La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 5, 1915 Page: 2 of 8
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TWF5 T,A ORANGE JOURNAL. LA GRANGE. TEXAS
PEOPLE OF WARSAW
FLEE FROM THAT CITY
CAPITAL CITY STRIPPED CLEAN
BY THE THOUSANDS WHO SEEK
REFUGE IN THE INTERIOR.
ALL LATEST NEWS
NEWS
THAT IS NEWS. WHEN
IS NEWS, FOR ALL.
GERMAN SUB IS DESTROYED
Fighting In Progress in Francs—Unit-
ed State* Reeelvea Notes From
Both English and German
Governments.
Lateat From European War Fronts.
Warsaw la now being evacuated,
which was Intimated by the Russian
war minister In his address in the
duma. For days there has been
the population.
an
exodus of the population. Factories,
government Institutions and hospitals
have been moved and the city has
been stripped of everything that might
be of military value to the Teutons.
The Russian war minister, speaking
at the opening session of the duma,
made what will probably be looked
upon as an official announcement
that Warsaw will be given up. He ad-
mitted that the Austro-Qermans were
enveloping the territory and military
districts of the Polish capital and de-
clared :
"We shall perhaps yet yield to the
enemy a portion of this regipn, fall-
ing back on positions where our army
will nrepare for a resumption of the
offensive. We shall today perhaps
give up Warsaw as then (1812) we
gave up Moscow in order to Insure a
final victory.”
That the German empress will not
accompany Emperor William should
he make a state entry Into Warsaw If
the Polish capital Is occupied by the
Austro-Qermans, Is indicated by a re-
port from Berlin ihgt the empress has
returned to Berlin from East Prussia,
where she has been visiting the battle-
fields.
• The Germans have captured Mltau,
the capital of Courland, and are now
within striking distance of Riga, the
seat of the governor general of the
Baltic provinces and Russia’s greatest
port on the Baltic.
With the taking of Mltau and the
favorable progress of the fighting east
of Ponlewesch, according to the Ber-
lin statement, it would seem that com-
munication by rail from Courland and
Kovna eastward has been severed'by
the Germans.
With the ports of Memel, Libau and
Wlndau already in their hands, should
the Germans be successful In their
quest of Riga, they would shut Russia
off entirely from the sea by way of
her southwesternmost governments.
In the west, In the Argonne region
the Germans near Hill 213 and near
Marl e-T h e r e s e occupied French
trenches after fierce Infantry attacks,
in the latter of which they preceded
their forward movement with the use
of burning oil. Paris admits the Teu-
tons gained a footing in these trenches
but asserts that In counter-attacks In
both sectors the French were success-
ful In regaining portions of their lost
terrain.
A British submarine Is reported by
the admiralty to have sunk near the
German coast one of Germany's tor-
pedo boat destroyers. This craft Is
believed to have been one of the lat-
est of Germany’s boats of this class—
a vessel of 689 tons, which carried a
complement in normal times of seven-
ty-three officers and men.
Another of the British submarines
has performed the remarkable feat of
passing beneath the mine fields In the
Dardanelles and Into the Sea of Mar-
mora, where on the northern coast of
Asia Minor two steamers were sunk,
the railroad damaged and two cars of
ammunition of a troop train blown up.
Constantinople was also visited and
lighters at the arsenal and a powder
mill were fired upon. Altogether this
underwater boat, sailing In a direct
line to the points attacked and return-
ing to the mouth of the Dardanelles,
traversed at least 360 miles.
Both Great Britain and Germany
have sent notes to Washington. The
British notes—there are three of them
—deal with the United States govern-
ment’s protest concerning American
neutral oommerce and the declination
of the United States to recognize
Great Britain's orders In council with
regard to detention of American goods.
The German note Is a continuation of
the discussion relating to the sinking
of the American ship William P. Frye
by a German commerce raider.
Pronouncements In the duma at Pe-
trograd and hy the Russian ambassa-
dor at London Indicate that Russia
and England are anxious to brand as
unfounded the recurrent reports that
the Russian people are disgruntled at
the showing Great Britain and France
have made In the w6st. No hint of a
separate peace or of dissatisfaction
with England's policy comes from any
authoritative source.
STATE, NATIONAL, FOREIGN
Two American bluejackets wert
killed in an attack of Haitians a
Port au Prince, Haiti, Friday after Ad
mlrul Caperton had landed msrint
and disarmed civilians and natlvt
soldiers to prevent sniping, and addl
tlonal forces are being rushed to the
scene of the trouble.
