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THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1916. FOURTEEN PAGES

PRICE TWO CENTS.

MfillM iJEIIS PEACE BFFEB

PARIS CLAIMS

AUSTRO PACT

TURNED DOWN

Eeport Says Terns of Sur

render Were Considered

Unacceptable.

KING GOING TO ITALY?

Belief Expressed That Royal

Family Will Seek Safety

at Rome.

raris, Jan. 19, (tia London,

2:15 p. ni.) The following offi

cial statement nag issued today:

"The wireless news of the sur

render of the Montenegrin array

appears somewhat premature. It

is mm announced from another

source that negotiations between .

Austria and Montenegro haTe

been broken, the conditions of the

surrender imposed by Austria

having been found quite unac

ceptable by Montenegro.

"The king, the royal family and

diplomatic corps are about to pro

ceed to Italy."

London, Jan. 19, (2:15 p. m.) A

wireless dispatch received here today

says that the news regarding the sur

render of the Montenegrin army ap

pears somewhat premature, it now be

ing announced from another source

that negotiations between Austria and

Montenegro have been broken off,

Montenegro having found the condi

tions of. surrender imposed by Austria

inacceptable. I

King Nicholas, the royal family and

the diplomatic corps, the message adds,

are about to proceed to Italy. j

The Exchange Telegraph company's j

Amsterdam correspondent says that a I

conference of the finance ministers of j

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey

and Bulgaria will be held next week in

Vienna. The chief purpose of the con

ference, it is said, i9 the discussion of

the financial position of the Teutonic

allies and the adoption of measures to

meet certain contingencies.

Herman Report.

Berlin Jan. 19 via London. The

German army headquarters staff to

day gave out the following official

Btatement:

"Eastern theatre: On this front

there is nothing to report except that

a German air squadron attacked en

emy storage depots and an aerial port

at Tarnopol.

"Western front: On the Yser front

a small German detachment advanced

into the enemy trenches and captured

one machine gun.

"During the night enemy airmen

dropped bombs on Metz. So far only

material damage has been reported.

"An enemy aeroplane fell this morn

ing at a point southwest of Thain

court. One of the occupants was

killed."

ORDERS PAYMENT

FOR ROCK ISLAND

New York, Jan. 19. United States

Judge Hough made an order today

authorizing Jacob M. Dickson, re

ceiver for the Chicago. Rock Island

ft Pacific Railway company to pay the

interest ou receivers' certificates due

Jan. 3.

The order directs the receiver to

make a new issue of certificates to the

amount of $2,500,000 to redeem the

old certificates which matured on

Jan. 3.

The new certificates are to bear in

terest at 5 per cent per annum and to

allure on July 3.

1

DAY IN CONGRESS

J

SENATE.

Met at noon.

Foreign relations " committee

took up action on Mexican Inter

temion resolutions.

Indian affairs committee con

tinued bearing on Osage land

leases.

Senator Cummins spoke In fav

or of government armor plate

and munitions factories.

HOUSE.

Met at noon.

Gardner, Tavenner and Hensley

unred rules committee to Inves

titrate individual and organiza

tion urging and opposing preparedness.

NewTrickof

ScienceMay

Spare a Life

Chicago, Jan. 19. Gustave Mussell,

who underwent a transfusion opera

tion yesterday when at the point of

death from gas poisoning, today was

said by physicians to have a good

chance for recovery.

Mussell was the first person in the

United States to undergo the treat

ment, which consists of substitution of

healthy blood for the gas-impregnated

blood of the patient.

Doctors expressed the opinion that

the transfusion treatment will prove

of great value in treating cases where

the ordinary methods of resuscitation

have proved unavailing.

MAKE EFFORT TO

FIX BASIC SCALE

Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 19. Vaan

Bittner of Pittsburgh, president of the

Western Pennsylvania miners, was

made chairman of the scale commit

tee of the United Mine Workers of

America, appointed today by John P.

White, international president of the

organization. The committee's duty is

to fix a basic scale on which negotia

tions are conducted with the mine op

erators throughout the country. Tin

committee is made up of the presidents

of the 24 districts.

