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THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS.

Assocta ted Pi

Member of Audit

Bureau of Circulations

Leased Wire Report

SIXTV-J OURTII YEAR. NO. 283.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 191.5-TWENTY PAGES.

PRICE TWO CENTS.

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I MCYT

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HI

Ji:

KIndenburg's Cavalry

A.-tr dc Railroad 400

Mi.es From Capital.

ROSS ATTEMPT CHECK

I CitUniS Further

.,

reverses to me

;py in Galicia.

SECTOR LEE LOSES

I-T "'I:RYLAND VOTING

t - State i a :.; rnl- j

it iht.eton tiecisiveiv ;

' -. e.- St nator Blair ;

i noiaiiiation for

a t pr i mary yest er-

V - tier, ciiairinan ;

i. ,;, u.tttea, was the ;

' ; ::' L-tik-nia- :

TRAINING GAMP'S

LIST HAS CLOSED

e ".! :! Sheridan Miiilar

rlnel

h Mart dlh Abeiil M'd )

Anemia nee.

epi. :. a. The appii

For: Sheridan i ivii

: a;ap . U-sed today

a-at.ons will be ton-

.;':oa, were, a- . :-r..;r.; to army

:::.,: the i-arap will oj-en on

' '.;h :ro-;i ;o 750 recruits

-!-:.

-ai

."::: -l

i.

:.tts

pre:,-,

;

to Vw.eia a nahtarv tratnins '

f,.;r e,-ks Tlie approval

' t'.tFn; had a total of 4fc Many

a-;; corporat ;o-;s, which had

ed to send several of their em-

t the camp, were expected to

thair nominations before night.

BIO!

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Berlin Calls

Bomb Plots

Stupid Work

I Pamphlets Advising the De-

struction of American

Factories Disavowed.

nTlm. ?'-p. 15. by wirolps?. to Say

vitie, X. Y-t The. Overseas News

A .eerily Fays.

"German newspapers, which ar

rived recently in the Frited States,

i en;aiit d pain nhlf-' s advising the dc.

ZnUV;

srruotion of Amri--sm rnunntots fat.-

a practice is dep.gnau.d

nffkiai'y 8 stupid and dangerous. Evi

dfr.tiy this was t i i f work of misguided

and hot-headed private citizens, wno

au.-mpd to mniiin an ae:aHon in

's '-is n aim-r Xo now.-paper off!

rciponsibie.-

CROCKER BRIGADE

HOLDING REUNION

100 ilm-iircd terans hi I amine

IlinU i illiilrJOU i it h;it .'lav itc

las! t.iilihTiiiir.

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It. i-1

Mono:

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av em or

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slue s;:y states

TO HAVE rr.EcTliiG

Nan I loiarrn lain. t o'K n; tun.

(unction With le.ierai f;iiici;ils

Auainsi iiHiiers.

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mane

her

msnn on tne same uavs.

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etc;. II.

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v ' t 1 e

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n me depart mem oi justice and

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lite

the pre:

r t. t

1 or

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CRIPPLED TEliTGu

AIBSHIPJLIGHTS

One oi ( raft I'articipaUns in lUiid On

t.nii oi Risra Pescriids at

KocniaslKTg.

London. ?ept. " -A German air

ship badly damage,! by Russian pun

fire tats descended a; Koe-iiKsburg,

Last Prussia, according to an Amster

dam dispatch to the Central News, it

is believed to have been one of those

which participated in the air raid on I

tne gulf of Riga. I

A German official statement issued

Sept. It) stated tnat a navai atrsnip

dropped several bombs on a Russian

naval base at a Raitie port and re

turned undamaged, although it was

tired on.

COMPLAINANT DROPS

$50,000 LIBEL SUIT

Albany. X. V.. Sept. l.V Attorney

Get erai Kpbert E. Woodbury has with

drawn h'.s J5f',00:i libel suit against

the Xew York Tribune. The suit was

brought after the publication of a

story regarding the dropping of Wil

liam Travers Jerome as counsel in

the Thaw case by the attorney gen

eral. Recently the Tribune said edi

torially that it never had any inten

tion of assailin? the integrity of the

attorney general, and the discontinu

ance of the suit followed. It was to

have been trier! in Chautauqua county.

