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IRISH LEADER DEAD. JOHN E. REDMOND, LONG HEAP Or HUSH NATIONALIST PAR? TY St'CXT M TO OPE? RATION. Ho Wm a Mcinlwr of Parliament, for More Than Twenty Year*?Made an Able Fight for Honte Rule. London. March 6.?Joh K. Red? mond the Irish Nationalist leader died this morning from heart failure, following an operation last Friday. LIMITING GOVERNMENT CON? TROL. Conferee* Agree That Government St? 11 Control Carriers for Twenty one Months After War Closes. Washington. March 6.?Conferee*^ on the administration railroad con trol bill today definitely approved their tentative agreement limiting the government control of carriers t? twenty-one months after peace shal have been declared. They will meet again tonight Under agreement and will then settle the final dlsput? nver rate making authority. ??????????? LstVElfs WATOIFUL WAITING. seventh District Congrcwaiinu Not Precipitate In Aiuniunelng for Sen Washington. D. C, March 6.?The following is the statement which Rep? resentative Lever made today: "I .have no positive announcemen to make now with respect to my ul? timate intention touching the sena? torial mce thin summer. The offset of the outcome of that contest id sc far-reaching In Its national and In ternatlonal aspect that no patriotic cltissn can afford to shirk his duty srhen it is made plain to him. Nor or the other hand should the already delicate situation be complicated bj precipltlous and poorly considered ac? tion. It Is of vital importance that mistakes be avoided. "Strong representations have beer and are still being made, to me, but I ahull withhold any definite an? nouncement until I may have further opportunity to ascertain exactly win serve* best the State and the na? tion. Upon these considerations alone Will my final conclusion rest." ROC MAN I V ACCEPTS TERMS. gsrounded by Enemies Little King? dom Agrees to Hard Conditions. Amsterdam. March 6.?M. Tonchoff. the Bulgarian finance minister, re? porting to the Bulgarian sobranja on peace negotiations with Roumania. said that on expiration of the armis? tice Saturday the Roumanian dele? gates announced that the crown coun? cil at Jassy had decided to accept the conditions offered by the Central powers. Including the cession of Dob rudja, the readjustment of the Hun gartan-Roumanian frontier and grant? ing economic concessions. The Rou? manian government was then given to March Sth to sign tho preliminary treaty, when the negotiations will be resumed. GERMANS ( ON TIN IE WAR. Fighting; In RummIa 0OJgg SI in BgSOl of Peso? Declaration. London. March 6.?The Bolshevist commander In chief. BJgnSja Krylcn ko. has notified tho (lermsn-Austriau High Command that fighting contin? ues, despite the fact that peace fcOJ been declared, and asks If they ha\? taken steps necessary to the cessa? tion of hostilities. FLEEING FROM Pi TIKX.K M>. DolehCTtki Ministen? Hum- left Capi? tal anil Will t.o to MoK-ow. London, March ?',. Tho evacuation of Petrogra.i has begun. According to a Reuter dispatch, dated Tuesday, three state ministries have started to leave capital from which the popula? tion Is also fleeing hastily. The Hol Shevlkl government propof-.e.s to de Clare Moscow the capital and Petra? grad a free port. ON IMERICAN FRONT. \r1lllery Firing Continue* Hut N? Engagement*. With American Army m F\ Tuesday. March 6.?Darlas last night normal artillery tiring OOntinued p8 trol parties wen- settee la the ameri can sector, northwest ol Toni. but there were no engagements. Frank .1. IssnsMoS] Chained with larceny of La rue Sum of Money. WashlnKton, March 6.?On a wai rsnt sworn ou: by Counsellor Bet geron, of the. French embassy, chan: >ng the larceny of three and a-half to six million dollars from the Frt'iicl; government by means of trink auto mobile contracts. Frank .f Coodnell. formerly a private in th" French army was arrented ht ie |fl I r Th' tedersl authorities hove been ft ' sd to return him to France. CHIEF OF BETTERMENTS. FORMER UNION PAODIC (IIAiU MAM APPOINTED. Veteran Railway Official Will duo Entire Time to Consideration of Improvements. Washington. Marek 4.?Robert K. LotOtt, former chairman ol t. board of the Union Pacific and pri? orities director of the war Industrial board, has been appointed by Diec |Vf General McAdoo chief of li new division of betterments and additions of the railroad administration, it WM announced today. Ho has resigned from the t'nion Pacitlc and from the wai industries board and has given up all his other corporate interests to lake charge of railroad improvements under government operation. J.tdge Lovett will hold ono of the most in portant positions in the rail? road administration. He will super I lag the big program of extensions contemplated for this year particu? larly relating to terminal construc? tions and will determine what im prevements are essential, and what should he postponed. Reports, of railroads show tho im? provements railroads have planned tor this year if private operation had continued. These