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THE GEORGIAN'S NEWS BRIEFS
AMERICANS ARE ORDERED TO LEAVE CHIHUAHUA
BY THEIR PROTEST
Code Messages of U. S, Consul
Destroyed by Order of the
Mexican General.
EL PASO, TEXAS, Dec. 15.—All
American residents of Chihuahua
have been ordered to leave that city
in live days, according to reliable ad
vices received here to-day. This ac
tion is said to have been taken by
General Villa because citizens of the
United States protested when all
Spaniards and Germans were or
dered from Chihuahua.
Marion Letcher, American Consul
at Chihuahua, is expected to arrive
here on a special train to-morrow to
file a message of protest to the State
Department at Washington.
Refugees who came here from Jua
rez to-day said that Letcher's code
messages had been destroyed by Villa,
anil that he had been prevented from
sending a courier to the border with
dispatches for the State Department.
Reports reached here to-day that
Vila has arrested a number of
wealthy German residents of Chihua
hua and is holding them ft- unsom.
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 Camalin, 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
pathizers. No crowds are allowed to
gather.
A special "refugee train,” bearing a
number of fugitives, including mem
bers of the family of Marion Letcher,
United States Consul at Chihuahua
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., who was arrested
by Villa and held for ransom.
NEW SUN SPOT.
SAN JOSE, CAL., Deo. 15.—A sun
spot covering an area of 409,936,709,-
169 square miles has been discovered
by Father Rlcard, of San Clara Uni
versity.
This is the largest spot discovered
in two years, and is believed to fore
cast great atmospheric disturbances.
CHANGES HIS NAME.
NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—Morris Pot
ash has had his name changed by
Supreme Court Justice Cohalan to
Morris Fine.
Potash said life had been made mis
erable for him since the advent of
"Potash and Perlmutter.”
SAFE BLOWERS GET $17,000.
WALLACE, IDAHO, Dec. 15.—
Safeblowers who obtained $17,000 in
stamps and cash from the local post-
ofllce were being sought to-day by
several armed posses. Three pack
ages of registered mail, each contain
ing $5,000, W'ere included in the loot.
LEAPS TO DEATH.
NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—Bevier Hall,
a lawyer of Bay City, Mich., commit
ted suicide to-day by leaping from
the window of his room on the sev
enth floor of the Hotel Marie An
toinette. His son w r as sleeping in the
room.
CHAIR BRINGS $4,725.
LONDON, Dec. 15.—'The highest
price ever known to have been paid
in England for a single piece of furni
ture, $4,725, was paid for a chair of
the Masters of Fruiterers Company
at Christie’s. It was a magnificent
Chippendale with wonderful carvings.
“DOING NICELY.”
WASHINGTON. Dee. 15.—“The Presi
dent is doing very nicely,” was the in
formation at the White House to-dav.
Almost the last trace of fever has dis
appeared.
The President has canceled all his en
gagements for to-day, however, and
probably will for to-morrow also.
JAG MAY DO GOOD!
PITTSBURG, Dec. 15.—An occa
sional “jag” may do good, according
to Dr. Carl H. Homberg. It has been
known to relieve the nervous strain
of men working under hi^\ pressure
says the nhysician.
MUST WED TO WIN.
CADILLAC, MICH.. Dec. 15.—Chai-
letta Hall, aged 19. will receive the
$500,000 estate of her greatuncle, Jo
seph Snyder, who died In San JYan-
cisco, if she marriet for love within
the next year.
TUNNEL COLLAPSES.
BERLIN, Dec. 15.—A railroad tun
nel collapsed to-day while a train
was passing through it near Chem
nitz, Saxony. Seven passengers were
crushed to death and 37 injured,
seven fatally.
W ILLIAM JENNINGS
PRICE, C. S. Minister
to Panama, whose job it is to
see nothing happens to inter
fere with the safety, stability
or operation of the canal.
Divorces Wife for
Soft Drink Habit
Because, among other things, his
wife spent his money on soda foun
tain drinks, ice cream and in other
“foolish ways,” H. L. McConnell was
granted a total divorce from Mrs.
