OCR Text |
Show Mill; ALLIES Daniel LIBERTY OF ACTION RECAPTURE TOWN WITHIN SEVEN MILES OF THE BORDER. AUSTRO-GERMAN- 8UBMARINE CHARGED WITH SINKING VESSELS IN . STEAMER LANE. GERMAN Serbians in Conalderable Force Capture Town Near Monaetir. Considerable Hard Fighting Three-Mil- e London. Of tlie battlefronts In Europe, those of Transylvania and Macedonia continue for the moment the. centers of greatest interest. According to Berlin, the Kumunians In Transylvania are retreating along the whole line. The Teutonic allies have recaptured the town of Toerzburg, fifteen miles southwest of Kronstadt and within seven miles of the Rumanian border. On the Danube north of Sistova the Germans have occupied an Island, tak-- , ing six guns and making prisoners of the Rumanian troops there. A Bucharest dispatch forwarded from Rome says the Rumanians evacuated the Transylvanian city of Kronstadt to avoid its destruction by Austro German batteries, which had begun to fire on the town. Tiie present position of the Rumanian army Is as excellent. Serbians In considerable force have crossed the Cerna river in Serbia and captured the town of Skochivlr, southeast of Monastir, and also have occupied positions along the north bank of ed the river. Considerable hard fighting has again taken place in the region west of Lutsk and farther south in Galicia, but the results are somewhat beclouded by reason of contradictory war office statements, letrograd says the Russians at some points in Volhynia succeeded In entering Austro German positions east of but Berlin reports that these attacks failed, with sanguinary losses to the Russians. In the Carpathians the Germans have made an advance at l, Baba-ludow- Violent reciprocal bombardments are In progress In the Somme region of France. Infantry attacks also have taken place, but no Important gains have been chronicled. LUCK WITH GERMAN CAPTAIN. British Warships Near When At. tack Was Made on Shipping. Boston. Luck was with Lieut. Capt. Hans Rose, or the commander of the No was well adGerman submarine vised. There Is evidence that when he set out to attack enemy shipping there was not a British warship within 500 miles of the spot in which he chose to operate. For some time, according to men who follow marine affairs, there had been only three British cruisers engaged in patrolliug the Atlantic coast to keep open the path for American-mad- e munitions of war. One of these cruised between Halifax and New York, another between New York and Bermuda and the third between Bermuda and the West Indies. U-5- 3 WORK OF ONE SUBMARINE. Naval Officers Agree Six Ships Were Sunk by Single Newport, R. I. The wholesale raid on foreign shipping south of Nantucket light ship Sunday was the work according to reof one submarine, ports of American naval officers. Rear Admiral Albert Cleaves, commanding the torpedo boat destroyer flotilla, which did remarkably speedy rescue work, said that the reports of all Ms officers agreed that to the best of their observation one raider only was concerned. Lambros to Form New Cabinet. Athens. rrof. Spyridon P. Lambros has agreed to undertake the formation of a cabinet, which probably will Include one or two other university He declares the new professors. ministry must be separated wholly from the present political strife. - 3 used as an after her pres- TOLO A COUNTRY INSISTS UPON REPORTED THAT GERMANY ISTO ASK FOR PEACE THROUGH SATISFACTORY SOLUTION PRESIDENT WILSON. OF INTERNAL QUESTIONS. Settlement of Border Story i3 That Ambassador Gerard is Coming Home to Lay Request of Problem Can Be Reached Until InGermany for Peace Before the Mexican Government Shows President. tent to Preserve Order. No Satisfactory Atlantic City. N. J. Satisfactory solution of Internal questions having an International bearing must be an Integral part of the general program for the rehabilitation of Mexico, the Mexican members of the Joint commission were Informed on Wednesday by their American colleagues. The American commissioners took the stand that no satisfactory settlement of he border problem can be reached until there la evidence of the intention of the Mexican government to so handle such affairs that there will be no occasion for constant diplomatic correspondence with other gov- ernments. The matters especially referred to by the American commissioners were those affecting the status and rights of foreigners resident in Mexico and of foreigners who have Invested capital in Mexican enterprises. It wan learned