Waterloo Evening Courier (Newspaper) - February 10, 1915, Waterloo, Iowa Paper of Sections in Waterloo AND WATERLOO DAILY REPORTER FORECAST Chicago Feb Fair to night and probably Thursday wmm cr cast and portion tonight WATERLOO IOWA WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 10 1915 PRICE THREE CENTO PET D Desperate HandtoHand Attacks Mark Battles in the Carpa thian Mountains RUSSIANS CLAIM TO HAVE BEEN VICTORS Czars Officers State That Thou sands of the German Dead Were Left on Battlefields Feb of the desperate fighting in the Carpathian mountains with ferocious bayonet charges described as without pre cedent in history reached Petrograd today According to these reports repeat ed German attacks were finally re pulsed by the Russians and the Ger man dead lay In great numbers in front of the Russian positions The scene of the fighting was 30 miles south of Sanok in Galicia It is claimed by the Rus sian staff that the Hungarian forces in the Carpathians had been aug by 300000 Germans and that German officers are now definitely directing the Carpathian movement PROBABLE GERMAN PLAN The German plan insofar as it can be observed here now seems to be to abandon gradually their aggres sive on the Bzura and in the Vistula region and to transfer their troops to points where there is greater oppor of piercing the Russian de fensive The fighting in the Car would appear to be part o this procedure Concentrating their forces the night of Feb 7 the Germans earl the following morning began wha doubtless rapidly developed into one of the fiercest attacks in the ian campaign With their first line almost annihilated Germans pushed forward their second line un der the support of heavy artillery and were successful in gaining strategic elevation But from this position they were almost immedi ately by a Russian bayo net charge Attack and counter at tacks followed in rapid succession and towards evening the Germans in great numbers seemed to be in per manent possession of the heights DESPERATE FIGHTING Then a general counter attack the Russians resulted in two hours of hard handtohand fighting which left the snow clad hillsides strewn dead After a most stubborn resistance the German regiments finally driven out A Russian officer claims personally to have counted upwards of 1000 German dead before Russian positions on this hill He described this engage ment as typical of battles which are British Steamer Unfurls U S Flag in Irish Sea ANOTHER BRITISH LINER FLIES AMERICAN FLAG New York Feb gers on the Cunard line British steamer which arrived here today from England said that the steamer flew the Ameri can flag for nearly 24 hours on Jan 31 while passing thru the Irish sea The stars and stripes they said were hoisted on Sunday about an hour after the left Liverpool and not hauled own until early Monday morn ing INCIDENT VOUCHED FOR New York Feb was to sail from Liverpool Saturday Jan 30 but did not depart until the next morning Passengers heard that the reason for the delay was that a German submarine was hovering in the vicinity The Amer ican flag was raised they said short ly after the cleared the Mercey The explanation which the passen gers said they received from some of the under officers was that the American flag had been raised for the purpose of protecting Amer ican citizens among the 240 passen gers H T Strong of this city and James Ford of Lynn Mass were two of the passengers who said they would vouch over their names that the American flag was carried by the ship They said it was not until had cleared the Irish sea that it was hauled down Capt Thos Taylor commander of the refused to discuss the matter saying he waa under orders from the British admiralty not to talk AGENT IN DENIAL Chas P Sumner general agent of the line in this city denied today that the had flown the Amer ican flag except at her foremast which he explained is customary on all ships to indicate the country to which they are bound Both Ford and Strong as well as other passen gers insisted however that the flag was flying aft indicating the nation of the vessel At no time was the American flag raised at the stern of the said Mr Sumner The American flag was raised to the foremast head upon leaving Liverpool to indicate that the was sailing for an American port with American passen gers and American mail The Amer ican flag remained at the foremast head all the way across the ocean FURTHER WARNING Washington D C Feb the German am delivered to the state de today a copy of the memor andum of the German foreign office amplifying the German recent proclamation warning neutral ships not to enter the new war zone around Great Britain and Ireland EASTERN BUTTLE OF GREAT STRUGGLE occurring daily mountains in the Carpathian Report Boer Rebel Leader Executed Pretoria Union of South Africa via London Feb 10 a Certain newspapers of Pretoria have a report that Lieut Col 3 G Maritz the Boer officer who ias been at the head of the rebellious movement in South Africa