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i it For 25 Cents an -Advertisement la') Yrt rri 7 i 4z ii te- THE WEATHER' '-1s THE TIMES WANT COLUMNS I rril 4 "I -fi '141'''' 1 Talks to Everybody in Chattanooga i I i 1 1 I 1 il 0 I 1 1 1 I 'F- I 1 )1 1 I r)1 4'14'C11 'il lr N- it i 1 -ij -riaN 1 1 i and Irkinity t-74 447 1 1r Aiklp 44) ta0s dt 07 40p ciayFensaentti'd 0 edsomewhat warmer i 11 VOI NO 286 CflATTANOOGA TENN 31017-DAY SEPTE3113ER 25 1916 1 PRICE: ONE CENT I LoNDoN GuNs Strikerls Post Pickets- TO EMPHASIZE Edgar Allen PoTe Ai Had DEmocRATic Died Near Scene of First Aerial Battle Aong Transit Lines otiting on Story ri Ilk nt i r- ItAl II r- An ma own aNkt owl 2 rP I I ir's ORk i i Vaill10 For 25 Cents Advertisement an la') THE TIMES WANT COLUMNS I I Talks to Everybody in Chattanooga and Vicinity LONDON GUNS 1 1- 1 Strikers Post Pickets L' Along Transit Ines To EMPHASIZE Edgar Allen Poe Had Notzing on TItis Story DEMOCRATIC DieclNear Scene of First Aerial Battle WAR SHIFTS TO' THE SKIES ADAMSON LAW BROADSIDE ESI ivity )N ITION eports 'heir mts ppelini Pin two th pro- in the of the 1 ittle of 1 ults In Activity Reports Their Fronts Zeppelin' two in the of the battle of results Union Men Caught Riding or( New York Cars Will Be paring for Walkout NEW 1011K Sept several unions representing various trades met and discussed plans for the threatened -suspension of work" Wednesday in aid of the carmen WIVO quit their placea Sept ti active picketing of the transit line which have been declared "unfair" by organized was begun by thousands of men and women Sentinels were posted throughout the City to watch for union men riding on the cars All cases of tie kind will be reported to the unions which the men belong and fines will be assessed it was said Eight hundred coopers affiliated with the Inngsboremen's union it was announced voted in favor of a general strike They will take no further action however until a definite decision is reached by the longshoremen it was said Except for sporadic attacks against elevated railway trainsby men lurking on housetops there was little outward change in the situation Service on the subway and elevated lines continued while surface par travel showed improvement What few attack's there were upon cars tislay were of a minor character according to the police No one was injured Jitneya and various other vehicles pressed into service during the strike apparently did a thriving business especially on the east side of the city where many union sympathizers refused to patronize the transit companies PROVE VALUE Daylight Reveals Wrecks of Two Zeppelins ONE AIRSHIP'S ENTIRE CREW MADE PRISONERS Only Charred Bodies In Other Bombs However Take Heavy Toll of Ufe and Property LONDON Sept 24--Of the twelve Zeppelins which Invaded the British Le last night to deal dclith and de-'traction from the skies two today lay stark and black masses of steel and aluminum in the little village of Mangold Essex county They fell victims of the abti-aircraft defenses of London and outlying districts 01 le came down a flaming torch as did the Zeppelin L-1 destroyed three weeks ago whiie the second disabled by guntr etTeeted a landing which' saved the lives of the crew who tonight are prisners in England The crew of the first raider died in the consuming dames of their own ship but they were not so terribly charred as their predecessors The latest raider to light her own funeral way on Englisch soil collapsed sad was consumed much more quickly than the It is possible though that sonic of the men were still living heti the great vessel struck the ground The captain's body was found some distance from the wreck The death and burning of the "first Zeppelin was Witnessed by tens of thousands Of London's residents but the wounding and descent of the second raider was a matter of doubt until to-days official statetnents were given out Few details are available of this second raider's condition but it is reliably reported that the crew surrendered to special constables Shrapnel Bursts Like Skyrockets Maliy who saw the shrapnel bursting like skyroekets about the invader which subsequently caught fire think there must live been several direct hits Many aeroplanes were aloft and attacked the Zeppelins from all sides The raiders took a heavy toll of lives before their destruction twenty-eight persons being killed and ninety-Mao 'voanded in the n2etropolitan district of Sondon- Tsvo'personii were killed probtray four and seventeen were wounded ba the province The property damage widely distributed is confined for the most part to small