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TTTE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
Rebel Leader Ruling With Iron
Hand—Slays Foes by Whole
sale—Foreigners Flee.
EL PASO, TEXAS, Dec. 15.—Re-
ports reached here to-day that Gen
eral Francisco Villa, bandit leader of
the Constitutionalists, has arrested a
number of wealthy German residents
of Chihuahua and is holding them
for ransom.
Stories told by refugees who ar
rived here to-day show that Villa is
conducting a relentless warfare
against both old and young whom he
regards as foes. He ordered the exe
cution of a young Italian boy who
was arrested as he was fleeing from
Chihuahua, but the lad was saved by
Consul Camelln, who warned Villa
that international complications
would follow the death of any for
eigners.
Chief of Police Davis to-day placed
extra policemen along South El Paso
street because of the riot which oc
curred here yesterday between the
Chihuahua refugees and rebel sym
pathisers. No crowds are allow r ed to
gather
A special “refugee train,” bearing a
number of fugitives, including mem
bers of the family of Marion Letcher,
United States Consul at Chihu&nua
City, reached Juarez over the Na
tional Railways line to-day. There
were a number of Germans, French
and Italians on the train.
Senor Luis Terrazas, the rich Mex
ican, who fled to Presidio when Gen
eral Villa captured Chihuahua City
and later came here, interviewed
members of the party in a vain at
tempt to learn the fate of his son,
Luis Terrazas, Jr., w r ho was arrested
by Villa and held for ranspm.
According to the fugitives, Villa
has adopted the slogan of “Mexico for
Mexicans,” and is making it so dan
gerous for foreigners around Chihua
hua City that practically all have
left. “Villa is ruling with An iron
hand, and instead of referring cases
of extreme lawlessness and violence to
courts-martial, passes judgment him
self, in nearly every case giving a
sentence of death.
Carranza Orders
Outrages to Stop.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Alarmed
by American protests against the out
rages of General Villa toward Span
iards at Chihuahua, General Venus-
tiano Carranza will start for Chihua
hua within a few days, personally to
direct he movements there. This re
port was made to the War Depart
ment to-day by Brigadier General
Bliss, in command of the American
troops at El Paso, Texas.
Carranza's personal representative,
Felix Summerfleld, left El Paso to
day for Chihuahua to inform Gen
eral Villa that h must restrain his
men and that no foreigners or their
property shall be molested. Summer -
field will take charge of the opera
tions around Chihuahua until the ar
rival of Carranza himself.
The retreat of the Constitu
tionalist forces from the imme
diate vicinity of Tampico, after
shutting off the entire water sup
ply of that city, was reported to
the Navy Department by Rear Ad
miral Fletcher to-day. Admiral
Fletcher reported the arrival of the
Ward liner Moro Castle, which has
been chartered by the Navy Depart
ment to take care of American refu
gees who desire to leave Tampico
Immediately. On account of rough
weather no refugees will be trans
ferred to the steamer for some hours.
Admiral Fletcher also reported the
arrival of the British cruiser Hero-
mine carrying the flag of Rear Ad
miral Craddock, of the royal navy,
hours.
Spanish Cruiser
G-oes to Mexico.
Special Cable to The American.
MADRID, Dec. 15—The Minister of
Marine to-day ordered the cruiser
Carlos V to Mexico to protect Span
ish subjects. This action was taken
following official reports that hun
dreds of Spaniards had been robbed
and driven from Chihuahua.
Huerta Party Takes
Hope From Victory.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 15.—Adherents
of General Huerta to-day declared he
was more firmly Intrenched in power as
a result of the Federal victory at Tam
pico. General Blanco has also received
an official report that Torreon has been
taken from the rebels. Government of
ficials are boasting that within a few
months the revolution will be crushed
as the Federal troops will now take the
nitiative throughout the republic.
Reliable private reports show, how
ever, that both Monterey and Saltillo are
Council To Be Urged
To Keep Child Show
Here Another Week
The last day of the Child Welfare
Show—if it is to be the last day—was
marked by an unusually large at
tendance by the negro school children
and their relatives, and the interes;
was equally as high as on preceding
days.
