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rHIBTI’-EIGHTH YEAR-
BHDWN HAS NOT
HAD A TRIAL YET
MUROER CHARGE
It is reported in Americus today that
Early Brown, the Leslie white man,
who shot H. A. Stewart, another citi
zen of Leslie, near Leesburg early Sat
urday morning, has not asked for a
committment trial, and it is not known
when it will be held. He is still con
fined in the Lee county jail. Several
friends and officials have talked to
Brown since his arrest and incarcera
tion, and according to these stories he
has told a version of the affair which
laid the cause between the men as re
sulting from differences which arose
during their ride from Albany, en route
this way.
Both of the men were in Americus
about 9 o’clock Friday night, and were
seen by a number of people.
At one time there was discussion as
to exhuming the body of Stewart for
further investigation, but this has not
been done, according to reliable ad
vices. Several theories are said to have
caused this speculation.
It is said that Brown has engaged
Yeomans & Wilkerson, a well known
legal firm of Dawson, to defend him.
The latest prominent case of these
lawyers was the trial of Claud
Chance, at Leesburg, early this year,
charged with the murder of “Banker”
A. D. Oliver. Chance was freed by a
Lee county jury, and indictments
against other defendants were nolle
pressed.
The Stewart killing is very interest
ing to many people in this section,
and there are many rumors which, of
course, cannot take a faint form of re
liaßility, such as to warrant their
publication.
STACKHOUSE REPORTS SHORT
( KOPS THROUGH TWO STATES
R. P. Stackhouse has just returned
home from a visit to his old home in
South Carolina. Before leaving South
Carolina, he made a trip to Lakeland,
Fla. He returned to Americus from
Lakeland, and made the trip to the
Carolinas in a car. Mr. Stackhouse
states that the crop in the middle and
north Georgia territory that he trav
eled -was very short in his opinion,
and that the best crops that he has
seen in Georgia, were between Ameri
cus and Tifton, and that in his opin
ion that Sumter county has the best
crops of corn and cotton that he has
seen.
CONCEDE THAT THE
BREMEN 15 LOST
——•
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 19.—The
loss of the German submarine Bremen
is virtually conceded today by ranking
Teutonic diplomats who are in position
to be familiar with the vessel’s move
ments. It was stated by a reliable au
thority that the Bremen is now a
month overdue in this country.
Two Bremens Captured.
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—The New York
World prints a story which it declares
originated from a British source of
unquestioned reliability, saying the
English have captured two German
merchant submarines named Bremen.
The World’s informant stated that a
third Bremen is now its way to the
United States, and that the Germans
hope by continually sending out Bre
meps to finally get one undersea boat
of that name through the British cor
don.
The Bremen is declared to have been
caught in the Straits of Dover, and
because of being so firmly ensnared
in British nets, remained under wa
ter two days, five of the crew being
suffocated when the ship was finally
raised. Important documents are said
to have been captured on board the
first Bremen, which now lies at Chat
ham,* but details of the taking of the
second Bremen are unavailable accord
ing to the story printed in the World.
THE ONLY PAPER PUBLISHED IN AMERICUS AND THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT WITH TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE
ASSOCIATION WILL
BE IN BISON 'l7
PRESTON, Ga., Oct. 19.—The Friend
ship Baptist association, now in ses
sion at Preston, will meet in 1917 in
Dawson, on the third Tuesday in Octo
ber, after the third Sunday in the
month.
The association in session for the
past three days, will adjourn today.
Large crowds have attended from sev
eral counties, and the services have all
been interesting. Dinner has been
served on the ground daily. There
have been many to attend from Amer
icus, some coming over in cars and
others on the train daily during the
three days session.
The association elected officers ofr
the ensuing year late yesterday, who
are as follows: Rev. R. L. Bivins,
Americus, moderator; J. L. Wells,
Smithville, secretary; T. M. Callaway,
Dawson, clerk. The same officers
were re-elected.
Preston people were very hospitable
to the visitors, and those who attended
the meeting are high in their praise
of. Preston and Webster county peo
ple.
STORM DID NOT
DO MUCH DAMAGE
ALONG THE GDLE
MOBILE, Ala., Oct. 19.—With the
hurricane which swept southern Ala
bama and western Florida yesterday
subsided, a reckoning shows the dam
age sustained is comparatively small.
