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VOLUME XIII.
ATLANTA, GA„. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1913.
NO. 19.
BY HER SENATORS
Smith and Bacon Hold Up Re
gional Bank Section of Cur
rency Bill to Protect Inter
ests of Gate City
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Thanks
giving day was spent by the senate
Democrats hard at work in conference
or the administration currency bill.
In the absence of Senator Hitchcock
no one presented the amendments he
and the five Republicans of the com
mittee had framed, and the conference
sped through section after section, en
dorsing the Owen-Glass bill practically
without change. Senator O'Gorman,
one of the Democrats of the committee,
who aided Senator Owen in presenting
..he bill to the conference, predicted
that with the exception of the section !
fixing the number of regional reserve
oanks the bill would be completed by
the conference today.
The number of banks has not been
decided on and was passed over at the
request of the Georgia senators, who
feared Atlanta might be handicapped
if a regional bank were created in
some other southern city, probably New
Orleans. t
It was understood today that an at
tempt might be made to pass a reso
lution binding the Democrats in the
conference to support the administra
tion bill. Senator iHtchcock was ex
pected to to support the confer
ence bill.
Senator Dane of Oregon has sq far
declined to go into the conference and
Senator Newlands, while attending the
conference, has an, original plan which ]
he intends to press on the floor of the |
senate. The defection of three sena
tors might imperil the majority In the
senate if the Republican lines hold.
To Seek Pardon for
“Uncle Bob” Davis,
Slayer of His Son
DALTON, Ga., Nov. 27.—-Extra efforts
will, in all probability, be made on ac
count of his broken health to secure a
pardon from the prison commission for
‘‘Uncle Bob” Davis, the aged Confeder
ate veteran who was sentenced to the
prison farm for four years for killing
his son, Rewlett Davis. “Uncle Bob”
is over seventy years old. Notice that
an application would be made to secure
his pardon was posted here in Septem
ber, but so far the prison commission
has not taken favorable action.
Mr. Davis was convicted during the
January term of court this year, and
Immediately began his sentence. Last
week the aged-man was reported in a
*ying condition, and his relatives were
telegraphed for. Yesterday it was learn
ed here that his condition was some
what improved, but he was not out of
danger.
Two Booth Brothers
Shake Hands and Old
Grudge is Forgotten
(By Associated Pre3s.j
NEW YORK/ Nov. 27.—After an es
trangement of seventeen years. Bram-
tveil Booth and Ballington Booth shook
hands today at a luncheon.
The meeting w’as private. Presuma
bly the suggested amalgamation of the
Salvation Army and the Volunteers of
America, of which the brothers are the
respective heads, was /jot broached.
ACCUSED GIRL DINES
ON TURKEY IN JAIL
("By Associated Press.)
CIOWLEY, La., Nov. 27.—Dora Murff,
on trial for her life on the charge of
murdering J. M. Delhaye, October 15,
last, spent Thanksgiving in jail here. Her
mother arrived eaMy and was admitted
wdth a large basket of good things to
eat. There was no session of court to-
daj% but the trial will be resumed to
morrow. J. S. Duvall, the girl’s step-fa
ther, and Allic Duvall, her half brother,
are also charged with the murder.
The trial has taken on added Interest
with the approach of the time when the
accused will take the stand in her own
behalf. The defense has paved the way
for the dying words of Delhaye and as
rvone but Miss Murff, his sweetheart,
heard them there is considerabe specu
lation as to the nature of this statement.
Bride, Locked In By
Mother Slides Down
Water Pipe to Hubby
(By Associated Press.)
SAVANNAH, Ga., Nov. 27.—Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph H. Pierce, the grooirj a res
ident of Dawson, the bride a Savannah-
ion, made a dramatic “get away” last
night following their marriage yester
day over the protest of the bride's
mother and the consequent incarceration
of the lady in an upper bed room of
her mother’s home.
Before her marriage Mrs. Pierce was
Miss Helen Creech and her mother very
bitterly opposed her getting married.
