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NEWS OF SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1913
MEXICAN SOLDIERS SHOOT
U. S, IMMIGRANT OFFICER
EL PASO, TEX,, July 26,—Among
the latest outrages perpetrated on
American citizens in Mexico was the
shooting of Charles S. Dixon, of San
L^ego, United States Immigrant % In-
spector, by the Mexican regular sol
diers to-day. Dixon may die.
Inspector Dixon was in Juarez,
across the Rio Grande from El Paso,
investigating a white slave case, when
a band of Federal arrested him.
forcing him to march in front of
them in the direction of the foothills
beyond the city, where many sum
mary executions have taken place.
According to the Mexicans, Dixon
start€^d to run, and after getting a
block away, was fired upon and hit in
the back. He was brought back to
K1 Paso badly wounded.
Dixon, in his own statement to
American officials, said the Mexi
cans were drunk, and that he was
satisfied the soldiers intended to kill
him.
The Mexican Federal authorities
refuse to allow the United States im
migrant bfficials to remove Dixon t j
El Pa®o. He is in a dying condition,
one of the shots entering his hip an !
coming out in the stomach. Attend
ing physicians say that they do not
believe he can survive the night.
When seen by a reporter at Juarez
this evening. Dixon, who is conscious,
but weak from the loss of blood, said
that he believes a negro whom he
was after on a white slave charge
paid the Federals to shoot him.
"I told the soldiers when they ar
rested me that I would go to the
commandant’s office,” said Dixon.
"But instead of taking me there, they
started to the foothills south of the
city. I was attired in the immigra
tion uniform of khaki, iind I thought
perhaps that they had taken me for
an American spy and intended ex
ecuting me. I thought the only chance
I had was to run for the border, so I
broke loose from the two drunken
troopers that had hold of me and
started for the RL Grande. I ha3
perhaps gone a block when the de
tachment of troc^ps opened fire and I
was struck. The soldiers, while es
corting me to the outskirts of Juaivz.
twore vengeance at the Americans.'*
Feeling runs high in El Paso to
night, and all that is needed to start
a movement to cross the border to
avenge Dixon is a leader. Troops are
patrolling the border and will pre
vent Americans from crossing. Mexi
can Federals have threatened many
Americans and it has become dan
gerous for Americans to cross the
river.
Consul Edwards, a Taft appointee, i
is being severely criticised for his
attitude in refusing to offer Amer
icans, arrested by federals, assistance
and to-morrow morning an El Paso
paper will editorially ask for his re
moval.
U. S. MUST TAKE STAND.
WASHINGTON. July 26.—The re
port of Ambassador Henry Dane Wil
son on the situation in Mexico, asked
for by the President, was finished
this afternoon at 5 o’clock and was
sent to the President to-night.
The report of Mr. Wilson com
prises his views as to hi* effective
remedy for conditions in Mexico, and,
substantially, this is that the neu
trality laws be enforced strictly and
adequately. By that enforcement, he
believes, the revolution will disinte
grate and peace will be restored. This
is the proposition of Ambassador
Wilson, originally made to the Taft
administration, and which President
Taft adopted by sending a division of
the army to the frontier.
But that the United States must
take a firm and decided stand at once
developed yesterday at the series of
conferences of Secretary Bryan. Am
bassador Wilson and his commission
er, Mr. Del Valle, and between the I
Secretary and the Foreign Relations
Committee.
M RS FRANCES E. WHITESIEE, sister of Senator Hoke
Smith, is a leader in suffrage movement in Georgia. Mrs.
Whiteside outlined her views on question to mass meeting of
D. A. R. chapter.
DR. M’NAUGHTON’S FRIENDS
RENEW EFFORTS FOR PARDON
Their claim based on the declara
tion that the recent abandonment of
the murder charge against Mrs. Fred
Flanders is palpable evidence that
powerful Emanuel County forces had
sought to railroad Dr. W. J. Mc-
Naughton, of Swainsboro, to the gal
lows, Emanuel County friends of the
convicted physician have renewed
their efforts to have him pardoned
or at least granted a new trial.
The application will soon be pre
sented to Governor Slaton and he
will be the third chief executive to
play a part in this, the most bitterly
fought criminal case in Georgia’s his-
i tory.
Nolle pros of Mrs. Flanders’ case,
McNaughton's friends say, is proof
j conclusive of their contention that
the relatives of her dead husband
have always known that her trial
would establish the physician’s inno
cence, and that for three years they
have had the case postponed in ihc
hope that McNaughton would be
hanged before the truth could be es
tablished.
