Daily Kentuckian, 1918-07-24
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SCHOONERS OFF MAINE (By Associated Press.) A Tort of Mslne, July 23 Tour men landed in Dory at Cap Porpoise today reporting their Ashing schoon schooners - ers schooners ths "Robert and Richard" had been aunk by a German submarine on Cashebank sixty miles southeast of Cap Porpoise at 10:30 yesterday morning. Other Dories ar coming in behind them they reported. The schooner had halibut for th Boston market. BERLIN'S BIG CLAIMS. (By Associated Press.) Berlin via London, July 23. Brit British - ish British attacks st many points ar report reported - ed reported in the German official statement is is-sued - sued is-sued today. Thee, it declared were repulsed. A general Blackening in the fighting on the Aisne-Marne front is slso reported. The Germans claim to have shot down fifty-two enemy airplane yesterday. STILL COUNTING PRISONERS (By Associated Presr.) Psris. July 25. The French, Amer icsn and British troops made consid-, rsbl aavsnces during tne day on tha Aisne-Marne front, according to war office announcement tonight. In addition to occupying aeveral villagea they captured more than eighteen hundred prisoners. . Beautiful Weeding Caresaaay. Th marriage of Miaa Rosalie Mil Miller - ler Miller and Mr. Yancey P. Lewia waa quietly aolemnised at the First Bap Baptist - tist Baptist church on Monday afternoon at S o'clock. Tha Rev. C. M. Thompson son, pastor of tha bride performed ceremony in the presence of the fam ily and intimate friends. The ring service waa used. Mrs. Nsthsn Miller wss matron of honor and Mr. Miller th groom's! best man. Th other attendants were Miases Grace Richards and Hel en Thompson. I Ths bride, who entered with the groom, wore a stylish and becoming coat auit of blue with hat to harmon ise and carried an arm bouquet of whit roses. The mstron of honor snd bridesmaids wora wfiits aatin skirts and colored coats and picture hats; Mrs. Miller wearing a pink coat and carrying an arm bouquet of Kil- lamey roses, and th bridesmaids yellow coats. Miaa Annie Virginia Trie ssntf moot artistically, Chaminsde's Prom Promise, - ise, Promise, prior to tha ceremony. The church was effectively decorat decorated - ed decorated with ferns, palms and smilsx the green being relieved with large bunches of Queen Anne's Lace in Sal vases. s laj) Mr. and Mrs. Lewis left st 6:40. After a wedding trip they will be at horn in Birmingham Ala. R. VY. BINGHAM SAYS; MOVE SCHOOL TO FARM COTTAGE SYSTEM PLAN SUG GESTED BY NAT B. SEWELL IS FAVORED. Frankfort. Ky., July 23. Chair man Robert Worth Bingham, of the Board of Trustees of the Kentucky Children's Horns Society, is hesrtlly in accord with ths Idea of State In spector and Examiner Nat B. Sewell that tha Institution should be remov ed to th country. His plsn is for th cottage systsm with about ten acres to each cottage, allowing accom accommodations - modations accommodations for Industrial and agri cultural training. Mr. Bingham is having Inspector Sewell's report on th Institution published In psmph let form for distribution. Th report shows th magnificent work being don by th society and great Im Improvement - provement Improvement in tha direction of scon scon-my - my scon-my ,ln he handling of funds. Tom Martin, colored train porter, wss kills d hi ih wr at OwMthara.
