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TWO GERMAN CELEBRATION VICTORY PREMATURE ? Only Word Issued in Berlin is That Pursuit of the Russians in Poland Continues—Pctro grad Says German Attempt to Cross the Vistula Frustrated SORTIE IS MADE FROM PREZMYSL GARRISON Allies Offensive Movement in Belgium and France Making Slow Progress. Invaders Keeping Up Violent Counter Attacks. London, 10:45 p. m.—lt is believed Berlin's celebration of a great German victory in Boland possibly wan prema ture. All that Gorman headquratera say* of ti o liatlo the: - * in today's r«- port, in that the pursuit of the enemy continues. Xho Russian official report tonight •ays engagements on the left hank of the Vistula have been nothing morn than outpost affaire. In these the Ruasians would seem to have been engaged in holding the Germans, while the Russlnn main force was forming along the ltr.nra River, where a battle Is beginning to devolep and the Ger ms n attack is said to have been re pulsed. Seize Pontoons. As watt expected the Germans at tempted to cross the Vistula In an endeavor to outflank the Russians, hut this was frustrated by the Rus sian artillery and by the seizure of the pontoon bridges. Despite the desperate work facing them in North Poland the Russians continue operations In Hast Prussia apd against Cracow while In western Gallcln they are taking positions along the Dounalrtz River in an attempt to stop the flow of the Austra-Uerman forces. Pr«emyel Bortle. Part of the Priemysl garrison has made u sortie In force In an attempt to open the railway to the southwest mid is glvtnt battle to the Russian besieging army. With the Germans strongly en trenched and the ground In had con dition the allies' offensive movement in Belgium and France Is making slow progress. At several points tii« French official report records tha raid are of German trendies. The offensive in being pushed with con siderable force in Flumlura and from the Belgian border south to the River Ot.se, where the line turn eastward. Violent Counter Attacke. The Germans keep up violent coun ter attacks and by these and the uao of mines In some eases have prevent ed tlie allies from following up their advantage. Rlmllar tactics are heing adopted by both sides along the rest of the front with gains and losses which are marked In fractions of miles. Tho allies have brought up an enormous weight of artillery which they are using to clear the way for the in fantry. A message from Antwerp to the Amsterdam Teiegraff asserts that the Germans, preparing for a possible re tirement, are constructing a line of defense across Belgium from the Scheldt, along the llendre River, to Mauheiige, on the French frontier. This, if true, might he considered only a measure of precaution. Large Mine Field. The German cruisers which raided tlie cast coast of Kngl.md sowed a large mine field. In addition to the ttifeo steamers previously reported ns having been destroyed a mine Hweeper was blown up to day nnd It Is re ported two other vessels met a like fate. This occurred while the fun erals of the victims of the bomhnrd ment at Scarborough and the Hartle pools were being held. While ilie motor section of the South African defense force is gath ered in the remainder of the scuttled rebels, the main army is forming on the German South African frontier, where the ndvance guards are in touch. BURY VICTIMS, GERMAN RAID London, 9:05 p. m. -Many victim* of the Herman bombardment of the Eng lish cast coast towns wore buried to day. In Scarborough, where eleven funeral* took place, u memorial ser vice was conducted in the parish church by the archbishop of York. In Hartlepool and West Hartlepool some victims were buried with military hon ors. busbiiTTbss IS ENORMOUS London, Dsc. 20 (12:49 a. m.)—A Berlin wireless sn>* advice* from Vi enna to main headquarter* declare that in the battle of Limnnowa the Austrian troops routed the Ttusslan*. of which Western Galicia I* now clear. The Austro-Hungarian army made pr'senera. It is claimed. "The Russian loss wa* enormous.” the dispatch adds, and the pursuit I* everywhere beta* followed up” WANTS $2,000,000, Washington. A bill appropriating $? noo no for the “prevention and erad ication of the foot and mouth disease in cattle and for the imymsnt for cat tle destroyed by the government," was Introduced In the house today by Rep resentative Cullop of Indiana Th« money would be spent by tbs depart •owut of agriculture. HOST SHOUT THE VERDICT: 'NOT conn’ Haverstraw Town Clerk Ac quitted By Jury For Shooting His