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GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS, CAIRO, GEORGIA.
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
Happenings of This and Other Nations
For Seven Days Are
Given.
THE NEWSFTHE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place In the South,
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs.
European War
The British liner, Lusitania, carry
ing 1,200 passengers aboard, was tor
pedoed by a German submarine off the
Irish coast and sank in thirty minutes'
time, over one thousand lives being
lost. Of the passenger list 188 wore
Americans, among whom were Elbert
Hubbard, MIbs Anne Morgan, A. G.
Vanderbilt, Charles Krohman, Charlos
Klein and others.
Fierce tight lng Is reported at
Ypres whore the Germans are making
n strenuous attack on the English to
recapture a bill recently token by the
British troops.
The Russians have been annihilated
in the Carpathian passes by the Aus-
tro-German troops, according to re
ports from Vienna and Berlin. Dis
patches from Petrograd are not opti
mistic in tone, so that belief has been
placed in the Berlin advices.
British troops report that they are
advancing on the Galipoll peninsula,
and state that an aerial raid was
made on Constantinople dropping
bombs on several spires of mosques.
Fierce fighting is reported both In
the eastern and western war theaters,
according to dispatches from all war
offices. The Germans claim gains,
while the English, French and Rus
sians claim the same for themselves.
The war situation between Austria
and Italy now seems to have been
greatly relieved according to reports
both from Rome and Vienna. The
diplomats of both countries are said
to have reached an amicable agree
ment.
Russia claims a victory over the
Turks in Transcaucasia near the
Russo-Perslan frontier. It is said in
Petrograd that the Turks have been
forced back into Smyrna and the Mus
covites expect them to abandon their
positions there soon.
Diplomatic relations between Vien
na and Rome are said to have im
proved decidedly and that hostilities
*■ between Austria and Italy may be
averted.
David Lloyd-George, the ' Brill
chancellor of the exchequer, state!
to parliament that the war was cost
ing England $10,600,000 dally.
Premier Asquith told the English
parliament that ho was confident of
victory ultimately and that it would
not be long until the British and
French troops marched triumphantly
into Berlin.
The German war office states the
Teutons expect soon to take Calais and
bombard the Dover cliffs with their
new Krupp guns across the channel.
Domestic
William J. Barnes, Jr., scored a
point In his suit against Theodore
RooBevelt at Syracuse when Judge
Andrews decided that Colonel Roose
velt’s counsel muBt prove that Mr.
Barnes actually knew there was public
waste in the New York state printing
at the time when he was in control
of the state Republican organization.
Up to the present time Judge Andrews
states Colonel Roosevelt has failed to
establish that fact.
Judge Safer of the federal bench in
Columbus, Ohio, fined four officials of
the Capital City Dairy company, own
ed by the Cornelius Hayes estate, the
present representatives of the family
of President Rutherford B. Hayes,
$.400,000 for failure to pay their tax
es amounting to $2,000,000 on oleo-
margerine manufactured by that con
cern.
'■ A leper confined in jail in the High
land Park jail in the Chicago suburbs,
made his escape. Great fear is felt,
throughout the Windy City.
A loan of $25,000,000 for the Argen
tine republic will be floated among
American banking houses In New
York. A similar loan of equal amount
Is to be negotiated in Europe.
In the deadly tornado which swept
the Southern states many lives were
lost in Louisiana, Mississippi and
South Carolina, in addition to much
property damage.
After a bitterly contested fight,
Mayor James H. Preston of Baltimore
and the entire Democratic ticket was
re-elected over the Republicans by a
majority of 15,000.
Robert T. Lincoln of Chicago, for
mer American ambassador to England,
son of President Lincoln, and chair
man of the board of directors of the
Pullman company, told the federal in
dustrial relations commission that he
favored the increase of wages for Pull
man porters. •
Prosecutor Dorsey of Atlanta has
asked for re-sentencing of Leo Frank,
convicted for the murder of Mary
Phagan, before the official notification
of the recent decision of the United
States Supreme court in the case.
This may establish a precedent in
court procedure, as the court may
have to act before word from the
highest tribunal in the land Is receiv
ed. Frank’s appeal is already before
the pardon commission.
