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ATHENS, GA, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 29, 1914.
ESTABLISHED 1ttK<
MOBILIZATION OF TURKISH TROOPS
Filed for the City Court of Next
Return. Days Over Tuesday,
Numerous Interesting Cases
Month.
Are
And in Poland Are / Compelled to With
draw on Account of Fresh Russian
Forces Facim
Deputy Sheriff Henry Hancock and
Special County Criminal Bailiff Alex.
Saye yesterday morning before da;
captured and brought to the county
Jail here, Dock Kidd, accused now ot
the murder of a fellow-negro, Asbury
Strickland.
Sunday afternoon the affair occur
red outside the city limits beyond
Barberville. at a negro church—the
Strickland negro being shot through
the body, the intestines being pierced
in eight places. The wounded man
lingered till Tuesday morning and
died.
The deputy sheriff, on the watch
for news of the escaped man, Kidd,
encountered a negro he had reason
to suspect of aiding the getaway. He,
by means that proved effective, was
told where Kidd was. • To the house
of John Harper near Wintervillp the
officers went and found Kidd, Harper
and a third man, Dock Hill in one
bed.
Hill had gone to tel} Kidd that
Strickland “had gone like a fool and
laid down and died.”
When the clerk of the courts of
Clarke county yesterday morning set
about the task of docketing the case*
which "were filed on the last return
day for the city court *>f November,
the third Monday being the day for
convention of that tribunal, he found
that he had less than for several
courts past in point of mere number
of cases.
There are a number of unusually
Interesting cases, however, filed for
hearing in November and several
more damage suits than usual are
filed.
Suits on Policiea
Three suits are filed on insurance
policies.
Mrs. Blanche D. Hart against the
Aetna Life Insurance Company of
Hartford, Conn.; Cobb, Erwin &
Rucker, attorieys for the plaintiff..
Mrs. Emily E. Blanton vs. The
Home’s Friend of Athens, Ga., W. N.
Oliver and A. c. Wheeler, of Gaines
ville, plaintiff’s counseL
And Rebecca A. Davis against The
Home’s Friend; Carlisle Cobb, attor
ney for plaintiff.
Suits For Damage.
The list of damage suits for various
amounts atnd on 1 various alleged
grounds is as follows, with the at
torneys bringing them:
Mary Reid Vis. Louis Camak, Thom
as & Thomas.
Geo. Collins vs. Mayor and Council
of the city of Athens, Smith and Mer
ritt.
J. A. Shell vs. Ben Eppes, trading
as Eppes Garage, O. J. Tolnas.
lem—Tension
Great EVatile Breaking.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON Y. M.
A. WOOKERS MEET TO
MAKE PLANS
\By Associated Press).
LONDON, Oc*- 28—An Evening News dispatch Erom
northern France/ tonight says that it is reported that
the German army' is falling back all along the line, Erom
La Bassee clean* to the sea.
Chairman C. A. Rowland of the re
ligious committee of the Young Men’s
Christian Association has called a
meeting of the committee, the direc
tors of the association, the workers in
all the departments, the “One Club,’’
the "Index Committee,” and others hr
terested in Christian work.
This la a preparatory meeting for
the winter’s campaign of Sunday at
tornoon services. This call is for a
gathering at the association building
at 4:00 Sunday afternoon next
Rev. R. E. Neighbour will speak
briefly on “Service an Essential of
the Christian Life.”
The meeting Sunday afternoon is
vitally important to the success of
the coming season’s activities. '
Scene In Constantinople showing Turkish recruits hurrying to the *»w»wn-
satton center to be ready to take part In the war. \
f (By Associated Press.) ■, -‘
BERLIN, (Oct. 28—The German and Austrian troops
in Holand, according to an oEEicial statement £iven out
here tonight, jhave been Eorced to withdraw^ before
Fresh RnssiaM re-inEorcement—these new Russian Eorces
advancing from Ivangorod and Warsaw.
pared to resist and , attack. On the
eastern border of t^e Netherland
here the Germans are- massing large
forces the Dutch have sent an army.
CRIMINALS AFFECTED
DYTHE WARTIMES
London, Oct 28.—(Correspondence
of the Associated Press.)—The pa
triotic fervor over the war has touch
ed the souls of even burglars, pick
pockets and- strong-arm men. Lon
don’s police records prove it, for
crime haii fallen off nearly 40 per
cent since the war began.
