Laurel Leader (Newspaper) - July 17, 1916, Laurel, Mississippi MISS. THE FUTURE GREAT PRESENT POPULATION 15,000 cIP Evening Except Sunday OFFICIAL PAPER OF LAUREL AND JONES VOL. NO. 264 JULY 17,1916 ASSOCIATED PRESS 8 DEAD AND 50 HOMES LOST IN FLOOD North and South Carolina Stricken By High MANY FACTORIES ARE IDLE TODAY Water Now in North Rising % In South Carolina and Result is Associated N. C. July 17.- Scores of large industrial plants near Asheville are idle today ' ' following floods which swept this section Three persons are to be dead and fifty are Hundreds of age Nellie Lipe and Mrs. Leo ' reported drowned last said to have been found A r Later reports from the flooded sections near here the total number of deaths to Madison county was hard It is ' reported two were drowned at Marshall and fifty-three houses were waler is receding today and there are no fears that the Lake dam wil Traffic has been resumed over the Nellie Line and Mrs. Mulholland clung to trees for ten hours and were finally rescued but their condition is body of Charlotte a was found in Biltmore Mable a and Louise were- also drowned at their Biltmore Seventy-five families residing in the lower sections of Asheville lost their The relief is caring for the The damage section is to be from six to ten million Asheville is without or train The waters are reported receding over North Carolina but are sweeping on toward South where the rivers are rising damaging and Five hundred excursionists are marooned at Marshall on s The weather bureau flood warnings to residents of sections covered by the Great Little Black rivers in South It is feared this is the most flood in years in these West Virginia conditions are Leads the Fight to Save Young Babies DR HAVEN EMERSON Dr. health commissioner of New is the dominating figure in the battle against infantile paralysis which is taking the life of babies at a rate of one an hour in New York and spreading to other NEW CHURCH IS FIRST BAPTISTS Work On Structure Will Start About Sept. 1. STORM WARNING GIVEN D. C. July 17.-A tropical now apparently central southeast of Turks is moving also some indications of another south of Jamaica or A new First Baptist church be the corner of Sixth avenue and Fifth street in the near according to plans made at a meeting of the First church congregation on It is proposed to start work about September 1 on a to cost in the neighborhood of A building committee was named yesterday and empowered to sign a contract for the erection of the church building to plans and This committee is of the Sam J. S. Joe Williams Mrs. C. H. Mrs. J. B. Plans for the new church are not yet completed but it is understood the seating capacity will be about one will include the auditorium and Sunday school rooms about it which can be opened to form part of the auditorium when the occasion The structure will be of one story and and will be modern JONES COUNTY HAD 6 CASES OF DREAD DISEASE No New Cases of Infantile Paralysis Have Developed DOCTORS MUST REPORT DAILY State Health Department Takes Steps to Be Ready to Act In Case of STORM CURVES NORTHWEST The following dispatch from Washington was received Sunday night by the weather p. m. The few reports received confirm indications of Sunday morning that tropical disturbance has recurved to passing east of Turks No further sign of second disturbance south of ADDITIONAL WARNINGS GIVEN July 17.-Additional warnings of very high waters in the rivers of North Carolina have been issued by weather bureau it was announced last Showers in the western part of the estate were forecast for The bureau's announcement said considerable had been done and that conditions generally to those experienced during the flood of 1908." OUTING CAMP BOYS ESCAPE N. C. July 17.-Two hundred boys from all parts of the South attending the Sapphire and French Broad camps of outing and instructions near Brevard escaped jury in the flood The French river here is the est ever No deaths have been ' reported in the Brevard Many railroad bridges are 17.-Sou^b m millions Mississippi State Singing Convention May Be Organized A Mississippi State Singing Convention has been proposed by a local enthusiast and a call for all interested in such an organization has been issued for July 29 and 30 at with the West Singing is three miles south of Laurel on the road to Those who have signed the call for the meeting to organize a state convention are Walter M. T. A. C. Tom Eugene M. P. John Jeff Ross and a number of It is urged that classes and especially conventions elsewhere have representatives at It is planned to complete the organization on July 29 and 30 and arrange for a state singing convention some time this ' Half a dozen cases of infantile paralysis have been ' reported in Jones county during the spring stated Dr. A. J. county health no new case has been reported in the past few weeks and no epidemic is feared To be prepared for any emergency and in view of the alarming spread in the the state health department has ordered county health officers to require doctors in their respective counties to report each case of infantile paralysis on the same day it This will place the facts in the hands of the proper so that if the disease should to it will be known in time to take adequate steps to stop it. Otherwise the cases would be reported only at the end of the mailed cards to all the doctors in Jones county notifying them of the request of the state board of and also makes the following statement through the we have infantile paralysis reported in Jones county the and the state board requires me to report all future cases J will ask all doctors in this county to report all cases the same which they are A. J. C. H. O. 17 DIE ON SUNDAY New York July 17-Continued decrease in infantile paralysis cases and deaths Sunday gave to the belief that campaign to check 'the epidemic was record for the twenty four hours ending at 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon being 17 deaths and 105 new This was a hopeful report as compared with the preceding period in which 27 deaths occurred and 144 new cases Since the epidemic broke out there have been 1959 cases and 38G BOSTON MAY BAR ANIMALS July 17.