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■- mi ■ '" r :'' ppi PpSggg f 'f; '•• p IF YOU TAIL TO GET i THE PAPER TELEPHONE I WEEKLY JOURNAL HELP US The Journo! Is tht Official Organ of Ware County, City of Waycross and County Board of Education. •TH TEAR FOR DAILY JOURNAL* WAYCROSS, fcL, FBIDAT^JULY 14, 1 1»TII TEAR FOB WEEKLY JOURNAL, FRENCH REPUBLIC APT TO BE OVERTHROWN S i* *£ dt Cossacks Fire on Workmen in Russia-Many Killed » . „ IA . B1 NELMS MYSTERY Revolution Feared as Result of Strike; | still oh job 300,000 Involved and More Joining CLASH COMES TUI! Former Mexican Cabinet Member FEARS EXPRESSED THAT REVO. LUTION WILL BE THE OUTCOME OF STRIKE—REPORTS TELL OF FEELING OF UNREST THROUGH OUT RUSSIA* By Wire to The Journal. St. Petersburg, July 23.—Desperate fighting between soldiers and police and workmen occurred here today, re sulting from a strike that up to date involves 300,000 men. Cossacks attacked a party of work men, who barricaded themselves and resisted the efforts of the soldiers to make them scatter. Six are known to have been killed and many others are : * reported killed following the pitched Rattle. ^ \The soldiers outnumbered the strik ers and forced the jvorkers to flee, firing oh them as they broke and ran from behind the barricade. It la feared that the strike will turn Into a revolution, and reports receiv ed from other parts of the empire in dicate that the feeling of unrest is growing rapidly. Further clashes between the author ities and strikers are expected. GOVENEYNAY GET IN GAME Baseball fans will be slsd to learn that Jack Coveney, the popular man ager of the Waycross team, has suf ficiently recovered from his accident in Thomasvllle to get in the game. Coveney has been on the suspended list pending his recovery and while it is not certain he will catch today he Is anxious to get to work again and may make his appearance in the opener with Cordele. Coveney is a tower of strength to the team and his presence in the game should aid materially in the fight the Moguls are putting up cilmb higher. TO SHOOTING COOK Senor Querldo Aloheno, former Minister of oFreitn Affair* tor th, Huerta government in Mexico, with hi, daughter Amtnta on his left and his wife, Senora Mercedes De Moheno, on his right. With his family left Mexico and came to New York via Havana. He is now at the Imperial Hotel In N*ew York. PARCEL POST HOLDING UP WELL AT WAYCROSS LITTLE PROGRI IS MADE ItyDAY ■4uS»i , . — 4 - By Wire to The Journal. Chicago, July 23.—Little progress is being made by the United States Board of Mediation In the efforts to settle differences between enginemen and ninety-eight Western railroads. Employees object to arbitration, claiming that past awards resulting from arbitration have not been obey ed by the railroads. CHILD LABOR BILL IS BEFORE HOUSE By Wire to The Journal. Atlanta, July 23.—The house of presentatives today is considering the Shephard Child Labor Bill. The de fenders are hotly fighting the amend ments. It la expected that a vote on the bill will be taken this afternoon. BLEASEFOE BADLY WOUNDED * By Wire to The Journal, f Columbia, S. C., July 23.—Dr. J. H. McIntosh, a long political foe of Gov ernor Cole Biease, was shot and pain fully wounded by an unknown man to day. Bloodhounds were secured and are on the trail. Dr. McIntosh says that the man shouted as he fled -Now you won’t bother Cole.” Governor Blease declared he will give all possible aid in captaring the man who shot Dr. McIntosh. According to figures announced by the fact that the parcel post business Postmaster H. C. Bunn, the parcel waycross Is climbing steadily post business at the Waycross office .... . . .. .... „ „ . .. shows that.the system has many pa ls holding up unusually well and the - , .. . " . . ... irons in this city and county. It Is year ending June 30,1915 should show .. . .. . ^ . a big gain over the report for the year ^ mt. A, „ recently closed. . " len,l,# r th, “ ye " lbtn . . . .. . ‘last, as more people are becoming ': e ,r ve \ '-n,lllar with It every dsy. « 30, 1914 the local office handled 115,-. 