Last*, night after being locked In her
room and separated from her husband,
Mrs. Pierce slid down the water pipe
from the second floor of the .home and
Joined her husband, who was nearby.
The appealed to two friends with mo
torcycles to aid them in getting away,
and were carried on these machines to
Pooler, ten miles away, where the train
was caught for Dawson.
Mrs. ' ’’ ^ech did not know that her
g; -d gone until several hours
i arture.
Killed by Train
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
FOLKSTON, Ga., Nov. 27.—Ivy John
son, white apprentice on section at this
plaoe, was killed early this morning by
a freight tarin.
THlKSGIIMflS
FITTINGLY OBSERVED
BY STATE OF GEORGIA
Plenty to Eat, Fine Weather
and Football Make This
City’s Enjoyable Thanks-
| giving Days
Atlanta's thoughts are turned
Thanksgiving ward again Thursday.
That means they are turned toward
the nation’s annual feast of turkey,
fat hen, tough rooster, pullet, or “hot
dog,” according to the size of the indi
vidual pocketbook.
Even the minds of the preachers and
worshippers in the more seemly serv
ices,of thanks in the Atlanta churches
at frequent intervals turned that way.
Mother can’t think of anything else. Fa
ther wonders whether he will ever be
able to foot the bill. The children
clamor to know If dinner is ready yet.
The four elements of Thanksgiving-
church service, the dinner, flne weather
and the football game, are Atlanta’s in
full measure Thursday. Morning serv
ices are being held in the majority of
the churches. The feast will be spread
in every home and hotel and club. Tech
and Clemson will clash on the football
field during the afternoon. That part
cf Atlanta which cannot or will not go
to the game, has other plans for long
walks or the theaters or the movies.
DAT OF LEISURE.
It is as much a day of leisure as At
lanta ever enjoys. The city and state i
and federal offices are closed. Many oth- i
er offices stayed shut with them, and!
’■ F' majority of the business houses
which did open this morning and closed
at noon. *
News from the gocernment “dopesters”
in Washington, that the feast was to be
the nation’s most costly meal in a quar
ter of a century, threatened to interfere
somewhat with the digestion of the men
who pay the bills; out it was refuted
by Atlanta authorities. Francis Hamper,
the north side groceryman, declared it
wasn’t true.
"I think if they had stopped to analyze
local conditions, they’d have seen it
wasn’t true here in Atlanta at any rate.
Turkeys and hens were cheaper than
they were a year ago," said he. “Vege
tables and fruits, sweet potatoes, canned
asparagus and peas were cheaper. Irish
potatoes and nuts and raisins and apples
were a little higher, but practically ev
erything else intended for the Thanksgiv
ing table was either cheaped than last
year or at about the same price.”
This was confirmed by Pink Cherry and
W. R. Branham, Jr„ Broad street mar
ket men.
tlnclo Sam’s soldiers at Fort McPher
son, who are always figuring that their
next holiday dinner may be hard tack
and coffee somewhere across the Mexi
can border, acquitted themselves as
good trenchermen at the army’s time-
honored spread of good things.
All of the downtown hotels will
serve special menus, some beginning
tho service at noon and continuing It
till 8 o’clock, and others beginning at G
o’clock and continuing /till midnight.
Manager Frank Harrell, of the Aragon
and Winecoff, will have several newspa
per men as his guests during the after
noon.
Poultry of All Kinds
Going Into New York
By the Parcel Post
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—Poultry of all
kinds with the turkey holding its own
is arriving: in New York suburbs in
great numbers by parcel post. A spe
cific instance of- the popularity of send
ing' Thanksgiving treats by mail was
the receipt of more than 200 parcels
of poultry at the Yonkers postoffice
yesterday.
Despite the new means of trainsit the
regular market deliveries are being
made in unusual quantities with from
fifty to seventy-five carloads arriving
daily this week c pressed from the tur
key belt. The most desirable birds are
selling at nearly 30 cents a pound with
some of the fancy sort going at even
40 cents.
