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Two Clashes Occurred North Of Browns- '
ville And Call For Help Was ‘
Sent Out ;
U. S. TROOPS ORDERED OUT
Many Mexicans Reported In American
Territory—Several Mexicans
Reported Killed
Brownsville, Texas.-—Mexican out
laws and Texas rangers and county
officers engaged in two battles near
Norias, Texas, sixty miles north of
Brownsville, according to reports re
ceived here, The telegraph operator
at Norias sent out a call for help.
Five American ranchmen were
wounded, two seriously, and several
Mexican outlaws were killed and
wounded in a battle between Texas
rangers and American ranchers and
a band of Mexican bandits.
The outlaws, estimated to number
between thirty and fifty, attacked a
ranch house shortly before dark.
Fourteen ranchmen barricaded them
selves and defendea the place until
ten o'clock, when the Mexicans \vith-f
drew temporarily. Shortly after the
bandits had withdrawn gixteen Tex
as rangers and armed civiliang ar
rived. |
Later, the Mexicans returned, un
aware that reinforcements had arriv
ed. They again charged the house, |
and several were killed. They then
retreated again.
Sheriff A. Y. Baker of Hidalgo coun
ty is gquoted as saying 300 Mexicans
have crossed the Rio Grande f{rom
Mexico, fifty-five miles west of
Brownsville, and are now traveling
over Hidalgo county in parties of
three and four, apparently making
their way to some concentrating point.
Fritz George, night watchman at
the Lyford, Texas, jail, was shot and
seriously wounded. The act is charg
ed to Mexican outlaws. A party of
farmers working in a field near Ly
ford also was fired on by unknown
parties about midnight, it is reported.
Norias is located in a rolling, sand
hill country, which makes fighting
with horsges very difficult. It is an
nounced at Fort Brown that four
companies of United States infantry
were rushed here from Fort Mclntosh
an army post near Laredo.
RUSSIA REJECTS
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The e Gazefté learns from an
unimpeachable source}that the Ger
man emperor made an offer of peace
to Russia through<the king of Den
mark. The answer sent to the king
stated that the question of peace ne
gotiations could not be raised at the
present time,
Petrograd.—The report that Germa
ny had made peace proposal to Russia
became known in official circles here
several days ago and was discussed
freely in the lobbies of the duma,
says the Vechernee Vremya.
“We learn on good authority,” says
the newspaper, “that Germany through
Denmark proposed to Russia a sepa
rate peace, Russia to receive Galicia,
while Germany would retain the west
ern district of Poland. A representa
tive of the foreign office categori
cally denied that there was the re
motest possibility of any peace nego
tiations. In the lobbies of (ue duma
the proposal Was dismissed as ‘un
worthy of serious consideration.'”
CARRANZA IS RESOLVED
TO FIGHT INTERVENTION
Vera Cruz.--General Carranza's at
titude towards anp intervention by
foreign powers in Mexican affairs
was indicated in a message \\'hich'
he sent to one of his military chiefs
who had assured him of loyalty in |
such a contingency, lam confldvm."‘
said General Carranza, “that the sit
uation in our country soon will be
adjusted in a favorable and dignified
manner, and in an adverse case Mex
jcang will do their duty.”
SHELL HITS DUNKIRK
EVERY FIVE MINUTES
Dunkirk, France.—~The bombard
ment of Dunkirk by the great Ger
man gun operating from Flanders
permits the carrying on of the busi
nest of the city only four and a half
minutes out of every five. There is
only one gun being used in this bom
bardment, and the shells come regu
larly every five minutes, The people
take advantage of the interval be
tween an explosion and the coming
of another shell to transact business.
GAMBLERS ARE RAIDED
BY LOUISIANA TROOPS
New Orleans,—On orders from Gov
ernor Hall, state militia swooped down
upon Southport at night and took into
custody the proprietor and employees
of one gambling house and about one
hundred and fifty patrons. Southport,
Just beyond the city limits in Jeffer
son parish, is the Mecca for the gam
bling element of New Orleans, Al
~ the paraphernalia was loaded into au
tomobiles and taken to Washington Ar
tillery armory.
