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“LAYFR OF BRITISH RANCHER TO BE SHOT BY OWN MEN
If Elected Senator He Says He
Will Know People Want Him
for That Position. -
Governor John M. Slaton author
ized the positive statement Monday
that he will not resign the Governor
ghip pending the Senatorial primary,
He holds he has no “moral right”
to resign the Executive office unless
the people of Georgla, by electing
him to the United States Senate,
thereby expressly authorize him to
give up for something else his present
assignment to the State’s service.
“If I am elected to the Senate,” said
the Governor, “then I will know thit
the people are willing for-me to give
np my present office; if I am vot
elected to the Senate, 1 shall know
they wish me 'o continue my present
term in the Governorship to its con
clusion
Rumiors Set at Rest.
“After the Democratic primary—
which ig equivalent to an election-—
the legislative work to which I am
committed will have been finished.
The remainder of my term in the
Governorship then will be largely a
n.atte, in the usual run of events, of
routine. If I am named for the Sen
ate, I will retire at once from the
Governorship; otherwise I shall con
tinue to the end of my term!”
This statement of the Governor sets
at rest the point of when he will stap
out from the Governorship. He will,
of course, not be a candidate to suc
ceed himself in that office.
If he is elected to the Senate, he
likely wili resign the Giovernorship
in November. In that event, he would
{mmediately be succeeded oy J. Rau
dolph Anderson, President of Lhe
State Senate, as Acting Govern2or, un
til July 18, 1915,
For Death of Wife
FLORENCE, S. C., April 6.—How
ard Clark, whose young wife wags re
ported to have committed suicide at
their country home a few days ago,
to-day was arrested charged with
murdering her.
('lark probably will be released on
habeas corpus by night. He is a
yvoung farmer of a highly respected
family.
ROCKEFELLER TESTIFIES.
WASHINGTON, April 6.—John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., denied before a sub
committee of the House Mines and
Mining Committee to-day that the
Rockefeller holdings in the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company, 10,000 of
whose miners are on strike, consti
tuted a majority control. He admit
ted that he merely was a ‘“dummy”
director, representing his father's in
terests in the corporation. It had
been charged that the oil king's con
trol of this concern was the chief fac
tor in Colorado Coal stock.
W. C. T. U. HEAD IS DEAD.
PORTLAND, MAINE, April 6—
Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, for six
teen years national president of the
W. C. T. U, died to-day at her home,
after a brief illness.
She was 70 years old and for 40
years had been active in temperance
work in Maine. She was married and
her husband, Michael Stevens, re
cently retired from active business. .
It is expected that Miss Anna A.
Gordon, of Evanston, 111., now vice
president at large, will succeed Mrs.
Stevens.
CHARGE “RAILROADING.”
CHICAGO, April §.—Blank petitions
charging that the officials of the In
ternational Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers’ Union convicted on
charges of dynamiting were “railroad
ed” to prison were circulated by labor
men here to-day, and later will be for
warded to President Wilson, in the
hope that he will pardon them.
The movement was started as a re
sult of an appeal to the Chicago Fed
eration of Labor made by Frank M.
Ryan, president of the union, one of
the officials convicted.
BRYAN QUITS GRAPE JUICE.
WASHINGTON, April 6.—Secre
tary of State Bryan has forsaken his
grape-juice platform and given up
the drink which added much to his
fame. s
This desertion was emphasized at
the dinner given in his honer by for
mer Governor of Missouri and Mrs.
Folk. It is whispered that Secretary
Bryan has been so deluged with grape
juice the name makes him iIL
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WAGE FOR WOMEN.
SEATTLE, WASH., April 6.—The
State Industrial Welfare Commission
by unanimous vote fixed at $lO per
week the minimum wages to be paid
working women, said to be the high
est minimum fixed in any State of
the Union. The $lO scale will apply
to all feminine employees of 18 or
over.
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Lad Who Dragged Playmate From
lcy Pond Puzzled at Praise
as Hero.
