The evening world. Newspaper, September 4, 1915, Page 1

RIGA DEFENSES TAKEN IN TEN-DA Y BATTLE _ FINAL The_ “ Cifoula PRICE ONE CENT. meade DENY NOW THEY CONFESSED TO KILLING DR. MOHR IN AUTO The Pree Puvitaning [*Citealation Books Open to All.” | Verk Wortdy THOUSANDS OF BIG SHELLS BATTER THE RUSSIAN LINES INFRONT OF BALTIC PORT Troops Led by von Beseler, the “Bat- tering Ram” Storm the Fortified Bridge Head at Friedrichstadt. BERLIN (via London), Sept. 4.—German troops in the group com- manded by Field Marshal von Hindenburg have stormed the strongly tified bridgehead at Friedrichstadt, ten days’ battle. The victorious troops are under the immediate command of Gen. von Beseler, known as “the Battering Ram” because of his successful bombardment of Antwerp, He was put in charge of the attack at Fried- richstadt immediately after he had stormed the great Russian fortress of Novo Georgiewsk. The Friedrichstadt bridgehead, most important for the defense of Riga, was stormed after terrible battering by thousands of big German sn ne GARDNER CAPTURES NATIONAL TITLE 42 miles southeast of Riga, They captured 37 officers and 3,325 men, of Fried- richstadt Germans drove the Blavs | across thy Dwina early yesterday, The whole force of the Courland army is now being hurled against the Russian positions. throw a to attack Riga. ‘West of Vilna and between the Villya River and Grodno, the Russians have made several vain attacks. Around Grodno tho fighting continu The Russians retreated eastward last night, hotly pursued by the ¢ ans, who now hold all the forts of Grodno and Von Hindenburg plans trong army across the Dwina Chicago Player Defeats East- have taken 2,700 prisoners, ‘The ern Star in Close Match enemy has evacuated positions south of Grodno. at Detroit. Altogether the forces operating under Gen, von Hindenburg took 7,622 prisoners, six heavy cannons| DETROIT, Sept, 4.—Robert A and five machine guns yesterday Gardner of Ch » Won the National “Gen. von Gallwits'’s army con- Unues its attacks between the of the Swislez and the district north east of Blalewieska for aid the ofMe of Bavaria, continues the eng: und the swamps north and north- east of Prushany.” Gen, Mackensen, who 1s advancin eastward from Brest-Litovst Pinsk, 18 approaching Drogitshin about 40 miles west of Pinsk Largest Single | TURK BRIDGE BLOWN UP open golf champ: Anderson in A the nship from ohn 8. mouth n exciting mat ) here of twenty-five led, 2 up $10,000,000 BY KRUPPS TO GERMAN WAR LOAN hole al statement Subscription So Far $11,250,000 Cologne Savings Bank, S$ E STERDAM, Sept. 4 he Krupp 0,000 to the new German war ° joan. British Sailors Circle a Military Post} The largest subscription thus tar comes from the Cologne Savings Bank and Plant Bombs Under and was for $11,250,000. — — Railway Span. y = ERNEST NATHAN DEAD. ATHENS, Sept. 4.—Under cover of nance darkness, the crew of a British sub-| Ernest Nathan, a quarter of a cen- marine made @ daring attack on the| tury ago one of the powers In Repub- important Gebze railway bridge 26|lcan polities in Kings County, died last miles southeast of Constantinople| fight at his home, No. 1421 un ears old and succeeded in blowing up one of the spans, ,, The submarine entered the Gulf of Ismid at dusk, disembarked several of its crew with dynamite bombs and then stood close into shore, The crew circled a Turkish military and li in Brooklyn sixt most of the time in what Is now Bedford tion, In the elghty’s a early ninetys Mr. Nathan waa the publican leader of Kings County, main- tainig his authority in many bitter bat- tles, He was Collector of Internal Rev- enue for several years and held several county oMces, six years, the 4 encampment, having several narrow] Mr. Nathan made @ fortune in escapes from Turkish patrols, and) business. Ha retired from polltical ac! he he foun at the planted their bombs on the bridge} strain was telling on his health and over which passes tho chief railway) of, late years had paid but tittle 5 atention 4 connecting Constantinople with the|firt president. of the Hebrew Or interior of Asia Minor, One of the|phan Asylum and of the Jowish Fed- His eration of Brooklyn Charities, it two and four sons and re survive him, bombs wrecked the middle span, but tne othere failed to explode, of German Army,, for-| after a} | FROM ANDERSON (U.S. TROOPS FIGHT MEXICAN SOLDIERS AND SLAY SEVEN Border Guardians Engage in Two Pitched Battles With Uniformed Invaders. CARRANZA DEAD MEN | Finding of Military Bombs Gives Indication of