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Mr. Hengstier is the chief of the
state department’s consular bureau,
which looks after the handling of all
the routine work connected with the
administration of our consulates in
every foreign country. His bureau
looks after the protection of American
citizens abroad, the settlement of es
tates of Americans dying abroad, han
dles the expenditures «f the consular
service, sanitary reports, lesuance of
bills of heaith, all questions invoiv
ing the certification of goods shipped
to this country and keeps an efficiency
record of every member of the consu.
lar corps. The personnel of the bu
reau consists of the chief, 16 clerks
and two messengers. Mr, Hengstler
was born in Middletown, 0., in 1876.
MEMBER OF FEDERAL RESERVE
BOARD SAYS BUSINESS CON
DITIONS ARE BETTER
South Warned To Do Nothing To Em
barrass Conduct Of Interna
tional Affairs
— \
Washington.—Conditions that con
front the South in handling the 1915
cotton crop and the conditions a year
ago are contrasted in an analysis by |
W. P. G. Harding of the federal re
serve board, in the current issue of
the federal reserve bulletin.
The position of cotton is much
stronger, financial and other condi
tions are much better than a year ago
in Mr. Harding's opinion, and if the
people of the South will not weaken
their position “by unwise action” they
have little to fear, “The cotton tragedy
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f#erious than a drama,
" Mr. Harding warns the South in its
desire to see a broad market estab
lished for cotton to do nothing to em
barrass President Wilson in his con
duct of international affairs. “it
should be remembered,” says Mr. Har
lding, “that the president owes a high
er duty to the South, to the whole
country and to mankind, at this junc
ture than the establishment of cotton
values. Serious complications between
thig country and any great foreign
power would certainly not enhance cot
ton values, The president may be
trusted to do his duty as he sees it,
j‘regardloss of private appeals or pub
lie elamor.”
Business conditions throughout the
country continue to show improve
‘ment, said the monthly bulletin. Un
til crops are harvested the full meas
ure of this improvement cannot be
judged, the buletin added.
~ Cotton prospects are bright, and in
several reserve distriets war orders
have brought a boom to industries.
There is a tendency to improvement
in the Atlanta distriet, but conditions
do not show material change. Cot
ton mills are at full capacity, and new
lmills are under construction.
Georgia Bank Looted By Bandit
Rockmart, Ga.—The Rockmart bank
was looted by an unidentified bandit
and the assistant cashier, Howard T.
Fambrough, locked in the vault, from
which he was rescued, almost suffo
cated, over an hour later, when his
cries attracted passers-by, The sum
stolen is estimated at $3,600. It is
said to be fully protected by burglary
insurance. All bank officials except
Mr. Fambrough were out for lunch
when the robbery took place,
Claims Of England To Be Combatted
Washington.—The state department
has assembled a mass of statisties to
refute the British assumption that in
creased exportation from the United
States to Holland and Scandinavian
countries indicates that some of these
goods are finding their way into Ger
many and Austria. The figures \xl‘l
be included in a preliminary draft of
the reply to the three British notes
made public which is being prepared
for President Wilson, A study of
trade conditions has been made by the
state department,
Man And $22,000 Missing
New York.—The police have sent
out a generul alarm for Edward C.
Kindred, assistant cashier of Booth
& Flynn, a contracting firm construet
ing the new subway, who disapepared
with $22,000, the weekly payroll. Kin
dred and an assistant were sent to a
bank for the payroll. The firm al
leges that the money was obtained
and that when the assistant returned
to the bank from the street to cash
a draft that had been forgotten, Kin
dred drove off in an automobile in
a bhurry.
