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THE KIR'KI)ALE REPORTER. Thursday, September 17. 1914
FRISCO TRAIN
INTO A CREEK
PLUNGES 81 GOING THROUGH VJ3
CAllfti O WV>z
/Will U.flUUi
RIANT PASSENGERS CROWNED.
Ai»o Killed, tr>e Acoueni -*--»•
•killing ► rorv* tr>« Trestle. Smn^
Flooded - A Man Lo»»* Hi* Ahte
tnaFlv# Children.
A oumiKT ill persons were -it-owned
or killed when the locomotive tuig-
s.'»src»r and forward chair car of St
Louis and San Francisco railway t- in-
Fo a ntunged throuy a lee 'tie ,vwr
TTrnsh crock, near libation Mo and
wore suE>merged in the swollen stream
Most of the dead were drowned in
thechaircar It had aliout sixty-five |
occupants A groat proportion were
women and children Those who es-1
caped from ttieir watery prison did so
by breaking wtndows and swuuium;' ;
to shore-
None of the sleeping cars left the i
track and the passengers ;u these ,-it
onco formed rescue parties
One man in the chair car lost his
wife and five children lie was thrown
clear of the car and swam to shore
His wife aud children perished while
he stood helplessly near bv
Rains had caused streams to swell
and the train could not travel fast
One of the passengers in the suE>-
merged car was Miss Mona Campbell
a St Louis nurse She broke a win-
dow and climbed out of the side of the
car. Standing in the water she saved
five passengers
The dead were taken to Lebanon
and the injured to the company’s hos-
pital at Springfield.
The number of dead and injured «s
placed at 45. deaths about 27
JAPANESE AND GERMANS
CLASH AT CHI MO AND SEVERAL EN
GAGEMENTS RESULT:
Several skirmishes occurred at a
point near Chi-Mo, Khan Tung prov-
ince, China, between Hermans and
Japanese forces.
Previous to these engagement- a1
German aeroplane flow over the dis-l
triet. The.Iapane.se fired on >t, but1
without success
A reasonable estimate, says a F’e-j
trograd dispatch to London r me.
places the Austrian losses in Galicia j
at 300.000 killed, wounded and prison-1
era. or nearly one-third of thoir <m-
tire forces They have also lost, the
dsspateh l.m)0 guns, more than two I
thirds of their available artillery
A wireless received at New York
from Herlin says General von Hinder j
burg telegraphed Emperor William!
that the Russian army of Vilna, oom-|
posed of the Second, Third. Fourth1
and Twentieth corps, two reserve di-j
visions >f cavalry, have beer) com-!
pleteiy dof.':t’.,| by the Germans and
that the Russian casualties were large!
and the number of prisoners on the'
increase There have been spoils of
tile
BRITAIN MUST WHIP GERMANY
Vfiluabls Oewri* bncovursd.
Asti • r of doing' their own do-
etive work. Harry W Crutcher and
ifeof Di 'i- have recovered $| s■
-v Biat Mrs I'ruteher
an sleeper and was not
viml minutes after the
I isernharked at. Dallas
eastern trip Detectives dip I
worth o
left in a
mts.ed ’
COll 111 ■*
after an
not secure a clew
of two weeks Mr and Mrs Crutcher
decided to do some detective work In
the sleeper sat opposite them a wom-
an who continued west. Teaming she
had gone to Mineral Wells, they went
there Seeing hot name on a hotel
register, they and officers entered the
•"'tttis'r. room viewing them, she said
they need look no further and opening
her trunk handed Mrs Crutcher her
|ewe! case with the contents intact
Some uni, MnittKd
The Texas senate passed finally the
bill requiring cotton gin corporations
and oil mills to bo divorced; senate
hill amending the state hanking act
so as to render certain state hanks eli-
gible to become members of the re
gional reserve system; house bill to
prohibit the making and passing ol
counterfeit money in Texas of anoth.
cr nation This last U designed to
put a stop to the flood of counterfeit
Mexican or Constitutionalist money
sent into Kl I'aso.