“Praise is due the criminals,” gam
Jtobert Wallace, K. C., in addressing
the grand Jury at thp London Ses
sions,” . for the self-control they are
e&cercising during this period of stress
and imxiety.’^ ( , _ ^
A* well known social reformer, eoni^
menting on this, attributes much of
crime to the ebulient animal spirits
of youths brought utf. lri”Vretched sur-
SEEKING TO GAVE LIVES OF Ml
NER8 HALF A HUNDRED PER
ISH IN THE MINES.
London,
man endui
the battle I
ing which
to an almi
A dispat
declared v
ed. Thee#
London, Oct. 28.—(Correspondence
of the Associated Press.)—Thomas
Atldns eats 5,000 calories a day. For
merly he had only 4,000 but the Army
Medical Board said It was not enough
and had the war department raise the
ration by a thousand csdories.
A calory Is not in itself a food or a
measure of food in the ordinary *^nse.
A calory-is a unit invented not by
cooks but by scientists. It is a heat
unit, considered- as fuel for the human
machine. Its equivalent in mechanical
ehergy Is $,077 foot-pounds. A sol
dier’s ration for one day should if
fully utilized yield 15.000,000 foot
pounds a day or ten times the mus
cular energy displayed by the aver
age man in a-hard day’s work. The
other nine-tentbs goes into waste,
since the human body converts only a
sixth of its fuel muscular energy, the
unuaued energy turning into super
fluous heaL This is doing better
then a steam engine, which converts
onlv rn eighth of its fuel power into
nr.chnnicil energy.
(By Associated Press.)
.Royalton, Ills., Oct 28.—The disas
ter at FrankMng was caused by an
explosion by a miners’ lamp of -the
gas pocket located the night before
the mine exploded and marked as
dangerous.
Fifty l "ilii. Jnun lwwniiijniiimwiM"
ASSURANCES ARE SINCERE THAT
AMERICAN STAPLE MAY BE
having gijven up the attempt to reach
canal pc r - j®/
There I Is •*•'-*> evidence that the
Germans) Intend to renew the attempt
p w *y through to Dunkirk,
bringing up fresh men and
Hnj^Bimuniticn and guns, but at
time they are taking precau-
i|l|||||H;>repare a second line for dc-
-^^^■ojld trie forward movement
IlllfljBet defeat
PBw attempt <t is believed, will
inland, as the failure
of the fl*® 4 one ,ar 8®'y was dUe t0
bombardm cnt fpom Br,t,sh and
French vwH'P 8 off the coast - •
Cessasio- 1 oT hoav y Aflhtlng seems
-to have Amended along the line as far
bellevd miflBiifg. ^ -.,v :,.,
A large proportioh .of the" dead eac-
diflced, it Is believed, to save' the
lives of nearly three hundred others
in 'the more distant. workings. Sev
eral air pomps saved two hundred and
etghifiifflve miners scattered among
the galleries but doomed those in the
rone explosion who were trying to
reach the air shaft
. -Nest XjP*» Oct 28.—The British
government having given assurance
that American cotton will be allowed
to go through to Germany and Aus
tria, American vessels are being
sought In New York to carry the first
shipments.
.Robert F. Hose, a foreign trade ad
viser of the state department, to mak
ing this announcement here today
said cotton might either be .landed at
ports in Holland and transported into
Germany by rail or be shipped direct
to Germany.
W, H. .YafbrougTf V3. J. W. Barnett;
Holden and' Bhdckelfdrd!
Edna A. Osier vs. A. R. an«T E. Co.;
Carlisle Cobb and J. H. Lurqjrifcin.
Miss Thelma He&th vs. Georgia R.
R. and Banking Co.; Holden and
Shackelford and Meadow.
Other Cases Are- Filed.
The Commercial Bank of Athens in
filing a suit on bond against R. W.
Woods, former cashier of the Citizens
Banking and Trust Company, as prin
cipal, and The Massachusetts Bonding
and Insurance Company* as security.
The same institution is the plain
tiff in a series of suits on notes also.
A rather unusual co-incidence on'
the docket is that every dally news
paper in Atlanta, the Constitution, the
Journal, and the Georgian Is suing
for claims on account and note—in
most of the suits bondsinen as well
as principals being implicated. Forth-!
er representatives of the circulation
departments of those three papers
are the defendants In these Buits.
