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\OMR A|,**4R\ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1010.
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NO. 184MS.
The Vice-President’s Vote Saves Important Bill
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NORFOLK, Feb. 2.—The mysiery
of the liner Appam deepens. It is
now not known if a submarine Rap
tured the liner, or what was the
name or nature of the ship which
did.
All the passengers are strictly
guarded, and It has just leaked out
that only by threatening to blow
them np with bombs were the scan
ty prize crew able to prevent the
passengers and crew from overpow
ering the Germans.
A sensation has been added to
the matter by a report that some of
the' German sailors who have al
ready been interned have been in
charge of the Appam. Lieutenant
Berg has declined to disclose the
identity of the ship which captured
the Appam. He furthermore re
fuses point blank to give any de
tails of the case. «
Meantime the authorities are
puzzled by this reticence; the cap
tives are closely guarded by the
Appan prize crcW and the case wn.
certainly be provocative of inter
national negotiations.
In addition to its passengers, th-?
Appam carried half a million dol
lars in gold bullion. This iB said
to be missing.
Until the investigation of the
captive passengers i# carried out
the public will be in the dark as to
the* entire affair. It was not a
submarine which took possession ot
the steamer. It is now alleged that
control was not obtained by a Ger
man ship. All kinds of stories are
printed on the subject and all kindb
of versions are reported. The most
important are three: first the origi
nal submarine story, second the
[capture by a German Commerce de
stroyer a converted tramp; third a
revolt upon the part of German
sailors who concealed their nation
ality when shipping on the vessel
in Africa.
WHEN IN TOWN
Drop into the
MERCHANTS CAKE.
The Home of Good Eats.
GARRISON CLASHES WITH
MILITARY AUTHORITIES
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Feb. 2.—
Garrison is sore with Wood for his
criticism of his continental plan j
and involves the entire military
staff in his scathing criticism. Evid- j
ently he thinks Wood’s criticism is |
based upon a liking to get-back at
Garrison for his robuko given ai
the time of Roosevelt's. Plattsburg
address.
Garrison discussing the military
opposition to a continental army
says that the army itself has always
hampered sound military organiza
tion lest it impair the authority of a
favored few in Washington D. C.
VILLA PURSUED TRYING
TH CROSS AVER BORDER
EL PASO, Feb. 2.—It Is reported
here tonight that Villa is in full
flight to cross the United States
boundary with the Carranzists go\ -
ernment troops chasing him to the
death. Villa is stated to be on th -
way to cross over into the United
States with considerable booty col
lected during the later days of his
campaigning, and cached until he
was ready for his final dash across
the line. Men are now betting even
money that Villa will elude his te
nacious pursuers.
SEATTLE HAS TWO
FEET OF SN W
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SEATTLE, Feb. 2.—Railways are
stalled, telegraphic communication
down and only wireless sending the
news across the continent, schools
are closed, and roofs are menaced
In this City with two feet of slicK
snow hating fallen in twenty hours
just passed.
The snow fall was accompanied by
some wind and street traffic is abso
lutely paralysed. Great gangs ot
snow shovellers are trying to clear
a way through the snow and Se
attle looks more like Nome than
the Puget Sound Metropolis.
SEATTLE, Feb. 2.—The roof of
St. Peter’s cathedral collapsed today
under the weight of snow that fell
during the last twenty hours. Dam
ages are estlmatde at two hundred
thousand dollars. The interior has
. been greatly injured also when the
roof caved In. No worshippers
were inside at the time.
VICTORIA, Feb. 2.—This fcity
usually snow-free all wintenhas four
feet of snow all over it. Traffic and
even pedestrian movements are al
most stopped.. The people are busy
digging themselves out. No street
car has been run for twenty-tour,
hours and conditions are the worst
ever seen.
TACOMA, Feb. 2.—Two and one
half feet of snow make the city oi
Destiny appear whiter than Mount
Tacoma. The railway traffic, street
and transcontinental, Is peluk. Not
a train has been able to leavo the
town or from any town in Puget
Sound country for more than twen
ty hours. It will take months to
clear the blockade across the Cas
cade divide from evening reports
and over thirty trains freight and
passengers are blocked in the moun
trains with no possible chance 01
getting out. The Chicago Milwaukee
and St. Paul, the Great Northern,
the Northern Pacific, in fact every
road is tied up completely for tlie
first time in the history of the
roads.
Anything in the line of Job work
at the IMhutrM Worker Office.
FLOODS STILL MENACE
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TO MISSISSIPPI VALLEY
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CAIRO, Feb. 1.—The 'f'atier of
Waters has the swelled heed these
days with the banks overflowing on
account of the thaw.
Contrary to the expectations ot
the weather bureau, the weather
along the valley, is not becoming,
colder and rain still continues its
phenomenal down pour.
Pine Bluff in Arkansas is the
worst sufferer,,. It is entirely under
water in all the lower sections, and
eight hundred people: with no grub
axe marooned. All the Arkansas trl
butaries of'the ^MidsisSfbpi Hare in a
bad way with the waters flowing
over banks and doing enormouf
damage.
CHICAGO, Feb. 1.—The floods are
being regarded with considerably
more complacency just now because
it assures the people of immunity
later on when. crops are further ad
vanced. The, enormously heavy snow
fall throughout the middle wept
and down towards the south made
it certain, that .floods would come
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-later- when the farming would -be
more advanced.
The chief losses reported are to
buildings, stock, hay and grain sup
plies as well •-as to some fields plant
ed with early crops.