CHARLTON COUNTY HERALD. FOLKSTON, GEORGIA
Czar's Forces Have Evacuated The Vistula
River Line With Exception Of
Movogeorgievsk
Russians Are Putting Every Obstacle
In Path Of The Pursuing
Germans
Vienna.—The occupation of Ivango
rod by Austro-German forces is an
nounced in an official telegram from
the front. Ivangorod is located at the
confluence of the Vistula and Vieprz
rivers. It is situation on the railroad
running to Lukow and Brest-Litovsk
and also on a line connecting with
Warsaw,
The Germans hold Warsaw, capital
of Poland, and the third largest ecity
in the Russian empire. Bavarian
troops have entered the city, having
taken successively the Blonie lines
and the outer and inner fortresses of
the city itself, the Russians fighting
only rear guard action to allow their
main army to escape.
With the exception of the great en
trenched camp of Novogeorgievsk, the
Russians have evacuated the whole
line of the Vistula river, Ivangorod,
the southern fortress, having fallen
into the hands of the Austro-German
army, the Russians are making their
way eastward to the Brest-Litovsk
line.
The decision of the general staff to
leave the garrison in Novogeorgievsk
is announced in Petrograd dispatches.
The object is to deprive the Germans
of the use of railway communications
and of the Vistula river for bringing
up supplies for their armies.
Novogeorgievsk is situated at the
junction of the Vistula, Narew and
WKkra rivers to the northwest of War
saw. It has two powerful bridge
heads, eight citadels and 74 redoubts
containing 11 and 12-inch batteries. It
is calculated by military observers
here that an army corps can hold out
there for many months, as the camp
is protected by massive earthworks,
which doubtless have been enlarged
and improved since the Russians were
compelled to begin their retirement.
The laying of the siege to Novogeor
gievsk may prove one of the most in
teresting operations of the war, as it
doubtless will show whether earth
works are less susceptible to the fire
of high explosives than are cupla
forts. ALEr !
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Nish, Servia.—Another step in the
effort to bring about a Balkan agree
ment so that Bulgaria, Roumania and
Greece may be mustered on the side
of the allies was taken here by the
ministers of Russia, Great Britain,
France and Italy, who made collect
ive representations to Nikola Fach
itch, the Servian premier.
An official communication issued re
cently says the ministers’ representa
tions were of the friendliest charac
ter and were made ‘“in the hope of
avoiding friction between the Balkan
states and in establishing an entente
between them, thus bringing nearer
the final success of the allies in the
war.”
The collective representations made
by the ministers at Nish of the qua
druple entente powers coincide with
the pressure brought to bear on the
}Greek premier, Mr. Gounaris, when
‘the British, French, Russian and Ital
ian ministers at Athens made united
representations to the Greek govern
ment regarding the political situation.
| REDEEMED MONEY WORTH
| $1,541,131,110 DESTROYED
Washington, — Redeemed paper
money with a nominal value of §l.-
541,131,110 in 377,364,188 pieces was
destroyed by the treasury department
during the fiscal year ended June 30.
Officials estimate the notes weighed
590 tons and that about five million
dollars’ worth was destroyed each
day. Regulations for the destruction
of paper money have recently been
codified and revised by the treasury
department.
Cattle Men To Meet
Birmingham, Ala.-—-Extensive prep
arations for the entertainment of the
Southern Cattlemen's Association con
vention to be held in Birmingham,
Ala, August 18 and 19, are being
made. Delegates from all Southern
states to the number of 2,000 will be
in attendance, and an effort will be
made to have located somewhere 'n
the South some large packing plants,
A delegation of Chicago puckers will
attend. It is planned to establish a
large cattlemen's bank to advance
loans on cattle,
Negroes Hanged As Spectators Sang
Jackson, Miss.——Three negroes were
hanged for murder at Starkville, Miss,
A crowd estimated to number several
thousand persons witnessed the pul
lie execution of Peter Bolen and Jim
Seales, convicted of killing another
negro. Bunyan Walter was hanged
at Fayetteville for the murder of Tom
Seals. At the request of the doomed
negroes, the crowd at Starkville, in
which there were many negroes, sang
“There 18 & Land of Pure Delight”
just before the trap was sprung. The
gallows was bullt in the open.
