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THURSDAY" JULY f, 1916 TWELVE PAGES-

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BRING BODIES

TROOPS LOST

AT CARRIZAL

Remains of Nine United

States Soldiers Brought

Home for Burial.

FIND EIGHT TOGETHER

All but One Exhumed From

Crude Grave Greeted

by Silent Throng.

Fl Pao, Jnly fi. The bodies of

Captain diaries T. Boyd, Lieuten

ant 1 1 t il r Adair and seven troop

ers i l lie Tenth cavalry, killed at

I arrival, were brought to Kl Paso

today at s::;u a. m. Only the bod

ie of the two officers and Private

Be Mitt Rucker have been identi

lied. Eight of the Americans were ex

humed from a single grave, the under

takers who brought back the bodies,

said.

The dead had been gathered from

the field of battle and cast into a ditch.

This was then filled up.

Captain Boyd. Ueutenant Adair and

six troopers, stripped of their uniforms,

were mixed indiscriminately in the

dirt.

The holy of the ninth trooper was

located two miles distant from the oth

ers. He had been wounded and appar

ently had dragged himself away to die

in the gravelly wast, beyond the town.

Greeted by Silent Crowd.

Scenes in sharp contrast to those of

a week ago, when the Carrizal pris

oners were brought from Chihuahua

City and turned over to General George

Bell, Jr., marked the return of the

Lmeriean dead. In Juarez the event

vras scarcely noticed, while in "Kl Paso

ny a few hundred persons, quiet and

tnbdued, replaced the cheering throng

that greeted the 23 troopers of the

Tenth.

Arrival I nexperted.

General Bell had not expected the

bodies to be delivered so early in the

morning and the Eighth cavalry,

which had been detailed from Fort

Bliss to act as an escort was not on

hand. An impromptu guard was form

ed however from soldiers of the Sev

enth infantry encamped near the

bridge. Part of these marched beside

the car while the remainder stood at

attention as it rolled off the bridge up

on American soil.

Word was immediately sent to Fort

Bliss and the Eighth cavalry was

started cityward.

Only one of the troopers bodies had

been identified early today, that of De

Witt Rucker, K troop. Tenth cavalry.

None of the others bore identification

taps.

Indifference in Juarez to the event

was explainable in the fact that the

train did not arrive there from Villa

Ahurnada until late last night.

CHILD EPIDEMIC

SWEEPS ILLINOIS

Springfield. 111., July 6. Three new

eases t.f infantile paralysis, one each

in Christopher, Franklin county; Gib

son City, Ford county; and Ktreator,

La Sall county, were reported to the

Mate board of health here today. The

Streator ca.se was contracted at Stand

ard, whe re four other cases have been

reported.

Representatives of the board were

rushed to each of these cities immed

iately with orders to enforce a strict

isolation rf the . ases and to trace the

origin of the, infection. All represent

atives of the board have been ordered

to report new cases of infantile paral

ysis at once, preferably by telephone

or telegraph.

New York. July fi. The health de

partment a n nou r, red today that in

romplcte figun s s-hnw that during the

21 hours preceding U o'clock this

morninc, 21 children died of infantile

paralysis in the greater city. This

brings the toll of lives lost since the

diieasc became epidemic 10 davs ago

to 171.

ir Line Shops Unm.

Norfolk, Va July 6.---Fire In the

Seaboard Air Line's shops here early

today destroyed the shed and ten

Hew passenger coaches. The loss Is

estimated at $100,000.

THE WEATHER

II

Foreeat Tfll 7 F. 3f. Tomorrow, for

Rock Island, Davenport, Molin

and Vicinity

Fair tonight and Friday. Not much

change in temperature.

Temperature at 7 a. m., 71. Highest

yesterday, 8. lowest last night, 66.

Velocity of wind at 7 a. m., 2 milea

Dt-r hour.

Precipitation, none.

Relative humidity at 7 p. m.. S3; at

7 a. nx, 53; at 1 p. m. today. 34.

.Stage of water, 7.2; a fall of .1 in

last 24 hours.