suburban dwellings and shops elthough one railway Station was dam- iged some empty ears being destroyed slid part of the tracks torn up The roar of dropping bonito was heard in many districts where the raiders were inviaible It is not believed that more than two or three invading 'Leppeline Ilich crossed the east coast succPeded in reaching the environs of Lon' don and that two of these paid the death penalty gives the greatest satisfaction to the military zi ntho ri Apart from the losa of material the casualties of the two raids it is believed will ti ft depressing effect on the moral of the Zeppelin crews in the lature TS were jubilant today but there was not the same exultant enthusiasm as three weeks ego indicating that the destruction of giant sky raiders is already taken as an ordinary incident in thk iinnsnal world war Searchlight Picked Out the Raiders The fact that the arships were llought down well outside of London both last night ant ept 3 shows the tare with which the defenses have been developed The efficiency in dealing with the raiders was further evidenced by the 'Weed ith which the seareh1ight24 pieked Lit the tiNt raider that appeared above the suburbs about midnight Suddenly searchlight beam allot into the starlit skY Three more dazzling shafts followed and within fifteen seconds the Whirring airships were caught in the toils and the guns began sending up shrieking shrapnel shells For a minute or -two the raider kept its eonrse then wavered turned partly away and suadenlv disoolved apparently into the air Evidently the Zerrpelin was beclouded in the smoke and the lights lost her eompletely In the meantime havrever bombs were dropping and red flare were visible as the- hit the earth Then the city was ntliet tor an hour the Pearchlights flashing only oceaitionally in the hunt for raiders All London within sound of the guns and bombs was out to ogee the spectacle and deqvaired Of further excitement when well to the eastward a tiny rlow aPpeared low in the sky It looked 617tt like the moon rising red in its last allazter from tehind a cloud bank From the eitr it appeared to hang stationary tillnute or morn then glowing redder tad redler slovelv turned to the perpendiettlar and streaked into the gloom of the smoky night ground-mist To the watchers in Essex however the 1)01713 1 of the flaming falling ZePPelias had all the thrills of excitement which marked the end of the 14-21 and they ebNred the gunner and their fortnnnte shots that brought the raiders to earth London Expected Saturday Night Attack L'Io eikpected the attack of last rizht the Germans evidently having Staturtlav for their greatest Brit a bright moon deterred any since three weeks ago when thirteen raiders came over tbe soa The from the unlucky thirteen to "'MVP last night broil-ht however svole rather than better luck to the flying scirndron Froth) the moment the first Zeppelin Impeared it was evidentithat the raiders wore of the now and large types This has been borne Out by the two brought loam One of the hnrning Zeppell4n in falling rrashed through a row of trees in Essex two of which pierced the lattice work of the envelope supports The village fire enzine was quickly on the scene and be-ran 'putn ng water on the blazing wreck Polies constables and volunteers removed the bodies as rapidly ns possible Some of these were charred beyond Kiffen Rockwell Had Been Promoted to Second Lieutenant But Never Knew It PARIS Sept aerial fight in which Sert Kiffen Rokwell of Atlanta was mortally wounded yesterday morning by a German airman took plaee over the town of Thann The body of the American aviator fell in recoaquered territory in AISQ(se near the spot where Rockwell sint down his first adversary five months ago Rockwell was serving as a volunteer In the Franeo-Auterican flying eorps on the Verdun front A few hours previous to the engagement he bad been promoted to the rank of seeond lieutenant but died without knowing' of the new honor II uiready had received the military medal for shooting down a German machine near Hartmansweiler-Kopt in May Ile had beaten another before Verdun and had participated In a thrilling combat in which nearly all the Franco-Ainedcan flotilla was engaged with a 'trews German force Ile was wounded in the tight by a fragment of shell while engaged with one of the tree adversaries Seeeaut Rockwell was one of the first American volteiteers to Join the foreign legion Ile was grievously wounded in a bayonet attack at Arras in May 19IS before being transfereed to the flying corps He was regarded in French aviation circles as an "ace" a