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THE CLAYTON TRIBUNE. THERE IS NO PAPER LIKE THE HOME PAPER TO HOME PEOPLE. VOLUME XVII. CLAYTON, BA.BUN COUNTY, GEORGIA* 1 LTU'DAY, JANUARY 1(5, 1<>14. NUMBER a. (MEKESS SIMTS CATO SELLS ANTI-TRUST LEGISLATION LOOMS AS BIG BUSINESS AT THIS SESSION OF CONGRESS. SUPPLY MEASURE PASSED i The Anti-Trust Experts Are at Work in Both Houses—A Period of Great Activity Begun. Washington.—Congress settled down to its long regular session after a recess dating from the passage of the currency bill just before Christmas. The coming administrate anti-trust legislation loomed up as the big busi ness of the winter; but with the pro. pent of waiting until the president message both houses turned actively to other matters. in the house return to work was celebrated by prompt passage of the llrst of the annual supply measures, the District of Columbia appropriation bill, and the introduction of the usual opening day batch of miscellaneous measures. The senate began debate on the Alaskan government railroad bill. Anti-trust experts' in both houses began a period of extraordinary activ ity, to end when the anti-trust pro gram is written into law before the close of the session. Chairman Clayton and Representa tives Carlin and Floyd of the house committee, are reviewing the long Hut of anti trust measures already before the committee, it is not probable that any of these hills will be accepted an a part of tile administration plan, but all the ideas embodied in the.m will be considered. Senator Newiands of the senate commerce committee ex pects to take up the anti-trust pro gram soon. Representative Webb of North Car olina Introduced his Ml Uo s-reagthert the Sherman law by declaring illegal every contract, combination or con spiracy in restrain of “any part” of trade and designed to reach so-called gentlemen’s agreements or understand ings His bill would put the burden of proof of reasonableness upon the defendants. SEISMIC SHOCKS IN JAPAN Volcanic Eruption Follows Shocks and People Are in Panic. Tokio. Japan.—A series of 350 slight earthquakes shook the town og Kago shima at the southern end of the island ol’ Kiuahvu. They were followed by the eruption of a volcano on Sakura, a small island in the Cult of Kagoshi ma, where two villages were hurled in ashes. The earthquakes continue incessantly and the work of rescuing the inhabi tants of Sakura by boats across the in tervening three miles of water from Kagoshima is extremely difilculc. Warships have been dispatched to Kagoshima with doctors.and supplies. Railroad and telegraph lines are now broken. The town of Kagoshima is in great danger, according to the latest reports. Earth shocks and violent volcanic eruptions continue. Inhabitants are fleeing for their lives. The popula tion of the Island of Sakura is about 15,000. and it is impossible to estimate the casualties. It is feared many have perished. The volcanic eruption on Sakura be gan with thunderous explosions and the volcano became a roaring furnace. Burning rock and ashes set fire to several villages. Two Negroes Lynched. Tampa, Fla.—News was received here of a double lynching between here and Mulberry, when a mob is alleged to have captured two negroes charged with assault on a white man named Collins, and strung them up to a tree. According to meager details ■of the crime brought here. Lewis Peck .and an unknown negro assaulted Col lins, supposedly in the belief that he was the man who had testified*-against them in a court prosecution. The lynching lias stirred the large number of negroes engaged in the phosphate Helds at Mulberry to a high state of •excitement. MRS. MEDILL M'CORMICK Trust in God, Says Marshall. „ Washington.—Infidelity and discus sion front the pulpit of the latest bits ■of scandal were scored by Vice Pres ident Marshall, in an addross to the Woman’s Missionary Society here. He ■declared lie would rather have the American people bow down before an image thau acknowledge no God at all, adding that If the republic Is to en dure “We must go back and place our faitli in God.” “Wliat this country needs," said the vice president, “}s not laws, police nor large armies. It needs men with backbone." Cato Sells, the commissioner of In dian affairs at Washington, has just outlined his program for bettering the conditions of the Indians and recover ing the millions of dollars the red men have lost to the land sharps. He plans criminal prosecution of those who have robbed the red man and will compile facts for presentation to congress leading to drastic legislation to safeguard the health and wealth of the Indians. ThiB picture shows Mr. Sells at his desk in Washington. 