Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 17, 1915, Page 1

\J JSSIANS FFER BIG SSES: MANY OBLE BORN IMONG DEAD NG IN CARPATHIANS IS TED NOW BECAUSE OF THE ATHER CONDITIONS; ON ISTERN FRONT THERE IS [PARATIVE QUIET (By Associated Press.) don, Appril 17.—Weather jons seem to be the chief of the present halt' in opera- in the Carpathians. ' The cor- hdent of the Associated Press the Austrian forces reviewing tuation declares the Russian ive was checked after debouch- n the plans on the Hungarian of the Lupkow Pass and tening out the Austrian which had been driven to the n line near Uzsok Pass. They the Russians have suffered | losses in making an effort to he Hungarian plains, the ties being particularly heavy the noble born officers of the regiments. the western front signs are pg that the Germans may an- | the long predicted general | ve of the allies but actual op- 1 ps seem to have relapsed into \ atus of mid-winter quiet. | the news of the resumption of of the allies’ fleet off the jpelles comes the report that n press is giving the impres- hat there may be a possible tion of the presemt poliey: of JEPTICS SOMETIMES CAUSES g | [ l 1 on, Apr. T7—Care aust be ! in the use ot @iktiseptics, lest | ove to 'be health food for mi- ‘ In any case, antiseptics can | oduce an absolutely sterile e statements were made be- he Royal Society of Medicine Almoth Wright in an addreds septic infection of wounds. not deny the great value of ptics, pointing to the good re- pf inoculation against typhoid kjaw, but he claimed that in- fion was rather a preventative cure, Some day he thought ort of treatmenit would be ap- jin the case 'of ‘wounds. ordinary m#m, said Sir Alm- hinks when he uses antiseptics killing microbes. Yet experi- have been made showing the bn of antiseptics to bacterial in certain ‘proportions causes a to multiply. ptics is an important matter. COLONY MAY (By Associated Press.) in, April 17. Hollweg, imperial chancellor, fidering the feasibflity of a ¢ and crippled in the war m: D their life after it is over. Desen . thousands of moble and P: hen peace is concluded will be bjured and who eravitate . into soldiers’ Prevent this is ome of | objects of the proposed Kersten feels that soldiers in situation soon come to feel for them. Thus the de- ation of the strength of the BE ESTABLISHED Dr. Von Beth- ion for the &‘2 yment of o colony”’ near the ous old school in South'Prussia, of be is an alumnus, where those originator of the idea is Paul bead of a big factory in He believes that there Eirls and widows of soldiers 0 marry the mem who have otherwise the hey are useless and In the hereas they can continue a and happy existence if they leir own homes and wives to "0 believes that the loss of OF a leg is not a defect that Way affects future genera- It injured soldiers can mar- live in colonies instead of in bY themselves, he thinks that hrate will have some of the that is to be necessary after PUBLISHED IN THE BEST TOWN IN THE BEST pag g THE BEST STATE GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS! i § RUSSIAN” COMMANDER SHOT BY (NE OF HIS OWN GENERALS GEN- ERAL WHO SHOT THE DU KE AND THEN KILLED HIMSELF (By Associated Press.) Berlin, April 17.—The General Ans-Eiger, a newspaper of Duisberg, says it learns from an lll\impt‘a(‘h: able source that reported sickness of Grand Duke Nicholas, command- er-in-chief of the Russian forces, Wwas due to a shot in the ahdomon‘ fired by the late General Sivers ui the defeated Russian Tenth army, The newspaper says that during ;lll argument between the Duke and Sivers, in which the former took the general to task for his defeat on the Prussian border, that the Grand Duke boxed Sivers on the ear. It is declared that Sivers then drew his revolver and shot and wounded the Grand Duke and then shot himself —_— ITALY'S ENGINEERS TO COLORS Rome, April 17.