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GALVESTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1916.—TWENTY PAGES
VOLUME XXXVI.
No. 72.
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HANS SCHMIDT
MAY NOT BAN
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EXPORTS OF HORSES.
PAYS PENALTY
ARMED SHIPS
TEUTON PLOT
FROM CRONES
tendency.
was
AMERICAN RIGHTS
MAKES SHORT TALK
GENERAL MASSACRE
UPON HIGH SEAS
WAS UPON PROGRAM
machine
MUTINOUS HINDU
TROOPS WORSTED
FURNISHED MONEY
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TO YUCATAN REBELS
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HISTORY OF CRIME.
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BEDOUINS SEEK REFUGE.
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FLOODS WORKING
HAVOC IN HOLLAND
BRITISH BEATEN OFF.
THE WEATHER
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JAPANESE ACTIVE.
TO PREVENT SHORTAGE.
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Japanese capitalists in
bidding'
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also
tacked the railway station at Hudova,
in the Vardar valley, south of Stru-
ands for $1,000,000. Increased
tivity has been manifested
long dis-
Bernstorff
glycerin, and that he would sacrifice
his own life to wipe out any police
who may try to capture him,” said the
captain.
government of Austria-Hun-
The war and the war alone has
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Would be Unneutral Act,
Lodge Asserts.
INCOHERENT NOTES
EXPLAIN POISONING
$207 in November, the last month
for which complete reports were
received.
By Associated Press.
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TURKS IN FLIGHT;
RUSSIANS PURSUE
Must be Allowed to Travel and
Ship Upon Belligerent Mer-
chantmen Anywhere.
RUMANIA TO ACT
AT AN EARLY DATE
Berlin Paper Hears of Outbreak.
Moslems Are Removed
From Suez.
Found Guilty One Year Ago in
Connection With Death of
Anna Aumuller.
Balkan Nation Will Soon Enter
War on Side of Allies,
Rome Hears.
Emergency Dam Ten Miles
From Amsterdam Goes
Out.
Official Figures Concerning
Number of Prisoners at Erz-
erurn Still Lacking.
This Charge Is Made Against
Harvester Company at Sisal
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Eastern and Western Tribes Are Re-
ported in Conflict.
By Associated Press.
London, Feb. 18.—Reuter’s Cairo cor-
respondent says many eastern tribes
of Bedouins are seeking protection of
the British authorities owing to a vio-
lent dispute between the western and
eastern tribes, which are hereditary
enemies.
Bth joined in the recent fighting
against the British, in which the east-
ern tribes suffered severe losses. Sub-
sequently the conflict among the tribes
arose and the easterners are now flock-
ing to the Egyptian refuge camps.
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for insular properties. They re-
cently purchased a sugar prop-
erty formerly belonging to the
Dominican monks at Calamba,
island of Luzon, and they are at
present considering the purchase
of several large sugar planta-
tions with mills and equipment.
No Sessions Were Held by Senate Com-
mitteee Today.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Feb. 18.—No witnesses
were ready to be heard today before
the senate judiciary subcommittee con-
sidering the nomination of Louis D.
Brandeis to the supreme court and to-
day’s hearing was abandoned.
By Associated Press.
El. Paso, Tex., Feb. 18.—Gold and
silver bullion of an estimated value
of hundreds of thousands of dol-
lars, said to have been confiscated
and buried by Francisco Villa, is
being sought by Mexican govern-
ment authorities, according to
Andres Garcia, Mexican consul
here, who stated further that if re-
covered, the treasure would be for-
feited to the de facto government.
“We have done all the work and
taken all the risk to secure it,
therefore, it is ours,” Garcia said.
Over 200 Arrests Have Been
Made—Probe Is Still
Proceeding,
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HUTCHINGS, SEALY & CO.
Established BANKERS Established
(Unincorporated)
For
Banks, Individuals, Corporations
American Bankers Association Trav-
elers’ Cheques for Sale.
LUSITANIA CONTROVERSY.
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Von Vernstorf Has Sent Message to
Berlin.
regarding armed merchant ships to be
modified and that the tentative com-
munication designed to end the Lusi-
tania case will not be formally ac-
cepted by this country until assurances
regarding' the future conduct of Ger-
man submarine warfare is given.
