The bulletin. (Irwinton, Wilkinson County, Ga.) 191?-19??, February 23, 1917, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME VI. GENERAL FUNSTON DIES SUDDENLY Was Seated In Lobby Os Hotel Playing With Little Girl When He Collapsed And Died Instantly •k. HEART DISEASE THE CAUSE v” ' ' - News Came As Great Shock To Wash ington And President Wil- son—Loss To Army San Antonio, Texas. —Maj. Gen. Frederick Funston, commander ot the southern department o£ the United L States army since February 15, died l .suddenly at a hotel a few minutes as « ter he had finished dinner. V He collapsed -while seated in the /looby of the hotel talking with friends /and was playing with little Inez Sil z verberg, of Des Moines, lowa, a guest with her parents at the hotel, when ’ he • fell unconscious. Death was al ' most instantaneous. General Funston was fifty-one years old. Ever since March, 1916, when he was placed in command of all United ^States farces on the Mexican border, General Funston had worked at an un itsual pace.' At critical times in border develop ments he frequently remained on duty twenty hours of the twenty-four. Be cause of the amount of work which has fallen to him, General Funston’s only,recreation or relaxation for near ly a year has been an occasional din ner party with a few friends. Several weeks ago General Funston suffered an attack ,of indigestion. To use his own expression, “I fought it out alone.” Later 'he placed himself under the care of Lieut. Col. W. M. Ireland of the medical corps, south ern department, and regained normal health and spirits. “For three days,” Colonel Ireland said, “General Fun ston had been entirely well.” Nevertheless at dinner the general ■was particularly abstemious and ate only sparingly of the simplest dishes. Col. Malvern Hill Barnum, General Funston’s chief of staff, immediately notified the war department of Gen eral Funston’s death. Big Loss To The Army Washington.—Major General Fun ston’s sudden death came as a great shock to high officials of the army and to President' Wilson. He was one of the distinguished commanders of the service and one of whom greater things were expected in the future. The youngest major general of the line, vigorous and apparently health ful, he had been counted on by his superiors for many more years of act ive service. Secretary Baker made this state ment: v : • “General Funston’s death is a loss to the army and a loss to the country. During the trouble on the Mexican border his work has been difficult, ex acting and delicate. His conduct has been that of a soldier and he has ex emplified the high tradition of the American army by his quick, intel ligeht and effective action. Through out it all the sympathy between Gen eral Funston and the department has been complete and no shadow of dis agreement has arisen. I am deeply grieved personally at his death and feel that his loss to the country is very great.” Pershing Succeeds Major General Pershing, who has been in command of the El Paso dis trict since the withdrawal of the puni tive expedition from Mexico, auto matically will succeed to the duties of commander of the southern depart ment until an appointment has been made. Recently made a major gen eral, he is the only officer of that rank now assigned to the department. United States Backs Cuban President Washington—Reports of progress by President Menocal’s forces against insurgent bands in Cuba increased the hopes of administration officials that peace may be re-established in the island without American intervention. It has been made plain that the full moral support of the United States government will be given the Menocal administration and it was said that no additional steps were in contem piatisu for the present. British Hammering Turks On Tigris New York.—On the Irak front in Astatic Turkey the British and Turks have been engaged in hard fighting at Sannajyat, about twelve miles to the northeast .of IJuLel-Amara. In their onslaught .the British captured front line Turkish positions at two places respectively on frontages of 350 and ’• 540 yards, tenure of which was short lived, however, for the Turks in two heavy counter attacks forced the British right wing back upon its orig inal line. NUMBER 17. AMERICAN RIGHTS VIOLATED U. S. Schooner Law, Carrying No Con traband, Sunk By Submarine, z But Crew Saved Rome, Italy.—The American schoon er Lyman M. Law was sunk on Feb ruary 12 off the coast of Sardinia by a hostile submarine, says a Stefani dispatch from Cagliari, Sardinia. The vessel was loaded with agricultural machinery, the dispatch adds. The crew of twelve, of which eight were Americans, says the message, have been landed at Cagliari. The Lyman M. Law, 1,300 tons gross and 211 feet long, was built in 1890 at West Haven, Conn. She was formerly owned by the Benedict-Man son Marine company of New Haven, Conn., who sold her a year ago to New York interests represented by The Maritime Transportation company. The Lyman M. Law carried a crew of nine men in addition to her cap tain, all American, and was loaded with lumber material used in Italy for manufacture of lemon crates, ac cording to the schooner’s agents here, the Maritime Transportation company. Lansing Seeks Facts Washington.