0. S. ARMY !S UNPREPARED UNITED STATES SHY OF FIELD GUNS'AND ALSO OF AMMUNITION. General Waod Paints Doleful Picture of Army to Congressional Committees. Washington. —Explaining that Ills judgment was not influenced by the Mexican situation, Major General Wood, chief of staff of the army, has advised committees of congress that they should appropriate $3,000,000 for field guns and ammunition “If you sent our troops into war as they are now-, without guns or ammu nition, it would be absolute slaugh ter,’’ the general told the house mili tary committee. “If called into the field suddenly, we should have to go with a small allowance of ammunition, and v/e should have neither guns nor ammunition enough for our field artil lery forces." General Wood, in a written state ment, said: "We neither have guns nor ammuni tion sufficient to give any general com manding an army in the field any as surance of success if attacked by an army of equal size which is supplied witli its proper quota of field artil lery. “It is my belief that no modern war- between first class powers will last for one year, and unless private manu facturers are encouraged to manufac ture ammunition for our guns, after war is declared, they will not be in a condition to do so until after the war is finished. “The war department believes after extended study that, in cases of war with a first class power, an artny of 500,000 men will be needed to give this country any chance of success against invasion, and that this force will needed at once.” The general suggested that the United States regular mobile army should be organized into three infan try and two cavalry divisions with an aggregate war strength of about 75,000, requiring 54 batteries, or 216 guns. MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN, DOGS, CHICKENS AND CATTLE PACKED TOGETHER. REFUGEES ARE IN DISTRESS There Are Six Generals, 2,800 Private Soldiers and 1,500 Civilian Refugees. I’residio, Texas.—Twenty-eight hun dred Mexican federal soldiers, six gen erals, 200,000 rounds of ammunition, two cannon, four large field pieces and 1,500 civilian refugees are in the cus- toduy of the United States army bor-’ dor patrol as the result of the federal evacuation of Ojinaga, Mexico, and the occupation of the Mexican village by General Francisco Villa’s rebel forces. The distress of the refugees is in tense. They have scant food and no shelter. Men, women, children, dogs, chickens and cattle are packed togeth er in a space covering several acres. About them are scattered all the goods and baggage brought in flight from Ojinaga. Urgent requests for the immediate removal of soldiers and refugees to some other place were sent by Major McNamee to the war department Other results of the rebel successes that placed General Villa’s army in undisputed control of a vast section of northern Mexico are: Federal Generals Mercado, Castro. Orpinal, Romero, Aduno and Landa are in custody of the United States troops awaiting disposition by the war de partment. General Pascual Orozco and General Ynez Salazar, federal volunteer com manders, escaped along the border to some point remote from Presidio. Sal azar was wounded. They were accom panied by General Caravoo and Gen eral Rojas and 300 cavalrymen. Sala zar and Orozco are "jug watched for in tile United States tor indictments i charging them with violating the neu trality laws. firs. Medlll McCormick, daughter of tM2 late Senator Mark Hanna, is the new chairman of the congressional committee of the National American Wcman Suffrage association and has opened headquarters In Washington. Sh' has been a leader in the suffrage movement In Illinois for several years. 13,333,074 BALES GINNED CENSUS BUREAU REPORT OF GIN NING PRIOR TO JANUARY FIRST, 1914. Compares with 12,907,405 Bales, Which Were Ginnedv in the Year of 1912. Biography of Great Evangelist. Winoua Lake, Ind.—While Rev. Billy Sunday, the noted evangelist, was resting here recently, after a strenuous campaign in Johnstown, Pa., he received word that the new biography, “The Spectacular Career of Rev. Billy Sunday,” was off the press. It is the work of T. T. Frank- uulierg and the evangelist auys it Is a truthful account of his life. Assert Thaw Is Not Dangerous. Concord. N. H.