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VOLUME IV. NUMBER 27.
SECOND GERMAN
CRUISER INTERNS
Kronprinz Wilhelm, In Port At Newport
News, Notifies Washington It
Will Stay Here.
VESSEL DISABLED AT SEA
American Port Now Protects Two Ger
man Cruisers, Prinz Eitel and
Wilhelm .
Newport News, Va. —The German
commerce destroyer Kronprinz Wil
helm will be interned for the war in
American waters at the request of her
commander, Lieutenant Captain Thier
felder. Notice of his intentions was
given by the German officer to Col
lector of Customb Hamilton in this
message.
“Herewith I have to officially in
form you that I intern.”
Commander Thierfelder later ampli
fied verbally this message by saying
that it had been his intention to at
tempt the dash for sea past the allied
warships on guard off the Virginia
capes, but that the continued serious
illness of more than sixty members of
his crew would make the dash impos
sible before the expiration of the time
time set for his departure from this
\ neutral haven. It was understood that
the Washington government had al
lowed the commander until midnight,
April 30, to repair his ship and put
to sea.
ATTACK DARDANELLES
Another Attack Both By Land And
Sea On Both Sides Is Being
Waged
London. —A general attack has been
begun on the Dardanelles, according
to an official announcement made pub
lic.
All that is known of the attack is
contained in a brief war office report,
which simply says that in spite of se
rious opposition troops have been land
ed at various points on the Gallipoli
peninsula and that their advance con
tinues.
The attack is being made by land,
sea and air. The allied airmen are
playing an important part in the oper
ations in locating positions and drop
ping bombs on the Turkish guns and
trenches and directing the fire of the
warships, which are covering the land
ing of the troops. The Russians are
doing their share by making a demon
stration against th eforts at the Black
sea entrance of the Bosphorus.
ADMITS OBEDIENCE
Theodore Roosevelt Admitted On The
Stand He Was Subservient To
Platt And Croker
Syracuse, N. Y. —Theodore Roose
velt admitted under cross-examination
in the trial of William Barnes’ suit
for alleged libel that while governor,
he had freely consulted the “boss”
of the Republican party in New York
state in reference to appointment of
officials and on various legislative and
political matters. The “boss” named
was Thomas C. Platt, who, at that
time, represented New York in the
United States senate. '
The former president said he took
the advice of the senator in many mat
ters, among them appointing a Demo
crat to the office of tax commissioner
Co “please Grady,” -whom the colonel
described as a “lieutenant boss” of
Richard Croker, then leader of Tam
many Hall.
I ITALY'S ENTRANCE CERTAIN
I Prince Von Buelow Said To Be Pessi-
J mistic Over Outlook Concern-
ing Hostilities
B London. —The opinion is growing in
9 Rome that Austria and Italy are drift
fl ing inevitably toward war. A d’plo
-9 mat accredited to the quirinal quotes
I German Ambassador von Buelow as
I saying it would be impossible for Aus-
I tria to accept Italy’s demands.
B The position of Greece may be
I cleared up after the visit which Prince
■ George is paying to Paris and Lon
-9 don, although nothing is likely to hap
-9 pen until after the general election
9 about to take place.
J Needs Os The South
■ Muskogee, Okla. —Mounted cowboys
9 and Indians driving motor cars lent
9 picturesque touches to a parade wel-
B coming delegates to the sixth annual
■ convention of the Southern Commer
-9 cial Congress, which conducted a five
■ day session here. In his opening ad-
B dress Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of
■ Florida, president of the congress, as
■ serted that the convention marks the
■ esteem “which the other states of
■ the Southland hold for their youngest
■ sister, Oklahoma. Delegates from ev-
Bery state were in attendance.
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HARRY LEHR
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Harry Lehr, former leader of so
ciety in New York, Newport and Paris,
has sailed for France to join the hos
pital corps of the French army. Mr.
Lehr has lived much in Paris in re
cent years and is intensely in sym
pathy with the cause of the allies.
STORM HITS BIRMINGHAM
SHOPPERS IN STORES CRUSHED
WHEN WALLS OF BURNED
BUILDING TOPPLED
Accdent Happened Just Before The
Ciose Os Business Hours When
The Stores Were Crowded
Birmingham. Ala. —More than a
dozen people are thought to have
been killed and a score are .known
to have been injured when the five
story wall of the old Steel-Smith build
ing, on Second avenue, crashed down
on the Hann shoe store and Atlantic
and Pacific Tea company store here.
