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THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS
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1913 COTTON CROP 13,677,000 BALES
ECZAR Fits Gowns by Absent Treatment
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BK ms CONGRESS Mrs. Marshall Has Novel Plan
Mexican Dictator Is Given Extra
ordinary Powers by the Repub-
Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall, ivife of the Vice President, who has
devised a means of avoiding the fatigue incident upon calling at
the dressmaker’s.
Government Figures Over Half
Million Short of What Trad-
lie’s Lawmaking Body.
MEXICO CITY, Dee. 12.—General
Huerta's authority as dictator of Mex
ico has been strengthened by extraor
dinary powers conferred upon him by
the Chamber of Deputies, which ad
journed early to-day after a stormy
session.
Huerta's power was made absolute
during the recess which the Cham
ber will take from next Monday until
April 1. The legislative and execu
tive branches of the Government will
be under the absolute domination of
Huerta, and he will .lave authority to
change the 1914 budget at will.
Several of the Deputies protested
against the action of the Chamber be
cause of the affront it gives to the
United States Government, but they
were shouted down.
A committee was appointed to call
upon General Huerta at the National
Palace to-day and inform him of the
action taken by the Chamber.
General Huerta is allowed to sell
Government property at his own dis
cretion, as the result of the sweeping
privileges conferred upon him.
The Chamber also ap'proved the
electoral law calling for another Pres
idential election next July, and grant
ed a concession to a British group of
capitalists to build a railroad from
Ameca to Porta Pena on the west
coast
FIGHTING AT TAMPICO.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Terrific
fighting continues at Tampico, ac
cording to wireless dispatches from
Rear Admiral Fletcher received at
the Navy Department to-day.
The wireless, dated last night,
stated that 150 British refugees had
sought refuge on board the steamer
gunboat Wheeling and the cruiser
Cecilie and 150 Americans on the
gunboat Wheelin gand the cruiser
Chester. Five hundred more for
eigners have sought refuge in the
neutral zone, which is guarded by the
guns of the foreign warships.
The Federal gunboat Bravo shelled
the Constitutionalist position all day
yesterday, Admiral Fletcher reported,
but apparently did little damage to
the rebel stronghold. No Americans
or other foreigners have been injured
and their property has been re
spected by both sides.
WOOD TO TRAVEL.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—When
Major General Leonard Wood, chief
of staff of the United States Army,
retires from active service on April 22
next h§ will make a tour of the world,
it was learned to-day. General Wood
will make a study of the armies of
the great powers.
Secretary of War Garrison served
notice to-day that friends of armj
officers had better not attempt to use
political influence when a successol
to General Wood is picked, saying:
"I consider it just as much of an
impertinence for anyone to try' to in
fluence me in my selection of a per
sonal military aide, which is the
function of the chief of staff, as it
would be to try to influence my selec
tion of a wife.”
RALLY FOR CAMPAIGN.
PRESIDIO, TEXAS (By United
States Army Telephone to Marfa).
Dec. i2._The Federal army, which
fled to the border and is now occupy
ing Ojinaga, has been ordered by
General Huerta to try to retake Chi
huahua City from the Constitutional
ists, under General Villa.
General Pascual Orozco, command
er of the Federals in Ojinaga, said
to-day that a council of war would be
held upon the arrival of General Mer
cado, Military Governor of the State
of Chihuahua, and plans will then be
made for a campaign.
It is probable that the Federals
will try to get between Juarez and
Chihuahua City in an effort to take
both cities.
vember she stopped off in Chicago, had
Wife of Vice President Has Plan
to Avoid Tiresome Calls Upon
Dressmaker.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Mrs. Thom
as R. Marshall, wife of the Vice Presi
dent, who is as original in her ideas
as her distinguished husband, has to
day evolved a way of fitting clothes by
absent treatment.
Like other women, Mrs. Marshall was
greatly bored by long hours of fitting.
So when she went West early in No-
her measure taken and a form made
to represent her figure.