—The release on bail of Harry K. Thaw would not menace public safety, two of his custodians de clared at a public hearing before the commission appointed by the federal court to pass upon Thaw’s mental con dition and its relation to his libera tion under bonds. Holman A, Drew sheriff of Coos county, and Clark D. Stevens of the local police force, who have had Thaw In charge since Sep tember, favored his admission to bail. Thaw and his mother were present with counsel. EUGENE H. GRACE IS DEAD Final Chapter Written in One of Great est Georgia Tragedies. Newnan, Ga.—Eugene Grace is dead and the final chapter has been written to the famous tragedy. The end came at his Newnan home where he has been living for months. Around him were gathered Ills moth er, brother, sister and stepfather and a number of relatives. While the angel of death was hover ing over Eugene Grace there came from the North the report that the woman he accuses was cherishing the hope that her husband would recover and ask her back into his sunny South ern home. Grace was wounded Murcli 5, 1912. Awaking about noon with a bullet in his spine, lie crawled from bed to tele phone police headquarters. Policemen found him unconscious in a locked bedroom of his East Eleventh street home, Atlanta, Ga. He accused his wife and she was urrested at the Ter minal station on her return from her husband’s home in Newnan. Mrs. Grace declared the shooting was accidental. She faced Grace in the hospital, where lie accused her before detectives, saying she shot him while he was asleep. She was jailed, but shortly after gave bond and made a trip to Philadelphia. Her trial occur red several weeks later and she was acquitted. The wounded man attend ed the trial on a stretcher, constantly reiterating Ills accusal. Upon acquit tal Mrs. Grace returned to Philadel phia, where she now lives. Wilson Departs From Southland. Pass Christian, Miss.—After nearly three weeks of rest and recreation at a little cottage near the gulf coast here, President Wilson bade farewell to the Southland. He told Mayor Sassier and a crowd of citizens who gathered at the station to bid him Godspeed, that ho had enjoyed Ills vacation very much and had benefited greatly by the change of climate, and had obtained exactly the rest lie had desired. The president and his family got aboard his car early in the evening and had retired long before, the train was due to depart. lingteii.—The: eighth cotton gin- r,> ’ the season announces that 13,333,074 bales of cotton, counting round as half hales, of the growtli of 1913 had been ginned prior to January 1, to which date during the past seven years the ginning averaged 93.4 per cent, of entire crop. Last year to January 1, there had tieen ginned 12,907,405 bales or 95.7 per cent, of the entire crop, 14,317,002 bales, or 92.1 per cent., in 1911, and 12,465,298 bales, or 95.3 per cent., in 1908. Ginnings prior to January 1 by states with comparisons for last year BAYONETS 10 RULE GOVERNMENT MEETS GENERAL STRIKE ORDER BY DECLAR ING MARTIAL LAW. SITUATION IS VERY GRAVE Feeling Is Very Bitter Throughout the Country—Natives Are Feared. Cape Town, Union of South Africa.— A general strike throughout South Af rica was proclaimed by the Trades Federation, and the Rand miners, by a two-thirds majority, voted to join in the movement. Governmental retal iation was swift in the form of the proclamation of martial law. Tills was the only step the authori ties believed adequate to meet the sit uation, for the strike of the miners means not only the turning loose of the most turbulent spirits in the Rand, but raises the whole question of the position of the native workers, if the miners actually obey the strike order, the government will immediately take steps to send the natives, under es cort, hack to their kraals. Tliis means that about two hundred thousand natives must be marched back by road to their homes at enor mous cost, it will bo most difficult, after the end of the strike, to recruit them again. In brief, such a step would mean disaster for the Rand for many years. Although official reports from the city of Johannesburg show improve ment in the train service, reports from other districts are less encouraging. In Natal the situation is one of great tension, and it is feared that the loy alty of the trainmen will not stand the strain much longer. An instance of the men’s temper is shown hy the ac tion of an engine driver who quit ills train on the Veldt and left the passen gers stranded. Practically no information is at hand as to conditions in the Orange Free | States, but improvement there is not t ••Ml •(..» HI -.Htjll.. and other big crop ypjirs follow * States. Year. Ginnings. Alabama .... .1913 1,467,943 1912 