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lCDCASO EXCURSION STEAMER SINKS AT ITS DOCK their mothers end sisters to kM£. i im falling. Water began to enter ^ 1 ^ IY THROWN when was Loade: With 2,500 Passengers Vj^SSKBSE^stland Attempts to Be* gin Trip But Slowly Lists and Tarns Orer In Five Minute*— River Filled With Bodies. The bodies of 901 persons, drown ed when the steamship East]and cap sized Saturday at Its wharf in the Chicago river, had been recovered Sunday night after forty hours of searching by divers. The total derd was put at approxi- mately one thousand by Coroner Hoffman of Chicago, who^ reports indicated that possibly* one hundred bodies were held in the mud of the river by the superstructure of the boat. While only 1,002 of the 2,408 passengers of the Eastland have reg istered as saved, it was thought that -about 475 survivers, including the crew of seventy-two, had failed to re port. The Eastlavid lies on her side with divers still floundering through her interior and burrowing under her in a death search, while Chicago, appal led, is just beginning to grasp the significance of one of. the greatest of arlne disasters. While the grieving thousands who 1<»L relatlxes walked through the morga? in the Second regiment ar- ory gazing into the faces of the Chicago citizens r.nd city, State federal officials turned their at- fon to Investigations of the catas- jhe and the work of providing re- br those left destitute. He no families were made y dependent by the disaster, It said many vlctums had been wbrking only half time or less in re cent months. Several men who made this report, in asking for aid, were asked why they started on the excur sion while in poor financial circum stances. They replied that an organization of employees gave the picnic and that experience had taught them it was best to buy tickets. If they desired preferment for work. They said the company had nothing to do with this condition or the management of the excursion, but that members of the employees' organization found pur chase of tickets for the annual lake trip almost compulsory. Various theories as to what caused the Eastland to turn over were dis cussed. The four considered most probable were: That the boat was overloaded; that she was not properly ballasted; that a tug that made fast to warp the Eastland from the docks started pull ing too soon: that congestion of pas sengers rushing to the port side at tracted by some passing sensation tipped the steamer over. Electric company officials said that not more than one-third of the vic tims were employees, the others be ing members of employees' families or friends. Stories by witnesses and survivors cleared many details of the catastro phe. All the Eastland’s passengers, except two or three hundred who clung to the starboard, rail or climb ed out the starboard portholes, were thrown into the river, crushed into the sliipy mud of the bottom or im prisoned between decks. Listing of the boat was noticed, some said, fifteen minutes before she turned over. Capt. Pederson said five minutes. When full realization came the slow list had become an over turn. Men. g'rls, women and chil dren, deck gear and furniture slid into the water in a conglomerate fnass. Beginning late Saturday night, a ne began passing through the or- ory. They came all through the ht and all day Sunday. Identifica tions were made with rapidity and unidentified bodies Sunday night had dwindled to less than ono hundred. Tension and repression were shown in the Identification line. Those who walked in it had given up hopo and with clenched hands, steel ed themselves for the sight they sought but dreaded. As fast as iden tifications were made the bodies were turned over to undertakers and car ried to lines of hearses drawn up alongside the armory. Ministers said more people attend ed church Sunday thah for many Sundays past. Chicago .turned to prayer and thought. The preachers nearly all asked congregations to Join in pra'yers for the bereaved. With the details of the catastrophe summed up people shuddered that a thousand people would go to their deaths with hundreds of persons pow erless to aid standing within a stone’s throw—that that great mass could drown in a narrow river twenty feet from the dock. The Eastland and four other steamers had been chartered for the picnic occasion. Under misty skies seven thousand men, women and children went to the Clark street dock early Saturday to fill five large lake steamers with holiday mirth dn a trip to Michigan City. The steam er Eastland was the first to be load- ed. ' ii Rain began to fall as the wharf superintendents lifted the gang planks from the Eastland, declaring that .the government limit of twenty- five hundred passengers had been reached. The passengers swarmed to the left side of the ship as the other steamer* drew up the river toward the wharf. A tug was hitched to the Eastland, ropes wore ordered cast off ant steamer engines began to hum. Eastland