In Teutonic diplomatic circles it was
stated that the Berlin foreign office
would not modify the declaration of
intention to sink armed ships or in-
form this country that previous assur-
ances were binding unless Great Brit-
ain should give assurances that a sub-
marine which warned a British ship
carrying defense armament would not
be fired upon.
States by the destruction of churches
and public buildings. It was reported
that the new $2,500,000 federal build-
ing at Denver, Colo., was among those
slated for destruction. Letters from
Salida, Colo., were found among Crones’
belongings. ,
Officials of the postoffice department
today said efforts would be made to
prevent the spread of alleged anarchis-
tic propaganda.
Capt. Nicholas Hunt, detective chief,
believes Crones was serious in threats
against the police, contained in his
second letter.
“I believe he is carrying an infernal
By Associated Press.
New York, Feb. 18.—Records
of the exports of horses to Eu-
hope show that more than 500,-
000 horses, valued at $125,000,000,
have been shipped there from
this country since the beginning
of the war. A compilation made
by the foreign trade department
of the National City bank dis-
closes that about 440,000 horses
were shipped last year. .
The prices show a declining
with him or some nitro-
By Associated Press.
Berlin, Feb. 18.—-(By, wireless to
Sayville).—A mutiny of Hindu troops
in Egypt is reported by the Cologne
Gazette, as quoted by the Overseas
news agency. It is said an entire reg-
iment mutinied, killing twelve offi-
cers, including a major, and that oth-
er Hindu troops went over to the mu-
tineers. After a battle of two hours,
it is said, the mutinous troops were
routed.
The Cologne Volks Zeitung says that
Major General Sir John Maxwell, com-
mander of the British forces in Egypt,
has ordered the withdrawal of Moslem
troops from the Suez canal and their
transportation to another war theater,
where they will not fight against oth-
er Mohammedans. It is said there have
been frequent desertions among these
troops.
The news agency statement follows:
“The Cologne Gazette publishes a re-
port received from reliable sources in
Cairo that strong opposition has de-
veloped among the Hindu troops to
the British. A captain of the Austral-
ian troops named Brown on Jan. 10
shot two Mohammedan servants who
had made a mistake, the Gazette says.
The Hindus who witnessed the incident
killed the captain with a bayonet.
“The whole regiment then mutinied.
A majority of the officers saved them-
selves by flight, but 12 of them, in-
cluding the commander of the regi-
ment and a major were killed.
“Other Hindu troops were sent to
suppress the uprising, but refused to
fire on the mutineers, to whom part of
them went over. After two hours of
fighting with Australian regiments,
part of the mutineers fled into the
desert. The others were killed or
wounded.
“There have been other cases of
mutiny, but the British have prevented
publication of the details.”
By Associated Press.
Washington, Feb. 18.—Charges that
the International Harvester company
had furnished money for arms and am-
munition for the Ortiz-Argumedo revo-
lution against the Carranza govern-
ment in Yucatan, Mexico, were made
today ' by Levy Mayer of Chicago, in
the senate agricultural committee’s in-
vestigation into an alleged monopoly
for control of the sisal market.
Walter L. Fisher,' former secretary
of the interior, counsel for the Har-
vester company, displayed to the com-
mittee a bundle of bills, part of 3,500,-
000 pesos issued by the Yucatan com-
mission formed for controlling -the
sisal crop. He was undertaking to ex-
plain that the bills had come into the
possession of the • Harvester company
from a draft for $480,000 gold issued
to Angelino Montes, a sisal purchaser,
who, the Yucatan planters assert, rep-
resented solely the Harvester company,
when he was interrupted by Mayer,
who declared they gave the draft. to
raise money for stirring up a revolu-
tion. ■
“That’s just talk,” retorted Mr. Fish-
er.
“We will be able to introduce into
the record the invoices and bills show-
ing- that at least part of the money
went to an arms purchasing company
of New York to buy rifles and ammu-
nition,” replied Mayer.
Mr. Fisher asserted that the money
from the draft was given the Yucatan
government in exchange for the com-
mission’s money in order to have cur-
rency to pay the sisal planters.
The Ortiz-Argumedo government had
control of Yucatan for a short time in
1915, and was overcome by the Car-
ranza army.
