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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-29
VETOED POSTOFFICE BILL
Opposed to Taking Over Mail Tube
Service in Big Cities.

Wilson today vetoed the postoffice
appropriation bill.
The president vetoed the bill be-
cause it provided for having the gov
eminent take ever pneumatic tube mail
services in New York, Boston, Phila-
delphia, Chicago and some other
cities, until next March, and then have
the interstate commerce commission
determine their disposition.
Postmaster General Burleson OPP
posed the proposition, but congress
insisted on it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-29
FROHWERK GETS 10 YEARS
Kansas City German Paper Convicted
Under Espionage Act.

Kansas City, June 29.-Jacob Froh-
werk, a former editorial writer for the
Missouri Staats-Zeitung, a German
language newspa per, found guilty by
jury last nigh of violating the es-
pionage act, today was sentenced to
ten years Imprisonment each of twelve
coun-s, the sentences to run concur
rently. In addition Frohwerk was
fined $500 on the first count.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-29
AUSTRIAN WORKERS YIELD
German Paper Learns That Strikers
Went Back to Work in Budapest.

The Hague, June pa dispatch
to the Frankfurter Zeitung from Bud
apest. dated Thursday. declares the
strikers in that city have returned to
work without exacting any new con-
ditionS
After an interval of four days, due
to the general strike, the newspapers
will reappear tomorrow" the dispatch
said. THE workers have resumed
work Internationally"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-29
CONFIRM EX-CzAR'S DEATH
Further Reports Seem to Verify
Those Received Yesterday.

Stockholm, June 29.-The German
embassy at Moscow confirms the MUIR
der of Nicholas Romanoff, former
car, according to a dispatch received
here.
The Nashe Slovo declares that per-
sons arriving in Moscow from Ekater-
inburg. state that when the Czecho-
Slovaks advanced on the latter city,
Red guards went to the former en-
peror's mansion and ordered the
whole family to prepare to leave on a
special train. While en- route to the
station, Nicholas heatedly protested
against transfer to an unknown place,
whereupon the Red guard escort
bayonetted him.
Empress Not MOlested.
The former empress and her daugh-
ters were not molested. The former
czarevitch was taken to a separate,
unknown place. Countess Brassova
wife of Grand Duke Michaele. was
imprisoned in Butir penitentiary in
Moscow.
The perils of the Bolshevik alliance
with Germany will be greater than
ever II the allies invade Siberia
IF forced to choose between the
evils of Germany and japanese orien-
tation, we prefer the former, because
there is chance of a revolution in
Germany" War Minister Trotzky de-
clared in a speech at Moscow this
week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-29
ALL WOOL TO ARMY
The Present Supply Is No More Than
Sufficient for War Use.

Chicago. June ga bulletin Of the
national sheep and wool bureau today
states that a large part of the present
raw wool stock in this country and all
of it to be produced or imported to
about June 20. 1920, will be required
for military use. The bulletin adds
that stocks of manufa ctured clothing
and cloth on hand are adequate for
essential use.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-29
WOULD PROMOTE CROWDER
Senate Adopts Amendment Making
Him Lieutenant General.

Washington. June 29.-FolIowing
enthusiastic praise by senators of the
administration of the army draft. the
to the army bill to make Provost Mar
shall General Enoch H Crowder a
lieutenant general during the war
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-29
TOPEKAN FLYING NOW
Corp. Geo. H. Rollar Expects to Go
Overseas Immediately.

A Topeka man who expects soon to
go overseas is Corp. George H. Rollar
of 80 jefferson street. He enlisted
December IL. in the aviation service
and was assigned to duty as a truck
driver.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-29
NO MORE PERISHABLES
Postoffice Will Accept No More Fruits
or Food for Mailing to Troops.

Washington, June 29.-No more
perishable goods, such as fruit and
foods will be accepted at postoffices
for mailing to troops because almost
always they cannot be delivered in
edible condition
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-29

He has been transferred to the fly
ing corps, and is stationed at Lake
Charles, La. He was formerly en-
ployed by the Thompson Hardware
company, Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-29
Quotas Based on Class 1.
TRAIN HIT AUTO TRUCK
Four Men We're Killed and -Four In
jured at Elmhurst, Ill.