had not bndged, however. Instead, the heavily laden ship travered sidewise, leaning lint to ward the river bank. The larch wad so startling that passengen Joined river sids of the decks. The ship never heeled hack. It turned slowly b.nt steadily toward Its left side. Children clntehed the skirts of from falling. Water began lower port holes and the hawsen tore out the pUee to which the vessel wsa tied. , ' Screams from paai»mhthf Atttrkcted the attention of fellow excursionists on the flock awaiting the next steam er. Wharf men and plcnlcken soon lined the edge of the embankment, reaching put helplessly toward the woveringf steamer. For nearly five minutes the ship turned before it finally dived under the swift ettrfent of the river. Dur ing the listing of the 1 vessel liweboats, chairs and other loose appurtenances on the decks s)Ttd>ed down the slop ing .floors, .crurfhtqg the passengers toward the rising .waters. ' Then there w^s a plunge with a sigh of air escaping from the bold, mingled with cryipg of children and shrieks of women and the ship was on the ^bottom of the river, causing hundreds of living creatures to the water. '«> Many sank entangled with cloth ing anfl bundles and did not rise, but hundreds- coining to the surface, seized floating chairs and other ob jects. Persons on shore threw out ropes and dragged in those who would hold thp .lifelines. , Employees of commission firms along the rjver threw crates, chicken coops and other flpatctrte objects into the water, but most of these were swept away by the current. Boats put out, tugs rushed to the scene, with shleking whistles and many men jumped into the river to aid the downing. With thousands of spectators ready to aid and the wharf within grasp hundreds went to death despite every effort at res cue. • :: One mother grasped her two chil dren in her arms as she slipped from the steamer into the water. One cjiild was torn fro mher, but she and the other were saved. Fathers were disowned after aiding their wives and children to safety. One man was seen to clip to a spike in the side of the wharf while two women and three children step ped upon his body to safety. He fell exhausted into the river as the last of one of the five reached the pier Instances of heroism were almost as numerous as the number of per sons on the scene. Boats as soon as full took rescued passengers to the wharf or to the steamer Theodore Roosevelt, which was tied up oppo site the Eastland In an hour the water was cleared of excursionists. Those who had not been taken to land had sunk or were swirling down the river toward the drainage canal locks at Lockport, Itt many miles away. The locks were waised to stop the current and ar rangements were made to take bodies from the river along Its course through the southwest part of Chi cage. Shortly after the water was clear ed, city firemen and workmen were on the exposed side of the Eastland’s hull, cutting through its steel plates with gas flames. Divers were bur ried into underwater suits. A tug was moored as a bridge between the pier and the capsized ship. As the divers gained entrance to the hull, the scene of distress moved for the time being from the river to the extemporized morgues. Ware houses of wholesale companies along the river were thrown open and bodies were placed in rows on the floors. Scores of persons rescued from the water were injured and these were taken to the Iroquois hospital, built in memory of the six hundred wo men and children and a few men who were burned and crushed to death in the Iroquois theatre several years ago. Efforts to resuscitate those taken from the river were generally unsuc cessful. Only two or three were thus saved. It was tlso said that many of the injured would die The whole city was in consterna tion ofer the catastrophe. Word of the accident spread rapidly and to the thousands already at or near the wharf other thousands added them selves. The Clark street bridge near the wharf was crowded until it threatened to collapse. Streets hud to be cleared by the police to allow the passage of ambulances. Business men sent their automo- biles and motor trucks to help aid the injured and carry away the dead. Qne'-'warehouse soon was filled with bodies and other dead were taken to the Second regiment armory, a mile away. While those on land were dispos ing of the dead; injured and rescued, the divers in the heart of the sunken vessel sent up gp almost constant stream of corpses from Wie submerg ed decks.' - First, it was a gaily dressed girl In her teens who had been caught be tween a pile of chairs and a cabin wall. Next ft was a slight boy, gath ered from the lifeless arms of a fond father, who had clun| to his off spring, even in death. Then followed an -old woman, who had gone aboard the ship to watdh the votit&jr^l pleafcure Of her jgramj- children, or a little girl with bare legs and bootees, with gay libbons sodden,against lace of her holiday goVn^ ' '• ; ’■ r 1 -. 