The Intelligencer, 1915-06-17

RUSSIANS ACROSS F ATSEVER -* I AUSTRO-GERMAN ADVANCE* STEADILY PUSHING SLAVS OUT OF GALICIA. RUSSIANS ADMIT GERMAN CLAIMS Are Fighting Desperately to Check Teutons-Claim Successes on S try and Tismenitza. Loudon, June 16.-Germans claims ( of new successors on ibe Galiclun front in the European war was par partially - tially partially confirmed toduy In an ofllciul statement from Petrograd. It ad admits - mits admits tho withdrawal of Russian troups across the frontier into Russian territory from Czeruowltz and Buko Bukowina - wina Bukowina and between the Dniester an Pruth rivers, also at the extreme southeast of the long eastern fight fighting - ing fighting line. Tile report also says fresh Ger German - man German forces, brought up uear Jaroslau v. J?r cover of heavy artillery fire, compelled the Russians to retire for pome distance on the right bank of San river after three days* desperate fighting. On the 'remainder of the eastern front the Russians are apparently con contenting - tenting contenting themselves with repelling at attacks, - tacks, attacks, except on the left banks of the Tiemenltza and Stry rivers, where they claim to hare taken numerous prisoners, machine guns and to have recaptured villages. The British army on the western -treat-bas-resumed the offensive. Offi Official - cial Official report from Paris today said the British have carried another Une of German trenches west of La LaBassee. - Bassee. LaBassee. On the remainder of tho line fighting during the last twenty-four hours lias been Indecisive Paris said activity was confined principal principally - ly principally to artillery, but the Berlin re report - port report tells of the complete failure of a violent French infantry attack north of Arras. Invasion of the provinces of Trent by the Italians ls proceeding' steadily and Italian military authorities de declare - clare declare dominating positions are grad gradually - ually gradually being occupied. The Austrians, who have despatched 25,000 men from Trent to resist invaders, have not yet accepted battle. On the Isonzo front the Austrians have pre prepared - pared prepared elaborate defenses, including several lines ot trenches of mason masonry - ry masonry and concrete. Little news comes from Dardan Dardanelles, - elles, Dardanelles, except officiai intimation that Turkish' forces are showing a sensi sensible - ble sensible weakening. Paris, June 16.-Using their might mightty - ty mightty Howitzers, the Germans have bombarded Compeign,e but it was of officially - ficially officially announced by (ne Preach war office today that little damage had been done to property and that- no lives had been lost. In the region of Kueenevta'rs farm, German counter attacks, which had been launched in an effort to recap recapture - ture recapture trenches taken by the French, were completely repulsed and the German soldiers wore put to rout. Compeignc lies forty miles north ot Paris, at th? Junction of the Elsne and Oise rivera; Great importance is attached here to the New French thrust which is being made in Lorraine, and which ls believed tn be the forerunner of a big attempt by General Joffre, the French commander-in-chief, against Metz: The immediate objective of the French ia supposed to be Parroy forest, northeast of Luneville, which is traversed by a railway Una' run running - ning running to Avricourt. CHlCORACOLht MOVED TO CJ S.C. BIRD RE? Columbia, June 16.-The Chlcora college for women, a consolidation of Chlcora college of Greenville and the College for Women of Columbia, Will be located in Columbia, due to the deciding vote cast yesterday by Harmony Presbytery at Its meeting ta Sumetr. The Presbyteries which ha\?e voted for the change from Greenville. to Columbia are Bethel. South Carolina, Con garee, Piedmont. Pee Dee and Harmony. The Char Charleston - leston Charleston Presbytery will meet Thurs Thursday. - day. Thursday. The Enoree Presbytery, com comprising - prising comprising several counties srouTt Oreen ville, voted against the change/! The rer?oral of Chlcora college to Columbia waa referred to the hoard

