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MODIFY OUARANTItlE SEVEN DIE III STORM. OLEOMARGARINE FRAUDS SHORTER HEWS ITEMS A GENERAL SURVEY OFTHE WAR.KING OF SAXONY.

Takes Kaiser's Place onFiring Line In Belgium;

Is In Complete Command.

New York Firm Charged With Vlolat'ing Pure Food Laws.

fusiness Has Been Resumed atEast Buffalo Stockyards. |

Atlantic Coast Swept by SevereGale of Wind and Rain.

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Now York, Dec. 8. —Oleomargarintfrauds aggregating $1,000,000 arecharged against Frederick D. Oetjenand three others who were arraignedbefore United States CommissionerHoughten. Oetjen, who is head of thebig butter and egg lirni of Fred D.Oetjen & Co., was held in $15,000 bail.The other three, George M. Hermes,J. H. Lichtenstein and Paul Witmer,employes of the Oetjen concern, wereheld in $10,000.

Summary of the Week's Newsof the World. The lirst official word to judicata

that-the predicted assault of the allieson ihe German lines in Belgium mayhave been begun has reached thepublic. The German war office statement says that the French have maderepeated attacks in Flanders, whicDwere repulsed.

Federal Authorities Make Ban on Hoof Deaths Resulted from Auto Accidents,

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Happenings From All Parts of theGlobe Put Into Shape For EasyReading — What All the World Is

and Mouth Disease by Counties, In-stead of States—Various CountiesIn Indiana and Michigan Still Quar-antined —Other Items of General In-

Exposures, Electrocutions and GradeCrossing Accidents, All Directl>Traceable to the Storm—HugeWaves Destroy Board Walk at At-

Talking About—Cream of the News

Culled From Long Dispatches. This brief reference does not makeit clear how extensive the movementis. For several days it has been re-ported unofficially that the allies haddetermined oil an assault which wouldlead to one of the greatest strugglesof the war. with the object on t&eirpart of breaking the German line inthe northwest, and. if possible, forc-ing a general retreat.

terest. lantic City Charles li Nolte, a member of thefirm, and Henry D. Smith, anotheremploye, will probably surrenderthemselves to the federal authoritiestoday on a similar charge. AssistantUnited States Attorney Etnilo Yaselllis prosecuting the case, which in-volves violation of the. pure food law.

The modification last week of thetoot and mouth quarantine establishedby the federal authorises means aresumption of business at the EastBuffalo stockyards this week after aperiod of more than a month of al-most idleness. Orders Issued fromWashington permit shipments of live-stock from any unquarantined areainto the Buffalo yards.

Philadelphia, Dec. 8.—Seven deadand nine injured as a result of theetorin, Delaware river shipping para-lyzed by wind and fog, business sec-tions along the river front flooded bythe high tides, many railroad trainscanceled and New Jersey towns inparticularly cut off, and thousands otdollars in property damaged, was thetoll last night for the severe stormwhich has raged along the Atlanticcoast for the last 48 hours. Thedeaths resulted from automobile acci-dents, exposure, electrocutions andgrade-crossing accidents, all directlytract-able to tlie storm.

Governor-eled Whitman dasheshopes for pardons for William J. Cum-mins and Stephen J. Stilwell.

Discussion of Mr. Bryan's resigna-tion continues and A. Mitcnell Pal-mer is mentioned as his successor.

President Wilson appoints a com-mission of three to attempt a settle-ment of Colorado coal mine troubles.According to the federal authorities

the Oetjen company has been selling,labeled and adultered butter to bak-eries, hotels and retail stores andhas shipped much of it abroad. Itssales in those two years, it is said,amounted to $1,000,000.

In Alsace, too, the French apparent-ly have made a new attack. The GerMr. Daniels, secretary of the navy,

will cyt off lu3 days from each year'sschool for the enlisted men of thefleet.

man statement reports that

Since the quarantine established byCalvin J. Husou, state commissionerof agriculture, was lifted severalweeks ago the East Buffalo yards hadto depend on this state and Canadafor their supply. Last week's ordersfrom Washington mean that shipmentscan come in'o the state from allot thecattle-raisiug regions. Wlien the fed-eral authorities lifted the ban againstthe Buffalo yards they also removedthe quarantine jn Indianapolis, por-tions of Iowa, Indiana and Michigan.

tem pted ail vane northwest Alt

Chauffeur is seized in Baff murdercase, in New York, anil automobilehe drove is said to answer descriptiongiven by three

kirch, Upper Alsace, was beaten bacHwith French losses.

