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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY,    MAY, 16, 1915.
Entered  at  Wilkes-Barre,   Pa. a.s Second Class Mail Matter.
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GERMANY WILL NOT REFUSE NOR GRANT DEMANDS MADE BY PRESIDENT WILSON
Belief In Washington Is That The Kaiser Wfll Try And Bring About A Compromis^-Ger- many Likely To Consent To Discontinue Warfare On Ships Carrying Passengers Provided Arms Or Ammunition Are Not Carried—Arbitration May Be Requested By The German Government.
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Washington, May 13.—The Opinion grew in diplomatic Washington today thai f-.crmany will neiiher refuse nor concede entirely the demand of Ameri¬ ca that she cease her submarine war¬ fare HRainst vessels carrying non-rom- balants. The belief appears to be gen¬ eral that »he will seek to effect a com- liromisc.
The publication today of the view of today of a high diplomatic authority, combined with the slatement of a high ."^late Department attached outlining the plan, which, in their opinion, was the only basis on which the question rould he settled diplomatically, caused widespread interest and was favorably received.
Must   Not  Carry   Ammunnition.
In the opinion of these authorities, I'lermany will consent to discontinue submarine warfare against passenger vessels do not carr.v arms or ammuni¬ tion. A strong intimation that such a suggestion would be well received by this government was the comment of a high slate depiirlmenl official who said it was feasible. This official said the principal Question would be the power of the Cnited Stales to prevent pass¬ enger ves.sels carrying explosives from leaving this country-. He said that the only certain way in his opinion would he to have Congress pass a. law giving the government that authority.
TIN BROOKSIDE WHEN JUSIICE IRIES 10 Jt PRISONER
Squire Hoary Attacked and Firearms Are Brought Into Play by Big Mob.
MANY   CHARGES   FOLLOW
Other officials though this would not be   necessary.     The   opinion   was   ad- i \anccd     that     Prei<ideni     Wilson     bj" i stretching   existing   authority   a   trifle I couid direct custom officials to refuse ] • learance papers to all passengers ves- r^els carrying  mUnl:ions of war in any form.    One official expressed the view thai   the   simplest     way   would     be   lo amend   the law  prohibiting lhe  Irans- , liorlalioii     of  explosive     i>n   passenger |
The newspaper Vossiache Zeitung of
Berlin today printed an article staling that it is possible that Germany will seek to have the Lusitania malter and the demands of the United Stats pre¬ sented to a court of arbitration.
This would meet too much delay and would  nol meet with  the approval  of this governmnt.    According to views of diplomats.  Count  Bornff.irff    of    Ger¬ many, is impressing ih? officials of his I government   that   American   people  doi^,  jjj. jnot  want   war and  that Germany  wIII.^q^^^. I do a great deal towards improving the sentiment  of the American population Iby acceding fo the    demands    of    the ! American  government. !     The unexpected  delay  in  the trans- I mission   of  the  note  to  Berlin   means I that a reply cannot be looked for until I about  the end  of next  week.    Consid¬ erable concern was displayed    al    the Stale Department today concerning the I dela.v.    It was stated in some quarters ithat  the delay was done purposely in I order  to  broaden  the breach   between jthis government and Germany. !        Message Late Reaching Berlin I     The effect of the delay was lo upset Ithe plan  of  this  government   to with- ! hold   the   noff   from   publication   until ¦ it  had been  received  in  Berlin.    As  it I m-as   the   note   was   published   in   this country and in Kngland    al    least    24 I hour.s before it waa    received    by    the Berlin government.
The State Department sent several messages to Rome lo ascertain the delay and it is probably Ambassador Page will iovestisate. Until the result of the .Xmbassac'ors inquiries are known the Slate Department takes the view that this delay was due lo con- i gestion  of  the  cables.
