WORLD’S DOINGS
Of CURRtNT WIEK
PRESIDENT WILSON URGES SPIED
ON PREPAREDNESS PROGRAM
SCORE Of TOWNS IN
ARKANSAS FLOODED
GERMANS 1AKE B R IM *
INTO AMERICAN PORE; NEW ISSUE
LUSITANIA a
TURNS O N «
Norfolk, Va.-Given up for lost days
Washington, D. C.—Efforts to speed
ago, the British passenger liner Ap
up the work of congress on the army
pam. plying in the West African
and navy bills will be continued this
trade, sailed like an apparition into
week by President Wilson.
He will
Hampton Roads Wednesday, flying the
see'a large number of members of the
German naval ensign and with her
senate and house, and will impress on
ship’s company under guard of a er
them his belief that it is necessary to
man prize crew.
dispose of the preparedness program
She brought word of a mysterious
as quickly as possible, so work may be
German commerce raider, the Moewe,
begun on the shipping bill, the tariff
which now roams the seas, and had on
commission bill and revenue legisla
board the crews of seven British mer
tion.
chantmen and adroirality transports
On the result of his interviews with
captured by the Moewe before she Secretary Believes KaiSer ||)
members'of
congress, as well as on Mississippi Continues Encroachments seized the Appam and started h e r1
Uve News Items of All Nations and
Illegality as Referring to
the outcome of the Lusitania negotia
across the Atlantic for an American
on Levees— Many Who Ignored
Pacific Northwest Condensed
port with Lieutenant Hans Berge, ot
tions, will depend whether the Presi
Campaign of Submarines.
the C.Prman naval reserve, and 22 men
dent will make another series of
Warnings Swept to Death.
for Our Busy Readers.
in charge.
...
speeches.
He has not learned yet
According to the story told with
whether his tour through the Middle
Washington, D. C.—The one
great reserve by Lieutenant Berge to
West has had a definite effect on mem
Little Rock, Ark. — The rapidly- Collector Hamilton when he formally “illegal,” as differently interp
Roofs of two large Seattle churches bers of congress.
widening lake in Southeastern Arkan
the United States and Germnay,
collapsed under the weight of snow.
trudes from the tentative draft o(
sas, formed by the flood waters of the
JUDGE
BEN
B.
LIN
D
SEY
German officials have seized all tex
JO S H U A W . A LE X A N D E R
Lusitania agreement, perfected
Arkansas river pouring through breaks
tile products suitable for army or navy
Ambassador von Bernstorff and
in
the
levees,
had
engulfed
a
score
of
use.
retary Lansing, as the stumbling
towns Sunday night, leaving several
The Premier of Russia, Jean L.
which has caused Berlin to
thousand persons homeless, taking a
Goremykin, has resigned on account
the negotiations as having rei
toll
of
16
lives
and
doing
damage
es
of ill health.
crisis and Washington to charac
timated at many thousands of dollars.
Paris reporters find Colonel House,
the situation as grave.
‘¡T Still greater damage is feared if the
special agent of President Wilson, a
Mississippi continues to rise.
Pre
Germany’s answer, presented
regular Sphinx.“
dicted stages at Arkansas City threat
Secretary Lansing Friday by
en a break in the Mississippi levees,
A Constantinople dispatch reports
von Bernstorff, proposes instead
which would precipitate the greatest
the suicide of Crown Prince Yussof
out-aDd-out-admission
of illej
calamity.
Izeddin, alleging ill health as the
the method of submarine »-
All day 700 men who remained in
cause.
used by the German naval auth-
Arkansas City toiled in an effort to
Portland theaters enjoy an immense
in sinking the liner, an accept
strengthen the levees and they were
patronage from people who were un
liability for the los^ of neutral
hopeful that the town would be saved.
able to get home during the snow
which Berlin hopes will
The narrow strip of levee is the only
blockade.
