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12 PAGES TO DAY THE CING NQUIKER WEATHER Bhowers Monday ud probably Tuesday. Temperatnr yesterday MaxJnMun, 74; mrnln-iBin, 51. Dlanef Weather Bavorl oa Pasm I VOL. LXXHL NO. 143 MONDAY MORNING, MAY 22, 1916 PRICE FIVE CENTS Soldiers 1EX annua; on Bagdad' $aid To Be Immieeinl Joiini Mesopot Allied SNORTER Lays Town Waste.

Nine Lives Snuffed Out and 38 Are Injured When Tornado Levels Kemp City, Okla. Dead Picked Up Hundreds of Yards From Scene. Villagers 'Trapped as Houses Collapse. Babe Is Hurled 500 Fee With Flying Debris, But Escapes With Minor In juries Twister Sweeps Path Three fourths of a Mile arsotAt, MvtTci to Denison, Tnu, May 21. Nine persons were killed end IS Injured, end Kemp City, eight mtlee eeet of Denison, wee destroyed1 by tornedo which hut night swept path three quartan of mile wide, end Are Brilee lone In the Kemp City section.

Only three email dwelling remain stand lng at Kemp City. Twelve business house, a two-story hotel end 60 residences were demolished In Kemp City. This Is the seeoad -tune In recent years that the little town of Sou In habitant, has been flatted by tornado. Merchant, said that the town probably weald not be rebuilt Child Dies la Collapse. Eight were killed In the town, while the ether victim, child, was killed In the collapse of Its father's home Just soroes the Red River In Texas.

The dead: HR. AND MRU. E. X. COX DR.

AND MRS. WILLIAM BRINBON. CHANET BATTLE, Cashier ef the Bank ef Kemp. M. B.

THOMAS, Postmaster. ARTLLX PLEASANT. MRS. J. W.

BtVXLT. SIX-TEAR-OLD DAW3HTER of Dr. J. I. McCalkragh.

Of the SB persons Injured, St are resident, of Kemp City. Two daughter, ef Dr. MeCullough were hurt at the time their roe user sister was killed In the MeCullough home, Are ml lea eest of Denison. Most ef theee Injured were caught In the collapse of buildings while trying to reach storm eellara shortly after the broke at p. m.

storm A Babe Had Harrow Escape. The dead la several Instances were found hundreds ef yards from where tbeiraousee had stood. The two-year-old of Dr. 'and Mrs. Brlneon, who were killed, was hurled SO feet with flying debrls when the Brlneoa residence was destroyed, but the child saffered only miner Injuries.

After the storm pessed emergency treatment waa given the Injured In darkness, with rain falling In torrents. A special train, carrying 13 physicians from Denison, did not reach Kemp until several hours after the tornado passed. WATCHES HIIGHBOB'S HOUSE Picked Up By Tornado, Then Finds Bimaslf Hoisted SO feet la Air. wklai. aiar.Tcs rsa sxoeieas.

Dee Moines, Iowa, May 11. A tor' nado traveling l( miles an hour struck BtirrslL nine miles east of here, and Picked up a one-story frame house in which Its owner. George Forbe'y, waa sitting and carried It down the fleld 10 yards. Ferbey waa la ths house watching the storm when suddenly his own home waa lifted IS feet in the air. The houpe spun around several times in the eourse of Its Journey.

He escaped serious njury. Another storm struck near Newton, C0NT1HUED OH SECOND PAGE. Lynches Life Is Must Serve Ten Years Mir JEREMIAH C. LYNCH STBCUI. OABU TO ras bsqcisss.

London, May 11 That Jeremiah C. Lynch, a cltlsen of the United States, was condemned to death by a British Court-martial was officially admitted to-day by the Foreign Office. Lynch', sentence, as has been previously announced, has -been commuted, to 10 years penal servitude. Lynch, a cltlsen of New York and former President of the Gaelle League, waa, according to a statement made by the Foreign Office, an active par ticipant, in the Dublin rebellion. "There was clear evidence of Lynch's activity In the rebellion." ssys ths statement.

