The Sealy Semi-Weekly News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 34, Ed. 1 Monday, February 22, 1915 Page: 1 of 4
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Ube Sealy Sem-leekly TAews
VOL. 28 NO. 34
SFALY, TEXAS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1915
81.60 PER YEAR
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—
From Heligoland is Report ed torpedo.
from Copenhagen
a grave offense.
MISSING TEACHER FOUND
JEndL,Phillips Said hi Sugar
Lapse of Memory
rained
will be discharged here.
FRANK JAMES DEAD
Italian Populace for War
cieties and churches.
Now it appears that the dry worker
have been set down on his docket
Turks Expelling Jews
nesses, but usually the plaintiff
Hindo Soldiers in Mutiny.
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No War Ships to War Zone.
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to Great Britian, according to Benard Levin, formerly of Chi-
i.
were
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corps is the big English army Lord
Kitehener has been training for the
Under Grave Charge.
Georgetown, Texas, Feb. 17,—
Jack Collins, a white man living
about eight miles nerth of here.
The Evelyn is the first Ameri '
can vessel to meet with disaster I
as a result of the sea warefare of [
t is true that this was not the
It time that a hostile subma-
e has been in these waters,
I the last one to visit them gave
crews of three ships which
L sank an opportunity to leave
[vessels before sinking them.
Copenhagen, Feb. 17.-From
Hamburg it is reported that the
German submarines, which .are
was beached at Walmer have
been examined at the admiralty
offices and proved beyond a
doubt to be pieces of a discharg.
in Pilestine eleven years.
Members of the party
1.
The girl is about 15 years old.
Collins, through his attorneys,
waived examination-
is calling upon the empire for the pick
of men.
AMERICAN SHIP EVELYN SUNK BY
MINE IN NORTH SEA
MAKING. GOOD ON
BLOCKADE
Vessel Had Cargo of Cotton; Captain and
Crew of 27 Rescued
unanimous in asserting that not
only had the Jews in Palestine
been badly treated by the Tur-
kish soldiers, but that all the
Christian foreigners ‘ received
similar treatment.
Before, during andsafter the
mobilization of the troops the
majority of Rabbi Levin’s party
were set to work making uni-
forms and shoes for the soldiers,
they srid, and were told that
they would receive pay for .their
labor "some time in the future.”
WAR ZONE ORDER
TO STAND
Steamer Dinorah First Hit by
German Blockade
KAISER TO BOSS
BLOCKADE
Germans Torpedo Norwegian
Merchant Ship
posed confinement "his cheeks were,
ruddy, he was tanned and fatter than
BRITISH ARMY MORE THAN
TWO MILLION
Chicago, Feb. 18. —“It was a fake, self defense imposed upon"Ger
Mo.
John Klaeser Injured.
Germans to Attack all Suspects
in British Seas
Tokio, Feb. 18.—A revolt has
broken out among the Hindu
soldiers at Singapore, in the
Straits Settlements, belonging
lunged at the jailer,’ knocked him
but solely for the purpose of
kidnapped himself this time but the
arm of the law is seeking him and if has some personal friend along
Oklahoma City, Ok., Feb.— H.
L. Phillips, Houston Tex.,, edu-,.
cator, missing since Feb. 7, is in
To Advertise Book that was
Slow Seller
cage, who said they were driven
frori Palestine by the Turkish
troops. They were among 800
refugees taken from Jaffa to Al-
exandria by the United States
cruder Tennessee.
Ribbi Levin said all his party
wen from the United States to
Palatine from seven to eleven
yearn ago in connection with the
Zions movement. He has been
>n Threat*. Got Three Ships
in British Waters
Britian has now much the largest
an Oklahoma City hospital, slowly army eVer before organized by the
to sink two English rescue ships
reached her and succeeded in
getting lines to her. The crew
already had taken to the life
boats and 18 members are miss-
ing. It is feared they have been
drowned.
The vessel was in mid-channel
when she was hit by the torpedo,
which almost turned her on end.
Her fires were drawn just in
time to prevent a boiler ex-
plosion.