BRITISH WIN AND LOSE MILE OF FRONT IN BATTLE NEAR FESTUBERT. TO TAKE LEMBERG IN FORTNIGHT Gen. Mackensen Think? He Cen Take Forte in That Time Un Unless - less Unless Russians Improve. London. June IC-For the tiret time in weeks there has been ^eavy fight lng ovvr tho comparatively ex extensive - tensive extensive or British front in Belgium and France. Berlin describes lt as an , Anglo-French movement, syn synchronizing - chronizing synchronizing with the Russian revers?e In Galicia. To win a mlle of front, then loee lt after terrific German counter-at counter-attacks - tacks counter-attacks was the experience of the Brit British - ish British Tuesday night near Featubert. Field Marshal French, briefly and frankly records the incident without stating ino losses which must have been heavy in both sides. Germany ls also frank in conceding the lose of ground near Ypres. lu tho east the AuBtro-Qerman ad advance - vance advance continues to swing forward with the e -et ?ition of the section between Dniester Marshes and Zurawna, Whens the Russians holding the bridge heads are making some headway. Gen General - eral General Von Mackensen, according tot dispatchea has given himself a fort fortnight - night fortnight in which to capture Lemberg. At the rate bis and co-ordinate forces arti advancing, it would seem this limit will be ample if Rust?aos are unable to initiate a stiffer resistance than heretofore. Tho latest Zeppelin raid on Eng England - land England hardly created a ripple ot ex excitement. - citement. excitement. Berlin, Ji.ne 16.-Special dispatches from Austrian headquarters report that the Teutonic allies are pushing' th' Russians vigorously front the San river to the frontier. Heavy fighting la proceeding along the whole line In Galicia but the maximum apparently has not been reached. The Russians are bringing all their available forces, consisting of partly fresh recruits, to resist the Germanic allies' advance. Cherbourg, June" 16.-French tor torpedo - pedo torpedo boat 331 sank yesterday after a collision w?*b the British steamer Arleya. Six of the warshlp'e crew were drowned. Othera were res rescued. - cued. rescued. Austrians Well Fortified. Rome, Juue 16.-The Austrians have prepared an elaborate syrtorc- pf entrenchment along the Isonso riv river, - er, river, says the Italian official statement. There are several Unes of trenches at places, some of masonry or con concrete, - crete, concrete, and are guarded by minas and batteries. The statement declar declared - ed declared repeated Austrian attudes hi>*l been repulsed. London, juno 16.-Military observ observers - ers observers at Petrograd express the belief that two million, eight hundred thous thousand - and thousand Germans and Autitrlaos are oper operating - ating operating against the Russians in the east. Each day adds to th? extent of ter territory - ritory territory the Austro-Germans have re regained - gained regained from the Russian invading armies. Nineteen Milled at Karlsruhe. Karlsruhe, June IC.-Nineteen were Wiled, . fourteen seriously wounded and many others slightly hurt here yesterday when French aeroplanes attacked. The people re remained - mained remained calm. Incensed by attack oa an open town. Berlin newspapers.call the attack a nefarious, senseless act nnd demand unscrupulous retaliation. ONS KILLED UN BOMBARD ?T OF ENGLAND Never before has-an air raid oa England taken auch toll in human life. Thia la the third air attack in little more than two Weeks. May 31st was the date of the first at attack - tack attack on London from the clouds with four persons killel. On Juna Ith the cast coast of Ergland was th? ev?ne of an attack with five fatalities. Reporta of aerial attacks by both sides In last fortnight indicate the determination to force fighting front clouds. Air attack by oas side baa been so closely followed by a count counter - er counter attack that retaliation ts strongly Indicated.