has been executed by the Germans for treach ery movement was supported y the Germans of German southwest Africa There is as yet no official confirmation of this report GERARD ANNOYED IN THEATRE AT BERLIN Berlin via London Feb 10 p Ambassador Gerard and party from the American embassy yere attending a theatre last night hey were greatly annoyed by a man n the audience who protested be ause they were speaking English When this man was reformed that his were directed against the American Ambassador he began a oud and violent tirade against the United States for permitting the ex of arms The man finally was suppressed 30000 BRITISH A WEEK SENT TO FRANCE Washington Feb information has been received by the United States government it was stated here that for the ast month England has transported an average of a week across the channel without a single mishap Official estimates which have reached the American government place the number of British troops in the field now as close to 500000 with the tation that the army of a million which Lord Kitchener predicted would be in service soon was likely to be In France by spring London Feb 10 p The eastern battle front completely overshadows the western fighting line today as the center of interest in the military operations The Teutonic allies evidently are making desperate efforts tb especially in the region of Galicia to the south of and Lemberg where at tempts have been made to gain posi tions by sheer weight of numbers The general offensive movement of the forces along the Carpathian mountains has been suc at the eastern end of the range where the Russians are re treating into but London military experts are of the opinion that the Austrians must force ahead a long way in this direction before they can hope to affect the general Russian position The vital point is Dukla pass where a short advance by the Bus sians would compel the Austrians to look anxiously tions At present the battle in the region of Dukla pass has all the aspects of a draw The most sanguinary fighting ac cording to Russian reports took place in the Carpathian where the Germans attempted to cross Tuk holka pass The Teutons attacked in massed formation several ranks deep and gained several heights occupied by the Russians only to be forced back by desperate counter attacks Both sides must have suffered terri ble losses in this hand to hand bat tle TO BATTLE LIE ORT Paris Feb 10 a tain French newspapers today re print with the consent of the gov censor an article published in the Democrate de Delamont stat ing that previous to the battle of the Marne a party existed in France which to sign a peace treaty at the same time ceding to Germany the towns of Briey and Nancy French Lorraine the island of Madagascar and the protectorate of Morocco as well as paying an in The article continues General Joffre the French com mander in chief President Raymond Poincare and most of the cabinet ministers were opposed to the plan but the situation became so tense as to necessitate the resignation of Adolphe as minister of war and the formation of a ministry ol national defense After the battle of Marne Ger many proposed peace thru Caillaux offering to give up the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine with the exception of Strassburg re in exchange a small zone on the north seacoast extending from Calais to Dunkirk France in addi tion was to acknowledge the annexa tion of Belgium by Germany The answer to this proposal was the signing of a convention by the allies to make no separate peace Af ter this M Caillaux was appointed to an important position in the pay corps but was later relieved of this post and sent on a mission to Bra Will Not Take Any Action a Present Time Which Might Embarrass the Government HERR HIRSCH READS PAPER BEFORE DIET Social Democrats Will Call Atten tion of the Government to Proposed Reforms Berlin via London Feb 10 a while no desirous of presenting any partisan issues or of taking any other action during the present crisis which might militate against the harmon Sous cooperation of all parties hav surrendered none of their views This is shown by the attitude of th Socialist members of the Prussian diet which began a session yester day Herr Hirsch a Socialist dele gate read on behalf of his party I declaration which Is in part as fol lows The Social Democratic maintains its opposition based on the former policy which policy has remained in all material things unchanged The party however refrains in this cal time from introducing discussions of a polemic nature into the consid of the budget at its first read ing SOCIALISTS HAVE DEMANDS Herr Hirsch added that his party later would call attention to com plaints concerning tlie provision for soldiers and for dependents and the food supply of the nation and Russian Duma Encourages War Petrograd a tions expressing the conviction that Russia would carry on the war until the peace of Europe was assured were adopted by the duma at the close