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LATE NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
SOUTH, EAST, NORTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through
out the Nation and Particularly
the Great 6outh.
Southern.
Three batteries of mountain guns
ot the Fourth Held artillery sailed
front Galveston, Texas, for Vera Cruz
on the chartered Bteam Saltillo. Ac
companying the guns were 326 men,
11 officers and 23 animals. Tills'’ar
tillery command was the second sec
tion of Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston's
force to get under way for Vera Cruz.
The first section comprising about 3,-
400 infantrymen, Is due there some
time later in the week. The artillery
will arrive about the middle ot the
week. The cavalry will follow In a
few days. The Saltillo was convoyed
by two torpedo boat destroyers.
Superintendent of Police Reynolds
has issued an order tor the arrest ot
any person making “disparaging re
marks about the army and navy nad
the American flag on the streets of
New Orleans.” The order was issued
when the superintendent was advised
that four soldiers In uniform had for
cibly dispersed a quintet ot street ora
tors who were haranguing a crowd and
charging that the army and navy were
subsidized.
Determined to destroy what was
known as the “house of a thousand
candles,” dynamites at Bass Lake com
pletely demolished a large two-story
bridk residence. It Is believed the
dynamiters intended to kill two women
in the house. Their absence was not
known. Bloodhounds were put on the
trail ot the dynamiters. LaPorte, Ind.,
was the scene ot the affair,
i Eight hundred coffins were taken
aboard the army transports at Galves-
iton, which are stocked and ready to
carry the Fifth brigade of the United
States army to Mexico if the war de
partment so orders. It was learned
that the transports carry two months'
subsistence for the 4,500 men of the
Fifth brigade, the store of provisions
‘having been Included at the last mo
ment. At first plans were made to put
aboard only about thirty days' provis
ions.
Pledras Negras, opposite Eagle
Pass, Texas, was evacuated by the fed
eral garrison early after a night ot
wild excitement. More than two thou
sand refugees came to the American
.aide of tlio Rio Grande for protection.
All federal forces have been ordered
,by General Maas to concentrate at
.-Saltillo to “repel the American inva
sion." When the people of Piedras
Negras learned that American marines
had occupied Vera Cruz, a dozen re
cruiting offices were opened and arms
issued to volunteer companies as fast
as organized. More than twelve hun
dred volunteers enliBted in one day.
General.
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The federal stronghold of Monterey
has at last been captured by the Con
stitutionalists, according to a report
from the American consul at Nuevo
Laredo. He says Information has
reached him that Monterey was cap
tured.
The taking of Monterey was cele
brated at Chihuahua with band con
certs and the ringing of bells. Gen
eral Antonio Villareal was appointed
governor of the state of Nuevo Leon,
ot which Monterey is the capital, and
Nlcefaro Amerano was made mayor
of the city.
A refugee train of fourteen cars
from Mexico City, carrying 150 Amer
icans, 100 Germans, 300 Spaniards and
Mexicans and 50 Englishmen arrived
at Vera Cruz. The exodus from the
capital was arranged through the joint
action of the British and German diplo
matic official with the war office.
Twenty registered mail packages
was the loot obtained by a man who
held up a United States mail car of
Southern Pacific train No. 3, which
left Los Angeles for San Francisco.
Word has been received in New York
of the death in his mountain cabin
near Milford, Pa., of Charles Sanford
Santiago Pierce, logician, mathemati
cian and philosopher. He was 74
years old and for twenty-seven years
had lived in seclusion to pursue his
studies. His death was due to can
cer.
The right of the state to regulate
insurance rates was settled once for all
by the Supreme court upholding as
constitutional the Kansas fire insur
ance law of 1909. Chief Justice White
and Justices Vandevanter and Lamar
dissented, holding insurance was
private contract witli which the state
had no right to interfere. Justice La
mar declared with vehemence that the
decision upheld the principle that the
state had the right to fix the price of
every article on the market.