115 parcel post packages. Several Other figures announced by Post- weeks ago the Journal estimated 120,- master Bunn show the following: 000 for a year, based on the result of Gross receipts from sale of stamps, fifteen day count made by the post- stamped paper and box rents, sp- T.cc lii f vX*iu»tteij $35,000; number oi ordt- Probably nothing the government nary registers handled, 3,756; regis- bas inaugurated has met with, such In- ters in transit, 4,500; money order stant approval as the parcel post and business, $288,250.48'. ROOSEVELT SUED FOR LEEL BY NEW YORKER Jy Wire to The Journal. New York. July 23. — Chairman Barnes, of the Republican State Com mittee, this afternoon announced that he had instructed attorneys to sue Theodore Roosevelt, former president, for libel. The suit will be based on Roose- venfs statement last night in which he characterised Barnes as a political boss, using power *for mal-admlnis- tration and corruption in public offices in the state of New York. By Wire to The Journal. Atlanta, July 23.—Solution of the mysterious disappearancel or Mrs. NE?£*Df) fftflUCCCCEC Dennis and Beatrice Nelm$, her sis- ULmHU OU (11X00 CO ter, today seems more remote than ev- Manv reports that the missing sisters have been located have reached Atlanta but none prove# correct. Attorneys are now going over the business affairs of Miss Nelms in the hope of finding a clue. BROTHER BUSY IN WASHINGTON. Washington, July 23.—After going over a letter and hearing statements of Marshall Nelms, brother of the missing sisters of Atlanta, Senator Hoke Smith today stated that the De partment of Justice had already held it had no jurisdiction to investigate on a charge of violation of the Mann White slave act. It appealed proba ble however, that postal laws had been violated by Victor Innee In that he wrote one of the sisters offering to make investments which proved fic ticious. Senator Smith wilt this af ternoon introduce Nelms to Attorney General McReynolds and Postmaster General Burleson. Murder Trial Overshadowed by Political Disclosures; Developments Are Rapid CHICAGO FEELING 1 THE HEAT TODAY By Wire to The Journal. Chicago, July 23.—Intense heat to day Is causing much suffering. Three deathg and scores of prostrations have been reported up to noon. Hun dreds slept in parks and on fire es capes last night HEAT BREAKS INTO CONVENTION. Terre Haute, July 23.—Many dele gates attending the annual encamp ment of the uniformed rank Knights of Pythias left for their homes today as a result of the intense heat Sev eral features of the conclave have been abandoned on account of the heat. MACHINISTS UNION ENDORSES ANDERSON. Valdosta, Ca.. July 22.—The Ma chinists Union of Valdosta, at Its last meeting, endorsed J. Randolph Ander son for governor. An enthusiastic meeting was held. f ' * FIRST CONTEST FOR GUN CLUB This afternoon at the Country'dab the first contest the gun club hss had since clay pigeon shooting was made a feature at the Country Club is being held with a picked squad from Sa vannah. The Savannah squad reach ed Waycross at noon and were enter tained at lunch at the c!nb. Th? squad is composed of Dr. F. C. Wil son. W. J. Thompson, T. C. Roberts, John Steigbt and W. F. Cardinal. The Waycross squad that goes against them is composed of J. M. Hopkins, Fred Brewer, J. T. Watt, J. U. Moore and C. E. Groover. The Savannah squad is recognised as one pf the best in the state, Dr. Wilson especially holding high re- Tht worst damage by recent rains in Waycross has been repaired. SUIT AGAINST NEW HAVEN FILED By Wire to The Journal Xew York, July 23.—Thlo arternoon the Department of Juetlce ofthe United SUtee Hied a bill In equity against the Near Haven railroad, charging monopoly and Tlolationa of the Sherman law In rarloua waya "by retraining trade and commerce in the New England atatea through the control or railroad, water and trolley tranaponation." A dlaaolutlon of the monopoly la aaked in the eult. BILL READY FOB FILING. Waahlngton. July 23,-Clril anlt agalnat the New Haven Railroad la ex pected to he Med In New York thla af ternoon. Department of Justice offi- ciala admitted thla morning that the' Bacon county and Alma will enter- bill la ready and will be Med “to a tain with a big barbecue In Beptem [ebon t|me." ' Iter. AUTO HANDLES LADDER TRUCK Carrying out plans of the fin* com mittee of city council, the fire depart ment, minus the services of horses, is now using the auto apparatus for handling the ladder truck and hose reels. This morning the department made a trial trip with the ladder truck hitched to one of the automo biles, handling the truck without dif ficulty. It Is rarely that the ladders are needed and Chief Hall figures that by using an auto for getting the ladder truck to fires much time can be sav ed and the expenses of the depart ment reduced. Macon, Ua., July 22.