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General News.
I T LEAST two men were killed and
10 fn-rl'msly burned hv an cxpl.i- i
. Blon of gas i" the I.ehi:',h Valhy !
Coal comiany's IViifih i t olliii, m ar
Wllkesbarre. officials admit that I -njrii
wore caught in tin explosion, ami
that only four hnvp been removed.
Tourists and rt sidents of l.ajolla are :
dill ' discussing the unique marriage,
ceremony performed 011 a dizzy i liff,
Han Diego, Cal.. J 00 yards a hove th
booming Pacific, when Annlstead Xi l-Bon-Collior
and Miss Miriam I'e Ford
were Joined in wedlock. Moth youim
people are writers, well known in lit
erary circles.
That a boycott be placed upon rail
roads refusing to pay claims on fruit
and vegetables was the recommenda
tion In the annual report of Traffic
Manager George I . W. Knight, of the
Western Fruit Jobbers, . says Los An
geleK report.
The C'osfon red light district injunc
tion law, which has been copied by
many state legislatures desiring to
pass similar legislation, was declared
Invalid by the Iowa supreme court, be
cause Speaker Feeley failed to sigh it.
Its author, announced that a new law
would be introduced.
The effect of the Cosson law in Des
Moines on the California red light law
Is problematical. Attorney Walter lAn
. forth, who represented those who at
tacked the law in California, is of the
opinion that the California statute will
be seriously affected, inasmuch as it
. was based on the Iowa law.
Three, hundred passengers on the
steamer He d'ltalla, bound for Naples,
were thrown into a panic when fire
broke out in her forward hold as she
was preparing to leave her dock at
Mew York. The fire was controlled
after an hour. Her cargo was damaged
and several passengers slightly bvirned.
Following in the wake of destruc
tive earthquakes, flood waters caused
toy heavy rains were causing grave
anxiety throughout Italy. Streams
. everywhere are out of their banks and
thousands of people in low-lying dis
tricts have been driven from their
homes or are held prisoners in the up
per stories of the houses.
The San Francisco police were con
vinced that Mrs. Margaret Binnard,
who shot her husband, Abraham Hin
nard) and committed suicide in their
room in the Windmere apartments, was
temporarily insane. Binnard, who is
at St. Winnifred's hospital with a bul
let In his head, may recover.
The lower house of the Massachu
setts legislature passed, a resolution
submitting a constitutional amendment
granting the ballot to women. The
resolution had previously passed the
senate at the last legislature, and, aft
er the governor signs it, will go to the
voters at the next election.
David Shanahan, the veteran, Repub
"lican leader of the Illinois legislature,
was elected speaker of the lower house
on the sixty-eighth ballot at Spring
field, 111.
Secretary of the Interior Franklin
Lane, stopping at Chicago en route to
San Francisco, where he will represent
President Wilson at the opening of the
Panama-Pacific exposition Saturday,
advocated In an Interview the estab
lishment of municipal truck farms,
where unemployed people could be pro
vided with work.
It was noted on good authority at
Athens that Greek Minister Parnas had
left Constantinople, owing to Turkey's
failure to satisfactorily explain an al
leged Insult to a Greek attache. Min
ister Parnas, it was reported, left the
embassy In charge of his secretary.
European War
BKRLIN notified neutral powers that
she would put Into effect a block
ade of the British Isles at mid
night February 17, In retaliation for
British acts in seizing cargoes bound
for Germany.
United States sent a sharp protest to
Germany ftr extending the war zone
ifo as to menace ships approaching the
Uritlsh islands, and warned Germany
that she would be held accountable for
damage to property or death or Injury
to American passengers.
Berlin reports a victory for the
Turks, the British infantry having re
created with losses after the engage
ment. Forty French and English aeroplanes
raided Ostend and other Belgian towns,
the raiiers being given orders to con
fine their attacks to military positions
as far as possible.
Two mine explosions destroyed the
British steamer Dulwloh, bound from
Hull for Rouen, while 25 miles off Cap
Antifer.