name given to the most skilled and daring pilots Lieut William Thaw of Pittsburgh before he was wounded and Rockwell math- a formidable lighting pace They frequently were in the air together and always chasing an adversary Rockwell has fought thirty-four air battles since recovering frain his last wound or an average of more than one a day NVhen he met 1115 death he was returning from a bombarding expedition in Nv bleb be flew one of the fighting machines that furnished the escort DUTCH STEAMER ALMOST HIT BY ENTENTE BOMB Missile Aimed at German Destroyer Convoying Prins Hendrik LONDON Sept Dutch mail steamer Prins Hendrik which was seized by German 118 tail vessels while bound from Flushing for London and taken into Zeebrugge NV8 8 in great danger when an entente allied aeroplane dropped within twenty feet of the steamer a bomb intended for a convoying German destroyer One Dutch passenger and two sailors were wounded This is the story told by passengers of the Prins Hendrik who have landed here Herbert Hoover chairman of the American commission for Belgan relief was standing beside the wounded passenger and narrowly escaped injury The hull of the vessel was punctured twenty-three times Au American courier was not molested by the Germans while Mr Hoover was allowed to pass when he showed his passport which was verified from a book carried by theexamining German The only other American aboard Isador Polak was taken ashore protesting vigorously but as his protests were made German his fellow passengers were i norant of the cause of his detention The only woman landed was the wife of Baron tie Andriont of the Belgian diplomatic service who elected to aeompally her husband NI Benoit of the French diplomatic service was removed but his wife remained aboard The only belligerent who avoided capture and detention was a 19-year-old French soldier Armed Schran who had escaped from a German prison camp Ile remained for five hews in a wooden tub that hid Leen opened and propped against the deckhouse Among the escaped prisoners eaotured were one French and one Russian officer The passenzers report that the Germans COINd uct ed the examination in a courteous but very business-like manner the chief examiner had a book that apparently contained the names of many of the passenzera The most prominent Englishman aboard was Irwin chairman of the fish corninssioar which regulates the disposal of the catch of the Scandinavian and Dutch fishing fleets The Prins Hendrik when leaving Zeebrugge escorted in addition to destroyers three Germans aeroplanes ihe pilots of which amused themsel-es by shooting wild ducks with their machine guns HUGHES RESTS ALL DAY Spends Time in Indianapolis With Dayton Today INDIANAPOLIS Did Sept Charles Hughes today followed hist usual procedure of resting on Sunday He spent the day at the home of Charles Fairbanks his running mate: limit tonight on his private car in the railroad yards and will leave early tomorrow to open his campaign at Dayton Ile will spend the day at Dayton making address before the National League of Republican Clubs at the soldiers' home and in the auditorium at night with an afternoon visit to the fair grounds POSTAL SAVINGS GAIN Increase of $5000moo In August Breaks Monthly Records WASHINGTON Sept in postal savings banks August increased nearly $5(s1)(Ss) the largest monthly gain since the system was estaslishod On Sopt 1 a total of 621000 depositors had accounts aggregating more than $A000000 to their credit INQUIRY INTO EXPLOSION Daniels Will Have Battleship Mich! gan Mishap Investigated WASHINGTON Sept Daniels today ordered a hoard of inquiry to convene tomorrow at the rbiladelphla navy yard to investigate the explogion of a twelve-inch gun On the battleship Michigan last week which caused serious injuries to one of the crew and extensive structural damage to the vesset BERMUDA STORM SWEPT Buildings Damaged and Trees Up rooted by Hurricane IIANLIuroN Bermuda Sept Bermuda was swept by a severe storm yesterday afternoon very general dam are being caused throughout the colony Many bnilding4 were badiv damaged Trees were uprooted and electric light and telephone communication was Policeman -Models fiKe on Skeleton With Clay and Identification of Dead Man Follows i4N7C YORK Sept 24--Thmugh the phrenological ingenuity of Grant WdHams a lieutenant of police here the authorities announced tonight they nad established the identity of a man's skeieton unearthed at Canarsie on Sept 12 and had made an arrest in connection with their efforts to solve au alleged murder mystery According to the police Lieut ilhams studied