The belief is current in Washington
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Centering their aitack upon .Justice of the Peac* Frank Hoary, .Mtorney Ros¬ coe Smith and two deputy constables, close to 200 aliens participated in a riot at Brookside last night, when they en¬ deavored to drag from the clutches of the law Mike Mosesky, a strapping young Russian, who had been sent to j Jail by the justice in default of bail for ian assault and battery conviction.
That greater personal injury than Mosesky's broken nose did not result in the melee is regarded as remarkable by non-combatants who in fear witnessed the trouble. Guns were flourished and j knives were flashed when the flght was mosl critical stage. .Mderman .saved himself from injury only by strenuous use of his flsis and was rescued from a dangerous place in the mob by Attorney Smith and the officers. Mosesky was finally subdued and led off to jail by I'atrolman Xolan and M. <¦". Anderson and John Pigeon, the de¬ puty const;ibles.
Squire Hoary's otfice at Brookside corners has been the scene of many turbulent trials, but not until last nishi did anything like a riot ensue because of outsiders' interference. Mosesky had been hailed before the justice on a charge of assault and battery and dis¬ orderly conduct, prefered by Frank Daniels, a countryman, and a resident also of the Sixteenth ward.
Mainiaining an altitude of defiance and contempt during his hearing, .Mos¬ esky called lo his assistance a score or more friends when at its concluusion he was conimitted to jail in default of bail. On reaching the sidewalk in front of the justice's office, he swung on Pig¬ eon and Anderson, who were escon.ing him. but before hc could make clear¬ ance from the crowd Alderman Hoary pounced upon him firom the stoop and floored him with a clout on the nose.
Both regained their feet in the centre of the surging, >elping crowd thai bad
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But Private Otto Who Was a General Manager is Safe in France.
STORY    OF   A    FLOWER
Washington, May 15.—State Depart¬ ment officials are deeply concerned over the welfare of the fifty Americans said to be surrounded by Yaqui Indians near Hsperanza. Sonora, and unless re¬ ports are quickly received of their safe¬ ly an expeditionary force from the! cruisers Xew Orleans and Raleigh, now | al Gua>amas, will be senl to rescue them. I
Th°  Department  today gave  out   thei following;
"ThP .American counsul at Hermosillo i reports under date of .May 14 that a re¬ port frcjm Guayamas confirms lhe kill- j ing of .1. .1. Donovan, \V. A. Fay, Jack' Wilson and .several Mexicans, They j were killed hy 'i'aqui Indians in the i fight of May 13.
Hear .Admiral Benson, chief of opera-j P^'i^'^ate to the tion.s received a message from Admiral IC»erman people, Howard that fighting had been going at Ires a lown near Hermosillo and that nine men had been killed. It was not staled whether the men were Americans. The dispatch also staled that the troops had refused lo advance against the Yaqui. The reason was not given, but it is believed that the Indians have been divided between the Villa and Carranza forces.
.At the War Department the reason for thf Indian outbreak is that they resent the taking of most of iheir lands by the government.
Kight miles from beleaguered Calais, Private Otto Slaudle, foi-merly General Manager Slaudle of the Liepsic Tomb¬ stone Company, slopped lo pick a brown-eyed Susan that now rests, a treasured possession, between the leaves of a bible owned by H. F. Mete- gar of 98 Academy sireet, this cily.
Back in Leipslc, Otto's molher and nine-year-old Krna Wagner, cousins, are writing the !>rief chronicles that, for the Metzgar family in this city, tell the stor.v of the greatest tragedy since the sacriflte on Calvary.
Between -.hese two facts H, F. Melz- gar '..s abl>i to weave the fabric that represents Ihe present status of the Katheriand's struggle for existence or dominion, according as one may view the war of thp Titans.
