The bulletin. (Irwinton, Wilkinson County, Ga.) 191?-19??, November 26, 1915, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME V. NUMBER 4. MANY LIVES LOST IN TRAIN WRECK In Head-On Collision Near Columbus, Ga., a Number Os Persons Are Killed And Injured PEOPLE BURNED UP IN CARS Passenger Train Running Thirty Miles An Hour Collides With Carnival Show Train Columbus, Ga. —The bodies of six persons have been recovered, and nearly forty other persons are jn hos pitals in Columbus as a result of a head-on collision between a passen ger train on the Central of Georgia and a special train carrying the Con T. Kennedy Carnival Shows, six miles west of here. Show officials believe the death list will exceed twenty-four victims. Fred S. Kempf and his wife were burned to death while show peo ple looked helplessly on. Their four year-old child was saved through the heroism of her mother alone. Threw Her Child To Safety Flames were licking at one of the automobile trucks of the Kempfs, which was on a flat car and in which the Kempfs were imprisoned. Mrs. Kempf, seeing that there was no chance to escape, hurled her child through a window, clear of the train. Then the mother fell back and was burned alive a minute later. The child was badly injured, but Columbus peo ple, who picked up the little girl and rushed her to a hospital, say the lit tle girl will live. Both Trains Running 30 Miles An Hour Both trains were running about 30 miles an hour. The engines of both trains were demolished, yet did not leave the rails. Cars at the head-end of the show train were telescoped. There were two carloads of animals. Most of the animls were burned alive. Twelve Pullman cars, carrying the principal people in the Kennedy shows, were not damaged, as they were at the rear-end of the special train. Manager Says 24 Lives Were Lost According to a statement given out by the manager of the Kennedy shows, at least twenty-four lives were lost in the crash. He believes the death loss will exceed even this figure. The Ken nedy Shows played in Atlanta, Ga., during the Harvest Festival Week. The shows were located on the streets near the center of the city. SERBS DEFEAT BULGARS NORTHEAST OF PRISTINA Claimed That Bulgars, After Losing Heavily, Fled In Disorder —Serbs Reinforced By Allied Troops London. —The armies of the central powers are still pressing the Serbs and Montenegrins, who are offering strong resistance. The Montenegrins are giving battle to the invaders along the Drina and Lim rivers and at several points are said to have re pulsed them, while in the Ibar valley Serbian rear guards have assumed the offensive. Northeast of Pristina the Serbians claim to have won a victory over the Bulgarians, the latter fleeing after losing heavily. Teutons Continue To Push Serbs The Austro-Hungarians are being met by the Serbs as they approach the Kossovo plain in the region of Pristina, but they continue to push forward, and now are declared to be approaching Pristina both from the north and the east. Although both Berlin and Vienna daily announce rel atively large captures of men, a dis patch from Austrian headquarters es timates that the Serb army aggregates between 130,000 and 150,000 men. German Americans’ Release Demanded London.—The American embassy has requested the release of Emil Miehlke and Herman Krauss, of Chi cago, naturalized Americans of Ger man birth taken from the Norwegian- American liner Kristianiafojrd recent ly at Kirkwall. The mep are confined In Edinburgh. Their passports are correct, but the British are detaining all naturalized citizens unable to pro duce naturalization papers. Word from Washington says that Miehlke and Krauss are entitled unquestiona bly to their passports. « Man Buried Alive Crying For Mercy Batavia, N. Y. —Luigi Matroni was buried alive in the cellar of his home near Corfu in May, 1914, his body be ing trampled into a newly made grave while he still begged for mercy, ac cording to a story told by his widow to District Attorney Coon here. An tonio Boliva, the alleged murderer, pointed out the spot where the crime occurred and a body was found which Mrs. Matroni identified as that of her husband. Boliva confessed. He is Mrs. Matroni’s son-in-law, and is serving g six months’ term for stabbing a girl. ©hr bulletin IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1915. LEMUEL P. PADGETT « I 1 Congressman Lemuel P. Padgett of Tennessee, chairman of the house committee on naval affairs, will direct the fight in the house to put through the president’s program to increase the sea fighting forces of the nation. FIGHTING AT DARDANELLES DETERMINED EFFORT IS BEING MADE TO CARRY THE TURK