The bulletin. (Irwinton, Wilkinson County, Ga.) 191?-19??, August 11, 1916, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME V. NUMBER 41. RUSSIAN ARMIES PRESS ONWARD Despite Heavy Rains The Czar's Troops ' Continue To Advance Along The Eastern Front ARE ACROSS^TOKHOD RIVER Notable Successes For Italians —Many Austrians Are Captured—Turks And Russians Moving London.—Amid continuous heavy Tains which have turned the country into a quagmire the Russians are keeping up their strong offensive against the Teutonic allies in north ern Galicia, and have pushed forward in the Sereth and Graberki river re gion. Also along the Stokhod river in Volhynia, near the town of Za recze, the Russians have captured Teutonic trenches, taking 12 officers and 200 men prisoners and capturing one machine gun. In the Carpathians the Germans report the capture of two peaks. Turks Claim Successes Constantinople reports a series of gains for the Turks fighting against the Russians, and Petrograd admits at least one of the claims —that the Rus sians have been forced to retire under (pressure to the region east of Kerkan shah, Persia. An atatck by the Rus sians north of Bukan, on the Persian front, was put down with heavy losses to the Russians, according to Constan-, tinople, and in Turkish Armenia, near Bitlis and Mush, the Russians have been put to flight and the Turks have taken from them positions the Rus ■Bians had previously captured. Austrian* Driven From Strongholds . Rome.—ltalian troops have captur ed strong Austrian positions command ■ Ing communication between the Trav enanzes valley and the Sare Torrent Sg . the Gader valley, in the Tofano region, says an official communication issued by the war office. Several Aus trian attacks on the slopes of Monte 2ebio, on the Setti Communi plateau, ■were checked by Italian artillery. On the lower Isonzo the Italians gained possession of nearly the whole of Hill ■No. 85, and held it against violent counter attacks. Prisoners taken in the fighting by the Italians total 3,- €OO. A large amount of ammunition -and guns were captured. •WANT TAXES LEVIED ON ALL INHERITANCES Democratic Members Os The Senate Finance Committee Favor Big increases Washington.—Complete revision of the munitions tax section of the house revenue bill and sweeping increases in the inheritance tax were ordered rec ommended by Democratic members of the senate finance committee. Cot ton linters, used in the manufacture of munitions, were added to the list of commodities to be taxed. Increase Over Fifty Million The proposed higher taxes on big in heritances would increase the esti mated revenue from that section of the bill alone from fifty-one million to seventy-two million dollars annual ly. Retaining the house bill taxes of one per cent on estates over fifty thou sand dollars graduated up to five per, cent on those in excess of four hun dred and fifty thousand dollars, the •committee added schedules of six per cent on net estates in excess of one million dollars; seven per cent on two million to three million dollars; •eight per cent on three million to (four million dollars; nine per cent on four million to five million dollars, and ten per cent on estates in excess of five million dollars. Airships Broadcast Bombs On England London.—The eastern and southeast ern counties of England had another ■visitation from German airships. An •official communication says; “An at tack by a number of hostile airships developed before midnight one night recently. The raiders are reported as having crossed the coast line along 1 the eastern and southeastern counties. Bombs were dropped off the Thames estuary.’’ Car Strikers In New York City Win New York. —The strike on the sur face railway lines here came to an end. Directors of the New York Rail ways company and the Third Avenue Railway company, the two principal compir tgs affected, voted, after being Kerite fc ?d for twelve hours, to accept Tbe' *,’^pttlement proposed by May %?lrlt« n d Oscar S. Strauss, the / ®Sf public service com- Tye,. j>he strikers had agreed wnnd~wANT *hen announced that "“«•*“ been 6ig e o€ weak, ■1 • atl Xl The Bulletin U-BOAT SLIPS OUT TO SEA THE SUBMARINE MERCHANTMAN DEUTSCHLAND START ON RETURN HOME No Allied Warships Visible As The Under-Sea Boat Passed Out Os Virginia Capes Norfolk, Va. —The German merchant submarine Deutschland passed out the Virginia capes at 8:30 p. m., August 2, apparently unobserved by the al lied warships waiting for her, and so far as known here, is now safely on her homeward voyage. No untoward incident marked the departure of the giant submersible. She was accompa nied only by her tug and a newspaper dispatch boat when she began an 18- mile dash from lower Chesapeake bay to the capes. After proceeding slowly most of the way down, she increased her power at 6:30 o’clock and reached the capes just after dusk. None of the allied cruisers wgs visible as she passed through. Whether she submerged before she had reached the three-mile limit is unknown. The two accompanying boats only know that she disappeared unharmed and that to all appearances she had a clear field ahead to a point where she could submerge in