The report of the auditing commit

tee, made today, contained the state

ment that $13,876 was expended to

purchase shoes for Ohio miners and

their families during the 13 months'

strike that ended last year. The total

membership of the union on Dec. 1,

1913 was 35S.498, of whom 79.44S are

anthracite miners.

NO RELEASE FOR

UPDIKE BROTHERS

Chicago Jan. 19. A writ of habeas

corpus for the release of Civing Up

dike who with his brother Herbert

confessed to having plotted to kill

their millionaire father, Furman D.

Updike, was dismissed in the criminal

court today after Civing had said he

did not want to be released. Herbert

Updike, who revealed the plot, re

mained today in the Oak Park police

station. Police officials continued

their investigation into the reported

marriage of Herbert Updike to Nellye

De Onsonne, a dancer in a West Side

cabaret, and his failure to reveal the

plot against his father, although aware

of it some time ago.

Bomb Flot In Chinese Palace?

Pekin, Jan. 19. Several servants

and higher employes were arrested to

day in connection with an alleged

bomb plot in the imperial palace. It

is announced from the president's of

fice that all those arrested have been

released, as no case had been proved.

Test Case Again Postponed.

Keokuk, Iowa, Jan. 19. The hear

ing In Phil Nickel's test case of the

repeal of the mulct law, which was

set for today after being continued

from last week, was again postponed

thi morning. Frank Ballinger, Nick

el's attorney, is busy with court mat

ters at Burlington, while County At

torney McManus is assisting the

grand Jury which is in session here.

Latest Bulletins

London, Jan. 19. Having eon

eluded his conferences with prom

inent British officials, Colonel Ed

ward M. House, personal repre

sentative of President Wilson,

will depart for Paris tomorrow.

Berlin, Jan. 19. A new offen

sive movement lias been inaugur

ated by the Russians to the east

of Czernowitz, near the Bessar

abian frontier. The official Ans

trian statement of today says the

Russians made four successive

attacks at several places, but were

repulsed.

London, Jan. 19, 4:30 p. BLr

The British steamship Marere has

been sunk. Her crew was res

cned. Chicago, Jan. 19. "Strychnine

sufficient to kill" was found in the

ita.l organs of Mrs. Ida O. Waters

of Mattoon, III according to a re

port made today by lr. William

I). McXally, one of Cook county's

coroner's physicians.

Washington, Jan. 19. Secretary

Dauicls, In transmitting to the

senate natal committee Admiral

Fletcher's annual report for the

year ending June 30, 1915, states

that steps have been taken to rem

edy specitic complaints as to the

condition of the Atlantic fleet.

SWEDE MINDS

INFLAMED BY

KING'S STAND

Newspapers of the Country

Clamoring Over Utterance

of the Ruler.

ARE BITTER AT BRITISH

Numerous Mistreatments at

Hands of Great Britain

Are Reviewed.

London, Jan. 19. The Politiken of

Copenhagen, as quoted by the Ex

change Telegraph correspondent there,

says that anxiety has been aroused in

Stockholm by the speech at the open

ing of the Swedish parliament by King

Gustave, who urged vigorous prepara

tion of national defenses in view of the

disregard of the belligerents of neu

tral rights. The speech is a subject of

concern in Stockholm the correspond

ent says because of the seizure by the

British authorities last week of a large

quantity of provisions from the Swedish-American

steamship Stockholm

from New York to Stockholm. The ac

tion of the British authorities Is criti

cised sharply by the Swedish press,

which expresses the opinion that the

value of the goods seized cannot be

regarded as anything like an adequate

offset to the effect of the incident on

relations between Sweden and Great

Britain. Some of the Swedish news

papers state that such actions are

worse than an open rupture.

Hjalmar Branting, socialist leader

in the second Swedish chamber, who

recently visited the allied front in

Flanders, is quoted by the Social Dem

okraten as saying that he prefers de

cisive action a day too early rather

than a day too late, in order to save

Sweden from complications.