There are also several older cases
against other agents here for the
three Atlanta papers.
reclaim many who have heretofore
been considered candidates for the
gallows.
The annual report of the prison
commissioners for the past year shows
there has been a general decrease in
cringe all over Britain. Sentences to
penal servitude are 797 as against
871 In the preceding year, while the
Imprisonments of all classes are 135,
140 against 149,552.
British reform, the substitution of
kind and helpful treatment for the
methods of old,
ASSISTANCE IS ASKED FOR FAMI
LIES IN BELGIUM AND FRANCE
WHO ARE IN NEED.
In yesterday’s account of the meet
ing of the city board of education
reference was made to -the committee
named to confer with Dr. Soule for
the services of a special man for
teaching agriculture, horticulture, and
if possible manual training. “Domes
tic Science” was also mentioned In
connection with the prospectice ad
ditional teacher. The school has al-
(By Associated Press.)
Berlin, Oct. 28.—(Correspondence
to the Associated Press.)—A unique
dinner party is reported in a soldier’s
letter from the front
At a point where the German and
French lines approached to within a
few hundred yards from each other,
apparently to the west of Rhelms, the
fighting stopped at about nightfall,
and the Germans were just going to
their warm mdal at the near-by field
kitchen, when an officer was seen to
mount the French intrenchment wav
ing a flag of truce. A German officer
went out to meet him. The French
man, who turned out to he the cap
tain of of a company, explained that
his men were very hungry, having
had nothing to eat for several days,
and asked whether the Germans
harsh disciplinary
and mercy for young offenders is held
responsible for the change.
Picture of Big
German Shells
and admits that the war is likely to
last longer than it originally thought
The papers estimate that Germany
has sufficient corn for bread for the
army and civil population until the
next harvest
Busiest Judge
in this State
(Special to the Banner).
Atlanta, Ga., Oct 28.—The Customs
Department in the Federal Building
Wednesday examined the contents of
a parcel poet package from Berlin
and found It to be a fall-sized print
of the 16-inch shell which the Get-
mans used to demolish Belgian and
French forts.
The picture is 40 Inches long, with
scenes depicting the ruins around Bel
gian forts, and the words “With God
for King and Country” in German
and a Maltese cross with the crown
and the letter “W.”
.lilLiillLu
tT.aoclated Press.)
\ Bosnia, Oct. 28.—Oavrion
h«> assassinated Aarchdnke
trdlnand, heir apparent to
-Hungarian throne, and his
ie Dncbess of Hohenburg,
iced today to twenty years
Four of the other con
fers sentenced to hang, one
rlsonment, and two, includ-
'n Gahrinovic, who threw a
is Arehdne, to twenty years
About the busiest Judicial officer in
this, part of the country is Judge
Brand of the Western circuIL
He Is now concluding the third
.strenuous week of the Clarke superior
court. Saturday he must go to At
lanta to hear motions from the Fay
ette court—having presided for Judge
Daniel there two months ago. Then
he has a hearing in the Hill vs. Geor
gia R. R. case in Walton—one of the
biggest cases vere heard there. Next
week he goes to Gainesville to hold ^
special term of Hall superior court
for Judge J. B. Jones.
He has hardly had time to get out
and take a good stretchy walk in the
splendid autumn weather.
(By Associated Press.)
London, Oct. 28.—The Angola In
vasion was not unexpected, as Portu
gal had declared her Intention of
helping the Allies, and In view of the
possibility of German attacks on her
colonies she had reinforced her garri
sons. If the report of the German In
vasion is true, Portugal is the ninth
nation to he drawn into, the- wkr and
’there is danger of others following.
Holland fears her neutrality may he
violated. The month of the Scheldt
(By Associated Press).
Monticello, Fla., Oct 28.—To avoid
a threatened run caused by the re
ported disappearance of Cashier R. R.
Turnbull, who Is dll in Kansas City,
the Jefferson County Bank of Monti
cello has been closed temporarily.
ADMIT ffOW WAR’LL
LAST A LONG TIME
(By Associated Press.)
: London, OcL 28.—Reuter’s Amster
dam correspondent says the German
-A picture exactly duplicating the
one alluded to above has been dis
played In the Banner office window
for two weeks.
An expert at work on the books de
clares the accounts correct
Time for paying City Tax expires
CLARKE COUNTY BANK
accommodates small borrowers.
Advertise your wants.
official press < has changed its mind
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