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VOLUME V.
CARRANZA TROOPS
JOIN O.S. SOLDIERS
Mexicans And Americans Fight Side By
Side Against Outlaws Near Fort
fancock, Texas
TWO AMERICANS ARE KILLED
Carranza Troops Willingly Came To
Aid Os American Soldiers In
Fight With Bandits
San Antonio, Texas. — Carranza
troops and United States soldiers
fought side by side in the engagement
with Mexican bandits south of Fort
Hancock, Texas, according to the of
ficial report from Brigadier General
Bell, Jr., at El Paso, to l^ajor Gen
eral Funston. After the bandits had
been surrounded in a ranch house on
the American side of the Rio Grande
river and an American customs guard
had been. killed, another customs
guard named Bean, i-an down to the
river bank and called to a detach
ment of Carranza soldiers on the
Mexican side to come over and assist
the American troops.
Two U. S. Soldiers Killed
A captain and eight soldiers respond
ed. They joined in the fighting, which
soon became general. Soon, the report
says, the bandits fled from the ranch
house and retreated over the river,
leaving behind four dead. The Amer
ican dead numbered two, Private’ John
, ’Twoney, F troop, Eighth United States
cavalry, and Robert Woods, customs
guard. Sergeant Lewis Thompson, E
troop, Eighth United States cavalry,
was seriously wounded. He was made
the target of three bullets.
U. S. Force Consisted Os 8 Men
The American force consisted of
■eight men under command of Sergeant
Thompson, two hospital corps men and
two customs guards. They speedily
surrounded the Mexicans in the ranch
house. Woods was the first to fall,
laid low by a bandit who had slip
ped outside to aim at him, His death
was avenged a moment later by one
of the hospital corps men, who shot
down the banjit, just as he was flee
ing back into the house.
Three Bandits Sent To Beyond
It was at this point that Bean sum
moned the Carranza soldiers. Brisk
firing followed for a time. Then quiet
reigned in the ranch house. A cautious
investigation disclosed three more
■dead bandits inside its walls. The re
mainder had succeeded in getting out
and making their way over the Rio
■Grande. The Carranza men followed
in pursuit. General Funston said that
no American troops would join the
chase. The number of bandits who
escaped is not known here.
HUGHES ACCEPTS THE
REPUBLICAN NOMINATION
In His Speech The Republican Candi
date Arraigns The Demo
cratic Administration
New York. —Charles E. Hughes out
lined, ip his speech of acceptance, the
issues upon which he will conduct his
■campaign for the presidency. He as
sailed the administration for the
course? It has pursued with reference
to Mekico, maintenance of American
rights during th# European war, pre
paredness and Other great questions
of the day. He declared for a policy
of "firinness and consistency” toward
Mexico, for “the unflinching mainte
nance of all American rights on land
and sea,” and for “adequate national
defense; adequate protection on both
our western and eastern coasts.”
“We denounce all plots and conspir
acies in the interest of any foreign na
tion," Mr. Hughes said. “Utterly in
tolerable is the use of our soil for alien
Intrigues. Every American must unre
servedly condemn them and support
•very effort for their suppression.”
The nominee assailed the adminis
tration for its “direction of diplomat
flc intercourse” from the beginning, de
claring that where there should have
been conspicuous strength and ex
pertness there had been weakness
and inexpertness. He cited San Do
mingo as an instance where appoint
ments had gone to “deserving Demo
crats,” and to the failure to continue
Ambassador Herrick at his post in
Paris after the war had started as a
“lamentable sacrifice of international
repute."
$540,000 For Relief of Flood Sufferers
Washingt'anf—The house military af
fairs committee ordered- a favorable
report of a resolution appropriating
$540,000 for relief of flood sufferers in
the South caused by the recent del
,uge in tropical storms. The resoln
. tion, drafted by the war department,
will shortly be reported to the house.
The resolution provides that the mon
ey shall be spent by the secretary of
war in the flood areas of North and
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama and Mississippi. The report was
drafted by an Alabamiap.
NUMBER 40.