1 ” ' A, thrill passed through the erpw* as' word came from the steamer thkt a girl baby had been found alive among .the) hundreds Of dead! in the ^hip. She .was found in a atarhogid stateroom, where she haft toeed held from the water by a cligir that i#®- med against the berth. The baby only half awakened ge it was carried to tbe-Tand.' 1 Its mother could not he found. j , ! j!, ; Two women were fouhfl aPfve fn another stateroom in a protruding side of the Eastland. There were still thee* hundred persons in the hold when these persons were taken .. out alive and .the explorers of the e bulk 'AMf that.411 frere d#ed. i ■Work of tagging tpe bodies of the dead and placing them in accessible places for identification proceeded all S,MD Smtl ML ftAlff; ONE VIM Crowd Wfcicfa Advances Despite Shota Qhrkr Their Heads. j Serious rfetlng occurred early Wednesday around , the plant of the Standard Oil company of New Jersey, at Bayonnep where a strike Js in pro- G IfftY :|UK Ifv ttT* CeptoM ImUfca Md ESTtETRESENTA TEUTONIC RT OUTER TAtSiV FORTS Iubat-MW . — ' _ _ a ’Qneetloa of { V.L . • M FOR FREEDOM OF ed the guards three of thef y pistol shots, e guards did attacked them add had fired the guards ijfopm their d dispersed, hose went tp ters with water,' attacks. ' / icy a athered at /the ittack on the polic A mob encp there and Iq thi rioters were wo; It was Otai not fire ugeUMl with sticks knd a number of sho responded With a -revolvers and the-| A dofen firemen, the Want to fight' should there be mo Before tbfe disorderly c; house of fCire Uofcpany No. 4 of the Bayonne dOpartihent,. andU smashed windows in the - * bnildf^g. The fire chief said he knew no reason for the attack except that the fire house was city property and the city was f ing the Standard Oil plant. Later lighting was resumed groan the Standard Oil plant and assunie serious proportions. The Bayonne chief of police -sgjd about five thou sand men were engaged in the attack and that one rioter was killed. Fifty persons were taken to the Bayonne hospital suffering from injuries. The Injured included both rioters and po lice. There were no additions to the strikers’ ranks Wednesday. The men employed at the Tidewater Oil com pany’s plant, which adjoins the Standard, were expected by the strik ers to join them. Instead, all hands went to work. The sight of the Tide water starting up for the day seemed to anger the crowd which had gath ered, and It was then that the attack on the Standard plant started. No one went In or out of the Standard plant Wednesday. Soipe engineers and firemen remained on duty to guard against fire and seven ty-five deputy sheriff^ anfl one hnn dred special policemen furnished bv Bayonne, were stationed in the buflfl-< Ings. Several of the police stationed out side were mounted and they bore the brunt of the riot. They drove the rioters back and most of them were hit with stones and pieces of slag, and shots also were fired at them. The police at first fired a vojley over the heads of the crowd. It halt ed the attack only a moment, and then the order was given to fire again, but this time to aim low. The police believe many bullets found hu man marks, but that the injured were carried away. at'i iadi ijavig vdamd Ifaeiii Against a Pretar Hthpetflous Teu P# Af'capitiH. f< taB Mruwg •vi .ih •rfsifAFnjNfiPTMk h ’#WNta#s {feifcr ,v w<wr .niw/m wd'jTiq 'ttta-reitfrt W; thb A lb*- Mfrttai _ tk* ttaflactanm ■*> }.>«r In Ik*, s Ml MRP drive, At,; _ Af* fu '■* ’ n V Uathe* I* Rk ^Following is GERARD DELIVERS NOTE TO GERMAN GOVERNMENT American Ambassador Visits Foreign Office at One O'Clock Friday. Berlin, via London, Friday: The new American note to Germany was delivered to the foreign office by Am bassador Gerard at rne o'clock Fri day afternoon. Washington: With the delivery by Ambassador Gerard to the foreign office in Berlin of the new Ameri can note warning Germany that the loss of American lives through fur ther violations of neutral rights would be regarded as “unfriendly,* the United States rests its case (or the present at least. If the note meets with a friendly reception and there appears no inten tion on the part of Germany to fur ther violate neutral rights on the high seas, the president shortly will take up the situation that has arisen with Great Britain over interference with American commerce by the al lies. A note virtually is ready now to be dispatched to Great Britain again protesting against deviations from in ternational law In the operations of the order in council against com merce with Germany. Submarines Take Week’s Vacation During the seven days ending Thursday not a British ship was tor pedoed by a German submarine. One thousand three hundred and twenty sailings were reported. This is the first week of the war that British shipping has escaped scot free. Investigating Arrest in Berlin. Ambassador Gerard began invest! gating Friday the arrest of George :$peets, an alleged representative of an American copper concern. He had