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IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OFTHIB AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS JF_TKE SOUTH What la Taking Place In The South. land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraph* Foreign— Anew era in allied diplomacy davm ied when the inter - allied conference, with lhe United States officially repre sented by Ambassador Kellogg, reach ed a full agreement on the program for making the Dawes reparation plan ef fective. After eighteen days and a good part of many nights at the Brit ish foreign office in Downing street, London, the parleys have terminated successfully so far as their inter-allied aspect is concerned. The conference, therefore, now becomes an internation al one. Two of the American round-the world aviators are at Hornafjord, Ice land, and Lieut. Leigh Wade, follow ing a forced descent and a thrilling four-hour battle with the sea, is aboard the Richmond, doubtful whether he will be able to accompany his com rades on the last leg of their globe circling trip through the air. Mrs. Rosalie Evans, formerly of Brownsville, Texas, and a widow of a former president of the Bank of Lon don, in Mexico, an Englishman, was shot dead in the vicinity of Texmelu can, state of Pueblo, Mexico, the oth er evening when on the road to her hacienda. presumably by agrarians spurred on by anti-foreign agitators in that region. Honduras is again in the throes of a revolution. San Marcos de Colon has been attacked by four hundred in surrectionists under Gens. Julio Pe ralta, Jeremias Fonseca and Toribio Ramos. Many are reported killed and wounded. Patrolman Kennedy of the Halifax, N. S., police, was shot from ambush, probably fatally, in an all-night battle between two men and two women and the police in the woods bordering the city. The Canadian government - has or dered expert hunters to wage war on the giant timber wolves in the bar ren lands of northern Canada, where they are preying on the caribou. Thou sands of caribou have been killed. Athens, Greece, hears that Bulgaria is calling 4,000 volunteers to the col ors, which leads the Greeks to fear that the Bulgaria government is mo bilizing. Bugarian comitudjis (irregulars) have recently been causing the Greeks a great deal of trouble, making raids over the frontier into Greek Macedo nia. It is stated in Bulgaria, at the cap ital, Sofia, that the Bulgarian govern ment will do its utmost to stamp out Communism, and that the recent call to the colors of volunteers is for that purpose. The newspaper Iran, Teheran, Per sia, publishes a letter from the for eign minister to the American minis ter saying the Persian government and the nation are horrified and sorrowful over the killing of Vice Consul Imbrie and that every endeavor is being made to find the culprits, who will be se verely punished. Washington— The resignation of Assistant Attor ney General Earl J. Davis was recent ly accepted by Attorney General Stone. Davis will accept an attractive offer to become a member of a big Detroit firm. In a recent statement by the de partment of labor, it is shown that the wages of members of union labor or ganization have increased 135 per cent since 1907. Belief that the voters of the coun try would not permit such circum stances to arise as would make nec essary election of the next president by congress was expressed by Gover nor Alexander J. Groesbeck, of Mich igan. Official Washington society has just been given a nice financial boost. If November elections result in a grand change in the party in power, the "faithful” who’re rewarded with fat jobs in Washington will be luckier than ever before. Democrats still intend to focus a large part of their campaign on the farmers, despite the recent rise in grain prices, which Republicans are claiming will calm the ruffled feelings of the Western and Northwestern agri cultural states. England’s representations against the ship modernization program of the American navy may bring to a head at least a controversy that has stirred naval circles almost continuously since the adjournment of the arms confer ence. A careful study will be made before a reply is sent Great Britain. Plans made by President and Mrs. Coolidge to permit their son, John, to attend the citizens’ military training camp this summer at Camp Devens, Mass., have been abandoned, and John will remain with his parents at the white house unifl fall, when he enters Amherst college. The parcel post system has come to the aid of the exporter to the extent of carrying two million dollars of ex port business a month. The bureau of foreign and domestic commerce de partment recently made figures show ing that exports by parcel post have more than doubled since January, and that for the first five months of the year, sß,3oo,ibJ worth of goods was thus exported. Domestic— Oliver O. Provosty, former chief jus tice of the Louisiana supreme court, died at his home in New Orleans, La., August 3, the seventy-second anniver sary of his birth. The Lincoln cotton mills corporation, Huntsville, Ala., will resume operation of its older plant with night and day shifts in the near future, having been shut down for a fortnight for the pur pose of installing new electrical fix tures. The new mill will be complet ed within the next month, and will give