The total property loss in Mobile and
Pensacdh, both of which cities felt the
full forre of the wind, probably will
not exceed more than SIOO,OOO, with one
death reported in each city.
The storm swept over the United
States as far north of the state of In
diana today, decreasing in intensity as
it traveling inland. The wind moved
rapidly north last night and again in
an easterly direction with increasing
force, the local weather bureau stated
this afternoon.
MOZO EMBARKS IN GROCERY
BUSINESS ON COTTON AVEVNUE
J. F. "*ozo has opened up a family
grocery «te’. produce store on the cor
ner of Cotton avenue and Forsyth
streets, under the Central Hotel, in
the Merritt building. Mr. Mozo has for
a number of years been with the coun
ty, putting in steel and concrete
bridges, and has just recently re-enter
ed the mercantile business. He has
lots of friends who wish him success
in his new line of business.
“OldGrey Bonnet” Crew Will
Not Pass Through Americus
CAMP HARRIS, Macon, Ga„ Oct. 19.
—'‘The Old Grey Bonnet” regiment—
known everywhere as the Second, and
the peer of the three, will leave Camp
Harris for the border, via Fort Valley,
Columbus, Montgomery, etc. This
leaves out Americus and the A. L. I.
will not have an opportunity to view
their own company as it passes
through, bound for the land where no
man loves the surroundings.
The troop trains tnay get away late
tonight ,or early Friday morning.
They are anxious to go and by Sun
day the Georgia mobilization center
is expected to be as barren as Texas’
plains.
To Go In Three Sections.
The Second regiment will go in three
sections, as will the other regiments.
The headquarters company, which In
cludes the “Old Grey Bonnet Band,”
will go with the first section, which is
the Macon battalion. The Macon ma
chine gun company will go along with
Maj. Beck’s battalion, which will prob
ably be the second section.
The First regiment is packing and
loading up their big army wagons and
AMERIHSmUMIEORDEfI
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
Leak Is Found
For Press Gang I
ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 19. —A press re
port has leaked by the official censor
of the governor’s office. Dependable
report last night had it that Gov. Nat
E. Harris had appointed, even though
he has not yet signed an executive
proclamation to that effect, St. Elmo
Massengale, of Atlanta, to fill the place
on the Western and Atlantic commis
sion made vacant by the death of Jud
son L. Hand, of Pelham.
The same report has it that the only
other of the several names presenter
which was given any serious consider
ation was that of John T. Boifeuillet,
father-in-law of F. R. Jones, designat
ed official spokesman for the gover
nor.
Mr. Jones announced today that
there was nothing of importance from
the governor’s office and that there
was no deevlopment in the Western
and Atlantic matter, but later an
nounced that the governor had deter
mined who he will appoint and is only
withholding the name for the presen-.
THE IJTH OWN
REBEKAHS WILL BE
HERE TOMORROW
The Sixth division of the Rekah As
sembly of Georgia, a female feature of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
will meet in Americus tomorrow. The
Vashti lodge of this city is the hostess
of the occasion. Mrs. S. H. Edge, D. D.
P., has charge of the arrangements
for the day and an interesting session
has been arranged.
Miss Nell Rodriguez, state president
of the Regekahs, will deliver an ad
dress at the afternoon session, which
will be a feature.
The program for the session here
Friday is:
Opening ceremonies.
Address of Welcome —Mrs. A. S.
Perry.
Response.
Appointment of officers.
Roll call of lodge.
Reports of representatives.
Miscellaneous business.
Address by President, Miss Nell
Rodriguez.
Question Book.
Good of the Order.
S P. M. Open Meeting.
Invocation —Rev. J. A. Thomas.
Address of Welcome—Mrs. T. A.
Cole.
Response—F. G. Olver.
Reading ‘Rebekah’’—Miss Erin Seig.
Talk on Odd Fellowship—W. J.
Brooks.
"Why I Am a Rebekah” —J. H.
Clark.
“The Relation of Rebekahs to Odd
Fellowship”—Miss Nell Rodriguez.
1 Open Discussion.
hauling them to the spur tracks ready
to entrain immediately after the Sec
ond. The First regiment will take the
same route as the Second, via Colum
bus, Montgomery, Mobile, New Orleans
and San Antonio, Tex., to El Paso.
