The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 15, 1916, Page 6

ATTACK IN EAST Movement Begun as Counter Stroke to Russian Drive, } Kansas City Carpenter in Sympathy With Bui Laborers. ——tondon Botleves, Czar’s Forces Threatening Capital of Bukowina—French Lines Around Verdun Still Hold Out. London, June 13.—Heavy fighting is in progress over virtually the entire eastern front from the Gulf of Riga to Bukowina, a distance of between six hundred and seven hundred miles. From Riga to the Jasiolda river, northwest of the Pripet marsh region, the Germans have taken the offensive against the Russians, probably in an effort to divert the attention of the Russians who are in the second week | of their drive against the Austro- Hungarians and Germans from the Pripet marshes southward to Buko- wina. On all sectors of the northern line the Russians have successfully with- stood the German onslaught and drive en the attacking forces back. They have even gained ground against them north of the Tirul marsh, southwest of Riga, says Petrograd. Prisoners to 114,000, In Southwest Russia, in the region of Lutsk, fresh advances against the Austro-Hungarians are reported by the Russian war office, as likewise is the case across the border through East Galicia. In the southern part of this region the Russians are nearing Czer- nowitz, the capital. of the Austrian crown land of Bukowina. Although the Austrians at numerous points are vigorously counter-attack- ing, the only place the Russians have been forced to give ground before them was near Bohulintze, north of “SLAVS ARE NEAR GZERNOWITZ | A POPULAR MEETING PLACE before in the history of Kansas City have so many big conventions been landed for one year as are scheduled for the coming twelve months: Osteopathic Association will meet in Kansas City. delegates will be in attendance. Contractors, Members of the Bull ~ Association, Have Refused to Treat with the Union. ~ The disagreement between the Kan- building ‘laborers has been ther complicated by a decision’ part of the carpenters’ unfon ndét to stationed for protection. This @écis- ion was taken ata mass meeting at Labor Temple, and practically amounts to a declaration of ‘a sympathetic strike, - The building laborers are now. ona strike because the builders refused them an increase from 35 to 40 cents an hour and-also refused to discuss the matter or meet a committee, The building laborers asked the carpen- ters to join in a sympathetic strike against all contractors who refused the increase, which includes those who are members of the builders’ as- sociation, The carpenters reached their decis- ion, they said, in compliance with one of their by-laws which forbids any union carpenter to work on a job where labor troubles heve brought about the stationing of police for pro- tection. This means to all intents and Purposes that the carpenters will go on a sympathetic strike, because po- licemen have been stationed on. all jobs where the builders have replaced strikers with non-union labor. “We have started work on seven big jobs despite the strike,” 3, A. G. Badorf, secretary of the Builders’ As- sociation, said last evening. ‘There is only one big ‘job belonging to a member of this association where work has not been resumed. We will Latest photograph of Rear Admir- al Nathaniel R. Usher, commandant of the Brooklyn navy yard, the big- gest in the United States. He is ome of the most experienced and most popular men in the navy. Kansas City Has Been. Selected tor Many Big Conventions During | Next Twelve Months. Kansas City, Mo., June 13.—Never July 31 of this year the American It is expected 3,000 The Grand Army of the Republic trians were reinforced by German troops. The total of prisoners taken by the Russians since their offensive began has grown to more than 114,000. French Hold Firm at Verdun. Northeast of Verdun the Germans, with heavy effectives, have thrown successive attacks against the French positions north of Thiaumont, but all ~ the assaults were repulsed with seri- ous losses. The heavy bombardment by the Germans in this region extend- ed from Thiaumont eastward! to the ‘west and south of Fort Vaux, and to the French second line positions of Fort Souville and Fort Tavannes, about three miles northeast of Ver- blow after blow against the Austrians in Volhynia, Galicia and Bukowina, the Russian offensive is covering ground at an astonisning rate. Noth- ing like it has been seen since the early stages of the German offensive on the Eastern front last year. Yes- terday and today the czar’s forces captured fifty-three thousand officers and: men, bringing their total number of prisoners taken up to 108,000, reoc- cupied Dubno, the second of the Vol- hynian triangle of fortresses, and took large quantities of war munitions and food supplies. At its present rate of progress, the Russian drive promises to recover the ground lost to the Teutonic Allies-last year—especially that part of Galicia lying east and north of the Carpathian range. The ‘offensive has been on Just a week and the results obtained are little short of startling. Czernowitz is Threatened. The Austrian official communica- tion, issued at Vienna yesterday, ad- _ Inits that the forces of the dual mon- archy. were forced to withdraw “‘be- fore great superiority in numbers” in northeastern Bukowina. Czernowits, capital of the province, is dangerous- ly threatened. The Russians now are within twenty versts (fifteen miles) of the city, RES Saturday the Russians operating in Volhynia and Galicia took thirty-five annual meetings of seven or eight af- filiated organizations. The attendance from a distance is estimated at any- where from 30,000 to 50,000, depend- ing to a great extent on the rate the railroads will make for the occasion. with pleasure to the opportunity they will have of entertaining the Missouri Press Association for three days in September, beginning September 14. The Missouri Press Association is one of the largest state Press Associations in the United States. This meeting will be the fiftieth anniversary of the association, and will