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MANY KILLED IK
N. Y. EXPLOSION
-CAUSE OF EXPLOSION IN WALL
STREET IS STILL A GREAT
MYSJERY
TOTAL DAMAGE $1,000,000
Whether Bomb Or Collision With Ex
plosives Caused It Has Not
Been Decided
A mysterious explosion, disastrous
In its effect, occurred In Wall street,
killing more than a score of persons
and injuring hundreds.
Office workers were just hurrying
into the street for Uieir noonday meal
when a lot of jet black smoke and
Lame rose from the center of the
world’s great street of finance.
Then came a hlawt. A moment later
scores of men, women urul children
were lying, blood-covered, on the pave
ments.
Two minutes later, nearly all the ex
changes had closed. Men had turned
from barter to an errand of mercy—
and there was need of It.
While the police toiled for hours
seeking the dead and Injured, trained
investigators were trying In vain to
determine definitely whether the ex
plosion had occurred from a bomb
dropped in front of the office of J.
p. Morgan & Co., or whether an auto
mobile clashing into a wagon loaded
with explosives, had taken its toll.
Frank Francisco, one of the most
aide investigators of the department
of justice, declared ufter arriving on
the scene that it was his opinion that
not a bomb plot but a collision had
been responsible for the blast wltlch
rocked skyscrapers, tore the fronts
from office buildings for blocks around
and scattered deadly missiles in ull
directions.
Although the front and sides of the
Morgan banking house wero demol
ished, no member of the firm was se
riously injured.
The damage to the Morgan build
ing alone was estimated at $500,000.
Minor damage to hundreds of other
buildings, it is expected, will total at
least $500,000 more*.
A« far as can be learned, the dis
aster did not cause the deuth of any
prominent financiers.
J. I’. Morgan himself is in Europe,
but at the tittle of the blast, Thdinae
W. Lamont, Eliot C. Bacon, Dwight
C. Morrow and George Whitney, all
directors of the company, were In con
sultation.
Police Commissioner Enright said
that ufter conferring with members
of the firm he had learned that Mr.
Bacon was slightly injured and also
Junius Spencer Morgan, unother of
ficial of the company. Several em
ployees were injured and one killed.
Mr. Enright quoted firm members
as stating that the blast assuredly
came from the street and not from
within the building.
STATE TROOPS GENT TO
CORONA. ALABAMA, TO
HELP PRESERVE ORDER
General Manager Adler And Two
Deputy Sheriffs Shot To
Death From Ambush
Jasper, Ain.- L. M. Adler, general
manager of the Corona Coal company,
was shot front ambush and killed while
riding in an automobile between Pat
ton and Patton Junction.
According to the authorities, Dep
uty Sheriff Earl Edgel and Deputy
Sheriff Brown were also shot to death
in the same cnr.
Sheriff Clark Guthrie of Walker
county has made an urgent appeal
to Governor Kilby for troops to as
sist in preserving order and has been
notified by the governor that as many
state troops as are necessary to pre
serve order will be dispatched to Cor
ona and nearby points at once. The
first contingents of tritops, the gov
ernor's message reads, will be on the
si ene at once.
The action of the governor follow
ed reports by Sheriff Gutl rie that
armed bands were collecting at Corona,
Tcwnley and other mining camps in
thi. vicinity and that ha was unable
to cope with the situation.
Germany And Austria Plan To Unite
Vienna. —Removal of the prohibition
against the union of Austria ami Ger
many Will lie requested of the council
of the league of nations at the meet
ing the body will hold in Paris in No
vember. Dr. Carl Renner, chancellor
of the Austrian republic, made this
announcement in an address at Inns
bruck. The league of nations," lie
added, "is the refuge of tile Imperial
ist idea, however, and as long as Im
perialist France plays a leading role
in its policies we shall obtain little.”
Gold-Silver Output Os United States
Washington.—A joint report by the
mint and geological survey fixes the
total American production of gold
during the calendar year 1919 at 2.-
918,628 fine ounces, valued at $60,-
383.400; silver, 56.652.445 fine ounces,
valued at $63,533,652 taken at the av
erage New York price of $1.12087 per
ounce. This represented a Reduction
of $8,313,300 in gold and $11,127,694 in
silver frdrn the 1918 output of the
mines, the report says.
