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Journal
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS.
VOL 20. No. 87.
THIRTY YEA Its IX PRISON'
MONROE, N. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1911.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
HIKED FOR VINEGAR BARREL.!
. A Red Woman Released Fmm Con
necticut Penitentiary After K pcn-
tng Half Her Life Behind I he Bar.
Hartford, Conn., Dispatch, 26.
Saturday a white haired, wrinkled
old woman walked out of the Weath
field state prison, which the entered
when handsome and In the very prime
01 lire. She is Mrs. Kate Cobb, con
Tlcted of the murder of her husband
In 1879, and sentenced to life im
prison ment. She is 66 years old, and
na 31 when she was sentenced. She
has therefore spent more than half
her life in the institution.
Regularly every two years since
1900, the 21st year of imprisonment,
Mrs. Cobb has appealed to the board
of pardons for freedom. On some
of these occasions her hope ran high,
only to meet bitter disappointment.
Hut late this afternoon, with Govern
or Simeon E. Baldwin, presiding, oc-
ceded to the woman s plea.
The pardon is full and uncondi
tional
The news of the pardon was tele
phoned to the prison and Warden
Garner went at once to the woman's
cell. She knew that her case was
before the board of pardons, but she
looked at him without halting the ac
tivity of her knitting needles. The
refusals to pardon her had been
many. She had little hope. She
was a grandmotherly figure sitting in
her rocking chair (one of the small
privileges allowed her), an exquisite
piece of lace work falling from her
knitting needles, the walls of her cell
hung with other dainty embroideries
for whose output she has become fa
mous since her imprisonment.
But when the warden hurriedly
told her the good news she fairly
sprang to her feet and tottered to the
barred door. She made hhn repeat
the message. Then she lifted her
shrunken hands and cried:
"Thank God! Oh the good God be
praised! God bless the board of
pardons! Warden, I am too surpris
ed and happy to say another word."
As she contemplated her pood for
tune her emotion increased, and she
broke down altogether and became
hysterical.
In her appeal to the board of par
dons, Mrs Cobb declared that she no
longer cared for freedom on her own
account, h.it asked it that her chil
dren and grandchildren might be sav
ed the disgrace of having her die in
a felon s cell." Besides her daughter
there Is a son who is a prosnerou
business man. Both were small
children at the time of there moth
er's sentence.
"I don't know," she said to Ward
en Garner, "whether now I can ever
become used to a home. It has been
so many years that I have been here,
1 actually feel a certain fear about go
ing out into the world even regret
at abandoning this cell where I have
lived such a long, long time."
The trial of Mrs. Kate Cobb and
Weslew Bishop, a chemist, and her
admirer of Norwich, Conn., for the
murder of Charles Cobb, her husband
was the crime sensation of New Eng
land In its generation. She had been
sweetheart of Cobb. He was a ris
ing policitician and the tax collector
of Norwich. Wesley Bishop and his
wife and Mr. and Mrs. Cobb had been
the most intimate of friends,
In 1877 Mrs. Bishop died of a mys
terious illness. She had not long be
fore told her sister that Bishop was
utterly Infatuated with Mrs. Cobb,
and that Bhe feared they would mur
der her to get her out of the way.
Notwithstanding the sudden queer
character of her illness no investiga
tion followed. It was Mrs. Cobb
who protesting that she had been
Mrs. Bishop's closest and dearest
friend, dressed the dead woman for
burial
As Mr3. Cobb lifted Mrs. Bishop,
the better to pin a lace collar at the
buck of her neck, there had come a
! udden contraction of the tendons of
the dead woman's right arm so that
It flew up and the rigid Index finger
pointed wierdly at Mrs. Cobb. The
women fled the room, all save Mrs
Cobb, who went on dressing the
corpse and told them they were a
pack of silly women to be fright
ened at a happening due to perfectly
natural causes.
When her own husband died the
next year, popular clamor arose for
an investigation for the affair of Bish
op and Mrs. Cobb had meanwhile be
come a public scandal.
An autopsy revealed that Cobb had
died of arsenic poisoning. Mrs. Cobb
never faltered in her protestations of
innocence, but Bishop weakened and
made a confession declaring that he
had furnished the poison and Mrs.