Premier Borden, of Ottawa, an
nounced that the entire Canadian con
tingent had crossed over into France,
and that the soldiers were now giving
good account of themselves at the
front.
Alsace has been divided Into two
: parts by the Germans, one part for
military operations, and the other as a
neutral zone, declares a Berne, Swit
zerland, report.
How is the time to put an end to the
worst vil of the human race, namely,
war, declared Viscount Bryce, ex-Bnt-Isb
ambassador to the United States, in
a scientific lecture at London.
Norweslan ships proceeding to or
from the British Isles have been or
g4 to paint the word "Norge" in big
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letters on each side of the hull, amld
ship. and to paint strips of national
colors fore and aft of this word.
To prevent farmers from feeding
their potatoes to stock, the German
government increased the price of the
tubers from $1 to $1.45 for each 110
pounds.
The British navy is ready to meet
Germany's submarine raids. Only tho
admiralty knows just what the plans
are, but there is evidence of a more
confident feeling than has existed at
any time since (Jermany served notice
of her intension to establish a war
zone.
Escorts, it was believed, will be pro
vided for the British merchant fleet,
and a majority of the sailings will pro
ceed on schedule time. A flotilla of
destroyers and torpedo boats will be
assigned to duty along steamship lanes
as guards against German attacks.
The 6inking of the Dulwlch was ac
complished ' as the opening of the Ger
man submarine campaign. Advices
from Havre say the crew was given
time to collect its affects, but official3
here declare they have information to
the contrary.
All Scandinavian vessels reaching
ports had national colors
painted on their upper works and their
names prominently displayed.
Details of various engagements
alont? the whole battle line extending
from the Swiss frontier to the North
Sea in the official statement of the war
office announce"?! that another great
battle may be commencing.
Germans have resumed their activity
about Verdun, where the crown prince's
army is located. In the Argonne a
line of German trenches has been de
stroyed. Attacks in force by the enemy be
tween Tour de Paris and Boureullles
have been repulsed with heavy losses
in killed and wounded, the statement
asserts. Many prisoners are declared
to have been taken in this engagement,
German troops attacked the French
positions in the Champagne region 10
times in one night, the war office as
serting that all tnese assauus were
repulsed.
It is announced that ail of the
French airmen who participated in the
raid on the Ghistelles aerodrome, in
Belgium, last night, returned safely to
their stations. Eight men participated
in the maneuver. Simultaneously 40
British aeroplanes soared over Zee
brugge, Ostend. Mlddlekerke and Blan
kenburghe, all important German bases,
and dropped bombs.
Hardlv a single regular sailing of
any British steamer will be suspended
on account of the German submarine
blockade, says London report.
Following a conference at London of
managers of lines conducting cross
channel 'service, it was announced that
their vessels would sail as usual.
Service to Irish ports also will con
tinue as usual, though it had been re
ported channel and British mail service
would stop.
Steamers cleared as usual for Scan
dinavian ports. Lifeboats, fully pro
visioned, swung from their sides, and
the passengers' lists wer smaller; but
this fact was chiefly due to the desire
of the steamship companies to discour
age travel.
It was reported that some of the
vessels from the United Staes would
be diverted to LrJsh ports, but official
Information on any subject regarding
the blockade was unobtainable.
Twenty-eight steamers from New
York, carrying more than 10,000 Amer
icans, are speeding toward the war
zone, and may be the subject of the
retaliation ordered by Germany against
England.
A dozen freighters and smaller ves
sels, some with valuable vargoes, were
due to enter the extended German war
zone a few hours after the kaiser's de
cree went into effect. Five of these
are British ships and two are Amer
ican vessels.
Trailing these were 14 other steam
ers, which sailed from New York for
English and continental ports last
week. The liner Philadelphia, of the
American line, is due in Liverpool Sun
day with. 250 passengers aboard; the
Orduua, with a large passenger list,
will reach here a week from tomorrow.