-—All artillery and engineer reserve officers were called to colors yesterday for a pe. riod of sixty days. The engineers number about 12,000 officers and men, while the artillery arm of Italy’s land forces consists of 263 batteries, 110 companies and 51 de- pots. Contrary to the statements which have been printed in the ally press Austria .Hungary has never opened any direct negotiations with Italy concerning possible territorial concessions. Prince von Buelow in his endeavors has only been animat. ed with a desire to eliminate the causes of antagonism, which has always existed between Austria and Ttaly, but even his work was most | cautiously directed. The call to col- ‘ors is in snticipation of some turn in events which is expected next month. WONEN OF GERMANY AND ENCLAND TO AITEND PECE CONFEREMCE (By Asoclated Press) The Hague, Netherlands, April 17 —Many well-known women from Germany and the British Isles will meet at the International Congress of Women on April 28 notwithstand- iny that heir countries are at war, and contrary to reports that German women had decidea not to attend. A list of German and Briish wom- en who have expressed their inten- tion of being present either as in- dividual members or as dclegates of societies, contains the following names: ; Germany: Fraulein Anna 12din- ger, Frankfort-on-Maln; Frau Pro- tessor Dr. Heidsieck, Coblence; Frau Dr. Lung Haesch Ernst, Gant- ing, near Munich; Frau Margarethe L. Selenka, Berlin; Frau Marie Wegner, Bresslau, Frau Johana Birnbaum-Kadisch, Magdeburg; Dr. Anita Augepurg, Munich; I-‘ruu}mn Lida Gustave Heymann, Munich; Frau Frida Perlen, Stuttgart; and ‘Frau E. Von Sehlumber:er, Stutt- gart. British Isles: Miss Mary E 0'Sullivan, London; Mrs )] Elizabeth Mary Southey, Brighton; Miss F Sylvia Pankhurst, London; Miss ( Drake, London; Miss L Lind-af- Hageby, London; Miss Gorv»noot!:‘ Miss Esther G. Roper nnd..\lr- ( Despard, London; Mrs. Crossfield, Cambridge; Miss May \\'nlsory. Ara- rowan, Scotland; Miss ]llah!‘l‘h Helen Ford, London; Miss 4\la~rgar~t Ashton, Manchester; Miss 'at'ull-x‘:;. Birmingham; Miss E. L \oynn;A. Richmond, Surrey: Ml.\\“\lann-\' Stopes, London; Miss Violet a:- burgh, London; Frnnc::ria,l.l Newton, London, A 231-'10,‘_ triend; Miss Norah L. Smyth, ‘,‘ don; Miss Chrystal ,\Iar.\hllfm.r,‘\“ Marshall, Miss Courtnes. Mus' y h“i Mrs. Wilson Wilson, and Miss Isal Fo;dn.hr as is known her! : od States is to b represente large contingent of "omen; whom are Miss Jane dda::. number of members of ti party. ROOSEVELT BrooklyD. d bya CEVIEWS SAILORS RE b=z 17 —Assistant e the Unit- among and a Peace LAKELAND, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1915. EAST PRUSSIAN TOWN WRECKED BY RUSSIANS View of a part of Gerdanen, an East Prussian town, where the German forces were shelled out by the Russians. Hardly a house remained standing. MRS, ROCKEFELLER (CALL FOR SANDBAGS ISEVEN LLED: LEFT_ MCH 10 FRIENDS, RELATVS D CHARTY TWO MILLION DOLLARS LEFT TO CHARITY, MOST OF WHICH GOES TO BAPTIST INSTITU- TIONS (By Associated Press.) New York, April 17.—The will of the late Mys. John D. Rockefeller, which was filed today, leaves about five hundred thousand dollars apd valuable friends and rejatives, and also bequeathes real estate, estimated about two million, to charitable in- stitutions. 5 NOW T RY - FRON BATLEFED ARE USED IN TRENCHES AND ALSO TO MAKE HOUSES FOR MEN AND OFFICERS QF THE ARTILLERY (By Assoclated Press.) London, April 17.—Sandbags by the million is the latest call from the front. They are d not only for parapets to trepches, EICHT W , BY BOMBS FROM ~ AEROPLANES WHICH FLEW OVER AMIENS, FRANCE, YESTERDAY; CATHE- DRAL WAS NOT DAMAGED (By Asociated Press) Amiens, France, April 17.—Seven but to|persons were killed and eight were make houses for officers and men of { wounded by bombs dropped from the artillery as well as for the guns [two German aeroplanes which flew and. telephone stations. bags for each mile. The Infan-|over Amiens yesterday. articles of ' jewelry to!try trenches require about 100,000 | dral apparently was the target for The Cathe- the missiles, but it was not dam- “When we: advapce,”” writes onglaged. The first aeroplane appeared “efieer, ““we have né t¥he to empt 1h""the morning and 'dFopped “five There"ate chariable be- out old sandbags. * We' need fresh-lhomsbe:. Four women and two men quests, to be distributed at the dis- ones, made- either. of coarse Mnen or were Kkilled, while seven other per- cretion of her executors. The most beneficiaries gre Baptist church in- stitutions. The Spellman seminary at Atlanta, Ga., I8 one of them. SIR JOHN LAMB, LONDON OFFICIAL, IS DEAD London, April 17--8ir John Cam- eron L.amb, who as Second Secretary’ of the British Postoffice had a larze part in the development of the port and telegraph system of England, is dead at his bome here, aged 70 years. His death was hastened by the shock of news that his son had heen qilled in action. Sir John's work in the postoffice covered a period of over forty years and was chifly concerned with the administration and development of the telegraph. He was an ardent advocate of a cheap telegraphic ser- vice and carried through most of the arrangements which made possible the present flat rate of six pence 12 cents) for any twelve word mesage anywhere in Great Britain. He took part in all the great internat- jonal telegraphic congresses, and was in charge of the nezotiations whereby the British postoffice ac- quired ownership of all lines SCHOOL FOR ONE ARMED MEN HAS BEEN OPENED Ieidelberg, April 17.