reports also are t eilig examined by a committee of railway engineers acting for Director General McAdoo, with a view to trlm rnining the estimates in the light of emergency war needs. Judge lx>vett is expected to form a national organization including rail? way vice presidents in charge of im? provements and extensions on their respective lines. Every proposed ex? penditure for these purposes would be closely scrutinized before being ap? proved. The new division will work closely with tho division of, finance und purchases, directed by John Skel ton Williams, who plans to centralize purchases for all roads. As director of priority for the war industries board, Judge Lovett's duties had been greatly curtailed by the absorp? tion of transportation priority junc? tions by the railroad administration and the exercise of fuel priority by the fuel administration. FERTILIZER TRVST UNCOVERED. Federal Trade Commission Makes Com pi all it Against 'Two Corpora ? tions. Washington, March 5.?Complaint was made today by the federal trade commission against the American Ag? ricultural Chemical Company and the Connecticut Brown Company, of New Jersey, charging unfair methods in the manufacture and sale of fertiliz er. Both are charged with purchas? ing raw materials at prices prohibi tive for small competitors, thereb; punishing the latter who refused to enter into workin~ agreements with the two companies. AMERICANS REPULSE ATTACK. Night Fighting- on Lorraine Front Continues. Paris, March G.?A German attack last night on trenches held by Amer? icans in Lorraine were repulsed, it is officially announced. Patrols operat? ing in the game region look ? number of German prisoners, the Statement adds. NO LACK OF NURSES. Qeevas Itrposta 200 win Ready mui Lt.ooo More Annually. Washington, March 4.?With 200, |#! trained nurses in the United st?ies ami 19,000 more being gradu? ated annually. Surgeon Gea. Gorgas today advised the senate th it the sup? ply of nurses for the army at present is adequate. TREATY not YET RATIFIED. DepeSSsS UpOSJ Decision of all Russian Cong res*. London. March i.- A Russian offi? cial statement, signed by Premier la - nine and Foreign Minister Trotzky, says that the BolOhOVlkl delegation, after signing peace with Germany, is proceeding toward Petrograd, Where the text of the agreement will be im? mediately published. Ratification of the treaty, fixed for Thursday, do? pt nds OH the decision of the all-Rus slan Congress of Councils of Work? men's and Peasants' and Cossacks' Deputies Which will assemble at MOS COS! March 12. _ LIU r. COLEMAN DECORATED, l haHewioa Man Received Medal I i?un French Premier. With the American Army in Franc... Marek I Among tin- Amer H'iUH .wated by premier Clemen ceau irosterday was Lieut, William Cob-man. of Charleston, s. c. iVrsaso Uahtaot it. .^hm. Washington, Marek 1 The resig nation of the Pet slon c i bin el was 16 ported to the state department lo? da \. nUjjjjj IN BELGIUM. germans SUPPRESS courts am) imprison JUDGES. Belgians Make Rravo but Unavailing Protest Against Dismemberment of Country?Even Di.-eussion Forbid? den. Washington, March 4.?How the Belgian people are defying their Ger? man military masters in protesting against the effort to separate Flan? ders from the rest of Belgium and the deportation of judges who sought to interfere, is described in an official1 dispatch received today at the Belgian! legation. General von Falkenhausen, the mil? itary' governor general, in a letter to tho court of cessation which suspend? ed its sittings as a protest against the arrest of the judges of the court 01 appeals, has given the notice that the action of tho judges in instituting proceedings against the socalled Ac? tivists who set up the separate Flan? ders government, was regarded as an act of hostility to the occupying pow? er's. This the Belgians construe at an official admission that the Ac? tivists are German agents. The dispatch says: "It is confirmed that the Germans have deported Judge Bevy, the presid? ing judge, and Judges Ernest and Caroz, presidents of the court of ap? peals. They also arrested judge Ja mar in order to deport him but he was released on account of illness. "The movement of protest by the Belgian people against the tntrigUCI of the Activists has taken on large proportions. The voluntary suspen? sion, of all Judiciary activity, as a pro? test against the outrage committee", against the court of appeal of Brus? sels, has caused a tremendous im? pression even upon the German au? thorities. New lists of communal councils and of Important personali? ties who have made protests continue ; to reach Havre being brought nightly by devoted ptariots who have passed through the electrified frontier wires In spite of redoubled vigilance on the part of the Germans. The protest movements especially active in Flanders where even the most important and ardent supports , of all ranks and conditions have joined in protest. It has been learned I that all the Belgian bishops, being prevented from