REPUBLICANS CARRY MAINE
The League Os Nations Was The
Issue Os The Campaign, With
The Democrats Defending
Portland, Maine. —Frederic H. Park
hum, Republican, was elected gov
ernor of Maine by a plurality which
piomlses to he the largest in the his
f* •> of the state. His Democratic op
ponent. Bertrand G. Mclnlire, received
approximately half a« many votes as
Air. Pnuhhurst
At the last reports, with 557 pre
cincts out of 632 in the state heard
from, Parkburst led Mclntire by a
plurality of 60,670. Returns from the
other 75 precincts are expected to
increase the plurality to probably
sixty-five thousand.
The Republicans carried all four
congressional districts by large ma
jorities. re-electing Congressmen W.
H. White, Jr., J. A. Peters and I. G.
Hersey,* and electing Carroll L. Beedy
of Portland, in the first district, where
Congressman Louis B. Gooda. was not
all parts of the statu women availed
obtained a commanding lead in the
state legislature and elected Roy L.
Ward well of Augusta as state auditor.
The part played by the new factor
of the women’s vote was evident.. In
ken, Republican, four years ago, while
themselves of their first opportunity
to vote in a state election and the
figures showed a large majority of
them voted the Republican ticket. The
vote for Parkhurst, on returns from
more than two-thirds of the state,
showed an increase of more than forty
six thousand over that cast for Milli
ken Republican, four eyars ago, while
Mclntire’s vote was less than fifteen
hundred more than that of Curtis,
Democrat, in the last presiedntial year.
Sen. Sherman Must Rest Or Go Blind
Springfield. 111.—United States Sen
ator Lawrence Y. Sherman of this city
is facing the alternative of a year’s
complete rest from work or blindness.
Specialists have decided (here is no
other help for him, he eays, as he has
almost worn his eyes out by over
work.
SPANISH WAR VETERANS
ADVOCATE ERADICATION
% OF RADICALISM IN U. S.
St. Louis. —Eradication of radical
ism was advocated here at the
opening of the twenty-second encamp
ment of the United Spanish War Vet
erans of America.
William Jones, of New York, com
mander-inch lef of the organization,
declared the government should spare
no expense in “wiping out these doc
trines thut are designed to disrupt the
very thing's upon which this govern
ment was founded."
The commander asserted that ex
service men. when proved sufficient
ly qualified, should be given prefer
ence when vacancies in the federal
civil service are being filled.
Reports submitted recommended
(hat the pay of army and navy officers
and enlisted men be increased, and
that army officers he selected from
the ranks. They also suggested that
the $250 annual provisions in the
widows’ and orphuns’ bill be elimina
ted and that widows of service men
be given a monthly pension of S3O and
thut dependant children be given a
iucrease.”
Paper Clothing Is On Exhibition
Waohington.—Paper suits imported
trom Germany by the department of
commerce will go on an exhibition tour
of the country. Representative.' of the
bureau of foreign and domestic com
iiii rce in the principal cities of the
country are to show the suits liicli
cost from 15 cents to $2.65 to manu
facture and clothing firms. Baltimore,
Philadelphia and New York are to be
the first cities where the clothes uro
to he exhibited.
To Preevnt Mine Workers Organizing
Efforts to prevent the organization
by the United Mine Workers of Amer
ica of miners employed in McDowell
und Mercer counties have developed
at Charleston, W. Va., through a peti
tion filed by coal operators of those
counties in the supreme court of ap
peals at Charleston, W. Va.
Concessions Made On Mining Taxes
Mexico City.—Mining companies ow
ing taxes for periods before January
I, 1920, may have them cancelled if
they will pay taxes levied upon them
for 1920 before November 1, according
to a presidential decree. Many compa
nies have been closed for a long time
on account of unfavorable conditions,
and will he favored by this action of
the government, which is intended to
encourage the mining industry. The
1920 taxes may be paid in three in
stallments.
Printers To Discuss Paper Shortage
SL Louis. Labor conditions and
the white paper shortage are sehed
t
uhd to be the principal topics of
discussion at the thirty-fourth annual
convention of the United Typothetae
of America, au organization of master
printers, which opened here. Delegates
asserted the convention probably
would take action on the closed shop
and the forty-four-hour week ques
| liens.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR. MT. VERNON. GEORGIA.
