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Fighting Fiercely The German Forces Are
Slowly Advancing On The
Eastern Battie Line
At Several Points The Counter At.
tacks Of Russians Have Stopped
The Onrushing Germans
Geneva, Switzerland.—The capture
of Lublin cost General Woyrsch 70,-
000 men in killed, wounded and pris
oners Four miles north of Lublin
the Russians are fighting fiercely, dis
puting every foot of ground while cov
ering their retreat, says an Innsbruck
dispateh,
In an advance of seven miles with
seven corps, Fleld Marshal von Mac
kensen lost 35,000 men.
The army massed from Lowicz to
Ostrowiec hag begun an advance upon
Ivangorod and Novo Alexandria, the
evacuation of which has commenced
by the Russians, according to the
Germans
The Germans has dispatched more
than one hundred train loads of am
munition from Radom and Lodz to
ward Warsaw since July 23,
The Russians who attacked south
of Prezsasnysz killed 5,000, wounded 8,-
000 and took prisoner 1,300 of the
eighth German army corps.
Rear guard actions have developed
into fairly large battles, as the Rus
stans, whose gteadiness has been phe
nomenal in fact of defeat, are offer
ing stubborn resistance and deliver
ing powerful counter attacks. They
have prevented Field Marshal von
Hindenburg from throwing more of
his troops across the Narew, repulsed
German attacks northwest of War
saw and driven back to the river some
of the invading troops who crossed
the Vistula south of Warsaw,
in the southeast Field Marshal von
Mackensen continues his victorious
advance. He has swept aside the re
slstance of the Russians and forced
them to retreat along both banks of
the Bug. The Germans already have
passed Cholm in pursuit.
CARRANZA TO RELIEVE
MEXICO CITY FAMINE
General Promises To Send Trains Of
Foodstuffs To The
Capital
Washington.-—Announcement of. the
reoccupation of MeXico City by Gen
eral Gonzales' .myk‘vu' followed by
a statement from General Carranza’s
headquarters at Vera Cruz that im
mediate efforts would be made to
send foodstuffs to the starving popu
lation. Heavily guarded trains, it
was asserted, were being prepared to
leave Vera Cruz with provisions to
supplement food being taken into the
city by the army of occupation.
Washington officials hoped General
Gongales had left the line so well pa
trolled that the trains would get
through with slight delay. They said
the United States was determined to
rvelieve the famine in Mexico City if
Carranza's forces could not do it
Information of Carranza's plans
came to his Washington agency in a
message from Jesus Acuna, Carranza
foreign minister, who announced also
that the railroad between Queretaro
and Aguas Calientes, connecting Gon
sales with General Obregon's forces,
would be reopened.
Reports reaching here say that Gon
salos’ advance guard took possession
of Mexico City without resistance and
that General Gonzales himself will ar
rive there later,
FRENCH MARINES LAND
AT PORT-AU.PRINCE
Washington—French marines have
peen landed at Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
where a revolution that overturned
the government necessitated the land
ing of an expeditionary force from the
United States cruiser Washington to
restore order, The landing of the
French was with the consent of the
United States, it was stated, a de
tachment from the cruiser Descartes
having been sent to guard the French
legation,
BECKER COFFIN PLATE
REMOVED BY POLICE
New York-The police, it was an
nounced, had had removed from the
coffin of Charles Becker a silver plate
placed there by his widow on which
was inscribed the charge that the for
mer police lieutenant electrocuted,
was “murdered by Governor Whit.
man.'' Mrs. Becker was informed that
the inscription was a criminal libel
on the governor and was prevailed on
to permit its removal from the
canket,
ITALIANS HAVE LAUNCHED
A GENERAL ATTACK
Geneva, Switgerland. —The Tribune's
Laibach correspondent says: A gen
oral offensive has begun on the Tyrol,
Trentino and Carnia front, forcing the
Austrians to evacuate some of their
strongest positions. Dalmatian regi
menls which attacked Freikopf lost
sixty per cent of their effectives. The
Italians have plerced the second Aus
trian line on the Carso plateau, taking
soveral miles of the trenches without
any serious loss to themselves,
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New photograph of James M. Sulli
van, whose resignation as American
minister to Santo Domingo has been
accepted by the president. An inves
tigation into Mr. Sullivan’s fitness for
the position, conducted by Senator
Phelan of California, resulted unfa
vorably to him.