United States and still not bind
land in sight there. On one side is
many from continuing the sub“
The crew of the Takata Maru, which
the great river, swollen until its sur
campaign.
collided with the tank ship Silver
face is 15 feet above the level of the
German officials believe
Shell, has been saved, but the steamer
town. On the other side is a great
previous promise to discontinue
was abandoned in a sinking condition.
flood lake, nearly 40 miles long and 20
ing unresisting merchantmen si:
miles wide. From it only the upper
warning brings the submarine
E. A. Taylor, a Southern Pacific en
stories
of
buildings
in
Arkansas
City
paign within the pale of interna
gineer, died in the baggage car of his
protrude.
At the levee are
three
law, and th at any inclusion
train near Watsonville, Cal,, from the
steamboats ready to carry the plucky
phase in the Lusitania agree”
nervous shock caused by running into
unnecessary and humiliating to
fighters to safety should they lose
a harrow caught on the track.
imperial government.
their battle with the flood.
The word “illegal” in the dr
The country home of Archibald
The river rose two-tenths of a foot
German ambassador transmitted
Rogers, Standard Oil millionaire, at
Sunday, to the level of 55.7 feet at
Hyde Park, on the Hudson, was en
Ben B. Lindsey of Denver, member government as meeting all the
Arkansas City and was still rising.
tions of the United States is
tered by burglars and silverware and
Telegraph serivee with the town of the Ford peace party, has left Hol have been regarded in Berlin as t
many valuable sporting trophies stolen.
land
for
Berlin
to
study
the
needs
of
still is maintained, and the last word
susceptible of application not to
children in the belligerent countries. Lusitania case alone, but to the
from there was optimism.
London cable dispatches from Bata
‘‘We’ll win the fight,” flashed the It is said Henry Ford told Mr. Lindsey submarine campaign. That is
via report that floods are continuing in
Congressman Joshua W. Alexander operator.
that if it were feasible he would pro explanation which officials
Central Java.
Thus far 120,000 na
At Gaines Landing, four miles north vide ample funds to help the children. find for the statem ent of Dr.
tive house have been wrecked, many of Missouri, chairman of the house
cattle drowned and many miles of rail merchant marine and fisheries com of Lake village, 400 persons were on Judge Lindsey hopes later to go to man, under secretary of foreign
mittee, is working on the draft of the the levee without shelter.
England and will leave there for the fairs, that “the United States s~
way destroyed.
ly made new demands which it ia
administration substitute for the ship
In Clareandon, on the White river, United States.
Great Britain has promised the ping bill that failed last session. It where the levee broke, water was six
possible for us to accept.”
United States to permit the prompt is expected this bill will be one of the feet deep in the highest portions of
Secretary Lansing declared tint
transportation from Rotterdam of a "pets" of the administration this year. the town. The river had attained a reported his presence in American ter position of the United States was
largo quantity of sugar beet seed It carries a $50,000,000 appropriation stage of 37.4 feet and still was rising. ritorial waters, the Moewe captured changed, and the German amb
the Appam bound from Dakar, French knew of no new demands which
bought in Austria for sugar beet farmB for the purpose of merchant ships to
Little is known of conditions in the West Africa, for Liverpool, after a embodied in the proposal he
in Utah. This is expected to make be used as naval auxiliaries.
rural districts o the flooded area, but brief show of resistance on January Berlin.
the United States independent of the
there seems little doubt that many 16, 60 miles north of the Madeira
It is known th at the only c1“
European supply.
Berlin foreign office has made it
Mr. Wilson will confer with Chair who refused to leave their homes in Islands.
agreement drawn by the
Miss Minnie B. Werner, who fell 16 man Jones, of the house insuiar com face of repeated warnings have_ per
and the ambassador is to stT
atones from a window of the Trans mittee, on the Philippine bill passed by ish«!.
Washington, D. C.—Until it is de for the word “illegal” a phrase
portation building in Chicago, has re the senate last week. It is understood
The present flood had been the most
covered consciousness. Her first words that some of the President’s advisers disastrous in the last 40 years of Ar cided whether the German commander while assuming liability for the
were: “ 1 must be hard to kill.” Phy in the house are not satisfied with all kansas history, so far as loss of life aboard the British steamer Appam of neutrals lost on the Lusitania,
not admit of construction into
sicians believe the girl will recover. of the provisions of the bill, and that and suffering are concerned.
