La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 6, 1916 Page: 6 of 8
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THE LA GRANGE JOURNAL. LA GRANGE. TEXAS
BIG SHIPS AT SEA ALL LATEST NEWS
DESTROYED BY SUBS
NKW8 THAT 18 NEWS, WHEN IT
IS NEWS, FOR ALL.
PRESIDENT WIL80N RETURN8 TO
CAPITAL TO TAKE CHARGE OF
NATION'S AFFAIRS.
JAPANESE CRUISERS TO SUEZ
Haavy Fighting Continues Along tho
Russian Front, Ruaslana Using on
tho Offensivs—On Othsr Fronts
ths Fighting Contlnuss.
i ?tsst From All War Fronts.
President Wilson has returned to
Washington from Hot Springs, Va., to
take personal charge of the nation’s
foreign affairs In the new crisis
brought about by the sinking of the
British steamship Persia with a loaa
of at least one American life and pos-
sibly a total of more than 150 lives.
The situation U regarded In official
circles as being the most serious to
confront this government In regard
to submarine operations of the cen-
tral powers.
Dispatches from Cairo to London
Sunday state that the British steam
ship Persia, sunk in the Mediterranean
off the Island of Crete on Thursday,
was torpodoed without warning and
sank in five minutes. Between 160
and 160 survivors have been landed
at Alexandria, Egypt.
Robert N. McNeely, American con
sul at Aden, Arabia, Is believed to
have been drowned.
The Peninsular and Oriental Com
pany, which owned the Persia, an
nounced that 168 survivors had ar-
rived at Alexandria. The survivors
comprise the chief officer, second of-
ficer, seven engineers, twenty-seven
seamen, sixty-three Lascars and fifty-
nine passengers.
A Lloyd’s dispatch gives the num
her as 153, made up of fifty-nine pas-
sengers, of whom seventeen are
wounded, and ninety-four members of
the crew, Including fifty-nine Lascars.
The survivors Include ten military
officers and eight persons who are
not British subjects.
“The ship was struck amidships on
the port side at 1:10 p. m.,” says the
report. “She had disappeared com-
pletely by 1:15.
“Survivors say it was little short of
a miracle that anyone was saved.
There was no panic. Four boats were
launched with the utmost prompti-
tude.”
The British steamship Olengyle was
sunk Sunday. i;he Olengyle had on
board about 120 persons, passengers
and crew. All, with the exception of
three Europeans and seven Chinese,
were landed. So far as Is known no
Americans were on board. She was
homeward bound from Shanghai and
was sunk in the Mediterranean Sun-
day. This was only her second voy-
age. She carried a valuable cargo of
14,000 tons and was valued at £26,000.
The British steamship Ss. Oswald
also has been sunk. The St. Oswald
was In the service of the British gov-
ernment and presumably was sunk In
the Mediterranean. Her movements
had not been reported since October
IS, on which date she arrived at Mu-
dros Island from Alexandria.
Announcement was made Monday
that a squadron of Japanese warships
will sail for the Sues Canal, presum-
ably to protect Japanese shipping. It
Is said the armored cruisers Kasuga,
Toklwa and Chltose have been assign-
ed for this service.
The reported decision of the Japan-
ese government to send a squadron
to the Sues Canal follows the sinking
of two Japanese steamships In the
Mediterranean. The passenger liner
Yasaka Maru was torpedoed off Port
Bald on December 21. The freighter
Kenkoku Maru was sunk by a subma-
rine on December 29. Those on board
both vessels were rescued. The Jap-
an Mall Steamship Company, which
controls the bulk of Japanese ship-
ping, has abandoned the Sues route.
Russian ndvlces indicate a power-
ful offensive movement by the Rus-
sians in the campaign In Qalicia and
Volhynia alone a front of nearly S00
miles. The Russians have made con-
siderable progress and their efforts
are considered as tending to relieve
the situation In the Balkans and like-
ly to have an Influence over the fu-
ture attitude of Roumanla.
There has been no fighting in the
southern part of the Balkan penin-
sula, and at Saloniki the entente al-
lies have made good use of the period
of quiesence to add to their defensive
position. In the Dardanelles, Con-
stantinople reports continued engage-
ments.
STATE, NATIONAL, FUREIGN
Happenings the Wide World Over ot
Important Events Condensed to
Good Reading.
