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have fcpoii too busy. Working tieoplc do not cvnjvo' OHioy, are invented by tho learned gossiping about thVmartot place like 1KB Mr ner.er preBonted many "problems" to rri 1 M. Paul's Athenians. who spend 'their time in nothing 1 I ftVV fetf Sf3sl An: '1 IcR! I IK' 1J 9 PARTLY CLOUDY TOmGlit AND The Sentinel is the Only Evening Newspapjer in Fort Wayne Receiving the Associated Press News Dispatches ESTABLISHED 1833. 1 ij ruruj J1i'i imiJ)AY EVENING, SEPl'MtBtfti; U4; lf)tl.

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VICTIM FOUND DEAD BESIDE RAILROAD TRAQK Firing it'i: fangs ten feet with )i i4 ealibre Colt's revolver at 1 o'clock lYiiay; morning, Frank Dawklns, gcd 68 crippled bachelor who keep 'a store at Dawklns, a. llamlet. twelve'miles eaatof Fort Wayne, on the Nickel Platfi railroad, killed ari unknown man 'who attempting to burglarise the place. The body of the robber wag fpund on the Nickel Plate tracks 100 feet from the scene 'of the shooting after 6 o'clock Friday morning by Otto putcli ef, an employe' in the levator, a Daw t'ntU the ftndinjf of thei. body Dawkfna did.

not knby he had hit the man whom he discovered eAtering hia atore. Heard Crash of. Glaai. Dawklni, who lead a bathelor'i life, hie home iii hi aroused about 1 IlrltJay morning by a. craih of glass in the front fif tho store.

He arose from hU' cot, got his big Colt's revolver and 'walked forward. Within ten. feet of the window he a man's hand' thrust in to push, aside window shade. Almost immediately ft man's head peered4n through the brokeirriano and Dawklns fired. waa a sound of hurrying footsteps from the front of the store hd Dawklns went outside.

He could sec hp trace of the raaurauder and no trace? of blood on the sidewalk. He concluded that his shot had. missed its murk and returned to bis bed. Reports Body Found on Track. At 630 Friday jnoming Coroner P.

H. Kruie was notiflod by Superintendent Waterson, of the Kickel Plate, that, tho body of an unknown wan hail ben found on the rairoad tracks nt Dawklns. Coroner Kruso notifleil Bcheumann Son, undertakers on' Kast lewls ta go out for tho body and started at once himself for tho scene of the A half hour later Sheriff; Olad ieux was Cllcd: ort his telephone by Frank Dawklns, a Dftwkins, who stated that ha had killed a. burglar early 'In the morning. Coroner Kruse and Sheriff Oladieuf arrived on the ground about tha same time, the coroner, who had been a Wiij formed of the killing, ipecting fo find "two cases for his attention.

At. Hawkins: the coroner learned that the two esses were identlcaii Dawklns Learns of Killing. Butcher; the levator man tnA iha hodv siid renorted that' a man had been killed by a train, Dawkins went over to view 1 he boiy. An mlnaOan disclosed that the man had been shot and for the time 'he knew, five hours after" the shooting, that' his aim had leen true ana. nis ihu lit.

hud ffOno' The big 44 cslibre bullet toro Jnto i'1i Imrirlsr'H bidv lust below, the left shoulder blade, passing entirely through an seyenng a largo vein: irom wuiii the rush bled to death, The blood trail from the front of n.wHnu' store becan about ten feet from the wlridow and led to where the (Cdntlnusfl on Pads 1J, Column j). HOFBRAU IS kv FATALLY SHOT WHILE ATTEMPTING TO BURGLARIZE STORE AT DAWKINS, ASkk4WsVMVMWWWVWWVtMWWWWsiiVVMAAAMAAAAArMAA STILL WING Commissioners Refuse License to Henry A. Wiebke. a RE V. NIPPER WINS BITTED CONTEST Board Takes Two Minutes to Roach Decision in Saloon Fight.

After a career of a few weeks less than ten years the llof Brnu saloon, at Calhoun and Columbia streets, doted its doors upon the. public ftt 9 o'clock Thufsdsy evening, following the refimnl of the hoard Of county comodssioners. to again ieue license to Harry Wiebkfl, proprietor of the place; The last testimony ir the hearing of the Hof Brart case was concluded at 6i4D Thufeday aflernpon. Fivo minutes later Ouy Colerickj of counsel applicant, bfRaii a quarterhour prguraeni t.o tho'bpird'and was followed WilliamiP. Br(n, 'of connsei for tiin remonstrant, Hev.

