Newspaper Page Text
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
DISPATCHES OF IMPORTANT HAP
PENINGS GATHERED FROM
OVER THE WORLD.
FOR THE _BUSY READER
The Occurrences Of Seven Days Given
In An Epitomized Form For
Quick Reading
Foreign—
The Bulgarian government was over
thrown recently by an organization of
reserve officers supported by the ac
tive army. All (he ministers were
placed under arrest. A government
has been formed by all the opposition
parties, with the exception of the com
munists. The movement is supported
by the provincial garrisons.
Vesuvius, which recently has given
signs of renewed activity, is again in
eruption, with incandescent lava,
stones, cinders and smoke being thrown
up in columns which frequently reach
a height of several hundred feet.
Ne.trly four hundred persons are re
ported to have boon drowned and 70,-
000 rendered homeless by floowds in
the lower Velga region, Russia.
Thousands of iuiimals recently per
ished In a hnll storm in the region of
Esquias, Honduras.
Forty persons, including somo wom
en and children, have been drowned In
a ferry accident on the River Tom,
Russia.
The most important and most critical
meeting of the British cabinet since
Stanley Baldwin assumed the premier
ship will be held soon. The meeting
must decide the issue of a threatened
break with France.
The Italian cabinet has decided to
create a “national credit institution for
Italian labor abroad,” the purpose of
which will be to finance individual and
collective colonization enterprises and
extend the field of Italian labor to oth
er countries.
Two officers were killed and a me
chanic injured when a Caproni dirigi
ble en route from Tripoli to Homs
crashed to the ground from an altitude
of 100 feet.
The German reparations offer elab
orated in the note delivered to the
entente allies remains entirely unac
ceptable to France, It was declared in
government circles. It makes no ap
preciable advance over the previous of
fers and France cafanot even discuss It
with Germany, for as was’decided at
Brussels recently the passive resis
tance in the Ruhr must be abandoned
before any negotiations can begin.
Officials connected with the German
embassy in London declare that the
reparations note delivered recently may
he considered as embodying replies to
all the concrete points raised in the
various allied notes, it being the in
tention of the Cuuo government to
avoid argumentative subjects or to en
ter into a discussion which would in
volve a further exchange of notes,
either individually or collectively, with
the allied governments.
rV • '
Creating anew kind of non-stop rec
ord, u young English business man sat
through 108 consecutive performances
of "Rats,” a musical show. -His feat
was finally rewarded. He married the
star tn London.
Whether the bandit attack on the
Shanghai-Pekin express, May 6, in
which a number of foreigners were
kidnaped, was the result of a political
plot, is the point on which the inter
national committee of inquiry, beaded
bv Brig. Gen. W. D. Connor, U. S. A.,
is concentrating.
Washington—
Manual Herrick. former representa
tive from Oklahoma, who, some months
a#o, aired, on the floor of the house,
some of his experiences In courtship,
has added another chapter to the story
by filing a breach of promise suit
against his former secretary. Miss Eth
lyn Chrane. He asks $50,000 damages.
Efforts of the coast guard to check
the operations of rum runners, inaug
urated a month ago by treasury orders,
are well under way, officers say. It
is stated that the commandant at New
York has organired his own anti-ruin
fleet to operate within his district, and
that others are expected to follow sim
ilar plans.
A coal shortage is possible next win
ter unless householders begin to fill
their bins now, and thus forestall heavy
congestion on the railroads this fall,
when peak loads of crops and other
freight must be handled.
Announcement is made by the Na
tional American commission of the
American Legion that President Har
ding will open conference here soon to
compile a code of civilian usage for
the American flag. When the code is
drafted it is planned to have the pa
triotic organtrations educate the nation
at large to the proper flage usage as
officially adopted.
! The treasury announces that it will
I seek a loan of $150,000,000 to round
out its financing for the current fis
cal year, ending June 30.
International trade in American cot
ton which must undergo revision of
methods to accord with the new cotton
standards act, will be discussed at a
conference of leading foreign and Amer
ican cotton men at the department of
agriculture.
A dispatch from Juneau, Alaska, says
! Gov. Scott C. Bone of the territory
will ask President Harding to declare
Tongass Island a national park when
the president visits Alaska this sum
mer. The governor desires particular-'
ly to preserve a statue of Abrham Lin-,
coin on top of a 30-foot totem pole
near the site of old Fort Tongass.
Railroads operating north and south
lines west of the Mississippi river have
been authorized by an interstate com
merce commission decision to make
rates between St. Louis, Memphis,
Vicksburg and other Mississippi river
crossing points, including New Orleans,
without regarding the long and short
haul clause of the interstate commerce
act
Domestic—
State Attorney General Sherman, of
New York, announced that he and five
deputies had begun a sweeping inves
tigation into the affairs of several
stock brokerage houses holding mem
bership in the New York curb market.
