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VOLUME Vl.
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Statute Forbidding Ligour Shipments
. From “Wet” To “Dry” States Passed
- OnßyU. S. Supreme Court
Chief Justice White, Announcing De..
cigion, Declares Congress Has
o 0 Power To Protect States
. Washington.— In the most sweep
ing of all decisions upholding prohibi
tion laws, the Supreme court upheld
as constitutional and valid the Webb
" Kenyon law, prohibiting shipments of
liquor from “wet” to “dry” states. It
also sustained West Virginia's recent
amendment to hér law prohibiting im
portation in interstate commerce of li
quor for personal use.
After having been vetced by Presi
dent Taft, who held it unconstitutional
and having been repassed by congress
over his veto, the law was sustained by
the Supreme court by a vote-of 7 to 2.
Leaders of the prohibition movement
declare it is to their fight second only
in importance to the proposed consti
tutional amendment.
Lawyerg for liquor interests who
heard the decision admitted it upheld
and applied the law “in its fullest
\ sense.” -
Chief Justice White announced the
majority .opinion to which Justices
Holmes and Vandevanter diSsented.
Justice Reynolds, while' agreeing
with the majority decision, did not con
. cur in the opinion.
+, “The allreaching power of govern
ment over liquor is setiled,” said the
chief justice. “There was no intention
of eongress to forbid individual use of
~ liquor. The purpose of this act was to
cut out by the roots-the practice of
Permitting violation of state liquor
laws.
“We can have no doubt that con
gress has complete-authority to pre
vent paralyzing of state authority.
“Congress exerted a power to co-or
dinate the national with the state au
thority. !
| “Under the Webb-Kenyon act there
is no power in interstate commerce to
ship liquor from one state into another
to enable it to be used in any way
prohibited by the state.” &
. The Supreme court’s opinion was
announced in appeals of a distilling
‘company of Cumberland, Md.,, from
dismissal of injunction suits against
the American Express company and
‘western Maryland railroad, in which
it was sought to compel the carriers
'to transport liquor to West Virgin
fans for the latter’s “personal use.”
FIGHT ON THE VALIDITY
: OF THE ADAMSON LAW
Power Os \Congress To Regulate The
Hours Os Service And Wages
In Question
/ —a
‘Washington.—The test case to de
términe the constitutionality of the
Adamson law, enacted last September,
when a general railroad strike threat
ened, came up in the Supreme court.
Argument continued two days, and a
decision is expected withi\n a few
weeks. Meantime, although the law
was passed to become effective Jan
wary 1, 1917, all litigation under it
and the changes it prescribes are sus
pended by agreement.
The question whether congress has
power to regulate hours of services
and wages furnished the keynote of
the arglément in which the justices
manifest®d keen interest, interrupting
with many questions.
In opening defense of the law for
the .department of justiee, Solicitor
General Davis declared it regulates
both hours of service and wages, and
contended congress has authority to
regulate both. He asked annulment
of the decision of Circuit Judge Hook
_ at Kansas City in the test case of the
" Missouri, Oklahoma and’Gulf railroad,
holding the law void.
Agricultural Department Makes Raise
g W’ashington.;——Ten per cent increase
in salariés of all agricultural depart
ment employees paid $1,200 a year or
less, and b per cent for those who get
from $1,200 to SI,BOO, is authorized
in the annual agricultural appropria
tion bill passed by the house. The
measure carries $25,694,685,
Another Roumanian Fortress Captured
. Paris.—Anopther of Roumania’s fort
resses has fallen into the hands. of
the Teutonic allies. Keeping up their
intensive forward movement along the
railroad line northward into Moldavia,
¥ield Mrashal von Mackensen's troops
have taken FKokshani, and with it
~ nearly four, thousand prisoners and
some,q ought to goachine guns. At
~agast a | urgelf>© ce pursu
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"’(icf ,j@&iatprlal and lal)'fito}fi*_a..i&?“f'
‘mdfi for overhead and profit. Ty .M},{:{‘k
- pany would make a million and a » t
NUMBER 11.