-The health department of the city of Boston has under consideration a scheme to exclude all animals except horses from the down town congested This includes birds and pets of every It also means the eradication of sparrows and pigeons and a systematic cam to exterminate rats and The department expects to hear loud protests from the owners of but the department feels they all should be sacrificed for the sake of public JAPS GO TO BRAZIL July 17.-About 150 Japanese families will be sent to Brazil in August by Japanese emigration If the enterprise proves successful large contingents of emigrants will be forwarded to South America later in the GERMANS MAKE STEEL DEATH DEALER ON THE BRITISH FRONT IN The heaviest artillery fire in history is being directed against the Germans in the in France between Ypres and the Somme The shows the breastwork being thrown in front of a British gun to keep it Often guns are covered with the surrounding verdure to make it harmonize with the disguising it July 17.-Germany's production of steel continues at high published show that in May the total output was 311, 620 as compared with in April 838,506 tone Negroes Lose Temper and Fight on Pay Fines on Monday The hot weather Sunday seemed to be hard on the tempers of a number of four of whom were before Mayor this morning on charges of assault and battery each of them being fined and Idella Grayham was charged with assaulting Jessie John Farmer was charged with assaulting Mollie Hall j Bunk Dresh was charged with assaulting Pauline Moffett and Pauline was charged with assaulting Oscar Parson was fined and costs for WEATHER + The forecast for Lay w. REFERENDUM TO BE DECIDED BY STATE COURTS Attorney General Does Not Opinion On Petitions July 17.-Several days ago Secretary of State Power put two or three broad questions to the attorney general's office anent his duties in regard to the petitions for referendum elections on the whiskey and law but the attorney after wrestling with the proposition for has found relief by putting up to the or suggesting the propriety of The following note was mailed to the secretary of state Joseph W. Secretary of am in receipt of yours of recent date in which you desired the opinion of this office as to the operation and effect of Chapter 15.9 of the laws of 1916, inserting the initiative and referendum amendment into the constitution of the reading your letter we have given this matter an extensive and exhaustive Considering the far-reaching consequences and the importance of the questions we have spent much time Jabor investigating ' the and endeavoring to reach a correct conclusion as to the proper construction and interpretation be placed upon said and the effect of the same upon all laws passed the last legislature before and after its engaged in investigating this subject certain persons sued out an injunction before Hon. O. B. enjoining restraining you from filling or taking any steps on petitions filed against the liquor law and the We are now informed that other persons have filed injunction proceedings restraining you from taking any action on the petition against the and fish all of the questions covered in your inquiry as to the operation and effect of the initiative and referendum amendment have keen transferred to the courts for view of the fact that all of said questions are to be decided in the in cases now we do not believe that it is necessary or proper to express or make public the opinion we have arrived at touching these These questions having been drawn into the must be there decided and shall be our purpose to render you all of the assistance in our power ill getting these as as The sooner such matters are finally and conclusively settled by the courts the better for the whole It is only in the courts that they can be conclusively disposed of. considering the fact that you have been enjoined by courts from taking any action whatsoever on said referendum and bound to obey the our opinion could be of no service to in our be unfair to the litigants in said improper under the existing that this is I beg to very truly MEAT PRICES TO REMAIN HIGH SAY AGENTS OF U. S. Staff July 17.