The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 246, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 14, 1914 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL. IX. MEMBER OF UNITED PRESS.
BALLINGER, RUNNELS COUN TY, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1914
CAR ‘LOAD MOON BROS.
NUMBER 246
BUGGIES, PHEATONSAND SURRIES
Just Placed on Exhibition at Our Store
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Master Vibrators $5.95. Dry Batteries 20c. Gasoline per gallon 11c. Exchange on
Presto Tanks $1.50. We sell you a Presto for light $12.00.
VAN PELT, KIRK & MACK
Ballinger Auto Co.
Reported Portugal Declares
War on Germany Today
MURDER,
RAPINE,
CRUELTY
‘Arizona Will
Take Care of
Bonier1”
By Karl H. Von Wiegand, United Press Correspondent.
ftu i m itrn Pres* •
PHOENIX, Oct. 14.—Governor
■jf A\TTri OT>T TT~> /"'I (~\ 4- A ; Hunt refused to modify his ordc" 'b'Wrtar; of War Garrison in!
HjTOJD U JrCVjT UCt. for a mobili2ation of the stat- :ms'v''ri,'~ his P-h-gram, replied |
* troops. 111 *:t ‘lu i’i- is no need of additional!
He declared today, “I am a man nM ....., l,onl,‘r- FouKrn i
-f +U e j i ' r<»«>i»h ol eavairv ale now station '
of peace, but if the federal gov X;„.„ „ „ lass.
protect the bor _
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woe across the fertile plains of *. Iw «»« ^ Says %
®®rnson. Garrison today sent a vigorous re-
^nite*rPnuM- quest to Governor Hunt of Ariz-
_ WASHINGTON, Oct. 14. — A ona, asking that he not send the
dispatch received here from Gov- state militia to the Mexican bord-
ernor Hunt stated that a critical er.
situation similar in many respects Ho pointed out that by sending
to that at Naco, Arizona, where the state troops to the border to
two Americans have been wound- quiet disturbances among the
LONDON, Oct. 14.—News agency
dispatches from Madrid, Spain, today
said that it is reported from Lisbon
that Portugal has declared war on
Germany.
The message was passed by the offi-
cial press bureau here but its authen-
i;i.ii.!i.i.- miiiii,, is i„.i„» nmi.iiiz-jticity is not guaranteed.
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Hordes of Cossacks left a
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bleeding trail of desolation and
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East Prussia as they retreated
after a defeat by the Germans
into Russian Poland.
• I traveled over a country
which told the stories of mur-
der, rapine, and cruelty beyond
belief. The Russian hordes
satisfied their lust by violating
scores of defenseless peasant
women, some of whom were
sixty and seventy years old.
Catholic sisters and young
girls bore cruelties worse than
death.
The Russians as they re-
treated killed every man they
encountered of military age.
Success Confess
Congress Summoned
LONDON, Oct. 14.—The Portugese
Cabinet has summoned Congress to
meet next Friday for the purpose of
voting on a bill for tne complete mobi-
lization of the Portugese soldiers.
It is reported that the German min-
................ ,h(|ister has already left Lisbon and that
coexists at Douglass. ib-xioans. and, a .novo .night Prc-1German residents of Portugal are anti"
cipating Portugal’s entry into the war
with the allies very soon. Many of
the German residents of the country
are said to be fleeing to their native
land.
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The governor said that all the cipitate a war with Mexico.
Cotton
Corner
Feared
By United Press •
DALLAS, Oct. 14.—Fearing a
cotton corner, local bankers are
holding up subscriptions to the
Saint Louis underwriting pool,
for the raising of a $150,000,000
cotton fund.
Mob
Hangs
Negro
BRITISH
TRAWLERS
ARE SUNK?
BELGIAN
MINISTER
ASKS HELP
/(;' Unttnt Press'
Killing
By United Press'
PARIS, Oct. 14.—Success of the
French forces against the German
encircling movement in Belgium
Tty Unitc<l I’rt**
CHICAGO, Oct. 14.—Ruth Mc-
Cullough, aged 24, a snake charm-
er and vaudeville actress, and
ftfj Vnitm Prraa
WASHINGTON, Oet. 14.
condition in Belgium is so serious
that tin* Belgian minister has
again called tile state department,
for relief.
Food supplies intended for re
lief of famine stricken Belgium,
now are held in England because
Germany will not reply to the
I nited States request for the as
suranee that the supplies "ill not
be seized by the Germans.
ANGLETON, Tex., Oct. 14.—A
mob which overpowered the jail-
er, hanged Jim Durfee, a negro,
today in this town. *
Durfee was convicted of mur-
dering Mrs. J. M. Seitz.