ARE HELD UP ON GOODS DELIVERED BY THE GRAFTERS UNCOVERED IN NEW YORK. (Ry Associated Press.) New York, July 2.1. Officer of th army quartermasters department tonight notified th concern that aha Itepartment of Justice named in ita exposure of tha alleged nation-wide bribery graft conspiracy in th manu facture of soldier raincoats, that no more deliveries will he accepted un til further notice and that payment will he auspended on large quanti quantities - ties quantities of good already delivered by them. PROF. FARRAR MADE PRESIDENT Prof. W. E. Farrar haa bean elect ed president of Bethel College. For year he has been connected with the school and is fully acquainted with the work in every department Rev. R. H. Tandy waa president the past year or two, but recently re signed. Rusaellville Time. NEW TEACHER SELECTED FOR HIGH SCHOOL- WILL TEACH SCIENCE AND MANAGE ORCHESTRA. Prof. W. T.-fctrfr. of Meridian. Miss., waa yesterday selected by Prof. G. ('. K off man and th Hopkinsville Hoard of Education to trarh in the llupkinsville High School tha coming vcar. rrof. Little Is a gradual oi the University of Mississippi and come hre from Meridian, rt will teach most all th science branches used in th High School course here and will also direct the Hopkinaville High School Orchestra, which as a very important as well aa very popu popular - lar popular feature of the high achool work dune here. The Kentuckian stand ready to welcome frof. Little to our city and will lend every reasonable assistance in helping him to become an estab lished ritixen of this city and an im important - portant important factor in our educational ays- tern. GREAT FIRE IN CONSTANTINOBLE (By Associated Press.) The Hskuo. July 23. Lack of dwellings, already great in Constan tinople, waa increaaed by tha devas tating fir of Msy 31. details of which srs given by the Balkan cor correspondent - respondent correspondent of tha Nieuw Rotter dam he Coursnt Its rsvsges have added to the e-eneral misery of ths Turkish capital, where spotted typhus itill carries off an average of tnlrtv victims daily Living there is fright fully dear, and the Intestinal dl (or (orders - ders (orders which tha warm season brings every yesr hsv srrived esrlier then ususl owing to ths inadequate food. Tha fire waa caused by a lighted cigarette being thrown into th cor ner of a room. Over a distance of ton and a half miles it spread, right luroea old Stamhoul, from north east to southwest, burning away a str-p of from s third to five-eights of a mils t.l. Halfwsv on th course the flames branched out in a southerly direction. Ten districts of th city war swept and more than 6,000 houses, 20 baths, a dosen baxaars and about 10 mosques war destroy destroyed. - ed. destroyed. Mora than 200,000 persons were left homeless. Th burned district la almost In ths renter of the city. Government officea and ths houses I of a number of nigh officials wars hastily evacuated, aa well aa ths prin principal - cipal principal hospitals and schools in th vicinity. All but eight of the 1266 persons on th Ssa Diego hava been account ed for. Thraa war klllsd ou trig St by tha splosiott aad t ar tCMiag
IS RECEIVE RED CROSS ORGANIZATION GETS CHECK FROM MEMPHIS COAL COMPANY. t The chock aent to Mr. Hunter Wood. 8r., yesterday by tha Memphia Coal Mining Company amounted to , $299.27. This tbexk was sent la ac cordance with an agreement and pro- . miaa of thia concern at the beginning1 of the last Red Cross campaign to give all of one day'a net earnings from Ha coal mine which is operated at Mannington near th northern boundary line In thia county. Th whit and colored coal minors and other employees agreed to give on dsy's wag to th Rsd Cross snd substantisl amounts war raised. $319.10 were given by th whit miners. 