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The Exeter Advocate, 1915-7-29, Page 3.,,Tereerleceree, • 1,000 LIVES LOST IN BOAT TRAGEDY teamer Packed With ,41,08 Excursionists Upset at Pier in Chicago River A despatch from Chicago Sart gestion of passengers rushing to the The estimated total of those who port side attracted by some passing went down to death in the Chicago sensation tipped the steamer over, River Saturday morning when the; Deeds. of Heroism steel steamer bearing 2,408 exeursion-! ists rolled over at her dock remains! Greater by hundreds would have at approximately 1,000. been the number ,of dead, but for The Eastland, a steel steamer, list- prodigies of heroism. The heroes ed to port and turned over in thei ranged from slips of girls to ragged Chicago River near the heart of thel dock rats and hoboes, to professionals. business district at 7.20 Saturdayl A frail mite of a girl crawled over morning. All. her passengers save, the slimy side of the ship at the lm - two or three hundred, who clung to minent risk of her own life, and with the starboard rail or climbed out star- her thin little arms dragged a aura - board portholes, were thrown into r ber of children to safety. A gloomy the river, erushed into the slimy mud man who was out of work, and con - of the bottom, or imprisoned be- tomplating suicide in the river, found tween decks. The passengers were Plenty of work when the ship capsize employes or friends of employes of ed. He plunged in and rescued nine the Western Electric Company bound persons before he was dragged out for a picnic at Michigan City, In- most dead by other rescuers. A police- diana. ; man made a motorman stop between Some sudden signs of terror had stations, ran back along the tracks, driven smiles from gay faees several; Plunged into the river end saved eight A644+ af0/AY WONAti A STRIZeiD 7114 FREelett soLpiveNs, The old Belgian lady shown in the picture is a great friend of the French soldiers and is very popular with them. They call her La docende minutes before the waters swallowed from drowning. Theie were writer- (the happy, laughing one). Despite the desperate battles 'which the throng, but generally the women ous cases of boy heroes; in two cases been waged around her home, which borders on a trench of the Allies' first and ingthe men and boys dressed for a after helping many woraen and chit' With a motherly caree for the soldiers, the old woman insists on remaining within range of the shells and car - and girls, in white Summer attire,' the little fellows themselves perished, line, jovial outing, were laughing and dren to safety. shouting farewells when death swept One boy, whose identity is yet a upon them. mystery, lumped from the dock into Realization Too Late. the river to help two women hanging to some object in the middle of thej The listing of the boat to port was stream. He was swimming to the noticed, some said, 15 minutes be- dock with one of the women, when! fore she turned over. Capt. Peder- the other flung her arms around his' on said five minutes. Some women neck, and all three were drowned. clutched their children, but decided All witnesses agree that in the crisis the slope of the deck must be some- women were the stronger and more thing necessary in warping from the sensible. While the men fought mad -1 dock. When the full realization came ly for their lives, the women andi the slow list bad become an overturn, girls, after the first panic, quickly re -1 Known to vesselmen as a "crank" covered. They clung patiently to bits' or "hoodoo" steamer, the Eastland of wreckage and obeyed commands of was about twelve years old, but was rescuers. Those trapped in the hull, rebuilt at Cleveland several years ago waited calmly for death or rescue.j by order of the authorities there in The men, however, chiefly young ones, order to render her more seaworthy. dragged women from places of safety, She was required to carry water bat- and even afteritheir own safety wasi last, but it is said that sometiines the assured stood around stolidly without water was pumped out temporarily to offering to assist. lighten her draft in traversing shal- Fred Swigert, a city fireman, works lows, ed three hours lifting bodies from the Various theories as to what caused hold. Then a diver passed up the the Eastland to turn over are being body of a little girl, her flimsy dress discussed. The most discussed a pitiful, clinging shroud. Swigert theories are four -that the boat was placed the little body on a stretcher overloaded; that she was not properly and then, looking closely at the drawn ballasted; that a tug that made fast features, gasped and fell unconscious to warp the Eastland from the dock across the body. It was his own started pulling too soon; that con- daughter. CONSIDERED DELIBERATELY UNFRIENDLY President Wilson Warns Kaiser Against