been under surveillance for several months. , l. Town Almost Destroyed. j The Russian towns near Windau .were almost totally destroyed by the Russians In their retreat from the Germans, according to a Berlin news dispatch. ;« all bodies to the Second regi- ent armory, so that those who were looking for lost friends and relatives igould * view all the victims in one fkrce. Identification was slow and scenes { the morgues were as affecting as at the rfver when the steamer ipslzed. Mothers fell across the ters of children whom they had sent way a 1 few hours before on what was tended to be a d ty of pleasure. iMen had to stfmmon all the stoical talities they possessed to retain qlr composure as they-passed be- een rows of corpses, looking for Aliasing children or wives. K Yet amidst all the horror and eartacre officers of various depart- icats attended to th> disposition of $he dead and injured, tracing of the Si •b miv H»ep Bpu Ope*... , _ the official telt of the latest American note lo-Ostmany re* girding submarine warfare, which wps delivered to the foreign office at Berlin Friday by Ambassador Ger ard:' ' ' “V ' ,T ' • J’ ‘ l TP irw The Secretary of State to Ambali- eadev-Gerard' •■■{•TeleffrearK Department of State, (Washington, & I’M note to the minister of foreign af- PfWtJ TCI tliJkOJ »3Wjni The note of the Imperial German government dated the eighth of July, im. h*a received the careful con- siaeration of the government of the United States and it regrets to b* obliged to say that it has found it very unsatisfactory^ because it flails to meet the real differences between the two governments and indicates no way in whieb the accepted prln clples of law and-kumanity may be applied in the grave matter la con troversy, but proposes, on the con trary, arrangements for A partial Sus- penatob of those principles which vir tually set them'artdd. The goverkaseat of the Halted atas aotaa With saMrfaction that the Itapirtafl 'Cteransa. government recountae* without reeervatiofc the validity ft the principle* Insisted on la theshferal communications which this government had addressed to the imperial Gerasan government with regard to Its aanouacement of a war zone and the' use of submarines against merchantmen on the high seae—the principle that the high seas are free, that the character and cargo of a merchantman must first be ascertained before she can law fully be seized or destroyed, and that the Mvee of non-combatants may in no case be put in Jeopardy unlees the vessel resists or seeks to escape after being summoned to snbmit to exami nation: for a belligerent act of re taliation is per ee an act beyond the law. and the defence of an act as re taliatory is an admission that it is Illegal. The government of the railed States Is, however, keenly disap pointed to find that the Imperial Ger man government regards itself as ia large degree exempt from the obliga tion to observe these principles even where neutral vernal* are concerned, by what It believe* the policy aad practice of the government of Great Britain to be hi the present war with regard to neutral commerce. The Imperial German government will readily understand that the govern ment of the United States can not discuss the policy of Great Britain with regard to neutral trade except with that government Itself, and that it must regard the conduct of other belligerent governments as irrelevant to any discussion with the Imperial German government of what this government regards as grave and un justifiable violations of the rights of Amercan citizens by German naval commanders. Illegal and inhuman acts, however justifiable they may 00 thought to be against an enemy who is believed to have acted in contravention of law and humanity, are manifestly inde fensible when they deprive neutrals of their acknowledged rights, partic ularly when they violate the right to life itself. If a belligerent can not retaliate against an enemy without injuring the lives of neutrals, as well as their property, humanity, as well as justice and a due regard for the dignity of neutral powers, should dic tate that the practice be discontinu ed. If persisted in it would in such cir cumstances constitute an unpardon able offence against the sovereignty of the neutral nation affected. The government of the United States is not unmindful of the extraordinary conditions created by this war or of the radical alterations of circum stances and method of attack pro duced by the use of instrumentalities of naval warfare which the nations of the world can not have had in view when the eyistlng rules of in ternational law were formulated, and it is ready’to make every reasonable allowance for those novel and unex pected aspects of war at sea; but it can not consent to abate any pesen- tial or fundamental rights pf its peo ple because of a mere alteration of circumstances. The rights of neu trals in time of war are based upon principles, but .upon expediency,, and the principles *re immutable. It