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Bisbee daily review., 1919-01-19

Carrying his right arm stiffly as a result of a bone shattering ball from a Hun snipers rifle and with the gold stripe indicative of six months foreign service on his sleeve. William Gill. well-known here as a miner and na- tive of Tombstone, has returned to the district to visit his mother. a resi- dent of Warren and his uncle. John Twomey
 Gnrs account of trench life in France and Of the action in which he received his wound, is graphic.
 "I left here with the draft of April, 1918, for Camp Funston and there was assigned to Company F, 355th lnfan- try. SSth division. After a few weeks training, we went by train 10 HOboken and left there on transport carry ing about 5000 of us, soldiers, war workers and nurses. do not remem- Der the exact date but it was the same day that the German submarines were operating off the New Jersey coast and some twenty odd vessels were sunk We had an anxious time of it, but our voyage was a quiet one. Aft CT II days we landed in Liverpool.
 For F days we were quartered in England and then were sent to Southampton and crossing the channel landed at La Havre. We had three weeks of intensive training and then were sent to the front in the Foul sector opposite Metz
 We got a warm reception. as on the second night in the trenches the Ger mans sent over Q mustard gas barrage and about HOO men in the division including 200 out of our regiment. were so badly gassed that they were put out of action and fully 20 per cent died. Of the men sent to the hospital it was found necessary to operate on quite a few in a manner that will handicap them all their lives in order to save their lives.
 Tt was early on the morning of August 16 that was wounded. A lieu tenant, two sergeants, two cOrporals and six privates had been sent out on patrol duty. We were instructed to go through the German wire and if we could not bring back any prison CTS to go on into a wood back of their trenches and locate some machine gun nests that had been giving us trouble.
 ''Ws started out about 2:30 in the morning and reached the German wire only to find that about 40 Germans were out repairing il. We were trying to locate one or two away from the main body to take prisoner and then make a quick dive back to our trenches, when we were discovered. 1. The Germans ran back to their trenches and we started back toward |
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DELAY DIsMANTLING ORDER.
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 DENVER. Colo. Jan. 1S.-The pub lie utilities commission today grant ed a 20-day delay on the order per hitting dismantling of the Colorado Midland railroad. making 1t effective February 8 instead of next Monday. In the meantime interests opposed to the dismantling will go to Washington to place their case before the na- tional railroad administration.
 Action by the commission followed a stipulation between counsel for op- posing sizes. Attorney General Vic tor E. Reyes. telesrsphed Congress man Edward T. Taylor at Washing ton asking that arrangements be made with the railroad commission for presentation of the case with a view to obtaining federal aid SO that the road may be continued in opera ton. Attorney General Reyes and Leroy Williams, chairman of the
Bisbee daily review., 1919-01-19
MISSOURI FINAL STATE

CHICAGO. Jan 1S.-Missouri may be named the 36th state to ratify the prohibition constitutional amendment. an honor now held by Nebraska. In- dications are that the Michigan legis- lature which has been credited with passing tho amendment on January 2, 19t9-making this state the sixteenth tO outlaw drink-must act again on the measure because of a technicality. Missouri, which raced closely with Nebraska to cast the deciding vote. would thus be elevated to the place of honor.
Bisbee daily review., 1919-01-19
VOTE AGAIN IN MICHIGAN
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LANSING, Mich. Jan. 1S.-The Michigan legislature must again take up and act upon the prohibition amendment to the federal constitution. in the opinion of Secretary of State Vaughan.
 The fault in the prohibition act as passed by the legislature was that to the effect that congress and the sev- eral states should have joint power 10 enforce the amendment, and the resolution, as passed by congress, provides that power to. enforce the measure should be concurrent" giv- ing the federal government authority tO act in case the state declined.
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FURNITURE HOUSE BURNS.
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SIOUX CITY, la, Jan. IS. - Fire which broke out at l o'clock this morning in the Liniholm Furniture company had almost completely de- stroyed the structure and it's con tents. The building is located in one of the main business blocks of the city. The blaze was spectacular. flames shooting high into the air. The loss is estimated at $300,O00.
Bisbee daily review., 1919-01-19
WAGE BONUS FOR U. S. WORKERS

