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VOLUME XIII.
ATLANTA, GA,, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1913.
NO. 17.
An Akward Time for a Fellow’s Suspenders to Snap—By Webster
Addresses Body in Person,
Reading Long Message
Which Makes No Reference
to United States
(By Associated Press.)
‘ MEXICO CITY, N<5v. 20.—It was re
garded here today as not entirely im
possible that Provisional President Hu
erta, after having, through the ratifica
tion of the congress, relieved him
self from the danger of being called to
account for his acts by some, future ad
ministration, might be brought to the
point of self-elimination through the ef
forts of the foreign powers supporting
the United States government.
It was not generally expected today
that President Huerta on the convening
of the New Mexican congress this even
ing, would encounter much of the ob
structionist tactics whlcn characterized
the last congress, as the new deputies
were known to be in sympathy with his
policies. In their meeting Huerta, it was
assumed, automatically would forfeit
the self-imposed powers which he has
exercised since disolution of the two
houses early, last month.
One of the first steps the new con
gress was expected to take was ratifi
cation of the Huerta acts as dictator;
that, the two houses would be asked to
do this. Was plainly indicated in his
message to them.
To get ratification of his acts was
currently reorted* to have been one
of the reasons why Huerta so obstinate
ly opposed’ pressure brought to bear on
him by the United States and other na
tions to withdraw.
The provisional president was said to
have been persuaded that he must re
sign and to have named Manuel .Garza
Aldape, former minister of the interior
as the man he' desired to succeed him,
when Jtie insistence of John Lind, per
sonal representative of President Wil
son, upon the abolition of tne new con
gress, cause.’ ; :> to change his atti
tude and iej« e idea of resigning.
Congress i i snort preliminary
session belo ..ie arrival of Huerta.
Speaker Eduardo Tamariz, formerly
minister of public instruction, formally
declared open “the second period of the
' Twenty-sixth Mexican congress.”
Huerta’s message to his congress,
which he will read in person fcfeis even
ing, was made public today. It con
sisted of about 1,500 words of praise of
• his own administration and policies. He
referred to the former congress as a
•body of demagogues, and to the' rebels
in terms equally as vigorous/ made
no open reference to tne situation in
respect to the United States or other
nations.
THOMAS COUNTY’S FI
PROVES GREAT SUCCESS
State Entomologist Announces
He Will Accept Under Cer
tain Conditions Which He
Specifies*
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 20.—E. Lee
"Worsham, of Atlanta, state entomolo
gist, has been tendered the presidency of
the National Conservation congress, and
has the question of acceptance under
advisement.
Members of the nominating commit
tee of the convention, now in session in
Washington, are anxious that Mr. Wor
sham accept the office, and are bringing
pressure to bear on him to have him
do so.
He has named certain conditions, and
if they are complied with, he will be
elected probably this afternoon; other
wise, he will decline the office, and prob
ably continue to serve on the executive
committee.
Mr. Worsham has been prominently
identified with the conservation con
gress since its organization at Seattle,
Wash., several years ago. He is rec
ognized as authority on questions in
which the conservationists are Interest
ed and is thoroughly in sympathy with
the work of the association.
FAVOR FEDERAL CONTROL.
Victory for the advocates of strict
federal control of waterpower grants
was practically assured today when
the resolutions committee determined
that the congress yesterday had taken
the waterpower question out of its
hands.
The majority and minority reports of
the waterpower committee, the latter
fathered by Gifford Pinchot and former
Secretary of War Stiinson, now will be
returned to the convention for final dis
position. The vote by states yesterday
on the preliminary report caused cham
pions of federal, as opposed to state,
control, to express confidence that the
Pinchot report would be adopted.
Secretary Lane, addressing the coV.-
gress, urged goverftment ownership of
railways in Alaska and predicted won
derful .development there.
Colonel Walter Powell, of the Arkan
sas delegation, declared the withdrawal
of the. delegates was the culmination!
of their frght for the rights of the state.-: J
to make their own conservation policies, j
without dictation by the federal govern
ment.