HEARING ON APPEAL FOR COMMUTATION OF DEATH SENTENCE CLOSED. EXPECT DECISION LAST OF WEEK Howard Declares Frank, By Any Other Name, Could Be Quickly Freed. Atlanta, Juno 16.- IA-O Frunk's fate was placed finally in Hie hand.? of j Governor Slaton at the close of the hearing late today 0:1 his appeal for the commutation of the death sen sentence. - tence. sentence. The governor took the matter nuder advisement nm] announced that he would render decision at th? ear earliest - liest earliest possible time. This is not ex expected - pected expected before Friday or Saturday. Frank is under sentence to be hange?: June twenty-second. Today'* session was occupied by Attorney Howard's closing argument in behalf of Frank. He attacked the testimony of tho state's witnesses,, again declaring thal Jim Conley's story was an invention t<? save him himself. - self. himself. Howard declared "take the name of I^eo Frank out of tills case, forget all that lias passed In the lust two years, give me public mind that is a clean slate, put this case in any Georgia court and I will acquit this defendant in twenty minutes." . The governor asked many ??ues ??uesHons - Hons ??uesHons during the course of Howard's argument. Atlanta, June 16.-Governor Slaton today heard further argument on the question of commuting Leo M. Frank'B death sentence for the mur murder - der murder of Mary Phagan. WV M. Howard continued his plea in ?behalf of Fraak, which waa interrupt interrupted - ed interrupted when the haring recesse?'. on Mon Mon?day - ?day Mon?day until today. "Taking Solicitor Dorsey's proposi proposition - tion proposition in his argument for the' state that the testimony of Jim Conley, a negro, against Frank be eliminated, there ls not single circumstances of sufficient weight influence a verdict against Frank" declared Howard. Governor Slaton interrupted to ask Solicitor Doraey whether Frank was Indicted before or after Conley began making his several affidavits. "Co?iey's first affidavit was made while the grand jury.was in session" replied Dorsey, "but the affidavit was not presented to the grand jury. I told them something about the affi affidavit, - davit, affidavit, but the indictment against Frank was independent of the negro's statement." Throughout his argument Howard contended that the evidence in the case, pointed toward Conley and not Frank, as the girl's murderer. YOUTH SHOOTS NEGRO DRAYMAN Employe of Transfer Co. Uses Shotgun on Negro al Green Greenville - ville Greenville Passenger Station. ? Greenville, June 16.-B. B. Foster; a young man employed by the FoBter j Dray Co.. shot'and probably fatally wounded Henry Willis, a negro em ememploye - employe ememploye of the same company, yes yesterday - terday yesterday afternoon at the Southern sta station. - tion. station. The weapon used wan a single singlebarrel - barrel singlebarrel shot gun, the load passing through the edge of a trunk before entering the negro's body. The ne negro - gro negro is In a critical condition at'a loo*.! hospital while Foster la held at tho police station pending the result of the negro's wounds. Foster has made no statement con concerning - cerning concerning the affair but his friends de declare - clare declare tho negro'was armed. BC88JAN fi BA ND DUKE CONSTANTINE lg DEAD Petrograd, June 16.--Grand Duke Constantine ?Constantinovltch, presi president - dent president of the Imperial Academy of Science and head of the department of military schools, died last night of heart disease aged 57. He WA? a member of the reigning family. Lassen Again ta Emption Redding, Cal.. Juno 19. Laasen Peak ' erupted for the hundred and first time today. It belched from the main crater a pillar of smoke report reported - ed reported to reach a mlle skyward.

HEAVY Fil ON ?NGU FRONT II UNION MEN RETURN TO WORK AFTER AGREE AGREEMENT - MENT AGREEMENT IS REACHED. TO ARBITRATE ALL QUESTIONS Mayor Thompson Gets Credit For Bringing .Employers .and Employes Together. Chicago, Jun? 16. -Normal service* on Chicago elevate;! and surface car lines was resumed today. This re resulted - sulted resulted from au agreement reached af after - ter after an all night session of the rail railway - way railway and labor representatives with a council committee headed by Mayo-.* Thompson, to arbitrate. Homebound thousands were tonight transported without delay. Mayor Thompson is credited with bringing about the agreement to arbitrate. Every point of difference between tho men and employers will be decided by the ar arbitrators. - bitrators. arbitrators. t'hlcago, June 16.-Chicago's street .car ulrike will be settled by arbitra arbitration, - tion, arbitration, tinton leaders, traction officials and Mayor Thompson's alderman strike committee held a session all night and agreed to urbitrate all ques questions - tions questions curly this morning. It was an announced - nounced announced that cars will resume opera operations - tions operations hy noon today. Announcement of strike settle settlement - ment settlement came too late to start the cam for the rush hours early today and g.'cat armies of worker? were oblig obliged - ed obliged tn ugaln depend on motors, hues huesea, - ea, huesea, moving trucks, ice wagons and railroad sururban truing for trans transportation. - portation. transportation. Officials of tructlon systems tele telegraphed - graphed telegraphed eastern labor agencies not to employ any more men as strike breakers. Six thousand men alroady been started here, lt was Bald. Sixteen hundred arrived last night arni weru placed under guard In lodg lodging - ing lodging houses and terminals of the com companies. - panies. companies. ?AN0MES PLAN FOB LEAM PEACE Saya League Would at Least En. able Nations to Suspend Quar Quarrels - rels Quarrels Till Passion Is Cooled. Philadelphia, June 16.-Former President Taft, lu an address here tonight, outlined a plan for the pro proposed - posed proposed league of peace.' Tuft is firm firmly - ly firmly of th? opinion that a league could bc formed which would enable the nations to avoid war by furnishing practical means for nettling interna international - tional international quarrels or "impending Hum until th" blinding heat of passion has cooled." At the conference tomorrow pro proposals - posals proposals will bo considered for a league or peace and stens taken to obtain the support of public opinion and gov governments. - ernments. governments. Taft's nddresn wns intended an the keynote speech. SIXTEEN PERSt WHEN ZEPPEl NORTH COAS Lon ..)]?. June 16.-Tho official statement regarding the Zeppelin air raid Issued tonight said: '^Further Incluirles show that casualties In con connection - nection connection with the visit of Zeppeline to the northeast, coast Tuesday night amounted to sixteen killed and forty injured. .**'.' London, June IC.-A Zeppelin drop dropped - ped dropped bomba on the northeast coast of England last night. Fifteen dead, and fifteen wounded are reported. Some fires started by bomhbs we. e extin extinguished. - guished. extinguished. This ls officially announc announced. - ed. announced.