It >9 expected a motion will be in
troduced in the City Council Monday
afternoon asking it to authorize a
continuance of the show, free, for a
week, in view of its excellent work
and the general interest aroused.
“Our success has ✓‘en most'grati
fying,” said Miss Ellen Babbitt, “and
we are happy to note the evident
wish for the exhibition to be contin
ued a week longer. It certainly would-
be a fine move.”
Specimen of Laziest
Animal Is Captured
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 15.—The
University of California has the lazi
est animal in captivity anywhere in
the world. It is the mountain bea
ver, and while it has eyes and ears it
can neither see nor hear.
Scientists speak of it as the aplo-
dontia. Curator Taylor considers it a '
rare specimen of an ancient animal
group.
Champion Bull To Be
Tendered Reception
JACKSON, MISS.. Dec. 15— The re
turn of the nation’s champion bull,
Point Comfort XIV, and his master. W.
J. Davis, proprietor of a stock farm
near Jackson, will be the occasion of
a public celebration and reception here.
The bull was pitted at the Chicago
Live Stock Show against 400 of the fin
est animals in the United States and
Europe.
invested by rebels and their fall is ex
pected. The Constitutionalist troops
have been attacking Monterey day and
night for a week More than two hun
dred have been killed there since De
cember 6.
Conditions south of Mexico City are
becoming worse daily. The garrison at
Cuernavaca is unable to spare any men
to fight the Zapatistas and any further
reinforcements sent there will have to
come from this city.
Financial affairs of the republic are
worse now than they ever were before
in its history. A big bank is going to
fail as a result of constant drains upon
it, although the crash may be averted
for several days. The' Government sup
ply of fuel for Its trains is very small,
the rebels having cut off the chief
sources of supply, and the Government
has no funds with which to buy the
quantity needed.
Congress will adjourn this after
noon until April 1, after selecting a
permanent commission to attend to
extraordinary legislation in the In
terim. This commission will be made
up of General Huerta's supporters.
That French banks are ready n
close negotiation for a loan of $10 -
000,000 was declared to-day by th* 2
attaches of the Department of
Finance. They asserted that th'.i
would be followed by a loan of $35,*
000,000 more.
Rebels Attack
Refugees’ Vanguard.
PRESIDIO. TEXAS, Dec. 15.—A
battle between Mexican rebels and
Federals is believed to be going on
south of Ojinaga to-day. Firing was
heard during the night, and at dawn
General Orozco, the Federal com
mander at Ojinaga, dispatched 2,006
infantrymen in the direction of La-
Mu la pass.
It Is reported that the battle is
between Federals who fled from
Chihuahua under leadership of Gen
eral Mercado and rebels who were
sent in pursuit by General Villa.
Fugitives crossed the river a" night
from Ojinaga and took refuge m
American soil. They declared that
they had heard firing Tor many
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THE EMPTY STOCKING
Phone Carries Voice
Across Continent
NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—Theodore N.
Vail, president of the American Tele
phone and Telegraph Company, de
clared the telephone probably would
be in use betw r een this city and San
Francisco by the time the Panama
Canal Exposition is held.
“We have already had experi
ments,” said Mr. Vail, “and the voice
was as distinct as it is in this room.”
Hookworm Patient
Gains Fifty Pounds
WAYCROSS, Dec. 15.—That one
treatment given by Dr. T. F. Aber
crombie, member of the State Board of
Health’s medical staff, had resulted in
the expulsion of 2,700 hookworms and
caused the patient to gain from 90 to
140 pounds in a year is one result of
the secondary campaign against hook
worm in Ware County, according to re
ports filed with the Ware County Medi
cal Society.
The patient is 18 years old.
Speculation Dead, and Thousands
of Employees Will Miss An
nual Bonuses.
NEW YORK, Dec. 15*—Sadness was
spread among thousands in the finan-
I cial dir rict when many large broker
age fir is who have annually pre
senter large sums to their employees
sent out 4 notices to-day that no
I Christmas gifts or bonuses would be
given this year.
The notices upset expectations of
employees of houses that have fol
lowed the Christmas gift custom for
many years without a break.
A Wall Street man who was asked
to explain this action of the employ
ers said:
"This has been a bad year. There
was first the uncertainty over the
tariff hill. Now there is uncertainty
over the currency measure. No one
knows what will come next.