Then she bought silks and satins
for new gowns and went gayly off to
Arizona to visit her mother.
Meanwhile, in Chicago, her winter
wardrobe was rearing completion. On
the return trip to the National Capital
Mrs. Marshall visited Chicago, tried
on her absent-fitted clothes and found
them satisfactory.
Wives or the Cabinet members and
leaders of Washington society are great
ly impressed by her innovation, and
indications to-day, judging from com
ment, are that in the future her plan
will have many disciples.
Man Jealous of Son
Is Slain by Woman
Sees Mother Dead in
Vision; Kills Himself
WIFE ELECTS HIM.
WOBURN. MASS., Dec. 12.—“Hand
some Jack” Geraghty, husband of Julia
French and related by his marriage to
many wealthy families #f New York
city, has been elected to the Board of
Aldermen here.
He is an automobile dealer and the
principal plank of his platform was bet
ter roads. Mrs. Geraghty campaigned
for him and was largely responsible for
his victory. __
WILSON MUCH BETTER.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Presi
dent Wilson was much better to-day,
and White House officials are confi
dent the mild attack of gTip and
fever from which he is suffering, will
not entail a prolonged suspension of
THEIR 21 ST CHILD
[PORI A, KANS., Dec. 12.—The
ty-first child, a son, was born to
and Mi-s. Alpheus P. Moslander. of
city, to-day Mrs. Moslander is 40
i old.
LANCASTER, PA., Dec. 12.—Joseph
Anderson was shot and killed here
to-day bv Mamie Lindsey at her
home. . . .
It is said Anderson was jealous of
his son, who had eclipsed him In wan
ning the affections of the woman. She
was arrested.
UPPERS
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244 LIVES WERE LOST.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Two
hundred and forty-four lives were
lost in the storm that swept the
Great Lakes November 8 to 11, ac
cording to a report by Secretary o.
Commerce Redfleld.
No ships tvith wireless were lost,
but nineteen not so protected went
down. Application from 50 owners of
lake vessels have been received sine*
the storm for permission to outfit
their ships with wireless.
BEDBUG IS DANGEROUS.
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—The Cimex
lec-tularius. less elegantly but more
familiarly known as the bedbug, is a
still more dangerous insect than Is
| generally supposed. It is a potent
1 factor in the transmission of tubercu
losis according to Dr. J. Walling
Beveridge, who presented a paper on
the subject to the conference on safe-
tv and sanitation in this city.
* It has been discovered the bug is
able to live 229 days without food.
STEUBENVILLE, OHIO, Dec. 12.
“There is no use going home for
mother is dead; I have had a vision.”
After startling a crowd of his fel
low countrymen with the above state
ment in a coach on a fast train near
here early to-day, W. D. Frederick-
sen, aged 19, en route from Red Oak,
Iowa, to his old home in Sweden,
jumped from his seat and dashed
through a window', carrying the glass
and frame with him. He was killed.
AUTOPSY PERFORMED.
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—Coroner’s
physicians to-day informed an au
topsy over Mrs. Donald Sage Mack-
ay, widow of the famous New York
militant clergyman, who died under
mysterious circumstances in a -- -i-
tarium.
Mrs. Mackay gave the name of
Mrs. J. H. Stone, of Boston, when she
entered the institution to undergo an
operation.
BOMB IN MAIL KILLS.
EW YORK, Dec. 12.—A bomb de
livered to-day in the office of the O.
K. Bottling Company exploded and
killed an 18-year-olJ girl, Ida Anuse-
witz, Thomas McCabe, the office
manager, was fatally hurt.
The bomb was delivered by an ex
pressman and w'hen the girl opened
It her head was blown almost to
pieces. Nearly every window in the
building was shattered.
ers Had Expected.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12,—Cotton
grown this season will equal 13,677,-
000 bales, accorindg to the official
estimate of the crop reporting board
of the ^Department of Agriculture, is
sued at roon to-day The figures are
exclusive of linters.
The estimated crop is 6,542,850,000
pounds.
