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THE LA GRANGE JOURNAL, LA GRANGE. TEXAS
VIOLENT ENGAGEMENTS HUNGRY WOMEN AND
TAKE PUCE IN EUROPE
BIO GERMAN ZEPPELIN DESTROY-
ED BY AIRMAN PAR ABOVE
THE EARTH.
FIGHTING IN DARDANELLES
While the Teutons end Austrians Con-
tinue te Force Ruselsns Back In
Galicia, the French Have Made
8ome Gains In Flanders.
News of Moment From War Fronts.
A Zeppelin dirigible manned by a
ere v, of twenty-eight and thought to
be returning from a raid on the east
coast of England, has been blown up
in Belgian territory. The feat was
accomplished with a monoplane
driven by a youthful Canadian aviator,
R. A. J. Waraeford, who has been on
the probationary list as a sublieuten-
ant In the royal navy.
This Is the incident which atanda
out In the world war comprising many
battlefields where millions of men
fighting with desperation are seem-
ingly making Infinitesimal progress
toward a decisive ending.
Violent engagements are in prog-
ress in the western zone near Arras,
Neuvllle St. Vaast, to the noHh of
the Alsne and on several other sec-
tors with gains of positions and
trenches by the allied forces, accord-
ing to the announcement of the
French war office, while In the eastr
ern theater the Teutons are still driv-
ing the Russians before them, notably
In Galicia.
To the north of the Alsne two thou-
sand Germans have been killed in an
endeavor to retake from the French
two lines of trenches which were cap-
tured Sunday. In addition 250 prison-
ers and six machine guns were taken,
while many other machine guns were
found under the ruins.
Since June 1 in the vicinity of
Przcmysl the Austrians claim that In
their advances they have captured
more than thirty thousand Russian
prisoners.
The Italians, according to Vienna,
seem to be pushing forward with
strong forces against the Isonzo river.
In this southern theater the Austrians
declare their troops have been suc-
cessful In several minor engagements.
The British In Africa have driven
out with heavy casualties the Ger-
mans from different Sphlnzhaven on
Lako Nyassa and sunk In the lake
the German armed merchantman
Herrman von Wiesmann.
Considerable gains by the allied
forces In France, on the Gallipoli pen-
insula and in Asiatic Turkey are
chronicled by London and Paris, while
damage to Austrian positions on the
Adriatic by Italian warships Is report-
ed by Italy. Berlin admits two re-
verses claimed by Paris—at Neuvllle
St. Vaust, where the Germans have
lost two groups of houses, and the re-
linquishment of the sugar factory at
Souchez.
The'Germans, however, assert that
they and their Austrian Holies con-
tinue to make good progress against
the Russians In Galicia, taking from
them numerous positions and captur-
ing large numbers of men and guns.
With the king of Greece suffering a
relapse and in a serlcus condition, no
change In the attitude of thut country
is expected immediately.
The only reason for the delay of
the American note to Germany, it Is
Bald, was the president's desire to
make the phraseology of the note so
explicit and unmistakable as to leave
no room for doubt or further argu-
ment concerning the position of the
United States government—that the
right of visit and search must bo exer-
cised and passengers and crews of
unarmed Bhlps on which neutrals are
voyaging transferred to a place of
safety before any prize Is destroyed
by a belligerent warship.
An advance of 500 yards along a
front of nearly three miles In which
two lines of Turkish trenches on the
Gallipoli peninsula were taken by the
allies Is reported by London and
Paris. The fighting was of a most
sanguinary character, position after
position being taken by the allied
troops and then reverting to the Turks
In furious counter attacks. Allied
battleships, cruisers and destroyers
aided their land forcoa In capturing
the Turkish positions.
As In nil trench warfare, which
ehnracter the fighting on the Gallipoli
peninsula has assumed, the allies
found their general advance hindered
through the Inability of part of their
force to penetrate the wire entangle-
ments which the artillery fire had not
sufficiently destroyed. In the taking
of Amara on the Tigris river In Asia-
tic Turkey, the British received the
surrender of the governor and some
thirty officers und about 700 men.
The Italian naval forces have car-
ried out several operations against
the Austrian coast points In the mid-
dle and lower Adriatic. They have
cut the cable connecting Dalmatian
archipelago to the continent and de-
stroyed by bombardment the light-
houses and lookout stations on the
islands. Monfalcone also has received
attention from torpedo destroyers and
the railway between Cattaro and Ra-
guF.a in Dalmatia has been bombard-
ed and damaged. There also has been
some naval activity In the Baltic near
the Golf of Riga.
CHILDREN BEG FOOD
HORDES OF HUNGRY MEN, WOM-
EN AND CHILDREN IN MEXICO
CITY NEAR STARVATION.
