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Bandits Kill and Carry Away in Auto Three Fat Hogs at Rockbridge Last Night WEATHER- Cloudy tonight and Friday; probably snow in north and western portions; not much change in temperature. Try a Foremost Adv. Medium Classified LANCASTER DAILY Advertisin' EAGLE. PRICE THREE CENTO. LANCASTER, OHIO, THURSDAY EVENING.

FEB. 15, 1917. VOLUME XXVIII, NO. 246 THREE BANDITS In Big Touring Car Makes Raid on Hog Pen At Rock Bridge and Kill and Carry Away in Automobile Three Fat Hogs Undetected. A big touring car drove into the village of Rockbridge at an early hour this morning occupied by three bandits, it is said, who raided the bog pen of one of the villagers and killed and carried away 11 the alltomobile three big fat hogs.

It i is said they loaded up their valuable cargo and got away without being detected. The job was found out this morning, it is said, when the owner of the hogs went to feed them. Every effort will be made to run down the bold thieves. TAKEN TO HOME Of Her Sister is Miss Mattie Grimes of Athens Who Recently Underwent Operation at Local Hospital. Miss Mattie Grimes of Athens, who underwent an operation for appendicitis at the city hospital, two weeks ago.

Wednesday, was. yesterday removed to the home of her sister, Mrs. E. H. Rardin on East Chestnut street.

is getting along nicely, but will stay at the Rardin home several weeks before returning to her home in Athens. SAD NEWS Of Death of Brother in Los Angeles, is Received by Mrs. Jas. Dodds Body Brought to Circleville for Burial. Mrs.

James Dodds of North Columbus street has received the sad news from Los Angeles that her brother, Mr. Thomas Ryan had passed away at that place. The body is being sent to Circleville for burial. It is expected that the remains will arrive there Sunday. Mrs.

Dodds will go to Circleville to attend the obsequies. PRISONER Suffering With Attack of Stomach Trouble in County Jail. Will Templeman, serving a jar sentence. was taken very ill Tuesday night with an attack of stomach trouble and has since been under the care of Dr. F.

P. Stuckey. le was reported slightly improved today, FUNERAL SERVICES. The funeral services for Mrs Elizabeth Ann Schuler, who departed this life Tuesday in Columbus. will be held Friday morning at 8:30 clock at St.

Leo's church in Columbus. Burial will take place in Mt. Cavalry cemetery, Deceased was a sister of Mrs. C. A.

Carr of Sugar Grove. THE SICK. Dr. Cherrington of Logan was called here Monday in consultation with Dr. G.

W. Roller in the ease of Mrs. Wm. Crutcher, of Lake street. The consultation resulted in the performance of a minor operation by Dr.

Cherrington and the patient who has been ill for the last ten or twelve weeks. is now slowly recovering. Mrs. Crutcher'8 illness began while on a visit to her children 11 Michigan where she was sick for eight weeks. VOTES FOR THE BILLS.

Senator George 8. Cunningham voted for Revnold's bill to give women the right to vote for president. which passed the Senate by a bare majority of one vete Wednesday afterncon. Mr. Cunningham also voted for the Blauser bill placing quail on the song bird list and protecting them forever, al MACCABEES WILL MEET.

The Knights of Maccabees will hold their regular meeting Friday evening, Feb. 16th at 7:30 o'clock. All members are urged to attend this review as a card party and smoker will follow the business meeting. GOING TO PEN. Sheriff Smetters will take Renna Moody to the Ohio Penitentiary en Friday to begin his sentence of from one to fifteen years, for assault with intent to commit rape.

WILL SEE MARDI GRAS. Probate Judge and Mrs. F. M. Acton will depart Friday morning for New Orleans, where they will attend the Mardi Gras which opens Saturday the 17th and closes Friday the TAKE NOTICE G.

A. R. The A. R. are requested to meet at the Armory Saturday morning at 9 o'clock to attend the funeral of Comrade John Fisher at 10 o'clock from his late home on Frederick street.

