Oelwein Daily Register (Newspaper) - August 18, 1915, Oelwein, Iowa VOL 23 SIN FAYETTE COUNT WEDNESDAY AUGUST 18 1915 REGISTER WANT ADS 28 O tbe phone will put you In touch with tbe want ad department Five centi a line lor tbe In and three a line consecutive of tbe same advertisement No advertisement inserted tor lets tkan 10 cents Cash must invariably accompany tbe order Address all communications to THE 81US FOR perfectly n typewriter for Dr new Oliver Wilson EDITORIAL COMMENTS LYNCHING FRANK BRITISH LOAN IN U S CAPTURE KOVNO FORTS london Financiers Foresee Ne unfortunate man a chapter 01 tO Maintain Exchange edies perhaps unequalled in the an of criminal in this country Found guilty by n jury IK maintained that he was innocent of Increasing the murder of a girl employed in the factory over which lie was superin tendent He was sentenced to hung but the governor made the penalty adv FOR and lot and good barn close in cheap if taken at once See J R Ross over Aetna State Bank FOR SALE OR room mod ern hoese Inquire of Frank Lucas or Phone 342 WANTED as waitress or chambermaid Phone Red you have for combination sale Sat Aug 28 Phone 304 Black Thornburg LOST silk coat between the Baptist church and 140 N Fred erick St Leave at Loeh Weils life imprisonment it required the state militia to preserve the gover nor from violence because of the in at his act Frank had just left the hospital where he had been as a result of a knife wound in the throat inflicted by a fellow convict when Monday night be was forcibly taken from the prison conveyed to a point near the home of his alleged victim and hanged Tuesday morning It is evident that either there is an in tense race in that section of or else there is information that bas not been published relative to the affair Excess of American Ex ports May Hasten saws Fall Embarrassing FOB BEST FOR room or sleeping porch 407 North Fred and furni ture repairing auto and carriage tops Phone 29 Black A I B W Attorney at leira Collections and settlement of PR E E Eye Ear Nose and Throat ant Glasses Office Over Iowa Savings Bank Phone 318 OELWEIN 1A MERCHANTS PICNIC A SUCCESS The first Merchants Picnic was such a success notwithstanding the threat ening rain that it will doubtless be come an established feature to be pulled off annually in August And it is a good idea The merchants and their employees should take at least one day off per year and having clos ed their places of business enjoy selves at the City Park provided by city for recreation purposes For any other than a holiday it was some what startling to see the banks and stores closed A travelling man who came in on the early afternoon train asked excitedly what in had struck Oelwein He said he Wad been running in here for years and this was the first time he ever saw the business houses closed on a week day When he was informed as to the rea son lie remarked that it was a mighty good scheme and with the other of his tribe in the city went down to the City Park to witness the sports and the ball game The feed sports and ball game were some The interstate commerce commis sions report on tbe Rock Islands financial affairs develops about what was of dollars in losses on stock transactions charges ihe railroad officials with to stock holders and great profits to promoters of the Rock Is land Holding companies But tbe money has gone and tbe stockholders are left to hold the sack This country needs laws enforced that will not simply lock the stable after the horse is stolen but prevent tbe purloining by strict inspection Andin the mean time the high financiers are enjoy Aug pers devote much space to a discus sion 9f the American exchange situa tion They generally regard the flota tion of a loan in New York as itable The only difficulty they see is that a higher rate of interest must be paid in New York than would be necessary here and therefore steps must be taken to prevent British in from taking up the new securi ties The Financial Times believes the government should have been able to foresee the present situation and provide for it some tine ago It thinks this could have been done by allowing foreign investors to subscribe to the regular war loan free of income tax The same paper adds that course of the war during the last month has rendered the readjustment of a balance more difficult because of the loss of prestige to the allies through the fall of Warsaw The Financier thinks the loan should be at five per cent redeemable in from ten to fifteen years This would make a powerful ap peal to the American investors paper says at a time when the re turn on the best American railway bonds is only a shade over four per cent Teutons Take Russian Works Be tween Niemen and Gosia By FREDERICK WERNER International News Service Correspondent MANY TRAPPED IN TUNNEL Pinnacle Bore in West Virginia Col lapses on Passenger on Board W Va Aug Seventyfive may be buried in the wreckage of Pinnacle tunnel one mile west of Ivy station on the railroad which Aug of M collapsed while a tram was passing forts of Kovno between Niemen and Gosia is announced in an official re port from tbe general staff Tbe Ger mans captured 4500 prisoners and 24 cannon It is believed that the fall of the main Kovno fortifications cannot be long delayed The general staff also reports tbe capture of a large fort on tbe north eastern defense line at Novo together with two interme diate forts These three forts were taken by storm The Germans captured 2400 Rus sian prisoners and 18 cannon at Novo The forces of General von Scholz and General von bave driven the Russians back taking 1760 pris one cannon and ten machine guns while Prince