| 19 PACES The Daily tish Whig PAGES 1-8 YEAR 82 NO 179 KINGSTON ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY AUGUST 4, 1915 . LAST EDIT] ---- ON - Sean It'sLong,Long Way To Warsa Germans Say, It's THE SLAV LOSSES ~ === HAVE BEEN HEAVY Wirt | Valiantly Resisting the Enemy's. Attack---The ~ Germans Have Begun a New Drive at Petrograd-Warsaw Railway. The German Advance Has Been Brought to a Halt and if the Resistance Can Be Maintained the Main Russian Armies Will Have Reached New Positions. 1 i yResian to Take Places With Muni. tion Companies, Washington, Aug 4. Major Wjl- ford J. Hawkins, of the coast artil- lery, stationed at the Sandy Hook proving grounds, and Captain Wal. iter M. Wilhelm, also of the coast ar- tillery, and assigned to the arsenal | at Philadelphia have resigned from | the army to take places with muni- tions manufacturers. . | Secretary Garrison will accept | their resignation in agcordance with | his announcement of some time ago | that the country might eventually be benefitted by having its army officers | develop munitions plants. | So far ten of the best experts of { the ordnance department have retir- | ed from the service, i | t (Epecial to the Whig) mies will have reached new positions Petrograd, Aug. 4.--Uen. Von aggigned to them beyond the Vis-| Gallwitz's new drive southward to [ tula, | ward the Pefrograd-Warsaw railway "Although the enemy infantry has is being held up by the stubborn Rus- |erossed the Narew near Schka, sian resistance along the railway | prevented the artillery from cross. | leading through Vyskof. It is offi- | ing," continued the official state- | cldlly admitted that the Slav losses | ment, "In the meantime our own ar- | in the past forty-eight hours have |tillery annihjlated several units of been" very heavy, A brief official | the enemy who were without the sup- | bulletin issued to-day furnished only | port of their guns, meagre duformation regarding the | ."The Germans are now utilizing ! German assault from the north, but heavy reinforcements in endeavoring nevertheless it was considered very |to advance eastwardly behind ostro. | encouraging in military circles, lenkf." | Last. night's official communique | reported the Germans making pro- | Defeating The Germans, | gress; alahg the .Narew. river, .but|. , o...- Aug. 4.--A despatch to) only with enormous losses, To-.| 4 t day's bulletins said: "We are yal- | the Gefreva-Pribune from Innesbruck, | tantly resisting the enenly's att ok dealing with the fighting in Poland on the Narew lne, The Russfin says: "A large force of Germans) losses are very heavy." {from Komorova and Mazowieckle to! Military men here took this to |Brok, are making advance on the | mean that the Germdn advance has! Bug, which is twenty miles distant. ! beén brought to a halt, though with | The Germans already have lost 20,- heavy sacrifice of life, The belief | 000 men. The Cosssacks are mak- prevails here that if the Russian line | Ing brilliant charges. The Ger: on the Narew continues to hold for | mans, defeated at ©rz, are retreating, two more days the main Russian ar- | surrounded by Russians," I Claims Right Many Bodies Under Law | Brought Up ~~ to Stop Ships From Water | | (Special to the Whig.) Erie, Pa., Aug. 4.--As the debris of the greatest flood in this section of the south shore of Lake Erie was uncovered this mornings more bodies were brought to the surface. A cloud burst had inundated the land. While Coroner D. S. Hanley says he fears fifty or more have perished, only twenty-seven bodies have been brought to the surface. Of these, at eleven o'clock it was reported that seventeen have been identified. From forty to sixty are still believed to be missing. The property dam- age is five million dollars. Erie,®a city of 66,625 population is situated on the shores of Lake Erie and is the only city in Pennsyl- vania having lake frontage. It con- trols vast shipping interests, being an important link in extensive com- merce from the west, via the lakes The plant of the Erie Dispatch was flooded and all attempts to get out a morning editidn were abandoned. The Associated Press operator aban doned his wire when it became use- less and waded five blocks in water to his arm pits, where he sent out the first bulletin, No lights were available for corre- spondents and candles were used by both operators and newspaper men while a search was being made for carbide lamps and oil lanterns. i 366. Cases in a Week, Paris, Aug, 4.--In the week of July 12th to Jily 18th there were 866 cases of cholera and 178 deaths In Hungary, says a despatch from Geneva to the Havas News Agency. i. v------ Washington, Aug. 4.