that Luis Cabrera, head of the Mexican commission, is dealing with the committee representing a large group of mining concerns In Mexico In his capacity as minister of finance, rather than as one of the Ho expects to meet commissioners. the mining mens representatives in New York for a conference New York The New York Evening Post publishes a story saying that It has been learned ftom a trustworthy source that Ambassador James W. Gerard, now on his way back from uermany, will lay before President Wilson a request that the president use his good offices In suing for peace with the allies. Germhny has definitely decided to apply to President Wilson, the article reads, to use his good offices In suing for peace with the allies. This was learned Friday from sources in a trustposition to have absolutely matters. on these information worthy It is understood that Ambassador James W. Gerard, who is on his way over here, will lay the kaisers request before President Wilson within It is a fact, howa week. ever positively it may have been denied officially, that the possibility of President Wilson acting as mediator has been discussed by German officials with Ambassador Gerard. It Is, therefore, by no means surprising that the reports now take definite shape In connection with Mr. Gerards trip to this country." ENGLAND NEEDS MORE MEN. Armies and Munitions Factories in Urgent Need of Men. London. Great Britain is in urgent need of men for her armies and also for her munitions factories. A statement to this effect wat given out Wednesday by the man power distributing board, recently appointed to comb ut men eligible for military service in the United Kingdom, who have not yet been enrolled in the army. George A. Joslyn Called. Omaha. George A. Joslyn, president and general manager of the Western Newspaper Union, died October 4th at his home In this city. MAJ. GEN. J. J. PERSHING Ix-k- & Garfield railroad ha!! th! h! George Radlch and Ilenl Bovieh nr. in the hospital at Bingham, 8Utfe; Washington. The American memo- lng from severe knife wounds an randum on use of neutral waters by Pete Evancovich Is in tlie Bmgham l belligerent submarines, the text of Jail, as the result of a fight Fire Prevention day" was observed which was made public by the state deIn Salt Lake on October 9, wh department Wednesday night, clares the allies have failed to show members of the city public safety de. enpartment visited the schools and why such vessels should be denied trance to neutral ports and that no talks were made to the children on circumstances have been set forth Fire Prevention." InL. II. Wilkinson, proprietor of a sa. rendering the usual provieions of underto tel national law Inapplicable loon In Salt Lake, who struck p w water craft. Wilson over the head with a dub dur The United States reserves com- lng a quarrel, causing his d. ath, has with been plete liberty of action in dealing discharged from custody, hij belligerent submarines. plea being self defense. No specific mention of the DeutschIt Is estimated that the fair land is made in the memorandum, allost between $3,0Qu and though the allied communication is on the thirty-eightannual Rtate understood to have been prompted by fair, held at Salt Lake last week. The the failure of the United States to con- rains of the week of the fair are charsider that vessel as having any blamed for the shortage. acteristics making her status different . Henry B. Joy, president of the Linfrom that of the ordinary merchant-pmn- coln Highway association, is now in western Utah, having Joined Pieid to sent The memorandum, originally Ostermann In Salt Lake City "ranee, Great Britain, Russia and for an Inspection of this soition of to their in reply Japan August 31, the route of the transcontinental road. identic memorandum of August 22, Charles G. Eberhardt, of Riverton, later was sent also to Italy and Portufiled suit In the Third district has gal. While the allied communication to recover $2,500 damages from court was published some time ago, the American reply was not given out till the Western Union Telegiapb company to deliver to him promptly meWednesday, when the recent activities seemed to nnke a public ssages telling of the illness and death statement of the governments posi- of his mother. Aside from a scarcity of help btion imperative. President Wilson and Secretary of ecause of the largo number of person State Lansing discussed in detail at working in the sugar factories, the Shadow Lawn Wednesday night