KING VICTOR EMMANUEL
OPENS HIS PARLIAMENT
ROME, Nov. 27.—Brilliant ceremony
today attended the opening of the
Italian parliament toy King Victor
Emmanuel.
The king, accompanied by Queen Hele
na and the royal princes, drove in state
carriages from the quirinal through
streets lined by immense throngs to the
senate house. When he entered the
parliamentary buildings the assembled
deputies and senators rose and cheered
him.
The king, surrounded by the members
of the cabinet at once proceeded with
the reading of the speech from the
throne.
WHITFIELD BOYS PLAN
TO ATTEND CORN SHOW
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
DALTON, Ga., Nov. 27.—The Whit
field County Boys’ Corn club will send
a large delegation to the Atlanta corn
show next Wednesday. So far County
School Superintendent Sapp has heard
from ten of the members who will at
tend, and others are expected to make
the trip. The ten boys are Judge Kile,
Ernest and Ed JBaker, Otto Casey, Wil
burn Fraker, Frank Hall, Noyce Griffin,
Will Garrison. Paul Bailey and Wallace
Bates.
i
RATS DAMAGE POSTAL
SERVICE $48 IN YEAR
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Postmaster
General Burleson told the house today
that rats and mice at large in various
postofflees had caused a total damage
of $48 in the postal service the last
flscal year. This was the last of the
damages reported in a long list of
claims of postmasters for reimburse
ment transmitted to Speaker Clark.
Fire caused $183,635 aggregate loss,
burglary $252,236, robbery and larceny
$443, flood and storms $599 and losses
of postal supplies in transit $5,643.
THE FINGER OF FATE
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—BY WEBSTER
GIRL ADMITS SHE SLEi FINE REPORTS MARK
HER LOVER IN LOUSIH CONFERENCE SESSION
J. HI.PUINGEY NAMED TO
SUCCEED JUDGE PARKER
CROWLEY, La., Nov. 27.—The de
fense in the trial of Dora Murff, J. S.
Duvall and Allie Duvall, charged with
murdering J. M. Delahaye, scored a
point today when testimony showing
the girl cried, “I will kill more of you!”
was allowed in the record.
As Delahaye, a suitor of Miss MurlYs,
fell, the girl jumped from a surrey, in
which she with the other accused were
riding, and fired two shots at her lover.
The first shot from the surrey, which
felled Delahaye, came from a shotgun,
and the state is trying to prove J. S.
Duvall, the girl’s stepfather, fired this
shot.
Defense attorneys today said the
“more of you” in testimony given by L.
L. Clark, a deputy sheriff and witness
of the killing, proves that Dora fired
the first and fatal shot. The girl takes
all blame for the killing upon herself.
Mrs. Duvall and two young children
of the family will eat Thanksgiving din
ner in jail with the accused.
Damage Suit Comes
Of Emptying Booze
Into Dalton Gutter
DALTON, Ga., Nov. 27.—The action
of Buell Stark in pouring out six quarts
of whisky he had found in a building
leased by him has been the means of
making him defendant in a suit filed by
T. H. Bowen in justice court.
Mr. Bowen alleges that he has been
damaged by Mr. Stark to the amount
of $3.30—just what the six quarts cost
him, plus the express charges. He asks
that he be awarded a verdict for that
amount, and the case is set for the De
cember session of justice court.
When Mr. Stark poured the whisky
into a gutter on Hamilton street he had
Mr. Bowen present to witness the work.
It was also seen by scores of people.
Mr. Bowen was the owner of the whis
ky, and in his suit he alleges that Mr.
Stark seized it and poured it out with
out any semblance of legal authority
for so doing.
Stark contends that Bowen agreed for
him to pour it out, he agreeing in turn
not to push any charge against Bowen
for having placed the liquor in his
house.