-Because the population of the United States is growing and production of meat is not keeping high prices probably will continue indefinitely say government The available supply of meat in this country would be much they say it not for the enormous losses caused by disease and It is estimated that 1,475.000 cattle die annually from disease and a million and a half from Seven million hogs died of cholera in 1914. In 1914 and 1915 this country imported more chilled and frozen beef and mutton than it Sheriff Boutwell Is Badly Injured In Fall From a SHERIFF AND 2 NEGROES KILLED IN LOUISIANA Deputy Sheriff Is Badly All Four Were Sheriff Allen Boutwell was painfully injured this afternoon about three o'clock when thrown from his saddle riding along on Magnolia the horse shied at a car in front of the Myer Shelby and in making a side fell on the slippery Mr. Boutwell did not have time to remove his feet from the His head was Four and One-Half Miles of Paper Is Used for Circulars Approximately 24,000 feet of white paper was used in printing circulars at the Leader office This is equal to yards or approximately four and one half This if unrolled and stretched along the would reach from the old Y. M. C. A. corner to Inter-urban Welding Shop To Located Here By Mr. J. C. Penn C. Penn leaves tonight for Indianapolis to purchase a welding plant from the Welding company other machinery and equipment Mr a plant in Mr. Penn expects to return to after buying his stock and repair outfit and establish a shop in this city where broken parts of machinery will be welded quickly and City Advertises For Bids On Storm Sewer in 2nd Ave. The city commissioners of Laurel are advertising for bids for the construction of a storm sewer in Second extending between Tenth and Fifteenth The storm sewer will open into the city canal at the rear of the Crawford Second avenue is to be paved and the storm sewer will be constructed at once so that the paving may be completed before RUSSIANS ARE CONTINUING TO MAKE ADVANCE Germans Withdrawn On River Lipa Before the Russian 15,000 GERMANS TAKEN PRISONER More Russian Troops In British Capture German Trench in French Associated July 17.-The Russians are their successful advance in the region of the Lower Lipa The Russians captured about fifteen thousand prisoners in on GERMANS FALL BACK July 17.-It is officially announced that the Germans under General von southwest of Lutzk have been withdrawn to behind the river Associated July 17.-Word was brought here toway that Marion L. sheriff of Stanley parish for sixteen years and prominent in state democratic was shot and killed in a fight with Helaire alleged to ' have escaped from the Jennings Two negroes with Swords were also reported killed and Chief Deputy was Swords received reports that Carriere was terrorizing the community and hiding in. a and started to get taking two negroes and a The party was creeping upon the cabin when from opened killing Swords and the Posses are hunting Carriere Loss In Merchant Due to Is On the Increase Staff New July 17.-Losses to merchant arising from the European as shown by carefully compiled including all ships destroyed up to 1, have been 1346 ships of more than 2,713,996 gross June registered a slight increase in losses over but much below Records show 64 of various with an aggregate tonnage of 126,369, destroyed in The record for May was 63 vessels of 118,994 90 vessels of 214,880 The British losses in April were 33 per cent greater than in while the loss to Italian shipping in June increased more than 600 per cent as compared with Compared with May the increase in Italian losses in June was about 50 per cent. Italy lost 26 merchant ships in Great Britain 15; Norway 7. The largest vessel lost in June was the Italian steamer Principe Umberto of 7929 gross She was torpedoed by an Austrian SOUVENIRS OF EUROPEAN BATTLEFIELD ARE | ING BIG PRICES - I RUSSIAN TROOPS IN FRANCE July 17.-A contingent of Russian troops disembarked today at is tne sixth contingent of sians brought to TODAY'S COTTON MARKET % Open July None 12.79-1 19>W 12-8M I Staff | July 17.- I Small fortunes are being made | by collectors of souvenirs from I Many | publish catalogues setting forth | descriptions and | In one list a silver and gold | German staff general's helmet I is ticketed at A helmet | and breastplate of a major in I the kaiser's is quoted I at A field officer's great I with was | offered for Fragments of | shell were marked to | All except soldiers are bidden to collect weapons or I other articles left on but soldiers send ies to SIGNS RURAL CREDITS Associated July 17.-r-President Wilson today the rural credits which passed BRITISH TAKE TRENCHES July 17.-The British today captured a German trench near The French report repulsing two German attacks night in southeast of The French gained west of capturing some prisoners and three machine The lost heavily in to raid a trench in Champagne held by Quiet is reported on the Verdun except on Hill No. 304. The British have captured the German second line positions northwest of extending over a fifteen hundred yard The British also captured a strong position at Waterlot The remaining German strongholds in and were also i HEAVY BOMBARDMENT IS ON July 17.-The British aje heavily bombarding the German positions at many points on the Somme House Is Badly Damaged By Mysterious Fire A vacant residence in Pine street owned by K. Z. was badly damaged by fire at 1 o'clock last Prompt arrival of the firemen prevented the building being totally Indications were that the fire had started in a closet On the first gutting the closet and reaching the roof between the The roof was damaged to the extent of about one hundred Roar of Big Guns In Jutland Battle Heard for 340 Miles July 17.-Herr Wilhelm director of the Holstein and Sun at writes to the zeiger that the roar of the guns in the battle of Jutland was plainly heard by his two adult daughters at which is 340 miles from the scene of the The young women claim to have heard plainly ten individual salvos about 6 on May 31 at five to ten Herr Krebs reports that the of artillery fire at Verdun has been heard at which is 211 miles from the In both he favoring winds facilitated the extraordinarily long transmission of the GULFPORT BALANCE July 17.-The city's balance at the the Bank of for June in the ac counts was the largest one of these balances street paving fund of
