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SIXTY-FOURTH YEAK. NO. 274.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1915. SIXTEEN PAGES.

PRICE TWO CENTS.

THE

K ISLAND ARGUS.

SLIGHT HOPE

OF RENEWING

ES

Serbian Answer Will Not

Grant All Macedonia

to Bulgaria.

PRICE OF AID TOO HIGH

English Officials Keenly In

terested in Present Talk

of Peace Plans,

I..-' :c-".r. Sept. 4. Tn th absence if

ritd changes on any of the batt'e

f.n, 'he English public has a earn

rr its attention to the diplomatic

twi"n in the near east nnd To

mors of tentative efforts in the 4i-

"ion of peace negotiations.

; is announced officially at Nish

;t the final draft of Serbia's answer

' ;e nolo of the Quadruple Entente

r-ady and will be presented shorl

. It ia presumed here that the re-'-

on the whole will be favorable In

Krii to concessions to Bulgaria, a'.--r.iieh

little hope is entertained that

rbia will grant her late enemy all

e territory demanded In Macedonia.

Bills-aria Still Dickering.

.4 1 vices from Sofia indicate thet

i ri ;-s the whole of Macedonia ia con

rf i "i. 'here Is little chance of reeetab

l.td.rnent of the Balkan league. It is

jo. out In official circles at the

!.' tar-an capital that compliance

v.t 3 ''!" program of the Entente al

lies E'-an5 actual participation in the

-.car, while agreement to the request

') o-rirai powers implies merely

ride' rc-iit rality. expressed in per

::r: the shipment through Bul

a of arms and other war supplies

!h TtfkB.

ifhruigh .-it has been -e" a hHtet

rr definitely that London has no

ill the initiation of informs!

e discussions, it is plain that ofll

circles are interested keenly in

news of activity in this direction.

t'r."

Thre are straws in the wind which

Jr. hrate that what are designated ts

"proper peace overtures'' on the part

of Germany would meet with ronsu1

e ration. However, the genera! public,

not so we!! informed as is the govern

ment, probably would regard such

overtures as premature.

FRIENDS

TO HEAR BRYAN

l eaders lieclare 'n Formal Comment

Will Be Made on President's Poli

cies at ConTention.

hi'-ago, I',!.. Sept. 4. Strict ati

c,. u to the purposes expressed in

raoMo, "For psace and the freedom

he seas," probably will be the pro

m of the national convention of

Friends of Peace, which opens

i1 tomorrow.

!

cf tr

th

Tins was the gist of a statement ts

f :,r -.1 today by Chancellor J. J. To

ll. is of the Chicago Law School,

chairman of the local executive com-

li:

. prior to going into conference

John Erisben Walker, national

chairman, to map out final plans for

the meeting.

"It had been planned to memoriai

ite congress asking it to place an em

1 on shipments of munitions t

Fa:ropean belligerents, bvit this mattor

1s likely to be Ignored," said Chancel

! r Tobias. "It is certain that the

convention will make no formal com

Sr.ent on the administrations policies."

Mr Tobias said the Friends of Peace

is not a pro-German organization. "Tt

Is absolutely neutral," he said.

A meeting cf the woman's auxiliary

i'.l open the convention tomorrow aft

ernoon. There will be sessions 9un

ti? night and Monday. Wm. J. Bryai

vtil be the chief speaker at an open

e r mass-meeting Monday night.

BITNNE SENDS RELIEF

TO VICTIMS OF FLOOD

Springfield. I1L, Sept. 4. Conditions

along the Illinois bank of the Missis

sippi, south of St. Louis, have resulted

in appeals to Govenor Dunne for re

lief, it was learned today. Adjutant

(Genera! Frank S. Dickson was sent to

F.eynoidsville. 111., -where he boarded

the steajner Illinois, which belongs to

the naval militia of the state. Under

bis direction tfe boat was loaded with

provisions which are being distributed

today to the distressed natiTes whose

Tops were destroyed by the flood. It

Is understood that tents were to be

frfven to any whose homes had been

washed away.

The virtue of prosperity is temper

ance. The virtue of adversity is fortitude.

NT

Favorites In

St. Paul Race

Forced Out

Fifteen Cars After $50,000

Prizes at New Speedway

Opened Today.