Fifth to Go to Atlanta.
The Fifth regiment and the cavalry
will go. by Atlanta, Birmingham,
Vicksburg and Shreveport to El Paso.
It is not thought that it will be at all
practicable for the Fifth regiment to
parade in Atlanta on their way to the
border next week ,as orders from the
eastern department say that troops
must not stop en route so that train
schedules will be held up. If the pa
rade is given it will be merely by ac
cident, it is thought by those in au
thority to know.
To make the Second regiment work
with even more vim despite the wind
and rain, Maj. Crouch gladdened their
hearts by paying them their Septem
ber pay. All units have been paid
by the Fifth, and it is expected that
they will get their share of Uncle
Sam’s bounty some time today or Fri
day.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 19, 1916
VILLA LEADS HIS
BAND INTO TOWN
AND LODES ALL
EL PASO, Tex., Oct. 19—Pancho
Villa personally led the band of Mexi
cna bandits which entered Cusihuiria
chic on October 10th, according to ar
rivals from that vicinity reaching El
Paso today.
Villa and his outlaws after entering
the city seized and confiscated all the
supplies of every nature found, send
inb much of the booty into the moun
tains bn pack mules. When the trav
elers reaching El Paso today left Cusi
huiriachic last Saturday Villa and his
men were still in cimplete possession I
of the city.
Villa and Salazar Quarrel.
CHIHUAHUA CITY, Mex., Oct. 19.-
Deserters from Villa's outlaw band ar
riving here today report that dissen
sion has arisen between the bandit
leaders and that serious trouble in the
rebel camp is imminent. Several of
the deserters claimed to have been
present when Villa quarreled with
Salazar, while other stated that Salazar
and Uriebe drew pistols during a re
cent dispute, but neither of the out
laws used his weapon on the other.
Villa has the reputation of never for
getting a quarrel or forgiving an ene
my, and has been known to execute
former friends upon the slightest pre
text after frivolous quarrels.
CUIiIRO BOAT IS
SUNK IN CHANNEL
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—The Cu
nard liner Alaunia was sunk today
in the English Channel, striking a
floating mine between Falmout and
London, according to a cablegram re
ceived at the offices of the Cunard line
here. It is believed all of the pas
sengers on board the Alaunia at the
time o fthe accident have been landed
at Falmouth, though several of the
crew ar still missing. The Alaunia
cleared from this port October 7th,
with a miscellaneous cargo, and a
normal passenger list.
SINGLE CASE OF THE
EPIDEMIC 15 REPORTED
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—A single in
fantile paralysis death in the city was
reported today, the first since the
last week in June when the present
epidemic began. Six new cases were
reported to the authorities today.
Twenty-three hundred and seventq
five cases of the disease have been re
ported in New York since the epidem
ic first asserted itself.
WILdOh REFUSES TO
SPEAK ON LONG HIKE
GOSHEN, Ind., Oct. 19.—President
Wilson shook hands with large
crowds of enthusiastic people at prac
tically every town and city where his
train stopped today, en route from the
national capital to Chicago, where he
will deliver an address tonight. The
cordiality of the reception extended the
president was especially evident in the
1 states of Ohio and Indiana, where the
greatest of enthusiasm prevailed. Mr.
Wilson talked with several people at
different stops, but declined to make
platform speeches everywhere.
| W. J. BRYAN CAMPAIGNING IN
STATE OF TENNESSEE TODAY
MEMPHIS, Tenn,, Oct. 19.—William
IJ Bryan, accompanied by Governor
Rye and other prominent Tennessee
democrats are campaigning today in
Tennessee. The party expect to visit
several points before night, and ad
, dresses will be delivered from rear
I platforms and other places.
Courts Kill Two
Thirds of Time I
MACON, Ga., Oct. 19.—“1 observe
that about two-thirds of the time of
all courts in this country are wasted,"
remarked Judge Wallace W. Lambdin,
in the United States court here. “No
body in particular is to blame, but as
it costs about two dollars per minute
to operate this court, I trust that the
attorneys for the government and for
he defendants will eliminate as far as
possible all irrelevant matter in the
trial of all cases and get down to the
facts as quickly aa they can. Os
course, the court wants to do justice
to all parties concerned, but must in
sist on co-operation from the members
of the bar.”
