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FRIDAY. -NOVEMBER 26, 1915. SIXTEEN PAGES.

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RUMANIA IS

FORCED INTO

, LIGHT AGAIN

Since Greece Has Emerged

From European Muddle

She Loses Attention. '

EXPECT EARLY STAND

Disposition of Ferdinand's

Country Expected to Be

Definitely Known.

London, Nov, 26, (12:30 p. m.) The

Greek situation having emerged from

the uncertainty which for some time

ias boon a potent, menace to the al

lied campaign in the Balkans, Ru-

f i cbicf attention in Europe. Although

JI Kumania is beset with difficulties

somewhat similar to those which

caused Greece to hesitate, she is not

involved in the same political turmoil

and her situation is expected to mature

more rapidly.

Ten! IntliifJice Offset

Whir ever German efforts have been

isa-ie in Rumania, it is believed here

they have been largely offset by the

presence of larjre Russian forces close

to the frontier and the now rapidly de-

veloping Russian preparations, with

Odessa as a base, from which no other

inferen o is possible than her immed

iate entrance into the Balkan con

flict. Emperor Nicholas is said to have

promised the appearance of Russian

troops in Bulgaria within a week.

There are Increasing indication that

this campaign will be launched by

say of Rumania and it is reported

that conferences are now being held

between representatives of Russia and

Rumania to obtain the latter's con

sent to this movement. This consent,

as outlined clearly by (lie Rumanian

fiatetuont. htm depended on whether

the allies gain a preponderance of

forces in the Balkans. Rumania gives

evidence or being impressed strongly

by the com duration of 250.000 Rus

sian troops at Ismail and Reni, near

the bonier,

Serbs l'iijlit On.

No opt .mist if achievement has

been recorded mi either side since the

German announcement of the fall of

I'ristina and Mitrovitza. With only a

small strip of territory left to defend,

Seerbia's leaders declare she is un

beaten ami can still harass the invad

ers. Central Boydajieff, the Bulgar

ian commander, says on the other

hand, that King Peter's troops will be

put out of action in a few days.

No official report bad reached Lon

don at noon today of the capture of

fiorizia by the Italians, although the

Wl of the city was regarded as immi

nent. This important system of forti

fications commanding the railway

lutes connecting the upper and lower

Ismuo, has been the objective of which

the Italian army has been struggling

for several months.

Serbia To Ke Born A train.

Paris, Nov. 26, (5:26 a. m.) A pre

diction that, no matter what happens

Serbia "wiR be born again," was made

') War Minister Bokovitch to the Ma

t's s Moiiastir correspondent, who

Quotes the Serbian general as saying:

"nc are already to hold out to the

'lst If fortune abandons us alto

gether, sr, much the worse, but we still

hatl hope. Serbia' knew how to win

liberty after five centuries under the

Turkish yoke. It will be the same

tomorrow. Serbia will live forever.

ou cannot kill all the Serbs, and

Serbia will be born again to grow

greater in the future."

When the dispatch to the Matin was

Eled on the 19th the situation at Mon-

lC Ur was reported unchanged. Serb-

T.TEV tail 3flvan,..,J .., , in

contact with the Bulgarians who were

Relieved to have detached troops to

reinforce the army attacking the

French. The Serbians then occupied

'he village of Brod, north of Krusheo,

although the town had changed hands

several times, being occupied several

"ours the day before by Bulgarian ir

regulars.

Defenders Forced Back.

Berlin, Nov. 26. (via London, 3 p. m.)

Serbian troops offering resistance in

rear guard actions to the Teutonic ad

vance near Mitrovitza and Sienlca

"ave been driven, back by Field Mar

shal yon Mackensen's forces, German

riuy headquarters announced today.

The text of the statement" follows:

"In the western zone: There were

ftrtiUery duels at varimm nlaces on

the front, otherwise nothing of import

ance took place. f

in the Balkans: Southwest of Sie

sta and near Mitrovitza enemy rear

Ruards which had still remained be-

ore the front of Field Marsaal von

l-ackensea were driven back."

INCREASE TAXES

SUGGESTS M'ADQO

Secretary of Treasury M ould Meet De

fense Program Expense With

Internal Revenue.

Washington, Xov. 26. Cost of the

administration's defense program for

the first year would be met by an in

crease in internal taxation it congress

gives its approval to Secretary Mc

Adoo's suggestion.

In a formal announcement Mr. Mc

Adoo declared his belief that, an in

creased tax levy was preferable to a

bond issue, adding that it could easily

be borne by the American people. He

would raise the necessary revenue by

lowering income tax exemptions, and

assess various commodities.