Son-in-Law to Death. Demonstration By Friends in Court. New City, N. Y. —William V. Clesry, town clerk of Haverstraw and demo cratic leader In Rockland County, was acquitted by a jury In supreme court here tonight of the charge of murder lr the first degree on which ho was tried for killing Eugene M. Newman, his son-ln-lnw. Announcement of the verdict was the signal for demonstration by Cleary's friends In tlie courtroom. Effects of the Strain. When the Jury sent word that it had agreed, Cleary was brought In. He showed the effects of tho strain he had been under. Mrs. Cleary was overcome by a nervous attack and was taken from the room. When tho jury filed in it was ap parent what the verdict would tie. The foreman when asked what tho Jury had decided, almost shouted the words "not guilty.” Applause followed the announce ment. Cleary seemed dazed at first Hnd when he regained his composure asked permission to thank tho Jury. It was granted nnd he Rhook hands with each one of the twelve men, Raving “Gentlemen, I thank you for your merciful and righteous verdict.” 8 to 4. It was learned that at no time dur ing the Jury’s deliberations were more than four votes east for Cleary's con viction on any ballot. Tlie vote stood, 8 to 4 for acquittal until the last bal lot. One of the Jurors said the scene between father and daughter In the courtroom yesterday had affected them greatly, impressing them with a belief in Cleary’s overpowering love for the girl. Cleary will go away for recuperation and experts soon to resume his post of clerk of the town of Haverstraw, where he is a Democratic leader. Didn't Know of Marriage. Newman was shot on July 23rd, last, while he was In Cleary's office in Ha verst ray waiting to tell the town clerk that tie had married his daugh ter. *l'he contenllon of the defense was that although Cleary had learned that ids daughter was to become a mother he did not know tlint Newman had married her. Tlie town clerk testi fied that, driven temporarily out of Ills mind, by hts daughter's plight, lie liad no recollection of events imme diately preceding tlie shooting or of the tragedy Itself. HOBSON ON NIT'L PROHIBITION Washington.- Representative Hob non declared today that a ranvnss h« had made of the house allowed that advocates of Ilia proposal for nation wide prohibition commanded a ma jority, but that lta adoption was un certain, _ The rule provided for a vote on th* resolution, ready to he presented on December 22tid, t .ulres a majority vote, while the adoption of the reso lution requires two-thirds vote. “We have got the majority," said Mr. Hobson. "1 cannot say yet as to the two-thirds." GERMNOSER losyuoo Berlin, (via Amsterdam and London, 8:02 p. m/I- A total of 22,621 dead, wounded and missing Is shown In casualty lists published here, num bered ',>6 to 99. Wutterburg regiment No. 217, lost 1,600 men: regiment No. 240 lost 1,600. /. Saxon regiment sta tioned near llecnelare suffered 2.000 casualties. Including these lists the German losses along the Yser thus far pub lished are ,20,000. FINISH REPORT, COAST DEFENSE • Washington. The special hoard on coast defenses has completed Its In quiry and made a report, hut Secre tary Garrison ha* not yet decided whether he will make It the basis of new estimates to congress. The secre tary said today he had apoplnted the board because of representations that the greatly Increased power anil range of naval ordnance had placed the ex isting coast defense armament at a disadvantage He wished to ascertain the facts and. If the representations were well founded to consider what measures should be taken TRANSFERS HIS FLAG. Vera Crus.— Hear Admiral Walter M. l.ean, commander of the fourth di vision. Atlantic fleet. Saturday trans ferred his flag to the battleship Rhode Island, which arrived from Tampico. The Rhode Island relieve*! the .Minne sota, which sailed for home waters. Cleary Acquitted Saturday Night on Charge of Murdering His Son-in-Law Above, Eugene M. Newman; below, William V. Cleary, and at right, Mrs. Eugene N. Newman GOLD STORAGE EGGS, POULTRY At Congressional Hearing, Re sults of Exhaustive Investi gation Given --No Deteriora tion in Food Value. Washington. Dr. Mary K Penning ton, of tlie chemistry bureau at the congressional hearing today on the bill to regulate cold storage, nald exhaus tive Investigations and experiments disclosed that poultry nnd eggs, if properly handled could he kept In cold enough to overcome seasonable scar city of supply without any deteriora tion of their food value. She showed comparisons of poultry marketed fresh and after being frozen forty-one weeks nnd drew tlie conclusion that with the same handling both would be equally valuable food. Dr. Pennington, under questioning, declared that in her investigation of cold storage plants she had found nothing to indicate thnt cold storage facilities were used to manipulate food prices. EX-U. S. TREAS’R M'CLUNC DEAD Knoxville, Tenn.