The leiter that contained the brown-eyed Susan and thai other let¬ ter from little Krna Wagner were bad¬ ly mutilated by the censor, but when they arrived in Wilkes-Barre .vester- da.v, five weeks after the day the.\- were posted, the one at the bailie front and the other in secure I>eipsic, they still contained information that surpasses any disclosures made by war corre¬ spondents who have not been able to real  emotions of the
ENGLISH MOBS RAID AND LOOT LONDON GERMANS
Anglo-German Financiers Are Filled With Terror Lest Their Homes in the Fashionable Section of London Contain¬ ing Millions in Treasure Be Attacked.
London, .May lii.—The smashing and looting of German shops in the poorer parts of London has filled the Anglo- fierman financiers wilh terror lest their houses in the west end, which contain millions of pounds worth of treasure, be subjected to the aame treatment. It is only fair, however, to slate that the English authorities now seem to have the situation well in hand. Sir Kdgar Speyer, Maron Schroeder and Sir Sigis- mund Neumann among other.s have ap¬ plied to the home office for special pro¬ tection for their private residences. Following thia the home office has re¬ quested Lord Hamilton, head of the special constables force of London, lo furnish men for this duty, but the spe-
tection the financiers are taking all Ihorities of his intention of resisting any attack on his house by force of arms. The Baron's house in Park lane contained one of the most valuable col¬ lections of silver and gold works of art in Ijondon. His collection of jeweled snuff boxes is said lo be worth $250,- 000. .Sir Arthur Speyer and Sir Sigis- mund Xeuman removed all their valu¬ ables to places of safety and Sir Felix Sbuster has deposited $500,000 worth of valuables in a bank,
-An air raid on London is almost cer¬ tain lo result because of the outbreaks. U ia slated the Rothschilds are trying to arrange with the government for the properly of the wealthy Anglo-German.s
cials threatened lo resign in a body if i to be deposited in the Tower of London, a single member of the force was as- sorts of measures to guard their homes, signed to this work. Baron Schroeder ha." armed all his ser¬
in the absence of special police pro- | vants and has formally notified the au-
The   War   March,
"Last     August   I     was at     Littisch,"       .„.,,.
nrru.o  r^^,..     ••!„   c- . u      i Througli the arrest of two women
writes  Otto.      In  September 1   was in i     ,,...  . . .     .        ,       .   ,
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A SENSATION AT PinSTON
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I'lymouth's flrst rural free mail route will be opened on schedule time tomor¬ row  morning,  contrary  to expectations
trains so that il would inciude passeng- | <-hat Dr. Bernhard Dernburg, regarded «r steamers. The reason for the dis- ' as the unofficial spokesman of the Ger- Hllowing of carrying explosives on i man government intends to leave fhe passenger trains is because it endang- i United States without wailing for a i-rs  passenger.s'    lives,  and     the  same  suggestion to do so from this govern-
suggesled
law  could  be amended  so as  lo  cover )>a.«senger carrying vessels.
ment.    It  is  suggested   he Cuba or South America.
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IIALY WAR LEADER IS BACK IN CABINET AND CLASH EXPECTED
fists came at the aldremaii from all sides. Some of the blows landed but none left a mark. -Attorney Smith, Anderson and Pigeon, in the meantime had got to the alderman's side and the four by standing close worked their way back to the shelter of the office.
Patrolman .Volan by this time had gotten a hold on Mosesky's collar and drawn revolver he waved back all who sought to block his way to the street car track on which was sianding a cify bound car. Forcing Mosesky ahead, the patrolman got aboard and the car cleared from the melee. .An¬ derson and Pigeon  the reappeared and
With Salandra Again Premier, Only a Miracle Can Avert Hostilities With Austria—Italian Populace Are Smash¬ ing the Shops of Germans in Rome—Looks Like War or Revolution.
gathered.    The .Alderman again swung i'*f " delay threatened by the failure of on the prisoner and when he went down {residents   to  provide  proper  boxes  for
I the reception of letters, i Harry Walker, who for some time j has stood at the head of the list of j available candidates for the position of j carrier, was notified last night that he j has been temporarily appointed, and he I has arranged to take a horse and car- I riaf;e v.i.h the firsl bag of mail over the : scheduled slrets between Plymouth I Borough and West Nanlicoke at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning.