Their supplies of ration, wine and It
quors locked tightly by federal cus
toms orders effective June 9, French
and Italian sailors along New York’s
water front, are talking of a general
strike,
Six hundred feet of Santa Fe’s mam
moth bridge spanning the river near 1
Canadian, Texas, has been washed out. j
Traffic east and north of Aniarilld is
tied up, the Fort Worth and Denver
City bridge across the same stream
having already been washed out.
Taking her cue from movie comedies,
Mrs. Mary Warner used a hot custard |
pie to rout a six foot bandit, with a
revolver in each hand, who entered !
her bakery in Chicago and demanded i
money. When she was ordered to !
“fork over,” her answer was to hurl
a pie Into the face of the bandit, who
plunged headlong out the door and
into the street.
President and Mrs. Harding spent the
last week-end crusing off the coasts of
Delaware. Before the cruise they mo
tored around, and returned to Wash
ington on the Mayflower.
Bornie Brand of Dallas, Texas, be
came champion marathon dancer of the
world by topping the record of 195
hours in a contest held in St Louis.
Two thousand people are marooned
in the third ward district at Arkansas i
City, Kans., following high waters that
broke over the dykes and flooded the
Enterprise and Sleeth division. A has
tily formed rescue committee took
charge of the situation. Many are be
lieved to have been drowned, but at
.last report only one body had been
found.
Agitation is sweeping over Alabama
for additional agricultural sub stations
to be known as experiment station and
to be under the technological school
located at Auburn. '
• r t s',;
Mrs. Sarah Batterman, who weigtra'
260 -pounds, fell through her babk
porch as she went to hang out the
wash and was prevented from falling
two stories to bare concrete when her
body fitted snugly between the wall
of her house and that of . the house ad
joining. She was rescued, without in
jury, by firemen, who chopped away
the walls.
J. J. Hooker, a young man was ar
rested In Anniston, Ala., (recently, and
the officers found on his person a doc
ument signed by his wife which per
mitted him to "drink, gamble, float
around the country and keep company
with other women provided he uses
good judgment. - He was riding the
train unlawfully.
"Wets” in the Wisconsin legislature
have taken the first step toward mod
ifying prohibition, but a hard road lies
ahead of the Tucker bill repealing the
Seversen state prohibition enforcement
act.
Advance guards of workers have In
vaded the Southwest and begun the
task of harvesting the 1923 wheat crop.
Although a record number of outside
workers have been drawn to the wheat
| fields, there te still a big demand for
j help.
I Riots in which shots were fired and
* stones thrown are reported in the trac
| tion strike at Schenectady, N. Y. Cars
were abandoned in the streets by their
strikebreaking crews when they were
bombarded by stones. The mayor of
Schenectady attributes the violence to
the unlawful acts of strikebreakers in
carrying weapons.
A plague of 17-year-old locusts is re
ported raging in New York and New
I Jersey fruit orchards.
Five persons were on the floor of
the St. Louis, Mo., dancing marathon
when the gong sounded, cn the 130ib
hour.
THE nANIEISVILLE MONITOR. DANIELSVILLE. SSOft6IA.
818 LOSS CAUSED BY
MACONCLOUDBURST
HOUSES COLLAPSE AS FLOOD
SWEEPS THROUGH STREETS,
LIGHTNING PLAYS HAVOC
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Brief News Items Gathered Here And
There From All Sections Of
The State "V';, J;
Macon. —Damage running into high
figures was caused to Macon property
by a storm that broke over this city.
More than six inches of water fell
in less than an hour and a half, the
weather bureau reported.
The storm was local, extending no
more than 20 miles from this city in
any direction. The outer rim of the
storm toward the peach belt was at
Echenconee.
The weather bureau reported that the
storm moved from north to south, to
southeast and back to north, holding
it in this county.
People arriving here from Wellston,
twenty-one miles south of here, report
ed that they drove through water up
to the hubs of their automobiles. At
Echeconee, they said, there was a nar
row space as dry as a hone and then
they ran into this county’s section of
the cloudburst.
Because of the washouts on high
ways there have been scores of auto
mobile accidents. J. W. Harrington,
driving a car in which -were four chil
dren, was treated at a local hospital
for injuries sustained when the ma
chine turned over. The children were
not hurt.
There is a 65-foot washout on one
division of the Central of Georgia rail
way and a similar washout on the Ma
con, Dublin and Savannah railroad.
The| baseball park was still flooded
at last reports.
All of the storm sewers of the city
were overloaded. Many of them gave
way. Basements of scores of business
houses are flooded, and that Is where
the greatest damage was done.
