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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-02-07
MRS. RUFUS WILLIAMS
DIED MONDAY NIGHT
Had Been III For Several Months
Lived Near Helm.

After an illness extending over q
period of several months, Mrs. Ru-
fus Williams died at her home, near
Heflin, on Route Z, Monday night
Mrs. Williams was a comparative.
ly young woman, being only thirty
years old, and was the daughter of
the late Wilbur Condit.
Besides her. husband, she leaves
two children, Byron, who is at
tending school at Hartford, and
Miss Loubel. She also leaves three
brothers, U. s., l.. H. and Harve Con-
dit, and one sister, Miss Belle Con-
dit.
At press hour We were unable to
get any information as to where and
when the funeral will be held and
where the remains will be buried.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-02-07

tion? What action God only
knows. Any action other than one
of interrogation-any action that
will declare at once that We can
read and feel an insult, and that
while we love peace We scorn it at
the expense of honor and righteous
ness-any action that will set US
free from a neutrality of further
compromise with dishonor. Long
enough have We surrendered our ma
tional self-respect for the sake of
preserving a neutrality to which the
conscience of the nation has never
consented. us life so dear or peace
so sweet" that We shall further de-
clare that physical prosperity and
comfort are to be preferred to the
principles for the preservation of
which this continent was opened by
the hand of God? Shall we further
walk 'the primrose path of DALI
arce," diplomatically dismissings the
stern summons of the cross which
shames us by its vacant waiting for
a nation that would rather die phys
ically than be atrophied spiritually?
Patient, prayerful and long-suffer-
ing is the President We would not
embarrass him in this hour of aw-
full responsibility. What more can
Christian statesmanship do than he
has done? Despite the criticism of
his friends and the hatred of his en-
emies. he has thus far honorably
kept this nation from war and from
interrupted intercourse with the ma
lions of the world. We may still be
kept from war with honor preserved
"A bare chance-but how can we
longer have fellowship with an I'm
perial Government that has added
this last insult which follows so
close on its temporary mood of re.
pentance for its past crimes? Can
We not relieve ourselves at once to
this extent at least-an immediate
severance of diplomatic relations?
To do this may mean war, but war
Is to be preferred 10 the sacrifice OF
all the meaning which shines In the
stars in our flag.-lE. l.. Powell in
the Courier-Journal..
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-02-07
$3.50 FOR HOGS
Refused BY Tom Roberts For May
Delivery-Seversl Sell For
$11.OO Now.

Mr.. T. j. Roberts, who resides on
the John G. Daniel farm on Little
river three miles west of Cadiz,
stated while here last Saturday that
he was feeding sixteen hogs for
which he had that day refused SILL
so on foot for delivery to Cadiz the
first of May. Walter Roberts has
sold seven for delivery in Cadiz next
Saturday at $11, and Eddie Hall, of
Trigg Furnace. has about twelve he
has sold at the same price for next
Saturdays delivery. M r. Bleidt,
Of between the rivers. refused $l1
for fifteen fine ones that will weigh
three thousand pounds, for delivery
next Saturday. Others are receiving
similar prices.-[Cadiz Record.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-02-07
MORE DUTY FOR co. ID
To Guard the Court N the Trial Os
Lube Martin Il; Murray
Feb. 18th.

On their return to HOpkinsville
Thursday from the Mexican border
Company ID, Third Kentucky Regi-
ment, received orders from Capt.
Henry j. Sites to assemble in the
armory the night of February II
for the purpose of proceeding to
Murray, KY, to protect the court.
and prisoner at the trial of Lube
Martin, negro. charged with killing
Policeman Diuguid. The trial will
be held February 10 instead of Feb
ruary 5. A public reception, under
the auspices of the Woodmen of the
World Lodge. will be given to the
guardsmen the night of February II.
There are so men in the company,
who are once more State Guards
only, having been mustered out of
the federal service.-[ Hcpklnsville
Kentuckian.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-02-07
END OF WAR NOW IN SIGHT
Says President Of Russian Duma Ia
Statement: To l. ).

