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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-01-04

of Iohengrins wedding mafch played
by Miss Lula Sutherltn.
During the ceremonw MIR, sutherlin
and Mr.. Williams played softly.
An aisie t3tolgh which the bridal
party passed was formed by ropes OF
running cedar and fern carried from
the parior door to the altar by Misses
Elizabeth Conrad and Grace Jeffreys,
OF Winston-S Salem, N. G.
Rev. r. w. Grant. the brides pastor.
performed lie ceremony in an impress
sive manner.
The groom was attended by his best
man. Mr.. f. Il. Wimb.sh. OF PAGES.
Va, The brides sister. Miss Carrie
dainty lingerie frock and carried pink
carnations.
The bride. in aa exquisite wedding
dress, carrying a bridal bouquet of
white roses. entered with her brother,
Mr. j. T. Sutherlin. who gave her
away.
After the ceremony the guests. who
numbered nearly one hundred we're
ushered into the din.ng-room; where
~ y were served n delicious buffet
archeon.
The wedding. table was artistically
decorated with lilies Of the valley and
orc bids and the room softly lighted
with pink candies,
The numerous and handsome gifts
attest the popularity of this young
couple. who will make their future
home near PAGES, Va.
The friends from a distance inclnd-
ed Miss White Hunter. OF Durham. N.
c.: Mrs /. A. Weller. Mr.. and Mrs
r. + Peerman and Mr.. Hamilton Vass.
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BANDITS INVADE
 CHICAG0 BANK, M OBTAIN sl2,000
Jake Stahl, City Judge Fry and 20 or More Others
 Witness Robbery. M
G/rZ .<IZ~ .oSRWcE.-

Chicago, Jan. 27.-Four men, each carrying two pistols, intimidated 20 patrons and the cashier and clerks of the Washington Park National bank today, and escaped with between $12,- coo and $15,000.
 aJ. Garland Stahl. manager of the Chicago Americans in 1912, when that club won the championship, is vice president of the bank. :
 "They got more than $12,OOo," said Mir. Stahl.
 Municipal Judge s. F. Fry was among the depositors forced to wit ness the robbery The bandits paid especial attention to MT. Stahl, who was singled out by one of them and two revolvers were poked within an inch of, the bankers face.
 None of the depositors was search ed. After grabbing the money in the cashiers cage, the bandits es- capped in ar auto.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-28
PETITION WITH MILLION NAMES ASKS EMBARGO
 
Hot Words Fly Thick and Fast in Senate Over the
 Traffic in Arms.

Washington, Jan. 27.-A mammoth petition, signed by more than one million persons, calling for an embargo On munitions, opened the flood gates in the senate this after noon, and for almost two hours hot words flew thick and fast in the chamber.
 At the end, after traffic in arms and ammunition had been character ized as being everything from "nefarious" to immoral and damn able,' leaders admitted themselves surprised at the amount of senti- ment in favor of an embargo that has developed in the senate.
 The signatures had been obtained by the Order of American Women for Strict Neutrality. The petition filled 25 huge clothes baskets and was brought from Baltimore this morning on an auto truck.
 Senator Hitchcock wanted the petl- tions referred to the committee on commerce instead of the committee on foreign affairs. In the end, after a ouiet conference between leaders, the incident closed with no senator being compelled to face a vote.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-28
BRITISH LOSE
 35,000 KILLED
 AND WOUNDED ]. J ] Remaining 10000 of Force Cooped Up by Turkish
 Troops at Alden. GERMANS CAPTURE FRENCH TRENCHES After Wrecklng Defenses With Mines, kaisar's Forces Occcupy 600 Metres of Lines on vimy-Neuville ia.. .s, Road.