1,288,227 1911 1,618,510 1908 1,302,338 Arkansas. . . . .1913 933,389 191s 732,118 1911 786,329 1908 910,423 Florida .... .1913 65,269 1912 56,042 1911 86,421 1908 66,855 Georgia .... .1913 2,276,477 1912 1,756,834 1911 2,623,917 1908 1,930,783 Louisiana . . . .1913 1,143,067 1912 366,402 1911 352,503 Mississippi . . .1913 759,664 1912 857,189 1911 1,047,299 North Carolina. .1913 759,664 1912 857,189 1911 975,223 Oklahoma . . . .1913 804,457 1912 947,452 1911 900,409 South Carolina .1913 1,342,988 1912 1,173,216 1911 1,508,753 Tennessee . . . .1913 354,549 1912 248,503 1911 381,281 Texas .... .1913 3,668,080 1912 4,461,746 1911 3,926,059 Other states . .1913 107,105 1912 82,257 1911 110,298 1908 67,777 The ginnings of sea island cotton. HUERTA DEFAULS ON DEBT Dictator Announces No Interest Will Be Paid on Debts. Mexico City.—After a meeteing of the cabinet, which lasted all night, the Mexican foreign minister, Querido Me- heno, announced that the Mexican gov ernment will default in the payment of all interest on the bonds of the internal and external debts, which now remains unpaid or which falls due with in the next six months. A heavy pay ment of Interest on the foreign debt becomes due in April. It has been the practice of the gov ernment to make weekly remittances to New York, London and Paris to ap ply on its interest obligations, in or der that when the interest payment periods arrived the money would he in hand. TJiese weekly remittances now have been suspended, the explana tion being that the government re quires all available funds for pacifi cation purposes. The foreign minister said also that ho had been instructed to notify all foreign governments of the default. 12 Worst Boys in United States. Chicago.—The twelve worst boys in the United States were brought togeth er in Chicago. They will leave to establish the Last Chance Boys’ Club, on a nine-acre ranch 27 miles from Reno, Nevada, whero an effort will be made to make valuable citizens of them. The club is supported by Jack London, Upton Sinclair, Robert Hun ter and Jack Robbins. The boys range in age from 13 to 15 years. They were selected from among nine thousand bid boys In twelve states and each is rated at more than 87 per cent. bad. prior to January 1, by states, follow: Years. Florida. Georgia. So. Car. 1913 , . . .25,166 41,768 7,386 1912 . . • .21,085 39,543 6,629 1911 ... .38,091 63,099 4,798 4 United States Seamen Drown. Norfolk, Va. — The capsizing in Hampton Roads of a motor cutter from the battleship Wyoming, flagship of the Atlantic fleet, resulted in the loss of the lives of four seamen of the Wyoming’s crew. The accident occur red’ near the very spot where a launch from the battleship Minnesota went down in 1907 with the loss of eleven lives, mostly young midshipmen re turning to the Minnesota in a storm after midnight following a social af fair at the Jamestown Exposition grounds. Not Moral Turpitude to Libel King. New York.—If it would not involve a moral turpitude to publish in Eng land a defamatory libel "against a field laborer In Devon or a street sweeper in London,” it would noi in volve moral turpitude to publish the same libel “regarding the lord chan cellor, or even tho king,” the United States court of appeals held. The court expressed this view in deciding that Edward F. Mylius, whom the de partment of commerce ordered deport ed, cannot be barred from the United States on the charge of moral turpi tude. Thousands Killed by Quake and Wave. Tokio. Japan.—A tidal wave added its terrors to the earthquakes and vol canic eruption which struck Kagoshi ma, in southern Japan, according to official advices. It is believed the Kagoshima disaster will prove to be one of the most serious in the history of Japan. The loss of life and prop erty increases with fuller news from the scene. The full extent of the dis aster could not be ascertained, as all communication u as cut off. John Skelton Williams Comptroller. Washington. —President Wilson has nominated John Skelton Williams of Virginia, assistant secretary of the treasury, for comptroller of the cur rency and ex-officio member of the federal reserve board which will ad minister the affairs of the now' cur rency system. Mr. Williams is now assistant secretary of the treasury in charge of the fiscal bureaus and Sec retary McAdoo’s first assistant in mat ters of government finance. The of fice of comptroller of the currency has been vacant several months. LITTLE ITEMS OFGEORG1A CITIES Senoia.