The bulletin. (Irwinton, Wilkinson County, Ga.) 191?-19??, June 02, 1916, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME V. NUMBER 33 .BATTLES RAGE IN SOUTHERN TYROL Italians Have Stopped The Austrian Ad vance And Are Inflicting Heavy Losses On Them / GERMAN RUSHES AT VERDUN Teutons Repulsed Except Northwest Os Cumieres Village, Where They Took Section Os Trenches London.—The Verdun region and southern Tyrol continue the theaters where the most sanguinary battles are taking place. While the Italians are holding back the Austrians from fur ther advances and inflicting heavy losses on them in counter attacks in "Tyrol, their German allies have been able to make another gain in the -capture of about three hundred meters of French trenches northwest of the village of Cumieres on the left bank of the Meuse near Verdun. Fighting of great intensity has been in progress around Hill 304 and be tween Le Mort Homme and Cumieres, but except near Cumieres all the Ger mans’ vicious onslaughts were set at naught by the vigorous counter of fensives of the French. The sectors east and west of Fort Douaumont, northeast of Verdun, have witnessed still another violent artil lery duel, but no infantry attacks were launched. The artillery of both sides has been busy along the remainder of the front in France and Belgium. In Tyrol the Austrians in the Laga rina valley and south of the Posina torrent threw heavy assaults against the Italian positions, but the Italians repulsed the attackers with consider able losses. On the Asiago plateau the, men of the two batteries which were surrounded on Monte Mosciag by the Austrians were relieved by an Italian regiment and their guns brought safe ly away. Except for a report from Petrograd that the Germans have repeatedly hombarded the railway line to the east ■of Riga, no operation of moment has taken place on the Russian front. Minor successes have been obtained by the Russians over the Turks in the Rivandouza region of the Caucasus front. JAMES J. HILL, AGED . FINANCIER, PASSES AWAY -Railroad Builder And Most Noted Fig ure In. North west, Dies After Long Illness St. Paul, Minn.—James J. Hill, rail road builder, capitalist and most wide ly known figure of the Northwest, died at his Summit avenue residence here. Mr. Hill was unconscious for nearly twelve hours before he died. Mr. Hill’s personal secretary, M. R. Brown, made the announcement of his em ployer’s demise to waiting newspaper ■correspondents at the Hill residence. Just how active he was during the last two years of his life can be judg ed only by little evidence of his mas ter hand in questions affecting the Great Northern railroad and the First .National bank of St. Paul and by three outstanding accomplishments in which his will and genius asserted them selves. From a world viewpoint it would be hard to say whether his staunch sup port of the Belgian people, following the invasion of the Germans, or the part played in the negotiations for the $50,000,000 loan to the allied govern ments, is the more important. From the time the work of succor ing the Belgians began Mr. Hill took a leading part in the movement. It will probably never be known how much money he sent to King Albert, an old personal friend, and how much he induced others to send. His place as an international figure was never more prominently displayed than when the representatives of the allies came to New York in quest of a huge loan. One of the first men to be-sent for by J. P. Morgan was Mr. Hill and his assurance that he and the people of the Northwest were prepar •ed to do their share in taking up the foreign bonds is believed to have con tributed largely to the success of the negotiations. ' Mr. Hill’s wealth is estimated from SIOO,OOO to $500,000,000. He probably was worth between $200,000,000 and $250,000,000. 2,166 Casualties Caused By Air Raids London. —In the attacks on the Brit ish Isles from sea and air during the war 2,166 persons have been killed or wounded. The number of deaths is -©SO. The figures were given in the house of commons by Herbert L. Sam uel, the home secretary, as follows: ■“ln the three attacks from sea, 61 men, 40 women and 40 children were killed and 611 persons were injured. In the forty-four air raids 222 men, 114 women and 73 children were killed and 1,005 persons injured. Soldiers and Bailors killed comparatively small.” or grtlrfw JAMES J. HILL I James J. Hill, railroad builder and capitalist, who died at his home in St. Paul, Minn. ALLIES ARE WARNED BY U. S. WRONGS DONE AMERICAN CITI ZENS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED American Note Charges Rights Os Property Have Been Violated And Rules Os Law Disregarded Washington.