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By E. L. RAINEY
T}{RILLERS FILL THE LIVES
oF PEOPLE OF THE CITY
ALMOST EVERY DAY.
CRIME RECORD STARTLES
More Than 100 Murders.and Killings
Listed as Unsolved in the Past
Year. Loot Secured by Crooks Runs
Up Into the Millions.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—New York
has thrown away its mickel novel of
1920, to begin reading the 1921 thrgler
of Dead Man’s Gulch moved “rp
Broadway. i ;
With something like 400 robberies
and “stickups” on the newspaper lists
of crimes for the past year, and more
than 100 murders and killings set down
py news offices as “unsolved,” the
new vear has had set for it a penny
dreadiul record it will take two gun
men irom Coyote canyon a lifetime’s
endeavor to beat. |
A ride from the Grand Central in a
taxicab now is conceded by leading
papers of the city to have nothing on
2 trip in the Deadwood stagecoach
and the big hotels and . restaurants
loom up as cheery as the Santa Fe
saloon in the wild west days of the
six-gun toter and the Bad Boy Ban
dits of Bloody Hollow. Twenty police
riflemen patrol the streets at night in
automobiles. The curfew rings out at
midnight when Central park is closed
to vchicular and pedetrian traffic, and
all persons abroad must give account
of themselves when asked.
Citizens Go Armed.
In the past month judges on the
criminal courts bench have urged for
mation of citizens’ committees on a
par with the vigilantes of the frontier
hefore it was accused of moving back
cast to metropolitan centers. The
mayor has warned all persons carry
ing or possessing valuables to pro
cure permits to . arm ‘themselves
against highwaymen and the police
have tried to get back to something
like first principles in life and property
protection. !
Crimes have been chronicled as
though they were robbery and mur
der cvclones, and the subway news
paper reader has felt all the thrill of
riding the Overland limited in the days
when Jesse James and his gang held
no prairie railroad immune from their
ravages.
Estimates have placed about $4,-
000,000 as the total value of loot ob
tained by burglars, thieves and yegg
men in New York during 1920. Day
light holdups, attacks in leading great
white way hotels and automobile
banditry have yielded much of the
valuahles stolen. As many as forty
robberies and thefts have been feat
ured for a month’s acts of violence
of note, and six-such attempts in a
day have been recorded:
Killings by the Score. -
Of the more than’ 100 “unsolved”
murders Isited by some papers a num
ber now are nationally, if not inter
nationally, known. Beginning with a
killing last new year’s day, 1920’s rec
ord started strong. Conspicuous in the
twelve months’ list were the murders
of Joseph B. Elwell, Miss Renie Con
stance Hoxie, and Frederick C. Eck
er. Elwell, known from coast to
coast as a whist expert and horse
man, was shot to deatll in his hand
somely furnished West Seventieth
street_home; Miss Hoxie, a 17-year
old girl, was found mutilated in her
father's house; Eckert, a former gov
ernment agent and alleged whisky
runner, was found shot dead in an
automobile in Staten island.
In the robberies organized bands of
gunmen have seemed to predominate.
Th‘]"\ of valuable goods from rail
road ircight cars, bulking big in pack
g‘k"«l*t\.‘havc been considerable.
Stolen automobiles have been reported
constantly. But holdups of the old time
type, by day as well as night, on the
*{‘"* ¢t. m the home, in hotels, where
;\x and unmasked men have ta
en what they wanted at the point of
3":"\ ols have called forth the hue and
}\r.'\‘."-\“'.t:f]‘ alleged “inadequate police
“v.;\:'t'r.z;,.e!nh- bandits have made off
I‘f _a number of factory pay rolls
:r“i N have seen gunmen walk in
e mand money from the safe un
er penalty of instant death.
T R
One Hour of Kissing .