$1,438,059 FOR THE SOUTH
THIRTEEN SOUTHERN STATES
WILL PARTICIPATE IN FED-
ERAL ROAD FUND
Texas Received The Largest Allotment
Os Any State In Union—States
Must Spend Equal Amount
Washington.—The thirteen Southern
states will receive a total of '51,438,-
059, of the $5,000,000 federal road
fund made available for this fiscal
year under the new federal aid road
act approved this month. The depart
ment of agriculture announcement
shows that Texas received the largest
allotment of any state in the Union.
Apportionment To Southern States
The apportionment to the Southern
states: Texas $291,927, Georgia $134,-
329, Oklahoma $115,139, North Caro
lina $114,381, Tennessee $114,153, Ala
bama $104,148, Virginia $99,660, Ken
tucky $97,471, Mississippi $88,905, Ar
kansas $82,689, South Carolina $71,-
807, Louisiana $67,474, Florida $55,-
976. These funds are made available
contingent upon the states spending
an equal amount on road construction,
and are apportioned on a basis of one
third in the ratio of area, one-third in
the ratio of population and one-third in
the ratio of mileage of rural delivery
routes and star routes.
Future Apportionments On Same Basis
Under the federal act a total of $75,-
000,000 for the improvement of state
roads is made available during the
next five years, the appropriation for
1918 being $10,000,000; for 1919, $15,-
000,000; for 1920, $20,000,000, and for
1921, $25,000,000. As the states must
supply an equal amount each year, a
total of $150,000,000 will be spent on
state roads during the five year pe
riod. Future apportionments of the
federal fund among the states will be
made on the same basis as that of this
year’s fund. The expenditures are
authorized by the Shackleford-Bank
head good roads law, the first granting
federal aid to states in road building.
It was signed July 11 by President
Wilson and government officers are
preparing to put its provisions into
early operation. Actual construction
of some of the roads may begin this
fall, and extensive construction next
spring is planned.
MEASURES TO AID
THEFFLOOD SUFFERERS
In Georgia And Other Southern States
Are To Be Taken By
Congress.
Washington.—Congressional repre
sentatives from the flooded districts
in the South took energetic measures
for the relief of the thousands of vic
tims of the disaster. Following a
conference of the Alabama delegation
to press a bill for supplies for suf
ferers in that state and the recent in
troduction of almost a dozen meas
ures proposing relief in various ways,
a meeting of the house military com
mittee was called for the purpose of
taking action. Chairman Hay and
other members of the committee are
disposed to accord whatever relief
seems imperative in each of the dev
astated states.
The purpose is to hear the repr
sentativee of Alabama, Georgia, North
Carolina and any other state seeking
relief on account of the flood, and if
action is shown to be imperative re
port relief for each state separately.
The Alabama delegation, headed by
Senator Underwood and Representa
tive Burnett, will urge a bill providing
for the use or purchase through the
war department of quartermaster and
medical supplies and any other relief
measures necessary, and will ask
$300,000 for the purpose. The bill re
lates tq Alabama alone, where Mr.
Burnett estimates $30,000 people, in
cluding 10,000 negroes, are homeless.
Captured Appam Lost By Germany
Norfolk, Va. —Possession of the
British liner Appam, brought into
Hampton Roads last February by a
German prize crew, was awarded to
her English owners, the African Steam
Navigation company, by Judge Wad
dill of the federal district court.
40 Persons Killed By Mexican Storm
Mexico City.—Forty persons, in
cluding a number of soldiers and wom
en, were killed during a lightning and
rairislorm tn’jfie suburbs of Mexico
City. Most' of tjie deaths occurred
at Sqh Gregorio, Atapulco and near
Zochlmilco. S' ‘
McClure Barred From Great Britain
London. —S. S. McClure,- the Amer
ican publisher, who was detained for
some time by the British authorities
on his arrival at Liverpool on the
. American liner Philadelphia, must re
turn to the United States on board
the same vessel, in the meanwhile- so
. journing at an unnamed watering
■ place inland “for his health,” accord
ing to a statement made by govern
. ment officials. The British home of
, flee declined to grant a permit for
Mr. McClure to stay in England.