Georgia Watermelon
Seed Are Forwarded
To Kingston, Jamaica
Georgia watermelons will soon be on
the menu in Kingston, Jamaica, if thd
seed sent to the United .States consul i
there by Assistant Commissioner of
Agriculture Dan G. Hughes, take kindly
to the soil of the little island and bear
the luscious red fruit.
Mr. Hughes is in receipt of a letter
from the American consul in Jamaica
requesting Georgia watermelon seed
and they were promptly forwarded to
him. The assistant commissioner will
watch the result with interest.
Death of Wife Slayer
(By Associated Press.)
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 27.—Nikola
Gavilovich was sentenced to death by
a jury in Edwardsville, Ill., last night
for the murder of his wife April 3,
1910. This is the first time in twenty-
five years the death penalty has been
fixed in Madison ocunty, although 650
murders have occurred in that time.
Bishop W, A. Candler Preaches
Thanksgiving Sermon in
Macon Auditorium
BY REV. LOY WARWICK.
MACON, Ga., Nov. 27.—The second
day of the South Georgia conference
was beautiful as to weather and full of
good things for the minds and hearts
of the people. The conference is get
ting on well with its work and its ses
sions are pleasant and harmonious. Fine
reports are being made from the sta
tions and circuits of the conference.
From all sources there will be re
ported more than $100,000 for missions.
Seyeral new churches have been built
and about $12,000 raised for church ex
tensions and $20,000 or $25,000 for ed
ucation. Dr. W. C. Lovett and Rev. R.
F. Eakes are here to represent the Wes-*
leyan Christan Advocate. This paper
has had a year of great prosperity.
Rev. J. A. Smith reports 152 orphans
at the South Georgia home, $20,000
raised for support and the best year
of Mr. Smith’s administration. W. W.
Dehaven, of Macon, was appointed a
trustee of the home in place of L. A.
Mitchell.
The bishop announced that the class
for admission into full connection would
be received on Friday. The election
of delegates to the general conference
will probably take place Friday or Sat
urday. At 10:45 today the conference
adjourned and went to the auditorium
where Bishop Candler preached a great
sermon to a large crowd.
EDUCATIONAL REPORTS.
Educational reports occupied the at
tention of the south Georgia conference
of the Methodist church to a large ex
tent today. j
The south Georgia conference has
six educational institutions under its
control. They are Wesleyan college,
C. R. Jenkins, D. D., president; Andrew
Girls’ college, J. W. Malone, D. D.,
president; South Georgia college, Frank
Branch, president; Sparks Collegiate
Institute, Rev. A. W. Reese, president;
Warthen college, Rev. J. C. G. Brooks,
president; Pierce Collegiate Institute,
Rev. W. A. Huckabee, president.
Wesleyan college is the joint prop
erty of the north Georgia, south geor-
gia and Florida conferences. It is one
of the highest grade colleges for
women in the south, and has the unique
distinction of being the first chartered
woman’s college in the world. Rev.
C. R. Jenkins, D. D., is very popular
and has been successful-, as president
of this great school. Under his leader
ship the college is enjoying great pros
perity.
ALL SCHOOLS PROSPERING.
All the schools have done well and
make fine reports to the conference.
Dr. Malone at Andrew is one of the
best known educators in the state.
Rev. J. C. G. Brooks was called from
a successful and popular pastorate to
guide the destiny of Warthen college.
Rev. A. W. Reese has been at Sparks
for several 3 r ears and is doing a great
work there.
Mr. Branch, president of the South
Georgia college at McRae, is a layman
and is one of Georgia’s best teachers.
Rev. W. A. - Huckabee was the first
president of South Georgia college.
Later he did fine work at the Orphans’
Home. He ras been at Pierce institute
foi one year. This is a new school
situated at Blackshear in Pierce county,
but was named in honor of Bishop G.
F. Pierce.
Governor Slaton announced Thursday
morning the appointment of Judge J.
W. Quincey, of Douglas, to succeed
Judge T. A. Parker on the bench of the
Waycross circuit.