Baltimore to Buy Much Cotton
At Baltimore business men are rais-
ing *1,000,000 to invest in 10 cent cot'
ton Dallas, Memphis, New Orleans
and Savannah cotton exchanges havn
reopened for the transaction of spot
cotton business Advices from Waco
are that the Busch ostate will b„y
• 100,000 worth of cotton At Chicago
the business men have started * move
meat for the purchase of many im|n,
The warehouse* under construction m
Texas, In 420 citie* and towns, w.n
take care of 1 JUO.OOO bains
BEFORF PEACE IS POSSIBLE. PRESI
Ot\T IS INFORMED
Great Bri-uin is determined not to
make peace until she has decisively
defeated Germany This sentiment has
been conveyed to President Wilson in
dispatches from \merican Anibassa
, lor Page at. 1 ondoti.
No formal message was cotnmuni-
I caled by the British foreign office to
the American amhasstidor, but after
Mr Page!-conversation with leading
! British officials and his own observa-
tions he reported that efforts to initi-
ate peace negotiations through the al-
lies at this time would he fruitless
j Great Britain, France and Russia
have signed an agreement not to
make peace except by common con-
sent. Ambassador Page’s report and
the convention signed by the allies
have had a depressing effect on the ef-
fort- of the Washington government
to renew its tender of good offices
German embassy at Washington re-
ceived tins wireless from Berlin:
’FTerr FFetlefriah, director of the
Deutsche hank, after touring in Bel-
gium, states News of the destruction
of Belgian towns is exaggerated. Ver-
niers and Tirlemont, industrial cen-
ter- and I’harleroi are quite intact:
Louvain and Binant are only partly
destroyed
'After the surrender of Ghent a
German officer was insidiously killed
and another wounded
The Russian cavalry burned from
sheer lust of destruction, though there
was no fighting in that district, the
splendnl castle of Count Mirhach, the
Prussian parliamentarian. ’’
That German prisoners be pres-ed
into the service in the highly hazard-
mis work of sweeping the North sea of
mines was a suggestion made in the
British house of commons.
Straight from Berlin, where he had
a long talk with the emperor, II Von
Eckhardt. the new German ambassa-
dor to Mexico, afte.i landing tit New
York en route to the City of Mexico,
viid the kaiser had no thought oT
abandoning his plan to besiege Par-
is; that a German armv would take
the city; that all France woufd he sub-
jugated by the German arms - ' not to
Keep it always, hut to destroy the
menace of French militarism forever."
He said the attitude of his country is
that it must, take Paris or die. “1 do
not know whether this will take a
week or six weeks or how long it will
after an interval!1'0' I"ltl of ,llls >'°u may rest assured:
I The German army will take Paris If
they don't, it will he because there are
no more German soldiers left to tight,
Let the Russians take Konigsherg, we
will then talk about their marching to
Berlin,’'
The official press bureau at London
s»>»Sir John French reports that the
First British corps has buried 200
German dead and taken twelve Maxim
guns; that, the Gormans were driven
hack all along the line.
A dispatch from Rome says a mes-
sage from Vienna states it is officially
admitted the Austrians lost 120,000
men in the recent Galician battles, or
one-fourth of the command of Arch-
duke Frederick
VICTORY FOR THE KAISER, j EMERGENCY WAREHOUSE BILlj
REPORTED TO HAVE DEFEATED SOME RECEIVES OVER TWO THIRDS VOTE IN |
RUSSIANS IN FAST PRUSSIA. j TEXAS LEGISLATURE.
In a dispatch* from Copenhagen to With over two-third* majority in j
(gtndon tt was siatedrliat the Germain j each house the Texas legislature has
had defeated the left dank of the Bus- Kmicv warehouse bill,
statt army in east Prussia and that the and after the goverror signed the act
ADMIRAL VON BAUOISSIN
On* of the Command*?* In
Kaia*p Wilhalm’a Big Navy.
Flr*t Ongroa Wurd nr
A superceding indictment charging
murder in the first dndree ha- been
returned at Mineola, N Y., against
Mrs Florence Carman by the grand
jury investigating the murder of Mrs.