—Walter Holmes, a negro, was nr rested hero yesterday for tho shooting of Cliff C Cook, a well known young Macon man, a week ago in Wall Street al ley, and during the afternoon Holmes broke down and made a complete confession, taking the officers to the home of his mother, where he had concealed the pistol with which ho idiot Cook. The arrest of Holmes was made by Deputy Sheriff Leland Williams after u private detective agency had caused the arrest of Ben Atwater, a young white man, who was with Cook at the time he was shot. At the time At water termed his arrest as a “hor rible mistake. 1 The negro in his confession said that Atwater and Cook cursed him and struck him while he was going through the alley and that he then shot Cook. He ran to the rear en trance of the Hotel Dempsey, where he was employed as a bellboy, and hid himself In the basement. He con tinued st his work for twej days and then disappeared. He mother's hoifW day. Cook is in a critical condition with two bullet wounds In his body, one In his right lung and the other In his abdomen. He may not recover PRESIDENT IN RUSSIA AND IS to m 10 £ SAYS SAVANNAH IS AN EXPENSIVE PORT for two days and He wajf at his KirreC I yester- Swat the fly—and cut the weeds. Washington, D. C., July 23.—Sena tor Burton of Ohio in a detailed crit icism of government appropriation for harbors in the Unfted States, de clared that “In proportion to the traf fic Savannah is one of the most pensive of our ports.' ' He called at tention to the necessity of tpalntaln- a channel from a point twenty six miles outside the city to tho wharves, and then complained at the Improvement as far up as the city waterworks, two miles above the city and even further, up to King'; Island. Senator Burton said the traffic was $3,120,676, whllo tho government had spent up to June 30, 1913, $10,456,747, Yet he said he was not opposed to government work on the channelbe low the city but thought -the im provement along the front wharves would more naturally be un dertaken by the city itself.*’ Later Senator Burton said that Savannah had shown perhaps the greatest In crease In traffic of any of the ports, this being in the last three years much as 100 per cent A PROPOSAL IS MADE TO CARRANZA BY NEW HEAD HEAT WAVE GETS TWELVE BABIES By Wire to The Journal. Cleveland, July 23.—Twelve babies have died here In the last two days from extreme best. Several persons Nave been drowned. Temperature reaching over a hundred dally Is re- By wire to The Journal. Mexico City. July 23.—Negotiations for the surrender of this city to the Constitutionalists are proceeding to day over tolcgraph wires from Car ranza's headquarters directly Into the capital. The proposal to turn the govern ment over to Carranza has been sub mitted and Carranza has replied. De- tne proposal are being with held but Carranza expected to aban don his Intention or going to Tampico and will proceod to San Luis Potosi to be within easy reach of Mexico City when a final agreement is reached. FEDERAL** WIN FROM THE KEBKLN. Mexico City, July 23.—Zapata troops were routed today by Federols at Xocimllco, losing 200 killed and wounded. Another party of Zapata troops were routed when they attemp capture a government powdor 'actory at Sante Fe. PEACE !H NOT HI RE THING. Washington, U. C„ July 23.—Peace in Mexico Is far from assured and complication* both Internal and In ternational are rapidly entangling the situation, according to administration officials, diplomats and Mexicans of bath factions here who are In touch with all phases of the problem. The United States government exerting every diplomatic Influence towards harmonising discordant el ements, but certain aspects are admit tedly grave. Official reports reveal that tho most threatening factor the aloofness of Oen. Villa from the authority of Gen. Carranza. Another vexing point is that Oen. Carranza, according to his agents here, is d!s> inclined to grant an amnesty to po litical offenders and will insist on an unconditional surrender by the Car bajal government. CARBAJAL MAY » FIGHT TO END. Unless Carranta is willing to give assurances that there will bo no wholesale arrests, executions and confiscation of property when tho Constitutionalists enter Mexico City, Provisional