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BAIL IS REFUSED
WIDOW'S SHIER
Mrs. Jones Declines to Divulge
Motive for Killing Mrs. Cave
at Nashville, Tenn.
NASHVILLE, TENN., Aug. 16.
Mrs. Leola Jones, who is charged with
slaying Mrs. Alva Frances Cave, the
young Nashville widow, by shooting her
twice through the heart, has been de
nied bail by Acting Judge Levine in the
city court. She was committed to jail,
where she will await the action of the
grand jury in September. She still re
fuses to make any statement regarding
the killing, except»to assert that she
was justified. It has developed that
while on her way to the Cave home she
is said to have announced that the
wagon had better be called, as she was
going to kill a woman.
Relatives of Mrs. Cave claim that
James J. Jones, husband of the slayer,
was not attentive in any degree to the
dead woman, and there was nothing in
the acquaintance or association- that
would have justified the killing.
Mr». Cave Is Buried.
The funeral of Mrs. Cave took place
today.
Counsel for the accused today took
their first steps in preparation for the
prisoner's defense.
It is believed that the commonwealth
will have considerable difficulty in con
victing Mrs. Jones, because no one
save the two-year-old son of the dead
woman saw the shooting.
Garbed in spotless white, the pris
oner sat in her cell today, showing
neither fear nor excitement. Her only
perturbation of mind arose over the
grim-barred room which soiled her
snowy garments.
Jealousy caused .by neighborhood
gossip is the motive which the prosecu
tion will try to establish. Charges made
by Mrs. Jones in a suit for divorce last
year, in which Mrs. Cave was named as
co-respondent, will be introduced to
show the mental attitude of the prison
er toward the victim.
Mother in Precarious Condition.
The shooting of Mrs. Cave may result
in a double tragedy, ow'ing to the pre
carious state of health of Mrs Sophia
Leinhous, mother of Mrs. Cave, who
collapsed when told of the killing. She
is at present under the constant care of
physicians. ,
Owing to the prominence of the fam
ily of the slain woman, the case has
aroused high interest throughout the
state. Mrs. Cave was the daughter-in
law of Dr. R. Lin Cave, pastor of the
Woodland Street Christian church of
this city, chaplain general of the United
Confederate Veterans and former pas
tor of the West End Christian church
in Atlanta. He has a brother in the
ministry in St. Louis. For a number
of years he was engaged in educational
work in Lexington, Ky.
Mrs. Cave was 30 years old. Pa
thetic circumstances connected with
the case are that the dead woman
leaves two small children, a son aged
two and a daughter aged five.
2 MORE VICTIMS OF
OIL EXPLOSIONS SUE
THE TEXAS COMPANY
The amount asked from the Texas Com
pany, oil refiners, in various suits brought
as the result of deaths in recent kerosene
explosions was raised to SIBI,OOO today
when John Mayhue and his wife asked in
superior court for $16,000 damages.
Nora Mayhue, 12 years old, was burned
to death and Mrs. Mayhue, who bravely
attempted to extinguish the flames on
her daughter's clothing, was severely
burned August 11, following an oil ex
plosion. Three suits originated from the
accident. Mr. Mayhue asked SIO,OOO for
the death of his daughter and $3,000 for
injuries to his wife, and Mrs. Mayhue
asked $3,000 for personal injuries.
ACCUSED MAN DENIES PLOT
TO KILL WILLIS YIELDING
BIRMINGHAM, ALA., Aug. 16.—While
Miss Willis Yielding, a pretty young
woman of good family, who resides in a
cheap hotel on Second avenue, declares
that she was intentionally shot lost night,
R. L. Couch, a barber, who was arrested
with a friend. John Deverage, charged
with the shooting, denies positively that
he is of kin to the woman or that the
shooting was intentionally done.
The girl has a flesh wound and will be
out in a few' days. She is at the Hill
man hospital. She claims that Couch is
her brother-in-law and that he and Dev
erage plotted to kill her.
“EVERYBODY’S DOIN’ IT”
, BY BAND IS PROTESTED
OSHKOSH, WIS., Aug. 16.—Promi
nent citizens who patronize band con
certs in the city parks today delivered
an ultimatum to the park board in the
form of a threatened boycott unless the
selection, “Everybody’s Doin' It” is
eliminated from the programs. They
say the bands play it continuously.
