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BERLIN, Oct. 12.—(By wireless to Sayville.)—Austrian
German, Bulgarian and Turkish troops, under the suprenu
command of General von Mackensen, continue to drive througl
Transylvania, and the invading Roumanian troops are fleeiip
before them, retreating toward their home country. The Rou
A mauian armies have accomplished little since entering tin
'war. The three divisions that entered Transylvania are ii
flight toward Roumania.
ALLIES GAIN IN SOMME SECTOR.
LONDON, Oct. 13.—The allied armies operating in tin
sectors north and south of Somme continue to make gains
against the opposing German forces. In both sectors, the bat
tie rages today, with the advantage on the side of tlie alliec
tnies. At Verdun, artillery fire continues, but infantry at
ks have been lacking for a week past. The center of activ
ity on the western front is in the region of Somme.
ITALIANS HEADED FOR TRIESTE.
ROME, Oct. 13,—A big Italian army is slowly fighting its
way toward Trieste, an Austrian city. Practically every fool
of the way is contested by Austrian troops, but the enemy is
slowly but surely giving way before the advancing Italians
At the present rate of progress, however, it will take a week oi
ten days to reach the city.
CHAOS REIGNS AT ATHENS.
ATHENS, Oct. 13.—Chaos reigns in the city of Athens
due to the uncertainty and vacillation of the government witl
respect to entering the world war. All soi’ts of rumors art
floating about, but nothing officially is given out. The peoph
are clamoring for entering the war on the side of the allies, bu
King Constantine and Premier Zamais are not yet prepared t(
take such a decisive step.
RUSSIANS REPORT GAINS.
^ PETROGRAD, Oct. 13.—Great battles are being fought
' in the Volhynian and Galician districts, the Russian armies
taking the offensive. The Teuton lines have been pierced at
several points in both sectors, according to official advices
given out by the Russian war office today, but the report ad
mits that the Teutons are putting forth a stern resistance all
along the line. The Russians are getting re-inforcements, and
when the armies are augmented, it is believed that the big
drive will be made against the enemy lines. The plan of cam
paign, as semi-officially revealed here, is to begin a concerted
action all along the eastern front and with sheer force of num
bers attempt to crush all resistance. The attacks on Lemberg
^ were renewed today.
V REPORTED LOST, BUT IS SAFE.
BOSTON, Oct. 13.—The steamship Kingston, reported as
sunk by a German submarine on the Atlantic seaboard, reached
here last night. The officers report that no submarine was
sighted on the trip across the ocean. The steamer was long
overdue, which gave rise to the belief that it had been sunk
by an undersea craft. Storms delayed the passage of the ves
sel.
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PRESTONBURG, Ky.( Oct. 13.—
Candidate Hughes is carrying on his
campaign throughout Kentucky, visit
ing settlements and towns never be
fore canvassed by a presidential can
didate. In his speech here last night,
Candidate Hughes said, in part: “I
» stand as the representative of a party,
but in a true sense, as the representa
tive of that American sentiment that
demands that the lives and property
rights of American citizens shall be
safeguarded throughout the world.
This does not necessarily mean a pol
icy of war, as our opponents are
gorging.”
%/Hughes is being well received in
Kentucky. Great crowds assemble to
* hear him at every point at which he
speaks.
The case of the government vs. Har
ry White, charged with larceny o:
meal tickets, was tried before Com
missioner David in the local court yes
terday. Considerable evidence wa
produced to show that the defendan
was unlawfully in possession of th<
tickets and sold them to innocent par
ties through the customary fence
White’s plea was that he had receive'
the tickets in the nature of tips, bu
this was denied and substantiated b;
the original owners.
Judge David found White guilty a
charged but has not yet passed sen
tence; in the meanwhile White is con
fined in the federal jail. Special In
spector Robinson worked up the evi
dence in the case that was the caus
of White’s arrest and verdict of guil
ty. Commissioner F. Mears is deter
mined to rigorously prosecute any at
tempt on the part of government em
ployes to defraud the Alaskan Engi
neering Commission.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—The navy department today
announced that the sale of the army transport Crook had been
authorized, to go to the highest responsible bidder. The Crook
is now employed by the Alaskan Enginnering Commission, con
structing the government railway from the coast to interior
Alaska, and is on the run between Seattle and Anchorage.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—It is officially announced today
that Dr. L. I. Hughes will have charge of the district of Alaska,
Washington and Oregon, for the expenditure, within the next
five years of the sum of five million dollars on public roads and
highways. The money is made available bv the highway ap
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i propriation bill that passed congress at' the last session.
MURDER PLOT
NEW YORK, Oct 13.—The police
authorities today announced that they
had unearthed a conspiracy among the
striking carmen to assassinate Presi
dent Shonts and Manager Hedley of
the Interborough Rapid Transit Co. It
is asserted that detectives have uncov
ered the plot and have the ringleaders
where they can be apprehended at
any moment. Arrests are expected to
occur this afternoon.
FOR DEFAITION
NEW YORK, Oct. 6.—Jeremiah A.
O’Leary, president of the American
Truth association, has filed an action
against Medill McCormack, publisher
of the Chicago Tribune for $50,000
damages, alleging defamation of char
acter. The Tribune, in a recent editor
ial, referred to O’Leary as a hyphen
ated American, questioned his loyalty
and alleged improper political activ
ity.
