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Newspaper Page TextThe Atlanta Semi-Weekly JOurnal VOLUME XVIII British Steamers Glengyle and St. Oswald Sunk WILSON HURRIES TO WASHINGTON NO U. S. CITIZENS ON I BfflIRD THE GLENGYLE: I FEW LIVES ARE LOST [ Glengyle Supposed to Have Been Torpedoed in Mediter | ranean—Japanese Frighter I Also Sent to Bottom H By Associated Pres*. > ■ WASHINGTON. Jan. 3—The British V steamer Gleng) le, of 9,395 tons, has been H sunk, presumably by a submarine in K <‘he Mediterranean. Loss of life is indi- ■ ated. the London dispatch stating that V there about 100 survivors. About 120 M were on board. So far as is known there A were no Americans. ■ There is still uncertainty regarding .be number of lives lost in the sinking ■ >f the liner Persia. It seems probu- ■ ble, however, according to the latest dis- F"_* patches, that the 158 persons landed at k Alexandria, including tifty-nine passen- ■ gers, comprise the total of saved, and ■ .that Robert N. McNelly. of North Caro- ■ 'ina, American consul at Aden, was ■ among the drowned. K It is feared the death list will largely i K * exceed 200. Washington is reserving ■ iudgment regarding the sinking of the B ship until the facts clearly develop. ■ Sinking of the Japanese freighter B Kankooku Maru, of 2,019 tons, by a Ger- B| man submarine in the Mediterranean S an December 29 was announced in Tokio ' today. There was no loss of life. I Japan has decided to send a squadron I to Sues canal waters, presumably for the * B protection of Japanese vessels, a Tokio B newspaper announces. B Paris mentions heavy cannonading in several districts along the Franco-Bel gian front. A withdrawal of French troops along a 200-meter front in the B Hartw.an s-Weilerkopf sector after a vio tent bombardment by the Germans is B admitted Two German munitions depots in Belgium were blown up by French ■ guns. strict regulations, the Henry Bk/l: rd peace party has been given per- ’ WswO Ao **«• through Germawv to The n v * F Steamer St, Oswald | Is Sent to Bottom I (By Associated Press.) k LONDON. Jan. 3.—The British steam- B ship St Oswald has been sunk. B The St. Oswald was in the sect ice oi HR the British government, and presumably was sunk in the Mediterranean. She k was of 3,810 tons gross, built in 1905 B ind owned by the British and Foreign B . Steamship company, of Liverpool. I Glengyle Is Sent Down; I Nearly All Saved E Bv Associated frees.> B LONDON, Jan. 3.—The British steam- B • «bip Glengjle has been sunk. There V are about 100 survivors. ■ The Glengyle had on board about 120 k persons, passengers and crew. All, with B the exception of three Europeans and seven Chinese, were landed. So far as M i” known i.o Americans were on l>oard. M The Gleng.vie. which was homeward bound from Shanghai, was sunk in the R * Mediterranean on Sunday. This was her second voyage. R The Glengyle sailed from Shanhai for ■ London on November 25. She was last B > eported at Singapore on December 6. Her route would take her through the Suea canal and the Mediterranean, and ■ • ** may *•* assumed she was sunk in the Mediterranean as were the Persia. Ville del » Ciotat. Yasaka Maru and several I other steam-hips The Glengyle was one of the largest steamships which have been sunk since the activity of submarines in the Med iterranean became pronounced. Her gross tonnage was 9.395. She was owner. -by the Glen line of Glasgow, and was the largest steamship of that line. The Glengyle had been in service only a comparatively short time having been jWj4lt »r-Neg Castle in 1914. She kt feet long. 62 feet beam and 34 I Apt deep Her master was Captain k Webster . I Japanese Warships Will I Sail for the Suez Canal ■ TOKIO, Japan. Jan. 3.—Announce | ment is made by the Jiji dhimpo that a k * squadron of Japanese warships will sail B for th « Suez canal, presumably to pro- tect Japanese shipping. It is said the ■ annoyed cruisers Kasuga. Tokiwa and Chitose have bren assigned for this ■ service. The reported decision of the Japanese •• comment to send a squadron to the —mx ca=»i follows the sinking of two steamships in the Mediter ranan. The passenger liner Yasaka Maru was torpeioed off Port Said on December 21. The freighter Kenkoku Mam was sunk by submarine on De | --ember 29. Those on board both ves stls were rescued. The Japan Mail Steamship company, which controls the bulk of Japaneseahipping, has aban doned the Sue* rotrte. • Wide Offensive Is Opened by Germans BERLIN. Jan. 3.