MAN IN GOOD HEALTH
SAYS HE’LL DIE; DOES
KENOSHA, WIS., Aug. 16.—Samuel
Spinney, in the best of health, told
members of his family he was going to
"lie down and die.”
' They thought he was joking until an
hour later his wife found him dead in
bed from heart disease.
SUNBURN BLISTER FATAL.
NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—A blister
caused by sunburn proved fatal to Win
throp Jordan, a summer resident at
Bay Shore. Blood poison developed.
MAN. 62, WEDS WOMAN 28.
NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—Frederick Horn
by, aged 62, of Philadelphia, has been
married in Long Island City to Miss
Einilie Fleming, who is only 28
Mt. Gilead Now More Than Ever a Retreat of Young for Wooing
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Miss Mary McGee, of Atlanta,
one of the many girls at the Mt.
Gilead camp meeting whose
voices help swell the volume when
the revival hymns are sung,
ILL BI LLS M
MILITIA PASSED
State Guardsmen Exception
ally Fortunate in Getting
What They Asked For.
Out of the crowd of dejected lobby
ists who saw measures killed or “dan
gerous” legislation passed during the
closing hours of the legislature, Adju
tant General Obear stands today the
single happy exception.
Eleven military bills, advocated by
the head of the National Guard, went
to successful passage. Not a single
military provision was defeated. The
$7,500 delfly extracted from the mili
tary fund last summer by Joe Hill Hall
wras returned this year with $2,500 more
for a contingent riot fund. The bills
passed fob the militia are:
An amendment to the riot laws so as
to prevent sheriffs, mayors and judges
from calling out troops, placing this
authority solely with the governor.
The office of quartermaster general
has been consolidated with that of ad
jutant general, and adjutant general
made ex-officio head of all staff de
partments.
All clerks in the military department
are hereafter to hold their positions
under civil service rules.
To permit the operation of military
trains on Sunday.
Retirement Age Is 64.
The governor has been authorized to
appoint his private secretary as one of
his aids (with the rank of lieutenant
colonel) without regard to his previous
military service.
All officers and enlisted men must be
retired from the active list upon reach
ing the age of 64 years, and placed on
the retired list in a manner similar to
that required in the United States
army.
All military records are hereafter to
be deposited in the adjutant general’s
office for preservation.
All brigade staff officers shall hold
office on the same terms as staff officers
of regiments and battalions.
In time of riot or danger thereof all
military communications shall have
right of way over telephone and tele
graph lines.
Any officer or enlisted man of this
state who has served tn other states
may count such service toward retire
ment or sendee medals in the National
Guard of this state, provided he shall
have served five years in the militia of
this state.
It has been provided that the Geor
gia flags used in the Spanish-Ameri
can war shall be displayed in the cor
ridors of the capitol.
SIDNEY EDWARDS GETS
CHOICE OF 15 YEARS IN
PRISON OR JURY TRIAL
RICHMOND, VA., Aug. 16.—Sidney
Edwards, one of the Carroll county out
laws, has been given his choice of fifteen
years in the penitentiary or a trial by a
jury from Grayson county. He has until
late today to make known his decision.
If he asks a jury trial it will begin next
Monday.
Friel Allen, the youngest of the out
laws, pleaded guilty to second degree
murder and was given eighteen years In
the penitentiary.
MOVING PICTURE TRUST
SUED BY GOVERNMENT
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 16.—At the di
rection of Attorney General Wickersham,
Federal District Attorney John C. Swart
ley. of the Eastern district of Pennsyl
vania. today filed suit against the Motion
Picture Patents Company and the General
Film Company, known as the Moving
Picture Trust, charging a combination in
restraint of trade.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1912
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Litile Marion Cook, of 210 Hill street, Atlanta, is a happy
camper at the Mt. Gilead meetin gs for she has her doll with her.
$1,500,000 m Neu) Money Coming
BIG LOANS FOR BUILDINGS
There will be put in circulation in
Atlanta in the next two weeks $1,500,-
000. Deals have been closed by which
the actual cash will be distributed In
that period to the wage earning class.