You kaow the usual way of the
small boy in dealing with the deadly
peril of a playmate seized Wwith
the cramps while in swimming. Or
dinarily, he runs about wildly, shriek
ing for help. .
Ordinarily (tco) the help doesn’t
come until the only thing left to do
is to stand around on the bank and
debate who shall go and break the
dreadful news.
But Roy Holbrook is not the usual
kind of a small boy. P
Roy is 10 years old. He and Ru
pert Speaks, 9, went to swim in the
rock quarry pond, The water was
cold, and when Speaks, who was ready
first, plunged into the rond he
promptly succumbed to cramps.
Not Usual Kind of Boy.
With the screams of his little friend
in his ears, it became time ‘for Roy
either to be the’usual kind of a boy
and run for help—or to be a hero
‘Roy probably wasn't conscious of any
argument in the matter. He simply
wasn't the usuul kind of a boy, and
the only thing that occurred to him
was to jump into the icy water and
fight it out with the cold danger there.
And that is exactly what Roy dil
Rupert was overcome with pain and
strangling by the time Roy got to
him. His arms were beating the wa
ter futilely, so Roy took hold of the
rnext most convenient handle, whigh
chanced to be Rupert's long flaxen
hair.
_About that time the water in Ru
pert's lungs took away his eonscious
ness, and to the chill of the icy wa
ter was added a dreadful fear in Roy's
heart that he was too late.
Drags Companion to Safety.
But (as has been intimated) Roy
was no quitter. He fought his way to
the bank, and dragged his uncon
scious friend from the water,
Then he began to call for heip.
The help came, and carried Rupert
to his home at No, 517 Simpson street,
and a doctor came and worked over
him for hours, and finally he came
around all right. s
After which Roy Holbrook went to
his own home at No. 270 Sunset ave
rue, and spent the rest of the day
trying to figure out why everybody
was taking on so over him. The
way Roy saw it, the taking on should
have been exclusively devoted to Ru
pert, who had had an amaszingly
ough time af i, Roy thought
HAWKINSVILLE, April 6.—Harry
Lee, 18, who is held for the murder,
with an ax, of his uncle, Paul O. Bon
nell, 22, denies any connection with
the killing and claims it was done by
a negro. Lee and Bonnell roomed to
gether, Lee claims he was awakened
by the noise made by the negro in
time to see him escaping from the
room.
Lee ran out of the store, where the
twe roomed, early Sunday morning
and gave the alarm. He declared that
his uncle had just been Kkilled by
someone who used an ax. He says
that both were in bed at the time and
that he was not asleep; that he heard
someone in the store, and, looking up,
saw the party, whom &ic did not. rec
ogrize, with a large ax raised, and
that the murderer dealt the death
blow before he could do anything, and
escaped.
Bonnell's head was completely
crushed and his eye Knocked out.
Death seemed to have been instan
taneous.
The Coroner’s jury began an-inves
tipation, but adjourned until Tuesday.
CONLEY MAKES DENIA.L
Jim Conley, whom Detective W. J.
Burns is saving for the last in his in
vestigation of the Phagan murder
mystery, Monday made complete de
nial of the allegations made in the
affidavit of the negro woman, Mary
Rich, who has sworn that Conley was
still about the National Pencil Fac
tory at 2:20 o'clock the afternoon
Mary Phagan was slain.
Conley also denied he ever had given
any of the girls at the pencil factory
cause for fright because of his ac
tions toward them.
This statement was in reference to
the affidavits of Miss Helen Ferguson
and other girls at the factory who
have sworn since the trial of Frank
that they had been frightened several
times by Conley. :
Miss Ferguson said Conley threat
ened her only a week before the Pha
gan murder.
ROCKEFELLER BACK HOME.
TARRYTOWN, N. Y, April 6.—
John D. Rockefeller has arrived at nis
Pocantico Hills estate after spending
a month in Florida. He looked welil
svd said he wea feqling Gne
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Villa Is Now Being Menaced by
Federal Forces Marching From
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Different Directions.