The chief, danger is, the maroon
ing of bo many people caught by
the rising waters before they han
time to get to safety.
Boats are now plying the rivers
to places where the people are ma
rooned, but many persons have been
drowned.
LONDON, Feb. 1.-l—Advice* re
ceived today from China bring the
nears that the Mongol rebels hav3
crowed the great wall and are still
driving towards Peking.
The Mongols are well disciplined
and drilled and under the command
of ' former Mftnchu generals. A
Chinese graduate of West Point Is
asdd to b^ve supreme command.
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PEKING, .M. 1.—This city is
m3 ta
-i^’u .tier i
are leaving frMly. £fc> gr<at nas flit
exodus bee», that the .government
has ftwIiMilMi wnrlflnymon tnd IMI
,apngl, servants to depart, from the
capital without leave from their
employers.
8o|dlers who, might ;b$ uaed to ad
vantage ig suppressing the revolt
Ml* grtprinopa are being
(Copcetli^Ufld eAMflwiU’WA
Tuan governmenfn*..,ni/> :.4ti Vi!1 -
Advices ethls afternoon aay thap
scarcely a loyalist offlcUl is left in,
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the Hunan province and that It la
now dominate by 'the frebels #hb
control every section of It.
Similar conditions , prevail tin
other sections.
Vive of the best provinces cau
now be regarded as disloyal to the
Tuan government.
The situation is very grave In
spite . of .ofVctal statements to the
conlfwi
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WEST FIGHT ENDS
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LONDON, Feb. 2.—The western
fighting has resulted in practically
a draw. What is now proceeding
is small counter attacks to re-cap
ture the' gains or losses of either
side ,The Germans are keeping up
a heavy but in-effective bombard
ment. • This afternoon the Allies
suddenly opened up a vigorous re
ply along the entire line.
SALONIKA, Feb. 2—German
Zeppelins visited this city and ten
are dead and fourteen will die as
a result of the raid. An unfortunate
feature of the raid is that the kill*-J
were all Greeks.
The damage done to the fortifhn
tions last night was nil.
The Allie.i’ aero guns compelled
the Zeppelins to flight.
A number of aeros chased the
Zeppelins but they all got away
without loss.
PETROGRAD, Feb. 2.—With a
large force surrounding Eezroum,
the Russians engaged and defeateo
a large Turkish force sent to relieve
the garrison. It is stated that this
force is however only the advance
guard of a larger army now on the
way to resist the Russian advance. |
PARIS, Feb. 2.—The evening ;
communique says that the fighting
on the west is being renewed along
the line.
RERUN, Feb. 2.—Considerable
gains is the way of machino gun-,
and prisoners are reported as a re
sult of the recent drive.
VIENNA, Feb. 2.—The Italians
and the Rulgars clashed tpday. The
Italians were in stronger force.
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 2.—The re
cent drive of tho Germans is the
subject of review. A German au
thority is quoted as saying that tho
mistake of an officer cost the success
of the Artois advance. This is how
ever absurd as tho French concen
tration was so powerful that even
the evacuated trenches were almost
immediately re-taken.
BRITTON WOULD BUY UP
LOWER CALIFORNIA
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 1.—
This was not an exciting day in
side or outside Congress in the capi
tal. Political activities which are
usually super-active when the White
House is empty on the general prin
ciple that when the cat’s away the
mice may play, wore not noticeable
on the surface, and routine work
marked the operations of the law
mills.
Representative Britton sponsored
a resolution to purchase Lower
California from Mexico. The money
so paid according to Britton would
rehabilitate the Carranza govern
ment and serve to restoro confld
ence in the de facto administrative
head of Mexican affairs. It will
probably be favorably considered.
Whether Mexico will sell or not is
quite another question. Britton
says yes, Mexicans say no.
William Jennings Bryan has hisi
ears to the ground for political tips.
His-attentive observation has shown
him the inadvisability of any imme
diate tour of the east where, it i>
to be admitted, the prcp^ratlonlsts
are all to the good mainly of course
on account of the industrial activi
ties which have followed the war
contracts and the expectation that
these will be added to by Uncle
Sam’s generosity.
It Is therefore announced that Mr.
Bryan will tour the Middle West in
the interest of the pacificist oppo
sition to the munltiontst policy of
the President.
Let na estimate oa your Job Work
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NEW YORK. Feb. 1.—Effective
from today, the Unfted States Steel
corporation has Increased the wages
of all employees In their mils and
foundries, The scale now paid la
about equal to that which is paid'
by the Independent concerns.
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WASHINGTON. D. C., Feb. l.~
Labor men say that the Steel trust
.increased j ,>tfcn senses in prder to
**41* eg i strike* vrdte brbw
ing*ld ahnostevery planf Snd they
bad no desire to repeat the disftst*
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Offc -0:1 <4 \ fl i
rous experiences at Youngstown, O.,
where despite the efforts of the
clerical force to keep the fires go
ing, most of the furnaces froze.
causing a big loss. •“ ‘ '
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NEW YORK, Feb. 1.—Coal and
'coke took a big upward leap today.
This is said to be in anticipation of
wage increase demhnds which’ the
‘members * of the - United Mine
Workers will make tn' two month*'
from now. W. <1 i*i'- v * *1 j:
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WILMINGTON. Del. Feb. 1.—
The Dupont Co. has increased the
wages of all employees. This firm
is finding some trohblo in getting
men to stay as the frequent explo
sions hays scared a good many.
The last explosion is said to have
furnished the secret service - men
an important clue to all previous
activities, and prove sensation*
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'» warning to frlghtea plotters, mv
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