—A “School for One-Armed Men,” with 35 pu- pils from the 19th army corps, of- fering instructiop in writing, ste- nography, typewriting, bookkeeping and drawing courses, and a rospec- tive curriculum ef vocational cours- ¢s, has been opened here at the home of Associate Judge Leser The latter has placed his home at the disposition of the unique insti- tution, and has had it fitted out as a hospital. Thirtj-hours of instrue- tion are given each week, which is telephone ‘unus." Lodz, Poland, April 17. night are almost equally Lodz. now in occupation are straining ev- ’o:ry resource to restore to the city its former character as an industrial and manufacturing center. New rail- lwn\x are being built, roads busy |tories. are being prepared. for uses. The German military men de- | Day and 4 sons were injured. . The. s:conl acroplane. appeared in the evening. One of its bombs demolished a house in | decapitating one woman and injur- The German officials who are | ing another. BOSTON TECH SHOW Boston, April 17.—The Boston and | Tech will give its first production of |bridges. are being constructed, fac-|«Getting A Cross” at the NeW | Theater here today. Shubert An important part of the production will be a bal. clare that they have come to stay,|jet, chorus girls and chorus men, |und they are making preparations |gelected from among the students by accordingly. On the side of defsnases, Miss Virginia Tanner who has been there has been not only a tremend .| working with them for some time. ous strengtheming of communica- Students from all parts of the world tions, but also @ great building of [will take part in these. The show |tron(~h(m all through the country around about. The population of LodZ has always been largely German and Polish, byt now every Russian official has dis- appeared, and the wealthy Russians {who otcupled the fine .the fashionable section of the have crossed the frontier, will be repeated tomorrow afternoon Aand eveaing. RATE HEARING POSTPONED Birmiagham, Ala., April 17—The residences 18 | hoaring of the petition of the L. & ity ) N rallway on the matter of Increas. leaving ingpassenger rates from 2 1.2 cents houses and furniture in the hands of | ¢, 3 cents per mile, which was to their enemies. Many of the German officers quartered in the Grand hotel. A German prefect of police has been installed, with a force of Polish and German citizens under him. have come up today, has been post are | poned for a month. * CATHOLIC CHARITY BALL April Boston, 17.—One of the Although the food situation Was|jargegt charity balls ever given by’ for some time acute, this has now |cgeholics will take place under the | bakeries for the poor as well as a|pjght R number of cheap restaurants. Per- sons desiring to pass from town to town in Poland must purchase a fresh passport for each journey, and BIRD AND ARBOR DAY Springfield, 11., April 17.-—By for this a fee of about 25 cents i8|proclammation of Governor Dunne, charged. today and Oct. 22 have been desig. All stocksof metals, wool, cotton. |jated ue dates to be observed as bird and other goods useful to the army, |,ud arbor cay. have been commandeered, and most- 1y sent back to Germany. Several of the factories have been opened and work is plentiful. D. A. R. CONGRESS 17.—The | | Washingtom,. April BALTIMORE'S STEEPLECHASE Baltimore, April 17.