The statement was issued in con

nection with an estimate of the fed

eral government's revenues and ex

penditures up to the close of the next

fiscal year. He places the amount of

additional revenue required for the ex

penditure for 1917 at $112,806,394, in

cluding $93,800,000 for new measures

for national defense. This estimate is

based on the assumption that congress

will continue in effect the present

emergency tax law and customs dllty

on sugar.

It is explained that while proposed

army and navy appropriations in 1917

would represent an increase for pre

paredness considerably in excess of

$93,000,000, a part of the expenditures

authorized actually would not be spent

during that year but would cover an

increase for which additional revenues

must be found by the next congress.

If congress approves of Secretary

McAdoo's proposals, the income tax ex

emption on single persons would be

reduced from $3,000 to $2,000 and on

married persons from $4,000 to $3,000,

the war tax on incomes above ?0,ooo

would be lowered to $10,000 or $15,000

and new taxes would be imposed on

numerous articles, including gasoline,

crude and refined oils, horsepower of

automobiles and other internal com

bustion engines.

ARRTVE TO ATTEND

SECURITY MEETING

Chicago, Nov. 26. Men in public life

from practically every state in the

country arrived here today to attend

the first general conference of the Na

tional Security league tomorrow.

The organization represents the mil

itary preparedness sentiment of the

country. A definite policy as to the

best means of impressing congress

with the need of action will be map

ped out at the conference. Reports of

the army, navy and national guard

committees of the league will be the

basis of the discussion.

50,000 WOMEN VOTERS

ASK FOR AMENDMENT

New York, Not. 26. The transcon

tinental trip of the great petition

signed by 50,000 women voters asking

for a woman suffrage amendment to

the federal constitution, ended here to

day. Mrs. Sara Bard Field and Miss

Frances JoUffe, who carried it from

San Francisco by automobile, will rest

a bit before finishing their Journey

to WTashlngton to present the petition

to President Wilson on Dec. 6.

Miss JoUffe is already here. Owing

in an attack of neuralgia she was com-

j pelled to make part of the journey by

i railroad. Mrs. Field is expected today.

SAFETY-FIRST FOR HUNTERS

Key to Death

of Two Held

by Giant Cop

St. Louis, Nov. 26. In William

Street, night chief of police of Madi

son, 111., famed as the biggest police

man in Illinois, rests today, the po

lice believe, the power to clear up the

mystery of the death of his estranged

wife, Mrs. Catherine A. Street and

Patrolman Charles F. Barmier of the

St. Louis police department, whose

bodies were found in a "blind" alley

here last night, each shot through the

heart.

Street, with a bullet wound in his

right leg, was arrested a few hours

after the shooting but denied he had

fired the shot which had taken the life

of either. His condition was such last

night that he could not tell a coher

ent story.

According to a bartender and other

witnesses Street had quarreled with

his wife in a wine room near the

scene of the shooting and within a

block of Mrs. Street's home. From the

wine room, according to witnesses and

Streets' partial story of last night, he

trolman Barmier followed the Gran

ite City chief and his wife from the

public alley into a "blind" alley, and

just as the trio were out of sight of

witnesses five shots were heard.

When several men at the mouth of

the public alley rushed to the "blind"

alley they found the bodies of

Barmier and Mrs. Street within a few

feet of each other. By the side of the

policeman was his revolver with two

shells discharged. On Street was

found a revolver with one chamber

empty, but this Street pointed out,

was a precautionary measure adopted

by many policemen to prevent explo

sion of the weapon should it fall. His

revolver, according - to the police,

seemed to not have been fired recent

ly. Street last night said that while

he was talking to his wife in the alley

some one called out: "Now I've got

you" and fired one bullet hitting him

and another his wife. Street said he

ran without returning the fire.

The police are also searching for

explanation of several incidental cir

cumstances. Among these are the

story told by the bartender of a "revolver-flashing

episode" in which

Street figured when he found his wife

drinking with another man in the wine

room, the fact that MrB. Street's

breast bore signs of repeated blows,

and the indications of a struggle at

Mrs. Street's home.

Chief Street stands six feet five

inches in his stocking feet and weighs

300 pounds, He was at one time can

didate for Bheriff of Madison county,

Illinois.

Custodian of Grant's Tomb Dead.

New York, Nov. 26. The announce

ment was made today of the death of

Colonel W. H. M. Sistare, for 10 years

custodian of Grant's tomb. He died

at his home late yesterday, aged S3. He

fought under General Slocum with the

102nd New York volunteers.

