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Show w AFTER AN! ATTACK ON THE BALKAN FRONT I filed in case of thir and middle. teen eastern WEST ROADS. AWARD AN -- UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE GOVERNOR SPRY . AND FAMILY. NG FALLBACK GERMANS, THE RUSlANS ALSO SUFFERING DEFEAT. BEFORE-ADVANCI- e of Board Had Been Eagerly Awaited for What Bearing It In the Adameon might Hava on Decision Act Controversy.- V t - srr 'Sri Turks. Salt Lake City. The discovery of bomb in his front yard Monday , morning frustrated what is regarded by police authorities as a plot to assassinate Gov. William Spry and hla family and destroy his home. The bomb was found at 8 oclock buried in th snow on the sidewalk leading to the governors front porch, and three feet from the porch steps, directly In the patlf the governor followed when h 3 oclock Sunday retreat has taken returned home at to a from Washington. trip von Marshal Meld them, the army of Police officials . characterize the Mackensen has begun to attack the as a deadly missile, powerful bomb bridgehead of Matchln arter Isakishe to have wrecked not only th enough on the eastern bank of the Danube, " but adjoining In addition to an- goverfiorT home, was captured. As th been bad it exploded. houses, nouncing the evacuation of Isakishe, bomb Is one that can be exploded by the Russians admit the occupation ol concussion or friction, their theory is Tultcha. the plotters expected the governor to British mounted troops, with the or stumble over the botiib as af aircraft, carried a step on he approached the steps. strong position at Maghdaga, twenty Richard T. Neslen, local agent for miles distant from El Arish, which adthe Burlington Route, whose home Incomplete was. captured Thursday. uncov, joins that of Governor Spry, reports, says the statement from ered the bomb while he wae sweeping were show that 1,130 prisoners ihe snow from Governor SpryB walk. captured and a large quantity of arms After discovery of the bomb friends and war material taken. Heavy cas- of Governor Spry posted a reward of ualties,, were I 5W wUIl CkleLWhUe for Inlonntloa U to --"O vlction of the person or persons rei to man when the latter attempted for the deed. lit? occupied by the sponsible heights recapture that the plot wasj InOn the theory s'W Russians Sunday In the wooded Car stigated by members of the L W. W. palhlans. to avenge the execution of Joseph Macedonia, except for an artillery HlUstrom, the police Monday a ght I struggle i voldof momentous ac- srr3tedsixtnember f the- - organ! tlvity. The aam Is true generally ol nation and are holding them in Jail for NTS. the Austro-Uallatheater, except for Four were arrested In the JuliajXfront, where even such Investigation. South and Jordan . Ninth shack at operations have beon prevented by t other two were taken and the river, miskThey gave n custody In Murray. Two British destroyers have been Charles as Edward, names Till, sunk in a collision in the North sea. their andRob-r- t Oscar and Eselius John nd Fifty-fiv- e officers and men were lost Erickson. official at the reception France Mecca representing the finding of the bomb, With BANDIT WITH These are the members of the Mohammedan mission to FIGHT PASSENGERS formed was Arabia recently. of explain the explosion Sunday when the new government at the omz of James E. Robber Plungea Through Car Window aight which Is directly" In the rear of - When Shooting Begins. " LINE FIRING The attempted TO home. CLOSE the governors SOLDIERS FUNERAL Sioux City, Iowa. A bandit made of the destruction Spry home and the futile attempt to rob the passengers txploslon at the Jennings residence In the smoking car of a Chicago, Mil- werd planned by the same men, Par-lewaukee 4 SL Faul train from Chibelieve. Chief of Police J. to the the was yard as the entering it ascribe! yorb White cago, London. Roumanias first Christmas as a participant in the war heavy fighting on the Roumanian front iu Walachia. Ground was yielded by the Roumanians at some points under the pressure of the Qer mans, and north of the Huzcitimnlk road a height was lost by the Russians. In the northwest corner of Dobrud-Jprovince, the sector to which the day, an an cents 5 hour of wages Increase in Vi- .was overtime rata pro nd straight switchthe of granted to the members :by thirteen V, mens union employed western railroads middle and eastern In an award filed here Saturday by j?.. the federal board of arbitration that heard their differences. The decision of the board had been in eagerly awaited by the railroads t0 brother general and the four major Y ov hoods of railroad trainmen for what controon the have bearing it might Adam-Wversy between them over the The shuck iit which Ahe wounded soldiers are r eight-houScene at a dressing station close to tlie battle line In tliepalkun day act, in which the being treated is continually uuder tire. Is a question at issue. hours that "eight says decision The or less shall constitute a day's work," 5 cents an hour FRENCH MOHAMMEDANS AT MECCA gives an increase of and of rates pay," on the