Another battle h;is developed souttt-west of Lodz, where tliFLOWER SENTENCED witnesses formed another line and art

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Philadelphia and Suburbs Hard Hit, General Villa, at tae head of 25,000troops, entered ilio suburbs of Mexi-co City.

tempting to pierce the Russian centerThe forces of Emperor Wiiliam thus

idA 30-mile gale lifted waters of theDelaware river over the bulkheadsami flooded business houses alongDela are avenue. More than a scoreof ocean-going vessels are tied up be-twiM a the citv and the breakwater.

TO PENITENTIARY. are operating at a comparativevantage at the beginning of their asRear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan,

U. S. N., retired, die* In Washington,at the age of 74 years.

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Three kings, two emperors and thepresident of France are reported atthe front at the same time.

Their first invasion of Poland, whichtook thorn almost to Warsaw, was followed by a retreat to German terrltory. The second movement waschecked near Lodz, but on this occa/sion they succeeded in holding theiimain position so now their forwardmovement is initiated by forces already firmly fixed on Russian soil.

Photo by American Press Association, Swindler Gleaned Dp $1,000,-000 Selling Mining Stock.

While the East Buffalo stockyard*have beeu doing business for severalweeks it has been on a very limitedscale. With the supply from all cattle-raising states shut off by federal quar-antine there was very little businessto be ha*d from this state and Canada.Thousands of dollars were lost byBuffalo dealers as a result of thequarantine and hundreds of men werethrown out of employment, when thefoot and mouth disease became soprevalent as to necessitate the closing of the yards during a ten-da-period of disinfection.

The Pennsylvania railroad has beenforced to abandon, temporarily, trainsto Ocean City. Sea Isle City and BeacliHaven. Water covers the tracks.Philadelphia and its suburbs has befenhard hit. Many sections were ip darkness last night because telegraph, tel-ephone and electric light wires aredown. A number of river piers wereengulfed and thousands of dollarsworth of stores destroyed.

CHECK CATTLE DISEASE President Wilson indicates he willinsist on the passage at the forth-coming session of the merchant ma-rine bill.

Precautionary Measure Appears toHave Won In New Jersey County. New York, Dec. 8.—Dr. Richard C.

Flower, swindler par excellence, weak,emaciated and a hopeless victim ofmorphine, was sentenced to two yearsIn the penitentiary by Justice Davisin the criminal branch of the supremecourt.

There has been 110 further spreadof the foot and mouth disease amongcattle around Federicktown, N. J.,during the past few days, and the au-thorities feel encouraged by the suc-cess of the steps taken toward pre-

Thomas Mott Osborne begins dutiesas Sing Sing warden, and says hisfirst step will be to put convicts antheir honor.

The French are fighting their waytoward Metz in Lorraine and Strass-burg in Alsace. Paris expects thatthe column in Lorraine will cut theGerman communication between Metzand St. Mihiel and that Muelhausenand Altkirch will soon fall to the in-

A coroner's jury blames the secondofficer for the wreck of the steamshipHaualei on Duxbury reef, near SanFrancisco, on Nov. 23 last.

Convicts at Sing Sing greet ThomasMott Osborne, new warden, as a

ventionNearly two inches of rain has fallen.

Hail as large as eggs bombarded CityHall. Reports up state show rain hasrelieved conditions arising from theprolonged drought, and will enablemines to continue operations whichwere on the point of closing down foilack of water.

Dr. Flower, who is more than 70years old. stared vacantly around thecourt room while Nelson Olcott of hiscounsel pleaded with Justice Davis tobe lenient with his client.