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IB WINTON, WILKINSON dOUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1916.
MANY LIVES LOST
IN FOREST FIRES
Several Towns Wiped Out By The Flames
In The Northern Portion Os
Ontario, Canada
GREAT PROPERTY DAMAGE
Scores Os Persons Have Been Injured
And Many Os Them
Will Die
Englehart, Ont. —Forest fires raging
in northern Ontario are said to have
resulted in the loss of from one hun
dred and fifty to two hundred lives.
Scores of persons have been injured,
and it is feared many of them will die.
Several small towns have been wiped
out by the flames that have been rag
ing. - ■
Reports received show that 57 per
ished at Nshka, a French-Canadian
settlement, and 34 at Matheson. Coch
rane has 18 dead and 34 injured. Iro
quois Falls, 15 dead and many injured,
and Ramore, 15 dead. The number
killed at Porcupine Junction is not
known, but the entire town was de
stroyed, except the railroad station.
The death list, it is feared, will be
very materially increased by vic
tims in outlying districts. There
are apparently well authenticated re
ports that many prospectors have been
trapped, at Tashota. and Kowash. One
farmer and-his ten children are known
to have been burned, while the man’s
wife was vainly seeking aid-to. check
the onrushing flames. Nushka, a ham
let consisting of a score of frame
buildings and stores, suffered worst.
It had been threatened for several
days, buE the residents lingered in
the hope that they might save their
homes. They waited too long and
walls of fire cut off escape. A nearby
lake in which they found refuge sav
ed many residents of Cochrane on the
line of the Temiskaming and North
ern Ontario railway. Only two streets
in the town were saved.
BRITAIN WARNED ABOUT
BLACKLIST BY UNITED STATES
Declares It Is Out Os The Question
That U. S. Should Acquiesce
In Such Methods
Washington.—Great Britain is warn
ed, in the American note of protest
against the blacklist, made public by
the state department, of the “many
serious consequences to neutral right
and neutral relations which such an
act must necessarily involve."
Already in the hands of the British
foreign office, the note declares “in
the gravest terms” that it is “mani
festly .out of the question that the
government of the United States
should acquiesce in such methods,”
and that the United States regards
the blacklist as “inevitably and es
sentially Inconsistent with the rights
of all the citizens of all the nations
not involved in the war.” It reminds
the British government that “citizens
of the United States are entirely with
in their rights in attemping to trade
with the people, or the government of
any of the nations now at -war, sub
ject only to well defined international
practices and understandings which
the government of the United States
deems the government of Great Brit
ain to have too lightly and frequently
disregarded.”
$25,000,000 LOSS DUE TO
EXPLOSION OF AMMUNITION
Munitions Destroyed Were Awaiting
Shipment To Allies And Were
Stored On Black Tom Island
New York. —Property loss estimated
as $25,000,000 was caused by a series
of terrific explosions of ammunition
awaiting shipment to the entente al
lies and stored on Black Tom Island,
a small strip of land jutting into New
York bay off Jersey City. Two are
known to be dead, and at least two
more are missing. Scores of persons
were injured, some of them probably
mortally. The detonations, which were
felt in five states, began with-a con
tinuous, rapid fire of small shells, then
the blowing up of great quantities of
dynamite, trinitol tunine and other
high explosives, followed by the burst
ing of thousands of shrapnel shell
which showered the surrounding coun
try and waters for miles around.