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1 Chaplain and sailors from the British, ship Tiger heading the funeral procession at Queensferry, England, of the men who were killed In the naval battle In the North sea in which the German cruiser
Bluecher was sunk. 2 Sailors from the Bluecher who were rescued by sailors of the Arethusa on their way to quarters under armed guard, after having been fitted out with clothing. 3 Miss Eliza
beth Kolb of Germantown, Pa., who has been selected by Secretary of the Navy Daniels to christen the dreadnaught Pennsylvania when she is launched March 16. 4 Miss Natalie Win'slow, daughter
of Rear Admiral Winslow, United States aavy, during the christening ceremonies of the torpedo boat destroyer Winslow, February 11. & A French armored aeroplane used in military operationB;
6 Design for the monument to be erected in Arlington cemetery in Washington, D. C to the military and naval heroes buried there. The design is by Carrere and Hantings. Congress has appro
priated $750,000 for the monument. 7 Thomas A. Edison poses for his photograph on his 68th birthday anniversary. 8 Italian soldiers distributing soup tickets to the homeless at Sora In the
earthquake zone. 9 The torpedo boat destroyer Winslow, leaving the ways at the Cramp yards, February 11. '
The Niagara, of the French line, bound
for Havre, will pass through the zone
early next week.
Warnings were published at Berlin
that the German people must not be
too anxious for quick results from the
proposed operations of submarines
against British commerce. The article
admits the possibility of the destruc
tion of neutral ships, but insists that
Germany cannot be blamed, as she has
given tua fullest possible warning.
Again in outlining the German gov
ernment's position on the proposed Ger
man blockade the Nord Deutsche Zel
tung declared that, though every pos
sible precaution would be taken to pro
tect neutral nations, mines would be
placed before every British harbor en
trance. A Budapest dispatch to the Tage
blatt, Berlin, says the Russians have
been forced to evacuate Czernowltz,
the capital of Bukovina.
Wireless advices received at New
York from the Norwegian steamer
Strlnda said she had been halted by a
British cruiser seven miles off Sandy
Hook. The cruiser, the dispatch said,
sent an officer on board to examine
her papers, and then permitted the
Strinda to proceed.
Reports from German sources re
ceived admit that two sheds in which
submarines were being mounted were
destroyed in a raid on Zeebrugge Fri
day by British aviators. Twenty work
men were said to have been wounded.
Following the decision of the allies
to pool their resources, the French
minister of finance removed the em
bargo from all exportations to the al
lied nations and to America.
Executive.
SHARP criticism of the Rockefellers
and Colorado coal mine operators
for their conduct of the coal strike
in Colorado, as well as blame of the
miners for some of the violence during
that dispute, was included in the re
port of the house committee which in
vestigated the strike.
England notified Washington gov
ernment that it had placed the steamer
Wilhelmina's cargo up for considera
tion by a prize court, but had not un
loaded the .vessel. It was explained
that this action was taken before the
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American request for a delay waa re
ceived. The administration never really con
templated buying interned ships under
the pending ship purchase bill, was
the opinion expressed by Bernard N.
Baker, millionaire ship owner of Balti
more, who testified before the shipping
lobby investigating committee.
The interstate commerce commission
held that the Oregon Short Line's
charges on carload lots of bituminous
coal from Kemmerer and Rock Springs,
Wyo., to southern Idaho points were
reasonable.
The "house adopted a resolution
which had previously passed the sen
ate, asking President Wilson to Invite
representatives from foreign coun
tries to attend the international educa
tion conference, to be held in Oakland,
Cal., this year.
Secretary of War Garrison declared
that the present haste to complete the
Panama canal fortifications was only
part of the general plan to finish that
work. It had no bearing: whatever, he
said, on tho international situation.
Legal and Criminal.
THE Los Angeles county beard cf
supervisors appropriated $1000 to
defray the expense of sending
District Attorney T. L. Woolwine and
two county detectives to New York to
take charge of M. A. Schmidt, wanted
in conn3ction with the dynamiting of
the Los Aageles Times building here in
1910.