671.67 by th colored minors, and 6132.10 by tha employe of th building department Th amounts augmented by th company's chock yesterday mad a total of 6822.10 from this one industrial concern. ' STOLEN AUTO RECOVERED YESTERDAY AFTER NOON ON RUSSELLVILLE ROAD. Ths Ford runabout of W. A. Cor nett which waa stolen from in front of his house on N. Msin street Mon Monday - day Monday night was found yesterday after after-noow - noow after-noow by Char Is Vaughn setting oa tha roadside a short diatanee from , town en tha Russellvill pike. The car wss stolen from In front of Mr. Cornett's horns Mondsy night and driven from town by two mea. When found only about on gsllon of gssolin waa miasing, tha angina waa dead and could not ba started, and a new tire had been punctured and waa off th wheeL Apparently somebody had tried to patch tha tire and got frightened or failed and had to abandon th car. It waa headed towarda town when located. No clue aa to tha guily parties hss been found. Mr. Cornett hsd of offered - fered offered a 625 reward for tha car a short time before it waa found aad cards to this effect were mailed out y Chisf Roper to various towns. AIRPLANE ESCAPED ON IT'S WHEELS (By Associated Press.) London, July 23. A trench news newspaper - paper newspaper published by one of th Brit British - ish British divisions in Psloetin gives tha following account of an unusual fsat by a British airplane in ths lighting tons: "One of our aviators wss forcsd by engine trouble to land miles la la-side - side la-side the Turkish line. His sngins wss misfiring, but produced sufficient power for 'taxi-ing' and short hops, but not for flights. Presumably tha . valves of tw or three cylinders hsd broks or stuck. But tha pilot did not give up aB(J ,UCCM,,d in taxi-tog the whole way to the British linaa aver level sand. On th way as crossed a Turkish sncampmsnt, and his ander- i. kmilil mmm m rlathse Una . . BUmb, . f Turkil, hlrts. Tha pilot w- ,tUck,d by ,, imtMeu. , . lth ifl mad .bjp. guna. but they invariably fled whea he charged on them with hia gun. T . k r. u lirnllM itivsd . . . huu hi bu. m M yju, prC McNEALY LILLY. Jamss Wilford McNesly, a young fsrmsr of ths northwest part af th county, and Miaa Mollio Pearl Lilly, a popular young lady ef tha same neighborhood, were married at the courthouse yesterday afternoon at 4 JO o'clock by Judge Cbamplin. Tha groom rsgisterari his age at 20 aad ta bride at 23 year. ; - lyes tettsd lanaaa gJtmad, I
TO ONLYFJGilT (By Associated Press.) Washington, July 23. All but eight of th fifty-nine men reported missing after the sinking of th cruis er Ban Diego have been account for, the navy department announced tonight. Further reports ar expec expected - ted expected to reduce this number. Th of officials - ficials officials hop th only casualties will prove to be only three men killed by tha explosion. LICHTLESS NIGHTS TO THE PEOPLE OF HOPKINS- 'tration. new "Lightleas Night Or- , . M . .1 ...... der," restricting the use of fuel for outdoor illuminstion becomss effee tive Wednesday, July 24. Under the order tha usa of light generated or produced by the Das or consumption of coal, gas oil, or eth ether - er ether fuel for Illuminating or display ing advertisements, announcements or signs for ths external ornamenta tion of any building will be discon discontinued - tinued discontinued entirely on. Monday and Tues Tuesday - day Tuesday nighu of each week in this sUta. Th ordsr excepts bonsftd roofgsr roofgsr-dens, - dens, roofgsr-dens, outdoor restaurants and out outdoor - door outdoor moving picturs thsstrea. Street tluminstion In-sll-dties will be re stricted to tha hoars between sunsst 'snd sunrise and tha amount of public lighting In any city will be reduced to that nsrsssary -far aafety. The e ef light for iitaaviaating ar ! Ignated by th order. With th miner w th country responding loyally to th appcala of 1 administratlosi for increased !p- V the weekly output of bl- tu . tnal ia surpassing all pre vious . vrda. I he efforts or ins r uei Adm'nistiatioi. ope a tors and miners to increase production must ba sup supplemented - plemented supplemented br tr) ills gwation of ev every - ery every wasteful or n necessary us of cosl. Th enormous war demand for fnal makes it imnavativa to make the moat economical use possible, svef of the constantly Increased eutput. Thanking you for your hearty co cooperation - operation cooperation and brat efforta in this di direction, - rection, direction, I sm. Yours very truly, JNO. J. METCALFE, Chairman. FOLLOWING THE FLAG John A. Bacon. Jr., who enlisted in th navy about two weeka ago ia Louisville, left Monday for the Great Lake Training Station. Bert Blakemors, Lee Blankenahip and Walter W. Crewe hava arrived safely overseas, is th gist of three messages received b-re by relative. Vernon Howard, who arrived here Sunday Irora lamp enerman vm a short leave of absence, will return to camp today. Arthur Mobley. son of Mr. and, Mrs. Luther Mobley. has voluntor - ed for army servlc. Hs left Moo - day for FX Oglethorpe where ha will receive training. Robert C. Dabney. who has been working in a rubber plant at Akron. Ohio, has been commissioned ss Sec- ond I.ieutcnsnt and Is here for a few daya before reporting for duty In a Chemical branch of Ike army. He ia the second son of Former Mayor F. W. Dabney and hia tw brothers sr In th service. k k k k k k the Lexington meeting this spring, woa more rsses thaa any horse a th thro "L" tracks, having a total of tti-M victories at th cloas af ths
