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Grantsville, W. Va., Thursday, April 27, 1916 33rd Year. Whole No. 1677

DUTCH SHIP SUNK, 5 DEAD RUSSIANS LAND IN FRANCE

TO FIGHT BESIDE ALLIES Czars Troops Arrive at Marseilles on Flotilla—French

Infantry Engages Foe on Both Banks of Meuse Hurling Germans Back*--Crown Prince Prepares New Drive

BIG TEUTON GUNS TAKEN WITH BLACK SEA FORT

Paris.—As an immediate result. It is believed, of the recent Allies* con- ference in Paris, a great flotilla of Russian transports arrived at Mar- seilles and began disembarking a

strong force of Russian troops who are to fight beside the French on the western front.

The landing of the Russian troops heralded by Gen. Jotfre in un army •order as “another striking proof of the devotion of Russia to the com- mon cause," came as one of the sur-

prises of the war. The plan had been known only to the heads of the Allied staffs and was devised, it Is said, at the recent Paris confer- ence.

There are several factors, that ir- •dlcate the transports came from Vladivostok. Archangel did not be- come Ice free until very recently. Re- sides, the present railroad facilities from the interior to Archangel are

extremely bad, the new railway being still uncompleted. The belief that the transports came through the Medi- terranean is strengthened by England’s recent closing of the Suez Canal to neutral shipping. The distance from Vladivostok to Marseilles is about 10,- 260 miles. Figuring on an average

speed of twelve kuots the trip must

have taken the transports about 37 days. If the troops had started out from Archangel it Is believed that they would have been landed at Havre or some other point on tho northwes-

i tern coast of France. Not many hours after the news had

been flashed to various European cap- itals, excerpts from comments of the

j afternoon papers in Berlin and Vienna were received. All admit that Rus- sian aid on the western front, while

generally expected In the early part of the war, had been entirely unex

pected at this time. News of the German gain at Ypres

was hailed In Berlin as the beginning of a great drive against the British, with Calais as the ultimate objective. For two weeks past the ever growing violence of the artillery duels on the Anglo-German front, coupled with

great mining and hand grenade ac-

tivity, have Indicated that "something was brewing” on the northern end of the far flung battle line In the west.

'• The British positions at Ypres form

£ a dangerous salient in the Gorman line, and Is well comparable to the

■French positions at Verdun before the S giant battle now raging there, began.

RUSSIAN TAKE TREBIZOND.

London.—Trebizond, one of the moM strongly fortified and moat im- portant Black Sea ports in Asia Minor, has fallen Into the hands of the Russians.

The Petrognad War Office announc-

ed that thanks to the co-operation of the army and navy the city has iheen captured. A terrific battle ap- pears to have taken plane at the gates of the city, in which the Turks made a laat desperate eland but were

defeated by the Muscovite forces, whose attack was aided by the Rus- sian naval guns off the coast. “Most daring" landings were made, the Ru'- aian War Office report*, under the protection of the naval artiflery.

The Oerman infantry attack east

of the Meuse, launched by 30,000 pricked troops, nerited the Crown Prince part of a salient of the Chauffeur wood, weat of Douaumont rill&ga and 1,738 prisoners, including 42 officers. Of thie total only 60 men

were wounded, the German War Of- fice reported.

Parris frankly admitted that the powerful onrush of the Crown Prince's Infantrista on the front between the Meuse and Douaumont shattered aril theories of German "exhaustion,” The French official report etnphaeri7.es that the attack was "of extreme vio- lence."

PEACE RUMORS AFFECT RATE8

Austria Likely to Make Move at Any Time, Rotterdam Reporta.

Ixmdon.—An extraordinary crop ol rumor* have Just had an immediate and important effect on the rates ol exchange both at Rotterdam and Am aterdam.

These rumors have all been connect ed with persistent reports that pear# ia in the air. Some people are declar in* that the internal position of Ana trla la such an Important peace raovr

may be expected from that quarter.

