Elyria Democrat, The (Newspaper) - August 19, 1915, Elyria, Ohio THE DEMOCRAT THURSDAY AUGUST 19 1915 BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Notes Covering Most Important Hap of the World Compiled in Briefest and Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption European War Capture of the forts of Kovno between Niemen and Gosia is announced at Berlin in an official report from the general staff The Germans captured prisoners and 24 cannon It is believed that the fall of the main Kovno fortifications cannot be long delayed Between 1.600 and 1.100 employes of the Warner company at Bridgeport Conn makers of corsets struck to enforce a demand for an eight hour day with pay for ten The battleship New Hampshire on Its way to southern waters encountered a terrific hurricane off the southern coast of Florida and two marine privates were washed overboard and drowned They were Hardie W Roy of Mississippi and James P Robinson of O Supremacy of the American dollar in the markets of the world took on a new meaning at New York when the premium in its favor against the English pound was increased by a still further break in foreign exchange rates on all of the European financial centers With the wind blowing 75 miles an hour water filling the streets the light and power plant out of commission the people of Galveston are from the city on every train Practically every town along the Texas gulf coast reports similar conditions The water backed Into the streets from the lower end of the Island III TENS STORM t ti ii ind Craft in Is TAKING STOCK OF RICHARD CRANE III The British transport Royal Edward has been sunk by a submarine in the Aegean sea while conveying troops to the Dardanelles One thousand men aboard the vessel perished 600 were Nancy Hanks the world's saved The British admiralty champion trotter from 1892 to 1894 and the first horse to beat the longstanding record of Maud S is dead at John E Madden's Hamburg farm near the destruction of the trans port at London Wrecked City Visited by Three Fires During Height of of Sea Wall Crashed in Before Buffeting of Waters international Houston Tex The loss of life in the storms which struck the Texas coast has reached and the property loss has reached the enormous figure of The story was augmented when a Houston newspaper man reached this city bearing the first details of the destruction of life and property in Galveston He went and returned by steamer 500 Are Destroyed The property loss in Galveston will total which includes loss of 500 buildings 1.000 feet of the great sea wall and practical destruction of the causeway in which the city took pride It was NOTES Newt Prom All Sections of the State Attacks by the troops of Lexington Ky Nancy was allies on Gallipoli peninsula hare nine years old been successfully repulsed the Turkish war office announced at Constantinople A hostile torpedo boat was hit by the Turkish artillery hear Field Marshal von Mackensen continuing his pursuit of the retreating Russians from the south toward has occupied dale and says Berlin The army of Prince Leopold of Bavaria pressing the Russians from the west has occupied and The British admiralty announced at London that a German submarine fired several shells at the towns of Whitehaven and Harrington without doing any material damage All three towns are in Cumberland on the Irish sea A dispatch to the London Daily News from Athena French and British aeroplanes have flown over Constantinople They threw bombs on Galata a large suburb causing heavy casualties A dispatch from to London says a German submarine has been sunk by a mine in the Sea ot Marmora Word has reached here from Berlin that at the sinking of the Austrian details of which are lacking Commander Lerch was drowned Reports that the Germans and Austrians had mobilized forces estimated at from to men along the Serbian frontier preparatory to a campaign to crush the Serbians and open a way for the shipment of munitions to Turkey have been received from various sources in the last week Washington Domestic After six years of mourning for his son E G Eberhart the millionaire philanthropist of Mishawaka Ind shot himself twice through the heart on the son's grave Eberhart was forty-nine years old a philanthropist and one of the foremost Y M C A organizers Congress will be told by five of the nine members of the United States commission on industrial relations that the great underlying cause of industrial woe and unrest is low wages This will be the burden of Chairman Frank P individual report he admitted at Chicago Leo M Frank convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan waa dragged from the state prison farm at Milledgeville Ga at night by a small band of determined men He was taken to within a few miles of the Phagan home in Marietta and at daylight hanged to a tree near the highway The assembling of Italian reservists who were to sail on the steamer Canopic from Boston and their friends was marked by demonstrations against the interned German steamships Amerika and Cincinnati as a result of which several policemen were Injured severely The supreme court of Colorado granted a supersedeas in the case of John R labor leader convicted on a charge of murder growing out of the Colorado miners strike The action allows the Lawson appeal to come before the court or its merits B P Bush was appointed receiver of the Missouri Pacific railroad by Federal Judge Adams at St Lauis The reorganization committee and petitioning creditors agreed on Bush's appointment The national forest In Alaska was cut almost In half by order of President Wilson The forest Is to be crossed by the government railroad from Stewart to Fairbanks The American reply to Germany's last note on the sinking of the American sailing ship William P Frye made public at Washington by the state department accepts the proposal that damages be fixed by a