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A> ** \ ,V. * \ * %v r -•- • . . . mmmmm ':'̂ >*TJ: *&*&&&£!&$• lU~ V ĵlis McHEXKY PLAttTPEALER, McHEBTBY, ILÎ SWARM OF BEES ' BREAKS UP SCHOOt; ^W-v^v UNDER GEN. 8AKHAROFF ARE WITHIN 40 MILE8 OP ri"Mê maimts are Mli >•<!$ JHtorov Taken After Pierce Fighting-- */ Austrians Retire to Fortified Po- u ..j- ' 'ftftfon--General Letehitsk)|lJ|,5j 'gr , .. Closing in on Hailcz. London, Aug. 16.--Capturing the of Zborov, on the Strypa, General .Sakharoff, commanding the right wing of the Rnssian armies in Gaiicia, pushed his lines within 49 miles of Lemberg, the /Austrian crownlaud's capita). At the same time the Russian left ;«rfng, commanded by General Letchit- Bky. closing in on the fortified railway city of Hailcz, took Tustobahy, less than 13 miles northeast of its objec­ tive. Tustobaby, which lies on the west bank of the Zlota Llpa, was stub­ bornly defended to the last by the Austro-Genuan forces who are try­ ing with might and main to retard the Russian advance in order to save the bulk of the Austrian throne heir's army from envelopment. The town was taken "in spite of terrific machine gun fire," tire official Petrograd statement says. The capture of Zborov was preceded a counter-attack by the force* un- • tiw General Boehm-Ermolll, which are defending the Teuton Sereth-Strypa front. The official Austrian statement aays the Russians were repulsed at Zborov (Iberov) and 300 prisoners were made. This statement was is­ sued, however, prior to Petrograd's an­ nouncement of the town's capture. On the upper Sereth, according to of­ ficial Russian admission In the after­ noon's report from Petrograd, the Aus- tro-German forces "retired to a forti­ fied position behind which at some points they are checking our advance, by fierce artillery fire." Berlin report­ ed officially the repulse, "in violent fighting," of two Russian divisions west of Stanislau. Meanwhile there has been a new flareup of fighting in Volhynia, where Indications accumulate pointing to a contemplated general counter-offensive by Von Linsingen's army t6 offset the Russian successes in Gal Ida. 1 The Russian war office admits that a Teuton attack near Stobychwa, 24 Miles to the northeast of Hovel, netted the attackers some gain In territory, but adds , that a counter-attack drove them back to their original positions. The German official report says the en- • gagements In Volhynia have "ended temporarily" and adds that during the , last fruitless Russian attacks all parts of the Russian guard were used and that "the guard suffered heavier loss than any other formation* GIRL'S ASSAILANT IS TAKEN $ity O'Brien in Jail at Yorkvllle, III., After Threats of Lyrtohing by Crowds. Morris, 111., Aug. 16.--Guy O'Brien, who shot and wounded Miss Ida Tor- kelson of Morris, III., has been cap­ tured and is at present in the county Jail at Yorkvllle, III. He was taken at midnight Sunday as he was trudging through sand und mud of a country road two miles west of Lee, III. O'Brien was taken frqm Lee to the Kendall county Jail because the au­ thorities feared the farmers around Lee might lynch him. They were much wrought ,up over the shooting, it was said, and had made threats. BRITISH DESTROYER IS SUNK German Submarine Is Fired Upon for Entering Forbidden Waters, Re­ port Says. i . London, Aug. ltL--The admiralty on Monday issued Hie following state­ ment: "The British torpedo-boat destroyer Lassoo sank Sunday off the Dutch coast. The Lassoo either was torpe­ doed or mined. Six men are missing and two were wounded," The sinking of a German subma­ rine by a Swedish cruiser between Stockholm and Skargarrd Is rumored In Copenhag<<U. The Swedish war­ ship's reported action was taken in accordance with the Swedish govern­ ment's decision calling upon Swedish warships to fire jupon foreign fighting vessels entering Swedish waters. Fewer Cases of Plague. New York, Aug. 15.--Health depart­ ment officials are grgatly encouraged b| the latest figures on the infuntile !>aru lysis epidemic. During the past 24 hours there were 31 deaths, but ionly 8$ pew cases were reported. Anoftier Blacklist London, Aug. 16.--Lord Robert Cecil <of the foreign office announced in com­ mons that the department of foreign trade has issued another blacklist con- .taiuiiig the names of 443 South Amerl- <caa firms having German connections. t •-- .