Petrograd, Feb. ) (via London -
1.-THE end of the war now is in
sight" This was the remark of the
President of Duma, Michael V. Rod
zianko, today to the Associated
Press.
ON welcoming Americas decisive
step" he continued, IL am not only
speaking for myself but expressing
the attitude Of the Allies, whose
representative discussed with me n
yesterdays reception by the Duma
the rupture of German-AOnerican re-
lations. 81 feel that an American
declaration of war on Germany must
follow, and in that case the Scandi-
navian countries and Holland would
undoubtedly follow the lead of the
United States, resulting in the COM
plete isolation of Germany and her
allies from the rest of the world.
This undoubtedly would end the
war.
"The breaking oil of diplomatic
relations with Germany by the great
est neutral, whose patience has been
severely tested, will have a most de-
pressing effect on the Central Pow
ers, Not overestimating America S
military strength, but with her fleet
and available merchant tonnage she
can be of invaluable assistance to
the Allies, while Germany will be cut
off from further supplies to the
point of complete exhaustion.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-02-07
A Record Breaker.

The highest average for a crop of
tobacco during the present season
was made the past week by r. L.
Weatherford, OF the Bradfordsville
section. His crop consisting of l.
$50 pounds. raised on one acre of
land. averaged $25.3s. A basket of
225 pounds brought s36 per hun
dred. The entire crop brought him
$S6s.05.-lLebanon Enterprise.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-02-07
$50 PEOPLE IN PADUCAH
POISONED BY BUTTERMILYI

Paducah, KY, Feb. during
the last two days about $50 cases OF
tyro-toxicon poison have been re-
ported by physicians, but all have
recovered. The poison forms in
sweet milk. butter and buttermilk
when not properly cooled. according
to DR.. c. G. Warner, city meat and
milk inspector. All of the cases de-
veloped from drinking buttermilk.
which was shipped to large local
dairy and distributed by various
dairymen.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-02-07
CANDIDATE FOR JUDGE OR
JAILER? SHOULD SAY NOT!

Carlisle, KY, Feb. Three of
Nicholas county's candidates for
Jailer have died since announcing
their candidates.. Only two OF the
five candidates who recently an
nounced for the Office are left in the
race. Several years ago three canii-
dates for County Judge died while
the campaign was in progress, and
the winner succumbed a few week
after he. was elected.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-02-07
TEUTON ALIENS
HERE l,425,000
Would Be Regarded AS
Enemies If War
Comes.
RESIDENTS OF THIS COUNTRY
Who Would Be Subject To The
Rules of War in. Event
Developments.
RESIDENTS OF THIS COUNTRY
LIVE MOSTLY IN NORTH

Washington, Feb. 3.--There are
in the United States today approx
mately $4,000 unnaturalized Ger
mans and 1,O75,OO0 Australian
earians who are still aliens. These
are the residents of this country
who would be subject to the rules of
war in the event of developments
more serious than a break in diplo-
matte relations.
These figures are based upon the
number of unnaturalized immi-
grants from the Central Powers in
the United States at the time the
last Official census was taken and
on the immigration from those coun-
ties up to January 1.
A combination of the records of
the census and the immigration bu-
reaus shows there are in this coun-
try today 2,893,538 persons of Ger
man birth, 1,763,7S7 of Austrian
1,061.052 of hungarian birth. the
total for the dual monarchy being
2.S24,6S9. The immigration from
Germany since 1910 was 392,2O5,
during the six months ending De-
cember 81 having been 5,971. The
immigration from Austria during
the same period was 5SS,764 and
from Hungary 565,343.
In the statistics of the last Off
cial census the number of foreign
bern males over 81 years OF age in
variably equaled one-half of the to-
tai foreign born population.
Estimated Number.
Assuming that the number obtain
ing naturalization papers during the
period since the last census gave
official statistics Is per cent. the
number of Germans will be between
$4,000 and 100000 and the num-
Der of -Hungarians slightly
in excess of 100000.
The residents giving Austria or
Hungary as their place of birth COM
prise variety of races including
Poles. Lithunians, Slovacks and
some Germans. The percentage of
Germans who have become natural
lied or have taken out their first pa
pers, at the time of last census Is
very much larger than that of Ger
many's chief ally in the war; Ac-
cording to the last census. the great
est number of persons of German
birth resided in Illinois, Wisconsin,
Ohio. New York, Pennsylvania, Mis-.
souri,. Indiana and Michigan.
New York had the greatest num-
Der, followed by Ohio and Wiscon-
sin. Pennsylvania led all the other
States in the number of Austrians
and Huogarians.
New York. and Illinois followed,
the number in other States being
small In comparison.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-02-07
PNEUMONIA ENDS THE
LIFE OF ED O'BRIEN

