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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-04
GIVE $500 FOR JEWS.
Citizens o fVicksburg Expect Relief
Contributions To Go Much Hioher.

CItizens o fVicksburg Expect Relief
Contributions To Go Much Higher.
Nicksburg -Vicksburgers are re.
spending with great generosity among
all classes and races for the Jewish
relief fund for the foreign sufferers,
according to an announcement by Rab.
bi Sol Kory. The committee has re-
ceIved exceeding 81 500. The Jewish
relief day, Jan, q, as designated by
President Wilson, doubtless will see a
much greater amount added to this
sum, as the citizens are by mail and
through other sources continuing their
contributions.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-04
Certainly Not.

"You talk and talk. but you don't
know what you are talking about"
Maybe not. However, this is q free
country, I hope!"
"Oh, yes"
with freedom Of speech?"
"Assuredly."
well, just because l don't happen
to be in public life is no reason why
I shouldn't be entitled to the same
privilege Q congressman enjoys"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-04
A col

Is often followed by pneumonia. Be-
tore It Is too late take Laxative Quini-
dine Tablets Gives prompt relief in
cases OF Coughs. Colds, La Grippe and
Headache. Price 25c.-,Adv.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-04
Their Favorltes.

Harold - What is your ~favorite
game?
Evelyn-Quail on toast. And yours:
Harold-Eagles on $40 gold pieces
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-04
Force Of Habit.

Customer Have you any nice, light
rolls for my husbands supper?
AbscntMInded Clork-No, but here
are some fine dog biscuits, which are
Just as good,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-04
S~easonabls Datea.

Customer--Got any fresh dates?
Grocer-No; | gave away the last
calendar | had this morning.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-04

STOP THOSE SHARP SHOOTING PAINS
'Fcmenina' is the wonder worker for all
iemaie disorders. Price 8ioo and soc. Adv
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-04
Bilbo Military Appointments.

silbo Military Appointments.
Very few changes in the personnel
Of the military officers serving at
headquarters of the Mississippi Ma
tional Guard have been made by Gov.
Bilbo, who has sent to Brig.-Gen. Eric
C. Scales, the adjutant-general, a full
list of the appointments in the service.
The governor has reappointed Gen
eral Scales as adjutant general of the
state militia. and Major Geo. e. Hoga-
boom caretaker Of the rifle range at
Camp Williamson, near Vicksburg.
Other appointments are as follows:
Major Edmund II. Magruder OF Green
Vile, inspector-general, reappointed;
Major Z. b. Baker, chief quartermas-
ter and disbursing officer, reappoint-
ed; Major Sam Montgomery of Green
Vile, succeeding Major R. ]. Burnette;
Major j. W. d. Dicks, CHER surgeon.
in charge Of the medical corps.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-04

The daily output Of the United
States mint at Philadelphia Is estimat,
ed at 5000, 900.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-04

The fire Of genius is lucky when It
can keep the pot boiling.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-04
Finance.

Finance.
II hope you're saving some of the
money you made in war stocks"
you bet | am. AS fast as I get 1t |
invest 1t in more stocks"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-04
May XIII Liquor Tax.

The Mississippi senate may finally
block the bill previously passed pro-
viding for a fee of Is cents to circuit
clerks for recording each shipment of
liquor into their counties. The mat.
ter came up on a motion to reconsider
the vote by which the bill passed and
before the friends of the bill realized
1t the measure was reconsidered and
was recommitted to the committees on
fees and salaries, where it Is predicted
it will die.
The senate passed the two house
bills making appropriations to REIN.
burse different banks for money Dor.
rowed by Governor Brewer for-the
%penitentiary department during 1914
and 1915.
The upper body Of the legislature
has finished considerable routine
work. 1t has indefinitely postponed
the series of Thompson bills seeking
to abolish capital punishment, over
Senator Thompson's very vigorous
protests.
The house has re-enacted the code
chapter Of exemptions, with some i'm
portant changes, including the exemp-
TONS with some important changes,
including the exemption Of four cows
and calves, and n bull to each head
of a family, all libraries of whatever
value, ten head of hogs and all pigs
under three months old. All farm
products were exempted from taxes
except levee taxes, no matter whether
in the hands of the producer or not.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-04

There are $500. 900 golfers in the
United States.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-04
WOMAN AVOIDS
OPERATION
Medicine Which Made Sur
geon's Work Unnecessary.