CHICAGO, Oct. 13.—John T. Mc
Cutcheon, cartoonist, has purchased
an island in the south Atlantic near
the Behama group. The island is 3Ya
■ miles long and a little more than a
i mile wide and is down on the admiral
ty charts as Salt Clay island. The
■ mariners know it as Treasure island,
■ because of the many legends of buried
gold which pirate chieftains placed
• there in the days when rovers of the
sea plied their calling.
CHRISTIANIA, Norway, Oct. 13.—
A conference of representatives of
Norwegian, Swedish and Danish gov
ernments has resulted in a further de
velopment for the plan for co-opera
tion during the war in matters affect
ing the foreign affairs of the three na
tions. Through the Danish foreign of
fice last night there was issued a
statement setting forth what was ac
complished at the conference. This
statement, which is said to have been
received with satisfaction by all po
litical parties, is said in an Exchange
Telgraph dispatch from Copenhagen
to be in effect as follows:
“ The three countries are unani
mous for maintenance of loyal and im
partial neutrality during the present
war.
“ Special attention was devoted to
the destruction of neutral ships and
cargoes, as well as to the consequen
ces entailed by the issue of the black
lists by the belligerents. It was
agreed with a view to facilitating the
commercial policy of the three coun
tries that they keep each other in
formed as to measures to be taken ir
the respective countries in regard tc
both commercial policy and the re
pression of commercial espionage.”
PRESIDENT AT
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 13.—Presi
dent Wilson spoke to a big audience
here last night. The chief executive
admitted that he resented very strong
ly the accusation of his opponents thal
the democratic party was a section
al party. He declared that such
charges merely proved the provincial
ism of those who made them.
BA\ ONNE, N. J., Oct. 13.—A thousand striking em
ployees of the Tide Water Oil Company attacked J. .J. Conner,
lieutenant of the Lehigh \ alley Railway police corps, and sev
eral of 11is assistants, and almost beat them to death last even
ing. 1 he strikers, thinking they had killed Conners, threw his
body across the railroad track, in front of an advancing train,
and fled the scene. The train crew saw the prostrate body,
stopped the train and rescued the badly injured man.
Late last night, the city police fired into a mob of strikers
and sympathizers that sought to demolish a fire engine en
route to a fire and killed one woman and perhaps fatally shot
two of the strikers. When the fire alarm sounded, the fire
engine, accompanied by a force of railway police, hastened to
respond. Enroute, the engine was held up by a barricade has
tily thrown across the street by the strikers. When the en
gine was forced to stop, the strikers set about to destroy it.
Whereupon, the railway police opened fire. The mob fled in
wild disorder.
The Tide Water Oil Company is a subsidiary company of
the great Standard Oil Company. The workmen struck in an
effort to force an increase in the wage scale.
RIOTING ON AT BAYONNE TODAY.
BAYONNE, N. J., Oct. 13.—The striking employees of the
Tide Water Oil Company engaged in riots this forenoon and
in efforts to stop the disorders, three of the strikers were shot
and killed by the railway police. Many of the strike leaders
have been taken into custody.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—Seattle’s
commanding position as the chief sup
ply point for Alaska, was strikingly
indicated when the United States bu
reau of fisheries awarded contracts for
$41,000 worth of supplies for the
Pribilof islands in Bering Sea recent
ly
There were 24 bidders on the goods,
which included arms and ammunition,
provisions and dry goods, tobacco,
drugs, medical and hospital supplies,
hardware, hay grain, livestock, paints,
oil, glass and numerous other staples.
Of the 24, 16 are located in Seattle,
three in San Francisco, two in New
York, two in Chicago and one in Ak
ron, O.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—National
headquarters of the woman’s party
announced last night that Mrs. Inez
Milholland Boissevain, noted beauty
and suffragist leader, would leave
Chicago Oct. 13, for a month’s speak
ing tour through the% 12 suffrage
states, including Oregon, in opposition
to the re-election of President Wilson.
SEATTLE, Oct. 13.—The steamer
Alameda, sailed for Anchorage and
way ports at 9 o’clock yesterday morn
ing. Among the passengers for An
chorage are Roy Adkins, Harry Fuka
hara, James Fish, Mrs. E. Bloom, J.
Seidenberg, P. Peterson and Frank
Cooper.
THE SPIRIT CITlf
SEATTLE ,Oct. 13.—Chief of Po
lice Beckingham and his force of of
ficers have seized and destroyed over
3,000 quarts of whiskey within the
past 24 hours. The crusade against
the importation of liquors is being
waged with vigor, but despite the ac
tivity of the police force, there are
plenty of places where a man “ in the
know ” can assuage his thirst, if he
has the dough. A favorite method
employed by the bootleggers, but
which the officers have now got onto,
is to order the shipment from a know
ing wholesale liquor house in San
Francisco, have the shipment consign
ed to some fictitious individual in some
Alaska town and grab it when it
reaches Seattle.
Margett has been the most active of
the bootleggers. Invoices and letters
seized by the police, when his place
was raided a day or so ago, show that
he had purchased one bill of whiskey
from a San Francisco wholesale house
which amounted to $5,215. Most of
the liquor seized was in Margett’s
place.
NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—The tax list
for the city property was made public
this morning and shows assessed val
uation within the city limits of eight
billion dollars. The estate of Hetty
Green heads the list for personal
property. The Grand Central Termi
nal station is the most valuable build
ing in the city.
ST. PAUL, Oct. 13.—Louis W. Hill
was yesterday re-elected president of
the Great Northern Railway system,
at a meeting of the board of directors
in this city.