(By Associated Pram.) i . - . London, J sly 23 The , Freaea mad an attack near Montdidicr, which meana a total advsnc of two miles. This point Is twa-thousand yard esst of Mallty Raineval' and give the French control of tha height dominating th Aisne Valley. Twelve hundred German prisoners were tak taken. - en. taken. STEADILY MOVING FORWARD. London, July 23. Jaulgonne, on Mnroe, has bee captured by the Americana, . who, .continuing th ad advance, - vance, advance, have taken three hundred mora prisoners. Ths French and American hav crossed th Mama over a front of twelve mile between Jaulgonn. sev several - eral several miles esst of Chateau-Thierry, and Rueil near where th German are mra (By Associated London. July 23. French attach near Montididier today was wH executed and successful minor opra tion, according to dispatches, pre sumably designed as a diversion, to keep the enemy's mind oceoprad and keep him from aendir larg forces southwsrd. The allies hav counted shout ons thousand more prisoners in ths last twenty-four hours, but m a msttcr of fact they ar far too busy just now to devote much time to counting. FIFTY-SIX DOWN. (By Associsted Press. Psris, July 23. Lieut. Rene Fonck on of the lending Fremh aces, brought down two Germsn kirplsnet on July 16, two on July IS and three on July 19. Six of, these machines were brough down in flame. Konrk's total is now officially fifty-aix ma machines. - chines. machines. German Aces Killed. Amaterdsm. July S3. Ueuta. Fri Fri-edrichs - edrichs Fri-edrichs snd Kirsrhstein, members of th Von Richthofen squadron, have been killed, says ths Lokal Anssiger. Friedrich wss credited with twenty twenty-on - on twenty-on victoriea and Kirsrhstein with 27. TEACHER GOING OVER.. Lincoln, Neb.; July 11. Leave of absence of one year haa been granted by the board of regents to Dr. Hi J. Sttwart, athletic director of tha Un University - iversity University of Nebraska,' who "will leave shortly for tha' front as athletic dl rector of forces in Italy. Th regents will select a successor to act in the absence of Doctor Stew art, who has been director at the University for two years. Athletics will be carried on as usual Several applicants ar undsr consideration. "I'st going over to aee my boys," ssid Dr. Stews rt, pointing with pride to th fact thst every on of ths eighteen Utter mea af.th 1916 foot foot-hall - hall foot-hall team is ia ths sruiy and sixteen of them hav commissions. All but fiv letter men of tbe 19 IT football team ar in service. Ths fiv wr either under age or agjtcted. Every member of the 1916 wrestling team ia "over there" or af a cantonment, Sevan of tha nine, members af the 1916-17 basketball team .at Irt U ranks, nlns of tha fourteen members of ths 1917 trsck-'taam hav entered some breach ef the eesvL'O aod.Wu of th fovit tncnbwr af th 19V I baseball teas ale ar la tha army af am - -.
and Sdiiorial Comment Call 44 If faU l Ik KaalxaUa proasplly. Aad if yea Save news Hess, ae It la ika Vtaw aeaikev. Congressman Kinrheloe arrived safely in Fran Several days ego. BiamarV N. P. la having popular clamof fof a rffhng in tha city's Mm. Fotti" Gen. FoTh let th Germane Jiav a quiet day yesterday to bury tha dead nd clean up tha ground h ex pacta to arfrrpy within day or two, Ed. P. Morrow haa let it be known that ha will ha randidata main for tha Republican nomination for Gov Gov-amor. - amor. Gov-amor. . Honduraa, which broke diplomatic ralationa with Germany on May I. followad that action lt Friday by declaring war. Thia makaa 22 na nation - tion nation against Germany. Twenly-threa persona wera made seriously ill by ptomaine poisoning from eating tainted tea cream at a aorial gathering at Sant Young' in Caldwell county. A check haa been received from tha Memphia Coal Company for f .100 to ba given to tha Red Cross, which raiaea their total contribution to $22 10. Honduraa liko aeveral other of the Spanieh American republic haa de declared - clared declared war againat Germany. Let u hope aha will do aomething, if it is ". Pthe only to aend a bunch of banana to Kaiaer with a tarantula In it. sojiert ay that if th strenuous offensive of tha allies continue, tha German will withdraw much farther north, where they will Bcht for their live. The Iliad heavy artillery la hammering military objrtta In th Soiaaona area Raven, death in aviation accident t tyif nelda in thia country were report! during th week ending July 13. la a aummary laaued by tha War Department. Of the aeven death, two occurred at Barron Field. Ever Ever-man, - man, Ever-man, Tex., two at Scott Field. Belle Belleville. - ville. Belleville. III., and on each at Call Field Wiahita Fall. Tex.; GerUner Field. Lake Charlee. la., and Haielhumt Field, Mineola, N. Y. A German priaoner captured by the Americans Sunday formerly was a baker in New York City. He was asked what the German soldier thought about the Americana. Bine Thursday, tha prisoner said, tha Ger Germans - mans Germans had concluded tha announce announcement - ment announcement that a million Americana were In France waa falsa and rumor among th Germans on thia front were that there ar ten million Amer Americana - icana Americana in Franca. HaaTifirf: th' seriousness of hi pre predicament, - dicament, predicament, tha German crown prince is said to have sent out distress aignal to Crown Prince Rupprecht of Ba Bavaria - varia Bavaria whose men ar facing tha Brit Brit-kh - kh Brit-kh line in Franca and Flanders, ask asking - ing asking for aid. Rupprecht dispatched several divisions of hi reserves to th. t.ith to heln his imperial cousin. but to offset thia Field Marshal Haig Immediately dispatched a Urge num num-k.e - k.e num-k.e of divisions of picked British
the less they succeeded In reaching several places en ths railroad between Armenticra and Coincy. ' Thia part ef the railroad is more than six mile t to the east of the Neuilly front. RACING WAS (By Associated Press.) Louisville, Ky., July 23. Racing in Kentucky last year yielded owners s totsl of 6746.R9S sn-i unless ths length of the sutuinn meetings in this stats is grestly curtailed, the total for thia season will show a substan substantial - tial substantial increase. Ths amount distribut distributed - ed distributed through th spring msetings at Lexington, Churchill Downs, Duglss Park and Latonia thia season totals 6492.135. On this basis ths sntirs 1916 distribution Should approximats one million dollars dollars-Churchill - Churchill dollars-Churchill Downs led the Kentucky tracks in ths amount daily distribut distributed - ed distributed to horsemen 68,364.62. Douglas Park cam second with a daily average of 67.739.68, and Latonia. third, with 67.72S.38. Lex Lexington's - ington's Lexington's average waa 64.946.33. E. R. Bradley led ths owners in smount won with 629,723. Williams brothers with 25.2IH, were second. Jefferson Livingston's stabls third with less the E. B. than 6500 in advanca of McLean stsble, which wss fourth. Willis Sharp Kilmer's Extermins Extermins-iwf, - iwf, Extermins-iwf, by his victory in ths Kentucky Derby snd his second in the Lstonis Derby, won tha post of honor as the biggest money .winning horse of the aprbw rscti ssaaba, having won f 16.450 for bie awner. Cudgel, Commander J. K. L. Ross' greet handicap horse, victor in the Kentucky hsndicsp. Earned second place with 612.000. Johren, tha Whitney colt, by annex ing th Latonia Derby, worth 69,923, gained third placa on th list with Bradley's Winner of the Cincinnati Trophy, Battar Cake, and G. M. Hea Hea-drie'e - drie'e Hea-drie'e Rancher following aloe be behind - hind behind In th order asmed; . ' Bifie, a maids thraa ysar eld at
dead ar piled in great heaps." Thia waa the parting injunction given tha 126 drafted men of Warren county by the Rev. R. B. Grider, paa- tor of tha State Street Methodist charch. who spoke briefly t the selects from this and other counties, who war lined up on the publis gauar Monday morning, preparatory to thai oepartor tot Cmp Zachary Taylor. ia immense erowd heard Dr. Glider's remsrka and cheered lustily when ha told tha future soldiers to polish ths tips of their bayooeta la seuor-kra.it and not to caaaa fighting until so many Germans bad h lull lull-ad - ad lull-ad thai th aplrit af th Remainder w.td k arashsd and their country t rrtm2?iZx Crc Haws.
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