London. Jan. 27.-Another British army is hemmed in by the Turks and their Arab allies. This force of f20,- 900 is cooped up in Alden, at the southern entrance to the Red sea, according to German advices.
 The fate of this army means more to England than that of General Townsend's forces, beleagured in Kut- el-Amara on it's retreat from. Bagdad, because it means that the British pos- session of territory protecting the Suez canal route is in peril.
 The report of Aden's peril comes from Berlin and quotes a dispatch from Cairo under date of December 30, and published in the Cologne volks-Zeitung. This dispatch states that the British troops in Southern Arabia have lost 15,00O killed and 10000 wounded. while the 10000 so1- diers left at Alden are in dangerous position. a
 Alden has beeen so strongly fortified by the British that it has been call cd the "Gibraltar of the East.' It is known that Turkish forces have threatened it many times since the beginning of the war, but this is the first time the British public has had an intimation that there was any weakness there.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-28
State Will Take Charge To- day, Using Farm for
 White Convicts.
THE TRANSACTION
 INVOLVES $165,000
State Acquires Personal Property, and Vendors to Furnish Lumber for StOckade, G,O0O Bushels of Corn
 and Some Cotton Seed.

The Arkansas penitsntiary com mission yesterday contracted for the purchase of the D. B. Niven & com pany plantation, near Tucker, to be used as white penal farm, and will take charge of the place today. The entire transaction involves about $165,000 fer which bonds, bearing 6 per cent interest, will be issued.
 The purchase of the Niven planta- tion has been the subject of negotia- tions for several days between D. B. Niven and members of the ccmmis- sion. which had also considered the Jesse R. Core and other places in the Plum Bayou section, as we'll as properties in other parts of the state. The deal was finally consummated yesterday at Litle Rock, MT. Niven returning to- his home here last night.
 By the terms of the agreement, the state is to pay Niven & company at. the rate of $50 an acre for the 5000 or mere acres, or approximately $150,O00. The state takes everything on the place, but the price to be paid for some Of the personal property is yet to be determined. MT. Niven is to furnish the commission 600O bushels of corn at 75 cents per bushel, 30 tons of cotton seed and as many mules As 15O,OOO feet cf lumber, and the state stand cotton gin.
 .4rl Nineteen Miles from City. .
 The ,Niven farm. which is, about ho1R Una Belt railroad at Tucker, Is 19 miles from Pine Bluff by road. Something moro than 2000 acres are cleared a11 in cultivation, and 1t is one of the best equipped plantations in; the cot, ton belt. off e3 ,s5 Y II
 Its purchase 5by the penitentiary commission ends yta long search bys that body for a farm on which to use the white conyicts. Commiss ssioner J. "A. Bradsher will be in charge, and will move some prisoners to the place today, Work of erecting , stockade and other buildings, required will be started at once. sss,,. b.t.
 Commissioner J. V. Ferguson will continue in charge of the farm at. Cummins, while Commissioner J. M. Burkett will remain in the office at Little ROCK. 5es..5sS ea e,I win Help Build Reed. :.s # F. MT. Niven stated last night that the members of the commission had as-. sured him the state would do it's full share toward defraying the cost of the proposed good road from Pine Bluff to Tucker, and would pay as much or more toward the, building Of the road than the district would have received in taxes If the property con, tiEued in private ownership.
 MT. Niven retains his store at Tucker and all other planting inter- ests. ass
 'Tt was working me too hard to look after it all." he said last night That's why was willing to sell.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-28
Germans Make Gains

London, Jan. 27.-Wrecking the trenches with mines. the Germans have occupied between 300 and 500 metres of the French lines on the Vimy- Neuville high road.
 The German official statement to- night recounts this further success in the Artois drive of the kaiser's army. Some prisoners, a machine gun and three mine-throwers were captured.
 Hand-to-hand fighting, with both sides suffering severe losses, is rag ing night and day in this region. and Berlin claims to have successfully penetrated the French advance po- sitions in number of places. { In one sector three successive lines of trenches have been captured. They are being held firmly by the Teutons. it is said, although eight heavy coun- ter attacks have been launched against them.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-28
CHICAGO PROSECUTOR
 KIDNAPS A CONVICT
Notorious Wire Tapper Spirited Ava!
 from Attorneys and to Prison at Joliet.

