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r *■ SILENCE US mLrn PULL OFF FIST FIGHT ,1 \ SEATS OF WAO GIVE 80T SCANTY! NETS OF WAR MOORti AND WUXI8 GO A ROUND AT YORKVILLE. SEA FISHT [ Candidates for Adjutant and Inspec tor General Kush Together Over Hot Words. A fist fight between M. C. Willis France and Germany Are Raid to be I and his opponent, W. W. Moore, Ad Mutant General, featured the meeting .! Coneenteating Their Armies for De- i t Y orkvl , le Thursday, working the , cl8lT<5 conflict on Bordsr—British | crowd up to wild pitch of excitement I Mr. Willis was saying that Gen. | Admiralty Refuses to Confirm 5j 00re had been criticising him and the Yorkville Company) and said his people knew he was a truthful man. Complete silence reigns as to mlli-r'If there la one thing I have handed tary movements in both Germany and down to my children it is a reputation France and It is assumed both armies for stainless integrity, and any man are concentrating for decisive battles, who intimates otherwise tells a false- No hint as to where they will come hood as black as any which emanates , into conUct has been given. from the pits of hell/’ he stated. Winston Spencer Churchill, first Adjt. Gen. Moore rose from his . Jord of the British admiralty, Friday seat, walked up to Capt. Willis and declared In the House of Commons gaid J “Do you refer to me?" On Capt. there had been nl fighting or losses I Willis saying,- ’Yes,” Gen. Moore other than had been announced offl-| struck him, the blow falling on Capt. ctally. This statement ensued on re-1 Willis’ ear. •Capt. Willis hit back, ports of a naval battle between Ger- the lick landing on Gen. Moore’s face, man and British ships, but the ad- More blows followed, but Chairman miralty refused information. It was McDow and police rushed in, and as- regarded as significant that the fish- slated b several of the crowd, which ing fleets In the east coast of England had rushed on the stand, separated were given permission to go out to the combatants. sea. , By this time the crowd which pack- Idege, Belgium, was again attacked e d the stand frantically gave advice, by German troops Thursday night, some of Mr. Willis'partisans demand- but was still holding out. The report i n g that Gen. Moore be removed from of a German reverse there was denied the stand. The chief of police was in a dispatch from Berlin. standing by the Adjutant General The German cruisers Ooeben and while friends surrounded Capt. WU- Breslau, obliged, owing to Italian Us. Yielding to the reqests of Chair- neutrality, to leave San Salvatore, man McDow the people left the stand Sicily, have gone ou to me t the Brit- and quiet being restored Capt. Willis tsh fleet. The commanders are said concluded his speech. He told the to have handed their wills to the Ger- people they could now decide for man consul before departure. I themselves w ho was telling the trth, A London newspaper report says getting an ovation and flowers when the German crown prince has been he concluded. seriously injured by an unidentified lt i ooke( i for a wh j| e as if the assailant. crowd whs not going to let Gen. A Finn sea captain at Stockholm Moore speak, for the cries of the Wil- reported the Russian navy bottled up u 8 followers kept up a din. Capt. at Helsingfors and the Russian ports W1 ji| 8 a8 |( ed ht8 people to accord df Llbau and Reval burning after an Q en Moore a hearing and Chairman atteck by German vessels. No conflr- McDow pleaded for quiet. The peo- mation has been made. pi e yielded and quieted down and Many German merchant vessels Adjt. Gen. Moore began his speech, were brought into English ports Fri- The Adjutant General said he regret- day by British cruisers. The Holland t ed the occurrence and apologized to Lloyd steamer Tubantia, with fL- the crowd, but said, "Never so long bOOgOO from South America for the 88 t ] tve wl j| j a n ow an tn8ult Deutsche Bank in London, was also that to go unresented," saying there brought in. was not a man in the crowd with any French warships also captured sev- backbone but who would not have eral German merchant ships. _ done as he did. The French premier appealed to He ga , d Capt wintg had Btarte< i the women of France to gather the the trouble by hl8 crl ticism at Mar- wheat and wine crops lon 0 f tbe manner t n which he had Toklo reports the German squad- KoUen hl8 endorsements from the Na- ron at Tslng-Tau, China, hemmed in tiona , Guard8i and Mid that Capt by British war vessels. I wjuu had