The appointment will become effec
tive January 1, Judge Parker having
resigned recently to leave office on
that date. Judge Parker is expected to
become a candidate for congress from
the Eleventh district in opposition to
John Randall Walker, the incumbent.
Judge Quincey and John W. Bennet,
of Waycross, were candidates for the
governor’s appointment to succeed
Judge Parker. Friends of both be
sieged the governor in person and by
letter and telegram, urging their respec-
tiv> claims and qualifications.
Uncle Sam Teaching
Marines at Panama
How to Run Engines
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—The ma
rines in Camp Elliott, isthmian canal
zone, who frequently have won admira
tion by reason of tTieir versatility, now
are exercising their Yankee ingenuity
as locomotive englneerc on the Panama
railroad. At the navy department it
v/as explained today that the marines
have been put in the locomotive cab so
there may be men in the service who
can be promptly put in on railways in
an enemy's territory to handle trains
for the transportation of troops and pro
visions.
Secretary Garrison, who commended
the work of the marines at Camp El
liott on his recent visit to the canal
zone, issued instructions to engine driv
ers on the Panama railroad to give the
marines a full insight into * everything
connected with the operation of the lo
comotives.
Who Ate Turkey First?
English or American?
London Times Worried
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, Nov. 27.—The timely ques
tion of whether the European custom
of eating turkey at Christmas is older
than the American custom of eating
turkey at Thanksgiving time, is raised
in a two-column article in the Times
today. It says most Englishmen are in
clined to doubt the priority of the
Thanksgiving bird. The article does not
satisfactory settle the question, but
comes to the conclusion that if Eng
lishmen would make good their claim
that the custom of eating turkey at
Christmas is the older they must prove
it existed between 1530 when the turkey
first came to Europe, and 1620 when the
colonies in America first ate the fowl
and gave thanks.
75 Cents a Quart for.
First Strawberries
(By Associated Press.)
PLANT CITY, Fla., Nov. 27.—The
first strawberries of the season, two
carloads, left here today for Chicago.
The farmers netted 75 cents per quart.
The berries are large and fine.
FOUR PERSONS OIE
Two Men and Two Women
Hurled to Death When Ma
chines Meet in Bronx in the
Early Morning
NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—Thomas F.
Denny, Democratic member of the as
sembly from the Nineteenth district;
Leonard Cohen, a dress goods manufac
turer prominent in Tammany circles,
and two well dressed young women lay
dead in the morgue today, victims of an
automobile crash in the Bronx. All
were killed early this morning in a head-
on collision between Cohen’s car and the
car of Bert T. Rich, a garage owner,
operated by Jeremiah Mahoney, chauf
feur. The latter was held on a techni
cal charge of homicide.
Conrad Loos identified one of the wom
en’s bodies as that of his wife. “She
went riding with Mr. Cohen last night,”
he said. “He was a friends of ours.”
A daughter of Loos said she thought
the other woman was Helen Schaeffer,
a friend of her mother.
Richard Rogers, negro chauffeur of
the Cohen car, was battered and bruised
and of the four occupants of r the Rich
machine, three were injured. Rich suf
fered concussion of the brain; a young
woman companion, Estelle Norton, was
so badly bruised that she was rushed to
a hospital and Mahoney suffered a
crushed knee. William Morris, a lawyer,
was unscathed.
The Cohen automobile was east bound
running, according to the negro chauf
feur, about twenty-two miles an hour.
The Rich car put on speed to pass a
car between it and the Cohen car and,
swerving back to the road center, the
chauffeur, blinded by the headlights,
rammed squarely into the approaching
car’s front. The impact was terrific.
The Rich car described a semi-circle
and landed in two heaps, chassis and
tonneau separated. The negro chauffeur
alone arose from the wreck. The Co
hen car, rebounding nearly 100 feet, was
reduced to Wreckage and the car be
tween the two operated by Joseph
Flaum, a chauffeur, was side-swiped.