W. and J. Chooses Captain.

Washington, Pa., Nov. 26.-Maurice

Witherspoon of Chambersburg, Pa.,

who yesterday was elected captain of

the Washington and Jefferson football

team of 1816, today declined the hoVr.

He explained that he expected to en

ter MeConnick Theological seminary

at Cfeic&co Best fall.

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ALASKAPOBTSARE

SHUT FOR WINTER

ce Blocks Navigation at United States

Great Northern Possession

Open in Spring.

Seward, Alaska, Nov. 26. Naviga

tion in Cook Inlet has closed for the

winter, according to a radio message

from the steamship Admiral Farra

gut, which was made public today.

Four thousand five hundred tons of

freight consigned to the Alaska engi-

neering commission and merchants at

Anchorage will be unloaded here and

stored until next spring when the ice

goes out and vessels can reach the

railroad construction headquarters.

Contrary to previous reports the Ad

miral Farragut was unable to dis-

I charge any freight at Anchorage. She

j succeeded in putting the mail and a

few passengers ashore but before any

; of the passengers who had booked pas

jsage from Anchorage to Seattle could

i be taken aboard the ice became so

menacing that the vessel put to sea,

leaving a large crowd stranded there.

Those intending to leave Anchorage

before spring must make the journey

over the snow trail to Seward, where

j tn can board a Eteamer

for the

states.

The steamers Northwestern, Kansas

i City and Alliance are discharging their

(Anchorage freight here for winter

storage.

The freight consigned to Anchorage

merchants which will not reach them

until next spring included a supply of

turkeys for Thanksgiving.

SKEPTIC ABOUT

GREEK PROMISE

London Paper Advises People to ot

Take Assurances of Constantino

Too Seriously.

London, Nov. 26, (12:42 p. m.) The

Pall Mall Gazette, recalling the as

surances given by Elutherios Venize

los, the Grecian ex-premier, and the

way they were nulified by King Con

stantino's actions, regards present

Greek assurances with skepticism and

declares that the promise ot Premier

Skouloudis and his colleagues, what

ever shape they may assume, are not

to be taken too seriously.

"What has been secured apparently

by the gentle pinch of four days arrest

of Greek shipping," he newspaper

says, "is the assurance that Greece

will not be quite as treacherous as

words which certain of her ministers

might have implied. That the Greek

army is to remain mobilized will pre

vent any sure sense of safety on the

part of the entente allies."

TURKEY BREAKS VOW

OF HUNGER STRIKER

Omaha, Nov. 26. Arthur Hauser,

awaiting trial on a charge of murder,

who announced his intention of com

mitting suicide by starvation, was un

able to resist the temptation of Thanks

giving turkey, and called off his hun

ger strike last evening. He had eaten

nothing during the two days since his

arrival here and the police authorities

had consulted the city's legal depart

ment as to their right and duty to feed

rim forcibly.

HOT SPRINGS

DEATH TOTAL

REPORTED 13

Many Lives Lost by Tornado

That Swept Arkansas

Lasted 10 Minutes.

TWENTY ARE INJURED

It Is Expected Many of

Score Hurt Will Not Re

coverDamage Heavy.

Hot Springs, Ark,, Nov. 26 Thirteen

persons, all women and children, were

killed in the tornado which swept a

path of desolation two miles south of

Hot Springs late yesterday afternoon

and cut off the outside world until to

day. The injured number 20. While

30 suburban homes were torn to splin

ters, the storm was not felt within the

city. The dead:

MRS. CROWDER AND THREE

CHILDREN.

MRS GEORGE TANNER AND TWO

CHILDREN.

MRS. PAUL KENNEDY.

UNIDENTIFIED NEGRO CHILD.

BROOKS DAVIS, negress.

MISS IDA DONALDSON.

MRS. POE.

MISS IVY, a nurse.

Little Rock. Ark., Nov. 26. Thirteen

dead and 20 known injured was the

casualty list reported this morning

from Hot Springs, the outskirts ot

which city was swept last night by a

tornado of 10 minutes' duration.

Communication was restored with

the resort city today.

The storm struck the outskirts of

Hot Springs at 3.05 o'clock. From

1 3:30 o'clock until darkness, search

! ing parties explored the stricken area,

j quitting only when rain and night

t

made it impossible longer to continue.

At daylight the search was resumed.

Kest'tiers at Work.

Relief work was resumed at day

break today in the tornado swept farm

ing districts south of Hot Springs, in

which 10 persons are known to have

been killed late yesterday. Nearly

two score persons were injured, sev-

cral of them seriously. It is said the

death list may go higher when full de

tails of the storm are known. Owing

to the wide area covered, it probably

will be late today before accurate es

timates of the tornado's damage are

available.