Fort Snelling. Sept, 4 Anderson led

at 200 miles, his team mate Cooper,

was second, and O'Donneli had driven

into third place. Anderson's average

speed for the H'OO miles was S7.K2 miles

; per hour.

iJe Pa! ma was forced out of the race

! by engine trouble after driving 190

i miles.

i For: Snelling. Minn., Sept. 4. Sev-

oral hours before the. time set for the

I start at noon today of the first 500

; mile automobile rare on the new

Sneliijtg speedway, situated midway

between Minneapolis and St Paul,

thousands of spectators were in the

stands eager to se.e .!; racing cars

j flash around the two mile oval in con

j test for pri.es aggregating $50,000.

Fort SneUir.fr. Minn., Sept. 4. At the

j end of the first fifty miles. Earl Cooper

i lead the field. His time was S3 minutes

I and T seconds for this distance. Cooper

' was being crowded by Resta and An

; derson, Burman. after holding the

'lead for nearly thirty miles, suffered a

j broken engine valve and was forced to

I withdraw from the race. j

j At the end of 1"0 miles. And'-rson :

; led, eloseiy followed by Cooper. An- '

irierson drove at an average speed of

90.91 miles an hour. De Palma, in i

third place, at this point began a ter

j rif.c drive to get abreast of Anderson

and Cooper,

j Dario Resta was forced out of the

race at the end o! 102 miles hv a

broken pump in his machine. Resta

was in fourth place up to this time.

Mtil ford was forced out of the race

by a broken spring after covering 118

miles. He had been in sixth place.

Hennine also was force'! out with a

broken valve at this point.

BUSS HOPES RISE

UNDER NEW-CHIEF

Appointment ef General Alexler a

Chief of Staff Bfstores Continence

in Futnre of Army.

Fet'-ograot, Sept. 4, I via London).

The appointment of Genera! Alexiev

as chief of staff to Grand Duke Nich

olas and of General Rtiszky as com

mander of the northern armies of Rus

sia, has led to the adopiion of a hope

ful tone by the Russian press, which

expresses confidence in the future op

erations of the forces of the empire.

General Alexiev made a notable repu

tation in his conduct of the Russian

operations against Austria.

The Russian offensive on the right

bank of the Viliya river has slowed

down, but may proceed further. Rus

sian military critics are convinced that

the aim of the Germans is to cross

the river Dvina, take possession of

the railway line between Riga and

Pvinsk, capture Vilna and also the

fortress of Rovno, far to the south,

and entrench for the autumn and win

ter, Already they are within ten miles

of Rovno and are working against th

northern end of the line, especially at

Lida. about 50 miles southeast of Vil

na. It is believed here that the Rus

sians have excellent chances of suc

cessfully defending the Dvina line.

A conference of Petrograd city

couneilmen and citizens has selected

a committee, the membership of which

includes Alexander Guchoff, to pre

pare a resolution for submission to

the council on Wednesday next.

M. Ouchkoff criticized the conduct

of the war and suggested that a depu

tation be sent to the emperor bearing

a message. In line with that adopted

by the council and citizens of Moscow.

M. Falbork. a liberal councilman, ex

pressed a desire for a popular expres

sion of the nation's determination to

wage the war to a victorious conclu

sion. His utterances were loudly ap

plauded. FIVE DIE IN FIRE

IN AN ORPHANAGE

Sisters Save Lives of Most of Inmates

in Blane in Catholic Institution

at San Francisco.

San Francisco, Cab. Sept. 4. Fire

destroyed the St. Francis Catholic

Orphanage here today with the loss of

five lives.

When fire was discovered, the in-

i mates were marshaled and marched

out ot the tmiiaing cy sister Mary

Agnes and Mother Superior Margaret.

It was believed that all had escaped,

until five little bodies were discovered

in the ruins.

Fifty-two children and several blind

and aged women were housed in the

four-story frame building. It was

finally established that only five perished.

IG GUNS ARE

ACTIVE UPO

FRENCH LI

Violent Artillery Engage

ments Are Reported in

the Vicinity of Arras.

TO BEGIN OFFENSIVE

Bombardment of German

Positions Indicates Al

lies Plan Attack.

