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VOLUME V.
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lected by Presiden?*Wi®‘^<' *• i {■ '
Mr. Baker is a lawyei* W^as a’’
leader among Ohio Democrats has
heen a warm supporter of the Wilson
policies since the pre-convention cam
paign in 1912. He has been a close
personal friend of Mr. Wilson since
the latter was his instructor years
ago at Johns" Hopkins university, and
was offered the post of secretary of
the interior in the original Wilson
cabinet, but declined because he was
then mayor. He is understood to be
in thorough accord with the president
on the preparedness program and for
eign questions. '
Mr. Baker is 44 years old. He was !
born in Martinsburg, W. Va., and at
the age of 25 was appointed private
secretary to Postmaster General Wil
son in President Cleveland’s cabinet.
In 1897 he began the practice of law
at Martinsburg. He later moved to
Cleve'and, Ohio. He held the office
of city solicitor for ten years until his
election as mayor. In 1914 he was
re-elected mayor for a two-year term.
Mr. Baker has received degrees at
Johns Hopkins and Washington and
Lee universities.
Mr. Bake.' has been known for years
as a leader of the Ohio bar aqd is
highly regarded by the president as a
law<Mkt Mr. Wilson wanted the place
filled by -a lawyer, because of legal
questions constantly arising in the ad
ministration of the war department,
the Philippines, the Panama canal and
Porto Rico.
Mr. Baker is a member of the Ohio
state Democratic executive committee,
and chairman of the executive com
mittee of his county committee. He
has the record of having run for pub
lic office in Cleveland during fourteen
consecutive years without defeat.
HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST
WHEN SPANISH LINER SINKS
Steamer Principe De Asturias Struck
Rock Off Coast Os Brazil
And Went Down
Santos, Brazil. —The Spanish steam
ship Principe de Asturias has been
sunk by striking a rock. She went
down in five minutes. Eighty-six mem
bers of the crew and fifty-seven pas
sengers have been brought to San
tos.
The survivors were brought to San
tos by the French steamer Viga. A
Spanish steamer is standing by.
The Principe de Asturias went down
off Sebastiano Point, the western ex
tremity of the island of that name,
near the entrance to Santos bay.
Three hundred and thirty-eight pas
sengers and 107 members of the crew
of the Principe de Asturias are miss
ing. The steamer was wrecked off
the Sebastiano Point, the western ex
tremity of the island of that name,
near the entrance to Santos bay.
It is feared that over four hundred
lives have been lost by the sinking
of the Spanish steamship Principe de
Asturias. The steamer remained
afloat only a short time after striking
a shoal off San Sebastiano, and there
was little time for the escape of pas
sengers and crew in the boats. Steam
ers went out to search for additional
survivors, 143 of the passengers and
crew having already been landed at
Santos.
WAR MAKES BIG PROFITS
FOR SHIP OWNERS OF WORLD
Copenhagen, Denmark. —The Com
mercial Journal, commenting upon the
shipping situation, states that two Da
nish shipping companies have declar
ed a dividend of 20, four 30 and one
100 per cent. Such dividends are sim
ply a compensation to neutral ship
ping for many lean years before the
war, when there were no dividends.
Six Men Cremated, and Forty Injured
El Paso, Texps. —Six prisoners lost
their lives and about forty others
were seriously burned in the city jail
in a fire caused by the exploding of a
large tub containing a solution of gas
oline and kerosene used for extermi
nating germ-carrying vermin. Jail of
ficials attributed the explosion to the
deliberate act of a prisoner in throw
ing a lighted match into a container
holding the explosive fluid. Most of
the victims were locked in cells sur
rounding the bath quarters where the
fire started.
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Colonel House has just retruned
from Europe, where he went on a
confidential mission for President Wil
son.
FIERCE FIGHTING AT VERDUN
BATTLE OF GREAT INTENSITY
BETWEEN FRENCH AND GER
MANS AROUND VERDUN
Germans Are Endeavoring To Force
Their Way Nearer To Verdun —
British Hold German Trenches
London.—Around the village of
Douaumont, which is in the hands
of the Germans, is raging a battle of
great intensity. Having captured the
village and extended their lines west
and south, the Germans were forced
to give ground before vicious attacks
of the French, who regained part of
the terrain they had lost. The fight
ing here is proceeding unabated.