Astoria, n. Y.-"For two years |
was feeling i'll and took all kinds Of
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-04

But many a man who hands you
good advice does not know 1t Is good
or he would have used 1t himself.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-04

To get a run for your money chase
4 street car.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-04

Despite the fact that he Is over
ninety years Of age. J. H. Fisher Of
Cleveland, O.. is still at the forge.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-04
Nearo, Dual SLAYER, Must Die.

Nathan Mcfarland, the negro who
shot and killed his father and mother
in-law zeal Walden. in Carroll county,
last year, burying their bodies to hide
his crime, must hang on March next,
that date for the execution having
been set by the supreme court in a
decision affirming the death sentence.
Netherlands appeal TO the supreme
court was based on a technically.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-02-04
MISSISSIPPI STATE sREVlTlEs

Sam Maynard, 50 years, a prominent
farmer living at Anding, Is miles south
of Yazoo City, had his right arm cut
off by a Y. 4 NJ. V. freight train.
A fake spectacle man who operated
about Coldwater recently defrauded
many persons there by selling glasses
estimated worth IS cents at from -
to $40.
Prof. H. Bull, Yazoo county superin
tendent of education, and the county
farm demonstration, have begun a Carl
paign for a pig club and a baby beef
club in that county.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-08-13
And When They Arrive There
Will Be approximately
175,000 Men There.


WASHINGTON, Aug, i2-All the
national guard units included N
President Wilson's call of June lS
not yet on the Mexican border were
ordered there today by the war de-
partment.
Between 10000 and $4,000 addl'
tional troops will thus be added to
the border forces,
National guard forces there viii
number $4,000 and the total OF all
troops on the border or in Mexico
will be 175,O00,
TO Relieve Trops,
Secretary Baker made a formal
announcement that the troop move
ment had nothing whatever to do
with the Mexican situation as such
and was solely to relieve thousands
of troops now held in mobilization
camps only because they lack a few
recruits to bring tho units up to fixed
minimum strength,
Today's order sends the troops
from Kentucky, Ohio and Vermont
to the border as soon as transDorta.
ton can be arranged for them and
viii move all the others as soon al
thay are properly equipped.
I War department officials decided
o ntheir action because the troops
are restive in camp and there seemed
to be no stimulus to recruiting while
there was no prospect of movement
to the border.
They no Wexpect most of the regi-
msnts viii be filled before the troops
The Kentuck, Ohio, and Vermont
troops which will move practically
ct onee win add Tho following units
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-08-13
LEADERS Of
REBELS ARE
BEHIND BARS
And Thus a Revolutionary
Plot to Seize Chihuahua
City Is Frustrated,
ONE HUNDRED ARE HELD
Prisoners viii Be Tried by
Court Martial, and If Found !
Guilty, Executed,

CHIHUAHUA CITY, Mexico, Aug,
IA revolutionary plot to seize
chihuahua City has been frustrated
hg the arrest OF the leaders composed
largely of former bandit chiettains,
General ,Jaciuto Treyino announced
today Among the one hundred held
ara Jose Ynez salaEar, recently ar
rested5 Felix Terranzas, a. Ramos
Ricardo, former adherents of PasQual
0fgzco7 General Eulogio Ortiz and
G6ionelo Ventura Rodriguez.
.OtheEs under arrest are Lieutenant
Colonel Felix F. Delgado and Cap
tain Agalo, vI1listas recently amnes-
tied, and Pedro Beltran, Jose ]. Vir-
Clio, DomingueE 3. Bernal and Joa-
quin Duran. all leading civilians.
General Trevino asserted that the
movement had been known to the Of
fCIals OF the government Tor seme
time, but that the arrests were not
made lntn as. many implicated az
80 Z !, a. ...4l.,, 4
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-08-13
FRENCH FORCE
LINE FORWARD
All German Trenches toa Depth
of Two Thirds Of a Mile
Captured on Long Line.
TAKE MAUREPAS VILLAGE
Austro- Germans Are Forced to
Give Up the Entire Strip
Line to the Russians.

