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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-08
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In the Realm of Sports
Hits and Misses Cleaned From Happenings of Interest to
Stove League Fans

Southern league managers are now be-
ginning to blow into their respective
burgs and make ready for the work.
out season, which will begin over the cir
cult about the last of this month.
Wednesday Roy ELAN crawled out
from beneath a freight car in Nashville
and began to look around for fragments
of his 1917 ball team. The Pennsylvania
plumber, on arriving in the village of his
adoption, was greeted with the announce
ment that only three bush leaguers had
thus far agreed to hire out at the terms
offered by Prexy Shropshire. Roy im-
mediately rolled up his sleeves and began
burning up the wires in search of men,
At the last hearing he had signed up
the Jonnard twins, pitcher and catcher
who are reputed to have acquired polish
in the Steel Plant league at Ensley. Roy
thinks that these twins, like the Gold
Dust" variety, will c;ean up.
Over in Memphis Cy Barger the hui
man stringbean, is cluclSing to his Chicks
to come home The coffin dodger de-
clares that he is in fine shape and tips
the beam now at IS pounds and I ounces.
CIV is counting strong on Monte Priest
this year. He believes that the Birming-
ham boy will go good If allowed to take
his regular turn in the box Last year
Monte tried to hold down an outfield job
along with his pitching, which is a pretty
big strain on ballplayer
Guess who Johnny Dobbs has signed up
now? None other than our old friend
Hub Perdue. the Gallatin squash. who
has been pitching ball in this league since
the DAYS when the Caldwell was Birming-
hams leading hosiery. and dramatic
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highbrows sat in boxes at O'Biens
Opera house. Hub ranked sixth in point
of effectiveness In this league last sum-
mer. winning Is and losing TO- The big
comedian is one of the most popular men
in the circuit and local fans like moth
ing better than to see him on the coach
ing lines doing a vaudeville skit.
Bob Allen is making good on his prom
Use to erect big park at Camp Pike,
near thel Pebble City Construction was
begun Wednesday and the contractors
state that everything will be in readi-
ness to seat $500 people within three
weeks
On March % over 100 balplayers viii
be cast adrift by the International
league clubowners unless some arrange
ments are made on tnat date for the
continuation of the association. In the
meanwhile all these players are up in
the air as to just where they will play
this season.
Although Harry Jones will not throw
the first ball until April Is, Moleys line
UP for the opening game can be predicted
almost to a man On this subject the
chubby chieftain is about as loquacious
as an Egyptian mummy; so don't take
our prophesy too seriously.
The slate for the opener looks, at
present, about like this;
Taap,
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Health Conditions at Camps
Continue to Improve

