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7,500 BANKS ENTER
RESERVE SYSTEM
INSTITUTIONS THAT HAVE NOT
COME IN NEW SYSTEM
ARE SMALL.
BIGIN FIGURING RESOURCES
Less Than Fifty National Banks Failed
to Respond—Some State
Banks.
Washington.—The new federal re
serve system will begin business with
a membership of at least seven thou
sand five hundred banks. This was
apparent when, at the close of the
last day on which national banks could
signify their intention of accepting the
terms of the currency law r , less than
fifty of the 7,493 national banks of
the country had failed to respond fa
vorably. More than enough state in
stitutions had applied for membership
to bring the total to 7,500.
Official count of the banks and tab
ulation of their resources and liabil
ities will begin at the treasury depart
ment.
Most of the institutions that have
not come into the new system are
comparatively small, and it is esti
mated that 97 per cent, of all the capi
tal and resources in the present na
tional bank system is represented by
those whose applications are in.
VILLAS STORY OF KILLING
Rebel Leader Says Englishman Tried
to Take His Life.
Chihuahua, Mexico. —General Villa’s
story of the killing of William S. Ren
ton, told to reporters here, differs but
little from the official statement given
out at Juarez.
The Juarez statement declared that
when Benton reached for his hip pock
et Villa knocked him down with a
blow of the fist. Villa said that when
Benton made this move he poked his
own pistol into Renton's stomach and
then turned him over to the guards.
Villa insisted that Benton came to
take his life, and referred to Renton’s
mission concerning the welfare of his
ranch as a pretext to gain admittance.
According to Villa, Benton, after the
verdict of the eourtmartial, confessed
his guilt and declined to ask for mer
cy. He merely requested that his prop
erty be turned over to his widow.
Villa contradicted his official report
to the American consul at Juarez that
Gustav Bauch, a German-American,
accused of being a spy, had been
brought to Chihuahua. Villa said, he
knew nothing of him.
The rebel general marked another
milestone in his political and military
progress from the rustic outlaw of
three years ago to the dictatorship of
northern Mexico, when he received
the homage of his officers and promi
nent citizens at the gubernatorial pal
ace.
College Course for Winners.
Washington.—Substitution of a
year's course in practical training at
some agricultural college instead of
annual trips to Washington for the
young prize winners of the corn, can
ning, poultry and other agricultural
clubs, is the recommendation of the de
partment of agriculture. In the event
the young champion’s academic train
ing would not enable him to enter the
state agricultural college, the depart
ment suggests elementary courses in
instructions, teaching less advanced
instruction work. Officials of the de
partment express belief that such
courses would be valuable.
Ex-Senator Teller Dead.
Denver, Colo. —Henry Moore Teller,
secretary of the interior in President
Arthur’s cabinet, and for more than
thirty years United States senator
from Colorado, died here at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. G. E. Tyler. Sen
ator Teller was 84 years old; had been
HI two years during which he had
many sinking spells, but from which
he rallied. In the late seventies, Sen
ator Teller became a person of wide
repute because of his activities in the
United States senate. His most ar
dent work was his opposition to the
standardization of gold in the mone
tary system of the nation.
Mississippi Race Riot.
Robinsville, Miss.—There were no
indications here of further trouble be
tween whites and negroes after the
race riot, in which Morris Love, white,
and two negroes were killed. White
men, said to have been incensed by
noise & score or more negroes made,
formed a posse to arrest them. The
negroes, it was claimed, began shoot
ing and Love fell dead. In the ex
change of shots two negroes were kill
ed. The white men retreated when
their ammunition was exhausted and
the negroes fled.
19 Persons Poisoned.
Birmingham, Ala. —Every physician
at Mountain Creek, a small town south
of this place, was at work to pre
vent death to any of the 19 persons
poisoned from eating "soused meat.”
Several traveling men to whom the
meat was served at a hotel were
among those taken ill. The meat
was distributed by a local market
man who had purchased it from a
farmer. Town authorities are inves
tigating the cause, but have reached
no decision as yet.
CONGRESSMAN MANAHAN
Congressional inquiry into the or
ganization and operations of the Chi
cago and Duluth boards of trade and
the Minneapolis chamber of commerce
to determine their influence over
wheat and flour prices in the country
was proposed in a resolution intro
duced by Representative Manahan of
Minnesota.