Fred Flanders, prominent in Eman
uel County’s business, social and po
litical life, died at his home in Co
vena.
A few days later Dr. McNaughton,
his attending physician, and Mrs.
Flanders were arrested and charged
with having poisoned him. ublic
sentiment ran high against the doctor.
Relatives of the dead man declare J
that he had given his patient arsenic
in order to possess his wife,
McNaughton’s trial was sensational.
He was convicted and sentenced to
hang. Then began his remarkable
legal fight. The Supreme Court hua
ruled on his case from every con
ceivable angle. And always it nas
ruled that McNaughton must hang.
As a last resort the "McNaughton
faction appealed to Governor Brown.
At that time the story was circu
lated that powerful political forces
were working to have the doctor
hanged before Mrs. Flanders could
be tried.
This was told Governor Brown so
convincingly that he gave McNaugL-
ton reprieve after reprieve as court
term after court term passed without
the trial of the accused woman.
As soon as Governor Brown left
office, the case against her was dis
missed, and the physician’s friends
grasped this point to urge his par
don.
MINISTER BOUND OVER.
The Rev. Crawford Jackson, sec
retary of the Juvenile Protective As
sociation of Atlanta and a widely-
known Methodist minister, was
bound over under bond of $1,000 to a
higher court following a sensational
trial by Justice of the Peace Girar
deau late Saturday afternoon on
charges of Miss Dovinia Dundir, a
15-year-old girl of No. 432 Central
avenue. w T ho charged that he had at
tempted to hug and kiss her under
protest in his office in the Third Na
tional Bank Building.
The girl charged that the offense
was committed while she was sub
stituting for her sister, who is the
Rev. Mr. Jackson’s stenographer, on
last Thursday afternoon. She also
said that he offered her an intoxicat
ing drink.
As a sensational climax to the trial,
Judge Girardeau in delivering his
charge brought the accused man up
for strong arraignment.
TWO AMERICANS HELD.
WASHINGTON, July 26—The State
Department made a formal demand
on the Huerta Government in Mexico
to-day to protect the life of Charles
Bessel, manager of the Mines Com
pany of America, who is said to have
been arrested in Chihuahua and held
under sentence of death.
Mr. Bessel is prominent in New
York, but his family is said now to
be in El Paso. The information that
the mining man had been arrested
came through Arthur T. Black, of j
New York, vice president of the
Mines Company of America, who ap
pealed to the Government.
Word also has been received here
that F. C. Herr, of Newark, Ohio, is
held in Madera, Mexico. Herr, who
was attacked by bandits, killed one
of them, and for thus defending his
life and property was seized by the
rebels.
SHE CHOSE STORM.
EAGLESMERE, PA.. July 26.—
With a rain of sparks from a burn
ing 'ottage pouring into her window
and a regular old-fashioned rain
driving out of doors, Miss Margaret
Woodrow Wilson, daughter of the
President, chose the damp variety
to-day and fled into the storm.
The fire was in the summer home
of W. C. Dodge, well known in Wash
ington. Miss Wilson was one of the
first to give the alarm, and, aided by
several other young women of the
summer colony, went into nearby cot
tages to make sure all were out.
TIES HUSBAND, SHOOTS HIM
AND THEN KILLS HERSELF
TAMPA, July 26.—Tired of being
abused. Mrs. Avalina Rodriguez tied
her husband to his bed to-day and
fired five bullets into his head and
body and then killed herself. They
had quarreled last night and he is
believed to have beat her, as was his
custom, it is claimed, from the dis
turbance the neighbors heard.
Early this morning Mrs. Rodriguez
gave part of her clothing to a neigh
bor, told the neighbor she was going
to kill herself and her husband, and
went back to the house. Within five
minutes the shots were heard, and the
policemen, who had been called, had
to break down the door to get in
Both were dead. She had shot him,
then untied the cords that held him.
lay down by his side and shot herself
through the heart.
TO PLANT 100,000 TREES.
MACON, July 26.—Edward J. Mar
tin, a large peach grower of Mar-
shallville, while in Macon to-day,
stated that fully 100,000 peach trees
would be set out this fall by the
orchard men In his section. ‘'The fine
prices brought by this year’s crop.”
he stated, “have encouraged the fruit
growers to enlarge their orchards.