Charles W. Bryan, brother of Secre
tary of State Bryan and associate edi
tor of The Commoner, has been elect
ed mayor of Lincoln, Neb.
The Ohio supreme court holds the
new Ohio statute prohibiting an em
ployer from discharging an employe
because of membership In a labor un
ion as unconstitutional.
Col. Theodore Roosevenl went upon
the witness stand to correct some of
his testimony given in direct cross-ex
amination. Other witnesses who have
been called in the case recently are
Edward T. Platt, son of the late Sena
tor Thomas Platt, and Franklin D.
Roosevelt, the present assistant secre
tary of the navy under President Wil
son, and Robert F. Wngner, New York
Democratic state senate lender. Among
others expected to bo called by Mr.
Barnes' counsel are Governor Whit
man and former Governor Glynn.
Trust companies at Newport News
and Old Point Comfort have started
nn action against the federal reserve
board on the charge thnt partiality is
being shown by the board in favor of
national banks in preference to con
cerns of their nature.
Charles E. Sebastian, former chief
of police of Los Angeles, and suspend
ed from that office on his own re
quest, won out for mnyor In tho city
primaries after a sensational cam
paign In which he was tried for con
tributing as chief of police to the de
linquency of a seventeen-year-old girl
and after his life was attempted in
his own home when two revolver shots
were fired at him while using the tele
phone.
The state board of supervisors of
California adopted a resolution to be
sent Governor Slaton, and Governor-
elect Harris of Georgia, urging clem
ency for Leo Frank.
Texas farm lands are reported to
be completely covered with water from
the spring floods.
Washington
The sinking of the Lusitania was re
ceived like the dropping of a bomb
shell in official circles. President Wil
son has declared the sea tragedy was
the gravest situation the United States
has faced since the beginning of the
European war. What the course of
action may be probably will not be
determined upon until a complete in
vestigation is made of the incident or
until more definite news may be ob
tained from Ambassador Page at Lon
don.
Official circles in Washington state
that no ultimatum has yet been re
ported between China and Japan, but
It is believed the United States will
attempt to mediate.
President Wilson has turned down
the proposition of Germany to enter
the loss of the William P. Frye, sunk
by the Prlnz Eitel, in the European
war prize court. The president says
Berlin must pay for the loss of the
Frye outright and that a prize court
igotiation would only delay recov-
on the loss of the ship and cargo
to the owners and consignees.
Secretary Redfleld reported to' the
president that the United States trade
balance continues to grow dnily and
showed a noticeable gain of $23,323,-
000 over the week before, something
unprecedented in American commerce.
Charles E. Hughes, associate justice
of the United States Supreme court
and former governor of New York, who
has been prominently mentioned as a
presidential possibility on the Republi
can ticket in 1916, has issued a state
ment disapproving of any connection
of his name with the nomination and
says, under no circumstances will he
consider being a candidate.
Foreign
English newspapers declare tho
United States can take no other alter
native after the Lusitania sea tragedy
than to declare war on Germany and
join England and the allies in the
present struggle.
Japan is said to have yielded some
what in her demnnds on China and
that war may be averted.
Italy is still considering tbe war.
What effect the sinking of the Lusita
nia will have on her policy remains-
to be seen. It is believed in Berlin
that -the sunken boat will influence
■Rome to keep out of the struggle.
The relations between China and
Japan are growing more stringent
each day. At an imperial council
fleeting in Tokyo, presided over by
the Mikado, an ordinance was issued
declaring martial law on the Kwang-
tung peninsula in China and the South
Manchurian railroad. A Japanese
fleet is landing supplies at Sasebo in
the province of Shantung, 160 miles
from Pekin.
War in the Orient between Japan
and China now seems inevitable, ac
cording to reports from Pekin. The
Chinese republic is preparing to resist
any attacks that seems to be expect
ed from the Japanese. The Pekin war
office says it looks for a Repetition
of the Jap’s coup d’etat in Iforea in the
war with Russia ten years ago. The
outbreak of hostilities are expected
any moment. Pekin is being heavily
fortified by Chinese troops.
General Carranza is anxious for rec
ognition of the' United States. In an
authorized interview he declared the
Mexican policy would be to welcome
all honest American investments’
The banana crop of Honduras has
been reported a failure this year.