Lock Tender At Rough River Locks
Died Sunday Night.
Ed O'Brien, lock tender at Rough
River Locks. died Sunday night af-
ter an illness of several days OF
pneumonia.
Mr.. O'Brien was about forty years
old. and leaves a wife and two small
children.
He was a member of the Masonic
Lodge and Woodmen of the World
and the remains were buried by one
or the other or perhaps both of
those orders. -.
Lack of information prevents us
from giving further information re-
garding his death.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-02-07
INDIANA SENATE
0. KS DRY BILL
Measure Passes By Vote
OF Thirty-Eight To
Eleven.
HOUSE EXPECTED TO CONCUR
I'm Amendment-Law TO Become
Effective April 2, Next
Year.
PROV iSIoNS
FORTH

indianapolis, Feb. 3.--The statu-
tory Statewide Prohibition Bill pre-
scented by the Dry" Federation was
passed b. the InuIdna Senate this
afternoon. The vote was 80 to II.
The law will make the State bone
dry" according to the claims of its
advocates. 1t not only prohibits the
sale and manufacture of liquor, but
the shipment Of intoXicants in any
quantity into the State.
A man may have one gallon of
whiskey and twelve quarts of beer
in his home when Tie pill becomes
effective without being a law viola
tor. He may have that amount Of
liquor thereafter if he will Travel
outside the State and bring it home
for his own use. The bill permits
person to manufacture wine, vinegar
or cider for his own use, but druS-
gist cannot keep liquor for sale on
prescription for medical purposes.
The bill has already passed the
House, but now goes back to that
body for action. on the amendments
written in the measure in the Sen-
ate.
Leaders of the Legislature say the
Senate amendments, chief Of which
is one to fix the time the State goes
dry at April 2, 1918, instead of Jan
uary /, 1918, as stated in the origi-
nal House bill, will be concurred in
by the House.
Effective Next Year. ~
The law becomes effective April
2 next year. Leaders of the liberal
element, realizing that the bill
would pass, went 10 their friends in
the Senate and urged them to vote
as they pleased. At least a dozen
Senators who We're opponents of the
bill voted for it or final passage when
it's success was conceded. Eighteen
Democrats and twenty Republicans
voted for the bill. There were seven
Democrats and four Republicans in
the negative.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-02-07
LUBE MARTIN TO BE TRIED
AT MURRAY FEBRUARY 10
Date Changed When Feb ) Conflict
ed with Term OF Court
in Trigg

Padacah, Ky, Feb. Circuit
Judge Charles H. Bush slhas issued
notice in Galloway county that Lube
Martin, negro, will be tried at Muir
ray, February 10, on a charge of
killing Guthrie Duiguid. The trial
was set for February 8, but it was
later discovered that Judge Bush
will have to hold court in Trigg
county that day.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-02-07

The man who breaks himself of a
bad habit seldom breaks himself
boasting about II.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-02-07


the door, but op wouldn't
loudly his brother. be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
The Inter-Allied Military Council