BRITISH ORDER COAL SEIZURE

Neutrals Can Avoid Action by Con aular Proof It Isn't German.

I^ondofi.—Neutral ahlp owners wcr#

warned by the British Foreign Ofllcf that all cargoes or bunkers of era

of German origin In neutral ship* would be liable to seizure under th* Order of Council of March 11.

The Foreign Office advised neutral* to obtain certificates from British con

aular officers, showing that (he coa

in their shi^a did not originate ir Germany.

London. — The British steamhlp Sabia, owned by the Frumentum Steamship Company, Limited, of Lon- Steamship Company, Limited, of Lon- captain and her crew of twenty-four men were saved and have been land- ed in England.

A Lloyds despatch from Ymulden. Holland, says the Dutch steamship lx>dewijk van Nassau has been sunk. She went down in six minuteB. Five of her crew were drowned. Thirty- six survivors have been landed at Ymuiden.

All the crew were Dutch subjects. The five who were drowned met their death by jumping out of the ship’s boats, which were nearly filled with water. The survivors say tho steam ship, which had been held up for a long time by the British authorities, was released and was sunk a few hours later.

The Rotterdam correspondent of the Ixmdon Daily Mail cabled that the crisis in Holland continues to cause gr»at anxiety.

The Germans heavily bombarded the French positions on all the fronts around Verdun, the fire being espe- cially Intense against Le Mort Homme, northwest of the fortress, and in the sector from the eastern bank of the Meuse to Fort Vaux.

Ground had been wrested from the Crown Prince in both of these re- gions in the preceding night.

The heavy shelling is simlar to that which hitherto, in the nine weeks of the battle, has always preceded a big infantry attack by the Germans.

FURTHER RUSSIAN GAINS Lrondon.—The victory of the Rus-

sians at Trebizond was followod up by still further gains. West of Erzerum in the region of ARchkala, a chain of strongly fortified hills was carried by assault.

A Russian submarine, under a heavy, fire from the land batteries, sank a

steamship and a sailing vessel near the entrance to the Bosporus.

The Turks, to check the advance of the Russians in Mesopotamia, threw against the Muscovites veteran troops recently brought from Gallipoli, but many of the regiments were wiped out, and all the Moslem forces sustained heavy losses in an intense artillery fire and in determined bayonet attacks.

The main Turkish garrison of Trebi- zond escaped when the Russians took the city, but the fleeing Moslems are being closely pursued by the Russians. Another battle is expected, as the Turks were able to rnuintain their or- ganization, and though they were com- pletely defeated their retreat has not yet become a rout.

With Trebizond the Russians got a large quantity of war material and many heavy German guns of the lat- est type.

The fall of the city forces the Turks to depend solely on improvised de- fenses and the natural difficulties of the country to prevent the Bweep of the Russian armies.

At I/es Kparges the Germans, after three attacks, entered French trenches on a front of about 200 yards, but w«re immediately expelled from them, suffering heavy losses.

The Italians have captured Monte Fume Pass from the Austrians and taken the extreme western peak of Monte Ancora, where the Austrian trenohem wore shattered, with heavy casualties.

PITH OF THE WAR NEWS

The sentiment throughout Germany la against any further weakening of Germany's submarine campaign, to say nothing of an abandonment of it.

Baron Kolmar von de Goltz, Comman- der in Chief of the First Turkish Army, died of spotted fever at the headquarters near Trebizond of his Turkish army, according to an offi- cial announcement.

Dr. von Lentzs, Prussian Finance Minister, has forecasted great fi- nancial difficulties for not only the German Empire, but also the individual States of the Em- pire.

The battle of Verdun, especially that part of It In the region of Dead Man's Hill, continues with hardly abated violence.

No longer impeded by Turkish pres sure on the coast, the Russian armies west of Erzerum have begun a swift advance on Baiburt and Er- zlngan.

