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a 4 er ’ ——e——————— | WAR NEWS IN BRIEF |(Aj| BARNHARDT Nearer approach by the Germans to the Russian fortress of —_ “ SHORT BALLOT IS » reported in today’s official ‘statement trom Rerlin. They are moving | MOST j toward the strongheld from the cast and south as well as from the west, | it b indicated by the dhection of the progres last reported. There are | indi. ations of a great drive toward Petrograd j le : -_<--- -_—_<>— The advance on the Cradno-Vilna Kallway & being continued, while ir Raids on German Bases Made by French in Four Days GERMAN EMBARGO 7° 4 sf Hi the headquarter of Prince Leopold and Field Marshal von Mackensen “ lentes of — Constitutional both report that the Russians are being driven back along a wide from, | Bank Director Who Led Dual | Amendment Look for Quick in the Galiclan operations, recently reesumed, the Germans have| Life Is Said to Have Stolen | ; |met with » check on the Strips River, where strong Russian forces coun Nearly $1,000,000. | Action and Victory, |ter-attacked and, according to Berlin, “partially stopped” an Austro-Ger- Autiinaamaed or a man pursult RUSH OTHER BUSINESS, Constantinople reports the destruction by Turkish artillery of a pos | SWINDLED = 46 YEARS. } tion occupled by the emtente allies allies near Seddel-Bahy on the Gallipoli peninsula. Held in St. Louis After Being Kenpencimnant Procedure, A>)" o1, mesnds ester is eeccoutlly contining te work of taflcting itty | Sentee-Registration and City | damage upon German trenches, shelters and camps at various points Arrested Only Three Times | Legislation Taken Up, | #106 the front, the Paris War Office reports Before in Long Career. Settlement of the trouble in South Wales, which threatened to de- | ALMANy, Aue. 01 Majority Leaa.| YCl0p into a serious coal strike, is announced. KANSAS CITY, Mo, Aug. t—De or George W. Wickersham said to- day that the short ballot and depart- ment reorganization proposal prob- ably would be voted on finally Vriday by the Constitutional Convention, It is believed that little time will Ue re- quired to pass the proposal. Leaders CAL OF MILES consider that the subject has been | discussed thoroughly from every an- It was again reported to-day that a submarine of the entente allies | ever he pops a ead had bdown up a portion of the bridge connecting Constantinople with the |"™'*s veers meray declared to-d he hie arrest in suburbs of Galata. A similar report some weeks ago was deniced by the | peting pa ype a most Turkish authorities, daring, successful criminal in the Allied aviators are reported to have destroyed a large building in| United States, How many names he Ghent, Belgium, used by the Germans for housing aircraft. operated under is yet to be deter- FL | : : / been wuret aorial |, but according to the police he =; thet have tor The a“ ~ activity on the pert ef the French within the) ah and inasmuch an the votes for mined, py deneeionne 0 | Fave attacked, Gines “Aug, ® they neve made more than thirty, nie rele, 20 Axainat all proposed amendiments| (4 and Barntert aay their investigations | %M# confessed belng guilty of fraudu- to thie country, sttecking twenty-eight different towne, and all but three of these raids wore offered thus far have been decisive established the truth of Leltner's| lent acts for forty-six yeare in every Count ven German | made in four successive daye—Aug. 25, 26, 27 and 28. they probably will dinpose of it with ] statement that he quarrelied almost | iarge city of the country. Ambessader, ta-Cart- On the map star marks @ town raided. They are numbered as brief consideration. " continually with his wife, but they! fis profite are sald to have made ton Hotel, disc a gubjeot to-| follows: (1) Bruges, raided Aug. 27. (2) Middelkerke, raided Aug, 27. (28), Only slight changes in the draft as MY Wi SAYS had no evidence to substantiate Lait-| 4.4, qimoet a millionaire, Only three day with several cal He made it | Ostend, Aug. 27, (3) Nieuport, Aug. (4) Monthulet, Aug. 26. (8) Verg-| nuatiy submitted were made by the ner’s attack upon the dead woman's | "'™ “moet « : lear to them that Germany has noth. | Mer, Aug. ® x, Aug. (7) Vitry, Aug. 2. (8) Noyen, Aug. | @onvention before advancing it to the character, and her sisters protested | im6# before in his career had he been saa to do with German goods now in| ge" git ),qnatel Aug. 28. {'0) Menshemin, Aug, 26. (11) Grandore, Aus order of final passage. moat im- that she was a good woman, arrented—in Kansas City, Denver and Holland and owned by Americans 4 28. 