Cost Him Just $3,500
Chicago Jury Asses i Z
ses Rapid Love
Maker $5B Each For Smacks.
pin(l "{\v’v‘ \GO, Til.—Aurelius G. Tur-
E Vs worker and stuck to
o with commendable tenacity
6 1. ¢ Bave Miss: Virginia Foster
Bl ... hour. They were not
. ..*,_'.{v”"r'\-'—h]r(l imitations of a kiss,
E were of the moist, clinging wvarie-
Y. Hence Mis 3 .
Rt o Iss Foster did not have
E. ne to breathe in that blissful
e . T assessed the kisses at
i Q}”’.d Furpin was ordered to
o 900 for his osculatory per-
WHITE PUTS OUT FIRE
ON SHIP OUT AT SEA
Comes to Rescue of Crew When They
’ Face Great Peril.
The o \NGELES HARBOR, Cal—
B o the West Tejun, a lum
bhe northwest arrived here from
ed by D. ff_»*t. decl,ares they were sav
i ~‘.’:'\].\ Jones’ fire_department.
o, roke out in ‘the ship’s gal
throughoyt find threatened to spread
came 1t the vessel when a whale
The ‘h“”" surface alongside to blow.
s i" water sent aloft by the
quickly drenched the galley and
1o entingished the fire.
"THE DAWSON NEWS
Teach Men How to Cook
In Pennsylvania College
New Domestic Science Course Is-In
vasion of Women’s Domain at
0 State Institution.
STATE <COLLEGE, Pa—Men
students are to invade the sacred do
main of women at Pennsylvania State
college—they are going to learn how
to cook. ;
The home econonmics department
announced tonight that beginning
with fthe second semester on Febru
ary 1 a course in cooking for -men
would be inaugurated. It will be
known as “domestic science 53
cookery for men,” and will include a
study of the nutritive value, selection
and preparation of simple foods, “with
special emphasis upon those suitable
for camping.” 5
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>’V RESEARCH PARTY
45-STOK. “ICTURE ' BUILT
BY AMER:. ADIANS. IT
CONTAINS 1,.00 ROOMS.
BALTIMORE, Md.—The discov
ery of a stone “apartment” building
forty-five stories high and containing
1,000 rooms, believed to have been the
home of a now extinct’ tribe of Amer
ican Indlians, will be announced at a
meeting of the Archaeological Insti
tute of America at Johns -Hopkins
university.
The ‘“apartment” was uncovered
with a group of towns representing
an ancient civilization in ‘the midst
of the southwestern deserts. It was
unearthed* by the school of American
Research conducted at Santa Fe, N.
M., by the institiute. It will be de
scribed by Edgar L. Hewitt, director
of the school, at the meeting of the
institute held in conjunction with the
American Philogical Association and
Maya society.
Several thousand persons may have
lived in the newly discovered build
ing, which Mr. Hewitt believes was
the center of community life"in its
district.
PRESIDENT-ELECT PREFERS
TO QUIETLY TAKE OATH
AND DELIVER ADDRESS.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Abandon
ment immediately of all plans for a
celebration in connection with the in
auguration of President-elect Harding
was, announced tonight by E. B. Mec-
Lean, chairman of the Washington
inaugural committee, in accordance
with the desire of Mr. Harding.
Mr. McLean, upon receiving the re
quest of the president-elect for aban
donment of the celebration plans, is
sued the following statement:
“I realize, of course, how keen will
be the disappointment to the people
of Washington, but "I have all along
known how President-elect Harding
felt with respect to the expenditure
of large sums of money at this time,
May Reconsider Appropriation.
- Announcement of the president
elect’s decision came only a few hours
after congress through action of the
house completed enactment of a bill
appropriating $50,000 for expenses in
cident to the inauguration.
In the interest of national economy
President-elect Harding tonight re
quested officials arranging for this in
auguration to abandon all plans for
an inaugural ceremony.
In a telegram to E. B. McLean,
chairman of the inaugural committee
a Washington Mr. Harding declared
he “preferred to simply take the oath
of office, deliver a brief address and
then take up the duties of his office.
He said it would make his position a
very happy one if the outlay for an
elaborate inaugural created the im
pression of extravagance.
’
SMITH’S SPEECHES
GEORGIA SENATOR REMARKS
HAVE ATTRACTED WIDE
ATTENTION.
ATLANTA.—Hon. Hoke Smith,
Georgia's senior senator, has delivered
two speeches in the national senate
recently which have been widely
commented upon—one on war finance
board and the other on the co-opera
tive marketing of farm products.