precipitated the whole The British Unk steamer San Wll- trouble He ga(d Capt Wllll8 had fredo is reported destroyed by a mine come to Yorkville, where he was sur- off Cuxhaven, Germany, and the Brit-1 rounded by a u b j 8 friends, to do this, tab stektner Craigforth was beached "The idea of a, number of men jumping on one man," he exclaimed. ;witU a mine. t "I will take any number single-hand- Parls and London send unconflrm- ftd .. be t0 | d tbe crowdi which again ed dispatches concerning the fighting beKan gbo wing their resentment by at Liege, Belgium. The French I® 1 ®’ j eer i n g remarks, but Mr. McDow ad- gram states that fierce fighting con * j monished Gen. Moore and the flurry MIS. KIM DIES PIESIDENrSNIFE FASSESHAI AT THE WHITE HOSE w 'J* HERjEND IS PATHETIC President Wilson and His Three Daughters Are Present at Death Bed—President Seems Almost Prostrated With Grief, But Brave ly Bears Shock of His Loss. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of^he president of the United States, died at the White House at 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Death came after a struggle of months against Bright’s disease with complications. The president was completely un nerved by the shock and his grief was heartrending. He bore up well uiu. der the strain, however, and devoted himself to his-daughters^ The end came while Mrs. Wilson waa unconscious. Her illness took a turn for the worse shortly before 1 o'clock in the afternoon and from then on she gradually grew weaker. Kneeling at the bedside at the end were the president and their three daughters. Dr. Cary T. Grayson, U. S. -N., and a nurse were in the room and Just outside a door were Secre tary McAdoo and Francis B. Sayre, Mr. Wilson's sons-in-law, and Mr. Tumulty, his secretary. Both houses of congress adjourned when Mrs. Wilson’s death was announced and for a brief time the wheels of the government virtually stopped. The beginning of the end came at 10 o’clock Thursday morning, when Dr. E. P. Davis of Philadelphia, who had been called in for consultation, realized the time for hope had pass ed. He took the president into the Red room and there in broken voice told him the truth. Mr. Wilson’s face blanched, but he bore the shock well. He was inforn.ed the end was a question of hours. Mr. Wilson t^en took bis daugh ters, Mrs. W. G. McAdoo, Mrs. Sayre and Miss Margaret Wilson, aside and told them. Until then they had thought there was a chance for her recovery. From that time on the president and his danghtera remained constant ly at the bedside. The president held his wife’s band and the three daugh ters were grouped nearby. Until she became unconscious Mrs. Wilson fre quently nodded to one or the other and smiled cheerfully. During the day Mrs. Wilson spoke to Dr. Grayson about the president, of whose health she thought more than her own. "Promise me,” she whispered faintly, "that if 1 go you will take care of my husband ” tinues in the streets, while the I^on- p a8fied Gen. Moore took up the rest ro message reports the German at ickers asking for au armistice of 2 4 * >urs. Persistent reports of an important icounter between the German and British fleets in the North Sea kept the British public in a state of agi tation throughout the forenoon. The excitement was not allayed until the first lord of the admiralty>made offi cial announcement in parliament that stories of fighting and losses oth. er than those of the British cruiser Amphion and the German mine layer Koenigin Lutse were unfounded. News from the German side was extremely meagre, owing to interrup tion of direct telegraphic communica tion. Denials came from Berlin by ■way of other countries of the repulse of the German forces before the Bel gian city of Liege. Belgian sources declared the attackers had been checked with heavy losses. ^ Movements of the great aggrega tions of troops which must by this time have gathered at their spring ing off points on the German fron tiers, facing both the Russian and the French armlea, are kept from public knowledge. Military authorities In London, however, are of the opinion that preparations must be almost complete for a forward move which will give some Indication of the plan of campaign The French army authorities have also raised a heavy screen to hide their war moves. They seem entire ly satisfied with the manner in which Ihe men of the nation responded to A call to arms and they declare every preliminary move to have been car- . ried nut according to the