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60,000 Loss
of Germans
in Baffle
London.—A Reuter dispatch from
JVtrograd gives the following official
Statement:
"The last of the German soldiers
have evacuated Huwalkt, (a govern
*nent of Russian Poland), carrying off
the valuables they had taken as loot.
They did not have time to force the
payment of a war levy of $50,000,
"It Is estimated that the Germans
lost 60,000 men In the battle of Au
gustowo.”
French and
British Win
London. A serious German check Is
reported this morning (Oct. 11th) at
Quart recht, near Wetteren, east of
Ghent, where, according to an Ostend
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
Company, 20,000 Germans have been
repulsed by Krench and British
troops.
INDICfINNES
FDR IH OF
NELMS GIRLS
San Antonio. Texas.—lndictments
charging murder snd conspiracy to j
murder were returned by the grand ;
Jury here today against Victor E. In
nes and his wife, of Eugene, Oregon,
In connection with the mysterious dis
appearance of Mrs. Rlnls Nelms Den
nis and her sister, Miss Res trice Nelms
of Atlanta, Ga.
The Nelms sitters were last seen
here In June, It Is charged, when they
were traced to a house rented and oc
cupied for the month of June by Innes
and his wife,
Mr. and Mrs. Innes admit they oc- j
cupled the houae In question but they
claim they never shw the Nelms sis
ters there. The accused are hi Jail
Pending the outcome of habeas cor- |
pus proceedings, set for hearing Oct. 5
kith.
WOULD PREFER
SEEIN9BRITAIN
PERISH
Lord High Chancellor of Eng
land Declares This War Will
End Spirit of Militarism
London, 4: SO p. m.—"Th* terma of
Peace will bp that tha dominant spirit
of militarism which haa perverted ev
ery talent of the Herman nation will
ha crushed and broken ao that thoae
who come after ua shall be free front
auoh terror."
Thla was the concluding remark of
* apeech delivered title afternoon nt
Newcastle by Vlarount Haldane, lord
hlsh chancellor, at a meet in* to In
fluence revruttlns.
Viscount Haldane claimed that
flreHt Britain waa fnthtln* because It
was a sacred duty He paid a tribute
to the great qualities of the Herman
ration but said It had been prostituted
to military usee and that tbla war was
to end that apirlt of militarism He
continued:
"If Hermany should annex Belgium
and crush France and annex Holland
and check Russia, then this country
would ba doomed Rather than sec
that acoompltshed I would see the
British perish honorably."
THE IDT FLIGHT
FROM ANTWERP
London, 3:35 p. sir The corres
pondent of the I'entral News at Ams
terdam deecrtbln* the wild flight of
the |ieople of Antwerp Into Holland
says one of the distressing features
was the large number of Insane per
sona released from the asylum Many
of these are now roaming the country
creating fear and exciting disorders
Many Hutch towns are filled with
Belgian refugees Flushing. Breda
Rotterdam. Rosendaal. The Hague.
Amsterdam. Terneuxen, Maeslrlcht
and Dordrtecht are so erowded with
strangers that the streets ara almos
i lippaaaatdc.
"ME. MIKE WALSH IS
IN AUGUSTA ON VISIT
Mr. Mike Walsh, a former Augusts
newspaper man and now a prortUuctit
New- Yorker Is In Augusts on a visit
I to relatives. In the tnetropolis Mr.
Walsh baa made a splendid record He
has been connected with the New Turk
Herald and at one ttme he lived In
Philadelphia, being connected with the
North American of that city. Hl*
many friends will give him a royal
welcome to Augusta.
Mystery Surrounds Sudden Death ot
Aged Man; Found Bottle Containing
What is Said To Be Muriatic Acid
Died Shortly after Eight O’clock Saturday Night. Coroner’s
Inquest Will Be Held Sunday Morning and Autopsy per
formed---Said Before Dying That the Bottle Was Given to
Him.