18) Ivei tie) ci iy, Aug, 2. | portant of these was ah amendment C WAS ONCE A POLICE STOOL! Waukesha, Wis. —— A Aug. 26. jerges, Aug. 26. (17) © which have been held there by the| Aug #4 (1) Baussentin, Aug. 2 and 28 {twe side) fi0) Pennes Ave, | wich would give the Governor power PiaEor His life has not been one of dodging Britian binekade, That ts a matter for | 26. (7) Dili |, Aug. 26, (21) St. Ingbert, Aug. 9. (22) Zweibrucken, Aug. | to name the Secretary of Btate, State Leltner's confeasion was made after | #"4 hiding from oficers of the law, the Unitea States to settle with Groat | 12 (23) Searbrucken, Aug. 22. )) Offenburg, Aug. 24, Dornach, | Treasurer, Secretary of Charities, Tax the police bad built up a strong case | Ut Tathor @ Jekyll and Hyde exiat- Britain. Aug. 26. (26) Musliheim, Aug. 28. (27) Lerrach, Aug. Commission and the Commissioners (Continued from First Page.) of circumstantial evidence against | *°% For ten years be bad lived Ina = ¢ ‘What is done respecting them is no of Accou Health afd Agriculture — him. They had witnesses who heard | *Plendid home tn Forrest City, Ark, the shots and naw no one running | ® Which he returned periodically with away from Laltner's office, which is| owsands of dollars, which he placed on the ground floor of an old-fashioned | bi# bank. He was a leading citizen building. Although Leitner had said | *94 director in the largest bank, and i he had not owned @ revolver for two | bi* family was prominent socially, He | years they had found the revolver and been urged to become @ candi- the cartridges and two of Leitner’s| 44t® for the State Sena children had said they had often seen | A®°ording to the police, the thou- | & revolver in the father’s possession, |*#ds he brought home were obtained f Leitner ip his youth was twice ar-|Y loans on fraudulent deeds, which Tested for picking pockets, but was|!# @lleged to have been his specialty 4 491 East Ninety-firat Street. discharged. Ho became an east side| of twenty years. As John W. Kline + “We got along all right for a time,| police stool pigeon from that|¢ is sald to have come here in 1898, 7 but my wife got acquainted with a] drifted into the busin: concern of the German Government, M4 Mf without the consent of the Senate, sence ot ihe Gorman Government! Kariger May Punish Commander diotog inte mind seoaing toraay, the to the blockade or accept the privi- é. 2 | Constitutional Convention regumed its leas ot sch ateaptions me imanens| Of Submarine That Sank Arabic (ernest proves unenamente The may choose to grant, that in purely an LONDON, Aug. j1.—The German Government considers the Arabic in- K. B. Smith proposal, ae tincind for affair between Washington and Lon- | cident closed,and has declared its willingness to punish the commander of | YU"tArY sessions of the Legisiature : bared tho submarine which sank the steamer, according to a despatch which the | ‘°F Impeachment purposes, was ap- It to understood that there are now | mechan " proved by a 142 to 1 vbte, Louls Mar- ‘ge Telegraph Company's Amsterdam correspondent says has been 1 in Rotterdam, Holland, about $50,000,- ived there Berlin. shall, who defended ex-Gov, Sulzer 000 worth of German during his impeachment trial, voted goods which have oll eboney There is reported to be considerable feeling in German militarist clr-| \,, ies negative. paid for by merchants in the United cles because of Chancellor von Bethman-Hollweg’s so-called “weakness” | ‘The proposition specifically permits States. Those are the goods that will | toward the United States. the Legislature to convene itself for clety people told me I ought to find my wife and take her back for the sake of the children. Then her mother told