Palestine Daily Herald (Palestine, Tex), Vol. 13, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 1, 1914 Page: 1 of 8
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Partly cloudy tonight and
Friday.
PALESTINE DAILY HERALD
Member
Associated Press
VOL. XIII. NO. 22.
BIG STRUGGLE
STILL HOLDS
ON IN FRANCE
PALESTINE, TEXAS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1, 1914.
GUARDING RAILWAY IN SERVIA
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♦ Paris, Oct. 1.—An official ❖
♦ statement released at 2:55 this •>
. ❖ afternoon announces no modifi- •>
♦ cation in the general situation, ❖
(but that both wings of the allies ♦>
♦ are making progress. Desperate •>
♦ fighting continued last night *>
♦ near ’J’racy-Le-Mont where the ❖
♦ allies kept bent back the Ger- ❖
. ♦ man wing in the form of an »>
♦ elbow. • •**
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Auto Owners
May Be Taxed
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, D. C., Oct. 1.—The
senate sub-committee votes to drop
the gasoline tax and substituting a
tax of twenty-five cents per horse
power on automobile owners and one
dollar per horse power on manu-
facturers.
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To Assist in
Campaign
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Prance has decided to re-establish
the famous office of marshal of
UYance, the highest army positiou.
The marshal’s salary has already
been fixed at six thousand dollars a
year, but the incumbent is unnamed.
Descriptions of desperate French
fighting near Poronne recently say
that at 11 o’clock in the forenoon a
concentrated German fire forced the
nch artillery to abandon position
fter position until 2 in the arternoon
the shells began ’ falling about the
commanding general’s headquarters.
(When urged to retreat, however, the
general replied: “No; so long as I
•tay we cannot retreat, and we simply
,ve got to hold on.” Shells burned
rms about the general’s headquar-
ers hut he stuck, and at 3 o’clock the
Renans faltered and the French re-
stored all of their positions.
Will Make Extensive
Investigations Now
(By Associated Press.)
New York, Oct. 1.—The Rockefeller
Foundation announces that it will
make a country wide investigation of
the industrial conditions in the Unit-
ed States.
German Warships
Engage Japanese
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, D. C.., Oct. 1.—Presi-
T Wilson today opened a letter
writing campaign, supporting for re-
election democratic congressmen and
senators, • and reminding the voters
that their duties at Washington pre-
vented the members from campaign-
a ' .
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❖ London. Oct. 1.—Reliable news •>
❖ reaches here that within the ♦
❖ next wreek a new Russian army ♦>
❖ of one million men will join in <•
❖ Russia’s attack on Germany, in- ❖
❖ dicating that the German navy •>
♦> Is preparing to support their •>
❖ army on the Baltic coast. •>
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DEATHS BY VIOLENCE
INCREASE IN TEXAS
lerican Flour
For Belligerents
(By Associated Press.)
St Louis, Mo., Oct. 1.—An unnamed
European belligerent has placed an
order for one hundred and ten thou-
sand barrels of flour here.
Contractor Pleased
With Hotel Progress
Contractor John Gaught of the con-
tracting firm building the new Red-
lands Hotel is pleased with the way
the work is progressing. The floors
and concrete and steel walls have
been finished up to the fourth floor,
and work has started on the fourth
floor. Pretty soon the brick work
will be started, and Jhe hotel will
begin to take on definite shape. A
big force is at work, and the work is
being pushed as rapidly as possible.
Open House
Friday Night
The Y. M. C. A. will keep "open
house”* for men, Friday night at 8
o’clock. A good program is being ar-
ranged and refreshments will be serv-
ed.
Every man in the community is in-
vited.
News Not
Definite
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❖ London, Oct. 1.—A three line •>
❖ announcement from Paris was •>
❖ the only official war news re- ❖
❖ ceived today. London, St. Peters- •>
❖ burg and Berlin are all silent. ♦>
❖ Berlin last night announced of- •>
❖ ficially that they had repulsed ♦>
❖ the French near Amiens and in •>
❖ Argonnen. The Belgians claim •>
❖ they repulsed daring German as- *>
•> saults on the Antwerp forts with •>
❖ great losses. •>
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❖ Tokio, Oct. 1.—German war- ♦>
❖ ships have begun a severe en- •>
❖ gagement cannonading the Jap- ♦>
❖ anese positions outside of »>
❖ Tsing Tau. Two Japanese offi- •>
❖ cers were killed. German aero- •>
❖ planes assisted in the engage- 4
❖ ment. The artillery engagement ❖,
❖ continued this afternoon. 4
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A German destroyer sank in the
Tsing Tau harbor Wednesday from
an unknown cause. Some reports
say Japanese guns sank it.