Three cows and 14 shoats belongingto Alvin Nipe, and four cows of EliZane," were killed by order of thestate board of health, and the countryis practically under quarantine, butowners do not fear further spread,and are taking every precaution toprevent it. A number of sales, wherecattle nnd hogs were to have beenoffered, have been indefinitely post-

vadersSaturday's order from Washington

permits interstate shipments of livt -

stock from all counties in Now Yorkexcept Erie, Ningara, Oceans, Gene-see, Monroe, Wayne, Ontario, Seneca,Cayuga, Cortland Tompkins, Saratoga,Washington, Rensselaer, Albany,

Schenectady, Columbia, Suffolk, Nas-

sau. Richmond, Bronx, Kings, Queens,Rockland and Westchester.

Various counties in Indiana andMichigan are also specified by thefederal authorities as still under quar-antine.

The official reports of the fightingin Flanders tend to confirm the un-official report that the allies have tak-en the offensive and are attackinghard. The French and Hritish in Flan-ders and France drove the Germansfrom trenches and villages they hadhold for many weeks. A gale of sleetand snow is sweeping over the north

friendThe cmplainant in the case was

Mrs. Isabella Gray Taylor, who charg-ed that Flower had swindled her outof $500 in a fake mining scheme.

A Pretoria dispatch announces thecapture of (leneral De Wet, leader ofthe rebellion in South Africa.

FAITH IN OLDEST MINE •

Flower was arrested in Toronto onOct. 21, after he had been a fugitivefrom justice for 11 years. He jump-ed a $2,000 bail bond. There were12 grand larceny indictments againsthim at that time. He was said tohave cleaned tip $1,000,0000 throughhis activities as a mining stock swin-dler and lived in luxurious style. Anattempt was made by his victims after his arrest to recover some of theirmoney, but Flower laughed at themand said he had spent it all. Not onepenny was ever recovered.

Coroner's jury returns a verdict ofjustifiable homicide in the case ofJames Callaway, killed by W. B. Car-hart, in Atlanta.ponort, Prospectors Willing to Go Deep for

The quarantine is very rigid. Arm-ed guards are stationed on both theNipe and Zane farms. The state al-lows $40 for each cow killed, $100 fora registered cow and for a shoat.

Gold or Copper. Reports collected by the NationalCivic Federation tell of a' good ad-vance in business and indicate an eraof great prosperity.

ern areaBoyerstown, Pa., Dec. 8.—The oldest

mine in Eastern Pennsylvania is toresume operations shortly on the farmof the Jones people, formerly ownedby Mrs. Joshua Brendinger.

The Germans arc forming a new linein Poland according to the latest re-ports from Petrograd. This line ex-tends from Kutno, in the north, toCracow, in the south. This undoubt-edly means that a new battle is to bofought, with the Germans fighting toprotect their territory from invasionby the Russians.

Dr. S. S. Guy, dentist, of Queenscounty, after convicted of slaying hiswife, is paroled after serving half ofa sentence of 14 years.

While the federal order mentionsErie as one of the quarantined coun-ties of this state, the order does notapply to the East Buffalo yards, fop

they have been thoroughly cleanedand disenfected.

MAY DIE OF STARVATION Here, in 1740, when this countrywas still under the rule of Great Britain under the reign of King George,a shaft was sunk to a depth of 100feet, and since that time it has beenknown as "the copper and gold mine.'

Jersey Man Penniless, Was Too Proud Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, de-claring that the public is entitled toknow the truth, will demand an in-vestigation of the nation's defences.

to Beg.In Russian Poland, where more than

anywhere else the fortunes of battlehave been unevenly distributed, thereapparently has been another of t-heswift changes which have made thesituation a confused one, since thebeginning of the war.

The movement of dressed carcasses,hay, straw and similar articles hither-to subjected to quarantine regulationis now permitted except from the coun-ties still under quarantine.

Too proud to beg, Henry Thompson,52 years old, had not eaten any foodfor days, when found in an uncon-scious condition at the hay marketin Trenton, N. J. The man was tak-en to McK'nley hospital and when nevived told his story.

About 1815 a large dam was constructed and a race was dug from thedam to the shaft to remove the greatvolume of water that constantly flooded the shaft. This water was removed from the bottom of the pit byan elevator arrangement, with gallonbuckets bolted to a huge leather beltworking similar to grain elevatoibelts in old-fashioned grist mills.

CORN SHOCKS YIELD CLEWS Provisional President Gutierrez joinsGeneral Villa at Mexico Citly.