Chicago, June 29.-Four men were
dead today and the death of a fifth
was expected, the result of collision
of a limited electric train of the
Aurora, Elgin &. Chicago line, and an
auto truck at Elmhurst, ILL.,, late yes
terday. Four others were seriously
injured and six more slightly hurt.
They are expected to recover. The
dead:
Major Robert Brooks, recruiting Of
ficer, Chicago district.
Harry Westafall, Elgin, Ill.
w. F. Miller, Little Rock, Ark
r. w. Dunlap, motorman, Wheaton,
Ill.
Captain Fred Skoning, believed of
Minneapolis, Mimi, was expected to
die.
Truck Stalled on Crossing.
The auto truck, loaded with crushed
rock, stalled on a crossing in the sub
urban town. The limited bowled into
it at high speed. Men in the forward
car were buried under masses of rock
The Elmhurst station almost swept
away as the interlocked mass slid
along the rails for six hundred feet
"fter the impact. Responsibility for
the wreck was not placed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-29
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Opportunity.
Buy coal now" the dealers say
Ere winters chill returning:
Or you will fail in this your part,
To keep the home fires burning.
Nell Scribbler.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-29
A CONCERT AT GAGE
MarshaIrs Band Will Play at O'clock
Sunday Afternoon.

The following program will be CIV
en- Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at
Gage park by MarshalPs band:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-29
Hard to Get Truth.

From the American standpoint, one
of the most troublesome factors has
been that so much of the Russian
news has come from Stockholm. This
has been more or less unfavorable be-
cause it is the first spot where cables
are available and there is no censor.
AS a result the news gathering sources
largely are concentrated there. Stock
holm has been a hotbed of German
propaganS -om the outset of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-29

Captain Fred Skoning, believed of
Minneapolis, Mimi, was expected to
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-30

ones he had made and squandered in the West
 Before coming West Jordan had served three years in an Illinois prison for manslaughter for killing a hack driver who didn't drive to suit him, 1" according to friends. In 1900 he was sought for a diamond robbery in Stockton, Cal. In 1905 he was ar, rested in Dayton, Ohio, on various charges, but was released.
 Of his enemies, "Soapy" Smith was killed in Skagway. Alaska, by the civil engineer, Henderson, a vigi- lante; Tom Ready was sent to the Colorado penitentiary for robbery, and is now out, undermined in health.
 Jim was six feet and one inch tall. At 80 he was still "spry," and only a year ago he was arrested in Chicago for working the wire-tapping racing bunko. He was acquitted for lack of evidence.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-30
GERMAN LABOR |S POORLY PAID
 AND UNDERFED

WASHINGTON, April 3O.-In- creases in wages paid in Germany have utterly failed to keep pace with the increased cost of living, says the April bulletin of the department of labor.
 The average increase in wages has been 50 per cent, while the living cost has gone up 300 per cent. The great est incFease in wages has been re- ceived by the Prussian metal work CTS, who are now getting 69 per cent more than they formerly received. In creases as low as 16 per cent have been reported, and some women are still being paid less than $2.50 per week.
 The purchasing power of money has dropped to one-fourth it's value be- fore the war, according to the bull tin. German wOrkingmen, it says, are being underfed. One egg per week is their allowance Oleomargarine is limited to an ounce and a half for q family of four.
 Sugar is more plentiful, the family allowance being one and one-haIf pounds. Coffee is practically unob- tainable. Potatoes are the heaviest item in the ordinary diet
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-30
FAMOUS GUNMAN DIES AT 85 IN
 CHARITY WARD

