Cherokee County Democrat (Tahlequah, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 21, 1915 Page: 2 of 10
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DEAD AND INJURED IN ITALY
EARTHQUAKE EXCEED 50,000
tered Puerto Pinas and Santa Dor-
otea, on the Dar en roast, taking on
voal from a filler and cndeavuring
fo obtain food from the natives. A
lmilar note l as b^en dispatched to.
the Japanese etnbas<?> at Washine-'
ffFORT 10 SAVE VOTES fOR WOMEN'
A 2 POUND BABE E0SIBV 204 10 174
CANADA BUILDS SUBMARINES.
ROME, via London, Jan. 15.—The
destruction of the town of Avcj-
zano, a community of some 1Z,000
persons, In Abulia province, by the
earthquake Wednesday is virtually
complete. There is good authority
for the statement that not more J
than 10 per cent of the population I
survived the disaster.
Thus far 200 bodies and 160 n- j
Jured persons have been tak'-n out |
of the ruins at Avezzano.
LONDON. Jan. 15.—A news dis-
patch says the member of the cham-
ber of deputies for Liparl has tele-
giaphed '<> the capital that the
disaster Wednesday surpasses the
Messina catastrophe, that the ruin
is more widespread and the injury
to life and limb will be greater.
He announced that he would not
i-jave until they were permitted to
depart .V great crowd surrounded
the fugitives and threatened vio-
lence. but the Tennessee came steam-
iug into port and the Turkish au-
thoritks immediately decided that
no further opposition should he of
fered to-their departure.
BREAKS THREE RIB*
TYIXC; ON
HOE
ROME, Jan. 15.—Several earth j
shocks occurred during the fore part j
cr the day yesterday. They caused
the collapse of some buildings al-
ready severely damaged, resulting
in the injury of a number of per-
sons engaged in rescue work In
various towns. These shocks were
not violent, but they increased the
alarm of the people and made more
difficult the work of rescue.
At £>ara. sixty miles northeast of |
Rome, in the province of Caserta,
another shock occurred Thursday ;
The town, which has a population I
of some 20,000, was almost destroy- '
ed. About two-thirds of the houses
collapsed under the shock and others
which were cracked tumbled down
later. Rose palace fell in, burying
twenty laborers who were working
in the courtyard.
Four hundred and fifty bodies al-
ready have been recovered from the
wreckage in Sora. There are large
numbers of Injured there.
TURBOTVILLE. Fa., Jan. 15,—
,\VLen his hold slipped from th. '
upper Of a shoe he was fitting on a
customer, William Grittner. a lead- |
ing Northumberland county mer- |
chant, said he received a kick that
felt like that of a mule.
When he recovered from the
shock he could not rise. A «?etor
found he had suffered three broken
ribs and possible internal injuries.
The customer said that the shoe
went on with difficulty and when the
merchant told him to push hard he
made a vigorous thrust with bis
foot, the heel of the new shoe
striking Grittner a blow over the
heart.
MONTREAL, Jan. 15.—A fleet of
submarines for the British navy is
under construction at Montreal An
order for twenty has been placed
and work has^been started upon ten
of them.
The contracting company is _
branch of the English ship building
firm of Vickers Sons & Maxim,
hie!, built the first dreadnought
nd many other powerful boats for
the admiralty. The ship yard here
has an immense shed of steel and
glass, large enough to permit two
first class cruisers or ten sub-
marines to be built simultaneouslv
e\>-n during severe winter weather
ROME, Jan. 15.—With every
hour, as additional and more ac-
curate details are received, the hor-
ror of Wednesday's earthquake in-
creases. threatening to place it in
the list of similar catastrophes in
Europe second only to the Messina
disaster of 1908.
The list of dead, dying and in-
jured has Increased from a rela-
tively small figure to more than
50,000, according to an official an-
nouncement Thursday, and it is ex-
pected this number will grow. The
full extent of the property lqss has
not yet been determined. Here in
Rome, priceless statues, century-old
buildings and structures that for
years have been the mecca of all
visitors, havp been destroyed or
damaged.
