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WEATHER Fair COTTON 6 3-4 I 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 Georgia \ 'S. Miss. / \. < 8c rM® / ■ 'lA*, ■' v Football-Sal turday, Oct. 3 1 —3 p. m. MM