€ertain a New Policy Will Be Adopted
in Dealing With The South--
ern Republic i
Washington.—All the threads. of the
tangled situation between the United
States and Mexico are held by Presi
dent Wilson. The American members
of the Mexican-American joint com
mission have made to him late a per
sonal Teport of their negotiations,
which reached a deadlock, and
whether the conferences of the com
mission shall continue is a gquestion
|the president has added so those al
ready under consideration, the deter
mination of which will shape the ad
ministration’s future policy toward
the de facto government
Although an authoritative admission
to that effect was lacking, it -became
known that Secretary Lane, Dr. J. R.
Mott and Judge George Gray, the
American commissioners, coensidered
useless further attempts to effect a
settlement of- questions at issue
through the joint commission. .
They submitted to the president a
written report of their failure to have
ratified by Carranza the protocol pro
viding for withdrawal of the Ameri
can troops from Mexico and for a co
operation control of the border, and
asked him to decide whethér they
should continue their conferences on
other subjects as suggested b Car
ranza. Sd
It seemed certain that some radical
changes in policy would be adopted
by the United States. The president
continued- his consideration of with
drawal of General Pershing’s force re
gardless of Carranza attitude, and of
the sending of Henry P. Fletcher to
Mexico City-to represent the govern
ment as ambassador, It is known that
neither of these steps would be regard
ed as incpnsistgnt by the American.
commissioners.
In anticipation that orders will be
issued soon for recall of the troops the
war department has prepared a tenta
tive plan of withdrawal. General Scott
chief of staff and General Bliss, as
sistant chief of staff, conferred at
length with Secretary Baker, and it
was said they discussed a request /by
the president for a report on what ef
fect, in the opinion of military men,
withdrawal of the troops would have.
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PEACE CONDITIONS OF TEUTON
ALLIES KNOWN TO PRESIDENT
Count Andrassy, Formerly Premier Os
Hungary, Says Terms Have Been
Stated To President Wilson
London. — President Wilson "now
knows the peace conditions of the
Teutonic allies and the entente pow
ers can learn what they are from him,
Count Julius Andrassy, formerly pre
mier of Hungary, is quoted as assert
ing in a dispatch from Budapest, for
worded byway of Amsterdam,
The statement attributed to Count
Andrassy was made in a New Year's
speech. He said:
“As the entente alleges that our
peace proposal was only a maneuver
and was not made with any earnest
desire to bring about peace. lam able
to declare that President Wilson now
knows our peace conditions and the
entente can learn them from that
source.”
The version of the Budapest dis
patch quotes Count Andrassy as say
ing that the peace conditions of the
central powers will be communicated
to President Wilson, the quotation be
ing as follows:
“If the entente rejects our peace of
fer only because they maintain that
our offer is not honestly meant but is
a maneuver and that they cannot
enter into negotiations before knowing
our conditions, they can learn these
from President Wilson, to whom they
will be communicated.”
To Entertain Contest For Governor
Jefferson ~ City, Mo.+ Democratic
leaders in the Missouri legislature
virtually agreed to entertain the gub
ernatorial contest petition signed by
Judge Henry Lamm, of Sedalia, who
on face of the returns was defeated
by about 2,200 votes. ' °
Wilson Makes Appeal For Red Cross
Washington.—Americans are be
sought to refill the almost empty Eu
ropean war relief fund of the Ameri
can Red Cross in an open letter by
Woeodrow Wilson, as president of thé
Red Cross, just made public here,
Eight MHours Adopted By Railroad
Laurel, Miss.—The eight-hour day
has been put into effect on the Gulf
and Ship Island railroad. Switching
crews have received notice that eight
hours will constitute a day's work,
but the pay will remain the same as
when ten hours’ service was required.
| A representative of the employees sald
they do not belleve the gompany con
templates compliance with the general
terms of the new law until its valld
ity has heen detormined by the United
SISVRIRR SHD e SR AT G REE T
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IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1917.
