read law during his spare
time, and after about a year . entered
the law office of a local firm as a. clerk.
He found time to read law, . and at the
rWing trip o f:
nllted to the i
end of two years made, a
Elyria, where he was adm
bar in September. 1S68. He announced
ills intention of going west and of eatab
Ilshing himself in one of the thriving
town along the Ubi of the great trans
continental railroads then being
con- J
r 9
i " - - - ' '-i-
atructed, and cf which he had beard sojtrtcal engineer working in the harvest ,
much discussion
Came Fremont la 186S.
Selecting Fremont ss his dctlntion.
t tin r a im.A i V. a , titmrn 1. I a n- n . r
j third birthday in October, l&V. his earthly
U I possessions after arrival consisting of ex
6? j actly tl.50. The day after his arrival he
?1 ! secured work in a lumber yard, and dur.
75 j ing the ensuing winter picked up a fee
7K now and then by trying a small lawsuit.
79 In the spring of IStW he for mod a Part
nership with . Shed, a local lawyer with
a good practice, which continued about
two years, sfler which he formed a part
nership with W. C. Ohost, this being dis
solved In 1874. In 1S75 Judge Munger was
, , , :T, "
fioriorql Tlrirlrra fr.
f1 , 1 i. CI i 1 J I
. "
ufnral Q. M. Dodge of Council Bluffs,
who built the Union Pacific railroad, will
leave fr New York Monday, where a
consuIUtlon of specialists will be
held
lu an attempt to cure him of an illness
of long standing. ,
General Dodge has been In or near!
rail of the Union s-Pcifie was laid. Its '
of Grant and of Bhermar.. He Is S4 years
old and Is still remarkably active tn
rpits of his sge and his long continued
illness. The general will return to Coun
cil Bluffs after the consultation.
OMAHA, FI!IIAy
1
-.VTV'
WAR PROBLEM IS
READY FOR TROOPS
Fourth Regiment to Take Part in
Sham Battle in Hills in
Saunders.
DRESS PARADE IN FREMONT
FREMONT, Neb., Aug. 12. (Spe
cial Telegram.) The sham battle
which the Fourth regiment, Nebraska
National Guards, at Camp L. D. Rich
ards, south of Fremont, will stage,
will take plaee some time during the
forenoon Saturday.
...... ,r ln sKirmish were
completed today. The reds will be op
posed to the Blues, and it is expected
that the battle wll) take place in the
hills In Saunders county, across the Muff
The officers have mads the war problem
and the ten companies In the camp will
be equally divided into two mmoani,..
and required to work It out An umpire'
will decide on all
movement meitner
side knofs the position of the start and
will have to depend entirely on their
scouts.
The seroplane squad Is preparing for
some trial flights and the machine will
be used In the army maneuvers.
Captains McQuillan and Pchaeffer of
the aviation corps are in camp assembling
he two machines. It is expected to have
the machlnee ready to take part In the
regular drills and regular army Instruc
tion work tomorrow. j the railway station at Blalystok. Extsn-
The dress parade in which the entire i tve explosions were obaerved.
regiment of 640 men took part, was held J "The srmy of Prince Iopold of Bav
on the streets of Fremont this afternoon, j aria continued pursuit of ths enemy, and
Colonel Eberly, who is in command, and ,
Adjutant aeneral P. Ia Hall of Lincoln,
Neb., and their staffa headed the parade.
The Friend band furnished music. The
ten companies of the four battalions
marched in line.
No definite arrangements have been
made regarding the military parade and
review by Governor oMrehead until wor t
Is received from the chief executive.
Engineer in Harvest
, O . .