Bessie McConnell in Judge Ellis’ court
Monday.
McConnell charged that he gave his
wife all of the salary he received as
baggagemaster at the Southern Rail
way Company. Mrs. McConnell de
nied the charges. McConnell ex
pressed a willingness to provide for
and educate the children.
RIOT TO SEE PICTURE.
FLORENCE, ITALY, Dec. 15.—The
famous painting “Mona Lisa,” which
was stolen from the Louvre in Paris,
and later discovered here in the pos
session of Vicanzo Perugia, a deco
rator, will be taken to Rome and
turned over to the French Embassy
Saturday.
Thousands rioted outside the gal
lery yesterday when they were un
able to get inside to view the pic
ture'. A number of American tourists
came here from Rome in hope of
seeing “La Gioconda.”
DRESSED MEAT UP.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 15.—Dressed
meat increased 73.8 per cent in price
from 1899 to 1909, notwithstanding that
the producing kept pace with the in
crease in population during that period,
according to a report to-day by the
Census Bureau.
The total supply of all dressed meats
for both 1909 and 1899 was 107 pounds
per capita. Considering only beef, veal,
mutton and pork, the supply was 105
pounds per capita in 1909, compared
with 106 pounds in 1899.
The figures are based on the returns
of slaughtering houses only, which in
clude only about 65 per cent of the to
tal production of dressed meat.
AUTHOR OF LAW ARRESTED.
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 15.—Among
the 65 men arrested at a cock fight
in an old mill north of Milwaukee
was State Representative Jacob
Litza, author of the law which makes
cockfighting a criminal offense.
WOMAN WINS CASE.
NEW YORK. Dec. 15.—After fifteen
years of litigation over a building,
Mrs. Helen Linder won her suit whin
she hired Miss Winnifred Sullivan, a
woman lawyer, after several male
barristers had failed.
HU AY SUCCEED SELF
President Wilson Likely to Reap
point Him on Interstate Com
merce Commission.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—That the
President has practically determined
to re-appoint Judson C. Clements, of
Georga, to the Interstate Commerce
Commission became known at the
White House to-day.
Despite his advanced age, Commis
sioner Clements still is vigorous and is
one of the leading railroad experts of
the national. Former Governor Glenn, of
North Carolina, was a candidate for the
place, but President Wilson has decided
to appoint him to the International
Boundary Commission.
RAISULI A CAPTIVE.
TANGIER, MOROCCO, Dec. 15.—
Raisuli, the notorious Moroccan ban
dit who kidnaped Ian Percardis, an
American, in 1904 and got $70,000
( ransom for him, is reported by tribes-
5 men in nearby mountains to have
been captured by hostile mountain
eers. •
On several occasions Raisuli is re
ported to have been captured or to
have met violent death.
RIVER STEAMER SINKS.
MEMPHIS, TENN., Dec. 15.—The
stedmer Shiloh, operated by the Delta
Navigation Company, sank while tied
to the Mempnis wharf this morning.
All the passengers had left shortly
after midnight, and those of the crew
aboard reached the bank in »safety.
Officials of the packet company are
unable to assign a reason for the
sinking of the boat. She was valued
at approximately $45,000.
CASE IS DISMISSED.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—The Su
preme Court to-day dismissed the
criminal case of the Government
against John H. Carter, indicted for
bank fraud at Greensboro, N. C., and
upheld Federal Judge Boyd, who sus
tained a demurrer to the indictment
against Carter, but refused to explain
in what particular it was deficient.
RECORD WINS PROPOSAL.
WEST ORANGE, N. J., Dec. 15.—
As the result of a note placed in a
record of “Where the River Shannon
Flows” Miss Jessie Cosgrove, for
merly employed in the Edison Phon
ograph Works here, has received a
proposal of marriage from Dennis
O’Finn, of West Meath, Ireland.
O’Finn is a widower with eleven
children.
HAZERS DISMISSED.
TERRE HAUTE, IND., Dec. 15.—A
dozen Indiana State Normal students
are to be suspended for forcibly shav
ing off the mustaches of schoolmates.