PAIG

TOKNOC

LLIONL

Activity of German Agents

, Alarms Allies' Commis

i sion Here to Borrow.

BANKERS THREATENED

Latter Warned That They

Will Be Made to Suffer if

They Extend Aid,

w Yc t 1 V r G

rr i n rr i a 1 i t to

of a I 1 1 r r 'iii

I n t x - t rr u I i

f t r a t 1

f r ft ! ft a r v ,

t t ri 1 , ! t L 1 !

v i ' r t r

t p i

Members of this nm m isaem, o

v If 1 r 3 1

of England, is chairman, have rtouhif

T 1 i e"- T i 1 i t t

1 1 i O 11

pi a ' ..1 , ev 1 oris inn p a

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lid. a;; 1 Xew

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advto" in ria

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V, enievi t n u n i ri tvaiia

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the rnonafnt!

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.re, had

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; the flotation oi

loan.

was hifornied

ni fi

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r i . t i 1 n i

H i in i n t t

C ' ) I V i

interest '

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man. attac

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aft i

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( i -a n p

I t v lilt

r 1 1 t ri e r

Tn- anacit jncian-o i

ativo in refusing; to

the atltators nope

braced extreme ira-a.-ures apainst

any banks with German-American de

positors helpint: in any way to onanee

the loan. This eampaisn. aeeording

to reports from sources rejra rded as

reliable, conterapla'cd lieavy with

drawals, wholesale in extent, from

(Continued on Page Five.)

CHICAGO CHASING

LABOR SLUGGERS

State's Attorney Sajs lVreekiny; and

Murderinir I anipaien Has lieen

tarried On Years.

Chicago, Sept. 15. A crusade to

drive labor gunmen and sluggers oat

of Chicago was started today by State 3 ;

Attorney Hoyr.e. I

Startling disclosures in the labor '

situation have been revealed as a result '

of an investigator, conducted by the.

state's attorney's office. The inquiry, !

it is alleged, reoaied an organized!

gang of gunmen in several unions who'

have carried on a wrecking and mar- 1

derine: campaign for years. They have .

been working without, the cognizance'

of the majority of the union members, .

it was said.

.Extortion, graft and vengeance on j

contractors, as we-i as reven?? on oth-

er union members, make up the great-;

er part of the work of these gunmen, i

the inquiry is said to have disclosed. '

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KOUT

OAN

AsquiihAsks

Over a Bill ion

WarExpense

Commons Told Daily Ex

penditures lor Past Two

Months $i 7, 500,000.

London, f-Ynf. 13, 3:25 p. m.l The

seventh vote of credit since the out

break of the war, bringing up the total

to $6.310.0rt.f09, was moved in the

house of commons ;

Premier Asauith. T

afternoon by

amount asked

for today was ?1, 230. 000, 000.

The premier also announced that

nearly 3.G00.900 men had enlisted, lie

made t: is statement in reviewing the

ttmmciaj and military sit iiat ions, so

far as nil Fury exigencies permitted:

suit this rrfi'iircmctit necessitated in

many instances only vague references

to the trend of events.

The growing expenditures for the

r,r were emphasized bv the nremier.

J ' 1 e it. i i

t (

the Inst vota oi

Mr, Afiiiuhh saa

i O T

'a;os iter. to

of flnan.-ir.r r

Part of thai ,!M:

in a f' w rs.aari

v : t 1 i

1 I "

(P

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g::t take n that tvief-e

t f r r n

a'e-sary operations.

t re i

1 T r

tut- a ior fu'urc ex-

r T, nt-p i f n pf-f

to riiiiinia -ins i'.nciand .'lust (,ne I j

u :a - io .cnoii.-. Puleiclices

p,etv.een ( ountrie, x

i 1 1

's CAphitta'ioi

i i

I iiy liritii h report

n r

t 1

c j

I i i a r 1 1

i h--- preirident's cool self-eontain-v

1 1 I

fa it- is at 'as? torn to pieces

li t i

;tion or res pon Midi iiy for the mis-:

