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POWER COMPANY WINS TALLULAH FALLS FIGHT
TITLE TO 258 ACRES
Company Pushes Its Work on the
Gigantic Electrical Enterprise
in Northeastern Georgia.
ABY DESLYS, who* after
chumming with Kings
and Princes, is “raving” over
American men.
Holders of securities in the Georgia
Railway and Power Company are con
gratulating themselves on the fact
that the corporation now has a clear
title to the 258 acres of disputed land
in the Tallulah River gorge, where
two dams and a power station had
already been constructed for the sup
plying of power to Atlanta and other
cities.
The State Supreme Court Saturday
handed down a decision affirming the
ruling of Judge J. B. Jones, of the
Rabun Superior Court, who denied
the State a new trial in its long-
drawn-out fight to oust the company
from this property, after a verdict in
favor of the company had been re
turned.
While the officials of the company
were confident of winning every step
of the legal contest, the long litiga-
tion naturally made investors in the
securities a little apprehensive and
the victory was welcomed on this ac
count.
“We went right ahead with our
work,” .mid H. M. Atkinson, chairman
of the executive committee of the
corporation. “We were certain of
our rights in the matter and for this
reason we regarded it as the best
business policy not to shut down the
least bit. The suit did not incon
venience us, except that it naturally
worried some of the investors, who
thought that the State might be suc
cessful in its suit for ejectment.”
3-Year-Old Boy Saves
His Baby Sister’s Life
LEXINGTON, KY, Dec. 13.—Three-
year-old Willie Hornbrook saved the
ILfe of his one-year-old sister. Mary,
when their home caught fire at
Whitesburg, Ky., in the absence of
their parents.
All the hair was burned off the in
fant’s head, but she will recover.
TO ATTACK CONFESSION.
LITTLE VALLEY, N. Y., Dec. 13.—
“My defense of Mrs. Buffum will be
an attack upon the validity of her
alleged confession,” said Patrick Col
lins, a lawyer, to-day.
Collins, assigned by the courts to
defend the woman accused of mur
dering her husband by the use of
arsenic, led the way to his client’s
cell.
The accused woman was found with
her face pressed against the bars
looking down into the house, where
her 10-year-old daughter, Laura, is
struggling against the death that
made her fatherless.
"They heckled me; they tortured
me all night, and I did not know what
I was doing,” she cried.
.The farm folk of this rugged coun
try are less bitter against Mrs
Jluffum than against Frahm. Several
lawyers are determined to make a.a
effort to have Introduced in the Leg-
isltaure a bill making methods of con
fession-procuring such as O’Grady is
said to have adopted illegal and with
out standing in court.
PROVED BY FINGER PRINTS.
PARIS, Deo. 13.—The finger prints
found on the glass frame from which
“LaGioconda” was stolen in the Louvre
tally exactly with the anthropometri-
cal record of Vincenzo Perugia, at the
prefecture of police, and establish
his guilt beyond doubt
P^rugia has served two terms in
prison, once for attempted theft and
again for violent assault.
Precautions are to be taken to
guard the painting against mishap or
malevolence while it is being brought
hack from Florence to Paris.
In certain circles of Paris there is
fear that an attempt will be made in
Koine to prevent the return of the
picture.
'American Men Just
Lovable Babies-G aby
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 13.— The "man-
phobia” of Gaby Deslys still rages
with unbroken violence, in spite of-Uje
sedative that was only a little while
ago applied to her when^Queen Mary
of England shooed her away from the
Prince of Wales.
Here Gaby is in St. Louis, raving
over the American man, analyzing
him, dissecting him, adoring him.
“An American for me,” said she to
day. "They are nothing but lovable
| big babies.”
Gaby has hardly recovered from the
! shock of being declared anathema in
| England, when the bishops and cler-
I gymen of the Church of England
1 painted ner very bla-ck in every man-
j ner and with ail the zeal known to
j the cloth. This was done at the be
hest of Queen Mary. Gaby had at
tracted the gaze of the youthful
Crown Prince, and never—no, never —
must a Manuel episode blot the
’scutcheon of Great Britain.
DUCHESS TO VISIT U. S.
PARIS. Dec. 13.—The Duchess De
Chaulnes, nee Shonts, is crossing on
the liner Amerika with her family
for a visit to the United States.
Major Frederick Mahan, U. S. A.,
joined the ship at Rotterdom. He has
Just completed a tour of Europe
studying the military bands of the
powers, and after careful considera
tion has decided that thd”palm should
be given the Belgians.
SULZER TRIAL COT $116,000.
ALBANY, N. Y„ Dec. 13.—Appro
priations aggregating $116,000 have
been made by the Legislature for
counsel in the Sulzer impeachment
trial and incidental expenses.