meeting together, have protested separately. Cardinal . Mercier has protested In a letter to be i read at the beginning of his lenten letter to his clergy. "The free University of Brussels ? has sent to the communal council of I Brussels an energetic letter joining in the protest made by that body. The protest of the free university is signed by every member of the faculty. "The German authorities over i whelmed by the patriotic outbursts have officially forbidden all deliber? ations or discussions in regard to the questions of general politics such as tho autonomy of Flanders and nisi have forbidden discussion in regard to petition of protests to Germany." IMMEDIATE PROHIBITION DE? MANDED. National Anti-Liquor Party Holds < 'onvention. Chicago? March f?. -The demand for Immediate, nation-wide prohibi? tion Rl i war measure, was voiced by Virgil G. Hinshaw, chairman of the National Prohibition committee in an address opening the thirteenth nation? al convention of that party hero to? day, (dors than a thousand dele? gates are attending. He declared that if all the prohibition forces ol the country pulled together war pro hibltion could be secured in twelve months from now and three years from now might mean the loss of tht conflict between the allies and Ger? many." _ SERVICE for alien soldiers. Men Loyal to America Will bo Given Positions at Insular Posts. Washington, March B,?Officers ami men in the army of enemy nationality, but of whose loyalty there is no question, will not be permitted to serve on the battlefronts but will be de? tailed to insular posts, when their regiments are ordered to France. The war department has adopted this pol Icy for the treatment of such eases This will release men in regimente stationed in insular possessions, who can be sent to France. ENEMY PROPERTY SEIZED. Government Will Bell Business Con? cerns owned b> German Residents Neu- York. March 5. Bnemy prop? erty In business concerns, partly ot wholly owned by German residents Involving millions of dollars and vosl interests will be piaeed on sale be? ginning today, it is announced. Among the properties taken over are those of the Countess Bcechenyi, formerly Gladys Vanderbilt ami Oountess Hornstorf?, formerly Jennnie L?cke nieyer of New York. GROSSES FOR SOLDIERS. CLEMENCAU DECORATES SIX AMERICAN SOLDIERS. ( ioss of War With Palm Given to Two Lieutenants, Two Sergeants and Two Privates?Oiio Officer From Charleston?Rewarded for Heroism. With the American Army in France, March 3 ( Hy the Associated Press.)?Premier Clemenceau, who spent today on the American front northwest of Toui, decorated two lieu? tenants, two sergeants and two pri? vates with the Crolx de duerro with the palm of heroism which they dis? played in the recent German raub in this section. One of the liteutenants comes from Brooklyn and the other from Charles? ton, S. C. Roth men went out into Xo Man's Land in broad daylight an ! got a German prisoner. M. Clemenceau, accompanied b\ two French generals, arrived a American headquarters at the from at an early hour and immediately went to where the troops were drawn, up on three sides of a square in com? panies. The names of the men to be decor? ated were called and they stepped up, the French premier pinning the dec? orations on them and saying a word to each. One he patted on the shoul? der and said: "That's the way to do it." The American blushed and retired to the ranks. One of tho French generals said to 0 lieutenant newly decorated: "Wi have got the Boches down and wc shall put them down deeper if w? keep working as we have." At the end of the ceremony a young private came running alone hurriedly. He spoke for a moment with his captain, fearing apparent!; that he was going to lose his medal Tho captain directed him to proceed to M. Clemei.ceau's automobile, which he did. The premier stepped out and slapped him on the back, handing hin his war cross. One of the generali remarked laughingly: "Never mind about being latfe. You were on time the other morning. That is enough." The soldier in the excitement and glory of the moment forgot to salute, but an American general came to hb rescue, whispering: "Salute! "Salute!" None of the men decorated can wear their honors until authorized b} congress. ALIENS MAY BE CITIZENS. Bill Would Provide Naturalization foi Men With Good Records in Eig-ht ing Forces. Washington, March 4.?Any aller who is a member with a clear recon. of any branch of the lighting force of the United States and who has re sided in this country one year, woul . be eligible for naturalization under ; bill passed today by the house. It goe; to the senate. > The bill is a modification of the om introduced by Representative Flood (Va.) chairman of the foreign affair, committee, providing that certain so called unwilling subjects of Austria Hungary loyal to the United Slates b< excluded from requirements of law affecting aliens. The attorney genera opposed specifically naming nationali? ties for exclusion, suggesting that tin law COUld be