Berlin Admits That Counter-Offensive Has
Been Launched And That Rus
sians Gained Ground
Heavy Fighting On Northern End Os
Long Eastern Line—Berlin Says
Russians Were fiepulsed
" New York.—Although thé Teutonic
allies have made further advances in
Roumania, both in their operation
driving eastward from the mountain
region and northward from Walla
chia into Moldavia, the Russians and
Roumanains at various points are giv
ing them battle and'at several places
have met with success. '
Between Folshani and Fundeni the
Russians made a strong attack over a
front of about sixteen miles. They
gained ground near Obilechti, says the
German war office, but elsewhere were
repulsed with heavy casualties. The
Petrograd official communication says
the Russians re-established their for
mer position near Kapatuno, north
west of Folkshani, made an advance
in the vicinity of Raspitza lake and
in a surprise attack captured trenches
to the northwest in the Oituz valley.
Admission is made by Petrograd
that the Russians and Roumanians on
the upper reaches of the Suchitza riv
er retired before the advancing in
vaders, while Berlin says that between
the Oituz and Putna valleys the de
fenders were pushed back further to
ward the plains. Mount Adcbesti was
stormed by a German detachment and
captured.
On the northern end of the Russian
line in Couland the Russians launch
ed strong attacks near Mitau, but
were repulsed, suffering casualties
and losing thirteen hundred men who
were made prisoners, according to Ber
lin. Near Riga considerable fighting
is still in prcgress.
In the other war theaters bombard
ments and small enterprises by recon
noitering and raising parties have fea
tured the fighting.
Rome reports an advance of about
five hundred yards by the Tltalians
near Hill 208 during a surprise at
tack.
In Macedonia the British endeavored
again to push forward their line near
Lake Doiran, but failed, according te
Berlin.
FOUR MEXICANS SHOT BY
NEW HAMPSHIRE GUARDS
W T T .
Report Says Mexicans Were Engaged
In Filibustering Expedition
/ On Border
Laredo, Texas.—Four alleged Mexi
can filibusterers were either kiiled or
badly wounded in an encounter with
troops of the First New Hampshire
infantry at Zapata, Texas, according
to a report reaching Laredo. Army
officers here stated, however, that
they had no information of the re
ported fight. 3
The New Hampshire troops, under
command of Major Orville Caine, do
ing patrol duty in the vicinity of Za
pata, according to the report, came
upon an indefinite number of filibus
terers crossing the Rio Grande at Za
pata. A clash followed, and at least
four of the Mexicans were Killed or
wounded while crossin gthe river. No
mention is made of American casual
ties.
The same report says that Mexican
revolutionists have captured Rami
lene and Parral, two villages, locat
ed about ten miles below the border
from Zapata.
K troops, Fourteenth United States
cavalry, which was sent to Minerva,
forty miles west of Laredo, to prevent
a reported impending crossing of a
filibustering expedition into Mexico,
returned to quarters here, having en
counteréd no filibusterers, .
Real Money For The Mexicans
Laredo, Texas.—ln order, to better
economic conditions, all Mexican rail
way employees will hereafter be paid
50 per cent of their salaries in metal
iic currency and the other 50 per cent
in gold certificates.
Leaders Os Allies Close Conference
Rome,—The conference between the
members of the entente allied gov
ernments has been brought to a close.
It is announced that the conference
established once again the complete
unity cos views of the entente allies
cn the various questions down for dis
cugeion and that the statesmen pres
ent will leave Rome with a strong
resclution to introduce greater co-or
dination in their efforts for the suc
ceseful issue of the war, Cordial
speeches were delivered i which the
Italian and Frenmeh took part, -
By Vote Os 48 To 17, Request For
Statement Os Peace Terms By
: Belligerents Endorsed
Washington.—Approval of President
Wilson’s request for a statement of
peace terms from the European bel
ligerents was voted by the senate at
the conclusion of three days of stir
ring debate.. Action, came with dra
matic suddenness when Democratic
leaders decided to accept a form of
resolution that would not commit the
senate to indorsement of the whole of
the president’s note, and ten Repub
licans of the Progressive group joined
the majority in making the vote 48
to 17, ;
Discussion of the subject had reach
ed a climax during the day with a
sensational declaration by Senator
Lewis, chief spokesman for the Demo
crats, replying to Republican criticism
of the president’s course. Without re
ferring directly to the submarige con
troversy, the senator said the United
States could not keep out of the war
‘if it continued, and that America
would not again accept misconception
of orders or zeal of an officer as an
excuse for an injury to a citizen or
property.