me where she was. “I found her living in Monroe Street in @ house that was not a fit place for her. She said she would come back to me and the children. Then I de- cided to move away from the lower east side and we went to live at No, of @ priv.te| represented himself as a man of be affected by the British concessions the consideration of the removal of a detective, with a special aptitude for t1—Frasce promiaed yesterday by the British of Antonio. The ambulance surgeon Judge of & Court of Appeals oF the nathe pete Oar laa task ha leer Tuning “down rusk and lott chive. para osees yore x waa pidherve “4 % ‘urn J y Ambassador. There are practically said Giovanni had not lived a minute | Supreme Court. It further empowers ing her home and I heard all kinds of| bis evidence over to the police iy 4 sentenced to two yeara. winter's campalsa.|no German-made goods at other after his heart was pierced. || the Assombly to meot voluntarily f0F| stores wbout her. A woman stopped! tectives, who made the arreste, Oid-| Barnhardt's aystem of working, as iesued here | F Antonio. as they alwayn de in much {the impeachment of a Governor. Att 4. the street and complained that remember him explained by detectives, is simple. g i s 4 “Dirty Bam" my wife had taken her husband. vi fa Bie) sided by his appearance and 0 show Finally we were dispossessed because| There are five pretty children in the| of ready money, be sought out own- of my wife's reputation and our con-|Leltner family—Beasie, aged nino; | ors of valuable real estate on the Dora, aged eight; Jonas, five; Will tinual quarreling. three, and Harold, aged nine months,| Pretext he intended to buy the prop- SAY8 SHE THREATENED TO| ‘The children are in the custody of| erty. On tho statement that se wished THROW ACID ON HIM. the Brooklyn Children’s Society... | to investigate tho titles he would ob- “We moved to No. 201 East Eighty- tain the warranty deed. Then clever T'S fae house oe the cataren ana | WASHINGTON HAS tase oad Beruheras wou appeat ts crtved vistts tram men te Ser Rome A HOPE FOR PEAGE) tit ‘oan siwaye' itrwo one. and was always running out. Her Barnhardt escaped from pall in | ry ‘The Ambascador made it clear cases, And that's the end of the tre on eeyiel sae. te hie callers that the German story, as it always is in such cases. " Government would net permit SRE ee enn Cities are allowed to establish and goede now within ite berders te si regulate residential districts and mit ash ve i the hie Series aad 3 HOUR BOMBARDMENT, br Paid gern rh re nt. ° val Government." What amounts, te BUT MOT A LIFE LOST) siisci"cBivention here Yocaay. i —— z Hi i i i an embargo, though not officially epecifoally [spines coe Lryoertens pronounced, le raised against ex- to delegate these po’ nict- ears ney Only a Dentist’s Chair Wrecked in) Palitics. There rt fo! F it Dealer Wh P ched The Lincoln amendment, provition are two reasons for this atti-| Fry) on Ca ‘ma’ wn for absentee registration was ad- tude of the German Government in : Bikes pture of German To’ vanced to final Passage. It provides holding back its own exports, The| Another’s Preserves Given in Africa. that the Legislature may create spe- “WELSH MINE STRIKERS sister, Anna Lubetsky, told me T was Waukenha two weeks ago, the police tration at any ti firet 1s to maintein the principle that LONDON, Aug. 51.~A bloodiess bat: | within Ave #f registration at any time| | tool to live with her, but T put up|Concessions Made by Germany and] gay, He will return to Wisconsin Germany will not accept the favor) Vengeance Mark as He Falls. | te preceded the capture by French | #y8 of registration. The elector, | with her, thinking she would do better. Great Britain Are Deemed without @ requisition, and grace of any special exceptions and British troops of the German Sowever sae ee Me Gate “We had to move away from East si ficant. Despatchesdrom Counc! Bluffs, Ta; an ; _ poe granted by England to lift a corner of fortress of Garua, in Kamerun, Wests |e pte alll sligible to voto in the | Migaty-seventh Street, and to get my ignifican Kansas City, Mo.; Waukesha, Wis the blockade in behalf of the United| ‘The