U. S. SHIP TAKES FOOD
10,000 Parsons Gathsr In Front of
Congrssslonal Halls and Nsarly
S00 Carrlsd Away on Stretch-
ere—600 Die Dally.
City of Mexico.—The socalled na-
tional convention In the chamber of
deputlee building this week have
been acenea of the wildest disorder.
Not only the galleries, but at timea
the floor and speaker's tribune hare
been rushed by hordes of hungry men,
women and children.
The shonta of "We want com"
drowned all others, and even the
show of bayonets and the firing of
the soldiers over the heads of the mob
have not checked their vain and pite-
ous search for food. The Red Cross
has been kept busy carrying off wom-
en and children, and In come cases
old men, crushed or overcome in these
manifestations.
Ten thousand persona gathered out-
side of the chamber Tuesday and
nearly 300 were carried off on stretch
ers. Acting President General Roque
Gonzales Garza appeared befoie the
convention delegates and a portion of
the mob to tell them that the treas-
ury was empty, the fields laid to
waste by the contending revolution-
aries and that the only hope for the
coming winter was that all Mexicans
lay down their arms and begin the
tilling of the fields. Repeatedly the
crowds answered him, saying, "Give
us corn. Our women and children
are dying of hunger.”
Crops everywhere are short and in
all but five of the twenty-seven states
of Mexico there is absolute want,
with the new harvest many months
away and mythical because, to a large
extent, unplanted. Even states as pro-
ductive as Morelos and Guanajuato
are calling for corn, while the armies
turn their horses into anything green
to be found and kill cattle and other
farm animals for their hides.
It Is estimated that unless relief
comes from the outside more than
13,000,000 people will be in danger of
starvation. In normal times It re-
quires approximately 1,800,000 tons of
corn to feed these 13,000,000. Farm-
ers and grain dealers say this must
be obtained in the United States, but
as Mexico has no money to pay for
even a part of what is needed, she
will be compelled to throw herself on
the charity of the United States, ac-
cording to these authorities.
A letter from S. Jamison Swarman,
an American merchant in the City of
Mexico for fifteen years, received this
week in San Antonio by a relative,
tells of the frightful conditions In the
capital, where, he says, the death rate
Is averaging 500 a day.
With beans and corn stowed away
In her hold, with provisions for 500
people for twenty days in her com-
missary department, the United States
army transport Buford departed from
the port of Galveston Monday night
for Vera Cruz to offer succor and
transportation facilities to Americans
and other foreigners In .Mexico.
Major Joseph Wheeler, adjutant to
Colonel Guy Carleton of the port of
embarkation, is in command of the
expedition, and Major Martin Henry
was designated as transport quarter-
master. Lieutenant L. E. Purcell of
the Twenty-sixth infantry, with a de-
tail of twenty-five men, Is the ship
guard.
SOUTH AND EAST TEXAS
DEVELOPMENT MOVEMENT
MANY NEW MEASURES
T SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
League Organized With More Than
a Seore of Countloa Represented.
Officers Ohoeon.
Texas Postmasters Are Named.
Washington.—The following Texas
fourth class postmasters were named:
Cornelia, Live Oak county, Minnie M.
Alexander; Port Sullivan, Milam
county, Dan E. Peel; Flowella,
Brooks county, Miss Sallie Z. Haltom;
Lela, Wheeler county, Wiley F.
Stroud.
Seventeen-Year Locusts Coming.
Washington.—Warning of the reap-
pearance of the seventeen-year locust,
technically known as brood 6 of the
cicada. In the East in May and June
was Issued this week by the depart-
ment of agriculture. Little actual
damage Is expected.
Hall Kills Fish and Sheep.
San Antonio, Tex.—A terrific hail-
storm in Bandera county Sunday left
hundreds of dead fish in Pipe creek,
twenty-five miles north of Medina
dam, and killed a number of sheep in
that vicinity.
Wichita Falls Flooded.
Wichita Falls, Tex.—With both the
Big Wichita river und Holiday creek
out of their banks and covering a con-
siderable portion of the city, Wichita
Falls this week faces the most dis-
quieting situation in years.
Rust Is Reported in Oklahoma.
Tulsa, Okla.—Alarming reports of
damage to wheat from black rust
have been received at Tulsa the past
two days and It Is feared the crop,
which until ten days ago promised to
establish a record, will be cut far
short of first estimates.
Hollis, Okla.—There were born to
Mr. and Mrs. Flake Kays Saturday
quadruple Kiris, all living, apparently
healthy, and weighing about six
pounds each
Town and country Joined, Interest
met Interest and selfish ambition gave
way to unity of purpose in the crea-
tion of the feuth and Bast Texas De-
velopment League In Houston Friday.