Four bodies were later recovered
from the ruins. They vzere Alex Mc-
Leod, manager of the Hann Shoe com
pany: J. H. Whitlock of Atlanta, trav
eling auditor of the Atlantic and Pa
cific Tea company; Miss Marie Den
man and an unidentified negro.
CHINA’S FUTURE
President Says Celestial Republic Will
Be Developed Through
Christianity
Washington.—President Wilson, in
an address at a meeting here of the
Potomac presbytery of the Presbyte
rian church, pictured a vision of
Christ, furnishing a great momentum
in future to the moral forces of the
world. He declared that as soon as
the unity of China was realized its
power would come into the world.
“Why, this is the most amazing and
inspiring vision that can be offered
you, this vision of that great sleeping
nation suddenly cried awake by the
voice of Christ. Could there be any
thing more tremendous than that? And
could there be any greater contribu
tion to the future momentum of the
moral forces of the world than could
be made by quickening this force
which is being set afoot in China?
Houston Names Callander
Washington.—Secretary Houston ap
pointed William F. Callander, now his
private secretary, to be state field
agent of the bureau of crop estimates,
WIRE FLASHES.
Quake Is Recorded
A severe earthquake, sh^rp and well
developed, was recorded on the seis
mograph at Canisius college at Buffa
lo. The tremor lasted six and a half
minutes. It was estimated the dis
tance was 2,700 miles south.
Congressman’s Body Found
Mystery surrounds the death of for
mer Congressman John M. Faison of
the Third North Carolina district, who
tfas found dead in his bath room at
Faison, N. C. Whether Mr. Faison
died of heart disease or whether he
shot himself, as persistent reports
have it, members of the family and
friends of the family refuse to say,
the only information any of them will
give being “Doctor Faison died sud
denly.”
Americans Sentenced In London
Charles Williams, described by
Scotland Yard as one of the “most
dangerous men in America,” and An
nie Ferguson, supposed to be the wife
of a notorious bank thief named Grea
son, were sentenced in Old Bailey
prison in London to imprisonment for
twelve and ten years, respectively, for
robbing a London jeweler.
Aged Woman Elected Mayor
Mrs. A. R. Canfield, 74 years old,
was elected mayor of Warren, 111., by
a majority of four. She is the first
woman to be made chief executive of
an Illinois municipality. "
IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1915.
GERMANS REPULSE
ALLIES IN WEST
Both The Brench And British Forces
In Flanders Driven Back Into
The Woevre
HOPE TO CAPTURE CALAIS
Teutonic Forces Claim Victories Over
Enemies Ail Along The Yser.
French Deny Rumors
London.—The German rushes in
Flanders and the Woevre, where they
claim considerable successes, are be
lieved to be forerunners of another
big effort to break through the allied
lines in the west.
For many days Belgium has been
sealed from the observation of neu
trals, while German reinforcements
are being moved to the South to take
part in the new offensive, which they
hope is to carry them to Calais.
The attack in Flanders, originally
levelled at the French has been trans
ferred to the British lines, held by
the Canadians, on the immediate right
of the French, and here, for two days,
the men from the Dominion have been
engaged in a deadly contest with the
Germans. The Germans claim further
progress toward Ypres and that Brit
ish counter attacks have been re
pulsed.
The French, on the other hand, de
clare the allies’ counter attacks con
tinue with success, and that the Brit
ish hold all their positions, and repeat
the charge that the Germans are using
bombs containing asphyxiating gases.
The Frankfurter Zeitung justifies
the use of these missiles on the
ground that the allies have done like
wise.
DENIES CHARGE
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Denies
Walsh’s Statement That He Con
trols Governor Ammons
New York. —John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., gave out a statement in amplifi
cation of one he issued before in an
swer to that of Frank P. Walsh, chair
man of the industrial relations com
mission, who made public correspond
ence between Mr. Rockefeller and L.
M. Bowers, chairman of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron company. Mr. Rocke
feller also reviews at length incidents
in connection with the Colorado strike
situation.