Thomas Crutcher and wife returned to Wyandotte, this morning after a three week here with the former's mother. RAID AMERICAN-OWNED RANCH IN MEXICO Villistas Holding Four Americans For Ransom. El Paso. Feb. Ynez Salazar, with his Villa command.

oc. cupie1 Ojitos, an American owned cattle ranch in Mexico, forty-live miles southwest of the Corner ranch One American negro is being held' there for ransom and three American Mormon cowboys who were captured during the raid on the Corner ranch also are believed to be held for ransom at Ojitos. American troops are patrolling the border to prevent a repetition of raids. Interest in Mexican border affairs shifted suddenly from the contemplated Villa attack on Juarez to the operations of Salazar and his mounted forces. Following the raid on the Cor ner ranch, which is located on the American side of the boundary, Salazar's forces occupied Ojitos.

taking prisoners nine Mexicans. together with Buck Spencer, an American gro. employed by E. K. Warren Sons.

No one was killed when Salazar occupied Ojitos. A demand for $5.000 ransom was made upon Bob Morehead. ranci overseer for the Warren interests, and forwarded from Hachito to E. K. Warren at Three Oaks.

Mich. Reports from Hachita said Warren had instructed Morehead to protect Spencer and had ordered the ransom paid. but agents of the Warren interests said they had urged the ransom be refused. Three Americans held at Ojitos are Andrew Peterson, Burton Jensen and Hugh Acord. To Meet In Colorado.

St. Joseph. Feb. the concluding session of the Pikes Peak ocean-to ocean highway convention here the delegates decided to hold the next meeting in midsummer, on the top of Pikes Peak. The mileage by states, except California, through which the road passes.

follows: Utah. 400 miles: Colorado. Kansas, 100: Missouri, 220: Illinois, 250: Indiana. 200: Ohio. 250: Pennsylvania.

300. The entire length will be more than 3.000 miles. AS YOU LIKE IT A federal treasury deficit of 400,000 at the end of the next fiscal year is forecast in a report submitted by the senate finance committee. Two armed men entered the Westlake branch of the Home Savings bank of Los Angeles. held up the employes and escaped with several thotsand dollars.

Through the intervention of the United States peace has been tablished in Santo Domingo, a republie which has bad fifty presidents 1 in seventy years. Children Killed by Bombs. Berlin, Feb. dispatch from Bruges, Belgium, says that sixteen children were killed by bombs dropped by British aviators in a crowd of skaters. RESULT OF RAIDS BY SUBMARINES Goods Piling Up In All American Ports.

HITS INDUSTRIAL WORLD Believed at Washington That President Will Soon Go Before Congress and Ask Power to Protect American Rights--Arming of Merchantmen a Mooted Question--Pre paredness Plans Discussed. Washington. Feb. steady accumulation of violations of American rights by Germany made it ap pear possible that Pres: lent Wilson would g0 before congress to ask authority for further protecting lives and property without waiting for a serious disaster which might shock the country. There are no indications, however, that he believes the time for such a step has come.

and it again was stated authoritatively that he would move deliberately and with full apprecia tion of all' the consequences involved. Official reports of the sinking of the American schooner Lyman Jr. Law in the Mediterranean by an Austrian submarine added only slightly to the tension. for while the act is believed to have illegal, no lives were lost and the vessel apparently was warned. The incident was not lock ed upon as one in itself sufficient to hurry the development of the situa-' tion.

Preliminary reports began coming to government departments showing the piling up about the Atlantic seaboard of goods destined for export to European ports. No serious effect from this condition will be feit. how. ever. until lapse of sufficient time for ships remaining in American ports to have gone to Europe and returned.

While only approximately 10 per cent of American commerce with Europe is carried on American ships. the sail ings of vessels of other nationalities in many instances have either been canceled or postponed. and therefore the result of the ruthless submarine campaign in time will result in far reaching disturbance of the industrial life of the United States. Preparations by the government for any eventuality still are going for ward without interruption. Much inportance is attached to the work of the council of national defense.

which is holding daily sessions for the purpose of learning at first hand from Americans of experience what provision must be made to co-ordinate American resources. E. S. Stettinius of J. P.