• “We were appointed by our governor. ’
said Colonel Powell, “and we insisted
upon the abolition of the forest reserve
We think also that the state water
ways should be supervised by the state
There was no trouble of any kind, only
we figured there was nothing but waste
of time in it for us to dilly-dally atpund
with the other people who do not be
lieve as we do.” *
Fertility of Soil Shown by Nu
merous Exhibits at
Thomasville
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
THOMASVILLE, Ga., Nov. 20.—With
perfect fall weather, the Thomas Coun-'
ty Farmers’ fair being held here this;
week, is proving a great success, and
all trains coming into town today were
loaded with visitors from the surround
ing towns. v
The agricultural exhibits are unusual
ly fine afid are a good advertisment of
the capabilities of Thomas county sil.
Corn, cotton, hay, oats, sugar cane, po
tatoes and, in fact, every crop imagin-
abe, is on exhibition and the quality
of the exhibits would be hard to sur
pass. Thomas county had the finest
crops in her history this year, and the
specimens shown are of the best. The
truck display shows that Thomas county
soil is capable of producing two crops
of vegetables each year with the fall
crop jusit about equal to the spring one.
The stock exhibit is also, fine and the
big Thomas hogs show the farmers will
ahve an abundance of hog to go with
their hominy this year.
The fine Thomas county mules and
colls exhibited show stock raising is
on the increase in this county and the
mules are the equal of any of the Ken
tucky mules brought here and sod for
large prices.
The exhibit from the Greenwood plan
tation is one of the most attractive fea
tures of the fair, and includes about a
hundred varieties of every thing grown
on a farm or in a garden. Greenwood is
the winter home of Colonel Oliver H.
ayne, of New York, and Superintendent
F. C. Loveless has contribtued this ex
hibit just to add to the attractiveness
of the fair, the entry not being made
for a premium. Included in the stock
exhibit from Greenwood is a fine Guern
sey bull, Thomas county raised, which
will be given for a premium to the mart
winning the prize for the best exhibit
of Thomas county stock.
A flying machine, numbers of carnival
attractions and other features afford
ample amusement for the crowds.
Judge Says Woman
Need Not Try on Her
Gown in Open Court
(By Associated Prees.)
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov. 20.—A pro
posal to try on a gown before a throng
of curious spectators in the United States
district court was rejected today oy
Judge J. A. Riner. Mrs. Joseph L. Wier,
charged with her husband, an army offi
cer, with the theft of clothing from Mrs.
J. S Cecil, claimed the dresses which
she asserts she bought for a trifling sum
from a woman canvasser, did not fit ana
therefore there would be no object in
stealing them.
Her attorney suggested she try on one
of the gowns in open court to substan
tiate her claims. The witness consented
and there was a momentary flutter of
excitement among the spectators. Judge
Riner interrupted the proceedings, saying
the demonstration was unnecessary.
White-haired Man,
75 Years Old, Found
Guilty of Moonshining
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
ROME, Ga., Nov. 20.—Numerous
moonshine cases have been heard at
the term of federal court now in ses
sion here, and it is probable the rest of
the work will be devoted to the same
class of cases. T. B. Hulsey, a White-
haired man, seventy-five years old, from
Paulding county, is the nestor of the
moonshiners in this section, and was
found guilty of this offense. A suspend
ed sentence for the same offense has
been hanging over Hulsey for eight
years, but because of his • age the of
ficials are in doubt as to what to do
with him. Most of the accused have
been found guilty, and have been sen
tenced to fines or brief terms of impris
onment.
MET'IISTS OPEN ANNUAL
CONFERENCE AT ELBERTON
BY BEY. EDWARD G. MACKAY.
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
ELBERTON. Ga., Nov. 20.—Promptly
at 9 o’clock this morning Bishop Collins
Denny opened the forty-seventh annual
session of the North Georgia confer
ence in the First Methodist church here.
The auditorium of this handsome and
historic church waS well filled with the
ministers who have come from all parts
of north and middle Georgia for this
important meeting when the opening
hymn was announced.
In his opening address Bishop Denny
spoke forcibly for the need of the train
ed mind in the ministry of the church.
He said it was time for the dispensation
of ignorance, to come to an end as
“sanctified ignorance” would never save
the world. He referred effectively to the
fact that John Wesley, the founder of
Methodism, had one of the best trained
minds of his day. and it was to such
men that the leadership of the church
had ever been intrusted.
After the roll call, the conference
stood and with bowed heads heard the
secretary, W. B. Dillard, call the names
of three ministers who had died during
the year. These were Rev. J. S. Bryan,
Dr. Walker Lewis, and Dr. G. G. Smith,
all leaders of note.
