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THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS.
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NEWS OF SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1913
REPUBLICANS WON’T DELAY
ACTION ON TARIFF BILL
WASHINGTON, July 20.—Republi
can Senators have served notice upon
their Democratic opponents that there
Is to be no unnecessary delay of the
Underwood-Simtnons tariff revision
bill. While the sharp tongue of Re
publican criticism and dire prediction
is to be loosed throughout the tariff
debate, the Republicans do not plan
to add any general filibustering tac
tics or to attempt to hold up final ac
tion on tariff revision.
This policy has been partially out
lined in the opening speech of the
Republican opponents of the Admin
istration bill, in colloquies on the floor
of the Senate and in private confer
ences among Senators. Within the
next few days a series of vigorous
attacks are to be made on the general
principles of the lJnderwood-Sim-
mons bill, following out the lines of
Senator Cummins’ speech on Satur
day. Senator Burton's address will be
the first of these general speeches by
regular Republicans.
The general denunciations will bo
followed by concerted attacks on cer
tain schedules, where the Republicans
Insist that the new measure will mean
ruin to American industries. The
Democrats are prepared to meet all
the Republican arguments, and will
keep up the file of debate until the
Senate is readv to take up the bill
section by section for amendment.
When that time arrives, it is under
stood to be the purpose of the Repuo-
licans to make their final fight for
amendment of the bill, hoping they
can bi ,ak up the Democratic ranks,
particularly on the sugar and wool
schedules. If their efforts fail, as
Democratic leaders insist they will, it
is the present understanding that the
Republicans will not interpose any
final opposition to a vote on the bill.
Democratic leaders were hopeful
to-day, with the opening of the de
bate out of the way, that Congress
could push the tariff revision to an
early enactment.
The friends and enemies of the bill
have been priming for the fight for
some time, and it is believed tie
speeches will follow' in rapid succes
sion. Senators Simmons and Kern
and other Democrats who are direct
ing the tariff program are hopeful
that the Senate can complete work on
the bill late in August, and that but
little time will be consumed in ad
justing the differences between the
two Houses.
Efforts by the House Committee on
Banking and Currency to perfect the
Administration currency bill have
failed to cause an echo of interest n
the Senate.
Even the lobby investigation, which
occupied the center of interest a week
ago, lost much of its life during last
week. The Senate committee had not
considered a third of the Mulhall let
ters when it recessed Eriday, and the
newly appointed House investigators
are privately wading through the
mass of correspondence, trying to find
a place to begin.
BLAMED BY SOCIALISTS.
SEATTLE, July 20.—Responsibility
for the riots Friday night in which
the headquarters of the Socialists and
Industrial Workers of the World were
sacked and the furniture burned in
the street by mobs of civilians led
b sailors from the Pacific reserve
fleet, was placed on Secretary of the
Navy Daniels in a memorial to Presi
dent Wilson adopted by the radical
wing of the Socialist party to-day.
The headquarters of this branch of
the Socialists was one of the places
wrecked by the mob.
The memorial denounces Secretary
Daniels for his speech at the Rainier
Thursday night, in which he made a
brief reference to patriotism and de
nounced the red flag and its support
ers.
The memorial sets forth "the So
cialist party has never advocated vio
lence, attempted or even remotely
dreamed of any act of desecration to
the flag of the United States or any
emblem or insignia thereof."
WIFE SHOOTS HUSBAND.
SAVANNAH, GA„ July 20—Dur
ing a fight in their home in Yamacraw
early this morning, Mrs. Eva Dare
sent a bullet crashing over the heart
of her husband, Joseph Dare. Al
though an operation was performed
and the bullet removed it is not
thought that Dare will live.
The husband made a statement be
fore he was operated on saying that
he was fighting with his wife when
she shot him. He came home at 4
o’clock in the morning and she up
braided him. This precipitated the
figlu and shooting.
Suffering from nervous shock, the
woman has not made a statement
since her arrest. She is under the
care of a physician.
Dare is a trainman employed by the
Central of Georgia Railway Company
For an escapade in Yamacraw about
a year ago Mrs. Dare was sentenced
to thirty days in jail by Recorder
Schwarz.
DEATH CLAIMS COOLEY.
TOPSFIELD, MASS., July 20.—Al
ford W. Cooley, formerly Assistant
Attorney General of the United
States, civil service commissioner and
justice of the New Mexican Supreme
Court, died of tuberculosis at his sum
mer home last night.
In April Judge Cooley', accompanied
by his family and nurses, made a
3,000-mile trip in a special car from
Silver City, N. Mex., to Providence, R.
I., where he wrns treated by Dr.
-Friederich F. Friedmann. Within tw r o
hours of his arrival In Providence
Judge Cooley received the first treat
ment.
SHELBY MYRICK PUTS
'LATE’ IN ‘LEGISLATE’
Representative
Shelby Myrick,
of Chatham
County.