Chicago, Jan. 26.-John Strosnider. Big Lem" in the underworld, and known chiefly in Chicago as the man who swindled Dr. William T. Kirby out of $2O,OO0 and drove the Kirby Savings bank into the hands of a re- ceiver, spent tonight in Joliet.
 For the first time in his twenty years of operations as wire tapper, fake fight and race promoter, and seller of fake mining stocks, he found himself inside penitentiary. with a prospect of from one to twenty years.
 State Attorney Hoyne, who convict ed Strosnider, spirited him away from his attorneys and put him aboard a train for Joliet. with two detectives' this afternoon.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-28
Woman Accused of Instigat- ing Husbands Murder,
 Becomes Entangled.
INNERMOST SECRETS
 OF CAREER BARED
Unable to Remember Date of Mothers Death or of Her Own Birth, Mrs. MOhr Compelled to Tell of Early
 Love Affairs.

Providence, R. l., Jan. 27.-When Mrs. Elizabeth Mohr stepped, weep ing, from the witness stand this aft ernoon, there was a long oppressive moment of perfect stiffness. Embar- rassment that was almost fear was in the air. No one in all that packed the silent courtroom looked at his neighbor For each knew that he had just seen perhaps the most pitiable, the most tragic thing he was in all his life, to see-a woman on trial ac- cused of a horrible murder; woman on whose own story alone, practically rested her fate, and a woman so con- fused after five minutes of cross ex- animation, so entangled in contra dictory statements that she could not say the date of her birth, and after ten minutes was unable to tell when her own mother had died.
 It had been in recounting to the jury yesterday the vicious cruelty with which she said her husband had treated her on the very morning of her mothers death that Mrs. Mohr had made her biggest impression. The revolting story of man beating his wife because she would not leave her dying mother to keep an engage ment with him had cut deep into the consciousness of every one. And now today, on cross examination, came this: <. ..s-,.
 Mrs, Mohr-"When I told my moth CT in 1909 that the doctor said our marriage was not legal, she was so heartbroken it hastened her death. That is what really killed her.
 Attorney General Rico-"But, mad am, you swore ten minutes ago that your mother died in 19O7, two years before."
 E This was the sensational climax reached by, the attorney general just few minutes after he had commenc- ed his cross-examination.
 From that moment, Mrs. Mohr's self-control began to vanish and one by one, as the questions came from the prosecutor, her answers became more and more entangled and con- fused.
 Began Life as Shop Girl.
 Mrs. Mohr, whose marriage to the wealthy physician made her chate- laine of Montepelier, the doctors beautiful Newport estate. had to tell of girlhood spent working in de- partment stores from town to town. She had to go into the vague details of her first marriage to Dr. Mohr, a ceremony performed in "brick house somewhere in Brooklyn" by an un- known "man, now dead"; she had to admit that Dr. Mohr had gone to "great trouble and expense" to have unfrocked a minister with whom she was keeping company" before she knew Dr. Mohr.
 She had to identify her husbands hand writing in the love letters he had written the "other woman" while she admitted he had written but once to her in all their married life; she had to acknowledge that almost ev- cry statement in the certificate of her Lynn marriage to her husband, six years after the first in Brooklyn, was false.
 And tomorrow. there will be more questions that she will have tu an- swer. and more letters she will have to hear read. Today, none Of her testimony, directly affecting the trag- edy. was even reached.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-28
Railroad Men Howl Approv- al of Wilson's Plan for
 National Defense.
MEXICAN POLICY
 IS NOT FAVORED
Audience Silent When President De. clareS United States Will Not In- tervene, Because to Do So Would
 Set Bad Example.