mixed commission and that the disputed treaty provisions be submitted to arbitration at The Hague President Wilson announced at Washington the appointment of Samuel Alschuler of Chicago as United States circuit judge for the Seventh circuit embracing Illinois Indiana and Wisconsin How high finance wrecked the Rock Island was made public at Washington in a report of the interstate commerce commission Financial manipulations the report says cost the road Secretary of State Lansing announced at Washington that W W Russell of Maryland former minister to the Dominican republic will be reappointed to that post to succeed James M Sullivan of New York The allies Intention to declare cotton contraband has been communicated unofficially but authoritatively to the state department at Washington The reply of the United States to the note of refusing to stop the exportation of arms and munitions to tho enemies of that nation as in representations June 29 made public nt Washington Among the reasons for its refusal the United States gave the To refuse the sale of Implements of war to belligerents would force militarism on the world and work against universal peace During the Boer war the Crimean war and the Balkan war arms and ammunition were sold to belligerents by both Germany and Mexican Revolt Armed Mexicans in force crossed the Rio Grande near Mercedes Tex attacking an outpost of half a dozen cavalrymen at Saenz Corporal Wilman of Troop C Twelfth cavalry was killed and Lleut Roy C Hunry of the same troop was wounded Two hundred and seventy Mexicans crossed and they intended to attack Mercedes General Carranza and other Mexican leaders have been given a period of ten days within which be must notify the United States and the republics whether he will participate in a conference for the purpose of restoring peace In Mexico The ultimatum is contained In the joint note sent from Washington In spite of the note of the seven American countries calling the contending Mexican leaders to a peaceful conference for settlement of their difficulties General Carranca and ils chiefs still are for recognition and preparing to res it by force of arms any internal Interference The appeal of the United States and six Latin-American to Carranza and other Mexican leaders to settle their agree on a provisional president was sent from Washington The navy department at Washington sent rush orders by wireless to the battleships Louisiana and New Hampshire to proceed at once to Vera Cruz An antiforeign demonstration tn Vera Cruz Is by ton Personal L M a lumber dealer of Chicago died in the Oak Park hospital of Injuries received when the automobile In which he was riding turned turtle near 111 Richard Crane III the new private rotary of Secretary of State Lansing Is the son of Charles R Crane of Chicago who once almost minister to China three years ago The loss Of j being recalled when he arrived at San grain elevators and contents in Galj Francisco on his way to the Orient veston amounts to The known loss of life in stands at 80 55 having been lost when the barge Sam Houston sank in the bay to which crowds had fled for their Point between here and Galveston It reported that the dead there will number between 25 and 30 and that the entire town has practically been wiped safety Fourteen others were lost in i a building escaping unattempting to reach the Tremont hotel and the rest were lost in various parts of the town Twenty-five were lost at Virginia Point Texas City reports a loss of scathed Great gaps have been torn in the causeway which connects Galveston with the mainland and the waters are Strewn for miles with the wreckage of 52 which includes 12 United States shiPs and waterlogged bales of cotton soldiers Eight were killed at Morgans representing a value of thousands of Point seven at Hitchcock six at Port dollars which were carried bodily Arthur six at La Porte three at Seabrook two in Houston's suburbs Included in the total property loss is the ruination of the south and central Texas crops Fifty per cent of them were destroyed and it means at least to the farmers from docks and wrecked warehouses by the storm The Galveston reports state that a minimum of 500 buildings there were wrecked In the smaller towns the wreckage is practically complete Reports from Temple tell of considerable damage and state that at Hitchcock a small town north of Galveston seven persons were killed The water at Galveston Takes Stock of Losses While troops patrol the debris choked streets to keep off looters is three feet deep all the veston a wrecked city is taking stock roads and tracks being subof her losses Of the known dead in merged Galveston four are United States City the camp of the Second ers lost in an attempt to reach the division U S A Gen 1 F Bell hotel at the height of the manding has been wiped out Ten The wind and rain raged for diers were but so far more than 24 hours the gale reaching known there has been no loss of life its height at 3 o'clock on Tuesday among the civilian population although when it blew 92 miles an hour a number have been injured some seing everything before it It was at this time that feet of the sea wall crashed in before the buffeting of the waters A great wall of water rushed upon the city A breach of 25 feet was directly in front of the Galvez hotel and upon it great waves broke spreading terror among the hundreds of refugees inside But the foundations were firm and the building withstood the buffeting although all its lower floors were wrecked During the height of the storm three fires raged in the business section of the city and firemen were helpless against he lashing of the gale The heavy rains were all that saved the Reports of Harrowing Losses From all points along the coast except between Corpus Christi and i Brownsville come reports of ing losses At many points bodies are being washed ashore by the subsiding