Washington. March 7.-Continued
improvement of health conditions in
the army camps and cantonments in
the United States is shown in the de-
tailed report of the surgeon general
for the week ending March /. The
death rate--6,6 per 1o00--is tie lowest
recorded since November 16. 1917.
Pneumonia continues to decline in
all the camps the report says. New
cases of measles among the draft mel,
totaled 335 against $50 for the pre-
-ccding week"
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who has promised so much and zone SO
little, comes back from Columbus and
with Sotheron, Rogers and Davenport,
will form the first line of defense. Gal
liza, secured from Washington in the
Lavan deal, may help. There is a fellow
named Houck, drafted from the Coast
league, who is highly touted and Wright
and Molyneaux, two college pitchers, who
We're tried out by the Browns last fall
may be of some assistance.
LEFTY LElFIELD BACK AGAIN
Let US not forget. either, that Lefty
Leifield is with us once more-due to
stage a comeback. Lefty is veteran,
but one of the wisest old heads in the
business. He was supposed to be all
through. but he went into the association
and, even in that Two League tmean-
ing two games per day he pitched ex-
cellent ball and showed lot of stuff
he was supposed to have lost. He will
not be able to pitch great number OF
games, but he will win number and he
will be of immense help in two ways
in assisting Jones with the younger
pitchers and in helping to maintain the
harmony on the team. Leifield is a good
man to have on team for the good in
fiuence he will exert and for his wide
experience.
The team must develop additional pitch
ing strength If it expects consistent win
ming, and Jones must. with that pitch
ing staff, average more runs per game
than his team seems capable of doing.
Jones is a scientific run getter-a lone
run at time" manager-and his teams
usually make more runs per hit than any
rival.
/ With alright pitching, Jones could
hold the Browns up in the race all the
way by such tactics, but he does not
appear to have the alright pitchers
Shocker is noted for his ability to beat
Cleveland and SO is Gallia, whose spe-
cialty with Washington was to beat the
Ohio outfit. l<oob was the one man on
Jones' staff who appeared to have some
thing on the White Sox. He troubled
the champions a lot last year and prob
ably will again. Davenport is glut-
ton for work and really top pitcher.
The team did not score runs enough back
of him last season to win many and he
scattered his victories
The promise lies in Cullop. This fer
low really ought to be a great pitcher
vet he wasn't with the Yankees. There
are reports that he was not skillfully
handled there, and, in fact, the Yank
pitchers all complained of Donovan's sys-
tenn of working pitchers.
That is the team-a team that ought
to average close to three runs a game
on his hitting and base running, and
which does not at present, figure to hold
the opposing teams below three and
quarter runs a game. 1t is plainly up to
Jones either to make his defense
stronger, or to change methods and send
his team out after runs in lunches in
stead OF playing the one-at-a-time game.
In the next, We'll take up couple of
the less threatening teams.
downright, 1918, by the Bell Syndicate.
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them After the thirtieth round they be-
gan to slow down. Along about the
thirty-fifth. nausea seized sullivan and
the big champion was near collapse from
the heat But gamely he answered the
call of time for the next period of
fighting and fioundered through but con-
tinued on the defensive until the attack
OF NAL de mer had gone.
Along about the fortieth Kirain, then
even wearier and more battered than Sui
Ivan wanted to call off the fight and
have it declared draw But sullivan
refused.
This fight was to be to flnish-and
it's going to be-" beloved John L.
Along about the fiftieth round the
hands of both men were in fearful condi-
ton But they fought on. And 1t be-
came obvious that the superior condition
of Sullivan would be the deciding fac
, tor He was weary in army. in legs
and in body, but kilrain was more so,
Kilrain decided to play the stall game
through the fifties and sixties. So round
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Toll" for you remember that every
where Little Daffydowndilly went he dis
covered Toll in one form or another,
and when at last in desperation he re-
turned TO the schoolhouse he found that
his companion who had been with MIN
all along in his wanderings was none
other than Toll in his very grimmest
form.
THE second chance" it seems,
wouldn't do us very much good, accord
ing to Mr. Barrie. The main point IS
TO weed out your own little garden patch
and get rid of the weeds which have OBJ
structed your progress and prevented
the flowers from blooming. and when
"the second chance" does come. il you We
eliminated the obstacles. you'll succeed.
Rather dreary work for all of us poor,
erring peopIe who are wishing for "the
second chance" but a plum for Mr.. Bar
RE with his whimsical pen and his ilum-
mating imagination.
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%. T. Smith Will Make
Race for State Senate

Goodwater. March Especial 10
r Smith of Goodwater has announced
himself a candidate for the senate
from the Thirty fourth senatorial dis
trict. Mr. Smith is true and tried
prohibitionist and in every way cap
able. and his friends are backing him
strong to win in the August primary
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Cotton Must Wait

Liverpool, March 1.-The local commit
tee Of the Cotton ASSOCIATION announces
that no allotment will be made this month
or freight space for cotton owing to
more urgent claims on available ship
ping. The government, it is said. in
tends to provide sufficient tonnage DUR
ing the rest of the year to meet the re-
quirements of the cotton trade at : re-
duced rate Of consumption.
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New Senator Seated

Washington, March SENATOR
Biard of New Jersey who was re-
Gently appointed to fill the unexpired
term of the late Senator Hughes, took
his seat TODAY
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-01-14
BRUTAL RUSSIAN SOLDIERS
ENACT TRAGEDY IN POLAND