New York, Jan. 27.-President Wilson tonight launched forth upon his nationwide campaign fer pre- parsdness His first speech to the business men of America was made Railway Business association at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel tonight.
 Twelve hundred and fifty men heard that op:ning speech. They represented the greatest railroads in the East and the largest railroad sup ply industries. When the president had finished he was escorted to ther Biltmcre hotel, where he addressed the Motion Picture board of trade. His escort was the Ninth r:giIent, Coast artillery, New York National Guard.
 Evsry reference the president made to national defense was warmly ap- plauded Once, and only cnce, at the dinner at the Waldorf, he referred to his Mexican policy. The 1250 men who had howled their approval of an adequate national defense sat quiet. The president said that there would be no intervention in Mexico because 'cf the example such an action would set,
 Ignores Prepared Speech.
 For some reason the president ignored the speech he had prepared for the occasion. He dealt with the question of defense merely in gen. eral way, virtually every reference he made to national defense was with tempered qualifications. The presi- dent was introduced to the railroad men by George A. Post, president of the association. Mrs. Wilson occu- pied a box and was cheered when she entered.
 Once the president declared that one year ago he did not believe in a tariff board. Before he was able to reply that he now saw virtue in such Ia body the railroad men burst into a roar of approval. But. cn the con- trary. when the president declared he would rather surrender territory than high ideals there was mere scattering of applause.
 As for the navy. he declared that need no preaching. The navy. he said, was so obviously a necessary brancn of defense that it's expansion would require but little urging. He declar- ed he did not fear for the naval pro- gram. His fears, he minated, cehtered in his plan to enlarge our land forces. s
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-28
IRON MOUNTAIN TRAIN
 DITCHED AT SALIsAW
Engineer Gibson Sustafns Fracture
 of Both Legs, and Fireman
 Curtham Broken Ankle. ,l

Salisaw, Okla, Jan. 27.-South- bound Iron Mountain passenger train 1O1 went into a ditch :. about three miles west of here early this fnorn- ing. Tho combination mail and bag gage car burned, with all its con- tents.
 Engineer Gibson had both legs broken. Fireman Curtham jumps d and sustained broken ankle. An un- identified mail clerk suffered a broken arm. None of the passengers received serious injury.
 The wreck was caused by the washing out of the track, due 10 heavy rains.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-28
RJYS MODEL BAKERY FIXTURES.
I. E. White of England Acquires
 Equipment at Receivers Sale.

The greater part of the fixtures and equipment of the Model bakery. bank rupt. has been sold by Receiver A. 2. Orto, to J. B. White of England who paid $295 for the articles pur- chased by him. The sale was made Wednesday and was approved yester- day by Referee in Bankruptcy :. G. Waters, of Little Rock.
 It was announced that MT. White will remove his purchases to Eng land. where he will use them in q bakery. The disposition to be mace of the other articles in the bankrupt bakery establishment, has not been announced.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-28
Expect 1s,oOO at Old Guard Ball.

New York, Jan. 27.-At least I2,00O guests are expected to be present at the Old Guard ball in the Hotel bllt- more tomorrow night. Such mum ber will not be accommodated all the time. but the total attendance Will approximate this.
 The grand military march, partlcl- pated in by old guardsmen. will take place at midnight, with band Of 2Oo pieces and two orchestras. The guard is now 90 years old and the first an nual ball, was given in 1869 in the academy of music.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-28
SPILLS ACID ON FOOT.

Deputy Constable Reidinger Crippled
 as Result of Peculiar Accident.
 Deputy Constable Jim Reidinger IS badly crippled, as result of spill ing some carbolic acid on two toes of his left foot. MT. Reidinger was doctoring another toe. when the a;ii smiled upon his foot, burning two foes almost to the bone. The wound is extremely painful.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-28
CASUALTIES
 AGGREGATE 2,2O0,000'
Estimated That 00O,0OO Killed In
 Addition, 3OOy yD00 Taken

Bristol, Jan. 27.-M. Longuet, q French Socialist deputy. who ad- dressed, the labor conference today. on being quea.ioned regarding the French losses said that 800.000 soldiers had been killed. that 1,400,- 900 had been wounded and that 300.-S 900 had been taken prisoner.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-28
MUSE CAMPAIGNING.
Junction City Buslness Man Candi.
 date for R. R. COmmissioner.

M. F. Muse of Junction City. Union county, candidate for railroad com missioner from this distEict. was in the city yesterday for a short while. and was introduced to number of people by his friend. Geofses DRrby.: MT. Muse says he Is meeting with encouragement from q great number of voters who believe that the place is one for 8 business man.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-28
Killine Over a Fence.

Blytheville, Jan. 27.--Dispute over possession of wire fence caused Jim Williams, farmer, to shoot and in- stantlv kill Jade M. Woodruff, an- other farmer, residing about ten miles northeast of Blytheville.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-28
NOTICE.

TO stcckholders Of the Jefferson
 Or Co. wish to urge all share hold ers to attend the meeting in person Friday evening at o'clock at the Chamber, of Commerce rooms, Citl- zens Bank building. Business Of Sn- it R. M. GALBRAITH. President.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-28
Prefers Death to Pris0n.