There was no special occasion for
the remarks, according to Judge Lamb
din, but only a desire upon his part to
dispatch the business of the court. He
is holding both morning and afternoon
sessions and is rapidly clearing the
dockets. Judge Lambdin will be here
until November 10, or later, and by
that time hopes to have every case
pending tried.
WILLIAM THMN IS
REPORTED KILLED
ID FRENCH ACTION
PARIS, Oct. 19.—The body of Wil
liam Thaw, a member of the Franco-
American aviation corps, arrived here
during last night and the funeral will
occur tomorrow. Sergeant Norman
Prince, who was a constant companion
of the dead man, said Thaw’s home was
in Paris.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 19.—Wil
liam Thaw, a former Yale student,
a id recently an aviator in the French
army, has been killed in action, ac
cording to word received last night
by S. S. Walker, a senior student in
Yale University. The telegram con
veying information of Thaw’s death
contained no details of the action ia
which he is said to have been killed.
This is the second time that a report
has reached the United States of
Thaw’s death. The first of these re
ports came from Paris on April 21st,
and later was officially denied. The
French war office had not confirmed
the death of Thaw at noon today.
Thaw Family Without Information
PITTSBURG, Pa., Oct. 19.—At the
office of Benjamin Thaw, father of
William Thaw, early today, it was
stated that no word had been receiv
ed by the Thaw family indicating that
William Thaw, the American aviator,
had been either wounded or killed in
action. Benjamin Thaw recently re
turned from a visit to Paris, where he
saw his son, who at the time was in
the best of health and spirits.
Episcopal Church Has Grand
Pageant Through All The Eras
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 19.—The his
tory of the Protestant Episcopal
church and its doctrine of continuity
from apostolic times, were portrayiu
at the Coliseum here last night in a
church pageant, given by the Episco
palian churches of St. Louis, and wit
nessed by the delegates and visitors
to the general convention of the
church now in session here.
To each parish church in St. Louis
had been assigned a scene in the pa
geant, and for months the members of
the various parishes had worked on
their parts. In all, more than 2,000
persons took part.
The pageant began with the organ
ization of the church in Apostolic
tmies, and then showed the church in
the British Isles, its history during the
pre-reformation era and the contests
between the throne and the papacy
for supremacy, the breaking away
from the Roman church in the reign of
Henry VIII., the planting of the Prot
estant Episcopal church, as part of
the Church of England, in the United
States, and the history of the church
in modern America.
11-53 GETS HONOR
FOB THEJAPTAIN
BERLIN, Oct. 19. —Lieut.-Comman-
dec Farrier, commander of the subma
rine U 53, has been awarded the order
of Poul le Merit for sinking one hun
dred and twenty-six vessels totaling
two hundred and seventythousand tone.
The U-53, while under command of
Parrier, was credited with fighting sev
enteen battles, during which one
French and one British cruiser was
sunk.
Has New Commander Now.
The U-53 will be recalled as the Ger
man submarine which put in at New
port, R. I. .recently and shortly there
after wrought havoc with Entente ship
ping off Nantucket Island, sinking six
vessels, all laden with munitions or
carrying contraband. The U-53 when
it put in at Newport, was commando!
by Lieut. Commander Hans Rose, and
the foregoing dispatch indicated the
vessel had only recently been trans
ferred to its present commander. Lieut.
Commander Parrier, probably, now
commands one of the larger ships of
the German navy, though his where
abouts, officially, are unknown.
EABTHQUAKE HAD
RADIUS IN THIS
SECTION OF LAND
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 19.
Slight earthquakes were reported in
Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee dur
ing yesterday, all of the shocks, ap
parently being local and no extensive
damage being sustained.
According to the seismograph at the
Georgetown university, the disturb
ance began at 5:08 o’clock Wednesday
afternoon and continued cnly about
three minutes.
The disturbance centered about three
to four hundred miles from Washing
ton, and no cause for the shock is
known.
NO GENERAL statement
ON SUBMARINE QUESTION
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 19.—The
United States will not feel called upon
to make a public statement touching
either the U-53 raid or the general
submarine situation. This is learned
authoritatively today, and results
; from the statement made by Viscount
’ Grey, British minister of foreign af
' fairs, in parliament. Viscount Grey
I said in his address the British gov-
I ernment has decided to make no offi
i cial representations to this country
for such announcement here.