AMERICAS AGREE
" (N PEACE PLAN
United States And Other Amercan Re-!
publics Reach An Agreement |
Regarding Mexico |
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AM T 0 BE RATIFIED
PROGR IFIED
There May EBe Joint Armed Interven- ‘
tion Under Certain Ensuing |
Circumstances ‘
Washington,—North and South
American powers have agreed on a
definite plan for dealing with the
Mexican problem.
This information came from Secre
tary Lansing, who, though he would
not discuss details, said he was de
cidedly encouraged over the outlook.
Confidence expressed by officials
generally that the conferees repre
senting the United States, Brazil, Ar
gentina, Chile, Bolivia, Guatemala and
Uruguay will shape a course likely to
‘restore constitutional government in
Mexico, is due to the fact that all
agree that most of the people of the
republic are sick of war and, with en
conragement from friendly powers,
will join in a movement to clean!
house. A large part of the country‘
and a vast majority of the people have ‘
not been involved in the fighting that
followed the overthrow of Huerta.
Only the fear of reprisals by the mili
tary chieftains has kept the people
in subjection, confidential agents have
reported to President Wilson.
There has been talk of joint armed
intervention to quiete any leader who
insists on remaining in the field with
military forces.
Secretary Lansing talked optimisti
cally about the situation. “When the
conference adjourned here,” he said,
“jt had reached the point where a
very definite policy with regard to the
solution of the Mexican problem had
‘been agreed upon. The conference
|was adjourned because 1 wished to
iconsult President Wilson regarding
this agreement. 1 have consulted him
through correspondence, and we are
now ready to resume deliberations and
to proceed with the working out of
‘details based upon the original agree
ment.”
WILL BE NO JOINT ACTION
BY THE UNITED STATES
This Country Will Continue To Act
Alone In Regard To Neutral
Rights Of Nations
~ Washington.—The _ United States
neutral trade. It was learned that
negotiations begun by the Swedish le
gation here to obtain American co
operation in proposed concerted ac
tion of neutrals to protest against the
British orders-in-council have brought
no results.
The American state department re
jected a previous suggestion by Swe
den for a joint note of protest and the
latest proposal contemplated identi
cal notes.
The plan, contemplating joint pro
test by the United States, the Scan
dinavian countries and Holland, was
rejected on the ground that the United
States could not involve itself in any
agreement that might be interpreted
as contracting “entangling European
alliances.”
SUBMARINE OF ALLIES SINKS
MAMMOTH TURK BATTLESHIP
Undersea Boat Of The Allies Torpe
does The Khoyr-Ed-Din Barba
rossa-—Turks Admit Loss
Constantinople.—The Turkish bat
tleship Khoyr-Ed-Din Barbarossa, of
9,000 tong displacement, formerly the
German warship Kurfurst Friedrich
Wilhelm, has been sunk by a subma
rine of the allies, according to an offi
cial announcement by the Turkish
government.
A majority of the officers and men
of the battleship were saved.
The official statement telling of the
loss of the battleship said:
“The loss of the Barbarossa, which
was sunk, however regrettable in it
self, does not affect us excessively ex
cept that it places the strength of
our ships compared to that of the en
emy in the ratio of one to ten”
Governor Goethals To Retire
New York.—Gen. George W. Goe
thals’ resignation as governor of the
Panama canal zone, recently sent to
Washington, designated November 1
as the date of his retirement, accord
ing to announcement by him upon
his arrival here from Cristobal. He
rezigned because he believes his work
at Panama is done now that the canal
I= operating successfully. General
Goethals has spent seven years in
Panama. Although he will no longer
be connected with the canal, he will
retain his commission in the army.
Italy To Furnish 650,000 Fresh Troops
New York.--Italy will send 650,000
fresh troops to either France or the
Dardanelles within the next three
weeks, according to Capt. Vietor Del
Franctis of the Italian army, who ar
rived on the steamer Duca d'Aosta.