Cobb had given it to her husband,
their Intention being to marry when
he u out of the way. Mrs. Cobb has
never admitted her guilt. She still
maintains that if Bishop gave her
husband arsenic poison it was un
known to her.
Like her, he was sent to Wethers
field prison for life. He died there
four years ago. He had cever ap
pealed for a pardon. Once a week
for 31 years the man and woman paw
BELK KILLED McMAMS.
-o-
THERE BE GOOD TIMES.
Bold Attempt of Unknown Negro s Khristm Tragedy in Buford Town- That's the Conclusion That Two Old
Thwarted By the Cries of the Pro.
prletor Occurred Early in the!
Evening.
An unknown negro entered the
store of Mr. Lee M. Howie last Sat
urday evening about seven o'clock.
and at the point of a double-barrel
shot gun ordered Mr. Howie to "hold
up his hands." This was done lmme-
Khip Babe McManus, While at Fellows Came to When They Talk-
me iioine or Madeira Belk, treat-1 ed Over Boyhood Day.
ed a Disturbance and Una Shot ! Correspondence of Tha Journal.
iwnu uuin .nen uvea on samel Wingate, Dec. 28th. Mr. Wesley
Farta Belk Gave Himself Vp at I Pierce and wife and baby came in
Once and Han Been Let Out on tuW from the state of Arizona,
i J"" seven yeara to a day from tha
. ... um ne ,ert tne Parental roof and all
Stafford Belk, a young man about that was near and dear to mnt i.h.
diately. The negro then ordered Mr. X, Tl V. ,? yer la' 8not "a ilmi 01 n,B mr 'na hM Pent e greater
Howie to give him his money. " McManU8' ni8 neighbor on the part of this time In wandering from
Instead of handing over his money. !?e J8"1" fa.rm ,n Christmaa day. at place to plaea. According to reports
Mr itna-io i.v .w. the home of Belk. Belk immediately Mr. Pierce has Ylsited nriv .rr
. i i, ,,. xi a j.i o.... ..
negro until he Anally caught him un- ir, . ,'",UI "uu ""rrenuerea """w n me cnion. e was about
awares and fell behind a vinegar hlm,self nd remained in Jail till yes- 15 or 1 years old when he left homo,
barrel. Mr. Howie then began cry- terdy ftBoon. when, after a short Doubtless there wat much rejoicing
in "nniin" h hi. preliminary trial before tha Record- at his home cominc. and douhtiAaa h
-r v . uiu u ui ilia luiir. I ... . w
and so frightened the negro that ".news s let out upon giving a bond would prove an interesting guest in
he ran out of the store and has not fo?e thousand dollars. any home. The writer remembers
been seen since. ""'""""s wrurreu irr me arter- nim oniy as nis smart little black
Th attomntoH hntrf-.,n noon, ano me wire or Uelk was the eyed, black-haired dudII. Certainly
about seven o'clock, and aa there is ?"ly eye wl,nes8- She was not put on he would like to spend a while with
i rroat rtoi k., .k. 'ne B,and at the trial, but the pre- him and enjoy the stories of hu m-
o f'-S !' I ..,,! 1 a., 1 , j , " "
time. It was an extraordinary bold :""'"," .V'"1 T ' " ,""",uIf'
act or the negro. He apparently
must have been a stranger, as any
one acquainted with the conditions
would not have dared attempt a
hold-up at that time. Mr. Howie
was alone in the store at the time,
Mr. Howie's store is located at
the forks of Wadesboro Avenue and
Windsor street. Alone about seven
o clock there is a great deal of pass
ing, and how the negro went so far
corroborate the story told by Belk Mr. David Trull and family have
oi now me anair toon place. Both moved to wingate. They are occu
men lived on a farm beloneine to pying the residence of Mm Snvriop nn
ur. j. m. ueiK in jiuiora township, wortn Main street,
not far from Allan. Belk states that Dr. Shen. Funderburk and famiiv
on vnnsimas afternoon Mc.Manus or Mt. L'roghan, S. C, are visiting a
came over to his house and was Mr. G. M. Stewart's, Mrs. Funder-
armKing. iney had been friends burk's uncle
and had never had any trouble. Aft- Prof.' and Mrs. B. Y. Tyner, who
er suung a wniie in the house Mc- were tne guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jno
Manus began to sing and -to use vul- W. Bivens, have gone on a visit to
as he did without anyone seeing the ?" "TJj1 f't"06 J !h" PrSf';.1J?er? Pa.nt.8 at.L?;e- J. C
attempted robbery is surprising. The
police have a faint clue and are at
work on the case.
