Valley Sentinel, The (Newspaper) - August 16, 1916, Portsmouth, Ohio T 7 A T T 7 VALLEY VOLUME 54 Press Leased Win PORTSMOUTH OHIO WEDNESDAY AUGUST 16 1916 Associated Press Leased Wire NUMBER 90 PROSPECTS BRIGHT FOR Von Bothmer Fails To Check Russians LINES PUSHED BACK AT RAPID RATE TO WARD LEW BERG London August Russian drive in Galicia is pushing the armies backward towards Lemberg at a rapic rate Both flanks of General Von army on the Lemberg front are under heavy pressure and its center forced from the line of the Stripa is announced by military observers in entente capitals to have none too secure a position in its rear along the Upper Zlota Lipa to which it is presumed to be retreating Petrograd today announces new gains for the Russians on the Northern wing of this front on the Upper Sereth while today on the South General is continuing his thrust up the Dniester in the vicinity of seven miles from The Russian armies in the center also are pursuing the Aus trians in the middle Stripa and regions Continuing their advance from Gorizia on the Isonzo front the Italians have made further progress on the Carso plateau to the southeast Rome reports the piercing of a strongly defended Austrian line east of Hill 212 and the capture of about 800 ad men The Austrians are sharply attacking along other sectors of the front but were repulsed in all attempts the Italian war office announces Following the usual course the Germans have sharply counter- attacked along the line west of which the British war of- fice last night reported the British to have carried to a depth of 300 or 400 yards on a front of nearly a mile The attack was ly successful the Germans gaining a foothold in a portion of tha lost trendies Following up their gains on the north bank of the the French are pushing their advance to a point where German ation of Clery commanding the direct approach to Peronne from the northwest may he compelled is being continued in the Maurepas sector northwest of Clery where brisk cannonading is reported today To the left of the Fay road a Frenc attack resulted in carrying some trenches First Woman Offers Blood To Fight Infantile Paralysis RUSSIAN SWEEP CONTINUES Petrograd August the Galician front the Russian sweep continues unchecked the official announce ment of today states Further gains have been made on thi Upper Sereth In the region of the middle Stripa and the Koro pice the Austrians are being pursued by the Russians who reach ed the northern bank of the Dniester before FRENCH CAPTURE TRENCHES Paris August French troops captured some trenches on the left of the road in the sector last night says the war office announcement today There was brisk cannonading in the region of German attacks in the vicinity of Hill 304 and at the Verdun sector were re- pulsed Italians Pierce Austrian Trenches August troops continued pressing tlic Austrians the Plateau ami f Hill I'll another line uf About 800 prisoners liy Italians tin official announcement of this op- FOOTHOLD ONLY London August British positions near on the Somme front the Germans last night gained a foothold in a portion of the trenches taken from them day ITALIANS REPULSED SEVEN TIMES Berlin August to most severe fighting is in progress on the heights east of Gorizia says the official Austrian announcement of Klay Seven times the stormed the heights and were rc- with heavy losses have captured ans since the inauguration of the offensive MONUMENT DEALERS MEET Cleveland 0 Aug bers of the National Retail ment Dealers Association arrived in Cleveland today for the ing here of eleventh annual convention of the organization hundred delegates are ex- Today will be given over to registration and meetings of state associations A feature of the convention will be a display of twenty carloads of granite valued at a quarter of a million dollars During be week the MRS HANNAH New Hannah er of Hudson Heights New is the first woman to her in the new serum treatment or infantile paralysis In the new blood from a former of the disease is used in a serum which is injected into present victims Mrs ncr was a victim of infantile she was three years old LOAN BABIES AS ICE CARDS Toledo 0 August Loaning babies to be used as ice cards is the latest tion of Toledo housewives due to the ice famine The plan worked to the tion of at least three lies but when the same baby was loaned to a fourth woman and duly exhibited when the ice man appears the latter became suspicious It developed that one baby had passed along the line four women it having been announced that ice would be delivered to those who had babies DENIES REPORT OF SINKING Fin August 14 German sub- marine Deutschland which left Baltimore for Bremen on August 2 was sunk six days later by an allied warship in Atlantic according to a report brought hero Saturday by the