A mystery surrounding the death of
Mr. William Karris, aged 67 years, of
409 Greens alley, developed last night.
Investigation by the police, the coro
ner’s physician and the newspaper re
porters revealed nothing definite as to
the cause of death. Whether it was
suicide, murder or an accident remains
to he seen.
An attempt to ascertain the cause
of Mr. Farris’ death will he made at
a coroner’s Inquest, which has been
ordered held In the undertaking es
tablishment of R. E. Elliott at 10
o’clock this morning.
Mr. Farris died shortly after 8
o’clock last night at his residence,
where he had been brought about an
hour before while suffering from the
effects of something that had either
been given him or he had taken him
self. There are no marks or scars
on the body.
Left Home Ye»terday.
It Is understood that he made a few
statements after he was brought home,
out of which nothing seems to have
been gotten that can show even re
motely what caused Ids death. A state
ment taken last night from the widow
at the residence |ji to the effect that
Farris left home yesterday morning
with only five cents on his person; that
he remarked to Mrs. Baker, a neigh
bor, that he was going to town and
was going to get some paint for some
purpose; that he carried a bucket; that
the next she knew of him was whim
he was brought home shortly before he
died. She says she was told that he
Stepson ot the Slain Walker Greene
Kills His Step-Father’s Brother
John Greene, Employe of Mrs. Walker Greene, Killed By Mrs.
Greene’s Son By a Former Husband---Two Tragedies in a
Few Months of Each Other---Boy Gives Himself Up to
Sheriff Plunket.
Last night a hoy 17 years of ago
walked Into the Richmond County Jail
and announced that he had killed a
man and wanted to give himself up.
He gave tils name as Vernon Ander
son and slated that he had killed John
Greene, a white man, who worked on
the place of his mother, Mrs. Walker
Greene, about eight miles from the
city Just off the Knvannah Road.
Peculiar Interest attached to the trag
edy of last night because only a few
months ugo young Anderson's step
father, Walker Greene, was shot and
killed one Saturday night near his
home by Sam Rhodes, his brother-in
law. Rhodes Is now In Jail, having
been Indicted by the grand Jury for
murder, lie will ho tried at the ap
proaching session of the superior
court.
According to the story, which An
derson told Sheriff Plunkett, he and
John Greene, who had been working
for his mother since the killing of his
stepfather, came to the city to the
circus yesterday. They returned to
wards night and It seems that Mrs.
Greene remarked upon the fact that
the mule they had driven was wet
with sweat. Thereupon John Greene
got msd and cursed Mrs. Greene, and
the hoy procured a plctol and ahot
Merchants Say “Debt Paying Day”
in Augusta Was a Fine Success
Collections Were Good and Merchants Helped Matters Along
By Paying Out Money That Was Paid In-- Rotary Dollars
Much in Evidonce.
Pay a Debt Day waa a fine success
In Augusta. Merchants on Broad
Street stated last night unhesitatingly
that their collections Were far better
than they had expected and that the
day was a splendid one. both In re
gard to the amount of goods sold and
muuey collected. Several merchants
staled that they did not think they
collected any more than they ordi
narily would have, hut the great ma
jority said that they were delighted
with "Debt Paying Day," and beltev
yd that It had done a great deal of
good. The Merchants stated that they
had paid out the greater portion ot
the money they took In because they
wished to enter Into the eptrlt of the
affair and were only too glad to pay
their bllle about town when they
themselves were being paid.
The Rotary Club dollars were in
evidence almost everywhere. Ther<*
was hardly a merchant approached on
the subject of "IVbt Paying Day" who
did not say that he hnd come In con
tact with one or more Riftary dollars
and each said that he kept It going.
One merchant stated that he had
received a Rotary dollar with nine
DEATH IN PATH
OF TORNADO
Chanuts, Kaa.—Five persons were
killed and twenty Injured in a tornado
mhlcli swept a path 1* miles wlda
through Wilson and Neosho counties
early today.