the bones of the skull and its contour and with modeling wax molded a face on the skull to resemble as cioseb- as possible the face of the man in life without having a description of him Recalling a feud at Canarsie several years ago persons who were familiar with some of those involved were brought to police headquarters to look at the face the lieutenant had made in the hope of identification In a dimly-lighted room the head was uneovered and the astonished group told the police it resembled Dominick La Itossa who disappeared in November 1914 He had been wound1 in a revolver fight before he dropped from sight Wandered Two Days In Trackless Forest Joseph A Dennison and Wife Found Exhausted by Searchers in Abandoned Logging Camp DIXVILLE NOTCH Sept24--Joseph A Dennison former assistant attorney of county Massachusetts and his wife who had been lost for nearly four days in the wilderness of the northern foothills of the White mountains were found today They had suffered from exhaustion and lack of food and sleep The Dennisons were discovered in an abandoned logging camp on the shores of Dead Diamond stream a wild section of country near the Maine border and ten miles from the hotel from which they had set out Wednesday for a stroll They lost their bearings in the almost trackless woods and for two days had wandered in quest of a habitation Not until Friday did they find shelter where they remained too tired to walk any longer and not knowing which way to turn Discovery of the couple was made by Earl Gould and Scott Copp employes of the hotel' As a result they are entitled to a reward of 1500 of which 1000 was offered by Daniel LI poakley of Boston brother of Mrs Dennison and $500 by Thomas Washburn of that eity-a- close frieni-r-of the former district attorney Mayor Curley of Boston and other friends of the missing couple who arrived today to help in the search were on hand to greet Mr and Mrs Dennison when they were brought out of the woods tonight carriage DIES ON DAY HE WAS TO HAVE WED A DAYTON GIRL Virgil Thompson Is Victim of Lumber Camp Accident' Chattalowuga Tomes 344CW KNOXVILL Sept 24--Virgil Thompson aged 28 whose wedding was to have taken place today to a Dayton Tenn girl died tonight in a local hospital of injuries received in a lumber camp accident He was hurt last Tuesday when thrown from a car of lumber Efforts are being made tonight to notify the young woman of her sweethearts death PHOENIX ALMOST WIPED OUT BY FLAMES Destruction of Pumping Station Hinders Firemen SYRACUS Sept 24---Vire early today destroyed the entire business district and more than half the industrial section of the town of Phoenix causing a km of more than $1000000 One person is known to have perished Eighty-two buildings were destroyed The fire burned without check for fifteen hours and the volunteer fire department was roade virtually helpless by the early destruction of the water pumping station The tire started from a hot journal in a power plant according to the authorities Not a store was left standing and the people were tonight confronted with a serious problem of food supply Looters invaded the ruins and scores of deputies were sworn in with orders to shoot NVhen the tire started a strong wind was blowing and within an hour four squares of buildings were atiame Syracuse and Fulton sent aid and with the local firemen succeeded in saving a large portion of the residential section Among the buildings destroycd were the Sweet Brothers' Paper mill the Duffy Silk mill the Burrough Paper mill Phoenix National Bank building several chair factoriek large warehouses the postogice four hotels and a church One man was burned to death and a number of firemen and residents were injured Phoenix is sixteen miles north of Syracuse and the majority of its 1400 inhabitants were employed in the mills and factories FERRYBOAT HITS SNAG Passengers Ail Landed However Be fore Vessel Sinks SEATTL Sept Lake Washington steamer Triton owned by the Anderson Steamboat company and engaged in frrry service struck a snag while approaching Dyers landing on the east shore of Lake Washington today and sank just as she was driven onto the beach All the passengers and crew were IRMINI safely The Trion was a wooden steamer of forty-eight tom gross register and valued at S20000 President Will Make It Chief Campaign Issue PLANS TO FEATURE SUBJECT IN EVERY ONE OF SPEECHES Position on Railway Dispute Will Be Further Amplified in Speech at Baltimore Today Before Grain Dealers' AssGciation LONG BRANCH Sept 24-- Fully launched in his campaign for reelection President Wilson will go to