be celebrated in City this year is-undoubtedly the re- sult of the one day's visit of the edi- tors last year, when on short notice they were entertained by the Park Board, by a visit to Longyiew, a boat, trip, and an elaborate banquet by the Hotel Muehlebach. ~ The Southwestern Dairy Associa- tion will give a Dairy Show in Conven- tion Hall the week beginning Septem- ber 18. American Bankers’ Association, five to ten thousand strong. American Royal Live Stock Show in Convention Hall. Historical Society of 1,000 members will meet in Kansas City. * The convention of the Department of Superintendence of the National Educational Association will he held here in February of 1917. Saengerbund of the Northwest will be held June 18, 14, 15 and 16, 1917. ning in Cleveland, it was decided to hold the 1917 City Planning conven- tion in Kansas City. ; comes in August, bringing with it the who have quit, for the classification ‘building laborers’ does not include men with trades, just the men who do common, unskilled labor, carrying boards or materials and helping the men of trades. Plenty of labor of this kind is always available. Kansas Citians are looking forward $8,000 War Claim is Paid. Helen Fagan, 10 years old, of Springfield, will receive $8,000 from the United States government, by a recent. decision of the United ‘States court of claims in Washington, in payment for the steamer William Henry, which her grandfather, Capt- dun. appropriate style. A-handsome histor-/8in Samuel Houston, deliberately Great Russian Drive. {eal souvenir program will be issued. |#ank in the Arkansas river during the London, June 12.—Driving home| The coming of the meeting to Kansas|War between the states to prevent a cargo of Confederate supplies from reaching Fort Smith. Three Killed In Explosion. Three men were killed and three were hurt as a result of an explosion at the plant of the United States In- candescent Lamp Company in St. Louis. Two of the dead were R. W. Ferguson, general manager of the company,-and Stanley Nogalski, vice president- of the Laclede iron works. In the following week comes the Former Postmaster. Dead. Jo H. Smith, postmaster at Warrens- burg during the administration of President -Roosevelt and President Taft, died at his home there the other evening. Brig. Gen. Farrar Dies Bernard G. Farrar, brevet brigadier general, United States army, and former United States sub-treasurer at St. Louis, is dead at‘his home there, at the age of 85. ; * The bankers will be followed by the In November the Missouri State The biennial Saengerfest of the Burlington Conductor Killed. Frank Fruin of Brookfield, an ex. tra conductor for the Chicago, Burling: ton & Quincy railroad, was killed at St. Joseph when he stepped in front of a moving train. He was 32 years old and married, : At the recent meeting on city plan- An “L” Wreck Injures Thirty. New. York, June 9%.—About thirty were injured collision he: by a Sas City Builders’ Association and the | fur- | work on any jobs where policemen are | | corn is knee | interfered with cultiva | is getting weedy. Condition of grow- | ing corn, for the state, is 84. Only the northeast .section shows a de | creased acreage. . | Wheat—The wheat crop continues to show losses. Present condition is | 57.2. One month ago it was 62.8. On June 1, 1915, condition was 69.8. Ten- year average is 77.7. Hessian fly and winter killing are largely responsible for what in some counties amounts to almost a total failure. In some of the leading wheat counties, such as | Franklin and St. Charles, conditions are very bad. i Oats—The' oat crop with a favor- able season from now until after har- vest, will be the best that Missouri condition is 88. Acreage is about 1,050,000, or practically the same as that seeded in 1915. | WOMEN SUFFRAGISTS Quit Leaders in Missouri to With- draw Their Petitions. Announcement was made at the woman suffrage headquarters in St. Louis recently that petitions for plac- has had for several years. Present’ Defeat of Amendment in lowa Causes | Missouri State Bank “THE OLD RELIABLE” Low Rates on. Farm Loans We are in a position to make farm loans at a low rate of interest on either 5, 7 or 10 years time, with” privilege of making partial payments on interest paying dates. All pay- ments of principal and interest pay- able at our office. We make ab- Stracts to all real estate in Bates county‘at reasonable rates. | ing a suffrage amendment on the Mis- souri ballot next fall would not be filed. This decision was reached as a result of the defeat of woman suf- frage in Iowa. It had been planned to file the pe- titions after the suffrage demonstra- tion during the Democratic national convention, but the coming election now is considered ic >portune. A woman suffrage amendment was defeated at the election of 1914. will not enter any campaign this fall fer suffrage, according to Mrs. Fannie L. Taylor, the chairman for the Kan- sas City district. Mrs. Anna Gordon, the national W. C. T. U. president, had been requested by Mrs. Carrie Chapman ‘Catt, the national suffrage President, to use her influence in pre- venting such a campaign in Missouri on the ground that a second defeat both for suffrage and temperance woyld interfere with plans for @ na- tional suffrage amendment. A statewide educational campaign , for temperance will take the place of suffrage labors, says Mrs. Taylor. A lecture series will be opened in Au- gust under the auspices of the nation- ance propagandist. Another speaker will. be Mrs. Lillian Mitchner, state president of the Kansas W. C. T. U. Kanses City will hear hoth speakers during, September. Lamar, Boy Drowned. Ralph Wells, 20 years old of Lamar, was drowned the other afternoon in Muddy Creek, at Mayor Egger’s ranch. The body has not been recovered. The Walton Trust Co. Vaccinate Your Hogs. FRANK E. WALKER Tel. 564 References furnished on request. Ask for booklet at Peoples Bank. BUTLER, MISSOURI Current Loans §8,000,000.00 = os (U. S. Government License 32) Rep. Standard Serum Co. Butler 306 w. Mi range (88), Bates Connty, uri. of said Conrt, and to in favor of Beech