of its sittings today The resolutions which were adopted with a dissenting rote said in part The duma expresses its firm con viction that the great national and liberating objects of the present war will be achieved and declares the in determination of the Russian nation to carry on the war until con ditions shall have been imposed on he enemy assuring the peace of Eu rope and the restoration of right and ustice At the close of the speech of For eign Minister Sazonoff which was received with loud applause Prof Paul N Milukoff addressed the duma n behalf of the constitutional demo crats We are convinced he said that he accomplishment of our principal acquisition of the straits and be guaran teed In good time both from a diplo matic and military point of view France Lost Army Rations Thru Theft Feb 10 3 a will be brought before a Paris Bechoff court martial the end of this month charged with having received army rations which had been appropriated by Army Paymaster Desclaux She is the wife of a dressmaker and she was taken into custody at her home in this city four days ago The preliminary investigation of her case now is completed It is charged she knew these military stores were stolen when she received them Paymaster Desclaux also will ap pear before the court as will an army mail carrier named who is charged with having been an accom plice The mail carrier carried pack ages from quarters near Reims to Mme house in Paris GIRL DIES OF DANCING ToUs Mother of Dandy Time Found Dead in Bed Hammond Ind Feb you have a good time at the party Mrs William Krueger asked her daughter Gertrude 18 years old Yes hada dandy time I danced every dance but I feel queer The young woman was found deau n bed soon afterward The coroners verdict was heart failure brought on by dancing BILIA SUNDAY NOT WANTED Princeton University Declines to Let Evangelist Use Auditorium Princeton N J Feb mission to use Alexander hall the Princeton University auditorium for a to hear Billy Sun day was refused to a committee of students yesterday by President Hib ben GIRL OF 10 KILLS Grieved by Death of Mother Slic Sets Fire to Clothing Bedford Ind Feb Colglazier a girl com mitted suicide here by setting her clothing on fire Grief over the death of her mother caused the act Smoko Tom Moore lOc cigar tions on the free expression oi thought He could not permit the occasion to pass he continued with out giving expression to the demand of his party that the government in consequence of the situation broughl about by the war should concede certain measures desired by the greal mass of the people This included the demand that the police cease their battle against the labor movement in general and in particular against the Social Democrats and other Socialist organizations Herr Hirsch said that his party was opposed to political oppression but that the basis of all political re forms must be their equal applica tion to all minorities as in the case of the Danes and Poles His party had hoped Herr Hirsch continued that the government would fulfill its duty by granting uniform suffrage with the secret di rect ballot He mentioned the desire of the Social Democrats for an hon peace and concluded PEACE IS DESIRED We know that this war is desired by the people in none of the belli gerent lands that its end is every where longed for by the people We cherish the confidence that the voices demanding peace will grow more nu merous in all belligerent lands will make themselves heard in influential quarters and that under the ence of this desire for peace espe in the laboring classes of all lands an assured peace may come speedily to the well being of the German people and of all humanity Herr von Heydebrand replied to Herr Hirsch on behalf of the non Socialist parties He declared that the present moment was not a suit able one for advancing special wishes or complaints The situation was one which demanded that the entire Prussian people show itself united as its soldiers on the battle field were united KIRK PATRICK EXPLAINS HIS POSITION TO WADE Insists He Has No Personal Feeling Against Iowa City Man Washington D C Feb presentative Kirkpatrick yesterday sent a letter to Judge Wade express ng his views on the Iowa Judgeship Kirkpatrick said in the letter he was offering no opposition to Judge Wade personally but he insisting the go to a man from the southern judicial district He added that he had told the and attorney general Judge Wade was well qualified but the fact le was In the northern district was n the way of his appointment and he would insist on some man from he southern district having the lace On the other hand officials of the V INSIST GO Waterloos Population July 1 1915 34131 111 Deadlock in Senate Continues in Longest Continuous Session of Which There IB Record SEVERAL SENATORS ARE PRACTICALLY EXHAUSTED With Both Sides Equally Deter mined an Extra Session of Congress Looms Large Washington Feb over President Wilsons ship pur chase in a continuous session which