--Great Bri-| tain's reply to the latest American representations against interference with neutral commerce rejects entire- | ly the contention that the orders in council are illegal and justifies the | British course as being wholly with-! in international law. "Unsustainable either in point of law or upon principles of interna- tional equity," is the British answer to the American protest against the blockade of neutral ports, with an invitation to submit to an interna- tional arbitration any cases in which | the United States is dissatisfied with the action of British prize courts. The blockade is justified on the contention that thé universally re-! cognized fundamental principle of a blockade is that a belligerent is en- | titled to cut off "by effective means | the sea borne commerce of his en- emy." The note reiterates that Great Bri- tain will gontinue to apply the orders complained of, although not without every effort to avoid embarrassment to neutrals, and observes that the American statistics show that any loss in trde with Germany and Aus- tria has been more than overbalanced by the increase of other international activities due to the war, Died At Age of 99, Cobourg, Aug. 4.---Mrs. Daniel Al- len, the oldest resident abiababiy of the United Counties of Northumber- land and Durham, has passed away at Orono, at the age of ninety.nine years. One man was 5 we | .{mas Johnston, Minister of . i ALBERT E. SUDDARD The voung marred man who stands accused of murder, A Big Steal Of $1,000,000 For Party (Special to the Whig.) Winnipeg, August 4 -- Architect J. Gi. Russell made a report to-day to Hon. Tho- Public Works, after investi- gating for sume weeks the caissons and other portions of the Parliament Buildings, as constructed by: Thomas Kelly. Russell finds that the caissons are worth only $220,000 and that Kelly has been paid a million dollars more than the value of work done, ------------ SEEKING $50,000,000, Protestant Churches Would Raise Big Endowment Fund, Chicago, g. 4. -Fitty million dollars for. worn-out pastors and their widows and orphans is the ob. Ject of a campaign of the Protestant churches of America, announced on the return here of Dr J. B. Hinge- ley, secretary of the board of confer ence claimants of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Rev.. John T. Brabuer Smith, editor of the Vet. eran Preacher, from the church pen. sion conference at San Fran sco, "The Protestant churches are Seeking $50,000,000, but they need $67,000,000 for a retiring competen- ¢y for the retired preachers and an adequate support for the widows and dependent orphans," said Mr, Smith, Very Sudden Death. Brockville Aug. 4.--Mrs. J. Rainor died suddenly on vening at her home Perth R. Joseph 'Mondey oad. De- after a visit to Montreal, whither she had been to see her husband ere he left for England to join a British regiment for active service. Upon returning to her home she asked for FIERCE STORM 'The Crops Have Suffered Very Severely. THE CORN 1S RUINED AIN CAME DOWN WITH GREAT VIOLENCE. THE R ee omen Have Been Working On the Harvest Fields--=Vessels Had Quite a Lively Time On the Water --The Electric Light Plant Had Hard Work Maintaining Service. Kingston experienced" one of the worst rain and wind storms of the season on Tuesday afternoon - and evening, whey the ¢rops were dam- aged: and vessels sailing in and out of the harbor were tied up. Rain fell in torrents from late in the af ternoon until early Wednesday morning, when it quieted a bit. Citi- zens who happened 10 be wcaught coming from business were soaked to the skin. Umbrellas were of lit- tle or no use. Farmers from all parts of the. dis- min mm Ww | trict, who happened to be in the city | jon Wednesday morning. report that | { they will be at great financial loss | due to the crops being beaten down. | The corn erop was most affected, and | wil] likely be a partial loss in some | distriets, } It is only due to the faithful work | of many of the women and children | on the farms that the grain crop was | | not more damaged ., On account of | the scarcity of men to do the work | of harvesting, the women ve got- | ten out and worked in the fields. In| many places the grain had been left | in the fields to dry out. At Cata- | ragui and Washburn the farmers re- | port: their cori crops to be badly | | beaten down, { | _ On account of the gale blowing on | | the lake captains tied their boats | { up until the wind eased. - { The city light: plant had consider- {able trouble keeping up its