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SCHOOL BOOK LAW
NOW MANDATORY
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MEND TEXTBOOKS FOR THE
STATE SCHOOLS.
FELDER GIVES AN OPINION
Five Practical Educators Chosen for
Work—Must Adopt Uniform
High School Books.
—Atlanta.
The state board of education, sit
ting as a school book commission, se
lected five members of a sub-commis
sion and two alternates, who will ad
vise the state board in the selection of
textbooks to be adopted in the state
public schools. Following is a list of
those chosen:
L. F. Elrod, superintendent of the
Jackson county schools, Jefferson; J.
M. Collum, principal of the Third Dis
trict Agricultural school, Americus ;
Jason Scarboro, superintendent of the
city schools, Tifton; E. B. Gresham,
superintendent of the Burke county
schools, Waynesboro, and G. W. Brin
dle, a country school teacher of Sur
rency; alternates, J. R. Campbell, the
principal of the town school, Forsyth;
and J. C. Harris, superintendent of
city schools, Rome.
Ten nominations were placed be
fore the board and four ballots were
taken before the sub-commission was
selected. Under the law the sub-com
mission must be composed of practical
educators, all actively engaged in edu
cational work either as county superin
tendents, city superintendents or
teachers of graded schools.
The sub-commission will meet with
the state board at its next meeting in
Atlanta, October 25, and must have
their reports ready to submit by No
vember. They are not required to
meet together themselves, but must
submit individual reports in writing
to the state board.
Another matter which the board had
up for consideration was the selection
pf uniform textbooks for high schools.
I"his is a function which some of the
members of the board did not care to
assume unless the law made it oblig
atory.
Attorney General Thomas S. Felder
was called into conference with the
beard. He gave as his opinion that
the new law was mandatory and that
uniform high school textbooks must be
selected for such high schools in the
state as now receiving state aid.
.This, of.course, does not include the
Hiigh schools belonging to city sys
' terns.
Blames Mother-in-Law.
“The wickedest mother-in-law in the
world” •is described by L. W. Thur
man, in a divorce suit now pending
in the Fulton superior court, in which
he blames the mother-in-law aforesaid
for the separation.
The woman is described in the peti
tion and evidence as a regular female
Bluebeard, who has made away with
five husbands under mysterious cir
cumstances, or made them so misera
ble that they left her.
“She neither believed in God nor
the devil,” says Thurman, and gives
the following account of her five mar
riages:
Husband No. 1 she deserted, leaving
two children on his hands.
Husband No. 2 she treated with such
cruelty that he deserted her.
Husband No. 3 she swore falsely
against and had thrown into prison
by wrongfully accusing him of a hor
rible crime. •
Husband No. 4 died under mysteri
ous circumstances.
Husband No. 5 she shot.
Thurman says his*own marital trou
bles are the result of a wicked con
spiracy hatched by his mother-in-law
to get his property.
•No More “Spielers.”
The order forbidding “spielers” to
ptand in front of stores or auction
P||ces and persuade people to enter
Ms wiped out one of the most pic
ftresque features of old Decatur
|Btreet, and has brought distress to the
scores of Greek and Semitic mer
chants who used their own gift of gab
instead of other weans of advertis
ing to induce customers into their
shops.
The order has forbidden all trades
men to stand outside their doors and
invite people in. It was passed be
cause so many private auctions con
ducted in the front doors of stores,
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MEXICO REPUBLIC BOILING
Ostracism of Huerta Apparently
the Policy cf All Foreign
Powers.
Mexico City, Oct. 15th—The di
plomatic representatives of
Great Britain, France, Norway,
Spain, Cuba, Guatemala, at a con
ference, deeeided to recommend
that their respective govern
ments send warships to Mexico
for the purpose of affording lega
tion guards, should conditions so
require. 1 1
Washington, D. C., Oct. 15th —
Administration bffkvals up to
the hour of closing the govern
ment departments today were
without advices as to the result
of the reported conference in Mex
ico City of the entire diplomat
ic corps.
This development, in the situ
ation, follow r ng close upon Plres
ident Wilson’s sharp note de
caring that the Urtited States was
shocked at the “lawlessness” of
General Ilerta in assunfing a die
torship over Mexico, wfas taken
to mean here that foreign gov
ernments might bring pressure to
bear in an effort to compose tbe
situation.
The consensus of opinion here
was that the Mexican situations]
was drifting toward a crisis with
the United States awaiting Hu
erta’s next move-
4 Persons Killed; 20 Hurt. .
Dallas, Texas. —Four persons were
killed and more than twenty injured
when a freight car loaded with cross
teis which broke from a train on a
down grade crashed into an interur
ban passenger car near here. The col
lision occurred on a 50-foot trestle and
practically demolished the entire front
end of the passenger car, but without
throwing it from the bridge. The dead
are Walter O. Seal, Dallas, motorman;
Walter R. Hurlbert, Lancaster, Texas:
James Shippey, Maxahachie, Texas; J.
Carpenter, Waxahachie, Texas.
American Killed by Mexicans.