Morgues Os Chicago Packed By Heat
Chicago.—Promise of relief from
the torrid weather that has prevailed
for more than a week came at the
end pf July 30. during which the ther
mometer reached a point within a
fraction of a degree of the highest ever
recorded in the Chicago forecast dis
trict. As the .result of the protracted
heat, culminating in a maximum of
- 102 degrees, the human death rate
reached a point where county morgue
officials said there was no more room
' in the Institution for any more bOd
les. ; '
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COMMISSION FOR MEXICO
GENERAL CARRANZA INFORMED
HIS PROPOSAL IS ACCEPT
ED BY UNITED STATES
U. S. Suggests, However, That The
Powers Os Commission Should
Be Broadened
Washington.—General Carranza was
informed in a note handed to his am
bassador here that the Washington
government is prepared to submit to
a joint internatioanl commission the
task of seeking a solution of border
problems. The proposal of- the de
facto government for a commission is
accepted, however, with the sugges
tion that the powers of the commis
sioners be enlarged beyond the limits
proposed in the Mexican note of July
12. Following is the full text of Act
ing Secretary Polk’s note as delivered
to Eliseo Arredondo, Mexican ambas
sador designate, after it had been ap
proved by President Wilson and his
cabinet:
“Sir; I have the honor to acknowl
edge the receipt of your communica
tion of July 12, last, in which you
transcribe a note addressed to me by
the secretary of foreign relations of
your government, and to request that
you will be good enough to transmit
to him the following reply:
“Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to
acknowledge receipt of your excel
lency’s note transmitted under date
of July 12 by Eliseo Arredondo, your
government’s confidential agent in
Washington, informing me that your
excellency has received instructions
from the citizen first chief to the Con
stitutionalist army charged with the
executive power of the union to pro
pose that each of our governments
name three commissioners who shall
hold conferences at some place to be
mutually; agreed upon and decide forth
with the question relating to the evac
uation of the American forces now in
Mexico and to draw up and conclude
a protocol or agreement regarding the
reciprocal crossing of the frontier by
the forces of both countries, also to
determine the origin of the incursions
to date, in order to fix the responsi
bility therefor and definitely to settle
the difficulties now pending or those
which may arise between the two coun
tries on account of the same or a simi
lar reason, all of which shall be sub
ject to the approval of both govern
ments.
“-In reply I have the honor to state
that I have laid your excellency’s note
before the president and have received
his instructions to inform your excel
lency that the government of the Unit
ed States is disposed to accept the
proposal of the Mexican government
in the same spirit of frank cordiality
in which it is made. This government
believes, and suggests, however, that
the powers of she proposed commis
sion should be enlarged so that, if
happily a solution satisfactory to both
governments of the question set forth
in your excellency’s communication
may be reached, the commission may
also consider such other matters and
friendly arrangement of which would
tend to improve the relations of the
two countries; it being understood that
such recommendations as the cominis-'
sion may make shall not be binding
upon the respective governments until
formally accepted by them.
“Should this proposal be accepted by
your excellency’s government, I have
the- honor to state that this govern
ment will proceed immediately to ap
point ith commissioners, and fix, after
consultation with your excellency's
government, the time and place and
other details of the proposed confer
ences. FRANK L. POLK.”
$665,000 Paid For Titanic Disaster
New York. —With the payment of
$665,000 outside of court the White
Star line stands absolved of all lia
bility for the sinking of the steamship
Titanic, with a loss of 1,600 lives and
the four years of litigation of claim
ants is brought to an end in a final
decree handed down by Federal Judge
Mayer. Claims totaling $18,000,000
had been recorded in the federal court
by hundreds of claimants alleging that
the ship was lost through the negli
gence of her navigators.
Russians Press Nearer To Kovel
London. —Russian troops advancing
toward Kovel have crossed the Stok
hod river along the whole stretch be
tween the Sarny-Kovel and the Kovel-
Rojitcvhe railroads. General Letchitz
ky, whose operations were suspended
by the Dniester floods, is moving on
again and working toward Stanislau,
Servians Begin Drive At Bulgarians
Paris. —Servian forces have begun
an offensive against the Bulgarians in
Greece, according to a Havas dispatch
received here from Saloniki. The
Servians have occupied a series of
heights and are maintaining their po
sition despite the artillery fire and
counter attacks of the Bulgarians. For
the last three days, the ’dispatch adds,
the Servians had been making meth
odical preparations for the purpose
of driving the Bulgarians from the po
sitions which they had occupied six
or seven miles south of the frontier.