BORDER PEOPLE AROUSED
MEETING IN EL PASO CHARGES
GOVERNMENT IS CONCEAL
ING THE FACTS.
Resolutions Declare Mexicans Have
Killed Americans Because They
Were Americans.
Washington.—A slumbering Mexi
can situation was brought quickly to
a point of intense international inter
est by the flash of a message saying
William S. Benton, a British subject,
had been killed in Juarez by order of
Gen. Francisco Villa, the Constitution
alist commander.
Sir Cecil Spring-Ricc, British am
bassador, conferred with Secretary
Bryan about it; President Wilson and
his cabinet discussed it briefly and
the state department ordered a thor
ough investigation by consular repre
sentatives on the border.
El Paso Texas.—Two more English
men are reported as having “disappear
ed” in Juarez.
Gustav Bauch, who was on trial for
being a spy, also disappeared in Jua
rez. Thomas D. Edwards, American
consul at Juarfez, said that when the
friends of Bauch went to visit him
with bedding and food he was not in
the cell where he had been held in
communicado
A storm of indignation broke out
along the border when it became
known that William S. Benton, a Brit
ish subject and wealthy landholder in
Mexico, had been executed by rebels
in Juarez, •
SUPERVISION FOR STATES
Administration Contemplates No Sur
render of Power, However.
Washington. —Conservation partic
ularly as it affects the building of wa
ter power projects in the navigable
streams of the country—was added to
the chief administration policies un
der discussion. Conservationists have
learned in a preliminary way the an
swer which the Wilson administration
has prepared to the question of wheth
er the federal government of the states
shall be supreme in the matter of wa
ter rights of navigable rivers.
Briefly the plan’s general outline is
as follows:
Federal permits for water power
projects would be given only to indi
viduals or concerns duly incorporat
ed as public utilities.
Public utility commimssions of the
various states would be expected to
regulate operation of the plan by such
supervision as would prevent practices
of discrimination or monopoly.
Water power rights would be given
only to those states which had good
public utility laws so that an incen
tive for careful supervision through
new laws would be provided in states
having inadequate laws.
Robbers Get $40,000.
Birmingham, Ala. —Queen and Cres
cent passenger train No. 1, New York
to New Orleans, running forty minutes
late, about twelve miles north of Bir
mingham, was held up by three mask
ed robbers, who secured four sacks of
registered mail, said to have contained
over $40,000. At Attalla three men
boarded the engine and one and a
half miles south of Attalla held up the
engine crew- at the point of revolvers.
They then ran the train to within
five miles of Irondale, where they
robbed it.
Says Canal Will Open by July 1.
Washington.—Col. George W. Goe
tlials said that barring unforeseen ac
cidents, the Panama canal will be
open for merchant ships July 1. The
colonel added that he had always been
opposed to the exemption of American
coastwise shipping from the payment
of toils, because that would decrease
the revenues of the canal, and, in his
opinion, would not accrue to the bene
fit of consumers, but merely increase
profits of the ship owners. The colo
nel declined to discuss its legal aspect
or its bearing on treaty relations.
COFFEE COUNTY PROGRESS, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
COLO WAVE OVER
TOE UNITED STATES
STORM SWEEPS ACROSS CONTI
NENT, CAUSING MUCH DAM
AGE AND SUFFERING.
NUMBER OF STATES SUFFER
Rain in South and a Blizzard for the
Valleys of Ohio and
Mississippi.
Washington. A violent storm
swept across the continent from Col
orado, causing rain in the Southern
states and snow' in the Mississippi and
Ohio valleys, the lake regions and the
north Atlantic states.
St. Louis. Hail began to fall
throughout Missouri and by night had
coated the ground in many places with
more than an inch of ice. The storm
was accompanied by a 30-degree drop
in temperature.
Sioux City, lowa. —Northwest lowa,
eastern South Dakota and northeast
ern Nebraska are in the grip of a
storm. In Sioux City and vicinity the
heaviest snow of the season fell, ham
pering streets and railroad traffic. Re
ports from South Dakota indicate a
6-inch fall.