The Germans, owing to the strong resistance of the French at vsrdun. are withdrawing largr forces from their fronts In Russia, Serbia and Macedonia, and throwing them into this hotly contested theatre of war fare.

ARMY TO STAY ACROSS BORDER

President Decides to Continur Hunt for Villa

</V!LLPOLICE NORTHERNPARTS

Genera! Funston’s Plan Adopted by Washington—Obregon May be Taken Into Consultation—New Disposi-

tion May Hasten Settlement.

Washington. — Behind the formal announcement that President Wilson had approved a plan for re-disposi- tlon of the American troops in Mex- ico. there was a plain intimation that Washington had determined to maintain a military status quo be- yond the border until the Mexican de facto government has demonstrat- ed ita ability to capture or crush V ilia and his adherents, and prevent repetitions of the Columbus raid.

In the interim it la understood the American troops will be so placed as to safeguard the border towns by virtually policing the area south of the line where General Carranza has been heretofore unable to check ban- dit operations.

Secretary Baker announced the ap- proval of the re-disposition plan after consulting with the President over a joint report submitted by Major Generals Funston and Scott. The plan was proposed by General Funs- ton.

Villa Hunt At Standstill. The new military plan leaves the

pursuit of Villa at a standstill, but froes General Funston’s hands to make the position of the forces in Mexico secure by grouping them in posts of such strength as to protect them from attack by irresponsible elements of the de facto govern- ment’s soldiers. It will also serve as a plain warning to General Carranza that he must bend every effort to- ward securing complete control of the territory south of the most ad- vanced American post If ho hopes for recall of the troops.

During the rearrangement of the line, at least, there will be opportu- nity for the state department to make counter proposals to General Carranza, urging greater co-opera- tion as a means to get early with- drawal. The halt will also give the men and horses of the American fly- ing columns a chance for much need ed rest.

Obregon I* Factor It is known that the possibility of

asking General Obregon, Carranza’s war minister, to come to the border for a conference has been suggested.

El Paso, Tex.—Pablo Lopez, Villa lieutenant, held responsible for the murder of 17 Americans at Santa Ysabel, and who was shot through both legs in the raid on Columbus, N. M., was captured by Carranza forces near the scene of his crime

COURT FINDS THAT BACON WAS THE REAL SHAKESPEARE

Chicago Jurist Renders Decision In a Suit to Restrain Publication.

Chicago, III.—It is settled at last— Francis Bacon wrote William Shakes- peare’b works!

The decision was rendered in a suit brought by William N. Selig, a

moving picture promoter, to restrain Colonel George Fabyan from publish- ing a book supporting the Baconian theory. It was alleged that the pro- duction of this book would act to the detriment of certain screen plays.

After listening for three weeks to

the testimony of “experts" who ex-

pounded or attacked the famous cipher on which the Baconian theory rests. Judge Tuthlll held:

“The court finds that the claim of the friends of Francis Bacon that ho Is the nuthor of said works of Shake- speare, and the facts and circumstan- ces in the vast biography of the con-

troversy over the question of author- ship and the proofs submitted herein convinces tho court that Francis Ba- con is the author.”

Selig was ordered by the court to pay Fabyan $5,000 damages. He wll’ appeal.

Sugar Repeal Bill Passed. Washington.—The senate approved

the house bill repealing the free su-

par section of the tarifT law, under which supar would have pone on the free list May 1. Ry a vote of 59 to 10 the senate receded from an

amendment it had passed extending the existInp duty of 1 cent a pound for four years, and which the house refused to apree to In conference.

Germans of War Age Banished. Lisbon.—A povernment decree has

been Issued bnnishlnp all Germans of military ape from Portupuese terri- tory. The remainder will be In- terned.

Haymarket Rioter Dies, fhlcapo.—Oscar W. Neebe, one of

the elpht men sentenced to denth or

Imprisonment followlnp the Hay- market riot of May 4, 1885. is dead. Neebe was sentenced to 15 years In the penitentiary and wrs plven par- don by Gov. John T\ Altpeld in 1893.