ENGLAND DEFENDS COURSE IN
BLOCKADING THE
NEUTRALS
Civil War Precedents Are Cited In
Justification Of Right To Stop
Neutral Vessels
London.—The new British note to
the United States, in course of prep
aration, will be an amplification of the
original American contraband note. It
will take up the guestions which have
arisen since the first note was drafted.
Washington.-—Defense of the right
of belligerents to blockade a neutral
port through which an enemy is re
ceiving supplies or attempting to mar
ket his own products is the chief ar
gument made in the supplemental
note Great Britain is preparing #n re
ply to the American protest against
enforcement of the orders-in-council.
The original note has been withheld
from publieation at the request of the
British foreign office, pending the ar
rival of the supplemental communica
tion.
[LCivil war precedents on the right of
blockade form the chief hasis of the
British argument, attention being
separately called to the famous
“Springbok” case before the United
States Supreme court developing the
“continuous voyage” theory. Though
this doctrince which, it is asserted,
justifies a belligerent in blockading
a neutral port, was strongly resisted,
by European nations, the fact that it
was accepted by the Alabama claims
arbitration was sufficient to make it
an endurable principle of law, accord
ing to the British.
SIX MEN ARE BLAMED
FOR THE SHIP HORROR
Coroner's Jury Returns Verdict In Re
gard To The Eastland
Disaster
Chicago.-——A coroner's jury returned
a verdict placing the blame for the
loss of hundreds of lives before the
capsizing of the steamer Eastland in
the Chicago river on six men: Wil
liam H. Hull, general manager of the
Chicago-St. Joseph Steamship compa
ny, owner of the Eastland; Capt. Har
ry Pederson of the Eastland; J. M.
Erickson, engineer; Robert Reid, fed
eral inspector of steamships, who gave
the Eastland license to carry 2,500
passengers July 2; J. C. Eekliff, fed
eral inspector of steamships; W. K.
Greenebaum, general manager of the
Indiana Transportation company, les
see of the Eastland,
The jury recommended that these
men be held to a grand jury for indiet
ment on charges of manslaughter,
WAR OF ENDURANCE
ASSERTS PREMIER ASQUITH
London.—The war has become and
is likely to continue for some time a
contest of endurance, Premier As
quith told the house of commons, while
making general review in moving
the adjournment of parliament. The
premier remarked: “We should be un
grateful and insensitive, indeed, if we
did not recognize at this moment the
indescribably gallant efforts being
made by our Russian allies to stem
the tide of invasion"
GERMANY MAY ACCUSE
WILSON OF TREASON
Washington.~—Harry L. Wilson of
Portland, Oregon, recently a clerk in
the American consulate, at Berlin, and
now under arrest there, faces charges
state department officials consider ex
tremely serious, Wilson ostensibly
was detained for attempting to leave
Germany without a passport. The real
complaint against him, however, is
that he aided a British subject to ob
tain a passport, represencing him to be
an American citigen,
CHARLTON COUNTY HERALD, FOLKSTON, GEORGIA.
~ PAYS PENALTY
Former Police Officer Is Electrocuted For
Complicity In Murder 0f Noted
New York Gambler
To Very Last He Asserted Innocence
Of Complicity In The Rosenthal
Murder—Tribute To Wife
Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, N. Y.—
(‘harles Becker was put to death in
the electric chair here for the killing
of Herman Rosenthal, the New York
gambler. The former New York po
lice lieutenant retained his composure
and protested his innocence to the
last. He went to his death with a
photograph of his wife pinned on his
shirt, over his heart. Three shocks
were given before the prison physi
cians pronounced Becker dead.