From the region of Malancourt, west
of the Meuse, to the Woevre region,
east of Verdun, the bombardments are
of a violent character, the Germans
endeavoring to force their way closer
to the fortress of Verdun and the
French tenaciously striving to hold
them back. Several assembling points
of the Germans have been vigorously
shelled by the French, especially in the
vicinity of Beaumont.
The Germans admit that in the re
gion of Ypres the British recaptured
the positions the Germans took from
them February 14, but say that the
British were immediately driven out of
most of them. The British, however,
declare that they have consolidated
these positions.
There has been considerable artille
ry activity in the Argonne forest and
in upper Alsace an infantry engage
ment in which elements of German
trenches were taken by the French.
•Comparative quiet prevails on the
Russian front. Along the line in the
Alps and on the Isonzo river sector
the Austrians and Italians continue
their bombardments and attacks at
various points by infantry but without
materially changing their positions.
WARM EXCHANGES OVER
WAR CLAIMS IN THE HOUSE
Sectional Note Heard In The Lower
Body Os Congress Over Measure
To Reimburse Southerners
\
Washington.—After a series of hot
exchanges between several representa
tives over principles involved in reim
bursement of citizens of the Southern
states for property seized by the Union
troops during the Civil war, the house
passed a bill to restore the right of
the court of claims to consider claims
to such reimbursement aggregating
five hundred thousand dollars. An
amendment would require claimants
to show proof of loyalty.
Representatives Heflin of Alabama
and Clarke of Florida resented staate
ments by Representatives Mann of Il
linois the Republican leader, and Mr.
Stafford of Wisconsin, claiming that
they were attempting to raise section
al prejudice over the bill.
Germany Makes Protest To Portuga 1
London. —Germany has sent an ul
timatum to Portugal demanding the
restoration within 48 hours of the Ger
man shi»s recently seized by that
country. Premier Costa of Portugal
is reported to have declared that the
government’s action in requisitioning
vessels had been prompted by the ne
cessities of the nation’s economic sit
uation. The premier further declared
that he considers it to be the best in
terest of Portugal that the existing
treaty with Germany be allowed to
lapse.
IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAF< « 10, 1916.
FAMOUS
v s ^^sicn,
after {FTticwWul ■■■^Ksting sev
eral montl^F has arrived at some
home port with four British officers,
twenty-nine British marines and sail
ors, 166 men of crews of enemy steam
ers, among them 103 Indians, as pris
oners, and 1,000,000 marks in gold
bars.”
The Moewe’s capture of two of the
fifteen vessels listed by the German
admiralty has not been reported pre
viously. They are the Saxon Prince
and the Maroni, both engaged in the
trans-Atlantic service.
The Moewe, previously made famous
by her exploits, has performed one of
the most spectacular feats of the war
on the seas by reaching a home port
in safety. The great German naval
port of Wilhelshaven is on the North
sea, which is patrolled with ceaseless
vigilance by British warships. It is
through these waters, which have been
blocked off in districts for patrol by
the different British units, that the
Moewe must have threaded her way.
At least part of the gold captured by
the Moewe was taken from the Ap
pam, which put in at Newport News
several weeks ago under command of
Lieutenant Berg with a German prize
crew.
The Moewe first became famous
when the Appam reached Newport
News with a story which astonished
the world. It was learned that the
commerce raider had captured and
sunk seven British vessels in the main
line of traffic between South Africa
and Europe, in addition to seizing the
Appam, which had been almost given
up for lost.
The next heard of the German raid
er was on the arrival at the Canary
Islands late last month of the West
burn in charge of a German prize
crew. It was then made known that
the Moewe had sunk five more steam
ships of the coast of Brazil.
COLONEL HOUSE IS
BACK FROM EUROPE
He Declines To Comment On Mission
To The Warring
Countries
New York. —Col. E. M. House, who
sailed from Europe December 28 on
a confidential mission for President
Wilson, arrived here on the steam
ship Rotterdam from Falmouth. As
soon as he landed from a special
coast guard cutter, which met the
Rotterdam at Quarantine, Colonel
House announced he would leave at
once for Washington to meet the pres
ident. He declined to comment on
his mission, reiterating that he went
to Europe to convey to some of the
American ambassadors information
having to do with international ques
tions that could not be supplied them
by cable or letter.