Berlin, Sept. 4,

vilie. i ."Rumors

British have sue

(by wireless to Ray-

!hat the French and

eeded in breaking

through the German lines at Arras are.

absolutely untrue." says the Overseas

News aseny. "On the contrary, the

German positions in the west are more

secure and favorable than was the case '

several months ago. It is evident that,

rumors of this nature are being spread

by agents of Germany's enemies in an

attempt to influence public sentimem." :

Intense activity of the artiiierv con-;

tinues to he reported from the fight-

mg frciits in France. Paris aliuries

to the last engagements as of "p.-ir- .

tirular violence.''

Military observers aiiroa:! Incline to ,

the belief tha the perststent iiGm

bardmens of firrras : posiiions pros-i

ages an iftenne move by the tntfiite

allies in the s est. j

Petrograd. in its latest sta'orro-rt !

admits a retirement of the Russians to

the north bank of the Dvina in ih

sector where the aesnerate struas'

to protect Riga and the road to Pet- ;

rograd is in progress. i

. North of Vilna. where the Genyao '.

lines have apparently made Tittle ;

progress of late, the Russians claim I

to have continued offensive operations i

and to have

gamed grout

agnimst

the Germans, with

more than a dozen

300 prisoners.

The Balkan p;-oh

solved state and 1

that the situation -v

'he

ca pt iirc

guns

mr

mi still is an

iv.' re are no ;

ill definitely s

ipe

itself within the next few days.

While diplomats are seeking to en

large the sphere of the war and while

talk of peace is In the air. the great

struggle continues along all fronts

n-itliAnf i!-,tnrriintir,n 'Til & FEllitifins

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l die ijjlllilillf 1 1 " . I . 1 1 u , . i

!-.-.. : ,i. -v.. ' ,,4

, J.'viilrt., Ultii iliil, lij'r iii.'J irf . .n t

to Petrograd. They are developing a

counteroffenslve before Vilna, which

evidently is designed to threaten

Field Marshal von Hindenburg's right

flank. French artillery is poumlmg

the German trenches along the west- i

ern front.

French Report Violent Action.

Paris. Sept. 4. Particularly violent I

artillery engagements took place yes

terday to the northeast and to the.

south of Arras and at other points ;

between the Oise and the Aisne, ac- ;

cording to announcement made today!

by the French war office.

The text of the communication fol-j

lows: i

"Yesterday saw artillery cngace- !

rectus of particular violence to the (

northeast and to the south of Arras; j

in the sectors of Rollincourt. Waiily

and Bretencourt. as well as between

the Oise and the Aisne, in the region .

of Quennevieres and near Neuvron. i

"In the environs of Vauquois we

exploded several mines whtcn serious

ly damaged the works of the enemy.

"There is nothing to report from

the remainder of the front."

Rnssians Gain In Caucasus.

Petrograd. Sept. S, i via London. Sept.

4.) The following statement was is

sued tonight by army headquarters:

"On the Caucasus front in the coast

readon. a Turkish attempt to dislodee

our vanguard failed ami the Turks

woro TMit to flizht hv onr hand trren-

des.

In the direction of Olti. our patrols

forced the Turkish omoost oosltions in

tbP retrion of Lake Akhizahel at the

point or the bayonet ana captured tneir

trench, killing 200 and capturing war

booty.

t 1 WTT Tts M TTTTSTl i I

ii xrxjit wiiAiMA

Fereeatt TiU 7 P. M. Tomorrow, for

Bock Island, Davenport, Mollis

and Vicinity.

Partly cloudy and probably unset

tled tonight and Sunday: not much

change in temperature.

Temperature at 7 a. m 64. Highest

yesterday, S3: lowest last night. 63.

Velocity of wind at 7 a. m., three

miloe nor hnilf 1

Precipitation, none.

Relative humidity at 7 p. m., 54; at

7 a. m., : at 1 p. m. tonay, .-!.

Stage of water, 3.6, no change, in i

laet 24 hour. ;

J. IL SHERIER, Local Forecaster,

Pope's Peace

Plans Bring

Wilson Out

Dispatches Indicate Pontiff

Is Certain President Can

Now Get Hearing.