A Washington dispatch announces
that Captain Osmyn Berry of the Mer
chant and Miners' Packet, Nantucket,
which rammed and sank the Old Do
minion liner, Monroe, with a loss of
forty-one lives oft the Virginia capes,
in January, has been found guilty of
negligence and his license has been re
yoked. A board of steamboat inspec
tors at Philadelphia divided the re
sponslblllty for the disaster between
Captain Berry and Captain Johnson
of the Monroe. On appeal to Captain
Seeley, the Inspector commanding,
Captain Berry alone was held guilty
of the charge.
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At Worcester, Mass., the National
Metal Trados Association opened its
annual convention with nearly 360 del-
ogates present. William H. Doolittle,
safoly inspector, of, the National As
Hoclatlon, reported that the slogan,
"Safety First,” was being adopted by
manufacturers all over the country,
and that accidents in the metal trades
wore decreasing.
Nelson O'sfiaughnessy, the Ameri
can charge at Mexico City, hns been
handed his passports by Huerta and
left Mexico City for Vera Cruz.
Six Americans killed and about thir
ty wounded marked the complete in
vestment of Vera Cruz by the United
States forces. Rear Admiral Frank F.
Fletcher has taken up headquarters at
the Terminal hotol. The entiro city
Is strongly patrolled and quet prevail
ed. Rear Admiral Fletcher is in com
mand of the land operations, while
Read Admiral Badger, commander-in-
chief of the Atlanta fleet, hns brought
his flag into the harbor on the Min
nesota. After the general advance be
gan, Mexican sharpshooters on the
rooms put up a stubborn resistance.
There was one brisk action, guns of
the Prairie and Chester assisting in si
lencing a heavy fire from the naval
college.
Washington.
By the effective extermination of the
Mexican snipers, who have been re
sponsible for the killing or wounding
of many Americans, this pernicious
pest will be stopped. It was decided
that hereafter American marines and
bluejackets shall bo withdrawn from
all roofs except at a few designated
points and that the patrols shall bo in
structed to shoot to kill any other
Individual seen on any other roof after
7:30 o’clock in the evening. Patrols
will also be instructed to surround
and search any house from which
sniping occurs and to shoot any per
son guilty of Indulging in this prac
tice.
Definite instructions from Rear Ad
miral Badger, commander-in-chief of
the Atlantic fleet, to all American
non-combatants to leave Vera Cruz
by the steamer Mexico were posted
at the consulate and other conspicu
ous places. The order stated, in terms
that could not be misunderstood, that
all must be aboard the ship by four
o'clock in the afternoon. Many ob
jected to the order and especially re
bellious were the women whose hus
bands are still in the Interior. Knots
of these held Indignation meetings and
several expressed their intention or
not complying, slfort of actual com
pulsion.
President Wilson and Secretary Bry
an were greatly incensed at receiving
a dispatch from Consul General Philip
C. Hanna at Monterey, Mexico, an
nouncing that he had been subjected
to insults and indignities by Mexican
federal officers and kept a prisoner
in the government palace from April
22 until the Constitutionalist forces
captured the town two days later.
The consul reported that mobs led
by federal officials tore down all the
American flags in the city, trampled
them and then burned them up in the
streets.
The enormous sum of 5150,000,000
was the aggregate loss sustained by
the United States in meat animals as
the result of disease and exposure in'
1913, according to estimates announced
by the department of agriculture.
Measures to detect income tax dodg
ers have been initiated by Commission
er Osborn of the internal revenue of
fice. He called on all corporations
and joint stock companies for lists of
their stockholders with the amount of
dividends received by each during the
period of 1913,- covered by the income
tax law, and for the names of all of
ficials or employees receiving salaries
high enough to bring them within the
operation of the law. These reports
will be used in checking up returns.
Bad water will be the army’s worst
foe in Mexico, according to Col. M. L.
Maus, chief surgeon of the First army
division, which has headquarters on
Governor's Island. The water supply
and sanitation system of Mexico, he
explained, were so far behind modern
methods that if an army should be shnt
into Mexico City an entirely new sys
tem would have to be provided. He
estimated that millions of dollars
would be expended by the United
States for sanitation.