The chief objection urged against
the original resolution offered by Sen
ator Hitchcock was that it would in
dorse the president’s offer to join in
a movement to guarantee world peace
and his declaration of the interest of
the United States in small nations.
Progressive Republicans joined Sena
tor Lodge and others in this conten
tion.
The resolution adopted was propcs
ed by Senator Jones (Rep.) of Wash
ington, and was accepted by Senator
Hitchcock as a substitute for his own.
It resolves:
“That the senate approves and
strongly endorses the request by the
president in the diplomatic notes of
December. 18 to the nations now, en
gaged in war, that those nations state
the terms upon which peace might be
discussed.”
DENIAL BY TUMULTY THAT HE
" Y“LEAKED” ON THE PEACE NOTE
R. W. Bolling, Brother Os Mrs. Wilson,
Denies That He Gave Wall Street
Advance Information
Washington.—Sensational rumors of
a “leak” to Wall sireet in advance
of President Wilson's peace note were
related to the house rules committee
by Representaive Wood of Indiana in
Euppon of his resolution for an in
quiry. He prefaced his testimony with
the statement that he had nothing but
hearsay evidence to cffer and wvainly
protested against an open session of
the committee.
Names and rumored details of the
alleged “leak” came thick and fast
when Mr. Wood began his story. He
mentioned Joseph P. Tumulty, secre
tary to President Wilson; R. W. Boll
ing, a brother-in-law of the president;
Bernard Baruch of New York and va
rious brokerage houses, crediting most
of his information to a letter received
from “A. Curtis” of New York.
Statements were issued after the
committee meeting by Secretary Tu
multy and Mr. Bolling flatly denied
the reports regarding them, and Mr.
Tumulty demanded that Representa
tive Wood publicly apologize for men
{ioning his name. Mr. Wood followed
with a statement pointing out that he
had desired to testify in private, but
that those whose names were the sub
iject of the rumor should court the
fillest investigation.
Villa Forces Beaten By Carranzaites
El Paso, Texas.—Carranza forces
now occupy Jiminez, Santa Rosalia
and Parral, while Francisco Villa and
his staff have fled to the state of Du
rango over the branch railroad from
Parral to El Doro. Government agents
here who have been loath to accept
the Carranza reports of the victory of
Villa at Jiminez and of Villa's report
ed retreat to Parral, finally admitted
that the battle of Jiminez ended in a
complete repulse of the Villa forces,
and one high government official said
he had information which led him to
believe that the government forces
had won “a sweeping victory over
Villa.”
Austrian Ambassador Coming Over
Washington.—Count Tarnow-Tarn.
owski, the new Austro-Hungarian am
bassador to the United States, will sail
January 13 from Amsterdam.
300 Killed; 1,000 Homes Destroyed
Tokio, Japan.—Three hundred per.
sons have been killed and many in.
Hured in a disastrous earthquake in
central Formosa, according to special
dispatches from Taihoku, the capital
of Formosa. It is estimated that one
thousand homes have been destroyed.
The city of Nanto has been damaged
extensively by fire. The island of For
‘mosa lies between the Philippine Isl
‘ands and Japan and is owned by Ja
‘pan, The city of Nanto is situated
in the central part of the island, and
Invaders Os Roumania Report Progress
kil Along The Moldavian Frontier
Over The Czar's Forces
Petrograd Admits That The Russians
Aiong The Putna And Sereth
Have Been Forced Back
New York.—The invasion of Rou
mania by the troops of the central
powers continues to progress, despite
the efforis of the Russians and Rou
manians to hold them back. Berlin
reports that the invaders moving east
ward into Moldavia from the Trapsyl
vanian Alps region are gaining ground
step by step, while the force of Field
Marshal von Mackensen, driving north-.
ward in Moldavia, has won additional
ground, reaching the Putna river sec
tor, In thig fightfig the Teutonic al
lies, acocrding to Berlin, have taken
5,499 prisoners and captured three
guns and ten machine guns.