APPEALTO WILSON
MADE BY ALBANIA
PRESIDENT WILSON IS URGED TQ
USE HIS INFLUENCE AGAINST
SERBIAN AMBITION
CONFLICT GROWING SERIOUS
Albanians Have Repulsed Invaders,
But Are Unable To Resist
Indefinitely
Washington.—President Wilson and
Premiers Lloyd-George and Millerand) 1
have been asked by the Albanian gov-!
eminent to take steps to compel Ser
bia to w-ithdraw its troops from Al-I
banian territory, C. A. Chekrezi, Alba
nian commission to the United States, j
announces. Communications to this
effect have been sent, he says, by M.|
Konitza, Albanian foreign minister,|
now in Paris.
These requests were made, ML
Chekrezi says, because the Albanian-
Serbian conflict "has been lately as
suming alarming proportions that
might endanger the peace of the Bal i
kans.
The text of the communictaion tc
President Wilson follows:
"We are informed by our govern
ment that the Serbians, pushing their
invasion from north to east, have
reached the region of Mati, half way
between the Albanian frontier and the
coast, passing thus far beyond the lim
its fixed by themselves in 1918, the
so-called line of demarcation, and have
destroyed about forty villages. The
Albanians have repulsed these invad
ers, but, being exhausted, and weak
in numbers, are unable to resist in
definitely the millions of Jugo-Slavs,
who are seemingly determined to de
stroy our nation. I implore your ex
cellency to take immediate steps in
order to secure the withdrawal of the
Serbians from Albania and save our
nation from destruction; otherwise,
the gravest consequences will follow
throughout the Balkans.
BERNARD BARUCH TO BE
SUED FOR VIOLATION OF
MIGRATORY BIRD ACT
Washington.—Department of justice
officials admitted they had ordered a
suit filed against Bernard M. Baruch,
friend of President Wilson, and for
mer head of the war industries board,
on charge of violating the migratory
bird act.
Annette Adams, first woman assist
ant attorney general, has charge of
prosecution under this law, and it was
from her office that orders were sent
to District Attorney Cassey of New
Y'ork to proceed against Mr. Baruch.
The story of Mr. Baruch’s alleged of-,
sense as it is said to have reached tlie!
department of justice begins in South'
Carolina, where he owns a hunting preJ
serve. Some time ago he entertained
a party of friends there and they shot
many ducks.
It is alleged that he made a pres-i
ent of some of the ducks to New 1
York friends. Watchful officers in
South Carolina reported this to the de
partment of agriculture which in turn!
reported to the department of justice,)
and after due investigation the case
against Mr. Baruch was ordered, it is
admitted.
Vienna Will Become Separate Province
Vienna. —Consent has been granted
by the constitutional committee for
Vienna to become a separate Austrian
province. This reverses a former de
cision by the committer. The boun
daries of the new province will be de
cided upon by the upper Austrian diet
and the city council.
League Head To Become U. S. Judge
Memphis, Tenn. —John D. Martin,
local attorney, who has been serving
in the capacity of president of the
Southern Asscx-iation of Baseball
Clubs ofr several years, is to be ap
pointed United States district judge
of East Tennessee. Announcement
that Mr. Martin’s appointment to the
federal bench had been decided ou
was obtained in dispatches from Wash
ington. It is not definitely known
whether Mr. Martin will resign his
position as president of the Dixie
major or not.
Suspect Foul Play In Man’s Death
Greenville, S. C. —Investigation to
asceratin whether there was foul play
has been ordered as the result of the
death of J. Haskell Roe, Jr., son of
a wealthy merchant of Tigerville, S. C.,
whose body was found recently on the
Southern railway tracks here. The
body was seen lying across the tracks
by the engineer of an approaching
train too late to stop the train in time.
The theory is advanced that Roe was
drugged, robbed and placed on the rail
road tracks.