It compares with 14,070,430 bales
last season, 15,692,701 in 1911, and
1 1,608.016 in 1910.
Estimate
To Yield
1913-1l
1912-13.
STATES.
Season.
Georgia
. . 2.2 75,000
1,849,303
Virginia
25,000
24,385
North Carolina
765.000
891,880
South Carolina....
. . 1,333.000
1.215.1.17
Florida
68,000
53,874
Alabama
.. 1,510,000
1,380,756
Mississippi
.. 1,105,000
1.092,55 j
Louisiana
. . 400,000
393,31 1
Texas
. . 3,930.000
5,120.252
Tennessee
395.000
299,583
Arkansas
900.000
825.319
Missouri
60 000
58.119
Oklahoma
. . 820,000
California
18.000
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AH others
. .13,677,000
14,076,430
Market Goes Up
$1 Per Bale.
NEW YORK, Dec. 12—The cotton
market was taken completely by sur
prise when the official estimate of
the crop wag issued from Washington
at noon to-day.
Hardly any traders had expected
anything less than 14,000,000 bales,
and the bears had predicted all the
way up to 14,500,000.
The bulls, who hav»—been arguing
all along that the hug., ginning fig
ures to December were not to ha
taken as meaning a big crop, but
merely as showing phenomenally ea.'-
ly movement, seized upo . th~ ammu
nition thus provided them and made
a raid.
The whole list jumped 20 points, or
$1 a bale, on the news.
The market had been seesawing for
ten days, awaiting the important es
timate.
As soon as the figures were flashed
to the floor of the exchange pand'-
monium broke loose and the gain was
accomplished in a very few' minutes.
GREAT CRUSADE ON “SLAVERY.”
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—A great
crusade against the white slave traf
fic has been inaugurated by the Gov
ernment in all the principal cities of
the United States as the result of the
poisoned “needle exposures in New
York and the frequent disappearance
of girls there.
Chief Bielaski, of the Bureau of In
vestigation, said to-day that the cru
sade has forced more work upon his
department than ever before.
A resolution introduced by Senator
Jones asking for information as to
the activity of the Department of
Justice against the traffic in women
has been received by the department.
WANTS PROBE MADE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Declar
ing that a deep and searching probe
should be made into the financial
fancy work that has culminated in
the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad passing its dici-
dend, Senator^ Norris asserted to-day
that if the Department of Justice
failed to keep its pledges to begin
criminal proceedings he should take
the matter in hand.
JAIL NOT SAFE.
COLUMBUS, Dec. 12— J. E. Melton,
who Is in Muscogee County jail,
charged with killing Mans Teal, at
Jackson’s Mill, in Harris County, will
not be taken to Hamilton for the pres
ent. The jail at Hamilton is undergoing
repairs and is not considered safe.
Melton still maintains that he had to
kill Teal in self-defense.
BIG SUM FOR ROADS.
TOKIO. Dec. 12.—The new naVal
program of the Japanese Government,
announced by the Minister of Ma
rine, calls for the construction of
three more powerful battlecruisers.
Work has been commence,] n one
of them.
— — JiyniA.
SENT “DUMMY” PACKAGE.
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 12.—For send
ing a receipted bill for »4.50 in a
“dummy” package C. O. D. by parcel
post, E. C. Debruton, a shoe dealer,
was fined $25.
Cured His RUPTURE
I was badly ruptured while lifting a
trunk several years ago. Doctors said
my only hope of cure was an operation. .
Trusses did me no good. Finally I got
hold of something that quickly and com
pletely cured me. Years have passed
and the rupture has never returned,
although I am doing bard work as a
carpenter. There was no operation, no
lo3t time, no trouble. I have nothing
to sell, but will give full information
about how you may find a complete cure
without operation, if you write to me,
Eugene M. F’ullen, Carpenter, 821 Mar-
cellus avenue, Manasquan, N. J. Bet
ter cut out this notice and show it to
any others who are ruptured—you may
save a life or at least stop the misery
of rupture and the worry and danger of
an operation.
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