administered With great er effctlveness if its provisions wert made general. CHARGES ICE CONSPIRACY. Suit Filed Against Ice Companies ic Tampa. Tampa, Fla., March 4.?Informa? tion was filed In the criminal court today by the county solicitor against h< ads of four ice companies of this city, (barging a conspiracy to un? lawfully control the sale of ice ii Tampa. The prosecution grows on out of a 15?0 per cent raise in tin price of ice made on February 1 last rp to that time for some twentj months the price had been twentj cents per hundred pounds, delivered to consumers. The new price, effect ive at ail the local plants Feb. l, wot fifty cents per hundred pounds. The twenty-cent price came about through an ice war which starter With the forming of a new compan\ here about two years ago. Up to thai time ice had been forty cents per hun? dred. The new company's plant wa* dismantled recently. The 150 pet cent raise caused a storm Of proles and every woman's club in the City adopted a resolution condemning tie Ice men and asking the solicitor t< conduct an investigation. ADVANCE ON PETROGRAD. Germans Occupy Narva, one Hundred Miles Prom Capital. London, March 6.?Narva, a hun? dred miles southwest of Petrograd has I.n captured by Germans and the enem\ are reported to be con? tinuing their advance on Petrograd according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Potroffrnd, dated Men POWERFUL APPARATUS DISCOV? ERED IN MAY YORK. Han ii> Possession of Equipment Former Manager <>i* German Plant at Say ville, N. Y. New York, March 4.?Wireless ap? paratus sufficiently powerful to com? municate with Germany, which was in the possession of Richard Pfund, at one time manager of the German Telefunken plants at Sayvtlle, N Y.J and Tuckertown, X. J., was seize.. yesterday hy federal officials, it be? came known today. The outlit was found in a room in the tower ol the office building at ill Broadway. While it was disconnected, it could have been set up i'i half an hour, ex? perts declared. The raid was made by United States Marshal McCarthy, an army intelli? gence officer,- an army wireless expert and other government agents. They were refused admission by Pfund, who occupies the four doors of tho tower as a laboratory. He took the stand that he was doing experimental work for the navy and that they had no right to interfere. He unlocked the door, however, when the o'd COTS threatened to break it ilcwn. Pfund is said to have made an ex? planation concerning the presence ol the apparatus in his laboratory, but the nature of it has not been disclos? ed. He was not taken into custody, although it is understood, the inquiry has not been completed. His asser? tion that he had been doing worl; for the navy was verified, but no an? nouncement was made at. to its na? ture. He is said to have shown the officers the model of a field wireless outfit for communication between points on tho battle front. Owners of the building said that prior to 1 'J> 13 Pfund was manager ol the German Wireless Company and that the corporation was the tenant of the tower. It failed t3 renew the lease in 1913, however, Bind Pfund took over the four doors which he used as an experimental laboratory. When the United Stai.es entered the war last April and an order wai issued that all private wireless plants must be dismantled the owners o" the building told Pfund the wireless would have to come down. The order was obeyed, they said, and the wires had not been replaced, The explanatior was made that Pfund had leased the tower because of the low rental. WILSON WELL INFORMED. Ralfour So Notifies the House of Com? mons. London. March 4.?Replying to l question in the house of common? to? day as to whether copies of all treaties, secret or public and all cthei memoranda of other agreements tc which Qreat Britain has become B party since August, 1914, have beer communicated to President Wilson foreign Secretary Balfour said: "President Wilson is kept fully in? formed by the allies." MONOPOLIZE PLATINUM SUPPLY. Germans Pay Prices Askecl for Metal. Washington, March 4.?Sermany is taking advantage of the peace nego? tiations with Russia to buy up e.e.y available ounce of platinum, accord? ing to advices received today by the American government. Officials said today that undoubtedly tie dermatic? were badly in need of the platir.um. but their intention doubtless wa* to keep the United States and other al? lies from obtaining the important metal. The Germans were said to be pay? ing prices asked without haggling Competition for platinum among the nations of the world has heeomc one of the keenest commen ial struggle! ?t the war. Officials lay it is one Which affects the war program most vitally, for without it munitions and many kinds of delicate electrical In? struments essential to war machil I Can not be made. Tanks are immobile without plati? num for contact points of magnetos and signal Instruments uro domo without the metal. Supplies of platinum In the United States amount to between 25,. and 