Happenings the Wide World Over
Important Events Condensed to
Good Reading.
WASHINGTON
NEWS.
With the consent of the United
States, French marines have beer
landed at Port au Prince, Haiti, whert
last week’s revolution overturned th«
government and necessitated the land
ing of an expeditionary force from th<
United States cruiser Washington.
The United States government ex-
pects Germany to pay for the loss ol
the steamer Leelanaw and has In-
structed Ambassador Gerard to make
formal demand for reparation.
Ambassador Gerard has been direct-
ed to call to the attention of the Ger-
man government statements made un-
der oath In London by persons arrest-
ed as German spies that they had been
supplied with forged American pass-
ports by German officials.
The state department at Washing-
ton has demanded in the name of hu-
manity of Carranza, Villa and Zapata
that food be permitted to reach the
starving people in Mexico City, official
reports from Mexico City declaring
that actual starvation exists.
The Rock Island Railroad Compan)
has been placed in the hands of a re
celver, which company with 8150,000,
000 capital was formed in New Jer
sey to take over control of the Chi
cago, Rock Island and Pacific rail
way, the operating company, but it if
reported from Chicago that the ap
polntment of the receiver will have nc
'bearing upon the operating company
CARRANZA’S ARMY AGAIN
IN POSSESSION OF CAPITAL
Efforts Now Will Be Made te Imme-
diately Get Food to the Hungry
People of Mexico Gity.
A negro giving his name as Wil!
Stanley and residence Fort Worth wai
arrested at Rogers, Texas, In connec
tion with the killing of the Grimes
family at Temple and taken to Tem«
pie Friday, where a mob burned him
By proclamation of Mayor Thomp
son, Chicago officially observed a da)
of mourning Wednesday and many
business houses closed during the fu
nereis of the victims of the Eastland
disaster, and latest figures show 881
dead and 631 missing.
The Bouth Texas Haymakers’ asso-
ciation, with headquarters at Houston,
filed articles of Incorporation at Aus-
tin, Texas, Wednesday setting forth
the purpose to establish and operate
hay warehouses.
Ambassador Page at London has
advised the state department that the
new British note regarding the rights
of neutrals at sea and within block-
ade lines will be ready for delivery
within a few days.
Defense of the right of a belligerent
nation to blockade a neutral port
through which an enemy is receiving
supplies Is the chief contention of a
new note which the British govern-
ment Is preparing for transmission to
the United States.
Harry L. Wilson of Portland, Ore.,
recently a clerk to the American con-
sulate at Berlin, is under arrest at
Berlin charged with aiding a British
subject to secure a passport and state
department officials believe he faces
a serious situation.
The Texas State Farmers’ Institute,
in session at Austin, TexaB, Wednes-
day referred a substitute resolution on
the “freedom of the seas” to a commit-
tee and listened to addresses on prac-
tical farm subjects.
The strike of the employes of the
Standard Oil Compdfiy at Bayonne, N.
J. ,was settled at an Impromptu street
meeting Tuesday, at which the strik-
ers decided to accept the offer of the
plant superintendent.
Overloading, underballasting and
grounding on the river bottom were
cited in the testimony relative to the
capsizing of the steamer Eastland at
Chicago, 111., Saturday at the hearing
to determine responsibility for the dis-
aster.
Secretary Lansing and Acting Secre-
tary Sweet of the department of com-
merce have ruled that American reg-
istry can not be denied to eleven for-
elgn-bullt vessels which were bought
In various foreign ports by a Danish
agent and Dutch merchant with Ger-
man capital and offered for registry
by an American at the head of a com-
pany chartered In the United States.
——o-
8TATE AND DOME8TIC NEW8.
While Investigation of the capsiz-
ing of the steamer Eastland goes in,
divers Sunday at Chicago, 111., recov-
ered three more bodies from the
wreck, making the total known dead
839.
Three companies of state militia
were ordered to Massena, N. Y„ Sun-
day on account of a strike at the plant
of an aluminum company.
Of the 63,000 fires occurring In Tex-
as since Dec. 10, 1910, and which have
been reported to State Fire Marshal
8. W. Inglish, 24,678 were in dwellings,
apartment houses, boarding houses
and private outhouses and 28,322 were
classed as mercantile and special haz-
ards.