"He la known to have been a prominent agitator before the outbreak. He was at the poatofflce dressed In a rebel officer's uniform. He waa sentenced to death, but the officer commanding commuted the sentence to penal servitude for 10 SISTERS Are Traced To Alaska. Nelms Girls, Once Alleged Tt Have Bees Slain, Are Fennd ii Northwest, Messages Declare. ericiit, switci to tbi bhquirbs.

Atlanta. May 21. Elol. Nelms Den. tils and Beatrice Nelme, sisters, who disappeared from Atlanta In IBM and.

whose relatives have held they were murdered by Victor E. Innes, are alive and In Alaska, according- to telegrams received to-night from M. J. McGlnnes, attorney. of Snohomish," from which town Chief of Police Bllllns wired Satur day night that Mrs.

Elois Dennis, the elder of the vsnlshed had lived there from September. 114, until August, UU, at which time shs moved to Alaska. Mrs. Tlois E. 'Dennis Is In Alsska, but must have time to locate her.

Her sister, Beatrice Nelms, Is with her. Give me time and I will locate both of them," the message' from McGulnnes. Chief Bllllns wired: i "Mrs. Elols E. Dennis lived In Snohomish until jflugust.

1915, then went to Alaska. Have not heard of her since, but she can be found by going to, Seattle." 1 'When the Nelms gfrla, who were weslthy, disappeared it developed, that Elols Nelms Dennis was Infatuated with Victor E. Innes, of Portland, attorney, who had obtained a divorce for her tn Reno, Nev. The evidence Indicated that Innes had received large sums of money from Elois Nelms Dennis, and her relatlvee alleged he had. lured the girls swsy and murdered them for the large sum of money they carried with them.

Innes and his wife were arraigned on the murder charge In San Antonio. Texas, but the charge fell through. Then they were estrsdlted to Georgia to answer a charge of swindling Elols Nslms Dennis out of large sums, and. are In Atlanta JsH awaiting trial ATT0RJTET KILLS SHSBTTF. sraciAi.

ni.r.Tca to ras nvtisaa. Elberton. Oa, May 21. Sheriff 8. N.

Heller, of Elbert County, was shot and killed in the eourthouee here to-day by Arnold Worley, a well-known attorney of tale city. Cltlsens were greatly excited and, Worley was. sent to Athens. to await trial. It Is said that a quarrel start.

when Worley cherged Hslley with being unduly rough with a negro prisoner. SNIPERS Attack Little Band Of Americans, Who Later Trail Outlaw Force. One Soldier Is Struck By Bandits' Fire. "Gringoes" Being Chased From the Republic, Is Yarn of Mexicans "Pursuing" Troops, Who Hide or Disarm if Pershing's Men Turn. Yaquis Threaten Langhorne's Detachment, Report Says Telegraph Line Is Torn Down.

srsciaL mspATra to tbi asocisst. Field Headquarters, Mexico, May M. vU Wireless to Columbus, N. May XL) Thirteen5 troopers of the Seventh Cavalry were fired upon yesterday near the town of Temosachls and one was nded. The aTKTFla aicrfber ft in dite- aiding under brldgs near UtS town.

which Is a few miles southeast of Mader on ths Mexican Northwestern Railway. Answering the fir of the bandits 'he Americans wounded one Mexican. Owing to the overwhelming numbers of the enemy the Americans did not pursue, butJ to-day (Saturday) they Joined the detachment of Major Domingo, at th Santa Ana ranch, on the Hearst property. Re -enforced by a party of vaqueros, trie soldiers took up the trail of bandits whs attacked outlytof huts in the vicinity of the ranch, and fired a number of shots, Two Carranclstaa Slain, Later another small party of bandits, attacking a Oarransista camp on ths Ssn Luis ranch, a few miles south of the American camp at San Oeronimo, killed twq Carranxa soldiers. American sent In pursuit of ths Vllistaa found ths ranch had been looted and that th raiders had escaped toward Santo Tomas, a point on ths Hex loo Northwestern Railroad, southeast ef Provldencla.