French and Russian forces have
gained additional important successes
front Of three and three-quartOr miles
in northern France In Gallcia re-
spectively. A sustained attack over
front fthree and three-quarter miles
by the French against the third Ger
man line north Of Somme resulted in
the capture of all the trenches to
depth Of from third to two-thIrds Of
n mile. The line OF the victorious
French advance is from Hardecourt
to the Somme river at Buscourt.
The village of Maurepas, which has
been the center of much severe fight
ing during the last few wONks was
partly occupied by the French In the
same assault German prisoners to
the number of 1000 and thirty machine
guns were captured
On the eastern front the Austro-
Germans have been forced To give UP
the entire Stripa line from Tarnopol
to Buczacz which they had held since
last winter. The capture Of the stripa
line by the Russians followed the TAX
ing of several towns in tho region Of
Tarnopol.
The Russian success comes closely
on their turning Of tho hanks OF the
Strlpa position in the north by the
capture of Prody and in the south by
the taking Of stanislau. The advance
OF General LetchItzky continues south
In GaIicIa Petrograd says the Rus
SLAMS are making progress along the
middle south having crossed the Ko-
ropice river and captured two towns.
Further south in the Mopasterzyska
region, the Russians have gained
ground, while the advance from Stan
islau toward Hallcz and Lemberg con-
tInues.
The duke Of Aosta continues to adj
vance south of Gorizla in the region
OF Trlest and his troops have occupied
Oppacchlazella six miles southwest Of
Gorilla. The Austrians are putting up
strong defense against the attempted
Italian advance east Of Gorlzla,
Heavy attacks have been delivered
by the Germans in the somme region.
French Stop Attacks.
French artillery stopped attacks
against French positions north and
south Of the river, while the attack
against the British near Pozleres re-
suited in repulse.
The French and British according
to Berlin also have been active and
have delivered numerous attacks
north and south Of the somme.
Fighting continues around the
Thiaumont work in the verdun region,
French attacks there being checked
by the Germans. Paris claims the re-
pulse Of German attacks near Flsury.
Turks Drive Russians Back.
Russian forces in the Musb Bitlis
district Of Turkish Armenia have been
driven back further by the Turks and
the Turkish advance into Persia also
is making progress, Constalt1nople
and Petrograd say obstinate lighting
continues north of Bitlis and that the
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-08-13
THREATENED STRIKE is
LIKELY TOBE AVER TED

the leaders Of the four railroad
brotherhoods and the members of
the United States board of mediation
and conciliation viewed the situation
optimistically Several times during
the days negotiations between the
nednators and tho tratnmen 1t SEEM
ed as il the men were on the point
Of Withdrawing from further parley,
When the situation reported reached
3 point where President Wilson had
inbegYened, A, B, GaTTettson, ptesi,
dent of the order Of railway condne-
oFs, authorized statement which
clearly indicated the brotheFhoods
would not oppose such action,
''Aa invitation from the president
os tile United States" said Mr, Gar
rettson us tantsmOunt to command
If he summons us 30 Washington we
will go, but it mast be understood
CONTINUED on Page s, first seetioa1
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-08-13
tuY AsEeerA1lD rREsg

PENSACOLA, Fla, August 12.-An
orderly of Captain Lque, commanding
the French armorod cruiser Amira
.Aube, declared here today that last
Tuesday, August s, the cruiser re-
reived a wireless message Of a British
Datrol boat in the Atlantic saying it
mad xunk the German merchantmen
submarine Deutschland that morning,
Naptain Lique refused further to con-
firm or deny the story.
According to the orderly, the radio
despatch told how the submarine was
sighted while running on the surface
at night, and was sent to the bottom
lust as it attempted to submeTge at
,daybreak
First Allied Ship to Enter.
The Amiral Aube, a n imposing
Hooking four -U1nelled craft, steamed
into Pensacola barbor today and drop
med anchor. 1t is the first Allied war
ship to enter an American port since
the war began. and the event caused
"a furry of excited curiosity along the
water front.
Captain ique informed the collector
.y(,.-,+i-,,,od IN napn first section.)
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-08-13
THIRTY SIX BODIES
RECOVERED FAR