French cruiser Anbe and given to er man by an orderly of the Amiral Aube's commander Captain Captain rumor The cap- tain assorted he had received no information whatever about the BLAME I FOR ATTEMPT LEADERS Kinney Minn August prominent members of the Industrial Workers of the World are under arrest today and the police are searching for two others in connection with the attempted kidnapping last night of Mrs Edward Eno wife of a deputy sheriff Mrs Lucy Clark of Virginia Minnesota and her four-year-old son Mrs Clark and Mrs Eno who are sisters were leaving a street car when four men attempted to overpower them Mrs Clark was struck on the head with a club and a serious wound inflicted They broke away from the men and ran screaming down the road The kidnappers threw the baby into a waiting automobile and fled The police were on trail in a few minutes and found the baby walking along the road Two men discovered hiding in bushes nearby were arrested They are L and Andy Ventich both members of the Indus- trial Workers of the World Physicians attending Mrs Clark declare her wound serious DEMOCRATS TO MEET Columbus 0 August of the new Democratic state central committee will meet at the Neil House Friday after- noon for the purpose of effecting m organization It is said that W W Durbin of will be a candidate o succeed himself as chairman of Central Committee but no authoritative an- of candidacies lias been made Chairman L Finley of the state executive committee was busy notifying members of the new central committee of the ing today He will probably be retained head of the executive it is claimed Fatally Wounds Sweetheart Morris HI August Guy O'Brien a wealthy and perhaps fatally wounded his sweetheart Miss Ida son while she was riding with her mother here last Wednesday was captured early today near Lee 111 He had eluded a posse of farmers and deputy sheriffs since the shooting Miss was engaged to O'Brien but the ment was broken While she and her mother were driving to Moms III O'Brien over- took them and when she re- fused to get into the motor car with him O'Brien fired two bullets into her body Predict Rising Temperature Columbus 0 August 14 a drop in ture to degrees Central Ohio today experienced real relief from the hot spell of a week ago following several days of gradually dropping temperature A heavy rain early yesterday helped make Sunday a day of ex- low tures The weather man says Central Ohio may ex- fair weather tonight probably on Tuesday with slowly rising tures Two Million Trainmen Involved In Trouble What a railroad strike in the United States mean is shown as Number of men involved in eight-hour demand Total number of employees involved Number of employees dependents affected Number of railroads involved Mileage of railroads involved Number of stockholders in roads Par value of capital stock of railroads in Total monthly receipts of railroads April 1916 Total monthly expenses April Amount roads say it would cost to grant demands Amount men say it would cost Passenger cars Other cars Total number of locomotives Investment in railroads 000 J New York August All grades of refined sugar were reduced 25 cents per hundred pounds today ing fine granulated Ohio Briefs Columbus 0 August Louis D Addison 55 prominent lawyer died suddenly today ot heart rouble JUMPS UNDER TRAIN St 0 August Flowers 19 threw herself in front of a B 0 train here and was in- stantly killed MAN MISSING 0 August Frank Cassily pen inmate on Hi honor roll is missing CRUSHED BY AUTO Canton 0 August James Kopleman 8 playing in a street dashed around a brick pile into the path of an automobile and was crushed to death The driver was exonerated across the way j are altogether no sty marriages and no iwo lake nn im- have the same arc perfectly m- way delegates will make u boat rip to THREE SHIPS SUNK London Aug an- the sinking of the Italian steamer Nereus the Italian ing vessel Dinn and the French sailing vessel Saint OHIO TROOPS ARE STILL Willis Columbus 0 no official word department officials backing up news dispatches from Washington to the effect that the Ohio guardsmen arc to be sent to the border us soon 113 guard officers wore today anxiously awaiting some definite word and in the meantime were ready possible die lonst possible lime would lie re- tired when the word go however optimistic nrl some the will out of camp before the cud uf MUST SHOW UNION LABELS Toledo 0 August to the annual con- of the Ohio F of Ij will ic required to show as tials union labels on his clothing FOR REFUGEES Huntingdon W Va gust thousand five hundred serum treatments have been ordered by the state authorities for use in inoculating persons ing in the Kanawha valley who were exposed to the dis- ease since the cloud burst which swept the valley and Thursday Other orders will be placed ately and