Blytheville. Jan. 27,Fearing that he would be senteuoed to the pent- tentiary on a bootiegsine NchaTeA Robert Mick. 63, slashed his threat in his cell, ct the county jail Aere atal4S morning. Mick used . pocket kni1es but will recover. ss5.Ss \ s1';Ss
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-28
AGED EMPEROR OF
 AUSTRIA IS DYING?

Rome, Jan. 27, via London-Emper- or Francls Jos'ephof Austria, .Mho has been i'll for several days, Is rap idly growing worse. according to re- ports in vatican, circles.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-28

H. l.. Sternberg returned last even-f ing from Arkansas City, where nc was in attendance upon the session of court.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-28
The Weather

Friday, cloudy, colder except ip Northwestern portion. cold wave ex. .cept in northwestern portion; Satur- day. cloudy and not so cold.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-28

Mayor Simon Bloom returned yes. terday from Memphis. Tenn, where he had attended business matters.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-28
River Forecast.

River Forecast.
 The Arkansas will reach . stage of 2S feet or more at Dardanelle, 27 feet at Little Rock and 29 feet at Pine Blum the next few days.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-28

tcoN'riNuEn nN PA;sp SIX,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-06-11
WOODROW WILSON AGAIN!

The Republicans have nominated
Justice Charles E. Hughes as their
candidate for the presidency.
The Progressives have played true
to form and nominated Theodore
Roosevelt.
The Democrats will meet next week
and without a semblance of quarrel,
nominate Woodrow Wilson.
Thus, the country is assured of be-
ing in good hands for four years after
the present term expires. Woodrow
Wilson will be reelected to steer the
helm of ship of all the United States
and her possessions.
Democracy has been rewarded
aid in November it will he ratified.
The south Is glad.
If a single blatant Democrat raises
his voice to yelp at the party and ad.
ministration, then he should be off,
ever driven from its portals.
It's Wilson again!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-06-11
CHILDHOOD'S RECOLLECTIONS.

An Americas boy got entangled in a
roller towel last week and almost
choked to death. We can remembe err
the time, just astwell, when we hoped
some such fate would befall the nurse
who persisted in washing our neck
and ears; and now, remembering what
happened to the Americas lad, per-
haps young America in one loud
chorus, will appeal for the abolish
ment of that instrument of torture, the
towel.-Monroe Advertiser.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-06-11
CURIOUS RECKONING.

In the late developments in the Geor-
gle gubernatorial situation by the en-
try of a fourth candidate, certain
things are transpiring and will con-
tirue to be evident-only more so.
The w. & A road is figuring strong
ly in propaganda and as yet there has
been no candidate to announce who
favors the sale of the road. This pos
sibly lends favor to the real merits of
those proposing the sale of the state
road The issue is recent, and at no
time has the real opinion Of the peo-
pie of the state evidenced itself in a
concrete form-and that's enc reason
why you can't find a candidate who
favors the sale.
But when the real wind that blows
hardest has passed over, there'll be a
hurrying and scurrying to get on the
band wagon" the like of which Geor-
gia has not seen since "refawm" caus-
ed many Georgians go lose their
heads.
There is a vast sentiment in Georgia,
and it is crystalizing each day, which
believes that the state of Georgia
should get out of the railroad business,
and by so doing maintain her dignity,
protect and legislate for every citizen
alike, and above all refuse to utilize
her sovereignty in the furtherance Of
class and local legislation.
The Times Recorder has already
spoken once-and many times in favor
of the sale of the W. G A. The sand
storm arising over general ''free-for-
all'' in the fight for the governors
chair has not changed us.
Several newspapers and periodicals
in Georgia cannot cleanse their sys-
tenn long enough to refuse in imputing
subsidy" to those newspapers who
favor the sale of the state road. These
rome too righteous newspapers need
not Judge their own motives by the
actions of their brethren of the press.
Usually, the fellow who cries crook"
does so to hide himself. And these
boiler than thou" publications seize
the poisonous venom of unwarranted
charges to shroud their positions AM
published views