Hot Springs was not touched by the

storm and on one was hurt within the

city limits. Six of the dead were white

persons, all of them killed in the de

struction of their farmhouses by the

storm. Many of the injured were

brought to hospitals here.

SECOND TRIAL OF

WATSONSTARTED

Georgia Editor Again Faces Federal

Charge of Attacking Catholic

Church.

Augusta, Ga., Nov. 26. Thomas E.

Watson, once populist candidate for

president and well known editor and

author, was ready to go on trial today

in federal court here on a charge of

sending obscene literature through the

mails.

The indictment in four counts is

based on a serial published in Wat

son's Jeffersonian magazine, entitled

"The Roman Catholic Hierachy, the

Deadliest Menace to Our Liberties and

Our Civilization."

This is the second time Watson has

faced trial on the same charge and be

cause of the same article.

Ottawa, 111. The Jury in the esse of

George David Starkley voted against

him a life sentence for the murder of

Ms wife and baby. He was convicted

of burning them to death last spring

by setting fire to his house on an is

land In the Illinois river.

II

THE WEATHER

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Forecast Till 7 P. 31. Tomorrow, tot

Bock Island, Davenport, Xollne

and Vicinity.

Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday,

cool tonight but with the temperature

above freezing, warmer Saturday.

Temperature at 7 a. m. 44. Highest

yesterday 66, lowest last night 44.

Velocity of wind at 7 a. m. 5 miles

per hour.

Precipitation 2.3 inches.

Stage of water 6.8, a rise of .4 in last

S hours.

J. M. SHERIER. Local Forecaster.

NOGALES SCENE

OF HEATED FIGHT

WITH MEXICANS

Donglas, Ariz, 'ov. 26. The

(arranza forces hate taken So

gales, Sonora. A courier sent to

advise Colonel Sage, commanding

the American troops, was shot in

the ytrht and fell from his horse.

Nogales, Ariz., Nov. 26. Desultory

firing Just south of Nogales, Sonora,

early today Indicated that General

Villa's troops, which started evacuat

ing the Mexican town last night, had

come into contact with the Carranza

army of General Ohregon.

Two of Villa's troop trains were re

ported stalled a few miles Bouth ot

Nogales.

American troops drove crowds two

blocks north of the street that forms

the boundary between Nogales, Ariz.,

and Nogales, Sonora.

All the stores in Nogales, Sonora,

were looted last night. The Villa gen

eral, Acosta, came to the American

side at the same time that Villa wound

ed were brought over the line and

filled a hospital conducted by Cath

olic nuns.

One battery of the 6th United States i

field artillery arrived from Douglas

and another is coming. The 7th and

20th regiments have been ordered to

reinforce the 12th infantry and a part

ot the 9th cavalry on duty here.

Colonel W. H. Sage, commanding

the American troops, ordered his In

fantrymen near the boundary line to

open fire. The first exchange across

the border line followed and half a

dozen Mexicans dropped.

A troop of Villa cavalry was seen

approaching from the southwest, fir

ing as they came.

The American troops replied delib

erately. Colonel Sage afterward said

he had orders to repulse any firing

from the Mexican side if it seemed de

liberate. General Funston is due here

Saturday.

The American soldiers were placed

at short Intervals all along the boun-

I dary between the two lines.

Pealings Of

Chimes Ring

Across Land

Columbus, Nov. 26. Chime bells

pealing over the campus of Ohio State

University here tonight will ring their

music into the ears of 500 alumni in

k-ew york aD(j gan Francisco, o,ver

2,500 miles of telephone wires.

It will be long-distance chiming, but

officials of the American Telephone

and Telegraph company, which ar

ranged the demonstration, said today

they believed the bells would be heard

distinctly on both sides of the contin

ent. A specially constructed transmit

ter will be used to catch the music vi

brations. The set of chimes was dedi

cated six months ago and most almunl

will hear them for the first time,

standing, according to campus custom,

while the bells ring the melody of

"Carmen," and "Ohio," the university

anthem. '

THE WAR TODAY

Field Marshal Ton Mackensen's

armies are pressing the pursuit of

the retreating Serbians. The Ser

bian rear guards have been offer,

inir resistance bnt were thrown

bark in the Mitrovitza region and

southwest of Sienica, near the

Montenegrin frontier, Berlin an

nounces. ,

Russian offensive movements at

several points along the Dvina

river front from Kiga to Dvinsk

are mentioned in today's state

ments by the German war office.