El Paso, Texas. —F. B. Ellis of Crip
ple Creek, Colo., arrived in Juarez
from Toreron. He said his brother
Joseph was killed by Mexicans while
a party of Americans was leaving Tor
recn for the border. F. B. Ellis was
shot in the arm. Three others of the
party are missing. They are J. M. Par
sons, Wichita, Kans.; L. M. White,
Butte, Mont., and A. T. Stevens, Sac
ramento, Cal. The party was about
half-way between Torreon and El Oro
when Mexicans in uniform who claim
ed to be rebels attacked them.
Small Blaze.
Fire broke out in ginbouse at
the Oil Mill Wednesday but was
soon extinguished with little loss.
The fire lfiddi£ss - were on . the
scene in quick time.
crowded the pavement interfered
with traffic.
Dirty and evil-smelling as it is, De
catur street has been, in the truest
sense, the most cosmopolitan and
metropolitan feature of Atlanta. Peach
tree and Whitehall still bear the un
mistakable stamp of the small towm
from which Atlanta has grown, but
set a man down in the middle of De
catur street who had never been
there, and he could well imagine him
self in New York, Chicago or Frisco.
Prairie Dogs for Park Zoo.
The latest addition to the Grant
Park zoo is a pair of prairie dogs,
a gift from B. M. Dickey of Electra,
Texas. They have arrived, and a spe
cially designed wife cage, with con
crete flooring, has been prepared for
them.
Five years ago a pair of prairie
dogs burrowed through the ground un
der their cage at the zoo and tunneled
a distance of more than 500 feet be
fore coming to the surface, and the
new cage has been deMgped with a
view to preventing a sifnilar escape
cf the new arrivals. ’ j
Winder, Jackson County, Ga., Thursday, October 16, 1913.
TIMOTHY L. WOODRUFF
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Former Lieutenant Governor of New
York, who died in New York City,
after a prolonged illness.
HUERTA MAY SPLIT ARMY
WIVES OF ARRESTED SOLONS BE
SIEGE U. S. REPRESENTA
TIVE.
Startling Developments Expected to
Follow Arrest of the Mexican
Congressmen.
Mexico City.—There has been end
less speculation here regarding the ef
fect of Provisional President Huerta’s
coup d’etat. Many appear to believe
that the logical result will be a split
in the army, which they assert has
been held together only by the force
of General Huerta’s personality. They
argue that there has been dissatisfac
tion over Huerta’s course in general,
and that this will test loyalty to the
dan£ej point. They look for startling
developments in the near future.
On the other hand, there is a large
element which believes President
Huerta took the only possible course,
and expresses wonder that he had not
taken the step lcmg ago. Huerta’s
friends say it is no secret that had
the deputies believed any substantial
part of the army would stand with them
they would have overridden Huerta
and taken the reins of government en
tirely in tlieir hands.
Minister of the Interior Manuel Gar
za Aldape made the followinfg an
nouncement:
“The deputies who have been ar
rested and imprisoned cannot be re
leased on any writ. They will be tried
for the various offenses of which they
are accused. Not one of them has
been released by the government to
date. They will be treated well while
in confinement.
TIMOTHY WOODRUFF DEAD
Former Lieutenant Governor of New
York Stricken in New York City.
New York. —Timothy L. Woodruff,
former lieutenant governor of New
York state, died here. He had lain
in a critical condition for nearly two
weeks after having been stricken with
paralysis while addressing a Progres
sive party rally in this city. He was
55 years old.
Mr. Woodruff rallied for a time
from his first attack and hopes were
entertained for his recovery. Howev
er, his condition again became alarm
ing, and he lapsed into unconscious
ness, from which he emerged only
once for a brief interval. During the
night the use of stimulants and oxy
gen was resorted to, and this, togeth
er with his great vitality, kept him
alive through the day. With him as
he died were Mrs. Woodruff, Mrs. Rod
ney Ward, his only sister, and Mrs.
Ward, and John E. Woodruff, his son,
and the latter’s wife.
Bom in New Haven, Conn., 65
years ago and graduated from Yale
in the class of 1879, Mr. Woodruff
shortly afterward entered a business
career in *New York, and soon began
to take an active interest in politics.
Asa Republican he was an active po
litical figure in New York state for
nearly thirty years, and until a year
ago, when he left that party and join
ed the Brogressives,
“The dissolution of congress will
not affect the holding of elections in
the least. The ballots will be cast in
Octbber.
for city primary. 1
WILLIAM SCHLEY HOWARD
To Demand Probe of Atlanta Fed
eral Prise n and a General
Clean-Up is Premised.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. lb—Corrobo
rating in practically every part'eh
ular the pubished statements of
Juiiui Hawthorp, the novelist
and Dr. W. J. Morton, who were
on Wednesday released from the
Atlanta federal penitentiary, al
leging inhumane treatment of
prisoners, Congressman William
Schley Howard stated last night
that he will make revelations to
the federal government wfiich
will cause a wholesale investiga
tion of conditions at the prison.