Every available red light in Macon
was used on the night of the storm to
warn people of washed-out places. The
city advertised for one hundred labor
ers to join the regular forces in mak
ing repairs.
Lightning struck four buildings in
the city during the storm, but no one
was injured.
John W. Ramsey chairman of the
street committee of city council, made
a tour of the city Immediately after
the cloudburst, and states that it will
cost the city thirty thousand dollars to
fill In only the washed-out places. He
found three houses collapsed after be
ing undermined and scores of others un
dermined and badly damaged.
Immigration Increase Is 'Asked
Atlanta.—At the anhuaj meeting of
the Cotton Manufacturers’ Association
of Georgia, held in Atlanta, resolutions
were adopted calling upon the United
States congress to so amend the immi
gration laws as to permit of a great
increase in immigration to 'this coun
try of desirable citizens. The resolu
tions also request that arrangements
be made to examine applicants for ad
mission to this country _at ports of
embarkation in Europe. The associa
tion held its meeting at the East Lake
Country club, holding a morning busi
ness session and a combined business
session and banquet at night. The
afternoon was chiefly given over to
golf for those who follow the ancient
and honorable game. *
Many Mental Patients Cured
Milledgeville.—Since January 1, 1923,
approximately ISO patients have been
discharged from the Georgia state san
itarium, either partially or entirely free
from the shadows of mental darkness
that engulfed them when they went
to the hospital. During 1922 the hos
pital treatment resulted in the complete
or partial restoration of 499 mentally
afflicted patients. During every month
of the year an average of more than
forty persons who came to the sanita
rium writhing in the tortures of mania
or sufering from fantastic delusions and
dreams are sent back to their homes,
many completely restored, and the oth
ers sufficiently Improved to begin their
lives anew in the world of normalcy.
Georgian Slain By Crazy Ship Officer
Atlanta.—Asosciated Press cable dis
patches from Lisbon, Portugal, receiv
ed in Atlanta telling of the slaying by
a crazed officer of the wireless oper
ator of the steamer Brave Couer on
the high seas brought a shock to At
lanta friends of Albert Glaiser, a
former Atlanta boy who is well known
in both this city and Athens. The
Lisbon dispatches were extremely
meager, only stating that the madden
ed second officer shot and killed the
captain of the vessel, the wireless op
erator and another officer, and wound
ed a seaman and passenger when he
ran amuck.
TWO DRY AGENTS FREED;
FOUR OTHERS GET BAIL
Judge Sibley Holds Dry Agents Under
SSOO Bonds In Double
Killing
Atlanta. —Four of the six federal and
county officers held in connection with
the killing of Jett and J. B. Smith, of
Athens, on June 1, were heid under
SSOO bond for their appearance in the
Greene county courts by United States
Judge S. H. Sibley here. Two of the
officers Chief of Police J. P. L. Darby,
of White Plains, Ga., and E. N. Brooks,
chief of police of Union Point, Ga.,
were released. • ••’- *- ■ 4 •*
Judge Sibley rendered his decision
at the close of habeas corpus pro
ceedings in which the state, repre
sented by Attorney General George M.
Napier, opposed the release of the offi
cers on the ground that the attempted
arrest of the Smiths as .alleged rum
runners was illegal in that they acted
without any process for search or
seizure.
Judbe Sibley declared his reason for
holding the men ansvyerable to, the
state court is in an effort to settle
once and for all the question arising
over search and seizure of automo
biles believed to contain whisky.
DOG’S AFFECTION FOR OWNER
SHOWN AT DEATH’S DOOR
Atlanta. —The loyalty and devotion of
a dog for his master was pathetically
illustrated in the death of J. R. Fos
ter, who fell victim of a negro speed
demon and rum runner. Foster’s little
fox terror was trailing behind his mas
ter while they walked in the path of
death upon the sidewalks. Hearing
the noise of the whisky car, the dog
whirled about as if to defend his mas
ter. The center of the machine passed
over the dog, without injuring him, but
struck Foster and hurled him against
a pole, crushing his body under the
wheels. When officers reached the
spot, they found the tiny pup licking
the hands and face of his unconscious
master, and then whining as if to sum
mon help. Foster was devoted to the
dog, for the first question he asked
when he regained consciousness, while
the officers were placing him in a car
to take him to a hospital, was, “Where
is my dog?” The puppy was already
in the officer’s car, having jumped over
its doors while they were placing his
master within, and when Foster asked
the question,. the dog again licked his
face.. .. - , . , , . .
When Foster was brought from the
operating room of the hospital to be
placed in the surgical ward, the dog
was found cuddled up In the elevator,
under the roller carriage, trying to.,es
cape detection. And, faithful .to. the
end, he remained at the hospitaj until
his master breathed his last and was
then taken home by Mrs. Foster.