That the 5,000 Mexicans held prison
ers at El Paso, Texas, will not be giv
en liberty until after the crisis in the
Mexican troubles haa passed, was
learned at the war department. It
given liberty now, every man in the
El Paso stockade v probably would
shoulder a gun against American
troops, Washington officials believe,
It cost the United States 21 cents a
day to maintain each person.
“I’m sorry, terribly sorry,” declared
President Wilson when news of the
fighting at Vera Cruz reached him. He
had hoped that the city might be oc
cupied by American marines without
loss ot life. As the president came
to his office his head was bowed and
ills face was a study in deep feeling.
He has determined, however, there
shall be no backward step.
Seaman George Poinsett of Phila
delphia, killed at Vera Cruz, was eulo
gized in the national house of repre
sentatives as “the North Bagley of the
Mexican trouble.” Representative
Moore of Pennsylvania, remarking
that Poinsett was the first man kill
ed, declared that "whether we have
entered upon this war wisely or un
wisely, we have at least demonstrated
our wisdoqi as a nation in being, pre
pared for war.” He added: "A father
who yielded to his boy’s desire to serve
his country, has been bereft of a son,
but the nation has added the name of
that boy to its roll of heroes.”
WILSON’S STORY
OF THE FORMER
Presdlent Wilson's story of the Mex
ican war is of especial interest in view
of the fact that he will be one of
the leading characters in the event
of a second war with Mexico.
In his "History of the American
People," Mr. Wilson has written a
graphic description of the main events
of the Mexican conflict. He criticizes
President Polk for his action in send
ing General Taylor to-the Rio Grande
without first having consulted with
congress. •
Takes Up Texas Dispute.
After speaking of other boundary
disputes, Mr. Wilson takes up that be
tween Texas and Mexico, by which
the war was brought on.
The Texas boundaries,” he says,
were another matter. Here the gov
ernment dealt with a rival and neigh
bor with whom no compromise was
necessary. Texas claimed not only
everything north and west of her that
had been Spain's or Mexico's, all the
way to latitude 42 degrees, but also
so much of the territory of her one
time partner state, Coahuila, as lay be
tween the Nueces and the Rio Grande
del Norte, and Mr. Polk espoused and
enacted upon her claims at the south
even before her formal admission into
the Union was complete.
'He ordered Gen. Zachary Taylor
to occupy the western bank of the
Nueces with a small force of United
States troops, and during the summer
of 1845 sent him re-enforcements
which raised his strength to nearly
four thousand men. In December,
1845, Texas became in full form a
state of the Union and early in the
following year the president ordered
General Taylor to advance to the Rio
Grande. His presence there threat
ened the Mexican town of Matamoras,
Just beyond the river, and the Mexi
can commander at Matamoras de
manded his withdrawal to the NueceB.
Americans Are Ambushed.
General Taylor refused to withdraw.
The Mexicans crossed the river and
on April 23 ambushed a small body
of American Dragoons. Two weeks
late'r they attacked General Taylor in
force and he repulsed them (Palo Alto,
May 8, 1846). The next day Taylor
in his turn attacked and drove the
Mexicans back across the river in
disastrous rout. .
"On the 18th General Taylor hlm-
self passed the Rio Grande and occu
pied Matamoras. ‘Mexico,’ the presi
dent told congress on the 11th of
May, while yet he had no news ex
cept of the ambUBh of the 23d of April,
'Mexico has passed the boundaries of
the state . . . and shed American
blood upon American soil. War ex
ists, and exists by the act of Mexico
herself.’
"He had not consulted congress be
fore he ordered General Taylor for
ward to the Rio Grande and brought
this momentous matter to a head,
though it had been in session when
the order was issued. He had full re
sponsibility for that upon himself.
“War, Indeed, existed—but by whose
act, congress Was no longer at lib
erty to inquire. There was nothing
for it but to vote supplies and an
army; and a formal declaration of war
was resolved upon May 13, ,1846, be
fore news of the real fighting on the
Rio Grande had reached the capital.
Army .Made Ready.
“Until autumn all things stood as
they were between the belligerents,
while an army was made ready; but
late in August General Taylor moved
again and within a month by severe
.and dogged fighting (September 21-
23), took the strongly fortified town
of Monterey, a full 170 miles to the
west of Matamoras on the highway to
the Mexican capital.