-- • American War Flyer Killed. Paris, Aug. 16.--Dennis Dowd, an American aviator with the French array, was killed at the Buc aerodrome by falling with his machine. The «ause of the accident is unknown. Dcwd was considered an expert flyer. German Navy Active. Bergen, Norway, Aug. 16.--Steamers arriving here report much, activity in the North. German warships singly and in squadrons are patrolling near the Norwegian coast, while submarines and Zeppelins were also observed.' Order Hits Correspondent BO Paso, Tex., Aug. 16.--General of­ ficers of National Guard contingent* received orders to take stringent steps to prevent soldiers and newspaper cor­ respondents writing false stories con­ cerning the troops for ptibUcatioiV Dixon.--Falling under the machin­ ery of a three-ton hay baler when his team ran away, Landis T. Schupp of Polo had his life crushed out Instantly. Paris.--Mark Boatman, seventy-one, during a violent Jbughlng spell, coughed up a huckshqP^hkii lodged in his neck at the second battle of Corinth, 54 years ago. Byron.--The largest pearl - taken from a Rock river clam In ten years was found by Edward McHugilt. It weighed 21 grains and Is valued at $500. . Bloomlngton.--The body of John Kits, for 40 years a well-known mer­ chant of this city, was found head first in a barrel or water at his place of business. Springfield.--/The revised list of withdrawals from the September pri­ mary, Issued by Secretary of State Lewis G. Stevenson, shows that 76 pe­ titions were withdrawn In the five days allowed for that purpose. Pontlac.--The drought of 50 days in this county and vicinity was broken when 2.6 inches of rain fell. The rain came too late to save the corn crop and farmers declare they will have only ono-]jialf the normal yield. Beardstown.--William A. Wells, a farmer residing In Sangamdn valley, was attacked by a swarm of bees, which stung him Into unconsciousness. Wells had attempted t(t take a bucket­ ful of honey from the hive. Hinckley.--A Porto Rlcan copper­ head snake two feet In length fell out of a bunch of bananas in'the Clark grocery store. The reptile, the bite of which is deadly, was killed by two of the clerks. 1 Danville.--When surgeons operating upon Mrs." J. Pearson of Gessle, Ind., at a local hospital, removed her ap­ pendix, they found a toothpick. Mrs. Pearson was taken violently ill sud' denly, failed to Improve and was bp* era ted on as a last resort. Chatham.--Thousands of persons at­ tended the forty-eighth reunion and picnic of the Sangamon County Old Settlers' society. Speakers reviewed the early history of the county and older settlers related their experience In the early days. Pekin.--Mr. and Mrs. George SSoter have been notified of the death of their son, L. J. Sloter, twenty-one years old, in Tientsin, China. The young man was a member of Company A, Thirteenth Infantry U. S. A. The body will be sent to Pekin. Dixon.--The 500 workmen em­ ployed on the building, and tunnel and sewer contracts, went on a strike. The strike Is the outgrowth of a demand made by the laborers employed on the big tunnel contract of F. M. Allen & Co. of Peoria for an increase to 37V4 cents an hour. They have been receiv­ ing 30 cents. Joliet.--More than 1,200 schoolchil­ dren, ranging In age from four to four­ teen years, armed with fly swatters, banners, and more than 300,000 dead files, paraded Joliet's business district in the climax of a campaign to rid Jo­ liet of flies. Under the direction of health authorities the children car­ ried banners telling of the danger of flies. " & - Springfield.--Assurance has been given by Governor Dunne, according to Capt. Benjamin C. AUln of Company B, Illinois Engineer corps, that the company soon will be enlisted In the National Guard. The engineers hope to have a nucleus around which to build a regiment. CoL Henry A. Allen, a consulting engineer and a former na­ val officer and Annapolis graduate, probably will command the new reg­ iment. Springfield.--With receipt of orders from central division headquarters of the United States army at Chicago for the shipment of 33 men with their equipment from Camp Dunne to the Mexican border, it was announced that the mobilization camp here would close within a few days. When the Fifth and Sixth regiments, L N. G., now In summer training camp, depart for their homes it is probable the camp, which has been established here since the call for troops for the Mexi­ can border, wilt be without a soldier. Evanston.