BARRED BY CONSCIENCE
FROM FOOD OR SLUMBER
PHILADELPHIA, July 20.—Declar-
ing his conscience would not permit
him to eat or sleep, Alexander S
Woods, of East St. Louis, surrendered
to the police here to-day and turned
over $4,000 which, he said, he had
stolen ffom the American Express
Company in that city last Tuesday.
A police patrol was about to take
a prisoner to the station when Woods
requested the sergeartt to take him,
too.
"I’m wanted in East St. Louis for
taking funds from the American Ex
press Company. Here’s the stuff,''
Maid Woods as he shoved a pile of
money orders ;ind nearly $200 in cash
into the hands of the astonished po
liceman. "I want to face the music.
I want my two little girls to know
that even if 1 made a big mistake, I
have tried to make reparation.”
He said a man whose note he had
indorsed failed to make good, and this
had worried him so much that he left
East St. Louis with his pickets filled
with the Express Company’s money.
PERJURY BY CHILDREN.
FORT SMITH, ARK., July 20.—
Rev. Marion Capps, of White Bluff,
will be free to-morrow of the charge
of murdering his two children, when
Prosecuting Attorney Paul Little
will appear in court at Greenwood
and dismiss the case. This announce
ment was made by Little to-night.
Capps recently w r as convicted and
sentenced to hang on a charge that
he burned to death his daughters,
Priscilla, 4 years olds, and Rose, 2
years old. The Supreme Court re
versed the case and remanded it for
new trial.
Prosecutor Little said he was
forced to dismiss the case, because
his strongest witnesses. Bertha
Capps, 15 years old, and Ellis Capps,
14. children of the defendant, had
repudiated their former stories and
would testify in favor of their fa
ther at a second trial.
The children told the jury at the
first trial that they were tied in an
oil-soaked bed. The girl said when
she discovered the fire she saw her
father leave their bedroom and lock
the door.
Since the conviction of their fa
ther the children have made affidavits
that they swore falsely at the first
trial. The girl says she testified
falsely because her father opposed
her marriage to a neighbor's son.
He’s the Real Eearly-and-Late
V'orker of the 1913
Assembly.
The . iing that worries Rep:o nta-
tive Shelby Myrick, of Chatham, more
than anything else in his legislative
line of duty is the thought.that some
of these days he may run out of work
as chairman of the House Commit
tee on Constitutional Amendments.
At present, Mr. Myrick’s committee
meets only morning, noon and night,
and the thought continually obsesses
the gentleman from Chatham that it
might, if it tried right hard, meet
little oftener.
All the new county propositions are
thrashed out before Myrick’s com
mittee, and as there are twenty-odd
new counties applying for admission.
Myrick and his colleagues frequently
are held far into the wee sma’ hours
of the morning listening to patriotic
and liberty-loving sons of Georgia
discussing, pro and con, the merits of
the proposed Grand Young County of
Somethingorother!
U. S. WARSHIPS WANTED
TO PROTECT AMERICANS
MEXICO CITY, July 20.—Alarmed
by threats of the rebels to attack the
port of Frontera, on the east coast,
the American Consul has asked
Washington to send a gunboat. The
rebels have occupied two American-
owned plantations near the city and
have done much damage.
AMERICANS IN DANGER.
EL PASO, TEX.. July 20.—Officials
of the Madero Lumber Company to
day appealed to General Francisco
Castro, Federal commander in Juarez,
and American Consul Thomas D.
Edwards to send soldiers to protect
the little band of Americans at the
Madera lumber camp, 200 miles south
west of El Paso, w ho are reported to
be threatened with massacre by Mex
ican bandits led by "El Mocho” Mar
tinez.
The lumber company’s officials are
fearmg news of the wholesale killing
of their employees. They say the
Americans of their district are in
greater peril to-day than ever before
during the three years of revolution
in Chihuahua.
Messengers were dispatched m
hand cars over the Northwestern
Railroad to learn some news of the
besieged town.
BULGARIA NOW BEGGING
HER ENEMIES FOR PEACE
LONDON, July 20.—The advent of
a new Bulgarian Cabinet, comprising
a coalition of the Liberal groups,
seems to have brought a prospect that
peace negotiations soon will be en
tered into.
After vain attempts to negotiate
separately with Roumania, the Bulga
rian Government accepted the advice
of Russia and Austria and offered to
Roumania an important territorial
concession. Bulgaria also oent dele- ^
gates to meet the Servian and Greek
and presumably Roumanian reports
to Nish to negotiate an armistice and
peace. M. Radoslavoff, Liberal lead
er, is the new' Bulgarian Premier.
