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6 TilK (iKOIMilAN'S NKAVS HH1KFS 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 iifw BBnr.fss urn r_n_ sti ma V _ANS.