London.—The Austrian reply to the
second American note on the Ancona
states that the commander ot the Aus-
trian submarine has been punished for
not sufficiently taking aooount of the
panic aboard the Anooaa which ren-
dered disembarkation more difficult
The Austrian reply further ex-
presses the hope that Washington will
be able to supply the particulars of
how the American oltlsens were af-
fected, but in the event ot such evi-
dence being lacking and the United
States being unable to state how the
American cltisens came to their death,
the Austro-Hungarian government “is
ready to pass lightly over this de-
ficiency and indemnify for damages,
whose proximate oause can not fee
fixed and hopes thereby that the tm-
wlll be retarded ae ended."
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WASHINGTON NEWS.
Ladles of the cabinet received New
Tear’s callers Saturday, the reception
being attended by many of the diplo-
matic corps and others In Washington
official circles.
General Scott, chief of staff of the
United States army, recommends that
Immediate steps be taken for confer-
ences between officers of the army
and navy and Journalists looking to-
ward censorship of the press in war
times.
Complaints were received at Wash-
ington from Vienna Friday that Amer-
icans who wanted to go to Germany
were finding It Impossible to go with-
out birth certificates or naturalization
papers.
Secretary Lansing has proposed to
the Latin republics that ,all matters
In regard to disputed boundaries be
arbitrated and that all agree not to
allow shipment of arms to rebels In
any nation.
It has been ascertained that the gain
over last year In the production of pe-
troleum was about 2,000,000 barrels,
showing that there was no good ex-
cuse for raising the price, in the opin-
ion of government officials.
Secretary Garrison Is getting his
plans for the army Into shape for pres-
entation to congress. He will, It is
said, urge that Invitations to volun-
teer service be made as attractive as
possible, and he will favor such a sys-
tem as can easily provide for univorsal
service.
Seth Low, Charles W. Mills and
Patrick Gilday are now in Colorado
as a commission appointed by Presi-
dent Wilson to study miners’ condi-
tions.
Great Britain’s effort to carry on the
war without resort to conscription Is
being anxiously watched by the Amer-
lean war department, because army
officers say the United Kingdom’s sit-
uation touches st the root of condi-
tions the United States faces In carry-
ing out the administration army in-
crease program.
Growers of citrus fruit in California
and the gulf states, particularly in
Texas and Florida, are petitioning
members of congress for a federal
appropriation to fight the citrus cank-
er, which has made Its appearance dur-
ing the last three years. The disease
has a small foothold In Texas, but is
working considerable damage in Flor-
ida.
-o-
STATE AND OOME8TIC NEWS.
Alfred W. Benson, former United
States senator from Kansas, and a
former justice of the state supreme
court, died Sunday at Topeka, Kan.
Ten head of horses, Including a fine
stallion and an old race horse, Go-to-
Bed, were burned Sunday on the farm
of Mrs. Maggie Deneque, on the old
Weatherford road west of Fort Worth,
Texas.
Six million fans paid $4,000,000 to
see American and National league
baseball last season, according to re-
ports Just made public.
A1 Ringing, 66 years old, died at
Baraboo, Wls., Sunday. Mr. Rlngllng
was the oldest of the Rlngllng Bros.,
circus owners.
Wage Increases ranging from 5 to 8
per cent for the 8,000 cotton mill op-
eratives at Webster, Mass., were an-
nounced this week.
Several hundred families were made
homeless this week by the floods in
the Ohio valley. Heavy rains and
melting snows caused all streams to
rise.
Henry Ford, who led the peace ex-
pedition which left New York Decem-
ber 4 on the steamship Oscar II for
Copenhagen, in the hope of bringing
about a conference of neutral nations
that would end the war, arrived in
New York Sunday on the steamer Ber-
gensfjord. He confirmed cable re-
ports that his return had been hasten-
ed by Illness, but said it hastened it
only a few days, as he Intended when
he left to come back this month.
One hundred five-pound cans of
milk powder, equivalent to three tons
of milk, were packed this week in New
York by the cltisens’ committee for
food shipments to be sent by register-
ed mall to German and Austrian
babies.
Business men in St. Louis claim they
will prevent any exorbitant charges
for hotel accommodations at the com-
ing democratic convention.