—Lee McClung. for mer treasurer of the United States, died today tn a hospital In London nf er a three months’ Illness of typhoid fever. Relatives here received infor mation of his death by cablegram from Ills brother. Mr Meriting was a former treasurer of Yale University and had held exec utive positions with the St. I’aul and Duluth Railroad Company and the Southern Railway Company. He was a director of an Insurance companv, national councilman of the Hoy Scouts of America and treasurer and direetot of the American Association for High way Construction. His body will he brought to Knox ville by his brother. C. M. McClung, who was with him when he died. On Famous Eleven. New Haven, Conn. —Lee McClung, whose death Iti London from typhoid rover was reported today was grad uated from Y'ale In 1892. He played football four seasons and was half back on the famous eleven captained In 1888 by William H. (“Da") Corbin. It was while holding the office of treasurer of Y'ale University that Me- Clung was named by President Taft ns treasurer of the United States. Federal Reserve, Independent Body Wsshington. The federal reserve hoard Is an Independent government body and not under the Jurisdiction of the treasury or any other department according to an opinion announced to night hv Attorney General Gregory The ruling settles a question much discussed In official circles. The hoard will have such a status as the Inter state commerce commission and will he regarded as a co-ordinate part of the government THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA. GA. IS CARRANZA TG SUIT BIGG? New Orleans—Rumors current in the Mexican colony here for some time that General Carranza was preparing to leave Mexico were revivtJ Satur day when It became known that the editor of a Spanish mngunlze here bad resigned after Villa adherents had pro tested to the management against him. It was represented to the management it was said that the editor, who Is now In Havana, had gone there to arrange financial details that might attend Carranza's departure from Mexico. VON HUM TARES LOWICZ Posen. German Army Headquarters in the East, (via Berlin and London, 3:59 a. m.) -Field Marshal von Hlrulenhurg'a army took I.owloz Friday after heavy fighting for several days and compelled the further retirement of the Russian lines. 11,imis FROM SAVANNAH Savannah, Ga. The Norwegian steam er Hermlon sailed this sfternoon for Genoa, Italy, with 18,000 bales of cotton, the largest cargo of the staple that has left this port this season for a foreign country. Other steamers will sail next weeks with cotton for Europe. SHOT BY TURK. The Hague, (via London, 12:18 a. m.l—Noel Buxton, member of the British parliament and chairman of the Balkan committee, and Chnrles Reden Buxton, who recently were shot by a Turk at Bucharest, returned to Salonlki today from Nish, according to a dispatch received here. At the time they were shot the Bux tons were proceeding In an automo bile with a son of M. C. Cuechoff, former premier of Bulgaria, to attend the funeral of the king of Rumania. $200,000,000 ITALIAN LOAN Rome, Dec. 19 (8:20 p. m.) —A gov ernment loan of $200,000,000. at 5'4 per cent has been arranged for. The loan will be Issued January 1, 1915, and will extend over a period of "5 years. WIRELESS PLANT BURNS New Orlean, The large wireless plant of the United Fruit Company here was destroyed by frie today with a loss of $75,000. The fir* Is supposed to have started from a spark from the dynamo. The apparatus housed In this plant could operate at a distance of two thousand miles. DEAD ON RAILWAY TRACKS. London. 1:65 a. m.—Mrs. Mary Francis Crane, wife of Walter Crane, the paint er. ih sign, r and writer, was found dead beside the railway tracks nt Kingsnorth lln Kent. A coroners verdict was | suicide. SEND MAPLE SUGAR Ottawa, Ont.—A Christmas present of maple sugar has been made by the Duchess of Connaught to every Can adian under arms, ashore and afloat. Fifty thousand half-pound pieces were | distributed. BE SIEGED IS BLOWN UP London, 7:20 p. m.