—(By Wireless to Sayville.»— German troops made an at tack on a wide front north of the road between La’ Bassee and Bethune yes terday. after conducting mine operations on a large scale. The war office announced today that 1 the occupants of one allied trench were I buried by an explosion or shot down. 1- and that in some other positions the al f lied troops fled. French artillery on January 1. shelled the town of Lutterbach. in Alsace. The announcement says one girl was killed and dne woman and three children were J wounded as they were leaving churcn On the eastern front the Russians con ~ tinued their operations with patrols and other small detachments but without success. JOSEPH R. LAMAR, associate justice of the U. S. supreme court, who died Sunday night at his home | in Washington. < \ ■ Übi - c -t/RRis •rsytsso FUNERII OF JUSTICE LAMAR AT AUGUSTA, BA. Associate Justice of U. S. Su » preme Court Dies at His Home in Washington (By Associated Pres*.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Arrange ments wsre being completed today for. the funeral of Joseph Rucker Lamar, associate justice of the supreme court, who died at his home here last night of gradual heart failure. He was 58 years old and had he lived until noon today would have completed a service of five years on the supreme court bench. Although Justice Lamar had been fill several months the news of his deatn came as a great shock to his associates on the bench. Following the court aftgr. meeting today wags to ad journ immediately m rfespecT so the memory of ths late justice. The burial win be sit Augusta, Ga., for many years the home of the late Justice. The funeral party, which probably will include Jiis associates on the supreme bench, will start for Augusta Tuesday afternoon. While gradual heart failure, hastened by inflammation of one of the lungs, was the immediate cause of death, the attending physician declared that it was due primarily to overwork as member of the supreme court and as commis- I sioner of the United States in 1914 to the mediation conference between the I United States and Mexico. APPOINTMENT AT ONCE. It was believed here today that be cause of the important cases now await ing consideration before ® full court. President Wilson will make an appoint ment at once to fill the vacancy caused by Justice Lamar’s death. Last fall when Justice Lamar's health became impaired and when a movement was started to retire him on full pay Secre- I tary of Interior Lane and Solicitor Gen eral John W. Davis were mentioned in I discussions as his possible successor. Messages of condolence reached the Lamar home today from all parts of the country. _ n SUPREME COURT ADJOURNS. After paying a feeling tribute to the work and character of Justice Lamar. Chief Justice White adjourned court until Thursday.* Decisions to have been announced today will be delivered next Monday. Inability of some of the justices to make an immediate trip to Georgia led the court to appoint Justices Vande tanter. Pitney and Mcßeynolds to rep resent ti at the funeral at Augusta. In his remarks Chief Justice White said: "It gives me the profoilndest sorrow to state the severance which has taken place of those ties of personal affection and respect which united us to our brother. Mr. Justice Lamar, caused by his untimely death last night. And this sorrow I know is shared by his brethren of the bar to whom he was so strongly and devotedly attached, and will. I am confident, be participated in by all his countrymen, as they come to feel that the country will be for the future deprived of the blessings which would have come from the discharge ot his duties as a member of this court, with that conspicuous ability and en lightened devotion to duty so clearly manifested during the period which has gone by since he took up his duties here this day five years ago.” Simple funeral services will be held 'about 10 o’clock Wednesday morning at the church in Augusta. Ga., attended for years by the Lamar family. The services will take place immedaitely aft er the arrival of the funeral party from Washington None w’ill be held in Wash ington. Germans Must Read the Papers (By As»oci*ted Preu.) OSNABRUCK. Prussia (Via London), Jan. B.