Washington, D. C, Sept. 4. Efforts! , at At rati n1Hipr I '"" y Rpt' U fr1a

of Pope Benedict to bring about peace ! ur4 lU OOltueib parjs Sept. 4, delayed in transmis-

in Europe continued an absorbing sub and Civilians. jsion.) The Lausanne Gasette pub-

. . , , i lishes a letter from an Austrian officer

ject ot discussion todav m official and! r . . . , ... v.

figriting on the eastern front, in which

diplomatic circles here. j

Pr s dispatches from Rome q'JPt-;py. DBTDfll O DIIPV "Tbe Russian retreat is a master

ing the pope as expressing the belief! I tXAb I A I KULtf ullSY i Plece ot terrifying, systematic devasta

tbat the United States i, now ln tion which recalls the retreat of 1812.

position to address both groups of! There is an immense sea. of flames be-

twliisrerer.ts in the matter of neace i fhlnd the retiring Russian armies caus-

.-f ....,..:-- 4t .! flatr'ilw T?ii'(tA T? r . eu by burnirg houses and crops. Oen-

to taite the preliminary

steps which

would lead to negotiations for cessa-1

tion of war, attracted considerable at-j

tention here. The pontiff also etc-!

pressed satisfaction at the eordiaUtvj

of the interview- between President !

Wilson and Cardinal Gibbons on!

Thursday when the latter de livered a i

messiiee from the pope regarding!

pt ;:'.:e m l.urope.

Tile pope'.s sia'enient confirms re

ports in 'BthoHc circles here that h?

was hopeful that the fnited States

migiit ntake an effort to get the bellig

erent nations to sign an agreement to

einer a peace conference. The belief'

was expressed by prominent Catho

lics usually informed regarding af

fairs at the Vatican, that the finan

cial condition of the leading belliger

ent would compel consideration of

peace overtures before the opening of

another winter campaign.

sreSIOHS OF

NEGROES DSNIEDF

I'rosecntimi Admits Case Acrainst Wid

ow of .Or. Miihr No! Strong With

Present Evidence.

i'rov ifii-.-r.ee. it. I., Sept. i. A denial

that they had confessed to the mur

der of Dr. C. FracVhn Mohr was made

to the Associated Press today by

George W. Healis, Henry Spellman

;d C

Victor Brown, the negroes who,

ng to the police authorities,

eviously declared" they killed

lysician at tae i litigation of

a

, Conl'r

I !v? r. el.'

: 1 flt fi

; '. Rub

i charge

i noon ! ;

; signed

. stateim

i with

repud

Chitt

if Car

tne statement of

ating iheir alleged

of Police Thomas

ington, who is in

case.

aid this atter-

.at no a

a confc

nt frotr

tne turee men hau

ion. The only signed

then!, o: u hit h he had

1

aid. was

i " '

s uie in which

wry thai, rob- ,

' Healis advanced the

f. . .

bcrv was the motive for the

crime. i

Providence, R.

I , Sept. 4. The rep- i

resenta tives of the prosecution and

defense in the cas,v of Mrs. Elizabeth

Tiffany Blair Moiir. accused by three

negroes of having hired thorn to mur

der her husband. Dr. C. Franklin

Mohr. bent their energies today in

seeking to strengthen their respective

sides.

The officials of the town of Barring -

ton and th county oi Bristol, m whose

jurisdiction Dr. Mohr was snot, admit-

teu today mat so lat tneir case against

the woman was a weak one. They

pointed out that something more than'

the confessions ot the negroes was nec

essary for a conviction, for confessions

tending to incriminate other persons

have no standing In the courts of

Rhode Island.

Harrington police officer were

searching for two men, v. ho, it was un

derstood had overheard, a conversation

between two motorcyclists on the night

of the shooting. Two of the negroes

who hare admitted their complicity in

the physician's death rode to the scene

of the crime on motorcycles

Arthur Gushing, attorney for Mrs.

Mohr, continued his quest tor a win or j

the doctor, previous searches having

failed to produce anything except

a i

ich. Mr." Gushing states,

document

could not be probated.

Tr is understood that In this docu

ment rtr Mohr sought to deprive his:'

j wife of all interest in his estate,

Charles M. Mohr of New 'i ork, one

of two children of Dr. Mohr by a for-:

j mer marriage, said today he old not

I think there would be any disa.gr

reemeni

i in the Mohr family over the disposition

i oi nie "'- "TV

t -n-n i-io Q55io rear op a u o c. s sreij-

mother bad virtually agreed upon a'P!-

division of the property, which he es- Texas Po'se Shoots Woman.

timated to be worth $400,000. He ex-j San Antonio. Texas. Sept. 4. A sp

n - curu . - . -

1 .-.1 rot t f rorCH - .'Ml I'Htl. Kill ii Ria-

VMtPr Mrs Ernest Marr ot Baltimore, a

like amount. The rest or tne estate,

he said, would probably go to Mrs.