Becker led the way to his own exe
cution. The condemned man sat up
all night on the edge of his cot, calm
ly talking to Deputy Warden Charles
H. Johngon. “I have got to face it,”
said Becker, “and I am going to meet
it quietly, and without trouble to any
one.”
The deputy warden left Becker about
an hour before the time set for the ex
ecution, and when the priests, Father
W. E. Cashin, the prison priest, and
I"ather Curry, of New York, came to
administer the last rites they found
the man convicted of instigating Her
man Rosenthal’s murder with his face
resting on his hand gazing at the
prison floor., The priests remained
with him to the end.
To Father Curry, Becker gave his
last message as he took his place at
the head of the little file of men that
marched to the room of death. Beck
er's message which he uttered to the
priest was:
“l am not guilty by deed, or con
spiracy, or in any other way, of the
death of Rosenthal. I am sacrificed to
my friends. Bear this message to the
world and my friends. Amen.”
TWO U. S. MARINES
KILLED BY SNIPERS
Slain Men Were Members Of a Patrol
And Were Shot To Death
From Ambush
Washington.—Two American blue
jackets were killed at pight in an at
tack by natives on Port-au-Prince,
Haiti, held by Rear Admiral Caperton
with 400 'g:n from the cruiser W::._g
M_ n. The mng party §
beaten off and order was maintained
in the city itself. No sailors were
wounded and the loss of the attack
ers was not reported. The dead are:
William Gompers, seaman, of Brook
lyn, and Cason S. Whitehurst, ordi
nary seaman, of Norfolk.
Reinforcements had been ordered to
Haiti before word of the fighting was
received; the battleship Connecticut
sailed from Philadelphia with 500 ma
rines and the navy transport Han
cock at Philadelphia will also go, it is
said, although it is not known what
force she will take.
(Capt. E. L. Beach of the Washing
ton, commanding ashore, moved his
men out to the edge of the city, leav
ing strong guards to maintain order
in town. Haitien soldiers and civil
ians within the city were disarmed
to prevent sniping.
The attack came at eight o'clock
in the evening, the bluejacket bat
talion bearing the brunt of the fight
ing. From the brush beyond the last
houses, snipers opened fire. The at
tackers were driven off, but not be
fore Gompers and Whitehurst had
been killed.
Negro Burned At Stake
Temple, Texas.—Will Stanley, a ne
gro, arrested in connection with the
killing of three children of W. R,
Grimes, a farmer, near Temple, was
burned to death by a mob in the pub
lic square here. Several thousand
persons who had thronged the streets
awaiting the outcome of an examina
tion of Stanley and two alleged ac
complices witnessed the lynching. The
scene of the well lighted public square
at the time of the burning of the
negro was spectacular, as the mob
had chosen an open space.
Steps Taken For Mexican Peace
Washington.—Definite steps toward
the restoration of peace in Mexico
will be taken immediately after Pres.
ident Wilson returns from New Hamp
shire. The specific action the presi.
dent may have decided on has not
been digclosed, but it was stated au
thoritatively that the executive de.
partments of the government were
preparing to carry out promptly the
program determined on. Only an un.
expected move in Mexico itself to end
the strife will delay further affirma.
tive action by the United States,
Former Soldier Kills Bride And Self
Atlanta.—The final chapter in a ro.
mance of eighteen months was enact.
ed at 461 Pulliam street, when Edwin
A. Moore, aged 27, a former "nited
States soldier, who has served on the
Mexican border, visited the home of
his girl wife, Violette Tucker Moore,
aged 16, while the members of the
family were away on a short auto ride,
and shot and k.lled her and then sent
two bullets threough his own head
Moore and his youthful bride were
married in a runaway marriage eigh:
tesn months ago.