LONDON-(Correspondence of The
Associated Press)-A graphic story of
the murder by drunken Russian SOL
diers of Prince Sangushko, a Polish
noble, and of his two daughters, the
Countess Rzyszczcwski, is related by
the Petrograd correspondent of Lloyd's
News.
Before the war the tragedy lately
enacted at Slavuta would have sent
a thrill of horror throughout Europe"
says the correspondent. "As it is, the
bare fact that the venerable Prince
Sangushko, 80 years old, had been
murdered, has been announced, but
the CHASTITY details of the crime have
only just been revealed.
1.-THE castle of Slavuta, built when
the district of southwestern Russia,
where it stands, belonged to the King
of Poland, lies on the outskirts Of a
little manufacturing town of the
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-01-14

same name. Owing to the unsettled
state of the country, which is infested
by deserters from the army, the mil
itary authorities had sent a guard OF
dragons to the castle, which con-
tains priceless historical treasures &C
cumulated by the Sangushko family
in the course of the centuries.
How Trouble Starts
"One of these dragons caught a
soldier from a neighboring village cut
ting down a tree in the forest sur
rounding the castle and tackled. The
thief was slightly wounded, but not
severely enough to prevent his running
to the neighboring village. where his
regiment was stationed, shrieking that
the guard at the castle was trying to
murder him. The soldiers comrades
at once seized their rifles and sur
rounded the castle of Prince Sangush-
ko. They began to fire, and the dra-
goons On guard returned their fire.
All the time the officers and the mem
bers of the regimental committee were
appealing to the insurgent soldiers to
obey orders and to cease firing.
Suddenly they gave way, only stip-
ulating that a deputation from the reg
mental committee should search the
castle, as they were convinced that
the old prince had stored machine
guns for use in the cause of the
counter-revolution. Of course, there
were no machine-guns, and all that
was found was a few sporting guns
and revolvers.
Seek to Save Their Lives
Gust as suddenly as the crowd of
soldiers, standing in the courtyard of
the castle, had yielded to the appeal
of their officers, came a new uproar
and, in In instant, they had overpow-
cred the guard, and rushed into the
Neither threats MOI appeals
had the slightest effect on them. They
destroyed, in a fit of maniacal fury,
everything that they could lay hands
IN. Pictures, furniture. statues, drap-
cries were destroyed blindly, ruthless
y. The venerable Polish magnate and
lis two nieces, the young and beauti-
ul Countesses Rzyszczcwski, fled to
me of the attics, hoping that, if their
lome was to be ruined, at least lives
night be saved. From early in the
norning, when the marauders began
heir. attack, until 5 o'clock in the
fternoon, the sacking of the castle
rent on. Then the soldiers retired
} the COURTYARD. .
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-01-14
\ IDAHO INDUSTRIAL REVIEW J.

Idaho Falls-Potato factory running
here after much delay in starting.
Boise-Total assessed valuation OF
all property in state of Idaho for 1917
is $444,S57,675, a jump of exactly $685.
S29,47S over valuation of 1916.
Northumberland Short Line auth
orizes 1875 feet additional siding be-
tween here and Virden at cost of
S3O5O.
Shelley-New flour mill here starts
operation.
Boise-Idaho has shipped over bill
lion feet of lumber for government
shipbuilding, airplane manufacture
and cantonments.
'Shelley-New street lighting sys-
TEN cmopleted.
Iowa-Oregon Short Line authorizes
Industrial 200 foot spur here at cost
of $2025.
Nampa-Fruit evaporation will be
built here this year.
Caldwell-S0-acre ranch heal here
sold for $3.50 per acre.
Arco-New strike reported at Cop
per Uranium.
Twin Falls-$45,0 900 modern apart
ment house being built here.
Nashville-Oregon Short Line au-
Lhorizes %1O00-foot siding between here
md Calcite at cost of $2140.
Idaho's dairy output for 1917 be-
.ween five and eight million dollars.
Bull = 1850 tons of sugar beets
from here in past year.
Payette-Idaho Products company
lave manufactured into dried stuff
800, 900 pounds of apples.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-01-14
Never Too Old to Fight

COLFAX-J. j. easier, who has two
sons in the military service of the
United States, has been accepted in
the naval reserve after he had been
rejected five times, because of his adj
vanced age, 60 years. One of Mr.. Cas-
sons is in the navy and the other
is in the army. He passed the physic-
examination for the naval reserve
difficulty, as soon as he was
permitted to take it, he informed his
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-01-14
Death Of the Prince

