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10 “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 e S 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. THE GEORGLAN'S NEWS BRIEFS 'BOY RISKS HIS 'LIFE TO SAVE DROWNING CHUM P b » i ,*\ iR ' i SO AL s , 4 e 5 RS W R o We o S T ¢%rspr » , \ i R T F X & % g ¥ 5 i g § s 23 S . : 50 g A— PTR (N Y T : RN RO L TS M. 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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 . . Villa Is Now Being Menaced by Federal Forces Marching From ' ' . 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. ¥ 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 wat Wisssd o Sundav far Q 4 veara