—B. Q. W. Kempson, a high ly respected and successful farmer, residing near Senoia, was thrown from his buggy and broke Ills neck, lie had been to the mill and was re turning home when his mule became frightened at a hole in a bridge across a branch, backed flic buggy off the bridge and threw Mr. ICemp- son out. The deceased was 69 years of age on January 10,-and is survived by a wife and nine children. Macon.—-From the death of Me- Ewen Johnston, whose will was of fered for probate, and who left an estate valued at approximately $750,- 000, the state of Georgia will receive in inheritance taxes about $7,500. As this is tile largest estate which has become subject to 'tihe inheritance tax since the law was approved by Governor Slaton on August 19 last, some account of tho operation of the act will lie of general interest. Cedartown.—The record of fires for the year 1913, as shown by tlio re port of the chief of the fire depart ment, S. W. Good, to the mayor and city council, reveals some Interesting facts. The department answered twenty-four alarms during the year, four of which wore false. The prop erty loss \as the small amount of $43.75. Probably no city of equal size in the United States can show such a record. Williamson.-—John Shipp, newly- elected marshal, shot and killed Wil liam Bibli, a negro, in a desperate pistol duel just as three passenger trains met here. Bibb, running to cathch a train, dropped a pistol from his pocket. When Shipp ordered him to give up the pistol, the negro op ened fire on the marshal, firing two shots before Shipp got bis gun. lie then shot and killed the negro almost instantly. A large number of people around the depot were within range, but, escaped tile bullets. Rome.—The prospect of extending the Rome and Northern from its present terminals at Gore to Snblig- na, a distance of eight miles, has met with approval throughout Uio terri tory affected. A mast: meeting of the of S-ubligtt-'. ;-■ dire turn tho ^ njuitei ha*'; peon f af eo »n<i ' u <!••- gation of Romans will attend the meeting. it is hoped to raise the sum of $15,000 as a bonus to obtain the extension, in addition to a free right-of-way. Oordele.—The annual report made before the commissioners of Crisp county shows that during the past year seventy-one miles of public road have been constructed, not including the improvements made on tho high ways of the county from time to time during the year. Though the commissioners have purchased twelve new steel bridges during the past year, ranging in length from twolvo to forty feet, and costing several thousands of dollars, they have re mained within their financial means and have a considerable sum in the treasury to take up their work during the ensuing year. Atlanta.—According to a compara tive statement which lias just been completed by State Treasurer W. .1. Speer for his 1914 report, the state banks found themselves in a much •more prosperous condition ut tho end of 1913 than they did at the corres ponding period in 1912. The total resources of the 693 banks, which are now operating as state banks, show an increase of $5,693,000 over tho preceding year; cash on hand lias increased $7,098,043, and over drafts have decreased $1,814,057.23. Deposits have increased $15,872,849, while bills payable show a decrease of more than $13,000,000. Capital Btock has increased $1,100,000, while surplus and profits show an increase of $1,042,000. Savannah.—Alexander Akerman. United States district attorney for the southern district of Georgia, has been directed by the department of justice in Washington to have reas signed for trial the cases against the members of tho alleged naval stores trust. The defendants are tho former officers of the American Nav al Stores company that recently went into liquidation. This determination on the part of the department of Jus tice has caused much surprise In Savannah, as it was believed that tho decision of the United States su preme court in reversing the decision of the United States district court, where the defendants were convict ed, would bring the case to a conclu sion. Thomasville.—The beginning of the year 1914 finds the people of both Thomasville and Thomas county in a decidedly -more optimistic frame of mind in regard to conditions gener ally than was the case at this tii last year, and everythin/* seenjB point to continued improvement for the year along all lines. Although the past year began under very fa vorable conditions it proved, after ail, to be one of the best known herq in some time and it has left both county and the town in better shap than has been the case In severa