The Prohibitionists Threaten Judge*
Washington.—A committee was ap
pointed at the Anti-Saloon league con
ference here to draft a resolution
warning federal judges that unless
they “sacredly perform their sacred
duties’* in enforcing prohibition laws,
the league will seek their impeach
ment. Charges were made that some
• federal judges had “coddled bootleg
gers and moonshiners" and that pro
hibiticn laws’were being made a farce"
in some sections by the light punish
ment.
WOMEN WIN INCONNECTICUT
legislature, Called Primarily To Ere
act Laws Facilitating Vote, De
cides To Pass On Act Itself
Hartford, Conn. —The Connecticut
legislature ratified the federal suffrage
Amendment Wednesday, September 14.
jtYitbin lesa than half an hour after
she house had adopted the resolution,
the senate took similar action.
Irrespective of the final result of
the tangle resulting from ratification
by Tennessee, which was the thirty
sixth and necessary- state to pass the
amendment, equal suffrage is now a
part of the constitution. The house
vote was 216 to 11. The vote in the
senate was 33 to 0.
The legislature was called primarily
to enact idws contingent on women
receiving the vote. Because of the
mix-up over the ratification by Ten
nessee, the thirty-sixth state, however;
proponents of suffrage decided to ratify
the amendment to remove all doubt of
its legality.
Washington.—Connecticut’s ratifies/
tion of the federal woman suffrage
amendment removes all doubt as to
the amendment’s validity as well as
the possibility of the fall elections be
ing carried through the courts into
the house of representatives, accord
ing to the opinion of the authorities.
Connecticut makse the thirty-sev
enth state which has ratified, count
ing Tennessee, where the action ol
the state legislature is under attack
in the courts. Even though Tennes
see’s ratification were knocked out,
the amendment would still have the
necessary number of state ratifies/
tions, Solicitor General Frierson says.
Officials, as well as suffragists, were
relieved and surprised when informed
of the rapidity with which the Con
necticut legislature had ratified.
Officials had feared that the Su
preme court would be unable to act
on the Tennessee suits until after the
election. A decision adverse to suf
frage at that time would have cer
tainly brought the legality of women’s
votes and consequently the whole
election into question.
While suffragists announced some
time ago that they would try for Con
necticut ratification, they had no inti
mation that it was coming so quick
ly. They Lad prepared to face stiff
opposition in the state.
STRIKING MINERS
HALTED BY COURT
Federal Judge Issues Injunctior,
Against Alabama Members
Birmingham, Ala. —Judge W. 1.
Grubb of the federal district courl j
issued a sweeping injunction against
J. R. Kennamer, president, and other
officials of the Alabama division of
the United Mine Workers of America,
forbidding them to interfere with op
erations at the Gamble mints of the
Pratt Consolidated Coal company. The
hearing is set for Saturday, Septem
ber 18.
The court, in issuing the injunction,
forbids the defendants from in any
way distuning, hindering or interfer
ing with the complainant. The order
is not only addressed to those named
in the injunction, but to all members
of the miners union.
Reasons for the granting of the
injunction tvithout notice to the de
fendants are based on the following
allegations in the bill of com
plaint:
That “immediate and irreparable
injury will result to the complainant
said injury consisting of reduction and
probable cessation of its mining oper
ations at Gamble mines, and that said
injury is irreparable because of the
loss of profits in its operations, the
expenses of its organization and its in
ability to comply with its contracts for
the sale and delivery of coal.”
The injunction covers every act oi
intimidation and conspiracy or to inter
fere with the Gamble mines.
Mexican Independence Day Celebrated
Mexico City.—Mexican independence
day is being celebrated with elaborate
ceremonies and great military display.
The celebration was opened when
Provision President la Huer
ta rang the indepomd i.ace bell al
the national palace, a great throng
cheering as the notes of the great belJ
were heard.
Air Mail Contract Let By Governmen.
i Washington. — Contracts ror three
! air mail routes at a total cost of S6SS,
000 a year were awarded by the post
; office department to the Lawsou Air-
S Line company of Chicago. One con
, tract calls for airp'une mail service
between New York and Atlanta, via
, Washington, Raleigh, N. C. and Col
: umbia, S. C. , at a cost of $300,000
i Routes from Pittsburg to SL Louis by
' way of Columbus, Cincinnati and In
I dianapolis at a cost of $147,000 a year
America Flooded By Foreign Securities
Washington. —American dollars are
being drawned to the far ends of the
earth by foreign governments and mu
nicipalities. which are dumping theii
high interest securities into the Uni
ted States at the rate of millions pei
month. American investors now own
more them $2,000,000 worth of these
securities, paying 7 and 8 per cent, ac
cording to data obtained. Liberty
bonds yield form 4 1-2 to 5 1-2 pei
cent and are selling far below the
prices paid by their owners.