“In November Gen. Winfield Scott,
the ranking officer of the federal serv
ice, was given the chief command,
and in January, 1847, General Taylor's
force was reduced to a scant 5,000
to recruit the immediate command of
his superior, sent by sea to attack
Vera Cruz.
"On February 22 and 23 Santa Ana
attacked him, with four times his num
bers. while he lay at defense on the
broken plain of Buena Vista, thinking
to crush him while he was weak, and
was repulsed. The Americans were
no longer raw militia, men and ofil-
cers alike, as they bad been in the
extemporized armies of 1812.,- Though
they were for the most part volun
teers, their officers were profession
als, and they were drilled and handled
with a skill and thoroughness that
made veterans of them with a single
battle.
Put to Fuff Test
"Their steadiness and prowess were
put to full test with General Scott in
the South. They had not only to
take Vera Cruz by set siege (March
9-29, 1847), in order to make good
their landing, but had also to scale the
huge escarpments of the vast table
land upon which the Mexican capita)
lay, 200 miles away, more than 7,000
feet above the sea, and to make their
way across the broken, hilly plain be
yond, fighting everywhere as they
went against an enemy who outnum
bered them and who was secure
against surprise within safe inner
lines of communication.
“The City of Mexico lay amidst
guarding fortresses and was set about
by morasses crossed only by narrow
causeways, but the Americans moved
everywhere with the businesslike cer
tainty and precision of men well han
dled, and their volunteer ranks seemed
less in need of officers than other arm
ies did. Individual pluck and dash
and resource showed in all they did.
They fought men as brave as them
selves; a subtle-spirited race, tena
cious to the last of all that it could
hold; they fought also against odds
and moved everywhere against forti
fied places; but they won, undaunted,
at every onset By September 16 they
were in complete and formal posses
sion of the 'enemy's capital and Mex
ico was in their hands, within but a
little more than six months of their
landing.
United States Seizes Territory.
"Meanwhile the government at
Washington had broadened the scope
and meaning of the war beyond all
expectations. During the summer of
1846 and the winter of 184647 it had
seized not merely the disputed terri
tory which Texas claimed, but also
the whole country of the Pacific slope
beyond, from Oregon to the Gila river,
to which the United States could have,
no conceivable right except that of
conquest. The thing was easily ac
complished. A fleet under Commodores
Sloat and Stockton and a few troops
here and there, until Colonel Kearney
and Captain Fremont moved almost
as they pleased, and a territory ot 600,-
000 square miles was added to the
United States.
“The war, with all its Inexcusable
aggression was ended by a treaty
Blgned at Guadeloupe Hldalge, on
February 2, 1848, by which Mexico
recognized the Rio Grande as tho
southwestern boundary line'of Texas,
and ceded New Mexico and California,
of which the United States had taken
possession by force of arms. For this
territory, seized and ceded, the United
States agreed to pay Mexico $15,-
000,000."
TO IKE REPORT
PUBLIC UTILITY CORPORATIONS
PAID $2,778,486 TAXES OF ALL'
KINDS LAST YEAR.
INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR
Sixteen New Corporations Now
porting to the Railroad
Commission.
—Atlanta.
Advance data for the annual report
of tho railroad commission shows
some very interesting facts.
There was on increase of sixteen
corporations reportlug to the commis
sion in 1913 over 1912. For 1912 there
were 213 and for 1913 229. This in-
crease was five in street railroads,
gas, electric light and power compa
nies and eleven telephone companies.
During 1912 the commission handled
583 caseB requiring formal hearings
and 618 in 1913, an Increase of 35.
Besides the above, the commission dur
ing the paBt year handled without for
mal hearings some 3,506 other com
plaints of various kinds.
Data concerning the financfa( opera
tions of public service corporations
has been printed in a previous arti
cle. On a whole, the conditions are
satisfactory, and this particularly ap
plied to street railroads, gas, electric
light and power companies and tele
phone companies.