—The court here has decided that the perusal of newspapers is now a duty of citixens. Residents in a neighboring village sold a small quantity of w«*»l contrary to regulations and pleaded in defense that the particular regulation was not placarded in the village, as has been customary, and appeared only in the newspapers, which they did not read. The court ruled that ’’persons who now read no newspaper act culpably and can not plead ignorance of wartime regu lations as justification.” The defendants were sentenced to a day in jail. Oil Producer Dead TULSA. Okla.. Jan. 3.—M. L. Lock wood. widely known among independent oil producers died here today aged 71. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY. 4, 1916. J. G. SPIER KILLED IN GOLD OLODD. DIS BmWCLM W. G. and R, J. Spier Deny Story of Fatal Shooting as Told by Dr, V, B. Bishop and Son, H. A. Bishop That the killing of J. G. Spier by Dr. V. B. Bishop and H. A. Bishop Sunday afternoon at Angier avenue and Bedford place was a cold-blooded "frame up” and not an act of self-defense was the statement Monday of W. G. Spier and Dr. R. J. Spier, brothers of the dead man. The Bishops said Spier tried to shoot H. A. Bishop, and that they had to shoot in self-defense. The kilang was the culmination of a family feud of six years' standing. It occurred about 4 o’clock Sunday after noon in the presence of Mrs. J. G. Spier, the estranged wife of the dead man; Mrs. H. A. Bishop, Mrs. V. B. Bishop, Dorothy Spier, six years old, daughter of the dead man, and Elsie Bishop, two years old. According to H. A. Bishop, the party had left his home. 230 East Pine street, and were waiting for a street car to go to the station, where Dr. Bishop was to catch a train for his home in Burwell, Ga., when Spier brushed by them and tried to seize Dorothy, his daughter, at the same time pulling a pistol from his pocket. The shooting and killing <?f Spier followed in self-defense, said Bishop. • After the shooting Bishop and his father surrendered to police officers, and are now under the surveillance of the police pending a hearing before Re corder Johnson. The bullet-riddled body of Spier is at Harry G. Poole’s, awaiting funeral and interment at Can ton, Ga., Tuesday morning. According to H. A. Bishop, trouble has been brewing between Spier and Mrs. Spier for tbs past six years. Recently •Mrs. Sfiier filed a suit for divorce against Spier, which was scheduled for a hearing in Fulton superior court Jan uary 10. Sunday afternoon, said young Bishop, Spier rode past the Bishop home, on Pine street, twice in an automobile. Later, when the whole family was wait ing for the car, said Bishop, they were horrified to see Spier rush from around" the comer of Bedford pTace, run up to where they were standing, seize little Dorothy Spier, and, drawing a 32 auto matic revolver and holding Dorothy be fore him as a shield, back away from the group with tl)e gun leveled at young Bishop. "I don’t think Spier was trying to kidnap Dorothy.” said Bishop. "But I do think he intended using her a shield while he killed all of the family. FIRED FOUR TIMES. “I drew my revolver, but was afraid to shoot at first for fear of hitting Dor othy. Mrs. Spier ran up to Spier, de spite his drawn gun, and grabbed their little girl away from him. As she did so. I fired four times, each-bullet taking effect in Spier’s head.” Then Dr. Bishop who was also armed, drew his revolver. "Spier fell to the ground, with the pistol still in his hand. He raised it to fire at me.” said young Bishop, "and, as my bullets were gone, I pulled a knife and started for him. But my father then fired the shot that ended Spier’s life. Bishop said that Spier and Mrs. Spier had been separated for the past six years, and that Spier treated his wife terribly. Bishop said that Spier had threatened several times in the past to "kill the whole family.” The shooting caused great excitement on Angier avenue Sunday afternoon. De tectives and plain clothes men were sent to the scene, where they* found Dr. Bis hop and Bishop waiting in a drug store. The two men surrendered to the police. Dr. Bishop left for Burwell in charge of Detective Cochran; young Bishop was allowed to go in the custody of Patrol man Appling. When Dr. Bishop comes back from Burwell, where he said he will find threatening letters from Spier and other proof of Spier’s hostile atti tude during the past six years, a hear ing will be held before Recorder John son. Mrs. Spier, who is a teacher of pri mary grades in the public schools of Burwell during the winter and a music teacher tn the summer, has remained at the residence of her brother on Pine street. Spier, who did not fire the pistol which the Bishops said he leveled at them, was shot three times in the right temple, once in the left temple, once in the left chest under the arm, and once in the left .Ude of the abdomen. The right side of the face around the three bullet holes is spattered thick with powder marks, showing these shots were fired very close to the face. Press Dispatches Assert Kaiser Is Dangerously 111 (By Associated Press.) PARIS, Jan. 3.