AUSTRIA BEGINS AND PARIS AND BERLIN RISE
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British Troops and the Irish Now Fighting to the Death
Three Dead-Sixty
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Wounded in Dublin
DUBLIN, Ireland, July 27.—Ireland at last is in the
throes of civil war and only heaven can tell the outcome.
Although the lighting was expected to come between
the British troops and the Orangemen it has actually
started between the British troops and the Home Kule
volunteer army, and once more nationalist Ireland has
met the troops of the king in battle.
Three men were killed outright in the fighting yester
day in the streets of Dublin and sixty were dangeiously
wounded.
The battle opened when the Nationalist volunteers ai
tempted to land 10,000 rifles near this city. A regiment of i
the King’s Scottish Borderers attempted to disarm them
and marched down on them for that purpose. The num-!
her of the Volunteers was small hut a huge mob of citizens
joined the volunteers and though they were unarmed they
tried to fight hack the troops. .For a moment the fate of
the whole Hon e Rule question hung in the balance and
then the troops received the order to charge and the battle
was on. The borderers went into the fight with bayonets j
fixed and rifles cracking. The few volunteers fought back
and the unarmed mob tore up the pavements and took up
every weapon that came to hand. Men dropped on all
sides until near ' one hundred bodies lay on the pavement.
Then the battle broke and became several hand to hand
combats. The 110b lost all control ol itself and dri\cn hy
an awful fury t! at has been bred by centuries of hate they
treated the soldiers with brutal energy. As the Irish had
no firearms to i;)eak of they used heu'y bais, bottles and
other implements and some ol the unfortunate soldieis
who were unable to get away from their fury were maul
ed in a frightful manner. After the set battle the fury of
the people continued and wherever soldiers were met
throughout the city during the day they weie beaten and
chased into barracks. Indeed it now seems that the Na
tionalists have come to the conclusion that they need only
fight to win and never did the peace of the country hang
so near the brink.
One woman was shot dead hy the soldiers by accident
and this fact was the chief cause of driving the Irish to
their fury. The hospitals are pretty well crowded this
morning with citizens and the military hospitals also have
their hands full although no soldier was killed outright.
BELFAST, July 26.—Two regiments of Orange volun
teers, heavily armed, paraded the streets ol Belfast yes
terdav, Saturday. It was the boldest Orange exhibition
yet and the anti-Horne Rulers were wild with enthusiasm.
Several thousand joined in the parade but no attempt was
made by the government to stop them.
LONDON, July 27.—The government is denounced on
all hands today for permitting the Orangemen to parade
with rifles in Belfast Saturday while troops received the
order to charge the Nationalists in Dublin. The Liberal
press particularly condemn the government and the labor
people met and held meetings denouncing Prime Minister
Asquith. It was pointed out that the British troops are
onlv too willing to shoot the Irish while they give every
chance to the Orangemen but Liberal Englishmen, Welsh
men and Scotchmen all over the United Kingdom yester
day demanded justice for both sides in Ireland and equal
treatment. It is also generally declared that Home Rule
must come now or the Irish volunteer army will fight to
the death. . . , , ,
The feeling is a most pessimistic one here today and
bad work is believed to be ahead. The most profound in
terest is being manifested in the next meeting of parlia
ment when John Redmond and the other Irish members
are expected to call the government to a strict accounting.
It is feared, indeed, that the government may be driven
out of office by the Irish vote and that everything will be
converted into chaos.
ALL DEMOCRATS
STAND SOLID
LEADING DEMOCRAT OF JU
NEAU WHO STOOD FOR WIC
KERSHAM DEFEATED
JUNEAU, July 27.—Democratic
primaries have now been held at Ju
neau, Douglas, Sitka, Skagway, Chic
hagolT, Haines, Treadwell and other
places in this division. .Most of them
held their primaries Saturday and a
good vote was polled in all cases. ....
the Democrats elected are for a
straight Democratic ticket and irre
gularity has been squelched.
At Juneau J. P. Cobb who was on
the club ticket advertised Wickersham
ami he was immediately scratched and
defeated for delegate to the conven.
tion.
The Juneau Democratic club declar -
ed for full territorial government, for
i direct primary and for a partisan
legislature. The ticket is the strong
est kind of an endorsement of th*»
Wilson administration.
GOLD BULLION AND FREE
GOLD LOOKING FINE
F. G. Bartholf Goes Out Full of Con
fidence in the Outlook of Mines
During part of the month of June
the cleanup for the Gold Bullion mine
was 811 ounces and from July 1 to
July 6 it was 980 ounces.
The Free Gold mine cleanups were
even better and F. G. Bartholf, who
went out on the Sampson after visit
ing the properties, is full of enthus
iasm about the future of the proper,
ties.