Organ- ized Movement. | BROW NSVIL The border sit Texas, Sept, — ation is rapidly chang- ing from unorganized banditry to an affair between uniformed soldiers of the United States and Mexico, Pitched battles between troops of the two nati Jat different ns occurred twice to-day rf the While there ties on the nts along Rio Grande, were no casual- American side, at least | seven Mexican soldiers were killed, Twelve Mexicans crossed the river Jat daylight this morning, of in encoun- detachment American Madera, tered a soldiers near Hidalgo County Seven of the invaders were {killed and the rest escaped. All of | the ¢ ad wore Carranzista uniforms. At about the same time, Mextean rs fired across th river at a company of rangers n r the Ca- vazos crossing. The rangers returned the fire and it is believed some of the Mexicans were 1 Capt. MeCoy hurried from Mission with a troop of cavalry to reinforce the as it was believed the Mex who were tn superior numbers, would at- tempt to cross over. The clashes with Mexicans are ex- pected to increase, as the river is fall- ing rapidly and is fordable in many places which have been impassable for several days Dynamite bombs of military pattern liscovered in a Wagon stolen from can ranch and recovered by on AM soldiers to-day, is accep as further evidence that at least some of the Mexic plicated in this week's rids are members of the Carrangista garrison at Matamoras stire border from Brownsville 31 Paso is bristling with arms as » result of the recent skirmishes, One American and four Mexicans made up yesterday's list of Killed, Americans are determined to wipe out the ban- dits. Mexicans fired nearly a hundred shots across the river yesterday at an American army aeroplane contalning Lieuts, J. Morson and B. Q, Jones flying over Brownaville, then turned thelr guns against a squad of Amer- ican soldiers on guard at the Browns- ville electric Nght plant. The soldiers returned the fire. There was no cas- ualty ‘Three of the Mexican bandits oper- ating near here were killed Thursday by county officers at Los Guatros, fourteen miles north of Brownsville, Bandits Attempt to Wreck Pansen- ger Train, LAREDO, Tex, Sept. 4.—Carranzista soldiers are beating the chaparral round Palo Blanco to-day for ban- dita who attempted late yesterday to wreck the passenger train bound from Monterey to Laredo, on the part of the locomotive's firebox, A large section of the track wan de- stroyed, but the fact that the greater force of the explosion was downward and to one side saved the engine from destruction, Wires leading to three battertes were found in the brush neat by BADGE OF HEALTH ISNOW DEMANDED OF ALL WAITERS Board of Health Will Also Bar All Cooks That Are In- fected, Too. ARE EXAMINING 100,000, Heavy Fine for Restaurant Pro- prietors Who Have Un- healthy Employees. More than 100,000 waiters, omnibuses cooks, and dishwashers em- Ployed in the 4,500 restaurants and hotels in New York in the prepara- tion and serving of food have been! notified by the Board of Health that| they must obtain, without delay, certificates stating that they are free of tuberculosis, typhoid or any other | infectious disease. The was recently promulgated by the Division | of Industrial Hygiene and scores of cooks and been found, it Harris in c! menaces to t patrons. The examination of the employees of restaurants began two weeks ago at No, 49 Lafayette Street under the supervision of seventeen doctors and a corps of nurses. An average of 275 examinations a day has establish that with the facilities at hand notice already walters have js sald by Dr. Le of the work, to be health of restaurant | ce it | would be an almost tmpossible task | A bomb placed| fect since last Monday, track exploded and tore away! to get through with all who are af. The gentle Mme. Au ine = is did not cease his attentions to his wife he would fill him full of bullets.” shee Rtas o1 a elisene? baudy, who beauty and Mberality nnd which has had little done to it Confronted with the statements of Higs earlibectas lasued ty oHYAe early endeared her to the reaidente | by way of repairs at o time. The FIVE CHILDREN PERISH the negroes repudiating their alleged in regular practice if these certific of Wes » 1, has their freely | hodk Leer Ripe arent as Chief of Police Thomae . “a ; jawns unkempt, the outbulldin ‘ aro filed out on forms issued by the|exPressed sympathy to-day for the | AOA sci, Tit Mule linn | IN ORPHANAGE FIRE F. Robins of Barrington, who le In Division of Industrial Hygiene, At