exceeds by many hours any other of which there is record the senate today showed no signs of an end of the legislative struggle At 10 oclock this morning the sen ate had been in continuous session fortysix days and two nights Senator Townsend lican had relieved Senator Sherman who had been talking since 1 a m opening the days assault on the ship from the Republican side While Mr Townsend spoke fresh forces on both sides of the chamber relieved the tired senators who had stood guard thru the night STRAIN TOO MUCH FOR SOME Many senators had begun to break under the physical strain of the fight Senator Penrose was compelled last night to go to his hotel under the care of a physician Others were forced by physical exhaustion to re tire to their homos but plans of sen ate leaders were made to rush them On April 15 1915 just from tho last decennial census und midway until that of 1920 the esti mated population of tho city of Wa will bo 33834 compared with In mi Increase ot 7141 or at the rate of 208 per cent for tho live year period Tho estimates have been prepared for this per and are based on tho methods followed by tho United States census bureau which will Issue official 1015 estimates on July 1 several months after the identical figures have been given publicity in this paper The annual estimates by the census are as of July 1 but us Ap ril 15 is the expiration of the five year period since tho last census that date is given tho preference in this WATERLOO POPULATION Juno HMO April July July July 120817 July July J April 1583881 July 1 84131 7141 publication However the July 1 eB of the citys population la giv en as well On that date it will be 34131 back on short notice should their votes be needed Twice during the night Republic ans and allied Democrats of the op position vainly sought to adjourn the senate but administration lines held firmly Majority Leader Kern as early in the day that there would be no letup until the pending question at least could be put toa vote The pending question still re mains on a motion of Senator Fletch er to recommit the with tions for its immediate amendment and return to the senate PRESIDENT TAKES HAND Meanwhile means for forcing the shipping thru were being dis cussed by President Wilson at early morning conferences today with Ma Leader Underwood of the and Representative Kitchin who is to succeed Mr Underwood as house leader after March 4 The presidents suggestion to the house leaders was that the senate shipping might be attached as to the Weeks al passed by the senate providing or the use of naval vessels in carry ng mails and freight The Weeks Is now before the house naval affairs committee The president it was understood had not finally de termined to press this idea but it is said to have the support of a num ber of Republicans in the senate EXTRA SESSION LOOMS LARGE Mr Kitchin went to the White House primarily to take up with the president the views of members of he ways and means committee that here should be no extra session of congress He stated his position to the president but went away with the Impression that the resident will insist on the shipping even it necessitates an extra ses ion The president told Mr Kitchin that he had not given up lope of passage of the during the session When Senator Townsend d Senator Gallinger moved to lay side the ship and take up tho water power That proposal however was tabled 49 to 39 Sena ors Bankhead and Varda man of the Democratic insurgents the Democratic side of the ote Senator La Follette n voted with the Republicans to ake up the water power sORRIS VOTE IN The loss of Senator Norris vote howed a threatened break In the ad ministration lines The Nebraska disclosed that he was whether to aid the efforts to orce the measure thru The Republicans have shown e said Just before he entered the Paris Feb 10 a Rota Tribunal has rejected Count Boni de Castellanes suit for annul ment of his marriage to Anna Gould now the Duchess of Talleyrand ac cording to a special dispatch from Rome Arguments in tho third trial of the case were closed yesterday aft er which the court announced its de Count de Castellanes appeal to tho Vatican courts for the annulment of his marriage to Anna Gould has been pending since 1910 Under tho ec judicial system before a re ligious marriage is annulled the case must be heard three times by the Rota Tribunal each time by three different judges and two decisions must favor a contestant before the judgment Is final In the Castellane case tho present Duchess of Talley rand has won two of these decisions If tho court had been successful in obtaining annulment of the religious marriage he would been enabled to marry again Under the French law he would have obtained posses sion of their three children who were given into the custody of their moth er when she obtained a divorce in the Paris courts on Nov 14 1906 De Castellane based his petition largely on affidavits made by Prince Del Drago and Jean de Castellane the