When Mr. Howie called out some
ladies were passing and saw a man
with a gun. They ran to Mr. M. C.
Long's residence nearby and phoned
for the officers. Mr. Laney found
one colored man who fitted Mr. How
ie's description and took him to the
store, but Mr. Howie decided that
he was not the man, and the officer
released him.
Old Time
(iiand-
Lye Hominy Like
Mother .Made.
Written for The Journal.
Hog killing season Is on. If vou
have the hog, you want the hominy
the pood old tune lye homi.iy lika
grandmother made. Perhaps some of
the younger housewives, among my
readers, would like to have the form-
la for making this popular and hiirh-
y relished du;h of pioneer days. Here
t is, the simplest and (shortest, fully
tested by the writer who is an expert
of more than forty years experience:
family. Belk told hint to desist. His friends will be clad to learn
and when he did not, Belk pushed! that Uncle Jona Hartsell's health is
mm out of the house. He came back improving. He is much 'better a
and tnen lielk knocked or pushed ""3 writing.
him out with a chair. Again Mc- Capt. Wiley Hefner went to Char-
wanus came back, this time with a lotte Saturday. It's none of my bus-
wagon roa in nis band and sought ness wny; you ran guess,
to attack Belk, whereupon the latter Mrs. u C. Phifer of Wadesboro
pulled a pistol and shot him in the and her sister. Miss Annie Creen
breast, probably in the heart. He teacher of the Mineral Spring school,
died at once. At the hearing vester- visiting relatives in and about
day afternoon the defense put ud no ihgate,
wimsses and the bond was granted M'88 uaisy Hargett Is visit ne rel
on the statement of witnesses as to atives and friends in Peachland, and
circumstances and conditions sur- ner Drotners, Masters Fred and Zeb
rounding the case.
The dead man was some thirty
years old and leaves a family and
several children, lielk il a voune
man with a wife and two children.
He is a son of Mr. 0. M. Eelk. who
now lives in Charlotte. Some years
at;o he lived In Monroe and worked
at the Gloucester Hotel.
are spending a few days among rel
atives and friends about Unionville
Mr. and Mrs. James i.iles of Mou
roe are spending portion of the
yuletlde with Mr Liles parents, Mr,
and Mrs. t. u. Stewart.
. 1 1 . i i . i i . .
i nno udd dropped in ror an
hour on-Saturday. We talked and
chatted and rejoiced over the good
times of the present as compared to
those or wheat cofteu, corn bread,
sorghum 'molasses, home-made to
bacco. Aomespua clothes, floc-tan
ned dhoes, etc. Those days, buck
I'.iKclnml Items.
Pagelaml Journal, 23rd.
Mr. Usher Braswcll. so. of Mr,
Wilson Brnswell nf M.-irl, v lllo mwn.
Two full quarts water, two quarts KnPi and Mli,s L,e Mc.Manus. the ,here- whpn duri,,e drought w
nice plump white corn, two table- lliiucnter of M, Sam MpMiinil. nf had to go 15 to 25 miles to find :
spoons powdered, concentrated lye. nuford townshin. were married Son- mill to grind our corn and wheat:
Ada ije to waier, bring to a boil, add .iv finnl.n i. w t -- r.n... when we had to hnni n Mhn in
corn, boll and stir constantly till the Mr. Bvipr W ' i m, c'.L miles on ox-carts and waeons to fin.i
51? PS.f L!.a:"ir ,S,ny 20 or Phen West, and Miss Annie Wallace ? "ret tor it O, well, you all
- w" 'HI'I'W'O VPOI. HUU I nlUIlf It EI II nbAHA.. -A 1, 1
flonr -l.r ctln 4h,l.. ,.! uwllcJ "'"
J. V. Wallace, three miles west of
town. These young people have
many friends who wish them happi
ness,
clean stick or wooden spoon: drain
wash through several more waters,
pressing and rubbing the corn
through the hands to remove the
husk and tips. (Don't ' put your
nanus into tne nrst water, it will
chap them.) Return to kettle, rover
well with clean water, bring to a
brisk boil, drain and repeat. Then
know how foolish we young'neonle
can iaiK when we get together. Anv
way, we concluded that those were
gloriously good times and that the
present generation had had too much
and therefore didn't know what hard
times were or how to appreciate a
cover well with water and boil gently 7ev J M ?, mvun t . , ,
,,iii i, i j Kev- J- M. Sullivan. She was sixty-
wiiy crushed, when it cn beempT JtLi9 ,n
led Into any suitable vessel and set (li"J0B he8lt T"'1 ?'eR?'