employment to several hundred additional people. Benjamin and Chester Dorscheimer, Lancaster, Pa., were recently freed of the charge of having murdered their parents fourteen years ago. Jailer E. C. Bryant, Florence, S. C., recently discovered that Donny Owens, 18, in an effort to ‘escape, had cut nearly through two bars of his cell. He had made a saw from an iron fas tening taken from the cell cot. A heavy piece of Iron piping was also found in ihe cell. A Baltimore, Md., masked bandit re cently held up a street car, robbed the motorman and conductor and the pas senger and escaped with the total amount of $3. Only six men and one woman were in the car at the time. At Anderson, S. C., the other day, W. O. Ulmer and four children came near being seriously Injured when a passing automobile skidded into his sedan, overturning it. One daughter had an arm broken and bruised and another daughter had a cut on the forehead. Ulmer had a slight cut on the left arm, while the other two chil dren were not hurt in the least. Marshall Ambard, 16, student at Castle Heights, on the Wataugua mili tary camp at Austin Springs, Tenn., was drowned in the Watauga river when the canoe in which he was rid ing was damaged on a rock and turn ed over, throwing him into the water. He disappeared from sight at once, ac cording to information given, and the body has not been recovered. After a night of disorders and clash es, in which scores were injured, a crowd of men who had engaged in a night of hostilities with members and spectators at a Ku Klux Klan meet ing in a field near Lancaster, Mass., the assemblage was dispersed with the arrival of state patrolmen. Only five are reported seriously injured—one a policeman. James J. Freel, president of the In ternational Union of Stereotypers, died suddenly at his home in Caldwell, N. J. He had just reached home from attendance upon the annual convention of the stereotypers held in Atlanta, Ga., and was apparently in the best of health. John W. Davis, Democratic nominee for the presidency, speaking at Rock land, Maine, said that Republicans and Democrats alike are striving for an honest, upright and just government— the difference being that they disagree as to the methods in accomplishing that desired end. Two men were killed, several were reported injured and vast damage to timber brush and ranch property re sulted during the past 24 hours from forest fires raging in ten California counties, says a report from San Fran cisco. Mayor John F. Hylan, of New York, returned recently after a three weeks' visit to William Randolph Hearsts ranch in California. He had no state ment to make on the political situa tion. Chairman Hooper, of the United States railroad labor board, has left ; Chicago for Washington to confer with department of justice officials on ‘‘con tempt proceedings in the federal : courts," which the board has agreed may le necesssary to establish its right to force submission of testimony from all parties to a controversy. Baltimore was chosen as the meet ing place for next year's convention of the Loyal Order of Moose, recently j in sesion at New Y'ork. THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA. $270,894.85 DUE STATE TREASURY REPORTS FROM 85 COUNTIES IN STATE NOT RECEIVED 'JP TO DATE STATE NEWSJF INTEREST Brief New* Items Gathered Hero And There From All Section* Of The State Atlanta. —Although reports of tax collectors in 85 counties of the state have not been received yet, the bal ance due the state treasury to com plete settlement of ad valorem collec tions for 1923 is only $270,894.85, it was stated the other day by William A. Harrison, tax clerk in the office of Comptroller General Wright. Final reports have been made by only 75 of the 160 counties, but the small bal ance due is caused by the fact that set tlements have been made in practical ly all counties having a large propor tionate share of taxes, it'is pointed out. According to the tax digest collec tions for 1923 are expected to total $5,109,719.91, including ad valorem and poll taxes. Of this sum $4,764,651.91 Is ad valorem, and $365,688 is poll taxes. Of the total amount 14,838,825.08 has been paid in. The large propor tion of amount paid in, compared to the proportion of counties which have made their final settlement, is due to the fact that practically all those counties still in arrears, owe only a small amount. Fulton, for instance, which pays a heavy proportion of the ad valorem tax of the state, has not made final settlement yet, though practically all taxes have been paid in. The figures given above do not al low for insolvent taxpayers, which will reduce the final total somewhat, al though this loss will probably be off set by added collections for properties not on the digest, which also are not Included. Officers Seize Quantity Of Liquor Atlanta. —County police and deputy sheriffs recently confiscated 1,100 gal lons of corn whisky, 1,000 gallons of which was stored in a fashionable res idential section St. Charles ave nue while 100 gallons represented the cargo of an automobile which was chased for mors than two miles on the Roswell road. Deputy Sheriffs Jim White, Jim Bazemore, Lee Whatley, and J. L. Milam, conducted the raid upon the St. Charles avenue residence and arrested H. J. May, who was plac ed under a thousand dollar bond. County Officers Cal