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 WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-A wage bonus of S240 for the year beginning next July for nearly all government employees receiving S2500 or less was voted tonight by the house in pass ing the 1920 legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill carrying S96, 100000 The wage bonus, double that of the current fiscal year, will cost the government approximately S140OO,00O
 Employers of temporary govern mental agencies, established during the war, will not receive the increase, nor will postal employees.
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ARREST HUN soLsHEvIsTs.
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GENEVA. Jan. 1S.-Several Ger man and Russian bolsheviSts have been arrested by the Lausanna police. It is said they were bearing false passports and were on their way to Paris
 The Gazette of Lausanne says:
 The bolshevists under arrest plot ted against the lives of Premier Glenn enceau. President Wilson and Pre- mier Lloyd-GeOrge. The plot wss backed by German gold
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ARMY OFFICER FREED.

MACON. Ga. Jan. 1S.-The acquit- tai Of Opt Ralph A. Sturgeon of Chat tanooga, Tenn, and of Its. Walter A Hinman and George T. Gretton, both of Buffalo, N. r., by a court martial at Camp Wheeler which investigated the killing of "Jud" Richardson, de- serter. was announced today Rich ardson was killed in a raid on an illicit distillery.
Bisbee daily review., 1919-01-19
TO SMOKE IN Y. M. c. A.
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 NEW YORK, Jan. 1S.-Abolition of mo smoking signs in Y. M. c. A. buildings is suggested in a letter to general secretaries sent out today by Dr. George J. Fisher. head of the physical department of the interna- tional committee.
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soLsHEvIKI RETIRING.
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LONDON, Jan 1S.-(British Wire less Service )-The Esthonian general staff reports that the bolshevfki are rapidly retiring toward Pskov. IA miles southwest of Petrosrad As sordins to a communication from Re val, the bolsheviki. before giving up Dorpat. Livonia, shot 2sS men and se women. Among those executed were the chief Of police snd four Lutheran pastors. The number of persons shos at Wesenberg. Esthonia, before tss bolShsyiki fisd, exceeded 17e
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DRAFT ARGUMENT FATAL

MAQUOKETA. Ia. Jan. 1S.-Denns Flynn was shot. probably fatally, here this afternoon by Ward Turner. dur ing a quarrel in the main street over the draft law. Citizens have been deputized to guard Turner from mob violence
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commission, will be two members or the commission to go to Washington. the third to be chosen later.
AMeAssA0oREss REMOVED.
Rs RevieM Lcased MI

BERNE. Friday. Jan 17.-The Hun gari2n government has replaced Madame Rosika Schwimmer. ambas- sadoress 10 Switzerland. whose ap- pointment was only temporary, by pr. J. Szlassi. former Austrian am- bassador at Athens. who has been named definitely for the position.
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TEN FALL INTO FLAMES.
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 NEW YORK. Jan. 1S.-Ten firemen fighting a fire in a two-story frame automobile warehouse early today fell into the blazing building when the roof collapsed and were buried in the debris.
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which Anatola
 carried out France will ask the conference insofar her rights Britain 9l5 the of which Turkey aporoncd among the threep powers. These provided: be placed under international protection. to Syra, Lebanon a 0 Armenia. Britain O Mesopotamia Russat to Constaninope (5) Arabia and Fl Heaz to be independent states
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24
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Corbett's Daily Letter
 On Great Sport Topics
By JAMES J. coRBErr
By BRIGGS