By Associated Press.
Amsterdam, Feb. 18.—Via London.—
Floods are continuing to work havoc
in Northern Holland. Last night the
emergency dam at Purmerend, ten miles
north of Amsterdam, burst and the
water rushed violently into the town.
The burgomaster ordered everyone to
seek refuge in the attics of their homes.
The water on the flooded lands near
Edam is very high. The houses outside
Edam have been evacuated.
Great anxiety is felt in Volendam.
An increased number of houses are in
danger of collapse and the inhabitants
have been forced to depart.
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By Associated Press.
Petrograd, Feb. 18, via London.—The
fall of Erzerum, the Turkish strong-
hold in Asia Minor, for a long time
considered impregnable, offers the un-
precedented spectacle of a first class
fortress built on a steep mountin
ridge nearly a mile above sea level
yielding to bayonet attack after only
36 hours’ bombardment. The opera-
tions were conducted under the most
severe weather conditions, the snow
being deep and the thermometer regis-
tering at times more than 30 degrees
below zero, fahrenheit.
The Turkish army defending Er-
zerum, taken by surprise, is said to
be in disorderly flight on the roads
leading to Sivas. As the garrison ap-
parently scattered in all directions, it
is assumed here that large numbers
of men were captured, although of-
ficia] figures are lacking, I
The great /island of Madagascar, in
the Indian ocean, lying off the east
coast of Africa, was officially recog-
nized as a French colony in 1896 after
a war of occupation. The majority of
the natives are not Africans, the
Malayan element predominating in their
greatly mixed blood.
Of the total population of more than
2,500,000 in 1901 the Hovas, the domi-
nant race, numbered about 850,000 and
they are regarded as belonging to the
Malayan stock. The Sakalavas, whose
negro affinities are strongly pro-
nounced, rank next in numbers and
besides other indigenous races, there
are may persons of Arab and Indian
descent.
The seat of the government is at
Tananarivo, which has a population of
about 60,000. Fianarantsca, which is
mentioned in the above dispatch, is a
town in the southeast of the island,
180 miles southwest of Tananarivo,
with a population of about 6,000.
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and shelter, at the wery same time the
church holds diners and pays 15$ for
each cover which starts with Beluga
" caviar and Champagne, the same money
which was begard from pour working-
men and women, the same mony were
the blood of your workers has run
for.”
“These conditions,” the writer con-
y tinned, “are an scandal. That > is the
failure of Christianity, and an insult
toward honesty and a Challenge to hu-
NEW VOTES OF CREDIT.
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Asquith Will Ask For 400 Million
Pounds Monday.
By Associated Press.
London, Feb. 18.—New votes of credit
amounting to approximately £400,000,-
000 will be asked by Premier Asquith of
the house of commons on Monday.
The new votes will bring up the to-
tal of war appropriations to £2,062,000,-
000.
Fail to Regain Positions Taken by the
Germans.
By Associated Press.
Berlin, Feb. 18, via London.—The
British have made a new attempt to
retake the position -South of Ypres,
Belgium, recently captured by the Ger-
mans, but were beaten off with heavy
losses, it was announced officially to-
day.
The statement says:
“Western theater: The English again
attempted to recapture their positions
to the south of Ypres, by were repulsed
with sanguinary losses.
“Northwest of Lens and north of
Arras we carried out successful mining
operations. A small German detach-
ment returned from a nocturnal excur-
sion against English positions near
Fonquevillie, north of Arras, with a
few prisoners.”
“One machine gun was also taken. '
“Directly south of the Somme an at-
tack by flesh French troops broke
down under our fire.
“Oh the remainder of the front there
were more or less lively artillery duels,
but no incidents of any special impor-
tance.
“Enemy aerial attacks in Flanders
were immediately returned with the
aerial bombardment of Poperinghe.
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Block Conspiracy on Is-
land of Madagascar.
plaining that in its negotiations with
Germany over submarine warfare the
United States will accept nothing short
of a' complete agreement covering all
points for which it has contended as to
assurance that the warfare in the fu-
ture will be conducted in accordance
with the established principles of in-
ternational law.
It is understood that the ambassador
Informed his government that the
United States considers Germany’s
declaration of its intention to sink
armed merchant ships without warn-
ing after Feb. 29, inconsistent with the
assurances given in the Arabic case.