Louise Bailey, shot down by an un-
known assailant in the office of Dr
F.dward Carman at Freeport June 30
Mrs Carman, who had previously
been indicted for manslaughter and
*»! under bond wa< jailed
Unabi* to Biaeo. Cut* Th'otit
Ous L Keel, a member of the pres
ent Washington county (Tex l grand
Jury, cut his throat at hi- home in
Burton Mr Keel complained of ina-
bility to sleep and was excused to go
to his home He expired.
alter retreated,in a northeasterly di
■•eetion toward Metnel with the Ger-
mans in pursuit
The German embassy received word
that their soldiers took several thou-
-and prisoners in France and secured
*• ftv guns.
Gn an office building in Glasgow,
Scotland, is posted the following:
Bustners as usual during alteration
•>* the map."
Lord Kitchener has stated that no
presents or snifits can he accepted for
troops at the front and none will lie
fee* a rded
\ recruit who attracted attention at
Marts because of slight build was dis
covered to be a girl who had enlisted
in the name of her brother in order to
go to the front. She was sent hack to
her home, Init vowed she would return
It was admitted that the kaiser and
his general staff had been in danger
from a bomb attack by aviators, They
were directing the general campaign
against France from the German le-
gation in Luxemburg, capital of tEe-
grand duchy of that name Tht- was
known to the French and Belgians A
few nights ago French and Belgian
aviators How over the city and fonr
bombs dropped near tEte legation
building, but no damage done
The French embassy at Washington
says it has advices that the right wing
of the German tinny had been driven
back bv the allies
A partial list of the alleged German
atrocities in Belgium against which
King Albert sent a protest to Presi-
dent Wilson was made public bv
Count de Lichervelde, secretary of the
Belgian commission hearing the pro-
test to Washington
“At Liuesmeau," the secretary said,
“when the Germans entered the vil-
lage two uniformed gendarmes at-
tacked them. In revenge two farms
were destroyed and the crops ruined
or carried away Six houses were
burned and till the men compelled to
hand over their arms
“The men were separated into three
detachments Two of the detachments
disappeared The third, consisting of
eleven men, had thoir brains beaten
out with the butts of their rifles
“While the inhabitants slept Get-
raon calvary raided the town of Vel-
en. Residence of a man named Dog-
littinie was tired and looted He and
his wife were taken from the house
half naked. He was draglied in one
direction and tEie woman in another
She was released when two miles away
and told to run When she ran tEie
German soldiers fired at her, but she
escaped the bnllets and staggered
tuiok to the site of her ruined home in
a pitiable condition. Hsi husband
also was released and fired upon ns
ho ran. He was found next day out-
side the town mortally wounded.’’
The count said he read the state-
ment attributed to Emperor William
in which it was said that har-h treat-
ment of Germans was made necessary
in some cases because civilians tired
on German soldiers.
“1 do not see how it is possible for
a man to lie so," he -aid
Texas Sohoolhouse Oay.
Oct Iff has been designated by the
Conference tor education of Texas as
“Sehoolhouse Day,’’ and the citizens
of every school district are urged to
gather at the sehoolhouse in the aft-
ernoon or night for a geueral discus-
sion of tho condition of the premises
and woak of tho schools and means
of improving them. At these meetings
delegates will he chosen to attend at
the county seats Oct. 24 county con
ventions This will be known as “Ed-
ucation Day." These delegates wil
select delegates to attend tEie ann uh
meeting of tho “State Ccnfc-rcuwe of
Education of Texas, tho date to lie
announced later.
Jamwa Gordon Bennett Wnde.
At Paris, James Gordon ".onnett,
proprietor of tlio New York Herald,
and Baroness George de Reuter, a
widow, formerly Miss Maud Potter of
Philadelphia, wore married.
Certain Cotton Tax Exemption.
By a vote of 42 to 35 the house of
the Texas legislature adopted a reso-
lution requesting the governor to sub-
mit tEie question of exempting from
taxation all cotton bought under the
“buy-a-bale" movement, when sucEi
cotton is bought at 10 cents a pound
or more.
Promlneht Railroader Die*.