ATTACK LAUNCHED
AT RESERVE BOARD
UNDERWEAR MAKERS
BOARD FOR UNBALANCED
CONDITIONS
DRY GOCDSJEN WARNED
It Is Alleged That Textile Manufacture
ers Receive No New Orders At
Satisfactory Prices
Chattanooga, Tenn. —Blaming the
federal reserve board for the present 1
unbalanced conditions of the commod- j
ity markets, the southwestern division
of the National Association of Ho- j
siery and Underwear Manufacturers,
which closed its convention here, sent j
a communication to the Southern I
Wholesale Dry Goods Association i
warning it to take immediate action
in order to prevent the “very institu
tion that was established to prevent
ruin and disaster from taking the lead- !
ership in a policy that can have no
other end.”
Questionnaires which had been sub
mitted to the textile men of the south
west and which were answered show
ed that a vast majority of the textile
manufacturers are receiving no new
orders at satisfactory prices; that
practically all old orders have been
filled; that less than 12 per cent of
the output of the knitting industry
is being sold; that the percentage of
knitting and looping as compared with
normal production is 60 per cent, and
that there is an overproduction in most
lines of hosiery.
The textile manufacturers charge
that these conditions have been
brouhgt about by the federal reserve
board’s attitude in forcing liquidation
and deflation by a systematic program
of propaganda. As a result, it is de
clared, hundreds of the smaller mills
of the country are on the verge of
disaster and the larger and most solv
ent manufacturers face an embarrass
ing situation.
A bitter attack made upon the pol
icy of the federal reserve board in a
letter written by A. McDowell, mill
operator of Scotland Neck, N. C„ to
Gov. W. P. G. Harding was made a
part of the record of the association’s
meeting here. Mr. McDowell accuses
the board as failing in its intended pur
pose of protecting the business inter
ests of the country and with aiding
“powerful financial machines in their
policy of destruction.”
Credit Men Defend Reserve System
Atlantic City, N. J. —Directors of the
National Association of Credit Men,
meeting here issued a statement call
ing upon the business men of the coun
try to stand against any move to lim
it or eliminate the federal reserve
banking system.
“The nation should feel grateful for.
the ability the federal reserve banks
have shown to cope with the unusual
conditions and to stabilize the ten
dencies of men in the readjustment pe
riod,” says the statement.
ANTI - SUFFRAGISTS
FROM STATE OF TENNESEE
ARE MOVING ON COLBY
Washington.—A delegation of Ten
nessee anti-suffragists, headed by
Seth Walker, speaker of the house,
arrived in Washington and, according
to announcement by the national as
sociation opposed to woman suffrage,
will call on Secretary Colby to request
that the final action of the Tennessee
house in voting not to concur in rati
fication of the federal suffrage amend
ment be recognized and announced by
the state department.
“The anti-sufragists declared that
precedent for the request to be made
is found in the action of Secretary of
State Seward in conditionally pro
claiming the fourteenth amendment,
and Secretary of State Fish in pro
claiming the fifteenth amendment. In
both cases, although there were enough
ratifying states otherwise, the state
i department announces withdrawals.
; Such an announcement in the case of
Tennessee’s ratification of the suf
i (rage amendment is requested by the
Tennessee delegation.
Delegations of anti-suffragists from
other states are expected by the asso
ciation opposed to woman suffrage to
join with Tennessee delegation in call
in on Secretary Colby. ✓
French And Turks Fighting At Aintab
Constantinople.—French and Turk
ish forces are engaged in an almost
continuous artillery duel at Aintab,
where the French are besieged, and
occasionaly infantry forces take part
in the fighting, says a letter received
here from Boyd Wesson, an American
relief worker, who is in the city. The
letter was sent out of Aintab by a
member of a camel train which made
its way through the Turkish lines to
the coast.