wires. | | There was trouble at the corner of | King and Clarence streets. #al { Up near Victoria Park there was {80 much water on the roads that it | {Would have been an easy matter to | | float a punt in the puddles. i { en | | FEES EFFI ER PIII IRF SES | le | + | oo | (#_ Toronto advices say it is fear- #/ |% ed the crops all along the lake # {% shore counties of Ontario: are # | utterly ruined by the storm. + * ® DAMAGED BY STORM. FINE LITTLE HEROINE IN MURDER CASE Pleaded For Chance to Go For Assistance. LED POLICE TO, ROOM WHERE WOMAN WAS FOUND IN DYING CONDITION. Police Constable Thomas Mullinger Showed Nerve When He Enteved Darketied Roome+I¢ Was a Ghast- ly Sight Which Met His View In the Home. 3 'Mother, let me get out of the win. dow and get some person to come and help," nihil, Thesé were the words of Mary Avada Perry, the thirteen-year-old girl, who proved herself to be a he- roine, early on Saturday morning, when & man smashed. open a door and entered the little home of Mrs, Nancy Job, on Wellington street, and who was the victim of one of the most brutal murders ever commit- ted in eastern Ontario. To the average reader, the story of the part this brave little girl played in the sad tragedy may not appear to amount to very much, but to the writer, to whom the story was told, shortly after. the murder was committed ,it means much, For a little girl tp climb out of a window about one o'clock in the morning to give an alarm for a terrible affair such as this, called for some nerve, and the child--for she is merely a child--showed plenty of it. True, she was somewhat frightened, but she was not really afraid. She had the nerve of a strong man, and is to be commended for her conduct. Two or three times she asked her mother to be allowed to give an alarm. And it was the little girl's that brought the medical student and Police Constable Thomas Mullinger to the home where there was such great need of help. 3 And a little ehild shall lead them. Truly, this was the case in this 3 affair, for it was the little girl whe led t talwart 'e and ihe ceased had barely entered her home sure | could; the police constable, . with {his prisoner, stood by. Then foot- steps were heard, Constable Mar- shall Armstrong, summoned by man on the street, appeared. He took in the situation at a glance, and rushed off for a doctor and an am. bulance. 'The doctor came, also the ambulance, but as the doctor reached the door the poor woman lying on the bed was beyond all human aid. She had been called by 'death. The body was then placed in the ambu- lance and taken to the parlors of an undertaker; the prisoner was escort- ed to the police station. And all this transpired-im the small hours of the morning, while the citizens of Kingstomr were sound asleep in their beds, and it was not until morning that the awful news became generally known. A Whig reporter was given the impresion on Tuesday afternoon that the public think the late home of Mra. Nancy Job has not been proper- ly searched to ascertain the weapon with which the deed was committed The story pertaining to the bed slat, supposed to have been used, is more imaginary than real. No slat could have produced the straight cut on the woman's body, as was revealed to the eyes of a reporter at an early hour on Saturday morning. The wounds in the face and neck also showed that a knife or some other instrument was used. Portions of flesh were found on Saturday after- noon by the police, who borrowed Some paper from Mrs, Perry, living next door, to wrap them u~ »nd take away for evidence. g On Tuesday afternoon Mrs, Q. Suddard and Mrs. Smith, a friend of hers, called upon Mrs, Perry to gather some definite information other than the stories afloat, . tween one and all it was thought a careful and very close examination of the 'premises should be . carried out, They were convinced that the instrument might possibly be found with which thé deed was so grue. somely done, Mra. Perry told the reporter on Tuesday that James Seullion and family lived upstairs, and that the night the murder was carried out they, with a couple of soldiers and a few others were sitting in the door- way. Later in the evening the sol- diers went away with Mr. Scullion, and brought him home at a later T0 CARRY THE WAR T0 BITTER END -- This is Determination of the Empire as De- clared at Many Meetings Held For Intercession Britian Has Made Serious Errors in the Past She Profit by Them and See That They Are Not Repeated---The Resolution Everywhere Theugh Wil 8 | future. | (Special to the Whig.) London, Aug. 4.