More than a score of South and
East Texas ceuntles were represent-
ed. Each pladged support to the seo-
tlonal movement whleh Is expeoted to
accomplish In actual upbuilding what
has not been possible through Individ-
ual effort
Officers selected to direct the ac-
tivities of this organisation are:
President John T. Scott Houston.
Vice presidents, one to each county
—Chosen by the delegations from
each; Liberty, Judge C. N. Smith,
Liberty; Harris, H. O. Schuhmachar,
Houston; Brazerla, Judge J. W. Mun-
son; Galveston, Maco Stewart Gal-
veston; Matagorda, Osoar Barber, Bay
City; Wharton, H. A. Cline; Colorado,
E. L. Mooney, Eagle Lake; Jackson,
F. G. Moffltt, Edna; Angelina, M. W.
Glenn, Lufkin; Nacogdoches, John
Schmidt Nacogdoches; San Jacinto,
J. M. Hamsboro, Cold Springs; Polk,
W. L. West, Livingston; Trinity, H.
H. Thompson, Trinity; Walker, L. C.
Eastham, Huntsville; Brazos, E. J.
Fountain, Bryan; Grimes, E. J. Goree,
Navasota; Houston, J. W. Young,
Crockett; Anderson, J. E. Angly, Pal-
estine; Smith, Charles W. Boon; Fort
llend, M. J. Hickey, Richmond; Leon,
R. H. Evans, Jewett; Bowie, Senator
Morris Sheppard.
At the meeting a resolution was
adopted recommending that the South
and East Texas Development League
make as Its chief objects three things,
namely, flood prevention, drainage of
the coastal plain, and road improve-
ment.
The matter of considering the reso-
lutions adopted by the Good Roads
and Drainage Congress was taken up
before adjournment. After some dis-
cussion, they were approved and the
purposes and provisions In the reso-
lutions were adopted unanimously.
Texas Veteran Pensions Cut.
Austin, Tex.—Texas Confederate
pensioners for the quarter ending
May 31 received a pension of $13 In-
stead of $22, which was paid them
during the two previous quarters.
This reduction was due to the lack
of money accruing to the pension
fund. The amount of money for Con-
federate pensions is not fixed, vary-
ing nearly every quarter. It has been
as low as $10.50.
Forty-Two Under Indictment.
Corpus Chrlsti, Tex.—The federal
grand jury, composed of two business
men of Corpus Chrlsti and ten cattle
men, farmers and merchants of the
Corpus Chrlsti district, has Indicted
on two counts forty-two residents of
Corpus Chrlsti, for the most part
prominent county and city officers,
charging election irregularities, and
corruption of the ballot, during the
general election of November, 1914.
• Cowboys Rescue American Boys.
Nogales, Ariz.—A posse of ten
American cowboys and miners rode
eight miles across the border Into
Santa Cruz, Sonora, Saturday and,
leveling their guns at the colonel com-
manding the garrison, while 150 Mex-
ican soldiers looked on, secured the
immediate release of two American
boys kidnaped by three of the soldiers
on the Arizona side of the border.
State Glnners’ Meeting.
Dallas, Tex.—The annual conven-
tion of the Texas State Glnners’ As-
sociation concluded its three days'
meeting Saturday after adopting a
few minor resolutions and electing of-
ficers for the enpuing year. Dallas
Is the permanent meeting place of
the association, and it Is planned to
being fully 3,000 glnners to Dallas at
the next annual meeting In 1916.
To Survey King’s Highway.
Austin, Tex.—in the departmental
appropriation bill there Is an item of
$5,000 to pay the cost of surveying
and establishing the old San Antonio
road, sometimes known as ‘<the King's
highway,” from a point where the
same crosses the boundary between
IVxas and Louisiana, to be expended
under the direction of the governor.
Picnickers Killed in Accident.
Dallas, Tex.—Six persons were kill-
ed, several injured and more than a
dozen slightly Injured when a truck-
load of picnickers, returning to the
city Monday night, went Into a twen-
ty-foot ditch and several of the peo-
ple were drowned in the creek Into
which the machine plunged.
Watermelons Are Shipped.
Houston, Tex.—The first carload of
watermelons of the season, consigned
to Houston markets, was received Fri-
day.
Italian Countess la Pardoned.
Milan.—Countess Marie Tarnovaky,
sentenced In May, 1910, to eight yean
Imprisonment for complicity in the
murder of Count Kamarowsky at Ve-
nice In November, 1907, has been par-
doned and released.
New $4,000 School Building.
Berelalr, Tex.—A contract was let
this week for a $6,000 school build-
ing. Work will begin et once In order
that the building may be reedy for
the fall term of achooL
THIRTY-SEVEN BILLS PASSED BY
THIRTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE
APPROVED BY GOVERNOR.