The senator’s plea to revive the war
finance board, which was done by
congress and when the president ve
toed it passed it over his veto, was
regarded in business circles here as
one of the ablest and strongest ex
positions of the subject that was ever
delivered by a national lawmaker.
Equally as sttong and convincing, ac
cording to reports; was the senator’s
speech on co-operative marketing of
farm products.
Copics of both speeches were or
dered printed by the senate body, and
many friends of .he Georgia senator
who received them were enabled to
read the detailed proceedings of the
session at which the important sub
jects were under consideration.
Burglars Have Greatest
Year Country Has Known
Nineteen twenty was a bumper year
for burglaries. Many burglary insur
ance companies repert a loss ratio of
100 per cent for the year. That is, they
paid out to the burglars’ victims all
thev received as premiums from policy
holders. One company’s losses were
115 per cent. In ordinary times these
companies have a loss ratio of about
45 per cent. >
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1921
THE MINORITY MEMBERS ARE
NUMEROUS ENOUGH TO KILL
BILL BY FILLIBUSTER.
SUCH ACTION EXPECTED
Will Pass If Comes to Vote, and Will
Be Vetoed by Wilson. Fight to At
tach Immigration Measure Regard
_ed as Move to Obstruct Vote.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The fate
of the emergency tariff bill for duties
on agricultural products, so far as
congressional action is concerned, rests
with the democratic side of the sen
ate. If the senate democrats, led by
‘Senator Underwood, fillibuster they
can prevent the passage of the bill.
This is conceded by -republican lead
ers. On the other hand, if the dem
ocrats should allow the bill to come
to a vote.it will pass, and in that event
will go to the president, who will, it
is generally assumed, veto it. |
Indications continue that enough
democratic senators will * fillibuster
against the bill to block its passage.
While there has been some-talk in
the cloak rooms lately that no filli
buster will be ~attempted leaders on
the republican side say they expeet
one.
Senator Thomas, of Colorado, prom
inent among the democratic leaders,
has already avowed his purpose to
press the bill to shut off immigration
as an amendment to the.tariff bill. In
as much as the immigration bill is
‘much trontverted and is sure to cause
‘much debate, such an effort on the
part of Senator Thomas will tend to
consume time and help along any ef
fort to fillibuster against the tariff
'measure. Many of the republicans who
‘are for high tariff duties are against
)the immigration bill.
Not Cinched by Penrose.
Recently, when Senator Penrose,
chairman of the fianance committee,
faced about suddenly and said he was
in favor of protection on agricultural
products it was thought in some
quarters that this meant the passage
of the bill. As a matter of fact, the
about-face of Senator Penrose has not
essentially changed the situation. The
bill will be reported by the senate fi
nance committee at an early date. It
would have been reported even against
the opposition of Senator Penrose,
who was not long in finding this ont
after he returned to Washington.
But the question of passage in the
senate itself rests with the democrats
who are hostile to the bill. They are
;-in a position jof advantage for the rea
son that the republican leaders, in
cluding President-elect Harding, are
intent on passing the _appropriation
bills by the end of this session, March
4th. They do not at present intend
t'cPallow anything else to get in the
way of adoption of the appropriation
measures. The first of these bills will
soon be before the senate, and once a
procession of money bills begins to
move from the committees there will
be a general disposition to sidetrack
other business.
URBAN MAJORITY IS SHOWN
FOR FIRST TIME IN HIS
TORY. STATE’'S FIGURES.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—For first
time in the country’s history more
than half of the population of the
!contiuental United States is living in
urban territory. Persons living in
cities and towns of more than 2,500
‘when the 1920 census was taken num
bered 54,318,032, the census bureau
announced today, while those living
i7n rural territory numbered 51,390,-
39.