At the outset Mr. Rockefeller reiter
ates his complaint against Chairman
Walsh, whom he charged in a former
statement with drawing false infer
ences from the correspondence, which
he and associates had placed in the
hands of the commission, waiving all
constitutional rights, protecting pri
vate correspondence.
Mr. Rockefeller characterizes as
false the statement of Chairman
Walsh that he (Rockefeller) presum
ed to dictate letters that went out to
the president of the United States
and to the governors of the state, over
thes ignature of the governor of Col
orado.
CHRISTIANS MASSACRED
Report States Many Were Slaughter
ed In Armenia By
Turks
Tiflis, Transcaucasia. —Refugees
reaching the Russian line report that
the massacre of Armenians by Mo
hammedans is being continued on
even a greater scale. They say that
all the inhabitants of ten villages
near Van, in Armenia, Asiatic Turkey,
have been put. to death.
On being advised of massacres at
Erzerum, Berjan and Zeitun and of
the conditions at Van, the Katolikos,
head of the Armenian church, at
Etchmiadzin, near Erivan, cabled to
President W’ilson an appeal to the
American people on behalf of the
Armenians.
The Associated Press correspond
ent received reports of the massacre
of the 800 villagers in Urza and of
720 in Calmas. A journey through
Salmas showed that three weeks had
failed to obliterate the signs of the
slaughter. Pools of blood still mark
ed the execution places in Hafgvan.
German Fleet Chasing British
London. —A Copenhagen dispatch to
the Exchange Telegraph says that
leading German papers declare that
the German fleet is willing now to ac
cept battle in the North sea. The
entire fleet, the papers declare, sev
eral times has cruised over the North
sea vainly seeking the British fleet.
The Vossiche Zeitung says the Nor
wegian steamer Foedin met the Ger
man fleet off Helgoland. The German
commander told the captain of the
Foedin that the German fleet wanted
to engage the British fleet in battle.
MRS. WILLIAM C. STORY
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Mrs. William Cumming Story of
New York was re-elected president
general of the Daughters of the Amer
ican Revolution, receiving 695 votes
against 461 cast for Mrs. George T.
Guernsey of Kansas.
FORCE FRENCH TO WITHDRAW
GERMANS BEAT THEM BACK
ACROSS THE YPRES CANAL
TO OLD POSITIONS
Allies Were Overwhelmed By The
Fumes, Is The Claim Os
General French
London. —Fighting north of Ypres,
in Ptslgium, in which the Germans
forced the French to retire to the
west side of the Ypres canal, approx
imately five miles, holds the chief
place in the latest news of the Euro
pean war.
Field Marshal Sir John French and
the Paris war office charge that the
Germans used asphyxiating gas
bombs, the effect of which, according
to Paris, was felt over a distance of
about a mile and a quarter behind the
French line and which the British
field marshal declares caused the
French to retire “overwhelmed by
the fumes.” As a result of the French
retreat the British line, according to
General French, remained intact, ex
cept on the extreme left, where the
Britains had to readjust their line to
conform with the new French line.
Berlin asserts that the Germans in
this westerly drive captured the vil
lages of Langemarck, Steenstraete,
Het Sas and Pilkelm
WALSH CHARGES MAGNATE
Industrial Commission Chairman Says
Rockefeller Knew All About
Strike
Kansas City.—lnformation contain
ed in letters and telegrams passing
between John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and
officers of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
company, made public here by Frank
P. Walsh, chairman of the industrial
relations committee, caused Mr.
Walsh to announce that the hearings
concerning the coal miners’ strike in
Colorado would be reopened and Mr.
Rockefeller recalled to the witness
stand.
Beside Mr. Rockefeller there will be
called to testify J. F. Wellborn, presi
dent of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
company; L. M. Bowers, chairman of
the company’s executive committee,
and Ivy Lee, Mr. Rockefeller's pub
licity agent. The hearing will open in
Washington May 4, Mr. Walsh said.
The correspondence was obtained
by Mr. Walsh from Mr. Rockefeller's
New York office in compliance with a
demand of the commission. It was
not forthcoming, Mr. Walsh announc
ed, in time for its contentions t' be
used at the recent hearing in New
York, and he considered the informa
tion in it of a character to warrant
reponening of the hearing.