--A woman motorist who became confused, ran down and fatally Injured a bicyclist, and then reversed and ran over him again was formally charged with assault with a deadly weapon. She Is Mrs. Louise B. Fargo of 5430 Lakewood avenue. The victim was Frank McNerny of 1102 Church street. He was taken to the Evanston hospital, where he died. Mr. Fargo and a daughter were li^ the car at the time of the accident. Mrs. Fargo was held in bonds of $3,000 and her trial set for August 22 before Justice Boyer in Evuuston. McNerny was passing into Ridge avenue from Emerson ave­ nue when struck. His bicycle was de­ molished, and he was thrown to the street. Both McNerny's legs were broken, and It Is believed he Incurred a fractured skull and Internal Injuries. Peoria.--Stone and brick work In Feorla county's new jail has been com­ pleted and the structure wlll.be ready for occupancy some time In October. The jail Is four stories In height and cost $100,000. Springfield.--Efforts by the Illinois centennial commission to obtain the plot of ground south of the state cap- Itol building on which to erect the Illi­ nois centennial building have resulted In a bitter fight with owners of the ground. After flat refusals to sell, At­ torney General Lucey, representing the state, has Instituted condemnation proceedings. | „ Aurora.--The thirty-first Burlington picnic, big yearly event for farmers and stamping ground for politicians, will be held August 81. State Repre­ sentative Harold C. Kessinger and Charles L. Abbott of Elgin will speuk. Danville.--"Shep,** an aged collie dog which wa$ to have been slain be­ cause his usefulness was ended, will live In comfort the rest of his days. He saved the two sons of his mas­ ter, Henry Miller, from death by an angry bull. Jake, twenty-three, and Valentine, fifteen, both were new death as a result of the tossing, gor- lny frywnpiling |yr tlM >nlm<V GERMAN MINE-LAYING SUBMARINE CAPTURED mm This German submarine, the U. C. 5, constructed as a mine-layer, and capable of carrying 12 mines, was cap­ tured by the British and is now on exhibition in England. At the left Ui a close view of one of the mines found on the vessel. INSPECTING U. S. CAM)PS SHOWER BATH BE LUXE IN MEXICO Dr. Richard P. Strong of Harvard university, specialist on sanitation and tropical diseases, photographed on the sands near the American base camp at Colonia Dublan. Doctor Strong is looking over the sanitary conditions there and at other camps of the American troops In Mexico. When the great typhus plague swept Serbia last year It was Doctor Strong wlur was chosen to head the expedition sent out by the Red Cross and the Rockefeller foundation to stamp oat the disease in that stricken country. To him is due the credit of having wiped .out the plague. Shower baths are few and far between In dry, dusty Mexico, but our boys with Pershing's force In that country are not to be stumped by the absence of running water. At this camp they have-constructed a bathhouse of tree limbs covered with leaves and herbage; a pipe was sunk Into the ground and a pump fitted on top. One soldier pumps water up into the barrel while his tent mate stands under the improvised shower and enjoys the "Niagara.*' ARRESTED IN~ FRISCO BOMB CASE VINCENT AST0R AN ENSIGN Ensign Vincent Astor. First Aero squadron. New York Naval Militia, watching the making of a movie at Bayshore, L. L, where the First Aero squadron Is in. training. Ensign Astor has become a proficient flyer since he purchased his .hydro-aeroplane about a year ago. . \ Absurd. "I thought for a moment that^you were going to stop after running down that old apple woman," said the first speed fiend. "The idea!" exclaimed the man at the steering wheel, laughing heartily. "You talk as if I were a novice in haadUpg a car." The Happy Family. ,, Wifey--Mrs. Biggs has invited me to her sl nice, !on^ visit. Hubby--When do you expect to c^ll Thomas J. Mooney, labor agitator, and Mrs. Mootiey, who have been arrested In San Francisco In connection with the preparedness parade bomb outrage. They are said to have entertained the chief suspect. SHOVEL AND PICK. Because of the heavy snowfall last winter, forest rangers found it necesxary this spring to remove two feet of snow from the Beuver Creek nursery In Utah, so that the young trees might be uncovered by the time they were needed for spring planting on the national forests of that region. Part of the snow was taken off by use of shovel and pick. By spreading a thin layer of fine soli over another part, the natural melting of the snow was hastened sufficiently to make shoveling unnecessary. LOVE IS TOO STRONG - ' _______________ Trial Separation of Artistic Lot Angeles Couple Proves to a Be a Fizzle. PRETTY WIFE UNHAPPY a Finds Protection of Matron's Name of Little Value--Men Friends Are Unreliable and Hubby a Looks Good. Los Angeles, Cal.