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Foreign—
Father Bourke announced to the
Canadian Press from the Archbishop
Palace, St. Boniface, that eight persons
were missing as a result of fire which
destroyed the college there.
Buildings at Copiapo and Vallenus,
which were ruined by the earthquake
which took hundreds of lives recently,
toppled over and crashed to the ground
recently when Chile was rocked by a
new series of earth tremors.
The theatrical and society public of
Rome turned out in large numbers to
pay tribute to Sarah Bernhardt appear
ing at Costanzi theater in “Regina Ar
mand” by Verneuli.
Under the Turkish prohibition law,
published, all alcoholic liquors in the
country will be confiscated, or shipped
abroad, all persons convicted of manu
facturing, importing or selling spirit
uous beverages will be fined and jail
ed, and those found intoxicated will
be liable to imprisonment from three
months to two years.
America gave Great Britain, France
and Italy a hard jolt when her spokes
man, Richard Washburn Child, declar
ed that the United States government
has the support of the American public
in its opposition to all secret treaties
and agreements, especially those de
signed to create zones of economic and
commercial influence, such as the San
Remo tripartite agreement of 1920
which apportioned the Mesopotamian
oil fields among the three big powers.
Turkey found the great powers of
Europe arrayed against her on the
question of Western Thrace, on which
she demands a plebiscite, and Greece,
helpless and beaten by the armies of
the Ottoman state, left a rather heat
ed session of the Near Eastern con
ference with the feeling that she is
no cO oho BtlonoT - uvr<4,
A preliminary agreement for laying
down a direct cable from Italy to
America was signed at London recently
in the presence of Dr. Francisco Gian
nlni, Italian commercial attache. The
new cable will run from Fiumicine,
near Rome, to New York.
Both Mary and Annie MacSwinney,
sisters of the late Lord Mayor Terence
MacSweney, of Cork, who went on hun
ger strike In protest against the Free
State government, are in grave con
dition-. Following her physical col
lapse, Annie grew so weak that women
friends removed her to a private hos
pital. Although so helpless that she
could hardly raise a hand, the starva
tion rebel stubbornly refused to take
the warm broth that was prepared for
her.
Over four years after the Germans
ran up the white flag on the western
front in Europe, diplomats stood up
before the plenary session of the near
eastern parley at Lausanne, Switzer
land and pledged themselves to mark
“finis” on the world war. Delegates
are said to be in accord that the near
eastern muddle, which reached a climax
when the Greek armies were driven
into the sea by the legions of Mustapha
Kemal, Turkish Nationalist, was the
“last phase” of the conflict which
started in 1914.
Washington—
Earle B. Mayfield, successful Demo
cratic candidate for senator from
Texas, reported to the secretary of the
senate total compaign expenditures of
J 999.69 and no contributions.
Governor Groesbeck. of Michigan,
was urged by the House appropriations
committee in a telegram sent by Chair
man Madden to select representative
Pat Kelly to fill the unexpired term of
Senator Newberry, who has resigned.
The telegram stated there was no at
tempt on the part of the committee
to interfere In the selection by Gover
nor Groesbeck. but the committee was
actuated by a desire to "use its in
fluence in the public good."
Enactment of the administration mer
chant marine bill was urged upon con
gress by President Harding as neces
sary to relieve the government of the
present ‘stagering losses" in operation
of the war-built merchant fleet and to
establish a program of assured ship
ping to serve the nation in war and
give a guaranty of commercial inde
pendence in time of peace.
The bureau of labor statistics has re
ported to the department of labor that
there is an indicated inert ase of 2%
in the retail cost of food to the aver
age family in the United States during
the month ending October 15.
President Harding, in a proclamation
made public at white house, sets
aside the week of December 3 to 9
as American Education week.
Federal tax collections during the
fiscal year ended June 30, 1922, fell
off almost $1,400,000,000, or 30 pei
cent, ls compared with the previous
year, according to the annual report of
the internal revenue bureau issued by
Commissioner Blair, income and profit
taxes collected during the year showed
a decreace of $1,141,000,000 or 35 per
cent.
The British embassy, taking formal
notice of published reports that the
British government was attempting to
influence congress of the American
people regarding the administration
shipping bill, issued a statement de
claring no such attempt had taken
place.
Former Premier Clemenceau, of
France, and his mission to America, as
well as the policies of the present
French government were subjected to
a bi-partisan fire in the senate in a
frank discussion of Franco-American
relations.
An invitation to participate with the
International Federation of Trades
Unions in a general labor anti-war con
ference at The Hague December 10
was rejected by President Gompers
and the executive council of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor.
Domestic —
William C. Faries, 60 years old, will
die in the electric chair on December
29 for the slaying of Newton Taylor,
aged 14, unless the higher courts or
the governor of South Carolina inter
vene. Date for his execution was fixed
by Judge J. E. Purifoy in court of gen
eral sessions, York, S. C.