safety. Within half an hour after the last light of the Deutschland had disap peared, her tug, the Thomas F. Tim mins, hove into sight seemingly satis fied with her work and headed up Chesapeake bay in the direction of Baltimore, from which place the Deutschland sailed, 23 days after her sensational arrival from Bremen. The Deutschland started for the capes after arriving early in the' day at a cove up the Chesa peake bay. For several hours prior to the Deutschland’s final dash for the capes she was hidden near Tangier Island, fifty miles above Cape Henry. The steamer Somerset and the government buoy tender Ivy re ported that they had passed her at that point. The press boat then took a position near the dividing point of the Old Point and Cape Henry chan nels and awaited the coming of the undersea vessel. Shortly before six o’clock the first sight of the craft was obtained; she was about five miles away, and was low in the water, only her conning tower showing. ROGER CASEMENT DIES ON GALLOWS FOR HIGH TREASON Former Knight Executed In Penton. ville Prison For Inciting Re bellion In Ireland London.—Sir Roger Casement was hanged in the Pentonville prison for high treason. While the government maintains silence as to the final ef forts made on behalf of Sir Rogers, it is known that petitions were re ceived as late as the last day. The whole subject surrounding Sir Rog er’s case had been seriously consid ered by the cabinet, and the deter mination to let the law take its course proved unalterable. Honored with knighthood—a title since taken from him by King George’s order —for his many years of service for Great Britain as consul and consul general, Roger Casement as sumed leadership, at a period of his country’s crisis, in the recent Irish rebellion, the plans for which were laid while Casement was in Berlin, where he was reported to have nego tiated an understanding with the Ger man imperial authorities. British na val supremacy brought an abortive close to Casement’s plans. The Ger man tramp steamship on which there was transported an armed expedition from Germany nearly to the west coast of Ireland in April of this year was blown up by its own crew when the latter foresaw that it was inevi table that the blockading English warships would capture it. The crew were made prisoners. The tramp had been convoyed from Kiel by a German submarine, from which Casement and a companion landed on Irish soil, ; where they were taken into custody Turks Are Routed Near Suez Canal London.—The strong Turkish force ; which attacked the British at Romani, twenty-two miles east of the Suez ca nal on the fourth of August, was de feated and put to flight by a counter attack, says an official statement just received in London. The Turks, adds- • the statement, were vigorously pursued by the British, who took more than twenty-five hundred prisoners, includ- i ing some Germans. ’ Bottle Bears Message Os Shipwreck Biloxi, Miss. —With the finding on Deer Island of a bottle in which was inclosed a note bearing the words, “Help! help! On an unknown island. 1 George Duggan and crew,” prepara tions were made by shipping interests and relatives of Captain Duggan to search the islands of the Chandeleur group for the captain and five mem bers of the crew of the lumber schoon er Emma Harvey, washed to sea from Chandeleur Island during the tropical hurricane of July 5. The bottle was found on the beach of Deer Island. IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1916. FARM LOAN BOARD TO DIVIDE COUNTRY Meeting Held In Washington At The Treasury Department For Organization WILL BE TWELVE DISTRICTS Forty Cities Have Put In Application For The Rural Credits Banks Washington.—The new farm loan board, charged with organization of the federal land bank system providing methods for making loans to farmers on first mortgages of land at the treasury department. The most im portant preliminary work of the board will be division of the country into twelve federal land bank districts, with a lanJ ' s ank which will furnish the funds fc ; the loans in each dis trict. Forty Cities Want Banks Forty cities already have applied or have been recommended for banks. Be fore it reaches any decisions the board is expected to travel across the con tinent to hear the views of farmers on where banks should be located and how district lines should be drawn. It is probable this work will take sev eral months. Secretary McAdoo is chairman ex-officio of the board and the other members, appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate are C. E. Lobdell, George W. Norris, W. S. A. Smith and Herbert Quick. What System Will Do In operation the system to some ex tent will do for the farmer what the federal reserve system does for the business man. The farmer will be giv en opportunity to secure money on his most available commodity, his land, just as the merchant and manufacturer has been enabled, through the federal reserve system, to have his paper, based on commercial transactions, find a ready market. The new scheme has many points of resemblance to the federal reserstTays tem, but in many essential features it is entirely different. In no way