—The United States, de nouncing interference with neutral malls, has notified Great Britain and France that it can no longer tolerate the wrongs which American citizens have suffered and continue to suffer through the “lawless practice” those governments have indulged in, and that only a radical change in policy, restoring the United States to its full rights as a neutral power will be sat isfactory. This notification is given in the lat est American communication to the two governments, the text of which was made public by the state depart ment. The time in which the change must be effected is not specified, but the United States expects prompt ac tion. “Serious and vexatious” abuses which have been perpetrated by the British and French governments in seizing and censoring neutral mails ares recited in the communication and answers are made to the legal argu ments contained in the reply of the entente governments to the first Amer ican note on the subject. It is vigor ously set forth that not only have American commercial interests been in jured, but that the rights of property have been violated and that the rules of international law and custom pal pably disregarded. Notice is served that the United States soon will press claims against the British and French governments for the losses which al ready have been sustained. GERMANY WANTS COLONEL. HOUSE AS PEACE HARBINGER Desire Openly Expressed In Berlin For Another Visit By Envoy Os President Wilson Berlin. —Another visit by Col. E. M. House to Europe ■would come as no surprise to initiated quarters here. The American rumors to this effect are regarded as having a certain ba sis in fact, although the opinion pre vails that the trip would naturally be postponed until after the national conventions. It is hoped here that should Colonel House pay such a vis it, he will come this time as a har binger of peace, or, at any rate, to pre pare, if possible, the foundations for a peace proposal difficult as this task is recognized to be. During his last previous visit to Europe, Colonel House made no effort and conducted no investigations in the direction of peace—in Berlin at any rate —having found absolutely adverse conditions in capitals of nations hostile to Germany. 500,000 Rabbits Shipped British Troops Norfolk, Va. —Five hundred thou sand rabibts for consumption by the British army in France comprises part of the cargo of the British steamer Cumberland, which put in here for coal. The steamer is loaded with two million dollars’ worth of supplies, chiefly meats, and sailed from Wel lington, New Zealand, via the Pan ama canal. Bandits Routed And Leader Killed Field Headquarters, Near Namiqui pa, Mexico. —Candelario Cervantes, the Villa bandit leader, was killed by American troops south of Cruces. Cer vantes’ end came after he had made a surprise attack south of Cruces on a detachment of engineers repairing the motor track road. He was beaten back and pursued into the hills by the engineers who had been reinforced by , a detachment of the Seventeenth in fantry. The other Mexican, Jose Ben come, andean American, were killed. Two Americans were wounded. IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1916. GREEK FORTS ARE SEIZED BY BULGARS At Demand Os The Invaders The Garrisons Surrender Without Offering Any Resistance SERB TROOPSJLT SALONIKI Army, 160,000 Strong, Transported From Corfu Across Aegean To Greece London.—The Bulgarian invasion of Greek Macedonia has reached to De mir-Hissar and from that town forces of Bulgars are said to be making their way southeastward toward the Aegean seaport of Kavalla, northeast of Sal oniki. Unofficial estimates place the num ber of the invaders at 25,000. Along the Struma river the Greeks have evacuated the forts of Rupel, Drago tin, Spatovo and Kanevo, without re sistance. Coincidental with the Bulgarian in vasion comes a report that the reju venated army, the ancient enemy of the Bulgars, has landed at Saloniki to reinforce the British and French troops already there. This force has been variously estimated at from 80,- 000 to 100,000 officers and men. It was reorganized on the island of Corfu. Serbian Army At Saloniki Paris. —After crossing the Aegean sea without loss, the Serbian army in full strength now has been landed at Saloniki, according to a wireless dis patch received here. The Serbian army totaled about three hundred tho’bsand men at the outbreak of the war, but this force was greatly depleted as a result of an epidemic of typhus and by the en gagements fought in an endeavor to check the Austre-German and Bulga rian invasion of Serbia and Montene gro. The remnant of the original ar mies saved itself by retreating through the Albanian mountains to the east ern shores of the Adriatic. On reach ing the sea coast the Serbians were transported to Corfu, off the southern coast of Albania, where they were ‘ supplied with new rifles and cloth ing and efficiently equipped for fur ther service. 