Chicago.—A 36-mile an hour wind
piled snow in great drifts delayed traf
fic in Illinois] Several inches of snow'
fell. The thermometer ranged from
22 to 16 degrees above zero. Frank
Kachelhoffer, 75 years old, and his
wife, aged 70, were found dead by
neighbors in a two-room shack near
the river. Death was said to have
been caused by lack of food and coal.
Kansas City.—A storm of sleet and
snow swept over western Missouri and
most of Kansas. Telegraph and tele
phone service was badly demoralized,
few' wires working out of Kansas City.
The wire situation was w'orse to west
and north and but meager reports are
coming in as to the extent of the
storm.
Los Angeles, Cal. —So far as rail
road communication was concerned,
Los Angeles and southern California
remained cut off from the world as a
result of the record-breaking storm of
rain and wind, which swept this re
gion for three days. Reports from the
six counties most affected did not ma
terlaiy change the estimate of the to
tal damage amounting to about four
and a half million dollars. The great
est anxiety concerns the situation of
the three hundred passengers maroon
ed aboard the California limited and
the Phoenix express of the Santa Fe
train.
DAMAGE BY FIRE IN ATLANTA
McKenzie Building, One of City Land
marks, Gutted by Flames.
Atlanta. —Fully twenty-five thou
sand spectators in the vicinity of the
Candler building throughout Sunday
afternoon watched nearly every fire
man in the city battle with one
of the most dangerous downtown fires
in years, which almost completely
wrecked the McKenzie building at
James and Peachtree streets, a city
landmark.
Damage is estimated at being be
tween one hundred thousand and one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Five firemen were injured. A num
ber were suffocated by smoke and
fumes. One ladderman, E. A. Davis, of
engine house, No,_ 1, fell from the top
of a 32-foot ladder in front of the
Johnson-Gewinner firm, when it slip
ped and crashed to the sidewalk. He
was carried in a semi-conscious condi
tion to the Ansley hotel, where he re
ceived medical attention.
The other injured firemen were hurt
by flying glass and falling timbers.
None of them were wounded seriously.
They were Hoseman Bill Gilbert of
headquarters; James IJoolev, engine
house No. 2; J. G. Medlin, an engineer,
engine house No. 4, and Bill Cody of
headquarters.
The firms that suffered from the
flames were the Johnson-Gewinner
company, the Stoddard company, the
Stephen A. Ryan real estate office, the
Pickard-Deans Drug company, the
John Clialman Tailoring shop, the
Georgia Realty and Trust company,
the Woodmen of the World lodge, the
John D. Babbage real estate offices
and the W. R. Jeter contracting con
cern.
Father of Nation Honored.
Washington.—President Wilson was
the central figure at a mass meeting
in a downtown theater here under the
auspices of the Sons of the Revolu
tion in commemoration of Washing
ton’s birthday. Joseph W. Folk, solic
itor of the state department, in an
address, paid tribute to the founder of
the republic as a man “imperfect
enough to be intensely human and
near enough perfect to be an inspira
tion to all who honor justice and wor
ship liberty.” President Wilson did
not speak.
Joseph Fels Passes to Unknown.
Philadelphia.—Joseph Fels, million
aire soap manufacturer, single tax ad
vocate and philanthropist, died at his
i home here from pneumonia. He was
161 years old. Mr. Fels spent most of
I his time advocating the doctrine of
the single tax in both this country and
| Great Britain. He recently returned
; from England, where he had given a
| large part of his fortune to the crea
i tion andmaintenance of a single tax
| co-operative colony near London. Em
j ployees of Mr. Fels firm in this city
I benefit by a profit-sharing system.
LITTLE NEWS ITEMS
THROUGHOUT STATE
Clayton.—News has reached here
j of the killing of a man by the name
of Curtis,* about fourteen miles from
here in the northwest part of the
county. Curtis was found dead near
the residence of Virgil V. Justus, a
prominent farmer of that section.
The appearance of the body indicates
that he was shot, so far as known
there were no eye-witnesses to the
killing. It is reported, however, that
Justus admits he did the shooting.
Jonesboro. —Clayton superior court
convened February 23, with Judge C.