aside for use as desired, as it keeps J'ly or two
Thorp nrp mnv av f ,.n,i. L .ur. nenry in. rigg and -MISS hate
i. -)i..... ij .1..' .'. Sowell were married last Wednesdnv
this delicious old time cereal for the
table. The intelligent housewife will
know nt once how to put the "flxincs'
on It. Grandmother s method was to
mash it up with a wooden pestle, sea
son with salt, a pinch of red pepper,
plenty of pork, sausage or ham gray,
then serve while hot. This old time
way has never been improved upon
much, in my judgment. Of course
there Is the food chopper, an improve
ment on the pestle; then there's su
gar and cream and sauces and relish
es as you like. Just try a half gallon.
as an experiment, and If you and the
kids can t eRt it, the pigs can.
H. P. M., Wingate, X. C.
Miss N'ancv T?nlllnir diori at w Rood thing when they had it
home near Whito Plains iuut ii,i,-l Mrs. Y. H. Allen and her sister
Miss Fannie Perrv. holh tench nra In
""""'rit mil nao uuiicn ni VUIltl . P A " ' " ' ' " "
Plains Saturday, the funeral services f"son county, are spending the hol
idays wnn ,ineir parents, Mr. and
Mrs. T. J. Perry, and other relatives
about ingate,
O, but haven't the dear lit tlo birds
enjoyed a respite from the cruelties
of the sportsman's dog and Etin?
And I am glad of It; not that 1 have
any malice against the hunter, but I
Just love birds and don't want them
destroyed. They are my friends.
Mr. Horace Presley, son of.Mr. T.
A. Presley, after spending several
days w ith his parents, returned home
in Charlotte Sunday afternon. Mr.
Presley Is one of I'nrle Sam's re
cruiting officers and has his head
quarters In that city.
O. P. OPTIMIST.
afternoon by Notary James Wad kins.
at the home of the bride's grand-fa
ther, Mr. P. H. Wadkins, in Kershaw
county. Mr. Pigg is a son of Mr.
Dorsey Tigg of Pageland, and ho is a
contractor at McBee.
Back
Great
Advancement Among
Farmer.
Adult
Italian Warship Im Ordered to
the American Cruiser.
Home Dispatch, Dec. 27.
i ne iianan cruiser uaiaoria. now
at Beirut, fcyrla, has been Instructed
to assist the American cruiser North
Carolina if necessity arises as the re
sult of further demonstrations
against departure of Europeans from
Turkey territory. The cruiser Ten
nessee, the fuel ship Vulcan and the follows:
Kunooai scorpion or the Amer can "tin vnn
Hihv the Custom Hemm.
When one sees two persons shake
hands after a horse trade, or anv
other kind of a bargain, he wonders
where the custom originated and
why. A writer In the Saturday Ev
ening Post describes the custom as
PI LL BETTER THAX PISH.
Fine Sentiment Strikingly l itered by
Lady of Monroe.
The Raleigh News A Observer on
Christmas day published abort let
ters from many North Carolina ladies
whom, the paper had asked to write
a Christmas sentiment.
We clip the following striking sen
timent given by a Monroe lady:
t should say that the greatest
thing that Christmas could do for
you and me would be to so imbue us
with the Christ-like spirit as to make
us turn our backs, once for all. on
the gospel of pushing (which has for
Its motto, "Every man for number
one, and the weakest to the wall")
and to make us exalt and practice
henceforth the gospel of nulline
(which has for its motto. "Bear ye
one anotner s burdens and so fulfill
the law of Christ"). Between these
two gospels there is the difference be
tween midnight and noonday. Push
is exclusive and selfish: pull is inclus
ive and neighborly; push is rough
ana unreeling, pull is delicate and
considerate; push shoves a cripple
off the sidewalk, pull helps a lame
dog over the stile; push grabs the
best piece of steak on the dish, pull
puts It on the plate of the one who
is sick or in trouble; push appropri
ates an tne "white meat" on the
platter, pull leaves some for those
not served; push monopolizes three
seats on a crowded car, pull nukes
room for the passenger who has no
seat; push walks over others in or
der to come first at the ticket-win
dow, pull gives place to the untravel
ed woman with a babe in her arms:
push sees a man popular and pros
perous and jumps on him, pull sees
nun maae a siumoie ana jumps un
der him.