Mohr and her two children.

SEVERE GALE HITS

ISLAND OF BERMUDA: daughter of a Mexican named Rami-

. jrez had been killed by a stray bullet

Hamilton, Bermuda. Sept. 4. A se-iand her mother fatally wounded. The

vere gale swept over Bermuda last j women were in the house which was

trees and doing

I small amount of damage to other ;

i crooe.rtv. The electric light, power

land telephone services were disorgan- j

;zed. The steamship Bermudian, with i

ono American tourists on board, is de-I

Jlayed in Porl-

SOLDIERS OF

CARRAN2A IN

NEW ATTACK

! Keep Firing Across the Bor-

Scatter Mexicans Fir

ing Across

Brown svillr, Tex- Sept. J. Set.

en .Mexicans were Killed in a but

tle this afternoon between Texas

liflnirers on the American side and

the Mexicans, believed to be Car

ranza soldier, on the Mexican

side of the Rio Grande near Old

Hidalgo, Texas.

The battle was- still being wased

af 2 o'clock.

Washington, Sept. 4.--State, depart-

ment officials said todav thev had no

advices to substantiate current re -

ports mat Mexican troops were con-

centrating alone the border in north

east Mexico, although the situation is

viewed with increasing apprehension.

Practicaily all mobile forces of the

I regular army are at the disposal of

Major General Funston.

rite Pan-American conferees have

; (ieoided to wait a few davs longer be-

I, i

fore meeting again, in order to give

! Carranza ample opportunity to reply

(to their appeal for a genera! confer-!

I ence. His representative here said a

readjustment of the appeal will be for

! v, arded soon.

Brownsville. Texas, Sept. 4. Forty

; Carranza soldiers fired across the Rio

Grande on an American ranchman

; named Drew at S o'clock at Cavazon,

four miies nest of Old Hidalgo, Texas.

iThis report was received at Fort

i Brown, at 11 o'clock today from Cap

Haiti McCoy, commanding United Slates

'cavalry at Mission, Texas,

j They also fired on a party of Texas

1 rangers near the same place. All avail

able cavairy is being rushtol to tiie

scene.

; Today's firing occurred at the same

! place where a party of Mexicans eross

j ei Use Rio Grande and looted several

stores.

! Denies Carranza Is iiospnnsible.

Carrana's consul, J. Z. Garza of

; Brownsville, told Colonel R. L. P.ui

! lard, commanding the border patrol

, here this morning that the firing on an

' American aeroplane near here yestcr

dav was the work of enemies of Gen-

:- eral Carranza. who sought, to bring

: about trouble between the United States

land Carranza. Garza said he had re-

! quested Genera! Carranza to place a'

strong patrol on the Mexican side to

.stop border raids,

Search for Bandits C

ontiiiues.

ittzeiiB today

Mexican ban-

Soldiers and armed f

jntinued the search for

dos operating north of Brownsville. No ;

additional clashes have been reported, j

The posses, have found two bombs left

by the Mexicans. They were tiik-d with :

bolts and other scrap iron. j

Pan Americans Answer Carranza, j

Washington, I). ('., Sept. 4.- Formal;

notice that the signers of the Pan-;

American appeal for peace in Mexico!

acted ln their official capacities as rep- i

resentatives of their governments in !

affixing their names to the documents, j

I uu uo L' 1,1,1 - v"-"l'1

The notification was in answ er to .

Oarranza's inquiry as to whether the;

' signers of the appeal were acting in;

their personal capacities or mi ureu

governments. It was sent by Score- j

for the other

- a'. " I

piomais who sitinen tun ii u in .

Official:

here today awaited some in-

if any effect tne

" ,,,, renor.Se

. h ;

ling another meeting of the Pan-Amer-j

- . ,

ioan conference probably will not. be j

I fHed pending receipt of Carra

mza s re- !

t t il I I'J til!. i'.frlt- '-

; ent wun tne noraer iruops

"A posse of citizens led by Sherif

Vann of San Benito, in approaching

a small native house at the Aguas

i Xegras ranch, shot and killed two!

! Mexicans wno ran and refused to ha t.