fruit business t# very dull in|ern Africa, district. The proposal is intended to States or other favored nations. Ger-| Williams burg. Antonio Roselein,| For three hours the allies sent shells | Denest commercial travellers, rail many does not recognise the legality! who had a fruit store at No. 281/crashing against t i Soue See noe RENN: AIR YSIURE See of the blockade and to consent to an lng against the German posi- | pioyees. wife away from her old haunts and) wagHinaToN ree Kalamazoo, Mich, and Quincy and trlendn I went down to No. 118 For-| peace tn Europe’ to inerensing, 1a] Danville, Illy indicate that a man be- ty-first Street, Borough Park, Brook-| washington, Neved to be Barnhardt had been in- lyn. My wife's health got bad, but volved in real estate swindling opera- Bushwick Avenue, had worried alo: tions, according to offici ———e The concessions the British an- exception would be tantamount to| somehow until last Priday, when Glos | just received here. The poceieapee she kept up her old habits and I/nounced in the way of small modi-|‘0a# 1n or near those cities, recognising its existence. vanni Lorito pushed his peddier’s cart| plied with an equally violent can- EDUCATIONAL PROPOSAL couldn't do anything with her. OP/qcations in thelr trade restrictions ” operators! The second reason is that Germany| of peaches, pears and grapes up to| nonade. last Thursday she took our tw0/came as a great encouragement.| SWEDISH GOVERNMENT Of the| does not intend to trust its valuable| tne ¢ront of the store and there of-|_,Th® German garrison of thirty- HALTED AT ALBANY youngest children away from {hel There was no intimation that they| BUTS AN EMBARGO ON who quit | manufactured articles to the power of Chom for sale, Antonio ran suc) ¥e8 officers and 270 men nally sur- house in the morning and left them|were in recognition of Germany's ” be back |the British fleet, Thore ts no assur- pondered. | Not 6 man Had Been Killed 9h ee paeadlal ba on the sidewalk, gr wounded: and” the "mont serious Fn RULER n ance, ways,| « jamage was done by a nch shell | Const io. ers 01 ine that Hngland will not seise and con- Pes Galella yi eet eee tei’ bee Which trucks dentte Ghai tae] oes euuon csi fiscate for its own use cargoes of seespiay en eareay ty cog thai allies had not @ single casualty to Schurman State Control with her sister, Mra, Ray Luben, at)/changed submarine policy, but, com- EXPORTATION OF MEATS. No. 1589 Third Avenue. ing as @ sequel to the Kaisers not Mrs. Luben telephoned me to rome) yet formal pledge of more merciful “1 er and get the children. She said Sarah| methods than his U-boat command-| , STOCKHOLM, Aug. 31.—Tho Swe- i rt. & nk te dish Government to-day decided to goods much needed in the Bri te (i sicher was crazy and 1 should look ou! ers have hitherto followed in their Tnlow Uke €yeatufts and other oben! | one tt repied Giovanni, shrug. Amendment. her. My wife came home late that|undersea campaign, the news that|Prohibit the exportation of cattle, While United States merchants may|t tines scones che Srscig ’ educational amendment, which was| to stab me with a hatpin, and jn tak-| slightly was deemed significant. Demands made by belligerent na- ing it away from 1 tore off her| The belligerents at least show they | tions early in the war for food sup- . said then she would tarow/ are willing to listen to representa-| piies and the recent trade restrictions waist. ie tone, 1t was pointed out, and to some | making importation of food difficult extent to accede to them. threaten to exhaust the nation’s meat “Yesterday sho was in and out of|” 4 start having been made, eald op- | supply. be sincere in their purchases and in 2 a for passage in the Constitutional thelr prvanounante te ext omnes D goigheorre ibd en a REPORT IN BERLIN Gaucantiin treks was recousiiied I swear it!” by a vote of 80 to 50. This recom- bas determined that she will not per- mitment to the committes of the mit them to get into the clutches o¢| , @ovennt walked away, laughing. Sald to Have Been Forced Back in . She was looking! timis there Was no reason why , whole, It generqlly is belleved, kills|™Y office ail