Jamea Ai Nipper, in address of similar' length. At OsW president D. Butt, of: th board of commissioners, announced that the commissioners would retire and a decision wouhi in fifteen minutes. Turned Around and Came Right Bark. Accompanied by Judge P.

I Morris, who sat as legal' ndvocstft with, the (Continued on Tjko 10. PJlumn .) SLIPS HANDCUFFS; LEAPS FROWl TRAIN i Lafayette, .24. A diamond thief named Poltner; worst, of three criminals being taken Jo' JcfTersonyilla prison by Lako cotinty escaped from; custody here ut rioori was handcuffed tn another prisoner and slipped cuff ovtx his hand and jumped from Monon' passenger train in thje yards. Ixieal police, and many citizens, art? seoUring the rnofth end town: The deputies continued their journey with the other two prisoners. FRANK POIRSON SURRENDERS TO NIPPER AND CLOSES HIS CALHOUN STREET SINK Another notorious dive, for and Women has been extinguished.

When the board of county' commis 'tloners Thursday evenintr gave its dect. slon denying ffnewal, of licenso to lUrry A. Wiebke for the Hof Brsu saloon nd cafe, i'nnk J. Poirson. keener of saloon anil chili parlor at 504.

Cal, Jioun, street, 4nd.Ws attorneys, saw; the handwriting on the wall. Ffiday morning Tolraon a counsel.went before the board of coratnissionefa. and withdrew hla application for ft liceuso and his place shortly closed The hearing the remonstrance Died by Rev. James A. Nipper against renew.

Ing Polrsdn' license was set tot. 9 o'clock Friday morning and. the remonstrant and William Ballou, his ut torney. were ready with their witnesses to go to trial, Polrson arid hs, lawycis decided that the best course waa aur 're'ndtr Instead of battle and rithdrew lh'e application, as had been decided upon late Thursday hfght at a cbnferenfe of Js attorneys. Rer.

Nipper and Attorney Balloii were Ud to be loaded for. Polrson with ten times as' much evidence of Immorality; unfitness and law breaking had been oresented sitairist Wiebke, The two Chicago detectives, Sickles and Malkus, who appeared iebkc, had thoroughly Investigated' the Poirsbn dead fall and were prepared (6 prove the prietor to 'be keeper of a plairo.ihat tt uavo: l'cn a rimo Jor ilio missioncra to relicense. Jluch other teb timony. waa' also at. hand and some of the samo women 'whose names wove brought, up in connection 'with the.

HpJ Brau case' were known to hivo bcou habitues of Polrson'. place, It would been no. trouble at ull to prove that I'Oirson waa Unfit to be licensed and that hU place should be suppressed. Polrson. and his lawyers knew that if to conunissioncrs could not license Wiebke there was more rea son why the board could not permit Poirson to continue in business.

The place at 604 Cnlhottn street is gone, lite scarlet women who resorted there to meet debauched men knd callow youth and the jitney, drivers who throve on bearing both setes to assignation juau in the dive will know it no mpre. MHlBBIBHlBKBWil5ttAfa3aBiHs 'EH BY SI Von Hindenbiirg Captures Additional Positions the Russians. GERMAN WAR LOAN MAKES YAST TOTAL byer $6,000,000,000 Has Been 'Subscribed to Empire's War Fund. Th above photographs of the unidentified inan who was shot while attempting to burglarize the store at Dawklns early Friday' morning were taken soon after the body had been brought the Scheuininn morgue in Fort Wayne by the authorities. ROACH IIS Hints at Prosecution of Bell Case Witnesses for DENIALS STIR UP THE PROSECUTOR FIELDS CASE WILL BE DECIDED Saloon.

Men Made Contributions; Deny Coercion by Officials'. Indianapolis, Penti 24. Threats of prosecution for 'perjury were mailc today by Special rrnsecutor Joseph; Hpach at the trial of Mayor Joseph K. Bell, charged with election conspiracy. A number of saloonkeepers were being called Mid aaked aboil their, contributions to tho democratic party at the time the threat was made.

Harry Karber sdmitted that he had Wade ft contributioh, but denied that William Kissel, who holds the contract to supply th cty rniilea. arid coidefetidant, threatened him with pcrse eution by tho police if he didn't contribute. 'He also dcnled.making statement to that iflert before tho. grind jury, The defense objected to. jogging the' witnesses' memory.