L. S. Brown, general agent of tho
Southern railway at Washington and
well known throughout tho south, is
dead. Fin was tmrn at Covington,
Ga , in 1840 and began railroad work
as an express messenger. He became
general agent of the Southern rail-
way in 1888, A widow survives.
it became effective It becomes inop-
erative after Aug. 31, 1017
In -ubstancothe law declares its en-
actment was necessary owing to con-
ditions prevailing on ihe continent ol |
Europe. Purpose is to preserve the I
Credit of the citizens generally and to
prevent the sacrifice of a large part of
the products of its industry now im-
pending due to the war
TEte act ts to be administered by the
commissioner of insurance and bank-
ing. He is empowered to appoint a|
cliief clerk of the warehouse division
of his deportment, who shall perform
the duties usually incident to that kind
of position His salary ehall be #200
per month for the time he is employed
in these duties. Commissioner shall
fix the salaries of clerks, stenogra-
phers. etc. Those traveling will re-
ceive traveliag expenses, Salaries
except chief clerk shall not $UM. tiff 2-3
per month
Commissioner, acting as trustee for
the state, may rent or lease in each
town or city, whether incorporated or
unincorporated, or such other places
whore there is a demand sutficiedt to
justify tEie outlay, a state warehouse
for the storage of cotton in the bale,
and shall store the same and issue re-
ceipt- therefor No liability shall lie
incurred by the stale by reason of the
| operation of warehouses.
Previous to establishing warehouses
at any place tEie commissioner may re-
quire sucEi place to agree to pay part
or all of the cost of estaEidsEiing and
operating such warehouse; towns and
cities may use thoir funds for this
purpose.
Each warehouse must he in charge
of a manager appointed by the com-
missioner, who shall keep books and
grade and classify cotton He must
give a bond ranging from #2,500 to
110,000, to las fixed by the commission-
er and in favor of the state.
Warehouses must be conducted by
rules fixed by the commissioner.
Receipts must hear issuance dates
and state on face name and number of
warehouse, location, description, the
quantity, number and marks of cotton
there stored, class and weight, date
received at warehouse, and that it is
deli verable upon return of tEie receipt
properly endorsed by the person- to
whose order it was issued. Record of
receipts must be kept in a E>ook
All charges for storage shall he ar-
ranged hv the commissioner,; need not
Fie tEie same at all places, bnt fixed by
| him to suit local conditions All cot-
ton must tie insured tho owner paying
the premium
Cotton must not tie stored in wood-
en buildings unless they are equipped
with tiro protection approved by the
commissioner and none in any but
waterproof buildings Local managers
must make reports as to condition of
cotton to tEie cortitnisssonor.
Commissioner must employ suffici-
ent examiners to inspect warehouses
twice during the cotton and such other
tim-'s as the commissioner deems best.
Examiners must take oath as to mak-
ing fair examinations.
Commissioner may lease grain ele-
vators and buy warehouses under the
same conditions
DIDN’T
Lmrgm Taxable Value-*.
Taxable values of Dallas will
proximate $115,000,0(K).
ap-
CENTRAL BANK MEASURE,
GOVERNOR COLQUITT SUBMITS PROPO-
SITION TO LAWMAKERS.
Governor Colquitt submitted to the
Texas lawmakers a message recom-
mending the enactment of a law cre-
ating a great central state hank at
Austin to be known as the Texas State
hank, with a capital stock of from
•2»>,000,000 to $70,000,000.
Accompanying the message was th»
draft of a bill prepared by Messrs.
Curoton and Ta.vler of the attorney
general’s department These gentle-
men have gone through the hanking
laws of the United States, England,
France, Germany, Belgium and Switz-
erland. culling out the provisions with
regard to the state or governmental
banks. It is from these codes that
they prepared the proposed act.