--The "trial separa­ tion" ot two members of the Los An­ geles' artist colony, pretty little Llylla Lama, the "Aeladne" In Clawson's painting of that name, and the "Idyll" In many other paintings which San Francisco and Los Angeles painters have produced, and her husband, B. W. Wldner, an artist, has fizzled out. The attractive Mrs. Wldner is tired of it. The couple agreed to separate for a period of from three to six months, due, It Is said, to the husband's jea­ lousy of attention fromhls. wife's danc­ ing master, and her suspicion of a woman who called up her husband fre­ quently on the telephone. He was to go to Chicago and stay there unless she sent for him. This, says Mrs. Wld­ ner, Is the way It worked out. "He wanted to come back at the end of two weeks, and by that time I'd made up my mind that there wasn't going to be any permanent separation In the Wldner family, but I was deter­ mined to stick out the three months, at leaiSt. They are now up. "Things might have been different if they had turned out the way you read about them. The divorcee, for instance, Is always supposed to revel in 'free­ dom.' Matron's Name Didnt Help. "Her matron's name is supposed to save her from the annoyances that be­ set the unmarried girl, but she Is sup­ posed to have all the privileges of the latter. "It certainly wasn't that way with me. I never was so tied down in my life, even before It leaked out that our separation was premeditated. "Lots of places I wanted to go I couldn't, because I didn't have anybody to take me. You can't always get even your most agreeable men friends, you know, every time you happen to wont them. "I thought this part of it would be different after the first couple of weeks, but It got worse Instead of bet­ ter. Didn't Like Being Qrass Widow. "Then there are lots of other little things that are hard H:o explain. I didn't realize that It would be so, of course. "Lots of Places I Wanted to Go I Couldn't." but when it was supposed that my. hus­ band and I had Just simply separated 1 found that 1 didn't like the way people treated a 'grass widow.' "Then when the 'trial separation' be­ came known I was in such an inde­ terminate status -.that it Was worse than ever." EVEN SO. A Spanish prince has arrived in New York with 40 trunks and a Ma- layaslan prince with 17 wives. Another illustration of how badly the world is divided.-r-Plttsburgh Dispatch. , Rodney, a faithful army horse with a record of J20 years' service, which began at Ft. Riley, has been formally retired and pensioned for life at Ft. Myer. Through long service he gained a reputation for intelligence, willingness, strength and all-t oy.nil aUiytjf.J&e wus ng>;$r sick and never known ty on a Job. - ' • • . • '>V **v." , IMA-*'?'! Berlin and ctfef f&rnian cities are noted for the enthusiasm wtth ifc^iich the women engage in the cultivntion of turners and In this cultivation window boxes are made to play an iiupormnppiirt. It is now proposed that taese window boxes be given over ta the potatoes./ "; ~ * •' A '• '* ;' Y,Y^:r-r LAD IS TEASED, USES GUN Boy, Who Was Mountaineer, Made Jibing Onion Weeders in Ohio Scatter. Kenton, O.---A real Kentucky moun­ taineer of fiction type--6 feet 1V4 inches tall and weighing 100 pounds, although only fourteen years old--> awoke the quiet settlement Of Alger on the Scioto marsh, the center of the greatest onion raising district in Ohio, when he started a cannonade that sent the natives to the trenches. He was Charles S. Hale, who halls from (Jreensburg, Ky., and who came Hardin county to weed onions. The youth bought a gun and threat­ ened to shoot the hats off any one who opened their heads to him. He says the other weeders were teasing him. The trouble came when offieehj tried to arrest him. The bullet hit Harvey Porter. Spectators scattered. The lad was sent to the Lancaster industrial school. Teacher b Stung, and Parents Rescue the Children With Sulphur. ' _____ '! Oakdale, Cal.