—On the basis of news dispatches the government began seek ing official information of the destruc tion of the American schooner Ly man M. Law by a submarine to deter mine at once how the case affects the delicate situation between Germany and. the United States. The dispatch was taken to indicate that the Law was sunk in the Mediter ranean where Austria also is conduct ing submarine operations. The main points to be determined are whether the ship was attacked without warning, whether she carried contraband and whether any Ameri can lives were lost. The United States considers the sinking of a ship carrying contraband a doubtful right, but, as in the cases of the sailing ship, The William P. Frye, the steamer Housatonic, has not considered it a violation of interna tional law to be compared to destruc tion which entail loss of life. .Consul Treadway at Rome forward ed three dispatches, two of which he had received from the Italian minister of marine and one from the British consul at Cagliari. The latter said that Captain McDonough and the nine men comprising the crew of the Law had landed at Cagliari. According to the minister of marine's announcement, the vessel was sunk by an Austrian marine without a flag. CONTINUOUS RAIDS MADE BY THE BRITISH FORCES On German Lines In Northern France And At One Point The British Reached German Third Line Paris. —On the French front the British in the Ancre and other re gions continue to make raids on Ger man positions. The most successful operation is northeast of Arras, where King George’s men have entered; 250 yards of German defenses and reach ed their third line. Many Germans were killed and some prisoners and a machine gun were captured. The An cre raid was southeast of Grandcourt, where a strong position was captured. German trenches on the Somme and northeast of Ypres also have been en tered by the British. All along the remainder of the front there have been artillery duels and bomb dropping on both belligerent groups. In the Roumanian theater near Mes tecanesti the Germans have captured and held against counter attacks sev eral Russian positions and made 23 officers and more than 1,200 men pris oners. In addition, the Germans se cured three cannon, 12 machine guns and six mine throwers. Petrograd ad mits the capture by the Germans of two heights east of Jacobeni, near the Buckowina-Roumanian frontier and a retirement by the Russians there of two-thirds of a mile. ■Congress To Rush Defense Measures Washington.—With the end of the Sixty-fourth congress but two weeks off, administration leaders are concen trating their energies to the enact ment of revenue and national defense legislation. Much. I®ng-pending gen eral' legislation every one recognizes must give way to appropriations and measures that relate to the prepara tion of the nation for eventualities which may grow out of the diplomatic breach, with Germany. Counties May Be Offered For Sale Charleston, W. V$, —Delegate Pat rick of Kanawha county introduced a bill in the house of delegates pro viding for the disposal of four coun ties in the upper panhandle of the state, either to Pennsylvania or. Ohio, the proceeds to be used in helping to pay the judgment against West Vir ginia in tire Virginia debt case.' A resolution was also introduced provid ing that the proposition be submitted to a referendum vote. The counties are Hancock, Brooks, Marshall and Ohio. ’ . ©he Bulletin IRWINTOX, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 193 7. GERMANS CHARGE THE BRITISH LINES Kaiser’s Troops Are Repulsed In Their Efforts To Gain Lost Ground North Os The Ancre MANY PRISONERS ARE TAKEN Berlin Admits Germans Were Forced To Abandon Semi Advanced Positions New York.—The Germans in the Miraumont sector of the Ancre front in France have striven hard to regain the positions the British took from them, but their attempts were fruit less, according to the British war of fice. Attacking in waves, the Germans came under the concentrated fire of the British guns and were swept back to their trenches suffering heavy cas ; ualties. At no place did the attack ing forces reach the British line. The British suffered no casualties. They cautured 780 officers and men. The Berlin w'ar office says that in the Ancre fighting position several times changed hands, but that before abandoning their advanced crater posi tions the Germans took 130 prisoners and captured five machine guns. Trench raiding operations and ar tillery duels continue. In Champagne, near Ripont, says Berlin, the French have shelled the Germans in the po sitions captured from the French, but have been unable to launch infantry attacks because of terrific artillery fire of the Germans. Petrograd admits the entry of Ger mans into. Russian trenches south of Dvinsk, but says later they were driv en cut. In the Carpathians a strong Austro-German work south of Okna has been captured by the Russians. In the Austro-Italian and Macedonian theaters artillery activity