Baltimore tomorrow to speak before the National Grain Dealers' association The president expects to amplify his position on the recently threatened railroad strike outlined in his speech at Shadow Lawn yesterday Ile will do this on the theory that the grain dealers are interested in the question as shippers Ile was much encouraged today by the receipt of several hundred telegrams praising yesterday's address The rural credits law the federal reserve act and other legislation of his administration of interest to the farmers also will be referred to by the president The eight-bour law is considered by the president one of the chief issues of the campaign and will be featured by him in virtually every speech he makes Mr Wilson will leave here at 9 o'clock tomorrow and will speak at 2:30 pm an return tomorrow night All of Mr Wilsons political lieutenantq here said that from now on the president will he much more active politically It was made plain however that the only kind of campaign he would conduct would be of a dignified nature Tuei-dayMr Wilson will motor to Princeton to rote in the New Jersey primaries He is particularly interested in the contest ortween Senator Martine and Atty- Gen Wescot for the senatorial nomination Judge Weeot saw him here yesterday Thursday the president 'will re eeive some Boy Scouts and Satnrday will speak to a delegation of demorrats from New York From then on he is expected to make two more speeches a week BENSON ROASTS BOTH HUGHES AND WILSON 411Emmoa a Candidates of Capitalists and Militarism Says Socialist Nominee NEW Y( )11K Sept Wilson and Charles Hughes were characterized as "candidates of the capitalistic CiaSS" by Allan la Benson nominee of the socialist party for president at a meeting in Mautson Square Garden today Mr Benson and his running mate George It Kirkpatrick candidate for vice-president as well as other socialist nominees were applanden by a lar-te crowd which assembled for the formal ratification of the party's candidates Mr Benson attacked both the democratic and republican parties for "favoring militarism" and declared that had the socialist party been in power during the last font years "it would have seized the indnstries of this eonntry and op-rated them for the benefit of the public" "It wonld not have permitted this country: be added "to increase its wealth by forty-one billion dollars nnless the workers had their fill share in it It vronld not have permitted $rA)0- 0104'0 worth of food to go out of the (-minty and thus maketbe cost of living "PROHIS" WORK ON SUNDAY National Candidates Score Preachers Who Stay Out of PoliticsritEscxyrr Ariz Sept the first time in the history of the prohibition party its candidates for national honors held Sunday meetings today members of the special dry campaigning party holding four meetings in Phoenix churches and a meeting tonight in a local theater No apologies were offered for the meetings but on the contrary the churches were urged to get into the fight for a dry nation with all of their vim Dr Ira lAndrith the vice-presidential candidate himself a preacher particularly urged that the prohibition fight was the church people's battle and assailed preachers who remained non-committal on the saloon question because they desire to "stay out of politics" "The preacher who stays out of the fight" he said here tonight "who aims at nothing from his pulpit and who seems to see nothing fatally wrong with the liquor traffic ought to quit preaching and go to following a mule across a ten-acre field kind that's the meanest thing I ever said about a mule "Whenever the pulpit attacks without apology or equivocation the PTIIS that hurt men it never fails of a hearing A lackadaisical spinelesa sycophaontie and platitudions clergyman has no place in twenteith century religion" TRAIN CRASHES INTO AUTO Two Men Woman and Child Killed in Indiana 1 TERRE IIAL7TE Ind Sept men one woman and a child were killed and another woman injured today when their automobile was strifek "by a Van- i dalia passenger train at Liggett Crossing FOUR KILLED BY TRAIN Were Crossing Track in Others Injureti VAN WERT Ohio Sept 24--Four persons were killed and two wereInjnied s) seriously that they may not recover when a Pennsylvania passenger train struck a surrey in which they were riding on a grade crossing near here today- Oratory to Sound From Many Stumps Simultaneously LONG LIST OF SPEAKERS SELECTED FOR ASSAULT Hest Monday in October "Court Day" in Many Communities Chosen for Opening of Campaign in Tennessee Chattamooga SteciaL NASHVILLE Sept 24--By far the most distinguished array