A small group of Mexicans Is falling tn behind the American columns as ther move northward, always keeping out of sight, but telling the nsttvee that they are chsslng ths "gringoes" from Mexican soil. Either Elds or Disarm. They atop whenever ths American, halt and hide or disarm If General Pershing's men approach (hem. Two suppositions are prevalent regarding the Identity of thess men. One Is that they ars Carraniletas trying to.

give the American movement the appearanos of a retreat. The other Is that they are bandits, seeking to annoy ths Americans by sniping. The latter conjecture is regarded as the more probable This Is ths first Intimation received recently that American soldiers ware stationed so far to the south. All reports hsve pieced their southernmost point st Namiqulpa, which Is a consideraols dls-tancs to the north of Temoeachlc, from which It la also separated by the Sierra Mad re range. LA5GH0RSE THEEATEJTED.

By Taqul Indians, Be port Bays Telegraph Lin Torn Down, pracui. i-iwrATCW to tss siecisss. Marathon. Texas, May 11. Captain H.

Evans, commanding the signal corps section on duty south of Marathon, arrived here to-night from ths river with the Information that Mexicans hsd torn down part of the army telegraph line near Deemer's Ford. One of the twenty-foot poles on which ths. wire Is strung was found broken la three pieces Friday night OJTTIOTID OB" KCOJfTJ VaGkT CLAIMS OF TWO MEN To lama Wife Beault In Ohioan Ba ins; Seriously Wounded, snout. siaraToa To ras sseorsas. Marietta.

Ohio, May of two men for the same wife resulted In a shooting affray at Lowell, Washington County, early to-day. Fred Rubra, It la alleged, shot Charles Tanner, at Marietta, who sought to force an entrance Into Rubrake's bouse. Rubra ke Is In Jail here. Tanner Is seriously wounded. Nearly a year ago, Rubrake and Ethel West, young Marietta woman, were married and went to lire at Lowell.

10 miles north of the dty. Their life was un eventful for several months. Thsn Tan. ner appeared on the sosns and showed a marriage license that ha said had been Issued several years ago to him and Rubrake's wife. The latter explained that the license was secured ss a Joke an never had been used.

Tanner, however, claimed it was genuine and demanded bis wife. After an Investigation. Rubrake drove Tanner fpm his home. A few weeks later Tanner again appeared at the Rubrake home and started trouble. Rubrake drove htm away with the warning that if he ever returned he would shoot him.

Tanner stayed away until early to-day. TWO PERSONS DROWNED Whan Boat TJpeets Whll Picture Is Being Taken. BFBCIAI. DlWiiri TO TBS svqrissB. Terr Haute, May Irene Walls, 18 years old, and Gsrlsnd Eaton.

a student of ths Indiana Stats Normal School, both of Terra Haute, to-day were drowned In Eel River, near Jesonvllle, Isdlana. The bodies were recovered several hours later. The victims were members of a picnic party on a day's outing. Four young persons were posing In a row boat for their photographs when ths craft waa upset Orville Eaton, brother of the man who wes drowned, and Miss Ruth Bpork were able to reach the river bank. Efforts to save their eompentons failed.

EMIGRANTS Massacred By-Turks. Armenian 'Population of Trebiiond Exterminated Russians Lift Veil 8hreading Fate of Refugees. racut CABLa TO ms BseoraBB. Bucharest, Msy 21. Sines ths entry of the Russians Into Treblsond It Is alble to lift the veil which hitherto haa shrouded the fate of the Armenian popu Istlon of that city.

Ths Russian troops found all the Ar menlan bouses plundered and mostly In ruins. They had been pillaged bar the Turks, ths authorities Interposing no op position. The deportation of Armenians was carried oat in accordance with instructions from Constantinople. About 300 of ths leading families received ths order to prepare for emigration and purchased wag ons to transport their property, but four days sfter their departure, all the wag ons were brought bsck to ths town. The emigrant, had been massacred and their property plundered.

Other esch of several hondred followed. This process continued for soms Urns. Eventually, how ever, new methods were adopted. The police entered the houses of ths remaining Armenians snd forcibly expelled them. They were driven through the streets and ths houses were locked up.