present rules that overtime shall be paid at "on pro rata rates, to be compute minutes actual of the the basis worked. While the switchmen asked for a 10 cent Increase, the statement emphaAn New York. eight-hou- r -- n -- J. Y N i' i. " Bomb Burled in Snow on Sidewalls Leading to Front Porch of Governors Horns Was Powerful Enough to Wreck Building. Mackensen Scores Gams In Dobrudjt, While the British Troops Capture Strong Position Frofn the (f JT x wit-noase- a x v d Kusso-Uoumania- n the pomt that the 5 cent ad vance is the largest given in any tration. The increase was granted, the neutral ' arbitrators explain, because of ' the high cost of living and the hazards and hardships of the sizes 0 n farm house. i rs Jen-slng- s, j princess hohenlohe gipgjljfe -- COIN-MARKE- D taken-havin- - , 1 J Car Shortage Delays Malle. Blizzards in the mid-dl- e Washington. west, a shortage of mail cars and an inadequate number of mall hand-- ' lera in large railway terminals have contributed to the delay In the Christinas mails service. Women Condemned ae Spies. seiitenc-s Paris. r v aj. i v ji ithjve d to death t wn more womeh, oho Dus-says by name, born In Calais, of a German mother and a Luxemburg father 1 the other a widow named Tichelly, cf Swiss nationality. Court-martial- - . . , , - K. A. ' o -- -- Jealous Man Staya Woman. Bingham, Utah. Crazed by jealousy, Mike Morris, a Bingham miner, fatally shot Mrs. Connie Mack, proprietress the Union rooming house at Bing-ham, and sent a bullet through" the necks' of Frank De Laney and Charles Evans, who attempted to protect her from the angry mans attack. f. -- m 7 ambassadors. vr to tended-merely-- e Germans Wager Peace In August. London. A Frankfurt dispatch to the Exchange company Via Rotter-dam-, says there was heavy betting on the Berlin exchange Saturday that peace would be signed before AugusL The dispatch says that. the German emperorwlll return to Berlin for oon ferences with the American and Span-is- h 300 here Saturday night The bandit es- I. W. W. caped with 310 in cash after shots The explosion at the Jennings home, had been exchanged with passengers according to police theory, was in- and he had leaped through-jkwladoattractthe guards while the train was In motion. on duty at the governors home to the scene of the explosion to give the . Marshalls In Arlxona. would-bassassins opportunity to N v 5 and i Ariz. rboenlx, "plant" the bomb in the governors A4 Mrs. Marshall reached Phoenix Satur- yard without detection. " fi: day morning to spend the holidays at 'Vtheir desert bungalow, fourteen miles Bank Wrecker Pardoned. from this city. The vlcbpresldent deN. Y. A Christmas pardon ASbapy, l clined to discuss foreign affairs or vras granted by Governor Whitman public matters on the ground that ha Friday to William J. Cummins, who had come for a complete rest has served three years and two mohtbs f u of a Ute prison sentence of four I kA-Duel Offense to France. t years and eight months for his part Paris A duel between Frenchmen In the wrecking of the Carnegie Trust In war times would bo a real offense company of New York several years S & Such was the for1 I against patriotism. 't I ' f : declratjoa signed by the seconds J of Deputy Adrien Veber and Captain War Aids Juvenile Crime. Charles Tlsseyre, and the proposed London. Criminality has been ,pit encounter was abandoned. among children as increasing greatly well as adults during the war. Statls- Discuss Farmers Needs. Will the home I: tics have been publiBhel-bHelena, Mont. -- Agricultural inter- office for nine different towns, includest in Montana are to have their In- ing London, which show that in cased nings before the coming session of the of theft among children there has been Montana legislature. Measures deal- an Increase of approximately 50 per artila in terrific killed soldier! seven Belgian Funeral of ao officer and ing chiefly with matters of Interest to cent. behind the ' X a In firing was taken Immediately village tbs farmer are In preparation for im Jl lery duel. The picture voice out the drown would a of shell a In while the dhce and , troductlon. bursting every line, Boy Bandits In Chlcage. of the regimental chaplain. eve bandits Chicago. Christmas Sentry Wounds Thres. forty-eigand furious a fast spent Douglas, Ariz. Three guardsmen hours previous to the dawning of are In the military hospital here suf- ChriBtmas ROLLING UP A BIG GUN SHELL day. Four boys, well dressfering from slight wounds, said to ed and apparently not over 17 years have been Inflicted by a Colorado Catherine Britton, a Washington old, executed nearly twenty robberies belle who recently was married to guardsman on sentry duty, the men snd obtained more than 31,000, besides Prince Alfred zu attempting to escape from the guard watches, rings, stickpins and over an attache of the house. Vice-Preside- TRAIL. Washington Robber Captured Because He Dropped Portion of 8wag. Golden Dale, Wash. Leaving a trail of money In his wake because of the difficulty of carrying It through the brash after he was forced to abandon' his horse, a man' giving the