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IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER iappenings of This and Other Nations for Seven Days Are Given. THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH What Is Taking Place in the South. land Will Be Found in Brief Paragraphs. Domestic. Formal return of a blanket indict ment charging a nation-wide conspir acy to hamper the government during the war has been made In the United States district court at. Chicago against 166 leaders of the industrial Workers of the World. Twenty-seven persons are known to have been killed and more than a score injured in a head-on collision between a westbound St. Louis and San F"anicisco train and an empty train, which had been used for trans porting troops, one mile southwest of Kellyville Okla. Four privates of the forty-fifth Uhit ed Steals infantry stationed at Fort Sheridan were run and Instantly killed by a North Shore electric train at Highland Park near Chicago. Declaring Senator Robert. M. Lal'ol letto of Wisconsin to "be the most sin ister foe of democracy In this country," Theodore Roosevelt, in i speech on "The Children of the Meltling Pot," in Chicago, denounced the pacilists and unpreparedness. Reports from Chicago show that there have been more than seventy-five thousand applications for seats for the world's baseball championship series received at the park of the Chicago American League club. Efforts will be made to prevent tick et scalping In the world's series games to decide the baseball championship between the New York National and the Chicago American clubs. Former Governor James E. Fergu son of Texas was formally declared re moved from office as governor of Tex as and barred hereafter from holding any public office of "honor, trust or profit" in the state of Texas. William P. Hobby, elected lieutenant governor, is now the full-fledged governor of the Lone Star state. Maj. Gen. Hugh L. Scott, former chief of staff, retired because he had reached the age limit, will be placed in charge of Camp Jackson at Colum bia, S. C., vice Maj. Gen. Francis H. French, given leave of absence on ac count of illness. Immediate wage increases of from 20 to 70 per cent will be demanded by the country's coal miners, it is an nounced in Washington, after a pre liminary meeting of operators and the miners' representatives of the central competitive field. It is reported that. the mine owners will refuse to entertain requests for increase of wages because the miners, they contend, want too much. The eleven billion dollar war cred its bill authorizing the second Liberty Bond issue has been signed by Pres ident Wilson. A call for a general meeting of South ern cotton growers and those interest ed In the industry-bankers, factora and others--to consider the advisa bility of holding cotton for a minimum price of 30 cents per pound, has been issued by Harry D. Wilson, Louisiana commrissioner of agriculture. The con vention Is called to meet October 2 fn Baton Rouge, the capital of Louisi ana. European. Thirteen British merchantmen of sixteen hundred tons and over and two vessels of less than sixteen hun dred tons wer'e sunk by mines or sub marines last week, according to the weekly statement issued by the Brit ish admiralty. In the aggregate this is the smallest number of vessels to have been sunk any one week since German began her intensified subma rine warfare last February. Germany has aigreed to evacuate Bel gium on cer'tain conditions, it is de clared in a dispatch from Berne, given out by wireless messages. In a supplementary note to the reply to Pope Benedict's peace proposal, Ge many stipulaten that she must. have the right to develop lher' economic enter prises freely in Belgium, especially in Antwerp. American army engineers sleeping in their bari-acks have been under fire from German airmen. Not an Ameri can was hurt, dlespite a fursilade oif ma chine guns fire from the air which rid died the barracks' roofs and walls. The American marines who have been with Major General Sibert's comn miandi have flow all been withdrawn from 1,t and, split. up in to provost guards in dozens of villages and citiea of France, some of them also going to England. In the Trentino, in the region of exploded a mine under the Italian P0 sitions, but teItalian barrage fine pre vented4 the enemy from making any perceptible gains., The