FORGED RONTIER ALPOINTS CARRANZA NOT IN PEACE PACT (VAXES NO REPLY TO RE REPEATED - PEATED REPEATED OFFERS LEAD LEADING - ING LEADING TO PEACE. PUSH CAMPAIGN FOR MEXICO CITY Hopes to Drive the Villa-Zapata Forces From Capital-Hopes For Recognition. Washington. June 16.-General Carranga has declined, for the pres present - ent present at least, to accept the overtures for neac?? in Mexico made hy the Villa and Zapata factious. Three peace of offers - fers offers have been unanswered it became known today. Later was made through the United States a proposal for thirty day armistice during Which arrangements could he made for es establishing - tablishing establishing a provisional government communlted to Carranza. Carranza ls understood to have stated there would be no reply. It ls understood it is Carranza's intention to press his campaign with hope of taking. Mexico City, driving the Vllla-Zanata forces northwards. He thinks this will entitle him to United States recognition. Mexico City, June 16.-General Pablo lonzales replied to the con convention - vention convention government's note asking for an armistice that terms for a reunion might be arranged, by dr'Handing the unconditional surrender ot the capi capital. - tal. capital. Gonzales promised immunity to all persons who adhere to . the Car Carranza - ranza Carranza cause. ' The convention government in now holding a secret session to consider an answer to Gonzales. Harvesters For War Victims. Paris, June 16.-Charles and Jamea Deering have cabled giving on behalf of the Deering farm machin machinery - ery machinery concern five harvester binders for the use of the farmers of the Meuse department to save the what crop, which was uncut last week. THIRTY MORE GASES BEFORE SUPREME COURT Decisions Expected On or Before Monday-Important Cases Pending. . Washington, June 16.-Only thirty cases remain before the United States supreme court for decision during the present term. They will probably be disposed of .Monday, the final decision day of the court year. This will be a new record for work accomplished. The cases pend- ' lng Include the so-called "grand father clause" cases, the Internation International - al International Harvester dissolution suit, 'the Delaware, Lackawanna aud Western "coal truBt ault." the Oregon mini minimum - mum minimum .wat,e case and the Webb-Ken Webb-Kenyon - yon Webb-Kenyon liquor case. EGE WILL BE \PITAL CITY; ?AINS AT HEAD of trustees of Chlcora college by the Presbyteries for consideration. The board recommended, thut the change be made and referred tho question back to the eight 'Presbyteries, which created th? board, for final action, a two-thirds vote being necessary to make the change mandatory and as assured. - sured. assured. 8. C. Bird, formorly president of Chlcora college, will be the execu executive - tive executive head ot the combined institu institution - tion institution . Several of the teachers of the College tor Women have been offered positions on the faculty of Chlcora College for Women and a few have accepted. The majority of the facul faculty, - ty, faculty, however, will consist ot teachers from Chlcora coll?e.