name of Henry Jones was caught by a posse Saturday as the robber of the bank of Bickleton in Bickleton, Wash. Deputy sheriffs Bald Jones admitted he had held up the bank. He had 3960, the remainder of the 34,000 g been dropped In his Most of the money has been flight recovered. y w Three negroes have been arersted, charged with the crime. LEFT - I the next to - jQrcswsir' d terror-stricken- I'- xj y)ii A Grewsome Spectacle Meet Eyes of Lad 8eeklng Christmas Gifts. Minden, La. Neighbors, summoned little boy of 7, ran by a N. Reeves near of John horns to tbe find that murderto here early Monday ers had turned the house Into a slaughter pen. Reeves and his wife were dead, the mana skull crushed by an ax and the woman with a bullet hole through her head. An boy, still clutching in his arms his brother, and another of and chopped from battered were 6, ax strokes. The children were carried to a hospital at Shreveport, where the oldest died. Their brother, who gave the alarm, escaped because he wa sleeps ing in the attic. He had come down early in the morning to look for his Christmas presents wheats saw what him . ? BRUTAL CRIME IN fiOUTH. Bent "Tt fT.J7.Mrt, 5 work. half-dresse- Ixm-don- - Long May Succeed Osborne-Breckenridge Long Washington. ' St. Louis probably will be nominated by President Wilson as assistant secretary of state to succeed John E. Osborne of Wyoming, who resigned -- recently. Three Killed In Expfoalon. Des Moines, la. Three persons were k21ed, three probably fatally injured and ten others seriously Injured when saa acetylene gas plant In the home of John Feaborg near KimbaJtou, la. exploded. (XK Y 0 n y Bf - ? ht Hohenlohe-Schllllng-furs- fkfi t, Austro-Hungaria- n embassy. GOT HE No - A START FLYING ) rr i coats. Pedro. San Villa Captures Dinner for President. El Paso, Texas. A report was reWashington. President Wilson con ceived here by an American known to eluded his Christmas celebration at be close to Francisco Villa that he had the White House with a dinner at captured San Pedro de las Solonas, which he entertained a large group of northeast of Torreon on Sunday. relatives and friends It wss an dinner with delicacies from Nevada Towns Dark. of the country sent tc the Tonopab, Nev. Every town In south- many partsat Christmas presents- ern Nevada which depends upon elec-- ' president i 4 tUr'i k rt.1 v e 4 Wonder This Young Man Made , Record Time In Cresting ' a Field. - farm, On the Frankford-IIadawa- hear Coal Mines' Stop,- on town & Southern suburban electric line Is a pugnacious male sheep whose y tho-You- ng headwork la wonderful. Billy doesn't use his head for his own advantage as much as be doea to boost others aloiig. 'One ifterDooS, not ioog since. the youth who lives In the vicinity left walkwas carat Midway station and field when he ing (fuietly across the the rear from attack terrific a feir his feet off him completely lifted that and advanced him-- yard or Jw before he recovered his balance. as "Billy" and recognizing Turning, his assailant, the young man started r to aprint. Pursued and pursuer made a streak hrough the atmosphere until the cleared youth, some yards In the lead, the pasture gate with a single bound A farmer, who happened to be passing. said to the young man : I must say you are some runner." Huh grinned the youth, "you oughta seen the start I got Youngstown Telegram. G. )A 'J V, ft tricity for lighting has been dark since Sunday, due to a break in the power lines crossing the White mountains. Convict Battle With Prisoners.' Newport, Ark. For nearly"'' three hours two escaped convicts fought from an Improvised fort in a cotton Teiper 4s Found Guilty. of murder in oompress here with a posse of citizens Buffalo, N. 1 iV, v 1 - 'lH&'u v7 (Y a J.uilty Color-Organlzat- -- , . v i t ,s v. r. t-- ' V' t second degree was the verdict re- fctttli the leader vt tu fugitives was-t vreturned by the jury late Friday against mortally Bhot and two possemen. second . John Ed ward Teiper, charged with eeived serious wounds. The having killed his mother las! Janaary. convict escaped. Exonertaed of Bribery Charge. State Constabulary Plan. Two Harbors, Minn. William Tow!, a ot Denver, state constabulary to replace the state former Socialist mayor ot this town, tot guilty :ef a charge of militia !s contemplated in" proposed a bribe from the proprietor legislation which, with other Import- accepting in return for furnishhere hotel a ef come the before to ant measures, is ing alleged "blind pig protection. session of the legislature. Liquor In Demand by "Drys." . Two Parish In Fire. Baltimore. The Christmas dt-- tz! New York. Oliver K. Buckley, 80 of various kinds f.r C years old, his cousin, Frank II. Welch, lor liquors of states Virginia, Wert Virdry" 68, were burned to desth in Buckleys t home in Brooklyn in a flreiwhlcU start- ginia and tbe Carolinas ( from companies express ed among decorations for a Christmas which serve these secti;x. celebration. 1he V . lon was-foun- i 'f I X 5 . 1 English troops on the w v- - n SY w WO w, . V eetern front rolling a big shell up to Its gun stv:l tij 1 |