—The Six- teenth annual Grand Natjonal Steeplechase race will be run here today . There is a large entry. to be supplemented by work under twenty fourth Continental Congress|SOLDIERS TO BE PENSIONED theaus pices of the local industrial school Dr. Freiberr von Ku'enu- berg of Heidelberg university, is in charge of instruction. The 35 pupils represent 31 occu- pations and trades, including cigar makers, railway employes, lock- smiths and day laborers. All are eager to embrace the opportunity . It has been found that within only a few days the man who has lost his arm learns to write with his of the D. A. R. was begun here to. day and will continue for one week. Special trains have been run from ACCORDING TO DISABILITY Paris, April 17—President Poin- all directions and there is a large |care has just signed a decree regard- jattendance. They will exchange | ing pensions of wounded soldiers, |compliments with the president who | which is a departure Pfom prévious has been asked to address them VIRGINIA DEBT CASE pension regulations in France, in that the amount allowed to maimed soldlers is proportionate to the ex- tent of the disability. There are Washington, April 17.—The Vir.|eizht categories, the first of which ginia debt suit against West Vir-|comprises those whose capacity for of . Mrs. THE LAKELAND EVENING ‘TELEGRAM BOOST-REMEMBER THAT SATAN STAYED IN HEAVEN UNTIL HE BEGAN TO KNOCK HIS HOME TOWN NORTH CAROLINA MURDER MYSTERY 15 ABOUT 10 S. P. CHRISTY CONFESSES THROWING WARREN'S BODY INTO CREEK; ALSO CHARGES WARREN'S WIFE AND SON-IN- LAW WITH THE MURDER o (By Associated Press.) Winston Salem,N . C., April 17. —That S. P. Christy drove about the entire day with the body of G. J. Warren in a trunk, finally dis- posing of it in a creek, is said to have been confessed by him, accord- ing to police statements here today. It 18 added that Christy denied any 'direct connection with the killing, clalminz that Warren’s wife chlor- oformed him and that her son-in- law then strangled him with a rope. Warren, her daughter and ber daughter’s husband were recent- ly arrested for the murder which occurred last August. Christy was arrested. yesterday. S50TH ANNIVERSARY WAR'S LAST BATTLE Colunbur, Ge., Avril 17.--The fittiets anniversary of the last bat . tle in the Civil war, which = was fought licre after the war was end. ed, i8 belng suitably commemdrated here today, where the battle was fought. It has beem made a home - coming week and a large sprinkling of the veterans on both sides who took part in the “‘posthumoys" bat. tle are present. The celebration will: centinue four days and therg will be civic pageants. WHOLESALE GRAIN . Qmaha, Neb., April 16.~The Weatern Grain- Dealers’ Assogiation, an’ organization with aboyt: . B00. members, met here today ip.saaual session . The matter of the probable effect upon the next crop of the Eu zopean war will be_considered. The nation wide movement sition tn spoculation in futures wiiy siso be cousidered. ; 0 \ t & v T K ¥l Tl FRENCH FLYING " WADE 10,000 TRWS P TO AN, 5 (By Associated Press.) Paris, April 17.—Army statistics have figuréd out that between Aug. 1 and Jan. 1, 1915, French military flying machines' made 10,000 recom- noltering trips covering a . million miles distance during a total flying time of 18,000 hours. GRAND DUCHESS OLGA SERVES AS RED CROSS NURSE (By Associated Press.) Petrograd, April 17.—The Grand Duchess Olga is serving as a Red Croés nurse on a hospital train’ be- tween the Galacian front and Kief. At‘hnr own request she is treated exactly the same a4 the other nurses, and is addr . 1ike them, merely. as “siater.” Shd'wears the overall and colf of a nursing sister. Re- cently a doctor, new to the train, Qddremd her as “Imperial High- néss.” She shook a warning finger are do “imperial highnesses here, only sisters.” A correspondent who came through to Kief on the hospital train writes: “We were about half way to our destination. In the din- ing car a nurse was cutting up bread and distributing it to the in- valids. Those who could sit at the table were taking their tea in huge mugs. “A bright-eyed little man with a bandaged forearm, stopped an order- ly. ‘Where is Olga Alexandrovna?' he asked. The orderly looked over at the table. bread,” he answered. b “‘Can I go and take a piece from her?’ asked the wounded man. “‘Yes, you can, but do not call her anything but sister.’ “So the young injured man went up to the Grand Duchess and said, ‘Sister, will you give me a piece of bread?” “‘T will give,” replied the nurse, repeating his phrase in the Russian fashion. “ ‘Thank you, sister,” sald the lit- “That is she cutting iy Sunday No! 139 125,000 THROWN - LOCKOUT OF CARPENTERS $20,000,000 BUILDING OPERA- TIONS HAVE STOPPED; CAR- PENTERS ASK: FOR ADVANCE OF FIVE CENTS AN HOUR T PR (By Assoclated Press.) Chicago, April 17.