A few more days and we shall hear
the bells ringing in the New Year.
May it be a year in which you and I
shall be chiefly concerned not about
the prizes we can win for ourselves,
out about encouraging the faint.
about supporting the weak, and
about pulling up the Mi! those whose
feet have slipped. "Bear ye one
another s burdens and so fulfill the
law of Christ."
MRS. D. A. COVINGTON.
Monroe, N. C.
WOMAN POKED AS A .MAN.
bnnw u-liv ih.h AriAn
rru- rt . ...... Ik- ...1.I.L .. .. .. 1 '" " " tii.ii vi 11-11
me vuiiiinisKioner 01 Agriculture iiicu aiso are lOOKing alter I nhako hnnrfa nftt.ro ro,l if
directs special attention to tne orn- American interests in tne Eastern a r nnt ,ni.ninioH u.ni, ,
.1.1 -i i .v.. ,. ..Im.jii.. j . . "
i buuwuib turn ihi jear crop 01 "cuiicnnuvau, are reauy o steam to the custom you will be interested to
Ann . i """m " iffv.-i rv .o mo,, c un-ucu, i- team now it came to enter into our
vuu uHies and tnai tne cotton mills or forums 10 reports received nere. everyday life. Back in the early
the State consumed that year 869,- According to a dispatch from davs barter constituted the only
915 bales, nearly 100,000 bales more Athens the North Carolina recently method of trading, and both parties
than was grown in the State. threatened to use her guns as the had with them the commodities thev
H-U. I .... 1 1 i . I . , t I J . i m , . n I
i us uiiiiuinaiuiier huh juhi ihhu i '""' ui nu uiciueai ai iriDDU. vt- I intended to swan
wim uovernor iraig nis Dienniai re- me cruiser, convoying the "As neither the Indian nor the
port for the State Board of Agricul- American steamer Virginia, entered trader gave up his wares until the
lure, Deing practically the same as inpoii namor and the commander other fellow did likewise, no rrpHit
was officially passed upon and pub- requested the Turkish authorities to system was necessary. Moreover, as
lished in connection with the recent permit the British and French Con- both men's hands were fully occupied
annual meeting of the State Board of uls to depart with their nationals holding skins, beads or other articles
Agriculture. resident In the city. there was no opportunity for either
ine commissioner declares in nis me request was reiused but sev- to draw a knife or a tomahawk.
introduction to the report that there eral trench residents boarded the "As trade became more extensive
has never been such advancement Virginia. They were attacked by a and the Indians were unable to brine
mong adult farmers anywhere as mob and wounded the captain and their wares with them, some aim
has been attained in North Carolina first officer. The North Carolina was needed to slenifv whether thev
the past several years through .the threatened to fire and the mob fled, were coming to fight or to trade,
special efforts of the Department of The Virginia and the North Carolina "At this point the shaking of hands
agriculture in this direction. The left for Dedeagatcb. Later the cruiser was developed to signify trade, for
State has risen, he points out, from proceeded to Smyrna,
the twenty-second to the thirteenth
n the I nion In the value of its agrt- Military Christmas in Enitland
cultural products and in cotton has Christmas. 1914. will lone- h r.
with both hands clasped both traders
were unable to draw a knife."
rain uiuer, uui never ev uau);i;ii uii.mtu ri piace ninuug me iOiion membered In Great Britain as a mil
word. M,--e". rrooucing ait, pounds per Mtary Christmas. Everywhere men In
At me Bunuay nervine j.imiuti, in- acre in iii.
ting In the main body of the c'ltipel,
Attempting to secure ten dollars
in change for a whiskey coupon, evi
dently a fac-smlle of a Confederate
would bo plainly In view of Mrs.
Cobb, sitting in the women's gallery.