—Press dispatches from Switzerland and Italy continue to affirm that the illness of Emperor William is serious. It is stated that he was operated on last Wednesday successfully, but the nature of the operation is not specified. It is stated that the emperor is suffering from a deep seated affec tion of which the cutaneous eruption is but a symptom and that the mal ady is complicated by . the reappear ance of his old throat trouble which has extended to the mouth. It is even asserted that it will be neces sary to provide him with an artificial palate made of silver. BEGINNING EARLY! , - (LX/ 1 .y : v... -W Y I*7 ' ■■•ZW’/. ) /■' ' „ I .v. a? ffigs ■'%-. ,'■■■■■„■■> . jl}' ygr ... . ANOTHER DIE DIPLOMATIC VICTORY WON OF WILSON French Government Grants De » mands Concerning Seiz- • ure of German Subjects (By Associated Press.) ■ WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. —The state de partment was officiallv advised today, through the French embassy, that the the French government, in response to representation made by the United States, had ordered the immediate re lease of German subjects recently re moved from American ships on the high seas by the French cruiser Des cartes. The state department also was in formed that the men arrested would be turned over to the American consul at Fort de France Martinique, where they were taken for detention. British Liners May Seek New And Safer Route LONDON, Jan. 3.—The possibility of British liners which are using the Med iterranean changing their route, as the Dutch and Japanese steamships al ready have done, is being discussed in the press, but it is pointed out that ' British mail boats are in a different po j sition. They are under contract with I i the government to carry malls by sped- I fled routes and therefore could not i change without consent of the govern- 1 ! ment. Jap Freighter Is Torpedoed by Sub TOKIO, Jan. 3. —The owner of the Japanese freighter Kenkoku Mhru has ..been advised that the vessel was sunk by a German submarine in the Mediter ranean on December 29. The members of the crew were landed at Cannes, France. The Kenkoku Maru was under charter by a foreigner. She was loaded ■ with hemp at Manila and sailed for Italy and England. The Kenkoku Maru was a steamer of i 2.109 tons. She sailed from Manila No vember 6. Kings Exchange 1916 Greetings PARIS, Jan. 3.—President Poincare of I France and the kings of Belgium, Italy i <und Serbia have exchanged telegrams I of New Year’s greetings, expressing un abated confidence in the final triumph I of the entente allies. FOOD PRICES HIGHER . THIN IN 87 TEARS I But Prices of All Commodities ’ Combined Were Less Than in 1913 (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Jan. ’ 3.—Food prices in the United States during 1914 were higher than at any time during the last thirty-seven years with the exception oi| the years 1882, when they were 4 per cent higher than 1914 prices, 1883, when they were on the same level, and In 1912, when they were 1 per cent higher. The bureau of labor statistics in its an nual bulletin just issued on wholesale prices of commodities reviewing the years from 1860 to 1914 discloses that in the fifty-five years food prices were highest in 1864 wnen they wex’e 76 per cent mere than 1914 prices and lowest in 1896 when they were 40 per cent below. - • In- the years of the Civil war and during a dozen years or more afterward prices of all commodities were the high est since 1860 when the first attempt was made at keeping a record of whole sale prices. In 1864 prices of most com modities reached their highest point. Lowest prices jyere recorded in the years from 1894 to 1898. The effect of the European war on wholesale prices in the United States is not fully disclosed in the report, as prices for only the first five months ot the war are recorded. Comparison iof Civil war prices with those pre- I vailing in this country during the Eu i ropean war, therefore, is not possible. The Spanish-American war apparently had little effect on wholesale prices, as they remained on about the same level as they had been in the Period imme- j diately preceding it. Farm products prices in 1914 were higher than they had been in the last ■ forty-four years. As with food prices their highest point was reached in 1864 i when 85 per cent more than in 1914 and 1896 when 56 per cent below. Clothes and clothing were lower In | 1914 than during the previous year and , were higher than at any time since 1884, when they were on the same level, ex cept in 1907. 