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V“M ^Ccwuxk ^Octrttici CENT ^Ccwuxk ONE CENT IE ^octrttici Tj -~ V“M AND NEWARK ADVERTISER (I‘ji3L»— i m—u ■ ■■ .:■■■ ~ ----- = £•=—^ ~. ■■■ ■ -■ -■ --■■■=■== =W ■ ■■: -■■ ESTABLISHED 1832. ’NEWARK, N. J., MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1911, RAIN TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. ITALY’S ATTACK Part of Destruction at Austin, Showing RESPONSIBILITY How Flood Tossed Houses Like Corks APPEARS ♦ ♦♦ 44444444 44 44 44444 4 4 4 4 4 44 4444-44444-4444 4444 44 4444444444444 4444 4 ♦4 444444444 FOR FLOOD AND DELAYED I ..... : BY INTERVENTION FIRE TO BE FIXED Attempted Mediation of Germany May Have Conservative Estimate Now Places Number Hit Bull’s-eye of Preliminary Peace of Dead at 150; Roster of Living Will Be Negotiation Plans. Taken at Austin and Costello. -v STRICT ITALIAN CENSORSHIP IDENTIFIED DEAD IN AUSTIN j KkEPS INSIDE FACTS FROM WORLD FLOOD ARE MOSTLY WOMEN , 1,300 Famished and Panic-Stricken Refugees Taken Defective Dam, Patched Up from Time to Time HadR to Malta on British Steamship in Lost Its Alignment Long Ago Until It Assumed of Terrific Storm. , Height the Appearance of an Arc, It Is Asserted. HE outstanding feature of the TurKo-Itallan war news today is the at- AUSTIN, Pa., Oct. t. mediation of the success of which more tempted Germany, appears prob- the arrival of a carload of coffins ’. .re early today tbe«grimneM ] able in the light of the statement made at the German foreign office of the tragedy which has practically obliterated this town was Im- that a that the German ambassador at had of woiftew today report Constantinople pre- W'THpressed upon the survivors and considerable number sented Italian of was that proposals peace premature,” indicating such pro- who today began anew their efforts to mine deeply into the hard htlte of posals were expected. debris. with remains out but the cause of Cable communication Tripoli off, the city had not Official Count of Primary Vote There is talk of an early and rigid investigation Into been bombarded up to Saturday midnight, according to refugees arriving at ADMIRAL SCHLEY aster, witji a view to fixing blame. Malta today. This appears to confirm the report from Italy that the bom- Twenty victims, Including two at Costello, had been placed n a bardment was delayed pending peace proposals. Clerk Differs at Odd Fellow's' Hall, one of the few bulldingB standing i Compiled by County temporary morgue a from< are twelve, as follows: the other hand, dispatch i ON on the ruined district. The Identified dead Fethi DROPS DEAD Constantinople says that Pasha, J. E. Baldwin, father of State Senator Baldwin; Mrs. Martha Klnnicat. formerly Turkish minister to Servla. ! Little from Made STAR [On Report by Miss Ida Mrs. William Nelson, Mrs. Dr. A. E. .Mansuy, Miss Annie has been named commander of the Miller, 01 Mrs. Ronnick, mobilizing to 'efend the coast Jackson. Mrs Charles Sofield, Mr. M ton Schwold, George troops j « N official canvass of the vote at the recent primaries was completed today TAKES 4 WHITE Donaflro. of the Adriatic. NEW YORK STREET Mrs. l.ena Richie, Ralph Woolston, and the differ little from Miss Flossie Melzer, of by County Clerk John B. figure? A dispatch from the Island Corfu, ■ Plans for the funerals wene being * k The off the Albanian coast, says that two the resulte published in the STAR the day after the primaries. made today. were sunk and Turkish torpedo-boats results are: Had Been at Club—Was Walk- official The most essential matter In hand a third captured off Gumenitza by the ROPES 10 CURB the work of Italian patrolling fleet. DEMOCRATIC. REPUBLICAN. ing at Forty-fourth Street here, aside from persistent Senator. more accessible A semi-offl?lal statement from Ath- Senator. and Fifth Avenue. JERSEY REUS clearing away the Wilton R. 1.428; Austen Col- ens says that Greece has been notified Frank M. McDermlt, 5,767; Harry V. Capps, ruins, is the completion of a census of the Turkish gate, 11,100; William Fellowes Morgan. by Constantinople that FIGHTING NEGRO the living Austlnlans. If the death list Osborne, 7,677. on the frontier j 7,993. military movements Assembly. like the enormous AftMembly. NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—Rear-Admiral aggregates anything are not directed against Greece. Frank P. Charles A. Nutting, 9,336: dead to- number estimated, health officials It is reported from Malta that a Henry F. Holloway, 12,94.',; Frank J. Winfield Scott Schley dropped Plank Road Car Scene of Battle ShaJvoy, 9,684; John A. Matthews, 9.906; that conditions demanding British cruiser received a wireless dis- Murray, 12,384; William E. Stags, 12,709; j day near the corner of Forty-fourth realize John F. Manion, 9.455; Adolph Zeltler, will arise within a psteh saying that Tripoli had been Between Cops and Dusky William M. Beard. 