Accused of smuggling Chinese from
Mexico into the United States, Goldie
Evans, woman smuggling leader; K
Chilsen and H. Dugkley were held on
$3000 bail each by United States Com
missioner Williams, at Los Angeles.
Pleading guilty to a charge of violat
ing the Mann white slave act, George
Grand, a buyer for a Los Angeles
clothing firm, was sentenced to one
year at McNeil's .Island by Federal
Judge B. F. Bledsoe, of Los Angeles.
Grand made a trip from New Y6rk to
Los Angeles accompanied by Vivian
Aleott. a beautiful cloak model.
Depositions attacking Miss Maude
Armfield, who is suing Bryant How
ard, of San Diego, for $600,000 for
breach of promise, were introduced In
Superior Judge Wilbur's court at Los
Angeles. Tbe depositions, which
charged mild lapses on the part of Miss
Armfield, were from former acquaint
ances of the young actress.
"Jack' Cudahy, millionaire meat
packer of Kansas City, was made de
fendant in a suit at Los Angeles to
collect $S65. The action was filed by
Attorney Irving C. Iuis, acting for
the Cady Olmsted Jewelry firm, for
diamonds purchased In 1313.
The first Jitney holdup has been re
ported to the police at San Diego. A
jitney driven by Fred Stammer waa
held up by a robber armed with a re
volver. After the thug had taken 75
cents from the driver, a passenger dis
armed him and he fled into the dark
ness. Defense testimony tending to show
the financial standing of Bryant How
ard Jr., of San Diego, occupied a ses
sion of the trial of the Armfield-How-ard
$500,000 heart balm suit at Los
Angeles, in Superior Judge Wilbur's
court. W. R. Rogers, a San . Diego
banker, testified that Howard's fi
nances were at a- low ebb.
Mearob Avedlsian, 63, an Armenian,
was probably fatally crushed between
the wall and an elevator in the Black
building at Los Angeles. He was held
prisener for an hour until firemen
could tear out the marble wall and re
lease him.
The police and three private detec
tive agencies searched for a "tall, dark
man," who is supposed to have killed
Jacob Votrel, wealthy banker, and his
wife, of Frultvale. Vogel's slayer is
believed to have been a man who knew
all of the capitalist's habits through
Intimate acquaintance with his move
ments. Testimony at New York at an inves
tigation of the advance in the price of
wheat and bread, Henry Heinzer, ex
pert statistician of the New York Pro
duce Exchange, absolved speculators
from all blame. He asserted that ab
normal exports were responsible for
the high prices.
Four bandits at Chicago bound and
gagged President Frank Roti. of the
Western Savings bank and escaped
with $2000. Roti was alone in the bank
at the time of the robbery.
The New York police were trying to
connect Matthew A. Schmidt, the al
leged accomplice of John J. and James
B- McNamara in the dynamiting of the
FEBRUARY 21, 1915.
Photographs copyright. 1915. br International News Sendee.
Los Angeles Times, who was arrested
Saturday night, with the recent out
rages at St. Patrick's cathedral.
The federal grand Jury at New York
began another secret investigation into
the affairs of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad. Former
President Charles S. Mellen waa the
first witness called.
PANAMA-PACIFIC
EXPOSITION NOW
OPEN TO VISITORS
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and to rush to completion their plans
for displaying, in the midst of war,
the arts of peace, to the peoples of the
world at the San Francisco exposition.
With what pressure activity then
commenced can be Judged when it is
related that one cablegram alone, ex
pended in Instructing the officials of
the exposition to proceed with the
plans for the French national pavilion,
cost 50.000 francs. On the trail of that
cablegram came the famous French
architect. M. Henri Guillaume, from
Paris, personally to superintend the
work.
Three days was the time occupied
by the exposition architectural bureau
in completing the plans for the French
building, a record being established
for a work of such magnitude, a $100.
000 structure. Double shifts of
draughtsmen worked to rush the draw
ings and triple shifts of workmen were
then installed for the actual construc
tion work of the French pavilion.