I v 1 f r ! c r f

x t J

riE wAR 1 0D A Y

( Associated i iess Su 111 noir?. 1

eariv ,s.ttiitiHH nice lime entitl

ed sor sernei' nun file iiri'ri-oi

lorcis since tne lieitlltnilte 01 the

v-ui: I'reiiiier As.pnili aiiiiomici'd

in tne house 111 eomiiions toihn.

i etc 01 cn oit oi s-t,J.,l!.!p;io.O!Ml nns

iiskcil o! the rifii; mens bv the Pnt

ish in-eiiiier, m!ii stilted mat I rain

iii.v Is c Vept. 1! tiie diiih net

e.vpcnnu arcs el me war had te'ii

s-ir.allO.OiMi.

(lerniHJi troops are poundine

away at the P.iaa-lMinsk line, ae

rordins to today's oiticial state,

ment inmi rieriin. which reports

sharp tight inir west and southwest

of IliinsK. The Kussians have

been runnier aiiarkintr in the Xi

iiya river (iitrict farther soufh,

where Vilna is at stake. In the een

ter the Teutonic forces are press

iitg on, Berlin reporting further

jirocress east of Olita and (-rodno.

There has been a lessenina in

the violence of the artillery en

(tairenients alnnu: the Praneo-Hei-giiin

front.

H was announced in London

hat Premier As.jiiith would ask

the hiaiM' ni commons to vote a

credit 01 !tl.-,."0.hiMj.liil.

Cimiif ion Retentlow, the (.er

man naal writer, declines in the

Heriin Tasres eitunar that the Zep.

peiiu attacks on I.tmdon are lecal

and of a military character, as

London is a fortress. He sajs the

Pritisii eovernment has been re

ini'.s in not ordering evactiation of

the city.

Peielopnients in the licinity of

Vilna lead ioreiirn military 'ob

servers to expect a decisive battle

there soon.

Hiasotis Fleet Orand Piaster.

Freeport. Hi, Sept. 15. Frederick

Kreneel of Chicago was elected grand

master of the grand council of Illi

nois Royal and Select Masters, a

Masonic organization, at the 63d an

nual assembly held here today.

MEX BANDITS

FIRE ON CITY;

PEO

Simon, Twenty Miles From

Laredo, Texas, Deserted

Durinsr Night Attack.

ANOTHER PLOT NIPPED

State Department Repeats

Warning to Citizens to

Keep Out of Country.

aslnnclon. .ejtl. !. Adicn

riui consuls ana etntsnnir itueiMs

in iiitrt lieni .M'Hiiira and ( iisioi.i

Imil Iniie lii'en orilerefi In Ims

eiii erninciil In nitlolraiv ! me

! (nleii ,Nt:ite. because in ti;e t.aa

ter in ooriler npriMULis aioi m

iioilm ot Mexican luilnat'. iciitl-tei-

to protect then!.

Tae niMtr !o Ti-e la-intais jfoaa'.ve

t 1 t

iiceti Oil wi:i

; - ii. . .i . . . r : pt

a i It t i

r 1 nil

F

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a i r r v r

t . t

i country to rexura

r t

irtzantiU r,

planned tr

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t o n

L

nito will be t los,

r i t

i

i erceiies I uci lined.

1 i t 1

GOAL OPERATORS

FIGHT RATE RAISE

Southern Illinois nine Owners Tell

Commerce Commission '' Aliened

PisenmifiHl ion.

Washington, T. C, Sept. 13. W. M

Lamb, representing coal cj rators .u

southern Illinois, today prepared to

hie with the interstate eomrner- com

inission a potition far rwpeiiinjv of tiie

western advance freight rate ca.

Southern Illinois coal operators ciaiai

the recent decision of the commission,

which increase: rates from tru-ir

minas in every direction but del ma

increase rats on coal shipped to th

same points thrnush lake ports, li .

discriminated against thera. !

So far no petition has beers ma I" '0

the commission on the part of the rat! .

roads to reopen the tas, alcair':

public announcement that th... would

he done has been made.

Heat Spell Continnes in Past.

Washington, Sept. 15. Dot weather

will continue in the east and south for

at least ."H hours, the weather bureau

announced today.