will the banks created under it do com mereial banking, and while it is pos sible that in years to come they may have funds to loan that will amount to several hundred millions of dol lars, it is not believed probable that the system ever will have the re sources of the reserve system. NOTABLE GAINS FOR THE RUSSIAN ARMY Nearly Six Thousand Prisoners Taken By The Russians And Also Many Guns London. —In northern Galicia the Russians have struck another hard blow at the Teutonic allies and oc cupied along the Sereth and Graberki rivers, south of Brody, six villages and the entire ride on which they are lo cated. Furious fighting marked the engagement, the Russians being forc ed in the villages to drive their ad versaries from house to house. In the fighting the Russians captured a reg imental commander and 140 other of ficers and more than fifty-five hundred men and also took numerous machine guns and bomb throwers. Berlin admits that the Russians have gained the left bank of the Sereth river, but asserts that the Russians have been driven from positions along the Stokhod river, south of Zareczo, and that in Lhe Carpathians the Ger mans are still operating successfully. In Asiatic Turkey the Russians re port the capture at various places of new Turkish positions. In the Kial kit-Chia river basin positions protected by five lines of trenches were wrested from the Turks, while south of Erzln gan and west of the village of Ognut additional trenches and two heights were captured. In the region of Mush and Bitlis, the Turks have assumed the offensive, but Petrograd says they are being held by the Russian fire. Former Justice Daly Passes Away Yonkers, N. Y. —Joseph Francis Daly, a former justice of the New York state supreme court, died sud denly of heart disease in his home here. He was born at Plymouth, N. C„ in 1840. In 1900 he was made a member of the commission to revise the laws of Porto Rico. Roumania Postpones Joining Allies Berlin. —According to dispatches from Sofia, the tension created by Roumania’s recent position toward the central powers is rapidly subsiding, and the crisis is considered past. It is generally believed here that while the joining by Roumania of the en tente allies has been seriously con sidered, Roumanian statesmen in view of the present military situation to which the change in command on the Russian east front contributed mate rially, have decided to postpone ac tion. GREAT BATTLES AT VERDUN FIERCE CONFLICTS FOUGHT NEAR THE THIAUMONT WORK A Number Os The Positions Have Changed Hands Several Times- Verdun Storm Center Paris.—Verdun has again become the storm center on the western bat tle front. The French forces have taken the offensive on the right bank of the Meuse and hold the Thiaumont work and the greater part of the vil lage of Fleury, according to dispatches received in Paris. The Thiaumont work, already the scene of many des perate combats, was twice in French hands during twelve hours. The forces of the German crown prince fought te naciously and drove the French from the work once, but lost it again. Fleu ry, which changed hands, after the French had succeeded in taking it, is again occupied by the French. Fierce fighting was experienced in and around the village. British Aerial Attack In Belgium London says the Germans bombard ed the section southwest of Pozieres and also the southern portion of the Mametz wood. A squadron of British naval aeroplanes has attacked with bombs German military establishments in the vicinity of Ghent, Belgium. London says considerable damage was done by the dropping of two tons of bombs. Unofficial reports received in Amsterdam apparently confirm the re port.' Russians Retire From River Salient London. —Desperate counter attacks by the Germans in the region of the Stokhod river, east of Kovel, have re sulted in the retirement of the Rus sian forces which had seized the vil lage of Rudka-Miryanskaia. The ‘fact that the village is only 19 miles from Kovel, the Russian objective on this part of the Volhynian front, probably accounts for the intensity of the fight ing there. The Russian general, Sak harbff’s, troops continue to advance south of Brody and toward Lemberg. Petrograd reports the capture of 1,300 Austro-Germans in a “hot attack” on the line of the Sereth and Graberki rivers. v . . - ■< SCOPE OF COMMISSION LIMITED BY PETROGRAD Only The Withdrawal Os United States Troops And Border Problems To Be Discussed Washington.