President Carbajal will rally all the military e(ements at his disposal and resist to the end tho Constitutional advance. The diplomatic representatives of Argentina, Brazil and Chile who me diated in the international dispute between the United States snd Mexi co have Indicated thrqugh Secretary Bryan their belief that peaceful trans fer of authority could be achieved with little difficulty If an amnesty were granted and proper guarantees given. ___ n nr Ilf CD F * ope, 6 n complications are looming FnED BREWER op as between Mexico and England, | France and Spain, and European creditors generally who had financial Br Wire to The JonrnnI. | re i, t | on< with the Huerta govern- Bayonne, N. J„ July 23.—Aidina mml. England Is preparing to tak the “ewat the fly” movement theater. for Ml |,ractlo(l for the killing ol WII- here today announced that every ft Im B Benton, and France le making child, bringing fifty dead Alee Batur- ylgoroue proteat over the kilting, of day will be admitted to the Saturday two F re „ c h cltlxena at Zaccatecaa. matinee free of charge. | The Spanish government la anaioua 'that the Spenlarda driven tram Tor- DELAWARE TOWN jreon and other points be relmbura HERE’S ONE FOR Huge Crowds Are Packed About Palace By Wire to The Journal. Paris, July 23.—With political, pas sions approaching a crisis as the re sult of the trial of Madame Cailiaux fpr the murder of Editor Calmette of ficials today are showing keen anxiety. Secret missions have been sent to, the President and Premier, both of whom are now In Russia, urging them to return to France at once. Royalists are preparing for a move to overthrow the republic and estab-, llsh a monarchy. It Is claimed that everything has been made ready for this move and that all that is needed to cause the Royalists to make their fight la what they eohalder the right opportunity. The Palace of Justice Is being close ly guarded. It Is expected that the political revelations will' completely overshadow the murder case. Im mense crowds surround the Palace of Justice. HAS BAD FIRE Bjr Win to Th« Journal. Greenwood, Del., July 23.—Ralph Freeman waa fatally Injured and .ev en] iforce and ten homea were burn ed here today In a Are that cauaed. damage climated at $26,000. ed for their loaeee. The grievance, of theee countries are lodged agalnat Gen. Villa particularly and Gen. Car- ranxa, and the estrangement with Villa has - made It difficult for the drat chief to settle them satletoctor- lly. (Continued ou Last Page.) ELECTION OF BROYLES PREDICTED Atlanta, July 23.—Friends of Judge Nash R. Broyles of the recorder’* court of Atlanta, candidate for Judgo of the court of appeals, are Insisting that he answer the groundless attack that Is being made upon him by Ms opponent, A. W. Stephens of Atlanta. They are calling attention to the fact that Judgo Broyles has received the almost solid endorsement of the Atlanta bar, notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Stephens has been claiming in communications to the lawyers and people generally that the Atlanta bar had Indorsed him. They say the ques tion has arisen ss to Just how Mr. Stephens will explain his claims. Judge Broyles' remarkable race for the court of appeals two years ago. Is still fresh la the memories of Geor gians, ns is also his magnanimous conduct in withdrawing from the con test in the interest of hsrmony at the Macon convention, after he had tied with Judgo J. It. Pottfe In the state primary. The lawyers of Atlanta have never Indorsed Mr. Stephens, it Is stated, for any position for which he has run, on account of an alleged lack of legal experience. They recall also the fact that several years ago Mr. Stephens endorsed and recommend ed a negro politician for admission to the bar. They say, of course, Mr. Stephens had a legal light to dp thla. If It mat his personal tastes and In clinations, but that a negro lawyer Is distasteful to the lawyers and court officials generally. Politicians here are predicting tho election of Judge Broyles by an over* whelming majority. 200 DROWNED IN BULGARIA By Wire to The Journal. Sofia, July 23.—Two hundred per* eons have been drowned In floods throughout Bulgaria. Lowlands along. the rivers are all under water. The property damage Is enormous. Cut weeds la a slogan Waycros*,^ using theee days. The local weather observer falls to report much rain shortage. _i- r-; ,r ... -g-,,i jygg«|