counts brother who declared the then Miss Gould invalidated the re ligious marriage by declaring to them a quarter of an hour before the cere mony was performed that sho intend ed to divorce her husband if ever lie were unfaithful to her Anna Gould daughter of the late Jay Gould was married to Count de Castellane in New York city on March 4 1895 After her divorce from him she married Prince Helle de Sagan on July 7 1908 and became the Duchess of Talleyrand when her husband succeeded to the title upon the death of his father In Paris Feb 21 1910 IS OBJECT OF HIT FORCES White Man Is Lynched in Ky Shot Constable Mayfleld Ky Feb Tinker white who it is charged shot and killed Constable Richard Tart was taken from the county jail here late last night and lynched His body was then riddled with bullets The lynching was done by fifty or more men who rode In from the northern part of the county where the shooting of the constable took place last Monday NOW LAW IN ALABAMA Montgomery Ala Feb preventing any person from receiving more than one quart of liquor a month from outside the state became a law automatically yesterday Gov ernor Henderson declining either to veto or sign it It is effective June 30 Dry 27 to 4 Denver Feb administra n statewide prohibition was passed on third reading In the senate today 27 to 4 It contains provisions for the enforcement of the tion constitutional amendment adopt hamber that they are In a by the electors last ion to delay a vote on the ship the end of the present session I COST TWO LIVES By pressing the wn accomplish nothing and prevent the passage of urgent legislation which will fall en tirely unless passed at this session It seems to me that the ship could better go over until the next Lone Tree Woman Drops Dead at Sight of Childs Body Iowa City Feb the 8 yearold daughter of Mr and Mrs national committee said last night j session than other measures j Hahn of Lone Tree was burn hey regarded the matter as ally closed and were convinced ludge Wade would be named i should be killed The loss of Senator Norris ed to death with kerosene with which El Tovar Broadleaf Havana advertisement If thru error ot the carrier boy or other cause this paper should not be delivered at your home by 6 oclock please phone 3330 and si copy of paper will be sent After oclock call 2059 Is vote i she attempted to light the kitchen i would once more place the and Mrs O H Peters aged 55 tration forces on the defensive By dropped dead of heart disease when voting with the Republicans he the girls charred body wag removed would give tho opponents of the her home for examination a majority With his support The little girl ran from the house the administration forces could getand plunged herself in tlie snow but 1 tic vote which would be decided by to no avail She was dead when first tlie vice presidents ballot her Physicians attend LEADERS AROUSED lnR her declared death came almost An alternative suggestion taken up without her nerve centers Des Moines Feb Francis today was in conference with other temperance leaders In the sen ate to making the pro amendment to be reported to the senate on Friday a special order of business for next Tuesday at oclock Tho delay was proposed because tho mulct law re peal will lie before the senate on Fri day and will have right of way over tho prohibitory amendment Senator Wilson who brought about the postponement of the action on the prohibitory amendment said to day that be will not consent to mak ing the amendment a special order of business for next Tuesday He says ho will call up his resolution on Fri day and that if the mulct law oratory takes all day he will bring up the prohibitory amendment on Saturday Temperance forces over the state are bringing every pressure to bear on members of the senate to repeal the mulct law Every member of that body is receiving resolutions and delegations from home are call ing personally to urge that the pro amendment and the mulct law repeal both go thru Forger Known in Iowa Is Caught Des Moines Feb Wainwright jr alias Montgomery Milno is under arrest according to news received by the town Bankers association yesterday To some persons who are inclined to romantic love tales these names may sound familiar There Is a rea son Richard Wainwright jr was one of Mrs B D B N nicest heroes and Montgomery Milne was another The person who is under arrest Is qualified only for the villains part in a detective story however Ing to police officials He Is a forger He was first heard of when he passed some worthless checks drawn on the First National bank of Boone last August Lately he has been operating in eastern states principally New Jer sey His latest trick was to pass a check for on a Philadelphia nautical instrument house in pay ment for about 285 worth of mer he had picked out He walked away with the change Mr Wainwright has posed as a lieutenant in the army successfully in some of his money escapades Some of bis checks are works of art pur porting to have