During 1913 the commission ap
proved $18,861,862.07 in stock and
bond issues, as against $90,066,000 in
1912. Included In 1912 was $52,014,-
000 for the Central in its refunding
scheme.
The largest Increase in railroad
mileage marked 1913 since 1909. Dur
ing the past year 142.96 miles of main
line new track was laid and 17.81 miles
of second track. The Gainesville and
Northwestern led with thirty-five miles
of new track.
Below is the number of miles of
railroad in the state and actual opera
tion on June 30, 1913.
Single track, main line, $7,295.78;
second track, main line, 98.04; siding,
passing and yard track, 1,967.43; total
9,361.25.
During 1913 fifty-five new freight
and passenger depots were built in the
state, as compared with thirty-seven
the year previous. Many were con
structed voluntarily by the roads, and
the commission says important trunk
lines have shown a highly commend
able spirit of progress and improve
ment in this line.
Politics Takes Back Seat.
Polities—that is to say the guber
natorial race and the three-cornered
contest for the United States senate—
took a back seat at the capltol, while
war talk was practically the sole topic
of conversation. Everywhere you
went you could hear gossip of the far-
off struggle, and in every office one
heard some interesting yarn of a war
like nature.
For example, up in the railroad com
mission’s office Judge George Hillyer,
who is a veteran of the Civil war,
told some interesting anecdotes ot the
first war with Mexico. He was a boy
of eleven years at the time of that
momentous struggle and remembers
the various incidents perfectly. One
of his uncles was in the celebrated
Fannings Rangers, recruited in this
state, and from his lips he heard
many dramatic stories of all the big
battles.
Capt. Tip Harrison, in Comptroller
General Wright’s office, a Confeder
ate veteran, was another to whom the
war news was of great interest. Right
nigh he'd gladly give up his job and
shoulder a rifle if need be in the de
fense of his country.
But possibly the only man in the
capitol who has seen any fighting in
recent years is Maj. A. H. Ulm, exec
utive secretary to Governor Slaton.
Major Ulm saw duty with the Twen
ty-seventh United States volunteers in
the Philippines and he knows what
modern warfare of the kind which will
be waged in Mexico really is. He does
not expect the. war to be as shortlived
as many think it will be.
To Celebrate Battle of Atlanta.
The proposition to hold a semi-cen
tennial peace celebration of the battle
of Atlanta on July 22 was enthusias
tically taken up at a meeting of the
general committee for the celebration
plans, which was held.
There was practically a full atten
dance of the committee, which met at
the call of Asa G. Candler.
At this meeting a subcommittee was
appointed to arrange all the details of
the day’s celebration. This commit
tee will meet in a few days at the
call of Chairman Asa G. Candler, who
is also chairman of this committee,
and go thoroughly into these details.
The committee ‘will arrange the most
magnificent program possible for the
AMERICANS AND BRITONS OWN TWICE AS MUCH IN MEXICO AS
THE MEXICANS
American. English. Mexican.
Railway Btocks and . bonds $ 644,390,000 $108,917,000 $137,716,000
Bank stocks 7,850,000 6,000,000 31,960,000
Bank deposits " 22,700,000 161,963,042
Mines and smelters :.. 249,500,000 43,600,000 14,700,000
National bonds 52,000,000 67,000,000 21,000,000
Timber lands 8,100,000 10,300,000 6,600,000
Ranches ;./. 3.160,000 2,700,000 14,000,000
Miscellaneous . 60,000,000 13,785,000 343,669,200
Livestock ...l 9,000,000 47,450,000
Total $1,057,770,000 $32).,302,800 $793,187,242
day and report back to Die general
committee:
Body of Summerlin Brought Home,
Governor Slaton received a tele
gram from the relatives of Randolph
Summerlin, the young Georgia boy
who was. killed by the Mexicans at
Vera Cruz asking that if possible he
make some arrangement with the au
thorities at Washington ■ for the re
turn of the body to his native state.
Governor Slaton immediately wired to
Senator West requesting that he take
the matter up with the war depart
ment and see that the body is sent
to Georgia. Summerlin’s home was in
Willacoocliee, Berrien county. He
was one of the first six to be killed.