Field Shot and Slam
HOLDREGB. Neb., Aug. 12.-Vlncent
Wlnklemeyer of New .York CKy. en dec
fields for bis heslth, according to papers ;
louaa on ms ooay, was snot ana kinoa
earlr today In a box car between tliU '
- - vrvvui ivi ssi a w us vuiitioM, nm-m ssisw
town and Funk. Neb., ,when he resisted arMi seriously wounded here August t.
the attempts of two unidentified men to , f,ne accused Lockrldge of being her as
rob him. E. II. Lee of Lincoln, Neb., j sallanC In Lockrldge's pockets were
snd Fred E. Cullom of Kanaas City, Mo., J foUnd letters blaming Miss Tennlson tor
were wounded in the fight with the rob
bers, who escaped.
THOUSANDS OF ITALIANS
- LEAVING UNITED STATE
riTTSBL HOjf, Pa . Aug. It-Four
Attaches of his office
however, said
jthat all applicants were told hew to pro-
cecd.
Trans-continental excur
sion parties are stopping' off
in Omaha every day. No
personally conducted"tour"
to the coast is complete that
doea not include Omaha,
going or coming.
TnT niisfi iian tml is. s tm i is, -w
fHEGATECITYOFTHEWtsf
70KXIX0, AUOl'fcT 13,
WORD- GOES OUT
TO FLANDERS OF
WESTERN SWEEP
German Force in Weit Told Work
in Eait It Done and Advance
Soon to Begin on Other
Front
TEACE CERTAIN IN OCTOBER
Teuton Forces Are Reported by Ber-
: lin to Hare. Occupied Zabrow .
and Lukow.
BAVARIANS CONTINUE CHASE
LONDON, Aug. It. A significant
order of the day predicting a re
sumption by the Germans of a vigor
ous offenslvA In the west has been
Issued to the Teutonic .armies In
Flanders, acnordtng to the Amster
dam Telegraf. An extract from this
order, telegraphed by the Amster
dam correspondent of the Exchange
: Telegraph, follows:
j "Our work, Is now practically fin
ished In the east and we are about
to begin In the west. Peace Is cer
tain In October."
Raanlana Bra;! Offenalve.
GENEVA, Aug. JS.-tVia Paris.) A dis
patch to the Geneva Tribune from Inns
bruck, capital of the Austrian Tyrol,
says:
1 "Ocrman operations have been sue
ipended on the Kovno-Suwalkt-Grodno
j front because of a lack of relnfoive
ments, no new troops having arrived
Unco August .
'The Russian offensive at Kovno is of
the greatest importance, as the German
first line troops, chiefly Prusalsn land
wehr. suffered terrible losses August S
and . In this section, as well as In the
region between Lomsa and the Bug, It is
remarked that many regiments are much
below the average in strength.
. Lakow Taken.
BERLIN, Aug. 12.-Vla London, tjf
p. b.) Austria-German . forces pursuing
tha Russians, . who are retreating from
the Waraaw salient, have occupied
Lukow, according to an official an
nouncement by the German army head
quarters staff today. Zabrowo also has
been captured, the statement adds.
The text of the statement follows:
"Western theater: In the Argonne,
north of Vtenne-Le-Chateau, we captured
a French group of fortified positions and
took seventy-four unwounded prisoners,
Including two officers, and captured two
machine gun and seven mine throwers.
The enemy suffered heavy loases. "
"During an engagement which led to
th capture of an enemy trenoh, north
east of L Harases, a few prisoners fell
into- our hands. The remainder of Aha
oeoupanta . fled, leaving behind forty
killed. - .
'.'Eastern theater: South of . Nlemen,
troopg belonglnc to the army of General
Von Eichom repulsed with sanguinary
losses sn attack begun by the enmy with
strong forces in the Dvlna section. The
enemy left JvO prisoners in our hands.
The army of General Von Scl.s threw
w .rmv bc.k acrosa tha river Gas.
1 - "
Twelve flans Captures.
"South of the Narew since the nth this
army has taken 4.9W prisoners, Including
oleven officers, and captured twelve ma
chine gptis.
"The army of General Oallwlts took
Zambrowa by storm 1 and penetrated
further In an easterly direction by way
of Androchow.