Sixty thousand doMars goes to Alton
B. Parker and other counsel to th$
Impeachment managers. Forty thou
sand was voted for counsel to Gov
ernor Sulzer.
EARCHES FOR DAUGHTER.
LEXINGTON, KY., Dec. 12.—Led
by a clew through a letter mailed
on a train near Lexington. John Ne
ville, of Marion, Ohio, accompanied
by a United States “white slave”
| agent, arrived here to-day searching
for his 18-year-old daughter Eunice,
who disappeared November 14. Ne
ville believes she is a victim of
“white slavers.” The letter said she
was working in a big department
store, but ntme here has heard of
her.
If not found here the father says
he will continue the search all over
the country.
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APPEAL FOR DESTITUTE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Appeal
for aid for the destitute of the flood
ed Texas districts was made to the
Treasury Department by a relief
committee from Galveston to-day.
Hundreds of persons are starving and
dying in Texas, says the petition,
which asks the co-operation of the
revenue cutter service in bringing re-
ilef to the inundated area.
The department ordered the reve
nue cutter Windom, now at Galves
ton, to co-operate with the relief
committee.
TO ELECTROCUTE DOGS.
BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 13.—Dogs and
cats taken up by the dog catcher in
Birmingham and impounded will here
after be electrocuted when their time
is up and they are ordered killed.
This plan of death for. the dogs and
cats was suggested by the Birmingham
Humane Society and a patented “elec-
trocuter" will be installed. Birmingham
makes way with several hundred dog«
per annum.
General Arzamendi Pursues Flee
ing Rebels for Miles—Rout
Is Complete.
MEXICO CITY. Dec. 13.—It was of.
ficially announced to-night that the
rebels had been driven from Tam
pico this afternoon with a loss of a
thousand men killed or wounded.
General Arzamendi, according to
the official announcement, pursued
the rebels for fifteen miles with cav
alry, so that the rout was complete
The Federais, it is stated, were
aided by the fire of the gunboats
Bravo and Vera Crruz.
A dispatch received at the War
Office from Tampico at 7 p. m. s&vs
the rebels are in flight, pursued by
General Maas, who unexpectedly ar
rived from Tuxpam by a forced
march and attacked the rebel rear
under cover of the demonstration by
the gunboats.
French Admiral at Capital.
Admiral Groud, of the French navy,
arrived here to-day from Vera Cruz.
He is to be received by Huerta Mon
day at the National Palace.
Reports received here regarding
Admiral Fletcher’s actions at Tam
pico yesterday have aroused strong
resentment in. government circles and
there is strong reason to lalieve tint
an emphatic protest will be made to
Washington if it has not already beea
made.
The complaint will say that Ad
miral Fletcher not only used threats
to prevent the Mexican gunboats as
sisting in the defense of the city from
the rebel attack but that he also
maneuvered his warships at tl\e
mouth of the Panuco River so as to
prevent the Mexican gunboat Vera
Cruz from landing troops, arms and
ammunition from noon yesterday un
til 4 o’clock in the afternoon.
Told to Disregard Fktcher.
It also will be charged that the
American warships have used their
searchlights at night in such a way
as to show the rebels the Federal
positions.
Such actions, it is claimed, are evi
dence that intervention has begun,
unless a satisfactory explanation is
given immediately.
The commanders of the Mexican
gunboats at Tampico were given or
ders to-day to uphold Mexican dig
nity at all hazards and not to take
any orders from Admiral Fletcher,
even if refusal means self-destruc
tion.
TO PROTECT AMERICANS.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Admiral
Fletcher has advised the State De
partment that he has forbidden any
fighting near Tampico which would
endanger Americans and others in
the' neutral zone.
The cruiser Tacoma has tied up
to the military wharf at Tampico
and it is from that point practically
within the city that Admiral Fletcher,
who is on board, is issuing his or
ders to rebels and Federais.
The whole river front east and
west is covered by the Chester on
the east, the Tacoma at the wharf
and the Wheeling on the west.
From the position of Admiral
Fletcher on the Tacoma he could go
ashore himself in 10 minutes with
nearly 100 marines and could draw
reinforcements immediately from the
Chester and Wheeling, which are
loaded with marines.
DAVIS RELICS RETURNED.
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.,
Dec. 13.—Civil war relics from the
property of ‘Jefferson Davis, which
have been in the possession of the
War Department at Washington for
almost half a century, have been
awarded to the Davis grandchildren
here on the request of Joseph Addi
son Hayes, president of the First Na
tional Bank and husband of Jeff Da
vis’ eldest daughter.
Hayes has obtained the relics for
the collection of William Hayes, his
second son.
SENT UP FOR LIFE.