RUSSIANS DRIVING
AUSTROGERMANS
Cossacks Are Reported To Have Cot
Railway Lines Behind The Army
Os Von Bothner
LEMBERG IS IN DANGER
Russian Offensive So Unrelenting The
Teutons Have Been At Loss
How To Meet It
London.—General Count von Both
ner's army is reported to be almost
enveloped by the Russians in Galicia,
says a dispatch from Rome to the
wireless press. Cossack divisions af
ter the occupation of Brody are said
to have destroyed the railways behind
the Austrian army. The Germans are
withdrawing from Kovel their heavy
artillery, food and munition depots,
says another dispatch from Rome to
the wireless perss. The city of Vlad
imir-Volynski, in Volhynia, is said to
have been completely evacuated by the
Germans.
Kove! And Lemberg In Danger
Petrograd.—With General Kale
dine’s army in full control of the Stok
hod river, Russians now are well ad
vanced in the campaign against the
two important centers of Kovel and
Lemberg. The Russian offensive has
been so vigorous and unrelenting that
the Austro-Germans apparently have
been in a predicament, not knowing
from which point to spare troops to
reinforce the defense of some other
part of the front. The result has been
that the Germans are exclusively oc
cupied with the defense at Kovel,
while von Boehm-Ermolli’s army,
without assistance, has been mainly
striving to protect the roads to Lem
berg.
Os the two objectives Kovel is in I
the position of greater danger, being
threatened from the west, where the
Russians have successfully passed the
Stokhod river, and form the south,
where the Rusisans recently reached
an advanced, point on the Vladimir-
Volynski road, south of Kiselin. The
view in Petrograd is that the Aus
tro-Germans, notwithstanding their
stubborn resistance, will be unable
much longer successfully to oppose all
the Russian* lines of advance upon
Kovel, Vladimir-Volynski and Lem
berg, and probably will be compelled
to sacrifice one of these points in or
der to stiffen resistance against the
Russian attacks on the other two.
COLLUSION IS CHARGED TO
PAPER MANUFACTURERS
Combination Alleged To Force Up The
Price Os News Print Paper—ln
vestigation To Be Ordered
Washington.—Charges that the price
of news print paper has been forced
up exorbitantly by a combination of
manufacturers were made by publish
ers and denied by representatives of
the manufacturers at a hearing which
concluded an exhaustive inquiry into
the subject by the federal trade com
mission. Frank P. Glass of Birming
ham, vice president of the American
Newspaper Publishers’ association,
told the commission he was "morally
convinced” there was collusion among
the manufacturers, and expected to be
able by October 1 to present legal
proof of it. P. T. Dodge, president of
the International Paper company, de
clared high prices were due to an
enormous increase in demand, and in
sisted that the manufacturers were
not making a fair return on their cap
ital.
The commission undertook the in
vestigation under the direction of a
congressional resolution, and will be
gin work immediately drafting a re
port. Members said a report would
be submitted at the earliest possible
moment. In defense of the manufac
turers, Mr. Dodge explained that sl,-
000,000 worth of paper was held in
stock by bis company as a necessary
safeguards for contracts in hand
Ten Guardsmen a Day Being Let Out
San Antonio, Texas. —While dis
charge of National Guardsmen with
persons dependent upon them are now
proceedings at the rate of only ten a
day, it is expected that in another
week or so the average will be one
hundred a day, it was anonunced at
Fort Sdm Houston.
Bureau Gives Cotton Condition As 72.?
Washington.—Heavy damage to the
growing cotton crop between June 25
and July 25 has caused a reduction of
one million three hunderd and fifty
thousand bales in the prospective pro
duction. The August cotton report of
the department of agriculture, just an
nounced by the federal bureau, indi
cated a production of twelve million
nine hundred and sixteen thousand
equivalent 500-pound bales, compared
with 14,266,000 bales forecast from the
condition of the crop June 25.- The
condition is given as 72 3 per cent
SI.OO A YEAR
STATE ITEMS
CONDENSED
Atlanta. —The veterans of the Thir
ty-eighth Georgia regiment celebrated
their annual meeting with a big pic
nic dinner at Stone Mountain.