"One of our slrshlps dropped bombs on
whii. continually engaged in rear guard
lighting crossed the Muchawka sectton.
Lukow hss been occupied.
"The army of General Voa Mackensen
having broken down strongly fortified
enemy positions after sharp fighting, ths
Ruasians began a retreat during the night
along the entire front tetwea the fcug
and Parasew."
Commits Suicide and
Blames Girl for It
KANSAS CITT. Mo., Aug. 11. C. H.
j Lockrtdge, 49 years old, a special agent
tor a l,,, Angeles street railway oomia, th room is always crowded with
panyi ,not and killed himself here today,
jjj,, ir Tenmson, S4 years old, an In-1
... . ... ' .. ' . .v,.
his act Miss Tennlson is recovering
from her wounds.
Los Angeles.
She formerly lived In
The Day's War News
BERLIN REPORTS a French airship
raid em Iwelbrstekes and at.
laabert, la RaealsB Prasala, la the
. aortheast ( Kaacy, la which rlh
Fersoas were killed hy bombs
dropped from aeroplanes. The
property damage Is. said tm have
bees small. . gaarbraerhea, la the
same arelioa, was bombarded by
French airships last Moaday.
rHEOlBST ,A I'BTRI AN ATTACKS
a Itallaa positions la C'adoro are
reported from Rome, which do-
ercdrd la holding; all their re
ready takca positions.
FORMIC it PREMIER VENIZELOg of
(iwmorm Umm retaraod to Atheaa,
whero the proaoaacemeat of his
palter, expected to have an lm
porta at bearing; on tho Hal Lai a alt
aalloa, la beta awaited. It Is
considered doabtfal If this will bo
saado natll after tho opealasr of
tho Crook Parllameat oa Aaaraet
Id.
PARIS WAR OFFICE reports a ra
aewal of Cersaaa attacks la the
Argoaao, whrro Iho Frooeh llaos
were pcact rated at oao polat. Laot
alaht'e aaoaalte woro declared to
have sets completely repBlsed. i
1915 - - SLXTEEN PAOKS.
Day Before Labor
Be Known
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. Aug. U.-tValg.
nation of the 8unday preceding Labor
day ea.h year as Thrift day was ssked
of rrrsl.lent WiMon and governors of
states In resolutions pained today at the
second day s Sesalon of the first Interna
tional congress for thrift at ths Psnama
raeiric exposition. Lsbor orssnliatlona.
It wa n 1.1 hsv promised to .support this
movement.
Oily i per cent of Americans ere Inde
pendent of a dally Income, It was said
by 8. V. Straus of Chicago, president of
the American Society for Thrlf He said
MANY SALES HADE
AT TRACTOR SHOW
Best Buying- Crowd that Zrtt At
tended Exhibition, Say Manufac
turers of Big Machines.
ONE FIRM DISPOSES OF FIFTY
"The best buying crowd that ever
attended a tractor show," is what
the tractor manufacturers are saying
at Fremont of th crowds attending
the National Farm Tmctor demon
stration there this week.
One firm reports the saie of fifty
tractors up to Thursday afternoon.
Another firm reports selling twenty
five tractors. Others tell of from a
doten to twenty sales, and altogether
General Manager Hlldebrand esti
mates that 160 tractors have been
old to farmers already this far.
A representative of the International
Harvester eompeny said Thursday thst If
today Is ss good a day as Thursday, the
week will total far grester sales of trsc
tors than did the week's show at Hutch
inson, which Is the show that up to this
time has held the record for total of sales
. - Foreign Bayer a Booster.
Mr. Mohler, representing the Austrian
government, who has been on the ground
ail week looking the tractors over and
buying machines for various lines of ag
ricultural work In his country, says:
"I have been In this country over a year
now studying agricultural conditions as
I have studied them always in my own
eountry. I believe I am safe in saying
that within ten years there will be a
tractor on every farm in the state of
Nebraska. Every indication is that tha
tractor Is Indispensable to agriculture snd
is here to stay."