of democrats that ever made a forensic charge against the republican party in Tennessee will take tile stump in half a hundred counties the first Monday in October in support of the democratic ticket from Woodrow Wilson on down the line The publicity bureau of the state democratic campaign committee announced tonight that the general broadside had been arranged for The first Monday in October is an important day throughout the state All of the quarterly courts and many of the circuit and chanoery courts meet on that day It will be a great democratic field day In reality it will be the opvaling of the state campaign McKellar nominee for the senate- has already made some speeches but the other two nominees Gov Rye and Col Enloe have not They will swing Into the fight on the first Monday and with them will go fifty prominent democratic speakers An unusual feature of the plan is that it absolutely wipes out all divisional lines among- democrats The democrats are united Democrats of every faction in years past are fighting for the ticket and they will lift their voices in support of it Oct 2 which is the tirst Monday Senator Shields will take the stump in East Tennessee and Senator Lea in Middle Tennessee Every democratic congressman except Judge Hull who is ill New York with the national committee will be on the hustings Speakers Open Up In the Afternoon The speakings will be held at 1 o'clock Democrats all over the state are preparing for the great day It is expected that fully 7i0000 will be reached by democratic speakers on that day The appointments for the first Monday are as Gov Rye at Huntingdon Congressman McKellar at Springfield Col A Enloe at Gallatin Congressman Padgett at McMinnville Congressman Byrna at Lewisburg Congressman Houston at Jasper Congressman Finis Garrett at Cookeville Senator Luke Lea at Pulaski Senator John Shields at Madisonville Gen Harvey Hannah at Columbia Austin Pcay at Murfreesboro Mooney at Dyersburg Harry Litty at Brownsville Joe Williams at Sparta Stainback at Bolivar Andrew Todd at Jackson Tyler Berry at Lawrenceburg Hubert Fisiter at Covington Judge (note at Winchester Hill McAlister at Fayetteville Es lick at Franklin Gordon at Alamo NN A Owens at Ripley True at Dickson Johnson at Decaturville A Louthan at Hartsville Porter Dnnlap at Dover Beau Folk at Shelbyville 0 Holladay at Lexington Judg A H-Roberta at Harriman Lytle at LaFayette Judge Everett at Trenton Rice A Pierce at Tipton-ill 1 Senter at Henderson Craig at tnioa City Farabough at Waverly Judge Peck at Erin Frierson at Cleveland Madison at Decatnr Lynch at Athens -Judzr Allison at Dayton Iloyte Stewart at Smithvile Baskerville at Woodbury Indge Bell at Gaineshoro Fairbanks at Manehester Woodall Murray at Carthage Stewart at Altamont Sullins Stewart at Benton Bon Taylor at Greeneville FURS BROUGHT $2000000 St Louis Sale Closes After Disposing of 1700000 Pelts ST Sept the fur sale which closed here tonight 1700000 pelts were auctioned for a total of more than $2000000 The largest buyer during the sale was 010 New York representative of a Nloseow-New York firm who bought $150000 worth of furs A Paris firm bought $2()0000 worth and two London firms $75WO worth each Priees were f)l) to 25 per cent higher than the prices paid at the recent sale ia New York BANKS MAY OPEN AGAIN Mexico Issues Permits to Institutions Recently Closed MEXICt) CITY Sept 24 The finance department hag 'awed a cirenlar giviir the National Bank and the Bank of London and Mexico permiasion to reopen Monday and continue busineas undPr the direct supervision of government bank exa miners TREVINO'S WOUND SERIOUS Mexican General Shot Through the Shoulder In Chihuahua Battle LAREDO Tex Sept wound sustained by Getl Jacinto Trevino in the attack on Chihnahna City Sept is considered eri although probably not fatal according to a telegram from the Carranza commander to his brother in Nuevo Laredo tonight One bullet it was said penetrated his shoulder A version of the Ilidalgo day attack received in mail actices tonight from Monterey said that laLile the independenee celebration was in progress 4eTe'ral hundred citizens' 'armed with rifles and machine guns 'attacked the garrison placed at 300 men and which the report said "was almost completely No specific- mention of Francisco Villa was made in this Aviators Show Only on Battle Lines ZEPPELIN RAID ON LONDON OCCUPIES CHIEF ATTENTION British French and German Claim Victorious Clashes for Daring More or Less Quiet Aerial activity in which two were bronght down and more than score of German French and British aeroplanes met with