ROBS COACHES
RIGHT IN CITY
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YOUTHFUL AND DARING HOLD
UP CREATES A PANIC IN THE
HEART OF NEW YORK
NEW YORK, July 20—Right in the
heart of this city a young desperado
held up the New Haven express last
night and created a panic such
as the east seldom hears of. While
the train was traveling through the
city the youth, with a red bandanna
handkerchief around his face, held it
up at the point of a revolver. After
' oldir.g up the train he rushed
through five coaches filing his re
volver indiscriminately and shooting
twe men. One woman passenger
t opt her nerve so well that she pulleo
the cord and the young bandit jump
ed. He was pursued by the infuriated
passengers who held him at bay un
til the police arrived and captured
him. The desperado refused to give
his name but it is believed that he
comes from the west.
GENTLE RAINS BLESSES
THE BURNED ~wil'ES
Relief Comes to the Suffering People
of St. Louis and Other Places
ST. LOUIS, July 27.—General rain®
are now falling all over this and the
surrounding country and relief hay
come for the suffering people. During
the hot spell the country was parched
and crops were very badly affected
but the rain has also relieved this
drought and the general outlook is
immeasurably better.
Curtain rod* at J. L. Gra*f'*.
JUDGES WILL
FIGHT A DUEL
PRESIDING JUDGE IN CAILLAUX
TRIAL CHALLENGES ASSOCI
ATE JUDGE TO COMBAT
PARIS, July 26.—Furious at the
charge that he was favoring Caillaux
in the trial of his wife for murder,
Presiding Judge Albanel yesterday
challenged his associate, Judge D'
gouy, to mortal combat. This is sup
posed to be the first case on record
in modern times that judges on the
bench entered into such a quarrel and
the event has caused a tremendo *s
sensation.
The quarrel between the judges
came during a most exciting period in
the trial. A great uproar occurred in
the midst of the proceedings and Ma
dame Caillaux, the prisoner, faintej.
For a time the noise and confusi'*»
was so great that it was thought an
other adjournment would be neces
sary.
It all happened when the reading of
the love letters which passed between
Caillaux and his present wife, th *
prisoner, began. These letters were
the cause of the murder of Calmette
because he had threatened to publish
them in the Figaro in order to ru:r.
Caillaux who was then a cabinet mi »
ister in the government. These let
ters contain the most passionate sen
timents although they were written to
the present Madame Caillaux before
the first Madame Caillaux had been
divorced. One of the letters begins
with the words: “I send a thousand
kisses on your beloved body".
It is likely that Judge Degouy wiM
accept the challenge of Judge Al
banel.
MICE CAUSE A -STRIKE
OF TELEPHONE GIRLS
Most Extraordinary Cause of Strike
Ever Known Occurs at Dorchester
DORCHESTER, July 26—'The most
remarkable cause of a strike ever
known has caused the telephone girls
of this city to vote in favor of walk
ing out in a body. The cause is sim
ply that the girls refuse any longer
to stand for the mice that infest the
exchanges.
At their meeting yesterday the
girls demanded that the exchanges be
ridded of the little long-tailed terrors
or that the strike would be called im
mediately. Some of the girls declar
'd in favor of presenting a petition to
the bosses but some of the others de
clared that the pest must be got rid
of at once and they actually succeed
ed in having the resolution in favor of
the strike passed.
SPANISH GOVERNMENT HAS
REVOLUTION IN HAND
Mobilization of Troops Prevents the
Threatened Uprising
MADRID, July 27.—The govern
ment has issued a statement to the
effect that the threatened outbreak of
the revolutionists has been prevented
and that the most severe penalties
will be inflicted on all who attempt to
take up arms. Frcm the provinces
come3 the most optimistic news and
the danger is believed to be over at
least for the present.
The reserves are kept in readiness,
however, so that they can be called
out at the first appearance of further
trouble.
New line of aluminum ware just
in. Brown & Hawkins Hardware and
Furniture Department. Quality First.
Meet me at The Branch.
DECLARE LABOR
LEADERS STOLE
HEADS OF THE WESTERN FED;
ERATION ACCUSED OF EM
BEZZLING MILLION DOLLARS
DENVER, July 27.—The Western
Federation of Labor has entered into
an investigation of the charge that
union leaders have stolen one million
dollars which had been subscribed for
the Michigan strike. The charges
have been kept secret as much as pos
sible but it has now leaked out that
an awful amount of embezzling has
been going on and that the greatest
labor scandal on record has occurred.
The inner story is not yet publicly
known but the truth is sure to come j
out after the investigation as the men
accused of the stealing will be
brought to account if the charges are
proved.
None of the names of the men in
volved are known to the people gen
erally although it is rumored that
some very prominent labor leaders
are under suspicion.