It is officially announced that a
Japanese mine sweepei* was blown
up and sank off Kias Chow and three
people were killed and fifteen wound-
ed. Also another Japanese mine
sweeper was damaged and one per-
son killed and six wounded.
British Will Not
.S.
Shipments of Food
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, D. C., Oct. 1.—The
British government announces that it
will not interfere with the shipment
of food stuffs frojn the United States
to Holland ~o long as they are not in-
tended for the German army. The
German civilians may use such ship-
ments.
German Squadron
Bombarded Fort
(By Associated Press.)
Paris, Oct. 1.—A Hqvas Petrograd
dispatch says a German squadron of
forty vessels of all classes bombarded
the Russian-Baltic port of Windau on
September 24th. The forts kept the
Germans at a distance and they re-
tired after inflicting only small dam-
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age.
Question is Raised.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, D. C., Oct. 1.—Ship-
ment of a Wanama Hydro aeroplane
from America to England raises the
question as to whether it is warship,
airship or munitions of war.
Armistice Declared
In Mexico Trouble
8UL2ER IS BEATEN,
SAY LATE RETURNS
Dallas Business
Man Stabbed Today
New York, Oct. • 1.—With ninety- (By Associated Press.)
two districts missing- throughout the Dallas, Texas, Oct. 1. Ross f ava-
state, James W. Wadsworth, Jr., had naugh, president of a large wholesale
an official plurality of 7805 votes last goods firm, was stabbed in the
night in the direct primary contest hack on the streets here today. He is
of Monday for the republican nomina- expected to recover,
tion for United States senator. His 1
plurality up-state, with fifty districts Infant Died,
missing, was 43,550. The plurality of , A seven months’ old infant of
Representative William Calder in the I Mr. and Mrs. Frank Blow died at the
family home, 408 John street, at 3:30
this morning, and the remains were
shipped to Troup for interment via
the 1*:30 afternoon train They have
the svmpdthv of the community in
their sorrow.
(By Associated Press.) •>
El Paso, Texas. Oct. 1.—Gen- •> j
eral Villa's, secretary wires the ♦> 1
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Associated Press that an armis- <♦
tice has been declared and that •> !
the conventions will be held be- •>
Colquitt Will Go
Before Committee
On Banking Bill
ginning on October fifth.-
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Greater City was 35,745, with forty-
two districts missing here. It was
not believedi the complete returns
would materially change the situa-
tion.
Late returns up-state maintain the
early advantage of Frederick M. Dav-
enport over former Governor William
Sulzer* In the progressive guberna-
jrial contest Davenport’s major-
throughout the state is 323$ votes.
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An auto driver backed against one
>f the white way posts on Spring
"treet yesterday afternoon and shat-
tered one of the big white globes.
Socialist Candidates Were Here.
The socialist candidates for gover-
nor a^id lieutenant governor were
visitors in Palestine yesterday, and
spoke to the people, or as many as
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desired to hear them. One of the
candidates si>oke on the bungalow
lawn in the afternoon, but did not
have a very large crowd.
A. C. I. Defeated Palestine.
In the football game yesterday at
the A. C.. I. campus the Palestine Y.
M. C. A. team was defeated^jiy^the
institute team by a score of 7’ to 6.
The A C. I. made a touchdown in
less than two minutes after play was
called and easily kicked the goal.
Palestine bunch seemed easy for the
(By Associated Press.)
Austin, Texas, Oct. 1.—Governor
^Colquitt will appear before the house
banking committee tonight in behalf
of the Texas banking bill. In the
senate Wiley moved to report this
bill adversely, but friends of the byi
••reventd action by adjourning the
senate. »
NEWSPAPER MAN SHOT
BY DEMENTED NEGRO
Shreveport, La., Oct. 1.—Robert M.
Denholme, business manager Qf the
Shreveport'Times, was shot and in-
stantly killed in the business office of
the newspaper office early last night
by a negro, Albert Hectar, supposed
to be insane. The negro was almost
immediately shot and instantly killed
by a police officer who had followed
him into the office with the intention
of arresting him.