ajanguishing situation in which she] yoy, pasture near the | official charge of the whole case, ade at ; oy , : , * pa art date to be set soon all waiters, cooks | finds hers immured in an Upper} pos , racks of bones all . mitted this afternoon that none of the and other restaurant smplavene on |chamber of the rambling “House of of them, bear witness to the way in} Mother Superior and Sister March| three men had signed a confession, waged in the he aration and serving | mmy Rooms,” which stands in a|which designing acquaintances have Othe Safety at’San The only signed statement from them st tee or cay layed iis any capactty | ney ae) tase turen Hil srona | fund Lebaudy a constant source of thers to safety at oa of which he had knowledge, he sald, in the chen wi have to show . ie nae 18 RCE ” A ¥ . ‘easy money Francisco. was that in which Healis advanced certificate when it is asked for, the Hemp | plains from West-| ne house jx looked after by Alice, i the theory that robbery was the me- Proprietors who employ persons not |bury. Mme. Lebaudy remains in) My Lebaudy's French maid, and| SAN FRANCISCO, Sept, 4.—Fire| sive for the crime. equipped with certificates will be leonstant terror leat bh husband, | the rest of the place ia left to the care | destroyed the St, Francis Girls’ Di- Healls declared that the docter’@ deen d mullty of @ misdemeanor and | jacques, whono extraordinary eccen- | Of Wo farmhanda, one scarcely more rectory, a Cutholle orphar automobile was followed on the night wi subject to a fine of $590 or Im- | iricities landed him recently in a gan-| than a boy, ‘These seryants are loyal! yo gay, with the loss of five of the shooting and it was his theory precio see ane year, It {8 ex-litarium at Amityville, may excape|to Mme. Lebaudy both tho men] gearch of the ruins disclosed the] Ur. Mohr was shot by some man whe pecte oe me ing of proprietors |prom the sponsors who secured hig|are armed with clubs to protect ber] yoqiey of Kllzabeth O'Brien, four] iumped out of a car, fired at both the responsible will bring about a close |reeage from there and return to do| against any invasion undertaken oF] yeary old, her sister Katherine, and] physician and Mise Burger and them phaser anes 8F ne her harm. inatigated by her husband one | three others. wrecked the machine on a cross qemaurant and hotel proprietors | “qmough there is only food enough | seems to know just whero the “Em-|" “wien the fire was discovered the DENIES HEALIS WAS IN PROVI« ihanwaleah dai pes Men ine eee in the house for perhaps the next two|peror of the Sahara,” as he atyled) onjidren were marshaled by Siste DENCE. ee je a eo : o BS hothe new] aiv«, and thoush her husband has| himself at one time, has been taken! srury Agnes and Mother Superior At this point Brown broke in an@ orde 3 nee, but there ts @ lot of} sent notices to the tradesfolk of|#ince he was released from the sant | Margaret. and marched out of the| sald: "I see that the Providence poe grumbling among tho owners of} wosibury not furnish her with|(arium, He is at none of his usual) py) lding. They were quartered {n] lice say that Healts saw Mrs, Mohr tm ohenp restaurants, waiters and] esther supplies, neither Mme, Le-| stopping places, and this uncertainty| joarby homes, Fifty-swo children | Providence on Monday evening, Thats 01 es aio complaining that they |haudy nor her ten-year-old daughtar,|as to his whereabouts adds to his! wery housed In the orphanage a joke, for Healis was in Newport all are liable to be thrown out of the] y,nauotine, have tt htest feeling | Wife's uneasiness ———<——- lay Monday and Monday night.” only means of employment they | oe pitterne toward the eratic mil-| Mrs. Lebaudy declined to see re-| ING Brown denied that he ever ee t's all right to see that my help | mentally responsible, but their ignor-|day on the ground that sho was too} resuming his story, sald: taurant man in the Tenderloin to-day, | ents in the situation leaves them|has undergone in the past five barn Tuesday night it acted funny, | but how is the Board of Health going | ,atneically helpless. months, as related by the servanta| On the way down the lights kept go- to protect my. Place against unhy-| “7+ is a cruel shame th ome rep-|and by her daughter, seem ample to] Chicago Federal Judge De ivers|'!n# out and the motor worked badly, gienic patrons utable attorney doesn't step in and) reduce any one to that condition FE nie I noticed by the readlights that @ car Oo — ndviso that poor woman of her|She sent