The whole Armenian population of Treblsond, numbering 10,000, was thus eitermlneted. At Erserum, where the Armenian population Is astlmsted to havs been 2B.0OU, practically the ssme program was car-lied out. RIOTERS Escape From Dublin By Being Placed In Coffins and Carried To Graveyards. irartAL ca.l. to TsaswetnsBB.

London. May n. in me nrsi excite ment of the round-up by the military authorities of the participants In the Dublin uprisings after the leaders began to surrender, number of Btna Feiners escaped In eofflna, scoordlng to a report thst has reached here through the Sinn Fein "underground railroad." The escapes are said to have been facilitated by the momentary relaxation of th un usual rules concerning death and. burial certificates. i Tbs method wss complete.

The' sup posed corpse would bs placed In a hsarss and followed by a few friends to ths burial ground. After the services at ths gravs the priest would be called away and engaged In conversation, thus giving the grave diggers an opportunity to surround ths coffin and lift up the "corpse." The released man waa able to walk if secleded end of the graveyard and thus to liberty. WAITE TO PLEAD INSANITY lei A rh I CLARA Peck waite arscuL BieraTcs to tsb bmouibss. New Tork. Msy trial of Dr.

Arthur Warren Walte for the murder of his weslthy father-in-law. John E. Peck, of Grand Rapids, will hsgln here to-mor row morning. Among the 111 wltne.ee. who hsvs been summonsd by ths prosecution to testify against Walte is his wife, Mrs.

Clara Peck Walte, of Grand Rapids, who has sued him for divorce. Twenty ethos, from "Grand Rapids, who arrived here to-day, will ap pear against Walts, While the defense has mads no official statement aa to what Its course will be a plea of Inaanu will be offered. Walte has contended that he was posseesed of two personalities, ths svil one of which Impelled him to. take the lives of hi. wlfe'a parents.

Alienists will appear as witnesses on both sides. Four Persons Are Killed When Train Hits Machine W.Ct.L SIITATca TO TSB BXOPIBBB. New Ohio, Msy B. Four persons were killed when a fast Pennsylvania Railroad train hit an automoblls three miles west of here to-day. The deed: MRS.

FRANK WILSON. years old. HER DAUGHTER PAULINE, yesrs old. MRS. E.

a. yesrs old. HER DAUGHTER LOURAINB, years old. All resided here. The four, with Mr.

Wlleon snd Mr. Pnrdy, were on their wsy to the Tuscars-was River, 'whe-e they were to pass the day fishing. Purdy. who wss driving, stopped the car on the railroad tracks snd Wilson stsrted to open a gale to permit them to take a short cut to the river. None noticed the approaching flier until it was too Ists to escape.

Mr. Wilson, being the only one not In BIFF! Larkin, Irish Leader, Leaps From the Stage of Chicago Theater and Mauls Englishman. srsciat, mar.TCB to tbs sorissa. Chicago, May Larkin, founder of the Irish Cltlsen Army, st a reasonably safs dlatance from the center of trouble, to-day leaped across th orchestra pit from ths stsgs st sn opera house snd mauled and threw out Matthew Thomas Newman, an Englishman, who wss sitting In the fifth row of the theater and who hsd criticised some of the statements. Ths Incident came during the earliest part of a mass meeting which had been called to protest sgalnst the execution of James Connolly and 13 other Irish rev.

olutlonlsts. Ths Incident put the audience in One fighting trim and Larkin returned to the and made a fiery speech, reflecting seriously upon ths parentage and antecedents of Newman or anyone elss who criticised the Irish patriots or who pre sumed to speak In behalf of England. Dr. ARTHUR. WARREN WATTE: Two hundred and fifty talesmen have been summoned for Jury duty and It Is believed the, first two days of ths trial will be consumed In empaneling a Jury because of the wide publicity which has been given the cass since It was learned ths aged "Michigan millionaire's death was caused by poison which his son-in-law has confessed administering to him.