James W. Gerard, former ambassa
dor to Germany, who was reported by
German newspapers recently as hav
ing died in Paris, has no intention of
denying the report.
A mob of 5,000 Irish republican sym
pathizers ruled the heard of New
York’s theater district recently, beat
off police reserves from two stations
who sought to interfere with a parade,
and burned an elfigy of King George
in the street.
Charging that 95 per cent of all oil
stock advertising is “flamboyant, mis
leading and deceptive” the national
vigilance committee of the Associated
Advertising Clubs announced a nation
wide campaign against sellers of stock
of fraudulent oil companies.
Another sensational angle in the
martial relations of Professor John P.
Orfiimii ain't Mrs, Aaru>A*
principles in the Poulin paternity case,
developed when the professor, whose
decree of divorce from Mrs. Tiernan
was invalidated by the South Bend,
Ind., superior court following his mar
riage to Mrs. Blanche Brimmer, re
turned and affected a reconciliation
with the first Mrs. Tiernan.
Senator N. B. Dial of South Carolina,
speaking before the Southern Commer
cial Congress, in session in Chicago,
the other day, said the present cotton
ftures law did not protect the rights
of the seller. Under the present sys
tem, he said, the growers sufers be
cause purchasers sell out their hedges
rather than accept delivery of inferior
grades.
For the seventeenth consecutive time-
Charles S. Barrett, of Union City, Ga.,
was elected president of the National
Farmers’ union in a recent convention
held at Lynchburg, Va.
Tom Dickson who ran away from
the Maryville jail when his keeper
was not lookeing, turned up at the
state penitientiary, Nashville, Tenn.,
four days later and announced that he
was ready to begin serving his term
of one to three years.
Days of the James and Younger
boys in Missouri, were recalled at
Gallatin, Mo., when six bandits robbed
the First National bank of $4,000 in
gold and currency.
Oliver Dimitt, Ottuma, lowa, me
chanic, is in a critical condition from
a bullet wound, which probably will
prove fatal, inflicted by a stranger
after Dimitt had remarked that the
stranger looked like Tommy O’Connor,
noted Chicago bandit.
W. C. Marion, formerly cashier of
the Jefferson County bank, which col
lapsed a year ago, and in connection
with which he was accused of a short
age of $27,000, was found guilty of the
first count of the indictment under
which he was tried recently at Louis
ville, Ga.
Harry Orchard, convicted slayer of
former Governor Frank Steunenbergg.
was denied a pardon by the Idaho
board of pardons, which met in special
session. Commutation of sentence was
also denied.
Rev. David G. Wills, president of the
Presbyterian Synod of At****rica and
pastor of a church in \stt/n&. died at
a Long Island City hospital recently of
injuries sustained when he was struck
by a taxicab in New York. He was
62 years old.
L. P. Lewis appeared before United
States Commissioner W. C. Carter at
Atlanta, Ga., to answer charges of vio
lating the prohibition laws. He was
arrested by federal agents, who said
he had four pints of whisky with him.
Later a raid was directed at his apart
ment, it was said, eleven pints being
found there.
THE OANIELSVILLE MONITOfI. DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
DR. BALLARD LEADS
IN TOTAL VOTE CAST
PROVES EASY WINNER IN HIS
RACE TO HEAD THE
SCHOOLS.
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State
Atlanta. —With a total vote of 77,-
152 in the general election of Novem
ber 7, Dr. N. H. Ballard, of Brunswick,
Democratic nominee for the office of
state school superintendent, led the vot
ing over the remainder of the state
candidates, according to final returns
consolidated by the secretary of state.
C. E. McGregor, who was elected
to the office of state pension commis
sioner over his competitor, W. H. H.
Phelps, received a total vote of 76,-
365, while the latter received 563 votes.
In the race for state prison commis
sioner R. E. Davidson received a to
tal of 76,873 votes, while in the race
for commissioner of agriculture J. J.
Brown’s total vote was 76,937; for com
missioner of labor and commerce H.
M. Stanley received 77,125 votes; for
chief justice of the supreme court
Judge. R. B. Russell received 77,076
votes; for justices, Judge Beck receiv
ed 77,102, Justice Hines 76,922, Jus
tice Luke 76,726, Justice Bell 77,052;
for state public service commission,
Janies A. Perry 77,073 and Walter Mc-
Donald 77,695.
Final returns in the vote on all con
stitutional amendments, and officials,
including the governor, secretary of
state, comptroller general and attor
ney general will not be consolidated
until next June, when the state legis
lature convenes, jt has been an
nounced.
Baptist Women Report Big Year
Atlanta. —“Wonderful possibilities for
the future” are seen by the Baptist
Women’s Missionary Union of Georgia,
as shown in the report of Miss Laura
Lee Patrick, corresponding secretary
treasurer, at the fortieth annual con
vention of the organization now in ses
sion at the, Seqnpfe,-Bantist. church.