disaster in fights air forms the chief news feature war there having been no land great proportions or startling any of the various war theaters The Zeppelins met their fate at tire hands of the British anti-aircraft gun' ners on the eastern coast of England in Essex after a fleet of twelve airships had visited London and other points Saturday night dropping bombs One of the machines with its entire crew was burned in mid-air The other was brought down damaged and its crew taken prisoner In the metropolitau district of London twenty-eight M011 WOMPLI and childrea were killed and ninety-nine wounded Outside of London two persons met death and eleren were injured Considerable material damage was done by bombs in London and the outlying districts Paris says that French airmen battles in the air with the Germans In France have acconuted for tweuty-six while Berlin records the brining down of tweuty-four entente allied Machines twenty of them on the Somme front Five German machines were destroyed by the British Saturday and two others driven down damaged while live British machinea-are missiug after combats in the air Violent Artillery Duels in France On the battle front in France aside from the repulse of local attacks by' both the eutente allies and the Germans violent artillery duels have predominated In Galicia a Russiau attack on the upper reaches of the Duiester resulted a general engagement North of Zborow the attackers succeeded in entering the trenches of the Teutonic allies but later according to both Berlin and Viehna were driven out suffeting banguiDary losaes and leaving behind them prisoners and even machine guns Petrograd however says that in this region the Russiaes took prisoner 150ii Austrians and In the Carpathians several poaitions captured recently by the Ressians have been retaken by the Teutonic allies Iu Rumania the Mhting has died down-somewhat in the Dohrudga region Nvhile on the Transylvaaia frout all at tack by the Rumanians on the Vulcan pass which was repulsed is the only engagement re-ported- British Troops Cross the Struma British troops fighting along the Struma have crossed the river at three points and taken the town of deumita froin the Bulgariaes hile the Serbs have made additional progress northwest of Namaiken Ian and the French to the north west of Florins Sofia reports the capture by the Bulgariana of a mountain crest south of the village of Popla The usual artillery bombardmenta and isolated engagements have taken place on the Austro-kalian front- Violent Austrian attacks in the Cars region failed according to Rome but the Italian war office admits that blowing up of a part of Mount Ciamee by an Austrian Mine and the relinquishment of the position by the Italians Vienna says that 427 prisoners fell into the hands of the Austrians as a reault of this operation and that an entire Italian company was butied la the explosion Rtsigariars Report Series Of Minor Engageemnts SOFIA Sept 23 (Via Amsterdam and London Sept 24)--An official statement issued today by the Bulgarian war department says: On tho heights of Ctoranereke Planta we captured by assault a mountain crest south of the village of Polite The enemy retired In disorder leaving behind a great nutn- ber of wounded In the FlOtitIR region calm prevalla On the Kaimakcalan heights there was a tmlent artillery duel and also small infantry action In tie Moglenica valley our artillery dispersed numerous bodien of enemy troops In the Vardar regions and on the Strum front there was an artillery duel Along the Denubt- there nen nothing to report In Ilobrudja the Fituation was more quiet An enemy attempt to advance near the village of Moustrfrage was checked by our tire and on the appearance of our cavalry the enemy withdrew to hie positions Ott the remainder of thle front there wore weak engagements lo advanced posts whieb resulted to our advantage on tbe Black sea coast there was quiet Military Activity South of Ancre Brook Say British LONDON 24 of the Ancre brook" says the official British stotement today reporting military operations in Prance "there was considerable nillitary actirity durinz the night on both sides East of Neurtils St Task the enemy's trenches were entered and prisoners were taken" Anstro-Germans and Russians in Death Grip PETROGRAD Sept and Austro-Gennans are engaged in stubborn battles at various places on the Russian and Galician battle front from the Pripet marshes to the Rumanian frontier accord-lux tn the Tins Ann official statement issued today Fifteen hurdred 4nstro-Germans were taken prisoner in the hgliting yester (Inlet le Anere