Traces of Chalmers, tnd., Bank Rob- William H. Taft says the Europeanwar may prove a blessing in disguise.bers Found by Farm Hands,

HOG CHOLERA IN GENESEE CO.Hammond, lud., Dec. 8.—-Traces of

the bank robbers who blew open thesafe in the Chalmers bank and es-caped with several thousand dollarswere found near West Point, Ind.

Head of navy aviation corps urgesmore dirigibles for coast defence The success with which the Ger>

succeeded in rallying theirHomeless, jobless and penniless,Thompson had just strength enoughto crawl to the hay market, when hebecame unconscious. It is thought hewill die.

Experts to Investigate Spread of the workmansforcc and renewing the offensive, aft-er escaping from the Russian envelop-ing movement, is indicated by theBerlin announcement, which has notbeen contradicted in l'etrograd, thatthe important Polish city of Lodz hasagain been captured by the Germans.From Lodz the roads leads to War-saw. the objective in the two previous

Senator Patterson blames operatorsfor continuing strike difficulties in Col-

Hog cholera, which hitherto hasbeen confined to the towns of Batavia,Bryon and Stafford, has now spreadto the towns of Bergen and Le Koy

and investigation by experts of thestate agricultural department duringthe last week prove that many morecases have developed.

Disease There.Corn shredders found three corn

shocks in each of which a man hadbeen concealed, paper bands used oncurrency packages, a bottle of nitro-glycerin and two $5 bills. It is believedthe robbers escaped by taking a Chi-cago train at Chalmers.

After being operated successfullyfor a decade or two, the mine becameidle and remained so until 1868, whena new company was formed and anengine house erected, and new shaftswere sunk, but little ore was removed

oradoPluralities of State Officers Elected Fire aboard a ship at sea ruins ?1,-

OOO.dOO in art works on way fromParis to New York.

Governor-elect Charles S. Whitmanhas received a pluarlity of 145,-332, according to the returns ofthe November election as canvassedby the state board last night. Theother pluralities were: LieutenantGovernor Schaeneck 87,833, Secretaryof State-elect Hugo 40,428, Comptrol-ler-elect Travis 104,119, State Treas-urer-elect Wells 96,786, Attorney Gen-eral-elect Woodbury 122,824, State En-gineer-elect Williams 167,449, Associ-ate Judge of the Gourt of Appeals-elect Seabury 56,054, United StatesSenator-elect Wadsworth 67,693.

Republican leaders, seeking econ-omy, are divided on farm colonies toreplace Sing Sing prison.Now a new prospecting party has

leased the premises, and the gold andcopper fever is revived. It is believed that there are rich deposits onthe place, but too deep to be worked

German advancesSeal Hit by Ship and Caught. Chicago police detain wealthy finan-

cial operator as fugitive from justiceat request of New York authorities.

An offensive movement of the alliesagainst the German armies on Frenchand Belgian soil apparently is beingextended gradually and now, accord-ing to the best available information,covers a large part of the battle lineProm the North sea to Switzerland.The official French statement specifi-cally mentions offensive movementsii, Belgium, in the region of Armen-tieres, Arras and the Aisne and in theArgonne. At all these points. It lasaid, the superiority of the Frenchoffensive has been shown.

Many farmers kill their swine asfast as they become infected with thedisease, while others have resortedto vaccination a second and thirdtime, as a curative measure. Coldweather has not been effective to stopthe spread of the epidemic.

Dr. W. I?. Frink of Batavia, an In-spector for the New York state agri-culture department, has recommende'dthat the quarantine be raised on thefarm of W. H. Hawley of Wyoming,where a suspected case did not proveto be foot and mouth disease. Dr.Case represented the department inthe case.

Brementon, Wash., Dec. 8.—A five-foot seal of the hair variety, weighing180 pounds, was struck by the steam-ship Kennedy, stunned by the impactand easily picked up by fishermenwho brought the animal into town.Curious crowds viewed the seal infront of a local meat market, as itwas the first ever brought ashorehere, as well as one of the largestseen in these waters.