The District Attorney's office nounoed to-night that Mrs. Margaret Horton, formerly of Cincinnati, "ths studio companion" of Walts, will ap pear as a witness for ths prosecution, Another who will testify sgalnst ths defendant. It was said, will bs Eugene Oliver Ksns, tbs smbalmsr, wtio al leges Wslte tried to bribe him to tes tify thst poison was used In the fluid with which Mr. Peck's body was tn balmed. I the car a ths time, was abls to Jump from ths track, but toe others were caught In the machine and crushed.

Purdy esoaps Is considered to be wonderful, as he wss hurled a great dis tance and caught under the automobile. Mrs. Purdy waa a sister of Wilson. Ths trsln Is said to have been running 0 miles an hour when It struck the mechlne. TWO MEN KILLED And Three Injursd Whan Auto Crashes Into Bailroad Train.

raciAL ifcarATCa to ths Wilmington, Msy 1L Two men are dead and three ssrtously Injursd ss ths result of a tsxlcsb ers.hlng Into a freight train near Newcastle, shout midnight Isst night The desd ars: William H. Hawss and CONTINUED ON SECOND PAOX. DIPLOMACY Displayed By Rockefeller's Orantjson When He "Touches" Millionaire For a Nickel. mna. diwatcs to tss sxerisss.

Tsrrytown. N. Msy 21. John D. Rockefeller was "touched" to-day, and right In church, too.

Hs attended cervices st. the Lyceum, Pocantlco Hills, and son did his son and grandchildren. After service young Wlnthrop Rockefeller beckoned to his grsndfathsr snd said ha had a little matter to adjust with him. Whea his grandfather reached his slds and bent 6ver to get the secret message Wlnstrop said: "Oratdpop, I'vs got a big kiss for you." Rockefeller was wis. Hs smiled, put his hand bis vest pocket, where he keeps his loose and.

digging out a new nickel, banded It to his grandson, who slreedy had his hand out When the tittle fellow's fingers clasped the coin he put his 'srms around his grandfather's neck ard gave him a smack as ths rest of ths congregation looked oa. "He'll take cars of himself In th's world." ssld Mr. Rockefeller, as he pelted the boy's hesd approvingly. Wild Ride Ends When Czar's Cavalrymen Meet Force Under General Gorringe. Strong Commands onWay To ffect Junction With Advanced Column.

English and Slavs Soon To Strike Heavily To Counteract Series of Defeats Inflicted on Townshend's Troops Before Capitulation at Kut-el-AmararKing George's Sol-diers Are Pushing Forward Along the Right Bank of Tigris-Battle at Verdun Continues Furiously. rsoiAt oasis to tbs Bsermtss. London. May 11. Russian troop hv Joined the British In Mesopotamia, and an allied driv on Bagdad la bslleved to be Imminent.

Th Brltl.h, with their Russian com rades, Is bellved, soon will striae heavily at th Turk In a determined ef fort to counteract the series of defeats inflicted upon General Towrshsnd troops before their final capitulation, dm to starvation, at Kut-l-Amara. The Russians, after a wild snd sdren-turous rids from Persia. Joined the column of General Sir O. Oorrlnge. whloh Is fighting Its way up ths Tigris toward Kut This British force, originally dls-pltched as a relist expedition to succor the beleagusred army at Kut, now is ths wedge for.

a Russo-Brltiah campaign against the sacred city of Islam. The RusstsB forces which to-day Joined with ths British srs merely ths advance guard, tt la stated, of strong commends now on their way to effect a Junction. Bagdad 130 Mil Away. The combined smiles are about 1W miles from Bsgdid. They ars fighting on the same ground over which Town sbend advanced to Cteslphon, Just below Bsgdad, where he met his disastrous de feat.

A further advsnos for General Oor- rin.e troops on the right bank of the Tigris also Is officially reported. A stats- msnt received from General Sir Percy Lake, commander-in-chief of operations In tbs Mesopotamlan the.ter. says: "On May It the enemy evacuated Bethaleasa, an ad vs need position on ths right bank of ths Tigris. General Sir O. Oorrlnge, following up the enemy, attacked and carried a redoubt at Ths enemy Is still holding ths Sannay- yat position on the right bank of the Tigris.