tip tement ions In lellits ry aides enemy's' Were eill Eirt'ttisPubtbtp()Ftaanrnet ltd 1 a tesesonredd- Germans yester- fl 1 I 1 1 I i 1 1 1 -i 1 i l' i ei 4 A 4 Pi tA i I i tt a i i 1 1 II i i'- NEW JERSEY PRIMARIES BOOKED FOR TOMORROW Interest Centers In Martine-Wescott Senatorial Contest TRENTON primaries in New Jersey will be held on Tuesday Republican and democratic organizations will nominate candidates for United States senator governor twelve congressmen and a state legislature The progressives as a party will not participate in the primaries because the party failed to poll 5 per cent of the total votP in the last election and under the state law are excluded from nominating candidates Progressive candidates however may be placed in the field in the general election by filing petitions with the secretary of state Contests in the republican ranks for the nomination of United States senator and governor and for the democratic nomination for United States senator featured the primary campaign Former Gov Franklin Murphy of Newark and Former State Senator Joseph Frelinghuysen of Raritan are no contestants for the renublican senatorial nomination and State Senators Walter Edge of Atlantic City Austen Coag a of and Creorge LItecord of Jersey City are the repnblican candidates for governor Interest in the democratic primary centers in the fight of United States Senator James Martine for re-nomination Atty-Gen ohn Wescott of Camden in Senator Martine's principal rival for the nomination Otto Wittpen of Jersey Oty is unopposed for the democratic nomination for governor LAUGHS AND BUYS CIGARS Man Arrested for Killing Wife Retains His Good Humor ST JOSEPH Mo Sept McDaniel prosecuting attorney was arrested here tonight on a state warrant charging him with the murder of his wife Harriet Motv4 McDaniel who was found flying in her bedroom the night of July 15 McDaniel laughed when arrested and on his way to poliee head-grafters obtained permission to buy some cigars 0t0aPm'0ft'ePetMNf'0ftPOft00 reeognition while others were still white and recoemizable All appeared to be y0110Z men well Had and wearing the remnants of stout leathar coats and shoes of rather peor ()minty which is taken here to indicate that good footwear is not plentiful in Germanc Today thousands of persons journeyed to Essex to view the wrecks but quick precautions prevented souvenir hunters from making away with everything detachable There were n-uthy si4liseers Riso viewing the damaged outskirts of the city 'From the nnnabor of tomb dropped both explosive and incendiary the anthorides wonder why the casualties were not greater The Zeppelins seemed abundantly supplied with ammunition on se hol dm along the thoroughfares heard the bomb explosions growing louder and louder as the raiders came with the speed of an ex-presto train took their baptism of fire calmly as they paased and hfsvfd a sigh of relief as the reports diminished In the distance Crew of Zeppelin Arrested by Constable The commander and twenty members of the crew of the Zeppelin which was foreedsto land near an Essex coast town were arrested by the village constable as they were marching along the road into the blackness of the night according to the latest "eyewitness" account "I ant the coinniandr of a German airship that has just cotne down Wand these are my crew" said the leader of the men when accosted by the constable Thenthe officer added: "Please allow me to go to the nearest postotlice so that I may telephone some one in London who will let my wife know i am safe" The constable replied that the commander was perfectly safe At this juneLure special constables came up and the prisoners were marched to the nearest detention camp where lt was found several of them were wounded All the men wore dark blue uniforms and lifesavieg one of them bore arms The village constable in telling later of the coming down of the Zeppelin said he heard the noise of the motors overhead and next saw a Zeppelin flying seaward WO feet up Then ats if the commander of the airship feared trouble on the water he turned back inland and in a few minutes the airship floated like a giant feather" landing in a farmer's orchard less than thirty feet from the farmees cottage Two loud explosions followed and then a flare of a few seconds' duration The airship commander marched the men to the farmer's house but the occupants of the house werzi too frightened to answer the knock sh the Germans took to the road where they eneountered the constahle is believed engine trouble fereed the descent of the Zeppelin 1 'T 1 '1 i I 5 I I a i II! 1 I.