Jacqueline, the little daugh- Important Ruling AVOTINS — | was following me, but when I tried te DUNKIRK STRIKE AT END, | rights,” remarked a resident of West. | ter, t anawet a westions Jacaue Patentee-Manufacturer, spec a op th mo hine to shake off the } bury to-day ‘Her husband ought line sal On, no, We are not angry one behind t ongine went back on shell Makers Get Concessions and|not to be at large and she ought tolat papa. I love my papa, He ix a) CHICAGO, Rept. 4 A patentee-|me and finally stalled, The other car | ee esensa have him committed permanentiy iv) very sick man. but he will come back | manufacturer, according to an im-leame up behind, slowed down amd. lll es 1 | some institution. ‘Then instead of be-|"Neverai weekw ago Lebaudy lucked | portant decision made by Judge |then went on, Just beyond Whelan DUNKIRK, Ne Y, Sept. 4—The|ine palf starved in that ramshackle! his © and daughter in st ro Geiger in the United States District | stopped is a cross read. A few mime j atriko of the 800 machininta Of the) oi4 piace, she would be enjoying the | Hearty two days and forbade t Court here to-day, has the right to| utes after the car passed the shooting Brooks plant of the American Locomo: yee vants to give ther prico of ted |b Hey lve Company, which has been in et-[comforts she has a right ¢ te ko ANE fix the resale pri D becan and I beleve that the mam u pany, aot area a | “But she doosn't know the language ra a aitval i irticle, The case will be taken to the | jumped out of the car when it slowed eoting of the atrikers to-day, The |nor t untry and she ubsence, kicked In the door and| Supreme Court, tt ts said down, did the shooting and then ata m ing h ay, The) M strikers were employed in the making of | really * husband, 0 th nd. Pine gaudy and Jucnue-| A phonograph company sold records (across lots to the GaP On tbe aimag shells for the allies and struck fo: thing just drags slong and drags ee ee where they still ro. | (0% Chicago retall store on condition | roud." eight-hour day and recognition of the | along without ring definite belong | main that @ certain retall price would be} The remainder of Heallag: sigue shop committee.” ‘The company agreed | done.” ‘On learning of this Lebaudy is said!) maintair The store ix said to have}had to do with his trip to the home take pack the men without Aimar ity The “House of Pitty F 4 to have i 4 pynarede ry pushers isregarded the bargain and sold the }pital with the doctor and Miss Burs tion an ranted a it - y 100d of water Up . ais anc omted the >| at prices less tha at © t fi edule, “The men will return to work |l0Ne rambling affair which 4 ¥a- ‘Pally uround the room containing hig! Pecords @t prices | HH: thas r. his secretary. On the trip eam pareve cant two years before Lebaudy took wife and little girl. by the patentee-manufacturer, to Providence, Healis said, Miss Bure NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, WIFE IN TERROR AS LEBAUDY GUTS OFF FOOD SUPPLY: “Emperor of Sahara’ cape Sponsors, Is Her ¢ FINA A 12 PAGES \*Cireulation Books Open to All. 1915. PRICE ONE CENT. ———_ | Slain Doctor, Widow and Woman She Accuses as Her Rival - —_——1 CHAUFFEUR DECLARES DOCTOR HAD RECEIVED MANY THREATS: SLAYER FOLLOWED IN AUT a Widow and Stepson Begin Hunt for Victim’s Wealth as Three Negroes Deny They Made Any Con- fession to Police. WIDOW SAYS DR. MOHR~ THREATENED TO KILL HER PROVIDENCE, R. L, Sept. 4—A denial that they had confessed ta the murder of Dr. C, Franklin Mohr was made to the Associated Press to<lay by George W. Healis, Henry Speliman and C. Victor Brown, the | negroes, wito, according to the police authorities, had previously declared that they killed the physician at the instigation of Mrs. Mohr. | The denial was made Le the county jail at Bristol, where the negroes are confined pending a hearing in the District Court at Warren on Sept. 16, Healis, the chauffeur of Dr. Mohr's car on the night of the murder was the spokesman for the trio, but Brown and Spellman signified thee’ 4 assent to all that he said. “Tell the people,” Healis said, “that we are absolutely innocent and that we believe Mrs. Mohr knew nothing of this crime. We have never signed a confession and anything so said to the Providence police was said in a joking way or in a spirit of anger, “Dr, Mohr to my knowledge had been threatened by several prominent Rhode Island people. I found a letter in his car from a mi living om Elmwood Avenue in which he threatened the doctor and sald that if he May E Fear Now. | | tee