Repetition of "Unfriendly" Submarine Acts. A despatch liOM Washington saysr United States will contend for Amerl-k -The note presented at the German can rights on the high seas "without Foreign Office by Ambassador Gerard compromise and at any cost" is made as viewed in Washington, means that to apply equally to Great Britain as another submarine attack on Amen- well as to Germany. These rights will can life will result in a break between be protected "front whatever quarter Germany and the United States. violated," is the way Mr. Wilson puts The climax of President Wilson's it. warning to Germany in regard to the There is no doubt this will be re - rights of Americans comes in the fin- garded,' both in Germany and in the al sentence of his note, as Ulmer- , United States, as a promise on the "Friendship itself prompts it (the part of this Government to deal as United States Government) to say to vigorously and insistently with Brit - the Imperial German Government ish violation of neutral rights in the that repetition by the commanders of high seas as with Germany's illegal German naval vessels of acts in con- acts. travention of those rights must be rep It often has been asserted that garded by the Government of the could the German Government and United States, when they affect Am- people be convinced that the United erican citizens, as deliberately un- States was sincerely endeavoring only to assert its rights and not to favor But that is not the only expression the allies as against Germany, much through which President Wilson voices , of the resentment caused by the sale - the determination of himself and the marine issue would instantly dispel - American people. lie notifies Ger- pear. This expression was deliberately many that the United States will written into the note with this phase contend for its rights as a neutral, of the German attitude in mind. "without compromise and at any There is still another feautre of the cost," Practices of the German neve !note in which the German Govern- _ al forces, such as have been protested ment may, if it chooses to do so, find Markets Of The Worm! steady. Rye flour steady. Hay firm. by this Government, if persisted in,. some cause for gratification. The ' Hops quiet. Hides steady. Leather will constitute "an unpardonable of- President, in two paragraphs written neutral nation affected," :marks of the German note of july RUSSIANS HOLD BOTH RAILWAYS Teutons Cross Narew, But Bug Still Protects Line to the North. A despatch front: London says: Only on the northern point of the pin- cers, which the .Austro -Germans for more than a week have been trying to close around, Warsaw and the Russian armies in the Polish salient has made any progress during the last few days. This point has forced its way across the Narew River between the fort- resses of Pultusk and Rozan, and is advancing toward the Bug River, which stands for the greater part of the way between it and the Wersaw- Vilna railway, its objective. The other point of the pincers, which Field Marshal 'von Mackensen is directing at the Choim-Lublin rail- way, has hardly gained a yard of ground since it reached the village of Reiovetz, just south of the railway. In offering stubborn resistance to the German advance the Russians are making a continual threat at von Mackensen's flank along the Bug River from the east. of Chohn to east of Lemberg. Between Krylow and Solo,' their attacks have been particu- larly severe, compelling the Germans to send reinforcements, probably in- tended to support vole Mackensen, to meet them. Both Berlin and Vienna • In their official statements tacitly ad- mitted that all, is not going well on this front. The German report says there has been no change in the situ- ation as regards the German troops, while the Austrians describe the state of affairs as "relatively calm." Great Britain is growing in size. During the last thirty-five years about 6,640 acres haye been, lost by meet erosion; while 48,000 acres have been reclaimed from the, sea. GERMANS MAKING SHELLS FOR ALLIES Subjects Working in. Munitions Fac- tories in U. S. Are Guilty of Trea- son, Declares Berlin. Berlin (by Wireless via Sayville): -An official declaration is published here calling attention to the fact that "Germans working in factories in neutral countries, particularly in the United States, producing war sup- plies for the enemy render themselves liable to prosecution for treason, un- der Paragraph 89 of the Penal Code, penalizing such assistance to an en- emy with a maximum of ten years' imprisonment." Another paragraph of the Penal Code authorizes prosecution in the case of such offenses, even when com- mitted abroad, and it is understood that the German courts will proceed against offenders. Breadstuff& Toronto, 3uly 27. -Manitoba wheat -No. 1 Northern, $1..42 to $1.42%; No. 2 Northern, $1.39% to $1.4(); No. 3 Northern, nominal, track, lake ports. Manitoba gate -No. 2 C.W., 66c; No. 3 C.W., nominal, track, lake ports. American corn -No. 2 yellow, 83%c, track, lake ports. Canadian corn -No, 2 yellow, nom - mid, track, Toronto. Ontario oats -No, 2 white, 60e; No. 3 white, 59c, according to freights outside. Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, per car let, $1.18 to $1.20, according to freightsts'de Peas -No, 2, per car lots, nominal, according to freights outside. Barley -Good malting barley, nom- inal; feed barley, 67 to 68e, according to freights outside. Buckwheat -Car lots, nominal, ac- cording to freights outside. Rye -No 2, nominal, according to freights outside. Manitoba flour -First patents,, in jute bags, $7; second patents, in lute bags, $6.50; strong bakers', in ute bags, $6.80, Toronto; in cotton bags, 10c more. Ontario flour -Winter, 90 per cent, patents, $4.76, seaboard, or Toronto freights in bags. Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mont- real freights -Bran, per ton, $27; shorts, $29; middlings, $30; good feed flour, per bag, $1.90. 843,000 Benedicts in Army. A despatch from London says: Speaking for the Government in the House of Lords, Lord Newton said that the number of married men at present in the British army was ape proximately 843,000. The aggregate cost of separation allowances paid to wives and children of these men has been £25,000,000. . . To Exchange Wounded. A despatch from Berlin says: The Overseas News Agency gave out the following: "Negotiations between Germany and Russia for the exchange of in- capacitated prisoners of war have finally been successful, after, many fruitless efforts." Germany Repressing Peace Propaganda:'' A despatch from Rome sayer -De- spatches from Switzerland state that, the German Socialists have initiated a propaganda in favor of peace. The propaganda is being mercilessly re - Pressed by the police, according to the despatches, and the Socialists are be - Country Produce. Butter -Choice dairy, 22 to 23e; in- ferior, 19 to 20e; creamery prints, 27 to 29c; do., solids, 26 to 28c. ITALIAN ARMIES Eggs -21 to 22c per dozen in case lots, and seleets, 23 to 24e. Poultry -Chickens, yearlings, dress- ed, 16 to 18c; Spring chickens, 24 to 25c; fowl, 14 to 15e. Cheese -16c for large, and 16%c for twins. Old cheese, 22 to 22%c. firm. fence against the sovereignty of any , by his own hand, adverts to the re - LAs against these severe statements ` about the mutual' interest of the two Toronto, Julyi"Stock.27.-Tie quotations there is a feature of the note which Governments in "the freedom of the were:. -Best heavy steers,.S8„25 to is expected to go far toward allaying" seas," and opens the way to Germany $8.75; butchersd'o,c,attgleo,odc,noig,3$57.74 the deep anti-American feeling that , to prove the sincerity of her state - to $8.35; $1.25: is likely to be aroused in Germany. merit that she really desires law to $7.50; do., medium, $6,75 to do., common, $5.25 to $0el butchers' The President's warning that the reign supreme during the war. hulls, choice, $6.75 to $7.50; don. good bulls, $6 to $9.50; do., rough bulls, $5.25 to $6.7e; butchers' cows, choice, $6.75 to $7.25; doe good, $6.50 to $6.75; do.,medium, $5,25 to $6.25; do., common$4.50 to $5; feed- ers, good, $6.50 to .$7.(30; stockers, 700 to 900 lbs., $6,2a to $7.25; can- ners and cutters, $4 to $5.25; milkers, choice, each, $65 to $90; do., common and medium, each, $35 to $50; spring- Majority of People Favor Interven. lion on Side of Allies, But King and Staff Obdurate. CRITICAL SITUATION FRENCH CONQUERED DEVELOPS IN GREECE MORE FECHT PEAKS ers, $50 to $95; light ewes, o $6.60; do., bucks, $3.60 to $4•50; yearling lambs, $6 to $7.50; spring lambs, cwt., $8 to $10.50; calves, $5 to $10.25; hogs, off ears, $9 to $9.15; do., fed and ‚watered, $8.75; do., f.o.b., $8,40. Montreal, July 27. -Good steers at $8.25 to $8.50, .60 to $8, medium at $6.75 to $7.25, and common at $6 to $6.50 per cwt. Choice butchers' cows and bulls sold at from $4,75 to $6.50 per cwt, An active trade was done in lambs at $8 to $9, and sheep at $4.75 to $5.50 per et . Calves, $3 to '45 each, as to size and quality. Hogs, $9.25 to $9.76 per cwt., weighed off cars. There were a lot of heavy bogs on the market, for which the demand was slow, and sales of such were made at $8 to $8.75 per cwt. tore has been sequestered by the, au- thorities and a number of the more prominent among the propagandists have been arrested and summarily convicted in military courts. The Swiss -Baden frontier has been closed again, the despatches say, with the object of preventing the escape of the frig closely watched. Pacifist Mere- Socialists. . • Asks for RePoris on U.S. National Defence A despatch from Washington says: -President Wilson has called for re- ports on the subject of national de- fence. These