The spectacle was divided into nine
groups, each composed of three to five
scenes. The first group portrayed the |
beginning of the Apostolic church and ;
the scenes represented the Day of'
Pentecost as described in the Book of]
Acts, the first church council—that at
Jerusalem, also recorded in the Book
of Acts —and the missionary journey
cf Paul the Apostle to Athens.
The Church and Rome.
The alliance between the church
and the Roman government was por
trayed in the second group, the sub-ti
tles being “The Vision of Constantine,”
“The Nicene Council,” and “St. Am
brose and Theodosus.”
The next group gave the beginnings
of Christianity in the British Isles,
and briefly illustrated the history of
the British church before the Saxon
conquestjuf England and the relapse
cf England into paganism.
Group No. 4 told of the conversion
of the pagan English by missionaries
sent out by Pope Gregory. The scenes
illustrated how the interest of Pope
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Veditionl
SERBS CAPTURE
TOWN AND ALLIES
HOLD THE GAINS
Despite notably unsettled condition®
in ‘Greece, which apparently had a ten
dency to delay a determined pushing;
of the Entente offensive operations ora
the Macedonian front, fresh successful
attacks by French and Serbian troop*
in that sector are reported in today*&
official statements.
The Paris statement announces a.
Serbian victory in the Cerna river re
gion, southeast of Monastir, and the
retaking of Brod, w’hich the Bulgarian®
recently re-occupied after having beea
driven out by the advancing Serbs.
Delayed despatches from Sofia de
clare the Serbian attacks in the Cer
na river sector failed of success.
Much interest attached today to pas
sible developments in the Vardar re
gion in the center of the Macedonia®
front. Last night's Paris announce
ment that hostile trenches west of th®
Vardar had been penetrated to a deptla
of a quarter of a mile indicated the
possibility that a heavy Entente ofTea
sive was to be extended there.
The French in the west are pursuing;
closing-in operations on the Perarme-
Scmme front, and reported further ad
vances today.
The Bucharest statement late this
afternoon announces the Rumanian®
are driving the Teutons back at sev
eral points in Transylvania.
Interest in the Balkan theatre of war
was aroused today by the announce
ment from Paris that Serbian troop®
had stormed and captured Brod, a vil
lage near the western end of the Mace
donian front, where there has been a.
lull in heavy fighting during several
days.
Early today no authentic information
concerning events in Transylvania was
available, though indications are that
Teuton armies there are resisting the
Rumanian offensive effectively, and
that little progress is being made by
the Russo-Rumanians under command
of King Ferdinand near the Rumanian,,
Transylvanian-Bukodina border.
The French war office statement
claims further advances made last
night between Biaches and LaMoison
ette, on the Somme front, where com—
tinuous fighting is in progress. AH off
Wednesday's gains have been held by
the French, despite desperate counter
attacks.
The Berlin war office announces,
the storming of strong Russian posi
tions near Herbutox, in Galicia. Brit
ish and French attacks on the Somma
front, are declared by the same state
ment to have failed.
LIQUOR FOE WIIL K
IN CITY ON SUNDAY
Rev. Brooks Lawrence, superintend
ent of the Georgia Anti-Saloon league,
with headquarters in Atlanta, will ar
rive in the city Saturday afternoon.
Rev. Lawrence will fill the pulpit at
the First Baptist church Sunday morn
ing at 11 o’clock and at the First
Methodist church Sunday evening at
7:30. Rev. Lawrence is widely known
and he will have large congregations
at both churches to hear him.
DRUNKEN ATLANTA MAN
KILLED HIS “BEST FRIEND*
ATLANTA, Ga„ Oct. 19.-“ He was
one of my best friends —I would have>
killed myself before I would have hurt
him,” declared J. J. Burchel, of this
city, yesterday when informed that
John B. Tennant had died at Grady
hospital of a stab wound inflicted by
Burchell in a fight, caused by Ten--
uant’s attempt to persuade BurcheSE
to go home while in an alleged intoxi
cated condition. On his death bed
Tennant made a statement.as to the
circumstances of the fight, and Bur
chell corroborated this statement Inr
his own version given to the police ot-
I fleers. He is held on a charge of mur
der.
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