—lndications are that President Wilson will appoint three commissioners within the next few days to meet a similar delegation al ready selected by General Carranza to undertake settlement of the dis turbed conditions along the Mexican border. In a note delivered to the state department, General Carranza named his commissioners, but did not answer specifically the suggestions of the Washington government for en largement of the powers of the com mission. It is believed that the reply is generally satisfactory to the ad ministration, and that negotiations will proceed without delay. Three Points Only To Be Discussed General Carranza, in his note, said that the Mexican commissioners “pref erably”, would discuss three points out lined in the Mexican communication of July 21 —withdrawal of American troops from Mexico, the framing of a protocol to cover future border oper ations and investigation of what in terests have promoted border raids. State department officials are under stood to regard this as at least leav ing the way open for broader consid erations should the commission be successful in finding a solution for immediate problems. Health Os Troops Good At Border El Paso, Texas. —With 30,000 state and regular troops encamped here, medical reports show less than 3 per cent of sickness. General Bell announc ed. He added that the showing is remarkable, anything under 5 per cent generally being accounted good, and said that the National Guardsmen's record is as good as that of the regu lars. Over Thousand Children Are Dead New York. —More than one thousand children have been killed by the epi- 1 demic of infantile paralysis and nearly five thousand have been stricken. The health department’s daily* iHilletin shows that the plague still continues to gain headway. *' 1 I Brussels Refuses To Pay German Fine The city of Brussels has refused to pay the fine of 5,000,000 marks im posed by the Germans in Consequence ( of th& demonstration which took place at the Belgian capital on July 21, the 1 national fete day. Acting Burgomas- 1 ter Lemonnier, the dispatch adds, has 1 sent a letter to General von Bissing, the German governor of Belgium, flat ly declining to pay the fine. He says it was Imposed on the public because of Its patriotic sentiment, and there fore Is illegal and Inadmissible, and will not be paid. NOTABLE VICTORY WON DYJTALIANS Gorizia Bridgehead, Key To The Trieste Region, Has Been Captured By King Victor’s Troops BATTLES ONJSDNZO FRONT Russians Score Heavily—ltalians Beat Austrians—French And Brit ish Make Gains Paris. —The entente allies in the main theaters of the war have made additional notable gains against the Teutonic allies. Big advances for them in France, East Galicia and along the eastern Italian front are re corded in the latest communications Issued by the French, Russian and Italian war offices. General Joffre’s Men Very Busy In France, General Joffre’s men have taken German trenches three and three-quarters of a mile in length and from three hundred to five hundred meters in depth in two days; have again won a foothold in the Thiau mont work near Verdun and have cap tured two lines of German trenches on the Vaux-Chapitre-Chenois front. The British on their part of the bat tle line in the Scmme region near Guillemont have thrown forward their line about four hundred yards. Italians Take Many Prisoners Rome. —The war office announces the capture of the Gorizia bridgehead by the Italians. The city is being shelled to drive out the Austrians. More than eight thousand prisoners were taken on August 6. The official statement follows: 200 Officers Captured “Intense artillery activity continues in the Lagarina valley. On the Asla go plateau a heavy enemy attack in the Montezebio area was repulsed. In the upper Cordevole valley the enemy, after intense bombardment, renewed his effort against our position on Mon te Sief. but each time was repulsed with heavy lossi During the'fighting of August 6 and 7 we captured more than eight thousand prisoners, includ ing more than two officers, twenty of whom were senior officers. Prisoners are still coming in. We also captur ed eleven guns, about a hundred ma chine guns and much material. Italian Airships Playing Big Part “At night one of our airships bom barded the railway junction of Opeina (northeast of Triest), dropping a ton of high explosives. Good results were observed. In spite of the fire of num erous anti-aircraft batteries and the attack of two hostile naval aeroplanes, the airships returned safely to our lines.” THE BATTLE FOR A GREATER NAVY WINS OUT IN CONGRESS Democratic Leaders In The House Will Support The Big Build ing Program Washington.—Administration lead ers believe they have won their fight for authorization by congress of the big naval building program, including four dreadnaughts and four battle cruisers for 1917, drawn up by the senate naval committee after confer ences with President Wilson and Sec retary Daniels. Majority Leader Kitchin, in serving notice that he would call up the bill in the house, announced that Chair man Padgett of the house naval com mittee, one of those who held out in conference against the senate increas es, would move that the senate amend ments be agreed to. Earlier Mr. Pad gett and Senator Swanson, ranking Democrats of the senate committee, had talked over the subject wj£h Pres ident; Wilson, who is understood to have reiterated his belief that author ization of the larger program was im perative.#* ; Senator Swanson said leaders had made a careful canvass of the situa tion and were confident that the sen ate’s personnel increases and continu ing building program would be accept ed by the house along with the build ing increases for 1917. Rations For Greece Are Curtailed Athens, Greece. —The intente allies have notified the Greek government of a curtailment of foodstuff shipment. Plan To Overthrow Monroe Doctrine • Denver, Col.