CONLEY TRIAL PUT Off
AT REQUEST Of DORSEY
i&was announced Thursday morning e.v
Solicitor Dorsey that the case of Jim
Conley, indicted as accessory after the
fact for the murder of Mary Phagan,
would not be called during the present
week. The case was expected to* come up
Thursday. No reason was given by the
solicitor for not calling the case, further
than that there was a crush of cases for
trial.
Conley’s attorney, W. M. Smith, on
Friday will file a written demand for a
trial on the minutes of the court. This
will Insure Conley being tried during
this or the following term of court
I
Bulgarian Officer
Vanquished in Duel
With French Author
(By. Associated Press.)
PAKIS, Nov. 20.—Lieutenant Torcom,
a Bulgarian army officer, after vainly
challenging Pierre Lott, French novel
ist, and several Parisian Journalists who
had published anti-Bulgarian articles,
finally succeeded today in finding an
opponent in the well-known writer and
swordsman, Georges Breittmayer.
The soldier and writer met $n a
sword duel this morning winch ended in
the discomfiture of the Bulgarian cham
pion, who, after receiving a severe
wcund in the breast during the sixth
bout, abandoned the contest.
Falls Off Fast Train,
And Escapes Unhurt
FREPORT, Pa., Nov. 20.—Joseph
Fahey, of OH City, an express messen
ger on the Allegheney Valley division
of the Pennsylvania railroad, probably
owes his life to a pond of water along
the track. Last night, as his train ap
proached Aladdin station, Fahey started
to drag a heavy basket to the open
doorway of the car. The basket handle
broke and Fahey fell backward from
the train which was going forty miler
an hour. He fell into the pond of wa
ter. Except for drenching no escaped
unhurt.
World's Most Famous
Vocal Teacher Dies in
.London Aged 87 Years
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, Nov. 20.—Madame Mathilde
de Castrone Marches!, probably the most
famous vocal teacher in the world, died
today at the age of eighty-seven.
Madame Marchesi was born at Frank-
fort-on-the-Maine, and ner maiden name
was Mathilda Graumann. She was orig
inally a concert singer but joined the
Vienna conservatory as a teacher in
1854. She afterward taugnt in Paris,
then i n Cologne and later returned to
Vienna. In 1881, she established hersell
permanenfty in Paris.
Madame Marchesi’s husband, Salva
tore Cavalieri de Castrone Marchesi
Della Raja^ta, was also a singer. He
made his debut i n New York in 1848.
Her daughter, Mile Blanche Marchesi.
is a concert and opera singer, who has
frequently appeared in the United
States and Canada.
House Sends Its Gift
To Miss Jessie Wilson
With Pretty Sentiment
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—Miss Jessie
Wilson, the White House bride-elect,
received her $2,000 present from the
house today. The sparkling diamond
pendant, resting in a satin-lined jewel
box with a tiny key dangling from its
heart-shaped lock, was taken to the
White House by a member of the Wash
ington jewelry firm which has been
preparing the gift.
The sentiment inscribed upon parch
ment paper accompanying the present
read:
“The representatives of the people in
congress send this gift to Miss Jessie
Woodrow Wilson, with their sincerest
and best wishes as an evidence of the
tender interest and hearty good will of
aJJ the people on the happy occasion
of her marriage to Mr. Francis Bowes
Sayre, November twenty-five, nineteen
hundred and thirteen.”
The names of the committee of the
house signed to this sheet of parchment
paper identical with that on which edn-
gress prints its legislative work Vere
Speaker Clark, Democratic Leader Un
derwood, Republican Leader Mann, Pro
gressive . Leader Murdock and%4tepre-
sentatives Cooper, Wisconsin; Henry,
Texas; Campbell, Kansas;. Hardwick,
Georgia; Page, North Carolina; Johnson,
Kentucky; Palmer, Pennsylvania; Aus
tin, Tennessee; Townsend, New Jersey;
Fowler, Illinois, and Chandler, New
York.
Secretary and Mrs. Bryan’s wedding
gift—an inlaid mahogany tea table and
chair—was sent to the White House
today. Among the other gifts were a
dozen silver plates from Andrew and
Mrs. Carnegie and a handsome silver
bowl from the Spanish minister and
Mme. Riano.
Miss Margaret Wilson has taken per
sonal charge of the musical program
for the wedding celebration. In addl*
tion to music by the Marine band a
choir of boys will sing during the cere
mony.
Chicago Police Women
Carry a Big Revolver
Instead of Powder Puff
(By Associated Press.)