predomi nates. Nothing new has crept through concerning the situation on the Irak the British with having taken addi tional positions from the Turks in the region of Kut-el-Amara. THREE PEOPLE ARE SLAIN WHEN MADMAN RUNS AMUCK H. Claude Anderson Kills Mrs. M. Zahn and Rev. G. R. Buford And Is Himself Slain Atlanta. —Rushing into the home of W. J. Zahn, at 3 Hull street, where H. Claude Anderson, a madman, was running amuck, shooting everybody in sight. Rev. G. R. Buford, pastor of Moore Memorial Presbyterian church, and formerly a missionary worker, was shot through the heart and drop ped dead in a corner of the house, while the madman continued his wild fusilade with fearful results. In addition to killing Mr. Buford, Anderson slew his mother-in-law, Mrs. M. Zahn, and he himself was slain by his brother-in-law, W. J. Zahn, after he had tried to kill Zahn and the lat ter had knocked him down and taken his pistol away from him. Anderson was released two weeks ago from the state insane asylum at Milledgeville. In November, 1915, he summoned his wife to meet him in Grant Park to discuss a reconciliation. There he attacked her with a knife and cut her in the hand. As the re sult of this affair, he was sent to the asylum. Anderson seems to have blamed his wife’s family for her separation from him. He went to 33 Hull street, where she lived with her brother and mother, and threatened them. About six o’clock he went back. Neighbors say he was drunk and had two pis tols. He slipped into the house and hid. Anderson opened fire on the three women when he was discovered— and beyond that nobody is clear. Mr. Buford, who lived nearby on Luckie street, and who was passing the house with his wife en route to call at the home of a friend, ran into the house. When the shooting was over, Mr. Buford lay dead in a corner of the hall of the house. Mrs. M. Zahn was shot through the head, through the lungs and beaten over the head with some blunt instrument, presum ably the butt of one of Anderson’s pistols. She died later at Grady hos ptal. No Plea To Germans By This Captain Rome.—Captain McDonough and the crew of the American schooner Ly man Law recently sunk by a German submarine, arrived in Rome with Roger Treadwell, the United States consul at Turin, and were interrogat ed at the American embassy. Captain McDonough repeated his story of the sinking of the schooner, adding that the vessel had a large supply of can ned goods, which doubtless attracted the officers of the submarines in their search for food. WILL NOT SUBMIT TO TIE-UP President Realizes So Long As Ships Are Held In Port He Is Acquiesc ing German Submarine Policy Washington.—The ruthless German submarine campaign and its effects upon the United States were discuss ed by President Wilson and the cab inet. Arming of American merchantmen ani the economic effects of the partial ti^up of shipping out of American ports were the subjects of which the cabinet centered attention. Secretary McAdoo is compiling a list of vessels held in port, and Secretary Redfield is making a comprehensive analysis of the inroad submarines are making on shipping generally. Consideration is given by the gov ernment to all the different phases of the situation that has developed since the break in relations with Germany, including the detention of the Yarrow dale prisoners, the crisis with Austria, the plight of Americans in Turkey and Belgian relief. High officials take pains, however, to emphasize that the great funda mental problem before the nation is the illegal submarine campaign itself. Against this campaign the United States has made the most Vigorous protest possible short of war, but the administration realizes that so long ’as it permits American ships to be held in port for fear cf attack by sub marines it, ih effect, is acquiescing in the German policy. This state of af fairs, it is admitted, cannot be per mitted to continue indefinitley. What the United States must do to end it, and when, are the only ques tions. The president is understood to have a very definite opinion as to what should be done, but has not yet decided that the time has come to do it. AMERICAN TROOPS LINE THE MEXICAN BORDER To Prevent Murderous Raids —$5,000 Ransom Will Be Paid For Spencer And Wife Hachita, N. M. —Lieutenant Colonel J. C. Waterman, commanding the Ha chita district, sent orders to his troops s o maintain constant patrols along the border. Unofficial reports said all cav alry regiments on the border from El Paso to Douglas, Arizona, had been instructed to hold themselves in read iness to move immediately on instruc tion from General Funston. These preparations are precautionary against Salazar’s threat of another raid. Two troops of regular cavalry rein forced the border patrol. These troops, according to Lieutenant Colonel Wa terman, have no orders to go into Mexico. The funeral of Andrew P. Peterson, Burton Jensen and Hugh Acord, killed at the “Comer” ranch, New Mexico, by Mexican raiders, has been post poned. The bodies were found three miles over the Mexican line by a party of searchers, headed by Leb Spillsbury, Mormon