84 AMERICANS BEG TO BE PROTECTED FROM CARRANZA Oil Operators At Tampico Wire The President They Are Being Outrageously Treated Washington.—On the eve of the re ceipt of General Carranza’s note which officials believe will renew the de mand for withdrawal of American troops from Mexico, and with anoth er conference between American and Mexican military commanders about to begin, a protest was received at the white house reporting serious difficul ties between American oil operators at Tampico and the Mexican authori ties. The protest came in the form of a telegram addressed to President Wil son by eighty-four American citizens residing at Tampico, who had held a mass meeting and determined to lay the case before the government. They declared the Mexican military officials were promulgating degrees designed to make it impossible for Americans to do business in the country. HALF BILLION TOLL YIELDED BY INTERNAL REVENUE Sum Exceeds By Millions All Previous Estimates —Collections On Liquor Grow Washington.—Half a billion dollars will be the government's internal rev enue tax toll for the fiscal year end ing June 30 next, according to a state ment issued by Secretary McAdoo. This sum, which Mr. McAdoo says exceeds by many millions all previous esti mates, will be made up substantially as follows: Taxes on whiskey, beer, cigars, ci garettes and tobacco, $303,000,000. Taxes on the incomes of individuals and corporations, $115,00,000. The volume of money pouring into the treasury has steadily increased since last fall until it is now greater than at any time since the effects of the war began to be felt. v Bandits Buried Without Ceremony Columbus, N. M. —Candelaria Cer vantest and Juan Beaucomo were buried without religious ceremony. There were no flowered carts, no words spoken over the graves of the two bandits, who had caused the ex peditionary command almost as much trouble as has Villa himself. Two dir ty 2-wheeled cars, drawn by dustier mules, bore the coffins through the huddled adobe huts of the town to a a little cemetery on the outskirts. A few Mexicans, wrapped in dirty blan kets', composed the funeral party. JAMES I. BLAKSLEE Ha A IB IL " -Wk fa* .TOBt fl Assistant Postmaster General Blaks lee has brought the wrath of a num ber of senators upon his head by ques tioning their motives in the conces sions granted the railroads when new contract for hauling the mails was made. .The assailed senators may ask dismissal of Blakslee. BLOODYSTRUGGLE ATVERDUN UNDER RAIN OF SHOT AND SHELL GERMANS CHARGE AGAIN AND AGAIN Italians, Retreating, Destroyed Artil lery That Couldn’t Be Withdrawn London. —Under a rain of shot and shell, which inflicted enormous losses, the Germans have again taken Fort Douaumont, northeast of Verdun, from the French. As though to even the score somewhat, however, the French, in spirited counter attacks northwest of Verdun, recaptured from the Ger mans trenches on the southern out t;kir« of the village of Cumieres, waich the Germans had occupied in the late fighting and also stopped with their artillery several attempts of the Germans to debouch from the village. The fighting around Fort Douaumont was furious, the Germans launching attack after attack against the fort, employing, among others, two fresh divisions of Bavarians. Several times the attacks were put down with heavy losses, but finally the Germans suc ceeded in reoccupying the point of vantage which they had held virtually since the commencement of the Ver dun offensive until the French drove them out several days ago. It Is An Inferno About Verdun Paris.—-French officers say the Ger man crown prince has been using SO,- 000 men in his efforts to swamp the French positions east and west of Dead Man’s Hili, and to gain deci sive advantages between that point and Hill 304. Without full possession of the line from Pepper Hill to Vaux fort the Germans cannot hope to get any nearer to the capture! of Verdun. Even if they succeeded in taking this line they could not hold it unless they were also in possession of Hill No. 304 and Dead Man’s Hill, which out flank the line. Austrians Massing For Offensive Rome. —On the Austro-Italian front the Austrians from the Lake Garda re gion to the Vai Sugana district are keeping up their violent offensive against the Italians. Driven across their border southeast of Trent, the Italians are endeavoring to hold a for tified line from Asiago to Arsiero and the heights east of the Vai d’Assa. Rome admits that in effecting their re treat across the border the Italians de stroyed artillery which it was impossi ble to withdraw. “Wolf Os Wall Street” Sent To Pen New York. —David Lamar, in the custody of two United States deputy marshals, left for Atlanta to serve two years in the penitentiary for im personating A. Mitchell Palmer, then a representative in congress, with in tent to defraud. Lamar was hand cuffed to one of the deputies. Bio Navy Measure Goes To House Washington.