The Bel ridge was towed to the
English coast about ten miles
cka mine at 8 o’clock this
Ding and sunk. Her crew
saved.
is is the third disaster to
wegian vessels since the Ger-
i blockade took effect. The
ka, laden with coal, was on
Way from Leith to Nakahov.
connection with the damag
f the Mr wegian tank steam
Kel ridge by an external ex-
ion off Folkestone yesterday
Admiralty announced tonight
seven pieces of metal found
rd the Belridge after she
| London, Feb. 20.—A German
submarine made its appearance
A the Irish Sea this morning and
torpedoed without notice the
British coasting steamer Cam-
Sank,.of 1,990 tons registed, a
tow miles east of Linas Point.,
three of the crew were killed
jtod one was drowned.
■This incident was the only one
Ennected with the German sub-
Karine blockade of the British
Kes reported during the day.
Except for the loss of the life,
K sinking of the Cambank was
K in itself a serious matter, but
Kb presence of a German sub-
Narine nean the route which the
Atlantic liners take on their way
band from Liverpool and along
which many steamers pass daily
Ebound to cause some uneasi-
fected by him after reading As-
sociated Press dispatches con-
cerning the disappearance.
Over long distance telephone
from Shawnee, Ok., former home
of the Phillipses, Mrs. A. Phil-
lips, mother of the missing
Houston man, heard a descrip-
tion of the man held here, and
declared there was no doubt that
he was her son. She is now on
her way to this city.
Reckport, Texas, Feb. 18.—John
Klaeser, merchant and an old resident
of thia city met with a serious if not
fatal accident last night while mount-
ing his wagon. Hi* foot slipped from
the wheel and he fell forward on the
ground with the linea clenched in his
hands. The horse backed up and step-
ped on him breaking three riba and
causing internal injury. Mr. Klaeser
was Uken to the Rockport Hospital,
where he waa operated on thia after-
noon.
Excelsior Spongs, Mo., Feb-
ruary 18. —Frank James, one of
the notorious James gang, died
on his farm near here this after-
noon, James, who was 74 years
old, had been in ill-health several
months and was stricken with
apoplexy early today.
One of the last members "of a
notorious robber band whose un-
paralleled career of crime during
the war between the States anti
the unsettled period that follow-
ed kept the people of a dozen
States in terror, Frank James
had been living the life a quiet
farmer for more than 30 years.
The son of a minister, respect-
ed throughout the community,
Frank James joined Quantrelle's
guerillas in the war between the
States, together with his brqther
Jesse, and took part in the sack-
ing of Lawrence, Kan.
When-the war came to an end
they were hunted far and wide
by relatives of those who had met
death at their hands.
Driven here and there, they
soon became outlaws. Many
notorious crimes of the decade
following the war have been laid
at the door of the James-Younger
gang, of which the surviving
members were Frank James and
Woman Stopped Jail Delivery have been kidnapped and was searched
_____ . fr far and wide by temperance so-
le Norwegian steamer Bjarka Cole Younger, the latter of whom
is now living at Lee’s Summit,
London, February 21.’—The
American steamer, Evelyn, from
New York, Jan. 29, with cotton
for Bremen, struck a mine off
Berkum island in the North sea
yesterday and sank. The cap-
tain ond 27 of the crew were
saved. The nationality of the
mine has not been learned.
Buenos Ayres, Feb. 18.—Fol- a
lowing the arrival here today .of
the German collier Holger with '
the crews of five vessels sunk in
the South Atlantic by • the
German cruiser Kronprinz Wei-
helm, the report was circu-
lated that other British vessels
had been sunk and the crews
were not rescued.
Officers of the collier refused
to discuss the report.
New York, Feb. 19.- On board
the steamship Themistocles,
which arrived here today from
ports in Greece, were twenty
seven Jews in charge of Rabbi
Washington, Feb. 18.—No United
State* warships will be sent at present
to ths German war zone .around the
British Isles. Secretary of Navy Dan-
iels today declared he had not considex-
ed using the waiships to convoy
American vessels or for general pro-
tection outside of the war zone.
Officials here do not believe the sit-
uation can be much, different from
what it has been. They believe Ger-
many will experience difficulty in op-
erating submarines so far from home
and probably wit confine her submar-
ine attacks to the British troop ships
creasing the English channel.
manded by Captain Smith. She
belonged to A. H. Hull & Co. of
New York and was chartered by
r tailed instructions how to act.
F These instructions state that the
blockade of England gives the
». submarines the right to | regard
all merchantmen found within
the blockaded area for the pur-
j pose of conveying anything to
England as enemy ships engaged
in illegal operations.