CHICAGO, Nov. 20.—Revolvers take
the place of powder puffs in the hand
bags carried by Chicago’s ten police
women. It had been generally supposed
the police women were unarmed * until
today when Officer Clara Olsen was dis
covered oiling her firearm.
“I guess we might as well tell tne
truth,” she said. “The revolvers form
the powder puff that might be supposed
to be in the bags which we carry in our
left hands. It is a handy place for the
weapons and I believe we could get
them out quickly if necqssary.”
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i
Life Saver Proposes
To Swim the Canal
PANAMA, Nov. 20.—Alfred Brown, a
member of a New York life saving
corps, has arrived here with the hope
of being the first man to swim from
the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean through
the canal. He arrived here yesterday
and proposes to start the swim as soon
as he obtains the necessary permission
to go through the locks at either end of
the canal.
CURRENCY BILL GOES
TO SENATE SATURDAY
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—The ad
ministration currency bill will be re
ported to the senate Saturday by the
banking committee. The opposing fac
tions met today and agreed to submit
divided reports, one signed by Chair
man Owen and the administration Demo
crats and another signed by Senator
Hitchcock and the five Republicans.
COLUMBUS, Ga., Nov. 20.—Friday is
to be Governor’s day at the Columbus
fair, and the indications are that it
will be a notable one in the big gala
week here. There will be many other
features to make the day memorable,
and record crowds are expected from
Georgia and Alabama.
crovernor Slaton and party will ar
rive at 6:30 o’clock Friday morning-
He will be met at the depot by G.
Gunby Jordan, Mayor Chappell and a
number of prominent citizens, who will
escort him to Green Island ranch ,the
country home of Mr. Jordan, where he
will be entertained at a breakfast.
The governor will return to the city
and will review the parade of the Boys’
Corn clubs at 10 o’clock. At'll o’clock
he will address the boys’ clubs and the
public from the grandstand in the race
track.
At 1 o’clock an informal luncheon
will be tendered to the governor by
some of his personal friends.
A public reception will be given at
the Elks’ home at 3:30 o’clock, and^ali
the friends of the governor are invited
to attend. Light lunches will be
served by the wives of the Elks.
At 4 o’clock Mr. Slaton will be the
guest of the Women’s Reading club at
the home of Hon. and Mrs. H. R. Goet-
chius, and it is expected that he will
make a short address there.
At 5:30 p. m. the governor will start
for Atlanta.
Former Stock Brokers
Say Failure of Firm
Made Them Paupers
NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—Harry B. Hol
lins, member of the now defunct bift
once powerful stock exchange house of
H. B. Hollins & Co., testified today he
had only $150 in the bank and no other
personal resources. Last September, he
said, when the firm was reorganized, he
put $300,000 into the business, all of
which was lost. For months, he added,
there was dissension among the firm
members.
Briton N. Busch testified he had been
a partner in the firm fifteen years and
that his present resources consisted of
less than $200 in bank.
Walter Kutzleb, a third member of
the bankrupt concern, said he had no
tangible resources left. He will be re
called when the hearing in the matter
of the firm’s bankruptcy is resumed on
Monday.
Hollins & Co. failed recently for
about $5,000,000.
F.our Hundred Renegades From
New Mexico Reservation
Make War Medicine, Un
tasted for a Generation
Congressman' Shackelford In
troduces Measure in House
and Passage This SessEon
Seems Probable
I^AR-MINGTON, N. M„ Nov. 20.—Four
hundred renegade Navajo Indians en
camped on Beautiful Mountain, thirty-
five miles southwest of the Shiprock
agency, sang wa* songs and danced
around council fires all night, while sen
tries stood watch at the many signal
flrer which fringed the northeastern
side of the Mesa.
At Shiprock extra precautions had
been taken against a surprise attack by
followers of Chief Be She She, who
have been wrought almost to a state of
frenzy by their medicine men.
W. T. Shelton, Indian agent, and his
Indian police, who are still faithful, to
day began preparations to renew over
tures to the aborigines.
Traders and settlers on the reserva
tion have become frightened and have
appealed to Agent Shelton for protec
tion.
The other Indians of the reservation,
more than 3,000, have given no intima
tion as to where their sympathies lie.
It is upon the coming of troops that
the agency officials and the settlers
base their hopes that bloodshed may
be averted. There are many at the
settlement, however, who express anx
iety over the reception which the In
dians will give the troops. Some fear
that the renegades may.offer armed re
sistance to the troops.