is the duty and obligation of belliger ents to find a way to adapt the new circumstancea to them. The events of (the past two mouths have clearty indicated that it is pos sible and practicable t6 conduct such submarine operations as have char acterized the activity off the’Imperial German navy within' the so-called war . .one in substantial accord with the accepted practices of regulated warfare. The whole world has look ed with interest and fhcreasing satis faction at the demonstration of that possibility by German naval com manders. It ia manifestly possible, therefore, to lift the whole practice of submarine attack above the criti- «tsm which it has aroused and re-' move the chief cause of offence. In view of ihe admission of lOeg- hack otr brbd, sobtheept o „, Mne stllM* that 1 point,’ so far Imports Show. 1- '■ ■■': . s iDt’tr waveringV «lon|r< front extending north fetW if <**t 7 total w Berlin claims, but l * L>«.' ffefynt broken.: 1:1 From the: fortn [arwrt'to north.: the Russian* ire battfin* perately against the surging Geo. tide. j From uit) lorires* Of Newo G*Or« If rlevsk along the line ef the N ' * the southeast Ihe , great . an of Mackensen still are engaged /nighty drive for thi strategic Lu 1 Che nTrirtlrbad. Official and undfff- cial account* agree that the fighting there I* desperate and that the tsstfe has-not been deckled. H > -ci 10 v.H On asarly aU tbe othei front* the Russians, while fighting bard, age (ailing back., . , . Dispatches tp, Berlin newspapers declare capture of Lublin and Chelm Is only a question of a brief time, but praise the bravety of (he Russian re sistance th the fact of lack of ammu nition. - ‘'• l The struggle Of the Italians fer Gorilla continues. Rome's ctaMu Of advances are denied by Vienna. The/: have been few recent opera' tlpna,along the fronts in France aad BblglUm- J: ;• < 1,1!;. ..... It Is reported ip Rome that Turko- Oerman forces havp tyeen landed 1? No dectsfve actions on tfcb western front Were reported to-day. The Ger mans tried to win back some of the ground they had lost near Metseral, but they were driven back, the Paris statement says. The new American ante on suhma-. rip* warfare was delivered by . Am bassador Gerard to the German tot' eign office this afternoon. ality made by the Imperial govern ment when R pleafled the right of re taliation in defence pf Its acta, and in view of the manifest possibility of conforming to the established rules of naval warfare, the government of th# United States can oot believe that the Imperial government will longer refrain from flleavowfng the wanton act of Its naval commander in sink ing the Lvaitania, Or from offering reparation for the American Urea lent, so far a* reparation can be made for a naadlaas destruction of human Ufa by an Illegal act The governmeat of the United States, while not Indifferent to the friendly spirit In which it la made,' can not accept U/6 suggestion of the Imperial government, that certain vessels be distinguished and agreed upon r-hteh shall be free on the seas now illegally prescribed. The vary agreement would, by im plication, subject other veeeels to il legal attacks, and would be a cur tailment and therefore an abandon ment of the principles for which this government contends, and which ia time of calmer counsels every nation would concede as of course. The government of the United States aad the Imperial German gw great object, have long stood to gether In urging the vary principles upon which the government of the United States now so solemnly in sists. They are both contending for the freedom of the see*. The govern ment of the United State* will con tinue to contend for that freedom, from whatever quarter violated, with out compromise and at any cost. It Invite* the practical co-operation of the Imperial governmeat at this time when co-operation may accompliah most, and this great common object be most strikingly and effectively achieved. The Imperial German government expresses that Lope that this object may be in some measure accomplish ed even before the present war ends. It can be. The government of the United States not only feds obliged to Insist on it, by whomsoever vio lated or ignored, in the protection of Ita own citizens, but is also deeply interested in seeing it made practi cable between the belligerent* them- selves, and holds itself ready at aay time to act as the common friend who may be privileged to suggest a way. In the meantime the very value which this government sets upon the long and unbroken friendship be tween the people and government of the United States and the people and government of the German nation impels it to press very solemnly upon the Imperial German government the necessity for a scrupulous observance of neutral rights ia this critical mat ter. Friendship itself prompts It to aay to the Imperial government that rep etition by the commanders of Gev man naval vessels of acts in contra vention of thorn rights must be re garded % the government of the United States, when they affect American citizens, as deliberately urn friendly. < fl ; • " "Lansing. 