POSITIONS Vienna Claims Italians Have Been Un able To Hold Their Very Recent Gains London. —Resumption of activity in the Dardanelles probably will be at tributed to the recent presence of Field Marshal Kitchener on the Galli poli peninsula. From German and '■from Turkish sources come reports of violent fighting on the tip of the pe ninsula in the neighborhood of Sed dul Bahr. The Cologne Gazette char acterizes the new operations initiated by the entente allies as a “great of fensive movement.” Hard fighting is in progress on the Austro-Italian front with the big guns of the Italians working hard on Go rizia. They are strengthening their positions around the Austrian city, which, it is believed, cannot hold out much longer. According to Vienna, however, the Austrians have driven the Italians from all the positions they had captured around Oslavia and also ejected the Italians who entered the Austrian lines in the district of San Martino. The British and French artillery has become more active in Flanders and Champagne, which, on previous occa sions, has been the signal for offen sives. Russians Continue To Gain The Russians since they regained the ground lost on the River Styr have been inactive except for minor attacks in the Dvinsk region. The Pe trograd correspondents, however, pre dict more important events. Allies Rout Germans In West Africa British and French troops have cap tured the city of Tibati, in the Ger man colony of Kamerun, West Africa, where the sultan and populace are said to have welcomed them. Ex-Queen Sends Gift To Mrs. Galt Honolulu, T. H. —Liliuokalani, the surviving ruler of Hawaii’s days of royalty, has forwarded as her wed ding gift to Mrs. Norman Galt, the fiancee of President Woodrow Wil son, a chiffon scarf of peculiar tex ture and design. The scarf, which was sent in the name of the “Daugh ters of Hawaii,” is a rare example of ancient Hawaiian weaving. New Dreadnaught Lost By Germany London. —A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Rotterdam says: One of Germany's newest dreadnaughts struck a mine November 19 in the Baltic sea and went to the bottom. All members of the crew were saved ex cept thirty-three, who were drowned. High Mark In U. S. Foreign Trade Washington.—New high records in the foreign trade of the United States continue to pile up the greatest fa vorable trade balance the country has ever known. The movement of mer chandise and gold shown in figures issued by the department of commerce discloses how decidedly the United States has been converted from a debt or to a creditor nation. During the 12 months ending with October the for eign 'trade exceeded five billion dol lars. Imports were $1,691,748,013 and exports $3,318,634,636. ULTIMATUM SENT GREEK KINGDOM Allies Are Resolved To End The Uncer tainty In Regard To Greece By Declaring Blockade CADINET HOLDSCONFERENCE Must Fulfill Treaty Obligations To Ser. bia Or Must Demobilize Her Army London.—The entente allies have demanded that Greece either join with them and fulfill her treaty obligations to Serbia or demobilize, and to im press King Constantine that they mean what they say the allies have declared a commercial blockade of the Hellenic empire, according to Athens dispatches. Greece Affirms Friendship For Allies Lord Kitchener, the British war sec retary had an hour’s audience with the king of Greece, aud afterwards saw Piemier Skouloudis. The Greek government again affirmed its friend ship to the allies, but has not. taken the steps required to prevent Greece from being counted among the friends of the central powers. The entente allies will not permit any delay; the position of the Serbian armies make any prolongation of the present uncer tainty impossible. Commercial Blockade Declared Paris, France. —It is reported that the entente powers have declared a commercial blockade on Greece. An announcement issued by the British le gation at Athens is given as follows: “Because of the attitude taken by the Hellenic government in regard to cer tain questions touching closely the security and liberty of action to which the allied troops have the right under the conditions of their disembarkment on Greek territory, the allied powers have deemed it necessary to take cer tain measures which will have the ef fect of suspending the economic and commercial facilities which Greece has received from them heretofore.” RUSSIANS REGAIN GROUND LOST ALONG STYR RIVER Czartorysk Again Held By Russians, Who Let Germans Enter Simply To Shell Them Out London. —The Russians are regain ing ground lost along the Styr river. Czartorysk, a little village unknown before the war and which became fa mous for bitter