J. M. Si LEW ETt, Local Forecaster.

Earth Shock

Claims Toll

of 300 Lives

London. July 6, (2:25 p. m.) A vio

lent earthquake at Caltanissetta, Siefly,

causing the death of nearly 300 per

sons is reported in an Exchange Tele

graph dispatch from Rome. It is said

the victims were in three sulphur

mines which the earth shock caused

to cave in.

There have been several r porta re

cently of seismic disturbances in Italy.

The volcano of Stromboli, on an is-

I been in eruption for several days,

rails n? tnn ntiahitants nf nrfwiniTni

districts to flee on relief ships sent

from Messina. Earth shocks occurred

Tuesday at Ancona, Rimini, Belvedere,

Marettimo and in other Adriatic, dis

tricts, but heretofore no loss of life

has been reported.

There have been a number of disas

trous earthquakes in Italy, the last se

rious one having occurred in 190S.

Most of the coast towns on both sides

of the Straits of Messina were wholly

or partially destroyed with a loss of

life estimated at 75.000.

Caltanissetta. capital of the Sicilian

province of that name is a city of more

than 30,000 inhabitants.

INVENTOR KILLS

SELF WHILE SAD

After Spending Fortune on Patent and

Finding It fcPreviously Applied

For" He Ends Life.

Chicago, July 6. Emfl R. Beckert,

an inventor and president of a local

manufacturing concern, committed

suicide iu a downtown hotel last night

by shooting himself. He was said to

have invented the first electric wash

ing machine. The immediate cause of

his act was said to have be?n a notifi

cation from i he government patent of

fice that a patent for an invention up

on which he had spent ?2or.0')0 and

upon which others, according to his

attorney, had realise A 'n&arf S'20 000.-

000, had been pr"ir-orj't'F Tf

COUNTESS MINOTTO

IS HOME AFTER TRIP

New York, July 6. Among the pas

sengers who reached New York today

aboard the United Fruit company's

steamer Almirante were Count and

Countess Minotto. The countess was

Miss Ida Swift, daughter of the Chi

cago packer, who was married in Chi

cago on Jan. 15 last. The count and

countess are returning from their hon

eymoon. The vessel brought passen

gers from Cartagena, Colon and

Kingston.

Ship Weathers Gulf Storm.

New York, July 6. A wireless dis

patch from the LTnited States transport

Sumner which left Vera Cruz, July 2

with refugees from Mexico, reports

the vessel weathered the gulf hurri

cane without damage and expected to

reach Tampa some time today.

THE WAR TODAY

After capturing second line Ger

man positions along a six mile

front sooth of the Somme in

northern France and making nota

ble advances north of that stream,

the French last night, temporarily

halted the offensive operations of

their infantry.

Hard fighting continued along

the line of the British attack and a

slicht advance was scored by Gen

eral llaig's forces in the vicinity

of ThJepvaL

The French pnsh to the south of

the river now threatens Barlcanx

and Villers-CarbonneL, cmcial

positions in the German defense of

the railway center at Peronne.

On the other bank of the river

the French are striking east of the

Tillage of Hem which they cap

tured yesterday.

The British line has not changed

except in a few places

None of the ground gained by

the British ha been lost however.

The British and French have tak

en 16.tXK German prisoners, while

the German casualties are unof

ficially estimated at fiOWO in the

battle of the Somme. The Germans

report the captnre of a "considera

ble number" of British soldiers.

Around Verdun there is compar

ative quiet, although the bombard

ment continues. While the Ver

dun respite is on, the Germans

have launched another attack

against the French near the Lor

raine frontier, a few miles east of

Lnnevllle.

The Russians claim to haTe cnt

the railroad from Leniburg, the

capital of GaJicia to Dclatyii. Mil

itary critics insist that this rai -road

will compel the Teutonic al

lies to fall back on a wide front

and place Lemburg in imminent

periL The Russians also claim to

hate nmted the enemy on the right

bank of the Dniester.

lieports that Kumania will enter

the war an the part of the entente

allies have been revived.