1910 and 1913. Their high est prices were in 1864 when 254 per cent more than 1914 and lowest in 1896 and 1897 when per cent lower. Fuel and lighting prices were 5 per cent lower in 1914 than in 1113, but were 32 per cent higher than the lowest point reached in 1894, and 120 per cent below the highest point, reached in 1865. Metals and metal products were lower than they had been since 1905, being 8 pci cent below 1913 prices. Their high est point was reached in 1864 when. 194 per cent higher than in 1914 and low est in 1898 when 27 per cent below 1914 prices. Lumber and building materials were PLOT PROBE RESUMED BY FEDERAL GRAND JURY Judge to Announce Whether Accused Woman Should . Be Held (By Associated Press.) SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3. —The fed eral jury was called to meet again to day to resume its Investigation into the alleged German plots to blow up ships and munition plants. Mrs. Cornell was indicted jointly with C. C. Crowley, a detective in whose em ploy she was, and Baron George Wil helm von Brincken, an attache of the local German consulate. All three were charged with using the mails to incite arson, murder and assassination. Mrs.. Cornell claimed immunity from trial on the ground that she was compelled to testify before the grand jury. Man, Officially Dead 51 Years, Gets New Job (By Associated Press.) DENVER, Jan. 3. —A man who has been dead for more than fifty-one years, according to the records of the war de partment became an officer of the de partment of justice today when W. A. Jamieson, of Denver, took the position of announcer in the United States dis trict court here. Jamieson, a corporal in the 103 d Pennsylvania infantry in the Civil war, escaped from the Andersonville, Ga., prison. His name was confused with that of another prisoner who died, and I Jamieson had a picture of his tomb stone, No. 4,590, in the national ceme tery at Andersonville. His "death” is I recorded on August 2, 1864. 4 per cent lower than 1913, 82 per cent below their tiighest prices reached in ; 1864 and 88 per cent above their lowest ipoint reached in 1897. Drugs and chemicals were 6 per cent higher than in 1913 and higher than they had been in thirty years. They were 280 per cent below their highest point made in 1864 and 23 per cent higher than their lowest prices in 1895. House furnishing goods were higher than the)’ had been in thirty years, be ing 25 per cent higher than their lowest prices made in 1897 and 184 per cent below the highest prices prevailing in 1864. Prices of all commodities combined were 1 per cent below the prices of 1913 and on the same level as those in 1912. They were lower by 137 per cent than the high prices of 1864 and higher by 33 per cent than the lowest prices pre vailing in the years of 1896 and 1897. NUMBER 27. ENDS HIS HONEYMOON TD TNKE DP SINKING OF STEIMSHIP PERSIA Situation Is Parallel to Ger many's Sinking of Arabic Be fore Negotiations Concerning Lusitania Had Been Finished (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 3,—President Wilson will cut short his honeymoon and return to the capital tomorrow tq take charge of the new crisis in foreign relations caused by the submarine cam paign in the Mediterranean with loss of an American life. After conferences over the telephone between the president and Secretary Tumulty it was announced at the White House and also at Hot Springs that the president would start back to Washing ton tonight ana arrive tomorrow. The president will leave Hot Springs at 8:45 p. m. aiy| expects to arrvie in Washington tomorrow morning at 7 o'clock. Secretary Lansing announced he had instructed Ambassador Penfield at Vienna to ask the Austrian government for any information which might estab lish the nationality of the submarined which is said to have sunk the Persia and which would develop the facts in ■ the case. -JM It was stated authoritatively that the 1 destruction of the Persia and the Glen- ’ gyle had put such a grave aspect on the relations