Leopold of Bavaria and Field Marshal von Mackensen have made further victorious progress In the western theater a British aeroplane was captured at Bapaume German batteries at Ostend drove off two hostile destroyers PROBE SALE OF MOTORBOATS Secretary of Navy Daniels to Investi gate Report of Shipment to Russia E W BURKE D T M Veterinary Surgeon Office at Boom Livery Call 247 Red DK L C Ridler Bldg Phone 281 o Fred St Oelwein la the THE HOME the to fet your clothe and Four month and your shoes for ing themselves living high on money lost by the stockholders As far as learned Perrin was not in tbe dime novel game and it is not al that he boozed or smoked cig But it is evident that he did a risky business on money he bor and that is worse than the triple entente referred to above When them Georgia fellers get their minds set on putting a man out of business they are for sure Most of us would prefer to be on terms with them SERBIA BALKS THE ENTENTE Nation for Whose Protection Russia Went to War With Germany Withholds Support Washington Aug of the Navy Daniels has ordered a searching probe into tbe report that armored motorboats are being manu in this country for shipment to Russia He declared that such a practice is plainly a violation of neu The boats it was reported were for use against German rines in the Baltic U o want to buy anything try the Regis ter Want Ads Zeppelins Again Swoop Down on English Coast Attack Yards Around London Aug whose protection Russia went to wai with Germany is balking the efforts of the entente powers to gain tbe support of the united Balkan At critical hour in the negotiations tiat country Is withholding Its the acquisition of terri tory by Bulgaria England is bringing tbe utmost pres sure to bear on Serbia but the final decision is not to be reached for sev eral days The Serbian legation authorized an official denial of the report that the Serbian government had ceded its por tion of Macedonia to Bulgaria in re turn for territorial gaius on her west Newcastle and Thames Arsenals and Naval Stations Haiti Swept by Cyclone PortauPrince Haiti Aug vi olent cyclone has the entire southern side of the Haitian republic There have been numerous victims in the towns the Grain Provisions Etc Chicago Aug 17 Open High Low Clos ing est est ing Vr May 109 Corn May through it which usually carried from 75 to was bound Ior It derailed in the the tunnel and knocked out several oi the supports Tons of earth fell crushing four coaches Four dead have already been re moved and two fatally injured are be ing rushed to The near est telephone to Jvy station is twelve miles away and it was many hours be fore aid could be summoned A rescue train carrying physicians nurses and many laborers to help in digging out the dead and injured was made up at Madison twelve miles east of the scene of disaster U S ACCEPTS FRYE PROPOSALS Damages to Be Fixed by Com mission and Treaty Sub mitted to Hague NEW CABINET IN GREECE Note Asks Whether Germany Will Conduct War Under Own or Amer ican Well on Way to Settlement STIR REVOLT AGAiNST U S I W W Places Placards in Vera Cruz Calling for Meeting to Protest Peace Plan Washington Aug In posters directed against the United States are being posted in Vera Cruz signed I W W accord ing to advices to the state department The posters were first put up Satur day and called for a mass meeting Sunday to protest against interference and intervention in Mexico by the A B C conference Carranza forbade the meeting but the posters remained up zeneral election the a majority in SUPERSEDEAS FOR LAWSON Colorado Supreme Court Allows Ap peal for the Labor on Its Merits Denver Colo Aug state supreme court granted a supersedeas in tbe case of John jLawson labor leader convicted on a charge of mur der growing out of the Colorado coal miners strike and under sentence of life imprisonment The action allows the Lawson appeal to come before the court on its merits King Accepts Resignation of the Gou Called for Consultation London Aug Constantino of Greece has accepted the resignation of the Gounaris cabinet which was tendered him Monday afternoon ac cording to a Reuter dispatch from Athens Eleutherios leader of the opposition invited to con sult the king In the recent Venizelos party r he Greek chamber of deputies When the chamber assembled M 3aviizares a adherent was elected president by a vote of 182 3 for the candidate of the government ALSCHULER GETS President Wilson Appoints Chicago Man U S Circuit for the Seventh Circuit Washington Aug IS President Wilson announced the appointment of Samuel Alschuler of Chicago as United States circuit judge for the Seventh circuit embracing Illinois Indiana and Wisconsin The formal appointment of William W Russell as minister to Santo Domingo was also announced BIG TRANSPORT SUNK British Ship Royal Edward De in Aegean Sea tondon Admiralty Announces of Vessel With Probably 1000 Men Torpedoed by Submarine 74 65 10434 109 6WH May 41s Al wheat patent olis wood or cotton to retail trade Minnesota and Dakota patents GCO first clears second clears jute 390 low grade jute soft wheat patents rye flour white patents dark steady choice new timo thy Xo 1 new 1000 Xo new timothy light glover mixed heavy clover 1 and er glover mixed eavy cove mixed Xo 3 red top an grassy mixed timothy clove hay heated choice 160031700 al falfa Xo 1 alfalfa Xo 2 extras 24Vie extra firsts firsts second 21 extra 23ic firsts COc parkins stock la dles Trices to trade Ex tra tubs WV prints lots cases includ ed eases returned ordi nary firsts 17iSc firsts extra must he W per cent fresh and parked ir cases checks Receiver for Missouri Pacific St Aug F Bush was