SURVIVOR Of N01ED
BATTEE GETS KIEEEO
! OKiHT Ti lths FOR TEN
HOURS; KOI'lS >l*R\|\E
FORT WORTH, Tex., Jan. 14.—
II. 1). Brown, the la w>er who was
kliled at Paducah, Texas. Tuesday
afternoon, took part in the famous
HV-mjistead. Texas, court house bat-
ile of nine years ago when five peo-
ple were shot to death. Amonj. the
dead were Brown's father and
brother. It is said that Brown him-
self killed two of his opponents.
To tret away from the notoriety and
excitement. Brown moved to Pad-
ucah, which until a short time ago
was an inland cattle town. The man
charged with killing Brown was j.
M. Haverty, a Cottle county farmer
A fight over hunting privileges on
Haverty's farm preceded the shoot-
ing.
HE MURDERER
GETS TWO YEARS
HANNIBAL, Mo., Jan. 15.—Miss
Leta McElroy was sentenced to twc.
years in the penitentiary by a jury
In the circuit court here Wednes-
day afternoon for the murder of her
sweetheart, Robert Hopkins whom
she shot at her home last July. The
woman pleaded self defense and evi-
dence was presented by the stat<-
showing that she killed the man
through jealousy. She was on th.
stand more than an hour and a&Ul
that she shot Hopkins after he had
beaten her, and that he dared her
to shoot him The jury deliberated
one hour Six ballots were taken
before a decision was reached.
CO-EDS I'l'T Ol'T \ FIRE.
LAFAYETTE. Ind.. Jan. 15
Purdue University co-eds played the
part of firemen early Wednesday
and extinguished a lire that for ;
time threatened the destruction o.
the Ladies' Hall Annex, across th"
street from the university cainpu.-.
There were thirty-five girls in the
building and one of them wati
awakened by smoke. A spark from
a chimney had set fire to the roof.
The girls formed a bucket brigade
and displayed remarkable agility in
climbing through windows and over
porches to the roof. They were
clad only in kimonas thrown liastlh
over their nightgowns, but they did
not seem to mind the cold. Some
were armed with buckets and chaf-
ing dishes, from which they threw
water on the fire.
U. S. FLAG OVER HOSPITAL.
PARIS, Jan. 15.—Advices from
Constantinople by way of Petrograd
to the Temps report the arrival at
the Turkish capital of many wounded
from the Dardanelles, where the
bombardment continues. Some of
the wounded came 'rom the French
hospital, over which the Turks flew
the Turkish flag.
The American ambassador, the
dispatch adds, protested against this
and insisted that the Turkish flag
should be replaced by the American
flag because French interests were
hi the care of the American em-
bassy. His demand was heeded.
MGHTHIDERS KILL FARMER.
PADUCAH, Ky., Jan. 15.—Night
riders Tuesday night decoyed Pedro
Mohundro, a farmer, from his home
near Lovelaceville and shot him to
death, according to information
reaching the authorities here Wed-
nesday. Mohundro's death is the
second recently charged to night
riders in Western Kentucky. Prev-
iously Henry Allen was called from
his home in Muhlenberg county and
hanged to a tree.
Mohundro. it is said, had incur-
red the displeasure of the band and
had disregarded warnings to leave
the neighborhood.
AMERICAN' HELD IV SCOTLAND.
ABERDEEN. Scotland, via Lon-
don, Jan. 15.—Adolph l)ietz« 1,
claiming American citizenship, and
in possession of an American pass-
port dated August 1ft, 1914, was
remanded here Wednesday on the
charge of violating the aliens le-
strlction order.
IT'S NO CRIME 10
CAUSE A STRIKE
_ PE1 IcoGRAD. via London, Jan.
1" —The correspondent of the
Bourse Oazette at Tiflis sends a
statement made to him by Schodjaed
Itaculeh, the former governor of the
province of Azerbijan, Persia, who
has arrived in Tiflis. He is one of
four survivors of a guard of 400
horsi men who defended the bridge
at the entrance to Miandoab, the
gateway of Persia. He fought the
Turks for ten hours, enabling refu-
gees to escape to Maragha. fifty
miles south of Tabriz. All Chris-
tians who remained in Mtanaoal>, he
Stated, were massacred.
"\\ hen I heard the Turks were
ad*ancing," he said, "I posted 1500
troops n one of the Miandoab forts
and 1200 in another I. myseP
with 4"0 relatives and friends,
fought a hopeless battle at the
bridge until all but four were kill-
ed f>y the Turks' quick firers. I then
fled on horseback from Tabriz to
Julfa.