Morgan Company, New York, was again before the council furnishing informa tion gained from experience as heal of his firm's huge transactions in war orders for the entente allies. It was stated that it was entirely possible the government would take no steps towards actually furnishing arms to American ships unless and until the president decides he should go before congress. While the state department takes the position that the government has the right to furnish the guns, other questions which make the question more complex have arisen. The greatest of these is the determination of the president to do nothing which might give Germany the excuse in any trouble which may follow to place the responsibility upon the United States. COLUMBIA BRIDGE OPENED World's Largest Span Connects Two Important Towns.

Portland. Feb. longest structure spanning a stream any. where in the world was thrown open here at noon today, when two girls, one from Portland and the other from Vancouver, cut a rope stretched across the new interstate bridge over the Columbia river and allowed a stream of traffic from the two cities to cross. As the girls cut the rope American fags fritered to the breeze from the tops of the 500 foot towers at the ends of the draw span.

Although the cere montes today were simple, it is plan ned to hold an interstate celebration in June The cost of the Interstate structure is $1.160.000 and its total length is about 93.000 feet. or more than four miles. The interstate bridge proper spans the main channel of the Columbia river. 8,530 feet wide, and consists of ten truss spans, cach 265.5 feet long: the girder of 50 feet and three truss spans 273 feet long. Ore of the 275 foot spans is a draw of the vertical lift type.

Approaches to the bridge are 300 feet in length. Chicago Society Woman JOHN J. MITCHELL, JR. CLARENCE MITCHELL WILLIAM MITCHELL Mrs. John J.

Mitchell, well 1 known in Chicago and wife of the president of the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank, the largest institution of its kind in the west, offers her three sons to the nation in the present crisis. William It. Mitchell is now at Harvard, John J. Mitchell. is at Yale, while Clarence is at Middle.

GERMAN ENVOY 4 QUITS COUNTRY Two Hundred In Von Bernstorff's Party. GO TO HOMES IN GERMANY Flowers and Farewell Gifts Received by the Former Ambassador, His Wife and Others, Who Sail From Hoboken Final Message From Count Expresses Appreciation of Treatment Here. New York. Feb. Johann J.

Von Bernstorff, former German ambassador to the United States, sailed for home aboard the ScandinavianAmerican line steamer Frederick VITI. With the count was the Countess Von Bernstorff and nearly 200 German diplomatic and consular officials. The departure, which completes the severance of diplomatic relations between the United States and Germany, was accomplished quietly and was marred by no untoward incident. Before the steamer departed the former ambassador held a final conference with Minister Ritter of Swit. zerland, who has assumed charge of German interests in this country.

Count Von Bernstorff, his wife and other members of his suite, received several wagon loads of flowers and bon voyage gifts. The ambassador was 90 appreciative that he sent ashore a signed statement through Dudley Field Malone, collector of the port of New York. in which he said. "1 can not refrain from a last expression to the American people for the wealth of flowers and gifts sent to the countess and myself. It is hard, to tell of the good will sent to 118 both.

No expression of gratitude. would be adequate to speak an affec. tionate farewell." From the war-bound German liners lying close at hand signal pennants fluttered. spelling out their farewell. Handerchiefs were waved from the decks of the ship and those on shore saw the Count and Countess Von Bernstorff emerge from a door with Prince Hatzfeld, formerly of the embassy.

and wife. All four leaned far over the rail and waveli at persons they knew standing on the dock. of the possibility of averting war. the former ambassador said he considered that to be conditional upon Gives Her Sons for War MRS. JOHN J.

MITCHELL sex school in Concord. Mass. "If war comes," said Mrs. Mitchell, "I want them to be at the front. They have been richly blessed by this country.

They have had the chance to get good educations and to prepare for whatever careers they chose. They owe a real debt to the country, and I would not be the one to stop them from paying it." Germany's being able to bring the entente its knees before anything happens to involve the United States. He was emphatic in declaring that "the submarine campaign is bound to increase in intensity as the weather gets warmer." ARMY GENERAL STAFF'S PLAN Military Training of One Year Suggested to Baker. Washington, Feb. detailed plan for the establishment of a 112- tional policy of universal military training and service was laid before Secretary Baker by the army general staff.