MILLION FOR RURAL SCHOOLS
Nearly All Countlea In State Are Rep-
resented by Some Measure That
Is Beneflelal to Progress.
Variety of Bills.
▲uatlh, Tex.—Thirty-seven bills and
a concurrent resolution passed by the
special session of the thirty-fourth leg-
islature have been approved by the
governor and sent to the secretary
of state to be filed. All do not be-
come effective until ninety days after
date of adjournment of the legislature.
The Concurrent resolution approved
provides that congress be memorial-
ized to enact a law providing for the
return to the late Confederate States
of what is called the "cotton tax
fund." j
The bills approved are:
House bill No. 8, rural school bill,
appropriating $1,000,000. House bill
No. 65, creating Point Independent
school district of Rains county. House
bill No. 64, Comanche county road
law. House bill No. 66, Walker coun-
ty road law. Senate bill No. 23. Gal-
veston dry dock or marine ways bill.
House bill No. 29, extending time of
payment of principal that has become
due on former sales of lands belong-
ing to public free school fund, Uni-
versity of Texas fund and the sev-
eral asylum funds. Senate bill No.
36, providing for posting of notices
of sales of land made under deeds of
trust. Senate bill No. 42, changing
time of holding court In thirty-third
judicial district. Senate bill No. 67,
amending special road law of Mon-
tague county. Senate bill No. 31, re-
lating to payment of Jail guards. Sen-
ate bill No. 19, reorganizing twenty-
third judicial district, to consist of
Brazoria, Fort Bend, Wharton, Mata-
gorda and Harris counties. Senate
bill No. 10, for acquiring new site and
erection of buildings for the Texas
School for the Blind, appropriating
$225,000 for fiscal year ending Aug.
31, 1916, and $75,000 for fiscal year
ending Aug. 81, 1917. Senate bill No.
21, amending aot relating to butcher
business and to detection of persons
illegally handling and butchering ani-
mals. House bill No. 22, creating
Greensborough County Line independ-
ent school district of Henderson and
Van Zandt counties. Senate bill No..
44, Rocardo independent school dis-
trict; the governor made the note
that he believed that the description
of the district included in the bill Is
Insufficient in that It dees not state
the county In which the district Is lo-
cated. House bill No. 28, declaring
prairie dogs public nuisance and pro-
viding for their destruction. Senate
bill -No. 15, permitting an interurban
company to purchase another interur-
ban company. Senate bill No. 47,
validating sales and conveyances of
land made by towns and villages
created under Spanish and Mexican
authorities. Senate bill No. 14, amend-
ing Happy independent school district
law, Swisher and Randall counties.
Senate bill No. 35, amending game
law to fix closed season for doves
from March 1 to Sept. 1, effective
ninety days after adjournment. House
bill No. 37, changing time of holding
court in thirtieth judicial district; ef-
fective at once. House bill No. 84,
regulating the business of co-operative
savings and contract loan companies;
effective In ninety days. House bill
No. 46, creating Independent school
district in Cottle, Dickens, King ahd
Motley counties; effective at once.
House bill No. 48, changing time of
holding court in forty-nint\ judicial
district; effective In ninety days.
House bill No. 45, Incorporating and
creating Fulbrlght independent school
district, Red River county; effective
at once. House bill No. 62, Coleman
county road law; effective at once.
Senate bill No. 20, placing wharf and
dock companies within jurisdiction of
railroad commltslon for issuance of
stocks and bonds; effective in ninety
days. House bill No. 60, Reagan in-
dependent school district, Falls coun-
ty; effective at once. House bill No.
67, grantihg board of control of Girls’
Training School additional time In
which to use funds appropriated and
donated to the state and reappropriat-
ing the fund; effective In ninety days.
House bill No. 53, restoring upon
county court of Kendall county civil
and criminal jurisdiction heretofore
belonging to it under the constitu-
tion; effective at once. House bill No.
59, validating all common school dis-
tricts. Senate bill No. 17, Wilsqn
county road law. House bill No.' 62,
for redemption by owner of land or
lots heretofore sold or may be sold
to state, city or town for taxes; ef-
fective In ninety days. Senate bill
No. 29. Gregg county road law; effec
tive at once. House bill No. 27, Cro-
well independent school district,
Goard county; effective in ninety
days. Senate bill No. 22, relieving the
8ugarland Railway Company from
the necessity of rebuilding and con-
structing about three and one-half
miles of road In Fort Bend county as
ordered by the court in a judgment In
the oaae of the State vs. Sugarland
Railway Company; effective at once.
Hones bill No. 50, Travis county road
law; effective In ninety days. House
bill No. 64, Buena Vista Independent
school district, Pecos county; effec-
tive In ninety daya.
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