S. Ried and Solicitor Napier in their
respective positions. Besides the
usual amount of civil cases, the crim
inal docket is unusually heavy, four
negroe murder cases and one arson
case and a large number of gaming
and other minor offenses. There, are
seventeen in jail, all negroes.
Athens. —A semi-annual per cent,
dividend of four or five per cent, is
considered a fair business for even a
banking institution, but a hundred
per cent, dividend on top of the an
nual 8 per cent, is a remarkable rec
ord made by the National bank of
Athens. A cool SIOO,OOO, a sum ex
actly equal to the capital stock, was
divided among the stockholders in
addition to the regular annual divi
dend.
Cuthbert. —From the looks of
things, a government position looks
mighty good to a number of people
in this county. A civil service exam
ination for selecting a rural carrier
on a new route, recently held in this
city under the direction of Postmis
tress Alice B. Bussey, was stood by
twenty-five applicants, from all over
the county, every one of whom has
hopes of getting s9l a month—minus
carrying expenses —in lieu of a farm
life.
Lyerly.—A report from Summer
ville is to the effect that Frank Math
ews, alleged bank robber, held in
connection with the robbing of the
Lyerly bank, is seriously ill at Sum
merville, and attending physicians
are of the opinion that death is only
a matter of a few days. Mathews,
when first found, was very sick, but
was given medical attention and re
covered and was carried to the coun
ty jail in Summerville, where he has
been since the arrest was made a
few days after the bank robbery.
Winder. —Winder folks celebrated
Washington’s birthday by turning out
and making of a runaway match
quite an elaborate wedding. When
Miss Ruby Turner and G. W. Thorn
ton, an eloping couple from Athens,
reached this place and proceeded to
get a license, the news leaked out and
a crowd of mery people soon gather
ed and proceeded to asist in the af
fair, although the would-be-weds
were total strangers. Some one sug
gested that the knot should be tied
in the church and the couple agreed.
The crowd increased quickly, so that
by time the ceremony wasp erformed
the church was well filled.
Augusta.—The biggest police cap
ture in years was made here when a
gang of negro crooks were taken by
the detective force in an ol<j shack
on the outskirts of the city. The ne
groes, three in number, whose names
are withheld, have confessed to thir
teeen detailed burglaries of resi
dences and busines houses. For a
whole year the detective force has
worked in vain until now to appre
hend the burglars, whose looting will
total a large sum. In their opera
tions the negroes have perpetrated
some daring robberies, and some
were the most sensational in local
police annals. In one instance wo
men occupants of a home were chlo
roformed while the burglars ransack
ed the house.
Dublin. —W. O. Armstrong, the for
mer cashier of the Bank of Rentz,
who was placed in jail on a charge
of embezzling about $12,000 from the
bank, has given bond in the sum of
$12,000 and left for his home in Ha
zelhurst. An examination of the
bank's affairs is still in progress, and
it is now thought that the shortage
will run a good deal more than $12,-
000, which was at. first believed to
be the extent of the sum short. Arm
strong is the son of A. T. Armstrong,
former cashier of the Bank of Hazel
hurst, who committed suicide a few
weeks ago rather than be arrested on
the charge of embezzling $12,000
from the bank with which he was
connected.
Cordele. —A certain well-dressed,
dignified-looking man registered at
one of the best local hotels several
days ago, giving his name as W. M.
Walter and his address as New York.
To take his word for it he was a
mind reader. But now he has gone,
just where no one in Cordele knows,
though some are rather effectively
impressed with the fact that he is
about the slickest "fleece” artist who
ever worked Cordele. He was just
good enough ath is profesion to get
away with $525 belonging to one too
easily-convinced citizen and several
hundred dollars belonging to others.
Just how thay came to part with
their money none of them can ex
plain, or are too reluctant to say.
Marietta. —At the regular monthly
meeting of tne U. C. V. of Cobb coun
ty, held in September last, it was
unanimously decided to erect a suit
able memorial at the grave of little
Mary Phagan, same to be placed by
April 26 next, which will be the an
niversary of the death of the little
girl who gave her life for her honor.
The U. C. V.’s of Cobb county under
stand that other organizations have
interested themselves in collecting
funds for such a memorial, and all
such organizations are invited by the
Cobb county U. C. V.’s to meet with
them on the first Tuesday in March
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