For the erection of the W. T. Healy
skyscraper in Forsyth street SBOO,OOO
has been negotiated through the North
western Mutual Life Insurance Compa
ny, while a $700,000 loan was made
through the Metropolitan Insurance
Company to the Atlanta Realty Com
pany for the construction of a fifteen
story apartment house in Edgewood
avenue. All of the money will be used
in actual building operations.
The $700,000 loan was negotiated by
Joel Hurt.
As the loan begins drawing interest
at six per cent immediately, the Atlanta
Realty Company will have work start
ed on the building at once. Mr. Hurt
today said the foundation would be
started within a week.
The loan was secured by a warranty
deed on four parcels of property on
Ergewood avenue, filed in the superior
court yesterday afternoon.
NEGRO ROBBER WHO
TRIED TO BLIND HIS
VICTIM BOUND OVER
Alex Bradley, a negro accused of throw
ing red pepper in the eyes of Jim Sitnos,
a soda water vender at Butler and Ellis
streets, and attempting to rob him. today
was held by Recorder Broyles for trial
in the state courts. In default of SI,OOO
bond, the negro went to the Tower.
Temporarily blinded by the pepper,
Simos chased the negro out of his place
with a pistol and prevented a robbery.
Bradley was identified by Simos and also
by a merchant who sold him red pepper.
HOW TO KEEP A WIFE:
7 KISSES, 6 HUGS A DAY
KEOTA, COLO., Aug. 16.—1 n a ser
mon on “How to Keep a Wife," Rev.
T. W. Winkler recommended at least
seven kisses a day with half a dozen
hugs.
RABUN LAWYERS FOR POTTLE.
CLAYTON, GA., Aug. 16.—At a meet
ing of the lawyers of Rabun county the
candidacy of Judge J. R. Pottle for elec
tion to the position he now fills in the
court of appeals was indorsed. Those
present were: J. T. Davis, W. G. Par
ker, W. S. Parris, T. L. Bynum and R.
E. A. Hamby.
GETS EIGHT YEARS’ SENTENCE.
COLUMBUS, GA.. Aug. 16.—Will
Mitchell, a negro convicted in the Mus
cogee county superior court on a charge
of assault with intent to kill, was given
a sentence of eight years in the peni
tentiary. Mitchell is wanted in Florida
on a killing charge.
ARMY ORDERS
WASHINGTON. Aug. 16. Major Early
Carnahan, paymaster, San Antonio,
Texas, to St. Paul, Minn.
First Lieutenant Ernest C McCulloch,
medical reserve corps, to Columbus, Ohio.
First Lieutenant I'kiward Kremers,
medical, from presidio of San Francisco,
to Honolulu.
Brigadier General George S. Anderson,
I'. S. A . retired from active service after
10 years’ service.
Lot B, so named in the deed, the lot
upon which the building will be erect
ed, is bounded by Edgewood avenue,
Equitable place, Exchange place and
Ivy street. The other three lots are
adjacent to this.
According to the provisions of the
deed, the note, which was made out
simultaneously with the filing of the
deed, will mature August 15, 1917. For
the first two years it will draw inter
est at six per cent, and for the next
three years at five and one-half per
cent. If extensions are made after the
date of maturity, such amounts as are
carried over will draw interest at eight
per cent. ,
The deed further provides that upon
the completion of the skyscraper the
liens upon the other three lots will be
released upon payment of $50,000
apiece, with accrued interest, for two
lots, and $75,000 for the third.
Though no official statement has yet
been made, it is understood that the
$700,000 will constitute only about half
the expense necessary to the completion
of the building.
FUNERAL OF HAWES,
DROWNED IN SURF, IS
TO OCCUR SATURDAY
Walter Hawes, who died in the surf
off St. Simons Island while trying to
save a young woman companion, will
be buried tomorrow afternoon at 2:30
o’clock in Westview cemetery.
The remains reached Atlanta today
and were taken to Bloomfield’s chapel,
after which they were removed to the
family residence, 155 Crumley street.
The funeral will be held at Brough
ton’s Tabernacle, the Rev. A. T. Spauld
ing officiating. Charles H. Lehman, C.