The population of the cities and
towns in 1920 showed a gain of 5.6
per cent over™that in 1920 and was
51.4 per cent of the total population
of the country. The proportion of
urban population is larger than in
1910 in all but three states—Colorado,
Montana and Wyoming—the largest
increase being that for Michigan—
from .47.2 in 1920 to 61.1 per cent in
1920. Texas, Indiana, Ohio, Florida
and Oklahoma also show considerable
gain in the proportion of population
living in urban territory:-
Colorado, Montana and Wpyoming
lost in urban population during the
decade, but the bureau-said this was
due to the fact that in each state by
far the larger part of the total increase
was in the population living in rurali
territory—6s.6 per cent for Colorado,
77.7 per cent for Montana -and 70.8;
per cent for Wyoming. |
The urban and rural population of{
Georgia is 727,859 and 2,167,973. |
Blue-Eyed Husbands
Often Are Runaways
Love of Adventure Makes Them For
get Responsibilities.
LONDON, Eng.—Has your hus
band got blue eyes? Then be careful.
Blue-eyed husbands are notoriously
the most adventurous men in the
world. And 90 per cent of the hus
bands that run away from their fami
lies are blue-eyed.
This fact was discovered recently
by a police officer at Leeds and a
warm controversy on the merits and
demerits of blue-eyed husbands is in
progress throughout England.
“Blue-eyed men are the best sailors,
soldiers and explorers,” says another
doctor. “The irresponsibility of the
blue-eyved husband is due entirely to
his love of adventure.
“But whatever kind of husband the
blue-eyed man makes, the brown-eyed
girl makes a better husband of any
man,” he said.
I______________l
The population of the United States
as enumerated in the fourteenth cen
sus is 105,708,771,
The population of the United States
with outlying possessions is 117,857,-
509, the outlying possessions totaling
12,148,738. These possessions are:
Alaska, 54,899; American Samoa, 8,-
056; Gaum, 13,275; Hawaii, 255912;
Panama Canal Zdne, 22,858; Porto
Rico, 1,299,809; military and naval
service abroad, 117,238; Philippine Is
lands, 10,350,640; virgin islands of the
United States, 26,051. The population
of the United States is as follows:
Ala. ......2,348,174|Neb. ....1,296,372
Ariz. .... 333903|Nevada . 77,407
Ark. .. ..1,752204|N. H. ... 443,083
Cal. o 3,42680HN. J. ...3,155,900
Colo. ... 939629|N. M. ... 360,350
Conn. ....1,380,631{N. Y. ..10,384,829
LT SLI 223,003]N. C. ...2,559,124
Florida .. 968,470|N. D.-... 645,680
Georgia ..2,895,832|0hi0 ...5,759,204
Idaho ..: 431866|00k1a. ...2,028,283
Illinois ..6,485,280|0reg0n . 783,283
Indiana .2,930,390|Penn. ...8720,017
Towa ....2,404021|R. 1. .... 604,397
Kansas ..1,769,256|5. C. ....1,683,724
Koo . 261663018, D. . <. 636,547
La. .....1798508/Tenn. ...2,337885
Maine ... 769,014|Texas ...4,663,228
Md. .....1,449,661{Utah .... 449,396
Mo. .....3,404,055‘Verm0nt 352,428
Mong. ... 548,889|Va. .....2,309,187
Minn. ...2,387,125|Wa5h. ..1,356,621
Mich. ...3,668,412|W. Va. .1463,701
Mass. . .3,652,356{Wi5. ....2,632,067
Miss. ....1,790,618Wy0. ... 194,402
’CANNIBALS OF HAITI PRAC
- TICED TERRIBLE RELIGIOUS
RITES. YOUNG GIRLS SLAIN.
At least three American marines, as
well as scores of native girls and chil
dren, have been killed and eaten by
cannibals in Haiti within the last 14
months, according to detailed testi
mony taken by the naval board of in
quiry. The savagery, which is practic
ed in the name of a new and terrible
religion that has originated among the
roving tribes of the hill country, has
struck terror to the hearts of the na
tive Haitian police and has caused
grave concern to the American ma
rines in the island.
The sacrifice, of three children at a
terrible ceremony known as a “moon
feast” was described in detail by
Lieut. Cukels at the trial of Cadeus
Bellegarde, a Caco high priest, charg
ed with having killed and eaten them.
A book giving full details, of the cere
mony was captured by Cukels when
he arrested Bellegarde. Natives who
attended the ceremony said “that Bel
legarde cut the throat .of each little
victim, drew the blood into a bowl in
which he washed his face and hands.