 The other fellows had a whole
 spect for Big Jake" and they refused to put up any sizeable side bets
 Kilrain failed in every really important contest of his lifetime. Several times ne was within the shadow of the goal of fortune-but he never reached it. Often
 ''big money" was within his grasp but he didn't get it.
 When Jake mixed 1t with lem Smith, champion of England, it was for side bet of 5000. Kilrain didn't put up his share of the wager. Richard K. Fox
 was his backer The agreement at the time was that if Kilrain won, Fox was to get back his s5oo0 and Kilrain was, to re- ceive the $50oO lost by Smith. The bat tie ended in a draw. However. Fox showed true sportsmanship after the bat tie by giving to Kilrain the s50o0 which
 had been returned by the stakeholder.
 And that undoubtedly was the biggest
 stake Kilrain ever got.
 Fox made the same condition with
 Kilrain when Big Jake" fought Sullivan in Richburg, Miss. Had Jake won the contest he would have been the heavy weight champion of the world and $l0.- 900 richer in money But Jake lost-and about all he got out of it was a beating
 and a little "solace' money from Fox In the first fight with Slavin, the battle was for side bet of s5oo0. Just who put
 up the money for Kilrain, do not know Some stories had 1t that friends put up
 S25O0 and that Jake, using all of his avail able cash, made up the balance. Kilrain lost that fght-and the $5Oo0 Kilrain left the ring, according to re- port, without a dollar to show for l5 years of battling But when Jake Sli- rain laid down his gloves for the last time. he did so knowing full weH t,..~t he had established himself at the top in the hearts of the millions of sport lovers, and that he had written his name indellibly in pugilism's Hall of Fame. And that is something more to be valued than gold.
 The End
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24

Anniston, April 23-(Special l)-Com-
 pany M, the oxford company of the
 167th infantry, half of whose present
 membership is made up of Anniston'
 Oxford and Calhoun county men, IS
 due to unload from foreign transport
 in New York early Friday morning.
 and this announcement brings with 1t
 full measure of local interest.
 The oxford company is commanded
 bv Capt. Otho w. Humphries of Oxford,
 and Lieut.. James Driver of this city
 is second in command. Lieut.. Rufus
 Eichelberger, also of this city, IS an
 officer in the Oxford company. having
 been commissioned in the field for ex-
 ceptional gallantry in action.
 Several of the Company M boys have already returned from overseas. but at least 75 local men are to be welcomed to their home county by the people or Anniston and surrounding country aft CT the men are discharged at Camp Shelby. Miss, and plans for this oC- casion are now well under way. The exact date of the return of the loca. soldiers has not been definitely an nounced, but they will be at home as soon as lnt iOo VI O the trip from New York to Hattiesburg, filling out the service records and mak- ing out their certificates of discharge can be finished up. In the meantime many Anniston and Calhoun county homes are busy with their preparations for the welcome CT the returned heroes and the occasion of the return home is to be made lnto a pageant Of unusual magnitude. on the other hand, there are many homes which are saddened correspondinsly " because of the fact that many casual ties have already occurred among the men from the local company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24
HOSPITAL COMMITTEES NAMED

At Il meeting of the general committee on the erection of hospital in Colbert county, as a memorial to the soldiers of the county, which was held at the court house in this city, Judge Pride Tomp- kins named the following committees:
 Committee on Organization-John R. Rather, Jr., chairman; J, T. Andrews. Rev. $. T. Slaton and pr. W. H. Greer.
 Committee on Publicity: w. F. Miller, John w. Davis, M s. Hansbrough.
 Committee on Finance-J, H. Nathan, J. H. Peach, N. o. Patterson, J. w. John son, W. H. Martin, Dr. L. w. Chapman and Dr. w. J. Maxwell
 Committee on Location-J. F. Cannon, J. T. Kirk, C. R. Whitman. o. B. Clark and Dr. Griffith.
 Committee on Name--Mrs. A. H. Car michael, Mrs. Sid Jones. Mrs. F. T. Simp- son, Rev. w. F. Trump and Dr. w. IL. Mansfield.
 The several committees will work out a definite plan for building the Memorial hospital in Colbert county, which it IS proposed to erect at cost of something over $5o,000. The building will probably be located midway between Sheffield and Tuscumbia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24
KLINE PICTURES APPEAL