D. Holly, J. T. Kirkpatrick, Jr., K. M.
Mitchell. J. H. Latimer and Joe Stan
field will act as pallbearers.
SALOONISTHELDTO
STATE COURTS ON 2
MINORS’ TESTIMONY
On the testimony of two boys, Ben
Smith and Carl Smith, 408 Decatur street,
E. Markowitz, a saloonfst at 402 Deca
tur street, today was bound over to the
state courts by Recorder Broyles on the
charge of selling beer to minors. Bond
was fixed at SSOO.
The case was made at the instigation
of O. S. Smith, an brother of the
two boys, with whom they live. Attorney
John Y. Smith, counsel for Markowitz,
sought to show that the prosecution was
based on bad feeling.
TO CUT MACON'S LIGHT BILL.
MACON, GA., Aug. 16.—Regardless
of which company gets the new five
year lighting contract next Tuesday
night, Macon is going to save about
$15,000 a year for five years. The pres
ent rate is S6O per year each for 500
lights. W. J. Massee has guaranteed a
bid below S4O and it is certain that the
winning bid will be even lower.
RECOVERING FROM POISON.
VALDOSTA. GA., Aug. 16.—Reports
from Hahira are to the effect that Mrs.
T. S. Passmore, who took carbolic acid
on Tuesday, is recovering front the ef
fects of the poison. Her son, who is a
medical student, was at home when his
mother swallowed the acid, and his ap
plication of medical knowledge prob
ably saved his mother’s life.
SHELLS IMPERIL
YANKEE LEGATION
Rebels Continue Fire on Man
agua, With U. S. Marines
Powerless to Interfere.
MANAGUA, NICARAGUA, Aug. 16.
This city is still besieged by the rebels
who have moved to a more advantage
ous position and are dropping shot and
shell within a hundred yards of the
American legation.
The American marines are doing
their best to protect the ministerial
residence, but as they are unequipped
with field guns they are unable to hurt
the revolutionists with their Are. How
ever, American sharp-shooters are post
ed all along the walls with orders to
open fire on any suspicious characters.
Hundreds of persons are leaving Ma
nagua for the south and the city is
practically deserted.
Women and Children Killed.
A large number of women and chil
dren have been killed and wounded and
the government has informed Ameri
cans and other foreigners that they
must be prepared to protect them
selves.
Accordingly, Minister Weitzel has
ordered all Americans inside the lega
tion. where they can be protected by
the marines. The arrival of the Den
ver, carrying 300 bluejackets, will dou
ble the force at Managua and it Is
thought the American troops will be
able to drive back the rebels should
the latter attack the foreign quarter.
The revolutionists have cut all wires
leading into the interior.
No word has been received from
Matagalpa and Leon, where the rebels
are strongest.
HALF DOZEN GEORGIA PATENTS.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—Davis &
Davis, patent attorneys, report the
grant this week to citizens of Georgia
of the following patents: M. X. Cor
bin, Savannah, disappearing crib; C.
Corley, Atlanta, stub catcher and ten
sion device; W. J. Dunlap, Atlanta, lace
cabinet; J. R. Farthing, Garfield, seed
planter; S. E. and L. O’Qufnn, Jesup,
turpentine gatherer; W, H. Williams,
Statesboro, revolving track and car.
DEATHS AND FUNERALS
J. P. Ragsdale.
The body of .1 I’. Ragsdale, one of the
oldest citizens of East Atlanta, who died
yesterday, was carried from Burkett’s
chapel to Rex, Ga., today for funeral
services. Mr. Ragsdale resided at No. 64
Metropolitan avenue, East Atlanta. lie
is survived by his wodw, several children
and a number of great-great grandchil
dren. He was the father of J. T. Rags
dale. (’ M. Ragsdale, of Atlanta; (). L.
Ragsdale, of Forrest Park; Mrs. J. M.
Keen, Rex, Ga.; Mrs. W. B. Owens, Mrs.
,1. J. Simmons, Mrs. John Crumly and
Miss Dora Ragsdale, of / tlanta.
Nathan Savaqe.