—The Jockout of sixteen thouwsapd union carpen- ters assumed serigps proportions to- day, suspending Qperations valued at more than thirty million dollars on four thousand Rujldings. The situ- ation has resulted .in one hundred and twenty-five thousawd wage earners being jthrown out of em- ployment, thousands of whom have no connection with the building in- dustry itself. The carpenters ask gn advance of five cents an hour, mak- ing wages 70 cents an hour. | | PRESIDENT TO ATTEND THE LUNCHEON OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (By Arsoclated Press ) Washington, April 17- President Wilson will go to New York Tues- day to attend the annual! luncheon of the Associated Press. G ATTORNEY OF P, West ~ Palm Beach, April 17.— Gordon R.” Broome, prosecuting at- torney for the county. of Palm Beaeh, handed In his resignation to County Judge D. 'F. Pattishall yentorday, and‘ it was forwarded to Governmor . ‘Trammell st Tallahasheg: . Phe county couttiis now |n ses-.: sion here, and Broome will continue to serve until his auccessor has been appointed. . When word leaked out that: ‘Breome had resigned, E. C. Thempson, 0. 8. Miller, Jerome E. “Wileman, thrée young lawyers of this city, began an active campaign for the appointment to fill the un- expired term. % Less, than a week ago Hroome's wite, Mrs. Mina Broome, filed a pe. tition in the clreutt court here for a divorce. A GERMAN GOVERNOR OF 2 BELGIUM REGULATES THE WOMEN’S HOURS OF WORK (By Associated Press.) Brussels, April 17.—General’van Blul‘g. German governor of Bel- gium, has completed and put into ef- fect a number of rules controlling the labor of women and children. The absence of %0 many men at the front has led to the constant danger that the women, In attempting to take thelr placep will do themselves harm by overwogflq‘. ‘The ‘new rul Jpermit children between the a of 14 and 14, and women and children between 16 and' - 21 to work not longer thaa 13 hours @ day. There must be a rest period of at least an hour and a half, and children under 14 years old are mot permitted to work at all. Women, regardless of age, aad children are not allowed to work in mines, quarries, pits and the like. Night work is forbidden entirely to women. The maximum perfod of employment ddily applies in house- holds as well as In factories, work shops and restaurants. AMERICAN BANKER TURNS HOME OVER TO BLIND SOLDIERS (By Asgociated Press.) ‘ London, April 17.—There are al- ready fifty blind soldiers, including three officers, at the home of Otto Kahn, the American banker, at Re- gents Park, St. Dunstan’s. Mr. Kahn turned his residence over to the Red Cross Soclety some time ago for the use of soldiers who had lost - their eyes. ! The Kahn estate includes about fifteen acres of grounds, with vari- ous small buildings which will be used for training rooms and work- shops. There is also a small lake on which the blind men will be allowed to row. The sightless soldiers will receive preliminary imstruction in ecarpem- try, boot repairifig, }at makng, bas- ket weaving, telephone operating, massage, poultry farming, and mar- ket gardening, an effort belng made to find for each man the occupation NN IECEMD P (F ORK BY 7 s BULLDOG MATCH !A Secretary of the 1 York, April“17.—The Bull.|today the EUest O B i e the derg’ l-oehuu of A'mefl‘ Armory, wheremh’ Governor Whit- . today hold a match in this ullon-m 1;‘;“'“, che sallors at the °r 175 mi o .|{man W . ¢ 5 mcg‘hgrl are partici Fourteenth regiment tle map, with a look of the greatest admiration and awe. Then he went back to_ his place and contentedly ats his slice. He will cherish that expefience as long as he lives.” right to which he is best adapted. The cost of running the imstitution will be met by the Red Croes, the Na- tional Imstitute for the Bilnd and the Order of St. JoMn. ¢ the Bay Ridee left hand with consideradle facility. of ap- ecause of the large number :liuuou for sdmission it ia planned to enlarge the nthol yery soon. ginia, for fifteen millions dollars is | work is totally and incurably elimi- being heard by the supreme court |nated and from that category by per- today and a decision will be handed | centages graduated down to tem per down before adjournment in June. ,been remedied. The Germans have |gugnices of the Twentieth Century |8t him. Good-naturedly, but fiymly, established cheap soup kitchens and |Club at the Copley Plaza hotel to.|she said, ‘“Please remember there cent of disability.