Marion R. Wallace, nine years old,of Freepro.t L. I., recovers from abroken neck.SILVER GRAY FOX THIEF Robert H. Jones, post-graudate stu-dent at Columbia university, NewYork, ends his life by shooting.Valuable Animal Is Shot After Nu

merous Depredations.Williamsport, Pa., Dec. 8.—The kill

ing of a beautiful silver grey fox onthe outskirts of Galeton has solvedthe mystery of a series of chickenthefts with which the town has suffered for three months.

Cosmo Beiapo, who broke his backin a Jeddo (Pa.) mine, has arrived inItaly, where/he wanted to be sent todie.

Marcellus Man Has Fur Chicks.Willard Knapp of Marsellus had a

pen of chickens at the poutlry showat the State Armory in Auburn whichattracted much attention. They arecalled "The Onondagas" and are theresult of many years of study on thepart of Mr. Knapp. Their peculiarityis that they are covered with fur, in-stead of feathers. Mr. Knapp saysthey are excellent layers and that anyone owning birds of this breed arenever troubled by their flying overthe fence and getting lost.

Britain Buys South's Mules. Indictments returned against twoChicago police officials and one-timesergeant for alleged bribe taking.

Savannah, Ga., Dec. 8.—The Englishgovernment may acquire the mulesin the South as nearly every negrowho owns a mule is vieing with hisneighbor to sell his mule first. Acheck for $3,500,000, virtually backedby the British government, has beenreceived in New Orleans. This con-firms the reports of mule buying ona large scale.

The German forces which succeed-ed in pushing their way across theYser canal in the battles last monthare said by the French war officenow to have been forced out of theirpositions,, with the exception of troopsin a few entrenchments still underattack.

The animal, one of the finest spedmens ever captured, was killed ujCarl Schoendorfer as the young marwas on his way to the woods near thetown to hunt rabbits.

Colorado mining broker lost in des-ert for five days without food or drinkreaches town in half mad condition.DIE FOR "SHE-DEVIL" COW

Herd of 23 Doomed Because SheWould Run Away.

S. G. Hendron, a veterinary surgeon,has placed the H. M. Muthersbaughfarm, near Lewistown, Pa., underquarantine for hoof and mouth dis-ease.

Business men in New York declarethat the whole country is optimisticand that the period of depression isyast.

Naval Constructor David W. Taylorappointed chief of the bureau of con-,struction and repair of the navy de-partment.

Schoendorfter saw the animal slinking away from the poultry house of aresident near the edge of the town. MARKET REPORT

Yard* Open, But No Cattle to Sell. COULDN'T TOOT A NOTE Transfers Bone from Leg to Leg.Philadelphia, Dee. 8—With an elec-

trically driven saw Dr. R. H. Albee ofNew York removed a portion of In-fected bone from the left leg of Thorn-

Buffalo Provision Market.WINTER WWEAT—No; 1 Northern,

$1.23%.One cow-, recently taken by Muthers-

bangh for a bad debt of $65, andknown as a "she-devil," as she couldnot be controlled, broke away, and,coming to town, visited the stock-yards, where a shipment of Westerncattle was loaded. She was the firstto become infected, and as a result23 head must be slaughtered, at aloss of $2,000.

Although the foot and mouth dis-ease quarantine against the Herr'sisland stockyards at Pittsburg, Pa..,was lifted last week and the yards de-clared open for the receipt of cattlefrom free territory, there is no cattlemarket here. Receipts have been toolight to permit of quotations, therebeing no cattle whatever in the yards.Brokers said they expected little im-provement until the quarantineagainsst Indiana and Ohio is lifted.

Man With Cornet Walks Into Polic< Mr. Welburu, president of the Col-orado Fuel & Iron company, admitsauthorizing purchase of $25,000 worthof arms for use in strike trouble.

Chief's Grip CORN—No. 2 yellow, 68 No. Syellow, 67 Vic.

OATS—No. 2 white, 62%c; No. Jwhite, 52c.

M.erchantville, N. J., Deo. 8inability to play even a few notes ora cornet he was carrying resulted irJoseph Hoff being sent to jail untithe police can look up his historyChief Linderman noticed the man carrying the instrument and acting as ihe did not want to meet the chief.