-Mr. Walker probabh will be the final jj>ermaiient choice of the Government jfor the I ural route. He is a progres- ' sive young man and hiffhb respected in I the community where he has made his with    liltle   further   trouble   kept    the   home since birth.
prisoner subdued  until  the county jail | 	
was reached.
Moseskx- busted  nose wa.s fhe worst
injury obsen-ed as a result of the clash.
! -Aldreman Hoary has him committed on
four charges;  assault and battery, dis-
j orderly conduct, contempt of court and
i resisting an officer.
lieved impregnable: today. April Isl, 1 picked this little flower in a field eight miles from Calais."
"We are safe in Leipsic", writes lit¬ tle Krna Wagner, "The schools have been closed and today we marched down the streets to celebrate our army's vic- lor\. The churches are tolling their bells and tomorrow nighf we will go to prayer-meeting to ask God that soon this terrible war will tie over."
"We have twenty thousand square miles of French terrilor>'", again writes Private   Otto.
"They do not allow u.s •ake" writes iUtle Krna. On Sunday and holidays we may have meat, one-half pound, and of bread there is three pounds a week for each »rown members of fhe family,"
One of B:rna's elders interrupts the lad's story to give h'.s American cousin an idea of conditions. "Brolher Fritz," he writes "tried lo enli.st yesterday but they would not lake him. He Is only sixteen and they said he must be twen¬ ty. There are no German soldier under twenty and none over fort.\-. Brother Fritz mush wait until another lime." Previcient High.
The good housewife of the family follows into the letter to say that prov¬ isions have gone up in price. Potatoes are now $1.2.1 a bushel, rice lhaf was four quarts for len cents is now thai much a quart, barley is dear at eleven (Coatinaed Ob Par* FlTe.)
in in the act of shoplifting, raids were made on two homes last night and four auto¬ mobile loads of alleged stolen goods were recovered by the  Pittston police.
The women arested are described as Mrs. .Mary A. Wolfe, of '214 ,Ienkins streel. West P.litlston, and Mrs. Fran¬ ces Kaconis, of Exetfr.
The Wolfe woman is said to have given Information that led the pi\'ce to the homes of Mrs. Frank Balconis, at 710 Luzerne street. West Pittston, and Louis Valinou.s, ITO Searle street, Pitts¬ ton. -\ lon of booty was recovered in these places.
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FALLS 10 DEATH
Lazarus Williams, Jr., Victim of Accident at New Parsons Mine of Lackav\/anna Co.
M'DERMOTFS BIRTHDAY PROPERLY CELEBRATED
.1. .A McDermott. chief collector for the Stegmaier Brewery, celebrated his flfty-iirst birthday anniversary yesier- da>' by entertaining a number of friends 8t StauPfer's l.Aurel Inn with a dinner. The chief event of lhe after¬ noon was a fishing contest, but ali of lhe cuniestants failed to catch any fish and the contest was called off. Mr. McUermotl proved an ablp host and his friends before leaving for home all voted him a good fellow. The party returned home lale last evening in au¬ tomobiles. Those present were: Gus Lanning. R. .A. McAndrews, T. F. Fin¬ nerty, Frank ('. Rowe. Charles Kuske, ,Iohn Sharpless. Hazelton, P, A, Durkin. Scranton: M. L. Hammond. Charles Forve, Hugh Price and ,lohn A. Reding¬ ton.
T-'alling 265 feet inlo the new shaft of the L.ackawanna Coal d.,.. adjoining HoUenback Park in Parsons borough, was the tragic fate that befell I-.a2arus Williams, Jr.. aged 32 of Plymouth, yes¬ terday shortly before noon.