The Turks claim to have driven

the Kus-ians out of Kermanshah

in western Persia, while the Rns

sians assert the Turkish line has

leen broken east of Baiburt.

The Teutonic powers claim to

have taken 23.000 Russian prison,

ers south of the Pripet river dur

ing the month of June.

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VVILOUN WILL

FRAME REPLY

TO CARRANZA

Acceptance of Proposal for

Ending Differences to Be

Sent Soon.

j WITH D RAWAL DOU BTED

Immediate Bringing Out of

Troops Not Regarded

Acceptable Basis.

Washington, Jnly 6. Formal

acceptance of General Carranza's

proposal that differences between

the lnited States and the de facto

government of Mexico be settled

by direct negotiations, will be dis

patched soon to 31exico City. This

was decided by President Wilson

today at a conference with Secre

tary Lansing.

Secretary Lansing will leave tomor

row for a month's vacation. It was

not stated today whether he would pre

pare the reply before his departure.

He will be in direct touch with the

White house and state department dur

ing his absence, but informal conver

sations with Eliseo Arredondo, Mexi

can ambassador designate will be con

ducted by Counsellor Polk, acting as

secretary.

While Carranza's amicable note has

greatly eased tension no official was

willing today to predict the final out

come of the negotiations which are

foreshadowed. It was made plain,

however, that immediate withdrawal

of General Pershing's expeditionary

forces from Mexico will not be an ac

t a-hlA basis-for .whatever plan- of

cooperative action along the border -is

worked out.

Washington officials take the posi

tion that demonstration of Carranza's

ability to carry out the promises ex

pressed and implied in his note is

still lacking. President Wilson, it is

pointed out, has been ready to with

draw the American troops at any time

tlw de facto government would show

the ability to furnish adequate mili

tary protection for the border.

Efficiency of Mexican police meas

ures may be put soon to a severe test,

according to rumors transmitted to the

state department. These, state that

Francisco Villa has recovered from his

wounds and is personally leading a

force northward from the region just

south of Parral.

GULF STATES ARE

STRUCK BY STORM

New Orleans, La.. Julv 6. The cen

ter of the tropical hurricane appar

ently struck Mobile, Ala., and Pensa

cola, Fla., and the section between

those points yesterday and last night,

according to local we-ather bureau of

ficials today. The storm moved inland

in a northwesterly direction from the

Gulf of Mexico at an estimated ve

locity of about 80 miles on hour.

Extent of the damage could not be

learned early today, as Mobile, Pen

sacola and other points on the lower

Mississippi, Alabama and west Flor

ida coasts were still cut off from all

communication. Even wireless plants

here working throughout the night

and early today failed to get any re

sponse from Mobile or Pensacola sta

tions. TO PRESS SHIPPING

MEASURE TO A VOTE

Washington, July 6. The govern

ment shipping bill probably will be

pressed o a vote in the senate at this

session even if it is necessary to keep

congress here all summer.

This was evident today from last

night's caucus of senate democrats. A

majority of them insisted that action

be taken on the bill despite strong

hints from the republicans that any

move to that end would meet with de

termined opposition. The latter had

proposed that if action be postponed

until the next session they would

agree to fix a date for the vote.

Final decision of the democrats,

however was deferred until tomorrow

night, when they caucus aagin.

SEE PEACE COMING

TO SANTO DOMINGO

Washington, July 6. Peace may

soon be restored in Santo Domingo.

This apepared to be a strong possi

bility today as a result of the action

of Dominican revolutionists in agree

ing to lay down their arms, pending

further negotiations looking to the es

tablishment of a new government, with

American supervision over the repub

lic's affairs.

The agreement was announced in a

dispatch received late yesterday from

Rear Admiral Caperton in command I

of the American forces in Santo Do-I

die go.

Villi st as Are

Spurred on by

Last Victory

El Paso, Texas, July 6. Villistas,

pursuing their victory over Carranzis

tas at Corral ranch July 4, have at

tacked Jiminez. say mining men here

today.