appointed receiver of the Missouri Pa railroad by Federal Judge Adams The reorganization commit tee and petitioning creditors agreed on Bushs appointment Washington Agu Ameri can reply to last note on the sinking of the American sailing ship William P Prye made public hare by the state department accepts the proposal that damages be fixed by a mixed commission and that the dis treaty provisions be submitted to arbitration at The Hague but calls on Germany for a statement mean while as to whether she intends to conduct her future naval operations in accordance with her interpretation of the treaty or those of the United States Progress Toward Settlement The note is regarded as putting the noted case well on the way to a settle ment It is addressed by Secretary Lansing to Ambassador Gerard at Ber lin and follows You are Instructed to present tbe following note to the German minister for foreign affairs Under instructions from my gov I have the honor to inform your excellency in reply to your note of July 30 in regard to the claim for reparation for the sinking of the Wil liam P Prye that the government of the United States learns with regret that the objections urged by it against the submission of this case to the prize court for decision have not com mended themselves to the imperial German government and it equally re grets that the reasons presented by the imperial German government for submitting this case to the prize court have failed to remove the objections of the government of the United States to the adoption of that course Seeks Other Means As this disagreement has been reached after the full presentation of the views of both governments in our previous correspondence a further ex change of views on the question in dispute doubtless would be unprofit able and the government of the Unit ed States therefore welcomes your ex suggestion that some other way should for settling this By JOHN C FOSTER International News London Aug trans port Royal Edward has been sunk by a submarine in the Aegean sea conveying troops to the Dardanelles It is feared that fully 1000 men alward the vessel perished The admiralty announced the de struction of the transport The cial statement says that there were on board the ship 1602 men and gives the number saved as 600 The submarine which sank the Roy al Edward is believed here to be the German U boat which had previously sunk two off Gallipoll peninsula Since the loss of the war ships greater precautions than ever have been taken but the sinking of the Royal Edward indicates that the submarine has succeeded in reach ing the route followed by ships taking new forces to the front The text of the admiralty an follows The British transport Royal Ed ward was sunk by an enemy rine in the Aegean sea Saturday Ac cording to information available the transport had aboard 2 military cers 1300 troops and the ships crew of 220 officers and men The troops were mainly reenforce ments for the division Full information is not yet avail aMe but it is known about 000 were saved DEFEAT A CARRANZA BAND Under General Maytorena Crush Detachment Commanded by General Calles Near Nogales Washington Aug 18 forces under General Maytorena have administered a crushing defeat to a Carranza band at Nogales Sonora according to a state ment given out here by the Villa agency force went out from Nogales and met the tas who were commanded by General Calles After a brief battle the Car fled with the in pur suit Parlors 4 doori Hotel Mealey adv A BOOSTER BUTTON Get this for what ails you ern frontier as pledged by tho entente i 1 packed firsts powers By JOHN C FOSTER International News Service Correspondent London Aug persons were killed and twenty wounded in another air raid which the Germans have made over England Official announcement of the raid was made by the government press bureau Fourteen houses were destroyed or damaged by bombs dropped from the German air craft The district raided was on the North sea coast but the exact location of the region damaged was not revealed It is supposed that the Germans at tacked the shipbuilding yards around Newcastle and the arsenals and na val stations near the mouth of the Thames river The raid took place Thursday night although news of it was concealed for nearly 24 hours The last air raid was made by Zep lato Monday night and early Tuesday morning when 14 persona were killed Nancy Hanks Dead Lexington Ky Aug 18 Nancy Hank the worlds champion 1892 to 1S94 and the first horse to beat the longstanding record of Maud S is dead at John E Mad dens Hamburg farm Nancy was twentynine years old Gen John C Black Diet Chicago Aug John C Black Civil war veteran former con gressman and former United States commissioner of patents died sudden ly In his room at the Palmer house He was seventyfive years old and was commander In chief of tte Q A R In 1903 I It Pays to Trade With OELWEIN ADVERTISERS Goods and Prices Right Bubonic Plague in Havana Havana Aug case of bu bonic plague was reported here It waa the first since early last HYMN IS SUNG AT HANGING Eight Thousand Persona See Two Ne Hung at Good Time Had Miss Aug audi ence of 8000 persona sang in chorus Theres a Land of Pure Delight as two negroes Dot Scales and Peter Do Ion were hanged here The hymn was sung at the negroes request copies of it being distributed among the crowd The hangings took place in a pasture surrounded by a forming a natural amphitheater The condemned mon had confessed to rolling and murdering a of their own rare Fifteen hundred women white and heavy dressed in holiday attire were among the spectators Pop and sand 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