"It is noted that King Gustave, in

his speech from the throne, did not

make the usual reference to the good

relations of Sweden with foreign pow

ers," the correspondent adds. "Several

interpellations on foreign affairs are I and with a field marshal's baton and

expected during the sessions." the king appointed the emperor as

London, Jan. 19. The controversoy j honorary commander of a Bulgarian

between Great Britain and Sweden infantry regiment,

over the detention of mails have reach- Among the emperor's retinue were

ed an impasse, with both sides stub-1 General von Falkenhayn, chief of the

bornly refusing to allow its rival's general staff ; Field Marshal von Maok

mails to be expedited through the re- j ensen, Adjutant Generals von Plessen,

spective countries. von Chelius und von Lyncker, and Ad-

Sweden now is holding an enormous miral von Mueller. King Ferdinand

quantity of the Euglish post destined was accompanied by Princes Boris and

I for Russia, while mail is being taken;

i from every Scandinavian liner brought j

i into Kirkwall, Scotland.

Vigorous representations are being i Official announcement was made in

made by the diplomats of both coun- Berlin on Sunday that Emperor Wil

tries, but the controversy presents so,liani has recovered his health com

many novel features that extensive j pletely and had returned to the front.

debates may be expected.

The foreign office here takes the

definite stand that a parcel, no matter j

i uat uiass ui postage u Dears, is no

more entitled to protection than is

ordinary freight. The neutral coun

; tries have not yet controverted this

stand, but base their objections on

interference and delays to which ac

tual first class postal correspondence

has been subjected.

PREPAREDNESSTO

8E WILSON FIGHT

Washington, Jan. 19. President Wil -

son today is planning to take personal

charge of the fight for national pre

paredness.

In addition to making a personal

appeal before the country in numerous

addresses in support of his program

for strengthening the army and navy,

the president plans to hold further

conferences on the subject with the

leaders in congress.

Numerous reports which have come

to the president of confusion over the

issue in congress and uncertainty of

the outcome prompted the step.

The president is said to be undeter

red by the open opposition of the paci

ficists, including William J. Bryan, and

differences among advocates of na

tional defense over the exact plans to

be adopted. He Is said also to be con

vinced that the preparedness program

is the best which can be offered at

this time.

Plans for the speaking trips were

going forward rapidly today.

Increase Given ary Employes.

Washington, Jan. 19. Increase in

pay, averaging five per cent will be

given master mechanics in the navy

yards throughout the United States.

Secretary Danfels said today he had

decided to grant the Increases and

would make them effective probably

within the next two weeks.

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KAISER VISITING

IN SERBIA WITH

KING FERDINAND

London, Jan. IS. Renter's Telegram

company says that Emperor William

was in Nish, SerV a, yesterday. Ac

cording to this information, which was

forwarded from Nish b;'-v.ay of Berlin,

the German emperor m.?t King Ferd

inand of Bulgaria at Nish.

"The monarchs greeted each other

cordially," the dispatch says, "and

then reviewed from the citadel a pro

cession of Bulgarian, Macedonian and

German troops."

The emperor presented King Ferdin-

Cyril, Premier Radoslavoff and oth-

ers."

SEVEN SOLDIERS

HELD BY BANDITS

Douglas, Ariz., Jan. 19. Seven sol

diers of the Seventh United States

cavalry were captured today by Mexi

can bandits at Doyle Wells, 14 miles

south of Hac.lita, N. M., according to

reports received here. The surround

ing country was scoured by cowboys

hunting the bandits. News of the cap

ture of the soldiers wag telephoned

here from Hachita.

El Paso. Texas. Jan. 19. General

! John J. Pershing, commanding the

! Sth brigade, United States army, had

received up to noon no information

concerning the reported capture of

seven American cavalrymen by Mexi

can bandits near Hachita, N. M. Rail

road officials at Hachita say they had

heard nothing of the reported fight.

Six banuits, believed to be Mexicans,

were attacked and pursued last night

by United States cavalrymen stationed

at Doyle's Wells, 14 miles south of

Hachita. In a brief skirmish one cav

alry horse was killed but no one was

hurt, according to a report brought to

Hachita and received here.

Legislature Quits Today.

Springfield, 111., Jan. 19. The second

special session of the Illinois legisla

ture, begun last week, Is expected to

complete its work today. Members

of both houses have prepared to take

night trains to their homes. Legisla

tive leaders announced that instead of

adjourning sine die, the session prob

ably will be recessed until February

23, the date to which special session

No. 1 was recessed. ""

Building Destroyed by Fire.