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department of commerce, has charge
of the government’s side of the East.
land investigation at Chicago.
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY POLIT
ICAL PRISONERS HAD BEEN
EXECUTED
Rebels Control City While President
Guillaume Takes Refuge In The
French Legation
Washington. — American marines
were landed at Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
to protect the lives and property of
Americans and other foreigners. Rear
Admiral Caperton advised the navy de
partment that he had sent a force
ashore from the the cruiser” Washin- |
ton. Rear Admiral Benson, acting sec
retary of the navy, declined to make
the message public, but said, “Admiral
Caperton now has the situation in
hand.” There was no firing at the
marines, although disorder continued
in the city. A guard has been estab
lished at tymmuon and at
other points to pro ect foreigners.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti.—A revolution
more terrible in the toll thus far taken
than any even in the days of Lord
Alexis, flamed out in the Haitien cap
ital. It was an offshoot of the move
ment to the north, where the adher
ents of Dr. Rosalvo Bobo, twice expell
ed from Haiti, for several months
have been striving to break the pow
erful Haitien president, :
One hundred and sixty men, includ
ing a former president of Haiti, Gen
eral Orestes Zamor, have been exe
cuted by order of General Oscar, gov
ernor of Port-au-Prince, who later in
the day was dragged from the shelter
of the Dominican legation by a mob
and riddled with bullets.
President Guillaume and members
of his family took refuge in ‘the
French legation, an attack upon which
had been threatened: the presidential
palace had been partly destroyed after
an attack which lasted for hours, and
the Revolutionists are in possession of
the city.
As soon as word of the massacre of
the political prisoners was circulated
a fierce wave of indignation swept
over the capital. Many who had not
originally been identified with the
rising took up arms. The Dominican
legation was invaded and the gover
por of Port-au-Prince paid the price
with his life.
A mob of infuriated Haitiens then
removed Vilbrun Guillaume, president
of Haiti, from the French legation,
where he took refuge, and shot him
to death in front of the building.
The shooting occurred immediately
after the burial of the 160 political
prisoners who were massacred in pris
on at the time of the revolutionary
outbreak against President Guillaume,
BRITISH CASUALTIES
TOTAL 330,995 MEN
London.—The casualties in the
British army and navy reached a to
tal of 330,995, according to a printed
statement issued by Premier Asquith,
The total naval casualties up to July
20 were 9,106, and the military casu
alties to July 18 were 321,889, The na
val losses were divided as follows: Of
flecers killed 449, wounded 87, missing
29: men killed 7,420, wounded 787,
missing 274 Military losses: Killed
$1,384, wounded 196,620, missing 63,885
Germans Halted Before Warsaw
London.—Austro-German attempts
to envelop the Russian armies defend
fng Warsaw and to capture the Polish
capital, which for a time progressed
almost with the momentum of the
offensive that cleared Galicia of Rus
sians, have been almost halted, and
where the Germans are moving it is
only yard by yard and at tremendous
cost. The German field marshal (von
Mackensen) has taken a few villages
on the way to the LublinCholm rail
way between the Vistula and the Bug
rivers,
- PEACE IN MEXICO
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United States invites South And Central
Amarica To Co-operate In
The Mext Step
Siate Department Makes Announce
ment in Regard To The Mex
ican Situation
Washington.—TheUnited States has
decided to ask the co-operation of
South and Central America in the next
step to restore peace in Mexico. The
ambassadors from Argentina, Brazil
and Chile and the ministers from Bo
livia, Uruguay and Guatemala were
asked to confer with Secretary Lan
sing.
This announcement was made at the
state department:
“There will be an informal confer
ence at the state department to con
sider the Mexican situation. Those
taking part in the conference will be
the ambassadors from Brazil, Argen
tina and Chile and the three ranking
ministers of the American republics,
namely those of Bolivia, Uruguay and
Guatemala. As to the details which
will be considered nothing can be said
at the present time, as the conference
will be entirely confidential.”