Instead of talking peace at the In
ternational Peace Congress now as
sembled at The Hague, over which
Miss Jane Addams of Chicago is pre
siding, hostilities have broken out
among the delegates. Tho Belgian
delegates refused |p shake hanc^s with
the . Germans present and the English
delegates declared war was the only
thing. This followed a request from
one of the Hungarian delegates for a
] five-minute period of meditation
BIG SEA TRAGEDY
FULL 0FH0RR0R
Women And Children Hurled To Death
In Depths Of Irish Sea When
Lusitania Went Down
WORLD’S EYESON PRESIDFNT
Wilson Considers Situation Gravest
Slneo War Began—Believed Two
Torpedoes Struck Boat
Queenstown.—The 646 survivors of
the Ill-fated Lusitania here are quar
tered In hotels, residences and hospi
tals, some too badly hurt to be moved.
Two groups left town clad in misfit
clothing, bound for Dublin by rail and
thence by boat to Holyhead. The in
juries of some are styserlous that ad
ditional deaths are expected and near
ly all ore too dazed to understand
fully what has happened.
The survivors do not agree as to
whether the submarine fired one or
two torpedoes. A few say they saw
the periscope, though many attest to
tracing the wake of foam as a projec
tile came toward the vessel. The only
points In which all concur is that the
torpedo struck the vessel a vital blow
amidships, causing her to list almost
immediately to the starboard. In this
careening fashion, she plowed forward
some distance, smashing the lifeboat
dpvits as she did so and making the
launching of boats well-nigh impos
sible until headway had censed.
Women And Children Killed
How far the Lusitania struggled for
ward after being struck and how long
it was before she disapepared beneath
the waves likewise are pointB upon
which few passengers agree, estimates
of the time she remained afloat rang
ing from eight to twenty minutes. At
any rate, the list to starboard so ele
vated the lifeboats on the port side
ns soon to render them useless, and it
is said only two on that side were
Munched. The first of these, according
to the custom of tbe sea, was filled
with women and children. It Btruck
the water unevenly, capsizing and
throwing its sixty occupants into the
sea. The Lusitania even then was
making considerable headway and
these women and little children were
swept to death in spite of tli’e attempts
of two stokers to rescue them. These
stokers, according to the passengers,
were drowned.
Wilson Weighs Matter Carefully
Washington.—What action the Unit
ed States government will take as a
result of the sinking of thfe British
liner Lusitania with a loss of more
than a hundred American lives is an
undetermined question. President Wil
son has been studying every aspect of
the case from its legal and humanita
rian aspects. That ho feels deeply dis
tressed over the incident and realized
the people of the United States ex
pect him to express in some pronounc
ed fashion their indignation was in
dicated by the statement issued from
the White House.
Is Seeking Right Course
Nothing more was ndded to the few
significant sentences of this utterance
—that the president was “considering
very earnestly, but very calmly, the
right course of action to pursue,” and
that ‘Jhe knows the people of the coun
try wish and expect him to act with
deliberation as well as with firm-
nesB." Until all the official reports
are received from Ambassadors Ger
ard and Page at Berlin and London,
respectively, it was not expected that
any action would be taken. The presi
dent spent a quiet day Sunday apart
from his official family—dnd for the
most part alone. He went to church
in the forenoon and took a ride after
luncheon. Most of the time he seemed
preoccupied and talked little to his
companions. He sat in his study, it
was said, in deep thought, undisturb
ed for hours.
Italy Ready To Strike
London. — Newspaper dispatches
from Switzerland to Paris report Aus
trians and Germans fleeing from all
parts of Italy. A Geneva dispatch as
serts that-600,000 Italians have been
concentrated at Verona, twenty-five
miles from the Austro-Hungarian fron
tier. Verona is a fortified Italian city
at the base of the Tyrolese Alps, twen
ty-five miles from the frontier of Aus
tria-Hungary. *
LITTLE NEWS ITEMS
OF STATE INTEREST
Disclaimed Carrying Ammunition .
New York.—That the Lusitania car-'
ried no guns, mounted or unmounted,
and no ammunition of any kind, was
tho substance of a statement made by
Hermann Winter of the Cunard line.