“The public is not investing. Spec
ulation is dead. Firms who in past
years have at times had to make
large increases in their staffs thi|
year have had to reduce the number
of their employees, and those re
tained have not had enough work to
1 keep them busy.
“There is nothing the matter with
legitimate busmen, but the public is
keeping out.of toe speculative mar
ket.”
40-Foot Xmas Tree
Cut for Rockefeller
GLOVER. YT„ Dec. 15.—A Christ
mas tree 40 feet high, ordered by
John D. Rockefeller, has been cut on
F. H. Bean’s farm here. It will cost
about $100.
300 Flood-Bound
Texans, Starving,
At Point of Death
GALVESTON, TEXAS. Dec. 15.— A
fleet of motorboats started out at dawn
to-day for Liverpool, Texas. In a des
perate effort to rescue 300 men, women
and children cut off by flo<xi waters
there. Word received during the night
said that If help did not reach the ma
rooned flood victims to-day they would
perish.
The United States revenue cutter
Windom to-day inaugurated rescue
work at the mouth of the Brazos River.
The chief danger in the flood zone now
is starvation. Supplies are being sent
out as rapidly as possible, however.
Contributions of both food and medi
cal supplies are pouring in here and
relief organizations are working night
and day.
$10,000 for Book Sim
Wrote in Six Weeks
NEW YORK. Dec. 15.—A check for
510.000 for a novel she wrote in six
weeks was received from a Chicago
publisher by Miss Carrie Leona Dal-
rymple, daughter of George H. Dal-
rymple, of Passaic, N. J.
The book, “Diane of the Green
Van,” won first prize in a literary
contest.
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Exploration Ship
Tram’ Leaves Colon
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
COLON, Dec. 15.—The Arctic ex- j
ploratlon ship Pram sailed for San
Francisco to-day. The Fram will go
by way of the Strait of Magellan. If
the Fram is delayed too long In reach
ing San Francisco, it would mean a
year lost for Captain Amundsen’s
polar expedition.
Sheriff Saves Trio From Georgia
Mob by the Promise of a
Speedy Trial. <
AUGUSTA, CIA., I)w 15.—News
reached here to-day of the murder of
Mrs. Seth Irby, wife of a farmer near
Wrens, Saturday night by three ne
groes by the name of Hart.
According to the report, the negroes
went to the Irby home to collect 50
cents wnich they claimed Mr. Irby
owed them. He was not at home, and
his wife informed the negroes that
she knew nothing about the money
and they would have to wait until her
husband returned.
The negroes then became enraged
and demanded the money of Mrs. Irby,
and. when she refused to pay them,
they seized her by her hair and cut
her throat In the presence of her two
little daughter!.
Sheriff James Smith arrested Ih©
negroes and took them to Louisville,
over the protest of citizens who
wished to lynch them.
The Sheriff promised a speedy trial
for*the murderers.
RIFLES TO ELECT.
JACKSON. Dec. 15. The Jackson
Rifles will hold an election next Tues
day night to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of First Lieutenant
A. M. Carmichael. L. H. Hendrick
will be chosen for the place. It is said.
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Hogless Lard
CASH GROCERY CO.
118 Whitehall
A Dollar for the Poor Children's Christinas Will
Make You Ilappy These Holidays.
Editor Georgian:
Dear Sir : I am one of hundreds in Atlanta who wish to
aid the Empty Stocking Fund your paper has so generously
started.
Like hundreds of others I have been deterred from sub
scribing because my income is so limited that 1 can not be
among those leaders who have already assured a happy \ule-
tide for scores of little Atlantans.
But I have a scheme. It is not original. Neither was the
idea of airships born in the brain of Wilbur Wright, nor did
Marconi perfect the wireless until many men had died dis
appointed in an endeavor to do what the Italian genius ac
complished.
Here’s the scheme:
I want to organize a “Good Fellow’s Club’’ to boost
the Empty Stocking Fund.
The name tells the class of men I want to appeal to. I’ll
be explicit. I want to call on that class of wage earners—
good wage earners—who live in furinshed apartments or
boarding houses, who have no Atlanta home ties, but who
would love to have some part in the joy of an Atlanta home
though no public credit will be given them.