Aids Swiss Importers
Washington.—An effort to relieve
importers of American cotton in Swit
zerland from the allies’ blockade
is now being undertaken by
the Washington government, Sec
retary Bryan announced in response
in a recent note presented in Wash
ton by tne minister from Switzerland.
The Swiss note, it is understood,
has been forwarded to London and
Rome and the American ambassadors
there instructed to present to the
British and Italian governments the
situation of Swiss importers.
ANOTHER SIEGE
OF DARDANELLES
Allies Determined To Take Constantino
ple Away From The Turks
This Time
ANGLD-FRENCif TROOPS LAND
Stiff Resistance Made By Turks In
Defense Os The Porte—Previous
Attempt Failed
London.—The march on Constanti
nople has begun. British and French
troops, after landing on both sides of
the Dardanelles under what are de
scribed as “excellent conditions,” have
taken many prisoners and are continu
ing their advance.
The British war office and admiral
ty announce that "the troops landed
on Gallipoli peninsula are thorough
ly making good their footing with the
effective help of the navy.”
Paris officially announces the occu
pation of Kum-Kaleh, on the Asiatic
side of the strait, by French infantry
and artillery. That the Turks offered
desperate resistance to both the land
ing and occupation, although they
were under the guns of French war
ships, is indicated by the fact that
they delivered seven counter attacks
and employed heavy guns.
The number of troops on this expe
dition, which is in command of Gen.
Sir lan Hamilton, is not known, but,
while those already ashore are mov
ing forward and strengthening their
positions, the disembarkation from
the transports still goes on.
The Turkish official statement re
specting the operations declares that
although hostile forces were landed at
Kum-Kaleh and advanced under the
protection of the warships, they were
driven back to the coast, several hun
dred men being killed.
PLATT NOT EASY
Roosevelt Admitted He Told N. Y.
Senator He Was Not An "Easy
Boss"
Syracuse, N. Y. —More hitherto un
known chapters of political history
were revealed in the supreme court
here when confidential correspondence
that passed between Theodore Roose
velt on one hand and William Barnes
and former United States Senator
Thomas C. Platt—“the boss” —on the
other, was read to the jury.
The letters that passed between
Colonel Roosevelt and Senator Platt
showed that the two continued to con
sult on friendly terms while the for
mer was governor, vice president and
then president. In a telegram sent to
Colonel Roosevelt while he was gover
nor, the senator urged the signing of a
bill for exempting from the franchise
tax grade crossing of steam roads and
said that “our friends of New York
Central” and Senator Depew were
“anxious.”
In another telegram, when Senator
Platt insisted that Colonel Roosevelt,
then governor, attend the meeting of
a commission the colonel, after pro
testing, agreed to do so and added,
"but you are not an easy boss.”
The colonel, when vice president,
asked that his friends be "taken care
of' by the senator. In other letters
appointments were discussed, while in
one written by the senator after Colo
nel Roosevelt was in the white house
the cabinet to be selected by the may
or-elect of New York, Seth Low, was
written of.
PEKIN ANXIOUS
China Complains That Japan Is Try
ing To Dominate Her
Government
Pekin. —With the new draft o’ the
Japanese demands on China in the
hands of the Chinese foreign minis
ter, interest is aroused in the nature
of the modifications Japan has made
in the original document. President
Y'uan Shi Kai and his advisers have
examined the demands as amended,
but no decision has been reached and
they are likely to be the subject of
further discussions.
Group one of the original demands
has not been altered from the form
to which the Chinese gd^ernraent al
ready has agreed. This group relates
to Shan-Tung province.
Expectations From Income Tax
Washington.—Complete preliminary
estimates from all internal revenue
collection districts received at the
treasury department incidate that the
individual and corporation income tax
this year will not only come up to the
general estimates of? 80,000.000, but
will probably exceed that sum. This
is the most welcome bit of information
that has come to the ears of treasury
officials in many months. If the es
timate is borne out the prospective
issue of Panama canal bonds may be
delayed.
SI.OO A YEAR
LITTLE NEWS ITEMS
THROUGHOUT STATE
Athens. —A monument to the late
William Deloney was unveiled in Oco
nee cemetery, the cadets and veter
ans and Daughters and Memorial as
sociations taking part. A big dinner
to the veterans was planned by the
Daughters.