Cates, Claude Webb and Charles Lyle captured the rum-laden auto on the Roswell road. The driver of the whisky car escaped. Slayer Of Marshal Sentenced To Hang Donaldsonville. Silas Paramore, convicted of the murder of Officer I. J. Williams, has been sentenced to hang August 22 by Judge W. V. Cus ter. A motion for anew trial has been filed by attorneys for the defense. Williams was marshal of Iron City, and attempted to arrest~Paramore for alleged violation of the prohibition law. A gun battle followed and Williams’ body was found about an hour later. Paramore escaped to New Jersey and was brought back to Seminole county after a long fight over his extradition, led by W. L. Bryant, solicitor of Semi nole county. Bourquin Gets $13,059 In Damages Savannah. Guillemain Bourquin was awarded a verdict for $13,059.61 in his damage suit against Elliot and Polignac Bourquin. The setoff for $lO,- 000 filed by Polignac Bourquin against Guillemain was refused. The jury al lowed full damages asked for actual medical, hospital nursing service, and traveling expenses, resulting from the Injuries sustained by Guillemain when he was shot by Elliott Bourquin. In stead of the sum of $25,000 asked for the permanent injury to the plain tiff’s left arm and mental anguish and suffering caused, they gave SIO,OOO. Ten Indictments Against Youth Atlanta.—The largest number of burglary true bills ever returned in Fulton county against one person came when the Fulton grand jury found ten indictments Heber Wilson, 18, who confessed, several days ago. to some thirty thefts on the north side, according to the police. Negro Still Sought For Killing Boy Thomaston. —Police continue the search for Sam Spence, negro, who, one nighj recently, ran over and killed Shelby Pitts, 12. with a speeding lum her truck, said to have been taken from Cecil McGee of Chipley without permission. The truck was wrecked, as the negro abandoned it and fled after the accident. Georgia Largest Fertilizer Consumer Washington, D. C.—Approximately 2,090,000 tons of fertilizer have been used on the cotton crop this year, the United States department of agricul ture esimates. Increased use of fer tilizer is reported from all the cotton growing states. Georgia used 453.000 tons this year; North Carolina 406,- 000 tons; South Carolina 358,000 tons; Alabama, 334,000 tons; Mississippi, 150,000 tons, and Texas, 109,000 tons. It is estimated fertilizer this year has been used on 39 per cent of the cotton acreage, as compared with 37 per cent last year, and 31 1/2 per cent in 1922. Fertilizer was used on 99 per cent of the cotton acreage in North Carolina, 98 per cent in Vir ginia, 95 per cent in South Carolina and Georgia, 91 per cent in Florida, 88 per cent in Alabama, 50 per cent in Louisiana, 45 per cent in Tennessee, 35 per cent in Arkansas and on small fractions, if any, of the acreage in other cotton states. The average cost of fertilizer per cotton acre this year was as high as $6.03 in Virginia, $6.01 in North Carolina, and $4.38 in South Carolina. The cost in Georgia was $3.64, and less in other states, the lowest cost per acre being $2.17 in Missouri. Four Youths Held For 3 Robberies Atlanta. —Four boys ranging in age from 12 to 15 years, were arrested re cently on charges of having robbed several stores and are held at the ju venile detention home on Central ave nue. The youngster, Jack Reddick, 14, hir> brother, Sam Reddick, 12, Zeb Strickland, 15, and Joseph Wolford, 12, are said to have confessed to robbing three stores during the spring and winter. Jack Reddick, said to be the leader, is alleged to have admitted that he and his band robbed the Bou levard Hardware store, last March, and broke into and robbed the bak ery owned by Mrs. Rosalie Joyner, at a weiner stand near the ball park, in January. Civilians To Assist “Defense Test’’ Atlanta. —Appointment of civiliaL mobilization committees in practically every city in the fourth corps area will mark the first step of prepara tions for observance of “National De fense Test Day,” on September 12. Committees will have charge of patri otic demonstrations and will secure volunteers to fill the ranks of local units of National Guard and organ ized reserves. The fourth corps area, which includes Georgia, North Caro lina, South Carolina, Florida, Tennes see, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisi ana, is commanded by Maj. Gen. Da vid C. Shanks, with headquarters in Atlanta. Page Will Face Desertion Charge Vidalia. —Robert Gerald Page, 45, it. in jail here after being bound over on charges of abandoning his children in one of the most sensational trials ever held in this section of the state. A woman, who said she was the man’s wife and who is the mother of two sons, appeared here shortly after Page married 18-year-old Myrtle Glass, of this city .several days ago, and the charges were launched. Page and his new bride were brought from Atlan ta, where they were honeymooning. Page was bound over under SI,OOO bond and his trial will come up in Toombs superior court in August, court offi cials state. Savannahans Ship Figs To New York. Savannah. —The first shipment of fresh figgs shipped from Savannah to any considerable distance so far as is known was sent the other day by Mrs. H. L. Backus, home demonstra tion agent, and Gratz Dent, county agent, to New York. This shipment is