Judge Urges Married
“Children” to Live
Separate Until Grown
“You children should wait until you
are grown and then go back and live
together,” remarked Judge John T. Pen
dleton, of the superor court, Wednesday
to Mrs. Frances C. Dempsey and Rob
ert M. Dempsey, in passing on the for
mer’s suit for alimony and support for
her tiny baby.
Acording to the story told by A. E.
Aenschbacker, of 270 Sunset avenue, fa
ther of the girl, his daughter and Demp
sey married last year, when she was
fifteen and he seventeen years old. They
came asking forgiveness and he forgave
them, telling Dempsey he could . live
with him, and that he would send him
to a night school so he might get an
education.
Things went happily for a while, but
after little troubles Dempsey decided
that that he couldn’t get along at his
father-in-law’s and asked his wife to
leave with him. She refused and he
went to Birmingham. Lately he has re
turned and is living at 517 Sunset ave
nue. He has a Job paying $11 per week,
and Judge Pendleton ordered that he
pay $20 per month alimony.
Passengers On Train
Given News Bulletins
By Wireless Telegraph
(By Associated Press.)
SCRANTON, Pa., Nov. 27.—'News
bulletins received by wireless telegraph
were displayed on a moving passenger
train yesterday on the Lackawanna rail
road. The train was traveling at the
rate of sixty miles an hour, between
this city and Binghamton, N. Y. A
Scranton newspaper sent 250 words
from the Lackawanna wireless station.
One of the dispatches was on the battle
in Mexico, another regarding the threat
ened strike in Schenectady and another
from Washington relating to the Mexi
can situation.
MEDICATED AIR SAVES
HALF-BAKED SUFFERER
BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 27—With
200 square inches of flesh burned from
his body and his life despaired of,
Harry F. Stabler, twenty-three "“years
old, after undergoing a new treatment
at a hospital here, is now able to walk
about the hospital court yard and today
will enjoy his Thanksgiving dinner.
Skin grafting was deemed impracti
cable, and physicians at the hospital
decided to try the effect of chemically
treated air on the burned surface of
the patient. As a result seventy-five
square inches of surface have healed.
Little hope was entertained for Sta-
bler’s life when he was brought to the
hospital on October 4, unconscious
from burns caused by boiling tar. The
flesh on his neck, breast and abdomen
was baked to a depth of a sixteenth
of an inch and the physicians worked
on him for fiv^e hours cleaning the
burned part.
An experiment was conducted with
Stabler’s hand and arm and the result
encouraged the physicians to extend
the. method. A specKil frame work of
pliable wood was designed to fit se
curely about the body of the patient
from the mouth to the waist. The
burned surface from the chin down
was exposed to the air that filtered
through the chemically treated gauze
stretched on the frame.
BIG DELEGATION FROM
TIFT TO CORN SHOW
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
TIFTON, Ga., Nov. 27.—District Agent
G. V. Cunningham, of the Boys’ Corn
club, whose district embraces practi
cally all that territory lying in south
east Georgia, says that his district will
have 500 exhibits in Atlanta next week
at the corn show. Last year there were
only twelve boys from Mr. Cunning
ham’s district who attended the corn
show. He expects 150 to go from his
district to Atlanta next week.
Failing to Regain Juarez, Fed
erate Strjggle Toward Chi
huahua City, Only Strong
hold in Northern Mexico
(By Associated Press,)
EL PASO, Tex., Nov. 27.—Encumber
ed with wounded, lacking provisions and
practically without ammunition the sur
vivors of the 4,000 government soldiers
who for two days fought to regain Jua
rez for Huerta, continued their struggle
today to reach Chihuahua City, where
they hope to entrench themselves in the
federal garrison.
In Juarez today General Villa con
tinued preparations to move against
Chihuahua City, which even now may
be in possession of constitutionalists
under General Manuel Chao, who was
known to have been in the vicinity of
the capital when the fighting south of
Juarez began.