Everett Hawes and five unidentified
foreign miners Of Ferndalei Mrs. j.
Roberts, OF Red Warriors Mrs. tsom
Darby, of Holley Mrs. Tllden Lyk-
ems; one of -four children OF, JohR
Liken, all of oakdale; Luther Rupe,
Of Hurricane; nine-year-old girl
found at Winfield, supposed to have
aoated from Cabin creek; three un-
identified negroes, and one unidentt-
nd white man, found at Bouland:
The known dead, but whose bodies
hav not been recovered so far as
known include the following: Mrs.
Commodore Farley, OF Acme; Mrs.
Martha Halves, James Reid, Claude
Hawes and James Brown, all of
Ferndale; Simpson Russell. OF Palm
Beach; John Fugate and two sons,
of Kayford; Miss MRbeI Kyle, OF
Holley; Roland Williams, Of Horse
Greek; and Mr.. and Mrs. John Cha
ir,.,,tt,,,,oj ~, ,,oro G Ay.,t saoffr1, \
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-08-13
In the Flood Districts Where
Outside Help is Said to Be
Very Urgently Needed,
av AsseclK1rU pRrss,

CHARLESTON, Aug, 12-Bodies
of thirty-six persons drowned in the
flood of Wednesday afternoon fol
lowing a cloudburst which flooded
the valleys of Cabin creek, Seng
creek, Big Coal river and Little
Kanawha river, have been recover
They are: Miss Maggie Ferrellt
of Acme; Mrs. james Crabtree and
Mrs. Rosa Bradley, of Cherokee;
Mrs. Jermiah Cook and infant
daughter and six-year-old son; Mr.,
and Mrs. E. A. Reid, and an unidentt-
iaed woman and child, all of Eskdale;
Mrs. LORNA Bryant, Miss Elizabeth
Ha#es, Frank Spears, Russell ReiddI
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-08-13
CeMH1TTEE ORGANIZES,

WHEELING, August 12.-Tha Birst
congressional district Republican exec
utive committee organized for the
coming campaign at a meeting held
lEst night at aIuuu7sviIle by eleUttng
the 9II1uwing uftUers: Chairman. j.
g. Chase. Of BoundwiTIs; BecrstEy'
A. Fleming, Of Falrmont; and treas
gBFgE, !: II 8gEsH 4Fs ef .WeFHSgFE'
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.1conttnued on page s, first section)
AS 1t is Probable An Agreement
to Arbitrate Will Be En-
tered Into Today.

NEW YORK, August r. Not
@ithstanding the failure Of media
lion to bring together the represen'
hatives Of the railroads of the coun'
try and their 100000 employees on
the demand for an eight hour day
and time and half for overtime, the
threatened strike chat would tie up
225 railroad systems and throw l.
500, 900 railroad workers out Of en-
ployment may be ayerted by arbi-
tration. An agreement to this ei-
feet may be entered into tomorrow
It was predicted here tonight.
At the end Of a day of confusing
situations and contradictory reports,
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-08-13
KOENIC'S BOAT is
SENT TOBOTTOM
Orderly Of French Captain Says
Cruiser Received Wireless
( to That Effect
BRITISH PATROL DOES IT.
Orderly Declares the Wireless
Was Received from Boat in
! Atlantic, August 8.

PENSA COLA, Fla, August 49,
George W. Howe, French consular
Rgent here, tonight declared the story
Of the sinking OF the Deutschland was
entirely Withvut foundation.
Captain LeSltiTit OF the French
armored cruiser Amiral Aube which
arrived here today, denied widely cir.
rulated rumOrs, credited to one Of his
brderlies, TO Tie effect that the cruiser
mad received wireless message from
a British patrol boat in the Atlantic
saving 1t had sunk the German mer.
chant submarine Deutschland on Tues.
Iay, August S. The captain asserted
he had received no Information what.
ever about the Deutschland.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-08-13
on Part Of Chief Executive to
Stand for Business Like
Methods Of Government.
tBy AssoAESEo RaEsn