While the state department charac
terized the conference as an informal
one, the sentiment has been growing
among American officials that the
next step in the Mexican situation
should be one that would meet the
approval of the world and should bhe
taken in concert with the nations of
Central and South America, even if
in the last event the trend should be
toward military action.
The three ambassadors were media
tors in the Niagara conferences in the
summer of 1914. The three ministers
are from point of seniority at the Cen
tral American legation corps. Action
in concert with the Central and South
Americans would be in line with Pres
ident Wilson’s plan for a closer rela
tionship between the United States
and those countries.
BRITISH SUBMARINES |
RAID CONSTANTINOPLE
Torpedoes Fired At Arsenal And Pow
der Mills—Big Ship
Sunk
London.—An admiralty statement
says ;‘E::ivice admiral commanding in
the edsiern Mediterranean reports that
one of the British submarines operat
ing in the Sea of Marmora has tor
pedoed a large steamer of 3,000 tons
off the Maudania pier, which had sev
eral vessels secured alongside. The
explosion was heavy. A small steam
er close to Karibgha bay was torpe
doed.
Torpedoes were fired at lighters
alongside the arsenal at Constantino
ple. The result could not be seen,
but the explosion was heavy.
The Zeitunlik powder mills were
fired at, but owing to the darkness
the result could not be ascertained.
The railway cut one mile west of
Kara Burnu was bombarded and the
line blockaded temporarily so that a
troop train was unable to pass. It
was being fired at as it steamed back,
three truck loads of ammunition be
ing blown up.
Mudania, Karabigha and Kara Bar
nu are all on the Asiatic shore of the
Sea of Marmora, the former about 100
miles east of the northern entrance
of the Dardanelles and Karabigha and
Kara Barnu about twenty-five miles
east of it.
GREAT STORM DAMAGE
IN SOUTH FLORIDA.
Tampa, Fla.—Railway tracks were
washed away, growing crops inundated
and a great portion of the Pinellas pe
ninsular across the Hilllsborough Bay
from Tampa, flooded, following unpre
cedented rains which fell for thirteen
house. In St. Petersburg two houses
in the fashionable section were under
mined and toppled over into a small
lake. Property damage in St. Peters
burg is estimated at fully fifty thou
sand dollars.
General Villa Makes Denial
El Paso, Texas-—A general denial
that foreign merchants were expelled
by General Villa: that there were any
executions of Mexican merchants at
Chihuahua City or that General Villa
used any “insolent” language toward
the United States government was
made by General Ornelas, commander
of Villa forces at Juarez. General Or
nelas said he attended the conference
between General Villa and the mer
chants. Complaints have been made
against the “exorbitant speculation”
practiced in selling food supplies,
Ship Sunk And Eleven Lives Lost
Brest, France.—The British steam
ship Clintonia of 3,858 tons was shell
ed and sunk by a German submarine,
Eleven men lost their lives and fifteen
were injured. The Clintonia encoun
tered the submarine twenty miles west
of Ar Men, and, according to sur.
vivors, was attacked without warning.
The submarine fired _four shells,
wrecking everything | eck. The
crew ¢ in boats and
lowe burg om. The
subm®Mtion of his army steamer,
which %, thinking to utes,
LITTLE ITEMS OF '
STATE INTEREST -
Macon.—The first annual Georgia
state convention of chiefs of police
is in session in Macon.
Augusta.—Six persons were injured,
two seriously, when an automobile ran
into a sprinkling car of the street rail
way company.
Athens.—James Johnson, a negro;
jumped into the Oconee river to es
cape hornets which were stinging him,
and was drowned.
Atlanta.—The open season on squir
rel commenced Sunday and any one
with a hunting license is at liberty
so kill them until January 1.
Madison.—Col. J. T. Newton, planter
and capitalist, trustee of the state col
lege of agriculture, and former mem
betr of the state senate and legislature,
is dead. i
Macon.—The mew drug law which
makes it practically impossible for
dope fiends to secure their usual sup
ply is said to be responsible for the
majority of the 16 lunacy cases here
last month.