DENVER, April 3O.-"Jim" Jordan, master gunman, is dead, according to word received here by former cronies and the police who knew him when he was considered the fastest man on the draw and trigger in the West"
 Jim" died in a charity ward of a Boston hospital, following an opera | tion, ending a life of S5 years, 65 or more of which was spent as wan derer in many devious paths.
 Jim" Jordan's record was known to every police chief in the land, and his exploits were known oni two oceans as well. Denver was home to Jordan, but even here nothing was known of that far-off past when he was a boy None knew from whence he came os who were his parents. He never married and no relatives are known to sur vive him.
 Jordan is most remembered i1aDen- yer from his famous battle with "Soapy". Smith and Smiths gang in the old Murphy exchange on Iarimer street. It was October 2, 1882, that "Soarv" and his gang planned b get" Jordan. They failed.
 With "Soapy" in the room where the battle took place were tie late Mart Watrous, Murphy, Tom Ready and Clifford "Griff" Sparks. Stloaad gamhler and faro dealer. Wilssss, sas dan entered.
 | Somewhere outside he had been tipped" to the coming play When he entered Smith, after a few words. licked the top of the bar with his shooting irons" and said:
 "Them's my arguments!" | And a - poor argument for you, Soapy," smiled Jim.
 Quick as a flash Jim had drawn. /" As he did so three guns parked forth. his own, Soapy's and that of Tom Ready. Jim was not hit. He had a peculiar style of firing from the knee. stopping over quickly to disconcert an antagonists aim and shooting while bending low.
 As the three guns spoke Clifford Sparks in some mysterious manner got between the duellists. He dropped dead All three gunmen were ar rested and charged with murder. but all were acquitted, as it could not be proved that any of them wanted to kill Sparks. Some witnesses say an enemy of Sparks pushed him into range.
 After this Jim quit Denver. While he was here and in his travels to other points of the West he is said to nave made more bad men quit cold than any other man in the history or the West He also caused some to be mourned because of his deadly aim
 From Denver. Jim went to the At. lantic seaboard, where he is said in have headed band of card sharOs on transatlantic liners. He made more fortunes with his wits to add to the
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-30
WOULD HIDE LONDON FROM
 AIR RAIDERS WITH SMOKE

LONDON, April BOA genius with nothing to do till tomorrow sug. gested in the Daily Dispatch that the government should install a smoke producing apparatus in each of Lon dons 2,OO0,000 chimneys to cover the capital with a smoke screen before impending air raids. He submitted figures to prove that the cost would be nominal"
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1918-06-07
COPPER SPRING.

Miss Mai Smith of Pleasant
Hill, spent the week end with
her aunt, Mrs. Wayne Hall.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. G. McMur-
try and little son, j. B. spent
Sunday at the home of her sis
ter, Mrs. E. R. Hicks, at Ben
ton, Ky.
Mrs. Allen Smith and daugh-
ter, Miss Ellye, were guests of
Mrs. Don Hall Wednesday.
R. N. French sand daughter,
Miss Grace, were visitors in Big
Sandy Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Kenney
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe
French Tuesday.
Mrs. Birdie Pafford and little
daughter, Mildred, visited rela-
tives near Camden Saturday.
Misses Kate Lille and Birdie
McMurtry, and Ina French were
Sunday guests of Misses Lille
and Archie Atchison.
Mrs. Wayne Hall, who has
been i'll, is reported better.
Mrs. Della Kenney and son,
Leon, spent Sunday at the home
of her father, Milas Herndon,
near Big Sandy.
John French and Clarke Hall
were guests at the home of Hen
ry Atchison Thursday.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1918-06-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK
FROM CALEDONIA

Miss Lottie Steel of near Old
Union, visited Miss Eva Owens
last Sunday.
Mrs. Clint Haynes of near here
visited Mrs. j. M. Smith and
daughter of Mckenzie Sunday.
]. P. Nelson was a recent WIS.,
itor at Bells, Tenn.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Lawrence
and daughter of Old Union, WIS.,
tied Fain Lawrence, at Camp
jackson, S. c., recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. @. Chandler
and children visited w. L. Chan.
dler and family Sunday.
W. E. Frazier and family of
McLemoresville, have moved to
the j. B. Smith farm.
Hunter Bright of near Paris,
visited in this community Sunday
Miss Mary Nell Frazier spent
last Sunday at the home of Miss
Virgie Smith.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1918-06-07
Chautauqua Week June 18th to 18th
LEGAL NOTICE.

In the Supreme Court at Jackson,
Tennessee.
Mrs. Priscilla Bumpass VS.. J. M.
Bumpass.
Pursuant to a decree entered in
the above-styled cause at the April
term, 1918, of the Supreme Court
of Tennessee, sitting at Jackson, l
will on Monday, June "a, 1918, at
one o'clock p. M, offer for sale at
the court house door in the City of
Paris, Tennessee, two tracts or par
cells of land composing one body of
land, lying in the old 14th Civil Dis
trict of Henry county, Tennessee,
and known as the old G. l.. Bumpass
place, on which j. M. Bumpass now
resides, more accurate description
of which will be given on the day of
sale.
Said lands will be sold for one
fourth cash and the balance on a
credit of one and two years. taking
notes with good and solvent personal
sureties, drawing six per cent interest
from the date of said sale, and retain
ing a lien on the land to further
secure the same.
No bid on said land will be enter
tanned for less than 100000.
Possession of said land will be
given to the purchaser on January
/, 1919, until which time all rents,
possession and crops are reserved.
This May 20, 1918.
T. B. CARROLL,
Supreme Court Clerk.
FITZHUGH & MORTON,
s-31-3t. Solicitors.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1918-06-07
MARRIED..