will be made to him personally by the' heads of the War Provisions. Bacon -Long clear, 14 to 14%c per lb. in case lots. Hams -Medium, 18 to 18%c; do., heavy, 14% to 15e; rolls, 15 to 16c; breakfast bacon, 20 to 23e; backs, plain, 22 to 23c; boneless backs, 24 to 25c. Lard -Tubs, 11% to 121/4c; do., pails, 12 to 12%c; compound, tubs, 10 to 10%c; do., pails, 10% to 101/sc. and Navy Departments. The fact that this action had been taken be- came known here to -night after the release for publication of the note 'to Germany relating to submarine war- • • Winnipeg Wheat. Winnipeg, July 27. -Cash quota- tions:--Wheat-No. 1 Northern, $1.34%; No. 2 Northern, $1.31%; No. 3 Northern, $1.26%. Oats -No. 2 C.W., 62c; No. 3 C.W., 59e. Barley favor of Gen. Cadorna's troops who _No. 3, 71%c; No. 4, 69%c; feed, face the heavy artillery fire of the 60c. Flax -No. 1 N.W.C., $1.50%; enemy, and continue to press forward, No. 2 C.W., $1.47%. wrenching the country from the en- - emy yard by yard. While Gorizia in Business in Montreal. the south is being hard pressed by the Montreal, July 27. -Corn, American Italians, Tolmino in the north, hard - No. 2 yellow, 86% c. Oats, Canadian ly less important from a stragetic Western, No. 3, 64%c; extra No. 1 point of view, is practically surround - feed, 64%c; No. 2 local white, 64c; ad. No. 3 local white, 63%c; No. 4 local . ' Gen. Cadorna, thanks to the su- perior organization and skill with white, 63c. Barley, Man. feed, 75c. Which he has manoeuvred his armies, Flour, Man. Spring wheat patents, firsts, $7 . 10 ; seconds, $6 . 60 ; strong has been able simultaneously to at - bakers' $6.40; Winter patents, tempt the reduction of Tolmino and choice, ' $6 .25; straight rollers, $5 . 60 Gorizia. The fight for Gorizia con - to $5.80; do., bags, $2.65 to $2.75. tinues with unabated vigor. The pro - Rolled oats, barrels, $6.25; do., bags, gress of the Italians is slow but sure. 90 lbs., $2.90 to $3. Bran, $26. Heavy Italian artillery is battering to eces Austrian defences. Throughout Shorts, $28. Middlings, $33 to $34. . Mouillie $35 to $40. Hay, No. 2 per p the struggle between the two armies ton, car' lets, $20 to $21.50. Cheese finest westerns, 13% to 14c; 'finest has been of a desperate and sangii- easterns, 12%c. Butter, choicest inary nature. Despite fierce Aus- creamery, 27% to 27%c. seconds, 26% triton attacks the Italians held their to 26%c. Eggs, selected, 26c; No. 1 ground, and advanced to the neigh - stock, 23c; No. 2 stock, 20%c. Pota- borhood of Playa, 'where they drove toes, per bag, car lots, 50c. Dressed the enemy back with heavy loss. So hogs, abattoir killed, $13.50 to $14. Pork, heavy Canada short mess, bbls., far all Austrian attempts to force the 35 to 45 pieces, $29; Canada short Italian enveloping line have failed cut back, bbls., 45 to 55 pieces, disastrously, the enemy being pursued $28.50. Lard, compoend, tierces, 375 in turn and driven from the trenches, lbs.; 10c; wood pails, 28 lbs. net, with the result that these • severe en - 10%c; pure, tierces, 375 lbs.,•12 to gagements have allowed Italians to 12%c; pure, wood pails, 20 lbs., net, secure a"firm footing -on the lower 13 to 131/2c. . left bank of the Isonzo. U. S. Markets. Si. Minneapolis, July 7. -Wheat --No. • 1 hard, $1.48; No. 1 Northern, Ovation for Botha in Capital Union. $1.37% to, $147%; No. 2 Northern, $1 , 34 to $1 . 44% ; July, $1 .34 A despatch from Cape Town says: % September, $1 . 04%. Corn -No. 3 -Premier Botha arrived, from the yellow, 77% to 78%c. Oats -No. 3 campaign which ended on July 9th white, 5e1/4 to 503/4c. Flour reduced; with the surrender of Gerrnan South - fancy patents $7; first clears, $5.60; west Africa. The Premier received second clears, Bran, $21.50. an ovation wherever he appeared. Duluth, July 27. -Linseed -Cash, Business was suspended. The city 81 . 71 ; July, $1. 70¼.; Septeniber, was decorated and the people throng - $1 . 73. Wheat -No.' 1 hard, $1 . 45; No. 1 Northeen $1.,A3 to $1.45: No. ed the streets. On the arrival of 2 Northern, $1'.38 1, to $1.41; July, Premier Botha at the Government $1.43; September, $1.07%. New York, July 27. -Flour barley DRIVING AHEAD Great Turning Movement Sweeping All Before It With Irresistible Dash. A despatch from Rome says: -The situation of Gorizia, practically en- veloped on all sides by Italians, is !lonely becoming more precarious. The great turning movement of our allies is simply sweeping al} before it with irresistible dash. The Italian troops so far have driven the enemy from their path wherever he has been en- countered. A fresh gain of ground recorded in Germans in the Vosges Gradually Be- ing Driven Back Towards Muen- ster and the Rhine Valley. A despatch from Milan says: -The A despatch from London sayer -The situation. in Greece is becoming more French forces have made further pro - critical daily. The