Waycross.—G. A. Roddenbery last
week killed his third bear in the Oke
fenokee swamp, and expects to get
several more before the summer is
over. More bears have been Killled
this summer than for a long time.
Brunswick.—Glynn county has start
ed work on what is probably the first
community public school to be built in
Georgia, and if it works as success
fully as the board of education ex
pects it to, then other counties in
the state will doubtless soon follow
the example of the local board.
Brunswick.—Willard Oliveros, the
young white man who killed his step
father, Fred Prosser, in this city a few
months ago, was acquitted by a jury
in the Glynn superior court, a verdict
being returned by the jury in less
than five minutes after the case was
given to them.
Atlanta.—The peach growers of
(Georgia have received over two million
dollars for the peaches marketed by
them during June and July. The total
shipment of Georgia peaches through
July 31, has been 4,005 car loads. Of
this number seventy-five per cent, or
over 3,000 cars, have been marketed
through the Georgia Fruit exchange.
LaGrange.—James Handley, a prom
inent citizen of Troup county, and one
of the leading members of the Troup
County Fisherman’s association, prob
ably holds the distinction of catching
the largest eel ever pulled from a
Georgia river. While fishing on the
Chattahoochee about five miles from
LaGrange, he caught an eel which
weighed 71 pounds and measured ex
actly 42 inches.
Douglas.—News has just reached
here that the purchasers of the Fitz
gerald, Broxton and Ocilla railroad
sent a large force of men with cars
to Broxton to begin work removing
the rail. The cars were being loaded,
and informatien of the move spreading
rapidly, citizens of Broxton instituted
legal precceedings, arrested the bosses
and working force, unloaded the cars
and sent away the train. The men
were released and allowed to go home.
Athens.—An examination of the sta
tistics will show that 133 of the 152
counties of the state are represented
in the Georgia summer school. Only
nineteen counties in the state failed
to have a teacher present. In addi
tion to the 133 counties represented,
there are teachers from six other
states: Florida, Mississippi, North
Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama, South
Carolina. ° The total attendance for
this year is 936 students.
Douglas.—The sixteenth child, a
bouncing 16-pound boy, has been born
to Mr. and Mrs. Dan Vickers, living
near Douglas.
Shellman.—The first bale of cotton
to be marketed in this section was
brought to Shellman recently, and was
sold for 14 3-10 cents.
Tifton.—W. A. Hogue, prominent gin
and grist mill operator at Lenox, 1s
under arrest, charged with attempting
to poison his son-in-law, S. D. Holmes.
Americus.—The cotton season will
soon be under full headway in this
vicinity. Dry weather and the in
tense heat are greatly injuring the
crop.
Rome.—Cablegrams from Manila to
the family of the late J. Lindsay John
son, who died there, state that the
body of Colonel Johnson, who was as
sistant director of the census for the
Philippine islands, will be sent to
Rome with a government escort. The
funeral party will sail by the first
ship, leaving there July 31 and ar
riving here in about five weeks.
Thomasville—The sweet potato
crop in this county is always a good
one, but this year it will be more
than doubled and bids fair to break all
records. Nothing grows more readily
here and all around the county the
young crop of potatoes is in fine con
dition. Already some full grown spec
imens of those intended for early mar
ket have been shown and they will
goon be ready for use,
Wayeross.—An evidence of the
' steady improvement in conditions in
recent months is found in the fact
that the pay roll at the Atlantic Coast
Line shops here is gradually return
ing to the old figures, being now morae
than SIOO,OOO a month.
Forsyth.—Local parties have ypur.
chased the Star cotton mills. New ma
chinery is being installed and the mills
will' soon be in operation for the first
time in many months. Other mills
here are making extensive improve
ments and employment will soon be
provided for several huadred extra
people.