LUSITANIA INCIDENT Cunard Official Says First Ship Torpedoed While Making Over Fourteen Knots. London, June 16.-Inquiry into tho { Lusitania was resumed today with I the examination of Alfred A. Booth, chairman of the board of directors \ of the Cunard Steamth'.o comoany, owners of the vessel. The witness 1 said that never before the. Lusitania waa sunk haJ any vessel making more titan fourteen knots per hour been torpedoed. The Lusitania be said had been traveling -eighteen ] knots when the German .submarine attacked. Both addPd that the Cunard com company - pany company was unable to communicate with the vessel by wireless, except through Hie admiralty, therefore they had given no wireless instruc instructions - tions instructions to Captain Turner. G?nerai Instructions previously given in included - cluded included the closing o? the watertight compartments and swinging out of boats on entering tho danger zone and an order not to slow down to take on the pilot nor to Ile off Liver Liverpool - pool Liverpool to wait for the tide. Booth said lt was.loft to Captain Turner's dis discretion - cretion discretion to arrange the time of the vessels arrival. Bald all he knew relative to the warnings Issued to prospective passagers on the Lusi Lusitania - tania Lusitania was v.-h?* I.e read in the English newspapers. NO FURTHER DEVELOPMENT? IN TUE WINNSIMIKO AFFAIR _ v Columbia. June 16.-Governor Man Manning, - ning, Manning, Lieutenant Governor Bethen and , others left Columbia at noon by nu nui - i nui tomohllo for Winn shorn, where they at 2 o'clock attended thc, funeral ot the late Adam D. Hood of Fairfield coun county, - ty, county, who was killed In the. battle at th? court' house there Monday. . There were no developments today ta connection with the affair. Baak Robbed or *?.?wf> St. Louis, June li'.-The Grovers bank of St. Louis county, outside tho st. Lou^s city-limits, was robbed of 15,000 today after tho cishier bad been locked in a teller's cage. The robbers put the telephone sendee at the hank out of commission and es escaped. - caped. escaped.

BRITISH SHIP SUNK IN IRISH CHANNEL Captain and Twenty-one Men Lott -Submarine Made No Effort to Rescus Drowning. London, Juna 16.- The Hrllish steamship Strathnairn hound tor Car Cardin - din Cardin with coal for Archangel, russia, was torpedoed and sunk todny in the. Irish Channel. Eleven members of the crew lund<)l Ut Milfordhuvon. The captain and the remainder ot t?>e crew ?ere drowned when the boat in which they took refuge capsized. l.al<> advices tonight state that twenty-two members of the Strath Strathnaprns - naprns Strathnaprns < rew, Including the captain were drowned. The torpedo struck the steamer amldshin, Mowing up one of le . bollors. Pour boats wer,, has hastily - tily hastily launched but two Capsized and one smashed against the vessel's alus. Survivors nay after the Strathlynn was torpedoed Ihoy say the periscope of a submarine boat. The submarine made no attempt to rescue the drown drowning - ing drowning men. PROTEST ANTI-JAP MOVE IN CHINA Boycott Result of Dissatisfaction Over Terms of Recent Ultimatum. Tokio, J ne 16.-According to announcements made today bv a Jap Japans - ans Japans S news agency. Japan has sent a protest to china concerning 'the .ntWapnneae movement In China. Discontent 4n China with JJIUHP'S course daring negotiations culmin?t-, lng in ?he acceptance ot th? Japanese ultimatum lo?t month bas been mani manifested - fested manifested chiefly by boycotts. A. re recent - cent recent dispatch said Drltlsh and Rus Russian - sian Russian volunteers had disporsel Sn anti-Japanese riot at I (snow for their own protection. Record Breaking Crop. Washington, June 16.-At a cabi cabinet - net cabinet session todny. which lasted only 40 minufs, the shortest the present administration bas bad. Secretary of Agriculture Houston reported that the ISIS crops will ba the greatest in the history of the country,

From left to rights C?ptala A. T. lieut. Uomiuauder William t . Watts. HU? gner ; These are the naval officers who have begun inquiry into the examina examinations - tions examinations scandal at the naval academy nt Annapolis. They will huvc. before them many students who graduated thia year and are now in the navy .as officers. In addition members of Ute classes yet to finish must explain. The charge 1B made that there was wholesale fraud in the uso of ex exLong, - Long, exLong, t'uptalii Robert L. itussell, in circle Commander Louis P. Do auiiuntion questions, Some one ob obtained - tained obtained many questions In advance and these were scattered around amona amonante - nte amonante students; Tho nuperlntendent or the academy, I "ar Admiral Kullani, has added the c^nrgo that an attempt was made to br k open tho desks of four professors to cpt- coj.ies of the questions prepared for the examina examinations. - tions. examinations.