“I do not know what weight
the statements of Mr. Hawthorne
and Dr. Morton maj” have with
the government,” said Congress
man Howard at his home in De
catur Wednesday night, “but T
do know that I am going to start
an investigation of the Atlanta
federal prison from top to bottom
I know* that what these two
prisoners just released have said
is true in the greater part if
not in toto, and I know that
the officers actively, in charge at
the Atlanta federal prison and
not the federal government are
responsible for the existing con
ditions. I am out to find just
where that responsibility lies.
Expert on Railroad Wrecks.
H. W. Belnap. chief Inspector of
safety appliances of the interstate com
merce commission, who recently in
vestigated the North Haven wreck on
the New York. New Haven and Hart
ford railroad, has bad a wide experi
ence in railroad disasters.
Commenting on the great loss of life
in the North Hayey disaster. Inspector
Belnap
wreck at Tyrone. €*a. In the report
of Uig Tyrone wrepk the fact that 153
persons were injured, but only one
person Whs killed, is emphasized as
proper that the lives of many pas
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sengers nud trainmen were spared be
cause the cars comprising the wrecked
trains were of steel.
The striking comparison of the supe
rior advantages of steel cars over
wooden cars is made in the Tyrone
collision from the fact that all its cir
cumstances were almost a duplication
of the collision at North Haven.
“The substantial construction of the
modern steel cars making up this
train." said Mr. Belnap. “is without
doubt the reason that none of the pas
sengers vvas killed.”
Mr. Unap has been chief inspector
for n number of years and has in that
capacity Investigated many railroad
wrecks - Refore being promoted to the
head of his division he was a member
of the staff of inspectors.
Shingleman.
16 Pages—No. 27
400 MINERS KILLED
BE AN EXPLOSION
WELSH MINE SHATTERED AFTER
NEARLY A THOUSAND MEN
BEGAN WORK.
COUNTRY SHAKEN FOR MILES
About Five Hundred Were Rescued.
Forty Thousand Persons Sur
rounded Mouth of Pit.
Cardiff, Wales. —A disaster, possibly
the greatest In the history of the
South Wales coal fields, whose annals
are blistering with terrible catastro
phes, occurred through an explosion,
in the Universal colliery near here.
Shortly after the day shift of 931 men
entered the mine an explosion shat
tered the works.
During the day and early in the
night about five hundred miners were
brought to the surface alive.
After midnight rescuing parties be
gan to get the fire under control and
at 2:30 o’clock next morning twenty
more men were found alive at the bot
tom of the pit. This gave hope that
others may be found, but there is still
a probability that nearly four hundred
men perished.
Including the bodies recovered and
those killed at the pit head the known
death roll numbers 16. Doctors with
oxygen and mediaments descended the
shaft. A crowd of nearly forty thou
sand distracted persons surrounded
the pit head all night and another five
thousand waited for news
So violent was the detonation that
the coutnry for miles around was
shaken as though by an earthquake,
and from the severity of the shock
it was feared that all the entombed
men had been burned to death or
been blown to bits, making the disas
ter the worst in the history of Wales.
Cardiff trembled from the shock, fire
followed the explosion and smoke
rolled from the mouth of the mine.
A rescue squad was formed and
started into the mjne, after the
flames had died down. They reported
that the shaft gearing had been de
stroyed. The connections between the
fans and the interior of the pit were
blown asunder, cutting off the sup
ply of fresh air. Other pumps were
rigged up, however, to furnish fresh
aid and blow' out the poisonous fumes.
Soon the work of carrying out the
survivors began. Many of them were
unconscious. Some had their clotn
ing blown off.
Families of- the miners rushed to
the mouth of the pit, frantic in their
grief and anxiety and determined to
sacrifice their own lives, if necessary,
in ait #ut kempt to save their loved
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DISPLEASED
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United States Will Not Accept Com
ing Elections in Mexico as Legal.
Washington.—The United States gov
ernment informed Provisional Presi
dent Huerta that it looked with ab
horrence and amazement upon- his as
sumption of both executive/and legis
lative powers in Mexico %nd* that in
view of his course Regard
as constitutional the elections plan
ned for October 26.
Two notes, one strongly phrased and
w ritten by Secretary Bryan, inquiring
about the safety of imprisoned mem
bers of the Mexican congress, and the
other drawn in forceful language by
President hjmself and said to
Constitute practically the last
of the Washington government to <jgai
with the Hufirtn authorities by tliplo-'
matic means unless there is a decided
change of spirit on the part of the offi
cials in Mexico City, were sent to the
Mexican president.
The negotiations through John Lind
had progressed to the point w’here the
state department accepted the indorse
ment of Frederico Gamboa for the
presidency, as meaning the ejjmlaa*
tion of Huerta, and where con
dently hoped that a fa|r fend free elec-*
tion would be held October 26. Now,
however, President Wilson has made
it clear that the Washington govern
ment had with the events of the last
few days—the imprisonment of the
deputies and the establishment of a
dictatorship by Huerta, lost all hope
of seeing a constitutional election
held by the Huerta regime.
Registration hooks close Oct. 25.