The submarines are to ap-
| p roach the merchantmen it
possible without being seen and
। torpedo them immediately with-
K out the slightest examination
E regarding their nationality or in
I any way concerning themselves
[ as to the fate of the crew.
Neutral vessels which break a
| blockade have no right* at all,
r according to international law,
S* ami it is understood the desire
■ is that the crews of the torpedoed
r ships shall perish so there may
r be left no evidence regarding
"ad -
le may even go further than north of Dover,
leligoland. • " =-
down. and escaped through the door.
Mrs. Davis, wife at the jailer, heard
the commotion and attempted to stop
the prisoner when he fled downstairs.
She struck him, a terrible blow with a
pot en the head, but was unable to
stop him.
The negro was captured and return-
ed toprisgn.
Tbs negro has a five-year peniten-
tiary sentence hanging’ over him at
Beaumont, where the- sentence was
suspended for good behavior.
past half year and is expected to com- _________—...... ,
plete the Herculean task of hurling he told me where he was goilg but many by her enemies
ing the churh of Christ Chapel atjother inconsequential things.
Newark,April 10, 1913. u Sometimes there are no wit-
The “Reverend Prohibitionist” nas -
Largest Armed Force Anglo-
Saxon Empire Ever Main-
the European nations. She didthe Harriss-Irby Cotton Co. to
German coast at the mouth of
Ems river and is German terri-
tory.
Maritime records give the com-
plement of the Evelyn at 25 men,
so that it is probable that all on
board the vessel were rescued.
The Evelyn was a single screw
steel steamship and was com-
fact and called his alleged kidnappings Next Tuesday Judge John A,
“takes.” -ead of the Sixty first district
Mrs. Patmont ays when she met court will calr 214 cases which
herhusband in Chicago after his sup-
Dieppe by fishing boats and as i ' he answer was especially
sistance for the Dinorah was1 friendly to the I nited States but
negro, held on a charge of burglary,
promptly sent out. She wasitwascarefulto set forth it was
towed into port and her cargocompetled to take, its course
“because English measures are
the fate of the ships. The Ger-
t man authorities believe the dis-
t appearance with all hands of
5 many merchantmen will Produce
a most terrorizing effect.
/ It is reported the Kaiser will
arrive at Wilhelmshaven to-
morrow. The general belief is
athat he is going to Heligoland to
Midireet- the blockade personally.
■In a few weeks, the rumor adds,
not sink within the war zone in-
cluded in the German admiral-
ty’s decree of Feb. 4, which went
into effect on Thursday. Bor
kum island lies directly off the
it finds him, hi* face will soon wear, who will swear as to the truth
the true pallor of confinement. of the charges brought.
t to engage in the blockade of the
English coast, have received de- is in the county jR.il charged with
for trial. More than two-thirds
night, when detailed descriptions At present, including the halt million -----------—-------
of the unknown were found to recently sent across the channel, Brit- PREACHER KIDNAPPED SELF
tally exactly with i.those of the an has more tha a million men in
Houston school principal, and a 1 rane ' and .Belgium •
, I - This vast army of ten to twenty!
part recovery of memory was ef - 1
recovering from a lapse of mera-। empire in all time The principle of
ory from which he has suffered compulsory military service has always
since he left home to make a beensdistastful to Englishspeaking
, nations, neither the British Kingdom.
business trip to Galveston, , its auxilliary colonies nor the American
Identification of an unknown man 1 republic ever having had more than a
who walked into the Oklahoma nominal standing army except during
City police station Thursday and ; a time of war. Even then the largest
declared he did not know who he I force cver maintained by:Britian,be-
, 2■ , । fore, was probably less than, half a
was was completed Thursday millidn. •
news dispatches received here
today from the Malay Archi-
pelago.
Marines were landed at Singa
pore from Japanese and French
warships and some fighting took
place between the mutineers and
the men from the war vessels.
The Hindu mutineers number-
ed 800, but later half of this
number was reported to have
surrendered and the revolt was
said C> be subsiding.
,-ek
orator who disappeared in the midst
of a "wet" and "dry" campaign in
Westville. Patmont was known to
take a cargo of cotton to Bremen.
She was 252 feet long and 1185
tons net. She was built in
Southampton, England, in 1883.
Her home port was Philadelphia.
