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paws COLLAPSE OF GREAT SPAN OF h, «ra**M£Nr ww nwjas s•.<••.•# « ^ SAND ITS CAPTURED BUILDINGS IN CHIHUAHUA CITY, BUT „,t ... . .v f®*** ' ARE ROUTKD. & * / : ' , K> HEAD CfF CHICAGO INSTITUTION FEARED RUN---WAS RE- FUSED LOAN. ENGLISH TROOPS ADVANCE RLY TWO MILES ON THE SOMME. v^; * DEPOSITORS NO? WORRIED WOUNDED TREVtNO THREE TOWNS ARE CAPTURED Commander Shot in the Arm During Battle With Outlaws--Many Prison ers Captured and Some Are Put to Death--Aided by Resjdents. Wife Declares Person® Who Had $600,- 000 in Bank Will Be Paid-? Shot Self While on Pier In Lake. Courcelette, Fieri and Martlnpulch Taken - -New Armored Motorj^r Ad Varices ^With Infantry Over the Trenches and Shell Craters. lifadco<9t?, Sept. 19.--General Ob- regon, minister of war, announced on Sunday that a thousand followers of Francisco Villa, who attacked the town of Chihuahua, were routed with a loss of 600 men killed and many cap­ tured. After the battle General Trevino's : troops were able to take part in the regular Independence day parade. During the fighting General Trevino was slightly wounded in the shoulder. Aided by some of the townspeople, the Villa forces attacked at eleven : o'clock at night and took the peniten­ tiary and the municipal and federal 'palaces. General Tfrevi.no gatheerd bis troops, placed his artillery, recaptured the public buildings and completely de­ feated the attackers in the early morn ing fight. The captured men will be tried by court-martial. General Obregon has sent a message of congratulation to General Trevlno. *4 .. , , , MIL ALLEGED BLACKMAILERS k . " • - ?- i Wi' iM'; ^ y.* s ? ; ; • ,5" ' •" H ./*. - ^ r • , ..,. K; r p ' • " v*^, «? > .#/ .. *«>v- • 4 - 7 7 f ̂ f.-.t .V " , - ' / . S i • * 'I ** r.p% y - iff© Man and Women Arrested by U. 8. Agents--Thousands of Dollars Col­ lected From Wealthy Persons. Chicago, Sept. 19.--'The five men and three women arrested on Saturday by government officials and city detec­ tives in a raid on the Tyson apart­ ments, East Forty-third street and Grand boulevard, as members of a band that has mulcted wealthy men and women out of $250,000 or more, are to be tried in Philadelphia. The bonds of the eight were fixed but they are still held in the county jail in default of bail. Those held are: * Henry Russell, Edward , Donahue, alias "Doc Donahue," Helen Evers, said to be the wife of George Irwin, alleged director of the group; Mrs. Frances Allen, Mrs. Edward Donahue, •wife of Donahue; James Christian, alias "W. J. Gross," Frank Crocker, George Bland. Mr. Clabaugh says those held, to­ gether with others at liberty, have fleeced at least fifteen prominent men and women in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and New York by blackmail methods of a most modern type. He said there were many mother victims who never complained, fearing the notoriety. "The women flirted with wealthy men and then demanded money from them pn threats of exposure and the men' did likewise with wealthy women and made similar demands," Mr. Cla- bauglP asserted. SETH LOW PASSES AWAY . ;> I; Former Mayor of New York and f V </•'*€* * Beaoklyn Succumb* After * V Long Illness. i-' ft' _ 777.-17 ?few "*orks SepL 19.--Seth Low died At Us summer home at Bedford Hills, X. Y.. on Sunday after a long illness. Seth Low was twice mayor of Brooklyn, once mayor of New York . and for 11 years was president of Co- j ' J lumbim university. In each of these offices he became distinguished for tit. », 'iK * , public service, and he was known I - , ji77 throughout the country as one of the ff* » 7 leading figures in New York city life. fi I > Unlike most college presidents, Mr. * * ' Low was not a scholar in the accepted " * ^ *r sense of the word when he was «j>- pointed president of Columbia. He was head of a mercantile limise. He was born In Brooklyn January 18, 1850. Mr. Low was elected mayor of Brooklyn by the regular Republican and independent forces. In 1883 he was re-elected for the second term. I# Above, the new bridge across the St Lawrence at Quebec, showing the immense central span In for raising. Below, the scene at the moment of collapse, showing the mass of steel plunging Into the river, ber of lives were lost, and the financial loss was very large. AFTER FATAL RIOTS IN HANKOW, CHINA position A num- a m,f : > . ^ i *v ; m •V^A. . * •' » Fatal riots occurred recently-in Hankow, and were suppressed by the foreign residents, aided by United States bluejackets and marines. The photograph shows Chinese searching in the ruins of their homes for valuables that might have been overlooked by the looter* CAPITAL LANDMARK HAS NARROW ESCAPE f ! WILSON'S SISTER IS BURIED . ':"ly .. .. I t. , •« P-- % - President Attends Funeral at Colum­ bia, S. C.