day f.. pA ny Ps the Rnatioh. ra meen mete: mom he thumbed Seilfe Pass After Severe the proposal. It reads: “The State|for & as ty r Maanatine, Ww, steady progress should not, be mace, aoe ls diplomats engines resese, eh |” Clavenai puabed tds cart up tn trent Fightin, shail continue ite supervision and con- | Wouldn't live fat os No,| Peace, peace wae a destination which | a oe claimed, sopee that by’de-|of Antonio's store again fie after ng trol of the education of children as | had paid » deposit on » fe | might finally be reached, HARTNETT. ug. 81, PHILIP, son 12 Hast Ninety-seventh Btreet in & ee of the late Michael Hartnett, native Allied Aviators Destroy German| Kenmare, County Kerry, Ireland, house where her aunt, Mra. beesiveer Airship Base, Funeral from hie late residence, @1 lives, but when Mra, Whetten he: AMBTURDAM, Aug. 31 (via London), | Horatio st. Notice of time tater, about It she said we couldn't move in,/—A tel from abode a4 WILSON.—NELSON W.. M. D., aged 50. ara “About 2 o'clock yesterday after. | Alli ar euiiding at’ Ghent jelgium, | Funerai at Funeral Church, 241 Weet noon I took my wife to the Neurolo- the Germans for housing air-| 244 st. Frank Campbell Buliding, Ine gical Institute in East Sixty-seventh torment Buffalo, N. ¥. Street, She came back to the office about a quarter to six, She started to abuse me and took a hatpin from her hat and tried to stab me. TOOK REVOLVER FROM HER AND SHOT HER, “I took the hatpin away from her, my revolver was on the desk, She | eS aa tk bis after] INNSBRUCK (via Bertin Wireless) |® State function and no powers in ta 0 derogation thereof shall bo conferred Sealing fgainat le that he had the best fruit in| AUS: 8—After severe Aghting in the| upon the local authorities of any ) will red Soilfe pass tho Italians have bee _ 4 T 4 increased to such an extent that|all Williamsburg when Antonio came allans have been| civil division of the Btate, Ss RIKING Measures will be adopted by|running out of the door. He ae forced te retire, according to de-| Delegates Quigg, Cobb, John Lord the Washington Govern: wpatches received here to-d: ith-| O'Brian and others asserted that the A BALANCB!” [eves a'wiser break’ inthe wail which | 00d # knife with which he had been | Srawing entirely trom the region of | CourM had declared the present Con- s will result in advantage to Germany,| Cutting up a bunch of bananas. It| the pass. stitution made eduestion a State ——> had @ keen point and @ broad blade Son tretling Funesia ui tae a ere rt amendment was “unnecessary” an BRITISH ORDER DOESN’T | four inches lon, SAW BRITISH TRANSPORT | might open the way to unjust in- COVER EMBARGO POLICY, “Head of a pin!" he yelled. “Have Bi Se ye ierteag io IN RUNNING FIGHT WITH | morea'to recommies' ™"onaels ‘WASHINGTON THINKS) neignvornoca with your owen truitt| U-BOAT, TWO MILES AWAY. A ry Away! Quick, or I will drive you the pig that you are.” BATTIMORE, Aug. 31.—A German| RESCUES 470 EUROPEANS WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—Stato De- | li! w hi * " * partment officials disclosed to-day| “Bah!” sneered Giovanni. oa submarine chasing fa armed British] EXPELLED BY THE TURKS, that they do not expect modified prac. | approach me I will—ab, Dio m transport while the latter was tryt rabbed it, saying she would finish under the British Orders in| For Antonio had driven the broad,| hard to hit the perlecope of the under: fre and herself, I went crasy for Extra Special for Tuesday Only rday by the | keen biade through Giovanni's sea boat was the exciting spectacle PARIS Aug, 31.