Italians have repulsed attacks -on the Bainaizza plateau, east of Go risia. Another hostile airplane r'aid on Lon don is rep~orted to have takeun place on the night of September 25I. There were apparently twc attacs, for after a for - ty mninutes' quiet interval anti-air craft suns resutneo firing In the London dis tri-$t. Although .there are no signs of panic among the population of Petrograd, and there are indications of returning confidence, the partial evacuation of Petrograd is proceeding irrespective of whether the government will be transferred to Moscow. A priceless collection of pictures at the Hermi. tage gallery Is already boxed for ship. ment to an unknown destination. The treasures of the synod and parochial churches in Petrograd are also being removed. Of all the points of vantage sought for and gained by Field Marshal Haig, the village of Zonnebeke, probably, was the most important, for six miles far ther on lies the Ostend-illie railway, the cutting of which by the British would seriously interfere with opera tions between German's naval bases at Ostend and Zeebrugge and the south er1 part of the line. Northeast of Verdun the infantry ac tivity on both sides has slackened. On the Aisne frcnt artillery fighting only is reported for several lays. Washington. Attorneys investigating seditious conspiracy for the Uniteti S1ates go V ernment. issue this sltatemnt: "Th prosecutions are under sections 6, 19 and 37 of the criminal corde. and un der thel' espionuge act. Only ladr: in the conspiracies; or th(,oe) prson~ally (iui)mble in connectionl with the" per pCtuation of crimes aga insI (he t'!iild States are included as dlefenaInt." There Is little doubt now Itha1 I large deficiency will be shown when the first increment of the national artvny his been made. Seventeen Na tional Guard divisions must be brought up to War stre<ngth and several spe cial service forces organized out of this reservoir. A. further credit of forty million dol lars has been extended to France by the United States government. The credit of the allies up to Sep tember 29 amounted to $2,466,400,000. Peru has demanded that the German government give satisfaction within eight days for the sinking of the bark ,orton. Otherwise, diplomatic rela 1ion1 will be severed. Col. E. M. House, a personal friend of the president, Is collecting peace data, but state department officials state that this does not indicate that the United States is looking for peace. A virtual embargo on the export of certain foodstuffs and feeds has been "eclared by the exports administra tive board. Such articles are food and feed grains, oil cake and meal, animal fats, vegetable oils and soap, caustic soda and certain machinery. The general conference of Unitarian Ind other Christian churches, at its wenty-seventh annual session in Mon roal, Canada, repudiated by an over yhelming vote a "pacifist" resolution oncerning the entrance of the United States into the war, and followed the leadership of former President Wil liam II. Taft in adopting a resolution approving President Wilson's action and declaring that "the war must be carried to a successful issue." More than thirteen thousand head of. cattle have been moved from drought stricken portions of Texas to the south "astern states since July 1, the bureau if animal industry of the department )f agriculture announces. A, Mexico City dispatch says that it is stated on good authority that an in vestigation showvs that the passage of messages in German code between the German legation and Berlin by way of the Swedish legation and Stockholm as revealed recently by Secretary of State IAnsing extended as far back as the early part of 1916. The French chamrber of deputies has passed the appropriation bill for the last quarter of the year by a vote of -80 to 4. The bill calls for 12,150,000 francs. The department of agriculture and the food administration will co-operate in a campaign to increase the demand throughout tile nation for cheap, pala table and nourbehing foods. It is hoped by this mlethod to maintain a reason bile level of purices. Rteturn to tile United States treas ury of about $28.000,000 loanedl to va ious states in 1936 and never repaid is s;ought in a bill1 intr-oducedi by Repro .eintative' (lark of Florida. Almost ev 01r' state in thle Union at that time part icipatIedl in the loan. Discovery of a dleposit of paraffine