Mr, Roach hen mad hla threat, declaring is a lemedy" M. A Ryan, of for the defense, waa "on his feet' Immediately. "'It HI becomes. tha state," ho said, "to make threats of prosecution for perjury J.ere.ln midst' of ibis trial. It is hot properin tho Tiresence of the The witness, wheri, the, court permitted hitn to answer, continued to insist nTt7Ti.e questWe answer's, ho was as making.

More than twenty saloonkeepers were called aiid' told of contributing, to the democratic campaign fund, arnounts ranging from to fid. None to Republicans On examination some of loonnieh Were, asked if they had. contributed to the republican fund. All said they had not. Among those named as jfollectors pf tlie fund wcre Herman Adam city seater and a po defendant, and Lbuls.

Iirsch and Paul. Bonner, saloonkeepers. fayor Bell, who had to leave the coiirt room yesterday because of illness, arrived ft little late today, but apparently waa feeling njucli better. He laughed and talked with his attorneya for few minutes. Officials: of tho Fort Wayne, Northern Indian; Traction company and members of the grievanrri committee from loca I union No.

862, Amal cramated Association' of Street and Klec trie, ltallwav F.mnlovcs. will meet Fri day evening at which" time the easn of Clareneo Kioldsi. a former conductor pn thftcitv lines, who is asking for re instatement will bo taken up. Disposition ha already made of tho four other tralumert whom tho has asked to be. reinststed.

Two of them were taken back and the other two; were dismissed; No action will be taken by members of the newly brganuediinion; until, the Fields esse has been disponed, 'of. A 7 meet Ing .0 the union wil prpbably be held following the conierfncp with officialsofficials of tho compariv'at which tlino it is expected, that definite action regarding course of. tho organization will be taken up. roIsISks Reincarnation was the theme of L. W.

Rogers, of New York, last night at the Klks' iemple. lie declared that if the is created at birth thers is no re eouable explanation of why should born" a genius and anotlicr an. Idiot. Reincarnation, he said, showed that souls evolve as worlds, evolve and that the stupid, man is one who has not jtr.lv in' In his incarnatioiis lo.de'Velopi his mind, whllo. the.

genius. Is one' who has; energetically developedhis intellect. If (Jod inado' souls when people were, bom, tho lecturer '4 It vs remarkable that they should hot all be wise and kind and have. an even chance to reach heaven for which they' aril supposed to' be destined.1 He. declared 'that the truth that Jiavc evolved on the spiritual side as physical bodies hftre evolved on; the material sido and that reincarnation: Is the process whicHtITe Bupreme Being directs all evolution.

Tonight Mr, Rogers will speak on "The Laws WEGRO BOY OF 14 IS HANGED TOR ASSAULT. Jackson, JM. hJoe Persons, a negro boy tipt more than 14 years old, wS hanged bro today fOr' assaulting an eight year old white girl. The. half hundred persons around, the scene said, the boy admitted the crime and stoically announced ho was ready to die.

Although 0 weighed only 76. pounds his necV brpken by th fall. Todaya War Newo GiTn in Surnmaryv Further Inroads have been made by the Germans tipojJ the defenses of Dviiisk. the, important, Russian, city on the route to Petrograd which Field Marshal von is attacking. Capture of additional positions in ftont of tbt city is reported by German 4rmy temporary success by' Russians resisting the German pursuit east from Vilna, is' admitted by.

Berlin which states that some cannon which, had' been held until Ust moment in this engagement were lost. Heavy reinforcements, amountitig to from 80,000 to men are reported to have been sent to the German crown prince in the Paris reports a continuation of tha, effective bombardment of Ger. man lines' by the French artillery and the repulse of German attacks, 'nctaby of two In which It Is 'declared that shells containing cye lrrltating gases were used by the Germans. German submarines in the are reported in Berlin to have sunk several British and French steamers and one Russian vessel. Subscriptions to the third Gentian war loan, have reached $3,007,700, ((() it la officially announced in Berlin and the returns from some parts of the empire are not yet in.