fighting around it, is again in possession of the Russians, who evidently let the Germans enter simply to shell them out the next day. The German attack, which met with initial success, was doomed to final failure, as the country around is a great marsh, and, in the opinion of Petrograd, the offensive was taken for political, not military purposes, with the object of impressing Roumanians. On the western front the French war office reports vigorous artillery ac tions in Artois and around Loos and Hulluch and at other points. The Ger man works were badly damaged, the report claims. The Italians are still pounding at the Austrian city of Go rizia. It is reported that the Austrian fortifications have almost been de stroyed. McKellar Is First In Tennessee Races Nashville, Tenn.—Virtually complete returns indicate that Congressman Kenneth D. McKellar received a plu rality of approximately 2,700 votes in the Democratic senatorial primary. Mr. McKellar will be opposed in a “run off” on December 15 by former Gover nor Malcolm R. Patterson, who receiv ed second largest vote. Belated unof ficial returns gave McKellar a total vote of 42,150; Patterson 39,482 and United States Senator Lea, who was eliminated from the race, being the lowest man, 32,035. Bomb Plotters Must Be Caught Washington.—Official notice of the government’s intention to employ all its resources in running down those responsible for factory explosions, in timidations of labor and other acts of violence against American industries is coupled, in a statement issued by Attorney General Gregory, with an ap peal to state authorities to be equally vigorous in dealing with lawlessness Villa Forces Flee, Leaving 600 Dead Douglas, Ariz. —The forces of Gen. Francisco Villa retreated from Hermo sillo, leaving one thousand dead, wounded and captured according to official reports. Villa forces of Gen. Jose Rodriguez have broken through the cordon placed around Cananea by General Obregon and are rushing to the assistance of Villa. The retreat ing Villa forces are pursued by Gen eral Diegues, Carranza defender of the capital. Some of the retreating troops have reached as tar north as Imuris by railroad. JUDGE BEN B. LINDSEY HL Ben B. Lindsey, judge of Denver's juvenile court, was held guilty of con tempt of court and fined SSOO and costs by Judge A. Perry in the district court. The case grew out of Lindsey's refusal to disclose information in the trial of Mrs. Berta Wright on a charge of murder. CHINESE ALLIANCE SOUGHT TRIPLE ENTENTE GO AFTER CHI NA TO GET HER INTO THE ALLIANCE Washington Beginning To Realize The Seriousness Os The Political Sit uation In The Far East Washington.—Great Britain, France and Russia are making efforts to in clude China in the membership of the entente now aligned against the Germanic powers. Disclosure of this fact directed the attention of official Washington to a complicated political situation in the Far East, the serious ness of which has not hitherto been realized. Biggest Move Since War Began .Tt became known that to insure t-iendly relations between Japan and China, conversations and exchanges have been proceeding in Pekin and the European capitals looking to the formal entrance of China on an equal footing with Japan into the alliance that now includes Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Japan and Ser bia. Japanese Warships'Patrolling China Military participation by China in the war would not necessarily be ex pected, but the political necessity of adding China to the allies is looked on by them as of vast importance. It was learned that recently several Jap anese warships were placed at strat egic points along the Chinese coast, and that the possibility of internal revolution in China through the pro posed change from republic to parlia mentary monarchy had caused some Japanese officials to believe munitions of war should be husbanded for emerg encies. GOVERNOR OF UTAH PUTS BAN ON LAWLESSNESS Following Execution Os Hillstrom Governor Spry Takes Firm Stand For Decency And Order Salt Lake City, Utah.