Herr Wirth Quits German Cabinet
Berlin. —Herr Wirth, minister of fi
nance in the German cabinet has re
signed as the result of a disagree
ment with Herr Giesberts, minister of
posts and telegraph, but his resigna
tion has not been accepted. The prin
cipal trouble between the two cabi
net members resulted from Wirth's
stand against Giesberts’ proposal to
increase the wages of postal and rail
road employees, it is understood. The
I proposed increases could not be fi-
I nanced. it is said.
CALOMEL LOSING
OOJJN SOUTH
Mr. Dodson, the “Liver Tone’*
Man, Responsible for Change
for the Better.
Every druggist In town has noticed a
great falling off in the sale of calomel.
They all give the same reason. Dod
son’s Liver Tone is taking its place.
“Calomel is dangerous and people
know it.” Dodson’s Liver Tone is per
sonally guaranteed by every druggist
who sells it. A large bottle doesn’t
cost very much, but If it fails to give
easy relief in every case of liver slug
gishness and constipation, just ask for
your money back.
Dodson’s Liver Tone Is a pleasnnt
tasting. purely vegetable remedy, harm
less to both children and adults. Take
a spoonful at night and wake up feel
ing fine; no biliousness, sick headache,
acid stomach or constipated bowels.
It doesn’t gripe or cause inconvenience
all the next day like violent calomel.
Take a dose of calomel today and to
morrow you will feel weak, sick and
nauseated. Don’t lose a day.—Adv.
As (he grace of man is in the mind,
so the beauty of the mind is elo
quence. —Cicero.
MOTHER!
“California Syrup of Figs’"
Child’s Best Laxative
Accept “California” Syrup of Figs
only—look for the name California on
the package, then you are sure your
child is having the best and most harm
less physic for the little 1 stomach, liver
and bowels. Children love its fruity
tnste. Full directions on each bottle.
You must say “California.”—-Adv.
Often the persistent man accom
•pli shes a lot of things that are not
worth while.
Speedy Relief
From Habitual
Constipation
The liver is the largest and most im
portant organ in the body, and when the
liver refuses to act, it causes constipa
tion, biliousness, headaches, indigestion,
gas, sour stomach, bad breath, dysen
tery, diarrhoea, pains in back and under
shoulder blades and under ribs on right
side. These symptoms lead to colds, in
fluenza or other serious troubles unless
corrected immediately.
An inactive liver places an extra bur
den on the kidneys, which overtaxes them
and causes the blood to absorb and car
ry into the system the impurities that the
liver and kidneys have failed to elimi
nate.
When you treat the liver alone, you
treat only a third of your trouble, and
that is why you have to take purgatives
every few nights. Calomel or other ordi
nary laxatives do not go far enough. If
you would treat your kidneys and blood
while treating the liver, you would put
your entire system in order and frequent
purgatives would then be unnecessary.
Dr. W. L. Hitchcock many years ago
recognized these important facts, and aft
er much study and research, compounded
what is now known as Dr. Hitchcock’s
Liver, Kidney and Blood Powders, threa
medicines combined in one. This was the
Doctor's favorite prescription for many
years, being used by his patients with
marked success. It is a harmless vegeta
ble remedy that will not make you sick,
and you may eat anything you like whila
taking it.
Get a large tin box from your druggist
or dealer for 25c, under his personal guar
antee that it will give relief, tone up the
liver, stimulate the kidneys to healthy
action and thereby purify the blood. If
your dealer will not supply you| it will
be mailed direct by the Hitchcock Medi
cine Co.. Atlanta, Ga„ upon receipt of
price.—Adv.
Solid Guilt.
"Guess I'll buy a few shares of (hat
mining stock. Looks like a gilt-edged
proposition to me.”
“You've only seen the edges!”
99 OUT OF 100
Need Vacher-Balm at Times.
Nothing better for summer colds,
hurts or itching. Keep It handy.
Agents wanted where we have none.
E. W. Vacher, Inc., New Orleans,
La.—Adv.
Opposite Argument.
“I tell you. a new camera is a posi
tive necessity.”
“And yet it is a negative proposition.”
A dead man does not make war.—
Italian Proverb.
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