Cooler weather has overspread the

upper lake region and the uppfr M;s

sfssippi valley, hut t:o early prrryihe

is held out for lower temperatures

eastward.

Okumci Tells

Jap Plans To

Help in Fight

Country Will Throw All

Support to Allies, but Will

Insist on Rights at End.

Tokio, Aug. Hi, (Correspondence of

the Associated Press.) The decision

of the Japanese government, an-,

nounced today, to mobilize the indust

resources of She country io increase:

tiie oat put of arms and ammunition

!

1

!

I

for her allies, is explained by Premier

Okujna in an interview in the Kokum'.n

Shim bun, ot:e of the leading dailies of

'he raet ropoiis. The premier is quot

ed as sa in; ;

' Japan now realises that ail the al

lies must cooperate to defeat our com

mon cm-BiU's, and has decided to pive

further assistance lo the aiUea. We

have s''?:t instruct it tux to our atubassa

'.;! s abroad i,, liiat eheci.."-

(1

un -of

mtstv t'tei napios

Jot i i

t 1- I

lii hit I'

t t r t i

Jt 1

lid tor taetr owr

it was not rea

x octillion to Eu-

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tediy as they wo

i l

i.de to seini an f

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nr e

( f 1 ( 1 H

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xpt-ii.'iil to enter

os oi suen a na-

f V I i

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:EFEhOS AiRSHIP

!:n!0S0LO0OM

( oiiu; van lo'ie,tli) .Maniiicns (hv

t ! ni tres- anil l'omiiace

Mooiid Itenart.

t i ( n i C rt

w i re

a t av 1 1

s t ( i n a i sf t

r la.ndan. H" s'i

s t at

it t - i

tl i 1 r

1 a. -rial attacks,'

1 it lit

it is not Gyr

ates iuat.

ri t

,r iaa'-y Sent' 10 t: ika cil.iri-e o-' lie

fit 1 '-n-es of i 1 : i 1 rs . from aerie.! at

facss: t:i" oth.er, .-.1 rca :-r ie 1 riiic-sni

tiiat sreii" similar r.'.f ps have n.u bi a

"alM'n biai.re.

The G lobe : -. a rra r, i; :;: 2 a ma - tc - t

;n ti, diauand reprn-ais :-u t i 1 a t e, ry

r:. . ocer an l'.i,zl h town shall a -acsiseta-d

b" "lU' over a fb rman ton n,

r.a;nt van Rev.--ni aivv s pb a i for

c -;,'. r i '-l;f ic.'iii e Oi e... ;.-r atia'ks

on iaaid'a, .have ! r. pabiiMa-a ..t..

Ihl.ean Adapts Tire Lis w.

Pb-anljao n, !:!., S. 0: Mi, --The ab--I.i'-an

laainiv fioard of s a porv ..., ir.i ,0.

ilio i-aaptea tia- 'Tiro reel b-w on mo

tint: of Jaaoa Mai-Mo-, a r.;. ':;t,.r who

vieaf 10 -la siijaaaai; .;a;rt iv:'b if.

tii;an:"'ji-;t; aiiaoi.-' i.:a: law b'-iVir:: ra

amendment.

THE VZATHER

J

Forecast Till J P. M. Tomorrow, for

Kock Island, Davenport, ,Moiin

and Vicinity.

Cnsi'tticii wtather -a ith probably

s!:o-,vers this afteraoon or Thuia-da',

R"t tauch change in temperature.

Temperature, at 7 a. m. fi2. K;ghet

' !:.: v. st, lowest last night, 61.

Velocity of wind at 7 a. m. 6 miles

per hour.

Precipitation - in' h.

Relative humidity at 7 p. m. 34. at

7 a. m. fh at 1 p. m. today 77.

1 - of w ater 4 feet, a rise of ,4 in

last 24 hours.

J. SHEKIER, Local Forecaster,

HESPERIAN IS

EW PUZZLE

FOR CAPITAL

Evidence Lacking to Answer

Claim of Berlin That

Ship Strikes Mine.