It w-as found later tiiat a youna

a J ln the line of fire."

j

he i

The shooting took place near

! scene of the fight between soldiers

and raiders Thursday afternoon. The

two Mexicans were identified as locf.'

residents. The officers say they had

'B0 mteiuioB ui- aaraimg me women,

Russ Leave

Wall of Fire

On Retreat

Austrian Describes Retire

ment as a Masterpiece of

Systematic Devastation.

era! Mischenko is followed bv- a well

organized detachment of Cossactta.

whose duty It is to burn everything be

hind the army. They accomplish their

task implacably."

"When the Honveds tried to enter

Krylow in pursuit of the Russians, ev

ery street was aflame. They were un

able to pass through the huge furnace

and lost many precious hours in go- j

ing round the town by indirect roads j

across fieids.

"When the Austro-Hunttarians ar

rived at Vladimir-Volynskyi, they

found the town burning and the town

of Verba also was blazine. Every

village on the Volynskyi plain aa far

as Kovei. was in flames. The Austro-

; Hungarian troops had no shelter for

i "ave-

1 "The rcds are indescribably cut up

and obstructed. Conveys arrived a

4av and a half !ate. It voM take 50

soidiers to draw one cart out of a mud

hole.

"Thousands of men worked upon

repairs on the railway from Sokol to

Vladimir-Volynskyi and if the road

had not been repaired in firm., we

would have met. with disaster."

GARDNER WINNER

IN GOLFTOURNEY

Chicago Man Comes Bach Strong In

Afternoon After letting Ander

son Lead In Morning.

Detroit, Sept. 4. Robert A. Gardner

of Chicago won the national amateur

golf championship hero this afternoon

for the second time. He defeated

John G. Anderson of Mount Vernon,

X. V., in the final match of holes,

5 and 4.

Detroit. Sept. 4. John G, Anderson

of Mount Vernon, N. Y., led Robert A.

Gardner of Chicago, 1 up when the

forenoon half of their f:-hole nint h

for the national amateur gold cham

pionship had been completed. Inter

mittent showers swept the course.

Gardner easily outdrove his opponent,

but the former's extremely poor put

ting lost him at least four holes.

The round was well played, consid

ering weather conditions. Each nt

out m U0 and they were even at the

turn. Anderson came in in 37, one

! mow stroke than oar. and Gardner

took 38.

The contest was almost featureless, j

The !i(.n wr averse to taking I

ohanoes, and each generally required

two putts to complete a hole. Four

times Gardner seemed certain to ti

or forge ahead of his eastern rival, but J

bin putts, three f,-et. or less from the

cup. failed to go down. Only on two t

occasions during the round did Ander- 1

son fail 'town on his siiorl game, a.:'- j

ter Gardner had made a serious mi'-- '

take. They halved the first two holes of 1

the last nine. Then a sprinkle of rain '

fell ami brought, good luck to Ander- ;

son. He e(;ua'ied par to win the 12th ;

and 14th which made nitn 2 up. That ;

mi rgin ho held until the last green

was reached. Here h-'- was short and

Gardner's drive was l.u fct from the

.'flag. The latter for the first time

j showed putting ability and scored the

! holo in two. Their cards;

Gardner, out, 5 4 4 4 4 5 ,1 5 5- "'

In. 5 5 5 4 4 4 5 4 2-W 77.

Anderson out. fi .1 4 .1 4 5 ?. "

ln,5 5 4 4 P, 4 5 4 3 -37 76.

Anderson 1 up.

Anderson and Gardner beeat

a'ternoon round at 1 o'clock.

4

ti

i NTNT! HUNDRED OTITT

j

i uuiiiiiiv;livu i i.iljjtj

Torrington, Conn.. Sent. 4. .Mori

ithan 9O0 men. virtually th" entir

i force at the plant of the Hendev Jl;i

U'hlne company, walked out todav, qe

imanding an H hour day, 15 per o-n!

j increase in wages and time and a hi

ifor overtime. The strike follower j

i refusal of the companv to grant

! demands.

tTTTrtaTRPtl P ATT.PH ATiQ

!

i TO ASK RAISE AGAIN

j Cli icago. Sept. 4. Western railroads

j will petition for a rehearing of their

plan for advanced freight rates In

i western lassi neat ion territory, It was

announced today by C. C. Wright, chief

attorney for the roads.