'"All the members of the con-
sulates and banks escaped from
Tabriz."
GOING AFTER FREE USE
OF WIRELESS OUTFITS
CHICAGO, ian. 15.—Amateur
wireless operators throughout the
central west who have been using
their instruments to keep in touch
with the war news are being sub-
jected here to a federal investiga
tion.
J. F. Dillon, a United States radio
inspector, said he proposed <to de
stroy the offending amateur sta-
tions unless the operators ceased
obstructing governmental and com
mercial business.
There are more than 2,700 ariia
teur stations in the middle west,
Hillon said, and less than half of
them have been licensed by the
government.
10 AlEOW HUNTING
BV FARMERS ONLV
OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 15.—No
one but the owner or occupant of
a farm can hunt wild game for a
period of five years according to
two bills introduced into the house
by Representative J. T. D ckerson
of Edmond.
The Dickerson bills are drawn on
the theory that the farmer feeds
the game and furnishes a home for
all birds and animals on his lands
but that the man from town, usual-
ly designated as a sportsman, shoots
most of the game.
NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—Sleeping
coaily in a shoe box, a baby Wed-
nesday was the object of a great ef-
fort on the part of physicians at
Bellevue Hospital who hoped to
save its lite. The bnby is the daugh-
ter of Mrs. Anna Suto, one of the
victims of the fire in the subway
last week. It was prematurely born
an i weighs but two pounds. A
woman neishbot of Mrs Suto took
the iniant to the hospital in a shoe
box. There is some hopes that
will live.
ACCUSED OF KILLING CHILD.
SAGINAW, Mich., Jan. 15.—A
complaint was entered in a justice
court Wednesday charging Charles
Gimbrou&u, a negro, with the mur-
der of 8-year-old Rose Fernier, who
disappeared from her grandmother's
home here on the evening of Jan-
uary 3. The day after the child
disappeared ashes were taken from
the firebox beneath a boiler in the
plant where Kimbrough was em-
ployed and sent to Professor R. E.
McCotter of the University of M chi-
gan for analysis.
Kimbrough, who is choir leader
in a local church, waived examina-
tion when arraigned and was bound
over to the circuit court for trial.
The. sport of Pfofessor McCotter
was made public shortly before the
arraignment. It stated that bones
were found in the ashes sent to him
for examination and that they "are
beyond any dount human bones and
those of a child between 7 and 10
years of age."
TURNING STEERS LOOSE.
The cattlemen of this section are
beginning to turn loose their herds
for shipment to the city markets at
puces above that of previous years
and in some instances almost double
that of last year.
Today Ell Stephenson sold one
hundred head to be shipped Mondav
and Henry Bagby sold 170 head to
R. C. Boggs of Hulbert for ship-
ment.
Buyers are numerous and prices
are better than ever before known.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—The
house of representatives by a vote
of 204 to 174 refused Tuesday night
to submit to the states an amendr
ment to the federal constitution to
enfranchise women.
The vote, the second !n the his-
tory of congress on- the woman suf-
frage Issue, came at the close of a
day of long-prepared-for oratory in
which the many speakers were
l stened to with frequent evidences
of approval or disapproval by pack-
•d galleries.
The question was before the house
on the Mondell resolution to submit
a constitutional amendment provid-
ing that the right of suffrage should
not be abridged "because of sex."
A two-thirds affirmative vote was
necessary to adopt the resolution
it was defeated by a majority of
thirty.
Party lines were not strictly
drawn in the fight, though the
democratic leader, Oscar W. Under-
wood, voicing the attitude of his
party that suffrage is a state issue,
strongly opposed the resolution,
while the republican leader, James
Mann, was one of the chief speakers
for the suffragists.
Enthusiasm mingled with dejec-
tion when Speaker niark announced
the result and into the corridors
from opposite galleries filed the
hundreds of suffragists, with their
purple and yellow sashes and red
rose bedecked anti-suffragists.
HONOR GRAND DUKE.
PARIS. Jan. 16.—A decree was
submitted to President Poincare
yesterday which conferred on Grand
Duke Nicholas, Russian commander-
in-chief, the military medal ot
France.