Before visiting the office of the
Times, Hectar went to a hardware
store where he held up the clerks,
forcing them to give him a second
revolver and some cartridges. The
police were notified and followed the
negro to the Times office where he
was Holding up the office, including
Denholme. After trving to pacify
the negro, who had brought with
him a rambling statement that he de-
manded be published, Denholme turn-
ed, to enter his private office as an
officer started to the door to dri^e
away a crowd that had gathered on
the outside. «
Other officers came in the
door about this time and the nflkb
evidently thinking that DenhAne
was going for a revolver, opened
fire. Denholme was killed instantly
and the officers quickly shot the ne-
gro to death before he could turn
around.
Austin, Texas, Oct. 1.—During Au-
gust an unusually large number of
violent deaths occurred in Texas, ac-
cording to the monthly report of Dr.
R. P. Babcock, state registrar of.
vital statistics issued. Twenty sui-
cides are reported. Thei*e were
twenty-five accidental drownings and
nine deaths resulted from excessive
heat. A white child died in San Saba _
county from the effects of a bite of
rattlesnake, and a white man died
from a similar cause in Nolan coun-
ty. A white youth of Grayson coun-
ty was 'hit by a baseball and fatally
injured.
Four deaths from peritonitis occur-
red in Amarillo. Fifty-eight cases of
pellagra were reported.
Victoria county established a new
record for old age. A negresg, who
died last month in that county, Is re-
ported to have been 120 years old. A
white wotoan, 112 years of age, died
in Dallas county.
Thirty-eight sets of twins and two
sets of triplets were born in Texas
in August. The total number of births
was 4586 and deaths 1953. Infants
under one year to the number of 405
died. Tuberculosis of the lungs was
the leading cause of deaths, claiming
185 victims.
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Body Found After-*- 15 Months,
Comfort, Texas, Oct. 1.—The body
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college boys to handle at first, but 0£ John F. Thompson, who disappear-
they soon began to tighten up and af-j e(j fyom here on July 14, 1913, was
ter L’oing for some time the visitors j found near here yesterday. Otto
managed to make a touchdown, but Fiach. Jr., while hunting stock on his
failed to kick the goal. father’s ranch, six miles south of
Both sides fought manfully to make town, found a man’s skull in a
a score, and at one time the Pales-1 th'icket. He immediately telephoned
tie boys were within about one yard to town and a searching party of
of the line, but by united efforts the : Woodmen of the World headed by
home team.carried them back and Robert Stahmann. left for the ranch
rrot possession of the ball and what and the rest of the body was found
looked like a sure touchdown passed j scattered in a deep canon. EveirTnsf
out of their grasp. The A. C. I. Kept pipe, rule, straw hat and shoes and
the ball in its possession until time j jxfcketknife were fobnd. The body
was brought to town and will prob-
ably'be intered here in the Comfort
was called in^the last quarter and
the A. C. I. was the winner.—Jack-
sonville Progress.
cemetery.
Austrian General III.
(By Associated Press.)
Paris, Oct: l.—A Havas dispatch
from Rpme says it is officially an-
nounced that General von Auffenburr,
commanding the first Austrian army,
is ill.
It is reported that von Auffenburg
has cholera
Large Enrollment.
(By Associated Press.)
Georgetown, Texas, Oct. 1.—The
forty-third annual opening of South-
western University took place here
today. Early registration last week
indicated a large enrollment. The
university this year has some new
instructors, including* Professors
Meyers of Johns Hopkins who heads
the department of French and Span-
ish.
How About It?
Have you secured season tickets
for the Lyceum course? You cannot
afford to miss these splendid attrac-'
tions. The ’.first number will be the
jLyric Glee Olub, Oct. 15th. This is
said to be a great attraction.
If you haven’t ordered, tickets
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phone the Y. M. C. A. right now.
Men’s Prayer Meeting
Tomorrow, Friday, afternoon at
Dobbs’ furniture store, on Avenue A,
at 4 o’clock. We want all men to at-
tend. That means you.
• Committee.
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❖ ting better. . 4
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❖ increase. He is going to reap a •>
❖ deserved profit. 4
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❖ who are taking advantage of 4
❖ this opportunity will he found ❖
❖ in the advertising columns of 4
❖ THE HERALD. * *
❖ They are the kind of men who •>
❖ are worth supporting.
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Hamilton, W. M. & Hamilton, H. V. Palestine Daily Herald (Palestine, Tex), Vol. 13, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 1, 1914, newspaper, October 1, 1914; Palestine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth991849/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Palestine Public Library.