The decision to reopen the case was

! made after a conference of railroad

' attorneys. The petition will he filed

with the Interstate Commerce Commis-

ision wjtflia a ween or 10 Oaya.

TEUTONS WIN

NEW VICTORY

ON RIGA LINE

Bridgehead at Friedrichs

stadt on Dvina River

Is Captured.

TAKE 3,000 PRISONERS

Retreating Russians Con

tinue Stubborn Battle

East of Grodno.

Rerlin, Sept. 4. Ma London.) -Th

German army engaged in the battla

for possession of the Russian port of

i Riga, has won another important vic

tory. Army headu.uarte.rs announced

j today the capture of the bridgehead

j at Friedrichsstadt, on the Dvina.

anout 4ti miles Deiow Riga, i ne tier-

mans captured 37 officers and 3,325

men.

The text of today's official statement

is as follows:

"Western theatre of war:

"The situation on the western front

is unchanged.

"Eastern theatre of war:

"Army group of Field Marshal Ton

Hindenburg. The bridgehead at

Freidrichstadt was stormed yesterday.

Thirty-seven officers and 3,325 men

! were taken prisoner. Five machine

I guns were also captured.

Knsslnn Attacks Fall.

"On both sidtss of Vilna the enemr

has repeated his vain attacks. Besides

losing a large number of killed and

wounded, he left 800 prisoners la oar

hands.

"In and around Grodno fighting

still continues. During the night,

however, the Russians, after suffer

ing defeat everywhei'e, retreated In ri

easterly direction. The fortress and

all the forts are in our possession. The

retreating enemy Is being pursued.

Six heavy guns and 2,700 prisonern

remained In our bandH.

Retreat on f lie Xlomen,

"To the south of Grodno, also the

enemy has evacuated positions on the

Nit-men.

"Between the confluence of the

Swislocz and the region northeast of

the forest of Bielovizh, the army of

General von Gallwitz Is attacking. Up

to the present 800 prisoners have

been taken.

"Army group of Field Marshal von

sbal Prince Leopold of Bavaria:

"The fighting in the passages

through the marshy district north and

northea-t of Grodana continues.

"Army group of Field Marshal con

Mackensen: The enemy is still hold

ing the bridtrehead near Bereza-Kar-tuska.

Furtn or south, la the region

of Drobirzyn. fiO kilometers (37 miles)

j west of Pinsk, the enemy has been re

pulsed."

HERO" ZABERN RIOT

IS KILLED IN ACTION

lo-riin, Sept. 4, fvia London.) Lieu

tenant Baron von Fors'ner, who gain

ed rmtui-iety as a result of the Zabern

irn ideiii, has been killed in action.

Lieutenant von Forstner was report

ed to have been killed near Louvam in

September. l'!4, but oftlt ia! confirma

tion w a.- lio king.

The Zabei.'i incident occurred at .a

berii, Ac, ace, wb.-re the, a'Hh German

infantry under Colonel von Renter was

stationed in Kill;. The citizens of the

- town bad differences w ith the soldiers

and showed strong n rti -German feel

ing. Lieutenant von For'tucr provok

ed several dashes between his men

ai d the inhabitants, and told the sol

diers io bayonet anyone seen insulting

the German Hag He himself Kabered

a iairie shoemaker. For this exploit

lie V.H-. tro d and sentenced to 43 days'

imprisonment, although strongly up

held by Colorod von Renter, Us com

mander. The incident i a used great

exi itemetit throughout. Germany

j TJ

llfHT. T.nST v 1 VFipn

NOW FINDS FAMILY

-an Francisco, Sept. 4. - By a mis

shaped toe atid a birth mark on her

t . bod v. Mrs G. E. Kos'adt had establish

f ' ed today her blent it v as Annie Mooney,

1. 'who was kidnapped from her parents

.- j in this city 31 years ago, when she

j was 5 years old. kept by Chinese for

i several years and rescued by police

.'from a trunk in which she was hid-

jden.

-

, Annie was adopted by a I'ortuguese

j family. Her foster mother died when

' she was 34 years old and four years

i later Annie married Kostadt.

James Mooney, her father, and oth

ers, offered rewards aggregating $2,000

at the time of the child's disappear

ance. Mooney and his wife died sev

eral years ago, but four sisters and a

j brother are here to welcome their long-

'lost siaer,