Asked if he had noticed any mark
ed change in the attitude of Europe
toward the United States since his
previous trip. Colonel House said:
‘‘Reports of an unfavorable attitude
toward the United States by the peo
ple of Europe are exaggerated. At
least I heard no criticism in any of
the countries I visited. I will say
also that we should remember that
the people of the belligerent nations
are living with their nerves on edge,
and we should make allowances ac
cordingly.”
He added that everywhere he went
he was treated with every courtesy
and consideration.
TURKISH WOMEN RIOT
AGAINST THE WAR
Odessa, Russia. —Reports from Con
stantinople say Turkish women broke
into-railway yards whence troop
trains were about to leave shouting
protests against sending the men “to
go to their death.” They threw them
selves on the rails in front of the
trains. The authorities refrained
from using force to remove them, ad
vices say, fearing a mutiny among
the soldiers. The men were taken
from the cars, and sent off secretly.
DR. THOMAS A. JAGGAR
‘^^n*ThorM[| gar is probably
the foremos^MM^lsticiar. of the
activities of volcanoes. He is of the
faculty of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and director of the
Hawaiian volcano observatory on
Mt. Kilauea. Doctor Jaggar appeared
before the congressional public
lands committee in the hearing for
the Hawaiian National park.
OVER 3,000 LIVES ARE LOST
APPALLING LOSS OF LIFE OCCURS
WHEN BIG SHIP GOES
TO BOTTOM
Sinking Os Provence Greatest Sea
Tragedy In The World’s
History
Paris.—ln the sinking of the mid-
Mediterranean on February 26 of the
French auxiliary cruiser Provence 11,
the indications are that there occur
red the greatest marine disaster in
the world’s history, so far as loss of
life is concerned.
The French admiralty reports that
there were nearly four thousand per
sons on board and up to date it has
only accounted for eight hundred and
seventy of them; therefore, more than
three thousand men, perished when
the former trans-Atlantic liner went
to the bottom. The story of how the
Vessel was sunk remains to be told.
The ministry of marine, in a com
munication, states that on board the
Provence w'ere the staff of the Third
colonial infantry regiment, the Third
battalion, the second company of the
First battalion, the second machine
gun company and one extra company,
in all nearly four thousand men.
The loss of more than three thou
sand lives in the sinking of the French
auxiliary cruiser Provence is the
greatest ocean disaster of modern
times. Up to the present the largest
number of lives t ver lost in one
wreck was when the White Star liner
Titanic struck an iceberg off the New
foundland banks on April 14, 1912,
and sank with a death loss of 1,595.
The rescued numbered 743.
The French ministry of marine had
previously issued no statement as to ।
the number of persons on the Prov
ence when she went down. The ves
sel, however, when in the trans-Atlan
tic service could carry 1,960 persons,
including the crew, and it has been
presumed that, as she was transport
ing troops between ports not far apart,
she was carrying a number of men
larger than her normal capacity.
The official statement announcing
the sinking of the Provence said:
“The French auxiliary cruiser Prov
ence II (so designated to distinguish
her from the French battleship Prov
ence) engaged in transporting troops
to Saloniki, was sunk in the Mediter
ranean on February 26. Two hun
dred and ninety-six survivors have
been brought to Malta, and about four
hundred to Melos
Dies From Eating Poisoned Snow
Cornelia. Ga. —Roy Scruggs, the
seven-year-old son of an orchard over
seer, met death in a most unusual
manner —by eating snow found on a
barrel containing a spray mixture used
in the orchard. Enough poison was
drawn into the snow to produce death
in less than twenty-four hours.
Joseph H .Shea Named For Chile
Washington.—Joseph H. Shea of
Seymour, Ind., was nominated by
President Wilson for ambassador to
Chile.