Reports tr&m Chihuahua City fol

lowing the engagement at Corral said

the broken Carranzista command has

been reinforced at Jiminez by 2,000

men under General Domingo Arriet.

The Villista forces are said to number

3,000.

Another report was that FYancisco

Villa recently sent a communication to

Canuto Reyes, his former lieutenant,

who was recently amnestied by the de

facto government asking him to recon

sider his decision. This message Reyes

turned over to General Jacinto Tre

vino, Carranzista commander of the

army of the north, it was said. The

American who brought the report as

serted that Villa was then at San Juan

Bautispo, about thirty miles south of

Parral and had with him one thousand

men.

TEUTONSUBSINKS

E N E M YSHiP , G L A I M

Berlin Admiralty Announces Torpedo

ing of Destroyer British State

ment Denies Loss.

Berlin, July 5, (via London, July 6,

12:50 p. m.) The admiralty today

gave out the following report:

"One of our submarines sank an en

emy destroyer in the North sea on

Tuesday.

"The submarine U-35, which carried

to Cartagena, Spain, an autograph let

ter of Emperor William to the king of

Spain and medicaments for interned

Germans, has returned after carrying

out its task successfully. On this jour

ney it sank the armed French steam

ship Herault, capturing its gun."

London, July 6. (12:51 p. m.) The

British admiralty today issued tbe fol

lowing: "One of our mine sweepers in the

North sea was hit by a torpedo from an

enemy submarine on Tuesday. It was

slightly damaged and is now in har

bor." The vessel referred to as a subma

rine destroyer probably was one of the

large fleet of small swift boats which

patrol the North sea on the outlook

for submarines.

Sinking of the French rteainship

Herault in the Mediterranean by a sub

marine was reported from Madrid on

June 25. Thirty-six of the crew reach

ed Castellon, Spain.

GERMANS INCREASE

SAVING ACCOUNTS

The Hague, (via London, July 6,

6:10 a. m.) According to the Spar

kasse, the organ of the German Sav

ings banks, new savings accounts dur

ing the second year of the war have

increased in Germany as never before

during times of peace. Statistics from

big cities and industrial regions alone

indicate an increase of 288.000 ac

counts and a total of 6,280,000 ac

counts. The excess of deposits over

withdrawals is 2.500.000,000 marks. In

crease in the capital of savings banks

is 3,250,000.000 marks.

To supply much fibrious materials,

55.000 acres in Germany this year have

been sowed to flax. Excellent promise

for the crop la held,

CONFIDENCES

EIGHT ARE HURT

IN AUTO CRASHES

Sight Toll in Automobile Accidents at

Clinton Reaches Big Fignre

All Expected to Live,

Clinton, Iowa, July 6. Eight victims

of two automobile accidents are in lo

cal hospitals or at their homes today

wintering with injuries sustained in

two automobile accidents near here

late yesterday. Five were injured

wheni, automobiles driven by George

Mulligan of Clinton and Henry

Schoenig of Bryant met head-on about

six miles west of Clinton. Dust

caused by a third machine had ob

scured the view of the two drivers.

Mr. and Mrs. Schoenig suffered cuts

and bruises but the most serious in

juries were sustained by three of the

four occupants of the other car, 37

stitches being necessary to close cuts

in Mr. Mulligan's arms, while Joseph

Ryan suffered a scalp wound and

Frank Baker scalp wounds, a sprained

ankle and strained hip. Charles Taylor

the other member of the party, leaped

from the car in time and escaped in

jury. Three others. Dr. and Mrs. G. O.

Runkel and daughter Dorothy, of

Stockton, HI., were injured on the Illi

nois side of the Mississippi river and

brought to Clinton hospital by far

mers, who drove 15 miles with the

victims. Dr. Runkel was enroute from

Sterling to Mt. Carroll, 111., and was

speeding along a piece of exceptionally

good road, when the steering appa

ratus broke and he lost control of the

machine which turned turtle.