Petrograd admits that the Russians
along the line of the Putna and Se
reth rivers have fallen back but says
the maneuver was carried out without
hindrance, A slight retreat on 4£he
Kassina river by the Russians also is
recorded by Petrograd, but it is as
serted that south of the Oituz river
and near Rekoza, on the Suchiiza riv
er, aitacks by the troops of the cen
tral powers were repulsed.
There is still vigorous fighting go
ing on in northern Russia in the region
of Riga. Berlin reporis'the repulse
of Russian attacks on both sides of
the River Aaa and between Friedrich
stadt and the Mitau-Olai road. The
Russians, however, have recapiured an
island in the Dvina river north of ll
loukst, which was taken- from them
recently, Petrograd reporis also the
repulse. of German atiacks south of
Lake Babit, west of Riga.
In the other theaters, according to
the varicus communications, bombard
ments and minor engagements by raid
ing and patrol parties continue to pre
vail.
ALLIED ULTIMATUM
HANDED TO GREECE
King Given Forty-Eight Hours To
Comply With Demands In Note
December Thirty-First
ll’ix'aeu;. Greece.—Ministers of the
¢ntente powers handed to the Greek
government an ultimatum giving to
Greece forty-eight hours to comply
with the demands contained in the
note drawn up by France, Great Brit
ain and Russia on December thirty
first, 1916,
Included in the ultimatum was a re
quest by the entente powers that the
Greek government fulfill at the earli
est possible moment the agreement of
December fourteen regarding the
transfer of Greek iroops from Thes
saly. )
The note demands, among other
things, that all Greek forces outside of
Peloponnesus be reduced to a number
strictly necessary to the preservation
of order; that all meetings of reserv
ists in Greece north of the Isthmus
of Corinth be prohibited; that all per
sons detained for high treason or for
other political reasons be realesed
forthwith; that the commands of the
first army corps be dismissed, and
that the Greek government make apol
ogies to the allies’ ministers and flags
at some public spot in Athens.
Harry Thaw Charged With Kidnaping
New York.—Harry K. Thaw, who
was released fifteen months\ago from
an asylung for the insane where he
was sent after he killed Stanford
White, was indieted here, charged
with kidnaping Fred Gump, Jr, of
Kansas City, Mo., a youth of 19, and
assaulting him with a whip. With him
was indicted on the kidnaping charge
was George F. O'Brynes.
Aviators Injured in Aircraft Wreck
Washingion.-—A mnavy department
dispatch reports that Lieutenant Bel
linger and Sergeant Crawford, attach
ed to the Pensacola aviation station,
had been painfully but not seriously
injured when the: airplane AH-10 was
wrecked in a flight over the bay.
53,122 British Officers Have Been Slain
London.—Casualty lists published
by the war office show that in Octo
ber the British army lost 4,378 offi
cers, of whom 1,459 were killed, 2,736
wounded aund 183 are missing. In No
vember the total was 2,305, of whom
806 were killed, 1,286 wounded and
113 are missing. These figures bring
the total losses among officers since
the beginning of the war to 53,122, of
whom 15,696 have been killed or died
of wounds, 33,970 wounded and 3,456
are missing. A large proportion of the
wounded have returned to duty.
SI.OO A YEAR
STATE ITEMS
CONDENSED
Atlanta.—George Muse, one of the
teading merchant of the city and state,
died suddenly at his home here. The
immediate cause of his death was
heart failure,
Savannah.—The convention of South
- mayors will be held in Sa
vannah during the week of March 13,
according to an anouncement made by
Mayor Pierpont. -
Atlanta.—Governor Harris has ap- &
Pointed Attorney Zach Arnold of Fort
Gaines representative in the house
from Clay county, as member of the
sovernor’s staff. A :
Augusta.—lnformation received in
Augusta reported the destruction by
fire of four of the seven stores at Vi
dette, Ga., 41 miles frem Augusta, on
the Georgia and Florida railroad.