According to the gouernor’s plan,
the capital stock of the hank will he
secured by pledging tho bonds and the
land notes now held by the permanent
school fnnd,
The main purpose of the liank, as
stated by the governor, is financing of
Some represenatives and senators
claim that pledging the school bonds
and land notes is unconstitutional
They say they will not consent to the
pledging of the school binds for any
purpose. The governor and some of
the legislators discussed the matter in-
formally at the snnate chamber. The
vi^ws of some were tEiat adjournment
into was too near to properly act on
tEie measure. The governor says tEie
school fund can lose nothing; that the
collateral warehouse receipts will he
ample security even if a hank failed,
as the central bank would have notes
and warehouse receipts for the ad-
vances made.
RECKON ON BRITISH.
t-----
GERMANS PLANNING THE CAPTURt OF
PARIS OVERLOOKED THEM.
Important details ot the operations
of the British army in France are in
a report which the war office issued at
London.
When the German army began its
eastward movement to cut the French
center, according to General French,
it was ignoring the British as a factor
in tEie fight. The allies tiegan a gen-
eral advance on Sept. 7 against the
German rearguard of their right wing
left along the River Ouroq. The Brit-
ish army was reiuforced. The Ger-
mans began a retirement upon their
right on the 7th inst. It was Die first
time they had turned back since the
Eiattle of Mims.
According to letters found on pris-
oners they Eiad expected to take Paris
in a few days. Retreat was a bitter
disappointment. Tho British crossed
tho River Marne on the l)th inst witli
tEie Prenoh and on tEie lOtli captured
1,500 men, four great guns, gix ma-
cliine guns and fifty transport wagons.
TEie Germans on tEie rigEit army ap-
peared demoralized. They were with-
out food and surrendered readily, ac-
cording to the British reports. The
continued advance has delighted the
soldiers, says General French, who,
witli tEie reinforcements received, are
filled with zeal and anxious to press
on after the Germans.
Headquarters of the German army
in Berlin, says a wireless via Kav-
villo, L I., to the Associated Press
says: “Tho German crown prince tins
captured tho enemy’- fortified position
southwest of Verdun and bombarded
with Eioavy artillery the outer forts
lying to the south.
“.Tames W. Gerard, tlie American
ambassador to Germany, Eias given
out an interview to the press denying
persistent rumors that the United
States is preparing to join the allies:
tEiat Mr. Whitlock (the American min-
ister at Brussels) has attaeEied the
mayor of that city to Etis staff; that
the American flag has been raised at
GEient: that the Tuekerton incident
was unfriendly discrimination against
Germany and that he is advising the
Americans to hut-t v away because tEie
United, States is going to war.
“General 11 mdonbiirg has defeated
the Russians, ha,- crossed the Russian
frontier, taken IO.ihh.i prisoners* and
captured eighty guns and many ma-
chine guns and aeroplanes ’’
Official dispatches to tEie FrenoEi em-
bassy at Wilmington from Bordeaux
elaborate upon previous reports of
the victorious advance of the allies
He .-ays the victory Is tiecoming more
and more brilliant. The enemy aban-
doned prisoners, »uuaueb ami «uus
and ammunition.’’
Russluns.clairn that as tlie result of
the seventeen-day battle against the
Austro-Oermans the formtu took 180,-
000 prisoners, captured V>0 field guns.
1.000 pieces of forlresit artillery, 4,00()
transport wagons am) 7 aeroplanes.
Russians also claim a complete vic-
tory on the wEiole Austrian front; that
the Austrian northern army, whloh
was heavily reinforced by Gorman
troops, was pushed back against the
River San; tEiat t.hov took 04 guns,
30.000 prisoners. 2,000of them officers,
and a great quantity of machine grins
and war material
Well Known Mtrohant Dies
Edwin Bowen, one of the leading re-
tail clotliing merchants of Texas, died
at Austin a« the result of u stroke of
paralysis He was aliout fifty-five
years old and Is survived t»y a widow
Ho was » prominent Mason
Cowboy Wound**.
W. A Holt an, American cowuuy,
was taken to El Paso for treatment of
a wound in n leg sustained in u tiultin
between American cowEtoys and Mex-
icans on the T O ranch In Mexico
The ranch is owned hv the Nelson-
Morris Packing compan*
TARE BT UN
IF EVERT MAN
HAS TO BE SACRIFICED COMMAND OF
C/AR NICHOLAS.