It is confirmed from Athens that
Servia, Greece and Montenegro are
ready to participate in these negotia
tions. Turkey, however, has intro
duced a new r complication, and has
notified the European powers of her
intention to make the Maritza River
the new frontier, giving as her rea
sons that she always has claimed this
frontier, but that the powers j-et aside
the claim in order to expedite peace;
that the Porte would be prepared to
settle the question by diplomatic
means, but that the atrocities and
vandalism of the Bulgarians in the
occupied territories make it impossi
ble to hope for a settlement, and that
new conditions arising from the last
war between the allies make it dou
bly necessary for Turkey to obtain a
frontier guaranteeing safely to Con
stantinople and the Dardanelles.
The Porte promises not to cross the
new Maritza frontier, and asks the
powers’ assistance in establishing it,
so as to secure durable relations be
tween Turkey and Bulgaria.
It not considered likely that Eu
rope will permit the decisions of the
London conference thus to he thrust
aside.
TURKS TO OCCUPY THRACE.
CONSTANTINOPLE. July 20.—The
Sublime Porte has issued formal or
ders to the army to occupy Thrace
and Adrianople.
In a note acquainting the powers
with this decision, it is announced
that the new Turco-Bulgerian fron
tier will be the River Maritza. The
Porte saddles Bulgaria with responsi
bility for any fighting that may en
sue.
FREE SPEECHES BY BRYAN.
WARSAW, INI)., July 20.—Secre
tary of State Bryan to-day made two
addresses to crowds at the Winona
Chautauqua grounds and announced
that his speaking dates for next
Thursday, Friday and Saturday had
been cancelled to enable him to re
turn to Washington for the confer
ence with Ambassador Henry Lane
Wilson and President Wilson upon
the Mexican question.
"The conference is expected to oc
cur Friday,’’ Mr. Bryan said, "but I
am willing to return to my duties at
any moment my presence may he
needed.”
The Secretary received no compen
sation for the speeches he made to
day, the crowds being admitted to the
grounds free. Mr. Bryan, who is
slated to become president of the
board of directors of the reorganized
Winona Chautauqua Association, said
he would return to address the Bible
conference August 22.
Secretary Bryan will go to Ply
mouth, Indiana, to-morrow.
TRAIN KILLS FAMILY.
ST. LOUIS, July 20.—Three persons
were killed by a train to-day, while on
their way to church a mile south of
Jerseyville, Ill. The victims were
Mrs. Hallie Ryan, her son, Stewart, 5
years old, and her daughter, Lillian,
3. The buggy in which they were rid
ing was struck by a north-bound
train on the Chicago and Alton road.
The engineer fainted and the train
sped on about a quarter of a mile
before the fireman closed the throt
tle. The mangled body of the boy
and shreds of the buggy were still
clinging to the pilot.
POLICE ARE OUTWITTED.
LONDON, July 20.—Mrs. Emmeline
Pankhurst, the suffragette leader,
again has outwitted the police. It
was thought that she had been ar
rested last night, but it was another
woman, impersonating Mrs. Pank
hurst, whom the police arrested in a
taxicab and took part of the way to
Scotland Yard. Then they discovered
the mistake and liberated the prison
er. At first the affair was considered
a hoax, but it developed apparently
into a well-laid scheme whereby Mrs.
Pankhurst could escape from her flat
by another passage while her imper
sonator was luring away the police.
FIND WATERY GRAVES.
CINCINNATI, July 20.—Three
young pleasure-seekers w'ere drowned
here to-day within view 7 of many per
sons who were standing about the
wharf, the victims being carried un
der a coal fleet so rapidly that any
attempt at rescue was prevented.
The drowned are Fred Salzman, 26;
Margaret Mullins, 19, and Anna Hall,
20. Salzman was taking his new
launch out on its maiden trip. His
engine broke down, and the launch
drifted against a coal fleet, and all
were drawn under.
TO-DAY’S HERETICS GET PRAISE
That the heretics of to-day are
preachers of to-morrow, and that they
are the men the people want to hear,
was the striking stater ent made by
Dr. J. B. Robins, nastor of Trinity
Church, Atlanta, Sunday morning in
an emphatic sermon on the need of*
the church to meet the new condi
tions of the present dav.
WILL TRY FOR CUP.
LONDON, July 20.—Sir Thomas
Lipton’s yacht which will try for the
American cup in a series of races in
1914, the conditions for which have
been signed and forwarded by the
Royal Ulster Yacht Club to the New
York Yacht Club, will be named
Shamrock IV.
KINGDOM IS SHAKEN.
STUTTGART, GERMANY. July
20.—The w F hole kingdom of Wurttem-
berg was shaken by a sharp earth
quake at 1 o’clock this afternoon.
Many chimneys collapsed. At Stutt
gart and Strassherg the frightened
residents rushed into the streets.
SHEET MUSIC! Two good samples and
I catalogs, one dime. P. A. Miller, 211
Relslnger Ave., Dayton, Ohio.