of the United States with the Teutonic powers that the president considers it necessary to return to the White House at once for conferences with Secretary Lansing and the othtfr members of the cabinet to shape the course of the government. The situation as it exists today was described in official quarters as parallel ing the crisis which was caused by the sinking of the Arabic close on Germany's assurances in response to the representa tions of the United States on the de struction of the Lusitania. Chairman Stone of the senate foreign xelations committee conferred with retary Lansing at the secertary’s invi tation. Senator Stone admitted that the submarine crisis had been discussed and that he expected to confer with Presi dent Wilson tomorrow. He said he did not know whether the crisis would be considered by the foreign relations com mittee, "just yet.” There seemed to be a growing impres sion that tomorrow the president may call the congress leaders together and acquaint fully with the situation. AMBASSADOR SEES LANSING. Although American officials are keep ing their minds open until they have all the facts in the Persia case officially and know whether Americans were en dangered in the sinking of the Glengyle, the gravity of the situation is not mini mized and the declaration of Baron Zwiedinek, the Austrian charge, that* he was confident the final explanation would be satisfactory, has not lessened the tension. -* During the morning Baron Zwiedinek, charge of the Austrian embassy, called on Secretary Lansing and asked that judgment be withheld untU all the facts were known, and expressed his be lief that a final explanation would- be satisfactory. He also sought any avail- ' j able information for the benefit of his government. Baron Zwiedinek also assured Secre tary Lansing that if it were proved that an Austrian submarine had sunk the Persia his government would give full reparation and satisfaction. PERSIA HAD GUN. One new fact developed today in the Persia case. The American consul at iJ Alexandria reported that the ship mounted one 4.7-inch gun, but did not state where the gun was mounted. This may become a factor in the case. The Hague convention provides, howovefi, that a merchant ship may carry a gun mounted on her stern for purposes of de fense without being considered an armed ship. The official view Jiere is that the ques tion of whether a gun was mounted on the Persia will depend entirely on where It was placed. If mounted forward, offi cials realized the Austrian government could contend the Persia was armed for destruction of submarines and had in structions to ram or destroy the subma rines. The disposition is not to assign the incident of the gun to a place in consideration of the case until all the facts are known, t officials consider that the Austrian submarine campaign in the Mediterran ean has brought on just such a crisis as did the German submarine campaign in the declared war zone around the British Isles. Coming close on the concilliatory assurances in Austria's Ancona note, the continued submarine activity principally around the entrance to the Suez canal has alarmed and amazed American offi cials who have grave apprehensions over the developments of the next few days. Mr. Lansing was asked today what the attitude of the state department would be if investigation developed that Aus trian submarines in the Mediterranean were commanded by German naval offi cers. The secretary said’the department was inclined to let the nationality of the vessel itself determine the responsibil ity, taking the view that a submarine flying the Austrian flag wo udlbe con sidered as responsible to the Austrian government by whomsoever commanded. From the inquiries which Ambassador Penfield has been directed to fiiake, the American government hopes to sift what evidence there is for the conclusion that the Persia was torpedoed. No submersi ble was seen, but one officer of the Per sia said he saw the wake of a torpedo. It is possible that later, Ambassador Gerard at Berlin may be instructed to seek information. Secretary Lansing said x >.nat some ac tion would be taken to formally notify Turkey and Bulgaria of the attitude of tne United States toward submarine war fare so that all the central power bel ligerents operating the Mediterranean might not be uninformed.

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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, January 04, 1916, Image 1