--Remains Enterretf in Churchyard. . New London, Conn., Sept. 19.--Mrs. Annie M. Howe, only "sister of Presi­ dent Woodrcrw Wilson, died on Satur­ day after a long illness. She Suffered a sinking BpeW at dawn. Opiates were administered to deaden the pain caused by peritonitis. The president and Mrs. Wilson 'con­ nected with the funeral train at Tren­ ton, N. J. The body of Mrs. Howe was taken to Colombia, S. C., for burial and was in­ terred In the churchyard of the First Presbyterian church. Germany Halts Big Deal. Wushington, Sept. 1».--'The German gfhVeriiiiH>nt served formal notice on Secretary of State l^insliig that it would not countenance an American loan to the Belgian go\ eminent fflgrin# the German occupation. Germans Lose in Africa. - London, Sept. IS.--flelglan forces op­ erating in German Bast Africa have caiUdred Tal.ora, the principal German fortress in the territory, according to a B*I«tW«fftctal comiiiuitNation resolved herts, wr- ?fi, • A ' > One of Washington's historic spots was endangered a few days ago when a building inspector discovered that Kletb Sutherland, an old plantation darky, was conducting a restaurant with only a push-cart license. This Inspector reported to headquarters and a health department Inspector became Interested. The latter reported to headquarters that the restaurant was insanitary, and trouble began. Sutherland had built the shack piecemeal over a period of more than ten years, and Ms stand had become popular with railroad hands and many other laborers 4»o enjoyed not only the food, but the quaint sayings on the wall and signboards as well. Sutherland Interested a great many influ­ ential friends in the effort to save his shack, the fighting having extended to the district commissioners. i . . > /, / r • * f FUNERAL OF VICTIMS OF ME#HiS WRE(3K^ 1 RALPH ALBERT BLAKELOCK This photograph shows the beginning of the military funeral accorded the victims of the wreck of the United States cruiser' Memphis In Santo Domingo bay. The procession started from the Solace, naval hospital ship, which docked In Washington at the nearest point to Arlington cemetery. The band from the Dolphin, the vessel used by the secretary of the navy, and five of the nine coffins with their cannon caissons are ib<Mrn. Tour of the bodies were claimed by relatives. e. C. Sweet to Quit *% Redfleld's Aid Washington, Se;>t. 18.--Asslntant Secretary of Commerce Edwin C. Sweet wHJ resign soon to become a candidate for governor of Michigan. Secretary JkKlilel'l lias not recouufemJe*} |9 ih^ "president a successor. United States Outpost Fired On. Eagle Pass., Tex., S< pt. IS.--Shots Were tired from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande upon an American out- |«ost at Sycamore, 40 miles northwest Of here. Au Invest lgution 4 '̂, beiug ;.jwade. JSfo uue was hit ITEMS OF INTEREST Harlcalbo, T&nexutli, hM 800 tele- phone users. ° A Chicago woman Is the inventor of a dressing table with detachable legs, the whole affair folding so that it can be carried like a suitcase. Working women in Pennsylvania's Industries are paid almost $75,000,000 a year. Alaska has forbidden Hie employ­ ment of boys tUMiec #xtMa la pines underground. India yearly devotes 75,000,000 a&es to rice growing. North and South America together produce at present about 78 per cent of the world's copper supply. Pittsburgh has opened a big new market building where farmers may meet and deal with city customers. In.Norway there is being built a plant that will produce 4,000 tons of aluminum annually. Wedges of appropriate shape for straightening erooksd Iocs havs been patented- Ralph Albert Blakel6ck, the famous landscape artist, who for 17 years has been confined in an Insane asylum* Many prominent people believe that Blakelock Is now entirely sane. Through the persistent efforts of Mrs. Van Rensselaer Adams and others he has been granted a six months' fur- low of freedom in'which to prove his sanity. Blakelock says that he will paint his way back to j&eedom, despite his seventy years, t • f s f - Phew I A Close 8have. The brother of a former prosecuting attorney of Marion county recently visited the state prison at Michigan City. After arriving at the penitenti­ ary, he asked the warden where be should go to get shaved, and he was In-r vlted Into the^r^son barber shop. He stepped into one of the chaira and while the barber inmate was draw­ ing a keen-edged razor nc?oss his throat the barber whispered to. him: ?Don*t you know me? Your brother sent me up here." After he had stepped out of the chair, nicely shaved, the visitor felt much more comfortable.