Russian Diplomat is Promoted. Washinpfon.—Joseph Lorls-Melikoff,

first secretary of the Russian ombaie sy here, received notice of his pro- motion to he Russian minister to Slam

MRS. NEWTON D. BAKER

ooon after the selection of Newton D. Baker of Cleveland for secretary of war newspapers announced that MrsJ Baker considered the social life of Washington its least attractive fee-; ture. She is interested In her homo and family and In charities, to which* she was a liberal contributor in hnr home city.

GERMANY EXPECTED TO YIELD GRADUALLY

Oelay in Reply Interpreted As

lignified Sign of Acquisence

Berlin.—Germany's answer to Presi- dent Wilson’s ultimatum will be dis- patched to Washington in a few days, perhaps hours.

Of all the signs and hints and omens with regard to the outcome of the crisis between the two countries this very delay of Germany’s answer Is the most significant; it points clearly to a backdown on the part of the Ger- man government, a dignified and grad- ual, but none the less complete ac- cession to America's demand that the lives of American oitizens be safe guarded.

What Diplomats Think. Were Germany courting a break

with tho United States; were she thoroughly convinced that there is “not one scintilla of justification for the American demands”—as some In- dividual hot-headed editors have been asserting—then there would have been flashed across the cable inside of 24 hours after the presentation to tho foreign office of the American note, a brief, curt, decided reply tell- ing tho American government in so many words that what it asks Is im- possible to grant and that this is Ger- many’s last word and cloBe-s the inci- dent.

Even the Kaiser’s absence from Berlin would not have prevented that

Berlin.—The Imperial chacellor, I>r. von Bethnmnn-HoMweg, returned to iBerlin, which would seem to justify the assumption that the empire's re- sponsible leaders at main neadqunr- ters have finished consideration of the American note and reached a decislot concerning Germany’s reply.

WITH NATIONAL LAWMAKERS

Sayings and Doings in Both Our Houses of Congress.

SENATE Senator Newlnnds Introduced reso

lution to urge belligerent nations of Europe to con.-dder peace terms.

Judiciary committee again post- poned action on Hrandeis nomination.

Agriculture (Committee decided to ask the Federal Trade Commission to supervise distribution of sisal held in Yuc-at&n

HOUSE Resolution of Inquiry regarding the

detention of Samuel Schwartz, ar\ American, by British authorities In- troduced.

Passed a Senate bill Increasing the number of cadets at West Point Academy, after striking out a provi- sion which would have increased the President’s appointive power.

Ambassador Page Arrives. New York —Thomas Nelson Page,

American ambassador to Italy, arriv- ed here on the steamship St. fxmis from Liverpool. He is home on a ▼acatlon.

Turks Check Russians. Constantinople The Russians have

met with a check in their operation1* In Southern Armenia, according to the official statement by the Turkish war office:

Hostile forces which were in the sector of Motiki, south of Rltlla, were compelled to retreat toward Bltlls, fighting rear guard engage ments. They left hundreds of dead After four hours of fighting from Kozina mountain to the east of Mush, the enemy waa repulsed.

IMPROVED WATER SUPPLY PLANNED

WEST VIRGINIA SANITARY ENGI- NEER TOURING STATE MAK-

ING INSPECTIONS.

THREE TOWNS ARE AFFECTED

Chlorinating Plants to Be Installed at Thomas and Elkins—State Plant

at Clarksburg.

Western Newspaper Union News Service I Parkersburg, W. Va.—Mayo Tol-1

man, state sanitary engineer with the department of health, is touring in 1

the central and eastorn section of the state inspecting water supplies, lm-! provements in water supply systems ; in three towns visited recently by Mr. Tolman will be made to the ex-

tent of more than 170,000, assuring ! each place of pure water. Sevon ] projects for soeuring pure water for the town of Thomas were investigated j by Mr. Tolman with a view to securing 1

the best and most permanent supply I of water at a minimum cost. Five of the projects were eliminated as im- j practical. The town now will choose between a deep well supply and a

supply from an abandoned mine to be purified by a chlorinating plant. Im- provements there probably will cost in the neighborhood of $10,000.