It was said that he told the Berlin
foreign office that Secretary Lansing
has informed him that the United
.States desires the German declaration
any change at this time in the attitude
which we took officially at the out-
set of the war in regard to armed
merchantmen would be an unneutral
act. The merchantmen of one bellig-
erent, have been swept from the seas.
Therefore, if we should abandon all
principles on this subject we have
ever sustained, if we abandon the rules
laid down by Mr. Lansing in his circu-
lar of September, 1914, and declare
that our ports are closed , to armed
merchantmen or that goods and pas-
sengers from the United States can-
not be placed on an uncommissioned
merchantman armed solely for de-
fense, our action would affect only
one belligerent. It would alter con-
ditions created by the war and would,
therefore, be unneutral. It would
make us at once the ally of the bel-
ligerent whose merchant marine has
been driven from the ocean. It would
be a step toward war.
“I cannot, believe that the admin-
istration thinks for a minute of alter-
ing the well-defined position which it
took at the outset of the European
war, and I believe that it must stand
as firmly on this question as it has on
the question of an embargo. Should
it act otherwise, it would accept a
humiliation and incur a danger of war
which even the boldest and most un-
scrupulous would shrink.”
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Loss of $250,942 From These Diseases is
Shown.
By Associated Press.
Austin, Feb. 18.—Reports of the
state health department show loss of
4,494 animals valued at $250,942 from
charbon or anthrax during 1915. This
does not total the entire loss, however,
as many ranch animals when found
are so badly decomposed as to make
examination impossible. In 1915 the
disease was recognized in 28 counties
as compared to 27 counties in 1914.
On Jan. 1, 1916, however, the disease
was reported in 39 counties.
Counties found with evidence of the
disease in 1915 were;
Fannin, Chambers, Matagorda, Fort
Bend, Harris, Brazoria, Kerr, Wharton,
Wilson, Galveston, Llano, Dallas, Knox,
King, Harrison, Eastland, Jack, Palo
Pinto, Stonewall, De Witt, Jackson,
Orange, Liberty, Jefferson, Kimble and
Gillespie.
By Associated Press.
New York, Feb. 18.—Believing that
Jean Crones, the Chicago chef, accused
of poisoning the soup at a dinner of
Catholic clergymen in that city, is in
New York city or near by, the police
made every effort today to run him
down. The authorities think Crones is
the author of two letters mailed in
this city to the New York Times, in
which the writer boasts that he has
escaped arrest, and makes veiled
threats.
The identification by John M. Mc-
Court, assistant United States district
attorney at Scranton, Pa., of the fac-
simile of the first Crones letter re-
ceived here as the handwriting of the
man wanted in Chicago, stimulated po-
lice efforts. Crones’ writing was iden-
tified by examination papers he had
sent to a correspondence school at
Scranton.
The second letter, apparently signed
by Crones, received by the New York
' paper last night, contained what pur-
ported to be his finger-prints. The
pplice are endeavoring to learn by
these prints whether Crones had a rec-
ord in the police bureau of identifi-
cation.
In his letter, the writer attempted
to tell, in an incoherent manner, “why
I dit it.” Many of the words are mis-
spelled, as was the case in the pre-
vious letter. The writer asserted that
“while at Europe millians of Chris-
tians are schlautering each other in the
most bloddy massacre, and in these free
country thousands of men and women
are tramping the streets without food
By Associated Press.
Manila, Feb. 18.—Japanese in-
terests are negotiating for the
purchase from an American lum-
ber company of its mills and
business in the Philippine Isl-
Boasts of Escaping Arrest and
Makes Veiled Threats
Against Authorities.
Former Texan Likely to Get Post
Vacated by Garrison
By Associated Press.
Washington, Feb. 18.—The impres-
sion grew in official circles today that
Secretary Houston, formerly of Texas,
would be transferred to the war de-
partment to succeed former Secretary
Garrison. On the way to the cabinet
meeting today Mr. Houston smilingly
refused to answer questions on the
subject, but volunteered the informa-
tion that he had completed presenting
the needs of his department to the
house committee on agriculture. The
impression was given that his affairs
were in such a condition that he could
make the change.