-- Humility and | recognition of her Weaknesses re- { Placed the blind 'confidence and | cocksureness of a year ago when | Great Britain to-day, in thousands | | of patriotic meetings through out the | Empire, observed the first anniver- | sary of the declaration of war with Germany. The Empire, without reservation, re-affirmed its determination to car- ry the war to the bitter end. | Throughout to-day's meetings ran | the feeling that Britian has made | serious errors in the past, but with {its bull-dog determination it will | profit. by these mistakes and see to [it that they are not repeated in the | | | f | | The London newspapers sounded | | this key note to-day in their anni- {versary comments. With practical | unanimity they frankly discussed the Empire's grave danger and de- clared that only a supreme, united | sacrificial effort could save the Em- | pire from disaster. But the tone of | their editorials on the whole was. | strongly hopeful of the future. | A "universal anniversary = pro- Reid tn Solent: Abscraite, Cosine in , Aus , New Zealand, India, Ireland, Scot- land--wherever subjects of Great meeting in tain the following re- solution was presented for adoption: "That on the anniversary of the de- claration of a righteous war this| meeting of citigens records its in-| flexible' determination to continue to] a victorious end the struggle in| maintenance of those ideals of liber-| Rritain were assembled. At each |nigh Mowe ty and justice which are the com- Hop and sacred cause of the Al- es." Londou's part in the universal ex- ercises brought thousands of people to the vicinity of St. Paul's cathedral this afternoon to watch King George, Premier Asquith and other national. leaders enter to inangurate the sec- ond year of the war by invoking Di- vine aid. The 'whole tone of the service at St. Paul's was one of solemn conse- cration of the individual and nation to the serious work of the coming year, War Tidings The Danish Government's $12.- 000,000 5 per cent. national loan, which has just been closed, has proved a failure, only half of it be- ing subscribed by the public. In case Bulgaria wishes to attack Serbia, Greece would prove that the Greco-Serblan treaty is not a vain' word and would consider it an obli- gation of honor to aid Serbia ime we ealthy residents of War- w Jf. sa® left the intevior 'and anany 3 those whiv have sent their families out during the past fort- t. Heavy reinforcements of the Allied troops have arrived in Serbia, and are expected to make fresh advances on Austrian and Turkish territory from there. A mew order-in-council prohibits the export of coal to any poiat out- side of the Gritish Empire. SS. Alexandria - | is Breaking Up at Scarboro (Special to the Whig.) Toronto, Aug. 4. -- The 'stpamer Alexandria, of the Canada Steamship Lines, is breaking to pieces on Scar- boro Bluffs, where she went ashore yesterday afternoon. The crew was rescued by means of fi tain William Bloomfield was the last to leave the ship, being brought ashore at two o'clock this morning, Capt.' Bloomfield is a Kingstonfad, He was formerly in command of the 88. Caspian and 8S. Hamilton. George Boyd, chief engineer, and W. Kennedy, assistant engineer, . were also Kingstonians. ie PITH OF NEWS, Despatches Fron Near and Distant Places. The Exhibition grounds at Toron- to will be used next winter by troops. It is understood that Sir Robert Borden, tlie Premier, will remain sev- eral weeks in England. bout Erie, Pa., twenty-five were i of damage done Al killed and millions cloudburst fe lines. Cap- |da Church, 8 p MENARD--In COMEAU St 3 RYAN---iIn Footballers To Make Munitions, London, Aug. 4.--The Scottish Football Council has decided to aban don all international and cup ties, but will allow clubs to arrange matches between themselves. «Pro- fessional players shall receive only one pound per week, and are to be engaged during the week on muni- tions work. DAILY MEMORANDUM, Cheese Board, 1.30 pm, Thursda Vaudeville, Grand, 2.30 ana 7.50. Lake Ontario Park, vaudeville, 8.18 y. Excursion to Picton' 8.30 am, Thurss » ¥. War Intercessory, Sydenham Stréet Hee top of page 3, Fight hand corner, tor probabilities. : Lawn Social at J. A. Wilmot's, Front Road, Thursday, August bth. BORN. Kingston, on August 4th, 1915, 40 Mr. and Mrs 151 Montreal street, a daughter. LSON--On Wednesday, A st 4th, 1916, to Mr. and Mrs. Neil Polson, « 160 Stuart street, a daughter. MA ED --MYBRS--in Kingston. hapel, on Sipesdal August 4 915, $.3 iy of Kingston. ! Kingston, 4915, at Va Trick nfant yers Comeau, both August 4th, atreet, Kath- of Mr, and Funeral ree), Faday "morning,