AH the attacks were repulsed,

Berlin declares.

British casualties In officers, as

shown by the lisits issued for the

fortnight ended ot. 8, had reach

ed on that date a total of 20,702,

of which number officers had

been killed, 12,561 wounded and

1,752 listed as missing.

Sinking of the German protected

cruiser Frauenloh by a submarine

of the entente allies Is seml-oftl-dally

announced in Petrograd, a

London dispatch states. The Fran

eniob was a sister ship of the cruis

er Undine, recently lost A report

that the Franenlob had been sunk

was received in Copenhagen on

Xov. 11.

The Italians are Tlgoro r

pregslng their attack on Got '

Quiet on the front in Franc '-,

announced by Paris. There hs

been a heavy snowfall in the Tos

ges mountains.

$500 Football Innd.

Moline High school athletic funds

were swelled $500 by the football sea

son which closed yesterday. The most

profitable game ot the season was that

of yesterday in Davenport The split

was $800. In the Rock Island-Moline

game each, school made $300,

WILSOMPDTS

VETOOiWD

PEACE PLANS

President Announces His In

tention of Taking No Part

i in Action for Harmony."

SAYS TIME IS NOT RIPE

Refuses to Act With Other

Advocates Until Belliger

ents Desire Services. ,

Washington, Nov. 26. Fresident

Wilson will take no part in the cam

paign to bring about a peace confer

ence. While be will interpose no ob

iectlon to the unofficial movement, he

nag nearQ nothing from Europe which

leads him to believe that the time is

opportunepfor'him to take any steps.

It is stated that at the first intima

tion from officials of the warring na

tions that such efforts would be wel

come, the president will renew his of

fer fcf services.

Henry Ford's peace Bhip will not

carry any representatives of the Amer

ican government and unless the condi

tions change in the meantime the gov

ernment will not take any part in

the meeting proposed.

Washington, D .C, Nov. 26. Presi

dent Wilson has an engagement late

today to see Mrs. Philip Snowtlen, wife

of a member of the British parliament,

and Madame Rosika Schwimmer of

Hungary, who seek the president's sup

port of the movement for a neutral

conference to attempt to end the Eu

ropean war and establish peace. They

are to be presented to the president by

Henry Ford.

The conference is the climax of a

telegraphic campaign in which women

in all parts of the country, at the sug

gestion of Miss Jane Addams of Chi

cago and other leading women peace

advocates, participated, urging the

president to interest himself in having

the proposed conference of neutral na

tions called.

Preceding the White house confer

ence Tor peace a meeting unuer me

auspices of a local organization was

held. Among the speakers were Miss

Jane Addams, Mr. and Mrs. Henry

Ford, Mrs. Snowden and Madame

Schwimmer.

GERMANS GETTING

ALL THEY DESIRE

.Members of Berlin Chamber of Com.

merce Says People Have What

They Want to Eat.

Chicago, Nov. 26. Meat and eggs

have advanced in price in Germany

above all other commodities, accord

ing to Emil Cohn, a member of the

American Chamber of Commerce of

Berlin, who was here today on a busi

ness mission. In spite of the gov

ernment restrictions on food consump

tion, the German people are in no

sense suffering from hunger or priva

tion, he said.

Eggs are selling for from six to

eight cents apiece and some choice

cuts of meat are selling for 75 cents

a pound, Mr. Cohn said. Vegetables, on

the other hand, are selling below the

actual cost, because the government

encouraged increased production.

"Germany is prospering in war times

far beyond the belief of her enemies,"

he said. "The people have all they

want to eat. The government regula

tions only avoid waste."

PRESENT ARGUMENTS

AGAINST PURCHASE

Chicago, Nov. 26. Attorneys repre

senting the Kinlock Long Distance Tel

ephone company of St Louis and cer

tain stockholders in the Interstate

Telephone company of Illinois, pre

sented final arguments today before

the Illinois public utilities commission

against the purchase ot the Interstate

company by the American Telephone

and Telegraph company. The commis

sion took the case under advisement

Counsel cited the Sherman anti-trust

act and the Clayton act as prohibiting

the deal. The Interstate Telephone

company has its central office at

Springfield. Its lines extend over the

southern part of the state.

Bad Weather Hinders Flyer.

Austin, Texas, Nor. 26. The first

aero squadron, U. S. A., left here

shortly after 8 o'clock this morning on

the last lap of the flight from Fort

Sill., Okla., to Fort Sam Houston, San

Antonio, Tex. The trip was started a

week ago today. Unfavorable weather

held the flyers here for two days.