---Indianapolis News. In a Drug 8tore. "Young fellow, I see yon carry paints, putty, glass, wail «n4 Oils," " ' : 'T'-T' : :.'v" "Yes, sir." • ' ' •"* "Here's a prescription calling for drugs. See that you don't put nothing but drugs in it."--Louisville gcypyrie£- Jou rna l . " " * ' ' * ' ' - Chicago, Se^t "20.--Jose|)h Turoa, owner of the Tunia Savings t>ank, 4013 West Twelfth street, one of the pri­ vate institutions under investigation by State's Attorney Hoyne, shot and killed himself while standing on a pier in the lake at the foot of Wrlghiwood avenue.. . He had applied to a downtown bank earlier in the day for a loan of $10,- 000. Failure to obtain it and worry over the state's attorney's investiga­ tion are believed to feUve caused! Iris act. V' " The shot was heard by Thomas O'Donnell, a Lincoln park policeman, who recovered Uuma's body, which was taken to Bentley's undertaking rooms at 2710 North Clark street Assistant State's Attorney Alexan­ der ,E. Arkin* at once was sent to Tuma's bank by Mr. Hoyne. He found records indicating there are deposits of $500,000. Attorney W. E. Clark, counsel for the banker, was an early arrival and assisted In obtaining access to the records. Turnq had visited the Union Trust company and applied* for a loan of $10,000. This Was refused on the se­ curities he offered, according to Mrs. Tuma. "My husband was worried over the withdrawal of a number of uccounts this forenoon and wished "to arrange to. meet a run if we should have one," she said. "We had about $15,000 cash In the bank, but he thought we ought to have $10,000 more. "Every depositor will be paid. Ho always saw to that. He was very saving. His home is good enough, but he could have afforded a much better one. His amusements were simple- trips to parks, long walks, visits to the less expensive entertainments, the movies, and the like." « A large crowd assembled In front of the bank as the news of the suicide spread throughout the neighborhood. Ail who came said Tuma was a much respected ckteen, and expressed con­ fidence none of his depositors would suffer loss. , The bank was established twelve years ago and is one of the largest private banks in the city. * l BIG MILK STRIKE IS AVERTED Dealers Agree to Pay $2 a Hundred Pounds for Lacteal Fluid and Dif­ ference* Are Adjusted, Chicago, Sept. 20.--Amicable settle­ ment of differences between milk pro* ducers and dealers has averted the threatened strike and milk famine In Chicago. The dealers yielded to the demands of the Milk Producers' asso­ ciation and will sign contracts for the winter supper. The settlement provides for an. In­ crease of 20 cents a hundred pounds for milk furnished by the farmers to Chicago dealers. This brings the wholesale price up to an average of $2 a hundred. At first the Borden company held out /against this demand, but investi­ gation convinced that company and others that it wus just GEN: ALBERT S. MILLS DIES Chief of the Army Division of Mili­ tary Affairs Collapses From •Strain. Washington, Sept. 20.---MaJ. Gen. Al- bert L. Mills, chief of the army divi­ sion of military affairs, collupsed from the strain he has been under since the calling out of the militia, and died of pneumonia here on Mouday. Briga­ dier General. Pershing, commanding the American expedition In Mexico, is the ranking brigadier general jpx4 & line for t)ie promotion. J i > * : ' MORE GUARDS ORDERED HOME • '^""THily So.1 ' : "Who are the people thaf belong to the underworld, pop?" "Those people you see on the r<m4 under their automobile, son." Funston Directed to Return One Mi< litia Regiment for Each New One Sent. Washington, Sept. 20.---General Fun Ston was directed by the war depart­ ment to return one National Guard regiment to its home station for each new regiment of the Guard sent to the border. Secretary of War Baker on Monduy ordered the Second New York National Guard regiment home from the border fqr muster out. ^ ; Memphis Nearly Total Loss. ,t I^Sshington, Sept. 20.