Nathan Savage, the lit.le son of \V. M.
Savage, of? 01 West North avenue, lies
dead at Greenberg Ar Bond’s chapel await
ing being carried to Courtney. S. C .
where the funeral will be held. The child,
hut two years old, died at the family
home late yesterday.
Elma Holland.
The funeral of Elma Holland, who died
yesterday at 269 Glenn street, will be held
there tomorrow morning. He Is survived
by his widow and two small children.
J. G. Owen.
The body of J G. Owen, 53 years old,
who died at 191 South Humphries street
\ ester day afternoon, will be buried at
Greenwood cemetery tomorrow. Mr. Owen
was a car inspector for the Central of
Georgia railroad He leaves a widow and
Miss Lucy Mathews, of Ben
Hill, and Clyde Dunean, of Stone
wall, “courting” at Mt. Gilead
camp meeting.
But It’s Not the Marriage Mart
It Was in “Them Good Old
Days’’ of Long Ago.
Not even in the halcyon days that
the patriarchs speak of with so much
feeling has courtship been so striking
and pleasant a feature of a camp meet
ing as is now the order at Mt. Gilead
camp meeting, which is Just closing.
At least, that is what S. H. Wallace,
of Ben Hill, Ga., says, and he should
know, for he has been an attendant
upon camp meetings for the last 77
years. Mr. Wallace was the oldest of
the patriarchs at Mt. Gilead.
“I am glad to see that," he said, smil
ingly. as couples went strolling by.
“When a man's with a woman, he
hasn’t much chance to get into devil
ment She’ll generally keep him pretty
busy.
“There’s more of that going on now
adays, too,” he continued, with a
chuckle. “Back when I was a boy, we
were a little bit afraid of ’em until
they got us—and then we were still
afraid of them. But now boys and girls
get used to each other mighty quick.
I remember the first camp meeting I
ever went to—a boy and a girl, when
caught talking to each other by them
selves, would always blush up to their
eyebrows.
Marriage Mart in. Olden Days.
In “ye olden days,” said Mr. Wal
lace, the camp meeting was more or
less of a marriage mart. Every ton
male who couldn’t find himself a mate
anywhere else would go to a meeting.
Usually he found her, and a marriage
occurred forthwith. In the present day
courtship is not considered so seriously.
Swains and swainettes now consider it
perfectly proper to bill and coo just
for the sheer love of it. And at parting,
if no agreement has been made, there
is no heartache for either, for both will
be at it again before the close of an
other day.
Spoonolds are considered matters of
course at the present day camp meet
ing.
The Mount Gilead camp meeting just
concluding has been called successful in
every sense of the word by those most
vitally interested.
Beginning last Sunday, when there
were 2,500 people on the grounds, all
of its meetings have been well attend
ed, and a high interest has been mani
fested.
Everybody at Meetings.
The meetings have been in charge
of three preachers—Rev. George D.
Stone, of Payne Memorial church, At
lanta; Rev. F. S. Hudson, of East Point,
and Rev. W. P. Lovejoy, presiding elder
of the Atlanta district. Four services
were held every day—at eight, eleven,
three and seven o’clock.
In the congregations were represent
ed men and women of every age and
distinction. Generation upon genera
tion of the same family were there —
graybeards whose attendance at camp
meetings in the past had gone beyond
their calculation; young men who were
just beginning to shoulder the burdens
of religious life; little children there
for the first time, who as yet did not
appreciate the significance of the meet
ings.
Close to nature, next the sighing of
the woods and the singing of the birds,
they sat and listened to powerfully put
words —listened the more solemnly, it
seemed, for being in a church created
almost by nature itself.
CLAUSE FOR ABOLITION OF
COMMERCE COURT STICKS
WASHINGTON, Aug 16.—As a re
sult of the failure of the house to pass
the legislative, executive and judicial
hill over the president’s veto, a majority
of the members of the sub-committee
of the house appropriations committee
voted today to retain that clause of the
bill abolishing the commerce court, but
to strike out that limiting the tenure
of government clerks to seven years.
iWITER MENACES
PDLIGE STATION
Mysterious Stream Flows Into
Basement at Headquarters.
Pump Prevents Flood.