I am appealing to the class of men who spend anywhere
from $1 to $5 a day in* beer saloons and locker clubs.
I do not believe that they are doing any wrong when they
do so. They have to find the congeniality in those places that
the person with home ties find at home.
But I want every one of these “good fellows’’ to lay off
the stuff a dollar’s worth and send that dollar to the Empty
Stocking Fund. _
They will not miss the dollar, but Christmas Day when
the deserving children of Atlanta find that Santa Claus has
not forgotten them, the men who have made this little self-
denial will feel a thrill that was never inspired by Christmas
eggnog.
Here’s my dollar. j
Now lets‘all be GOOD FELLOWS.
A GOOD FELLOW.
Arsonettes Renew
Revenge for Leader
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Deo. 15.—The arrest of
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, president
of the Wopien’s Social and Political .
Union, resulted to-day in another \
wave of suffragette incendiarism.
A valuable untenanted mansion at
Southern Leigh. Durham Downs, near
Bristol, was burned. About the ruins
a quantity of suffrage literature was
discovered attacking the GovFrnment
for its treatment of Mrs. Pankhurst.
Kit Carson’s Adopted
Son Secures a Divorce
RENO, NEV., Dei*. 15.—Louis C.
Schilling, the 80-year-old adopted son
of the famofis scout. Kit Carson, and
sole survivor of the massacre at the
Alamo, got a divorce in the lo • il
courts from Joanna Schilling.
Schilling's mother and’ two sisters
were massacred in 1836 in the Atom* .
TfeadecTYor Horn
He got what he went for and no\0 he is happy
on the way. There is nothing that appeals
to a normal, healthy appetite like the whole
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Double Tragedy in
High Circles at Sofia
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN, Dec 15.—A Sofia dis
patch to-day told of a double tragedy
involving a couple widely known in
the Bulgarian capital.
Madame Jomoroff, daughj^r of the
famous statesman, M. Karavoloff, was
found shot to death in beJ alongside
of her husband. Jomoroff was also
suffering from a bullet wound, but he
may recover. The shooting is be
lieved to have been caused by jeal
ousy. \
Napoleon’s Prison
Home Is Crumbling
Specfal Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Dec. 15.—Reports have b»en
received that Longwood House, in St.
Helena, where Napoleon died, is fall
ing to pieces for lack of funds to
repair it adequately.
In consequence several prominent
Deputies have prepared a measure to
increase the appropriation in the For
eign Office budget by $42,000 for he
upkeep of the house.
TELEGRAPH MANAGER PROMOTED
COLUMBUS. Dee. 15. R. K. Mum,
manager of the Western Fnion Tele
graph Company in Columbus since 18*8.
and for thirty years an operator, has
been promoted to district eommercal
manager for the Columbus district.
Style Trend Laid to
Darwin, Huxley, et al
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 15. The tango and
the extreme styles in women’s olojhes
are the direct results of the teachings
of Darwin. Huxley and Spencer, who
advocated worship of “a God of the
Senses," according to Rev. Luther E.
Lodd.
HIS FRIEND HAD
A. B. Ed wards, an engineer of Ham
let. N. C., wrote a coup e of years ago
giving the name of a friend who had
Bright’s disease but no means Said
his own wife was recovering and asked
if we would donate the treatment for
this unfortunate. We sent $10.00 worth
with our compliments. We had forgot -
ten the matter till the following was re
ceived ;
“Hamlet. N. C., Feb 16th. 1913.
“John J. Fulton Co..
“Dear Sirs: I have been waiting to
see how the patients were going to hold
out after they had stopped using the
Compound. As I think two years long
enough. am delighted to tell you that
the cases of Flright’s that took, it recov
ered. My wife, pronounced hopeless two
years ago, is well. Mrs. Spencer, who
was not expected to live, recovered and
the case I requested the ten bottles for
yielded and the patient is well, lie wa-
given up to die • • • I will tell peo
ple of It as long as I live. Yours truly.
“A. B EDWARDS."
If you have Bright's disease do you
not owe it to yourself and family to try
Fulton’s Rena! Compound before giving
up? It can be had at Edmondson
Drug Co.
Ask for pamphlet or write John J.
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