DOINGS AROUND
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MISS H0RTENSE HERRMAN
Miss Kerrman of Eastman; Ga., will
be a maid of honor of the Georgia
division of the United Confederate
Veterans' Reunion In Jacksonville:
May Help Aged Veterans.
A bill providing for the state to pay
for the- transportation of indigent Con
federate veterans from their homes to
the Soldiers' home in Atlanta,, may be
introduced! at the forthcoming, session
of the general assembly.
Capt- W. H, (Tip) Harrison;, secret
tary to> the board of trustees of the
home,, stated, that many of the- old- vet- -
erans who sought admission to the
home were too poor in this world's
goods to- pay their way to> Atlanta,
even after their applications- had: been
favorably passed- upon'..
An Instance of this kind: came- to
Captain Harrison’s attention; in the
application for admission to) the home
by John Cliannell,. a seventy-five.ybar-
old and bed-ridden veteran of Coffee
county. Mr. Channell Inquires if toe
home will not furnish, transportation
to Atlanta for himself and 1 attendant.
Captain Harirson had to advise him
that there was no- appropriation for
this purpose and that his. friends
would have to see- that he; gob to toe-
home.
“Many of the old! veterans are indi
gent and infirm,” said Captain Harri
son. “There are now forty-one of
them in the hospital at toe home.”
Broughton Heads S. S. Organization.
The city of Atlanta and toe Atlanta
Sunday school workers came oft with
flying colors in toe Georgia Sunday
School association convention, which
came to a close at Millodgevllle, for
out of the forty-three officers and com
mitteemen chosen for toe coming year,
Atlanta people occupy seventeen
places of prominence and influence.
The other sixteen places are distrib
uted among the various cities and 1
towns of the state.
In the selection of officers for the
Georgia Sunday School association for
another year the following named! At- .>
lanta people were chosen; Dr. Joseph
Broughton, president; J. V. Wellborn,
treasurer; A. B. Caldwell, auditor; D.
W. Sims, general andi financial secre
tary; Miss Daisy McGee-,, superintend
ent of elementary work; John J. Ea
gan, C. V. LeCraw, W. . T. Colquitt, ■
Rev. W. C. Sliaefer, W. W. Reid,. Mar
ion McH. Hull, C. J- Kamper, C. D.
Montgomery and Rev. Henry B. Mays;
executive committeemen.
Addresses were made by E„ E.
French of Nashville, A- B. Caldwell
of Atlanta, Hammond Johnson of
Gainesville,
Militia of Georgia May Mobilize.
Having already received orders from
the headquarters of toe first division
of the United States army, at Gov
ernor’s Island, N. Y.| directing him to
find a site for the mobilization of .
troops' and make too necessary ar
rangements to have such 8 site pre
parted for tl»e purpose of encampment.
Adjutant General Nash is awaiting
further orders, which may call for
having the mobilization site prepared
and the actual calling out of the Na
tional Guard of Georgia.
While there has yet boon no call for
volunteers or call for toe National
Guard, these preparatory orders are
taken as significant, and the mem
bers of the National Guard of Geor
gia are anxiously awaiting develop,
ments. It is understood that orders
similar to those received by Adjutant
General Nash have been received by
the adjutant generals of other states.
The orders were receivd by Adju-
tant General Nash and read as follows:
“Governor's Island, N. Y.—Adju
tant General: You will immediately
find site obtainable for mobilization
eaihp and find party able to furnish
labor and material to pipe camp
grounds for water. ' See about fuel.
Make no arrangements 'until further
orders. Wire results. (Signed) <
“SIMPSON.” !
Macon Wants State Camp.
Inasmuch as Macon has rather
strong backing from Adjutant General
Nash it is likely that point will be •
finally selected by toe commander of
the department ot the east for mobl-
lizlng Georgia troops for Mexican
service.
It is believed very strongly there
that conditions are rapidly arising in
Mexico which will cause a general
call for services in a Bhort time from
the volunteer forces. .
Therefore, a central point for bring-
ing the troops together is desirabln
for many reasons.
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