Rome, Feb. 18.—A wild demonstra-
tion by thousands of men and women
against Germany and Austria marked
the opening of parliament here thia
afternoon. Shouting, “Hurrah for
Trent and Trieste, and “Down with
Germany and Austria,” the mob surg
ed toward the building, intent on forc-
ing the Deputies to take action toward
intervention in the war.
Ten thousand troops rushed to the
city in anticipation of the outbreak
had to charge the crowd repeatedly
before it dispersed and it took more
than an hour to clear the street in
front of the building.
The feeling against Germany and
Austria grows more bitter almost
hourly and subjects of those two coun-
tries here show themselves on the
streets as little as possible.
German Cruiser Sunk Five
British Ships.
That Houston is becoming the
“Reno of the South,” is shown
by the constantly increasing
number of divorce cases, being
tiled in the civil-district courts.
Many attorneys do little else be
Orange, Texas, February 18.-This
morning when E. M. Davis, the county , - —-
jailer, went to open the jail door to was simply out or a little free ad- sides try divorce cases. During
1______ ,, vertieement in behalf of a book he had
feed the prisoners, Earnest Tillman, a . single month one attornev
written and which was not selling quite E" MOAI "11-
fast enough. His wife testified to the । filed 75 Cases for divorce.
in violation of the accepted prin-
ciples of internat ional law.”
- "Our action,” the note con
tinues, "is in no way directed
against commerce of neutrals,
the torpedo. Nevertheless, the
Dinorah managed, to keep afloat j claimed that England has defied
by hard pumping. Word of all neutrals in her methods on
the occurrence was taken intothesea.
Berlin, Feb. 1«.—The text of
the German reply to the Ameri-
can note protesting against the
interference with American com-
merce by the socalled blockade
of the English coas was printed
in the newspapers here today.
Germany stands firm by her
original declaration. ‘
Great Britian having refused
to lift her embargo on food, Ger-
many takes the position that she -
is entirely within her rights in
ordering the sinking of the Bri-
tish merchant ships. Neutrals
having been given fourteen days
previous notice of the blockade,
it is declared Germany has done
all that could reasonably be ex
pected of her.
The note is couched in terms
of sincere friendship... It points .
out, however, that the allies have
been buylug vinlfmlied Supplies
ERMANS MAKE
GOOD
London, Feb. 19.—The first
neutral vessel to be sunk by the
German submarines in the war
zone around the British Isles
was the Norwegian tank steamer
Belridge, from New Orleans to
Amsterdam. She was torpedoed
in the Straits of Dover.
—Justus the vessel was aboW'
FRENCH VESSEL
FIRST VICTIM
London, Feb. 19. Germany
has struck the first blow since
her war zone decree went into
effect.
A German submarine torpe-
ded this mornipg without war-
ning the French steamer Dinorah
from Havre for Dunkirk, at a
puiut irMillis off Dieppe.
The Dinorah did not sink, but
was towed into Dieppe. No
mention is made of the loss' f
any of the crew. A plate on the
port side of the steamer below
the water line was stove in by
Aged 74, One-time Outlaw
’ Passes Away.
she has ever seen him. He said the of the divorces granted are un-
fat was unnaturhb and that the appear-1 contested. In these Instances
ance was caused from being tied with all the plaintiff is required to do
Patmont ha»'now been divorcedand ‘ls to swear that he.or she has
the police are seeking him on a war- lived in the state for a year, is
rant charging him with arson in burn- not at fault in any way and a few
in America, and that these ex-
ports have been both contraband
and conditional contraband.
The charge is made that Eng
land's methods of warfare have
been in direct violation of inter '
national law. and it is further
the Germans-out of France and Bel- asked me to cry and tear at my hair --------
gium. The rest of Kitchener’s army and tell the inquisitors that he had riArIgrANI DIIy 4 1
of 1,000,000 are expected to be landed agin been kidnapped.. • He loved HOl SIUN KIV AL
in France within the next four weeks. ■ notorieiy -and believed these stories _An DONI n
The news of the arrival of the huge . would make him known.all .over the UF KENO
army of Englishmen has not peen pub- I country and bring him great wealth , »
fished in the papers here. as a lecturer.” .... c ..
Among the lately arrived English This is part of the testimony of the 2,4 Divorce Cases on Docket of
soldiers are regiments from Malta and wife of Rev Louis R. Patmont. He One Court
Canada, which shows that Kitchener will be remembered as the “dry”
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