Mr. Winter admitted that the ship had
a consignment of cartridges, but insist
ed that they were for small arms and
did not come under the classification
of ammunition. “The United States
authorities,” he said, “would not per
mit us to carry ammunition, classified
as such by the military authorities, on
a passenger line.”
Allies Claim Gains
London.—In the fighting along the
battle lines in Belgium and France,
and in Russia and In the Carpathians,
both the triple entente and Teutonic
allies claim successes. None, how
ever, except possibly Austria and Ger
many, records successes on a great
scale. Even the statements of tho
Teutonic allies are reiterations of the
reports of several days past that the
Russians continue to be pressed back
in Galicia and the Carpathians and
that Hungary is free of enemy forces.
Atlanta.—The state geological de
partment of Georgia has just Issued a
report upon feldspar and mica depos
its in Georgia.
Atlanta.—If plans that are now un
der way aro carried out successfully
the work on the trolley line between
Atlanta and Augusta will soon be re
sumed by the Atlanta and Carolina
railway company.
Waycross.—Pollcemnn W. C. Gar-
liner was attacked and seriously In
jured by three unknown negroes, who
had been placed under arreBt a short
time before and were, en route to
Jail. So suddenly did the negroes turn
that the officer was unable to make
effective use of his pistol. The officer
was badly bruised about the face and
one hand severely lacerated.
Macon.—As a result of a confer
ence between the street committee
of council, attorneys representing the
jitney bus owners *bf Macon and tbe
attorneys representing the Macon
Railway and Light company, a modi
fied ordinance for the regulation of
jitneys was agreed on and was pre
sented to the mayor and council.
Bainbridge.—J. E. Pfitzer, of Cin-
cinati, was killed, L. E. Lyons badly
hurt about the head and body and
E. A. Grubb slightly hurt near here
when the automobile driven by Lyons
overturned. All the men are govern
ment veterinarians stationed here by
the bureau of animal industry at the
station for eradication of hog cholera.
Forsyth.—George W. Sheram, a
farmer of this county, left Forsyth to
wallc to Richmond, Va. Mr. Sberagn is
76 years old and is a confederate vet
eran. It is his intention to attend the
approaching confederate reunion.
Savannah.—Strict regulations as re
gards contracts between cotton ship
pers and the agents of steamship
lines were adopted here at a general
conference of South Atlantic and Gulf
steamship agents, cotton brokers, gin
ners, compressmen, railroad men and
bankers. The new regulations consist
of four classes that shall be inserted
in all contracts between shippers and
steamship agents.
Savannah.—Mary Elizabeth Travis,
four-year-old daughter of Robert J.
Travis, was crushed by a street car,
dylhg an hour later in a hospital. She
was conscious to the last and, just be
fore she died, kissed her father good'
bye and sent, by him, a kiss to her
mother and other relatives. Mr. Tray
is a prominent lawyer, was a candi
date for the new judgeship of the fed'
eral southern district of Georgia, and
is illustrious potentate of Alee Tem
ple of the Mystic Shrine. The little
girl was running across the street
near her home, ran in front of the car
which struck her and badly crushed
her back. Her family is one of the
best known in Savannah.
Macon.—Mercer’s return to the in
tercollegiate debating field was mark
ed by her defeat by the team repre
senting Baylor university of Waco,
Texas, the decision of the judges be
ing unanimous in favor of the Tex
ans. The subject debated was “Re
solved, That a national board of ar
bitration with compulsory powers be
established to settle disputes between
capital and labor.” Baylor had the
affirmative and Mercer the negative.
D. C. Hobbs of Huntsville, Ala., and
J. W. Smith of Allen, Texas, were the
speakers for Baylor, while Mercer was
represented by Claud Christopher of
Blairsville and W. B. McLesky of
Hartwell.
Augusta.—Plans are under way for
a "homecoming week and fall fiesta'
to be observed in Augusta during the
coming fall season. A committee has
planned tbe preliminaries and a meet
ing of the business men will be
soon discussed.
Tlfton.—The second union meeting
of the Mell Baptist association will
be held with the Brookfield Baptist
church beginning Friday, May 28, and
continuing through Sunday, May 30,
The subject for the meeteing is “The
Gospel, Its Duties and Institutions.'