Anniston, April 23.--(Special.) )-William Fair Kline, brother of Charles D. Kline, of this city, has just published an ex- cellent pictured appeal for the Victory Loan which has many telling features and which is attracting maximum Of attention throughout the country.
 The artists latest effort was published Sunday in the picture section of the New York Tribune, and depicts with vivid dis tinctness the grief of a French peasant woman reading Red Cross message from the front telling of the horrible death, perhaps, of an only son, and is intended to carry with it an appeal for the Victory Loan.
 William Fair Kline, who has often vfs- ited his Anniston relatives. has Attracted a great deal of attention to himself by his splendid ability as an artist and is re- garded as one of the leaders in his pro fession in the great metropolis. The New York artist has just, returned from France, where he conceived the great picture just published in the Tribune, and which Is designed to represent the cross placeh upon the French woman, the cen- ter of his masterpiece
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24
SKYLIGHT BURGLARS
 AGAIN ACTIVE IN
 BUSINESS SECTION

Skyiight burglars are again active m the business section of Birmingham. Three business houses were reported en- tered at police headquarters yesterday morning and upon investigation 1t was found that the burglars gained entrance to all through skylight. Over A,Wo worth of goods were stolen and carried away.
 Oduln. Bowers & Whites dry gooos es- tablishment, 1908 Second avenue, was en- tered and the officials at the store es- timated the loss at 5000 yesterday morn ing. The Alabama Novelty company was broken into, as was the store or Joseph Tanary 314 Twentieth street, south, ana the amount stolen from these places VIII exceed sl 1000, it is stated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24

Editors Note: This is the 18th / and final--of a series of articles which
 MT. Corbett is writing concerning the
 pugilistic career of Jake Kilrain, one
 of the greatest heavyweights that
 America-or any other country-ever
 produced)
 After losing in a rather inglorious way to Frank Slavin in June, 1891, Jake Kill rain decided upon retirement from the ring And for nearly four years he was inactive as a warrior
 But in 1895 the lure of the game became a little. too strong for him. And Jake Kilrain decided upon comeback" hop ing thaks'he could prove that he still was a topnotcher.
 He seized upon Steve ODonnell as the trial horse" The pair battled to an eight round draw in Boston on March Is, 1895. The showing which Kilrain made in that fight heartened him considerably and so interesting had been the clash that there was a public clamor for an other meeting between the two. They were remat tched and fought their second battle in Coney Island on May 6, 1895.
 Kilrain put up a stubborn contest  younger, much faster and more aggres- sive. slowly beat down Kilrain. It was a thrilling battle in the early rounds, but soon it became evident to the ring side crowd that O'Donnell would be the ultimate winner. And in the 21st Kilrain gent down for the long count
 In September of the same year Kilrain fought Abe Ullpan 10-round no-decision bout in Baltimore-w winning the popular verdict by small margin.
 The last battle which Jake Kiirain waged in a prize ring was on September 14, 1S96-a dramtic, and pathetic climax to the career of a marvellous ringman.
 Although he was 37 at the time and miles removed from the superb condition of his youth, Kilrain still insisted upon another trial with Slavin who had con quered him five years before in HopoKen' And Slavin obliged.
 Slayin walked out at Kilrain, jabbed him couple of times, drove rignt handler to the body. then to the head, set himself for a finishing punch. deliv- ereds it-and the fight was over Jake Kilrain had gone down to defeat a knockout victim in the last fight of his career in a trifle more than one minute after the first gong had banged.
 Kilrain was one of the greatest fighters that ever lived-and one of the most unfortunate in financial affairs. He waged scores of battles during his career most of them against topnotchers. Tel in all the years stretching from lSsl tc 1S96 <ilrain gathered in less money for his pugilistic efforts than mediocre fighters of today earn in a single year.
 Kilrain's earliest fights were in the dayt when guarantees were almost unknown and when most of the battles were fol side bets He went against men whom he defeated easily but in all those pat les the wagers that he won were trifling.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24
RANDOM NOTES
By FRANK TAYLOR