1910 to 1914, he was director Of military
operations at army headquarters. He is
an Irishman, born in Currygrane in 1864
At twenty he entered the Royal Irish
Regiment, and soon after was trans
ferred to the Rifle Brigade. He served
in the Burma campaign from 1885 to
1887. was wounded and served again for
two years, winning a medal with two
clasps. In 1892 he became a member of
the Staff College and two years later
was made staff captain of the Intelligence
Division.
For two years he was brigade major OF
the I'd Brigade at Aldershot, and for a
year of the Light Brigade in South Africa,
where he won the Distinguished Service
Order. While in command of the 9th Pro-
visional Battalion in 1908 he was trans
ferred to army headquarters as deputy
assistant adjutant general, the same year
being promoted to the assistant adjutant
generalship. He was assistant director of
staff duties at the War Office from 1904
10 1906 and commandant of the Staff
College from 1907 to 1910. He entered
the present war as lieutenant general.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
Kuhlmann Is Called Determined but Not Clever

sador Won Kuhlmann behind his back was
keeping up secret correspondence with the
Kaiser and the Chancellor, which rendered
the position of the ambassador humiliating
and his work useless. But this is the COM
mon practice of the German government.
Though a man Of great determination and
activity. he cannot be called a clover man.
The disastrous attempts 20 fomen, a molly
war may be taken an illustration of his
greatest defect, an inability to form a pict-
ure Of the character Of the people with whom
he is dealing. II must have been task
very much to his taste, for though his
knowledge Of Oriental affairs was never
great his Political interest in them was
absorbing. | think ! am right in saying
that up to the very last the only map that
hung on the walls OF his private room in the
embassy was our brown -contoured General
staff map Of Persia and Afghanistan.
yet he is probably unconscious 20 this
day that b. this strange act Of imprudence
he put or their guard every one Of the dull.
bron-cd Engiistmcn who visited him and
seemed to know scarcely anything about the
problems Of the Persian Gulf. With his in
terest in Mahometan countries he should at
least have known that a jihad may be pro-
claimed only after formal call to the other
sids TO embrace Islam.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
Oscar T. Crosby

ITO THREE other classifications than
l. that of Assistant Secretary Of the
Treasury" Mr.. Crosby is entitled: explorer,
electrical engineer, former army officer.
He is a native of Louisiana, from which
state he entered the United States Mill
tary Academy, graduating with high hon
ors in 1882. For FIVE years he served in
the Engineers Corps, resigning his COM
mission in 1887 as a first lieutenant OF
engineers to become general superinten-
dent of the Sprague Electrical Railway
and Motor Company. He afterward was
general manager of the railway depart
ment of the General Electric Company.
Entering business for himself about TWEEN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
Bainbridge Colby

MR.. COLBY, one of the best known
wi lawyers in the country, was selected
last fall to fill the place vacated by Cap
tain j. B. White on the Shipping Board
He was born in St. Louis, but most Of his
life has been spent in New York, where ne
has practised law since 1892.
In 1912 he was actively identified with
the candidacy of Colonel Roosevelt. Dur
'ing the last Presidential election, however,
he refused to follow Colonel Roosevelt
back into the Republican ranks, and be-
came head of the Progressive Auxiliary
Committee of the Democratic National
Campaign Committee.
He was one Of the founders Of the Pro-
gressive party and its candidate for Gov
ernor of New York in 1912. In 1914 he
was Progressive nominee for United States
Senator. Governor Whitman appointed
him to the New York Commission on Ma
tional Security and Defence. Last year
he was special prosecutor for the govern
ment in its investigation Of the alleged
Print Paper Trust, and counsel for the
Thompson Public Service Investigation
Committee. but withdrew because, 1t was
said, papers and information not brought
out in evidence were mace public.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
Russia in the Crushing Grip of Civil War; Reverts to Chaos