It differs radically from that provided for in the Chamberlain bill. favorably reported Saturday by the senate military committee. in that 3 full year of training would be requir. ed as the absolute minimum. The senate bill is based on six montas' training.

Secretary Baker has indicated that the recommendations of the start will be made public later even in the event that the bill does not receive the administration's approval, so that it can serve as a basis for discussion before the country after the adjournment of congress and can be compared with the senate plan. Advocates of universal service bave urged that a referendum be taken when public sentiment has been crystalized on the question. Weather Signals on Engines. Hutchison, Feb. Weather signal Hazs are being carried on locomotives of the Anthony Northern Railway company.

Weather bulletins are wired to all conductors every morning and the flags are then hoisted on the front of the engines. "The farmers along our line appreciate this service." President Byers said. BACKED BY REPUBLICANS Substitute Railroad Labor Bill Offered In the House. Washington. Feb.

by Representative Lenroot of sin, Republican, of a measure desianed as a substitute for President Wit. son's railway labor bill, already sub. mitted by Representative Adamson of Georgia, foreshadows a lively fight in the house. The Republicans are preraring to line up in support of the Lenroot bill, which would permit ployes to strike, but lockouts 11- legal and prohibit employers from advancing wages or otherwise settling any controversy with their employes. or raising rates while disputes were being investigated by a federal board.

England to Take Over Mines. London. Feb. -The board of trade will take possession of the coul mines throughout the kingdom for the duration of the war. It will create a new department for the administra sion of mines.

State's Oldest Maccabee. Mansfield, Feb. L. Mason, seventy-two, said to be the oldest member of the Knights of Maccabees in Ohio, died at his home near Ashland. Former Postmaster Held.

Columbus, Feb. Walling, postmaster at Circleville. arraigned before Vaited States Commissioner Johnson on a charge of enbezzlement, and bound over to the grand jury of next June for $2,000. BUCKEYE BRIEFS Laborer Killed. Middletown, 0., Feb.

-Michael O'Toole. forty-eight. a laborer, who mysteriously assaulted on the street. is dead. Before death O'Tcola became conscious enough to tell the authorities that he had entered the wrong house by mistake and was knocked down.

Indicted Cashier Passes Away. New Richmond. Feb. W. McMurchy.

former cashier of the Old First National bank of this city. who was under indictment by a federal grand jury, charged with violating the national banking laws. is dead Mc7 lurchy's trial was to have come up in the federal court at Cincinnati this month. Socialist Freed by Jury. Cincinnati, Feb.

Baker of Hamilton. Socialist editor, was acquitted by the iury in the United States district court here on an indictment which. in a number of counts. charged that he had printed Janguage that reflected on the officers and members of the Third regiment, Ohio national guard. TEUTONS CAPTURE 1,200 RUSSIANS British Announce Successes In Nernorth France.

New York, Feb. British in the Ancre and other regions on the French front continue to make raids on German positions. Their most suncessful operation was northeast of Arras. where the British entered 250 vards of German defenses and reached their third line. Many Germans were killed and some prisoners and machine gun captured.

The Ancre raid was southeast of Grandcourt, where a strong position was captured. German trenches on the Somme and northeast of Ypres also have been en tered by the British. In the Roumanian theater. near Meste Canesti, the Germans have captured and held against counter attacks several Russian positions and made 23 officers and more than 1,200 men prisoners. In addition the Ger.

mans secured three cannon. twelve machine guns and six mine throwers. To the north, in Volhynia. German attacks southwest of Lutsk were repulsed by the Russians. Still farther north, in the Lake Drisviaty region.

the Germans penetrated Russian trenches, but later were driven out. Entente attacks against heights recently taken from them by the Ger. mans in the Cerne Bend, on the Mace. donian front. were repulsed.

according to Berlin. 10 SELL ARMS TO CUBANS United States Takes Steps to Combat Revolution. Washington. Feb. a confer.

ence at the war department in which Secretary of War Baker. Brigadier General Crozier, chief of the bureau of ordnance. General Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff of the army, and other general staff officers participated. 1c was agreed to sell to the Cuban government to combat the revolution 10.000 rifles and 2.000.000 rounds of ammunition.