—Governor Spry has announced his intention “to clear the state of the lawless element that now infests it. and will see to it that inflammatory street-speaking is stopped." The governor’s statement came as an aftermath to the execution by a firing squad of Joseph Hillstrom for the murder of J. G. Morrison and Morrison's son on January 10, 1914. President Tried To Save Hillstrom Hillstrom's case attracted country wide attention and prompted the in tercesssion of President Wilson, the Swedish minister to the United States and the American Federation of La bor. The reply by Governor Spry to President Wilson’s second message asking a respite for Hillstrom definite ly terminated the hopes of Hillstrom's sympathizers that a stay of execution might be granted. The governor re fused pointblank to grant a respite on the ground that no new evidence tend ing to point to Hillstrom's innocence had been presented. Jury Finds That Doctor Was Justified Chicago. —Six physicians, composing a coroner’s jury, held that Dr. H. J. Haiselden. who permitted an infant, John Bollinger, to die when an opera tion might have saved him to a life of unhappiness as a defective, was morally and ethically justified in refus ing to perform the operation which Lis conscience did not sanction. An implied disapproval of a course where in a physician might determine if it was or was not desirable for a pa tient to live was contained in the ver dict of the jury. ITALIAN TROOPS LAND IN ALBANIA Italy Decides To Join Allied Powers In Attempt To Block The Austro- German Drive GERMAN ADVANCE IS SLOW Serbians Claim They Have Defeated Bulgarians Advancing On Monastir London.—ltaly has decided to join in the effort being made by Great Brit ain and France to aid Serbia. Italian troops have begun landing on Alban ian territory, according to a Chiasso dispatch to the Journal La Suisse, for warded by the Central News corre spondent at Zurich. Germans Still Progressing In Balkans Os the fighting in the Balkans re ports are more confusing than ever. The Germans still claim progress and recount the capture of thousands of prisoners and many guns from the Serbians. But from the towns men tioned their advance appears slow. It may be, as reported from Italian sourc es, that the campaign is waiting on a change in the disposition of the ar mies so that the Germans may be first to enter Monastir. This would avoid the trouble likely to arise through Greek objection to Bulgarian occupa tion of the city. But dispatches from Athens say the delay is due to the fact that the Serbians have defeated the Bulgarians advancing on the town and have reoccupied their front on the Veles-Prilep line. Perhaps the real reason for the invaders’ slow progress arises from transport diffi culties. Montenegrins Report Success A late report from the Montenegrin war office says that despite vigorous attacks against the Montenegrin San jak army, it is moving toward new po sitions, while the Serbian legation at Paris reports the defeat of the Bulga rians by the Serbs twenty-five miles west of Nish. ‘ Germany is balking ABOUT THE LUSITANIA Objects To Disavowal And Paying In demnity For American Lives Lost On Vessel Washington.—Conferences between Secretary Lansing and Count von Bernstorff. the German ambassador, have failed thus far to bring the Unit ed States and Germany near an early settlement of issues that grew out of the sinking of the Lusitania, with a loss of more than one hundred Amer ican lives. Persons in a position to know say that the points of view of the two governments were widely dif ferent. In German circles the belief was expressed that a satisfactory agreement could not be reached with out arbitration. Officials of the state department were more optimistic, how ever, believing that ultimately Ger many would agree to the American po sition. No Indemnity Has Been Offered It is stated on authority that no offer has been made to indemnify the families of Americans lost in the dis aster. It had been reported that the German government offered to pay an indemnity of $5,000 for each life lost, but it is stated that no figure has been named. German Naval Attache In Conspiracy New York. —Capt. K. Boy-Ed, Ger- ’ man naval attache, with headquarters at the German embassy at Washing ton. played a leading role, according to testimony in federal court here, in the alleged conspiracy of several steamship lines to defraud the United States by sending neutral relief ships with coal and other supplies to Ger man warships in the Atlan ic and Pa- I cific oceans at the beginning of the European war. One witness swore that Captain Boy-Ed directed the ex penditure of approximately $750,000. Hans Schmidt Doomed To Chair Albany, N. Y.—The judgment con victing Hans Schmidt, the former New York Roman Catholic priest, of the murder of Anna Aumuller, has been upheld by the court of appeals, in which the whole court concurred. Campaign For Diversified Crops New Orleans. —Inauguration of a general campaign in every cotton pro ducing state for crop diversification in the South and organization of a perma nent conference of Southern bankers are among the projects planned for the conference of Cotton States bankers to be held in New Orleans December 6 and 7. Among the speakers at the conference will be W. P. G. Harding, chairman of the federal reserve board, and Dr. Bradford Knapp of the de partment of agriculture: also Clarence Ousley of Texas. SI.OO A YEAR — - r LITTLE ITEMS OF j STATE INTEREST Columbus. —The Atlanta diocesan conference of the Episcopal church convened at Trinity church here, with Bishop C. K. Nelson presiding; Rus sell K. Smith, secretary. Rome.