Ger- canning factories of the btate are in man submarine attacks on merchant- excellent shape, according to the vmen Sunday off the New England arious inspectors of canneries for the lasted until state food department coast. The conference Fines ranging from $1,500 to $250 late at night and will be continued. It was indicated by officials that th'e were imposed In the federal court by facts so far collected through govern- Judge Tillman D. Johnson on eleven mental agencies have disclosed no plumbers recently found guilty of the regrounds for drastic action by the charge of conspiring to effect the United States government because of straint of trade in violation of the law. the attacks themselves. No evidence Sherman anti-truWith a good opportunity at the out has been found that international law has been violated by the German sub- set of the season to obtain a 100 per marine or submarines. It was under- cent pack, it Is doubtful at this time stood, however, that the president and whether the tomato canners of the Secretary Lansing discussed the wis- state will be able to get more than dom of pointing out to Germany the a 60 per cent pack, owing to unfavon inadvisability of operating her sub- able weather conditions. marines in proximity to the internaPatrolman Leroy Dean narrowly tional waters of the United States. escaped death or serious Injury Sun? day when a bullet split his club In Bootleggers and Officers Battle. fragments, grazed his coat and knockA Tenn. in the ed off his badge during a spectacular Chattanooga, fight Cumberland mountains between al- raid on a gang of twenty crap shooleged bootleggers and a force' under ters in a barn In Salt Lake City. Sheriff Livingston in which a woman Losing his way In the clouds, when and a man were killed and two other looping a loop, as the engine of bla men mortally wounded, was reported military biplane refused to work and Wednesday from Jamestown. w hen two push rods broke, Louis daring aviator, engaged to make The World Series. flights at the fair,- at Salt Lake, naBrooklyn. The Brooklyn team, win- rrowly escaped a serious accident. ners of the pennant in the national Local capital, to the extent of about league, won from Boston, the Amer- $400,990, will shortly be put into the ican league pennant winners, in the construction of a railroad to connect third game of the world's series, the the mlneB of the Deep Urek region score being 4 to 3. Boston bad won with the Western Pacific railroad at the two previous games, 6 to 5 and If rumors current In Salt Wendover, 2 to 1. Lake business circles come true. On the strength of a story told by Gerard Silent as to Mission. G. E, Landan of Garfield, of being New York. James W. Gerard, knockout drops In a glass of American ambassador to Germany given In a rooming house In Salt Lake, beer upon bis arrival here Wednesday, deRoss, clined either to affirm or deny pub- detectives arrested Frank said by the O'Neill, June and waiter, lished reports that lie was returning unden to the United States on a peace mis- police to be a woman of the world. sion on behalf of the emperor of Ger"Fish from Utah lake have a flavor many. superior to the vaunted tuna if they VV. are properly canned," said Fred Sinks Ten. Single cogame and Amsterdam. A German submarine Chambers, state fish the properating In the English channel be mmissioner, when discussing induHah new tween September 30 and October 5, oposal to establish a from h the stry surplus a by canning says telegram received here from Utah lake. Berlin, destroyed seven merchantmen After being tied up by her wrist belonging to hostile countries and three neutral steamers. for four hours while burglars ransacked the house for money, Aril school glrk Prosecutor Charged With Murder. Coldwater, a 16 year-olconIn a hysterical St. Joseph, Mo. An indictment was discovered Coldwater, against Oscar D. McDaniel, prosecu- ation by her father, C. G. tor of Buchanan county, was returned who returned to the Coldwater horn by a grand Jury which has been in- in Salt Lake. w e vestigating the murder of McDaniels Reports are current that of cavalry t wife. Tlie indictment charges murder Utahs two squadrons in the first degree. turn from the Mexican border dur ni the latter part of the month, they be without horses, but that Pr0 Irish Demand Discussion. Ion will be made for the liuniedi London. Irish nationalists at a of a meeting on Wednesday decided to purchase by the government of each for thirty-twmake an effort to have the Irish of ques- quota tion discussed In the house of com- eight troops In Utah. mons as early as possible. Weber and Box Elder county thorltles have called upon the sP" . clal agent of the Oregon Short Slayer of Priest Acquitted. In St. Paul. Minn. Mrs. A. them to assist company h Dudekf, on robber triftl here for the murder of Rev. forts to arrest the two and Henry Jajeskl, a Catholic priest, was are declared to have shot Gar found not guilty by a Jury after one ed Abbott Carey and Georgeto Og and a half hours deliberation. while the two were riding from Idaho In a box car. meVenlzeloa Heads Revolutionise. With a view to preserving the London- .