Latest Bulletins

Petrograd, July 0. The war

office announced today the capture

yesterday of more than JOJMHt Teu

tons of whom .1.000 were taken on

the Dniester front-

Washington, July Another

engagement between 250 revolu

tionists in Santo Domingo and

American marines in which '11

Dominicans were killed and tive

captured and one marine killed

and eight wounded, was reported

to the navy department today by

Rear Admiral Caperton. The tight

occurred July 1 before the tenta

tive agreement was made for the

disarmament of the rebels.

Washington, July 6. All army

departmental commanders have

been authorized by Secretary Bak

er to discharge enlisted men of the

national guard in the federal ser

vice who have one or more de

pendent relatives.

Chicago. July Democratic

slate leaders will meet in Chicago

next week to decide whether, a

candidate will be put in the lield to

oppose the renomination of Gov

ernor Fdward F. Dunne at the

September primaries. Roger C.

Sullivan is expected to call a con

ference to consider the question.

Springfield, I1L, July fi Of

10.312 men and officers of the Illi

nois national guard who were

mustered into the federal service,

1,033 were rejected by reeular

army examiners and subsequently

honorably discharged for physical

disability.

New Vork, July fi. The ew

York Central Railroad comimny

announced the sale of its lioldimrs

in the New Vork, Chicago and St.

Louis railroad to Cleveland inter,

est for a copsideration involving

fcS5O0,000,

r

life .

Suhsea Case

Is Taking on

Better Tone

Berlin, July 5, 5 p. m., (via London,

July 6, 8:20 a. m.) The campaign

for resumption of a full fledged sub

marine war on commerce goes ener

getically forward. It was expected

that when the reichstag adjourned this

agitation by the Navy league, publi

cists, conservatives and part of the na

tional liberals would gradually lose its

intensity.

On the contrary, never a day passes

without articles in various newspapers

throughout Germany to remind the

people that, according to the German

note, modification of German submar

ine methods merely was temporary

and contingent upon a modification of

the British blockade.

Advocates of the "unrestricted tor

pedo" appear at almost every polit

ical gathering. Various newspapers

have almost daily a rubric for what

they call "British postal robbers" and

ever and again attention is called to

the fact that the blockade has not un

dergone the slightest modification.

The purpose of the agitation is two

fold. One branch of it is directed to

ward the resumption of the submar

ine campaign which is felt to be the

or.Iy effective naval weapon against

Great Britain. The other now has

developed openly and avowedly into a

movement against the chancellor, Dr.

von Bethmann-Hollweg, largely on

the ground of internal politics.

Some judges of the situation are In

clined to believe the movement will

lead, not later than September, to a

revival of the submarine campaign on

the old lines. Recent inquiries by The

Associated Press in authoritative quar

ters indicate, however, that the gov

ernment for the present, has no in

tention of resuming the "freedom of

action" mentioned in the May note and

of provoking conflict with the United

States.

One reason for this decision, which

tends to become stronger, is the de

tends to become stronger, is desire to

avoid any new measures tending to pro

long the war. Another is based on

the conviction that the faith of the

present administration now is so close

ly bound up witli the submarine issue

that a reversal of policy would entail

opposition from wide, influential

groups of political leaders and power

ful personages in the administration.

The situation in this respect has

changed sharply since winter. It

then seemed as if the chancellor's pol

icy of moderation had scarcely a

friend in Germany outside of the so

cialists and part of .he progressive

party, but since then the issue has

been sharply drawn and a full realiza

tion has come that one purpose of the

agitation was to down the chancellor.

The influential Catholic center party

has enrolled itself almost solidly in his

suport, the south German states hava

lined up firmly behind him and those

sections of pulilic opinion which have

reason to fear conservative domina

tion of the administration have made

their choice between submarines and

junkers and have joined the chancel

lor's party. The old impatience of

navy olficers for action has become a

less prominent factor in the movement.

All in all. the clouds over German

American relations now are less low

ering than for a long lime.