-Hisas Irwin in • the Medico-Chirurgicalhospital here and transplanted a pieceof healthy bone from his right leg.Mr. Irwin's leq was broken in an au-tomobile accident several months agoand the bone became infected.

Germany announces officially thatthe operations in Poland are taking anormal course and that the fighting inEast Prussia has been favorable to theGerman arms.

DRESSED POULTRY — Turkey.:hoice to fancy, 20® 21c; fowl, fancy,16<S>16; chicken, fancy, 16@17c.

FLOUR — Fancy blended patentper bbl., $6.00@6.50; winter familypatent $5.75@6.00.

Four dead, one missing and threehurt in a $75,000 fire at Ardsley, N. Y.Thieves Bind Man to Horss The man told Linderin&n in answei

to a question that he was a merabeiof a band, but on being requested tcplay he couldn't toot a note. Therhe was locked up.

War Order Helps Workmen.

Four robbers stoped Paul Lawrenceof Dalton, O., last week as he waadriving home on a lonely country roadwith $20, the proceeds from the sale©f potatoes. They took his money,gagged him, tied his hands and feet,fastened him on his horse's back anilset the animal galloping away. Th**animal wandered into a farmyard,where Lawrence was able to attractAttention of a farmer, who freed him

Philadelphia, Dec. 8—Thirty loco-motives for the Russian governmentwill put 2,000 employes of the Bald-win Locomotive works at Eddystone,Pa., at wrk full time for a monthThe men have been working only parttime for several months. The locomotives will be sent to Russia by wayof Vladivostock.

The Turkish cruiser Hamidieh isreported damaged by a mine in the{Hack sea.

BUTTER —Creamery, prints, extra,35%c; creamery, do., choice, 31f®32c.

EGGS—White, hennery, fancy, 4S@10c.

Warning Given Farmers.The department of agriculture has

eent out warnings to farmers in theMiddle Atlantic and Southern statesfo buy no seed potatoes unless thewhite label of the government potatoinspection service is on the container.This precaution was taken to guardagainst the powedery scab.

After shooting her son, 10 years old,through the head, Mrs. Cartherine Deyleaps from third story window, in Jer-sey City.

POTATOES—White, fancy, per bu.,46c. v

.Grounded Ships Floats Herself.Washington, Dec. 8.—The navy de

partment was advised that the unidentified warship reported aground ofiOcean City, Md., had succeeded itfloating herself and departed. Th(name or nationality of the vessel isnot yet known by naval officers herebut are satisfied that it was not ai

American warship. The keeper othe life-saving station at Ocean Citjreported that the weather was s(

thick that he was unable to mak<out the vessel.

Federal commission investigatingColorado strike will endeavor to showthat employers banded together to de-feat miners.

1'East Buffalo Llve»tock MarketCATTLE — Prime steers, f9.25 9

9.50; shipping steers, $8.75@9.00;choice cows, $6.75@7.00; choice heif-ers, $7.5008.00; export bulls; |7.00®7.50; choice veals, $12.00@12.50; fairto good, Jll.00@ll.75.

Epidemic In Almshouse Herd.Pottstown, Pa., Dec. 8.—Seventy-

five dairy cows, valued at .$9,000, and149 hogs on the Montgomery countyalmshouse farm, among which foot andmouth disease had appeared, werecondemned. On the farms of IrvinBechtel and Harry Bechtel, nearby,herds of 10 and 25 cows, respective-ly, were condemned.

Turnips With Horseradish Barred. Eight men are arrested in searchfor bomb throwers and seven "gunmen" are seized in raids on EastSide of New York.

Mailable Plant Resumes. The federal department of agriculture has placed Its ban upon the goodold practice of mixing turnips withhorseradish, which will be considereda violation of the pure-food law. Adding artificial color to smoked fish, th€department also declared is illegal.

The Malleable plant of the JohnsonHarvester company of Batavia, closedsftice the outbreak of the war, re-sumed operations Saturday in themanufacture of malleable parts for•domestic trade.

SHEEP AND LAMBS — Choic#Iambs, $9.00@9.25; mixed sheep. $6.00@6.25.

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., says moremillions will bo sent to the war suf-fers in Europe by the Rockefellerfoundation if necessary.

HOGS—Light Yorkers, $8.160825;heavies, $8.15@8.25.