scout with General Pershing's expedition in Mexico. Each had been shot several times, the bodies had been badly mutilated and the clothing re moved. Spillsbury and companions had spent three days searching for the Americans and just as they were about to abandon hope of success dis covered the three bodies in a clump of cactus. E. K. Warren of Chicago, owner of the ranch near Hachita, N. M., from which “Bunk" Spencer, a negro, and his Mexican wife were kidnaped by Mexicans, confirmed the report that he had ordered the $5,000 ransom de manded to be paid. Ships Out Os New York Are Sunk New York. —Two steamships out of New York under charter of the Kerr Steamship company, one Norwegian and the other Spanish, have been sunk in the submarine zone, according to reports received by the company. They were the Dalmata, Norwegian. January 24 for Havre, and the Mar Adriatico, Spanish. January 16, for Bordeaux. The Dalmata was sunk February 9 and the Mar Adriatico February 11. Submarine Reported in Gulf Os Mexico Galveston. Texas. —Persistent ru mors that a German submarine was sighted in the Gulf cf Mexico several days ago are being ciA'ulated at Guan tanamo, Cuba, it is reported here. Railways At Disposal Os United States New York. —The railroads of the United States informed President Wil son that the resources of their organ izations are at the disposal of the government in the event of war. Pres idents or other officials of eighteen of the roads were appointed a special committee on national defense, which will work in conjunction with the com manders of the four departments of the United Statese army. W. W. At terbury. vice president cf the Penn sylvania, sent a telegram to the white hcuse giving plan of the railroads. RIOTS CAUSED BY HIGH FOOD PRICES Driven To Desperation Hundreds Os Wo men Make Attack On The City Hall In New York KEEP CHILUIIENFROM SCHOOL Food Commission Admits Situation Has Reached Most Acute Stage New York. —Following many clash es between the police and women food ricters at the city hall and in con gested tenement districts, Joseph Har tigan, commissioner of weights and measures, announces that he is doing everything in his power to stimulate the flow of foodstuffs into ths city from all parts of the country. Reports received by the commis sioner indicate that the situation has reached an acute stage which, he as serts, calls fcr the establishment by congress of "some sort of food control commission to meet the per capita consumption of food in the United States.” While retail shop keepers and push cart peddlers have been forced to bear the brunt cf the assault of the angry housewives here, the bureau of weights and measures announces that “the abnormal exportation of food stuffs and the sub-normal production are the underlying causes of the ad vance in prices." It was said, how ever, that there is “abundant evidence of speculation in canned goods.” Women Are Desperate So desperate have the women in some parts of the city become, it is said, that hundreds of food peddlers have locked their push carts in stables and suspended business. A number of these dealers who ventured out on the upper East Side were set upon by a mob of housewives when it was found they were selling onions at 15 cents per pound and potatoes at 9 and 10 cents per pound. The peddlers were driven from the streets into hallways of tenements, where the women tore their clothing and scratched their fa^s. Meantime the pushcarts were demolished and their contents strewn about the streets. After several hundred women had stormed the city hall in an effort to see the mayor, Mrs. Ida Harris, presi dent of the Mothers’ Vigilance league, issued a statement in which she de clared it had been decided to keep children away from the schools until the prices of food are lowered. This step, Mrs. Harris asserted, was justi fied on the ground that pooriy fed children are in no condition to profit by schooling. FORTY-FIVE HUNDRED KILLED AND HURT Report From Explosion At The Rus sian Port Os Archangel. February Fourth Berlin. —It is reported from Copen hagen that fifteen hundred persons were killed and three thousand wound ed in an explosion of ammunition at Archangel, Russia. A Copenhagen telegram says that travelers returning from Russia de clare that the last great explosion at Archangel was much more consider able than was made known in dis patches from Russia. The explosion took place at the naval station while ammunition was being unloaded from a steamer. Not a tract of this steam, er remained. The explosion killed or wounded every one within a radius of one kilometer, fifteen hundred per sons being killed and three thousand wounded. The damage amounts to fifty million rubles. It was reported on February 4 that an icebreaker at Archangel had blown up and that thirty persons were be lieved to have been killed and three hundred injured. Cuban Veterans Endorse The President Havana. —The veterans of the war of independence here issue a statement addressed "To The Country." The ad dress is signed by Gen. Emilio Nunez, president of the society, and expresses the gratitude of the veterans to the government and people of the United States for the attitude they have as sumed in the present conflict. Panama New Troop Quarters Needed Washington.