Fort Valley.—News of the appropri
ation by congress of SB,OOO for the pur
pose of securing a site to build a gov
ernment building was received here
recently.
Atlanta. —Lodges of the Fifth Ma
sonic district will meet in the audi
torium Wednesday, Augustt 9, and will
bring together some ten or twelve
thousand Masons.
Atlanta. —Announcing premiums ag
gregating close to $60,000, the cata
logue and premium list of the first
annual Southeastern fair is just out,
and ready for distribution to prospect
ive exhibitors.
Austell. —His mind unbalanced, it is
believed, because of damage to his
crops from the continued rains, Wil
liam Watkins, a farmer, committed
suicide by hanging himself to a sap
ling behind his barn near here.
Jackson. —Due, it is believed, to the
stubborn kicks made by the patrons,
announcement is made that the post
office authorities will retsore the old
rural route service in Butts county, as
it existed prior to November 1, 1915.
Bainbridge.—Farmers from ail parts
of the county in Bainbridge during the
past few days have been asked to give
an estimate of their crops conditions
since the rains finally stopped. The
concensus of all estimates seem to be
that all crops will average 80 per
cent normal.
Greenville. —E. T. Birchmore, cash
ier of the Bank of Gay, a state insti
tution, has been lodged in jail here
W a charge of embezzlement. It is al
leged that, a shortage of $12,000 has»
been discovered. Officers say that
Birchmore confesses that he took
part of the money.
Americus. —Dr. R. H. von Ezdorf,
surgeon in the United States public
health service, lectured in Americus.
He has charge of the malarial sur
vey, which was secured from Sumter
county from the federal government
by Congressman C. R. Crisp. Dr. von
Ezdorf is lecturing over the country
in connection with his work.
Commerce. —Mrs. Allen, wife of
Henry C. Allen, was instantly killed
by lightning during a heavy rain here.-
While looking after a brood of little
chickens, holding an umbrella, she
was the victim gs an electrical shock
which resulted in instant death. Her
son standing nearby was knocked
down and was unconscious for several
hours.
Austell.—The police are searching
for auto bandits who early in the
morning recently broken into the post
office here, blew open the safe and
secured S4O in cash and S2OO in
stamps. Night Operator King saw an
automobile standing before the post
office about two o'clock and it is sup
posed that the building was entered
between that hour and three o'clock.
Atlanta. —Information has been re
ceived in Atlanta to the effect that
Col. Louis A. La Garde, U. S. A., med
ical corps, of Washington, has been
ordered to proceed to Fort McPherson
of Atlanta to look into the desirabil
ity and practicability of making the
local fort a general military hospital,
as during the Spanish-American war
of 1898.
Bainbridge.—T. Saunders, a farmer
living on the Chattahoochee river,
near Fairchilds, in this county, has
the river to thank for presenting him
with an almost complete live stock
farm. Twenty-six head of cattle and
49 hogs were washed up on his place
in driftwood and treetops in which
they were lodged. Most of these are
thoroughbred stock, and all are with
out mark or brand.
Griffin. —The Griffin cotton mills,
one of the largest cotton manufactur
ing plants in the South, is now work
ing two shifts —a morning and af
ternoon shift of eight and a half hours
each per day. This gives employment
to about five hundred more hands and
means shorter hours and more lime
for rest and recreation for the employ
ees. The new method has been addpt
ed as a means for increasing the pro
duction of the plant. Eleven hundred
hands are employed here and the
monthly payroll is $30,000.
Americus. —The state of Minnesota
has erected a monument in memory
of her soldiers in the Civil war buried
at Andersonville in the national cem
etery. The unveiling exercises, which
will be quite elaborate and participat
ed in by prominent officials and citi
zens of Minnesota, will take place in
September, although the definite date
has not been announced. The monu
ment consists of a heavy base and
pedestal surmounted with a heroic
statue of a soldier representing
"peace.” Two pieces form the me
morial, each weighing . twenty thou
sand pounds, which required much
work in transporting the marble from
the raflway to the cemetery. The coet
is said to be $16,000