—The United Btatos| inute, 1 guess, I took the revolver HONEY NOUGAT BON BONS * the gen-| And as bis rival gasped and tottered, | witnessed by Capt: Mikkelsen of the|Scoutship Chester has arrived at til there were no ICH, Fragrant Chocolate, California Hi eral British policy toward neutral | Antonio thrust again and plunged the| Danish steamship Olat, now here, | Canes, Crete, with 470 refugees ex-| “04 yoieeeagr ‘dain y- bat’ of ‘delicious Nougat, more cartridges left. Sugar, blended into dain y bar, of delicious Nou shipping against which the United|point of his knife under Giovanni's| “We sailed from Bristol Aug. 14,"|Delled from Beirut, Syria, by the! io. anybody came in I dropped di in Bon Bon Cream, a: d prevented in three delight- States now is preparing its new pro- | right eye, making an oblique gash as| sald Capt. Mikkelsen, “and it was on| Turks, according to Havas despatch | 1° civer in a atove pipe hole in ful davore— Strawberry, Vanii.. and Chocolate. Thisis a test, he fell—a sort of device to show that| the following day that the transport| from Athens. sind the wall. Then some men ran in and pinle speseie if canevers, and ® most exceptional value, No concrete propositions for retaxa- | the marked one was a victim of hon-| was seen golng at a high rato of speed] 4.2 3g eeeeee” Ncae ettizens of all) T's etory about two men with ee ton of interference with shipping | orable revenge, the Quadcuple entente powers as well have reached the State Departinen| and from time to timo firing at the|ay of several other nations. The After a long look to make sure that | periscope of the submarine. The dis-| Chester will return to Beirut for the invader was indeed dead, Antonio| tance between the vessels was | another shipload of Europeans who treet tn covenant Place wil BOL gurted into his store, awept the money and between shart in| have been ordered out of Turkey, Revi angie POUND BOX gray caps shooting her, Pretty the room was crowded and I went out Special for Tuesday Special for Wednesday and dropped a lot of cartridges into ASSOBTED FRENCH CREAM WA- KRENCH FEA MOCK KISSES — than two mi hi ” + tootheome disks of mel- our wor out of the till into his pocket and | Another American warship is ex-|a trap in the washroom. a septmmnenne eke of male | 1 tree varae: My, ud si dngemonte Ter nauleting in the! #84: ‘Two good neighbors, wishing to| tervals the submarine would rise to| pected at Canea with refugees from| Leitner paused again, ‘The only ||} wad’ in'an sesortment of © pleasing fine Delaware identification of goods bought in Gor- | ®¥°ld all scandal, carried the corpse | the surface, exposing its pertscope,| Alexandretta, Asiatic Turkey. many but not paid for before March | found the corner and stretched it de- | and dive again to eucape the fire trom Seen 1, which are designed to release car- Cent! yin the hallway of Glovanni's| the transport. ¥ held up in neutral ports such aa| Jace home, “I could not make out the name on STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY. AVALM, tterdam, are at present betn, |, When Antonio had had enough! the transport on account of the dis- ried on #xtra-yovernmentally by tho! {ime to bide himself in darkest New | tance, but 1 watched. the chase for | Manhattan, London, British Embassy the foreign | York gome one telephoned the police | some tii and could see that the| Owinsk, Archangel. . ALM, sound In the room were the sobs of || | flavors: Peppermint, Win. ret on POPE tandye his sisters-in-law, Dore and Anna|| | Sersreee.,, Oat tho: LOE | | ioe skill oun Lubetaky. The father of the dead|| ‘~ge"panctay STRERR woman had entered the courtroom ‘and stood against tne wall, dry eyed “IT guess that’s about all,” Leitner trade advisers of the State Depa that they would find a very sick man| gubmarine was making a determined ———— vt ment. These steps affect special fuses in the hallway of No, 1 ‘empt to get in a position to launch SAILING TO-DAY. concluded, calmly, “I'm sorry I killed and are not considered by American Street, Two men were & torpedo, Whether it was success- . her, I'm sorry for the childre officials as @ change in the attitude Stage Street Station, They found) ful I do not know, for when last seen of the British Government in regard Giovanni Lorito cold on the floor,| the race was being continued. The| Apache, Jacksonville to the presentations hy the United and by following the trail of blood submarine waa a fast one the | C, of Montgomery, 8a Btates respecting neutral shipping, | backward came presently to the store transport was only holding its own.” | Oregonian, B: sake. What I have told is the truth. Leitner waa committed to the Tombs without bail, Detectives PYooa ue soe TPM, 3 aie ais