At Elkins the city council voted to iustall an adequate chlorinating plant ! to purify supply of water from the ; Tygart river. A bond election for an issue of about $50,000 probably will | be submitted in June for a plant that ! will be one of the best in the state. ! At Broad Oaks, where the state de- j partment’s emergency plant has been installed temporarily, a plant costing $10,000 to $14,000 will be secured for! permanent nse.

DENTISTS TO HELP RESEARCH I

Each Member of State Society to Be Assessed One Dollar.

Charleston. W. Va.—In annual ses- j sion here the West Virginia State 1

Dental Society adopted a resolution •

amending the constitution and by-laws i so as to provide that each member j contribute one dollar a year toward a fund of one million dollars to carry on the work of the research institute of the National Society throughout the United States. Dr. Weston A. Price, of Cleveland, Ohio, president and managing director of the research institute, lectured on "systematic dis- eases occasionally originating through dental work." Other lectures on the program included Dr. Martin Dewey, of Kansas City, Mo., and Dr. Alden J. Bush, of Columbus, O. A banquet was tendered the members of the society with Dr. O. W\ Burdatts, of Wheeling, a toastmaster.

DETECTIVES CHASE BIDDINGER.

He Is Wanted in Chicago. Where His Bail Is Fixed at $30,000.

Charleston, W Va.—After a life- time devoted to the merciless pursuit of criminals, which sometimes as sumed the characteristics of Javrot. Detective Guy Blddinger, of New York and Chicago, well known in West Vlr ginia, where he has operated as a detective for the state under tho di- j rection of Gov. Hatfield and Prose- ; cuting Attorney Thomas C. Townsend, : is now the quarry and is the pursued instead of the pursuer. He is wanted In Chicago, where his bail has been fixed at 180,000. Detectives are scour- ing New York for him. and rushing across the states from Springfield, 111., to Albany, N. Y., with requisition pa- pers to bring him back to Chicago, where f»t charges have been made against him by The Citizens' associa- tion. of Chicago, and which have been preferred against him by F M Sin- gleton, secretary of the organization.

STEAM PRESSURE IS BLAMED.

Federal Inspectors File Report Con- cerning Boiler Explosion.

Huntingdon, W Va.— Federal steam- boat inspectors reported that the re- sult of their investigation of the cause of the explosion of the Ohio river boat Rani Brown which occurred here sev- eral weeks ago, in which fifteen men lost their lives, showed that the steam- er’s safety valve was weighted down causing excessive steam pressure to burst five boilers. The boat sank and bodies of some of tho victims have never been recovered.

CABELL COUNTY WILL SEND 100.

Huntinpton. W. Va Cabell county has been called upon to aend 100 dele ratoa to the annual convention of the Wont Virginia Rt*to Sunday achool an aoriiitloTi, which will be held In Mor- kantown, May 10-12. The convention la to be one of the beat and btffftcat In the hiatory-of the Aaaoriwtlon and Tounty 1’realdent Frank M. Thorn- bur* aaya that (’abell will not be con tent to take *emnrt place to any other in the matter of Ita repreaentatlon there.

POWDER BLAST KILLS THREE

Four Thousand Kegs of Powder Ex- plodes, Destroying Plant.

Bluefleld, W. Va.—Three persons were killed, one perhaps fatally in- jured and two others less seriously I'.urt at the Nemours plant of the Du- Pont Powder company, eight miles from here, when four thousand kegs of black powder exploded. The plant was almost completely destroyed with a loss of about 1100.00ft. Howard Mathena, a glazier, had just entered the glazing shop when the explosion occurred and he was blown to pieces. Calvin Butts, a watchman, was

nearby and was so seriously hurt that he may not recover. George and Roy Crawford were asleep in their home almost a mile from the mill, and were crushed to death under a great rock blown through the roof by the force of the blast. Two other persons in the village were injured by falling debris. The sites of the buildings which made up the plant are marked by great holes. Officials are unable to assign any cause for the explosion.