Marines Caught and Eaten.
Of the marines known to have been
the victims of the cannibals one, Pri
vate Clarence E. Morris, of Squadron
E, First division, marine aviation
forces, was completely devoured. Na
tives surrounded him when his aero
plane became disabled, killed him and
then the cannibals went through their
ritual, eating all the flesh. Rescuing
parties found the bones, his leather
helmet and his machine gun and am
munition.
The body of Sergt. Lawrence Muth,
the second victim, was cruelly mutilat
ed and the cannibals feasted on the
heart.and brains. The official records
show that the body was stripped, mu
tilated, and, while the victim was yet
conscious, his head was chopped off
iwlth a machette. The brain was taken
out and the priest told his followers
to rub it on their rifles for it would
‘make their rifle bullets hit whatever
was aimed at. The brains and heart
were then eaten, the leaders telling
the cannibals that such action would
give them the wisdom of the white
men and make them safe from the
white men’s bullets. |
The third victim, Private Harry
Lawrence, was captured in a clash be
tween a patrol of marines and a band
of Cacos, among whom the new relig
ion has taken the most violent form
in the eating of whites. No trace of
him was ever found, although author
ities have recently come into posses
sion of evidence indicating he was put
to death and sacrificed at a cannibalis
tic feast.
Bellegarde, the priest awaiting sen
tence for killing three native children,
is said to have written a “black Bible,”
which contains a complete ritual for
the eating and torture of humans. The
children, according to naval authori
ties, were slain and their bodies drawn
and quartered and caten by Bellegarde
and his band. Scores of young girls,
are said to have beéen sacrificed by
Bellegarde at such feasts. ;
SUGGESTION OF HOLIDAY FROM
THE DRY LAW STIRS VOLSTEAD
Ohio Represent‘ative A;:lvocates Plan as Means of Getting Rid of
Liquor—Maryland Called “As Wet As The S.ea." -
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Consider
ation of the legislation, executive and
judicial appropriation biil brought
spirited debate in the house late today
on the subject of prohibition, and
there was a sharp colloquy between
Representative Britten, of Illinois, a
“wet,” and Representative Volstead,
author of the prehibition act, whén
Britten wanted to know ‘“how many
tables were peserved at New Year’s
eve celebrations for prohibition sleuths
to watch men and see if they had a
drink aboard.”
Representative Wood, of Indiana, in
charge of the bill, declared the coun
try “is honey-combed with _prohibi
tion agents -who are useless. 1t seems
the more money we appropriate the
less enforcement we have.” |
- Representative Volstead admitted
that in some localities the prohibition
THEY WOULD ALSO PROHIBIT
ITS MANUFACTURE FOR
ANY PURPOSE.
REVOCATION OF PERMITS
Certain Medicinal Preparations Doom
ed If Their Program Carries. Say
Prohibition Does Not Now Pro
hibit as Intended by Act.
WASHINGTON, D. C—lt was
learned today from an authoritative
source that the dry forces of the coun
try, convinced that prohibition as now
administered . does not prohibit, ‘and
that drastic measures must be resort
ed to if the Volstead act is to be made
an effective enactment, have fixed up
on a program more far-reaching than
any hitherto proposed against the ille
gal manufacture and sale of liquor.
Diplomats Aimed At.
It is the purpose of the drys to de
mand of congress legislation and mon
ey which will make prohibition literal
ly effective, first by stopping all im
portations into this country of bev
erage liquors, regardless of the use
for which it is intended, for 4 period
of perhaps five years.
This heads the list of prohibtion re
forms now about to be undertaken and
obviously it hits first of all at foreign
diplomats and others of the privileged
class who have continued to bring
spiritous liquors into the United States
notwithstanding the eighteenth amend
ment and the Volstead act.
Secondly, it is proposed that steps
be urged to put an end to all manu
facture of whisky .in this country, for
whatever purpose, until the existing
supply is reduced to a specified num
ber of thousands of gallons,
Third—lt is hoped to bring about
the revocation of all existing whole
sale permits to sell alcoholic liquors.
There are approximately 5,000 such
permits in force, it is stated here.