The munitions will be transported to the island republic a3 rapidly as possible from arsenals on the southern Atlantic seaboard. The dispatch of the munitions was put 111 the hands of General Crozier with instructions to use all possible haste. Adriatic Reaches Port. New York, Feb. White Star line steamship Adriatic, the first big passenger vessel to leave New York after Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare began.

hag arriv. ed safely at Liverpool. according to a rablegram received here by the ternational Mercantile Marine. WEATHER FORECAST Ohio--Generally fair: colder. Daily Calendar.

From noon today to noon tomorrow: Sun sets. 0:36: moon rises, 1:34 a. sur. rises, 6:52. SUFFRAGE BILL PASSES SENATE Gives Women Right to Vote For Presidential Electors.

NOW GOES TO GOVERNOR Measure Giving Quail Perpetual tection In Ohio Is Amended In Senate and Passed-Adjournment Resolution Before Solons Sets March 8 as Date For Recess--Legislative Proceedings. Columbus, Feb. a vote of 20 to 16, the Ohio senate passed the Rey. nolds bill, already passed by the house, and which gives women the right to vote for presidential electors. The measure was put through after an extended debate in which many tributes were paid to womanhood.

Governor Cox is expected to sign the measure when it is presented to him. The biggest crowd that ever jammed the senate chamber was present. In the audience was practically every state official and most of the members of the supreme court. Suffragists outnumbered the "antis" at least 10 to 1. Senator Berry of Allen county opened the fight with a vigorous appeal for women.

"I have one wife and ten daughters and I think I know what noble creatures they are," Berry declared. Senator Holden, Warren county, led the fight against the Reynolds bill, with a declaration that its passage by the legislature was contrary to the spirit of the initiative and referendum, and that the women of Ohio do not want the ballot. Senator Jones of Columbus said woman suffrage would nearly double election expenses. He claimed the legislature had no constitutional right to pass such a law. The following senators voted against the measure: Apple of by.

Crawford of Monroe, Gilmore of Preble. Harding of Hamilton. Hall of Auglaize, Horn of Wayne, Jones of Franklin. Kennedy of Cuyahoga, Lloyd of Franklin. Miller of Crawforu, O'Brien of Hamilton, Shohl of Hamiiton.

Snyder of Lucas, Thomas of Wood, White of Sandusky and Wright of Cuyahoga. Opponents of the measure started a movement to bring about another vote. as soon as the result was announced. They must swing two senators who voted "ave" into line be. fore they will have an opportunity to defeat the bill on second rollcall.

ator Holden, author of the joint lution which has been adopted by the senate and awaits action in the house, calling for a referendum vote in the fall on unrestricted suffrage for wom en. voted against the Reynolds bill on rollcall. He then asked to have his vote registered as favoring it, with the avowed purpose of moving a reconsideration Adjournment Resolution. Representative Chapman, Dayton, introduced 8 honse joint resolution setting March as the date when the legislature will recess to meet again for final adjournment March 20. At the same time Majority Leader Stokes put in a resolution for appoint: ment of a committee of five members to control the order in which the more important bills are to be vanced on the bouse calendar.

This means that many less important bilis. though reported out by committee, will be drowned in the closing days. Governor Cox will submit his bud. get for the noxt two years at a joint session of the general assembly at 4 p. m.

today, This will be done by the governor in person for the first timo in vears. The Obio senate, after an hour of debate, passed the bill to put quail 011 the Ohio songbird list. The senate, however, insisted on two amendments to the bill, one to appropriate $4,000 for the propagation of quail, and another to take the Carolina dove off the songbird list. The house had passed the hill without these two amendments, which were compromise measures agreed to by farmer representatives and sportamen backers. The vote on the bill was 31 to 1.

Senator Harding of Hamilton county cast the only dissenting vote. Ice Gorges Menacing. Pittsburgh. Feb, craft and other property along the Monone gahela and Allegheny rivers. as well as their trOutartes, are menaced by about fifty ice gorges.

which have an sumed threatening proportions, cording to a statement made at the office of the United States engineer here. One of the worst gorges la at Franklin. where the Ice extends nearly forty miles up the Allegheny river..