Governor Colquitt had commut-
ed the hanging to life imprison-
The nient. The city is quiet.
Bv l/nlteo Pres.«•
LONDON, Oct. 14.—It is re-
ported here that two British traw-
lers were sunk in tin* North Sea.
CONGRESSTO
8E DELAYED
A WEEK
GERMANS
LOSE TWO
VESSELS
By United Press'
PETROGRA1), Oct. 14.—The
loss of the Russian cruiser Pallada
and its crew of 570 men was to-
day offset by the sinking of two
German submarines of a fleet
whose torpedoes sank the Pallada.
This was the official statement of
the Russian war offiee today.
JACK FROST HERE
TUESDAY NIGHT
&
300,000 BALES
SHORT THIS YEAR
IN SHIPPING
FIGHTING IS
IN PROGRESS
AT WARSAW
The government weather guage
dropped to 35 degrees Tuesday
night, and left a light coat of
•lack Frost on the high places. It
is claimed that 40 degrees weath-
er will produce frost, but the frost
Tuesday night was very mild and
not heavy enough to damage any-
thing.
Quite a number of farmers have
By United Press-
was claimed in this afternoon’s Clarence McCormick, eighteen
communique which was telegraph- years old, a clerk, confessed today
ed here from Bordeaux. that they killed I. VV. Mollett, a
It is claimed in the statement wealthy farmer of Hedrick, la.,
that Ypres is occupied bv the Al- 011 *bc of October 6th.
ljes ‘ The two confessed that they
It U unofficially reported in this 'c^cd hi", of his cold watch and
■city today that the French attack f \ 'T!-'’.'Vi,s 'i*™'1
.on the German center w as l’"sh,'s neaJ '“s h““e- The cr.mc
• d. The official communique re was semmetteA while the three
yrts that there is progress there r,,W,"S m Molk'tt *
tor the French forces. ! 11 ,7 . , , , , ,, , . .
- , AI <*( ormick declared that he be-
; came infatuated with the girl
R. R. Russell of San Antonio, while site was with a snake show
who is looking after cattle and ;,t a county fair in the state of
property interests in this county, Iowa.
came in from the Blocker ranch j----
up the liver Tuesday afternoon j Weather Forecast. "mn i-uunuiueu »>.>o,uoo oaios ivir. anti ivirs J \
and is the guest of Jo B. Wilmeth Tonight fair, probably frost in against 614,581 bales September, ‘ left Tuesday afternoon
while in Ballinger. north portion Thursday fair. 1913. if.;»~-i- du------^ - -
fty United Prca*’
WASHINGTON, Oet. 14. —A do
lay in the adjournment of cong-
ress for at least a week as a result
of tin* congressmen from the South
insisting that cotton relief legis-
lation be passed.
Many directors of chambers of » ____________________________
'•winncro* from all parts of the uot harvested their late feed crop
1 nited States are speeding toward,a,,d are not ready for frost, while
Hie South today to make an im- taking the county as a whole frost
partial survey of the cotton sifua- would not destroy much feed. Cot
tion with the end in view of ob-,l°u lias about completed its work,
WASHINGTON Oct 14 Tb * il relief suggestion of the’and with the late opening tho
Russian embassy iu this city today Dm,vrasman Iloko Smith is ey- e™” " ^ ^ ,#r P**k'
Vcivu Office at’1 'petroKrad in' »-«•-' '» »>*™<k«c a bill for the!--
whicir" stated ,tat Gu Rus! j”1™!', »«»<*! ARM BR0KEN-
Ming around Warsaw. The 'ro-fv^ Hie salt* of bonds amount-j Louie Dell, the little 7-year-old
nig lo $-»)(),000,000. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. C.
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ot Brownwood. get her arm broken Tuesday after
By united Pres. WaK»W
WASHINGTON, Oet. 14._Tin ^erinan Avar office yesterday de- __
census report issued today show <,|;m‘d -that Warsaw is the only y AV s} • ..
ed that the eotton cxnorts for * on the west banks ot the ,, i i i i , , . p . ' n'y* ---• s,.,v.n •
is not ^by t':t -’?:rvv &
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onsumed .>.>b,0bb hales Mr. and Mrs. J. A. DeMoville Home. Mr. Shincotte is delighted her tri-cycle. We are glad-to re-
to visit with his crop condition in our port the little girl doing very
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Sledge, A. W. The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 246, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 14, 1914, newspaper, October 14, 1914; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1138416/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.