It was noted that sometimes he would
look her way, as if anxious for some
sign of recognition. Sometimes their
eyes met, and then her expression
was Invariably that of cold anger.
He sent a dying request to her to
enme and peak to him, and she refund.
khaki and in blue were the object of ten dollar bill, cost Tow Woodard.
attention and admiration. There was a negro, his life in Mount Olive Sat-
a great decrease In the customary urday. The negro went into a store
railway crowds of civilians visiting and asked change for his bill. The
their homes, but almost . the usual clerk counted the change out, hut
number of trains were running. The found his mistake when he saw the
with soldiers and bogus paper. But the negro demand-
Aiany tnousands or ed him not to toucn the money,
Pa'l Wilklns was the central figure
In a disturbance that occurred in a
restaurant In Spartanburg Thursday.
He is president of a large mill and is
well known throughout his section, cars were filled
It is said that be started the mixup sailors on leave
by throwing a pitcher of water at volunteers from the training camDs throwine a Dlstol In his face, and ae-
. ... ...... . ...CTiru ano a consioeraoie contingent from curing the money, the negro walked
and carried to the station house, but the Continent and the flet had tm-n out Ha iir w nn.i
wier nweu in give ooua. or inree day tor a hoi day. Imhllp reaiatlns- arrt
rank Mertoti Proven to be Mary
Khrit er, Girl of Gorman Birth
Charlotte Observer.
After wearing a man's clothes for
upwards of two months while she
beat rides on freight trains in three
tates, Mary Shrlver, 20 years old.
was arrested at a North Tryon street
moving picture show a few feet re
moved from police headquarters. A
short time previous her lover and
ratelling companion, Tom Virgil
.akell, had also been arrested. Both
re detained at headquarters.
A few hours before she was taken
nto custody the girl had discarded
l part her masculine attire, and
hen she was ushered into head
quarters she wore on her closelv
ropped head a big cap which was
ather too large, in addition to a
grey jersey and a light skirt. It was
nipossible for a casual spectator to
now whether she was a girl posina
as a boy or a boy masquerading as a
in. 1 he combination of attire, how
ever, was likely to attract attention.
1 he decision to again assume the
role of a woman in this city was the
iiuse of hrr arrost. Her companion
ad made application at the home of
colored woman who lives in the
rear of t'ie I.iddell foundry, for fern
nine clothes. A white man In that
icinity learned of tin arrangement
being made to lit out a woman who
is wearing man's clothes and ulav
ng the part of a spy, so that the in
lorniaiion necessary lor an urrest
as communicated to the police.
Mary' hhnver, a rather brieht and
Ikative slip of a girl, talked freelv
about her career. She was born in
ermany, but had been in this coun
try about 13 years, having lived in
New York, Philadelphia und Balti
more. Her relatives have returned
to Germany with the exception of a
brother in Baltimore who works in a
reform school. "He has to." One
day in August she was sitting in a
park when "a fellow" approached her
and suggested a trip to Washington.
She acceded to the idea, for she had
been contemplating a trip with her
own people, and this slight deviation
from the program did not appear to
her to be an out-of-the-way proceed
ing. In Lynchburg it was proposed
that she masquerade as a boy as a
matter of convenience and the clothes
were secured. Her companion left
her at Concord several weeks ago,
taking with him her only f 5.85.
THE WAR.
Few authentic charges are report
ed along the great battle lines in
France and Belginm and in Poland,
where the Germans are lighting the
Russians. It is said that the number
of wounded that are being sent
back from the lines of both sides in
the west indicate that the fighting
on Christmas day was aa fierce as
any that has taken place. The sen
sation la the raid that EatJish cruis
ers and naval airships made on Cux
haven. It seemed to be more in the
nature of a dare to the Germans to
else. England is expecting at any
come out and fight than anything
time that some German airmen will
fly over London and drop bombs.
ihe Lnited States government yes
terday addressed a long letter to
England protesting againtt the way
the English are hindering American
trade to neutral countries by her po
licy on the seas.
Koldler Knew Xo Ret on ChrMnm.
Christmas brought no rest to the
European armies. It found the Rus
sians still righting desperately In the
snows or Poland against the fle.ee at
taks of the German and Austrian al
lies; Prezemysl in the grip of the !..
London Dispatch, Dec. 27th.