in Chihuahua, Mexico, near the Amer-i ran line, is announced in offIcial (11s patches received in Washington from the Mexican government. Tile second Liberty Loan11 bond issue will be for- three bill1ion (do11ars and will matur-e in twenty-flyc years, re deemable at tile option of the secre tary of the treasury, Washington hears that Germany weakening, though not yet heaten-is miaking a dlesierate effort for peace in the fear of America-s might next year. Tile United States govermnent, it is alnnoiunlced from the wvar dlepartnment, was informed long ago thlat Gelrmany wold start- a new propagandah for peafce to avoid a witer campaign and the effects of America's participation 1.. the ar. Pealce feelers were fore east in Washington by dliplomlata early ill tihe month of August. After two weeks' work b)y twenty five entomologists of tile department 'of agriculltutre and Texas institutions, 11t is bielieved there is no longer any dlanger- that thle pin1k ho013 worm wvill becomle established near Hearne, 'Tex. as, where it w~as diiscoveredl in a cot. ton field. Every.American vessel of more than twenty-flye hundred tonls (lead wveirht calmiety available for ocean serrnce will be requisitioned by the govorA ment October 15. Tils announcement ia made b~y the shipping board, giving, at the same time, the chafter rates at which the vessels w'll be taken over. /k / I i'ihiilograpdh of tie gain ('lirni Vlc('h 1arries 25 lpassengeriis. 2 L~atin-American naltionls againlst hardmclnent by the ermns . .1 where he at lendled at Iinch"Ieont of NEWS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK House Decides to Investigate Bernstorff's Plot to Influ ence Congress. FIVE NAMED BY TOM HEFLIN Bulgaria Ready to Quit War-Ger many's Conditional Offer to Evacu ate Belgium--Lansing's Expos ures Well Timed-Haig Makes Further Advances in Flanders. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. The house of representatives has de ternined to investigate itself, or rath r the action of certain of its mem bers, as a result of the disclosure o: the Bernstorff plot to infiuence con gress and keep the country from en tering the war, by the expenditure o $50,000 ,through some organization Representative Tom iHeflin of Ala bama precipitated the inquiry by stat ing in the house that he knew of some congressmen whose actions were sus picious. Called before the rules corn mittee, he named Senator La Fol lette, Representative at Large W. E Mason of Illinois, Representative: Fred A. Britten of Illinois, and Pal rick D. Norton aind John M. Baer o North Dakota. lie did not accus anyone of receiving German mione3 but demanded that the netivities c these flye mn he investigated. Bulgaria Wants to Quit. Bulgarin, having aittatinedi the end for which she entered the war-tli recovery of Dobrudja, Macedonia, an parts of Serbia that were taken froi her in the Balkan war-is ready I quit fighting if permitted to retaini he conquests. So says Stephan Pai aretoff', Bulgarian minister to1(11 United States. ils country, he add has no interest In Germany's ambi tion to establish a Mittel Europa, an would have preferred to enter the wi on t he- side of the nallies, had t hel promiises been ais uncondi tional those4 of the kaiser. Austria;Hlungairy, aneordinug to at vices~ received in WVashington, is ral 14dly' nearinag collanpse, anid thle Ge mian war party realizes that peace, it is to be of thle G erman brand, mmll he procured within six months or b fore America gets fully int o neti Tlhere is great distress throughout fti realm of Emperor Charles and his pew Pie would gladly stop fighting provh ed they (10 not have to yild too miuc to Italy. Germany Offers Belgian Bargain. The replies of Germany andi Austri toe the popie's peace proposals, hlli with high sounding phrases and( hypi crisy, wVere virtually ignor'ed by the ai lied governmuents9 and condemed evasive and insincere by the pres Therefore the kaiser cenme forwar withb an atddendum, verbally expresst to the p~apal nunclo at Munich by F'o eign Secretary Kuehlman, in which 1 agreed to evacuate Belgium in ord< to gain peace. But the offer wvas hedge ahout by conditions that made all Il non-Teutonic world laugh, lHe I manded that Germmrny have the rigI to deovelop her economic enterprist freely in Belgium, especially in An werp; that Belgium give ai guarani that "any such menace as that whi( threatened Germany in 1914 w~ould future he excluded ;" that Belghtn m: dlertake to maintain tho ndmainistrath, s'eparationi of the Flanders and We loon (1istricts Introduced by German; and not enter into any commiercih treaties aimed -at Germany. In r< turn Germany offers graciously to coi tribute a share of the comnensation I he paid to the little nation she hij ravishied. The new Germa~n party organtzc by Admiral von Tirpitz and others m 'oow in offico got into potion lastve xl triplit. a siamp1le of which has belien se -l'residecnt Irigoyen of Argentinn. who 1; (ermay. 