Millen.—One of the largest gaiher
ings of farmers and business men ever
heid in this county assembled here for
the purpose of discussing the boll wee
vil proposition and the diversifieation
of crops.
Moultrie.—Damage estimated at
$85,000 was ,done by fire which de--
stroyed the Celquitt warehouse here.
One thousand bales cf cotton were de
stroyed or badly damaged. The cause
of the fire has not been ascertained.
Albany.—Tick eradication in Dough
erty county is making great headway,
according to the reporis of Dr. A. A.
Fdelin, of the federal departmeni of
agriculture. It is estimated that 1,500
head of cattlie are being dipped here
every two weeks. /
Jonesboro.—His head completely
knocked off by the impact of the step
of Central of Georgia Jrain No. li,
when passing this town, Lester Good
man, three-year-cld son of Mr. and
Mrs. Bart Goodman, was instantly kill
ed while playing beside the tracks.
Atlanta.—One thousand gallons of
beer, four gallons of wine, a 59-gal
ion metal still, 15 fermenters, one cop
per worm and other eguipment used,
as one of thoze arresied explained it,
“to make slop for_ hogs,” were de
siroyed by revenue officers and city
detectives in a raid at 601 West Fair
street.
Powder Springs.—Burglars using a
wagon to carry their spoils out of the
town made several successful attempis
at robbery in this town. Confining
themselves to furniture and hardware,
they raided the stores of Wolf Broth
ers and M. W._ Compion, loaded their
wagon and departed. It is thought
that they went to Atlanta to dispose
of the stolen property.
Valdosta.—Spot cash for all peanuis
which Georgia farmers can raise, the
lagpst offer of the Empire Cutton Oil
ccmpany, made in connecticn with the
installation of its 75-tons-a-day peanut
crushing plant. The company, to
awaken mere interest in the growing
of peanuts® in this section. is offering
the prizes to the beys and girls grow
ing the greatest number of bushels ta
the acre.
Macon.—The unusual situation of the
mother of an adopted son suing the
boy’s real mother for his custody was
wilnessed in the court of ordinary at
this place. Mrs. M. E. Marsh of At
lanta contends that her adopted son,
Herbert Harold Marsh, has been ille
gally taken from her by the boy's
real mother, Allie Deaton. She has fil
ed a bill in the court of ordinary to
recover the child.
Atlanta.—With the intention of com
verting its lines now used in telegraph
service to telephone lines, the Nash
ville, Chattanooga and St. Louis rail
way has purchased from the Western
Union 445 additional miles of pole and
wire lines, and the railway company
will be enabled to operate trains en
approximately two-thirds of its system
under telephonic control, according to
an announcement made here.
Atlanta.—Upon petiticn of the di
rectors of the Bank of Harlem, at Har
lem, Ga., Assistant State Bank Ex
aminer J. F. Price has taken over the
affairs of the bank and petitioned for
the appeointment of a receiver. The
bank is capitalized at $31,900. The
Bank of Harlem was organized in
1905. State Bank Examiner W. J.
Speer announces that he has ratified
an agreement between the stockhold
ers of the Jenkins County bank, de
funct, at Millen, and the First Mational
bank, at Millen, whereby the latter
will become liquidating agent for the
former and pay off the obligations of
the Jenkins county bank.
Rome.—Delegates from the Rome
chamber of commerce to urge the lo
cation by the government of the sll,-
000,000 armor plant here, left for the
city of Washington. The delegation
included H. R. McClatchey, president
of the chamber; J. D.. McCarntey, vice
president, and T. E. Grafton, secre
tary, They were accompaniéd on the
trip by James B. Nevin of Atlanta.
Seaborn Wright is already fn Wash
ington In hisqhome city's interest.
‘The Romans expected to remain in
‘Washington “for several days and to
leave no stone unturned to ncmthodé
location of the big government plant
iz the Georgia city.