Chicago Officials Look to New York
Police for Arrest.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, Feb. 18.—Following the
publication this morning in New York
newspapers of another letter believed
to have been written by Jean Crones,
former assistant chef at the Univer-
sity club of Chicago, local police offi-
cials put on the New York authorities
the burden of responsibility for Crones’
arrest. Crones is charged with poison-
ing soup served at the Mundelein ban-
quet.
There is, however, no relaxation on
the part of the Chicago police, and every
’ possible source of information as to
Crones’ whereabouts was under sur-
veillance. Efforts are also being made
to locate Crones in Boston.
The federal government operatives
here today continued their efforts to
assist local authorities in running down
reports that the poisoning was the re-
sult of an anticlerical plot of nation-
wide proportions.
It was learned today that secret
service agents received warning of such
a conspiracy more than three months
ago. At that time it was reported that
anarchistic leaders had been holding
secret meetings at Salida, Colo., dis-
cussing plans for a “reign of terror”
to be created throughout the United
FORECAST.
For Galves-
ton and vicin-
5 t y: Tonight
fair, colder;
Saturday fair;
light northerly
winds.
For East
Texas: Tonight
fair, colder,
frost in the
south portion
Senator Sterling Speaks on Resolution
Regarding German Notice.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Feb. 18.—Senate:
Senator Sterling spoke on his reso-
lution pertaining. to German admiral-
ty’s orders to sink armed merchant
ships of belligerents.
Senator Lodge, in speech, declared
abandonment by the United States of
the principle that its ports were open
to and its citizens free to travel on
belligerent merchantmen would be un-
neutral.
Considered Nicaraguan treaty in ex-
ecutive session.
Braideis nomination investigating
committee adjourned to'Feb. 24 because
of lack of witnesses.
International Harvester company
charged with furnishing arms to Mex-
ican revolutionists at agriculture com-
mittee’s sisal investigation hearing.
House:
Continued general debate on postof-
fice appropriation bill.
Capt. McKean told naval committee
that navy’s war plans are kept well up
to date; he saw no need of general
staff.,
By Associated Press.
Washington, Feb. 18.—Imme-
diate measures to prevent a
shortage of officers to command
the large number of American
merchantmen now building were
recommended by Secretary of
Commerce Redfield today to the
steamboat inspection service.
American ship yards are work-
ing to capacity on 230 vessels,
the most ever under construc-
tion in this country. Secretary
Redfield suggested changes in
the system of training young
officers to produce men for com-
mands faster than they are now.
turned out.
By Associated Press.
London, Feb. 18.—"Dispatehes from
Bucharest state that the capture of
Erzerum by the Russians is crystaliz-
ing the decision of Rumania to inter-
vene at an early date,” says a Rome
dispatch.
“In Rumanian official circles in sym-
pathy with the entente it is stated in
March there will be a concentration of
Russian troops in Bessarabia for the
purpose of permitting Rumania to
transfer troops to the Bulgarian fron-
tire. This transfer already is in prog-
ress,
“In the meantime the allies are
hastening the transportation to Salon-
iki of the Serbian, Albanian and Mon-
tenegrin armies which, with the French
and British troops, will make possible
an offensive movement simultaneously
with the intervention of Rumania.”
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By Associated Press.
Ossining, N. Y., Feb. 18.—Hans
Schmidt was, electrocuted at Sing Sing
prison today for the murder of Anna
Aumuller, Sept. 2, 1913.
Schmidt went quietly to the death
chamber, accompanied by the principal
keeper and the Rev. Father Cashin,
the prison chaplain. Leaving the
death chamber he said good-bye to
those who remained.
When he entered the chamber the
guards attempted to* direct him to-
ward the chair, but Schmidt gently
shook them off and insisted upon ad-
dressing the seventeen witnesses. The
guards desisted from their effort and
with Father Cashin standing at one
side and the keeper at the other,
Schmidt said:
“Gentlemen, I ask forgiveness of all
those I have injured or scandalized. I
forgive all who have injured me. My
last wish is to say good-bye to my
dear old mother.”