There are forecasts of early develop
ments on this proposal.
Fourth—Spécifications are to be
prepared for tightening the whole re
tail permit system.
Fifth—Active operations are to be
initiated looking toward the extensive
weeding-out of the existing enforce
ment field forces in many states, par
ticularly New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania, hundreds of agents to
be replaced by new ones. Affidavits
are said already to have been submitt
ed dealing with alleged offenses by
prohibition enforcement agents in
some states, and others will follow.
| Crusade Against Medicines.
Sixth-—A crusade against the con
tinued sale of certain medicinal prep
arations which contain alcohol is to
be started. Evidence will be submitted
to show they are being sold for bev
erage purposes, some of them by the
drink at saloon bars.
+With regard to the last suggestion
effort is to be directed toward the
point of insistence that the medicine
in such products shall be increased, in
proportion to the alcohol contained,
unti] the preparation is made practical
ly unfit for beverage use.
It is declared that influential dry
sentiment is organizing to vitalize the
above tentative program.
IN COLORADO DEER
OPEN SEASON ON LIGHTER
ANIMALS AND CLOSED SEA
SON ON LIONS IS URGED.
LOVELAND, Colo.—Protection for
the mountain lion and a wide-open,
yvear round season on deer, to save
hay and cattle, would be a law in Col
orado if L.awrence Neville, prominent
rancher near here, could revise the
statutes.
Another advocate of slaughter of
the innocent deer is Louis *Papa, an
Indian, who declares deer are so tame
in the Thompson river canyon region
that they mingle with the cattle and
consume the hay intended for steers.
Papa gained considerable publicity
and the indignant protests of Colorado
sportsmen recently when he voiced his
kill-every-deer-sentinients.
Mountain lions, according to Nev
ille, will not kill cattle, sheep or hors
es, provided they can find venison.
By establishing a closed season on
mountain lions and an open one on
deer, hunters could take advantage of
the law, start a drive on deer and help
the stock men and ranchmen thereby.
He declares is would result in the
saving of thousands of dollars to Col:
orado ranchmen. - |
laws are not being egpforced.
When Representative Stephens, of
Ohio, suggested that “we have a 30-
day prohibition holiday so that all the
liquor may be taken out of bond and
drunk up, then returning to real pro
’hibition,” Representative Volstead ap
peared considerably wrought up.
} He retorted sharply that he was not
lin favor of any such proposal, ner did
‘he believe in such light discussion of
the prohibition law.
' Representative Venable, of Missis
sippi, informed Mr. Volstead and the
house that *“any man who has the
price can get all the whisky_he wants.”
- Mr. Volstead admitted this probably
‘was true, whereupon Mr. Venable said
he was informed that last year more
‘than $100,000,000 worth of liquor was
sold illegally, obtained mainly on
forged withdrawal permits:
Government Air Mail
Not as Fast as Trains
Cost $5 a Ton Per Mile, While Rate
On Railroad Is Only Seven
Cents Per Ton.
WASHINGTON. The ! spdediest
method of transporting mail between
New York and Chicago is by train,
not by air, Chairman Madden, of the
appropriatioms sub-committee, declar
ed in the house in explaining provis
ions of the postoffice appropriation
bill, carrying a total of $573,964,721.
Cost of airplane mail is at the rate
of $5 a ton per mile, compared with
a rail rate of 7¢ a ton per mile, Mr.
Madden said, and if all mail were car
ried by air the cost would be $lO,-
000,000,000 a year, with actual re
ceipts around $450,000,000. :
Aside from the cost Mr. Madden
declared that, while most folk might
think so, there was no time saving by
air in the New York-Chicago service.
“DEVIL ANSE” HATFIELD TO
REST IN PRIVATE PLOT.
50 YEARS CLAN LEADER.
WILLIAMSON, W. Va.—“ Devil
Anse” Hatfield, the most famous feud
ist in American history, who was born
in poverty in this wild, mountainous
region 86 years ago, was buried
Sunday in a $2,000 coffin in the pri
vate cemetery on his farm near Island
Creek. .