i seas and it will be two or three days before full stock of the loss of life can be taken Present reports place the j death toll in the neighborhood of 100 j but indications are that as many more I may be added I Fully refugees are in Houston i about of whom came from Galj veston when the storm warnings were first posted Others came from points city from an unprecedented the coast This city tion The cloudburst from spreading and selves out kept the fires they ate severe damage take care of her homeless and Mayor Fisher has announced that no outside aid will be needed Craft in Harbor Suffer The property loss is estimated nt j and three persons two of preparing to i them negroes have been Port Arthur also has suffered heavy damage and hundreds of refugees from that city and nearby towns are pouring into Beaumont They describe condi Craft in the harbor have suffered j tions as fearful the entire town being heavy damage among them the United under water hundreds of buildings States transport McClellan which is and homes wrecked the water supply grounded on Pelican island Hundreds of small boats are overturned and cut off and food scarce Little has been heard from Sabine and Sabine Pass there j Eight men are reported dead at Morgans Point the bodies of seven drowned at Hitchcock have been remany have been blown high ashore both of which towns were totally hundreds of miles around vessels merged They are deserted Relief have been torn from their moorings parties are trying to make their way and swept before the fury of the storm until the stretch of water between Galveston island and the main land is a veritable The entire city of Galveston has been under covered while eight are reported lost water for three days and a night and at La Porte 20 miles southeast of there is much fear of disease Army Houston on Trinity bay state and civic medical authorities are Cotton Owners Heaviest Losers reported to prevent Seabrook reports a loss of three plague At the height of the storm A refugee reaching here from the water in places reached a depth of Kemah a coast town says that not a 10 feet i house is left standing in the place The storm as described by j Tne heaviest losses have fallen on reaching here was even more violent the cotton owners shipping and the hurricane of 1900 which roads wiped out the island city with a loss j The damage to cotton it is lives The wind as then mated will be from 15 to 25 per cent of reached a velocity of more than 90 crop in central Texas while an hour and whipped the city nag suffered heavily The loss to point of the compass growers in Texas alone will with dazzling rapidity from north to south and from east o west While Galveston In point of property damage suffered the heaviest losses reports from all points along been considerable loss of life in small the coast and many well inland are becraft at sea which could not reach ginning to trickle in and tell heavy toll in life and property Town Practically Wiped Out A relief party has Just after working its way to mate several millions of I The Gulf is swept clear of shipping and hundreds of oats have been wrecked It is fe ed that there has of shore in time despite the storm warnings The railroads in many sections have returned been entirely washed out and will take Virginia weeks IK being rebuilt Germans Capture Kovno London England Tidings of the fall of Kovno and further advances in the eastern theater is being celebrated in Berlin amid scenes of wild enthusiasm Fifty victory shots were fired in the Lustgarten and all church bells pealed forth announcing that the mom German general Von Hindenburg had personally supervised the taking of the strongly fortified city The fortress of Kovno with all forts were taken by storm in the face if tenacious resistance The outskirts of London were raided Tuesday night by Zeppelins I Zeppelins visited the eastern ties Tuesday night and dropped says the official statement Anti-aircraft guns were in action and it is believed that one Zeppelin hit Air patrols were active but owing to the difficult atmospheric the Zeppelins were able to escape Some houses and buildings in eluding a church were damaged Tht 1 following casualties have been record ed: Killed men 7 2 childrer 1 injured men 15 worsen 13 c 3 All wm civilians Columbus When the work begins of transferring from the old relic room in the state house to the Capitol rotunda the various battle flags that for years have reposed in the narrow relic room quarters none will be carried more tenderly than tho famous emblem of the Ohio Zouaves This emblem is no longer a flag It is just a tattered remnant Nine color bearers went to their death with It in their grasp and 41 battles were fought around it Much the greater part of it was shot away In its very last fight this famous emblem was taken by the Confederates It was found some months later in the governor's rooms at the state house in Richmond Va by Col De Peyster of the Seventh New York He carried it away in the leg of his boot keeping it until after the surrender of For 35 years thereafter it reposed in the trophy room in New York state Under the appropriation of made by the general assembly at its late session plans are now being made for the building of glass and metal cases in the Ohio Capitol rotunda where all the war emblems will carefully and permanently kept It is expected that these cases hermetically sealed from air and exposure will prolong the of the flags indefinitely In the present relic room the flags exposed to the atmosphere are rapidly disintegrating The actual replacement of the flags quite a pretentious occasion Toledo John E Gunckel widely known as the father of newsboys and founder of the National Association of Newsboys is dead Mr work for newsboys has attracted attention throughout the world He took it up while a railway ticket but about years ago he received the aid of