For another day at least the comman
der of the rebels will 'permit his men
to rest while he assembles provisions
and arms for an attack on the federal
capital which, if successful, will giv©
the constitutionalists complete posses
sion of the state and will drive the
federals from their last stronghold in
the northern Mexico states.
STORIES OF BATTLE.
Soldiers today in Juarez continued to v
tell stories of the two days’ battle
against the federals. Last Saturday
night they aay their first knowledge of
the proposed federal attack was re
ceived and General Villa rushed hie
main body of troops south and spread
them in a half moon to guard all ap
proaches to Juarez. There they stayed
until Monday afternoon with only an
occasional skirmish.
Then came the federals, who from a
distance of about five miles detrained,
unloaded their field artillery and began
the attack. Desultory firing continued
until after dark when Villa with rein
forcements attacked the main column
of the federals. Here the fiercest en
gagement of the revolution was. fought
in almost hand-to-hand conflict. The
main body of rebels, traversing a direct
line to the south, arrived at the desig
nated point of meeting just a few min
utes before the flank reinforcements ap
peared.
Hearing tho sound of conflict, the troop
ers from left and right wing hastened
Into the fight. The cavalry was ordered
to makeflank charges on the enemy, both
left and right, and the infantry ran to
aid the main column, threw their weight
in the scale of battle and turned what
might have been a federal victory into
an utter rout.
CAVALRY PURSUES REBEDS.
Outnumbered and overpowered, thb
government troops withdrew in disorder, t
the rebels said, Jo their trains which ■
were hastily backed down the track, but
closely pursued by cavalry from Villa’s
forces. One group of Huerta’s men were
unable to en train before the enemy had
reached them, surrounded the train and
made them prisoners.
The heaviest loss of the entire battle
was said to have occurred Monday night
in the battle at close range while the
casualties of other encounters and en
gagements were light with the possible
exception of the fight made by Josepn
Ynez Salazar to penetrate the rebel line
to the east of Juarez Monday night and
Tuesday morning. Salazar stood hie
ground and led his forces until he was
wounded seriously.
General Villa said he did not intend to
execute the federal prisoners whom he
spared on the battle field and brought to
Juarez. They have been placed in jail
with those taken during the Juarez bat
tle and will be held. ,
(By Associated Press.)
DENVER, C61., Nov. 27.—Representa
tives of coal mine operators and strik
ers abandoned their conference early
today without settling the strike in
the southern Colorado coal fields. That
the sessions will be renewed is said to
be problematical, though Governor Am
mons today prepared a digest of the
conference with recommendations for
further conferences Which he will sub
mit to the operators and strikers.
A reward of $1,000 for the arrest of
Anthony B. McGary and a similar re
ward for the capture of Sam, alias
“Nick” Carter was offered by General
John Chase, who is in command of the
state troops in the mining district.
These men are wanted in connection
with the murder of George Belcher,
a detective at Trinidad, November 20.
Gas Mains Charged
With Sulphur Fumes
And Everybody Sneezes
(By Associated Press.)‘‘
HOLYOKE, Mass., Nov. 27.—By a
mistake by an inexperienced employe at
the new municipal gas plant here, the
mains were charged with sulphur fumes
today, causing discomfort or fear to
most of the 12,000 consumers. t
When gas lamps and ranges were
lighted in the early morning, house
holders were nearly overcome and the
streets were soon filled with coughing,
sneezing persons hastening to the office
of the nearest physician. Two women
were made seriously ill.
FIVE EAST INDIANS ARE
SHOT TO DEATH IN RIOT
(By Associated Press.)
DURBAN, Natal, Union of South* Af
rica, Nov. 27.—Five east Indians were
killed today in an affray between strik
ers and the police dn the Blackburn
sugar estate in the Mount Edgecombe
district, fourteen miles north of Dur
ban. The most important sugar crush
ing mill in Natal is there and nearby
is a large American mission station.
The police were obliged to fire sev
eral volleys before they quelled the riot
ers.