FEWER FIRES IN THE STATE

According to Deputy Cherrington Good Business Conditions Responsible.

Huntington, W. Va.—Deputy Fire Marshal F. S. Cherrington, who was in the city said that there have been fewer fires than usual and much less loss, so far this year. He said that business conditions are improving, this always being responsible for fewer fires. Arson and hard times go hand in hand. The deputy said Mar- shal John S. Horan would be here about the first of May to further con- sider the establishment of a Hunting- ton branch of the state marshal’s of- fice. There is now a branch at Wheel- ing.

SPEAKER JOHNSON VINDICATED.

When West Virginia Damage Suit Against Him Is Dismissed.

Martinshurg, W. Va.—Vernon E. Johnson, of Berkeley Springs. Speak- of tho West Virginia House of Dele- gates, was vindicated in the circuit court in Berkeley Springs when the $10,000 damage suit of John W. Cross against him was dismissed by Judge Woods. Cross charged Speaker John- son with having attacked his fifteen- year-old daughter, Ruth Cross, while she was a domestic in the home of Johnson’s mother. Counsel for Speak- er Johnson declared to the court that they had an affidavit from Ruth Cross swearing she had consented to her father instituting the suit only after he had threatened to kill her if she refused, and that Speaker Johnson was innocent of the charge against him.

OFFICER FACES LIQUOR LAW.

Clarksburg, W. Va.—A man who says he is JesBe Berg, a deputy sher- iff of Fayette county, Pa., has been arrested by deputy sheriffs of this oounty, on a charge of bringing six pints of whisky in the city in a satch- el. in violation of the Yost statute. He was taken into custody as he alighted from a passenger train on his way here to attend federal court, as a wit- ness from Point Marion. Pa. He was released under bond.

SPECIAL TRAIN IS CHARTERED.

Charleston, W. Va.—To attend the annual convention of the West Vir- ginia Sunday school association In Morgantown, May 10. 11 and 12, a ape clal train will be run from Charleston for the accommodation of delegates and others from that city and the southern section of the state.

WEST VIRGINIA BRIEFS Fairmont.—Walter Wyer. 12 years

old, fell five stories In a department- store elevator shaft here and was killed.

Wheeling.—W. F. Baldwin, of this city, who has been serving a three- year term In the West Virginia peni- tentiary for counterfeiting, has been pardoned by President Wilson.

Huntington.- Secretary A. T. Ar Bold of the West Virginia Sunday School association announced two more charters for Sunday school classes In the lower section of the state.

Charleston.—James Martin, promi- nent timber dealer, and former justice of the peace was drowned at Black Betsy. Putnam county, when he fell Into the Kanawha river from a raft of cross ties.

Clarksburg, W. Va- Mrs K 3. Axup, wife nf an evangelist of tha Church of Ond, difid aboard a pasaen* K«r train of the Baltimore ft Ohio rail- road nearing hero, tuberculosis being the cauae.

Orafton, W Va -The first oil well

j In Taylor county has been brought in on the farm of John Scranage, five miles from Orafton, It was learned here. The well Is prod noting several barrels a day.

Newell, W Va -Fire, originating from a gas explosion In the holler room of the Kenilworth Tile Co.'s plant here, caused a damage of $30,000 Two hundred men will thrown out of employment. East Liverpool firemen assisted in flghtlrvi the flames.

LOODS DRIVE TEUTONS BACK

H!s Attacks Fail to Dislodge the German Army

BRITISH REPORT SUCCESSES

•'urks Drive Russians Back From Points in Armenia and Report

Heavy Losses Were Inflicted. French Gas Also Fails.