The brought the ship to an American port bition of suDmarine warfare. The
as
a
prize
of
war
or
as
a
converted
She owes her escape to the fact that there is a likelihood that amendments property loss his not been so great be
patch the ambassador received
she fell on top of a covered auto truck. will be offerts! in the house. The cause there are now no crops to be de auxiliary cruiser of the German navy, presented to the secretary was
there
will
be
no
determination
of
the
and covered only th at one point
The Canadian Pacific, the Canadian President is understood, however, to stroyed.
American government's course re erwise the document is unchanid
Northern and the Grand Trunk Pacific have approved the general features of
specting the ship.
it was drawn to meet all the
railroads announced at Calgary that on the bill as amended in the senate, with
When certain formalities have been tions of the United States.
instructions from the Dominion gov its provision for giving independence
New York—Police have been as complied with, the ship’s passengers,
ernment officials, an embargo has been to the Philippines within two to four
including several British colonial offi
placed on shipments of rolled oats from years unless circumstances make a signed to portect the subway system cials, will be released and their dis
from the Brooklyn terminal to the
Canada to the United States. The change in policy necessary.
Bronx terminal and the Hudson and position passed on by immigration au
ruling applies to all special mill prod
Manhattan tubes on the strength of a thorities. Any prisoner of war will
ucts manufactured from oats.
report that a threat has been made to be released, because international law
permits no holding of war prisoners in
The missing K-6 submarine is re
dynamite the underground roads.
Washingtpn, D. C.—In the
a neutral country.
Washingotn. D. C. President Wil
ported in her regular course off the
The Interborough Rapid Transit
the British owners of the z
coast of Flordia.
The United States then finally will Appam, Sir Cecil Spring Rice.
son is understood to hold the opinion company has admitted that police help
have to deal with the German crew, British ambassador, Friday
that the British steamship Appam,
Many sections of the Middle West brought into Hampton Roads by a has been asked.
A dozen uniformed policemen are and if they are accounted in naval with the state department a fat-
are experiencing floods and much dam German crew, mus* be consider«! as
guarding
the Hudson Terminal build service of Germany, as were the crews quest that the ship be turned or
age to property is reported.
a prize of Germany under the Prus- ing.
of the Prinz Eitel Frederich and the the British consul under the
It is
Kronprinz Wilhelm, already interned the^ Hague convention.
President Wilson declares the U. S. sian-American treaty in 1828.
Notice also was served that it
at the Norfolk navy yard, they, too,
navy is prepared for immediate war, said here that this accords with the
view of the State department. The
will be interned unless their ship goes be in violation of international
but it is inadequate in site.
President has not had an opportunity
sea to run the cordon of British the United States perm itted the
Niagara Falls, Ont.—Several towns to
man prize commander of the
cruisers outside.
Pheasants driven by hunger are to discuss the case with Secretary
either to increase the efficient
in
Western
Ontario
were
thrown
into
swarming Portland Heighta and are Daniels and therefore no final decision
As to the disposition of the Appam that ship, add to her offensive i
being fed by streetcar men and resi has been reached as to the length of panic late Sunday night by a hurried herself, if she is held to be an auxil- or recruit his crew. Lieutenant
call
to
arms
of
the
home
guards.
dents.
time the Appam will be allow«! to re
Buglers hurri«i through the streets iary cruiser her commander will have has only 22 men in his prize*
main in an American port.
present, a number insufficient to
sounding the alarm and unfounded ru the option of putting to sea after
A negro attacks an auto party near
ceratin time to make repairs and take igate a ship as large as the
mors
that
one
of
the
bridges
here
had
Buffalo, N. Y., killing mother and son
provisions.