—Lloyd’s agent at Scarborough sends word that a mine sweeper which, with several others was engaged In sweeping for mine five miles southeast of Scarborough was blown up. One man was rescued but the rest of the crew are missing. It is report ed that two other vessels have been blown up In the region visited by the German squadron which raided the east ern coast. HIRED ASSASSIN, RAFF MURDER New York.—Not only the murderers of Harnett Bass, enemy of the so-called poultry ring, shot dow-n In November, but also the Instigators of the crime probably will be indicted next week, ac cording to a statement today by Assist ant District Attorney Deiahanty. f "It Is plainly a case of hired assassin.” Delahanty said. “Those who hired the assassins are known to the district at torney's office and will be Indicted for murder.” When the grand Jury considers the case Monday and Tuesday, it is said, It will hear testimony tending to Involve about twenty persons. HEfliniLLiNG B! THE BRITISH Dover (via London, 1:24 a. m.—Ger man positions between Nieuport and Middelkerke were heavily shelled by the British warships early Saturday. It Is said the Germans replied at one point with 12-lnch naval guns. During the earlier stage of the action the German fire was heavy but ap parently the guns were destroyed or withdrawn as the reply later was light. WOMAN PROBATE JUDQt, Jefferson City, Mo. —A woman today was appointed probable judge from Gov ernor EUlott W. Major, an act without precedent In the memory of state offi cials. She Is Miss Frances Hopkins and will preside over the Clay county probabte court, succeeding her father. Judge Lewis G. Hopkins, who died yes terday. Miss Hopkins will hold office until n special election is held within the next few months to choose her father's suc cessor. ••EURYANTHE” REVIVED. New York. —Weber's “Euryanthe" was revived In New York today at the Metro politan Opera house It had not been heard here since 1888 Mmmes. Hempel and Ober, Miss Garri son and Messrs. Fenibach Well. Mid dleton und Bloch were In the cast. AY tuo Toscanint conducted. $155,000 MONTGOMERY FIRE. Montgomery, Ala. Two fires here to day caused a property loss estimated at $155,000. The old unnsued plant of the Ultlsens Light Pow.r Company was burred while the Naftel-Nlcrossl Dry Goods Company's establishment was practically destroyed. The losses are partially covered by lnsumncs THE WEATHER Forecast. Washington. D. C —Georgia and Fouth Carolina: Cloudy Sunday and Monday; probably local rains. AEROPLANE SITE OFFERERII GS. Bear-Admiral Peary Submits Plans For Landing Places Throughout U. S.; Offer Land in Maine and This State. New York —Rear-Admiral Robert E. Peary has submitted to the Aero Cluo of America, it was announced tonight, a plan to establish landing stations for aeroplanes throughout the United States. He and Edwin Gould have offered lands owned by them in Maine and Georgia, respectively, for stations. Admiral Peary is chairman of the club’s aeronautical map com mittee. Admiral Peary said the committee would develop plans for a chain of landing stations for both land and water planes. He pointed out that France, Germany and Italy have established landing places near all cities and central towns. Admiral Peary said the committee had obtained the co-operation of members of the club who owned private yacht land ings and flat lands. Mr. Gould's land Is opposite Jekyl Island. Georgia, on the inside passage, which all small yachts use in running from Charles ton to Palm Beach. The land offered by Admiral Peary Is a 30-acre island ten miles east of Portland, Me. These offers have been accepted. DECORATED BY FRANZ JOSEF. Washington.—John Callan O’Lough lin, an American newspaper man who accompanied the Christmas ship Ja son with gifts for children of the war ring nations in Europe has been dec orated with the grand cross of the Order of Francis Joseph by the Aus trian emperor, according to dispatches to the embassy here today. = DIRECTORY OF = MADE IN AUGUSTA PRODUCTS Live at Home, Patronize Home Industry HONEST PAINTS rinker-deas paint mt’g co., AX Manufacturers HONEST PRICES. High-Grade Paints and Paint Special- I I rT no Cunuu veil I? I' 6B - Phone 3066. 'Office and Factory LLI Ub brillVv YUUI 915-17 Ellis Street. They last longer. AUGUSTA M/U)F and at ilVUiZUlii lvli&ls&j no higher price than you are paying fcfr inferior grades. AUTOMOBILE TIRES JT COMPANY. Georgia Vitrified Brick and Clay Co. Manufacturers of VITRIFIED Shale Sewer Pipe. And Supplies, Castings, Repairs, All Kinfte Pipe ’ Roofin 9 and Fittings. Gaso- Hl! MIIUO IvlQylllllCl V line and Steam Engines. 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