The of subscriptlonsL to German war loans since the beginning of hostilities has now reached the huge total of 'As an answer to the Bulgarian Greece has decided upon mobilisation of her army and ha 3 called the ctasscs of 1002 to 1011; to the Gbaiition of Indiana Brewers and Liquor Pealers Paid ipr Evidence That Killecl Wiebke and Poirson. It' was' the Indiana Lnw Enforcement and Jlefbrni league, ft tqiiiition of brew. crs arid liijuor dealers in this state, and not the BerKhoff brewery, alone; (hat sent Chicago detectives into I'ort Wuynd in rnlUvt vvidence ocairist saloons and furnished the evidence. 11 pohl 1 Hi. wuicli Harry A.

vviodko hh his ui Brau and Frank J. Poirson uhd his chill parlor saloon put out of un.l nnnn. wliirll Jttmpi A. Nil) HOC ittiuL.thei.iim's yiit lsttaa league, who hWA nTft tlinlntfllniniT LllO light, declare tho Hotel Kdwio's license will be rcViked 111 trio superior couri. Wanted to Know'.

Whal: Was Tim investigation under tho' aUsnice liiiliaiia Iaw Knforcement and iesguf began more than yer ago, tne uhchvj, in Chicagoi was commissidncd by the lengiioio find out, what waa wrong with tli saloon: situation 'in Way ne. At that time Deteftlve Ray Sickles, a Thiol nril aliin fn Vntt. WaVnB HlVll COllfCt ed tnuch. evidence agaititcafes'and sa. loons or trm Uive Class, may Sickles icamo back and was accompanied by Malkus.

For two weeks' they, worked in Fort Wayfie. Scores werainvestigated and iVnnrlf.l iiiMin hv the dctVctlves. Most of the report were frood; but several plscea the reports were a lotai con demnation. Reoorted to Norton. These pecret service ogents raftda their reports to Martin tl.

Norton, secretary and manager of the Berghoff ilrnwinir Inn in Fort Wavne. for sonic of tlielv inctnicliona, as well as. 10 diselnsn their llftdintrs and sent Written TeimrtS Chicago. Thesft prepared re ports were forwarded to ir. isorton in i'oit Way no.

The Thicl ngents spent much, time in I LAST WIHUTE NEWS 1 Berllir, Fcpt. 21. Field Marsha I von liindenburg; has made further progress in his effort to capture the Russian for tified city Dvinnk. The. taking by.

ftorm of ndditionnl (liissian positions defending the: city northeast nf Snielina is ofriclally reported today. It is orTiclally' announced fh'at suh scriptfons 6 the third Oerrnati war loan jisve Teached a total of 12,0.100,000 marks $3,007 O.omi) the. Overseas Jjews Agqney says today, "These 'figures, showing the immense of. the Jonr( will; still further increased," the hew ngeney Mntes, "bs returns from soine part of the nation are still to be received," Reach. Immense Total.

Without taking' into cbnsidernt ion the llneipcj'ted increase from further, re turns, the figures nil the subscriptions "to. thn third Oerntan' wnr loan show that the total subscript ions' "to tlio S'wir loans of rtiiplro since beginning of the war have remedied the hugo sum the Hof Brau, in rolrson's na.th Hotel Kdwin, it hs been disclosed, and mia gled much with the oinen who resoTtif ed lir those places, Xuoierous other loons; vre'ro. and reported upon aiid those that complied with: tho laws of Indiana; were given clean bills in the reports by the detectives. Norton Aids the Jlght; It was just after trie disclosure made, last that half a doten or ifnore well known youngsters of Churu? huscr) had been coming to F6.rt Wayria. to: 'get drunk arid meet women in th saloon cafes Manager Norton, of the Berglbff jtrewery, went to: the law flrni of Breen Morris, retained by the.

Churubusco parents' to assist. In prosecuting the. who, halped to debauchi their boys and tendered tho use jif'his voluminous reports, from tho Chicago who: had made, the investigation' in May. These reports were hot of use in the. firosecutlo'n', In Which the Churubuaco Ikivs we're chief witnesses against Wiebke, Edwin R.

of the Hotel Edwi and Hedges, Co liimbia. street saloonist, and Kaban Smith, who' was doing a blind tiger business at; the old: Hiser roadKouso on. th (Joshen Ighwa nortK of the city, hilt they.Aver'c discovered to of vital Importance to the purpose pf ths Ctiurii huseo men and Rev. James Kipper Und tho Men's Christian league, of "For XVayrr'e, to put the worst of Tori Wayne's places out of business. Fight is Begun.