Matthew A. Schmidt was given a life
term in prison for his part in the Los
Angeles Times explosion in 1810 by
the Jury in Loe Angeles, Cal„ Thure-
«a*
R. T. Lewis, pioneer wagon manu-
facturer and founder of the Mitchell
Meter Car Company, died Thursday at
Ranine Win.
The railroad* of th*; country in No-
vember gained $168,965,646 over their
earnings in the same month In 1914.
■ +■ *
In the local option election held at
Cleveland, Texas, Wednesday, the
“drys” won by a small majority.
The output of the Texas mines
showed a large Increase in the past
year's output. Gold amounted to $2600,
silver 706,000 ounces, lead 260,000
Bounds, copper 50,000 and zinc 33,000.
One person was killed and two In-
jured in the wreck of the Texas Spe-
cial near New Franklin, Mo., Tuesday.
A receivership was sought for the
Texas and Pacific railroad In 'a suit
(lied at Dallas, Texas, Monday. The
Interest on $25,000,000 funds was said
to have been defaulted.
Three men were killed Tuesday by
f. collision between Mullen and
Zephyr, Texas, on a branch of the
Santa Fe.
Eight men, Including Congressman
Buchanan of Illinois, former Congress-
man Fowler of Illinois, former Attor-
ney General Frank S. Monuett of Ohio,
David Lamar and Franz von Rlntelen,
were Indicted Tuesday In New York
on the charge of conspiracy to foment
strikes in American munitions plants.
The American ambulance work In
Paris Is costing $1,000 a day, accord-
ing to Robert Bacon, former ambassa-
dor to France. Mr. Bacon, one of the
heads of the work, arrived In New
York Tuesday after being abroad since
November.
Rain, sleet and snow fell over a
large area of North and West Texas
Tuesday. The coldest weather pre-
/ailed In the Plainvlew country, where
the thermometer registered one above.
Nine persons were Injured at Sweet-
water, Texas, Tuesday when a passen-
ger train plowed Into a freight.
—f—
Two young men who robbed a bank
In Grant, Okla., Monday, locked In the
cashier and took $4,000, were forced to
disgorge and both were shot by the
cashier, who got loose and pursued
them.
Twelve saloons in El Paso, Texas,
were closed Tuesday as thb result of
Investigations by the state controller’s
department.
Fire In a warehouse In New York
City Monday was extinguished before
it reached 3,000,000 rounds of ammuni-
tion.
It was announced In Baltimore, Ma.,
this week that capital would soon be
forthcoming for development of the
Houston Oil company’s lands in Texas
and Louisiana
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FOREIGN NEWS.
Emperor William of Germany has
conferred the Red Cross medal of the
first class on Prince Ferdinand of Ba-
varia for special merit In attending
wounded and sick soldiers.
—«—
Britain’s plans for conscription are
complicated by the home rule agita-
tion In Ireland, in spite of Its now
dormant condition.
Britain's black list of vessels which
must not be used because they might
aid Germany was reported to be very
large and Increasing.
' '■
The German government has recog-
nized the Carranza government of
Mexico.
Two Austrian torpedo boat destroy-
ers have been sunk as a result of an
encounter with sea forces of the al-
lies at a point outsido of Cattaro In
the Adriatic.
King Ferdinand's palace at the
Black sea port of Varna was hit dur-
ing the recent Russian bombardment
of that Bulgarian town, but the dam-
age was unimportant. The same Rus-
sian squadron bombarded the Bulga-
rian port of Traka.
The Germans and Austrians have
begun a general withdrawal along the
entire front in Macedonia.
It has been definitely decided by
the members of the Ford expedition
at Stockholm, Sweden, that as soon
as possible tentative peace plans will
be drawn up and submitted to the war-
ring nations. Men versed In Interna-
tional law will be employed for guid-
ance on technical points.
The forts on the Swedish Island of
Haestholmen opened fire on two Ger-
man torpedo boats pursuing a Swedish
steamer off Karlskrona In Swedish
territorial waters Wednesday.
Carranza forces entered and as-
sumed charge of Juarez, Mexico, Wed-
nesday.
A royal decree was issued at Athens
Tuesday disbanding two auxiliary
classes of Greek troops.
Montenegrins, on the offensive In
Banjak, have captured several villages
and heavy Austrian losses are report-
ed.
The British cabinet has decided to
present to the commons a modified
form of a conscrtptlo- bill
Reports to London from Malta state
that the submarine that destroyed the
French steamer VHle de la Clotat flew
the colors of Austria.