“There were 500,000 troops in Turin
when | left,” said Capt. Del Franctis,
“and 150,000 more in Taranto, the na
val base. Between 150 and 200 large
transports were ready to convey the
troops to where they were most need
ed. The captain will purchase leather
goods for the Italian army.
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Dr. Alexis Carre! of the Rockefeller
institute, working with Dr. Henry D.
Dakin in the French military hospital
at Compiegne, has discovered a new
antiseptic which, if applied in time,
is said to make infection in wounds
impossible,
ENGLAND CLAIMS AMERICAN
PROTEST IS NOT AT ALL
SUSTAINABLE
Holde Changed Conditicns Of Warfare
Require New Agpiication Cf
Principies
Washington.—Great Britain’s reply}
to the latest American representations
against interferences with neutral
commerce, made public, rejects entire
ly the contenticn that the orders in
council are illegal and justifies the
British ccourse as wholly within in
ternational law.
“Unsustainable either in point of
law or upon principles of international
equity,” is the Bri}ish reply to the
American protest against the blockade
- Changed conditions of warfare, the
British note contends, require a new
application of the principles of inter
national law. The advent of the sub
marine, the airship, alleged German
atrocities in Belgium are cited as jus
tification for extreme measures. The
blockade is justified on the contention
that the universally recognized funda
mental principle of a blockade is that
a belligerent is entitled to cut off “by
effective means the sea-borne com
merce of his enemy.”
The note reiterates that Great Brit
ain will continue to apply the orders
complained of, although not without
every effort to avoid embarrassing
neutrals, and observes that American
statistics show that any loss in trade
with Germany and Austria has been
more than over-balanced by the in
crease of other industrial activities
due to the war,
In the general reply to the Ameri
can representations against the orders
in council, Sir Edward Grey, the for
eign minister, addressing Ambassador
Page, begins by expressing the hope
that he may convince the administra
ticn in Washington “that the measures
we have announced are not only rea
sonable and necessary in themselves,
but constitute no more than an adap
tation of the old principles of block
ade to the peculiar circumstances with
which we are confronted.”
“1 need scarcely dwell,” wrote Sir
Edward, “on the cobligations incum
bent upon the allies to take every
step in their power to overcome their
common enemy in view of the shock
ing violation of the recognized rules
and principles of civilized warfare
of which he has been guilty during
the present siruggle.”
« New Police Chief For Atlanta
’ Atlanta.—James L. Beavers, sus
pended chief of police, was demoted
to the office of captain by the police
commission at an adjourned session
which had been agreed on after the
commission spent all of Monday night
‘tryln; to reach an ag@*ement. By a
vote of seven to five the board voted
to demote Beavers to a captaincy and
following this sction Capt. W. M.
Mayo, who has been acting chief since
Beavers was suspended, was elected
chief by a vote of nine to three. Cap
tain Poole received three votes,
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To Aid In Marketing Cotton
Washington,—Preliminary plans de
signed to make available the resourc
es of the federal reserve system in
the annual fall movement of the cot
ton and other crops have been worked
out by the federal reserve board. In
a letter addressed to regional banks
the board pointed out how the crop
movement could be financed. The
board calls special attention to the
marketing of the cotton crop because
it is “clearly to the common interests
that credits based upon this crop bhe
protected es far as possible.
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LITTLE ITEMS OF
STATE INTEREST
Savannah.—The nineteenth annual
convention of Women's Clubs of Geor
gia will meet in Savannah October 26
to 29, inclusive.
Savannah.—Miss Cleon Gannon and
Miss Laverne Howell of Macon had
narrow escapes from drowning at Ty
bee. They were rescued by the life
savers at one of the hotels.
Augusta,—The Augusta poultry
show will be held November 8 to 12,
inclusive, and will, as usual, be held
in connection with the Georgia-Caro
lina fair. Unusual preparations “are
being made for both events.
Washington.—Congressman Tribble
has been in Wilkes county for several
days in an effort to find whether or
net the recent order of the postoffice:
department that automobiles be used
for the rural free delivery is practi
cable. His opinion is that the inno
vation will not be successful. Wilkes
has a lot of red clay hills that the
automobiles will find hard to get over.