For more than half a century he
was the recognized leader of his clan
in the Hatfield-McCoy feud, which is
variously estimated'to have cost from
fifty to one hundred lives. During this
period he narrowly escaped death
many times and had never been ill un
til stricken with appoplexy a week
ago.
“The Hatfield-McCoy ‘feud, whieh
grew into the bitterest inter-family
war of modern times, began when
“Devil Anse” was a boy. His brother
Ellison killed a McCoy hog which
wandered into the Hatfield farm. The
seven boys of the particular McCoy
family which owned the hog attacked
Ellison and severely beat him. In the
fighting that followed all the members
of this McCoy family were killed.
Hundreds of mountaineers gathered
at a lolg cabin on Main Island
Creek, Logan county, to pay the last
tribute to “Devil Anse.” News of the
‘death of the mountain chieftain spread
rapidly, and hundreds of neigh
bors and friends, many from distant
points, arrived at the Hatfield cabin.
~ “Uncle Dyke” Garrett, the mountain
preacher, who served with “Devil
Ansc” through the. civil war, had
charge of the ‘funeral.
“Devil Anse” had been married for
61 years, and his widow is holding up
bravely.
RAVAGES OF HUNGER, EPI
DEMIC AND COLD. BELIEV
ED CITY WILL PERISH.
LONDON.—M. Armande. a native
of Petrograd, gives in the Riga Rund
shau the following appalling picture
of conditions in his native city:
“For three years a comparatively
good harvest has benefited the bolshe
viki, but now a catastrophe is facing
Russia. The harvest has been a fail
ure; famine is stalking through the
country. The collapse of the railways
following that of the waterways trans
portation system has prevented im
ports from reaching the city. The mis
ery of the inhabitants, exposed to the
frightful cold,- has reached its apex
and the mortality is terrible.
“These words are no exaggeration;
matters have actually gone so far that
Russia’s former capital is nearing its
end. The entire population of soviet
Russia has been reduced 10 per cent,
that of the towns 40 per cent, Moscowi
45 and Petrograd 70.
’ “Famine and cold have been re
sponsible for terrible ravages. In Pet
rograd the wooden pavements have
been burned, wooden houses torn
down and the planks sawed up for
fire wood, stone houses are falling into
decay, bridges are in a dangerous
condition, in fact not only the inhabi
tants of the once magnificent imperial
city but the devastated and neglect
ed buildings themselves are drifting
toward ruin. |
“Everywhere one sees ruin, dirt,
‘decay. The people have no clathing
save that made from rope, and while
at one time their #ood consisted of
horse and dog flesh, today there are
no animals left in the city. Epidemics
rage unchecked; typhus, scurvy and
other diseases are playing their part.
“The terrible business of the de
struction of the weakest by the less
weak is now beginning. Friends, fam
ily connections, enemies are being de
nounced, sold or betrayed. Domicil
lary visits, arrests and revenge are de
stroying the weaker vessels, while the
stronger, by using what strength re
mains to thenw are able as members
of the Gorochovaja (spy organization)
to keep their heads above water for
the time.
“To save themselyes from hunger
or death all inhabitants of the city are
ready to stoop to any debaseness or
deception.”
Big Cut Is Made
In Price of Dry Goods
% s
The Amoskeag Manufacturing com
pany, of New York city, which an
nounced dry goods price reductions of
33 1-3 per cent last September, have
lowered quotations still further, taking
cognizance of the drop in cotton and
other market changes.
Staple ginghams, which touched a
height of 271 cents a yard net last
vear, were quoted 'at 10J4 cents. -
THERE’S SUCCESS
AND HAPPINESS
IN CO-OPERATION.
VOL. 39.—N0. 20
- 10 BEAT THE DEVIL
| L ,
HUSBAND WORKS AND COOKS
- HIS . OWN MEALS WHILE
WIFE PRAYS FOR HIM.
TRYING TO CONVERT HIM
Says Angel Started It, and Her Body
Is Nourished by Spiritual Food.
Husband Goes About Daily Duties
But Little Concerned. :
DANVILLE, Ill.—=Mrs. Sadie Har
rington was slowly starving and sup
plicating the Divinity to save her hus
band’s soul here Saturday night while
Ernie Harringtqn, unperturbed hus
band, was selling poultry and butter
to the town fYolk in his little produce
store. .