50,000' ounces, most of win h will "?c taken over, by the government under the commandeering order issued fist week. With Russia, tin- world's principal platinum market, closed by German control, the use of platinum for Jew? elry is expected to cease after present stocks in the hands of manufacturing jewelers are exhausted. These stock) have not been taken over, one reason being that approximately 8,000 men in New Voik and Newark alone de? pend on platinum work for livelihood. The possibility of lucre islng the American production of platinum is being studied in the emergency. Hot* tofore Nevada, California, tab and Oregon have turned out about 750 ounces a year, Which geologists be? lieve can be Increased to three thou? sand ounces LENRGJT FOR SENATE. REPUBLIC a CONFERENCE de? cides ON CONGRESSMAN. Former Governor McGovera Will Not be Eliminated ami Will Enter Pri? mary. Milwaukee, March 1. - Representa tlve Lenroot of the Eleventh Wiscon? sin District was indorsed as the ilc publican candidate for United suites se nator at the primary election on! March l'h by a Republican conference which met here today. The vote was Jenroot 87, Former Gov. F. E. Mc Govern IS, and Governor Philipp I. Both McCovcrn and Lenroot had hied their -signed petitions with the secretary ot sta.e and it was for the purpose of avoiding a three cornered contest thai today's meeting was held. ?lames Thompson of LaCross, known as the I^iFollotte candidate will seek election at the primary. The vacancy to be Riled was caused by tho death of Senator Husting. The conference adopted resolu? tions comic nnlnjj Senator LaFollette's attitude in the war and indorsing President Wilson's conduct of the war. / The indorsement of Lenroot follow- , ed a stormy sesion, marked by Mr. McGovern'- announcement that he could not iblde by the decision in event another candidate was indors? ed. His de cision means that all three candidates. Thompson, Lenroot and McGovern will go into the Republi? can primary. licGovem asserted that as he was the first loyalty candidate to an? nounce his candidacy it would be un? fair for the conference to expect him to abide 1 y its decision if another candidate *vas indorsed. A light resulted over the resolu? tions. The McGovern people favored resolutions that only demand that a candidate be indorsed for United States senator who had not publicly advocated any of the following: First: That American citizens should be limited or restrained in their right to travel on the hig*h seas. Second" That an American em ? bargo on the exportation of arms and i munitions should be declared. Third: That if the United Spates should go to war, warfare should be i limited to redressing our own special grievances without respect to world conditions. Fourth. That America should make a separate peace as soon as our grievances were righted. The minority report was preTMrtry rejected but the resolutions were re? ferred to the committee and as final? ly adopted by acclamation read in part as follows: "Resolved, That this conference of loyal Republicans of the State of Wis " consin unreservedly pledged its un ? divided nd wholehearted support in everything looking to the vigorous and unr-denting prosecution of the war to a successful termination; and to the president and government of the Unite! States and their efforts to this end; be it further "Resol ed, That this conference condemn: the course of Senator R. M. LaPolletto relative to the conduct of the prese.it war, and that it censures him for <iis failure to support the governm tit in this supreme neces? sity of the country. "Resolved, That we recommend to the Repl Mlcans Of the State of Wis? consin that the candidate who shall bpcoms the choice of this conference shall have the united and earnest support of the party at the primary to be hell March It, 1918." During the course of the conference and previous to the appearance before the gathering of McGovern, a tele? gram was read from Congressman Lenroot declaring his willingness to abide by the result of the conference. USK GERMAN DOCKS. President Wilson Decides to Take Over Worses and Warehouses at Hobokcn. Washlr rton, March *..?The presi? dent int. Is to take over the Ham u ?Ann lean and North German Lloyd steamship companies wharves and d< pots at Hobokcn. N. J. He ar? ranged today with Senator Martin, tho Democratic leader for an amendment to the urgent deficiency appropriation bill, giving such authority. The government has been using these pro; ertics tor several months, but it is deemeC necessary to take over the I gal title. Arrangements were mad. to take up the urgent de? ficiency bill in the senate today ahead of the \va finance corporation meas? ure. VOI IN AGREEMENT. America Has No Understanding With a" i pan as to Sl!>oria. Washington, March 5 DlscOSStrsg n ports of poooflHO action by Japan in Siberia. S< liatOV Lewis, the Pemocrat ? ? whip, in the senate today declared H at there s no agreement or under handing isMween the Unite,! States ind Japan on the subject.