BEAR IN STORM AND
CANNOT GET LAND
Attempt to Rescue the StefTanson Ex
pedition People is Difficult
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NOME, July 27.—The Cutter Rea-,
which left here some days ago to go
to the rescue of the members of the
StefTanson expedition who are ma
rooned on Wrangell Island, has run
into some violent storms and is mak
ing very slow headway. She attempt
ed to land at St. Lawrence Island but
was unable to do so and is now out at
sea riding out the gale.
HIGH SOCIETY
GOES TO JAIL
FASHIONABLE CAFES IN KAN
SAS CITY RAIDED; SWELLS
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RIDE IN POLICE VANS
KANSAS CITY, July 26.—The
fashionable cafes of this city were
raided last night by the police because
they violated the Sunday closing laws
and many people in the highest ranks
of the city's society were hauled away
to jail through the streets.
The raid was one of the most excit
ing of its kind on record. Many of
the people who were in the cafes at
the time were dressed in evening
clothes and the extraordinary sight of
white shirted, swallow tailed men and
bejeweled women running through
back doors into alleys was witnessed
by great crowds.
Several warnings had been issued
by thfe authorities to the habitues of
these cafes but some of those people
are so rich and socially powerful that
they deemed themselves above the
law. The raid had been planned for
several days if the warnings were not
taken and scores of the best known
people in the city had the new exper
ience of riding in police vans instead
of automobiles in the small hours of
the morning.
MORAINE AND BARRENESS
Harry Hoban describes the land
around Portage Bay as about a mil®
square of glacier moraine and a few
alders. He says that for the ten
miles through which the Portage Bay
people would have a railroad the
country is absolutely barren.
King of Servians
Flees From Capital
VIENNA, July 27.—Austria has given his passport to
the Servian ambassador and war may, therefore, be said
to have been declared. King Peter of Servia has fled 1 rom
his capital, Belgrade, and has gone to Kraguyevaz where
he has established his government to prevent its capture
by the Austrians w ho are expected to invade Servian ter
ritory w ithin 24 hours.
As Servia never signed the Hague treaty a formal dec
laration of war is not required so that the dismissal ol the
Servian minister is equivalent to a declaration of war and.
therefore, Austria and Servia are now at war although no
blood has yet been shed.
The first result of the declaration is that Europe has
gone afire and nothing on earth is expected to prevent the
great European conflagration which has been so long
threatened.
Twenty Austrian warships have already assembled at
Cattaro and are ready to seize Montloschen at the word
from the minister of war so that Europe expects at any
moment to see the terrible moment come which may mean
the destruction of the continent’s peace.
Frenzied mobs paraded the streets of this city all night
long cheering for Austria and Germany and daring all
Europe to meet the two great empires in mortal combat.
It is known by all that it is not a war between Austria
and Servia alone but that France and Russia are at the
back of Servia and are the cause of Servia’s defiance.
Never were such demonstrations w itnessed in this capital.
The people are mad for war w ith Russia and her allies and
war with them it is almost sure to be unless Heaven itself
can prevent it.
BERLIN, July 27.—Great shouting mobs paraded the
streets of Berlin last night when it was learned that Aus
tria had declared war against Servia. On through the
great thoroughfares of the big city went the immense
mobs cheering Austria and singing the war songs of the
Fatherland. At times the mobs halted and hissed Russia
and with unparalleled fury called on the Russians to cross
the Austrian frontier if they dared.
The kaiser suddenly appeared in the capital from Nor
way where he had been sojourning and his sudden coming
was hailed with a mad enthusiasm. All Germany knows
that it is no war between Austria and Servia alone but
that the Russian Bear and the French Eagle are behind
the little Slav kingdom and that Europe is on the verge of
a frightful unheava).
PARIS, July 27.—Once more the martial spirit of
France is aroused and once more the republic sees itself
about to go into a death grip with its arch enemy, Ger
many. Great crowds cheered Russia through the boule
vards last night and cried “Down with Germany” until the
people lost their voices. The scenes were similar to those
which preceded the last war with Germany and all be
lieve that within a few days her armies will be marching
once more against the Teutons.
LONDON, July 27.—It is certain that Russia and Aus
tria will be embroiled in the war which Austria has declar
ed against Servia. Knowing that Germany will stand by
her ally, Austria, and that France will be at the back of
her ally, Russia, all Europe is expected to be converted
into a great battle ground. It is the general opinion that
Russia cannot stand by and see Servia beaten and this
means that the other countries will be embroiled at once.
Great Britain will remain neutral if possible. In the
e\ ent of hostilities between the other great powers she is
bound to Russia and France by recent agreements and
it is more than probable that Russia and France will de
mand the use of her great fleets to meet the fleets of Ger
many.
At this moment Europe may be said to be almost hold
ing its breath.