BUTTE, Mont. August 1s.-ChaEles
q Hughes, addressing an audience in
the ball park here late today, reviewed
his declaration Of convictions and con-
tinued his attack on the administTa-
ton for its foreign and its Mexican
policy, its appointments and its tartf
views.
rThe Democratic party" the nomi-
nee said, "has always been a party Of
opposition to progress. There has not
been a great national movement in
response to a national demand that
has not had TO run ever the pTpstFate
form OF the Democratic party"
The nominee scored the administra-
tion for what he called failure to carry
OHt its paFg Riptf@Fa, notably The
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-08-13
ALL GUARDS ORDERED
TOGO TO THE BORDER

to the long border line:
Kentucky-one brigade Of three
regiments Of infantry, one company
Of signal CORPS one field hospital
and ambulance company modified
at Fort Thomas,
Ohio-Two brIgades of three regl-
ments each Of infantry, one squad.
ron Of cavalry, one battalion Of field
artillery, one battalion Of engineers,
one battalion signal corps, three field
hopitals, two ambulance companies,
all mobiliEed at Columbus,
Vermont-onO regiment infantry
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-08-13
COURAGE NEEDED
ASSERTS HUGHES


plank In the 1912 platform declaring
for the maintenance Of American
rights abroad,
"This administration in the first
instance disorganized Its state departs
ment," Mr.. Hughes said. $50 as ia
reduce Its potency twenty five per cent
in the eyes Of the world
The nominee reiterated hia declaraS
ton that he was against the "porlt
barrel" methods Of graft, and chars
acterized the last rivers and harbora
bill as a spectacle of shocking waste
"And II viii continue he said
+unttl some American executive ~
willing to take his political life in his
hands and some before the American
people aRd say. Here stand tu bpsiS
nass-lfke methods Of government
came what Will
t'Unti! that time comes. We VIII at1ll
have to get along in haphazaId way
A,..a =. ,,,,,, a fTSst 80,
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-08-13

| the long successful defense Of the
city proper, as tits surrounded on all
sides by high mountains. Goritza Is
in the basin, and on three sides are
these towering natural defenses. The
Italian advance up these superb
natural defenses was tedious and
slow, and with seemingly unsur.
mountable obstacles to overcome be-
fore the summit was reached.
The so-called Goritza bridgehcad
comprised the territory within tho
short angle north Of the town, and it9
stronghold was the long, high, rocky
ridge of Monte sabotino, northeast
of the city. Directly opposite Cor
itza are tho Podgora and 0slavia
heights, the scene Of some Of the bit.
terest fighting Of the Italian cam
paign. Goritza before the war was
an inhabited city Of perhaps 10000
people, but a year in the district has
reduced It to a condition Of shell-tom
ruins. 1t is the junction point Of
railroads to Laibach, Fiume, and
Trieste, as well as being located on
the line from Undine, italy,
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-08-13

Toritzia is only twenty-five miles
from Trieste, the objective point of
the Italian army for more than
ear.
The taking of Goritza, the "key-
stone" of the war on the Italian
Austrian front, marks the most i'm
portant victory Of the Italians since
the inception of tn, war. Trieste be-
ing the objective point of the Italians
for more than year, and the fight
being centered around this point, and
adjacent territory for so long time,
shows that the Italians have Joined
in with the allied offensive with
great force.
Military men assert that with Cor
Itza now in the hands of the Italians,
the way is open for the conquest of
the entire Austrian peninsula, with
Trieste, Fiume, and the great Aus
trian naval base at Pola.
The topography of the country
surrounding Goritza lent itself to
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-08-13

Lieutenant Sir Archibald James
Murray, commander Of the British
troops in Egypt whose troops de-
4eated the Turkish army at RomRn,
reports that British trOope have to'
A!eted severe losses upon tho TurkO,
and that the attsmpt to reach ehO
6uoz Canal has been frue6ated The
KRda Basin AHzicS h which Eb0
fighting takes placs Is m a bloz!aS
4ssert district, and IS shout thIS
u1I1a9 from to saeE CaNa@