STUDENT TO SMOKE

60 "STOGIES" A DAY

Chicago, July C Henry Heist Kray

bill of'Mount Joy, Pa., a graduate stu

dent at the I'nlversity of Chicago, is

smoking tiO "stogies" a day and plans

to burn up 1.6S0 of them In a month,

he says. He is doing it for science

that is. he is seeking a method of im

proving the quality of the tobacco

weed. Kraybill declares he detests tobacco.

SECOND LINE

OF GERMANS

HELD DY FOE

Allied Attackers Pound

Down Teuton Defenses t

in Gigantic Drive, ' ,

COUNTERATTACKS FAIL

Weak Rebuffs of Kaiser's

Men Subdued by Enemy

Losses Terrible.

London, July 6 (12:35 p. m.)

Having captured the whole Ger

man second line south of the

Somme from the river to Belloy,

the French have resumed opera

tions north of the river and have

cleared the bank almost to Clery.

The French, who have establish

ed themselves at Sormont farm,

also threaten Clery.

The British are still heavily en

paged along1 their front from liar

doconrt to Gomniccourt. Notwith

standing heavy German counter

attacks they have been able to

maintain all ground gained and

extend it at some points.

Evidence accumulates of the

deadly execution of artillery. In

.some cases N) per cent of the de

fenders were killed. British losses

vary. Certain formations, called

on to attack defenses where ma

chine guns remained undamaged,

suffered heavily. Others captured

positions with slight losses.

Instead of compelling the Germans

to lessen their efforts at Verdun, the

Anglo-French offensive seems to have

increased their determination, possi

bly in the hope of preventing the

French from sending reinforcementa

to the Somme.

The Russians continue to record

successes, some of great Importance,

along their whole front from Riga to

the Carpathians, They have crossed

the railway between Delatyn, west of

Kolomea and Korosmezo, one of the

main lines between Galicia and Hun

gary upon which the Austrians de

pend largely to supply their armies at

Stanislau and before Tarnopol. Thi3

places the army of General von Both

mer in a still more dangerous position

and ho may withdraw toward Lem

berg. Russ Continue to Gain.

In the Lutsksalinet at Baranovichi

and along the Riga front the Russians

also claim progress. German corre

spondents intimate that General Kuro

patkin is preparing an offensive in the

Vilna region.

The situation fn the Caucasus Is

somewhat confusing. Turkish and

Russian reports are more at variance

than usual, both claiming victories In

the Tchoruk region on the Russian

right. It appears, however, that while

the Russian right is drawing back to

ward the Black sea litteral and their

extreme left is retiring across the Per

sian border in Kermanshah district,

their center is continuing to advance

from Baiburt southward to the west

of lakes Van and L'rumiah.

British War Report.

"Near Thiepval, on the Somme front,

we made a further slight advance and

captured a number of prisoners," the

war office announced today.

"South of La Bassee canal, after the

discharge of gas and smoke, we made

successful raids into the enemy's first

line. In one of these the royal Welsh

fusileers especially distinguished

themselves, capturing 40 prisoners, a

trench mortar and a machine gun.

"In another raid the Highland light

infantry successfully entered the en

emy's trenches west of Hulluch. A

machine gun emplacement was de

stroyed, many Germans killed and

some prisoners taken.

"There was no change of importance

on the rest of our front."

French War Report.

Paris, July 8, (10:10 a. m.) Last

night was generally quiet north and

south of the river Somme, says to

day's official statement.

There were a few local engage

ments north of the Somme during the

night in which the Germans captured

two small woods, 10 kilometers north

of Hem. The French also captured a

wood.

South of the Somme the night

passed in quiet. A German counter at

tack on Belloy was repulsed easily.

The French have captured 96 ran-

(Continued On Page Three.)

DAY IN CONGRESS

II

S FNATK.

Met at 11 a. m.

Resnmed debate on agricultural

appropriation bill.

Senator Johnson Introduced a

bill for an aerial coast patroL

JIOl SF.

Met at 11 a. m.

Began consideration of rnrcial

revenue bill to raise 'it0,0tKM)o

throutrh Incomes, Inheritances and

munitions taxes.

Judiciary commltts held hear.

Ing on projKised federal trade

commission Investigation. I the

to-called beef truL