Thomasville. —Three juries out at
the same time, and all deliberating
on cases against one man, was an
unusual feature in Thomas superior
court, which adjourned here after hav
ing been in session all the week. Rob
ert E. Green, a resident of this county,
waas the man being tried, and he waA
charged with hog?stealing in one
count, rioting in a second and selling
whiskey in two counts in the third
case. There were mistrials in the first
two cases, but he was found guilty
ni the third sentenced to twelve
months on the gang and six months
in jail, the latter to be suspended af
ter six months on payment of ?200.
Savannah. —City officials are re
strained from enforcing a recent ordi
nance passed by the city council regu
lating the operation of jitney buses,
pending a hearing as to the legality
of the measure in superior court of
Chatham county. May 15, and order to
this effect having been granted by
Judge W. G. Charlton in the superior
court on application of G. Ford Hew
lett, a jitney bus operator. In the
application for a restraining order, the
ordinance was attacked as "confisca
tory, discriminatory and illegal be
cause it places restrictions on jitney
buses not applying to other means of
conveyance.”
Macon. —Roger McCall, the Macon
nonogenarian, who was granted a par
don several weeks ago from a life
term in the penitentiary for the mur
der of his wife here three years ago,
in order that he might die a free man,
passed away at the home of his daugh
ter. Mrs. J. O. Bangham. McCall shot
and killed his wife while under the
influence of whisky. Mrs. McCall was
asleep on the bed at the time. McCall
always claimed that he did not know
what he was doing.
Atlanta. —The conference of mem
bers of the local boards of tax asses
sWS; which was recently called by
Judge John C. Hart, state tax commis
sion, was held in Atlanta in the house
of representatives hall of the state
house. The meeting was for the pur
pose of discussing the new equaliza
tion tax act, which has been in opera
tion one year, with a view to under
standing and enforcing it better.
Judge Hart presided. About two
hundred and fifty or three hundred
members of the local boards of asesss
ors from all parts of the state attended
the meeting. Many of these came at
their own expense.
Macon. —Dr. W. L. Pickard, presi
dent of Mercer university, and a mem
ber of the board of trustees of Bessie
Tift college, at Forsyth, announced
that the state board had elected Dr.
Joshua A. Foster, pastor of the First
Baptist church, at Wilmington, N. C.,'
to the presidency of Bessie Tift.
Doctor Foster attended the meeting
and accepted the offer. He will suc
ceed C. H. H. Jackson, who resigned
last summer. Doctor Foster original
ly came from Alabama. He is a grad
uate of the University of Alabama and
also of the Southern Baptist seminary
at Louisville, Ky. For several years
he was principal of the Hearn acad
emy in north Georgia.
An attempt was made to have Rev.
Dr. W. L. Pickard, president of Mer
cer university in this city, take charge
of Bessie Tift jointly with his duties
at Mercer, but he declined.
Atlanta.—The city board of educa
tion has been paying out illegally for
teachers' salaries thousand of dollars
for the past eight or ten years, ac
cording to an opinion given the board
by City Attorney James L. Mayson.
The opinion caused such consterna
tion among the board members that
they left the whole matter up in the
air by a tie vote after a discussion
lasting more than two hours.
It has been the practice of the board
for many years to give credit for serv
ice to teachers who have taught in
other cities before coming to Atlanta.
In doing this the teacher received a
salary higher than she would other
wise have been paid. If, for instance,
a teacher came to Atlanta from Macon,
where she had served, say, three years,
and if, after teaching a month, in the
Atlanta schools, she made good, she
would be placed on the salary seals
for three years. ’
Atlanta. —Mrs. Virginia Schley, aged
75, an aunt of Admiral William Schley,
the hero of Santiago, was run over
by a fast-speeding auto in front of
her home, 500 Peachtree street, She
died an hour later from her injuries,
a broken left arm and concussion of
the brain, at the Davis-Fischer sani
tarium, where she was removed by
R. P. Snow, a clerk in Allen Broth
ers’ grocery store, 497 Peachtree
street, and a Mr. Matthews, both-' of
whom witnessed the accident.
Eye-witnesses state that she was
dragged thirty feet by the machine