About The Grady County progress. (Cairo, Grady County, Ga.) 1910-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1915)
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. 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