' Mr. Mohler has Just placed an order
with the manufacturers of the Holt Cater
pillar tractor of Peoria, III., for sixty
machines. He bought sixty of the eight-
cylinder, li0 horsepower Caterpillars for
use on some of the big ranches In Austria,
He say there are many ranches- In Aus
tria pf from 6,000 to SO.ooo sores and, In
his Opinion, he has found the machine
he wants for these.
' With speoial trains from the Albloh
branoh and the Sioux City branch Thurs-
lAJri"0!.' ".nlfe.t.tlon. of alleg.ano.
crowd yet seen this week. Conservative
estimates placed ths crowd at between
10.000 and UOOO.
The Sioux pity special brought In too
and the Albion train brought between 400
and 900. Dosens and dosena of automobiles
came In from Grand Island, lloldrege and
even farther west.
Many Bee Wrestling Match.
Hundreds and, perhaps, thousands of
people came Thursday In order that they
might be in time to see the Bteoher-Hen-derson
wrestling match, which wss
pulled off in Morris park at night as a
special feature of the week's fontlvltiea
Fifty of the tractors gave demonstra
tions In plowing snd other work on the
big Hold during the day. This is ths
greatest amount of tractors that has yet
been out at any time. There are wet
spots In the fields, where the ground is
too wet to plow. If the day Is fair today.
It Is expected that all of the ground will
be in shspe to plow and It Is expected
that the eighty tractors will all be out
Uyaamlte Demonstrations.
Special demonstrations in dynamiting
ground and stumps were also given dur
ing the day. Moving pictures of ail the
work were made.
The accessory manufacturers who are
demonstratl a the technical points of ths
engines, are greatly pleased with Interest
that Is being shown in these special
schools of Instruction. This is what Is
known as the short course In tractors.
farmers and ranchers who are anxious to
' ' " '"l uirww. neiau
ot the motor of each machine. The ac-
oessory men asy this Is ths best indica
tion of all that the tractor Is here to
j stay, that ths farmer feels he must have
I It, and that the day of horsepower f srm
lng is rapidly drawing to a close.
Hero is today's program:
Omaha Ak-8ar-Ben and live stock men's
day.
SO to 12 Private demonstration.
10 to 11:30 a. m. Tractor short course.
Free dinner. South Omaha Union Stock
Tarda' barbecue.
1:8 to 4:30 p. m. Public, demonstration.
Union Paclfio Railroad, North Platte,
Orand Island, Columbus, Omaha divisions
excursions.
Tractor Built Like
- Fine Pleasure Car
To read the technical descriptions of
many of the farm tractors at the Fre
mont demonstration, one might easily
Imagine be were reading of an automo
bile Instead of a farming machine. For
example, notice this, taken from adver
tising .matter on the- four-plow tractor,
manufactured by the Klnhard-Iialnes
company of Minneapolis: "It Is equipped
with the four-cylinder, vertical valvs-ln-the-head
type of motor of the well
known Flour City design; two speeds for
ward snd one reverse; Hyatt roller bear
ings throughout, except the motor bear
ings; spring mounted in front and auto
mobile steering device."
And. like the automobile manufactur
ers, the tractor men are coming to the
smaler and lighter machines that will
give general, all-round, good service at
small cost The "Klnnard" Is one of
these, being especially adapted to small
snd medium farm work.
On Trains, at Hots!
XfewS StaadB, etc, s
Day May
as Thrift Sunday
6 per cent of the people who die In this
country leave no estates and J7 per cent
of Americana at the sue of S are partly
or wholly dependent on chalrty.
"l'nlea the conditions are corrected."
Mr. Straus said, "we will reach a state
of nrjtmat poverty some day. All Euro
pean nut Ions for generations have been
compelled to practice thrift. It la through
the churches and the schools that the
leaeona must be taught."