President Blames William J. Bryan
Washington.—President Wilson's
position on the international situation
as revealed further was that he had
told congressional leaders it was
months after the resigant ion of former
Secretary Bryan before the United
States government could convince Ger
many that this nation was in earnest
in its position on submarine warfare.
Ibe president is understood to have
mentioned this fact to show his belief
that action by congress would further
weaken the position of the United
States abroad.
CONGRESS BACKS
PRESIDENTWILSON
By a Majority Os 134 The Proposal Tc
Warn Americana Off Allied
Vesseie Is Beaten
i TEST VOTE WAS 27S TO 142
■ Final Vote Was Taken After Four
Hours Os Very Spectac-
ular Debate
Washington.—President Wilson com
pletely and decisively won his long
and sensational fight to compel con
gress to acknowledge that it stands
behind him in the submarine negotia
tions with Germany.
To the rallying cries of “stand by
the president,” and “is it Lansing and
Wilson or von Bernstorff and the kai
ser?” a big Democratic majority and
nearly half of the Republicans in the
house three times rolled up over
whelming votes against the movement
to warn Americans off the armed mer
chantmen of the European belliger
ents.
The celebrated McLemore resolution
around which the anti-administration
forces centered their fight, whs ta
bled, in other words, killed, just as
was the Gore resolution for a similar
purpose in the senate.
The Georgia delegation was a unit
in supporting the administration, as
were the delegations from practically
all of the Southern states.
From the very outset of the fight,
the president's supporters, without re
gard to party, swept over the oppo
sition.
On the first vote, which was a par
liamentary proposition to prevent
opening the McLemore resolution to
amendment and unlimited debate, the
administration forces carried the day,
256 to 160. On that 192 Democrats,
63 Republicans and one' Progressive
voted to support the administration.
Twenty-one Democrats, one Independ
ent and Representative London, the
lone Socialist of the house, voted
against it.
This was the crucial vote of the
fight, the one point on which admin
istration leaders were uncertain. With
victory in hand, they moved on to
the proposition, the adoption of a spe
cial rule for four hours' discussion of
the McLemore resolution.
Again they carried the day—this
time 271 to 138—and then pushed
their victory to a conclusion by tabling
the McLemore resolution, 276 to 142.
GERMANS MAKE ATTACK
OVER THE ENTIRE FRONT
Portion Os Corbeaux Wood Hill 265
And Town Os Fresnes Have
Been Captured
London. —Driving hard against the
French line northwest and southeast
of Verdun, the Germans have been
enabled to make additional gains to
ward Verdun. but with extremely
heavy casualties, according to Paris.
Hill 265, to the southeast, and a por
tion of Corbeaux wood, directly south
of Forges, have been occupied by the
Germans, through strong infantry at
tacks that were preceded by extremely
heavy bombardments. The town of
Fresnes, in the Woevre, also has been
captured.
The German attack was over the
entire front west of the Meuse, extend
ing from Bethincourt to the river, but
except in the Corbeaux wood and at
Hill 265 the French held back the at
tackers at all points. Thus the French
still occupy the important strategic po
sition of the heights of the Cote de
L’Oie. for the possesssion of which
numerous sanguinary engagements
have been fought.
Roosevelt And Johnson In Montana
Helena, Mont. —A petition placing
Theodore Roosevelt in nomination for
president and H. W. Johnson of Cali
fornia for vice president in the prima
ries to be held here April 21. as Pro
gressive party candidates, has been
filed with the secretary of state.
Gen. Von Lotterer Killed At Verdun
London. —Major General von Lotter
er. commanding the German artillery
division at Verdun, is reported to have
i been killed in action, says a dispatch
from Amsterdam.
Prohibition Defeated By Vermonters
Rutland, Vermont. —Local option
won over prohibition in this state by
a margin of 13.164 votes. The pro
hibitory amendment was first placed
on the statute books in 1552 and was
repealed in 1903 by a majority of 729.
The vote on the question of re-en
acting the amendment was: Yes, 18,-
503; no, 31,667. Every county in the
state, with the exception of Orleans,
gave a majority in favor of local op
tion. The proposed amendment had
been passed by the last legislature
and submitted to a referendum.