—An appropriation of $13,371,000 for new troop quarters in the Panama canal zone and for ex penses of the authorized additional increments for garrisoning the zones was requested of congress by Secre tary Baker, who declare it "impera tively necessary” that this amount be made immediately available. Four regiments of infantry* the secretary said, now are quartered in temporary old canal buildings, some of which formerly were occupied by Jamaican negroes and condemned years ago. SI.OO A YEAR STATE ITEMS CONDENSED Atlanta. —Five thousand women marched through the downtown streets here to stimulate interest in member ship campaign of the Red Cross move ment. Stone Mountain. —Stone Mountain was visited by a terrific rain and thunderstorm during which two resi dents were struck by lightning and occupants narrowly escaped death. Atlanta. —Governor Harris has ap pointed Gen. Peter W. Meldrim judge of the superior court of Chatham coun ty to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Walter Charlton. Atlanta. —Receipts from oil inspec tions during January showed an in crease of $4,583.57 over the correspond ing priod of last year, according to a report made to the commissioner of agriculture by the chief oil inspector. Fort Valley.—The Fort Valley pub lic schools will observe beginning on February 25 speech improvement week. This custom is not in practice much in this state, but the school au thorities think it a good thing for the development of the pupil. Albany.—After refusing to accept a verdict of $2,500 following his suit for damages against the Central of Georgia railroad and later an offer of $4,000 in settlement, William H. Temples, formerly of this city, lost his case on appeal to the higher court. Atlanta. —The 1916 automobile li cense numbers expire with February. So far only 12,000 of the 1917 num bers have been issued, and compari sons show that the applications are not coming in beyond the average, though sales of cars have been heavier in recent months. Bainbridge.—lt is believed that De catur county will make a good oat crop after ail. It was feared that after the recent blizzard this crop had been killed, but, with the return cf warm weather, oats are beginning to put out, and, in some instances, have suffered but little damage. Waycross.—When she was struck by lightning that badly wrecked the Riverside drive dwelling of Dr. J. G. Bagley, Mrs. Wesley Bagley was se riously injured. Her back from neck to waist was burned and she was bad ly stunned. The chair in which she was sitting was demolished: Athens. —Prof. Searcy B. Slack, who has been for the past three years pro fessor in the good roads department of the school of engineering at the University ot Georgia, has tendered his resignation, which the prudential committee accepted with expressions of sincere regret. Eastman. —Hundreds of farmers and business men attended a meeting and organization of a club here for a fight against the ravages of the boll wee vil in Dodge county. The meeting was presided over by W. H. Smith, who was later named president, and D. R. Peacock, elected secretary of the new organization. Barnesville. —Postoffice Inspector J. W. Cole of Newnan has been in the city locking over the situation with a view of giving free delivery to the city to whch it is entitled, according to the volume of receipts at the of fice. It is believed that all conditions will be met and free service begin within the next two months. Americus. —The Americus and Atlan tic railroad company is the name of the proposed corporation to construct the new railroad from Byromville, on the Atlanta. Birmingham and Atlantic railway to Americus, and they have drawn up the petition to Secretary of State Phil Cook, requesting a char ter. Bainbridge.—lndications are that De catur county will grow an enormous crop of both shade and sun tobacco this year. Good prices prevailed last year, and indications are that they will be even better this year. Last year's crop was the best in several years and sold for a million and a quarter dollars, being the county's most valuable crop. Atlanta. —After a conference ot Progressive leaders here, at which plans were laid for the South to be well represented at the National Pro gressive Conference at St. Louis, on April 12th next. Matthew Hale, chair man of the Progressive National com mittee, announces that President Wil son and United States Senator-elect Hiram Johnsen of California will be invited to address the St. Louis con ference. Thomasville. —Instead cf losing their whole crop of oats as a result of the recent unusual cold, it begins to look now as if the farmers of Thomas coun ty might yet have a pretty good crop from recent reports brought in. Seme of the farmers in town recently re ported many of the oat fields that apparently were entirely killed down, as shown up green again, and one man with a large acreage thought that his entire crop was putting up again.