LULL IN ARABIC CASE

Von Bernstorff Returns to

Home to Await Word

From Government.

ptv York, Sept. l.V There will

be no development in the situation

as retranls the I nited Mates and

(.ermati) tor at least two week,

mint ym Itfrnstorff said tn

newspaper men today In reply to

reijiiests tor a stijtement on his

arrnal here lriini W ashington.

YS saiiiriftton. P. 0.,

depart ment. ottieiais,

duv on the oisclann

Sept. 15. State

commenting to

r of the Berlin

nail ) it the Canadian . liro;r

Hesperian was torpedoed, staid that in

.suifoient evidence had been received

on whuii to base representations to

Germane at tins time. From the facts

-i 1 t v s si 1, no opinion could

he tornied as to whether the Hesperian

was torpedoed or struck by a mine.

If it should lie determined that th

Hesperian struck a mine, officials say

there would be no moans of fixing re

sponsihiittv for placing the mine.

Inpioinar.c negotiations in the Ar

arat: case were in appa rent lull today

and count von Bernstorff. the German

ii 1 r h ! rf turned to the sum-

ii i 1 it f f darhurst, L. I., to

a it word from his government re

caruip.K tne evidence in possession of

t I 1 concerning tho

it, it i 1. It probably will

be a wceK or ten days before there is

line response troin Germany. Some offi

cials believe that examination of this

r w 1 a si the German gov-

! eminent to mouiiv its views on tae

ibtecf.

.No word has come from Ambassador

en.tetd at u-nna. in regard to ths

i n h d r Dumba.

Anliihald I'apers fublic.

i.on.-ion. :'pt. 1.,.--Documents from

e G-rinan and Ausiro-Htingariin

i a i neton taken from

1 J r tahl, the American

war ciirri'spoiai. ot. on his arrival in

11 be made public

har,. i .or I U,!Tt Cecil, pa rliamentarv

aiali r sear. aarv ir foreiirn affairs, in

til 1 i ( i omniotis, thitt

1 th

of the most tm-p-iper-s

already bud

' and 'hat there w,i5

i wwh the public:

.aid not be puh-

HOLD.' MOTIONLESS

OBJECTS IN THE AIR

i) Italian engineer,

I t r I the problem of

a ioub if. in space,

darsa jlles corres

Parisian. Rota is

v ie g cons' ructeil an

hv the action of eiec

n be 1 levaod to a

to ,'t.iiOij feet and

or pr'i;aaa-il in any

of more than 100

1 ta's apparatus is

l bet long and two

and can tarry

li i. sab! to

n a vviinl or oon-

, bilt if t!;0 V ilid be

1

tei

I'll

of 1

I'll

laa

ll s very s'rt.-ig ;. rises automat

;y ni.t:! it reaidics a r aimer region

lie air The invention is based on

tarns (daatre-d from the eieotro

.'! -ic fan . s of tiie atmosphere.

TAKES A BULLET OUT

OF SOLDIER'S HEART

p

Si pt K, M. ans by which he

o:r.i:'i-i a riirapiod iiUiiet from the

nab! aurbla of a Kri ech soldier s

laatl wre described to the American

'U dice! a -s ciaiion ,y Dr. Ilitroit.

Tins was acewr.piiRhvil by a radio

trrayhb' iavenod by h" fiirram. This

;n 'rut nt enaiib s dr. Infrott to locate

fonegii bud:-a in the H-mks with

ir.,:'o-ii;a!ir a! pfM-ision and p-rmi's

tin ir extraction without injury to tiie

i.e; en iiorihg organs, he ttdd his t.ol

aa i'hes.

STEAMER PICKS UP

MEN IN A LIFE BOA1

New York. Sep', 1". - The stcanv'l

Prinz Wilb-m V , whi h arrived toda

fiaaii Amsterdam by way of South

Ano ri an porta and the West Indies,

early on Aug. 3 picked up a life boat

with nine men of the crew.- of the Brit

ish steamer Itan.a, which had been

torpedoed by a German submarine

two days previously, about 40 miles

southwest of Ouissant, France. Eight

hours after picking up the life boat a

French cruiser held tip the Prin. Wil

Wn and took the shipwrecked soamca

into Brest.