—An elaborate report explaining the $241,000,000 naval ap propriation bill was submitted to the house by the naval committee, and at the same time the Republican mem bers of the committee attacked the measure as inadequate and demanded that congress provide for a navy rank ing second among the world's fighting forces. The bill authorizes a building program for next year which includes five great battle cruisers. No dread naughts are included in the submitted program. SOLEMN WARNING GIVEN BY WILSON in Address President Says Those Who Do Not Put America First Must Be Cast Gut would fighTagsression New Crisis Is Upon Us, And Spirit Os America Must Be Asserted Washington.—President Wilson de livered a Memorial Day address at Arlington National cemetery in which he defined the spirit of America, warn ed citizens of foreign birth, not to set themselves against the purposes of j the nation, called upon young men to | perform voluntary military service and defended his recent suggestion for an alliance of nations to preserve peace. He spoke before an audience made ■ up largely of veterans of the Civil ‘ war, who applauded him vigorously, i While he declared he had no harsh- I ness in his heart for Americans of for- ; eign birth and expected them still to i love the sources of their origin, the j president said “America must come j first in every purpose we entertain ‘ and every man must count upon be- ; ing cast out of our confidence, cast out J of our tolerance, who does not sub- j mit to that great ruling principle.’’ I Speaking of America, made up out j of all the peoples of the world, as the champion of the rights of mankind. I he said: “W’e are not only ready to co-operate, but we are ready to fight against any aggression, whether from within, or without. But we must guard [ ourselves against any sort of aggres sion which would be unworthy of America. We are ready to fight for our rights when those rights are coin cident with the rights of men and hu manity.” The president reiterated his sug gestion before the League to Enforce Peace, that the United States was ready to become a partner in any al liance of the nations “which would guarantee public right against selfish aggression.” Os published criticisms reminding him that George Washing ton warned the nation against the “en tangling alliances,” he said: “I shall never myself consent to an entangling alliance, but would gladly assent to a disentangling alliance, an alliance which would disentangle the I peoples of the world from those com binations in which they seek their own separate and private interests, and unite the people of the world to preserve the peace of the world upon a basis of common right and justice.” GERMANS Z CAPTURE TWO- MILE FRONT-FROM FRENCH German Gains Extend From Southern Ridge Os Le Mort Homme To Ridge Os Cumieres London. —French positions on a ■ front of approximately two miles, ex tending from the southern ridge of Le Mort Homme to the Cumieres village, northwest of Verdun, have been cap- I tured by the Germans, according to the latest official communication from Berlin. In addition the Teutons again have pressed forward' in the Thiau mont wo(>d. northeast of Verdun, and added their line in the eastern part of it. These gains, made during vicious fighting, have been in part admitted by Paris, which has reported the loss of 300 metres of advanced trenches northwest of Cumieres and the retire ment from similar positions to the south of the road between Bethfncourt and Cumieres. Berlin says the Ger mans captured 1.313 prisoners, includ ing several staff officers. Col. John S. Mosby Answers Last Call Washington.—Col. John S. Mosby, famous Confederate raider of the Civil war, died at a hospital here. Death was duetto old age. Colonel Mosby dared death over fifty years ago when at the Jiead of a band of a few hun dred Confederate raiders he rode up and down the Shenandoah valley, cap turing outposts, destroying supply trains, and cutting off means of com munication. It has been estimated that he often neutralized the force of I over fifteen thousand Federals in the valley. Ogen Knife Thrown At Col. Roosevelt Kansas City, Mo. —A pocket knife was thrown at Colonel RooseVelt’s motor ear during the Memorial Day parade and it struck the arm John W. McGrath, the former president's secretary, and fell to the running board of the car. McGrath said there was no force behind the knife and he believed some one had tossed it to wards the car as a joke. * Colonel Roosevelt was told of the incident and afterward his secretary issued the statement that the colonel regarded it as a trivial incident. SI.OO A YEAB [ STATE ITEMS CONDENSED Hartwell.