3-'he ('1111enu of l'eronne, V.A1. I loiln, pri me minister of New So 11he Overseas club. with the slogan "Peace without indem nity means G(ermany's defeat." This party serves to co-ordinate the activi ties of the pan-German agencies and Is getting large support. The social democrats are gathering their strength to combat it, anti the result is likely to be a very pretty fight when the retchstag reqlssembles. Little News From Russia. Little is heard and still less i4 known lust now about conditions in Russia. Plots, counter plots and ac cusations have not yet unseated Keren sky, and he and the soldiers' and work men's council may finially establish complete control over the situation. The troops in the field and in garrisons have been murdering their officers by the score, and one correspondent as serts they have no heart for the war since the czar was deposed-a state ment that only adds to the confusioil of the mental picture we over here have of the new republic. The armies, however, since the Germans captured Jncobstadt, have checked the advance of the enemy and even retook some positions near Pskoff. Winter is coin ing to their aid and it is considered probable that the movement of the Germans toward Petrograd is aboul ended for this year. General Soukhoml inotT, former wai minister, first of the autocrats to bi judged by a jury of the new lemoc racy, was convicted of high treason or Wednesday, and sentenced to imnpris onment at hard labor for life. ih young wife, whose extravagance drove him nearly Insane, was acquitted. Lattsing's Useful Disclosures. - As a means of consolidating th sentiment of the country and arousin Sits enthusiasm for a victorious wa the disclosures of German intrlgu mtade b~y Secretary Lansing are unez (elledl. And they are ably seconde< b~y the stirring speeches that Colone a Itoosevelt has been delivering. Mi eLansing times his exposes wvell an (I mikes them with a calm finality tha lai most effective. .I-s latest stat; m zent is that he has conclusive ev: drel;nc~e that Count von Bernstorff on c b lefore Janungy 10 had received an ' readi the Zimumerman note to the Gez ~an~ minister in Mexico City telling c t hem intention to0 begin unrestricted suil iztariue warfare on F"ebruary 1, an (-onism-(uently wsfully aware ofhi government's plan whleni he asked at s thority to expend $50,000) to influecc congress ando keel) this country net ('olounei Itoosevelt's patriotl at drlesses were a dist'.net feature of th fweek. In Chicago and other midd1(1 West cities' he exlpressedi foreibly Lh opinions he andm most of the rest c us have of t he pacifists ando ob.stru< tiilsts and othier iro-Germans, an he gave special attention and soni hoice language to the case oif itoboet hM. La F~ollet te, the Uniteod States senti I "r withi whom WVisc-onsin is afflhicted Th'e doughty "T. Ri." invaded the ,em Smv's country, delivering and of hi most4 fiery speeches at Rtacine. At th 'Chicago meeting andl elsewhere resoli t ions wvere adopted calling for the es Spulsion of La F~ollette fr-om the ser a lte, but that so-called1 honorable ger Stieman, seemingly unmoved by th 'storm of denaunciation, wvas busy oi anizing his followers in Wisconai eC for ai fight based on what he think are his princliples. (1 South America is on Fire. ' Germuany sought to pacify Argentin Sby dlisapproving the ideas expresse it by Count von Luxburg, but the Sout '* American republic was .by no0 meatn t- satisfied and the people dlemandedl thei y war he declared. The chamber C hi detputies concurredl in the resolution c I) the senate that relations wvith Gel many be severed, and it was up t 'C President lrigoyen. He has been I- dletertminedl advocate of neutrality, bu , it seemed likely that he would b ii forced to ylidi( to the demand for wat -Before dleeling the matter, he blega I- negotiations to secur'e unitedl action b o all the Latin-Ameriean nations. Urti ~s guay anid Paraguay wore reportedl a eager to break off relations with Get (1 many, and Peru last week presente it to the hmperial government a deman k that satisfaction be given within eigh 2~ ..'