- Mlptherlos amen Venizelos. ac- dical standards of Utah through companied by other members of the ment of present statutes the provisional government, arrived Mon-duboard of medical examiners, at Salonikl, where the Greek rev-board of health and head of all P lutlon began, according to a educational Institutions of an Inent dispatch from that city to Reuters. late met In Salt Lake last week proposed legislation whs discussed. Submarine Reported Off Savannah. Utahs $2,500,000 statehouse c Savannah. Gu.-- The presence of a with submarine of undetermined formally opened October 9 nationality monies which continued fron '.j, bar- 0IT on o'clock In the afternoon until Udnesday was reported to local ru The- - affernoon prBrm "'1 L" "" llr"'- - night. alsta of addresses, music and tnal reception by all stte offic y I Oert-so- - fi.-- d o American Party to Take Hend. New York. The American party, orBrig. Gen. J. J. Pershing, commandThe victory of the Republicans In ganized In 1914 by William Sulzer, ing tha American expeditionary force the Maine election reeulted In the ee former governor of New York, plane to in Mexico, has been promoted to ma. lection of Frederick Hale ae one of teke an active part In the present cam- Jor general to fill tha vacancy caused tha United Statee senator! from that paign, it was announced here Wed- by tha death of MaJ. Gen. Aluert L. state. Mills. nesday. Military Aeroplane Wrecked. Carranza May Not Bo Candldato. San Diego, Cal. Lieut. J. D. Von El Paso, Texas, Venustiano CarranHoltzendorff of the army aviation school here had a narrow escape from za may not be a candidate for the death when the military aeroplane presidency of Mexico at the first eleche was piloting crashed to earth near tion to be held by the de facto government, J. J. Pcsqulera, Carranza Carlsbad, forty miles north of here. consul at Los Angeles, declared here. i Many Women and Children Killed. German Loan Succeeds. Berlin. Thirteen men, seven woBerltn. Subscriptions to the fifth men and thirteen children were killed In September In FYench and war loan closed October 6. The Anzelger says the total subscribBelgian territory occupied by the Gerwill ed prove to be little If any lower aeroof or aa a result mans, artillery than the fourth loan, by which allies. entente the of fire plane tuarka were nl-e- Bingham been completed by engineers of General Electric company and railroad. h Candidate for President Progressive Arraigns Old Parties. Cleveland, O. John M. Parker, Progressive nominee for vice president. In opening bis campaign tour hew criticised the Adamson Saturday, eight-hou- r law and the manner of its enactment, denounced the betrayal of the Progressive party by Its leaders at Chicago last June, scored the professional politician and labor agitator, and made a plea for maintenance of the Progressive party organization and Its principals. Mr. Parker arraigned both Republicans and Democrats for their alleged machine methods and policies of government. The First Fatality. Walter F. Waldeman, Philadelphia. N. J., a 17 years old. of Vineland, freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, died In a hospital here from injuries received while tackling a dummy during football practice. years n PARKER OPENS CAMPAIGN. fifty-eigh- 54 J20-00- 0 THIS V Russians Raid Turkish Ports. Petrograd. An official statement In the Black sea on October says: bouts made a raid 6 our torpedo on Samsun and Sinope, destroying t sailing boats of various sizes and bombarding the harbors. Hundreds of Aeroplanes Lost Berlin. The French and British lost 130 aeroplanes last month on the western front as compared with 21 lost by the Germane, the war office announced Tuesday. IBIS ent trip. The executive officer of the destroyer Erickson, returning early Sunday from the scene of the German SWEDEN STRICTLY