One student, who had been left "hold
ing the bag for snipes” miles from
town, retaliated by shaking hands the
next day with those who tricked him,
and in shaking hands pressed on them a
tantalizing cow itch, which in due time
appeared on the upper lip.
LOWER STEPS.
CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—The wearers of
tight skirts have compelled the trac
tion companies to order new cars with
lower steps and obtained a promise
that steps of the old cars will be
lowered.
The Chicago Railway has put on
the first installment of lower-step
cars.
HEN IS BLAMED.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Attor
ney General McReynolds’ investigat
ors have decided there is no nation
wide cold-storage trust—that there
are some local combines which can be
reached only if doing interstate busi
ness, and that the hen is really much
to blame for high prices.
MISS PANKHURST FREE.
LONDON, Dec. 15.—Sylvia Pankhurst, I
daughter of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst,
who was arrested five days ago under
the “cat and mouse bill,” was to-day
released from Holloway jail because of
weakness resulting from a hunger and
thirst strike. Miss Pankhurst was on
the verge of collapse when freed.
FINED BY GRANDSON.
HUNTINGTON, W. VA„ Dec. 15 —
Samuel E. Null, arrested on a charge
of drunkenness, was fined $5 by hie
grandson, City Magistrate Null.
Up-to-Date Jokes.
An amusing story is told by Mr. R,
G. Knowles about a keen temperance
advocate who was one night address
ing a public meeting on his pet sub
ject.
“I should like,” he declared, "to
take every bottle of wine and every i
t>ottle of beer and every bottle of spir
its and sink them all to the bottom
of the sea.”
A man at the back of the hall
jumped up excitedly, shooting: "Hear,
hear! Hear, hear!”
The lecturer paused In hi* remark*
to beam delighted approval on the
interrupter.
“Ah, my friend,” he said, ‘T can *x»
you are a good teetotaler ”
“No, sir; T'm a diver," said the man
Blacks Cut Woman’s Throat in
Presence of Her Two Little
Daughters.
AUGUSTA, GA.. Dec. 15— New*
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 daughters.
Sheriff James Smith arrested the
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.
ROBBERS ATTACK SAFES.
Two daring attempts on the safes
in the offices of two of Randall
Bros.’ coal yards resulted early Mon
day morning in a small robbery in
one case and in the other the cap
ture of a negro burglar, after a scuf
fle for a revolver that finally was set
tled by a blow r from a hammer on tha
head of the burglar.
J. L. Chandler, manager of the Ran
dall coal yard at No. 64 Krog street,
entered his office at 6 o'clock Mon
day morning. As he went in the front
door there was a scramble in the rear
of the office and a rush of steps
through the rear entrance.
In the main office room the flare of
an electric light showed the safe in a
somewhat disfigured condition. The
knob had been chiseled away and the
door of the safe otherwise damaged
in an effort to get it open without ex
plosives.
On the floor lay a cap and scattered
tools.
TO PROBE BIG SWAMP.
The entomological mysteries of the
Great Okefenokee. Swamp are to be
explored again and possibly revealed
within the next three w*eeks, unless
an expedition setting out from Cor
nell University, and aided by F. L.
Worsham, State Entomologist, shall
go astray.
“The expedition is going after in
sects; mainly water insects not avail
able in summer,” Mr. Worsham said
Monday. “Dr. J. C. Bradley and Dr.
J. G. Needham, of the Cornell facul
ty, will head the expedition, and there
will be a number of students along."
Dr. Bradley in the summer months
is a most valued assistant of Mr.
Worsham’s, and his chief gives him
credit for supplying Georgia with one
of the finest State collections in
America.
DREADNOUGHT LAUNCHED.
CLYDEBANK, SCOTLAND, Dec.
15.—The dreadnought Tiger, the most
formidable warship in the world, was
successfully launched here to-day.
Her displacement is 28,000 tons, and
she will cost $10,250,000. She will
carry eight fifteen-inch guns, and will
have 100,000-horsepower turbine en
gines. The vessel’s contract speed is
30 knots.
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