great majority gress on the heights dominating the of the people favor intervention on valley of the Feche, in Alsace. The summit of Linge Peak, which lies near the northern branch of the river, and to the north of Muenster, was rtpliedfafthter an obstinate struggle. mit a foothold was the side of the Allies, but the King, Court and General Staff are more pro -German than ever. Their in- fluence has succeeded in getting the meeting of Parliament postponed un- til August 16th, the last delay allow- ed by the Constitution. The General Staff is also taking measures to sup- press any interventionist manifesta- tions which might influence Parlia- ment. Bit by bit large bodies of troops are being concentrated in and around At- hens. The struggle between Parlia- ment and the army may lead to grave incidents in Nationalist and Demo- cratic circles. Great anxiety pre- vails. The interventionists, includ- ing Venizelos, do not conceal their discouragement as the long delays and hesitation of the Gutter's Cabinet have greatly compromised chances of success if Greece intervenes in the war. At the same time, the delay in the meeting of Parliament is not al- together unfavorable to the Venizelos party, as it gives it time to agitate and reorganize its forces. Si - STEADY ADVANCE AT DARDANELLES House 10,000 school children sang the national anthem. British Section Consolidating and Extending Trenches Already Won. A despatch from London says: - "Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton reports that, in the northern section of operations a raiding party rushed a trench on the front of our line. All the enemy fled except one, who was killed. "An anti-aircraft gun was located and hit with the second round from one of our guns. The fifth round blew it into the air. "In the southern area the Turks made an attack on some newly cap- tured trenches in the French section, but were repulsed with ease. "In the British section there has been steady progress daily, consoli- dating and in some cases extending the trenches won. "A small redoubt was captured with insignificant loss, and a successful attack was made on part of a com- munication trench held by the enemy. A Turkish machine gun opposite our left was knocked out by the French artillery. "In both sections the enemy's ar- tillery has been active." ou o e sum secured in some quarters, which are named in the official report as Sch- ratzmannele, and in the wood of Bar- renkopf. Nine German counter-attacks were delivered in one day against the posi- tions seized by the French in the re- gion of the Little Reichackerkopf, but all failed, according to the Paris re- port, and the French troops were able slightly to extend the conquered ground. The Berlin version is to the effect that six French attacks were successfully repulsed by Bavarian troops. Aerial engagements, such as have characterized the operations on the western battle front daily, but appar- ently without important results for either side. INTRIGUE FOR PEACE DENIED BY CAILLAUX. A despatch from Paris says: Joseph Caillaux, former Premier, who has been the target of several attacks! since the beginning of the war, has made a statement in his own defence.! He declared untrue newspaper articles attributing to him the assertion that France should have made peace with Germany after the Battle of Charleroi. "I am as much of a patriot as any citizen of France," M. Caillaux de- clared, "and nothing could be more fantastic than the declaration printed as coming from me. I declare cate- gorically that every article represent- ing me in the role of negotiator of peace between Germany and France is groundless:" 4* - Semi -finished Steel. A. despatch. from Pittsburg, Pa., says: For the first time in two years manufacturers report a scarcity of semi -finished steel. Pittsburg pro- ducers of open-hearth steel billets and sheet bars have been out of the market, so far as new business is con- cerned, for some time,, but the pres- sure for delivery on orders booked has been so great that shipments are be- hind. Youngstown steel makers have advanced the price of sheet bars to $23.50, Pittsburg, the highest point in more than two years. A month ago sheet bars were available at $20.50. Pittsburg. ALLIES ARE FORCING THE DARDANELLES Turks Purposely Wasting Ammunition to End Resistance Which They Regard as Hopeless. A despatch from Rome says: -In- formation has been received from dip- lomatic sources that the Turks as well as the allied forces on the Galli- poli Peninsula expects that the Dar- danelles will be forced within a fort- night. • - • Because of this expectation, accord- ing to the information, the Turks are purposely wasting their ammunition in order to exhaust the supply rapidly, their object being to compel the Ger- mans to permit the discontinuance of a resistance which the Turks regard, as hopeless.