Berlin—Herman forces were com* ;>eiled to evacuate nowly-won trenches ■m account of high floods, which made consolidation of the positions impossi- ble, according to a statement issued by tlie* Berman War Office.

A hand grenade attack made by the English south of St. ERoi was repulsed, French trenches on the left bank of The Mease, southeast of Tlaucourt and west ttf Dead Man's Hill, were cai> tured.

Gas Attack Fail*. Tim statement says: An English hand grenade attack

made toward morning south of St. Kloi was repulsed. English patrols,

I which advanced against our lines on both side of Bapaume-Albert high

I road, after preparation by strong artil- lery lire, were repulsed.

Near Tracy-la-Vai an enemy gas at- ta/ok was unsuccessful. Clouds of gas wore swept back in the direction of the French.

On the left bank of the Meuse, southeast of Haucourt and west of Dead Man's Hill, wo have taken ene- my trenches.

DOES CANADA PLAN SEARCH FOR GERMANS ON LAKE SHIPS?

Ottawa Denies Report Emanating From Shipping Interests

in Cleveland.

■Washington.—-Cleveland officers of the l^ake Carriers’ Association have notified officials of the Government that they have information that Can- ada intends in the future to remove sailors of enemy nations from Ameri- can ships on the Great I>akes touch- ing at Canadian porta. Department is investigating.

Ottawa. Ont.—It is officially stated here that there is no foundation for the fear that the Canadian govern- ment contemplates examining ships touching at Canadian lake portB and the removal of sailor subjects of bel- ligerent nations. At the marine de- partment it was emphatically denied that any action of that nature was planned

Spain Honors Shakespeare. Madrid.—On the occasion of the

three hundredth anniversary of the deaths of Cervantes and Shakespeare. King Alfonso telegraphed King George:

On this day the noble nation and Spain commemorate at the same time two immortal genuisen who are the legitimate pride of our race. I express to thee, with my greetings, and those of the Queen, my country’s and my own sincere appreciation of the homage given to Cervantes and Spanish literature.”

$92,000 for Printing Walsh Report. Washington. — The Senate voted

192,000 to print the report of the United Stau-s industrial relations, 2ommlsslon and 10,000 copies of the\ exhaustive testimony taken by it in its hearings on labor conditions, held •.hroughout the country. The resolu- tion must be concurred in by the House, which passed a resolution to print the report only.

Villa Reported In Los Angeles. Los Angeles, Cal.—'Special agents of

the United States Department of Jus- tice and the American secret service are scouring the Mexican quarters of Ixw Angeles and town tn the vicinltty in a search for Francisco Villa, who Is now believed to bo hiding here

Portion of Belgrade Destroyed. Paris.—A destructive fir© in Bel-

grade, formerly, tho capital of Serbia, is reported in a dispatch from Buch- arest. It is said the eastern section of the city was almost destroyed. Ser- oral hundred houses were burned anti thousands of persons are homeless.

Good Roads Days May 16 and 17. ( harleston, W Va. — General good

roads days in West Virginia will bo Tuesday and Wednesday. May 16 and 17 A proclamation will be issued by Governor Hatfield setting apart these flays, on which Improvements will be made on the highways In every county

Princeton Men Reedy for Camp. Princeton. N. J One hundred and

thlrfyslx undergraduates signified ♦ heir Intention of attending fhn ium rner military rnmpi.

Home of Vasear Founder Robbed. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.—»Hurglars broke

Into "Sprlngslde,” the estate of Mra, William Nelson, and afolo $10.000 worth of cold and ailimr plate. Thd place wan formerly owned by MaU thaw Vassar, founder of Vassar Coli lege.

Authoress Injured. New York Princes* Troubetskoy,

formerly Amelia Hives, author of nor* el* and play*, la suffering from many bruises and sprains, she slipped and fell fhe entire length of a stairway.