> '". it to the United States from Italy and s trying to arrange united action of reduced to ruins by continuous bom uth Vales, photographed in New York lays for the sinking of the Peruvian bark Lorton in Spanish waters last February. The people of Argentina have been stirred to ilcreased iudignation by the serious strikes of railroad men and other workers, which have been accompanied by much violence and de struction of property. These strikes are admittedly fomented and financial ly supported by Germans. Haig Resumes His Offensive. Having spent the first part of the week in consolidlatiug his gains and beating otf the desperate counter-at tacks of the Germuans, Field Marshal Haig on Vednesday resumed his of fensive in Flanders in the Ypres re gion. In a few hours his mnc had occupied groiid to at depth of more than 3.000 yards along most of the front involved, and were in posses sion of the Tower IIatmlets ridge, were beyond the bloody Polygon wood, and had taken most of Zonneheke, the vil ige from which they were driven in' April, 1915. The (lermans made tre mendously strong counter-attacks dur ing the afternoon and evening, but in vain. The results of the offensive, at the date of writing, are pronounced most satisfactory. Very heavy losses were incurred by the crown prince in futile attacks on the French along the Chemin des Dames and north of Verdun. Four air raids In two days were - made on England by the Germans and about a score of persons were killed. Both airplanes and Zeppelins took part in these raids and aerial torpedoes were usedl. The chief resulit was a renewedl dlem~and by the Bi'itishi press for reprisals. In several b)omb1~ig ex peditions the alilied auirumn d1id great 3 damage to German establishlmenits In - Belgium. Monday nighit the German aviators cleverly bombed a Frentch I camp of German prisoniers, killing two -and wounding 17. They probably I thought it wasf a hosp1itah. t Steel Prices Heavily Reduced. By a voluntary agreement made bly steel producers with tile war indus r tries hoard and approved iby the presi d (ent, a scale of quotations wams estab lished that reduces prices of steel by fabout one-half. These, according to Elbert H. Gary, are'fair andl reason 1able, though far below the expecta s tions of tile manufaceturers. 'The pri ority comnmittee of the war industries (1 hon3rd issued an order that in all cases p-lreference in ordlers for iron andl steel and thleir produlcts be giveni to con1 Icorns turning oult materials netually e necessary for the( wair's condi~uct. Mani C ufacturers of airticies classed a1s lux C ulnes are' the( tirst to feel the effects f of this order. The federal lIbora troublle mtediators I are a buisy lot of 1men3 thlese dafys. No (1 sooner was tile blig strike of iron work t er's ait Sani Franeilseo settled than the - lake seamen01 vol ed to strike, andl next .the switchmen of the Elgin, .Joiiet & Eastern Suddl~enly (luit, criplpling the mills of the United States Steel cor e poration ait Routh Chicngo anid Gary. Also, innehlinista emplloyedI by tile gov er~nment in navy yards and arsenals made(1 ne0w dlemandis for more pay, and thle bituminoud coal operators and min e era could not agree on wnages. It was a relief to learn that the International 1 Brotherhood of Leather WVorkers de s termined to prevent all strikes in its -ranks during tile wvar. For Second Liberty Loan. ri All preparaltionls were comp~iletedI last I1 week for' the~ enml~paign to float thme see 1 01nd Lib~erty loan1. The bonds11, whlech .9 will b~ear 4 per Cenlt interest, will be3 t ad~vertisedl by posters, by every post I master, rilirond, express and telegraph f manaiger, and~ every schoolteacher. A letter will be sent to every farmuer in a theO couttry, and( a special missive wvill u go to a selected list of a million t wealthy agricullturalists. They will be fl urged to invest as much of the pro. .coeds of .their harvest as possible in the Liberty bonds. WVindowv cards, mailing stickers and automoblile stick - ers will 1)e distribuuted by the mil lions.