IN FLORIDA. TOO.
•JACKSONVILLE, Fla„ Jan. 16.—
Two masked men armed with re-
volvers yesterday afternoon forced
two clerks of the American Trust
and Savings bank here into the
vault and escaped with $2,000 in
cash
COFFEE! COFFEE!
We have secured the exclusive sale of the
Famous Brands of Metropolitan Blend 35
cent coffeeJ 3o cent Steel Cutand a special
mast coffee put up in I lb. packages by the
Peaberry People expressly for our trade.
e invite you to call at our store and get a free p&cKage
I'. S. Tiles*' coffee's are roasted and* packed by the
Qatnnbary People of Sprirurfleld, Mo. expressly*for
our trferio. Give them a trial.
Brewer's Grocery
Tahlequah, OKla.
RUSSIA TO KOKKOW IV U. S.
t'. S. CONSUL SAVED TIIE.M.
LONDON, Jan. 15.—How the vig-
orous intervention of the American
consul at Jerusalem, coupled with
the dramatic appearance of the Unit-
ed States cruiser Tennessee, enabled
the last few British subjects n-
malning in the Ilely City to escape
is related by one of tbem, a den-
man. who arrived in London Wed-
nesday.
Only by the untiring efforts of
the consul, said the clergyman, were
they able to obtain permission to
leave Jerusalem on Christmas Eve.
In order that they might continue
to receive the benefit of his protec-
tion, the consul accompanied them
to Jaffa. While waiting 011 the
quay for a steamer they were seized
and removed, but the consul, after
an interview with the Turkish com-
mander, obtained their release and
accompanied them back to the quay.
NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—Judge
Louis 1). tiibbs of the Bronx county
court, directed a jury Wednesday to
! bring in a verdict of not guilty in
the case of five members of labor
unions on trial for having caused
a strike and threatening with vio-
lence their employer and men
brought to take their places.
PBTROGRAD, Jan. 15.—A group
(if New York liankers. Including J.
P. Morgan & Co., have agreed to
loan the Russian government $12,-
000,000, according to an official an-
nouncement made here Wednesday.
This amount is subject to draft
by Russia at one. two and three
months, at 4 per cent, with a half
of I per cent additional for ac
ceptance.
Prominent Petrograd bankers say
that this is a forerunner of further
credits to be extended Russia by
American financiers.
The president of an important
Petrograd bank has left for New
York, where he expects to confer
with financiers and government of-
ficials with the idea of perfecting
Russian exchange facilities.
PANAMA ENTERS PROTEST.
PANAMA, Jan. 15.—The republic
of Panama has filed a note of pro-
test with Sir C. .Mallet, the British
minister resident, against the viola-
tion of her neutrality when British
and Japanese warships entered San
Miguel bay and other Panaman
waters to take on coal and supplies.
I ho note In question is couched in
friendly terms.
This action by the British and
Japanese warships was part of the
series of incidents which led Col-
onel Ooetlials to ask Washington for
American torpedo destroyers to pro-
tect the neutrality of the canal.
British and Japanese cruisers en-
NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—J. p.
Morgan A Co., confirmed Wednes-
day the dispatches from Petrograd
in respect to a loan to the Russian
government by stating that a group
of New York banks and bankers had
made "a purely banking" arrange-
ment with Russia, the proceeds to be
used in payment for supplies ex
ported from this country.
POLITICAL LEADERS
SENT TO PRISON-
NEW \ ORK, Jan. 15.—Joseph
Cassidy, former democratic leader
of Queen's county, tind William
Willett. Jr., n former congressman,
were Wednesday sent to Sing Sing
prison to serve one year and six
months each. Their commitment
followed the affirmation by the
court of appeals Tuesday of the
verdict of the jury which convicted
Willett of offering and Cassidy of
receiving a bribe to obtain Willett's
nomination to the supreme court in
1911.
I Have Been
Appointed
A representative at Hulbert, by Susan
Sanders, to assist in filling out appli-
cations in the Emigrant Case between
January 14, and February 1st.
l'his authority has been given me by Susan
Sanders for the purpose of assisting the poor.
NO FURTHER TIME WILL BE GIVEN.
R. B. BUTLER
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