Quitman.—At a meeting of the J.
G. McCall camp of Confederate Vet
erans a movement' was launched to
erect a handsome Confederate monu
ment on one of the street parks. The
plan is to move the, present Confed
erate shaft which stands on the court
house park, to the cemetery and place
it near the graves of Confederate sol
diers, and to erect a much handsom
er monument.
Albany.—Governor-elqct Nat E. Har
ris, Governor John M. Slaton, Hon. E,
J. Watson of Sotfth Carolina, presi
dent of the National Drainage com
gress; S. W. McCrory, chief of drain
age investigations for the United
States department of agriculture; Dr.
Joseph Hyde Pratt, state geologist of
North Carolina, and State Geologist
S. W. McCallie of Georgia, were
among the prominent speakers in at
tendance at the fourth annual con
vention of the Georgia Drainage con
gress in Albany.
Atlanta.—Governor-elect Nat E,
Harris has visited the state capitol.
After meeting the various state offi
cials, the governor-elect called upon
Adjutant General Nash with whom ho
had a talk about tbe annual encamp
ment of the national guard of Geor
gia. A visit was then made to Gov.
Slaton by Judge Harris and General
Nash and a conference held in regard
to the encampment. Judge Harris ex
pressed himself ns favoring the en
campment and he said that if there
was any way in which to secure' the
necessary appropriation he would re-
i-ecommend that it be held next year.
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Slight Difference Between the Meth
ods of the Ancient and the
Modern Turtles.
A wicked turtle had for years been
troublesome to the inhabitants of the
marsh In which he dwelt. He bit the
legs off frogs, ate fish with reliBb, and
occasionally grabbed hold of a snake
and held on until it thundered.
Finally tbe animals held a court
and tried the turtle on the charge of
murder. The turtle was there, with
his harveylzed shell in perfect repair
and covered with moss»an inch thick.
He apparently enjoyed the delibera
tions of the judicial body, and was
observed to smile at various times.
The judgment of the court was that
the turtle should be hanged by the
neck until he was dead. When this
decision was announced there was
great cheering, and the court officers
prepared to put the sentence into exe
cution at once. They prepared a
noose and approached the turtle.'
That astute tortoise drew his head
back inside his shell and chuckled
merrily at the Inability of tile execu
tioners to carry out the sentence of
the court.
Moral—In these days turtles bribe
grand juries or employ good attor
neys.
Social Sensation.
“Society doesn’t concern you much
here in Crimson Gulch," said 1 the ob
servant visitor.
“What do you mean by society?” in
quired Broncho Bob.
“You haven’t any tuft hunters
around here."
“Yes, we have. A bunch of Indians
got out their scalpin’ knives an’ went
on the war path only last week.”
Self-Betrayed.
A sentry was giving close attention
to hiB post in the neighborhood of a
British army camp in England, chal
lenging stragglers late after dark. Tho
following is reported as an incident of
his vigil:
“Who goes there?" called the .sentry
at the sound of approaching footsteps.
“Coldstream guards!” was the re
sponse.
“PasB Coldstream guards!” rejoined
the sentry.
“Who goes there?" again challenged
the sentry.
"Forty-ninth Highlanders!" returned
the unseen pedestrian.
“Pass, Forty-ninth Highlanders!”
"Who goes there?” sounded a third
challenge. -
“None of your infernal business!”
was the husky reply.
"Pass, Canadians!” acquiesced tbe
sentry.—Omaha World-Herald.
Couldn’t Part.
Louis Halle was a colonel on Gov
ernor Yates’ staff, and in that capacity
accompanied him to Washington to be
a part of an inaugural parade. All the
colonels had uniforms a-plenty, but it
was decided to rely upon the Wash
ington supply of horses instead of tak
ing the mounts along.
. The governor sat on his horse await
ing the parade formation, and from
time to time an orderly would gallop
up with on official communication. On
each occasion Colonel Halle was by
his side. At last the governor ob
served:
"Colonel Halle, I see no necessity
for your sticking to' this orderly In
the performance of his dutifes.”
“There isn't any,” admitted Halle,
“but, you see, our horseB are a life
long team.”
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