A force of Ruulaoveavalry Joined Gen eral Oorrlnge after a bold and adven turous rids." The floods, which for more than a month hindered Oeaeral Oorrlnge ad- vancVare reported to have subsided. This column hss a strong supply line, boats oa ths Tigris connecting It with Its base. Ad vane Is Continued. Petrograd reports the Russians ars keeping up their advances on Mosul. Around Verdun the fighting between ths French and the Germs ns-continues with great violence, especially between the Avecourt Wood and the River Me use, northwest of ths fortress.

A French first-line trench and slopes oa the west of Ls Mort Homms have been captured by the Germans, while tbs French hgvs taken two Gormen trenches OB the road from Ksnes to Haucourt Numerous German attacks have been repulsed. Berlin reports that more than -UWo French were taken prisoner and that lo machine guns and sight cannon wore captured In the region of Ls Mort Homme. Northeast of the fortress the French have taken from the Germans ths Hau-dromont quarries, which hsd been strongly organised, and captured 80 prisoners and four machine guns. Oa the remainder of the front th fighting baa consisted From Persia mainly of artillery duels and numerous combats the air. In the aerial lighting aviators of both sides wars brought down.

The official Austrian report of May 30 shows further extensive gains In the new offanalve movement In the Southern Tyrol, which has carried th Auatriana onto Italian territory. The statsment records ths expulsion of the Italians from Col Santo Rldgs, southeast of Rovereto, and important capture of msn and guns. Ths text of the communication Is ss follows: Driven Farther Back. "Austro-Hungarlan attacks drov the enemy farther back on th front la South ern Tyrol and In th Sugana Valley. Austro-Hungarlan entered Ronosgno, On Armentara Rldgs Austro Hungarian troops captured Sssioalto, Passo BelU.

Vena, Tonessa and Monte Mellgone, eat of the conquered fortified position or Campomlon. At this point th Italia gathered their forces hsetlly for a counter-attack, but they were repulsed Immediately. Th Italians were also drlr. from Col Banto. i "Bines ths beginning of the Austru-Hungnrlan attack havs captured 2 Italian officers and more than 12,000 men, 68 maohlns gun and 10T oannon.

Including 12 howltsers of 58 centimeters. "Austrian-Hungarian aviators bombarded the railway stations at Peperl, Vicente, Castsl Franca, Trevlfo. Casarsa, snd Civldad, ana stations of the enemy's nsval seroplanes." An official communique Issued In Rome this afternoon reviews th sventa of the laat sevsn days. Lading to the rectification of the Italian line between th Adlg and Aatlco Velleys, and explains tbs res- sons for the Italian retreat "Only Served as Baa." Th comrountqu says that "owing to the nature of th ground th positions which wsre abandoned were not destined to be of permanent but only to Bar v. a bsse for further advance, Speaking of the Austrians success the communique stalest "Th Austrians began their offsnslvs with equal Intensity on seven different Meters, namely the Ledro Valley, ths St.

Pellegrino. Vallsy, Marmoiata, the upper I'ordeveio, the head of th See bach Val ley, the heights northwest of Gorlxla snd Monf. Icons. Wherever the Italian lines were per manently -fortified the offensive failed. The offensive sacceeded at only one point" The communique condudee: "In a bul letin the Austrians boast about th re sults actus ved and deecrlbed as decl.lv.

successes which ars nothing more or leu than the results of the! first offensive impact Ths history of every other offensive la this war proves that th. flrct easy jeans shead ar Inevitably followed by long wearing down pauses whea sttacktng force faces well garrisoned and fortified position, and. leave behind Ii. heavy artillery. a Confidence la Expressed.

Every offensive baa two phairs. namely the Initial crisis, which Is general ly favorable to the aggressor, and ths n-- establlshment of equlllbrum. which la favorable to defender. We msy contemplate the development of the operations with absolute Ths jAustralns, by thee. opc tions, sre endeavaring to extricate the elvee from the strictly defensive pu tlon into which they were placed a yi ago In pursuance of the allied plan." The following official communlcr, tlon.

also was Issued In Rome to-d "In the Lagarlna Valley the en. yesterday bombarded our position. Bom.ugna. Late la the evening.