12,126; Fred Prout, street and Fifth avenue while on hts prompt attention Hubert J. Rowe, 9,653; Louis Thomas J. Smith, 12,669; Robert j occupied by the Italians. 9,027; 12,256; j way down town. The admiral died be- FLOOD OUTERS few days In the ruins. 2.—The strict Italian J. 111. Mitchell, 12,772; Fred G. Sliekel, jr., LONDON. Oct. Suspect. Lewis, 9.274; John Bracken, 9,751; fore aid could reach him. UeaS. W. 12,430: | iso to 200 Probably censorship is keeping the world in the James J. 9,689; Bennett H. 12,333; William Weigel, McMahon, Admiral Schley had been out of town careful and well-informed dark in regard to the progress of Charles O. Litmenkohl, 12,076; Morti- The most Fishier, 9,077; Lawrence McCabe, Jr„ over and on his return here had Will Examine All Dams That Are In the Mediterranean. From It took two policemen and two pas mer 11,975; J. Thein. 12,- Sunday however, are unprepared events A. Lowy, Henry investigators, 9,603; Simon L. Fisch, 8,378; Frank to the New York Yacht nn itself. Turkey and the after a terrific struggle in n 088: William H. Sagnrton. 7,999; Louis gone Club, Towns more than two hundred Italy Tripoli. sengers, Edward D, Balentine, Higher Than to learn that Boettner, 6,373; E. 1 street. After a seas where the Italian navy is oper- L. Davidson. 8,474; Eliot Ford, 8,797; West Forty-fourth There is; Indeed, a ,pos- Plank road car, to subdue Harry Smith, P. Na- 1 I have to 6,328; William Macksey, 6,169; A. Theodore D, of State perished. ating, conflicting reports continue Frank Fetridge, 8,247: ! short stay at the club, Admiral Sc. ley { and fifty will / a young colored man, early today. than Kussy, 5.684: Herbert C. Rorlck, ! sihility that one hundred come in. Gottlieb, 8,641: George W. Hallgring. left the club-house and started to walk that This all A. 6.312; Michael There is little hope announced hard-fought battle, which 5,431; John McFadden, 8.442; Arthur J. Glide, 8,500; Herman i be the total. One cablegram definitely ! street towards Fifth P. Roche. 6,162; Charles R. Reeve, 5,785; along Forty-fourth 1 bodies remaining In the that Tripoli had been bombarded and but exhausted the four men, was B. Walker, 8,642; John X. Klein, 8,392: In view of the flood and fire d'«aster any of the H. M. avenue, when he was taken 4'jddenly The at- Charles N. Hart, 6.099; Joseph B. G. Harold will be found intact. N. swiQfttipied. Another said that no merely the culmination of Smith's ad- William Harris, 8.600; j | at Austin, Pa., the Jersey State avethor- wreckage been made. Cook. 6,823; George L. Hoxle, 5,357; 8.560; Solomon 7,991; 111 A hurry call was sent for physl- of the debris Indicates city had Only ventures. Porter, W--i£ht, jr„ i ha* to consider general aspect Ji W Bonrdnian, i an ambulance, but before aid Hies a been prompted of certain, arid that is that Samuel Jr 5,874 Valentine B. Kane, 1.157: Frederick nttns'Hnd xiiai hilt.mods of thousands PB'’Sjje nytajJis He was seen leaving the real estate admiral the conditions wnd the possibilities, if | buddings p not attacked the town Sheriff. Xeuhaus, 1,157. could reach him the was dead. | and shreds of I Pad office like splinters br/Al>'' iciai'j of Kdison Johnson, 732 West Side Rear Admiral was bom near exist, for a similar catastrophe in through the first BN»,TfTflTiighi Saturday, for had they John V. Dlefenlhaler. 2,869; Forrest Sheriff. Schley any were shot through and | If avenue, Jersey City, by Patrolman De Wal- lid., October 9, 1839. He this State. of ruins by the debris *.Je so their guns would have been P. Kaiser, 249; William Reid Knox, 147; Carl Valentine Baumann. 11.543; (Frederick, | accumulations | Graw at 3 o'clock. The I was appointed acting midshipman In onward by the con- heard on the steamships Castlegarth, fact that Smith Philip A. McGuire, 1,872; John F. Mona- ler F. Simpson, 9,765; Cornelius Smith. While there are no instances that subsequently hurled 1856. Four later he was | which left Tripoli shortly before that was carrying a typewriter aroused the Janies P. 2,675. 958. years gradu- the conditions of the little tinning Hood. han, 8,098; Mylod, parallel are j at Malta < 'oroners. ated from the Naval Academy. In ondltions today hour and arrived today. patrolman. there are several The policing Citrlnera. Pennsylvania town hours as to the situation at H. A twelve The reports that!’’ he shouted. Ernest 18,087; John ■ perfect. "Drop L. Bernauer, 9,580; Frederick Tutschulte, *♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 1 surrounded by high water either practically | Turk- August 1 places rain served to materially Prevesa are equally conflicting.
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