--Naval Con­ structor William C. Duboac, who was sent to San Domingo city to decide whether the wrecked cruiser Memphis could be salvaged, reportedf little could be saved from the vessel. «•«- Not Bremen, But U. S. Ship. London, Conn., Sept. 20.--Tlie submarine reported approaching New London on Monday, which wus be­ lieved to be the Gerumu undersea merchantman Bremen, was SB Ameri­ can craft of the "L" type. Aero Companies to Disband. New York, Sept. 20.--The 100 mem­ bers of the First and Second aero com? panies of the New York Nutionul Guard will be disbanded, beco<use avi­ ators are tired waiting for aeroplanes with which to practice. > Alleged Feudist Killed* Hazard, Ky., Sept. 20.--Mose Felt* ner, for more than twenty years a con­ spicuous figure in Kentucky feudal warfare, was killed by JUeputy United States Marshal Fltzmore, who was at­ tempting to arrest him. London, Sept 18.--The greater p«rt of the Bouleaux wood, High wood and the towns of Flers, Murtinpulch and Courcelette have been taken by the British, who also have captured all the high ground betweeu Combles and the Pozieres-Bapuumne road, accord- to the official communication issued on Friday, . > More than 2,300 prisoners Were cap­ tured In the drive. the statement reads: "The fighting, wh|fh has been se­ vere, resulted in oar capture of vir­ tually all the high ground between Combles and the Pozieres-Bapaume road. / "Most of the Bouleaux wood, Flers, High wood, Martlnpulch and Cource- Eette have fallen into our hands. The enemy fought stubbornly to retain his ground. ; "Over 2300 prisoners already have been passed back, including 65 offi­ cers, six of them being battalion com­ manders." ' h British Front s In France, via Lon­ don, Sept 18.--At dawn the British made the most powerful general at­ tack, supported by the heaviest vol­ ume of shell fire, since that of July^4, when the grand offensive began. The attacking front extends over six miles, from the region of Thlepval to the junction with the French army on the right, or practlcaMy 4he entire line of the British advance of the last ten weeks. , ' Having gained the whole ridge from the east of Thlepval through Glnchy and all the old German second line fortifications, the British made their next step, a broad steide down the, hill, pterefng the newly constructed Gennan third line. The sweep forward during the after­ noon gained the village, of Flers, brought the British to the edge of Martlnpulch, and put the bloody shambles of High wood "and Devil's wood, for which two most determined counter-attacks made the hardest struggle In the history of the British army, well behind the advancing ranks of khaki. . , The British ahso art close to the vil­ lage of Courcelette. They have taken "Wunder Werk" redoubt, in the Thlep­ val region, which belonged to the dd first line fortifications. .The Germany had aimed to make It Impenetrable. East 6t Devil's wood the Germans continue to make desperate resistance. North of the Somme the French cap­ tured a series, of German trenches and advanced as far as the village of Ban- court On the Verdun front two Ger­ man attacks were repulsed. Aside from their Increased artillery fire In the great new drive on the Somme the British brought Into action for the first time a new type of armored motorcar, capable because of its pow­ erful traction of crossing trenches and shell craters. For some days the army had watched k with interest and curi­ osity, and as it moved along in sup­ port of the infantry In their charges they cheered It, even In the midst of shell fire. There has been nothing more won­ derful, even In this war, than the spec-, tacle of Its advance toward ttur Ger­ man line. GERMAN PRINCE IS KILLED Frederick William of Hesse, Nephew of the Kaiser, Slain en the Balkan Front. Berlin, Slept. IS--Prince Frederick William'of Hesse, a nephew of the kaiser, has been killed in action at aCra Orman, on the Balkan front. The war office on Friday officially an­ nounced his death. The prince was the eldest son of Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse and Princess Margaret, a Sister of ISm* peror William. He was born at Frank- fort-on=the-Main in 1803. He .Is the second of ^ the house of Hesse to "be killed in the war. Prince Ma^imliien having fallen in northern France In October, 1914. Prlnee Frederick