Standing on a landing well down in the shaft from the surface Williams failed lo see the temporary cage used in the sinking; operation being hoisted, and the blpw "^ssed hiip> H,j^foremo8t into the pit, Hf^. ¦"ij.iitrfujeir-S^iaiir Trr,,i
was broken  terribly,
Mr, Williams was employed by the Lackawanna Co., as a rockman. Hp was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Lazarus Williams. Sr, of Plymouth. Other im '/out j mediate survivors are his widow and IWO children, and a brother and sistei, Reuben Williams and Mrs. Ray Mathe¬ son, both of Plymouth. Mr. Williams was for many years ac¬ tive in religious and fraternal cMrc es of lhe borough, being affiliated with the First M. E. Uhurch and the Ply¬ mouth councils of the Knights of Py¬ thias and .Ir. O. U. A. M. The body was taken to the family home on Blair street for burial by Undertaker E. M Fredericks. Funeral announcement will  be made  later.
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MINE EXAMINATIONS SCHEDULED
Examination for the positions under Slate jurisduction of mine foreman and assistant mine foreman will be held in the Y. M. C, A. building here on May 18 and  19.
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.May    16  d   A.  M.)—Antonio
is again premier of Italy, ^wo failures to secure a leader e of forming a cabinet. King ' Emsnuel again turned in his nity to the great intervenlion- id Salandra is back in office, landra is stronger than he ever , for he has come back able to make terms as fo the composition of his cabinet and as the one man who c;in Solve fhe great problem which Italy faces— war or revolution. There is little doubt which way Salandra's choice will turn, for lie represents the peoplp and the choice of the people is unmistakable. Il is expected that war ^hall be declared on Austria unless every  Italian demand is fully granted.
Salandra's acceptance of the task of forming a cabinet has ended a day of rioting from one end of Italy to the other, of political turmoil and of king- 1\- temporizing and perplexity. With¬ in twenty-four hours Vii^tor Emmanuel
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has sought someone lo replace Salan¬ dra and twice has heen unsuccessful. First the king asked Guiseppi Mar- cora. a Garibaldi veteran, to organize a cabinet. He refused; the king then begged Paolo ("arcano, Salandra's min¬ ister of the treasury, lo accept the task. He also refused. Then Salandra was once more appealed to and this time he yielded to the king's demand.
But Italy is not yet saved, for out¬ side of purely political intriguing a violent war fever is raging in Rome, Ten thousand troops are employed in picketing fhe city. .Notwithstanding ihis, a large crowd this afternoon held up tramway cars and wrecked German shops. Twenty speakers, demanding war, addressed a large gathering in Berghese Square. Afterwards a grear procession -was formed and cheering for war, marching through the streets. Flowers weie thrown from the win¬ dows of houses on the demonstrators. Demonstrations have been going on all eveniug and a  cavalry charge was
I necessary in one instance to scatter the
I crowds.    No one was injured.
I The cry "war or revolution" fre¬ quently was heard. -Never was anyone more carefully protected from popular
jire than  Prince A'on  Buelow, the Ger-
jman special envo.v, who has been con¬ sorting with the non-interventionists. Every concei\-able approach lo his rose-bedecked   villa   Is   strongly
tected by police^	
Violent demonstrations in favor of war are reported from all large cities and towns,
"Down wilh Giolitti Verona,
SUNDAY SCHOOL CRUSADERS SHACKLE JOHN BARLEYCORN
HARD BA TTLES FOUGHT IN FRANCE AND RUSSIA
Sheriff Lew Takes a Back Seat and Spectacle Thereby Loses Pristine Glory, But There is Solid Worth For the Lack and All's Well.