This pavilion, one of the most beau
tiful of the entire exposition scheme,
is an exact replica of the famous Pal
ace Of the Legion of Honor at Paris.
Originally the home of the Prince de
Salm, beheaded in the revolution, it
was sold then at public auction, but
taken' over by Napoleon in 1S03 and
made the headquarters of the order
established by him so that rewards
suitable to their deeds might be be
stowed upon soldiers and civilians for
notable achievements in the service
of France. The original, located be
tween the Rue de Lille and Qual de
Orsay, is a mecca for visitors to Paris.
The original is in caen stone, taken
from the catacombs, and this effect
haa been splendidly maintained In the
exposition copy. The pavilion is with
in two minutes' walk of the Palace of
Fine Arcs, which is enriched by so
many masterpieces from the great
French galleries. On one side is the
Japanese pavilion, on the other the
Cuban, while directly opposite, across
the Avenue of All Nations, is the
Italian pavilion. Facing direc tly north,
on slightly rising ground, this noble
pile will be a conspicuous feature of
the many inspiring edifices that greet
the visitor as he traverses the broad
Avenue of All Nations.
All of the things that go to com-
1 nrisi French national life and indutt-
trial activity will be displayed here
and in the exlilbit palaces, from wines
of noted vintage, delicate products of
the art Jewelry workers, exquisite cre
ations in women's wear to the stabler
things of the manufacturing indus
tries. It will be France in perspect
ive for the pleasure and the instruction
of the visitors who will assemble at
the exposition.
Italy's Participation Significant.
When it Is recalled that ' one of
Italy's illustrious sons first discovered
America there Is a profound and poetic
significance Id the magnificent par
ticipation by Italy In the exposition
which celebrates America's greatest
achievement the completion of the
Panama canal. Italy's participation is
on a scale and of a scope worthy of
her historical place in the events lead
ing to the beginning of American his
tory and of the history of the United
States.
It is not the tourists' Italy which
will participate, not the Italy of ven
erable piles, venerated shrines and
hoary relics of and before the early
dawn of the Christian era. It is es
sentially a modern, practical, progress
ive Italy that will take a notable place
in the exhibit halls with the other
great industrial nations of today. The
aim of the Italian government and of
the individual exhibitors is to show
what Italy is accomplishing in the
manufactures, the arts and crafts. An
cient arts will be seen only in repro
duction, but these will be of the fin
est workmanship. The government ex
hibit will include models of great mon
uments, of the new Parliament palace
and of great public works like aque
ducts. From the Industries will come
exhibits that will be a revelation to
those not familiar with Italian activi
ties. Stilt making in Lombardy will
be a big feature. It "may not be gen
erally known that a lyilf million Jtal
luns arc engaged in raising ullk worms
and in the silK indumry. The straw
plaiting industry will bo represented,
with wonderful hats made by th
women of Kermo, the Alpine villagua
of Venzenia and the communes of
Megsina. Italy has had a tremendoua
revival of the woolen Industry, the
government having installed looms at
Naples to teach young Italians the art.
This Industry will be shown, ainLcot
ton goods from Ixjrnbardy, Piedmont
and Ligura.
Venice and the islands of Italy will
show needle and bobbin laces of the
finest workmanship. The making of
furniture alter antique models will be
elaborately displayed. In ceramics It
aly lias long held a leading place. The
products of the Arte delta Ceramic
took first prize at the St. Louis ex
position, and Italy confidently expect
first prize at Ban Francisco. Floren-
tine and Venetian mosaics will b
shown and the famous marbles of Italy
will be on display.
Followers of international autooio
bile races have recognized Italy's com
manding place in the manufacture of
racing automobiles. Many of these
models will be on display and cannot
fall but be objects of tho greatest In
terest. From heavy machinery to products
of the gold and silversmith's art, It
aly's participation will example th
range and variety of Italian productiv
ity. Italy is out to show the world
and Is sparing no expense in doing wf.
The Italian participation represents .
an appropriation of $400,0i0, Italy
nationul pavilion being outt b( tn
moat imposing in tho iortlgn section.
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