SI.OO A YEAR
LITTLE ITEMS OF
STATE INTEREST
Athens. —By a vote of 197 to 7 Win
der has authorized the issuance of
$25,000 bonds for completion of the
public school building.
Jackson. —An epidemic of hog chol
era in certain portions of the county
is causing considerable uneasiness
among live stock owners.
Floville. —Six negroes were shot and
some of them probably fatally wound
ed near here when Will Slick, anoth
er negro, ran amuck with a shotgun
while crazed with whiskey.
Thomasville. — The watermelon
growers of south Georgia will have
been busy putting in their crops, and
all indications point to an acreage al
■ most, if not quite, as large as that of
last year.
Jackson. —The grand jury for the
: February term of Butts county supe
; rior court recommended that the coun
i ty commissioner take steps to have
. the cattle tick eradicated in Butts
county at the earliest possible mo
ment.
Moultrie. —A movement has been
started here which has for its pur
pose the erection of a $30,000 Young
Men’s Christian Association building.
Several thousand dollars of the
amount needed has already been
pledged.
Quitman. —A new hospital for Quit
man is assured. The committee ap
pointed to canvass for subscriptions
has been overwhelmed by the success
of their mission, and the funeral i?
already over the SIO,OOO first set for
the building. f
Atlanta. —The south Georgia peach
crop has not been damaged by the
cold snap, according to reports receiv- *
ed here. On the contrary a crop as ’
big as that of 1912, which was a bum
per crop, is indicated by the present
conditions.
Lyerly.—The second triplets ever
born in Chattooga county were an
nounced by Mr. and Mrs. Will Horn
of South Summerville. There were
two girls and a boy, one of the girls
dying, but the other girl and boy are
bouncing babies, weighing four and
five pounds, respectively.
Rome. —The Rome chamber of com
merce and the Woman’s club of Rome
have indorsed a proposition for the
erection of a municipal swimming pool
here. The proposal is for the city to
furnish labor for the work and the
materials to be paid for by subscrip
tion and the city to furnish water free
of charge.
Sparta.—A movement was set on
■ foot to pave two miles of the Mont
j gomery Pace's ferry road, a highway
more than one hundred years old, in
order to create an automobile thor
oughfare connecting the sites of Em
ory university and Oglethorpe uni-
I versity and serving the entire north
: ern territory of Fulton county.
Valdosta. —A telegram from G. W.
Yarn, who went to El Paso, Texas,
following the announcement of the
murder of his brother, Grover C. Yarn,
by Mexican bandits, states that since
reaching El Paso he has received ad
ditional advices from the American
consul at Durango, Mexico, to the ef
fect that both his brothers are safe.
Columbus.—The Columbus city
council will request the introduction
and passage of a bill by the legisla
ture annexing to the city that terri
tory between Tenth and Fifth avenues,
between Twenty-third and Twenty-sev
enth streets. This is a strip of ter
ritory north of East Highlands. It is
understood that there will be no fight
on its annexation.
Columbus. —Con T. Kennedy has en
tered suit against the Central of Geor
gia railway for ten thousand dollars
damage as the result of the wreck
near Columbus last November in
which part of his show train was
burned. Os this five thousand dollars
is for loss of profits of one week’s
engagement in Girard and three thou
sand dollars is for loss of attractions
and consequent demoralization.
Athens. —Coach Bean has arrived
from Atlanta and is taking stock of
the Red and Black baseball prospects
for 1916. About sixty men in all re
ported for the first tryout. Many or
them have yet to show qualities nec
essary for places; indeed, with few
of the old men back, the matter of
the Georgia team, personnel and
strength, especially for the outfield
and battery, will be a matter of spec
ulation for some weeks.
McDonough.—The Henry County
Agricultural Association has been or
ganized, with Julian T. Weems of Mc-
Donough as president and R. L. Tur
ner of McDonough secretary. The
organization was perfected at a meet
ing in McDonough, over which Mr.
Weems presided. At the same time it
was announced that J. H. Hancock,
an expert in farm work of all kinds,
had been appointed as demonstrator
for the county. This movement in the
interest of agricultural development
in Henry dates back to the passage
by the legislature of the bill to put
the state in line with the benefit^ of
the congressional act known as the
Smith-Lever bill.