"'What about the prince? cried one
of them.
".And the lovely countesses'? added
another.
Back into the castle rushed a band
of soldiers, and began to search for the
owner. At last he was found, and
dragged into the courtyard among the
derisive yells of the soldiers waiting
for their victim. They decided to take
him to the village where they were
stationd, and dragged the old man
along, for he was too old to walk at
the pace they desired. On the way they
finally lost the last shred Of self-con-
troll, let the prince drop-half-senseless
on the ground and then a score of
thrust bayonets into his body. So
died Prince Sangushko.. His murder
ers, like savage beasts tore his body
in pieces.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-01-14

the city a number of valuable bronze
and copper articles. Among them was
an ancient church bell, around whose
rim ran the following inscription in
old German: "He who moves me from
my place will lose Riga"
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-01-14
No Mercy is Shown

"The fate of his nieces, the two
Countesses Rzyszczcwski, was more
terrible than that of the prince. They
had managed to escape by a back way
and had got to the market-place of
the town. There they were recognized,
and soldiers at once seized them.
Those two youthful countesses,
whose exquisite loneliness had made
them the center of all eyes in the
salons of the palaces of Warsaw and
whose goodness and sweetness had
made them beloved by the people of
Slavuta, we're defended for a time by
the Catholic priest of Slavuta, who
had known them from childhood and
prepared them for first communion.
But the soldiers refused to be deprived
of their victims and showered blows
with the butt-ends of their rifles on
the courageous priest, who fell and
was beaten to death. 1t is perhaps
well that the sufferings of the two
cOuntesses ended in death.
'The day ended with the soldiers
running amuck in the town, numbering
and maltreating peaceful Inhabitants,
while the scene was lit up by flames
Of the blazing castle of the Sangusho."
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-01-14

STOCKHOLM=An ancient prophecy
was fulfilled in the fall of Riga. Two
years ago the Russians took away from
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-01-14
The Revenge of the Bell

relatives in Colfax, his former home.
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SHOES REPAIRED NEATLY; Postage
N. Kamplin, Kittson Ave. Grand Forks
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Nov. zoe. -. 1910 1880 $3.50
Lard
October ..26.62 26.65 $3.50 26.40
Nov. ..... $50. 26.72 $3.50 1885
Ribs
October =. 80. $3.50 22.90 22.95
Nov. ..... 80. 1885 1902 1906
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CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.
Chicago, Sept. 30.-Hog receipts,
Is 5000; market fully steady at Satur-
days average; butchers, $19.50@20;
light, $19.60@19.95; packing, $3.50
@19.35; rough, $4,000 1880; pigs,
good to choice, 1880.
Cattle receipts. $4,000; best native
steers steady; all other killing cattle,
strong to rs cents higher; calves
steady; beef cattle. good, choice and
prime, $15.50@19.60; common and
medium, $1,000 1925; butcher stock.
cows and heifers, $685. q 1880; can
ners and cutters, $5.65 q 6.65; stockers
and feeders. good. choice and fancy,
$1O.50@13.75; inferior, common and
medium, $1,000 1850; yea calves.
good and choice, $17.75@18.50.
Sheep receipts, 10000; lambs I'M
evenly lower; first sales, sheep and
yearlings, about steady.
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MILWAUKEE, LIVESTOCK.
Milwaukee, Wis, Sept. 30.-Hogs,
receipts 500, steady.
Cattle, receipts 100, steady.
Calves, receipts 100, steady; good to
choice SITS @1S.00; fair to good
$17.00@17.5O.
Sheep, receipts 100, lower ewes
$1O.00@11.00; Gull ewes s5.00@7.00
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STOCK PRICES
+. MIXED TODAY