—Great industrial activity is apparent in Rome. Practically all of the manufacturing enterprises are run ning overtime, many with extra forces. A number of new enterprises are un der way. Rome. —Permanent officers for the Coosa-Alabama Improvement Associa tion have been selected, and have commenced an aggressive campaign with a view to having the Coosa made navigable from Rome to the Gulf of Mexico. Augusta.—Judge W. W. Lambdin of the United States court has set De cember 4 at Savannah as the date for the hearing of objections by the bond holders to the sale of the Great East ern Lumber company to John P. Mul herin of Augusta and associates for $217,000. Cordele.—Cordele, with all prelimi nary arrangements thoroughly perfect ■ ed, is now- ready for the assembling of ; the forty-ninth annual session of the I South Georgia conference. The ad vance guard of the followers of John Wesley in south Georgia are march ing on Cordele. Fitzgerald.—The Baptist convention re-elected Rev. John D. Mell of Athens i president; Cliff Walker, Georgia's at j torney general, Dr. Lansing Burrows, I president of the southern Baptist con vention, and Z. H. Clark of Moultrie : and J. P. Nichols of Griffin were elect ! ed vics president of the convention, j Milledgeville.—William Jennings I Bryan lectured in Milledgeville to a • large audience in the auditorium of the Georgia Normal and Industrial College. Composing the audience were the young ladies of the college, the cadets of the Georgia Military College and a great number of citi zens of the town. Atlanta. —Lieut. James A. Gollogly, for the past three years recruiting of ficer in charge of the Atlanta division. United States army recruiting, will leave, January 3, 1916, for Honolulu, having been ordered there to take charge of one of the coast defense ar tillery companies stationed at the i forts in Honolulu harbor. Senoia. —Hon. H. M. Couch of Se ' noia, merchant, banker an ex-legisla tor. died suddenly of heart failure. Mr. Couch was a native Georgia, born in Coweta county on February 14, 1837. His father was Matthew Couch, a na tive of South Carolina, who moved to Georgia and settled on a farm in Coweta county, where Mr. Couch was born and the earlier years of his life spent. Cordele. —Charlie Owens, William Knox and Berlen Bienschadler, three young white men, lodged in the Crisp county jail on. the charge of stealing an automobile belonging to Bill Greer of Cordele have also made a clean confession of the charges of burglar izing the store of George Rhodes at Rochelle and getting away with sev eral hundred dollars’ worth of mer chandise. Jackson. —Views of the power plant of the big power company at Capp’s and Lloyd's Shoals, on the Ocmulgee river, eight miles from Jackson, will be included in the "Seeing Georgia” film. This power development, which cost more than $3,000,000. is one of the largest in the state, and power is supplied to Macon and several cities and towns in middle Georgia. Other views of Butts county and Jackson will probably be included in the pic ture. Athens. —Luther K. Jackson, a de fendant in a criminal suit in the city court here, was fined $75 for selling a bottle of water. The technical charge against him was “soliciting sales of liquor." He had offered to I sell a party a quart of whisky and de livered a quart of river water, the purchaser opening the package after Jackson had left him. The deceived purchaser "turned him up.” Brunswick.—Quite an interesting contest has developed here for the place which has not as yet been cre ated. but which is to be made as soon as the house passes the senate bill amending the fish and oyster laws of the state. The position is that of inspector or coast patrolman, and three are to be appointed for the Georgia coast, one to be located in Sa vannah, another in Brunswick and the third at St. Marys. Brunswick—Some of the help for the Jekyl Island club has already ar rived on the island and everything is moving along at this home of the mil lionaires in preparation for the for mal opening of the club on December 1, which will be the earliest the club has ever opened. It Is understood that a large number of the country’s best known millionaires will arrive early in December and most of them will spend the entire winter on the island.