originated in an army quartermasters office and bear Ing the various necessary official in by the president with house leaders was that Senator Gores substitute shipping be taken up Continued on were paralyzed by the burns The body was carried to the U H Jewell home where Mrs 0 IT Peter moth er of Mrs Jewell was staying Rep Good of Iowa Stirs Up a Tempest Washington D C Feb Representative Good of Iowa lican threw the house into a tempest of debate today by declaring dent Wilson had influenced the inter state commerce commission in its re cent decision granting freight rate increases The debate was on an Item of 3 000000 in the sundry civil for the physical valuation of railroads Representatives Fitzgerald Moss and Gordon defended the president No one seriously believes said Representative Fitzgerald that the president has attempted to coerce members of the commission to fen der any decision in the way that tho evidence would not justify The president has not attempted to in fluence the commission on any ques tion whatever WALSH Des Moines Feb Stone Webster Co won a victory over the Walsh interests of Burlington and Davenport today In securing the Fort Madison electric plant by a de of the supreme court which held their claim valid Drys Copy Signatures on Mon ster Document Filed With County Auditor Last Night WETS PROCURE 452 MORE THAN NECESSARY Sponsors Admit Some Duplica tions but Declare Statement Is Best Ever Compiled Frank Campbell upon com a rechecking of names on the saloon petition declared today that with duplications ex cluded tho majority for the pe tition la approximately 868 Temperance stated this afternoon We many cations there mre ms many irregularities M in the petition Exhibit A In the form of a pon derous petition containing pages each page representing the signature of a voter the center of a corps of workers for the drys this morning in the supervisors room at the court house This exhibit will form the of the third wet and dry contest in this city in the past four years The new statement of consent was filed with Deputy County Auditor George C Welker shortly before 5 oclock yesterday afternoon by At torney W N and Frank Campbell It was presented in the names of C L Holden J C Koe neke Ira J Hoover and C B Huaton for themselves and others on the petition It was impossible to prevent a few duplications said Mr Campbell who has been in active charge of the campaign for names this morning tho the number will small It was prepared with the greatest care possible to avoid irregularities duplications will consist of names of voters who were asked to sign a sec ond time to correct some defect in penmanship It was necessary to bind the petition yesterday morning For that reason it was not possible In every instance to remove cates but there was no desire to make the petition appear large for a voter no matter how many time he signs can be counted only COPYING NAMES Bright and early this morning of the Business Temperance association which been resisting the petition were at the court house to set a clerical firce at work copying the signatures Those early on the scene were j w Arbuckle and S B Reed attorneys for the drys W W in charge of temperance headquarters B A Archer George F and A W Chamberlin A aft er 8 oclock A F Gates ing a number of young lady at the Waterloo Business ap It was only a time thereafter until the clerical force was busy filling out cards wllch called for the following Information Ward number precinct petition number poll number witness date Separate cards were for each signer The Information was put in with a pen r Mr McCleery and Mr Archer reading from opposite the monster petition gave this the necessary data was ex to write the njime on the card exactly as it appeared on the petition NO OUTSIDE HELP Those in active charge of the work for the drys at the court house today stated that no plans had been made to bring id outside help in preparing lists of to which objection may be mad During the previous contests over petitions in this city the drys assisted by J B Hammond of Dies Moines Mr Hammond is now devoting his entire time to social purity work being lo at San Francisco There is really no need for out side assistance said an attorney for the drys this morning Mr Campbell and Joe Darrah re Continued on Page Twelve OLD LIBERTY BELLS VOICE HEARD AGAIN Philadelphia Feb the first time In threequarters of a cen tury the sacred Liberty Bell In Inde Hall was rung Sunday A group of city officials surrounded the casing by which the relic is guarded and watched its opening Then Chief Ball who has direct charge of the bell struck the ancient bronze with a wooden mallet The note was dull and muffled for the crack In the bell has destroyed Its timbre The ringing of the bell was a test In a few days the bell will be again and its queerly dull note will travel thousands of miles ftlong a strand of slender telephone wire to the ears of Mayor Rolph of Francisco and officials of the exposition