plans draft ed by the popular commander-in- otaief, Gen. Jpeeph Jeffre. From far off portions of the world where Germany, England and France have colonies, all of which are la a state of defense, only brief dispatches trickle over the wires. These Indl- cate that small engagements h*re oc- In Chineee waters of his time with a defence of his ad ministration. The fight between the candidates for Adjutant General, who were among* the earlier speakers, drew people like a loadstone and nearly a thousand men were gather ed around the stand. DIE IN WRECK. Thirty-eight Passengers Are Killed at Joplin, Mo. Thirty-eight persons were killed and 25 injured in a collision between northbound passenger train No. 2 on the Kansas City Southern railway and a Missouri & North Arkansas gasoline car, running on the Kansas City Southern tracks near Tipton Ford, ten miles south of Jopln, Mo., Wednesday night. Mistaken orders are said to have caused the accident. According to reports both the mo tor car and the train were running at a high rate of speed when they met at Tipton's Ford, a small siding. With the collision came the explo sion of the gasoline reservoir of the motor car, setting both the motor car and the train afire. Every person in the motor car was killed, it is said. None ,of the passengers on the train was killed. v where French, German, British and Russian war vessels are stationed. The most Important news from that quarter is the rtport that the British sqvadron has hemmed la the German veeeels at TsUg-Taa which is strong ly fortified and has a a Canada Buys Two Submarines. Two powerfal submarines, 125 feet long and with', a tonnage of 420 tons, built at Seattle for the Chilean gov ernment. have been purchased by Canada. German Eagle Tom Down. The double eagle over the German consulate at Vancouver, B. C., was toiira down Wednesday by a mob which threatened to destroy the con sulate. Agreement in Mexico. President Carbajal anff-Gea Car- ransa Wednesday reached a full agreement tor the turning over of the .Mexican government to the victorious rebels. Spamahnrg county has sareiled 11,291 voten tor It was the same touch of devotion which she so many times has re peated. her constant anxiety having been that the president might not worry about her or be disturbed in official tasks. The president returned to the sick room from the last conference with the doctor, his three daughters lean ing on his arm. Francis Bowes Sayre and Secretary McAdoo and Secretary Tumulty stayeij outside the door. . . Mrs. Wilrfon lapsed i into uncon sciousness out rallied. By 1 o’clock she began tV sink rapidly. She still could recognrae those about her and looked ^cheerfully toward them and smiled. At 2 o’clock Mrs. Wilson still was conscious, but her strength almost had departed and a few minutes later she sank into the sleep of uncon sciousness from which she never awoke. For three hours the presi dent and his three daughters gazed longingly into ’her eyes in the hope that she might speak again, but she could not. The sun was casting its long shad ows from the Potomac to the south grounds, coloring the fountains, gar dens and elms. There was hushed stillness In the upper apartments. All eyes were turned towards the south west corner of the house. Just at the hoqr of five death came. The president and his daugh ters were in tears. Secretary Tumul ty walked slowly to the executive of fices, his head bowed. Quietly he announced to the correspondents that the end had come. A pall of gloom settled over the executive mansion and 4b® offices. Presently Dr. Grayson, his face hag gard and worn from a day and night vigil, came to the office. There was -an impressive—silence everywhere. Secretaries, attaches, clerks and ser vants seemed overcome.' Vice-President Marshall and mem hers of the cabinet and the leaders in congress were notified. Both houses promptly adjourned. The flag on the White House dropped, gates were closed and the silence ef death spread over the White House for the ^first time since 1892, when Mrs. Ben- JlKnln Harrison passed away, Mrs. Wilson had told the president in the morning she would mere cheer fully “ge away" if the bill for the Improvement of Washington alleys was »»seil by congress. A word to leaders from Secretary Tomnlty and the measure was adopted in silence by the Senate sad soon reported in the Haem, vMfe It vm passed Frt- " 'J ■ Mrs. Wilson learned the measure would be a law. In another day or sc and expressed her satisfaction. Sht had become