philanthropists and was enabled to devote his attention solely to ameliorating the condition of the little newspaper venders He raised in Toledo for a newsboys building Fremont An exaggerated rase of ego is the complaint placed against cabbages grown in Sandusky county The weather has been so favorable and the heads have swelled to such proportions many are bursting according to growers Recently a farmer heard a strange noise in the cabbage field He investigated Several cabbages had grown to such enormous proportions that they had burst open with loud reports Vermilion When robbers en tered the home of Baird Henry assistant editor of the Vermilion News and carried away his baby's savings bank containing over the fifth Case of burglary in one night was recorded Following a series of robberies this summer citizens are aroused and it is not unlikely that a delegation will go council and demand additional police protection and better streets Wooster A D Pel by botanist at the state experimental station issued a warning to potato growers in northern Ohio relative to danger from potato blight affecting the late crop evidence of which lias been found in Wayne county This blight caused heavy damage in Ohio in 1909 and has now broken out in epidemic form Selby said Sandusky The lid is dovn on pokier here The fact was impressed upon the minds of 16 participants in three games broken up by police when in the major's court fines of each were imposed and the public was given formal notice accordingly Not even so-called sociable games will be tolerated in the future Akron Writing a letter in which is contained arrangements for his burial and the request for a monument over his grave James Mcllvain 4.1 until recently master carpenter of the Cleveland division of the Baltimore Ohio railroad committed suicide He had shot himself Marysville Mabel Call the daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Ball of Waldo was fatally burned when her sleeve caught fire from a gasoline stove Her body from her neck to her knees is covered with burns Lima Three thousand persons the majority of them active members of the Alien County Pioneer society 21st annual picnic near Elida heard Gov Frank B Willis deliver an address on better farms better roads and better schools These are the three requisites of the governor said Sandusky Following investigations by United States inspectors P J Murphy postmaster at Kelleys Island was removed and Frank 1 Reinheimer temporarily placed in charge of the office The state board of administration Wednesday granted additional paroles to 36 penitentiary prisoners Kenton Burglars ransacked the Catholic church Antonio hospital the home of Rev Father H J Schumacher and the home of the Sisters of Charity A gold watch an umbrella and clothing were stolen The burglars overlooked money jewelry and silverware Ashtabula John Seber aged 32 Cleveland was brought to a local hospital suffering with a mangled hand caused by the accidental discharge of a shotgun at Madison ills hand will have to be amputated Sober is a New York Central detective The Army of Constipation Is Growing Smaller Every Day CARTER'S LITTLE UVER PILLS an responsible they not only give they permanently cure loot use them for SMALL PILL SMALL DOSE SMALL PRICE muat bear Signature CREDITED TO THE BOSTONESE Proverbs With Which Most Are millar Set Forth Clothed New Language If upon the initiative attempt success eludes your efforts repeat the operation ad It Is an exceedingly lengthy byway that fails to produce some tangible evidence to prove that Its natural ten point to an apparent longing to execute a right angle When the household has temporarily vacated thex premises the small rodents will undoubtedly take advantage of her absence to pate in unseemly gambols commensurate with the joyous occasion The operation of convoying a beast of burden in the general direction of the trough containing aqua may prove to be one of comparative ease but the process of inducing the quadruped to partake of the contents thereof Is often a matter of conjecture to be determined only by the avowed inclination of the animal in question Judge Preparing In one of the southern states the negroes are great patrons of a matrimonial agency One darkey anxious to a wife for his son went to this agent who handed him his list lady clients Running through this the man came upon his own wife's name entered as desirous of a husband between the ages of twenty-eight and thirty Forgetting about his son the darky hurried home to announce his discovery to bis wife She was not at aU disturbed she said I done give him my name I puts it down when you wiis so sick in de winter and de doctor says we must prepare for de worst Chicago Journal Worth Listening To Those two men over there are having a warm argument It must be about the war I think not They are probably discussing a subject they know something about Why Half a dozen pedestrians and on this beat seem Interested in what they are saying Homesick Ever since you've been in said the city relative you've been having two or three lemon squashes every replied Farmer A habit's a habit But you don't drink I don't want it 1 am willing to pay the money so as to get a straw to chew reel of Him pay as I go She yawning I don't think ever become bankrupt Judge If a man doesn't have to get down to work early he would Just as soon do it Daily Building To be continually well calls for food that contains elements that surely build up the whole system body nerves and brain Grape-Nuts made from whole wheat and malted barley contains the full nutriment of the grain including the mineral salts so essential to balanced predigested agrees spier idly with child or adult Requires little work from the digestive organs and is quickly absorbed by the system generally in about one hour Thousands have found a helping hand in food There's a Reason Sold by Grocers