Serbia has turned over to Italy 30,-
000 Austrian prisoners, who are being
interned in Sardinia, being accom-
panied there by Serbian officers.
TEXAS NEWS BRIEFS
More than $2,000 was raised by the
3oodfellow’s club at Fort Worth and
ased In purchasing Christmas goods
'ir the poor of the city.
* * *
The commissioner’s court of Belton
has ordered set aside $10,000 for
graveling and building a stretch of
the Rogers and Cyclone road In th9
Rogers district.
* e e
W. L. Warren, proprietor of the
Jones hotel at Fort Worth, was found
lead In the woods near Benbrook, 10
miles west of the city, by a farm
hand. Bullets from a revolver fired
at close range had struck Warren’s
body five times and a sixth bullet bad
penetrated his hat.
• • •
Fifteen thousand steel underframes
will be placed under freight cars of
the M. K. & T railroad beginning at
once. Besides the underframes a
great deal of general repair work will
be carried on by the car department
of this road.
• • •
The explosion of a boiler operated
by a contractor at work for the
Farmers’ Petroleum company at the
Humble oil field, entailed the death
of one employe of the contracting
firm, whose body is said to have been
hurled 30 feet from the machine.
* • •
The main line of the Texas & Pa-
cific railway from Fort Worth through
Dallas to Texarkana will be equipped
with telephone traln-dlspatchifig wires
and block signals. The engineering
department of the company hopes to
have the new improvement ready for
use early next year.
• • •
Public school children in Dallas
may have free textbooks for the
school year 1916-17. At a special
called meeting of the board of edu-
cation a recommendation to the ef-
fect that all the members of the
board study the question of free text-
books In all its phases was adopted.
• . *
Suits have been filed against Col.
HipOlito Villa and Gen. Francisco
Villa in the courts at El Paso total-
ing $50,000. Hipolita Villa was taken
there from San Antonio to answer a
charge of issuing a $10,000 check
without sufficient funds to pay it.
Another suit for $35,080 was filed' by
Manuel Allas, alleging that 1,000 head
of cattle had been stolen from him
and sold to Villa.
* • •
Col. E. M. House of Texas, who
plans to leave New York Dec. 28 on
an European mission for President
Wilson, said that he would probably
remain away six weeks or two
months. “There Is no mystery about
my trip,” he said. “Although I did
not expect the news to leak out as
soon as it did. I have already stated
my object in going abroad, and that
Is all I can say.”
* * •
On a conservative estimate, 75 per
cent of the disease now prevalent in
Dallas is la grippe, Dr. B. W. Loomis,
acting city health officer, said. Dr.
Loomis was asked whether the epi-
demic of the disease now prevalent
throughout the United States had
reached Dallas. “Certainly It has,”
he said. “At least 76 per cent of
the disease in Dallas right now is
the grip.”
e e e
The total valuation of assessable
property of the state of Texas, as
shown by the tax rolls -of the various
oountles for 1916, is $2,767,066,978,
compared with $2,774,265,347 for 1914,
an Increase of $12,796,626. Dallas
county leads with a valuation of
$142,135,630, Harris county second
with $133,204,807, Bexaa county third
with $110,414,745 and Tarrant county
fourth with $100,257,445.
• • •
Approval has been given by Judge
Charles A. Wilcox of the Twenty-
sixth district court at Austin to the
agreement made by the attorney gen-
eral of Texas and the attorneys rep-
resenting the defendants settling the
case of the state against the packing
concerns of Swift & Co. of Illinois,
Armour & Co. of Illinois and Morris
4k Co. of Maine, whereby the defend-
ants are to pay the state $40,000 as
penalties for violations of the anti-
trust statues.
• • •
The enormous growth in the de-
mand for Iron and steel products
since the outbreak of the European
war is forcing mill operators to seek
the possibilities of ore fields through-
out the United States. A recent sum-
mary of reports from various centers
shows that a steel famine is impend-
ing. The attention ot some of the
largest seel industry men la concen-
trating upon Texas, where it is estim-
ated 190,000,000 tone ot iron ore
awaits the furnace.
see
New steel rails are being received
on the north portion of the Texas
Midland railroad. Cars are feeing
unloaded near Cash, where new rails
will he put down soon.