New York, Sept. 3o.-Price. move
ments became mixed as the session of
the stock market progressed today.
Mexican petroleum and Texas COM
pany increased their gains to 4 and 6
points respectively and gas shares
were strong under lead Of CONSOLE
dated which advanced 3 Ia points
feathers, fertilizers and minor rails
especially some of the low priced
coalers, embraced the. other active and
strong stocks. United States steel
meanwhile recorded an extreme set
back of 2 points.
Announcement that Bulgaria had
accepted the terms of an armistice
imposed by the Allies, furnished a
firm foundation for the early trading
on the stock exchange today. Oils
notably Texas company and Mexican
petroleum rose 3 1-2 and 2 points re-
spectively in the first half hour. Uni
ted States steel was in further de-
mand at a l point gain. Other equip.
ments were fractionally higher.
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MONTANA HAS SCHOOL
TO TEACH HER RAnNERS

Tonopah, New. Sept. 30.-In order
to encourage and assist miners and
mill men to fit themselves for higher
positions, Nevada maintains five sec
ondary schools of mining in various
sections Of the state. The study re-
quired is arranged so that the men
may continue their regular work I'M
interrupted.
No attempt is made to train mining
engineers and m~etallurgists. but
young men doing we'll in the sec
ondary schools are encouraged to go
to the MackeT school Of mines at the
University Of Nevada for engineer
ing. Thus these schools fulfill the
two-fold purpose Of enabling men at
work to study mining subjects and Of
supplying trained men for minor po-
sitions about the mines and mills.
The only requirement for entrance
into these schools is the ability to
talk and read English and the in
struction in elementary and practical
in character. The regular class work
consists Of two hours daily, excepting
Saturdays and Sundays divided be-
tween W. subjects.
instruction is given at two different
two-hour periods to accommodate
men working on different shifts. The
laboratories are open throughout
these days and also on Saturday
mornings.
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ANTI-TANK GUN CAPTURED.


With the American Forces in
France. Sept. 30.-rA German anti
tank gun was captured recently by
the Americans. The weapon had
only been in use n short time and
the stock and rifle barrel had the APP
pearance of just having come from
the factory.
The gun fires but a single shot and
is of the ordinary Mauser model.
When in action the gun is fired from
a bipod mounting, n man doing the
shooting. The gun weighs thirty
seven pounds, has a length of five
and a half feet and a caliber Of 1874
millimeters.
German prisoners say the anti-tank
gun is at its best at about 22O yards.
American officers say the German in
vention does not compare with the
American anti-tank u in any of its
features-that the American gun can
outshoot it.
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Hides, Pelts, Wool. Etc.
Furnished by the Redick Hide
Fur Co.

Furnished by the Redick Hide &
Hides-Prices have been set on
hides and skins for August. Septem-
Der and October. The prices given
herewith represent only a small mar
gin Of profit.
Sheep Pelts-Full wool pelts arc
bringing high prices. Short wooded.
lambs, shearlings and clips at full
values.
TalIow-The market remains firm
norts that the government will set the
price on this commodity later on.
Wool-IFe war industries board
has fixed the prices Of the 1918 clip
Of wool as those established July 80.
1917. at Atlantic seaboard markets.
The government allows licensed deal
ers to buy on the basis of appended
quotations which take into considera-
ton one and one-half cents per pound
charges and shrinkage. We have a
government license to handle woods
and they can be shipped - us at
Grand Forks but only direct from the
growers
No. l.. No. 2.
cured hides ........ 18hc .17h
Cured bulls ........ 15c IA
Hides taken OIL curing May, June
and July INC per pound less than
prices above. Mention must be made
Of the period Of take-on.
Cured calf ......... 32c .30h
Cured kip .......... zoe .18h
Cured kip. long hair
ed ............. 18c III u
each ....:::....'.1.75 $3.50
Cured horse hides, as
to size, each. $3.50 to $500
Cured Ponies and
each .......:.... 1850 to ESQ
Cured colt skins.
each ............. so to 100
sh siss. f Pflt 1oo as each e4 10 to $50
Clip and shearling
pelts ............ rs to 100
Tallow, rendered in
barrels .......... 14hc .12h
About quotations subject to market
changes without notice.
Semi bright medium wool. .55c to SIC
Dark medium ............62c to Sac
Coarse woods ............52c to SAC
Fine medium ........... !48c to SOC
Fine woods .42c to 44c
,-HeIp Name Our Ship
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