That the Indians will use force on
occasion was evidenced by their armed
attack on the agency when they released
eleven tribesmen who had baen arrested
on federal warrants, charging horse
stealing, assault, assault and battery,
while more than 100 sympathizers stood
on the bank of the Little San Juan riv-
e" ready to aid them in their attack
should the agency officials show any in
tention of offering forcible resistance
to their fellows.
Three Give Up and •
Promise to Be Good
SANTA FE, N. M., Nov. 20.—Federal.
Judge W. H. Pope yesterday sentenced
each of the three Navajo Indians of the
eleven implicated In the recent assault
on the Shipwreck agency to ninety days
in jail, but withheld commitment. The
Indians had surrendered.
The court instructed the Indians to
return to the reservation and persuade
the eight fugitives to surrender, prom'
ising that they woiild he treated fairly.
The three prisoners promised the court
they would be good. They left for the
reservation.
BT RALPH SMITH.
"Washington, nov. 20.—senator
Hoke Smith, who declared in a speech
Tuesday before the National Conserva
tion congress that the federal govern
ment should lend aid and encaurage-
ment to the construction of good roads
as a means of helping the farmers of
the nation, today introduced a bill pro
viding for governmental aid towards
the construction and maintenance of
public highways.
The first section of his bill author
ized the use of $2,000,000 by the secre
tary of agriculture In co-operation with
officers of the several states desig
nated for the purpose, in the construc
tion and maintenance of good roads.
This work, the bill contemplates, shall
be along the line of illustration and
demonstration, to maJke tests and show
what can be accomplished In the most
economical way towards Improving the
average roads of the country.
The second paragraph of the bill 13
along the line of the Shackelford bill,
which passed the house of representa
tives at the last congress, but was de
feated in the senate. Senator Smith’s
bill is planned with a view especially of
aiding in the improvements or what is
known as roads of class C, which la
the best class country road as distin
guished from the high class macadam
road, and of encouraging the improve
ments of road's of that character all
over the United States.
The appropriation is limited to $20,-
000,000 annually, and of this amojint,
according to the plan of distribution,
a.bout $750,000 would be assigned to
ward road improvement In Georgia.
The plan of distribution follows that
of the former house bill and is based
upon the use of the roads for rural
routes and upon the condition of the
road so used?
A number of the objections td the
Shackelford hill made in the senate are
not in the modified J>ill now introduced.
Congressman Shackelford, who is
chairman of the committee ort roads
of the house, Introduced a similar bill
today in the house, so that it is appar
ent that Senator Hoke Smith and the
ch-irman of the house committee on
roads are co-operating with a view of
perfecting legislation on this subject
which will pass both the house and the
senate.
It now seems probable that the fight
for national contribution towards the
improvement of the roads of the coun
try will concentrate around this bill.
GOVERNOR’S DAY TO 6E
BIG EVENT IN GOLUMBUS
Man Believed Dead
Creates a Sensation
By Turning Up Alive
(By Associated Frees.)
HAMILTON, Ontario, Nov. 20.—While
relatives and friends surrounded a cor-
fin in which lajy the body of a young man
identified as John Thompson, a victim or
the recent storm on the great lakes, the
real John Thompson rapped at the door
and was admitted to the house. His
mother collapsed and was made serious
ly ill. Young Thompson’s father did not
know on what boat his son was employed
and when he read of the finding of the
body of John Thompson, a fireman on
the lost steamship Carruthers, he went
to Kettle Point and identified it as that
of his son.
The body was shipped to the parent's
home in this city and preparations were
being made for the funeral when the
young man Returned.
Before goin& to his home Thompson
stopped at a hotel conducted by James
Duffy. Duffy, who had been at the
Thompson home and seen the body, fell
in a faint thinking he had seen a ghost.
Bath, Breakfast and
Lunch, Four Cents,
But It's for Babies
(By Associated Press.)
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 20.—A bath
and a good breakfast for 3 cents for
improperly nourished children of the
open-air elass at the Durham public
school in this city will be provided by
the Home and School league. The break-
last menu will be changed each day, one
of the meals consisting of creamed fish
on toast, milk and bananas.
The 3-cent meal will be served in ad
dition to the already established penny
luncheon furnished by the league, which
plans to provide similar meals at other
public schools.