The next day came the news, contained
in London cable, that Kerensky was re-
gaining strength. Portions of the army
we're affirming their loyalty; Cossacks were
on the march from Finland; even in Pc
trOgrad itself the garrison which two days
before had been solid for the extremists
was beginning to waver in its allegiance.
The prospect for Kerensky looked brighter.
And alongside the statement that Bolshe-
vik cabinet had been formed one read that
the United States was withholding all rec
ognition of Bolsheviki rule.
The rise of the next curtain discovered
Kerensky marching on Petrograd at the
head Of an army At Tsarskoe the Bolshe-
wiki had been beaten. In short, the revolu-
ton in Petrograd appeared on the point of
collapse. The Workmen's and Soldiers
Council in Petrograd issued call for i'm
mediate peace which began in this fashion
"The government considers a peace TO be
democratic and equitable" says the resolu-
ton, (which Is aspired to by majority Of
the working classes of all the belligerent
countries, worn out and ruined by war-the
peace which the Russian workmen called for
on the fall Of the monarchy 1t should be
an immediate peace, without annexation
that is to say, without usurpation Of for
eign territory and without violent conquest
or nationalities), and without indemnities
"The Russian government proposes 10 all
beligerents to make this peace Immediately,
declaring themselves ready without delay to
carry out all the conditions of this peace
through plenipotentiaries Of all countries and
nations"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18

peace based on no annexations and no
indemnities, such a peace TO be con-
cluded not by diplomats, but by repre-
sentatives of the people.
At this point, here in America, arose the
interesting and pulling question whether
the United States would go on filing con-
tracts for supplies drawn up with Russia
before the collapse of the Kerensky govern
ment. The question was succinctly an
swered by the State Department. In fact
it happened to be the State Departments
only comment that day on the Russian sit
uation. The United States, it was an
nounced, would honor all contracts, espe-
cially those involving money borrowed from
the United States for the purpose of sup
plying shoes and clothing to the civilian
population.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
Colonel House

(NOLONEL HOUSE, heading the mis-
~ sion. is the man whom the Presi-
dent always chooses to represent him
on the biggest missions abroad, on whose
judgment he relies more than that Of
any one else. And with this keen judg-
nent and insight, it has been said, goes
wonderfully clarifying power of state
ment and an impersonal and objective
way Of looking at situation which makes
his views on any question "things of gold
en- value"
This is Colonel Houses third mission
abroad The first two trips, which were
made alone, as President Wilson's special
envoy, were clothed with an atmosphere
of mystery and accompanied by unending
speculation on the part of the general
public. The first, undertaken in January,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
General Tasker II. Bliss

GENERAL BLISS, named chief OF
~ staff of the United States army
upon General SCOTS retirement in Sep
TENDER of this year, was graduated from
United States military academy in 1873
at the age of twenty-five. The list is a
long one Of the military capacities In
which he has served. Among them are
those Of military attache at the United
States Legation, Madrid; chief of staff to
Major General Wilson during the Porto
Rican campaign, member OF the Army
War College Board, special envoy to Cuba
to negotiate the reciprocity treaty be-
tween Cuba and the United States, COM
mandant of the Army War College, men,
Der of the Joint Army and Navy Board
and the General Staff, president of the
Army War College, assistant chief of
staff commander of the provisional bri-
gade on the Southern California border
during the Mexican Instruction of 1911.
That same year he was made commander
of the Department of the East, in 1912
Of the Eastern division, and in 1918 of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-18
Admiral Benson

4 DMIRAL BENSON was born at Macon,
n Ca, in 1855, and was graduated
from the United States Naval Academy in
1877. Promotions thereafter came in reg
ular uccession-ensign, lieutenant, lieu
tenant commander, captain, and in May,
1915, rear admiral.
He has served on various assignments
at the Naval Academy and afloat in all
duties as high as division and squadron
commander. AS commandant at the Phil
adelphia Navy Yard he served from 1913
to 1915, when in May he was named by
Secretary Daniels as chief Of naval opera
tons In January Of this year Admiral
Benson was designated as president ex-
officio of the Navy General Board.