After the convlctlon ln the city court of Kleindinst and 8mlfh on' blind tijjer charges and of Hedges for tor' minors; iRev. Nipper began his war to rxtingilith tho city places. A suit waa filed: in: the superior court against" Kleindinst for revocation of his license Continued on Page 13, Column 1). 450,000 ARMENIANS Now York, Sept 24. Kimbad rta briel, presUJentof fh Armenian ien crai rrogresslyn association i in.

the States, has received from Nubar la.l,ji. rf.iirfRntftlirA in Paris of the jalholiko' nt head of the Armenian church, advices in regard to tho massacres of Turkey ulilMi if. is.ntatnl that "'Christian rtartyrdofri has At no: time; nssurned such' colossal JJiibriel In making, public the letter today said tho information contained, in them: and from other reports received lie eHlrrtated that Armenians had. been put to death, fi.OO, 000. rendered homeless or exiled, out of a population of 1,600,000.

COMMllAL CLUB NOT A CANDIDATE FORRWINATION Marshall Makea Statements After His Talk Witlv President. (Continued on Pane .13, Column P0LI0EMAN HURT IN STRIKE RIOT CLASH New BritaJri, Sept. 24. In a clash, with strike rioters at the Oorbln screw factory of the Americah Hardware corporations here this afternoon, three policemen "were injured by flying' bricks arid stones' hurled by the strikers. One officer, George Ellinjrer, had Ms jayr broken; The other two were not badly hurt.

TRAINMEN KILLED IN WRECK IN NEBRASKA Plattsmonth, Neb. Sebt. 24; Three trainmen "were killed and four other seriously iniured today near La Platte, five milesi north of here, on "the Mis: gpuri Pacific railroad, wtyen the. south bound passenger twin, No. 104.

from Omaha to Kansas City, hiet a north bpund fast freight head on. All passengers escaped with minor scratches. A misun I dersianding or orders is believed to have caused the accident, TO CLOSE ITS BAR Announcement was made Friday afternoon, that the Commercial club had closed the bar that has been operated by the club; and that'it Avould hot be The fact that the bar would be closed and no iiqubri dispensed, hereafter save under the locker was communicated to a committee representing the temperance movement it meeting held it the law of Townsend. The fight on the Commercial club' bar was begun some months Declslort to close ibe bar was reached at meeting of tha ciub managemeht at noon Friday, FIND 8lfiS1r DYNAWITE IN MAIL Xew York, SepU 21. Eigh sticks of dynamite welghliigg twelve pounds vero found in a package in the foreign branch postofflce lierje.

today. The package mailed at Napa Junction, Sept, 1, and arrived here Sept. 7, liiig sont to tho foreign branch office. Postal authorities said the package was Addressed to Sig. Virginia Iloascio, P.

Cva, Italy, and the name of thS aendsr was given as Luigi GhirlQ. 24 yioe Pro MambniycaJW at tho wblU bouM tod'ayanii with Preeident Wilson the international situation, national defense find other problems confronting the administration. It was Mr. Mar siiall'ii flfst yisit to jhVprtisi'dent iiao: congress adjourned last Mr. Marshall' (old tho 'president tlie.i in extensive trip through! the country had convinced, him that the peorb wer pleased with the msuner in which 'Intta national affairs had been' managed.

He fca.id he favored an adeiuate army irtd but had no speciflp. rocommenda tions to raaka regarding details. The) calling a special session of' the senate to permit it to revise its. rules before the regular session begins in December, also was taken up, Mr. Marshall ssid afterward the president had hot indicated apy direction in the "mat" ter.

The vice president expressed oppo fition to a spoelal session of the whole jrongTcss Jit this time. Whether the p6 litlcal outlook discussed was not indicated, and 'Mr. Marshall would not comment oii it afterwaM except to say he 'was hot a. candidate for renomioM tfon. FINANCIERS YIELD TO AMERICAN VIEW Jfew Vork, Sept.

24 Memier of Anglo financial commission it was reported today have discarded their previous views: cm certsln major details' of proposed credit loan to be estabiithea Jera to ureat liatauv and France an.1 have accepted, Instead, the suggestion of Americah flnanclera, on all cardinal points. With the change reportetl in the Attitude of the conimis slon negotiations proceeded smoothly; today toward the establishment of Credit along tho following, lines The amount to be or possibly a little morei the price to tha investor to be slightly below par th joint Angio Freiich notes issued therefore to run five years and to be 0n vertible at option into fifteen or twenfy year Anglo French bonds, pay Ing four and one half per cent inter est. Russia probably to be eliminates! as a participant "ft 4.