—That President Wil- : son had wisely avoided war with Mex ico because there are 400,000 Japan ese soldiers in Mexico and that both Germany and Japan are planning to overthrow the Monroe doctrine and war with Mexico would mean war with . both these countries were assertions j made by Frank B. Vrooman of Wash- , ington, D. C., Democratic national ; committeeman, before the Colorado ] Democratic convention here. He added , there are many Japanese in California , ready to fight । SI.OO A YEAR \ STATE ITEMS CONDENSED Atlanta.—T. A. Brown, 62 years old, committed suicide by jumping out of a window on the thirteenth floor of the Fourth National -.bank building. ■ The body was fearfully mangled. Atlanta. —Herman Stewart Cobb, aged 14,, son of Mrs. Beulah Cobb, of East Point, died at a private hospital, death coming as a result of a kick in the chest received from a mule -he was in the act of hitching up. Lithonia.—Ed and Cliff Abbott, bro thers, aged 22 and 20 years, respect ively, were struck by lightning and instantly killed, while the kitchen of their home, about three miles from here, during a heavy thunderstorm. Woodland.—Bo4l weevils were found - in the western part of the county by . C. E. Garrett, who reports that much ' damage is being done to his cotton, which is shedding a large number of squares and small bolls. A few of the larvae were sent to the state ento mologist for examination. Atlanta.—An ordinance to prohibit the sale of newspapers, extras or oth ers, on the streets of the city after six o’clock in the evening, was intro duced in council and referred to the ordinance committee. Objection is to extras sometimes sold late at night by newsboys. Jackson. —From the standpoint of interest and attendance, the twenty sixth annual session of the Indian Springs Holiness camp meeting, which is being held here, promises to be the most successful yet held. The meetings will continue for ten days, closing Sunday night, Adgust 20. Macon. —Sergeant Grady Hamiltpn, member of the supply company of the Second regiment, and Sergeant Eu- . gene Harris, regimental bugler of the same regiment, were badly hurt when an automobile driven by Sergeant Hamilton jlunged over a 15-foot em bankment near the camp grounds. Marietta. —Three persons are dead, another is believed to be fatally in jured and two more are painfull^ bruised as the result of an automobile f accident which occurred on the At-'' lanta road about a mile from here when a big six-cylinder car, owned by.- C. J. Estes of Powder Springs and driven by himself, ran into a ditch and turned turtle while speeding at the rate of 50 miles an hour. Griffin.—As the result of one of the , worst storms in the history of this section, the Southern railway bridge across the .Towaliga river, eight miles from Griffin, was completely destroy ed. The Central of Georgia railway bridge acros sa small creek between Griffin and Vaughn was almost wash ed away. The dam at Rushton cotton mills lake was broken by the heavy rains. Brunswick. —Within the next few weeks eight thousand tons of cotton seed meal will pass through the port of Brunswick. This big supply, it is stated, is to be shipped to Great Brit ain. through a local company, and the first of the shipment will begin to ar rive shortly. This is an entirely new business for the port, and is said to be the first of a number of big ship ments to be made from here. Athens. —The famous Jim Smith es tate case has taken another turn. An other state superior court judge has taken jurisdiction and another injunc- ( tion fight is on. Judge J. B. Jones of the northeastern circuit has granted a temporary injunction against the or dinary of Oglethorpe county, restrain ing him from appointing permanent administrators of the estate, the hear ing to be returnable to the court at Gainesville on the 26th of August. Norcross. —Funeral services of Mrs. Margaret McElroy were held at Cham blee. Mrs. McElroy, known through out Georgia, as “Granny" McElroy, died at Clarkston at the age of 10L At Norcross for years past her anni versary has been celebrated with a big dinner attended by friends and rel atives from nearly every part of the state, including her fifteen grandchil dren, twenty-five great-grandchildren and several great-great-grandchildren. Savannah. —In the superior court Judge W. W. Sheppard issued an or der directing the Central of Georgia railway to transport to Savannah from Tybee sixty barrels of beer captured in a raid. The legal department of thq Central railway states the beer will be transported under “judicial com pulsion.’’ Recently in Girard, Ala., the authorities endeavored to force the. Central to haul liquor through the means of a mandamus, but failed. Hinesville.—A big hog ran quickly into the home of G. B. Bowen, near here, and seizing an infant child, ran with it to a near-by branch. The mother followed, and with the assist-.' ance of an bld colored man beat the hog off. No damage was done to the child beyond a few bruises, but & minute more and it would probably • have been crushed in the great jawa • of the brute. There is now one less member of the hog population in this communit’