GORDON HIGHLANDERSTRAPPED
InVormwtlon Prone 8*rlln It* l-rs*noH
Ssrtrtss n» Voubeauga. on *h«
Xxmbrs Sivtr, ana Thou**nd» «♦
Prisoners Taken by German*
The London Evening News printed
b dispatch from its Rome correspond
>nf stating that Emperor Nicholas is
reported to have made the following
declaration: “1 am resolved to go to
Berlin itself, even tf it causes me to
lose my last ntoujik ’
Owing to the allies having some sue
cess around Paris wheat in ( hicago
went down 4 cents
French and British forces are re-
ported to have captured a German
battalion to the east of Paris Many
gun carriages were also taken
A dispatch to the London Daily
Mail from Boulogne narrates on the
authority of Private Blank of the
Gordon Highlanders bow the latter
were surprised and Colonel W. L.
Gordon, their commander, killed.
Black says that after the battle of
Mons, in which the (Jordons suffered
severely, they were at II o’clock that
night ordered to retire and prepare
for a long march They slipped out
of tEie trendies and moved along tlie
road. About 2 o’clock in the morning
they were fired on from a field. Word
was passed that, it. was a French pick-
et and tEiey supposed that tliey were
retiring on the French line. -
“The colonel called a halt and wont
Into the field,’’ Private Black con
tinned, “and tried to make them un-
derstand we were British. While wo
were waiting the Germans got around
us TEie colonel returned and stood
in front of us Presently the Germans
began to shoot. I dropped down to
shelter and a comrade fell upon me
shot, dead Some tried to move off,
lint that was impossible, as tEie Ger-
mans were within three yards of us
-ind shot every man wtio arose.
It was dawn before I dared to
cruwl out t *ben saw tEie colonel ly-
ing dead apart from others and all
« round were bodies "
A wireless from Berlin via the sta-
tion received at Kay vi lie, L. 1., saytj
official announcement was made that
the French fortress of Mauliouge, on
the Katnbre river, had fallen Into tlie
hands of tEie Germans. The latter
took 4G.iKby prisoners, including four
generals. Four hundred gun- were
also captured.
Dr Ludwig Frank of Manheim, a
prominent Socialist member of the
relchstug, was killed in a charge made
against the French at Luneville.
Prince Frederick William of llcsse
has been wounded.
Mauliouge is a French fortress of
the first class. Tt is situated about
six miles from the Belgian frontier.
The German attacks on this position
were determined and lasted aliout one
week.
A Paris dispatch from Nish, Serviu,
says the Servians continued tEie It- of-
fensive movements against the Aus-
trians. Everywhere the Austrians
were driven back to the left bank of
the River Drina
A dispatch from I’etrograd stated in
the battle at Uawa, in Galicia, thirty-
two milesy northwest of Lemberg, tho
Russians won a complete victory ovof
tEie Austrians, tEie latter retreating in
every direction Among the prisoners
wore many Germans
The Austrians liave evacuated Bus-
aiun Poland
A telegram was received at London
from Lugano, near the Italian fron-
tier, to the effect that all Italians be-
•onglug to tb- tsti.: and 1N88 classes of
reservists have been forbidden to de-
part from the country
Allies arriving at Paris from tho
front say a considerable number of
field guns were captured from the Ger-
mans, who often surrendered to the
allies in groups
The Japanese diet liy a unanimous
voU adopted the war programme of
tEie government It provided a war
appropriation of 53,000,000 yen (about
•20,500,000)
Two German merchant ship* were
sunk In the Atlantic ocean, according
to a Paris dispatch, by t.Eie French
cruisers (Jonde and Dos Oartox, aided
by the British cruiser Bristol
WILLIAM WIRES WILSON?
PROTESTS AGAINST ALLEGED USE OE
DUMDUM BULLETS
In a personal cablegram to Presi-
dent Wilson Emperor William pro-
tests against tho alleged us* of dum-
dum bullet* hv the allies
Ae alsoexpressees his regret at the
destruction of the Belgian city of Lou-
vain.
French deuy that dumdum bullet,*
have been used by the allies: that they
have no means o' making them
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