--Forty school chlldredi ^ were held prisoners for half a day at /Hi Langworth school recently by a btOft* King swarm of bees, which finalljr '• broke up the school for the day. ^ The bees had hived. In one com** of the roof for weeks, and had be«Nf undisturbed until some of the young­ sters threw clods and dislodged the hive. The bees attacked their togw ^nentors, who took refuge in thie> - school house. Miss Ida Warford, the teacher, pot her head out of. the door to see the r4 •-1 11 -f> j II -r- •ISs \ r Did Battle With Whatever They Had Handy. cause of the commotion and stung on the nose. . % Hundreds of bees swarmed into tha | half-opened door, and the children v ,v! sought refuge in the next room, while the teacher and the oider boys did battle with the bees with wef clothes and whatever weapons tbtr ^ Y had handy. -t. ^ • They too were finally forced into 1 the other room, and the entire school ^ was made prisoner, until some of the ' vl parents, alarmed at the absence fit , their children, came to the rescue. . ' >;- Tuey, were forced to flee, too, but ' ^ finally came back armed with sui» i phur, with which they routed tha. bees. A number of the children and the , ;v. • animals In nearby fields were severely "I stung. • • *V- v , DIES AS ' fiERY" SACRIFICE ̂ Fanatical Ranchman Offered Hiop|tjf < Up on Self-Built Funeral ; Pyre. "V'S"- Castle Rock, Colo.--Opening tha family Bible that lay beside her hna» band's charred body when it was dis­ covered on a ranch near here some J1| days ago, after a search that had iast- i? ed for several weeks, Mrs. Thomas Sawyer solved the mystery of her hus~ \ | band's strange death. Verses from tha i . | twenty-second chapter of Genesis were ^ interlined with pencil. They were dflh- ,j ^ scrlptlve of Abraham's attempted sao ? f-1 rifice of his son Isaac, the marked I, > 1 verses disclosing to Mrs. Sawyer manner of her husband's death. Sawyer had built a pyre of wood :-"f | and stones and then offered himself aa ^ a .sacrifice to the Lord. The body wa* , ,,'j resting upon a pile of stones and ;• charred wood, all of which was sur­ rounded by the ashes of burned tree limbs. The body was so badly burned that It was not recognisable, the fam­ ily Bible furnishing the only clew. Big Snake Tickled Him. .fiolumbus. Ind.--Charles Snyder went fishing near here. He was sitting on the river bank watching his line, when he felt something tickling his legs. He paid no attention to It for a little while and then ^remarked about the tickling sensation to his wife, who Was near. Finally he decided to move and when , he did so he saw a snake about five feet long that had crawled under his legs and had colled up there evidently preparatory m> takiug u usp. ALAS, HIS RIPE IS GONE! Horace Emmons Failed to Find It Where He Hid It Fifty ^ . „ Years Ago. WTmsted, Conn.--Half a century ago, when sixty-five-year-old Horace Erne mons of Northvllle, a village in this county, attended the little schoolhousa in Winchester, the scene this week of a reunion of teachers and pupils of other days, he, then a boy of fifteen* concealed a pipe in a cavity formetl by two stones near a stone wall, close ta the schooihouse. He hid it so that his teacher, Mrs. Nellie Miller, would not find It on his person. Last Thursday Mr. KmnumS visited the school for the first time in M years, and, after climbing over tha stone wall, got down on his hands and knees and fell beneath the two stones. Old classmates asked Mr. Em­ mons what he was doing. "Looking for my first pipe, which I hid here from the teacher," he replied. He didn't find it SOUND ASLEEP ABOVE FIRE Thrfe Children Are Found With Their Mattresses All Abl«*e Ip ' iadlana Town. if • Evansvffie, Ind.*--The ftlS?* dren of Mr. and Mrs. George Johnsoi| of this city, aged six, seven and uin<v were told to go to bed by themselves^ as their parents were going to attend a moving picture show. The chil­ dren became frightened as they start* ed to bed, and Buster, the eldest, de* elded to look beneath the bed for bur* glare. He lighted several matches^ and after making certain that no in«^ traders were present, the three hoitPedr Into bed. Half an hour later a neighbor no­ ticed smoke pouring from the bed- room window, and when own burst I Into the room the children were found Spund sl»*ep with the mattresses of ^ tfte bed aurv. Mssc s^*wt