* - The senate passed the $8,000,000,000 1I war deficiency hIll,- and the house and 1! senate conferees completed their work t on tho rnt war ta. biml START DRE FOR NEW LIBERTY LOAN FIVE BILLION DOLLARS AND IEN MILLION SUBSCRIBERS , 18 GOAL SET. MINIMUM $3,OOO,OOoL. Gigantic Machine is Set in Motion.-. Banks, Newspapers, Commercial Or ganizations and Patriotic Societiae Will Work For Success of Big Loan. Wasington.-The second liberty io ;u campaign opened Monday with " lit a to carry on the war. To obtain $3,000,000,000 in subs.;. tions, the minimum set by tree officials for the issue, a gigantic chine of many parts stands were in motion with tho opening of compaign. Fifty per cent greater the first liberty loan, the presen fering is the largest the Amer people ever have been called upo absorb, and to make certain the will be more than fully subscribes - ficials for months past have been - fecting the elaborate sales and puntc ity mechanism. Five billion dollars and ten mil n subscribers-that is the goal to wlhi. *, officials hope to drive the camps l successfully during the next f re weeks. The services of virtually ery industry of the nation have be enlisted to bring about this result. Secretary McAdoo opened the ci paign formally with a speech in Cle. land, Ohio, the first of many he %'; dliver in a transcontinental ti which will take him into virtually cry section of the country and kt him on the road until October 26, I (lay before the subscription boc close. More than 26,000 banks will co crate in floating the huge issue. The.'.. working under the guidance .of 1 12 federal reserve banks, regios headquarters for the loan, will be t: treasury's first lieutenants. The entire press of the country daily newspapers, weekly and mont * ly magazines, trade papers. foreic language publications and farm j a pers-which contributed so largely the success of the first issue, will wo: for the success of the second. Chambers of commerce, boards ) trade, manufacturers' associations ai:: kindred- organizations have pledg.'i their active and unstinted efforts the campaign. Patriotic societies by the score haw. been olisted, as well as church at' school organizations, labor organize. tions, fraternal societies and scho.; children. The stage and the screen will e4, their part. Leading theatrical ar. moving picture stars have been films for a special number which will ". displayed in virtually every movib picture theater in the country, whi from behind the footlights of vauc. yulle and other theaters speakers u'a utilize daily the time betwveen the at to campaign for tihe loan. COAL RETAILERS' PROFiTS LIMITED BY ORDER issui.' immediate Reduction to Consumer I Expected. Washington.-oernment1 cont over the coal industry was made cc plete by an order of Fuel Admix trator .Garfield limiting the profits retail coal and coke dealers throup out the country to a basis which expected to brilig about. an immedi. reduction in prices to the consun . The order directs that the retailms shall fix their prices so as to Ii their gross margins over cost to ta,. average of such gross margins du the year 1915, plus a maximum o: per cent of the 1015 margin, provi. d that in no case shall the acerage n -;, :gin of the month of July this yea exceedled. Local committees ap~pointed by federal fuel administrators in '; state will see to it that the de:s~ comply with the order and the i ers th'eemselves will be called upc return sworn cost sheets showing,' facts upon which they have 1 their prices. Doctor Garfild selected 1915 normal year because the coal age which resulted in continued in prices d1id not begin until 1911 additional 30 per cent is allovt cover increased cost of doing hun~.~ Prices already fixed b~y the to. mont for coal at the mouth / 1%-. mine are near those charge'd inivu. and with the jobb~ers' charge neow llti ited to 25 cents a tofn and the e.s ' transportationi not materially rm ed. tihe consumer in every con': should be ample to get coa'l of scription at approximately ti ho paid in 1915. CLONDON DISTRICT IS AG/UNI~ RAIDED BY rAls 4 iil London .--The London disi ~ again raided by German airmv:r is a circumstanial but un a lPen report that one enemy mat hiin. wo. ,, brought down. While the,' w. a. bright moon, there also wa4 L a flfgbc mist and the raiders wore in~ to persons in the streets, but f rom the sounds .of the anti-craft guns in action the indications were that theier~'~~ were moving over various quetr o the district.