Miss Patrick’s report-v under the'eap
tion, “Encouraging Features,” says :
“With a constituency of more than
66,000 —21,500 of whom are young peo
ple: 438 new societies, 312 being young
people’s organizations; a total num
ber of 2,642 organizations, 1,425 being
young people, and a total of nearly
10,000 tithers reported, we see wonder
ful possibilities in the future and feel
assured that we shall come to the end
‘more than conquerors.’ ”
Eight Persons Hurt In Crashes
Atlanta. —Eight persons were injured
in automobile accident in one day. One
of the victims, a negro student, will
probably die, according to surgeons at
a hospital where he was carried. Those
hurt are Mrs. J. S. Brogdon and Mrs.
Ed Cardin, who was in the car with
her; F. S. Knowles, Eugene Walker
and four negroes, Frank Joyner, Oscar
Johnson, J. C. Collins and Arthur Mc-
Gowan. Mrs. Cardin and Mrs. Brog
don were injured in a collision between
the automobile driven by the latter and
that of E. B. Gause, which occurred
at West Peachtree and Fourth streets.
Methodist Paper On Budget
Atlanta. —In compliance with a res
olution passed at the recent annual
Methodist conference in Atlanta, the
Wesleyan Christian Herald was placed
in the budget of the First Methodiet
church, of Gainesville, Ga. The bud
get plan, church officials say, will put
the official Methodist organ in every
Methodist home in the country. The
action of the Southern conference re
cently concluded in Atlanta was taken
in compliance with the wishes of the
general conference that convened in
Hot Springs, Ark., last May.
Editor Sentenced On Forgery Charge.
Savannah.—J. B. Farley, editor of
The Gleaner, a labor paper, and opera
tor of a job-printing plant, was sen
tenced in the superior court here to
serve six months in jail and pay a
fine of SI,OOO. He was convicted of
forging pay checks of the Central of
Georgia railway. The jury recom
mended that he be punished as for a
misdemeanor. A motion for anew
trial has been filed.
Doctor Glenn Returns To Savannah
Savannah.—Rev. Dr. J. M. Glenn,
prominent for years as pastor and pre
siding elder in the South Georgia Meth
odist conference, occupying leading po
sitions in his church in Savannah and
in Macon, will, according to a report,
come back to Savannah to make his
headquarters here as secretary of the
centenary extension board of Georgia
and Florida. He will remain a member
of the South Georgia Conference, but
will be urder the general board of
Nashville
GOOD PRICE SEEN
FOR COTTON CROP
"
Ample Credit Available For All Legiti
mate Business Enterprises, Robert
Maddox Tells Merchants
Atlanta—With a high price for
good 1923 crop of cotton that can be
raised even under boll weevil condi
tions, the prospective relief of freight
car shortage, ample credits and strong
demand for goods, the present wave
of prosperity has some distance yet
to rise before it reaches its crest, said
Robert F. Maddox, president of the
Atlanta National bank and former pre&
ident of the American Bankers’ asso
ciation at their last meeting of the
year in the chamber of commerce as
senibly room one evening recently.
Car Company Reports Monthly Gair,
Atlanta. —An increase of 704,000 pas>
sengers transported by the Georgia
Railway and Power company for Oc
tober, 1922, against October, 1921, with
a decrease in revenue of $4,000 was
shown in a report filed recently with
the Georgia Public Service commission.
The most notable increase in business
on the suburban lines was on the
Decatur line, which showed an in
crease of more than 50,000 passengers.
College Park and Oglethorpe lines also
showed a substantial increase. The
Stone Mountain line was the only sub
urban line that showed a decrease in
business. Total pay passengers trans
ported for October, 1922, were 6,543,-
590, with revenues of $442,241.34. Pay
passengers for October, 1921, were 6,-
439,741, with revenues of $446,052.92,
according to the report.
Convicts May Grade For Dormitory
Athens. —The Clarke county commis
sioners at their regular monthly busi
ness meeting held here were asked by
the prudetnial committee of the Uni
versity of Georgia, composed of Harry
Hodgson, Hugh J. Rowe and Marcus
McWhorter, to furnish convicts to do
the grading preparatory to the build
ing of the new John Miledge dormi
tory on the University of Georgia cam
pus, work on which is to start Janu
ary 1.
Man With 50c Gets Robbers’ Sympathy
Waycross.—Held up at the point of
a pistol by two men last at night re
cently, and then allowed to go without
being robbed, after they discovered
tliHf-Ymjfr victim hatf oWy 0 een*e, ad
an apple, in his pocket, was the expe
rience of Marvin Strickland, electrician
of this city.
So. Ga. Conference At Savannah 1925.