Schmidt then seated himself in the
electric chair and the current was ap-
plied three times. Within a minute
he was dead. He had spent the night
up to midnight in praying and talking
with Father Cashin and slept from
midnight to 5 o’clock, when he was
wakened for breakfast. He would take
only a cup of coffee.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Feb. 18.—-Senator Lodge,
ranking minority member of the for-
eign relations committee, made a
speech in the senate today declaring
that abandonment by the United States
at this time of the principle that its
ports were open to, and its citizens
free to travel upon, merchantmen of
belligerent nations armed ' solely for
defensive purposes, would be an un-
neutral act and a step toward war. He
said it would make the United States
the ally of the belligerent whose mer-
chant marine had been swept from the
seas.
The senator referred to reports that
the administration was preparing to
change its policy, which have been de-
nied by Secretary Lansing since the
issuance of the German and Austrian
memorandums announcing their inten-
tion to treat armed merchant ships as
war vessels after Feb. 29. As late
as the president's note of May 13, 1915,
signed by Mr. Bryan, Senator Lodge
said, this government recognized that
"American, citizens were within their
undisputed rights in traveling wher-
ever their legitimate business calls
them upon the high seas.”
RIGHTS OF AMERICANS.
"Such," he added, “has been the
practice of all nations in regard to
the armed merchantman. It seems
utterly incredible that this position
should be in any way altered now or
that our government should be ready
to surrender the unquestioned rights
of Americans to travel or ship goods
on a belligerent merchantman subject
to all the rules which have been es-
tablished by the courts and by all in-
ternational authorities for at least two
centuries.
“The abandonment of these rights by
any neutral government on the ground
that the invention of submarines, with
the necessary limitations upon the
powers of capture possessed by those
boats, is inconceivable. Such abandon-
ment could only rest on the ground
that the rights of neutrals, the rules
which for centuries have been agreed
upon by all nations for the protection
of innocent lives upon vessels cap-
tured in war, must be discarded in or-
der that a new instrument of maritime
destruction must not be impeded in its
work of death and murder. Such a
doctrine is revolting to every instinct
of humanity, to every principle of law
and justice.
“There is, however, another side to
this matter which is of even graver
importance. There can be no question
that any act by a neutral which al-
ters conditions created by a war is, an
unneutral act and places the. neutral
upon the side of one belligerent or
the other.
WAR CONDITIONS.
"This is eminently true of any form
of embargo, and there is no need that
I should repeat the unanswerable ar-
gument on this' point embodied by
Mir. Lansing in his note of last August
By Associated Press.
Paris, Feb. 18.—The Paris Journal’s
correspondent at Tananarivo says
that German agents financed and
otherwise encouraged a native plot to
overthrow the government of Mada-
gascar on Dec. 31 last. The seat of
the conspiracy was at Fianarantsca
and it was planned to poison the
French officers and soldiers on New
Year’s eve and either gain the native
troops to the cause of the conspirators
or obtain from them their military
weapons. The white officials and
colonists were then to have been mas-
sacred.
The plot was revealed to the authori-
ties and already over 200 persons have
been arrested and other arrests are
expected, as the investigation still is
proceeding. The great bulk of the
population remains loyal to France and
has not been affected by seditious
propaganda.
The correspondent adds that the dis-
covery of documents at the German
consulate show that plans were made
for fomenting an insurrection even be-
fore the war broke out.
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day fair.
For Oklahoma: Tonight fair, cold-
er; Saturday fair.
Winds on Texas Coast: Light
northerly.
Shipper’s Forecast: Protect ship-
ments during the next 24 to 36 hours
as Follows; northward, near freezing.
Schmidt. Was Arrested at New York
Sept. 14, 1913.
By Associated Press.
New York, Feb. 18.—When the torso
of Anna Aumuller’s body was washed
up on the New Jersey shore of the
Hudson river there started a search
which has had but few parallels in
the annals of New York crime. There
1 was but one faint clue, a pillow slip
on which was embroidered the letter
“A,” but it was just such a pillow slip
’ as might be found in hundreds of
homes or stores. There was not even
’ a laundry mark to aid the police.
With this slender clew. Inspector
1 Faurot took personal charge of the
case, and on Sept. 14, 1913—twelve
days after the murder—Hans Schmidt,
an assistant priest at an uptown
church, was arrested and charged with
1 the crime. An hour before the arrest,
the inspector had broken into a flat
and found a long-bladed butcher’s
knife and other evidence that the mur-
der had been committed there. Schmidt
confessed, and his sole defense was
that it was a "blood sacriflce" murder.