The airmen of the belligerent coun
tries spent a busy Christmas holiday.
While a solitary Germany flew over
the Thames estuary and dropped a
single bomb which fell in a roadway
and did no damage, a convoy of seven
uritisn neavai seaplanes visited the
German naval base at Cuxbaven and
dropped bombs on ships and the gas
works. All but one of the British
airmen returned safely to the shiDS
which convoyed them. Similar ac
tivity was displayed along the battle
front, German airmen paying a sur
prise visit to Nancy; French aviators
to Metx; British to Brussels and oth
er Belgian towns occupied by the
Germans, and German airmen to Po
lish cities.
On Friday, Deeemjber 25, the Ger
man warships lying off Schilling
Roads, near Cuxhaven, were attack
ed by several seaplanes piloted by
r light Commanders Oliver Hewlitt,
Boss and Kilner, Flight Lieutenants
Miley and Edwards and Sub-Lieuten
ant Blackburn.
The attack was delivered In dav-
ight, starting from a point in the
vicinity of Hellgohnd. The sea
planes were escorted by a light cruis
er and destroyer force toother with
submarines. As these shijs were
seen by, the Germans from Heligo
land two Zepneliun t?!. three o- four
hostile seaplanes and several hostile
submarines attacked them.
it was necessary for ihe British
hips to remain in the neighborhood
o pick up the returning airmen and
a novel combat ensued between the
most modern cruisers and the ene
my's aircraft and submarines. By
swift maneuvering the enemy's sub
marines were avoided and the two
Zeppelins were easily put to flight by
he guns of the undaunted Are-
thausa.
The seaplanes succeeded in drop
ping their bombs near our ships but
id not hit any of them.
Six out of the seven pilots return
ed safely. Flight Commander Hew-
tt is missing. His machine was seen
i a wrecked condition about eight
miles from Heligoland and the fate of
he daring and Fkillful pilot is at
present unknown.
The extent of the damage by the
ritish airman's bombs cannot be es
mated but nil were discharged at.
points of military significance.
Another natal airman, on Christ
mas eve dropped 12 bombs on the
irship shed at Brussels but il was
nipossible definitely to ascertain
he amount of damage dene.
On Thursday last Squadron Com
mander Richard 1). Davis of I he Na
val Air Service, visitPil Hinssels in a
biplane for the put pose of dropping
12 bombs at an airship shed reported
to contain a German Parsital. Eight
of these bombs, of which six are b
lived to have hit, were discharged nt
the tirst attack and the remaining
four on the return flight. Owing to
the clouds of smoke which arose
from the shed the effect could not be
distinguished.
It was learned today that the Ger
man airmen who visited England on
Christmas Day dropped a bomb near
Rochester, only 28 miles cast, souih
east of St. Paul's London, and seven
miles from Gravesend. The bomb did
no damage as It fell In the roadwav.
Statement issued Saturday hv tlie
German Admiralty said eight British
ships made a dash into a German bay
and that hydro-aeroplanes convoyed
by them dropped bombs on ships ly
ing at anchor and also on a gas tank
near Cuxhaven without doing any
damage.
t
Cotton Shipped from (altcMoit
(lernwny.
The first cotton cargo to Germany
from Galveston since war began de
parted last Friday for Bremen on the
American steamship Pathfinder. The
cargo is 6,550 bales, valued at $445,-
uuo.
The hatches were sealed in the
presence of the French Consul and a
rrrentatlve of Lloyds. Both cer
t!: --d t'.ia vessel contained only Amer-
vadlng army; the French making
spasmodic thrusts against the stroni; iei.u cotion and was entitled to unob
German lines of trenches In northern ' stnicted passage,
and northeastern France tV ' V rites on the shinment
British and Belgians engaged ; ile hihest ever paid out of
no:t hand-to-hand warfare aga! 'Vvsteu, bf'ng three dollars a one
thn German trenches In West Be hvndred pouvK At this time last
cinm.
Apparently business must be pick
ing up for a large buggy concern in
Washing'ca fin started its opera
tions o'i full time after having been
closed for the past several months.
L- Journal offlco.
year the current rate was 32 to 35
cents a hundred.
Grateful Pstient By the way, I
should be glad if you would send In
your bill soon.
Eminent Physician Never mind
about that, my dear nadam; you
must get quite strong nrst.
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