Representatives of prominent Amer-
ican exporters in Washington, D. C.,
do not approve the proposed forma-
tion of a gigantic pool in England to
buy the American cotton crop out-
right and peddle It out to other coun-
tries.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Russian war minister, speaking
at the opening session of the duma
this week, made what will probably
be looked upon as an official an-
nouncement that Warsaw will be
given up. He admitted that the Aub-
tro-Germans were enveloping the ter-
ritory and military districts of the
Polish capital.
Military operations in the western
theater are confined to artillery duels,
the explosion of mines and attacks
by aeroplanes. German aviators drop-
ped bombs on Gravelines, Pol-Sur-Mar
and Nancy, In France, but, according
to the French, no great damage was
done.
Eight more Lowestoft trawlers have
been sunk by a German submarine.
The crews were saved. The boats sent
to the bottom were the Quest, the
Strive, the Achieve, the Athena, the
Coriander, the Fitzgerald and two
more, the names of which are lacking.
Washington.—Announcement of the
occupation of the City of Mexloo by
General Gonzales’ army was followed
by a statement from General Car-
ranza’s headquarters at Vera Crus
Sr irday that immediate efforts weald
be made to send foodstuffs t* the
starving people of the capital.
Heavily guarded trains, it was re-
ported, are being prepared to leave
Vera Cruz with provisions to supple
ment those being taken Into the olty
by the army. Washington officials
are hopeful General Gonzales has left
the railway line so well patroled that
the trains will get through with only
slight delay.
Reopening of the railroad will fur-
nish an Important test for the effec-
tiveness of military operations ef Car-
ranza’s forces to protect means of
transportation from the east coast to
the oapltal, officials at Washington
believe. Much depends, they say,
upon the auooess of this undertaking,
because the United States government
Is determined to relieve the famine In
the City of Mexico If Carranza can not
do It.
Unofficial reports say an advance
guard of Gonzales' army has taken
posesslon of the City of Mexico with-
out meeting resistance, and that Gen-
eral Gonzales himself will arrive at
once.
Since the announcement, officially
confirmed In state department dis-
patches, that General Gonzales drove
Villa's flying column under General
Fierro from Pachuca, little has been
heard of this southern division of
Villa's army.
The Villa agency issued a statement
Sunday saying the flying column was
operating In the states of Hidalgo,-
Vera Cruz, Puebla and Mexico. In:
this case it may be able to menace
the railroad to Vera Cruz.
Another statement by the Villa
agency said:
“Dias Lombardo, minister of foreign
affairs, has wired the confidential
agency from Chihuahua:
“ ‘News of the defeat of General
Villa In the vicinity of Torreon Is ab-
solutely false. Obregon’s forces have
not advanced. Everything quiet.’ ”
The Carranza agency issued this
summary of its advices Saturday:
"People from Torreon state the city
is being evacuated by the Villa forces,
who have shipped all cotton and
moved all rolling stock and troops to
Chihuahua. Three hundred Villaistas,
with their arms, surrendered to Gen-
eral Trevino at Puebla Viego. The
Cedlllo brothers also have surrender-
ed at Rincon, a station between San
Luis PotosI and Tampico. They de-
livered a large quantity of arms and
ammunition. General Torres also con-
templates surrender, having sent an
envoy to Tampico. Telegrams from
Vera Cruz confirm the reoccupation
of the City of Mexico by Generals
Francisco Cos, Lechuga and Machuca,
who belong to General Gonzales’
army.’’
Military preparedness of the United
States will be the chief topic for dls-
cusslon at the annual conference of
the governors of the various States
In Boston Aug. 24 to 26.
One American, a muleteer, named
Whyley, was killed wjien the British
I steamer Iberian was shelled and sunk
I by a German submarine. American
| Consul Frost at Queenstown reported
Sunday that the Iberian disregarded
the submarine’s warning to stop.
Later the German commander gave
the crew time to take to the boats be-
fore firing a torpedo.
The lumber mill of Lutcher A Moore
near Orange, Texas, was burned Sun-
day with a loss of 8150,000.
A mob of about a dozen men took a
Mexican named Rodolfo Munis from
City Marshal J. F. Carr Thursday
night and hanged him to a mesqulte
tree about two miles south of San Be-
nito, Texas. Munis Is alleged to have
confessed complicity In the murder of
an aged merchant at Sebastian.
Used 2,883,208 Balsa In North.
New Orleans, La.—Northern cotton
mills during the season just ended
took more cotton from the South than
ever before In history. Official statis-
tics given Monday put Northern tak-
ings at 2,883,208 bales, compared with
2,681,670 last season and 2,486,874 two
years ago.