Total of Six.
Joplin, Ma. Naomi Dserfelt. twelve
years old and her sister Esther, nine,
who were Injured In a tornado which
spept a farming district near here last
night, died today of their Injuries,
bringing the deuth roll up to six The
parents and two other children of th#
IVerfelt faintly were killed Instantly.
Dorothy, six years old. another child,
Is fatally Injured, physicians say.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
was seen ver> early Saturday after
noon by a colored woman who oper
ates a restaurant not far away walking
by the place staggering, as If about to
fall, and that he was taken into the
restaurant by the woman and kept
there until the early evening, when,
possibly on account of his condition
growing worse, he was carried to his
home. It may have been, however, that
his address could not he located until
that time.
Mrs. Farris stated that a whiskey
bottle was turned over to her by the
colored woman of the restaurant. The
bottle was partially filled with some
fluid, which Dr. Montgomery, the coro
ner’s physislan, states Is In his opinion
muriatic add. Mrs. Farris said she
could not hear to hold the mohth of
the bottle to her hose, It was so strong.
Hhe turned the bottle and contents over
to the coroner's physician.
Mrs. Farris was asked if Mr. Far
ris had ever threatened to take his own
life, to which she replied that ‘‘it had
been a long time ago.” She stated the
only cause that could hav,; driven him
to such an act Is poor health which
he lias suffered for some time.
The deceased Is survived by three
brothers, Messrs. Belton Farris, of
Florida; Howell Farris, of Virginia,
arid James Farris, of Wrens, Ga., be
sides his widow.
The funeral will he held at 4:30 0.
in. Sunday nfternoon from the resi
dence. Rev. Thomas Walker officiating.
The Interment will be In the Westvtew
Cemetery.
him twice. Evidently the hoy thought
that. Greene was dead when he start
ed for the Jail, but he wasn't.
Dr. A. C. Wade received a hurry
call from the Greeno place last night
and when he arrived John Greene had
been dead only a few moments. Dr.
Wade said that Greene had been shot
twice through the hack, one of the
bullets penetrating the region of the
heart. Dr. Wade said the mother of j
the young Anderson staetd that the
hoy and Greene had gone to the circus
and had returned about night, that
she remarked upon the fact that the 1
mule had been driven rapidly because
H was covered with sweat, that this
angered Greene, who cursed her. She
says the hoy heard it and he and
Greene hud some words. Anderson
went to the house, so It Is alleged,
procured a pistol and shot Greene
twice in the back while the latter was
silting on the hack piazza.
Young Anderson refused to discuss 1
the case with newspaper men last
night. He and tHe slayer of his step- t
father are under the same roof and
each will probably fare trial at the
same term of court, assuming that the
grand Jury Indicts Anderson. The
hoy Is a son of Mrs. Walker Greene |
by a former marriage.
endorsements on it and he immediate
ly sent it to another merchant lu pay
ment of a bill with the request that
It be speeded on Its way to still an
other merchant.
Those having In possession the Ro
tary dollars are requested to bring
them to The Herald office Monday
morning and the story of how fast
some of thoi ' dollars really traveled
on Saturday will be told In The Herald
of tomorrow.
The merchants were enthusiastic in
the endorsement of the "Debt Paying
Day” proposition.
Frequent expressions like these
were heard. "I think The Herald has
accomplished a gerat deal with the
’Debt Paying Day’ Idea and the paper
unquestionably created a sentiment
for debt paying that only continued
hammering through the columns of a
newspaper can creat •. 1 think the
Idea splendid and our collections to
day were far and above those of last
year for the same day.
Merchants in every line were Inter
viewed with Hie same result, that it
debt paying day was a fine success
and they are loud In their pratee of
the plan.
THINK SPINNERS
SOON BUY MORE
Now Orleans.—January sank to 7.8 S In 1
the liquidation trading In the cotton
market today but *iH>ta mere unchanied
at 7 1-4 for middling. Toward the ut
the day eellers wanted TIP for January.