Wyoming Valley, united for Christ, paraded almost 10,000 nien, women, boy and girl advocates of the saloonless na¬ tion about Ihe principle streets of this j the the
pro-
was the cry at
LARKSVILLE WOMAN DEAD
DISTRIBUTORS—Wanted to hire sev- eral men and women. Distribute fre« pkgs. .Soap powder wit bsoaps. etc. i:.\periece unnecessar.v. State wages expected. Write Ward Co.., 217 Insti- tiiie.   Chicago,
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Mrs, Mary Demshick, aged 18, of 561 Slate sireet, Larksville. died at the Nesbitt West Side Hospital yesterday afternoon of pneumonia after a shorl illness. She ia survived by her hus- l)and. ,;ohn. and her molher and fath-
: er, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Poblinchko of C««setown.   The funeral will be held
'from her home this afternoon.
city yesterday afternoon .Iohn Barley¬ corn, temporaril.v in the clutches of the Devil, accupied a prison cart in the pro¬ cession and afforded a contrast for im- maculately-clothed cru,sadcrs that spoke volumes to fully fifty ihou.sand persons who lined the curbs along the asphalt trail. One fact alone bespoke unfavorable comparison with the spec¬ tacle of the yester.vear: Lewis P. Kniffen. smiling, irrepressible Lou, brought up the rear where once he was the main  feature of the  vanguard.
Probably fewer paraders turned out yesterday than in 1913 and last year. The aftermath of the Billy Sunday campaign explains the greater success¬ es of the previous displays but what¬ ever the crowd lacked in old-time strength it made up in new vigor and artistic ingenuity. Virgin-clad girls in immaculate wagons and automobiles, wonderful displays of the nalional col¬ ors and perfectly executed drills mark- the spectacle worthy of special dis¬ tinction.
The West Side loomed up ,strong. Plymouth. Edwardsville, Kingston. Lu¬ zerne and  those  other  towns  to  West
Valkenburg,   «   former   officer   of   the
Ninth.     All  along  the  line  the  cheers
rang out  for the Columbia boys.    .And
Boy scouts caughl deserved at¬
tention with a display of f toy auto with a bo\- scout al the wheel and a baby safe in the rear seat, indicating the safe convoy the organization offers to the defenseless.
Parson.s M. E. Sunday school made what BMilly Sunday would call a. len strike. Twenty-five young women bearing Bibles deployed In the form of a cross and won appreciation every¬ where. It was a novel idea and well executed.
Woman and children dressed in white and green occupied a float pulled hy four hor.ses from the Vulcan Iron Works. They came from F^rst M, E, Sunday school and they came near to heing first in consideration of the on¬ lookers. It was a close race between them and the porsons aggregation.
Humane Officer Roberts "kicked" in¬ to the procession with a "Be kind to the animals" display, A pony and cart denoted whal can be done for the noble horse aond in the rear of that Mrs, Bertels' pet collie trotted between the shafts of a toy wagon, A baby occu¬ pied   the  seat  of  honor  in   the  wagon
HAN AND CHILDi DYING; BAD nit£
One man was fatally burned and a ten-year-old girl will probably die of heart failure as a result of a fire fhat destroyed a double frame dwelling on Moffitt sireet. Plains early this morn¬ ing. Another small child is reported missing and is believed to havc perish ed in the fire.
The blaze started in the home of Tony Macolonis, and was caused, per¬ sons in the neighborhood said, b.v some of the boarders in the house engaging ing in a fight and knocking over a lighted   lamp.
The burned man is Joseph Walinsky 30 years old, who boarded with the Macolonis  family.     At  the   City
French Claim An Important Victory in Western Theatre of War, While Aastro-German Troops Continue to Inflict Severe Losses on The Retreating Russians in Galicia-Kai- ser's Forces Evacuate Important Position in France and Admit the loss of Guns and Ammanition.
Paris, May 15, -Defeat of the Ger¬ mans north of Ypres by the allied forces who caiTied several Irenches be¬ fore Hel Sas, occupied that portion of Steenstraate, which lies west of the town and took possession of the bridge across the canal at this point was re- Hos- i ported last night by the French war of-
Again Arras  in battle is
as lo the which the continuing.
fighting north nf French claim thr the German sum-
pital his condition was reported criti¬ cal at 3 o'clock. Nigelis ran inlo the burning house to remove a trunk and fell Into the basement when the lower floor coUasped. The child stricken with hear^ trouble is Anna Macolonis. An¬ other child of the family la missing. The building, which is owned by T, M. Conniff of Plains, also housed the family of ePter Nigelis.