1 <.T l|»< '.'I Germans Seize American Ship. The U. S. bark Dunsyrs has been seized by tha Germans,. According to a' Berlin dispatch relayed through London Friday,, gud tafceplnto Swlne- dnnde. The record* show po Ameri can snip by that name, but there is a Canadian, schooner, which sailed from San Pranctsdo for Sweden on Aprtl 17. • >-J li " f. w,iaiw 1 11 1 , Refuses Sixteen Pardons. Governor Manning Wednesday up held the finds of the pardon board in It cares, where recommendations were made that the. petiHoners serve out the seatences passed by the trial Judge*. Release Gf%kt Britain Friday released the steamers Florida. Danish, and Skog- laad, Norwegian, whlrh have detained for about a weak. down t6' I h'thrkft advanced’'and ^fetreatad’ * ween Warsaw watt tha frenttaiL ah* * thsgv on tbp 1 " foaegoteg dan* "Altar X- 'fofined almost * semicircle aroundiiG Ihh city. Later the lines gnrPtatadn? dljy, itfidgbteaftd, re . a* TO A : P9*ht twenty mi mah dHvek In tf/p dlrecfm in the north" and the Russian *#**? - jthirouR* Galicia’in the sfrtith ‘Op tff ’ the Inst of ‘April, Usd than the nP treat from ibe CaspaAblans ta thtaii: PeHab XnwUaa, Uu»» Hne* arotagdbi'i Warsaw ibayre remained, about. same., /Only When, dining ,tb three, weeks. ,t|(e pressure nor And southeast of the city ‘ has 'the angle become am Until then the name of. had hardly been mentioned dispatches since tile'middle' 1 . October, when 1 thousands of German ’’ prisoners passed through tt op tMlr way east. On these prisoners were" found poet card* ready* written aw* ^ nqusucing to their hom«u addressee .: thou Warsaw would he taken oortf*,,) fifteenth of Octobaz. the bir|" * the Emperor William, as a present on the imperial punl ' '^Araaw, %.'ib mlFM'Juncaoft gt„ XT. the other. The easterly ones go to Petrograd via Bialystok, Grodno, and' Wiina to Siedflc; and 1 'to fvangorbd ’ and Lublin nnfl along the Oalictan ' frontier. Thus most the supplies that have reached th* Rusataa army . retreating through Gsilci* have had to pass through Warsaw. Th# thro* lines on tko west gd to Petrolsnlfat 1 on the East Prntalsn f roc tier; to'the German fortress of Thant via L01 wlcz and Kutnc, and to Platrkow vt*. Sklernlewlca. These last concentrat ing linen have measurably aided the Germans to bring a Urge body or ; troops to the western front off War- Thls front has not yet been broken because of the lerrel lands almost em bracing the etty on tha western side tor a distanao of twaaty mUas. One west of the city there Is * broad marsh over which the guns ef the outer forts have fall play; northwest and southwest there were forests which, being leveled in th* early days of th* ur«r, now form sMIUr dtfflenlt approaches. . . .• FINAL W0|D TO BERLIN IS CONTAINED IN IWty Officials are Watching for its Ruesp- tlon by The United States government, be fore determining the next step In Its general diplomatic policy, will for * brief period await indications from official quarters in Berlin as to tko reception of tho new note warning Germany that th* loss of American Uvea through farther violation of neutral right* wonld be rognyded as unfriendly.” Everywhere in official quartern It was pointed out that this document speaks the final word on how tho United Staten government wonld re gard further transgression of Ita rights. Th* general trend of com ment was that the repetition of such a disaster as befall th* Lusitania would mean the convening of con gress by President Wilson for consid eration of the ffhtlon to be taken. In event that the status quo la maintained, however, and there are indlcationi through official or unof ficial channels that German subma rines in future will conform to tha rules of internaUonU law in saving the lives of Americans on unresist ing merchantmen. President Wilson will take up very soon the situation that has arisen with Great Britain over interferences with American commerce by the allies. fiERMANS CAPTURE 66,790 Rasaians Remove Official Archives From Baltic Seaport. Ml IM, h’l .1/. • stt 1 G > Berlin reports Wednesday that ,tbO> - . Votaiselle Zeltung estimates that ua- the official headquarters reports as a basis the UbinDer of Russian prison- ' W -be*Jntfing of thf fl ere . new offensive WHIG 790 men. ~ - -- According! (O’"dispatches- reaching Berlin, aU: of .the official archives in Riga, the- Russian Baltic port now. threatened by the Germans, .togethp with the moneys of state! banks an cotar* * ‘ _ * *■ part. It is said more than ten thou-' sand inhabitants of the city fled last week. .ci* 1 •- • ,«,>> v a v* Credit Owe American Ambassador, y Berlin Wednesday says meats have been made betw sis and Germany to exeli staled prisoners- Credit Is due < W. Gerard, the American dor. Mothers' PuMtam L. Wisconsin has adopted for mothers. The flret fifteen dollars and.ten dollars is gives for each Utlttored * “ kit) ut*