New Flan to Pacify Mexloo.
Washington.—The United States has
decided to ask the cooperation of
South and Central America In the next
■top to restore peace la Mexloo.
Charles Becker, former police lieu-
tenant of New York City, was electro-
cuted In Sing Sing prison Friday for
the Instigation of the killing of Her-
man Rosenthal, a gambler, and went
to his death declaring his Innocence
after every effort had been made to
save him from the chair.
The cruiser Tennessee returned to
New York after nearly a year’s cruise
In the European war zone, where she
was sent with 86,867,000 In United
States funds for the relief of stranded
Americans, and returned with only
8169,000 of that amount
Notice of Immediate Increase In
wages for oil workers has been posted
In Standard Oil company plant at Ba-
yonne, N. J., which was the scene of
the recent strike troubles.
The New Jersey board of pubUe util-
ity commissioners has approved an
Issue of 160,000,000 Pennsylvania rail-
road bonds.
The Wharton National bank at
Wharton, Texas, was closed hy federal
officials Friday
During trial flights Saturday at
Chartros, France, an aeroplane mak-
ing a steep volplane collided with an-
other machine approximately 200 feet
above tbe field. Both aeroplanes fell.
One aviator, a youth of 20, was burned
to death while the other was seriously
Injured.
The Germans have dispatched more
than one hundred trainloads of ammu-
nition from Radom and Lodz toward
Warsaw since July 28.
Twenty million pounds of tea,
about one-fourth of the bonded ware-
house stock In the United Kingdom, Is
stored in the port of London's Cutler
street warehouse, awaiting orders of
the war office. It is Intended for the
supply of the British forces at home
and abroad. The bulk of it has come
from India and Ceylon.
Esquimos Will Get Phonograph.
New York.—Admiral Robert B.
Peary, discoverer of the North Pole,
In fulfillment of the wishes of Ootah,
one of the four Esquimos who accom-
panied him to the pole in 1909, has
shipped to Ootah and other members
of the tribe of Cape York Esquimos,
the northermost of all the inhabitants
of the globe, a phonograph and rec-
ords. They are securely packed in the
hold of the MacMillan relief ship,
George B. Cluett, which recently clears
ed from Sydney, Nova Scotia, for the
arctic.
Mob Hangs Mexican.
San Benito, Tex.—A mob of about
a dozen men took a Mexican named
Rodolfo Munis from City Marshal J. F.
Carr Thursday night and hanged him
to a mesqulte tree about two miles
south of San Benito. Munis is alleged
to have confessed complicity in the
murder of an aged erchant at Se-
bastian.
The Norwegian steamship Trond-
hjemsford was torpedoed and sunk
Saturday by a German submarine.
The Belgian steamer Prince Albert
alao was aunk by striking a mine.
General Obragon has reported an
important victory of the Villa forcaa
south of Torrson, Mexloo.
Noncombatants at Torreon, Mexloo,
.are Buffering severely for lack of food
while the Villa and Carranza armies
ars well supplied with provisions.
Austrian hydroaeroplanes have drop-
ad bomba on Ancona, Italy, and •
dosan explosive missiles have been
thrown from an air craft on Verona.
It Is stated that tbs material damage
done by tbs bombs was slight
Girls Csn 16,000 Quarts.
Austin, Tex.—Reports from the
girls’ domestic economy clubs of the
state received this week by State Or-
gantser Mrs. J. L.\ Landrum showed
that 15,000 quarts of fruit and vege-
tables taken from the home farms
have been canned by the members of
the thirty-two clubs now organized.
More Texas Postmasters Named.
Washington.—The following Texas
fourth class postmasters have been
appointed: Broaddus, San Augustine
county, Lonnie L. AUbrltton; Seals,
Robertson county, Mrs. Liszle San-
ders; Vance. Real county, Albert G.
Wells; Ragley, Panola county, Minnie
Prycer; Arab, Scurry county, Irena
Sears.
Michigan Heiress Is Married.
Harbor Spring, Mich.—Mlsa Cath-
erine Barker of Harbor PolnL daugh-
ter of the late John H. Barker and
heiress to $10,000,000, was married
Saturday to Howard H. Spaulding, Jr.,
of Chicago.
Postal Employes Adjourn.
Houston. Tex.—The National Alli-
ance of Postal Employee closed the
second annual session Tuesday by se-
lecting Kansas City, Kea., for the
1016 meeting.
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