HORSE LOST IN FIRE
IN LEHIGH STREET BARN
Pittston sent young and old crusaders | ^"<^ the display was calculated to put
and because of certain conditions that latel.v maintain in certain municipalit¬ ies the banners ibey bore indicated that "to'wn by town the Slate goes dry" and "State by State the Nation's Won." .\ sort of prophecy that of what the Sunday schools hope to accomplish.
Columbia Fire Department of Dorr¬ anceton boo.sted the cause sky-high with its naitily-clothed band and drill squad   of  25  men   under  Edward   Van
everybody in mind of the fact that this week is "Animal Week " and destined to revolutionize in part the consider¬ ation some animals are accustumed to I receiving,
I Several collieries suffered tempontry I suspension of work by the drafts made ;upon their employees by the parade. I -Abouth ICOO men and hoys of the South Wilkes-Barip mines were oui of em- (Containued on Page Two.)
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Narrow quarters and suffocating smoke handicapped firemen of Nos. 1 and 3 companies of the city depart¬ ment early last evening in a fight against a spectacular bam fire In the rear of John Shorta'a property at 50 Lehigh street. A horse and outfit of harness, owned by John Zulsollo. were destroyed.   The loss is placed at $250.
The animal was caught under a huge quantity of burning hay that tumbled to the floor from the loft. It was in the loft the blaze started. Many tons of waler were jjoured inlo the mass be¬ fore adjoining properly was considered safe. The origin of the blaze is not known.
flee.
As an offset the Austrian War Office states that in Poland and Galicia the Russians continue to retreat while in the Pruth region all the Russion at¬ tacks have been repulsed.
With the Teutonic forces standing "before the gates of Przemysl," an¬ nouncement wa.s also made of fhe occu¬ pation of Jaroslav, eighteen miles north of Przemsyl, and the capture of Dobro- mit, Stary Sambor and Boryslau lo the south and east of the great Austrian fortress by the Austrians.
Berlin claims the Russians in the Baltic litteral have been checked be¬ fore Shavll. Hint of an impending battle of probably great preparations is given in the German report that the Russians have broughi up hastily great bodies of reinforcements in the region south of the Nlemen.
Cross the Carpathians.
Austro Germans have succeeded in crossing the Carpathians at a number of places in their pursuit of the Rus- aiana, says Berlin.
The French claim of the occupation of the portion of Steenstraat west of the canal is met by the Berlin state¬ ment that night attacks by the Allies at this point were repulsed.
mary says comparative quiet has fall¬ en upon the field. Paris asserts furthei progress has been made southeast "( Notre l>amp de Loretle, Berlin is si¬ lent on acUvltes in this section, bu' asserts that French attacks on llu heights t.) the north have been beafcr- off, for the mosl part.
Germans   Admit   Losses.
Important admissions of loss of guns are made in the German report of the evacuation by the Kaiser's forces of Carency and Ablain St. Nazaire They were forced to abandon a field gun, several mine throwers and five French cannon, three gatlings and two moi^ars which had previously been captured from the French. '
Paris claims fresh conquests In the house to hou.se fighting in Neuville The night report asserts that severa! groups of houses in the northern part of the village were laken from the Germans.
French Are After Metz.
Severe fighting has been resumed along the eastern end of the line in France, where the allies are attempt¬ ing to penetrate the German lines pro¬ tecting Metz. Here, Berlin report.s, that French attacks against the Ger¬ man positions on the road from Es- .say to Flire.v were repulsed thret times. An aitack at dawn in the ft«r- esl of Le I'retrr c.irried thr> Germans (Continued on Page 2.)