A compliance with the British r
Liquor Law to Be Fought.
been blown up added to the excite
and seriously wounding the daughter.
tion only on the latter point vo01“
If
she
is
delcared
a
prize,
the
situa
Seward,
Alaska
—
Men
on
whose
ment.
Robbery was the motive.
fectually prevent the departure ot
property bootleggers have been arrest-
At Saint Catharines, theater audi tion becomes more complex, and in Appam from Newport News.
Every employe of the Bunker Hill «1 at Anchorage are preparng to make ences were dismissed when the men that event it is admitted that the Uni
A Sullivan Mining Co., of Kellogg, a strong fight against confiscation of began to leave in response to the bugle ted States will have to deal with prob
Idaho, above and below the surface, their lota under the provision in the calls. Guards were doubled at ammu ably the most novel question concern
Teutons Buy All Grain-
London. — The Bucharest
will receive an increase of wages of de«ls prohibiting the sale of liquor at nition depots there.
No official at ing its neutrality that has arisen dur
approximately 60 cents a day if the Anchorage.
Saint Catharines would say who order ing the war. As one of the first steps pondent of the Times says thst
A letter received from Delegate ed out the guard, but it was under the problem probably would be re- mania has made a rra n g e m e n ts
price of lead keeps up. It is known
that the company for some time has Wickersham said the general land of stood to have been a general order ferred to the neutrality board, which the Austro-German syndicate W
fice at Washington was determin«! to throughout the province.
is an unofficial body whose function is further sale to the latter of 1."
been contemplating this advance.
tons of corn, 350,000 tons o r
merely advisory.
enforce forfeiture of all lots on which
150,000 tons of barley and 100 ,Ow
Canada will send 20,000 more men liquor has been sold.
of oats.
Pulpit Left for Defense.
to the front in Europe.
Middies Asked to Leave.
This disposes of the entire
New York — Rev. Charles A. Eaton
Many looter« are caught by U. S.
British Gun* Dominating.
Annapolis, Md.—Two hundred and der of the Roumanian crop *
resign«!
Sunday
as
pastor
of
the
Mad
marines in the flood-stricken disticU
Paria—The inauguration of an offen ison avenue Baptist chucrh here to twenty midshipmen, about one-quar for export. The price for the
of California.
sive movement by the German and participate “ in the shaping of the new ter of the whole number at the Naval was the same as th at paid by
lsh governm ent
Senator Reed, of Missouri, attacks Bulgarian forces which have been sta Americanism—the new era of Chris
b! , “ ked t0 resi*» with-
Kooeevelt in the senate by declaring tion«! along the Greek frontier is re tianity which must inevitably follow
“ It la a happy thing for this country ported in a Saloniki dispatch. It is the European war.”
Boy, Asleep Week, Die»
fa.lur® to pass in certain subjects at
,
th at there has been insistence on said an artillery duel has b»en in prog
Marinette, WIs.— After sleepW
Df- Eaton, one of the most widely- the semi-annual examinations, which
American rights, and equally fortunate ress for two days in the neighborhood
have just been concluded.
tinuously for more than a ws»-
that there has not been some hot of Doiran and that the British heavy known clergymen of his denomination,
The number in each class is about ustine Beauchamp, 6 years *»
is
an
advocate
of
preparedness
and
headed, importunate demagogue in the guns are dominating those of their ad
as follows:
of Mr. and Mrs. August Be*0'-
said that he plans to write and lecture
W hite House. ”
versaries.
on the subject.
Firat or graduating class. 20 sec- Esoanaba, died Saturday.
ady of which the lad suffered
ond. W; third. 60; fourth, 80. ’
a mystery.
Brief Resume of General News
from All Around the Earth.
Sixteen Dead, Thousands Driven
from Homes, Water Rising.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSliBl
DANGER INCREASING AS HOOD GAINS
Berlin and Washingtoi
as to Term “lllegi”
BOTH NATIONS RECOGNIZE
Police Guarding Gotham Subway.
Great Britain Protests to Hotted
States on Sailing of liier
Appani Is Held War Prize.
War Call Makes Canadians Panicky.