• • •'
Expressing the desire to “fly once
more before retiring to a quiet life,"
Mrs. Lain Comstock, aged 47, of Ran
Diego, Cal., arrangel for a flight with
Aviator Anton Meyerhoffer Jr. that
ended with the falling of the flying
boat in the waters of San Diego bay
and the death ef the woman.
Insurance of all Classes Written
By The Undersigned.
Only the best companies repre-
sented which assures prompt set-
tlement in case of a loss, as those
who have been so unfortunate to
have had losses of property in-
sured with me, can vouch for.
Any information along insurance
lines cheerfully given, free!
Office ’phone No. 152
Residence ’phone No. 258
E. J. WEBER
FARMERS LUMBER CO.
TELEPHONE NO. 6.
YELLOW PINE LUMBER
Sash, Doors, Blinds, Shingles, Red and White
Brick, Cement and Lime. w“*
LaGrange, Texas
Edwin D. Lunn, M. D.
Office and Treatment Room.
Second Floor Kiam Bldg.
Surgeon
tment Ro
Ham Bldg
Houston, Texas
DR. W. E. KIDD
GENERAL PRACTITIONER
LAGRANGE, TEXAS ,
Specialist in treatment of piles and
other rectal troubles and diseases of
women. Calls answered day and
night, city and country. With the
Corner Drug Store. Phone 121.
DR. P. BECKMANN
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
LaQrange, Texas
Special attention given to Disease, of Women
ana Children. X-RAY snd Electrical Machines
for the treatment oi all Catarrhal ASections.
Calls answered day or night, city and country.
Office Bcckmeyer Sanitarium. Phone 163.
OR. CHARLES M. HOCH
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office over Hermes’ Drug
Store.
LaGRANGE TEXAS
Dr. Lw- A. ADAMS,
-DENTIST
Office over Meycnberg's drug store,
r— LAGRANGE. TEXAS
SOLE AGENCY FOR
OAKI
The Perfect Bakerl
Standard for several generations,
and always giving satisfaction.
We have in stock a large assort-
ment of cooking and heating stoves
and ranges, bearing the Charter
Oak brand. Try one.
OIL HEATERS i
We have them, also tin and enam-
el ware. We will do your tin work,
roofing and guttering.
Aug. R. Ruhmann
'Phone No. 50.
GROCERIES
Staple and fancy, the
best to be found in tjie
market, always to be had
at this store. I respect-
fully solicit your patron-
age.
Feed Stuff
Of all kind. Call or
'Phone in your order, it
will have my prompt at-
tention. PHONE 68.
H. G. GERDES
(Successor to Mohrhusen & Gerdes)
Try us for Job Printing
JOURNAL JOB OFFICE.
Notice by Publication of Final
Account.
THE STATE OF TEXAS.
To the Sheriff or any Constable of
Fayette County, Greeting:—
Whereas, Gus. Russek, executor
of the will of Theresia Urbish, de-
ceased, has filed in the connty
court of Fayette county, Texas, his
account for final settlement of the
estate of said Theresia Urbish, de-
ceased, numbered on the probate
docket of said court 2897.
You are hereby commanded, that
by publication of this writ for at
least twenty days in the LaGrange
Journal, a newspaper regularly
published in the County of Fayette,
State of Texas, you give due notice
to all persons interested in the ac-
count of final settlement of said
estate, to appear and contest the
same if they see proper, on or be-
fore the January term, 1916, of
said court, commencing and to be
held at the court house, in the city
of LaGrange, on the 3rd day of
January, 1916, when said account
for final settlement will be consider-
ed by said court.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said coart, at office, in the city of
LaGrange, the nth of December,
I915- •
[sbal] R. Klatt,
Clerk, County Coart, Fayette Coun-
ty, Texas.
By Waltbr Kneip, Deputy.
Easy To Take
No Pain Of Ache
It is no longer necessary to bear
the weakening sickness and terrible
nausea that always follows a dose of
calomel.
LIV-VER-LAX cleanses the tor-
pid liver, and livens np the whole
system by ridding it of the clogging
poisons. Yet it works so gently
and pleasantly that you hardly know
you’ve taken it
LIV-VER-LAX, being purely
vegetable, is absolutely harmless,
and does not tear np the system like
calomel. And it’s guaranteed to bo
satisfactory, or tbe druggist will re-
fund your money. Pur sale at 50c
and $1 at J. Meycnberg’s. ad
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