Kersey Blackwood to Miss
Frances Cox by Judge D. T.
Spaulding at his home in Chick
asaw at six O'Clock Saturday
evening. The groom is an L. &
N. brakeman and resides in the
old Sixth district. The bride re-
sides at Springville.
H. c. Olive, a farmer residing
near Usage, and Miss Lucille
House, daughter of Sid House
of Paris were married on last
Sunday evening by Judge Spauld-
ing at his country home.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1918-06-07
FILES SUIT FOR DAMAGE.

Lige Sturdivant who was shot
by Walter Huddleston has filed
suit for damages and also at
tached Huddleston's property.
Mrs. Jennie Huddleston. mother
of Walter Huddleston, has re.
plevied property before Squire
S. j. Cross and the case has
been set for Tuesday, June Is.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1918-06-07
How She Banashed Backache.

Mrs. E. Kleppe, Averell, Mimi,
writes: Il was at sanitarium three
weeks at one time, two weeks another
time, for rheumatism and kidney trou
BILE and got no relief. On my return
began using Foley Kidney Pills; found
immediate relief; half bottle completed
the cure. Always use when | feel a
pain in my back"
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1918-06-07
IMPROVING FROM INJURIES

Mrs. S. ]. Cross. mother of
Squire S. ]. Cross, is slowly re-
covering from a sprained arm.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1918-06-07

Because Of Its tonic and laxative effect, LAxA.
TIVE eRoMo QuININEi Is better than ordinary
Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor
ringing In head. Remember tue full name and
look for the signature Of E. W. GROVE. 30c
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1918-06-07

For Indigestion, Constipation or
Biliousness
Just try one 50-cent bottle of LAX-FOS
WITH PEPSIN. A Liquid Digestive
Laxative pleasant to take. Made and
recommended to the public by Paris Medi-
cine Co.. manufacturers of Laxative Bromo
Quinine and Groves Tasteless chill Tonic.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1918-06-07
Why We Fight
Because Germany for Years Has
Been Making Secret, Treasher-
Gus War on Us

By CLARENCE L. SPEED
Prepared Especially for the Hermitage
Club of Nashville
Evening journal., 1918-04-20
HOMES ron sTnPBUILDERs ASSURED.

~ ETWEEN 900 and GOO new houses for the occupancy
ID OF workers In the Wilmington shpyards and their
Of workers in the Wilmington shipyards and their
families practically are assured result Of the town
meeting held In the grill OF the Hotel dupont on Thurs
day evening In fact the ultimate result Of that meet
ing may be the building Of between 1000 and 1900 such
houses the figures cited above having 10 do solely with
the FIRST development at Front and Union Streets taking
in the land now occupied by the baseball grounds. the
old car barn. yards and the vacant tract
lying to the south and west Of them.
The amount OF money asked for to buy that tract was
$4,000 and s75O0O It had been subscribed by pubcsprit
ed and patriotic citizens before the meeting ended The total
amount asked for however si500OO the idea being
that the additional $4,000 should be held reserve
with which to buy another tract the Federal
Government had sgnined It's desire TO extend Its de
veopment operations here. Judging by the enthusiasm
and berality shown at the meeting Thursday evening"
feel that tho remaining $4,000 desired will be
forthcoming, and that community will meet the
Federal Government more than halfway in It's home
building programme In furtherance OF successful
prosecution of the war.
Under the comprehensive plan which Is being
perfected the subscribers who automatically become
stockholders in the building project supply the land at
Front and Union streets free OF cost to the Government
and the spends s25OOOOe in improvements in
cudng streets parkways, stores dwelling houses apart
ments, a sc1oolhouse, community house, public
garage sewers water pipes, trees, shrubbery and all
other things essential to such development Upon the
Industrial village thus created the Federal Government
will take FIRST mortgage which also will the land,
that in event OF depreciation In property values at
the end OF the war; those who subscribe for the land
may not get cent out OF the ultimate liquidation Of
the enterprise. remarkable feature Of the meeting
that, Notwithstanding the plain and unvarnished
statement Of the fact those present poured out in
very few minutes $4,000 for the good OF the American
and the welfare of the city Of Wilmington
The meeting happily conceived by the Wilmington
Housing Company and carried out splendldy by those
who had n directly In charge There was about II an
atmosphere Of democracy and good-fellowship that
vealed clearly the intense interest OF Wlmngonans in
the and also in the development Of their municipality
along twentieth century lines.
Evening journal., 1918-04-20
Woman Escaped From Belgium
Reveals German Atrocities
lHew York Trlbune.)