The hellef seemed to he growing that 1
spinners would ImXesae their purchases,
before long and that the spot market
would show more strength. Thle caused
a better testing among holders of long V
coat reels.
Exports mere not on the Urge scale
of the enrlv part of the week, no for
eign den mores being retorted while i
ci'astmlse shipments more oub sue
heirs. I
——. ißWaSWieirgiFAi.irews 'ss&savL-sJ. *
Above—Man standing in hole made when bomb dropped by German aeroplane exploded.
Below—A German flyer brought down by French marksmen.
Paris.—Aviators Frantz and Quenault of the French aviation corps, have been given the decoration of the
Legion of Honor in recognition of their recent daring service in bringing down a German aeroplane. The Ger
man machine had flown over the French lines and Frantz and Quenault gave chase. Their rapid fire gun soon
wrecked the German craft and the Kaiser’s aviators were killed In the fall of their machine.
Men of Augusta:
You all know us—know
if
MEN'S FALL
ALCO SUITS
AT
$15.01)
Equal those
offered by most
at, S2O.OO—“A
Try-on is Proof.”
MS CREARY’S
German Aero Brought Down By French
“HOME OF GOOD CLOTHES.”
that we always work to win your
trade on a basis of “money’s worth or
money back” —but, we know, to keep
your trade we must keep ahead of all
in values, in service and style—
So Here’s "Value
Proof”
Of Our Right to Your Clothes
Trade
We bought these Fall Men’s neces
sities before the War in Europe started
—at before-war prices and we sell
them to you at these unbeatable prices,
giving you the benefit of our “War
sight.” •
Our Boys’ Clothes
Are made by the same high class
makers as our men’s garments. The
same style and quality.
Prices from $5 to sls
i ~n i 1,.
Men’s Fall Underwear.
Men’s Fall Shirts.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER TT.
Real Estate
For Sale by
G. P. Talbott
On 300 block of Lincoln
Street, a one-story house, con
taining five rooms, bath and
pantry, electric lights and gas.
lot 45x83 feet. Already rented
at S2O per month. With a few
improvements can be rented for
much more. Will pay 10 per
cent dividends.
Price $2,700
Double tenement, with five
rooms each. Water, gas and
electricity. It’s on Watkins
Street, and a great big bargain.
Price $2,800
One of the best homes on
lower Ellis Street is In the 200
block, with modern conveni
ences. The selling price is very
low, as owner wants to leave
town. Lot Is 45x150 feet.
Price $3,000
A Bohler Avenue residence
that is always rented at a good
figure. It’s a corner lot and
only one block from the street
car line. Size of lot 100x2f/l
feet. Kitchen In yard. Model
conveniences. Property worth
more than asked for.
Price $3,830
Here Is a real “sure-nuff’
bargain. It’s a store and dwel
ling combined. The two rent
tor $50.00 per month, but that
rental can be Increased. It is a
brick building on the 600 block
of Broad Street, and on the
right side of Broad Street at
Price $5,250
Three-story brick house on
600 block of Reynolds Street,
containing 1$ rooms. House in
goo<% condition, and has water
and electric lights. Lot 55x180
feet. Several small houses In
back yard that bring in good
rent from desirable colored peo
ple. It'e a splendid boarding
house proposition, that can later
be converted Into buelneee
property. Close to railroad.
Levee will not hurt It, but will
enhance the property.
Price $6,000
A residence on Greene Street.
In one of the most desirable lo
calities, with superb neighbor-,
hood. Has eight rooms, with
all modern conveniences and
accommodations. It can be
bought for a very email cash
payment, and the balance to
suit the purchaser. Large lot
ind necessary outhousea.
Price $7,500
G. P. Talbott
Real Estate
511 Leonard Bldg.'
Office Phone 3057.
Home Phone 1191.