Young School Ma'm
Holds Up Thief As
He Robs a Saloon
PITTSBURG, Nov. 20—Miss Elizabeth
Reagan looked into the barroom of her
father’s hotel late last night and saw
an armed man going through the cash
drawer while Reagan and several
patrons stood about the room cowed by
the intruder’s revolver. Quickly Miss (/
Reagan got a weapon from the hoteL
office and just as the robber was a pout
to leave the young woman flourished a
revolver and the man surrendered with
out offering fight.
The prisoner gave his name as Michael
Reilly, of Seattle. Miss Reagan is a
school teacher.
( He Told Me a Lie,"
Declares Physician
After Shooting Man
KANSAS CITY, Nov. 20—“I killed him
and I am willing to suffer the penalty.”
was all the explanation Dr. Willia* i T.
Elam, of St. Joseph, would give today foy
having shot W. Putnam Cramer, a Chi
cago solicitor, in a local hotel yesterday.
At tne inquest today it developed Dr.
Dlam had employed a detective to shaa-
ow his wife and Cramer The officer
said he had assured Elam that relations
between his wife and Cramer had been
only a “harmless flirtation.’’
After the* shooting yesterday Dr. Elam
led his friends to the room, examined
Cramer’s body in a professional manner,
pronounced him dead, then exclaimed:
“He lied to me and I killed him.”
District Attorney Brands as
False Published Charge of *
Favoritism to Bank
ROME, Ga., Nov. 20.—flfra card to cit
izens of Rome, District Attorney Hooper
Alexander brands as false the charges
made by G. R. Hutchens, of Rome, and
published in the Macon Telegraph, to the
effect that Senator Hoke Smith had se
lected* for all of his federal appointments,
stockholders in a certain Atlanta bank
in which the senator is himself a stock
holder, and that the purpose of these ap
pointments was to secure the deposit of
federal funds in said bank.
Mr Alexander asserts that he does not
own stock in this bank end never has,
and in fact he has never set foot inside
the bank. He says further that hp wrote
the Macon Telegraph on October 30, cor
recting Hntchens’ statement In parlia
mentary terms, and the Telegraph re
fused to publish his letter Then upon
November 8, he wrote Hutchens request
ing him to publish a withdrawal of these
charges in the Telegraph and calling
upon him to furnish the name of his in
formant, which letter Hutchens has ig
nored.
Mr. Alexander, therefore, publishes In •
the Rome Tribune-Herald, of his native
city, and Hutchens’ present place of res
idence an appeal to Hutchens, saying
that he cannot justly refuse these re*
quests.
Though the card is entirely temperate
its purport Is unmistakable and its clos
ing paragraph says:
“Mr. Hutchens has no excuse to deny
me the reparation to which every man Is
entitled and which no honorable man can
refuse, and I put it up to the citizens of
Rome to say as much to their fellow *cit-
izen.”
The statement of the district attorney
has cr eated a decided sensation here
and expressions from sitizens of Rome
indicate they agree with him in the
stand he has taken.
OEAAAND RIGRER WAGES
Finds Two Dimes
In Bird’s Stomach
SELLNSGROVE. Pa., Nov. 20.—Mrs.
1. F. McFall lost two 10-cent pieces in
tile chicken yard of her home a few
weeks ago. She found them in a roos
ter which was killed for the Sunday
dinner. The dimes were less than, half
their usual thickness^ when taken from
the bird’s stomach.
FALL RIVER, Mass., Nov. 20.—A
letter from the textile council demand
ing a general wage increas# of 12 1-2
per cent for the cotton mill operatives
was received today by the Manufactur
ers’ association. The operatives de
mand that the increase be effective De
cember 8 and that the manufacturers %
reply not later than December 1.
There are about seventy-five corpor
ations and 100 mills affiliated with
the Manufacturers’ association. The
proposed increase would affect 30,000
operatives.
Union officials say the question of
taking a strike vote depends on the ac
tion of the manufacturers.
PITTSBURG SHIPS COAL
AND GETSBACK TURKEYS
PITTSBURG, Nov. 20.—More than 3,500
bushels of coal and 7,000 tons of manufac
tured steel and iron are en route down
the Ohio river for southern markets to
day, a second shipment having been
started from here last night. The cargo
of in coming. boats consists of turkeys,
chickens-a»d ducks. * High water in the
rivers, due to rains and the recent snow
storm, is gradually receding. _____