A letter from William Howard Taft.
former preeldent of the Vnlted States,
pledging his moral support to the thrift
movement, wss read to ths congress.
MEXICAN NOTE IS
SIGNED BY WILSON
Joint Communication Prepared by
Pan-American Envoys Ready
for Transmission.
CARRANZA DENIES DISORDER
WASHINQTON, Aug. 12. Presi
dent Wilson and Searetary Lansing
conferred at length today
on the
Mexican situation. Details of yes
terday's -conference In New York of
the Latin-American diplomats were
given to the president.
Just before Mr. Lansing went to
the White House he announced that
tl'e appeal to the factions and lead
ers In Mexico will not be sent today,
as arrangements for lta transmission
by telegraph and mall to remote
parts of Mexico are not complete.
The communication has been fin
Iphed, signed, approved by president
With the return of the president it was
sgaln reiterated that the Inter-American
peace plan does not contomplate In any
way the use of force, pr the Impairment
of Mexico's sovereignty or interference
In Its domestlo affairs. The purpose of
the sppeal Is to Influence Mexicans them
selves to hold a pcaoe convention and
tha government created by that action
will be acconled recognition whether or
not the acquiescence of all the factions
is obtslned.
Secretary Lansing declined to comment
on General Carransa's letter of protest
against the Pan-American peace plan.
He said no reply had toen made. How
ever tho feeling is that when the Pen
American conferees' sppeal la read It
will bo evident that Carransa has been
misinformed as to the purpose of the
Pesce plan and there Is a confident hope
that aoms of his hitherto close support
ers will give their adherence to the Idea
pf a peace conference,
General Carransa issued from Vera r
I to"?, through his Wsshlngton agents.
' sa jlsBMfal a.a " . ....
committed or contemplated against
the
loreigners wittily his. Jurisdiction.
Foreign Minister, Acuma cabled that
the demonstrations In ' v-. -.... w...
u varransa.
'The People protested," said Minister
Acuna, "when they heard of ths confer
ences being held In the United Btates in
an endeavor to decide upon matters ex
cluslvely tn, prov1nce of Mexciin
sovereignty, .but the people have not
manifested any hostility to cttlsens of any
nationality."
?7,,,f?r" " Carraaea.
GALVESTON. Tex., Aug. U.-"The
statement thst foreigners In Vera Cms
are In danger Is false. Ths constitutional
1st government guarantees lives and
Property to Individuals of wbstever na
tionality." The foregoing Is ths text of a " cable
gram signed by General Carrsnsa ami
(Continued on Page Two, Column Flva)
Five Persons Killed
in Collision Near
Columbus, Ohio
wLSU8,,,,--riv l-'
were killed and more than a scor. . I
injured, some of them seriously I
early
today when a heavily loaded friK
crashed Into a soeclal tr.i. k.. .
Party of members of the Knights of
Pythias lodge of Mqunt sterling, O., msny
w. .... accompsmea by their wives or
other members of their families.
The accident occurred at Orient station,
on the Baltimore 4 Ohio Southwestern
railroad, fourteen miles south of Colum
bus. The excursionists were returning
from sn annual outing at Cedar Point,
near Sandusky. The excursion train had
stopped to take water when the freight
train crashed Into it.
Members of ths freight crew said they
knew the excursion was ahead of them,
but understood their orders gavs ths
freight trslu a clear track. The dead:
l-OOAN HOLLER. Pickaway county
farmer.
MAHflArtET SOI.LAH
TUOKNIK NKFF.
Til A D MTYTH K.I,L.
CAHL HEICHM-HDRRFER. who died
In a hospital here shortly after noon.
All of tha above are from Mount Ster
ling or that vicln.ity.
Barnes Compares
T, It, and Bismarck
ALBANY, N. T.. Aug. 12. William
Bames, jr., today warned the constitu
tional convention, now In session here,
that If a stop was not put to what he
termed "socialistic" or class legislation,
there would be established In this coun
try an autocratic slate, similar to that of
Germany, "donylug utterly the Ameri
can theory of equality."