Chicago, Jan. 19. Fire which de

stroyed today the four story brick

building occupied by the George Ras

mussen company, wholesale grocers,

did damage estimated at $200,000.

AMEN I

Japs

to America

inFishBoat

Washington, Jan. 19. A story of

eight Japanese fishermen who drifted

across" the Pacific ocean in a small

fishing boat, landed on the British

Columbia shore after 24 days of hard

ship, reached the bureau of naviga

tion today in consular dispatches.

The narrative tells how the fisher

men, caught off the harbor of Chi-

moda, Japan, in a storm that carried

away their vessel's mainmast and rud

der, were driven eastward by ocean

by ocean currents helpless and, to

wards the end of their trip, half

starved. The boat grounded on one

of the small uninhabited islands that

dot the British Columbia shore, where

the men remained until picked up, by

a passing steamer.

Only one of the party, the owner of

the boat, suffered any serious ill ef

fects from the trip.

CALIFORNIA YET

IN FLOOD'S GRIP

Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 19. While

flood waters from the rainstorm which

has held southern California in its

grip for almost four days were reced

ing today in districts near the moun

tains, thee rest of the flood had not

reached the lowlands along the coast

and it was feared these sections would

be further inundated.

Telephone, telegraph and railroad

service still was demoralized. Trans

continental traffic was practically at a

standstill. Railroad officials said they

hoped to have the overland trains

moving some time today.

Five westbound trains on the South

ern Pacific were stalled at Yuma,

Ariz. Three Santa Fe and two Salt

Lake trains were stalled in Cajon

Pass by landslides.

Railroad officials said the damage

from the storm was the most severe

that has been suffered in this section

in many years.

Redlands and a number of southern

California cities which have been iso

lated by the floods were facing a short

age of food, but it was expected that

the difficulty would be overcome with

out serious suffering.

IS COMING HERE

TO BUY SUPPLIES

New York, Jan. 19. P. P. Marcone,

a representative of the National Sur

ety company, has received information

that a representative of French and

Italian syndicates is on his way to

this country to purchase supplies, the

cost of which is estimated at $200,000,

000, for use after the war.

The supplies to be purchased include

livestock, canned meats and vege

tables, cotton, flour, grain, wire, coal,

metals, lumber for railroad ties, wool

en socks, blankets, draughting and

scientific Instruments, bandages and

surgical dressings.

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REPORT RYNDAM

AGROUND ALONG

ENGLISH COAST

London, Jan. 19, (10:30 a. m.) The

steamship Ryndam of the Holland

American line is aground at Grave

send. No report has yet been made of

the extent of the damages the vessel

has received. An examination is being

made. In the meantine none of the pas

sengers or crew is allowed to leave

the vessel.

The Ryndam, which left New York

on Jan. 5 with 79 first class, 34 sec

ond class and 38 third class passen

gers, as well as mail, for Rotterdam,

via Falmouth, was reported in a cable

dispatch yesterday as having passed

Southend down by the bows, with a

list to starboard and as having arrived

later at Gravesend. It was added that

all the passengers were saved, but

that three stokers were killed and four

injured, though in what form of acci

dent it was not announced. The Ryn

dam was built at Belfast in 1901, is

550 feet long and is of 12,527 tons

gross. She carries a crew of 200 men.

SAYS ENTENTE IS

NEAR A COLLAPSE

London, Jan. 19. A Reuter dispatch

from Amsterdam says that at today's

session of the upper house of the

Prussian diet, according to dispatches

from Berlin, the president once more

referred to the surrender of Monten

egro and said that it constitutes evi

dence that the entente, while outward

ly appearing to be a structure of solid

form, is smouldering internally and

will soon collapse. He said that the

splendid success of the Austrian troops

at Lovcen is a favorable omen for the

definite result of the war.

NIECE OF TEDDY

E

London, Jan. 19. Miss Ethyln La

lande of New York, who claims to be a

niece of Theodore Roosevelt, has been

detained by the police for an examina

tion into her sanity.