“With satisfactory weather condi
tions in the spring I expect the 1914
fruit crop, especially the peaches, to
be the largest in the history of the
State, even exceeding that of 1909.”
PINNED UNDER AUTO.
EAU CLAIRE, W1S., July 26.—Mrs.
W. D. Armstrong was killed and brr
husband was seriously injured to-day
in an automobile accident near Merid
ian. The machine ran up an embank
ment and tipped over.
Both victims were pinned under the
car ten hours before a passing farmer
discovered the situation.
ASKS FOR TWO AUTOS.
WASHINGTON, July 26.—A stir
was caused in the House to-day when
it became known that Secretary of
Labor William B. Wilson has asked
Congress for a $5,000 touring car for
his personal use, a $2,500 electric au
tomobile to b eused for personal and
official purposes and a $1,500 electric
truck for the official business of the
new Department of Labor.
MAY INCREASE PARCEL
POST LIMIT TO 100 LBS.
Great commercial possibilities in
the parcel post are seen through the
prospect of an increase in the pack
age limit to 100 pounds, which At
lanta postoffice authorities expect as
the next move of the Federal Postal
Department.
Beginning as an experiment with a
limit of eleven pounds, the parcel post
achieved a vogue that was unexpect
ed. Last week came Postmaster Gen
eral Burleson’s announcement of the
proposed change in the weight of the
package limit to twenty pounds. In
AManta the announcement was re
ceived, accompanied by the following
statement:
“It' was predicted that during the
first year of this new' service 300,-
000,000 pieces would be handled. From
the data we have in h'and, it is safe
to estimate that we will handle twice
that many.”
Atlanta clerks announced that the
limit would have been made 25 in
stead of 20 pounds had it not been
for the fact that the last adminis
tration stocked the department with
20-pound scales, and that the cost of
replacing them would have been too
great to ignore. Hereafter, they
give assurance, when scales are pur
chased. the limit capacity will be 100
pounds.
The average weight of haul of the
rural delivery wagons is 24 pounds,
and the average capacity is 400
pounds. It is therefore asserted that
there is much room for increased
service.
Opposing the increase in limit come,
representatives of railroads who have
protested formally to the Interstate
Commerce Commission against the in
crease in size of the parcel post pack
ages on the ground that it would cost
them $20,000,000 of revenue annually
which they now receive from express
FIRST PARDON BY SLATON.
Mrs. Lula Berbig was released from
the Fulton County Jail Saturday on
the first pardon issued by Governor
John M. Slaton. The recent death of
her mother, the ill. health of her fa
ther, and the fact that she has two
small children in Meridian, Miss., to
whom she wishes to go, were elements
of her plea for freedom. The State
Prison Commission, Judge A. E. Cal
houn and Solicitor Lowry Arnold, of
the City Court, recommended the par
don.
Mrs. Berbig has been in prison two
months. She w r as sentenced to terms
aggregating nine months on charges
of disorderly conduct and of conduct
ing a disorderly house.
A RECORD SESSION.
WASHINGTON. July 26.—The
House of Representatives made a rec
ord for a short session to-day. Juvt
four minutes was the length of the
session. The prayer was heard, but
the journal went unread. There were
signs of a Republican filibuster when
Gardner of Massachusetts made a
point of no quorum. Speaker Clark’s
count showed less than 100 members
present and a motion to adjourn pre
vailed.
There was more than a quorum of
the House at the double-header ball
game, however.
EX-CASHIER INDICTED.
MOULTRIE. July 26.—The Colquitt
County Grand Jury returned an in
dictment yesterday against J. H. Ca
son, former cashier of the Bank of
Crosland, charging him with embez
zling several thousand dollars.
Cason was arrested several weeks
ago and has been in prison here in
default of $6,000 bond. Notwith
standing the fact that Cason has
confessed to using over $7,000 of the
bank’s funds, he will plead not guilty
when his case is ca'led for trial next
week, according to the statement of
his attorney, Alfred Kline, of Moul
trie.
BINDER
Attachment with Corn Har
vester cuts and throws in piles
on harvester or windrow Man
and horse cuts and shocks
equal with a Com Hinder.
Sold in every State. Price $20.00. W. H. BUXTON,
of Johnstown, Ohio, writes: "The Harvester has
proven all you claim for it; the Harvester saved me
over $25 in labor last year's corn cutting. I cut over
500 shocks; will make 4 bushels corn to a shock."
Testimonials and catalog free, showing pictures of
harvester. Ad'trees
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