The police department today made
futile appeal to city authorities to save
the police station and nearby stores
from being flooded by a mysterious
stream of water which is constantly
pouring into the basement of the sta
tion.
“Lack of appropriation for such
work" is the answer given as to why
nothing can be done.
In the meantime, hundreds of gal
lons of water are pouring into the sta
tion basement, while a big pump is
being worked overtime in an effort to
prevent the whole prison and adjacent
streets from being flooded. The water
is rising at the rate of four inches every
twelve hours.
It was found necessary today to re
move the wooden floors in two stores’
next door to the police station and sub
stitute concrete flooring to prevent
water from coming into the stores.
Chief Beavers today communicated*
with Captain Clayton, chief of construe-*
tion, and requested that a force of men
be sent to the station to dig Into the
prison alleyway to ascertain the cause
of the flow. Captain Clayton Informed
the chief he could not do this, as he
had no appropriation for such work.
An appeal previously had been made
by Custodian J. C. Carlisle to Aiderman
J. W. Maddox, chairman of the council
committee on public buildings, but like
wise this was faultless. No appropria
tion was available.
Chief Beavers says he will appeal to
the city council.
The origin of the stream is a mys
tery. It Is thought It may come from
a bursted water main
REALVALJEAN IN
PRILL COUNCIL
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Reformer Confesses Former
Life of Crime When Driven
i Desperate by Blackmailer.
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f PHILADELPHIA, Aug 16.—A Jean
Valjean in real life was disclosed here
today when William Burke, a reform
• city councilman, resigned his seat and
B told how, under the name of Benjamin
H. Tripp, he had served a long term in
' the Massachusetts state prison after
living a life of crime in many cities,
' including Boston, New York, Chicago,
1 Kansas City and San Francisco.
5 Without reserve, Burke admitted
1 that he led the life of a pickpocket and
1 yegg before a term in the Massachu
-1 setts prison at Charlestown cured him
• of his vicious ways.
1 The author of this remarkable con
-1 session came to Philadelphia in 1907.
He had learned wood carving in pris
on and was determined to settle down
here and earn an honest living, for
getting the past and his old-time
friends. He succeeded and got into
politics. He ran for council on the re-
• form ticket headed by Mayor Blanken
! burg last fall and was elected.
After his election Burke was recog-
> nized on the street one day by a man
' who had been a fellow convict. This
. man made threats of exposure and
t Burke was compelled to pay him black
t mall. At last, driven to desperation by
, the growing demands of the threatened
! Informer, Burke decided to make a
I clean breast of his affairs and resign
his office.
Burke said he started in life as a
f waif in New York and was compelled to
support himself almost from Infancy.
From the street life he graduated into
: thugdom.
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Almost Parallel to
> Stripling Case
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The confession ot the double life of
William Burke, the Philadelphia coun
cilman, is practically Identical with the
story* of Thomas Stripling, the man
■ now serving a life sentence in the Geor
gia penitentiary. Stripling was con
victed of murder in Muscogee county,
. but escaped jail. He moved to Dan-
• ville, Va., where he entered business,
s subsequently politics, and was finally
, chosen chief of police. It was w-hile he
was serving in this capacity that he
was recognized as the Georgia convict
I and brought back to serve his term.
MERCHANT HURT BADLY
; IN RUNAWAY ACCIDENT
i J Levy, a merchant in Piedmont
. avenue, was hurt badly today when his
: horse ran away in East Atlanta. Levy
was hurled from his wagon and run
over. Several ribs were fractured and
he was injured otherwise. He was
taken to Grady hospital.
i COULDN’T LAND WITH DOG
IN ENGLAND: BACK TO U.S.
BOSTON, Aug. 16.—Because they would
i not let-her land with her dog owing to a
technicality of the British law. Miss Cora
Chamberlain has returned to Boston with
out leaving the ship.
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1 ALASKAN STORM WRECKS SHIP.
SEATTLE, Aug. 16. —A report from
s Nome, Alaska, today says the steam
.* schooner F. L. Dwyer has been wreck
a ed near Teller. A severe storm is rag
t Ing there, according to the report, and
b a number of vessels have been driven
on the beach.
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