If her relatives in New York will

send for her, the police say they will

send her home without proceeding

with action to have her committed to

an English asylum. Miss Lalande came

here on war relief work.

THE WEATHER

II

Forecast Till 7 P. M. Tomorrow, for

Hock Island, Davenport, Moline

and Vicinity.

Snow or rain and warmer tonight

and Thursday with the lowest temper

ature tonight about 20 degrees. In

creasing southerly winds.

Temperature at 7 a. m. 7. Highest

yesterday 11, lowest last night 5.

Velocity of wind at 7 a. m. 4 miles

per hour.

Relative humidity at 7 p. m. 77, at 7

a. m. 90, at 1 p. m. today 92.

Stage of water 8.9, a rise of ,1 in

last 24 bmrs.

J. M. SHERIER, Local Forecaster.

WAR LEECHES

STRUCK BLOW

BY CUMMINS

Senator From Iowa Urges

Government Manufacture

of All Munitions.

FIGHT AS LAST RESORT

Country Should Not Enter

Conflict Unless No Other

Thing to Do.

Washington, Jan. 19. Elimination

of private profit as an influence for

war by government manufacture of all

war munitions was urged in the senate

today by Senator Cummins of Iowa,

republican. He pleaded for prompt

adoption of his resolution which would

authorize a special committee to in

quire into the most feasible plan for

acquiring and constructing plants to

supply the army and navy with all

arms, ammunition and equipment, in

cluding ships and to report on the leg

islation necessary to prevent private

manufacture of such products.

War as Last Resort.

"I agree that war may come to this '

country," Senator Cummins declared,

"but if it comes it must be the result

of the calm, dispassionate, royal pur

pose to meet the awful scourge be

cause there is no other way of defend

ing our civilization, our institutions

and our honor.

"I do not assert that every person or

corporation which may profit from

war would Incite war, but I do assert

that all such persons and associations

are not competent to Judge the contro

versies which may lead to conflict, and

inasmuch as they cannot be removed

from the great panel of the republic,

they ought to be removed from the

business out of which the interest

grows. It ought to be made Impossi

ble, so far as the power of the gov

ernment is concerned, for any man or

corporation to make money out of war.

Need Re-baptism.

"We need just now, above all other

things,' a re-baptism in Americanism.

To me Americanism means a spirit

that commands men to live for their

country, and, if necessary, to die for

it; but I, for one, am not willing that

Americanism shall be defined and

standardized by millionaire munitions

makers or by the brokers, bankers or

backers who share their bloodstained

profits.

"In this critical moment, what is

the attitude of the makers of arms and

munitions? Without exception, so far

as I know, they are insisting on the

most comprehensive program which it

is possible to conceive, and they are

employing all forces at their command

for a completeness of preparation that

would turn this country into a military

camp and practically destroy all am

bition, save the ambition to overcome

by force of arms the entire world."

Between the Williams.

The senator said he believed that

"somewhere between the armed camp

of William of Germany and the open

dove cote of William of Nebraska there

must be an honorable abiding place

for a great nation which is prepared

to lead the world toward peace, but

will not submit to injustice or indig

nity."

Emphasizing the effect of the Eu

ropean war on private munition mak

ers in the United States, he ,told the

senate that since the war began there

had been 174 new corporations or

ganized in this country for the man

ufacture of munitions and the value of

arms and munitions exported in 15

(Continued on Page Fourteen.)

TRY MEN HELD IN

EASTLAND CASE

Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 19. Hear

ing in the cases of the six men indict

ed in Chicago on charges of neglect

in inspection or navigation of the

steamer Eastland, the tipping of which

carried 812 persons to their death in

Chicago last summer, will be begun In

the United States district court here

tomorrow.

The hearing will be to determine

whether the men have been guilty of

crime under the federal statutes, and

whether the evidence Is sufficient to

warrant trial.

The men named In the Indictment

are William H. Hull and George T.

Arnold of the Chicago and St. Joseph

Steamship company, Henry Pedersen,

captain and Joseph Erlckson, engi

neer, .both of Benton Harbor, and

1 Robert Reid and Charles Eckliss, gov

ernment Inspectors, of Grand Haven.