Incidentally, the republican leader com
pared Theodora Roosevelt to Bismarck,
and asserted that the progressive party
bad Inaugurated and was advocating ths
identical policy which had caused the
ociallst party in Germany to become the
largest single group in the Reichstag.
Mr. Barnes' warning and attack upon
the progressives was contained la a
peerh urging tbe convention to adopt
his amendment prohibiting ths legisla
ture from psavlng minimum wage, old
age pensions or similar laws.
SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS.
TEUTON ADVANCE
IS NEAR BANKS
OF RIVER. DVINA
Baltio Flank Under Von Hinden
burg- Now Less Than Three
Hundred Miles from City
of Petrograd.
RUSSIAN SCHEME 13 A FAILURE
Ctar's Second Line of Defense Back
of Warsaw Seems to Have Been
Made Untenable.
BATTLE EXPECTED NEXT WEEK
LONDON, Aug. 12. Tha Baltic
flank of tha German armies, under'
Field Marshal Von Hlndennurg. has
virtually attained the banks of the
river Dvlna, between Riga and
Dvlnsk, with Petrograd lesg than 300
milea away in a direct line.
Thence southward the line sweeps
west, with the Russian fortress of
Kovno still holding out, but next
week may see a great battle on the
road toward the Russian capital.
The second line of derense upon
which tha Russians proposed to fall
back after abandoning Warsaw has
all the appearances of having been
rendered untenable, and the British
and Russian press is beginning to see
In the Austro-Oerman plan an ambi
tious plunge deeper Into Russia, with
Petrograd as the goal.
In the meantime the Russian rear
guards are fighting desperately, espe
cially In the critical Dvlna region and at
Kovno, to capture which the Germans
are making a terrifia sacrifice of men.
It seems plain now tha Oermans pur
pose no great demonstration In the west,
but Intend rather to press to the utmost
their so far brilliantly successful Russian
campaign on the theory that conditions
In France and Belgium are such that
neither the French nor the British Im
mediately will attempt a general of
fensive. During the lull In activity on the front
In France snd Belgium the British puhllo
is looking to the Dardanelles to bring th
relief Ruanda so bsdly neads. though the
task of opening the straits remains a
difficult problem, which somo tlilnk msy
only be solved by a change In the Balkan
situation. Both Germany and the entento
powers are exerting the hsrdest pressure
on Bulgaria, as that country Is consid
ered to be the key to the situation.
Fetrosrrad Heal Objective.
PUTT ROG HAD, Aug. ll.-Vta London.
Aug. 11) Tha Novoe Vremya. discussing
today ths theory that Petrograd is tho
real objective of the German offensive,
says: -. .......
"There Is an enormous difference be
tween the war of Mil and the present
conflict. The Germans ere hurling
sgalnot the Russian foroes, equivalent to
seven such Invasions as that of Napoleo i
and supported by the latest technical ap
pliances, whereas, In lSli. ths Russian
army In ths latter respect wss fully on a
par with ths French.
'The Germans are Infinitely better
posted ss to the position of Russia than
Napoleon, and they are incapable of re-
jgardtng Moscow ss the key to the empire.
(They know that Petrograd Is the political
center and it is only half an far from
Riga as Moscow.
"It Is only a nlgtit-s railway Journey
between Riga and Petrograd, and the dis
tance over good roads snd' two lines of
railways do not offer Insuperable difficul
ties. This is no second war of 1813, but
something far more serious."
The Rsch advises the population of
Petrograd that air raids on the capital
are likely in the near future, snd that a
hostile cavalry force may possibly get
near tha capital. It saws, however, that
there Is on fear of anything further at
present.
Itallaa Official Report.
ROME. Aug. II. Via Parts.) The fol
lowing statement issued at Italian army
headquarters, under data of August 11,
says:
"In Cadore, while our artillery con-
tinuea to operste s gainst powerful de-
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