WHlinin IS tbe eighth German prince to have been 'killed In the war. " " " SOKS FOfi W FARM HOME Sim Home Soup, Nature Song* .Patriotic Songs %in«ed*oice«, solos, and male quartet* New. dean, bright, ea«y sod cheap, {Send addrea* for a c#talo*. The C. E. testis Music House 2If S« Porters ^hkafe, B. !!BSL4£TEL^^BS •ESP v«rywhen>-Big eo PATENTS GRAND AMERICAN HANDICAP Tfoe Greatest Trapshoojtlng Event |f the Year, Won with Winchester^ "Repeater" Shells. ©ie Grand American *IandM ̂ tSgft i trapshooting classic, equivalent to the World s Series in Baseball, the highest honor the world has to bestow in trap- shooting, tbe event that marks the cli­ max in the trapshcoter's career, was won by Capt J. F. Wulf, of Milwau­ kee, with the wonderful score of 99x100 from the 19-yard mark. In making this, ' great win be shot Winchester "Bb*: peater" loaded shells. The National Amateur Champion­ ship was won by F. M. Troeh, of the State of Washington. Mr. Troeh also,, took second place for National Ama­ teur Championship at Doubles. He al­ so won the Mound City Overture, and the General Average on all targets, and -General Average on 16-yard targets. In winning all these events, Mr. Troeb used a Winchester repeating shotgun, The Women's National Champion* ship, the first event of the kind ever staged at a Grand American Handicap was won by Mrs, J, D, Dalton, of War­ saw, Indiana, with a Winchester ; i peating shotgnn. The Dunspaugh Trophy, emblemw c *'* of the Professional Championship, was won by Phil R. Miller with a Winches­ ter repeating shotgun. ^ The Hercules All-roand Amateur Championship was won by Edw. 1* Bartlett, of Baltimore, with Winches­ ter loaded shells. This was a hard match ̂ o win, as it called for 50 singles < tit 18, 20, 22 yards, respectively, and 25 doubles at 16 yards. This was a great cleanup for Win­ chester guns and shells and a demon­ stration of their wonderful qualities. / i•• nil. mill I •' " i -' TO SEEK MISSING EXPLDR£& Russians Who Went to A-rctte 1812 May Yet Be *7^, Living. Apparently hope has not been abaifr doned entirely of rescuing the mem­ bers, pr some of them, of the Russian polaivexpedittons which sailed in 1912 in the steam schooner Saint Anna, un­ der command of Lieutenant Brusilofl of the Russian navy, and the motpi vessel Hercules, which was iu charge df the geologist, M. Bonsanoff. Trace# may be discovered in the northern Arc­ tic, -In the vicinity of Greenland, and of the North .American archipelago.^ Through the consul general for sla appeals are made to all cominerc|aJ enterprises, navigators, and scientific expeditions cruising in the polar sejM and engaged in research,work in tliew regions, and also to the inhabitant* along the coastline, to devote effoijtt to the doscovery of traces of the uils» ittg offerers. W: & Lucky. "My cousin Is to be married on thirteenth of next month." "On the thirteenth? I should thl£k she would be afraid of such an unr lucky date." > "Evideutly yon have never seen *|p cousin. Any day would be a lucky day for her .to get married." t •, Mrs. Harriet M. Martin, nlnety-eig»t, works as "office girl" for a physlclto In -Newcastle, N. H. r- Fairbanks Quits for fteat Atchison, Kan., Sept. 18.--Charles W. Fairbanks, Republican nominee for vice president, has abandoned his cam­ paign nnd gone back to his hotue in Indianapolis for a rest. Mr. Fairbanks wus stricken with acute Indigestion at Tulsa, Okla„ several days ago. • '.-Bombs Dropped on Soda. Ifelrhai-est, Sept. 18.--Allied avia­ tors flying from Saloniki dropped bombs on Sofia, the Bulgarian capital, and flew to Bucharest, where they de­ scended. They covered a distance at 330 miles iu five hours. British Lose 2,00(1 Men. .* London, Sept.,18.--Renewal of heavy fighting In Mesopotamia, with the British on the offt-nsivt," Is reported In a statement Issued at Constantino­ ple. The British are said to have lost 2,000 men In one engagement * Dismiss . Plea of Monnett " New York. Sept. IS.--The pleas of F. S. Monnett and ,1. C. Taylor, presi­ dent of Labor's National Peace council, that ^prejudicial conduct by govern­ ment prosecutors brought about their indictment here were dismissed. » - 188 Ships Change Registry?* Washington, Sept. 16.--The depa ment of commerce reported that foreign-built vessels of 628,644 g tons had been admitted to Ante registry up to September % and act ttf August 18, 1914. "15 i <7 -«si. . r?^' 'M POS a Season' Cneal *mk CnAXsk