all persons living in the flood swept section will he given three injections of the serum if the state health officers plan is carried out Cleveland 0 August of the striking milk wagon drivers returned to work at the Vernon and milk plants this morning and Cleveland milk deliveries are again normal following a three-day interruption Ratification by the unions Sunday afternoon of the agreement arranged by strike leaders and milk company officials after a five hour conference Saturday night ended the milk wagon drivers strike CASES New York August epidemic of infantile paralysis took a turn for the better today The number of new cases re- ported to the health department went under the hundred mark for the first time in several weeks During the 24 hours ending at 10 a m the plague Wiled 31 children and 95 new cases were reported 43 of them in Manhattan and 31 in Brooklyn This compares with yesterday's figures when there were 141 new cases and 33 fatalities The falling off in cases was attributed to the cooler weather New York Aug is the coolest August 14 in the tory of the local weather bureau Only once in 1879 was it cooler on any August day than it was when the mercury stood at 56 at 6 a m The temperature rose slowly during the day reaching 09 at a m Bathing beaches summer amusement resorts and open street cars lost popularity The cool wave will remain in- definitely the weather man says PLAN BIG SUFFRAGE MEETING Washington D C August for averting tion wide railway at least for the formulation of some tentative program which will be the ground work for further brightened today after President Wilson had conferred with 25 members of the great brotherhood After the conference the brotherhood representatives declared the president's gram of the situation and the position of the men might result in an under- standing being reached and those in touch with the conference laid the representatives of the men a disposition to co-operate to avoid a strike After hearing the leaders of the men two hours the president sent for the managers for a conference at 3 o'clock this afternoon How far whatever progress made at the conference with the men can go toward averting a break cannot be estimated until after the president confers with the manager's call The president according to those who attended the conference showed a familiarity with the situation that surprised the The president was most sympathetic said one of the brotherhood leaders and his surprising knowledge of the situation and of our position may result in an being reached The president it was said submitted no counter proposition to the men but he held out hope for an adjustment by legislation if necessary MAY TO The impression prevailed among the brotherhood leaden that as a last resort the president might ask congress for 8 hour day legislation The leaders explained to the president their stand against ar- by saying that they were carrying out the wishes of the 600 delegates who sat with them at their meeting with the eral mediators The delegates the president was told in voting on whether they should accept or reject the mediators proposal to arbitrate voted unanimously for rejection The brotherhood leaders Continued On Page Six DROPPED 30 DEGREES Cumberland Md August from Deer Park and other points in the Allegheny mountains this morning tell of a drop in temperature to 30 degrees The frost resembled a slight snow Considerable damage resulted MAY EXTEND London August mier Asquith introduced in the house of commons today a to extend the life of the present parliament for eight months or until the end of next May New York tions are being made for a great assemblage of suffragists at At- lanlie Cily X -I from September to 10th when leading from all over the country will attend the con- vention uf the National American Woman Suffrage Association to discuss ils Due of the most important phases if the will be a three cornered debute of the shall advocate granting of j suffrage lo women by amendment j to the federal constitution through action by the different states or by I The the parties have cut their v the e 111 methods lial candidates of ic and ecu invited to us of suffrage to and distinguished nen will deliver addresses FLOUR ADVANCED Columbus 0 August Columbus mills today ad the price of all grades of flour Go cents a barrel Prevailing prices now Winter patents ed Spring patents Now let the tittle weather dogs jark at the big nn 1 kept in along that cool spell was comin didn't I And it came loo didn't froze last Well then just remember before startin in t know the official weather man that all lie needs t produce h sort o dope you want is just a little time Here's for tonight and ably Tuesday Slowly rising peratures and wanner night Tuesday fair in east ers in west portion West and er tonight and