The local athletic club has booked corking good wrestling match for the fans next Monday night. Savage. the crack heavyweight, has been matched with Freberg, another heavyweight This match should prove a hummer and in connection with the main affair three good preliminaries of local men will be staged The promoters have arranged a nice card for the fans and equally as many fans are expected to turn out and see the fray as were at the Plestina- Roller match.
 The city league held meeting Tuesday night at the Y NJ. C. A. and many plans for the coming season were discussed. It is thought that the league will run until September. playing total of IS games There will again be eight teams in the league. Birmingham always has turned out great amateur league and this season better one than ever is ex- pected.
 Cholly Frank is going to get an outneld sooner or later if he keeps on. He has had about 'steen out for the outer gar den positions thus far this season, but as yet has not decided upon his three
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24
wILLINGHAM IS ACQUITTED

The jury in the Colbert couny circuit court in the case of the state against George Willingham, colored, charged with being implicated in the killing of Policeman Graham in Sheffield last No vember, returned verdict of not gull ty. Willingham was represented by Attorney John H. Peach of Sheffield
 After court had adjourned for the day, Judge Charles F. Almon delivered a statement from the bench to the of- feet that the dispatch of this case in court proved that there never is any occasion for mob violence in Colbert county. and that he hoped there never would be repetition of the lynchings that occurred here last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24
COLBERT LEADING ALL IN RELIGIOUS
 EDUCATIONAL WORK
Brooks Employed AS Super intendent To Promote Re- ligious Educational In-
 terests of County

Tuscumbia, April 2S.-(Special) )-Colbert county is leading all other Alabama counties and possibly the entire south in promoting religious education. The matter of systemitizing the religious ed- ucational work of the county is being done under the auspices of the Colbert county council of religious education. That the work of the association may be further and efficiently established W. F. Brooks, of Montgomery. has been employed as superintendent. and under be accomplished.
 It is stated that Mir. Brooks has had considerable experience in Sunday school work, most of which has been done in the counties adjacent to Montgomery. where he has been instrumental in pro- noting religious educational interests. His work has been endorsed by Leon c. Palmer. general secretary of the Ala bama Sunday school association. He will take up the new work in Colbert county May l.
 The employment of Mir. Brooks in Col bert county was made possible by twen- ty-fve business and professional men of T,sscumbia and Sheffield, who jointly nave guaranteed the necessary funds in- asmuch as the work is so great and of such importance that it was decided that
 it should not be left to unpaid volun- teer workers.
 Colbert county is the first county in Alabama, if not in the south, to employ for full time county superintendent Of religious education, and the movement is expected to make Colbert county leader of all other counties in the state in rel- gious education.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24
COLBERT COUNTY IMMoRTALs

A complete list of the boys who went to France from Colbert county. and who made the supreme sacrifice, has been compiled and includes the following Lieut. James R. Grove, Sheffield. . Sergt. John Oldham, Sheffield: Felton Howard, Sheffield; Lewis Goldstein Sheffield; Emmett Trousdale, Sheffield !; Robert Gamble. Tuscumbia: John w. Dobbs, Tuscumbia; Jesse Houston, Tus- cumbia; Robert Johnson, Tuscumbia; ; Roy McClinton, Tuscumbia Houston Sledge. Tuscumbia; William Pruitt Leighton; Sid Quillen, Leighton; Hese- l1iah Weems. Cherokee: John Thompson, Barton, and Earl W. Trotter, Cbero- kee.
 The list totals IT young men, all of whom were natives of this county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24
EDITORS INVITED

Newspaper editors of Colbert conn ty have been honored by an invitation from the war department to be present at Atlanta on May 1, which will be the opening day of the Victory Loa n drive, by Secretary of the Treasury Carter Glass. Expenses of the trip will be borne by the department. Some of the Sheffield and Tuscum pia papers, if not all of them, will be rcp- resented by their editors at the Atlanta meeting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24
RAY NOW AT HOME

Anniston, April 2S-tSpeciaL )-F1rst Lieutenant Ray New, who has been In France for nearly a year as member of the Dixie division, has been discharged from the service and reached his home here Tuesday night.
 Lieutenant New was a graduate of the first officers training class at Fort Me Pherson, Ga, and prior to that had served in the Alabama national guard for sew eral years. He was the first sergeant of the Oxford company during the Mexi- can, trouble. Lieutenant New was also first lieutenant of the old Anniston com- pany before it was disbanded several years ago.