JUAREZ, MEXICO, April 6.—Death
before the rifles of soldiers whom he
formerly commanded will be the fate
of Major Rudolfo Fierro, who has
been found guilty of the murder of
William S. Benton, the British rancn«
sr, whose death threatened complica
tions between the United States and
England.
According to reliable reports here,
the commission appointed by General
Carranza to investigate Benton's
death has whitewashed General Villa
and heid Major Fierro alone respoii
sible, Fierro already has been
stripped of his command and jailed
at Chihuahua.
Villa has been placed in a peculiad
predicament by the advices from his
two generals. His greatest desire is
to destroy utterly Velasco's army, but
with fresh Federal armies marching
from two directions he is afraid to
weaken the troops now holding Tor
reon.
Fled When Troops Moved.
The flight of the civilians from Tor
reon began on the night that Viila
captured Gomez Palacio. The batile
at that point forced Villa to call upon
the troops who were attacking Tor
reon froin the east, and when they
marched to Gomez Palaclo General
Velasco advised the citizens that they
would have no better opportunity to
esrape.
General Velasco, himself wounded
in the fighting at Gomez Palacio, rec
ognized that b: would be unable to
hold out long, and stealthil~ began
th: withdrawal of his troops frem the
city, leaving only a mere handful at
strategic p-ints.
While these soldiers fought to ther
death, Velasco conducted the main
body of his army to safety. Before
their retr.at the ¥Federals buried large
stores of ammunition at various
points, but these hiding places have
been betrayed to Villa, and he has
recovered-the stores,
The rebel commander to-day reit
erated his order that €OO Spaniardig
suspected of giving aid to the Hueria
Government should be deported. Ex
ecution of this o.der will be delayed
by railroad conditions, as every lo
comotive owned by the rebels is ba
ing used to bring in supplies from
Chihuahua. Villa wants to get pas
‘senger coaches for women and ch.l
‘dren, but the men will be packed like
cattle in freight cars
. Senor Jesus Acuna, Secretary of
State for the Constitutional Govern
ment of Chihuahua, arrived here to
day and conferred with Villa on the
establishment ‘of civil rule. Acuna is
the representative oi Provisional
President Carranza, and his arrival
at this time is taken to mean that
Carranza intends to prevent, if possi
ble, excesses similar to those that 2c
curred at Chihuahua.
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Deer Invades Kitchen
To Escape From Dogs
COLD SPRINGS, N. Y, April 6.2~
Frightened by dogs, a ceer bounded
into Albert Spangler’s kitchen, wrecke
ed the place and escaped.
SEWING MACHINE TAX VALID.
WASHINGTON, April 6.—The Su=
preme Court of the United States to
day held valid an Alabama law im
posing a tax upon persons and corpo
rations selling and delivering sewing
machines in that State. Under the
law, agents are required to pay $5O
per annum in each county of the
State and $25 per annum for each
wagon used in delivering and dis
playing their produets.
The law had been held valid by the
Federal Courts in Alabama. A test
suit had been instituted by the Singer
Sewing Machine Company, which
brought the case to the highest court
for review,
SMITH DEFENDS ATLANTA.
WASHINGTON, April 6.—" Obje
ctions to the, selection of the twelve
cities as centers of reserve banks is
not directed toward Atlanta, except in
so far as New Orleans is concerned,”
said Senator Hoke Smith to-day, “but
such protest will have no effect. At
lanta is not only the geographical
center of the Southeast, but we have
the capital to put into the bank, our
clearings being three times as large as
New Orleans.
“Atlanta has won on her merits, and
everyone is satisfied,” said the Sena
tor,
INJURED IN EXPLOSION.
PORTSMOUTH, VA, April 6.—
Three men were injured by an explo
sion on board the torpedo boat de
stroyer Aylwyn to-day fiftecen miles
south of the Diamond Shoels Light
ship at Cape Hatteras. Water-tight
compartments saved the vessel.
NEVER MISSED SUNDAY SCHOOL
ST. LOUIS, April 6.—Willilam Me-
Clung Paxton, 94, won the State-wida
contest for continuous Sunday school
attendance when he produced certifi
cates from ministers to prove he had
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