in the nature of an experiment to determine whether locally grown figs can be shipped to markets in other sections of the country with success. The figs were grown on the property of George Gar many, Judge Arthur W. Solomon and G. W. Wylly, at Isle of Hope, and B. A. Oxnard, at Beaulieu. They were grown extensively locally in private orchards. Doctor Acquitted Of Assault Gainesville. —Dr. J. R. Simpson prominent eye specialist of Gainesville, against whom an indictment was found by the grand jury for an alleged as sault upon a young woman of this city, was acquitted by a jury. The trial consumed a day and a half. Af ter staying out about fifteen hours the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. The court house was filled tc overflowing throughout the trial. Edwards Given One-Year Term Marietta. —Sim Edwards, who is now serving a two year term for assault in connection with the shooting sev eral months ago of D. D. Bullard as he lay asleep at his home near Powder Springs, was sentenced to serve an other year on statutory charges grow ing out of the same case. The trial was before Judge D. W. Blair, of the Blue Ridge circuit. LEGISLATIVE NEWS What Our Lawmakers \re . Doing At The Capital School Tax Beat In Committee Atlanta. —The public schools o{ At lanta lost, 9 to 8, in the first skirmish in the general assembly, in what loom ed as a long drawn out parliamentary battle between school supporters am] opponents of increased taxes. The municipal government commit tee of the house voted, after a public hearing followed by a spirited debate in executive session, to report unfa vorably the proposal to authorize the city of Atlanta to hold a referendum election on the question of levying an emergency tax of one mill for school purposes. All other charter changes asked by council were recommended favorably for passage. The committee’s report was decided by the vote of the chairman, R. F. Mann, of Glynn county, after the six teen other members present had voted into a tie of 8 to 8. $48,000,000 Road Bond Issue Approvec The house committee on constitu tional amendments voted, 15 to 7, tc report favorably a bill authorizing e $48,000,000 bond issue for highway construction. The measure was a sub stitute for house bill No. 599. Representative Mann of Glynn, au thor of the bill, presented the measure to the committee and pointed out that the substitute called for $48,000,000 in stead of $40,000,000 as in the original bill. Forty million was asked for con struction of highways and eight mil lion for reimbursing those counties which had certificates of having helped to build the state roads. He pointed out that by a bill passed in 1919, two roads were authorized to be built out of every county seat. From the money received from the bond issue these county seat roads would be connected. He explained in detail to the commit tee how the issue could be floated. Mistreatment Of Veterans Charged Sensational charges including mis treatment of Confederate veterans it the Old Soldiers’ home here, gross mis management of the institution and graft and corruption, were made the other night against W. E. McAlister superintendent, by representatives ol the Atlanta and Fulton county chap ter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at a public hearing be fore the invalid pension soldiers’ home committee house of representatives The hearing consumed more than 12 hours. Atlanta Firemen Win First Round Enactment of the Atlanta firemen’, pension fund bill was unanimously rec ommended by the house committee on labpr and labor statistics, after a lengthy hearing. The bill provides re tirement on one-half pay after twenty five years’ service, or in case of total disability of a member hurt in serv ice, and is sponsored by legislative delegations of Fulton and DeKalh counties. An assessment of one-fourth of one per cent on the total amoun t of fire insurance premiums, paid within the corporate limits, and of 1 P* l ceD J on the salary of the 300 members oi the department, is provided as a mean? of raising necessary revenue to pa? the pensions. It is estimated these assessments'will yield an annu revenue of between twenty-five ou sand and thirty thousand dollars. Dipping May Not Extend To Islandi Agricultural committee number on Df the house of representatives 'c to favorably recommend a bill by Kep resentative Langley of Floyd and Way of Liberty, which would amend _ act of August 17, 1918, Prßenting shipments of tick-infested cattle into, within or through the state of gia. The. measure proposes that c islands in the state, so far re ® o ' from the mainland that cattle o - islands cannot escape therefrom, go from the isiand to the mamland. shall be exempt from provisions the aq of 1918. , ; _ e( } The purpose of the bill, as exp • by Mr. Langley, is to P rev f nt J, p 0 J of one thousand wild ca^ e Ca^eriße thousand wild horses on • ■ island. New Bills In The House The following new bills bate introduced in the house an, to the proper committees: By Linder of Jeff Davis porate the Denton school Q 1 Jeff Davis county. Education By Fleming of Hancock T priate $12,000 for a ‘ ,^ e at Tenth District A. and - L Appropriations. provide By Hillhouse of Worth L Ilo u a method for control of cot weevil and to divide the su-_ three control districts, to m o ulations upon farmers. Gei culture No.