6 Convicts Saw Way To Freedom
Augusta.—Six convicts, all white, es
caped from the Richmond county
stockade at night recently. One of the
prisoners was captured shortly after
wards; the others are still at liberty.
The prisoners, according to the offi
cials, used a file and sawed through
the bars of the [cell, which was located
on the second floor of the building.
The authorities are of the opinion that
the men received outside assistance.
All of the ones who escaped are very
bad characters. A police dragnet has
been spread over this section. of the
county in an effort tcV apprehend the
convicts. The ones who are still at
liberty are Hairy Evans, Charlie Ev
ans, “Footsie” Langley, H. H. Stal
ker, one mam named Pohnson, "William
DeWeen being the sixth man who es
caped, but captured later.
Balnbridge Makes Big Preparations
Bainbridge.—Bainbridge, progressive
county seat of Decatur county, is mak
ing big plans to celebrate its 100th
anniversary of incorporation next Oc
tober. “It will be a gala event and
one which will do credit to Bainbridge
and its home-loving people not only
In the Immediate section but through
out our section of the state,” said E.
H. (“Pat”) Griffin, editor of the Bain
bridge (Ga.) Post-Searchlight, whose
weekly newspaper is lending its col
umns in a large way toward the up
building of his town and county. "We
are starting early and will put over
a big show and reunion which will
eclipse anything of its kind that has
been held in our section in years,” he
said.
Rains Cause Much Damage To Crops
Wa.vcross.—Continued rain through
out this section have seriously injured
; crops, and unless this territory can get
a dry spell extending over several
weeks farmers are in danger of suffer
ing a total loss. Reports reaching Way
cross indicate that in many of the low
sections of the county, the crops have
already been drowned or scalded, while
in other sections farmers predict a 50
: per cent loss on their crops. The wa
termelon. cantaloupe and truck crops
have suffered most, the loss on these
crops varying in different sections of
. the county.
Little H
€ Smites 0
AUTONOMY
Son —What are revenues, papa?
Papa—Those are the taxes' that
Uncle Sam collects.
Son—What does Uncle Sam do with
them, papa?
Papa—He spends them to run the,
government, sonny.
Silence, then “Daddy!”
Papa—Yes, sonny?
“Let’s start a government.”—Den
ver Telegram.
Hollywood Engagement.
“Zaza and Rupert eye each other
coldly as they pass by.”
“Why, they were engaged to be mar
ried. In fact, I received an invitation
to their marrage.”
“Yes, and if you notice, it made her
the headliner. Asa star in his own
right he couldn’t stand for that.”
Economic Exercise.
“Ever do any sprinting, okl man?”
“Running into debt.”
“Any boxing?”
“Sparring for time.”
No Jay-Walker.
“You should keep in the straight
and narrow path, my son.”
“I know it, dad. If I don't I'll get
Into trouble with the traffic officer.”
ABSOLUTELY SO
Customer; —Are. you sure that this
“milk is pure? I know that these bot
tles are hard to keep clean.
Milkman Why, madam, we use
.nothing, but sterilized water.
Might Help Some.
"* ’ For' better times ,we long,
. .... Of Course we do.
But then I think -folks should
1 ' Get better, too.
Bet He Got His Fee.
“Doctor, I wish you’d" prescribe for
my complexion.”
“Certainly, madam,” returned the
doctor, and he wrote: “Let it alone.”
Nobody.
“Why does Cupid go about unclad?”
* “He comes to the poor—hut "ho
would want to see him in patched
clothes?” i.
Effective Treatment.
“Did the doctor do anything to
hasten your recovery?”
“fib, yes; he told me he was going
to charge me $"10 a visit.”
Those Foolish Questions.
Hophs—Where on earth did you get
your eojd, old man?
Dobbs—What do you want to know
for? Do you want one like it?
Discouraging.
“The fools aren’t all dead yet.’
“No,, and the worst of It is most o
them aren’t even sick.”
Betty's Conclusion.
Betty stood gazing at her gran -
hoi*
“Well, dear, what is It?” he
Inquired. “What’s in your mind?
“I was thinking, grandpa,” repaea
Betty, “that if the good die young
what an old rascal you must be.
A True Love Test.
Mabel—l understand that Ethel*
new beau is an ex-service man. ■
attached to her?
George —Is he? I should sa>
She had him to dinner several tr'.e
and served salmon and he never
a word.
Probably Both.
Blackstone —My lawyer advise
not to settle the case until he n
more thorough investigation.
Webster —Of what —the case or „>
bank account?
A Suggestion.
Wife—We need anew set of
dear. This one Is nearly gone.
Hub —why don’t you wait until
get a aer cook and start even?