two girls became insane and the other
committed suicide. / saw five young
boys shot by the German soldiers while
out riding on their bicycles. ! know
a young married couple that had re-
tired for the night. when Ave soldiers
forced the door OF their room and
forced the woman TO submit to them,
while others stood guard over her hus-
band with revolver. This was told
be by the woman herself.
German Knocked Her Down.
AT the station at Nlaanderen l saw
a wounded English soldier who had no
hat nor shoes nor socks, and 1t was
cold. and he complained because he
suffered with the cold and l found an
old blanket and covered him up, and
then the soldier on guard knocked me
QaWn for doing it. / saw German sol
dle-s have in their possession fingers
with rings on cut from women and
children.
Il saw a French aeroplane shot down
and the aviator wounded, and then l
saw the wounded aviator thrown into
ROLE by the German soldiars and buried
awe. l saw German avasors ny over
our village and drop bombs IN the peo-
pie. Under penalty Of death we were
then fo~ced by the German soldiers to
say it was done by the English ana
French.
"Alrs. Peter De Broom. and Lillian
Wineberry told me that they were
forced TO subml. to being outraged BY
tho German soldiers. Mrs. he Broom
also told me that her husband came to
her assistance, and .hen the soldiers
shot him through the head.
81 was stopping at small house Win
my mother. sister and children, and
German officer came in and demanded
that , submit to his wishes. He forced
me into small room. but ! fought with
him and got away. All this happened
in the town Of Lendelede, in Belgium.
II le,t Belgium on January 3. 1919,
10 come back to America. When | 2
to leave Belgium before they woud gNo
me my passports ! had to swear before
a German official that ! would not tell
any Of the things, either to the
French or the English, nor divulge uny-
thing l had seen or knew to have hap
pened in Belgium.
81 travelled on foot with my two lit
tie children from Lendelede, and when
/ got to my destination our shoes were
worn from off our feet
Evening journal., 1918-04-20

DAVENPORT, Ia. April i9-German
soldiers cutting or the fingers Of women
and children to get rings, locking two
boys In a building and then burning It,
outraglng q wife in the presence Of her
husband and burying a wounded French
aviator alive-these are some Of the
horrors related here by an eyewitness,
Mrs. Florence Claerhout, a Belgian
woman.
She tells her story In an aflldavlt pub
lished by the German-American Pat
riotic Association Of this city, which
Is amlated with the Iowa State Coun-
Gil Of National Defense.
Mrs Claerhout had been in this coun-
try three years, when, carly In 1914,
she returned TO her home in Lendelede
Province Of West Flanders, Belgium, to
bring her sister back to America
Caught by the outbreak Of war, she
passed through many scenes Of horror
Walked Ninety Miles.
Finally she walked ninety miles to
freedom, with her TWO children, aged
three and five years. They slept In open
fields by day and travelled by night, to
avoid the Germans. Most Of the way
she carried the little ones.
She now lives on a farm in Buffalo
Township, Iowa. Her sworn afldavit
In part follows:
Il left America for Belgium on the
2ist day Of May, 1914. On August g.,
1914. ] saw the German soldiers invade
Belgium. ! saw them Kill and lmprison
the male citizens Of Lendelede. I s. W
the German soldiers rob the people Jf
my village, and burn their houses and
cut the fingers from the women and
children for the rings on them. TWO
young boys were imprisoned in a house
which was then burned. / saw children
around Leavle that had their hands cut
of by the German soldiers.
81 saw a woman carrying two buckets
Of water, and saw a soldier pass her
and draw his sword and cut off her
right hand / saw the priest of a Cath
olic church plead with the soldiers to
spare the lives OF the women and chill
dren, and saw one Of the soldiers draw
his saber and cut Off the priests head
al knew two young girls, eighteen
and twenty years Of age, who had to
submit to the German officers after
serving them their dinner This was
| told to me by the girls themselves.
! know exactly after this one Of these