FAFIRMOUNT, W. VA„ Dec.* 13.—
Vincenzo Angelina confessed the mur
der of Policeman James Otis Shaver,
of Monongah in the Circuit Court to
day after the State had rested its
case. He was sentenced to life im
prisonment.
Shaver was killed July 21, 1912,
while escorting Angelina’s brother,
whom he had arrested, to jail. An
gelina was tried and sentenced to
hang. The West Virginia Court of
Appeals granted a new trial which
was concluded to-day.
DUNNE GETS LETTERS.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL., Dec. 12.—A
large stack of letters from people all
over the State to-day testified to the
popularity of Governor Dunne's stand
on the sex hygiene question, taken in
his letter to President James, of the
University of Illinois, a few days ago,
opposing the teaching of sex subjects
in the public schools.
JOHN D. BUYS STAMPS.
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—Among the
large purchasers of Red Cross stamps
was John D. Rockefeller. The oil
king paid $500 for 50,000 stamps. II
is probable that 50.000,000 stamps will
be sold before Christmas.
TALKS OF SOUTH
New Head of Southern Railway
Sees Prosperity in This Sec
tion of Country.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Fairfax
Harrison, the new president of the
Southern Railway Company, speaking
to-day of the business outlook in the
South, said:
"Conditions throughout the terri
tory traversed by Southern Railway
lines are generally favorable. The
farmers of the Southeast, except in
restricted localities where they suf
fered from drouth, have had a highly
prosperous year. The ginning reports
of the United States Census Bureau
indicate that the cotton crop of the
States east of the Mississippi River
will exceed that of last year, and cur
rent prices are above those of a year
ago.
“While the estimate of the total corn
crop of the United States, recently
issued by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, shows a falling
off, compared with ’r t year, of 661,-
729,000 bushels, the crop in the nine
Southeastern States traversed by the
Southern Railway is within 21,000,009
bushels as large as last year, the only
Southeastern States showing de
creased yields on account of tho
drouth being Kentucky and Tennes
see.
"Other crops, including forage,
have turned out well, and, taking the
territory as a whole, I doubt whether
the farmers of the Southeast have
ever had a more favorable year.
"Largely growing out of the pros
perous condition of the farmers,
wholesale and retail trade throughout
the Southeast is generally in good
condition.
"Manufacturers in most lines are
enjoying a good demand for their
products, and their establishments ara
running on full time, though some
slackening of production is to be ex
pected during the holiday sea-son The
reports of cotton mill and knitting
mill development are particularly
noteworthy.”
11-Year Marriage of
Cousins Is Annulled
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 13.—Maud
Whitlock and Fred C. Whitlock, cous
ins, were married and lived together
eleven years before they found out
that the Kansas law prohibits the
marriage of first cousins. The mar
riage was annulled.
TRAIL TRAIN WRECKERS.
CLEVELAND, OHIO, Dec. 13.—
Lake Shore Railway detectives to
day put bloodhounds on the track of
the train wreckers who loosened rails
at Wickliffe, east of here, and ditched
passenger train No. 16 last night, on
which President Alfred H. Smith,
newly elected head of the New York
Central lines, was a passenger.
Lake Shore officials to-day came to
the conclusion that the train was
wrecked in an attempt to kill Mr.
Smith. A number of track men wera
laid off recently, and it is thought
that the disgruntled men may have
conceived and executed a plot to kill
the president. The detectives ara
also working on the theory that yegg-
men intent upon a hold-up may have
caused the wreck.
KING ASKS DAMAGES.
LONDON, Dec. 13. A claim by
King George against Prince Christian
for damage done to furniture at Frog-
more House, Windsor, has been re
ferred to the King’s lawyers for set
tlement.
Prince Christian "borrowed” the use
of Frogmore House while Cumber
land Lodge was being re-decorated.
It is said Queen Mary found burned
spots from cigars that had been tossed
on the ancient tapestry carpets. How
ever, the King wants only $750 dam
ages, according to report.
HE BACKS OUT.
DENVER, Dec. 13.—M. D. Bowen,
of Denver, the only prospective eu
genic bridegroom, who had volun
teered his services to the State Board
of Health and who was held up as a
possible husband to more than 100
women from all parts of the United
States, has backed out.
SOURCE OF RADIUM.
BRAINERD, MINN., Dec. 13.—
Charles Coleman and James Miller,
the latter an owner of mineral lands
on the Cuyuna range, have, with
George B. Woodason, E. M., been
prospecting on a section of the range
and believe they have discovered a
source of radium.
JANITOR HEADS BANK.
CANTON, ILL., Dec. 13.—W. D.
Plattenberg, who began work in the
First National Bank here 32 years ago
as janitor, was to-day elected presi
dent of that institution, to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of W. O.
Dean.
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