NEUTRAL. submarine activities off Nantucket, reported that nine ships had been sunk and that three submarines were Will Not Take S'dea li Controversy Between World Powers. operating off the coast. This InforStockholm. Prime MLUsler Ham on authorthe be had mation, be said, ity of the captain of the Nantucket raarksjold on Wednesday in an interSweden proclaimed her view said: shoals lightship. neutrality at the very outbieak of the war. All her actions since that time FREDERICK HALE have borne out that proclamation and all rumors or accusations tha. she has done, or intends to do, anything Ink consistent with this attitude re due either to failure to comprehe. d her 4tf. ' f 1 situation or to some leas ere litable " . , M Vy reason. Whenever Sweden has taker, any step displeasing one or other belligerent power her action has been dictated solely by consideration of ihe kingdoms own necessities and of its fu ture welfare and not by any partisan reasons. Wo hope sincerely that the belligerents will not make It impossible for us to maintain this attitude unto the end. h,udl .Garrison, free-foral- U-5- e RESERVED BELLIG- AcAmerican Government Refusea to That Allies of cept Contention Neutrals Must Deny Submarines Use of Harbors. Limit Boston. Four British,- one Dutch steamers were and one Norwegian sent to the bottom or left crippled derelicts off Nantucket on Sunday. The submarine arm of the Imperial German navy Is blamed with the attack on the vessels. Sunday night the destroyer flotilla of the United States Atlantic fleet was picking up passengers and crews of the destroyed vessels and bringing them to Newport, R. I. So far as known, there waB no loss of life, though the crew of the British steamer Kingston had not been accounted for. A submarine held up the American steamer Kansas, hound from New York for Genoa with steel for the Italian government, but later, on establishing her identity, allowed the American to proceed. The Kansan came into Boston harbor late al night for her usual call here. The boat He submarine is believed to be the which paid a call to Newport Saturday, and disappeared at sunset. Some naval men, however, declared that at least two submarines are operating close to the American shore, though outside the three-millimit. The sensation created when the quietly slipped Into Newport harbor, and as quietly slipped away three hours later, was nothing to the shock In shipping circles when wireless re. ports of submarine attacks began to come Into the naval radio stations just before noon Sunday. Within a few minutes the air was literally charged with electricity as tireless messages of warning were broadcasted along the coast. had The submarine or submarines taken a position directly in the steamer lanes. Vessels of the entente allied nations and neutral bottoms carrying contraband of war scurried to get within the three-mil- e limit of the American shore. Several that were following the outside course shifted and made Tor the inside lane. The Stephano of the Red Cross line, however, was caught outside the neutral zone. The destruction of this vessel was perhaps the biggest prize of the day. The craft had been sold to the Russian government and would havo been WITH ERENT SUBMARINES. Four British and Two Neutral Steamers Sent to Bottom or Left Crippled Derelicts Just Outside in Galicia. Vladimir-Volynsk- IN DEALING J was crushed and fatally Injured of a., he fell from his wagon under a hfe! roller at Salt Lake. An increase of $16,053,235 In Lake clearings for September as compared to the same month19,,u 1915, la reported by Duns review Plans for the electrification of ' DEFEAT RUMANIANS Zeppelin Caueee Much Damage. Amsterdam. In the air raids on Mannheim, Germany, September 27, a Zeppelin 750 feet in length was destroyed and much other damage was workmen Twenty-siwere done. killed and forty wounded. Kronetadt In Teuton Handa. Berlin. Kronstadt, leading Indus, trial and commercial center of Tran, occupied by Rumanians sylvanla, upon their entry into the war, was reforces captured by the Austro-Germaon Saturday. Von Trlpita Refueea Office. Berlin. Admiral von Tripltz, former head of the German admiralty, was offered the Conservative nomination for a relchstag seat vacancy to be filled In Saxony, but at a Huge Exporta to Rusaia. New York. United States exports to Russia via Vladivostok, January 1 to April 1. 1916, amounted to Ml,. 490,280, according to a report of the American Russian chamber of com merce. n y o - n,L |