Brunswick.—Judge J. P. Highsmith
of the superior court, in passing sen
tence on two negroes who pleaded
guilty to selling wihskey, made the
statement that not another fine would
be imposed on any person,. Wwhite
or colored, convicted in this county
on that charge, but they would be
compelled to serve a twelve months’
sentence on the chaingang.
Atlanta.—Atlanta stock dealers are
greatly disappointed over the action of
the inspectors of the British govern
ment in turning down from fifty to
sixty per cent of the mules that are
being offered for service in the Eurc
pean war. Two hundred head of mules
~were inspected at the Miller Union
stock yards, and only ninety were ac
cepted. Inspections at the stock yards
of 1. N. Ragsdale were followed by
a2bout the same result.
Louisville—Hon. James Stapleton
of the county board has taken charge
of the work of improving the proposed
route of the Dixie highway through
Jefferson county and labor already ac
complished gives promise that the
result will be highly acceptable. The
work has been started at Washington
county line and a gang of forty con
victs, with the best mules and heavi
est machinery, is going hard at it.
Cordele.—The city dads of Cordele
have passed an “anti-basket” ordi
nance. The ordinance prohibits cooks
and other servants from carrying
foodstuffs from residences of their em
ployers without written permission for
so doing. Any violator of this law
and any cook or other servant caught
with a pan, bucket, or basket carrying
foodstuff and not having a permit at
the time will be held amenable to the
law. 4 i
Athens.—Cobb-Deloney camp of
Confederate veterans, of Athens, af
‘ter a lively fight on the question, has
decided to remain a member of the
general United Confederate Veterans”
association, reconsidering its recent
action to withdraw, quit paying dues.
to the general organization and send
ing official representatives to the state
and . general reunions. This is one
of the oldest camps in the South, and
several of its members were the first
Confederate veteran to receive the
“Cross of Honor,” which was the
thought of a wife of a member of this
camp, the late Judge A. S. Erwin.
Atlanta.—Governor Harris has of
fered a reward of §WO for the cap
ture of unknown parties who have
dynamited cattle-dipping vats used for
eradicating cattle tick in Lumpkin
county. Two vats have been dynamit
ed in Lumpkin county within a week.
One was blown up on the night of
July 31, and the other was destroyed
by the same means on the night of
August 3. No cause is known for the
act, and every effort is being made
to apprehend the dynamiters. The
vats were owned jointly by the state
and county.
Athens.—J. D. Mobley Kkilled him
self here in a very unusual manner.
He tied a string around the trigger of
his shotgun and formed a loop at the
other end. He then told his family
that if they did not want to see him
kill himself that they had better leave
the room. Part of them left, while
others tried in vain to dissuade him.
He pointed the muzzle of the gun
to his left breast, put his toe in the
loop of the string and pressed forward.
The explosion followed, and the load
tore through his heart,
Thomasville.—~The south Georgia
mule is quaking in his boots, figura
tively speaking, just now, as he does
not know whether his hide will be
thick enough to withstand the bullets
of the contending armies in Europe
or whether some torpedo will send
him down to form a new diet for the
whales. Agents for the British govern
ment are advertiging all through this
section for a large quantity of mules,
and many of the farmers are of the
opinion it will be better to dispose
of their stock of them now and save
feeding them and buy more when it
is time to plow again for the new
crops, Of course, the sales will only
be made if suitable prices can be ob
tained.
Jackson.~~The Farmers' Union
warehouse in Jackson, one of the larg
est in the state, will be still further
enlarged by the building of another
room. This was decided at the annual
meeting of the stockholders and was
made necessary by the growing busi
ness,
Rome—The grave of the late Mrs,
Woodrow Wilson was decorated with
flowers Friday, the first anniversary
of her death. President Wilson has
been unable to vigit Rome since Mrs,
Wilson's death, but it is said that he
expects to make a visit there during
this year.