deeply interested in tht social welfare of the community anc had worked always without seeking aid of the president. It was th< strain of this, the duties of entertain ment and kidpey trouble, which be came chronic last autumn, that sap ped her life. . Both houses of congress adjourn ed as mark of respect. Mrs. Wilson has been In poot health since last February when sbf> fell and strained her spine. She late recovered from that Injury, but ir the meantime kidney trouble set in and gradually she grew weaker am weaker. About two months ago her rondi tion began to grow serious and tw< weeks ago Dr. Grayson became alarm ed. Noted specialists were called ir and trained nurses were kept in con slant attendance. ’ She continued t( grow worse, however, until seriou sinking spells came Monday and Tuesday. Mrs. Wilson was 50 yeart old and when she came to the Whlt( House was in robust health. Mrs. Wilson was Miss Ellen Louise Axson, daughter of a Presbyterian clergyman, and was born in Savan nah, Ga. She was a student at the New York Art league when she met Mr. Wilson, who then was taking e postgraduate course at Johns Hop kins. The president and Mrs. Wilson were married June 24, 1885. Mrs. Wilson was a sister of Prof. Stockton Axson, head of the department of English literature at Princeton, and of the wife of Dean Edward Elliott of Princeton. A landscape gardener and a paint er of well recognized ability, Mrs. Wilson devoted much of her time to artistic subjects. She took personal charge of the gardens at “Prospect” while Mr. Wilson was president of Princeton and also of the \Vhite House gardens. She had the appear ance of what is galled “an ourdoors woman’. Her skin was smooth and girlish, and her eyes, until recently, sparkled with health. She^as known as a beantifu! woman. Mrs. Wilson’s indoor life had been devoted to books and artistic pur suits. Her paintings have taken prizes in competition. Her social ob ligations forced her to omit some of her accustomed artistic and literary recreation after she became mistress of the White House, but as the “First Lady of the Land" she was ever ready with advice and material help, wherever a good cause might benefit. Her domestic Iffe is described as having been attractive. She had a knowledge of the domestic arts, and was a good cook. It is related of her that she liked to prepare dishes or iiave them prepared under her per sonal supervision for the president, and that she always made it a point personally to prepare for him the orange juice he has with his break fast. RAC E INTO PORT. Big British Liners Race From Ger man Men or War. Two transatlantic liners, flying the British flag, bound into Halifax Thursday as a haven, from German cruisers. ^The unexpected arrivals were the mammoth Cunard Liner Mauretania and the big Cedric, of the White Star Line. Both had been warned by the British cruiser Essex of the presence of hostile vessels in North Atlantic waters and advised to make with all speed for Halifax. The Essex herself convoyed the Cedric in to port. It was early in the day when the Mauretania surprised Halifax by steaming into port. Arrangements for convoying her passengers to New iYork were still in progress when word reached there that the Cedric also was making for that harbor. The Mauretania brought more than 1,600 passengers and the Cedric more that 1,000. It already has been ar ranged that the Mauretania's passen gers proceed by the land. The Ced ric's master is awaiting orders as to the disposition of those on board his vessel. PRISONERS OF WAR. Londoners See Eighty-Fve German Reservists Marched Away. Londoners had the first realization of war brought home to them Thurs day night when hundreds of commu ters taking their trains at the Vic* toria station were surprised to see 85 German prisoners guarded by English soldiers with fixed bayonets. The Germans were naval reservists taken from their ships anfi made prisoners of war. A goodly number of naval reserv ists and also some German army re servists, who were attempting to pro ceed to Germany, were held by the authorities. Some persons in the crowd In the station thinking the Germans spies began to hiss them. The demonstration was quickly silen ced by cries of “shame”. The Ger- mans seemed on., the best- of terms with their captors. . ^ ' JHEJkVESTON & BROOKER Sanitary Septic Tank Affords the rural home all the conveniences, the comforts, the PROTECTION of the modem city sewerage system. 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