Savannah. —Most cordial invitations
to hold the 1923 session of the South
Georgia Conference in their cities were
extended by Rev. P. W. Ellis, presid
ing elder of the Macon district, and
Rev. Silas Johnson, pastor of Trinity
church, Savannah. In view of the fact
that the conference met in Savannah
in 1612 and in Macon in 1913, the in
vitation of Savannah was accepted.
Rome Gas Cos. In Trouble
Rome. —At a meeting of the Rome
city commission a resolution was unan
imously adopted declaring that the
Rome Gas company having failed to
supply and apparently being unable to
supply gas of good quality to consum
ers here, the governor of Georgia be
requested to take steps at once for
revoking its charter.
Negro Given Life Imprisonment
Atlanta. —David Hudson, the negro
who recently confessed to the killing
of George Cochran, Edgewood avenue
merchant, was sentenced to life impris
onment by Judge M. C. Tarver, follow
ing the negro’s conviction in the emerg
ency division of Fulton superior court
on a charge of murder. The jury rec
ommended mercy.
Nobody Claims 144 Quarts Of Liquor
Savannah. —A dry agent, J. W. Grif
fin, of Waycross, happened to be on a
Pullman attached to a Coast Line train
recently. He also happened to stub
his toe on a suitcase in an aisle. Wom
en passengers complained of the cases
in the walkway. He investigated.
Seven suitcases with 142 quarts of old
Scotch were found with nobody, after
diligent search, to claim them.
Board Authorizes Comon Stock Sale.
Atlanta. —The state public service
commission recently granted a petition
of the Georgia, Ashburn, Sylvester and
Camilla railroad to sell $400,000 worth
of common stock in that line. This
railroad formerly was the Hawkinsville
and Florida Southern and is to be
operated by a stock company formed
by prominent citizens living along the
line.
Shriners Possess The Streets
Rome. —Yaarab temple, Mystic Shrine,
of Atlanta, accompanied by the band
and chanters, the donkey and the pa
trol and all the other appurtenances
of that famous organization, invaded
Rome the other day for the first out
of-town ceremonial of the present year
and at once took possession of every
thing in that city.
Just W
LOGICAL
Isabel, aged nine, had just been
told the story of Daniel in the lion’s
den. Then mother asked: “And
what do you think Daniel did the very
first thing after he was saved from
the lions?”
Without much hesitation, Isabel
replied: “Why, he must have tele
phoned home to his wife to tell her
he was all right,”—The Northwestern
Bell.
Truth-Telling Bumps.
“Asa phrenologist,” said the pomp
ous man, “I could tell you merely by
feeling the bumps on your head what
kind of a man you are.”
“I think,” replied the disillusioned
one, “you would be more likely, by that
method, to tell me what kind of a
woman my wife is.”
Cause for Dislike.
“I never can like that man.”
‘‘Why not? He’s all right.”
“I know he’s all right, but I can’t
like him.”
“He’s never done you any harm.”
“Not at all, but I dislike him just the
same. He’s the man my wife is always
wishing I would try to be like.”
CLEANED OUT
Mrs. Justwed: Do you ever go
through your husband’s pockets
while he’s asleep?
Mrs. Longwed: Never; after he’s
paid my monthly bills searching his
pockets wouldn’t get me anything.
Those Strikes.
The Public said, “This land immense
They say was made for me.
Why should I Just be audience
For folks who can’t agree?”
Still Hoping.
Mrs. Faraway—l beg pardon, but I
didn’t get It when we were introduced.
What is your last name?
Miss Oldsmith —I am Miss Oldsinith.
Oldsmltn is my surname, but I sincere
ly hope It Is not to be my last mime.
Caustic Dad.
"Why do you use a cigarette
holder?”
“Well, dad—”
“No matter. I don’t blame you for
keeping the thing at a distance."
The Dear Girls.
“That gentleman praises your com
plexion highly.”
"I’m surprised that a cat like you
would tell me. Who is he?”
“A druggist,”
Catch.
“Here’s a woman wri.es about
beauty—”
“Gimme that article.”
“Of soul.”
“Oh, pshaw.”
The Wrong Course.
"Dawdle says that he’s had chances
enough, but they were all poor ones.
“I’ve noticed that whenever oppor
tunity knocked. Dawdle proceeded to
knock the opportunity.’’
AS GUARANTEED
Customer: You told me this coat
was strictly up-to-date and now ' ve
learned that you've had It !n stock
ever since 1898. Th -*
Shopkeeper: Yes m, 1898.
was the date I had In mind.
Public's Razz.
Today we walk in haughtiest pride.
And hear the music’s jazz-
Tomorrow we may hang our
And hear the public’s razz.
Margery's Help.
"No, darling. I can't let you help
me wipe the dishes, you break too
many of them.”
“But, mamma, that’s a help, for yo
don’t have so many to wash next
time."