The body had been dismembered, and
presumably all of it was thrown into
the river, although the head was
never found.
Schmidt was twice placed on trial,
the first jury, in December, 1913, fail-
ing to reach a verdict. In February,
1915, he was found guilty.
Besides the sordid story of Anna
Aumuller’s infatuation for Schmidt, the
trials revealed that his was a career
of crime. He was engaged in a coun-
terfeiting scheme at the time the
murder was committed, it developed,
and “Dr.” A. Muret, who posed as a
dentist, was sent to prison for seven
years as Schmidt’s accomplice in the
latter’s crime. It was found that
Schmidt also had posed as a physi-
cian, that he had committed forgery
on numerous occasions, and that he
had been guilty of Various other acts
of fraud.
His attorneys pleaded their client
was insane. The slayer, however, al-
ways contended that he was sane. He
took no active part in his own defense.
When he was sentenced he thanked the
court and expressed a desire to be
executed at once He maintained the
same stolid composure through all the
various stages of his case.
The British evidently are restive un-
der continued occupation by the Ger-
mans of several hundred yards of first
line trenches south of Ypres, Bel-
gium, lost in recent fighting. Berlin to-
day reports another attempt by the
British to take the position, but de-
clares the efforts failed with heavy
losses.
South of the river Somme, where
the French recently lost ground and
have been counter attacking, they es-
sayed a fresh attack, but according to
Berlin the offensive broke down under
the German fire.
Military operations figure but scant-
ily in the news from belligerent coun-
tries today. The Russian war office
has officially announced the capture of
Erzerum from the Turks, but has fur-
nished no details of the number of
prisoners captured or guns taken.
Much speculation regarding the prob-
able further course of events in the
campaign around Erzerum is being in-
dulged in, but there is little positive
information regarding the numbers
and positions of the opposing forces.
One report says the Russians have
pushed a force northwest from Erz-
errum and that this body of troops
already has reached Baiburt, 75 miles
away on the road to Trebizond, the
important Turkish port on the Black
sea. 1
Reports of a mutiny of Hindu troops
in Egypt come today through Ger-
man channels.. » A circumstantial ac-
count published in a Cologne newspa-
per declares that an entire regiment
mutinied after an Australian officer
had shot two Mohammedan servants
who had made some mistake. Twelve
British officers, including the com-
mander of the regiment, a major, were
killed, according to the account, and
it was only after two hours of fight-
ing by Australian regiments that the
mutiny was suppressed. The report
adds that the British commander in
Egypt has ordered the withdrawal
from the Suez canal of all Mohamme-
dan troops, their transfer to another
war theater, where they would not be
pitted against other Mohammedan
forces, having been decided upon.
With the passage of the new votes
of credit to be asked by Premier As-
quith in the house of commons on
Monday next. Great Britain’s total of
war appropriations will have reached
the vast sum of. €2,062,000,000. .The
new votes to be asked amount to ap-
proximately £400,000,000.
against me.
"The police makes me laugh. When
I was in Buffalo two spies where after
me. After a while they went back.
How foolish is the police not for two
cents brains. Yesterday I was work-
ing for an hour around the police
headquarters, but no one came out and
got me. I am glad that the spies from
Chicago are coming/ then I know bet-
ter at wat time to let er go.”
The fact that Jean Crones, the an-
archist chef, is supposed to be in this
city caused the police today to take
extraordinary precautions to safeguard
guests attending a ball to be given
tonight by the Knights of Columbus.
The ball is to be held in Madison
Square garden and Gov. Whitman, high
city officials and many dignitaries of
the Catholic church are expected to be
present.
By Associated Press.
New York, Feb. 18. If Robert
Louis Stevenson could have sold
his letters in his life time at such
prices as they brought at their sale
here he could have spent his later
years in comfort without having to
depend upon his literary efforts.
The total sum derived from the
sale of Stevenson’s letters, books,
manuscripts and paintings was
$83,116. They were the property
of Mrs. Salisbury Field of Santa
Barbara, Cal. The sale was con-
cluded yesterday. One letter
brought $387.
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