—Lightning struck and killed two fine Kentucky bred horses which were in the pasture of the own er, J. B. Thornton, here. Athens. —Neill Lee Gillis, A. 8., a member of next year’s senior law class, playing right field on the ball team this year, was elected captain for the 1917 Red and Black team. Jackson.—A report from State En tomologist E. Lee Worsham declares that the bug recently found here and believed to be the Mexican boll wee vil, was not the boil weevil, but the “pea weevil.” Macon. —The members of the Geor gia Bankers’ Association who met in session here arrived in Macon more than two hundred strong. A banquet j for the different groups of the associa i tion was given. Atlanta.—Notices have been sent out by Secretary T. A. Cheatham of the Georgia Pharmaceutical associa tion, that the dates of the annual ’ convention in Atlanta have been I changed from June 6-7 to June 13-14. Madison.—ln the special election : held between A. A. Barker and T. ; Harris Burruss, Jr., to fill the unex pired term of the late Judge F. C. Foster in the legislature, Burruss de | featec. Barker by about 200 majority. Quitman. —At an indignation meet ■ ing held here arrangements were made ■ to offer a large reward for evidence i sufficient to convict the guilty parties i who destroyed seven cattle dipping vats in Brooks county by dynamiting I them. Atlanta. —That the general prosper ous condition of the entire country is sound and will continue after the Eu ropean war is over is the opinion of Charles S. Hamlin, governor of the federal reserve board in Washington, who spent a day in Atlanta. Athens. —F. W. Hardin, secretary of the American Shorthorn Breeders’ As sociation has offered a SSOO pure-bred bull to the winner of the cor^ club work in Georgia. There are ten thou sand members of the clubs in Geor gia who will be eligible to try for the bull. Savannah. —Nearly one hundred longshoremen, most of them negroes, employed at the wharves here, struck for higher pay. On account of their threatening attitude toward other la borers who were called in to take their places, special police ordered the strikers away from the wharves. Thomasville.—The dipping vat have in a measure quieted down, but there is, of course, a good deal of dis cussion of it still-in the country dis tricts. The withdrawal of the inspec tors who had been appointed by the county commissioners has left it up to the people themselves as to whether or not they care to dip their cattle. Columbus. —James G. Peacock, a prominent young business' man, was i drowned in the swimming pool of the ! Young Men’s Christian Association j building. Taking an early morning swim, as was his custom, he dived into the pool, and, when he did not reappear, his companions searched for him, finding him in the deepest part of the pool. Savannah. —Fines aggregating sl,- 325 and sentences totaling sixty-six months on the chaingang were impos ed by Judge John Rourke, Jr., in city court upon six defendants who pleaded guilty to violating the prohibition laws and who, at the instigation of the judge, signed affidavits never again to violate the prohibition law in the state of Georgia. Augusta.—An amendment to the riv ers and harbors bill was adopted by the United States senate increasing from $53,000 to $78,000 the appropria tion for the Altamaha, Oconee and Oc mulgee rivers in Georgia. It was as serted that unless the appropriation was increased new barges that had been built on estimates of the army engineers to run to Macon would be useless, owing to lack of water. Macon. —Dudley Bozeman, 45, a planter of Danville, was killed when his automobile turned over thirty miles southeast of here. Frank Pet ty, a passenger, escaped injury. A negro riding in the car is believed ta have been fatally injured. Bozeman attempted to turn out to pass another automobile. His machine turned over twice. Bozeman’s neck was broken and his skull crushed. Fort Oglethorpe-—The first period of the Southern training camp for business and professional men closed when the battalion of citizen-soldiers returned from a three days’ practice on the rifle range at Catoosa Springs. A special train left for the East, car rying a large delegation of the sol diers to their homes and there will follow four days of comparative quiet at the camp before the second period of instructions scheduled begins. The indications are that the June period will bring out an attendance by sev eral hundred larger than during the May period.