“Spiritual manna” is keeping Mrs,
Harrington ‘alive on the forty-first day
of her hunger strike, she told the
United Press. : :
“The Bible tells us that manna
which fell from on high saved the life
of the children of God,” she said.
“Christ is nourishing my body with
spiritual food.
“God will take care of his children
—1 know I will not die in my effort
to save Ernie’s soul.”
Angel Started It.
“Forty-one days ago as I was pre=
paring lunch I had a vision,” Mrs.
Harrington said. “An angel appeared
and told me never to partake of food
until Ernie became an evangelist in
the church of God.” :
Mrs. Harrington said she sees noth
ing strange in her fast.
“l am simply following out a pre
cept of christianity,”, she said.
“Christ fasted ’fortgr days to over
come satan. I am doing the same
thing to overcome satan’s possession
of my husband’s soul. Ernie must—"
.She stopped short, and lifting her
eyes upward uttered this simple
prayer:
“0, Lord, please make Ernie, see
the light. Make him quit changing
money in the market place and send
him to the uttermost parts of the
earth to tell of Thee.””
Mrs. Harrington said she is® sure
her hunger strike will cause her hus
band to accept Christ.
Mrs. Harrington, who is 37, said
she weighed about 230 pounds when
she started the fast. :
Not Lost Pound.
“1 feel fine and don’t believe that I
have lost a pound,” she said. “I haven’t
partaken of food in 41 days.”
Nevertheless, a slight twitching of
the facial muscles and a bit of a worn
and tired look about the eyes was
discernible. Her face was furrowed
with wrinkles and a pallor was no
ticeable.
“She is just as well as she ever was,”
interrupted Mrs. Olive Brown, anoth
er member of the church of God.
“And Ernie is getting to see the
light, isn’t he?” Mrs. Brown said.
Mrs. Harrington agreed.
But “Ernie” had a different tale to
tell.
In his little produce store he was
busily engaged in picking feathers
from chickens.
“If you can show me something
better than my religion—the Golden
Rule and the Ten Commandments—
I will take it up,” he said. “I aim to
treat everthdy fair and don’t believe
you have to shout your religion from
the house top.” :
“If you go down to see my wife,”
he said, “tell her to get something in
her- stomach—some milk and crackers
T—th”at'll do her more good than pray
ing. =
* He Knows Her.
Harrington does not believe his
wife will keep up the strike.
“I have lived with her eighteen
years—l know her,” he said. Har
rington’s chief regret was that his
wife’s hunger strike was harming his
business. “She used to keep my books
and wait on trade,” he said. “Now I
‘have to do it all myself. I am not
going to go out and preach after work- «
ing here to build up my business.”
Harrington said he has received
hundreds of letters from people all
over the country. g
“One was from a woman in Mich
igan who wrote me her husband was
a religious fanatic. I have a notion
to have her come to Danville so we
could sympathize with each other.”
Each day about a dozen members °
of the church of God gather at the
little Harrington cottage to pray for_
Ernie’s soul. o .
Hymns are sung and testimony
given. Ernie{iever attends. He fig
ures he is t busy waiting on tge
trade in his Hhttle produce store.
33 Person Now Own
2 Per Cent U. S. Money
Twenty-three Thousand Millionaires
Own $136,000,000,000. :
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Thirty
three individuals own 2 per cent of
the American nationil wealth, George
P. Hampton, managing director of the
Farmers’ National Council, says.
He urges that the wealthiest ¢classes
pay their just share of the cost of the
war. - 5%
~ Hampton adds that 23,000 million
aires are estimated to own over $136,-
000,000,000, while the thirty-three
richest Americans own property’
worth about $9,675,000,000, or roughly
2 per cent of the national wealth, es
timated at $500,000,000,000.
THE HIGHEST RENT IN
VILLAGE IS $8 PER MONTH
Repaupo, a smafl"vilf@e four miles
below Paulsboro, N, J.. is the only
town in Gloucester coung', =N. o fge
where $8 per month is the highest rent
paid by any Tesident for a dwelling.